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THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT BECAUSE: 1-It aims to publish all the news possible. 2-It does no particularly, wasting no words. 3-Its correspondents are able and energetic. --- NOT DESIRABLE AS EITHER HUSBAND OR BROTHER. Woman Writer Points Out His Numeroous Shortcomings—At That, He Compares Very Favorably With the Beauty of Fifty Years Ago. The handsome man is a mistake, according to an aggrieved person who feels herself qualified to speak out in meeting on this subject. She has been investigating him in various roles and declares that as a lover he is unsatisfactory, as a husband a failure and as a brother a nuisance. The fiancée of a good-looking man has to be for her capture of Adonis. She lives in a state of perpetual siege against a host of fair rivals, and has to run the guillot of such remarks as: "I wonder what that handsome Mr. Jones can see in that Enid Smith," and "it isn't funny how good looking men always marry such plain wives?" Her troubles are all augmented when she becomes a young matron. She has to stoicly endure her husband's flirtations with other women—who will flatter him if she will not—and to smile amiably when Mrs. Robinson inspares Jack and Muriel; "such pretty children; so like their father!" Last, but not least, she must skimp her wardrobe, while her attractive husband spends on his ties and soaks what the ugly man would have concentrated cheerfully on his wife's fur coat, says the Philadelphia inquirer. ```markdown ``` As a brother the handsome man is certainly not an unmixed blessing. From the first moment he opens his "beautiful" eyes he is the idol of an adoring mother, who displays to his moral shortcomings a more than beetle-like obtuseness. As he grows older she palliates his love for pleasure and his disinclination for work by the excuse: "Jack is so good-looking he is sure to marry an heiress if he goes into society." The sister of the handsome man is only asked to parties where the hostess dare not ask him without her, and she is ordered to be civil to all sorts of people, who detest her, but admire Jack. Then the handsome brother is not asked to be civil to all sorts means that Jack will not bring men friends home to smoke and play ping-pong and fall in love with his sister. If the modern girl couin have her choice in such a matter she would plump unreservedly for a plain, good-natured, ordinary brother, who would contentedly accept the back seat allotled by the twentieth century women to the "mere man." Troublesome though the handsome brother undoubtedly is, it is probable that, in spite of all her protestations, her royal highness, woman, will continue to admire and marry him. The handsome man of to-day certainly has a high regard for the man of fifty years ago. That popular hero was narrow-chested, puny and pink-and-white, while black whiskers inevitably "adored" his thin cheeks. To-day the handsome man is stalwart, well set up, and muscular, for mere beauty of feature will count for very little. He may not be industrious, but he is also used to play with his hands and is, by the almost as conceited of his prowess in these directions as of his classic nose and chin and "beautiful" eyes. THE PAY OF THE HANGMAN. When Jack Ketch Complained of His Small Salary. The many executions taking place these days would give the lie to the story, had it not already been contradicted, that the hangman suffers poverty. But the court of aldermen really does possess the record of an appeal for increase of the hangman's salary. Jack Ketch wrote that, as executioner, he could not get other employment; that he had to keep an assistant, but that hangings were so rare as to make it impossible for him to live. He must have compared his own lot with that of the French hangman in the palmy days of that official before the gullotine killed his profession. "The post is sacred he wrote a diarist in Paris, "and" approaches the noblesse ad hoc" using a sword and a priesthood in being prescribed entry at all spectacles to the profession. It know unsullied can ennoble, then I know of none so pure, for a French hangman can marry none but a French hangman with the daughter." Far different was it with the Ketches of old time, as the following record shows: "Executioner's fees, 7s. 4d.; stripping the body, 4s. 4d.; use of shell, 2s. 6d." - St. James Gazette. Quite a Difference: The Earl of Antrim who recently celebrated his fifty-third birthday, is a resident Irish landlord and one who looks as closely to his affairs as does Lord Leicester. An aristocratic acquaintance complained to him one day that he had seen him (Lord Antrim) driving three cows along a road, which he thought was an office derogatory to one of his, rank, etc. "You are under a misapprehension," replied the Lord of Glenham Castle; "it was not three cows you saw me driving, but two cows and a bull." Imitation Fame. My search for Fame (the youth thus has been in lines sensational, And yet, whatever course I take, Success has been probational. For Fame does not at all times lie, You may not be successful. Nor is Success for all who try. Some form of eccentricity. My search for Fame (the youth so said) For those who search I use misled By foolish Notoriously. WHY WHITNEY WAS POPULAR. Always the Embodiment of Chivalry and Courtesy. One of the admirable traits of William C. Whitney was his habitual deference to women. Talk turned upon this at the Union League Club last night. "He was a gentleman to the core," remarked a prominent member of the club. "He was not difficult to keep his hat on when conversing with a woman on the sidewalk, even in winter, and yet more so to remain seated when a woman servant entered a room where he happened to be. It was instinctive gallantry—the old-fashioned courtliness, the chivalry whose decadence Burke deplored." Mr. Stillman recalled that one of Whitney's favorite quotations was Lamarine's reply to the woman who asked her age. Your age, madmolesmeilie. Whatever it is, you don't look it." By another the point was made that his unfalling buoyancy of spirits was largely due to his determination not to become an old fogy. His advice to the men of fifty and beyond was in their vein: "Watch the men of thirty. You'll have to wrench your neck sometimes, but it pays." Rather a curious, but by no means forced, anology was drawn between Mr. Whitney and Lord Rosebey by an Anglo-American financier who has "M" among his initials. The resemblance was in respect of social tact, administrative gifts, taste in the arts, sedate opulence of domestic surroundings, devotion to family duties, and the importance of turtl standards. "Whitney," said Mr. "M," "was a democratic aristocrat, and never so truly as in the paddock. He was always the exponent of the doctrines that on the turf and under it all men are equal."—New York Mail and Express. Simile Did Not Fit. Mr. James Breck Perkins of New York and Mr. Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, became involved in a recent spirited House debate about the docking of horses' tails in the District of Columbia, says the Washington Post. Mr. Perkins ridiculed the proposed legislation. Mr. Cooper championed it. There were aggressive exchanges. "What good purpose does the docking serve?" Mr. Cooper finally asked in a tone of voice which seemed to indicate a belief that the question could not be satisfied, answered, air of impatience at his friend's attitude, "it improves their appearance." Then he paused a moment before adding: "Just as the gentleman from Wisconsin cuts his hair." Now, Mr. Cooper has a bald head, and at that kind of a retort the house went into convulsions of laughter, which drowned the assertion of the Wisconsin member that he didn't seek in the office to improve his personal appearance. Famous Cornwall "Pasty." A proverb current in Cornwall says that the devil has never ventured to show his face in that portion of England lest the Cornish housewife should pop him into a pasty. The saying speaks well for the spiciness of the famous dish, as well as for the thriftiness of the matron in turning unpromising materials to account. For just as a woman is the feast of Cornwall so the proud bear of Cornwall is Cornish pasty. Many things go to make up its savoriness which an uninventive cook would never cream of employing. Leeks, onions, sage and parsnips figure largely, while potatoes and turnips provide the bulk of the feast. To flavor it successfully requires the most intimate and accurate knowledge of the value of homely herbs. Thyme, mint and parsley are three popular cornish cook. The bedgerows, too, are made to yield their share, and a many a weed is pressed into the service. His Nerve Got Him the Job A woman living in the vicinity of Thirteenth and Wallace streets yesterday who was nearly made frantic by the snow shovelers hung a sign on the door: "To snow shovelers: If you have any consideration for a woman's shattered nerves, please don't ring the bell. When I want the pavement cleaned my husband will do it." Soon after the sign was placed the bell rang furiously. On going to the door the woman was amazed to see a man there with a shovel. "Can't you read that sign?" the woman exclaimed. "I didn't without my glasses," was the rejoinder. "I did read in the papers that people who didn't have their pavement cleaned would be fined $5 and costs." The fellow got the job—Philadelphia Press. Rest. Who in the mountain greets of Eden he and hear the fourfold river as it mur- tures. THE APPEAL. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1904. --- THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY'S The birthplace of St. Patrick is a matter of dispute, but then there is scarcely any historical fact that is not disputed. It would be passing strange, therefore, if any of the incidents of so renowned a historical character as St. Patrick, not placed beyond doubt by demonstrable fact, were to pass undisputed. There are few now, however, who know the history of that that he was born at Boulge-Sur-Mer in France. Most historians allow that Dumbarton-on-the-Clyde in Scotland is the place of his nativity. Though why his own statement that he was an Irishman should be ignored, I for one, am at a loss to understand. One thing is certain: he was not only a Kelt but he belonged to the Gaelic branch of the Keltic race. Whether, therefore, it could be proved he was born in Scotland or France he was still in Ireland. Gaelic or Irish language—and spoke Gaelic or the Irish tongue. Perhaps to this may be attributed much of his success in the conversion of Ireland; and that success was phenomenal. St. Patrick's zeal in preaching the gospel was very similar to St. Paul's. His energy was untiring. His aim was the conversion of the whole island. To accomplish this he worked by night as well as by day, as conditions necessitated. His courage was absolutely fearless. He did not headlessly run into danger. He was guided by a sound judgment in all his missionary effort. But when the conversion of a person was complete, he did not shrink from death for a moment, but went forward boldly and preached the gospel, and as generally happens in bold enterprises he was signally successful. St. Patrick's system of church policy was neither doxon, parochial, con- ST. gregational, nor monastic such as prevailed in medieval times. It was rather collegiate and missionary; or we might say it partook of the congregational, parochial, monastic and docean—a combination of what is good in all. Had he had a knowledge of physiological analysis, such as we now possess, one would be inclined to say he took his system from the human body. The simplest form of his work in any locality is the cell, or he takes the human or animal. This was the nucleus. To the cell was drawn numbers of young and old. Here in due time assimilation took place. Then the kill (church) or cell became divided and subdivided, as in the living organism, by sending out those prepared at the colleges to localities chosen as promising fields, each body of missionaries so sent out formed a new cell. A kill with its colleges and other appurtenances was established, each separate and distinct in itself yet in conection with the mother kill and with each other. These individual kills sent out to missionaries. Consequent habitants were sent out nuclei were formed, kills established. As needs required a chief pastor, or bishop, was selected, consecrated and sent to preach the gospel, convert the heathen, and extend the church by leading the way in which his clergy followed. The bishop was more like the colonel of a cavalry regiment advancing to the charge against the enemy, who precedes his soldiers, is first in the fight and leads in every post of danger. Under the leadership of such a bishop his clergy would follow to the death. With such bishops and clergy the "Aedepscop" (archbishop) Patrick himself leading the van, the idols went down before them like corn before the sickle. Let one instance suffice. The Irish like other ancient nations and in common with all Druids paid religious homage to pillar stones. Keating in writing of one of the crom crunch, or crom dubh (the black stolonning stone) says it was "the same god that Zoroaster worshipped" and the first form of idolatry introduced among the Milesians (Scots). It was erected in the plain of weeping with twelve lesser Idols of brass ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN, IRELAND. BY REV. P. P. BRYD, M.D. Secretary of American Church Bible Institute. around it and was the favorite resort of King Laogaira. The intrepid Patrick and his companions, taking their lives in their hands, advanced boldly against these idols and shattered them in pieces. The message of such men, who proved the worthlessness of idols of stone, brass and gold for crom dubu was overlaid if it was not wholly made of gold, was received with gladness, and the fame of the saint and his companions, and the gospel they preached spread far and wide, so that great numbers became obedient to the faith. This act of Patrick was not dissimilar to that of Hezekiah, who broke in and razed the zebra whose noses had erected for a somewhat similar reason, that it became an object of idolatrous worship. This crom dubu and its companions were not originally objects of worship, for the early Irish religion was purely monotheistic. But the Irish, and especially their priesthood or drulds, were from remote antiquity skilled astronomers. Many of their religious customs had an astronomical bearing, with special reference to the sun. The mistletoe, for instance, was associated with the winter Solstice, the 21st December, as was the Shamrock with the Vernal equinox or the 22d of March. So Crom dubu and its companions were originally nothing more harmful than the sun and the twelve signs of the zodiac. Crom himself symbolized the sun and hence he illustrated with gold the latter to illustrate the luminary. It is from Crom that the word cromlech is derived. St. Patrick was happy in his paren- P. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN, IREL tage. He was, as he himself tells us, the son of Calpurnius, a deacon in the Christian church, and the grandson of Politus, a priest or presbyter of the same church, and his mother was Conchessa, a sister of St. Martin of Tours. Thus he was not only the son of Christian parents, but came of a family of ecclesiastics on father and mother's sides. Like many another youth of Christian parents he "did not know the Lord" in its spiritual signification. But when a slave in the mountains of Ireland his early teaching came home to his soul. Slave though he was he had learned to love the people among whom he lived. And subsisted by the priest of manhood he observed the pinnings of his heart and the vision of his dreams, and resigned his nobility to become a missionary, when he went everywhere throughout the island preaching Christ with wonderful power to the pagan Irish, and bringing multitudes into the Christian fold. When at home at the kil or church his usual mode of procedure' was to be "accompanied with a group of holy men clothed in white with books in their hands, chanting the morning service in the open air as well as in the church." He died in prayer on March 17th at Downpatrick, where he first preached. It was his happy lot to see the fruits of his labors in multitudes who professed the faith, in the erection of numerous churches, in thousands of ordained clergy, and in the establishment of colleges, which subsequently became the most renowned seats of learning in town and to which students flocked from all parts of Europe. It has been granted to four saints to witness such wonderful results are the thread of life is severed. Well might he say in the words of the aged Simeon as he held the infant Savior in his arms, "Lord now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace." The legends that gather around St. Patrick are many and absurd. However it may be well to mention a few. Holy wells are so numerous that it would have been impossible for the saint to have occupied them all. They were occupied by crystal clearness, the limpid waters bubbling from the depths beneath, and many a time have Defective Page I slaked my thirst and laved my brow the cool waters of a St. Patrick's well Snakes in a wild state are a negative quantity in Ireland. Whether they ever existed there in human times may be questioned. Some forty years ago a practical joker conveyed a number of snakes from England and liberated them during the night and unobserved. When discovered in the morning ground, many of them were the superstitious, and critical were the essays of the expert literati, and lengthened were the rhetorical efforts of the garrulous orators. But alas! for all, they learned lore of the savants of the United Kingdom, the poor reptiles died, and not a snake has since appeared to pollute the Holy Isle. What has given rise to the legend of St. Patrick expelling the snakes is no doubt its metaphor (the toothed serpents, and expelled the make-pagan doctrine by the war of Gospel. Toads were also expelled, and the legend has much the same basis for support as the expulsion of the snakes. The legend of the last toad, which I heard narrated years ago in the west of Ireland, may be deemed worthy of notice: The Saint was standing on the summit of Croaghpatrick (the highest mountain in Ireland) watching the flight of satan across Clew Bay, when, turning round to glance over the Connemara hills, he saw to his astonishment a toad hiding under a tuft of heather. As he approached the toad opened his mouth and said, "Holy Patrick, spare me. I am the soul of the great Pythagoras, who taught the transmigration of souls in a time of irreligion." "You taught false," says the saint. "I have ELAND. an explanation of that," replied the great philosopher. "Abaris, chief of the Drudts, and by the same token an Irishman like yourself of great learning and valiant deeds, taught me the doctrine. "That's true," says the saint, "and a great and learned man he was, and so were you, and I will deliver you, but you will have to go to my purgatory and be there prepared for a higher life, and the said man will lead you to lead with his pastoral staff when an explosion loud as thunder took place and Pythagoras was liberated and flew away with joy to Lough Derg, in Donigal, where he entered Patrick's purgatory. The legend of the purgatory, too, is interesting. The saint was in hot pursuit of Satan. He was standing on top of Nephin Mountain, from which he gave a sprint and landed on a rock in the bed of the river Moy that still retains his footprint. Then with a bound he lands on Crouch Patrick, when Satan flees the land. The devil's mother still remains and the saint now turns his attention to her. She flees away to the north, the saint in pursuit. He overtakes her in an desolate dog in Donegal, and to escape him she rushes into a lake, where the leeches had come. They instantly seize her, insert their fangs in her body, and she bleeds to death. The waters become colored red with her blood, and have remained so ever since, hence the name Lough Derg. A mighty course of people had assembled and the saint preached to them about the torments of the lost. The Drums answered they couldn't accept such a doctrine without oracular demonstration. Then the saint prayed for a few moments, when suddenly there was a loud report, a mighty explosion took place, the earth opened with a yawning cavity, an island was upheaved in the lough, and in its center was formed a cave, which became the saint's sanctuary. The saint so well authenticated by the most respectable authority has ever existed than that of St. Patrick's purgatory. It forms the foundation of Dante's Inferno, and in the middle ages it threw the legend of "the Wandering Jew" completely in the shade. --- Seemingly Forgets to Endow Human Beings With Nested Faculties. Nature nods undoubtedly at times, as in the case of the child born without a brain whose case has been made public this week. Not long ago an infant was born and lived three weeks with a hole through its heart. Theuchi has been blind, and others have no musical sense. And there are many Laura Bridgmans, many Helen Kellers. The queen of Roumania has or had at her court in personal attendance" upon herself the daughter of a blind nobleman. She could neither hear nor speak, and had to be taught to communicate by holding the throat of a speaker and imitating the voice of another producer. But what can be against nature must such a one as Lyon Playfair discovered ever feel! Here was a girl who was blind, deaf, dumb and no other taste nor smell. One might be pardoned for asking if such a life was worth living. Yet there was a beautiful lesson in such an existence, as the great warm heart of Playlair discovered. He sent her a pretty finger ring. And the poor mite replied in this pitifully pretty letter: "Dear Sir Lyon Playlair: Sir Lyon Playlair sent Edith ring in box. Edith thank Sir Lyon Playlair for ring. Sir Lyon Playlair come to see Edith. Good-by. Edith." During his first visit the child had closely examined his hands, wrists, arms and face, her touch being marvelously accurate. A year later he went again to see her. At first she did not recognize him and no one beamed at her. She turned back the cut of his shirt and touched his wrist. Her face lit up with intense joy. "It is the Englishman who gave me the ring," she rapidly spelled out on her fingers. And in a second she had hung her little arms around his neck and was weeping with delight at the recognition. PAINTS OF THE ANCIENTS. Water Colors Were Invariably Used in the Olden Days. Paints as now employed in the arts, both mechanical and decorative, were not known to the people of ancient times. Pigments they had in abundance, but the art of mixing them so as to make them enduring had not been discovered. Nowadays when the artisan is applying varnish he puts up a sign warning passers by that to beware of the average man varnish is regarded as a species of paint. The two are, indeed, closely related, but it will surprise most people to learn that, while varnish is a product known in very remote ages, paint as used to-day is of comparative recent origin. The paint used in Babylon and Nineveh and in Pompeii was composed of pigments mixed not with oil but with water, to which had been added a little egg albumen, a peach oil, and a substance, which is albuminous matter from milk, or the gluten from cereal grains. Glue, however, was the most universal grinding material. Such paints are now known as fresco paints or water colors. They have not gone out of use, as is illustrated by the reported statement that the paints used in the construction are to be painted throughout with some of these preparations. Seven Wonders of the World. There have been different objects classed as the Seven Wonders of the World at different periods of the world's history. The seven wonders of antiquity were: The Pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Tomb of Mausolus, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) by Philias, the Pharos of Egypt, or else the Palace of Cyrus cemented in the face of being together in the following lines, which can be committed to memory without much difficulty: The pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid: Or the Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold. Wake Me a Song. Out of the silences wake me a song, Beautiful, sad, and soft, and low; Let the wind blow me a song, Let the wing note each with a wall of woe. Dim and dream Out of the silences wake me a hymn, Whose sounds are like shadows soft and dim. Out of the stillness in your heart— The stillness in your heart there— Wake me a song, thou child of art! The song of a hope in a last despair, Beguiled by a dream, A chant of woe. Out of the stillness, tone by tone. Cold as a snowflake, low as a moan. Out of the darkness flash me a song, Let it sweep as a lone star sweeps along The mystical shadows of the night. Where nothing is sweet, or dark, or dum And earth-song soars into heavenly How They Interpreted It. We are taught not to be anxious for the future, as the future will come in time. We are taught in the Sermon on the Mount not to think of the future, because the evil we do in one day is sufficient—Answers of London KILLED THE HOODOOS TOM SHARKEY HERO OF AMUSING STORY. Beautiful Birds Presented to Him by Bob Fitzsimmons Meet Untimely Fate—Superstition of Two Prize fighters. There is an amusing story going around the sporting circles of New York which is very funny and particularly interesting to those who are acquainted with the peculiarities and shortcomings of Tom Sharkey, the sailor pugilist. The story goes back to the time Sharkey was training to fight Bob Fitzsimmons. Fitz had been presented with a pair of cocoakes by Homer Davenport, the well-know cartoonist, and Red Robert was very proud of his feathered beauties. George Dawson, the boxing instructor of the Chicago Athletic club and an old-time Australian chum of Fitz's was at the beach, and had charge of the training camp. Dawson is a bit of a joker in his way, and put up a job on Sharkey. There was the best of good feeling existing between the two fighters—as frequently happens when two men are matched to batter each other for no more acclimatious purpose than a division of the gate receipts. Ore bright Saturday, when the peacocks were making an extra gorgeous tail feathers, Dawson took Fitz on the side and said: "Pretty birds, Bob, but don't you know?" "Know what?" asked Bob. "Why, peacocks are bad luck. They are hooodoos." "Well, I don't want any hooodoos about me," said Fitz, looking puzzled. "Not just on the eve of a fight." "I tell you what let's do," said Dawson. "Let's make Tom Sharkey a present of the birds. Let us卸载 them on him." Fitz didn't do any work on Sunday, so the next day we took the four-seated wagon, and with Blucher, the big sorrel, between the shafts, drove over to Sheepshead, where Sharkey was training. There was a little presentation speech made by Fitz. He had brought the birds over to his rival as a little gift to show that there were no hard feelings between them, even if they were about to meet as enemies in the ring. It was an emphasis of the time-honored custom guildists have of shaking hands just before they get together. Sharkey fell into the spirit of the thing and accepted the birds in the good-fellowship in which they were given. He invited Fitz, Dawson and myself into the house to enjoy its hospitality, and we had a glass of pump water all around—at Sharkey's executive. The next day I rode over to the sailor's camp again. After Sharkey had said that he never felt better in his life, and delivered his bulging chest of a few other aphorisms, it reverted to the presentation of the coacocks. "Fine birds, Tom, but don't you know?" "Know what?" asked Sharkey, just as Fitz had before. "Well, I'll give you a tip. Those birds are hoodoos. They are guaranteed to queer any fighter who owns them. If you have them in your possession when you enter the ring you will surely lose to Fitz." That man faced face was an interrogation mark. "Don't you see? Fitz has given them to you so that you will have the bad luck they bring." "Well, I'll fool him," cried Sharkey. "I'll kill those turkeys." And he did. He wring the necks of a pair of as handsome prize peacocks as ever wore a blue ribbon at a poultry stand. And his thrifty soul went further. He had them cooked, and it's even money that he ate them. He Got the Raise. A small boy down in Wall street demonstrated that there are several ways of getting a salary raised. He was receiving $3 a week, all of which he had to contribute toward the family expenses, and he longed for the financial independence offered by the job. He was 60 weeks old. He finally decided to write a letter to the head of his firm. Here is the letter: "Dear Sir—Could you please make my salary a little higher? I don't get any money for myself now, because the family needs it all. I'll promise you that the salary the laborer is worthy of his higher." He got the raise—New York Sun. Contentment. I envy not the famous men Of any time or land; Had I been able to lift the bridge; I've held Myrtila's hand. Though Shakespeare may have written plays And some not a few, Yet to Myrtila I have penned A joyous billet-doux. Drake may have circled round the globe; And though that pleased his taste, Since he penned my arm Around Myrtila's waist. Though Sherman may have made mars From Atlanta to the sea, A wedding march right up the aisle Is good enough for me. -Life. Oppose Labor Unions. Belgian glass manufacturers are to form a glass trust, in order to oppose the demands of the labor unions for wages and to obtain better selling prices in foreign markets. A committee of five persons, consisting of three engineers and one architect, is to fix the value of the different factories. AVE YOU READ THE APPEAL? THE APPEAL, A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ADAMS BROS. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS 40 E. 4th St., St. Paul, Minn. ST. PAUL OFFICE, No. 110 Union Blk. 4th & Cedar, J. O. ADAMS, Manager. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE, Guaragua Loan Blgd. Room 1020 HARVEY B. BURK, Manager. 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No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. We do no. hold ourselves responsible for the our correspondents. Soliciting wants wanted everywhere. Write for terms. In every letter that you write us never fall to our hands, we write, post office, county id state. Business letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or information. "I KNOW OF THE BRAVERY AND CHARACTER OF THE NEGRO SOLDIER. HE SAVED MY LIFE AT SANTIAGO, AND I HAVE HAD OCCASION TO SAY SO IN MANY ARTICLES AND ADVERTISING THROUGH ADDERS HERE IN A BAD POSITION WHEN THE NINTH AND TENTH CAVALRY CAME RUSHING UP THE HILL, CARRYING EVERYTHING BEFORE THEM. THE NEGRO SOLDIER HAS THE FACULTY OF COMING TO THE HILL, AND HE WAS MOST IN THE CIVIL WAR HE CAME 400,000 STRONG, AND I BELIEVE HE SAVED THE UNION."—President Roosevelt. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1904. NATIONAL CONVENTION. The date for holding the next National Republican Convention, June 21 at Chicago, is the latest of any conventions in the state. The third and the ninth National Republican convention, which fact will give the superstitious something to talk about. Other Republican conventions have been held as follows: August 14, 1860, Ninees, John C. Fremont, of California, and William L. Dayton, of New Jersey. Chicago, May 16, 1860—Nominees, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hanibal Hamlin of Maine. Baltimore, June 7, 1864—Nominees, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee. Chicago, May 20, 1868—Nominees, Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, and Schultz Colfax, of Indiana. Chicago, June 2, 1880—Nominees, James A. Garfield, of Ohio, and Chester A. Arthur, of New York. Chicago, June 2, 1884—Nominees, James G. Blaine, of Maine, and John A. Logan, of Illinois. Chicago, June 19, 1888—Nominees, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Levi P. Morton, of New York. Minneapolis, June 7, 1892—Nominees, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, and Whitelaw Relf, of New York. St. Louis, June 16, 1896—Nominees, William McKinley, of Ohio, and Garrett A. Hobart, of New Jersey, Philadelphia, of June 19, 1896—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 1884, 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 Bibb and a group of children there and attempted to send them to the nearest public school. The superintendent of schools refused to permit this and a suit for mandatus was brought in Bibbs' name and sent to the court. The suit has been to the appellate and supreme courts a number of times, and has been reversed and remanded upon various points each time. An appeal will be taken to the state supreme court. They will be needed to make the fight and the Afro-Americans of Illinois ought to furnish it. The Appeal will give $10 to start the fund. How much will you give, kind The associated press dispatches state that old ben tillman is very ill with a throat trouble that it is impossible for him to swallow solid food, and a little liquid nourishment is all that he can take. It is not within us to redefine man being, but in view of the fact that it is the teachings of tillman that are mainly responsible for the action of the mob of inhuman beings at Springfield, Ohio, we would shed no tears if he was sent where he could no more harm along that line. In Crittenden county, Ark., the Caucasians have discovered that the Afro-Americans have organized a secret society that has alleged the alleged object of which is to "wipe out white supremacy." All of which means that there are some Afro-Americans who, because of their thrift and progress, have become offensive to the lazy Caucasians in that section. They will be charged with stirring up trouble and will probably out of the state. It's an old dodge. A young lady, an expert dancer won the first prize at a ball in St Louis, but died a few minutes later. The church people say it was punish me for the "sin" of dancing; the doctor say death was from heart disease. CORRESPONDENT WANTED With View to Matrimony—Good Chance for Young Lady. Manila, Philippine Islands. Editor Appeal: I have the honour to advertise through this publication your valuable paper for a lady correspondent who possesses a good knowledge of stenography and typewriting. I desire this correspondent with a view to matrimony. I'll give references: Edward Cheatham, Quartermaster's Department, Washington, D. C. Thomas Forney, New York, New York, McKinney, 1614 W. Houston street, San Antonio, Texas. The lady must be between 18 and 21 years of age. My age is 21. Occupation, business manager for the firm of Lack & Davis, Manila, P. L. and Shanghai, China. Respectfully, T. Nimrod McKinney, P. O. Box 499 709 827 8270 THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. WASHINGTON THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES. A Collection of a Few of the Events Occurring Among the Afro-American of the Capital of This Great and Glorious Nation for Our Many Readers. Washington, March 10.—Whenever time begins to grow heavy up at the capitol building and the lawmakers and others wish to inject a little ginger into the proceedings for the purpose of breaking the monotony, caused by a few men doing all the work, would not help than such advertisements published in the newspapers of the country, they bring up what is commonly known as the "Negro question," and from a purely personal standpoint it is well that they do, for otherwise the great American public would not help than such amateur students of sociology were connected with the government pay roll. It has at last been determined, after several days of heated argument into which Ex-President Cleveland was willing, drawn, the *Booker* to the *White House* establishes a precedent. Now that this great question has been settled, congress will soon adjourn, and the Afro-American will have a breathing spell until the campaign orator sees fit to take up the "Black Man's burden" again. John K. Ceaan, an old Chicago, is putting in his spare time buying and selling real estate. During the first five months of the current school year, 735 children were excluded from the public schools of the District at different times on account of diseases that were contagious and in which the institutions which convinced the authorities that their further attendance at school would have resulted in injury to the sufferers. A surprising fact shown by the figures as compiled by Dr. Woodrow Wilson, that of the total number of pupils excluded only 73 were Afro-Americans. Judging from the activity of certain gentlemen who are busy organizing political marching clubs, there will be quite a lively scrawl when the time comes. The convention is a formal convention. Col. Wm. Murrell says it will be a new man, and that neither "per" Carson nor Wm. Chase nor the president of the national dreaming or is the tiq straight? The report of the Commissioner of Immigration for the year ending June 30th, 1903, shows that during the year 2,174 Africanans, black, arrived at the United States in 1903, and number 1,549 were male and 625 female; 242 were under 14 years; 1811 were between the ages of 14 to 45 and 121 were 45 years and over—783 of these people had been in the United States in 1903. The report further shows that 78 of these people were debarred from the country for reasons given as follows: 1) they had become public charges; 7 because of loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases; 1 convict; 7 women for immoral purposes; 5 contract laborers. Of the entire number 49 returned to the United States, 14 were lauded; 3 were not excluded because of relief given in hospitals. The Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church is doing excellent work, and if more of our churches in large cities would get busy along the same line the race would be much benefited. The church is under the supervision of Prof. H. W. Hamilton, includes a special business course, a conversational class, an art class and a course in reading and the art of expression. Another feature of the educational work is the kindergarten course, which can attend for a nominal fee. The industrial classes comprise an employment exchange, a general cooking course, a school of needlework, and a special dressmaking shop. The church is also under the motto: "Open door and hearty welcome; free pews to all." Lincoln church was organized in 1886, and for a long time has been doing a great deal of good in the community. The total value of poultry on all farms of Afro-American farmers June 1, 1900, was $4,048,316. The per cent of white farmers raising poultry was slightly larger than for Afro-American farmers, few of whom make a business profit, keeping fowls mainly for home use. The sudden death of Mrs. Harry S. Williams was a shock to this community, in which she was highly esteemed. Mrs. Williams also lost her loss a husband and two children, a father, sister, two brothers and a host of friends. The people of the District are anxious to learn more about the "Memorial National Home" scheme being implemented by James L. White in connection with the A. M. E. and the A. M. E. Zion churches. Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, of the Atlanta Constitution, has said some mighty comforting things recently to the Afro-American and to the "poor whites" who are needlessly alarmed by the racism of the African-American Harris says, "The rights and privileges to which a man is born are the simplest, and they will not take him further than his own physical strength or mental gifts may go. Personal preference, taste, community of interest, and the congeniality of temperament, and various other reasons give one man one set of friends and associates, and another, another; and to crown it all, there is no law or custom that compels a man to associate on terms of race, gender, religion, sex, son or another, are disagreeable to him." In short, there must be interests or tastes in common. In speaking of our professional men Mr. Harris says: "It is true that there are comparatively few of them in the professions, and it is also true of the whites; if we compare the number of men in the professions, the number of those who are engaged in earning a living. If there are a few professional men among them it is because there is no demand for their services and not because the professions are heretofore with educational heretofore, with educational negroes is that they have insisted on swarming into politics or into the pulp. Up to date they have made the poorest kind of politicians, and with a few notable exceptions, very inferior preachers." Mr. Joseph French of Louisville is in the city visiting Mr. Leslie Davis. Charles E. Hall. RACE WAR SUBSIDES. The Militia Have the Situation Under Control Springfield, Ohio, March 10—Race disturbances, which have terrorized Springfield for three days as the result of the lynching of Richard Dixon, who shot Policeman Collis, white, after a check by thirty three companies of militia. Both Chief of Police O'Brien and Sheriff Routzahn believe, however, that it would be a mistake to decrease the number of troops now on hand, as they realize that a shooting or a street fight between men of opposite races probes the mob to start the mob again on a killing and bribery plot. The police to-might arrested an Afro-American from Cincinnati, who, accompanied by several strange Afro-Americans, read in the street to Afro-Americans an inflammatory paper urging them to avenge the lynching of Dixon, and to apply the torch to the murdered evidence quarters in retaliation for the burning of the quarters on the levee. An immense throng was in and about St. Raphael church this morning to attend the tunnel of Charles Collis, the policeman killed by Dixon. The entire crowd fell ill as they were in attendance. The best of order prevailed, and Father Buckley made no reference to the way in which Collis met his death. Springfield is headquarters of an Afro-American organization called the Afro-American League, which has for its object the securing of laws to prevent lynching, and in other ways to combat the summary punishment of Afro-Americans. Six houses on Central alley and Summer street, occupied by Afro-Americans, are under attack to-day, owing to threats against them. Several hundred Afro-Americans who spent the night in the woods wandered into town this morning. City Solicitor Tatum is preparing a report on denouncing the work of the mob. The crowd paid the payment of $5,000 damages to the relatives of Dixon. REVOLTING CASE. Of Peonage Disclosed in Mississippi—And This in America! Jackson, Miss., March 10.—Shep Griffin, an Afro-American, is in jail at Meridian, having been taken from certain persons who, it is charged, held him in forced servitude in Kemper county. This is the first substantial incident of a federal court attention of United States officers in Mississippi, and it is learned that the neighborhood where Griffin was arrested is in a ferment of excitement. While the officers decline to discuss the affair, it is learned that the persons charged with the offense not only have made threats that they would kill Griffin, but also would kill him, but also would kill the witnesses and Burn Their Property. It is further learned from the clerk of the United States court that Shep Griffin was arrested on a bench warrant on the application of the district attorney, commanding the Griffin to kill him as a witness before a federal grand jury next Monday. Reputable white citizens of Kemper county brought the case to the attention of Griffin on one occasion had been strapped on and whipped for leaving the premises of those who held him. So severe was the beating that Griffin's clothes were torn, and he was made by the lash. On his second escape, it is alleged, he fled into Neshoba county, where he was recaptured. Pistols were pointed at him, a rope was Around His Neck. and fastened to the saddle of one of his captors and he was dragged and driven into Kemper county, where Griffin in servitude said that he owned $t. This he offered to pay, and reputable white citizens also offered to pay the sum, but all offers were declined, as it was said that he worked and not his money that was wanted. Soldiers' Addresses Wanted. Henry 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 gold for. John W. Dent, 3rd Cavalry; Jerry Smith, 3rd Artillery; Daniel Banks, Anderson Bates, Peter Brodby, Paton Giles, Anderson Hoffman, George Nally, George Nickels, William Robbins, William Stiles, William Stone, 5th Cavalry; George Bibb, Charles Cantwell, Jean Dearnell, Louis Darbney, John Gaul, Frank McArland, John Price, Dennis Roberts, and Washington Smith, 12th Infantry; Robert Harnon and Simon Bailess, 11th Infantry; Huston Baless, William Brodwell, Henry Clay, and Ellas Smith, 22th Infantry: Edward Washington, and John C. Louis, 28th Infantry; William A. Bates, George Cox, 29th Infantry: Patrick Henry, and George Sizemore, 42nd Infantry; Granville Elliott, Matthew Felts, David Hunt, Albert Jackson, William King, Peter Tardy, and William Winn, 58th Infantry; Roger Harnon, Moss Ballard, Hunter Butler, Robert Burdette, J. A. Cecil, Simon Cook, David Wilmot, Cecil Etherton, Squire Garrison, Henry Hamilton, John W. Hopkins, Jerry Morris, Grandison Smith, Beyer Tay, and George Fashion, 52nd Infantry; Patrick McCormick, 125th Infantry. Ministers of the gospel and secretaries of lodges, and others interested may help worthy tainters in the above list and posting it in conspicuous places. A Remarkable Watch In one of the chief watchmaking establishments in Zurich there is to be seen a remarkable curiosity in the way of watch or clock making. The timepiece is in the form of a ball, which moves imperceptibly down an inclined surface without rolling. The length of this inclined surface, which is sixteen inches long, is accomplished from top to bottom in twenty-four hours. Then the "ball" only needs lifting to the top again. This extra narrow timepiece is no longer moving, and therefore has winding. The "hands" are kept in motion by the sliding along an inclined plane—London Globe. POLITICAL POINTERS FROM ALL PARTS OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY. The Politicians and Their Doings in the Country, State and City. Although the Campaign Is a Long Way Off, the Pot Begins to Boll. Secretary Taft will address the Hamilton Club of Chicago on April 9. "Tom" Taggart says that the Democrats can carry Indiana. Tommy has another guess coming. Gov. Murphy of New Jersey is now being talked of for chairman of the National Republican Committee. The Republican state convention of Rhode Island to elect national delegates will be held at Providence April --- E. T. Sanford of Knoxville announces himself a candidate for Republican nomination for governor of Tennessee. The Republicans of the Fifth Alabama congressional district elect delegates to the national convention and instructed them for Roosevelt. Former Governor Murray Crane had a talk with the president Monday, and it is said that he will be identified with campaign in some important capacity. Southern Democrats in Washington think ex-Senator Hill's victory over Tammy indicates that landslide to Judge Parker as presidential candidate has begun. The official call has been issued for the state Republican convention of Utah to be held April 8 in Salt Lake City, when delegates will be chosen for the national convention. The Republican state central committee of South Dakota has selected Sloux Falls as the place and May 4 as the date for holding the state convention and nominating congressional and state tickets. * * * Congressman Victor Murdock of Wichita has been renominated by acclamation by the Republican convention of the Seventh Kansas district. The Republican delegates to theitzgerald of Dodge City were elected delegates to the Chicago convention. * * * Chairman Thomas Akins, of the Republican state committee of Missouri, issued a call to the members of the Republican delegates to the Kansas City Monday evening, March 21. The convention will be held there the next day to select four delegates to the national convention at Chicago --- Harry S. New now has a clear field in his race for Republican national committeeman from Indiana, Charles Henry having withdrawn from the contest. Mr. Henry will enter the race for senatorship provided Sen. Richard Roepe accepts the nomination for the vice-presidency, which now seems probable. * * * President Roosevelt is annoyed by the repeated reports that he has offered or is about to offer the chairmanship of the Republican national committee. Special regard regarding the national committee is deprecated at the White House as being premature. Mr. Roosevelt is not yet even renominated, and the new national committee is not selected and organized; hence the statement that he is not the chairman for the chairmanship is regarded as inappropriate and not in good taste. NOT EVEN SKIN DEER Fair Woman's Complexion a Matter of Purchase She was a dream of color—black and white as to her costume, roses and cream in face and cheek. Every woman who entered the car looked her over with eyes that gleaned with admiration for the frog, hat, shoes and gloves. Every man paid that tribute to Venus which shows the goddess still reigns, whatever else has befallen the other pagan deities. While the women's attention was centered on her costume the men's eyes all rested on her face, calmly beautiful in outlines, surpassingly lovely, its eyes so sharp and glittering. Presently she stood up to leave the car, and as she did so a little object fell from the front of her waist. Three men bumped their heads in their eagerness to reach it. The lucky one who picked up it held up in such a way that all who sat might read. It was a box of rouge! STUDENT8 HAVE GREAT DAY. Curious Mock Execution Recently Witnessed at Gottingen The old town of Gottingen recently witnessed a scene seldom paralleled, even in the annals of the roystering students of that famous seat of learning. Two students had been ordered into a certain number of days' arrests, and the whole Corpus Academicum entered joyously into the "execution." The "condemned" were conducted to prison by a great masquerading procession, led by the car of the headman, who stood among his "assistants" leaining upon a huge car of the car of the condemned with the two culprits "heavily chained," and dragged by bullocks. A third car contained the "bedding of the culprits." Last came a long line of landaus full of students, enjoying with very great gusto the "baker smarzzett," or "last meal of the condemned." It was a great day at Gottingen. Three Ways of Dressing Hair. Three Ways to Use Hobrides Some of the New Hobrides people do their hair up in a bunch on the top of the head and stain it yellow, or they use the inhabitants of Ombal island pass it all through a tube so as to make a kind of plume. The Marquesas chiefs' favorite method is to shave all the head except two patches, one over each temple, where they cultivate two horns of hair. No doubt this is to render him more a thing of terror to his enemies than of admiration to his friends. His reason for shaving the rest of the head is to allow more space for tattooing, as if all the available skin of the body were not enough. Defective Page Knowles Building. Boys' Hall. Stone Hall. Girls' Hall. Model Home. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, Atlanta. Ga. An unsectarian Christian institution, devoted especially to advanced education. College, Not mall, College Preparatory and Song Ish High School courses, with Industrial Training. Super- advantages in Music and Printing. Athletic for boys. Physical culture for girls. House and training. Aid given to students and deserving students. Term begins the first Wednesday. BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. ALL TRAINS VIA WASHINGTON TEN DAY STOPOVER ALLOWED BY WASHINGTON BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA DEPOSIT TICKETS IMPREDIATELY ON ARRIVAL AT EITHER CITY THE HOTEL TILLOTSON COLLEGE. 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., PRESIDENT. THE HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The aim of this school is to do practical work in helping men towards success in the arts; is broad and practical; its ideas are high; its work is systematic and methods are fresh, systematic, clear and useful. COURSE OF STUDY The regular course of study occupies the first half of the year in the several departments of the theological instruction, and the last half learning theological seminaries of the country. EXPENSES AND AID Tuition and room rent are free. The building is well furnished. Good board can be had for seven dollars per month. Buildings heat Aid from loans without interest, and help with the students who do their utmost in the line of self-help. No young man with grace can afford the advantages now opened to him in this Seminary. For further partisariad, L. G. ADKINSON, D. D., Pres. Gammon Theological Seminary, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Morristown Normal College Fourteen teachers. Elegant and commodious buildings. Climate unsurpassed. Departments: College Preparatory Normal, English, Music, Shorthand, Typewriting and Industrial Training. FIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE Will pay for board, room, light, fuel, tuition and incidentals for the entire year. Board $6.00 per month; tuition $2.00 per term. Thorough work done in each department. REV. JUDSON B. HILL, D. D. Morristown, Tenn. College Preparatory, Normal Department ment English, School Class ment Music, School Music Departments Total cash expenses only $6.50 per month. All bills payable in advance. Session begins October 1st. REV. CORNELIUS JOHNSON, A. M. B. D. PRINCIPAL, BATON ROUGE, LA. AVERY COLLEGE TRADES SCHOOL ALLEGHEY, P.A. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trades School for Afro-American Boys and Girls in New York City and separate building. Address. JOSEPH D. MARONET, Digital Allegory, Pa. SAMUEL HUSTON COLLEGE. Progressive in all departments, best Methods of Instruction, Health of Students carefully looked after Students taught to do manual labor as well as think. For catalogue and other information, write to the president, Virginia Normal Collegiate Institute. PETERSBURG, VA. *departments: Normal and College; Special Education; Institutional Music; Theoretical Agriculture, Sewing and 2*ooling; *healthy Location; heated lighting; light room, boon tuition; light and heat. $80. For Catalog and Partners write to J. H. JOHNSTON, President. "GOD HATH MADE OF ONE B100E ALL NATIONS OF MEN." IS THE MOTTO OF Berea College BEREA, KY. christian, non-sectarian. Three college courses included in a 4-year term. Expenses low. sitions. Whole class need be to American student education. Address: 1200 N. 12th St. Ft. D. B. KY. SHAW UNIVERSITY SHAW UNIVERSITY RALEIGH, N.C. For both series. Departments of Law, Medicine and Surgery. Emergency Training. College Preparatory. College Preparatory. Industrial, year begins in 1995. For catalogs, circulars and course materials. PRES, CHAS, S. MESERVE Raleigh N.C. Clark University Is a Christian school. It offers the best faculty in the country. Seven Departments: Classical, Scientific, Mathematics, Engineering, Grades, Industrial. Our aim is to train the students to be well-educated. For our information address the President. C. M. MELDEN, South Atlanta, Ga. BISHOP COLLEGE. MARSHALL, TEXAS, OFFERS EVERY ADVANTAGE TO STUDENTS. For beauty of situation, commodiousness of buildings and completeness of facilities, and the ability by any school for colored people west of the Mississippi to preschools and teachers. BARGE AND INDEPENDENT FACULTY. Five colleges in laudra. A new brick dining hall and kitchen. A physical, biological, laboratory. Courses in carpentry, printing, blackboard, cooking, nursing, COLLEGE keeping, cooking, nursing. PERMAMENT CERTIFICATES. Students can make part of expenses by work. For particulare and catalogue PERMAMENT CERTIFICATES. ARTHUR B. CHAFFEE. President. TILLOTSON COLLEGE AUSTIN, TEXAS. OLDEST AND BEST SCHOOL In school, the student Reputation unsurpassed. Manual Training a part of the regular course. Special advantages for earnest students seeking to help themselves. Address Marsall R. R. Cohn, A. M. President, Austin, Texas. A normal and industrial school with a great emphasis on a thorough, symmetrical and complete English education, and lay a solid foundation for success and usiness in every life. Home and boarding hall about $5.00 per month. Address John S. Marquard, Chester, S.C. Principal. John S. Marquard, Chester, S.C. SCOTIA SEMINARY CONCORD, N.C. This work was established for the higher education of girls will open for the next term I. Every effort will be made to comfort health and thorough instruction of students. Expense for board, light, fuel, washing, $4, for term of eight months. address Rev. D. J. Satterfield, D. D., Concord, N.C. Deaf and hard-of-hearing Adult Can Learns Lip-Reading at Home Easily practical, mild system. Reassess by mail. Results uniformly indicated. Seed for Circular DAVID GREENE, Southington, Comm. OHIO R. R. SAN FRANCISCO PITTSBURG WASHINGTON NEW YORK OHLANDIA BALTIMORE LA WASHINGTON SAINT PAUL A WEEK'S RECORD IN MINNESO TA'S CAPITAL. The "Saintly City" and Saintly City Folks—Neway Items of Social, Religious and general Matters Among the People. And Primary Election. If it's Hamm's, it's all right. Mrs. Fannie Phelps of Jackson street is quite ill. Roomers wanted. Nice comfortable rooms. Apply at 159 La Fond street. Miss Zada Dennis of Grand Forks is visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. De Baptiste. Half soles, sewed, 75c; rubber heels, 40c; Phone 1556-J2. Jarsis, 83 E. 4th. Remember if you wish to vote at the spring election and at the primaries you must register next Tuesday. The Elk Express Company now has its office at the Cosmopolitan Barber shop. No. 74 East Fifth street. Telephone Main 2812-L. 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. The Republican caucuses for the election of delegates to the Ramsey county convention next Tuesday will be held Monday evening from 5 to 7 o'clock. You are cordially invited to attend the meetings of the Men's Union Club which are held regularly at St. James A. M. E. Church Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock. The installation of officers of North Star Lodge, U. B. F., No. 138, will occur next Thursday evening at the lodge room, No. 319 Wabasha street, at 8 o'clock. 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. The attraction at the Star Theatre next week will be the Utopian Burlesquers, a thoroughly up-to-date organization, with a lot of good comedians and a bevy of pretty girls. 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. 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. The necktie social which was given at Pilgrim Baptist Church last Tuesday evening was a very pleasant and well attended affair. All present seemed to enjoy themselves very much. The "Social Five" are making great preparations for their annual Easter party, which will be given at Litt's Hall on Wednesday evening, April 6th. Society is in a flutter of excitement. Shoes mended while you wait at 'arvis', 83 East Fourth street. Hall poles, 50 and 75 cents. Prices reasonable for all kinds of repairing. Re can do it on short notice. Jarvis, 83 E. 4th st. "SMALL" LOAN AND INVESTMENT CO. Real Estate, Loans, Insurance and Collections. Office Rooms 421-242 Bradley Building, Fifth street between Wabasha and Cedar. We make small loans. The Republicans have an excellent opportunity of selecting a winning ticket for the spring election if the voters will only turn out next Tuesday and vote for the best men. There should be no stay-at-homes. The State Savings Bank, corner Fourth and Minnesota streets, is open Monday evenings from 6 to 8. Accounts can be started with $1. A little amount saved every week may some day stand between you and want. ELK EXPRESS CO. G. D. and G. J. Charleston, proprietors. No. 74 East Fifth Street. Packing and shipping of furniture and household goods. Piano moving a specialty. House renting, real estate handled. Telephone Main 2818 L. 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. There will be a social at St. James, A. M. E. Church on Thursday evening, March 17th, for the benefit of Rev. G. W. Gaines, Mr. Bismark Archer will read a paper descriptive of his recent trip to Cuba. A musical program will be rendered and refreshments served. --- 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. Main 2348 L. Mrs. Mattie Brown, Prop. STATE SAVINGS BANK. Germania Life Bldg., Fourth and Minnesota Sts. A Safety Depository For the Savings of the Wage Earner. The only institution in St. Paul doing savings bank law of the state as amended to date, and thereby avoids the risk of fraud. Accounts opened of $1 and upward. Bank open daily, from 9 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. Trustees—C. G. Lawrence, John B. Sanborn, Ferdinand Willius, Kenneth Clark, John F. Landau, Thomas Flippatrick, Harris Richardson, Gustavus Willius, John D. O'Brien, William Constans, W. B. Dean, Julius M. Goldsmith. A. A. THOMPSON J. J. LEIGHTON. Fay Davis and her capable company in "Whitewashing Julia," one of the comedy hits of the East, will appear at the Metropolitan Monday evening for a three-night and matinee engagement. Miss Davis is one of the newest stars in comedy and is said to have a brilliant future. John J. Leighton, who is one of the Republican candidates for nomination as mayor of St. Paul, is the only one who has thought it worth while to present his name to the Afro-Americans through their only organ in St. Paul. Don't forget that when making up your ballots at the primaries. The Cosmopolitan Barber shop has put on a new coat of paint and varnish and beautiful paper and looks just too nice for anything. It would now seem that the fire never touched 'em. BENTON'S CAFE, No. 204 West Third street, near "Seven Corners," the sweltest place in town for up-to-date meals and lunches. Meals from 25 cents up. Private rooms for ladies. Regular dinner 25 cents. Lunch count. Republican Candidate for Nomination for Comptroller. Andrew R. Kiefer, at the earnest solicitation of the Republican clubs, became a candidate for comptroller. As he has been a member of Congress, clerk of courts, mayor, etc., everybody knows Col. Kiefer, and almost everybody will vote for him, as "He's all right!" ter. Everything in first-class style. Open night and day. Private rooms for dinner parties. Pilgrim Baptist Church, Cedar and Summit. Sunday services, 10:45 a.m., 8 p.m. Preaching at each service by the pastor, Rev. W. D. Carter. Morning subject: "Some Attendants of Faith." The ordinance of baptism will be administered at the close of morning service and the hand of fellowship extended at the night service. There will be a civil service examination for cooks to serve in the Indian schools March 19th. There are nineteen vacant cookships with salaries ranging from $400 to $600 per year. In this examination experience will count 60 per cent, age 20 per cent and physical condition 20 per cent. There will be an examination April 19th for matron in the Indian service. 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. ATTENTION, EVERYBODY! Go to 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; all kinds of sandwiches to THE NEW YORK TIMES ANDREW R. KIEFER. Andrew R. Kiefer. order. Open day and night, from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Nos. 250 Robert street, near the bridge, and 444 Robert street, between 7th and 8th. J. S. Mills, proprietor. COSMOPOLITAN BARBER SHOP, No. 74 E. Fifth street, Kemp & Williams, proprietors. A strictly up-to- Republican Candidate for Nomination for Assembly H. C. McNair, one of the Republican candidates for the nomination as assemblyman, is well known in St. Paul, having lived in the city since 1884. He was born in Missouri, but has been a Republican all his life and believes in the principles of the party as well as the brotherhood of man. He served three terms as a member of the School Board and is now serving his third term as a member of the Charter Commission. He believes in a clean, economic and public arena. He is a very worthy man and deserves your suffrage. Republican Candidate for Nomination for Constable. Among the Republican candidates for nomination next Tuesday few are better or more favorably known than George W. Wells, who is a candidate for the nomination for constable at large, and is therefore to be voted for all over the city. He is a bright, energetic young man and may be counted on to fill the position with credit. He is a resident of the Ninth ward. A vote for him will be the right thing in the right place. date establishment. Two bath rooms, three hydraulic chairs, shoe shining stand, latest style of furnishings throughout. Children's hair cutting a specialty. 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. 3741% Minnesota street, manager and foreman. His assistants are Messrs. A. Smith and Oscar Sanders. Miss Mary Harwell is cashier. When anything is desired in the torsorial line call at the "Cosmopolitan." CLIFFORD A. SMITH The New and Successful TAILOR Has on inspection a new and exclusive line of Spring and Summer Novelties in SUITS AND COVERT COATINGS. Your Patronage Solicited. Style, Fit and Quality Guaranteed. Repairing. 412 Bradley Building, 5th st., between Wabasha and Cedar sta. ST. PAUL, MINN. THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFEO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. H. C. McNAIR. GEORGE W. WELLS. George W. Wells. Defective Page REGISTRATION AND PRIMARY The days of registration are March 15, April 20 and April 23. The first registration day, March 15, is the day of the primary election. F. B. DORAN. Republican Candidate for Nomination for Assemblyman. F. B. Doran, one of the Republican candidates for the assembly, needs no introduction to the readers of the Appeal. He has served in the assembly and was mayor of St. Paul from 1896 to 1898, and was the first Republican mayor to give a decent appointment to an Afro-American. He was a mem- Frank B. Doran. ber of the commission which revised the city charter, and he was reappointed to the present charter commission by the district judges. He is a resident of the Sixth ward, and is in the coal and wood business. Mr. Doran was induced to become a candidate for the assembly this spring by the joint committee of Republican clubs. JOHN J. BAILEY Republican Candidate for Nomination as Assemblyman. John J. Bailey, who is a candidate for the nomination as Assemblyman is a well known business man, proprietor of the plumbing establishment at No. 388 Jackson street. He has lived in John J. Bailey. the second ward for twenty-four years, is a tax payer and owner of considerable property. He is a man of much ability and will doubtless make a good officer. A vote for him will be one in the right direction. DR. JAS. E. THIEBAUD. Republican Candidate for Nomination as Alderman of the Fourth Ward. Dr. James E. Thiebaud, candidate for the Republican nomination for alderman in the Fourth ward has been a resident of the ward for twelve years, has been a Republican ever since he has been a voter. He is a dentist with offices corner of Fourth Dr. Jas. E. Thiebaud. and Wabasha. He has never before been a candidate for any office, though he has been a constant and active worker in the ranks for the past decade. He does not have a degree. He will all the position with credit. Don't fail to vote for him. HENRY L. MILLS. Republican Candidate for Nomination as Justice of Peace. Judge Henry L. Mills, candidate for renomination for justice of the peace, was elected to his office two years ago by a comfortable majority and has filled the position very acceptably. Henry L. Mills. He is an old soldier and has held several positions of honor and trust since his arrival in the state in 1855. He held the office of justice of the peace for four years before his last visit, with credit to him and satisfaction to the litigants. Justices of the peace are voted for in every precinct in the city. Be sure you put on X opposite his name at the primaries. The following special civil service examinations are scheduled to be held at St. Paul in March and April: 10, October 31. Mark-Down Sale! Bona Fide Reductions. REGARDLESS OF LOW PRICES we guarantees perfect fit and satisfaction or no sae. Correct styles, artistic workmanship, all seams sewed with silk. We handle only the finest all-wool goods and the best of trimmings. sistant geologist, salary $1,000 to $2,000. March 16—Aid, division of fishes, national museum, salary $600. March 19—Cook, Indian service, twenty vacancies, salary $480 to $600. March 23—Farmer, Indian service. March 23—Aid, division of birds' eggs, national museum, salary $540. March 29—Teacher, Philippine service, 150 vacancies (all males, except that the wives of male applicants will also be permitted to take the examination, and if they pass, and the husband receives payment, they also will be offered in appointments), salary $900 to $1,200, with promotions to $2,000 and $2,500. April 6-7—Engineer draftsmans, supervising architect's office, salary $1.400 to $1,600. April 19—Matron, Indian service. April 19-20—Teacher, Indian service. Blanks, etc., can be obtained from the secretary at St. Paul postoffice. TO INSTRUCT JUDGES. Republican Election Officers Will Meet Saturday Night. A meeting of the Republican election judges and clerks will be held tonight at Federation Hall, Third and Wabasha streets, for the purpose of instruction as to their duties at the primaries and the election. Assistant Attorney General W. J. Donahower and Frank Haskell will explain the election laws and answer questions relative to the duties of judges and clerks. A full attendance of the judges and clerks is desired. While clerks is desired, candidates has been issued for the meeting, it is understood that many of them will be present, as well as other Republicans interested in the election. ROSS CLARK. Republican Candidate for Nomination as Assemblyman Mr. Ross Clark, who is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Assemblyman, is a well known attorney of St. Paul. He has always taken an active interest in public affairs and in local politics; he is a speaker of much ability and for many years has been a speaker of the public speakers. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Commercial Club and other public organ Ross Clark. izations. He is a firm and consistent believer in the brotherhood of man and backs up his sentiments with his deeds. Mr. Clark, though he has helped many others to get office, has only once before been a candidate for office when he was a candidate before the primaries for the office of clerk 'cours of Ramsey county. There can be no doubt about his ability to fill the office to which he aspires with general satisfaction. Vote for him. HERBERT P. KELLER. Republican Candidate for Nomination as Assemblyman. Herbert P. Keller, who desires the Republican nomination as one of the Herbert P. Keller, assemblymen, is a very capable young lawyer, with offices in the Globe Building. He was born in St. Paul in 1875. He was city prosecuting attorney at one time, succeeding Judge John W. Finehout in that position. He is a brother of Charles E. Keller, chief deputy county auditor. He has always been an active Republican and will doubtless get nominated. Vote for him. 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. WE ARE LEADERS. N. W. PHONE, MAIN 1619. TWIN CITY STL. FALCONER'S LAUNDRY, First-Class Laundry Work. Best in Every Respect. 509-511 Second Ave., So., - Minneapolis. 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. Mr. R. T. Grey is able to be up again. Mrs. John Wright is very sick at her home. Society is all wrought up over the coming Social Five party. Mr. Geo. Ray of Duluth spent several days in the city last week. Mr. Ed Hammon, who has been sick for the past three weeks, is improving. Miss Tarquinna Harper has been very sick at her home for the past two weeks. Mr. Geo. W. Nelson, our genial druggist, entertained the T. S. T. C. Monday evening. The boys had a jolly good time. First class zooms and board, regular meals 25 cents. Sunday dinner, 35 cents. Hotel De Temple, 411 Second Ave. S. King Solomon, after a sensational trial for shooting his white wife, has gone to Chicago. He and his wife have kissed and made up. Prof. Howard's K. P. band and the Uniform Rank, K of P., will give a dancing party the 2d and 4th Thursday evenings in each month during the winter, at Twining hall, 710 Hennepin avenue. JOHN LOHMANN, Republican Candidate for Nomination as Constable. The subject of this sketch, John Lohmann, is at present constable in Justice Mills' court, having beer John Lohmann. elected by a handsome majority two years ago. He has made a very capable, obliging officer, giving satisfaction to every one who does business with the office. He is a candidate for renomination and asks for your vote at the primaries. He is a resident of the Second ward. Don't fall to vote for him. Piano lessons taught, also instructu- sion. Piano lessons done at the Goodrich-Russell Afo-American Industrial Home. 2406-2408 17th Ave. So. Miss Lydia Walker, instructor. The "Social Five" are making great preparations for their swell "Easter Parry." to be given at Litt's Hall, St. Paul, Wednesday evening, April 6th. This will be their second annual soiree. 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, pronunciers. The Mothers' Club of St. James Settlement met last Wednesday. Rev. Timothy Reeves spoke on the "Religious Development of the Child in Kindergarten." Miss Arlene Scott rendered a piano solo and Mrs. Smith sang. Mr. F. L. McGhee lectured at Plymouth Church Wednesday evening on "The Negro and His Critics." Not a large crowd was present, but one that appreciated Mr. McGhee's pointed remarks. He handled the subject without gloves. TOWLE'S Absolutely Pure and Full Measure. The STANDARD FROM OGEAN to OGEAN TOWLE'S LOG CABIN MAPLE SYRUP FOR RICHNESS OF FLAVOR No Other Brand of Maple Syrup Beats 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, Man. VISIT THE Jesamine Club POOL AND BILLIARDS REAR 245 NICOLLET AVE. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS We furnish the house complete. Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Stoves, Ranges, Refrigerators & Housefurnishings. Will E. Mathels Go. Cor. 6th & Cedar Sts. CASH OR CREDIT. P. E. REID. Wines, Liquors and Cigars -- 40 East Third St., ST. PAUL. Telephone 1941-J 1. THE CITY MEAT CO. Last Mutton Legs, per lb.....8c All Lamb Legs, per lb.....9c Spring Lamb Legs, per lb.....11c Big Pork Loins, per lb.....8c Ibs. Good Beefsteak.....15c Ibs. Good Beefsteak.....25c Best Rib Roast, per lb.....3, 10, 12c Best Pot Roast, per lb.....6, 8c Our Poultry is strictly fresh dressed. Price always the lowest. A SNAP. Leg or Loin of Veal, per lb.....10c Prompt Delivery. WABASHA, COR. COLLEGE. TRADE MARK Beyond Question Hunter Whiskey Is the most perfect whiskey sold. It is made from the choicest of select grain and undergoes thorough ageing, thus securing perfection of flavor and bouquet. With the most fastidious buyers it is THE FIRST SOUGHT and THE FIRST BOUGHT. Sold at all first-class cafes and by jobbums. W.M. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. "I haven't paid $5.00 for a hat since I began wearing the Gordon and I buy the best." Have you called at the new, up-to-date torsional parlor, No. 74 E. Fifth street? Well, you ought to do so. The most popular place for people who take their meals down town is John Godrey's. No. 552 Wabash street. Everything neat, clean and well cooked. THE NAGEL UNDERTAKING CO., Wm. E. Nagel Manager, 208 West Third street, Telephone, Main 1504. Latest equipments in every line. Lady assistant when desired. 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 Wabash 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. Anything the matter with your stove, range or furnace? If there is, just call at the St. Paul Stove Repair Works and get it repaired. If there is, exchange and get it repaired. Any part of stove or range furnished. A number of good second-hand stoves for sale cheap. Both telephones 242-32. "SIGN OF THE FOUR." At the Grand Opera House. Great interest has been manifested by the public in the production of the "Sign of the Four," a strong dramatization of A. Conan Doyle's famous detective story, which is to be presented at the Grand Opera House next week by a new and successful star, Walter Edwards, and an excellent company. No adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been more widely read than those related in this exciting story; most fascinating of all from Doyle's pen. "The Sign of the Four" deals with the fortunes of the great Agra treasure, which costs many lives and finally is the motive of a crime, the cause of a mystery, which Sherlock Holmes is called upon to solve. This he does in his characteristic way, and not only succeeds in overtaking the criminals, but wins the admiration of heroine, Mary Morston. The drama of intrigue, mystery and love is unfolded with intense dramatic interest, lightened by charming bits of humor and ludicrous situations. The intrigue figure in moments of great danger, however, dominates every act, bringing to a denouement which is as admirable as it is adventuresome. Mr. Edwards is surrounded by an admirable company, including these sterling artists: Chas. E. Coburn, as Dr. Wage; Gage Bennie, as Atheneh Jones, the Scotland yard inspector; Robert Lothan, as the boy Wiggin; James Hoyt, as Major Sholtei; James Burns, as Conga; Mabel Haxlett, as Mary Morston; Kathleen Chamber, as Mrs. Shloto; Agnes Nporter, as Mrs. Hanson; Louis Lander, as Bessie, and Frank Cordray, as beautiful in the small, the ever convict with the leg, one of the most unique characters ever seen on the stage, and played by one of the few one-legged actors in the profession. The production is elaborate, special scenery having been provided for each of the four acts. The first shows Sherlock Holmes' lodgings in Baker house, the second Pondicherry Lodge, the third Smith's boat house and the fourth the Lodge. WILL MEET MARCH 15. Ramsey County Republican Convention to Select Delegates to State and Congressional Conventions. The Republican primaries for the election of delegates to the county convention March 15th will be held between 5 and 17 7 o'clock on the afternoon of March 14th. At Tuesday's meeting of the Republican city and county committee it was decided to call the committee morning of March 15th. The place for holding the convention was not fixed, but it will probably be held in Federation Hall, on Wabasha street. The convention will elect sixty-seven delegates to the state convention at Minneapolis on March 17th and the same number to the congressional convention in St. Paul on March 16th. The state convention will elect four delegates-at-large to the national Republican convention and the congressional convention will elect two delegates and two alternates to the same convention The basis of representation in the county convention will be one delegate for each fifty votes or major fraction thereof cast for President McKinley in 1900. There will be 312 delegates entitled to seats in the convention, 295 from the city and 17 from outside the town. Wanted. Special Representative in this county and adjoining territories, to represent and advertise an old established business house of solid financial standing. Salary $21 weekly, with expenses paid each Monday by check direct from headquarters. Expenses advance upon permanent. We furnish everything. Address, The Columbia, 630 Monon Rdg., Chicago, Ill. MINNEAPOLIS. Well, this is just like the good old summer time. A splendid program will be rendered at Bethesda every Sunday from 6:30 to 8 p.m., under the auspices (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 of the people of the Twin Cities, and if you wish matters to reach these homes you must publish them in the Appeal. Mrs. Celestine Brown has opened the "Creole Kitchen," boarding-house style, at 405-407 Fifth a. S. Regular meals, 25 cents. Short orders served. First-class furnished rooms in connex- 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 Minnesota 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. "ALLRIGHT" SHOE LADIES AND GENTS PRICE $350 FOR SALE BY TREADWELL SHOE CO. 129&131 E.7th ST P.A.CO. SEPAUL. "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¢ Cişar HART & MURPHY, MAKERS, ST. PAUL, MINN. The Plymouth CORNER SEVENTH AND ROBERT STREETS See Our Show Windows for Good Clothes at the Lowest Possible Price The new spring derbies are not only exclusive in style, but are very light weight, and fit comfortably on any head—the crowns this season are full and round, while the brim is a light open curl, made in four different proportions. A hat for both young and old men. Knox Soft Hats in several new and pleasing shapes and colors. $1.19 Odds and ends in Boys' Suits, sizes 3 to 16 years; odds and ends in Boys' Reefers, sizes 8 to 16 years, and Boys' Russian Blouse Overcoats, sizes 3 to 6 years; values sold up to $4.00. The price we made is..... $1.19 $2.35 For your choice of our finest men's Winter Trousers, qualities sold up to $6.00. BUY YOUR COAL AND WOOD, FLOOR, FEED, AND HA FROM C. W. STAEHLE Everything at the right price. RICE, CARROLL and IGLEHART STS. MINNEAPOLIS. THE APPEAL IN NATIONAL FEDERAL AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Knox Hats 1904 Spring Styles g derbies are not only exclusive are very light weight, and fit in any head—the crowns this sea- and round, while the brim is a al, made in four different propor- for both young and old men. is in several new and pleasing shap Boys' Clothing ST. PAUL. who know stiff, the to recover lan r T. PAUL, MINN. CORNER th STREETS lowest Possible Price it a KNOX NEW YORK napes and colors. g bits, sizes 3 to 15 Boys' Reefer, Boys' Russian sold $1.19 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 many friends and Eastern business during husband and Phillips. ague of Min- league of Min- mity God to His eternal the late Geo. valued race band; be it A.-A. C. L. show our most condolence, our own. That a copy or sympathy Afro-Ameri- ties and be of the A.-A. res. V. Pres. Jr. Treas. Dee. ES OF IN- LLLAND GOAN PANY. We wish to thank our many friends the Masonic fraternity and Eastern Star Chapter for their kindness during the illness of our beloved husband and brother. (Signed) Mrs. G. W. Day. Mr. Benj. Day. Mr. Frank Wright. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Phillips. By the A.A. Citizens' League of Minneapolis upon the Death of G. W. Day. It having pleased Almighty God to call from our midst to His eternal home our fellow member, the late Gao W. Day, a good citizen, a valued race worker and a loving husband; be it therefore Resolved, That we the, A.A. C. L., extend to his bereaved widow our most sincere sympathy and condolence, feeling in her great loss our own. Be it further Resolved, That a copy of these expressions of our sympathy be sent to his widow, the Afro-American press of the Twin Cities and be spread upon the minutes of the A.A. W. C. Jeffrey, Pres. Geo. W. Nelson, V. Pres. Ralph B. Grey, Jr., Treas Will M. Smith, Sec. AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF "SMALL AND LARGE" Stockholders. At a special meeting of the stockholders of the "Small" Loan & Investment Company, held at the office of said company, on January 14, 2014, in Ramsey, in the state of Minnesota, on the 26th of January, A. D. 1904, at which were present the directors of the proxy, the holders of more than two-thirds of the capital stock of said company, and unanimously decided as follows: "That Article seven (7) of the articles of incorporation of said company be amount of $10,000,000 of said amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of capital stock may be purchased by the company in common stock. The said preferred stock shall be entitled to commutation dividends at the rate of $1.00 per share, semi-annually on the tenth (10th) day of February and August of each year, by the corporation. B. D. 1904, out of the net earnings of the corporation, but said preferred stock shall not be redeemed or share in such earnings. In the event of the liquidation or winding up of the business of the corporation, the said preferred stock shall be assigned the assets of the corporation, before any payment therefrom upon any other stock of said corporation, and before any payment therefrom upon any entitled to any further share in or payment from such assets. The holder or holders of such preferred stock shall not be entitled to any payment therefrom on stockholder's meetings, unless payment of dividends thereon at the time and at the rate herein provided for shall have been suspended for sincerity (90) days; but in case of such continued suspension the holders of such stock shall have the same voting right as the holders until such suspension shall have terminated, but no longer. Said corporation, by a vote of a majority of its board of directors, may pay off the remaining stock, until such suspension shall have terminated, but no longer. Said corporation, by a vote of a majority of its board of directors, may pay off the remaining stock, which said board of directors may designate, upon any of said days of dividends, upon payment of the par value thereof, upon all dividends accrued and due thereom. In case any preferred stock is paid off and redeemed, the corporation may, in such manner and upon such terms as the directors of directors, issue common stock equal in amount to any preferred stock paid off and redeemed. In witness whereof, we, the understaff of the "Small" Loan & Investment Company, have subscribed this certificate this 18th day of February, 1904. the under- relevant treas- ury investment his certificate 1904. BARD. President. AN. Treasurer. COUNTY OF January, A. D. Obadiah D. ersonally, and himself, says program as the said Oba- THOMAS R. MORGAN. Secretary-Treasurer. Executed in the presence of JOHN LOHHANN. H. L. MILLS. STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF PARTS. Ramsey-ss 1904, the day of February, A. D. 1904, Thomas R. Morgan and Obadiah D. Howard came before me personally, and I was very impressed that the said Thomas R. Morgan as the secretary-treasurer and the said Obadiah D. Howard as the secretary, as the Small' and the Investment Company, the corporation above named, and that they are the same persons, and that they are the same certificate of amendment as such secretary-treasurer and president, and each of them further is true of his own knowledge. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Subserved and bwed to before me this 18th day of February, A. D. 1904. STATE OF MINNESOTA, DEPARTMENT OF State ment of State. I hereby certify that the in instrument board received the in this office on the 25th day of February. A. D. 1904. at 1 o'clock p. m., and was duly recorded in Book H 3 of Incorporation on page 10. P. E. HAWKINS Secretary of State. STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF Barnesville. Barnes This is of the Register of Deeds. This is to certify that the within instrument was filed for record in the Register of Deeds, dated March, A. D. 1904, at 1:18 o'clock p. m., and that the same was duly recorded in Book I of incorporation for the property. W. M. 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