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THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT BECAUSE: 1-It aims to publish all the news possible. 2-It does so impartially, wasting no words. 3-Its correspondents are able and energetic. VOL. 20. NO. 7 KNEW IT WAS MOLLIE HER TOUCH ON KEYS OF TYPE-WRITER RECOGNIZED. Chicago Man Points Out How Differently Operators Strike the Keys—Seem to Have Grudge Against Some of the Letters. Six letters from the home office were awaiting the Chicago representative when he called at the New York branch Wednesday morning. When he had read them he said, "Well, I see they've got Molly back again." "How can you tell that asked the New York manager." "How can I help telling," was the reply, "I'd know Molly's letters if I saw them at the north pole." The Eastern manager unfolded one page of manuscript and looked at it upside down and crosswise and disagainly in his efforts to discover the distinguishting features. Finally he gave it up. "It isn't in her own handwriting," he said, "and I know the boss well enough to know that she was not allowed to compose the letters herself." "Oh, I don't mean those earmarks," said the Chicago man. "There is an individuality even in Mollie's typewriting. In that respect she is no different from many other operators. The work of most of them can be recognized by an expert who has made a study of their peculiarities. Different writers have a different way of striking out the words. They variably strike with the gentleness of a falling snowflake, while others they pound as if on vengeance bent. "That's the way with Molle. She has a partiality for h's and n's in particular, and lets them off so easily that they scarcely make an impression. On the other hand, she has it in for the g's and r's and strikes them so hard that she fairly knocks holes in the paper. Then there are certain combinations just as important for special attention while other combinations just as important are slightly shamefully. Take the syllables 'con' and 'com', for instance. Molle goes at them as if she were afraid of the results, while innocent terminations like 'er' and 'or' she hammers amuerrically. Those are only a few of her tricks, but they are apparent in those letters. Here, for example, is the word 'convenience', Molly has let the first syllable off with hardly a touch, but the rest of it is blue that it gives you chills to look at it. "A funny point in the situation is that no matter what machine the girl uses, the results are the same. The arrangement of the letters seem to make no difference. Certain keys are bound to come in for a heavy stroke and others for no stroke at all. When we fellows in the office first noticed the splotted appearance of her manuscript, we thought there was something wrong with the type—that it was worn out or needed cleaning. But the machine expert disposed of that error. The type, he said, was all right; it was Molle that was out of gear. Afterward he soaked his eyes filled feelings by telling him that if she tried to check if character her typewriting abilities would not be so connoisseur. All operators, he explained that are blessed with a character of their own are liable unconsciously to work out similar stunts on the keyboard. Of course, I can't swear that he was right. I have not had a chance to verify his statement in many instances, but I can take oath that he knew what he was talking about in the case of Molle."—New York Times, The Ravens. My eyes are blind with dust, I will hide with pain: But my body must go and after me, Again—again—again. They hover and wheel above: And with their raucous vaunt of life They tempt my soul to die. For the numbness of my heart And the length I have to go The tumultuous world They know—they know—they know. But the little spark I hold Shall light me further And the far-off stream Until that, too, is gone. No wonder they stop so low: No wonder they claw, When they hit and beak and claw, As they let me beat them off. For there is no path to see; But after the vanished flag My soul must go, and after me, My body strive and lag. Up with you, follow—come, Whither my face is set. They said we have dead, but I have Not yet—not yet—not yet! -Josephine Preston Peabody in Scribner's. Learn to Stand Well. Women who wish to preserve the elimination and the contour of their figures must begin by learning to stand well. This is explained to mean the throwing forward and upward of the chest, the flattening of the back and the shoulder blades held in their proper places, and the definite curving in of the small of the back, thus throwing the whole weight of the body on the hips. This, in a great measure, preserves the figure, because it keeps the muscles firm and well strong, and prevents the thick down of the back on the waist, as common in women row 30 which is perfectly easy to escape. Another thing to avoid is a bad habit of going upstairs, as most women do, bent forward, with the chest contracted, which, as well as being an indolent, slouching manner of walking, is injurious to the heart and lungs. It is the fashion nowadays to speak of many old customs that still survive, although much diminished, as if they were to all intents and purposes already dead. St. Valentine's day is nowhere observed, it is true, as much as it was 200 years ago, nor even as much as it was in the early recollection of some of the elder generation of the present; yet it is very far from being extinct as a perennial tradition, and the most distinct of England it is still celebrated with much qualitiefidelity to tradition, and even in this country certain of its well known features are not likely to be wholly abandoned, if ever, for many years to come. Indeed, the social prophet may well question whether St. Valentine's day may not rather regain much that it has lost through the attrition of time and change by the natural reaction that follows all positive movements. The tendency toward reconstitution of the past that have fallen into partial desuetude is rather marked. the twentieth century thus far seems to be conservative as well as progressive. Not very long ago it was thought that St. Valentine's day was given over almost absolutely to the sorry wits and their patrons who made it a convenience for vulgar lampooning and anonymity, and anonymity is the most important element belonging to it. It had not been altogether lost, and since it then has steadily reived. The proof of the assertion is in the fact that there is now a greater demand for printed valentines of real poetic and artistic merit than ever before, and that those of the cheap, illiterate and malicious type are comparatively little sought after. That is within the reach of all, has been written about. St. Valen- THE GREAT MUSEUM OF ART, CAMPAIGN 1914 tine's day that any article upon it must necessarily be only a reminder of that which is already known. It has been the theme of numberless poets and antiquarians. After all, nothing better expresses the spirit of this festival, since, upon the extension of Christianity, it assumed its modern character, than the lines of that fresh voiced English poet, the Rev. John Donne, who was contemporaneous with Shakespeare: Hall. Bishop Valentine: whose day this is; And all the chipping charisters The household bird with the red stomach; Thou mast keep the blackbird speed as soon as the day when the day this day more cheerfully than ever shine. This day, which might enface myself, old Valentine: The germ of the celebration of Valentine's day is found in nature itself. It was first a pagan tribute to the fecundity of the earth and of man, personified in Pan and Juno, and there is reason to believe that its origin was identical with that of a Pelasgian festival, observed in Latum before the time of Romulus by Evanander from Arcadia. It was a festival of Valentine's days, beginning in the idea of February, or on the 14th or 15th of that month. It was called Lupercalis after the wolf, lupus, which is supposed to be associated in some way with Pan, and was often represented by the ancients as a symbol of light and the course of the seasons. Pan was the killer of wolves and the protector of the shepherds who dwelt upon Mount Palatine before Romulus and Remus built their city there. By some, the name of the festival is supposed also to bear relation to the legend of the --- THE APPEAL. "THE MARAUDERS"—Louis Prion. miraculous suckling of the Roman twins by a she wolf in a cave near this spot. Part of the unspeakable mysteries of the Lupercalia was celebrated in such a cave. But much of this inference is pure after-thought. It does not affect in the least the theory that the festival was 'begun as a recognition of the prodigious powers of nature. Choice by Lots. During the Lupercalia it was the custom of the male celebrants to draw from a box the names of yuong women and girls, possession of whom was thus determined by chance. It was the policy of the early Church to adapt to its own system those customs of the pagans which it could not extirpate. This method of mating was even substitution. It is related that St. Francis de Sales and other Christian pastors put the names of saints on the lots to be drawn, in the place of those of maidens, and charged the young men who received them to imitate those saints throughout the year. But while they may have tried very hard to obey this injunction, it appears that the iodrawing, not in honor of Februaria Juno, but in honor of that which she personified, could not do otherwise than tolerate the custom, when the name of a patron saint was substituted by popular fancy for that of Juno. There is no clear account of how St. Valentine came to be made the bishop of the diocese of love, which Donne so prettily describes. There are several St. Valentine, and it is not even known to a certainty which of these owns the diocese. The bishop of Rome under Claudius is, however, most spoken of in this connection. Some authorities say that he was the bishop "THE MARAUDE of a material diocese, and others that he was only a presbyter. Wheatley writes that he "was a man of most admirable parts, and so famous for his charity and love that the choosy valentines upon his wooden toilets were in this explanation, however, the cause is evidently mistaken for the effect. The custom of choosing valentines was already established, and chancing, through its derivation from the pagan festival, to fall upon the idees of February, in which also occurred either Valentine or Valentine, the appropriation of the name to that custom was most natural in view of his character. In England and Scotland and the countries colonized by them St. Valentine's day retained all through the Middle Ages and down almost to the present a more typical character than it did elsewhere. In Austria and Hungary it is a festival of flowers rather than of love billets. Young girls who love the omen are borne steadily down the stream, without meeting with serious obstruction, the omen is held to be auspicious of speedy marriage. In some parts of France the eve of St. Valentine's day is called the Feast of the Torches; but the celebration, which, indeed, is sometimes held on the first Sunday of April, is a special relation to that period of abnegation than to the patron of love's courtship. The torches that are used are made of twisted straw, and are brandished in the air by those who carry them, while at the same time peculiar rustic dances are performed. A Philological Theory. Antiquarians have drawn from philology a means of explaining in an altogether different way the name of the A Very Ancient Festival. It Was First Observed by the Pagans-Always a Time For Display of Sentiment. n. ge festival of St. Valentine. It is well known that in many languages one letter of the alphabet may easily be substituted for another through popular error words. It is suspected by some that the name is primarily derived from the Latin "vale," which is equivalent to our "farewell," a salutation that was placed at the end of letters; but a large number more ingeniously finds its source in the Latin "valens," valant, gallant. According to them, in passing from the Latin into the Norman French in "y"; and a logical development of it was the noun "galantin," a lover of women. As galantry and valiance, in another sense, are synonymous, it was easy for "galatin" to become "valantan" or "valantin." It is pleasant to leave all these conjectures aside after simply passing them in review, and to determine, merely for the delectable purposes of the imagination, that we will join with Charles Lamb and other most worthy dreamers in regarding St. Valentine as a real bishop, who has a very charming mission in connection with the love affairs of humanity. Thus does the infinitive Lamb apostrophize him: "Like unto thee, assuredly, there is no mired father in the calendar. Thou comest attended with thousands and ten thousands little Loves, and the air is" "Bruish with the kiss of rustling wings, 'Singing Cupids are the chioristers and thy persecuators, and instead of 'the physical arrow is horse before thee." A Typical Valentine. Who would be such a traitor to youth as to demolish entirely the legend of St. Valentines? Read what St. Valentines? Bellew wrote to his lady love: ERS"—Louis Prion. To Dorinda, on St. Valentine's Day: To the teacher's kind. By mutual cares joyful Rih, and scm to teach us two Rih, and scm to teach us two Shall only you and I beware To meet, and make a happy pair? Shall we alone die? We may give. But, alh when I the proffer make, Still coyly you refuse to take The to mean you nausea. Yet, since the solemn time allows To choose the object of our vows, Boldly I dare profess my nausea. The writer oftenset quoted for a characteristic description of the old manner of observing the right of St. Valentine is a Misson, a French traveler. "An equal number of maids and men get together," he says; "each writes their true or some feligned name upon separate billlets, which they roll up and draw by way of lots, the maids taking the men's billlets and the men the maids; so that each of the young men lights upon the girl the billlet, the billlet, and the girls upon a young man that she calls hers. By this means each has two valentines—but the man sticks faster to the valentine that is fallen to him than the valentine to whom he is fallen." A Political Version A poetic picture of this custom is found in Poor Robin's 'Almanack for the year 1757: This day bright Fhoebus enters Pieses. The mills will have good score of kisses. For always when the sun comes there are kisses. And both the men and mids inlcins to chuse them each a Valentine; to offend them each a gift of gloves; to he gives her first a pair of gloves; to seel the day the way with a kiss; this kiss begets more love and then this kiss begets more love. Until this trade the man doth catch. And then he doth propose the match; and then he doth propose the match. She gives the man this soft kiss. Defective Page "I'll not resolve one thing or other, Until I first consult my mother," she said, granting the award. And may be taken for consent. Many superstitions were embroidered on the original St. Valentine tradition, and some of them are held in hong even to this day. One is found in this most curious extract from a young woman's diary, published in an oldtime, English periodical: "Last Friday was St. Valentine's Day and the night before I got five bay leaves and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle; and then, if I dreamt of my sweetbread after the year was out. But to make it more sure, I bolled an egg hard, and took out the yoke and filled it with salt; and when I went to bed, eat it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them into water, and the first that rose up was to be a flower. Blossom was my man, I lay abed and shut my eyes all the morning till he came to our house; for I would not have seen another man before him for all the world." First Met. First Wed. Gay, the poet, has placed in the mouth of a country lass the well known tradition that the first person whom one meets on Volentine's day is to become one's spouse. She sings: **SWIMM** Aidle went, amid the morning dew. A milk肌 (kine for) so should house- three first isped—and the first swam In spite of fortune shall our true love be "In Norfolk," says Sir Henry Ellis, librarian of the British museum, "it is the custom for children to 'catch' each other for Valentines; and if there are elderly sons in the family who are likely to be liberal, great care is taken to catch them. The mode of catching is by saying 'Good morrow, Valentine', and if they can repeat this before they are spoken to, they are rewarded with a small present. It must be done, however, before sunrise; otherwise, instead of a reward, they are told they are sunburnt, and are sent back with disgrace. "In Oxfordshire the children go about collecting pence, singing; "In an old English ballad, the lauses are directed to pray cross-legged to St. Valentine for luck. In some parts of England the poorer classes of children array themselves fantastically, and visit the houses of the wealthy, singing: Good morning to you, Valentine, Curry you loke as I do mine, I before you, I before you, Good morrow to you, Valentine. It is noted in an old Roman calendar that ghosts are wont to walk on the eve of St. Valentine's supernatural doubles due to targeted association of ideas, prompted by the memory of the bloody death of the good St. Valentine, who was beaten with cudgels by the Romans and then beheaded and whose remains are preserved in a church near the Porta del Popolo at Rome, long called after him the Valentinian gate. A French almanac of 1672 says that blood-letting on St. Valentine's day makes the blood clean and mourn, and blood-letting on blood-letting the day before guards from fever for a whole year. MAKES MONEY ON MOUSE FARMS Woman Embarks in Business of Breeding Fancy Rodents. Breeding white, piebald, black and Japanese mice is the latest household industry which is receiving attention. A woman living on the northern outskirts of the city has embarked in the business quite extensively. The mice sell wholesale at the rate of $10 per 100, and regularly, once every week, she delivers fifty of them to the leading bird and animal dealer, who sends them out to his customers in this and other cities. In this way she earns $5 every week, and $21 and $22 per week from the other sales of her mice. It would be hard to imagine a mouse receiving weekly for a "dwarf cat turtle." The rearing of fancy mice involves little or no work, and the proceeds are for the most part pure gain. She has at her home part of a large room partitioned off, and the floor covered with straw and earth. This is her mouse farm. It must be cleaned up now and then, and new straw and earth put for the mice, but aside from this, her only care is to feed them twice a day and keep their basin full of fresh water. The mice increase at such a rapid rate that by selling fifty every week she is able to keep the number down to about the original limits.-Washington Post. MENELIK A REAL MONARCH. Abyssinian Ruler's Chief Interest Lies in Military Affairs. Menelik of Abyssinia is a man of dark complexion, grizzled whiskers and beard, a pleasant smile and a very determined jaw. The general expression is amiable and intelligent and confirms the general opinion that he is the most liberal-minded and progressive man in his dominion. He is evidently not given up to effeminate luxury, and the nearest way to his heart is said to be through the latest invention in military weapons. He has thoroughly subjugated the entire country and turned it from a mass of petty tribes and chieftains to a unified and powerful country in war. He has been the master of the name of Menelik commands respect to the uttermost end of his wide dominions, and not a leaf falls without his consent. His great aim has been to get his country well armed and ammunitioned and of war supplies of all sorts he is said to have a goodly stocked stored in the interior. Equal to the Occasion. As one of the few occasions when the wit of Rufus Chote was folled, an incident is recalled when that brilliant lawyer was examining one Dick Barton, mate of the good ship Challenge. Chote had cross-examined the sailor for over an hour, hurling questions with the speed of a rapid-fire gun. "Was there a moon that night?" "Yes, sir." "Did you see it?" "No, sir." "Then how do you know there was a moon?" "The Nautical Almanac' said so, and I'll believe that sooner than any lawyer in the world." "Be civil, sir." "And now tell me in what latitude and longitude you crossed the equator?" "Ah, you are joking." "No, you are in earnest and I desist." "No, answer." "That's more than I can give." "Indeed! You a chief mate and unable to answer so simple a question?" able to answer so simple a question? "Yes, the simplest question i ever thought even a fool of a lawyer knew there's no latitude at the equator." Impulsive to the End. "Private" John Allen tells of an amusing conversation between two old colored women that he overheard on a Washington street car. Sald the first old woman: "Has you heard 'bout de死 of dot young Mistah Jenkins?" responded the other old colored woman, rolling her eyes till little save the whites thereof were visible. "Yo 'dn't mean to tell me dat young man's dead! How'd 'e die, honey?" "He died suddenly!"—dey said it was heart failure; anyhow, he died sudden! "Sho', you don't tell me!" continued the other old colored woman. Then, after nurse, she added: "Well, data 'js like him; he was de most impulsive young nigger I ebber seen!"—New York Times. Childish Anxiety. One of John D. Rockefeller's late bookkeeper, a Mr. Miller, has a rather precocious daughter, aged six, Julia by name. While playing with a little friend, Dorothy, at the next house, Dorothy transgressed some law of the household to such an extent as to require maternal correction of a severe mother's mother, and in placing with rhinemaids but succeeded in placing the child in an appropriate position, and as her uplifted hand was about to descend Julia piped out from behind a curtain where she had taken refuge: "Look out, Mrs. D—, don't strain yourself!" -New York Times. New Chinese Monkey. The skin of a new Chinese monkey, the rhinopithecus brelich, was recently exhibited by Oldfield Thomas at a meeting of the British Zoological society. It appears to inhabit the Van Gin Shan range in central China. The monkey was named by Henry Brelich, and was presented to the National museum. UNPOPULAR RACE BY JULIEN GORDON (MRS. VAN RENSSELA ER CRUGER). Extracts from Strong Article in Cosmopolitan for February by One of the Caucasian Society Leaders of the Country. Claims the Southern View of Race is Hypocritical. A recent experience has given me food for reflection. The printed remark that if Mr. Booker T. Washburn was vulgar abuse, a torrent of bad words in the drawing room, brought upon me from the Southern newspapers—many of them deemed reputable—a landslide of contumely, a torrent of vulgar abuse, the utterly for-expressing an opinion, one's person, works, habits and family should be made targets for the lowest innuendo and the coarsest insult, might amuse, weil it not for the metaphor illumination that it casts upon depths of ignorance and of folly. To the writer it seems as revolting that white men should have Afro-American mistresses as that white women should have Afro-American husbands. Yet if, instead of that we are told it does, how is it that the commling of the races—which we are forced to observe—has been so general? Why has it not been more abhorent? Is the hypothesis mere hypocrisy—cant, pure and simple? The question of human equality it is futile to discuss except before the law. It has never existed; it cannot exist, either in the present or in the future. One does not ask one's Children to dine. But we would hardly invite a Continuet to sit in one's pantry. A rabid senator has lately announced that the Afro-American, being absolutely devoid of moral fiber, must be denied education. He accuses him of bestiality, but will not permit his students to engage in advantages as might benefit his character and raise and restrain his brutal tendencies. Could one reach a darker nadir of unintelligence? When one hears such tirades, one realizes that selfish, personal advancement does not benefit the possession of the reasoning faculties. What the Negro requires is what all other races have required—time. This is the day and hour of little nations. The trumpet of the downtrodden has sounded. The men have reminiscent felt. Upheaval is in the wind. There are muttersions and stirrings—a low roar of mighty forces, resistless, pushing for light. These people want air, life, and, what is more precious, life's liberties. The burden of life has caused a bloody, doomed ultimate confusion. The boon of life may be doubtful, or liberty is positive. The love of life is temperamental, the more matter of a high or low vitality, but the desire of liberty is universal. Liberty means openness. This means that you can look out a new and more valuable encinnation. ★ ★ ★ They are certain to solve their own problem. These things take much time--generations will be required. Let us not quarrel with nature. The divinities are at work. He has aptitudes--special gifts. He is frequently deft and clever with his fingers. He has imagination, humor, a natural eloquence. He has poetic and musical gifts, and he has manners--manners Italy and China. We have seen black head waiters who had "le grand air"--did not shamble, like some politicians. They held themselves like masters of ceremony at courts--a respectable calling much more formal. The Afro-American has a certain tact and finesse, usual qualities for conduct. He may accept a passing hand, but should scorn a permanent crutch. He must cease to taddle; he must step out, learn to tie, and be with brag, brawl and mutiny, but in silence, with discretion and calmness. Especially must he seek industrial and economic advancement. There will be discount, and property the right to material prosperity the right will come—as it has come to other people. Let him get rich. Already we hear of an interesting movement. A hundred thousand colored folk have formed a company to organize a march northward. Land will be secured, fabrics started, opened department stores, the nation's God speed. They, or their descendants, will rise, succeed, have a voice in public affairs, as all must who pay taxes—for this should remain the test for the franchise, not erudition. These changes are but a matter of a few decades. He who will not be blind may see the writing on the wall. And as to the future of the Afro-American race—what is needed is patience and forbearance, and forbearance for the oppressed, undeveloped ones who are struggling upward, ex tenebris, in a tearful world.—Julien Gordon, Mrs. Vans Rensselaer Crueur, in February Cosmopolitan. Rev. Thomas E. Sheman thinks the race problem should be left to the people to settle. That would be like turning a lamb over to the tender mercy of a Wolf. 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IN THE CIVIL WAR, I WERE 400,000 INVASING AND I BELIEVE HE SAVED THE UNION."—President Roosevelt. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1904. NATIONAL CONVENTION. The date for holding the next National Republican Convention, June 21, at Chicago, is the latest of any convention in the history of that party. It will be the thirteenth National Republican convention, which fact will give the superstitious something to talk about. Other Republican conventions have been held as follows: Philadelphia, June 17, 1866—Nominees, John C. Fremont, of California, William L. Dayton, of New Jersey. Chicago, May 16, 1860—Nominees, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. Baltimore, June 7, 1864—Nominees, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. Chicago, June 7, 1864—Nominees, Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, and Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana. Chicago, June 2, 1880—Nominees, James A. Garfield, of Ohio, and Chester A. Arthur, of New York. James G. Blaine, of Nominees, James G. Blaine, of Maine, and John A. Logan, of Illinois. Chicago, June 19, 1888—Nominees, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Leon Minton, of New York. Minnesota, June 19, 1888—Nominees, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Whitelew Reid, of New York. St. Louis, June 16, 1896—Nominees, William McKinley, of Ohio, and Garrett A. Hobart, of New Jersey. Philadelphia, June 19, 1900—Nominees, William McKinley, of Ohio, and Theodore Roosevelt, of New York. Since the Republican party won its first victory, it will be noticed that the first name on its ticket has always been from either Illinois, Indiana, or Ohio, with the single exception of 1834, when the honor went to Maine. New York is yet to be given such a distinction, when Mr. Roosevelt is nominated next June. THE ALTON SCHOOL CASE. The famous Alton School case has been decided against the Afro-American. The board of education several years ago built a special school for Afro-Americans. Scott Bobb and a number of others refused to send to school children and the board sent them to the nearest public school. The superintendent of schools refused to permit this and a suit for mandamus was brought in Bibbs' name against the officials. The suit has been to the appellate court and number of times, and has been reversed and remanded upon various points each time. An appeal will be taken to the state supreme court. Money will be needed to make the fight and the Afro-Americans of Illinois ought to furnish it. Appeal will give $10 to start the fund. How much will you give, kind reader? A NEW SOUTHERN SCHEME. The Virginia legislature is considering a bill which provides that victims of assault shall not be compelled to testify in open court, but that their depositions shall be taken in private and afterward read to the jury. It is claimed that this course will lessen the risk of unconstitutional, for one of the fundamental principles of the common law is that the person who makes the accusation must face the accused. The plan, which is in line with the unjust legislative enactments in other Southern states, is but a scheme when it is necessary to get rid of some "insults" that may easily to easy trump up charge of rape and have some "dissolute woman make a deposition that she has been assaulted. Thomas Peterson, the first Afro-American to vote anywhere in the United States, died at his home in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, recently. He was the first African-American Peterson cast his ballot at a special election, March 31, 1870, on the new charter for Perth Amboy, a few minutes after the polls opened, on receipt of the morning New York newspapers reporting the announcement of State, issued the day before, of the adoption of the amendment giving the race the right of suffrage. If the Southern disfranchisement schemes are not checked, it will be hard for the historian will record the story of "The Last Afro-American Voter." --- The speech of Daniel Morgan Smith, a Southerner, at the annual dinner of the Illinois Institute of Accountants, was the climax of the silly, illogical stuff now being given out on the alleged race problem. Smith said among other things: "Who can entertain an educated Afro-American you open the floodgates and let in the thousands of others who are not intelligent, whether you want them or not." The Caucasians of this country must be a lot of weaklings if they can not be the ones who own the homes, and even the most ignorant Afro-American does not go where he is not invited. At the recent meeting of the National Editorial Association in Washington R. H. Morris, of the Mocksville, N. on a strong speech called on Republicans to demand of their members of Congress that the provisions of the constitution be enforced in the south as well as in the north. He declared that to vote against the proposed meant oestracism and boycot, and that alike to Afro-American and Caucasian voters. He said that when southern representatives presented themselves with certificates of election obtained by the state they would be denied a seat and turned out. --- Rev. Courtland Myers of Brooklyn, N. Y., conducted the Sunday meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at Washington last Sunday. In the course of his sermon he made reference to John Brown, and the cause of a number of men was to leave the building. There are many John Brown haters in Washington, but as Dr. Myers said, Brown was a man who remembered his duty and did it—and his soul goes marching on. Alexander Just, a traveling salesman who died recently in New York, leaves his home in Brooklyn among the men whose friendship he had formed in business life. Six Caucasians acted as pall bearers at the funeral of James R. MacAloil, Afro-American. The average Caucasian is perfectly willing to assist his brother in black to the grave. The mayor of Roanoke, Va., came out in a proclamation urging the people to restrain their wrath, but he took good care to hold back his official utterance until several Afro-Americans had been beaten and one woman frightened to death. An Afro-American minister, who was driven from Roanoke by a mob, begged the mayor for protection, but it was not forthcoming. On last Monday Senator Hopkins of Illinois made a forceful and masterly speech in the Senate in defense of the administration policy in Panama. The administration both sides of the Senate and at its conclusion Senator Hopkins was warmly congratulated by the most prominent members of the senate. The Caucasian people of this country are becoming more and more indifferent to the wrongs of the Afro-Americans. Sunday two human beings—a black man and his wife, were struck by the stake in Governor Vardana's speech, but the newspapers of the matter less notice than is usually given to a dog fight. Witnesses testified at Norfolk, Virginia, recently, that there were frauds at the primaries. As the Afro-Americans of Virginia have been disfranchised it follows as a matter of course that the fraudulent votes were cast by Caucasians. Just as the Maryland legislators were about to vote on the disfranchisement of the Afro-American the great fire in Baltimore broke out and distracted the attention, but they'll get down to business later on. Now the political opponents of Gov. Jeff. Davis call him a "Negro lover." Southern reasoning must be a peculiar process, for Davis has shown by every crime to have action that he is a bitter enemy of the race. THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. WASHINGTON A Collection of a Few of the Events Occurring Among the Afro-Americans of the Capital of This Great and Glorious Nation for Our Many Readers. Washington, Feb. 10.—From recent articles contained in a certain Afro-American paper published in the state of Washington acquaintances of Dr. J. R. A. Crossland learn that the ex-minister is still in the line light. Press dispatches from San Domingo initiate the insurgents are still doing business that United States Minister Wm. F. Powell, an Afro-American from New Jersey, continued to crown himself with glory as a diplomatist. Mr. Powell is a gentleman of splendid ability and his record as United States minister to Haiti reflects credit upon his race. Speaking of Haiti and of Minister Powell's success reminds me that, although his country has sent numerous Afro-Americans to represent it as minister resident and consul general from all appearance, the number of years, yet from all appearance, of his presence in the United States have not always looked with a marked degree of favor upon their colored representatives at that post, the apparent impression being that on account of color or racial a new feeling existed between the Afro-Americans and the Anglo-Americans which would probably operate against the best interests of this country in the event of serious misunderstandings between the two countries. The case of Minister Frederick Douglass and Nicholas is recalled in this connection, and it is reasonable to believe that the official acts of Minister John M. Langston and of others were possibly discredited in the same manner. But in those days there was an evidence of a brotherly feeling between the two peoples, which was manifest in the business and social intermingling of the two peoples. Now things have changed, especially in this country, where we see in every large city a gradual draw of Afro-Americans into the community of the Haitians who seem no longer to find profit and enjoyment in an association with Afro-Americans. This is so should be a matter of small concern to us, as we have nothing in particular to gain from an association with Afro-Americans, but to this country's interests of some of the brightest men of our race. There is nothing in common. Mrs. A. M. Curtis is spending several weeks in California. The work of nullifying the Constitution goes merrily on. The Democrats of Delaware have declared for it and the Democratic legislature of Maryland is now considering a proposed amendment to their constitution, and Americans in that state of their suffrage. M. Gervile Reache, the deputy from Gundeloupe, West Indies, a mutilator, recently elected vice president of the duties and similar to those performed by the Speaker of our House of Representatives. Mr. Robert Pelham, Jr., who has been spending a few days at his home in Detroit on account of the serious illness of his father, has returned. With the slogan, "No children's day money for the Sunday School union, let it be self-supporting," Mr. Ira T. Bryant, the son of the late M. E. Bryant, announces his candidacy for the M. E. Sunday School Union, with headquarters at Nashville. Mr. Bryant is a scholarly young man, a Christian gentleman, an expert government printer and is in other ways eminently fitted for the position. It will be a healthy sign to see him grand old AM. E Church give recognition, along official lines, to the young layman of the connection. Estimating the number of Afro-Americans in schools for the year 1904 by a count, an increase shown during the decade ending June 30, 1900, we have a population of about 102,850. Mr. Wm. Hawkins of the Department of Commerce and Labor contemplates a visit to his home in Milwaukee. The senior class of the Normal School gave a dance last Thursday evening which was largely attended. The many western friends of Mr. A. J. Gaskins of this city will be delighted to learn that he is rapidly recovering from his serious illness. Gov. Pinchback has been enjoying a few days in Louisiana amid the scenes of his former triumphs. The age period, showing the greatest number of adult Afro-American males and females, is from 20 to 24 years. Every state and territory in the Union has contributed to the Afro-American population of Illinois, while about 35 per cent of our population was born within the state. Kentucky was the largest contributor, at 10.225 Missouri 8.185; Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama have also been liberal contributors. More than 2,200 citizens of Ohio have recognized the superior advantage to be found in our state and return we have only given them about three hundred natives of Illinois. The last report of the Census Bureau run shows 746,717 Afro-American farmers in the United States, who operate 38,233,933 acres, valued at $499,943,734, and the value of the products raised by the hundred million dollars. Mississippi leads in the total number of farms, with Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia following in the order named. For value of farm property, for value of crops, for Texas second, Georgia third and Alabama fourth. For value of products raised Mississippi again occupies first place, with more than twenty million dollars in excess of Georgia, which comes second, while Alabama, South Carolina and Texas third. In speaking of our farmers the census report says: "Of all farms op- erated by Afro-American, cotton, tobacco and rice farms constituted 70.5; 2.6 and -0.3 per cent. respectively, while the per cent. of such farms was only 18.7; 1.9 and 0.1, respectively of all farms. No other race had so many varieties of the crops devoted their energies to the cultivation of a single staple as in the case of the Afro-American with reference to the cotton crop." Regarding the influence of environment on Afro-American farmers the report says: "The Afro-American farmer has a greater chance of become an important in the North, where he can more interact with farmers by whose example and experience he can profit in his struggle for a higher industrial position." The Afro-American population in Illinois in 1900 was 85,078, which represents an increase of 49 per cent in ten years. Of the 1,486 farms operated by our people throughout the state, 543 or 38.5 per cent. are owned; 183 are partly owned; 539 are rented on shares; 215 are rented for cash; 12 are owners and tenants and 5 are renters. Of the 3,107 acres, $3,107 acres, valued at $3,236,319. If the farms owned and partly owned were placed side by side they would make a tract of land one mile wide by sixy-two miles long. These farms have an average value of $2,238, and the total value of products raised for them was $31,590, or about one-half the products raised by all the Afro-American farmers of the state combined. While these figures appear insignificant when compared with the number of farms owned and operated by the white farmers of the state, yet it is a fair showing for a people who less than half a century ago were not supposed, according to the "Black Laws" to enter the state unless they could furnish a bond of $2,000 to keep the peace. Taking up the question of the influence of environment on Afro-Americans, the new study found that the impact of climate change on farmers was not only interesting statistics: In the old states, having one thousand or more Afro-American farmers, it appears that the lowest percentage of owners are found as follows: Georgia, with 11.5 percent; Alabama, 11.8; Mississippi, 14.3; Louisiana, 14.5; South Carolina, 18.2; Arkansas, 21.2, and North Carolina, 24.1; while the states showing the largest percentage of ownership are Virginia, with 50.9 percent; Ohio, 50.8; Maryland, 49.3; Florida, 41.5; Kansas, 39.4; Missouri, 38.4; Kentucky, 37.7; Indiana, 36.6, and Illinois, 36.5 per cent. Three of our citizens were born at sea under the American flag; two hundred and sixty-nine were born abroad and several came to us from the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico. The state of Maine is the only one not showing an Afro-American who was born in the great state of Illinois. In fact, we have migrated large numbers any major state as the conditions at home have been upon the whole, quite satisfactory. Charles E. Hall. POLITICAL POINTERS. The Afro-American Press Association of Virginia has endorsed Roosevelt. The Afro-Americans of Nashville, Tennessee, who recently organized a bank in that city with a paid-up capital of $25,000, are doing something to help solve the race problem. As the Republican convention of the Taft era, the Afro-American had no nomination W. Bourke Cochran, the Democratic nominee, will have a clear field. John W. Thompson of Rochester, N. Y., a prominent Republican and treasurer of the American Council, was a guest at the annual reception given by Governor Odell. Stephen B. Elkins, whom Senator N. B. Scott suggests for the vice presidential nomination, is serving his second term in the United States Senate. He was Secretary of War from 1891 to . . . Senator Platt and Governor Odell have agreed that the delegation from New York state to the next Republican National Convention shall be instructed to the nomination of President Roosevelt. The Portland New Age says that the Oregon Afro-American voters are enthusiastic in their support of Roosevelt. The Afro-Americans all over the country are the President, because they realize that he is a friend of the race. --- "The politician is an institution essential to a republican form of government. The politician is as necessary to an elective form of government as is the engineer to the mechanic, and as necessary as the pilot to the safety of the ship."-Col. J. Hamilton Lewis in a recent lecture. --- Senator Hanna has never had any ambition to become a candidate for the presidency, and Senator Fairbanks would be unwilling to accept the nomination. If it came to him with any semblance of solicitation on the part of his friends, according to the belief expressed by Harry S. New, of Indianapolis, state committeeman of the Republican National Committee. Predictions of an early adjournment of congress are frequently heard in Washington by members of the house and senate. In the situation the situation. It is customary, however, to expect an early adjournment in presidential years, especially, because there is a desire on the part of politicians to look after their nomination and help elucidate the national ticket. May 1 and May 15 are favored dates. Mutual Life Insurance Co. The annual report of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York shows assets over $401,000,000, income over $600,000,000, heavily invested $33,000,000, contingent guarantee fund over $59,000,000, insurance and annuities in force over $1,447,000,000. Howard University Summer School. The trustees of Howard University, Washougal, D. C., have established a summer school to be held in July under the huspices of the Teachers' College. The courses offered will be both academic and industrial, and will appeal largely to teachers. Dr. CHICAGO AMERICA'S GREAT CITY VIEWED BY THE APPEAL MAN. A Compilation of a Number of Happenings, Social and Otherwise, Among the Afro-Americans of the Second City of This Glorious Union. Religion is never worn out by every day use. Miss Myrtle Skinner visited Quincy last week. An empty head never has room for new ideas. Hon. E. H. Wright, who has been ill, is convalescent. If you wish everybody to see it, put it in THE APPEAL. A straight creed can never cover a crooked character. Miss Lulu Mitchell is in Quincy visiting her sick father. When a man is holy he will not need a certificate to the fact. Miss Lulu Glacer has returned from a visit to her parents at Jacksonville. Edward H. Wright, lawyer, 2963 Wabash avenue. Phone Telephone Douglass 3003. J. Gray Lucas, the attorney, may be found at 59 Dearborn street, Suite 412. Mrs. George A. Johnson, who has been on the sick list, is convalescent. For a good meal, well served, go to R. S. Winston's new place, 3140 State street. The Appeal is on sale at Faulkner's Afro-American news stand, 3104 State street. Mr. Z. T. Rossen has returned from a visit to his sick mother at Jeffersonville, Ind. You need THE APPEAL every week. Send your order to the office, 223-325 Dearborn street. Miss Lottie Blue of Bloomington is in the city visiting Miss Jackson of Cottage Grove avenue. The Democrats of the Seventh ward gave a banquet in memory of Abraham Lincoln Thursday night. Mrs. R. Ransome, who formerly lived in Springfield, has come to Chicago to reside permanently. Mrs. Mabel Roan gives instruction in short hand, typewriting and music at her studio, 2621 Wabash avenue. The Young Men's Sunday Club of Quinn Chapel will give an entertainment at the museum of Frederick Douglass. THE APPEAL is without question the best advertising medium through which to reach the Afro-Americans of Chicago. "Ozonized ox marrow" is the best preparation for the hair. Sold by all drugstores. Depot, 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago. The greatest mortality from pneumonia is in the months of February, March and April; that for April being the highest. Cole's Carbolisal cures catarrh; insert a small quantity in the nostril at night of struring. 28 and 50 cents. All drugstores. The Waldorf Cafe, 3027 State St. is rapidly becoming the headquarters for those who like a good meal at a reasonable price. GERTRUDE IOGENE PALMER, pollinate. Concerts, musicals, instruction. Room 86 Auditorium, and 680 Austin Ave. You ought to have THE APPEAL every week. Send a postal card order to the office, 323-325 Dearborn street, and it will come. Subscribers for THE APPEAL, who wish to discontinue the paper must be sent to the office, properly dated and signed. Mr. Ben D. Bagby, of THE APPEAL in Chicago, may be found at the office, 323-325 Dearborn street from 12 to 1 o'clock every business day. Mrs. Bertha Johnson of Artesian avenue charged her husband with beating her with a Bible and asked for a divorce in Judge Brentano's court. She got it. The books of the Lake County Col- lector show that Zion City, although a city in old, now stands third of the towns in the country in equalized valuation. 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. Chicago's public playgrounds cost $20,000 last year and are visited by 728 838. September attendance at Webster grounds totaled 32, 150. "Proceed against the great criminals before you prosecute the small fellows." This is the substance of the reply of the Federation of American Criminals, which asks the cooperation of the labor body in its fight against crime in Chicago. He said he was Joe Carter of Ottawa. He carried a mud-bespattered valise and his trousers were tucked in his boots. He appeared before Clerk Salmonson of Chicago he didn't want to give the girl's name. "I don't want it printed," he confided. "They'll know who she is up home when they see my name." When he found he couldn't get the license without giving the name of the bride to be he picked up his valise and sadly ambled out the Portrait Unveiling. A portrait, which is an excellent likeness of Frederick Douglass, the greatest Afro-American the race has produced, will be unveiled at the Appomattox club, this Saturday evening, October 13. The picture, which is framed in black and gold, is a gift from Cyrus Field Adams, a member of the club. The presentation speech will be made by Ree Drummond, the chief chapel. The speech of acceptance by Dr. Allen A. Wesley. The portrait is the work of Mr. E. H. Lee, the famous portrait artist. Heir to a Fortune. George Wesley Shields, an Afro-American, is heir to a fortune of several thousand dollars. The man left his home in Ridney, Miss., at the close of the civil war and came to Chicago. The death of a relative has left his home in Ridney, Illinois, for the Chicago police have been asked to find the man. A view of the town of Bremen, Germany, from a distance. The town is surrounded by a large forest, and the sky is filled with clouds. The buildings are tall and have a distinctive architectural style. An unsectarian Christian Institution, devoted especially to advanced education. College Not Normal, College Preparatory and English High School courses, with courses that advantages in Music and Writing, and courses that cultivate for girls. Home is in October. For catalogue and information, address BRUNHAM D. B. BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. CHICAGO BANSFORD CLEVELAND CINCINNATI COLUMBUS PITTSBURG WASHINGTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE ST. LOUIS LOUISVILLE ALL TRAINS VIA WASHINGTON TEN DAY STOPOVER ALLOWED BY WASHINGTON BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA DEPOSIT TICKETS IMPREDIATELY ON ARMINTY OR EITHER CITY THE HOTEL TILLOTSON COLLEGE. AUSTIN, TEXAS, The Oldest and Best School in Texas for Colored Students. Faculty mostly graduates of well known colleges in the north. Reputation unsurpassed. Manual training a part of the regular course. Music a special feature of the school. Special advantages for earnest students seeking to help themselves. Send for catalogue and circular to REV. MARSHALL R. GAINES, A.M. FRESIDENT. Austin, - - Texas. GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The aim of this school is to do practical work in helping men towards success in their lives and practical; its ideas are high; its work is thorough; its methods are fresh, systematic and simple. THE PURPOSE OF SCHOOL The course of study occupies three years, and covers the lines of work in theology and instruction usually pursued in the leading theological seminaries of the country. EXPENSES AND AID Tuition and room rent are the same. The course is well furnished. Good board can be had for seven dollars per month. Buildings heat-treated. Aid from loans without interest, and grants from students who do their utmost in the line of self-help. No young man with a degree can be admitted of the advantages now opened to him in this Seminary. For further particulars Morristown Normal College Fourteen teachers. Elegant and commodious building. Climate unsurpassed. Department: College Preparatory Normal, Engagement. Typewriting and Industrial Training. FIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE Will pay for board, room, light, tut, tuition per term; $200 per month; tuition $2.00 per term. Through work done in each department Seed for circuits; to the department. REV. JEDSON S. HILL, D. D. JUDSON, Tonn. HAMILTON ACADEMY College Preparatory, Normal Department ment English Course, Bible Department ment New York State Department Total cash expenses only $6.50 per month All bill payable in advance. Session begin- ing on Monday. REV. CORNELIUS JOHNSON, A.M. B. M. D. PRINCIPAL, BATON ROUGE, LA. AVERY COLLEGE TRADES SCHOOL ALLEGHENY, P.A. A Practical Literary and Industrial Trades School for Afro-American Boys and Girls. Unusual advantages for Girls and a separate building. Address. SAMUEL HUSTON COLLEGE A CUSTERIAL SCHOOL Experienceed Faculty Progressive in all departments, best Methods of Instruction, Shift of Students carefully looked after. Students taught to do manual labor as well as think. For catalogue and other information, write to the president, R. S. LOVINGGOOD, AUSTIN, TBXAD. BALTIMORE & O CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO CLEVELAND COLUMBIA LITTLEBUCK CHICAGO COLUMBIA LOUISVILLE ALL TRAINS VIA department: Normal and Collegiate instrumental Music, Theoretical Agr culture, Sewing and loosening. lighted by electricity: room, boon tuition, light and heat. 800. For Catalog and Portfolio Mark write to J. H. O'RENSTON, President. "GOD HAY MAD OF ONE BLOVE ALL NATIONS OF MEN." BereaCollege BEREA, KY Christian, non-sectarian. Three college courses is. Music. Associate form. Music. Associate form. Expenses low. NA. salaries. 292 white and 217 Afro-American staff of. Education. Address. 2120 S. 10th St. Dr. D. Krystle. SHAW UNIVERSITY SHAW UNIVERSITY RALEIGH, N. C. For both sexes, Departments of Law, Medicine Court Preparatory, English and Industrial Year, and other informaLcs, catalogues, circular and other informaLcs, N.C. PRES, CHAS. S. MESERVE Raleigh N. C. Clark University In a Christian school, it offers the best faculty in seven Departments: Classical, Scientific, Geography, Industrial, Our aim is to train U.S. students to form information address the President, BISHOP COLLEGE OFFERS EVERY ADVANTAGE TO STUDENTS. For beauty of situation, commodiousness of buildings and completeness of facilities by any school for colored people west of the Mississippi. Special courses for EXPRESIENCED FACULTY. Five large brick buildings, also steam plant buildings, dormitory now building. Chemical, physical, biological laboratories, kitchen, laundry, smithing, sewing, dreaming, housekeeping, cooking, nursing. APPLY FOR PERMAMENT CERTIFICATES. Students can make part of expenses by For particulars and catalogue address. ARTHUR B. CHAFFEE, President. TILLOTSON COLLEGE AUSTIN, TEXAS. OLDEST AND BEST SCHOOL In Reputation unsurpassed. Manual Training a part of the regular course. Music a vantage for earnest students seeking to help themselves. Address Marrall R. A. Gustin, A. M., President, Austin, Texas. BRAINERD INSTITUTE BRAINERD INSTITUTE A normal and industrial school with a a thorough, symmetrical and complete English education, and lay a solid foundation for success, and usiness in every way. We have a well-trained teaching hall about $5.00 per month. Address John S. Marquard, Chester, S. C. Principal. SCOTIA SEMINAYR CONCORD, N. C. This well known school, established for the highest education in the country, will for the next term October 1. Every effort to be made provides for the comfort, health and well-being of the de- dents. Expense for board, light, fuel, washing, $4, for term of eight months. Address Rev. D. J. Satterfield, D. D. Concord, N. C. Dept. and Hard-of-Hearing Adult Can Learn Lip-Reading at Home Have practical, rapid system. Less by mail. Results uniformly moderate. Seed for Circular DAVID GREENE, Southington, Conn. OHIO R. R. PITTSBURG CINCINNATI WASHINGTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE MA WASHINGTON ST. PAUL. NEKKS RECORD IN MINNEBO- TA'S CAPITAL. The Saintly City and Saintly City Folk- way Items of Social, Religious and General Matters Among the People, Rol- d Down. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1904. If it's Hamm's, it's all right. Mrs. G. J. Charleston is on the sick list. Mr. John Sanders, who has been sick some time, is somewhat better. Roomers wanted. Nice comfortable rooms. Apply at 159 La Fond street. Half soles, sewed, 75c; rubber heels, 40c; Phone 1556-J2. Jarvis, 83 E. 4th. "I haven't paid $4.00 for a hat show I began wearing the Gordon and I buy the best." Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day, and many love tokens are being sent to loved ones. Have you called at the new, up-to-date tonsorial parlor, No. 74 E. Fifth street? Well, you ought to do so. Capt. Joseph Burger of the Second Ward has filed as a candidate for assemblyman on the Republican ticket. The "Social Five" are getting ready for their second annual "Easter Party," to be given at Litt's Hall on or about April 6th. You are cordially invited to attend the Men's Sunday club, which meets at Pilgrim Baptist church tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Good program. Mrs. John H. Charleston had a fall a few days since which dislocated the great toe on one of her feet. The toe was replaced and she is getting on nicely. 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. Next week's attraction at the Star Theatre will be Rose Syllill's London Bells Company, especially strong in pretty women, catchy music and entertaining olio. Is your hair straight? If not, send 60 cents to Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 76 Wabash avenue, Chicago, Ill. for a bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow and you can easily straighten it. The Appeal has purchased the press and outfit of the Richardson Printing Company and added the same to the plant. Bring in your job printing. Best work at lowest prices. THE NAGEL UNDERTAKING CO. Wm. E. Nagel Manager, 208 West Third street, Telephone, Main 1504. Latest equipments in every line. Lady assistant when desired. Gentlemen wishing nice furnished room, with all conveniences, by the week or month, at reasonable rates, should apply at the Benton House, 228 West Third street, up stairs. Miss Harry B. Howard has issued invitations to a reception to be given next Tuesday evening, from 8 to 10, in honor of the graduation of her daughter, Miss Clara Elizabeth. Shoes mended while you wait at Jarvis', 83 East Fourth street. Hall soles, 50 and 75 cents. Prices reason- able for all kinds of repair. Recan do it on short notice. Jarvis, 83 E. 4th st. The Men's Union club of St. James church will celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of Frederick Douglass on Thursday evening, Feb. 18th. A special program will be arranged for the occasion. ELK EXPRESS CO. G. D. Charleston, Proprietor; G. J. Charleston, Manager. Packing, shipping and storing. Plano moving a specialty. No. 39 E. Seventh street, cor. Cedar (basement). Telephone Main 2514 J 2. Full line of framed and unframed pictures. Special prices for the holiday trade. Also make a specialty of oil portraits at moderate prices. Pictures framed to order. Lowe Picture Frame Co., 475 Wabasha street. If you wish a good home cooked meal "like mother used to cook," go to the Metropolitan Restaurant, No. 378 Minnesota street. First-class regular meals, 25 cents. Meals to order at moderate prices. Mrs. Lou Carter, proprietor. "Red Feather," a new comic opera, which serves to exploit Grace Van Studdiford, the leading light opera prima donna in this country, will be the attraction at the Metropolitan during the latter half of next week, beginning Thursday night. 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. Why not go to the White Front Restaurant, 105 W. Third street, near Washington? Meals at all hours, day and night. Special 5 o'clock dinner daily, 25 cents. All the delicacies of the season to order on short notice. Tel. Malen 2348 L. Mrs. Mattie Brown, Prop. The Ladies' Catholic Aid Society will give an entertainment at McKinley Hall, corner Western, and Uni. Hall, corner Western, Feb. 15th, from S to 12 o'clock. The public cordially invited. Admission 25 cents. Kohler's orchestra will furnish the music. Remember that the Ladies' Catholic Aid Society will give a swell entertainment at McKinley Hall, corner Western and University, on Monday evening, Feb. 15th, from 8 to 12 o'clock. Kohler's orchestra will furnish music. Admission 25 cents. Come and be made happy. HOWELL & DAVIS. No. 156 E. Sixth street, fashionable tailors. 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. The benefit concert which was tendered to Prof. J. W. Luca at St. James Church Thursday night, was an artistic success, but not a very great financial one. This is not as it should have been, as Prof. Luca has given his time and talent to make and keep a good choir in the St. James Church. Edward Smith was arrested Wednesday night by Detectives Fraser and D. R. H. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, The Greatest Afro-American the Country Has Produced. The Eighty- Seventh Anniversary of His Birth Oc-curs Sunday, February 14. The Greatest Afro-American the Country Has Produced. The Eighty-Seventh Anniversary of His Birth Oc-curs Sunday, February 14. Haggerty on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Sadie Gordon, charging Smith with having on February 5th assaulted her husband, Austin St. Paul, a laborer, employed at South St. Paul. The Gordons live at 359 East Seventh street. BENTON'S CAFE, No. 204 West Third street, near "Seven Corners," the sweetest place in town for up-to-date meals and lunches. Meals from 25 cents up. Private rooms for ladies. Regular dinner 25 cents. Lunch counter. Everything in first-class style. Open night and day. Private rooms for dinner parties. street, between 7th and 8th. J. S. Mills, proprietor. Fire started in the basement of the Randall Printing Company, 72 and 74 East Fifth street, at 7 o'clock last Thursday evening, and caused a loss estimated at $500, covered by insurance. Williams & Kemp, of the Cosmopolitan Barber Shop, occupy part of the store, claim a loss of $200. The fire is thought to have been caused by electric wires. The fire worked through the walls and the ceiling The Cosmopolitan will be open for business as usual today. The John H. Hayes Lodge No. 6 Splint coal from Independent mines for stoves, furnaces and ranges. Many prefer it to hard coal. Exclusive agents. Holmes & MacCaughey Co., Seven Corners. Try it. Office open from 7:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Telephone 401, both phones. A most enjoyable time is guaranteed to those who attend the entertainment which is to be given by the Ladies' Catholic Aid Society at McKinley Hall, corner Western and University, Monday evening, Feb. 15, from 8 to 12 o'clock. Tickets 25 cents. Kohler's orchestra will furnish some of the latest music. You are invited. Come. Benton's cafe has moved from Fort to No. 204 West Third street. The new place has four private dining rooms, all nicely fitted up in the latest style. The cuisine is excellent in every particular, and persons who wish first-class food, served in first-class style, at moderate prices should call. A special invitation is extended to all to visit and inspect the new cafe. The Ivy Leaf Dancing Club ended its winter series with a very pleasant Mask Party Thursday evening. The affair was an enjoyable one, thirty being present. The directors fully appreciate the support of the club's presiding officer, who will be there during Lent, but the spring series will open on Easter Monday night, April 3d, with their second annual Easter solree. A welcome announcement is the return of the "Bonnie Brier Bush," with J. H. Stoddart, Reuben Fax and Kirke La Shell's admirable production, which comes to the Metropolitan Sunday for a half week's engagement. Mr. Stoddart, whose impersonation of Lachlan Campbell, the old book sheepparadise, is to be preserved a classic, still charms all by his ideal portrayal of the stern old father. ATTENTION, EVERYBODY! To go Mills' Sandwich Room, No. 444 Robert street, that is the place to get genuine Mexican chili stew or chili mack, the new and popular "St. Paul sandwich;" oysters in any style; good coffee; Open day and night, from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Mos. 290 Robert street, near the bridge, and 444 Robert Coal $4.50 Per Tort. street, between 7th and 8th. J. S. Mills, proprietor. Fire started in the basement of the Randall Printing Company, 72 and 74 East Fifth street, at 7 o'clock last Thursday evening, and caused a loss estimated at $500, covered by insurance. Williams & Kemp, of the Cosmopolitan Barber Shop, occupy part of the store, claim a loss of $200. The fire is thought to have been caused by electric wires. The fire worked through the walls and the ceiling. The Cosmopolitan will be open for business as usual today. The John H. Hayes Lodge No. 6, Knights of Pythias, is preparing for a grand ball at Sherman Hall, corner 6th and Wabasha streets, Tuesday evening, February 23rd, to which the public is cordially invited. There will be good music and refreshments. The committees in charge are: Executive Committees in charge are: Executive Geo H. Benton, treasurer; Dr Val Do Turner, Harry Threadcraft, John H. Hayes. Reception Committee—Henry Southall, John Sutton, Lee Coleman. Floor Committee—Andrew F. Combs, August Banks, Silas M. Lewis. Admission, 50 cents; children, 25 cents. COSMOPOLITAN BARBER SHOP No. 74 E. Fifth street, Kemp & Williams, proprietors. A strictly up-to-date establishment. Two bath rooms, three hydraulic chairs, shoe shining stand, latest style of furnishings throughout. Children's hair cutting a speciality. Their motto is: "Absolute satisfaction." Fine line of smokers' articles. Public cordially invited. The"Cosmopolitan" staff now consists of Mr. Richard Cousby, former proprietor of the shop No. 374/1 Minneapolis magazine and foreman. His assistants are Messrs. A. Smith and Oscar Sanders. Miss Mary Harwell is cashier. When anything is desired in the tonsorial line call at the "Cosmopolitan." All members of North Star Lodge No. 138, U. B. F., are requested to be present at the next meeting. February 18th, at their hall, No. 319 Wabasha will be present and there will also be an election of officers. At the Grand Opera House. An attraction is booked at the Grand Opera House next week which is considered one of the best melodramatic offerings of the season. It is entitled "From Rags to Riches" and is from the pen of Chas. A. Taylor and under the direction of Maxwell H. Meyers. The play is one of intense heart interest and abounds in thrilling situations, delicate pathos and quaint, humorous comedy. It is a story of New York Life of to-day and the time of action is supposed to be the present. One of the principal characters is Ned Nimble, a newsboy, who works his way from the gutter to a place of Defective Page THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. NOTICE! E. W. 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The bay meets with startling adventures, and saves the honor of his sister Flossie, a girl of sixteen, after many adventures of both mind and brawn with her would-be betrayer. Master Joseph Santley, who plays Ned Nimble, is a young artist of whom too much cannot be said in praise. His masterly interpretation of this difficult role stamps him an actor of talent and originality. He is young in years but undoubtedly has a great future before him in the realm of histrionic art. The engagement will be for one week with the usual matinees. --- IREA a INMIGRACIÓN Of the A. M. E. Church, who, owing to the outrageous "Jim Crow" car laws of the Southern states, was obliged to hire a special sleeper from Ginniatti to Mobile, Ala, to attend the Bishop's Council. Instead of paying $4.50 for a berth he nailed $81.50 for a car. First-Class Laundry Work. In Every Respect. And Ave., So., - Minneapolis. 509-511 Second Ave., So., - Minneapolis. VISIT THE STATE SAVINGS BANK rested any 1903, be 1020 WILL E. MATHELS GO. Wines, Liquors and Cigars - - --- FUN PUNCH MINNEAPOLIS. DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY." Matters Social, Belligious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City on the Falls. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1904. Mr. John W. Wright has been on the sick list. Our good citizen Geo. W. Day is still very sick at his home. First class rooms and board, regular meals 25 cents. Sunday dinner, 35 cents. Hotel De Temple, 411 Second Ave. S. A splendid program will be rendered at Bethesda every Sunday from 6:30 to 8 p. m., under the auspices of the Christian Congress. Madam Pierre is agent for the Magnetic hair straightener. She would be pleased to call on any who may choose to drop her a postal. Address 1127 3d Ave. S. The Appeal is mailed to most of the homes at the office of the Twin City School if you win matters to reach these homes you must publish them in the Appeal. The "Social Five" are making great preparations for their swear "Easter Party," to be given at Litt's Hall, St. Paul, on or about April 6th. This will be their second annual soirée. Mrs. Celestine Brown has opened the "Creole Kitchen," boarding-house style, at 405-407 Fifth ave. S. Regular meals, 25 cents. Short orders served. First-class furnished rooms in connexe-piano lessons taught, also instructsewing. Plain sewing done at the Goodrich-Russell Afro-American Industrial Home, 2406-2408 17th Ave. So. Miss Lydia Walker, instructor. Prof. Howard's K. P. band and the Uniform Rank, K. of K., will give a dancing party the 2d and 4th Thursday evenings in each month during the winter, at Twining hall, 710 Hennepin avenue. After you have been to the theatre or to dancing school and should feel hungry, visit the Superior Cafe at 316 Hennepin avenue. They will be pleased to wait on you. Smiley & Monroe, proprietors. Rev. Reeves of St. Peter's Church is quarantined at his home and has been for two weeks, members of his family having diphtheria. The church is suffering a great loss by the absence of Rev. Reeves. The social given Thursday evening by the ladies of the Guild of St. Thomas' Mission, at the residence of Mrs. Geo. W. Nelson, 941 Central Ave., was a successful point of view. The crowd all evening with the white and colored friends of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, and the well wishes of the Guild. A splendid programme was rendered. Queen Esther Temple No. 134, S. M. T., hold its installation of officers at Labor Temple Hall January 4th. The new officers are: W. P. Sade Sample; W. V. P. Verlinda Sample; W. W. Cary Joyce; Acc. Sec. Mattle Boyd; W. T., Jennie Sykes; W. C., Lena Ragan; S. M., Belle Hyatt; J. M., Mattle Reeves; I. G., Harry Sykes; O. G., Anna English; P., Ella Buckner; Z, Mellissa Roberts; J., Ida Sellers; chairman sick committee, Zelphia Mitchell; chairman trustee board, Carrie Duncan. Before leaving the city Mr. Chas. H. Calloway, who represents the Montana copper industry, left a few shares of stock in the company he is agent for, that can be disposed of. Any one interested in this kind of investment can obtain information on the subject from the assayer of the company represented by Mr. Calloway, who is in Minneapolis for a few days and will be pleased to meet those interested any afternoon after October 4, 1903, between the hours of 3 and 5 at 1020 Guaranty Loan building. There are 550,000 registered voters in Texas. TOWLE'S "LOG GABIN" Maple Syrup. Absolutely Pure and Full Measure. The STANDARD FROM OGEAN to OGEAN TOWLE'S LOG GABIN MAPLE SYRUP FOR RICHNESS OF FLAVOR No Other Brand of Maple Syrup Equals It. It is ABSOLUTELY PURE and is used by the Leading Families, Hotels and Clubs in the United States. THE TOWLE MAPLE SYRUP CO. ST. PAUL, MINN. H. MOSLEY, MGR. VISIT THE Jesamine Club POOL AND BILLIARDS REAR 245 NICOLLET AVE. Germania Life Bldg., Fourth and Minnesota Sts. For the Savings of the Wage Earner. The only institution in St. Paul doing business strictly according to the savings bank law of the state as mandated by the laws of the dangers of commercial banking and trust business. Accounts opened of $1 and upward. Bank open daily from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., except Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. On Konday Evenings from 6 to 8. Trustees—C. G. Lawrence, John B. Sanborn, Ferdinand Willius, Kenneth Clark, John D. Ludden, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jarris Willius, Gavin Willius, John D. C'Brien, William Constans, W. B. Dean, Julius M. Goldsmith. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS We furnish the house complete. Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Stoves, Ranges, Refrigerators & Housefurnishings. Cor. 6th & Cedar Sta. CASH OR CREDIT. P. E. REID. J. J. HIRSHFIELD. 40 East Third St., ST. PAUL. Telephone 1941-J1. THE CITY Best Mutton Legs, per lb.....8c Fall Lamb Legs, per lb.....9c Spring Lamb Legs, per lb.....11c Pig Pork Loins, per lb.....8c 2 lbs. Good Beefsteak.....15c 3½ lbs. Good Beefsteak.....25c Best Rib Roast, per lb.....8, 10, 12c Best Pot Roast, per lb.....6, 8c Our Poultry is strictly fresh dressed. Price always the lowest. THE ST. PAUL DAILY NEWS Every day in the year except Sunday for, per year..... $1.00 Outside the City of St. Paul EDITORIAL COMMENT The man who wears the corset vest must not be offended if real men call him sister. Russia may not like the looks of the husky persons that are patting Japan on the back. What is the use of a vacation that only means harder work afterward to catch up with your work? Look out for the pneumonia germ, which is hiding around the corner ready to pounce upon you. The Chicago cow who had sixteen ounces of pins concealed about her person was plainly a perfect lady. Probably it would be rude to inquire how much Alfred Austin has to pay to get those things of his printed. Hall Caine has nervous prostration. Now perhaps he knows how most of the people who have seen his plays suffered. Gen. Uribe-Uribe threatens to march against us, but we shall probably be able to make a stand against both of him. College songs, it seems, are not as popular as college football. The Yale club lost $2,400 on its Christmas trip out west. A bear is running at large in New Jersey. The citizens are in het pursuit of the animal and if caught it will be incorporated. David Kaphokohoaklmokeweonah has been appointed a postmaster in Hawaii. Let us hope that Dave's administration will be O. K. So many automobiles seem to be determined to soar among the stars that some of them might, perhaps, be usefully converted into airships. A West Virginia marksmans has been fined $25 for killing his rival in love. Which seems a reasonably cheap price when you come to think of it. A farmer's wife at Driffield has given seventeen shillings to the church missionary society, "proceeds of eggs laid on Sundays."—London Daily Mall. A Chicago woman's club has in some mysterious way discovered that modern poetry is all down at the heel. Poets are, of course, seldom well-heeled. When a woman gets so she doesn't care about the size of her feet and turns her attention entirely to her soul, you can set it down that old age is creeping on. A New York man committed suicide rather than undergo an operation for appendicitis. He must have been afraid the doctors could do something worse than kill him. What war costs nowadays is shown by a Tokio dispatch which says that the Japanese government has on hand $300,000,000—"enough to sustain a short, sharp contest." Thirty thousand orders for automobiles have been placed with American manufacturers for this year. The horseless age may not be in sight, but the good roads age is. Mr. Howells thinks that authors ought to form a union. When they do, every member will doubtless have to pledge himself not to work more than twenty-four hours a day. The New York judge who has refused to declare that a marriage is illegal because it is loveless will, of course, be condemned, regardless of contempt of court, by all romantic people. There is a young man in Pennsylvania who has attended Sunday school 1,300 times without missing a Sunday. He ought to be eligible for a good job in the Standard Oil office. President Harper, who says that "the bright student is almost always lazy", probably feels that he could point out a number of students who are cultivating a reputation for brightness. Louisville, Ky., claims first rank among the cities of the world as a tobacco manufacturing center. Peoria concedes this, but insists that tobacco is only one of the necessaries of life. A Frenchman on Long Island has discovered an "infallible opposite" to the mosquito, which he promises, will exterminate that pest. After it has eaten up all the mosquitoes, what will it do next? Out at Miller, S. D., a woman desperado has aawed the town and kidnapped Wilbur Quirk, a drug clerk. We extend our sympathy to Wilbur and emphatically protest that the Miller woman is carrying the leap year business too far. Now it is announced that the Spanish sailors, and not Dewey, sunk Spain's ships at Manila. Presumably the Spaniards saw that one of the fleets must be sunk and with true Castilian courtesy decided that it should not be that of the visitors. The irreverent Fall River Globe remarks: "The recent edict of the Boston city government that Faneuil hall in that city cannot be used again for a hen show, will probably oblige the members of the Women's A. P. A. school committee to find new quarters next election." A bill introduced in the Iowa legislature by Senator Hayward provides that an able bodied man who refuses to work and support his wife may be sent to jail for such refusal. The enactment of such a law would tend to discourage the strong healthy brutes, too lazy to work who marry with the idea of being supported. ALLRIGHT SHOE LADIES AND GENTS PRICE $350 FOR SALE BY 129&131 E. 7th ST TREADWELL SHOE CO. P. A. CO. S.C. PAUL. SMOKE THE LEADERS "EL PATERNO" Ten Cent Cigar. "SIGHT DRAFT" Five Cent Cigar. "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. GREAT REDUCTION SALE The Plymouth Clothing House, 7th and Robert. JOBBERS AND RETAILERS MINNEAPOLIS. "We, a jury composit cigar values, find the Judge Harlan. Cigar 10 cents from every Judge 5¢ HART & MURPHY G. H. Walker, Manager. GREAT RED 100 BUY YOUR COAL A FLOUR, FE THE AFRICAN NATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ST. PAUL. ed of men who know hat the plaintiff, the is entitled to recover y smoker." Harlan Cigar MAKERS, ST. PAUL, MINN. Established 1882. Pymouth Clothing House UCTION SALE Men's Shoes $2.45 Greater shoe values cannot be had. Men's Box Calf, Velour Calf and Guaranteed Patent Colt and Enamel Shoes, Goodyear welt (union made). See our Seventh street window. Choice $2.45 House, 7th and Robert. ND WOOD, FED AND HAY THAT'S THE LEAK This is obtained only from coal having a high percentage of carbon and gas. Every grade of coal retained by us is selected with the fixed principle of securing the highest percentage of carbon obtainable. There is no coal in the city at a like price which can compare with our Eureka Lump, Egg $4.75 Per and Nut at. . . Ton ERROR. on the Brav- l. One Position in Which Even the Bravest of Men Quail. He would terrorize the neighbors in a most outrageous way, broke the wide world's standing records in athletics every day; while in pugilistic circles he could wipe men in the dust, and show master tricks at fencing—laugh at every cut and thrust. He slew tigers in the jungle, and calped redskins on the plain. He chased lions across the mountains and harpooned upon the main. He could break a bucking broncho, yes, and rope a Texan steer; sling a bowle knife or hatchet, throw the boomerang or spear. In hairbreadth escapes he gloried, did this worthy son of Mars. WAY. Dissatisfac- tor, at Gertrude that is, if ard her. big continues." his morning front of my for several with a queer wile dodging high-playing itter, dear" I received thing I could e staggered said with a bewfly. Every my face gets What Caused Little One's Dissatisfaction with the Mirror. "I have no great fear that Gertrude will grow up to be vain; that is, if her present attitude toward her big blue eyes and pretty curls continues," said a fond mamma. "This morning she stepped on a stool in front of my big mirror and stood there for several minutes regarding herself with a queer little frown, and all the while dodging from side to side as though playing ho-ppe. 'What's the matter, dear?' I asked, and the answer I received was so different from anything I could have expected that it quite staggered me. 'Oh, mamma,' she said with a pat, it'd bovies me awfully. Every time I look in the glass my face gets in the way!" The ordinary feminine headache will be greatly relieved and in many cases entirely cured, by removing the bodice, knotting the hair high up on the head out of the way and, while sponge soaked in water as hot as can lean over the basin, placing a be borne, on the back of the neck. Repeat this many times, also applying the sponge behind the ears, and the strained muscles and nerves that have caused so much misery will be felt to relax and smooth themselves out deliciously, and very frequently the pain promptly vanishes in consequence. After figs have been collected they are dipped in boiling brine, and then dried on trays for from two to four days, according to the weather. The dipping is supposed to bring the sugar to the surface and hasten the drying. After being dried the figs are placed in "sweat boxes," holding 2,000 pounds each, where they remain for two weeks. Then they are washed in cold salt water to remove all dirt, and are packed by women and girls in half-pound, one-pound and ten-pound boxes, in layers, being split primarily with a short-bladed knife. An Oddity in Cushions. A new sofa pillow for a den is made of cream colored pongee, in the shape of a meal sack. The sack is tied with crimson satin ribbon, just as a meal sack would be, and the top is faced with red, so that it shows a pretty contrast with the cream colored pongee, as it spreads open. Cunningly peeping from the folds of this top is a brown velvet mouse so realistic in appearance as to be a source of much amusement. A design of wheat ears is embroidered upon the front of the pillow. A London harrierist used to tell of an instance that occurred in his own experience of trial by jury in Wales. A well-known local solicitor named Garnons was concerned in a case. While counsel was addressing the jury its members quietly turned from him, put their together and then the foreman addressed the judge: "It's no use, mylord, for the gentleman in the wig to talk any more, as we agreed in the Blue Lion last night to vote for Mr. Garnons of Rhiwgoch." SHOES THAT ARE ARE right, wild , while men aging right e uproar is it has, it, passed returned The World's All Right. I never shall believe this world Is turning very wrong. While things are all are, while men Do dance and dance-and dance. The world must still be swinging right As long as people about To see the witch on a stage At last put down and out. While men are glad to look upon The world, with all the faults it has, Must still be swinging right. While melodrama's vice is hissed Virtue is virtue, I'll not be the world has turned To very wicked ways. 估 SUBDUING OF A TERROR. HER FACE IN THE WAY. Headache. Anent Luscious Flgs. It Was All Arranged. "We deliver when and what we promise." The "NEW BREW" is a Bottle Beer that's new to you but four months old to us. The name "Hamm" has always stood for the" Best"in beer No money has been spared in making the Best Bottle Beer in the world Hamm's "NEW BREW" Order a case today THE NEW YORK TIMES FARWELL, OZMUN KIRK & CO.. GENERAL HARDWARE, Cutlery, Crawford Bicycles, Guns and Sporting Goods, Builders' Hard- ware, Favorite THE MUSEUM OF THE WORLD Our new Anthracte Coal, mined in Lyken's Valley Pa., is giving complete satisfaction. Weare selling it at $6 per ton. Gas House Coke..... $6.75 Washed Egg, Stove and Nut..... $5.50 Pocahontas Smokeless Egg and Lump..... $6.75 CLIFFORD A. SMITH, THE NEW TAILOR. Is very successful in making Clothes. He is making clothes for all the boys and they are all well pleased. If you wish a Suit or Overcoat made give him a chance and he will please you. GENERAL HARDWARE, Cutlery, Crawford Bicycles, Guns and Sporting Goods, Builders' Hardware, Favorite Stoves. Tinware, Fishing Tackle. WHOLESALE HARDWARE. St. Paul, Minn. MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA A. F. AND A. M. W. R. MORRIS GRAND MASTER. 1020 Guaranty Log n. Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. B. R. DURANT, GRAND SECRETARY, 331 Payne Ave., St. Paul, Minn. PIONEER LODGE NO. 1, A. F. and A. meets first and third Mondays of each month at Monroe Hall, A. R. Myers, W. M. 9, J. Charleston, Sec. 416 St. Anthony Ave PAST GRAND MASTER'S COUNCIL No. 123, A. F. and A. M., meets the second Friday in each month at Labor Temple building, Minneapolis. All visiting P.G. M. in good standing cordially invited to attend. W. R. Morris, W. G. M.; Thomas R. Hickman, G. S., No. 421 St. Anthony avenue. St. Paul. ODD FELLOWS. MARS LODGE, NO. 2202, MEETS WEC and fourth Wednesday in each month for business and the third Wednesday, on instruction at Old Fellows' Hall, 25th R. Seventh street, J. E. Porter, N. G., Tho R. Hickman, P. S., 422 St. Anthony St. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 553, U.O. of C. F. meets first and third Monday in each month for business, second Monday for instruction at Old Fellows' Hall 253 East Seventh St., Mrs. Isabella Sanders, M. N. G.; Mrs. Ida M. Johnson, W. R., No. 916 Marion St. ST. PAUL PATRIARCHY NO. 11 meets the second Monday in each month of the school year on all street. All Patriarchs in good standing are invited to attend. W. R. Morrison, Phos. Hickman, R. V. W., Francis, P. Goe, B. Lowe, W. F. R. 4/178, Wabasha. UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP. NORTH STAR LODGE NO. 138, U. B. F., meets first and third Thursdays in morning and afternoon streets. Brothers in good standing always welcome. F. L. McGhee, W. M.; E. W. Lindsay, W. Seyc, 343 Wabusha. ST. JAMES' A. M. F. CHURCH Cor. Fulmer and Jay streets. Sunday service 11:00 a.m.; 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday prayer meeting 8:00 p.m. P. pastor visit on Monday and Thursday. Weddings, funerals skittened on notice. Rev. J. C. Ackerson, pastor, 380 Louis St. PULMUR BAPTIST CHURCH Cor. 12th street. Sunday services: Franchising at 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Sunday school at 12:30 o'clock. Wednesday avenue and fourth street. Early graduation study Sunday school lesson. Funerals and weddings promptly attended. Rev. W. D. Carter, Pastor, 550 Eiffelt St. ST. PHILIP'S EPISCOPAL MISSION corner Aurora avenue and Mackublin street. Sunday school. Early graduation study. Early graduation of Holy Eucharist first and third Sundays, 11:00 a.m. Matins, second and fourth Sundays, 11:00 a.m. Brotherhood of St. Andrew, 6:30 p.m. Vespers, 7:30 p.m. Week services: Wednesdays, confirmation class, 8:00 p.m. Weddings, evening prayer, 8:00 p.m. Saturdays, funerals, 9 A. M. Rev. 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