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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. Birds with Large Appetites Birds with Large Appetites Early Days in California Captain Nick's Queer Dream Captain Nick's Queer Dream With the Advance Guard Poor Opinion of Parsons VOL. 21. NO. 31. Despite the fact that "the appetite of a bird" has become a common phrase for light eating, investigations show that birds are tremendous feeders. The diet of the average kestrel (a small European hawk) is calculated at 1,000 mice a month, to say nothing of insects and worms. The barn owl is as voracious as the kestrel. An investigator, after caging one of these birds, gave it seven mice one after the other. The first six immediately disappeared, and a gobble and a disgust the owl did as the treatment the seven in a like manner. Limitations of abdominal capacity, however, prevented, and though the gobble did the gulp did not, so that for twenty minutes or so the tail of the seventh bird dangled from the corner of the bird's beak. But in due course it swallowed the body, and three hours later the pangs of hunger reasserted themselves and the owl ate four more mice. Experiments with a caged robin led to some surprising results. At the end of three weeks it was found that in order to keep up its weight the bird requires a large amount of worms a day, or an equivalent in other solid food. A robin in good condition weighs as nearly as possible one ounce. Fourteen feet of earth. In his "Gold Hunters of California" Thomas E. Farish tells some interesting anecdotes of the men of the early days. The following concerns "Fighting Jack" Hayes, the first sheriff of San Francisco county: "Hayes never drilled his command; with him it was 'Come on, boys,' and they followed where he led. After the battle of Monterey, in which his gallantry was conspicuous, a number of young lieutenants, graduates of West Point, visited his camp to pay their complements to "Fighting Jack." They found him frying bacon, surrounded by soldiers, with nothing to distinguish him from those about him. "Where can we find Col. Hayes?" inquired the spokesman. I think you will find him over yonder, pointing to a group of men about a hundred yards away. Riding over to the group included the young lieutenants, who were informed that the man with the frying pan was the officer they were in search of. They rode back to their headquarters without further effort to make his acquaintance." Speaking of Henry Miller, a western During one of those religious revivals at Searsport for which that Maine town is famous, while Capt. Nick, with others, was sitting by the stove in the country store, toasting his shins, and telling stories, the village preacher everted, and, being desirous of converts, drew into the circle of story-tellers. A momentary silence followed and then Capt. Nick remarked: "I had a dream last night. I dreamed I died and went to heaven." The preacher asked to have the dream told, and the captain arrived: "Having done the dream, I intended to go heaven. I started, and, after traveling the same time came to a fork the road nor could I remember the as to which fork to take. I chose the left-hand fork and, going on, came to a large iron gate, from which arose walling and sounds of grashing of teeth. I hesitated, but, not daring to turn back, went up to the gate and knocked. In the dream of the northern poets, The brave who have Fear and loathy phantasm In the field of the upper sky; And as we read them, we rhyme, Fear and loathy fancies The ghostly ring of the viewless swords And the clash of the spectral spears. We think with imperious questionings Of the southerns whom we have and we tell them a mystery The light of each valiant ghost The northern myth comes back to us, And we feel the light of the sun The young souls are striving still Somewhere for the truth and light. It was not their time for rest and sleep; Their hearts beat high and strong; In their soul they are south They sing their hot, sweet song The open heaven bent over them, The lives they live in light and blest The lives they live in light and blest By the smiles of women and God. Again they come! Again I hear The tread of that goodly band; I hear the grief of my eye And the grasp of his hard, warm hand; And an arm like a Boston girl. The Rev. Appleton Granis, of St Michael's, is a member of a certain New York club largely made up of clergymen, and is perhaps the only member thereof who would be willing to divulge the following sad story: "Our club-house was torn up for repairs last summer," he said the other day, "and another club near Central Park kindly offered us hospitality until our building should be again tenantable. This second club was made up of men more famous in worldly then clerical circles; yet they were very polite to us and only out-of-town members raised their eyebrows at sight of the numerous caskocks and white ties which were so plenitively sprinkled among the summer costumes of the regular habitues. "There was only one hint at unpleasantness during our entire stay, and that occurred one very rainy aft- Miracles History Society KEEPS IN FRONT AUSE: If the news possible, lily, wasting no words, are able and energetic. Large Appetites worms weigh two ounces and a half. In other words the bird colours, in health, about two and a half times its own weight of solid food in the course of every twenty-four hours. A man of 185 pounds, if he were to equal this performance in proportion to his size, would require a daily allowance of forty large legs of mutton. Four pounds would be a heavy weight for a heaton. Yet one of those birds, which was trapped in England in 1890, disgusted two recently swallowed trout, one of which weighed two pounds and the other one and one-half pounds. Another, captured in 1893, had contrived to put away three trout averaging three-quarters of a pound piece although it was only four months old, and another had dined upon seven small trout, together with a mouse and a thirst. Among the greediest birds are wood pigeons, which will continue to gulp down food until their crops are almost at the bursting point. From one of these birds, shot as it was returning from a raid in the fields, no fewer than 800 grains of wheat were taken. Another had contrived to cram down no fewer than 600 peas. A third was endeavoring to sustain nature with 180 beech nuts and a fourth with sixty acorns. cattle king, Mr. Farish says that none knew better than he the value of a reliable, efficient man. "Once, on one of his Kern county ranchers, he had a foreman with whom he quarreled. The foreman said: 'If it were not that you are a smaller man than I, I would beat you half to death.' At this Miller threw off his coat and went for the man. The foreman succeeded in giving him a good trouning, then demanded a settlement, which was made. Then all over with Miller apologized and hired the man over again, with an advance in wages. He knew he had a good man." Another story of Miller: "I remember Miller once at Firebaugh's ferry, on the San Joaquin river, when he was buying so much land. It was at breakfast and a man who joined Johnson began to mislead Miller. Miller turned to him and said: 'Hog, you knows dere is more peoples born into do world effer year dan dies out of it, don't your?' Yes, admitted Hog, 'Vell, deh all haf to lift off de land and dere no more land horned every year.'" "It was partially opened, and out stepped the devil, tined fork in hand, his horns poised ominously, his eyes bloodshot. "Who are you? he said, savagely, "Capt. Nick, from Searsport, Me., I made answer. "Get yourself away from here, then, the devil, we are chock full of Searsporters now." "Right glad I was to get away, and hurrying back, I took the right-hand fork, which soon brought me to a beautiful marble palace, wherein was music and song. "The gate swing gently open, at my knock, and the good St. Peter said, in a soft, sweet voice. 'Who art thou? I answered at the first gate, 'Capt. Nick from Searsport, Me.'" "Walk in," said he, "thou good and faithful servant; thou art the first one we have had from Searsport, Me." And I see the light of heaven which lay On Uric the Dahlgren's curls. There no poise in the gloom of heath There no spirit in the spite of heaven There no power in the bliss of heaven But somewhere in the eternal plan That strength that lies in the heart And the ones our gods' crest, Above death's clouds they strive. A chevron corps, they are marching on the ground. These bright battalions still faill These bright battalions still faill And they have thought feet down to us, The echoes of that far fight. Lieutenant of the gun Through the shades of the severing night. No fear for them. In our lower field That at last we be worthy to stand with On the shining heights they've gained. We shall meet and greet in closing ranks When the bugles of God shall sound re- And the battle of life be won. published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. ernoon. An elderly and somewhat choleric military man who shall be nameless was scolding the hall porter as I entered the building. "I tell you, he shouted, 'I left my overshoes right here in the hall not ten minutes ago, and now they aren't here.' "I'll make inquiries, sir, pleaded the attendant, 'the overshoes are probably mislaid, and—' "Mislaid? snorted the old gentleman; 'nothing of the sort! They're stolen, sir, stolen!" "Oh, no, sir!' remonstrated the porter, 'I think not. I—' "Don't contradict me! I say they are stolen. And, what's more, I'm not one bit surprised. It's just what have been expected since we let all that indiscriminate mob of parsons in!"—New York World. THE ST. PAUL AND MINN OLDEST Adab. Located in THE APPEAL ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. SATURDAY. AUGUST 5, 1905. OLDEST CITY IN THE WORLD The discovery of a lost city of antiquity in the land where tradition has located the Garden of Eden in the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is the first great achievement of the Chicago University exploring expedition in Babylonia. The ruins that have been unearthed by Prof. E. J. Banks and his one hundred and twenty native workmen are identified by him as the remains of the city of Adab, possibly the oldest city in the world, certainly one of the group of the oldest cities of which there is any knowledge or tradition. Prof. Banks began work on the mounds at Bismyra early in the present year. The location of the ruins is indicated by the tumul that rise above the level plain, promised from the first rich fruits to the explorers. This, with the nearness of the ruins to Nippur, which have yielded the most splendid results of modern research into the ancient history of this land where civilization Babylon BASISIPP BIRSAMHRUD ADAB BUYL Difu LAKATUNUR EREGH EELASAR Euphrates MUKAYER ARABIA Map of Persia showing Spot in w Map of Persia showing Spot in which the City has been found If not humanity first dwelling upon the world, and their almost equal proximity to the ruins of the city of Ur of the Chaldeans, whose temples and palaces buried for thousands of years still sleep beneath the hillocks that rise on the banks of the Euphrates, excited the hope of the explorers that within these vast mounds they will find records of history that will anteced any that are now known to the world. factions of fable more than the chronicles of historic fact. M. de' Morgan, a French explorer late in the fall of 1901, began work on the site of ancient Susa, the capital of the kingdom of the Elamites. He was led to this place by inscription found in the ruins of Babylon, from which he learned that many of the most important monuments of the most important monuments of the Babylonian Kings had been carried by the Elamites. The ruins of the ancient city are almost in the center of the great alluvial plain between the Tigris and Euphrates, 140 miles south of Bagdad and 22 miles south of the mounds of Nippur, the site of the explorations of Dr. John P. Peters of this city, a decade ago. The evidences of ancient human habitation that led the explorers to work at Bismiya consisted of a series of mounds from 35 to 40 feet high that extended in a line along the valley plane over a distance of three-quarters of a mile. From these mounds to the ruins of Nippur directly north are the remains of a very ancient canal known as Shatt-el-Nil. This connection of the two cities by an extensive waterway is proof of their intimate relation. It is the peculiar location of Adab that lends expectation of discoveries of extreme importance to the work of uncovering the ancient inscriptions on some of the earlier tablets found by Dr. Peters indicated that the city of Bel, the "lord" of gods, was a great city, the home of kings, more than 4,000 years before the birth of Christ. But south of Nippur is believed by Oriental scholars to be the seat of primitive human habitation. A mound 70 feet high, on the banks of the Euphrates thirty miles south of the ruins of Adab, marks the site of the ancient city of Bel, Ur of the Chadeaus, where in the reign of Khammurabi, king of Babylon, in 2400 B. C., Abraham, the father A Babylonian Temple of the Temp of the City of Adab A Babylonian Temple of the Time of the City of Adab Defective Page of Israel, set forth on his journey into Canaan. And for centuries before this had been the capital city of Babylonia, while Babylon was not yet known to fame. All about Adab are the relies of a most ancient civilization. To the east lay the ruins of Shirpurta (now Tello) on the canal that 5,000 years ago connected the Tigris and the Euphrates. Here recent explorations brought to life a library of 20,000 in scribed tablets. To the southwest are Erech and Elashar of Biblical fame, the later the seat of the worship of the sun god. The discovery of the city of Adab is an almost maneuverable sequel to the discovery of the code of King Khammur. It forms a new link in a chain of remarkable revelations of long hidden secrets of the past, its unfolding due to the activity and intelligence which have marked the work of exploration of recent years in Babylonia. It is a record of achievements in a sequence that suggests the Kala Rip MEDIA DIZELT SUS PALMIA Hasheen ERIDION BUSSESTER PERSIAN GULF Queva such the City has been found flections of table more than the chronicles of historic fact. M. de Morgan, a French explorer, late in the fall of 1951, began work at the site of ancient Susa, the capital of the kingdom of the Elamites. He was led to this place by inscriptions found in the ruins of Babylon, from which he learned that many of the most important monuments of the Babylonian kings had been carried off as trophies of war by the Elamite king of Nippur. He soon discovered the site of Narem Sin, who was king of Nippur in 2800 B. C., and shortly afterward startled the world with the news that he had found the great tablet on which King Khammurabi had inscribed his code of laws. Khammurabi (the khamurai of Genesis xiv. 1) reigned in 2400 B. C., nearly 1800 years before the time when Daniel read the mysterious handwriting on the wall at King-Belshazar's feast in Nebuchadnezzar's palace at Babylon, when Cyrus and his Persians captured the imperial city. In the introduction to his code Khammurabi extols his own achievements, as the first king who ruled at Babylon, though he was the sixth of the first dynasty of the monarchs of Babylonia. Among his titles to fame he declares that he learnt the Arabic "from which he is understood that Adab was one of the towns looted and wrecked by the Elamites in their early raids, and that Khammurabi restored the ancient city. From the inscriptions on the bricks of the buildings first uncovered Prof. Banks learned that the ruined city was named Udnunki. But, as was the case at Nippur, the city was built upon the ruins of another city, and that still upon another. Deep down in the soil beneath the ruins were other ruins centuries older than those above them, and from these Udnunki was identified also as the Adab that far antedated the days of Abraham. Adab was old when Babylon was in its infancy. It was, like Ur of the Chaldeans, a city of the fabled olden times, when Khamurai began his reign in Babylon 2400 years before the birth of Christ. For years back, in fact, to 1877, when the work of exploration and discovery began to give startling results at Babylon and Nineveh—the field of more ancient human occupation in Southern Babylonia, down near where the remains of great canals and colossal mounds mark the sites of vast creations and activities, of which there is no historic chronicle. Since the brief work at Ur a score of years ago that yielded priceless treasures, the mounds at Mukayer have possessed an intense allurement for oriental scholars. But the very eagerness with which they sought permission to uncover buried walls of Ur and unearth its hidden secrets has defeated the aims of the explorers. For fifteen years Prof. Banks has been one of those who desired to probe the mysteries of the mounds of Ur. In 1891 he secured the position of United States consular agent at Bagdag, in the hope that it would bring to him the coveted opportunity. To his disgust he found that members of the consular service were forbidden to do work of exploration within the mounds. He therefore returned to this country. Three years ago Prof. Banks went to Constantinople to seek authority from the Turkish government to open the mounds at the "Moor city," having organized many influences in support of his petition. It was only after two and a half years of waiting and striving that Prof. Banks was able to get a permit through the intricate channels of officialdom in Turkey and Mesopotamia, to work on the unidentified mounda south of Nippur. Here he has now made the discovery of perhaps surpassing importance in uncovering the temple of a city that was closely linked to ancient Nippur, and that lies further south on the narrow circle of the earliest known civilization of the world. In fact: Prof. Bank's discovery is of four temples, one superimposed above the ruins of the other, indicating the immense antiquity of the city as well as the vicissitudes it underwent in the contests of ancient sovereignties in this valley of primitive communities. From the brief descriptions received it is known that the temple unearthied by Prof. Banks is in all essential respects similar to those brought to light elsewhere in Babylonia—in fact, similar to the "Tower of Babel," the ruins of which were identified as the mound Birs Mimrud at Borsippa, and the ruined building at Babylon now fully exposed that bechehadnezzarne the "Tower of Nippur," the great Temple of Belus. The temple consists of several solid brick platforms, reared one above the other, each successive story being smaller than the one beneath it. A staircase or inclined plane leads from the shelf of one story to the next, with shrines on the shelves or in niches in the walls, the shrine of the chief deity in a small building at the top. To give beauty to the structure the exterior was coated with enameled brick and roofs were supported by tree trunks sheathed with burnished metal. Buttresses and pallisades supporting the platforms gave further variety to the architecture. The work has but just begun at Adab. In the debris of the older temples have been found marble statues, onyx and sandstone lamps and many bronze articles, but when the earth has been removed from some palace of the city, of which the eloquent mounds indicate the area of the deity, will yield of the life this remotely ancient people can be hopefully conjectured to be the wonderful discoveries and achievements of recent explorations in this land of the dawn of humanity—New World World. Airships Valuable for War Airships Valuable for War Maria Used Dead Language Maria Used Dead Language Precise Moment of Death End of Strenuous Discipline End of Strenuous Discipline Words That Are Obsolete From the moment that M. Santos-Dumont alighted softly on the sword of the Bois de Boulogne, after encircling the Eifel tower, a new era began in the man-conquest of the atmosphere, says the Grand Magazine. The aeronaut had succeeded in solving the problem he had set himself and thenceforward had merely to perfect the details. Assuming, as we are entitled to do, that M. Santos-Dumont's new ship proves a success, and that, in addition to carrying a crew of eight or ten, it will have a lifting power for a small cargo, see what a powerful and novel weapon of offensive warfare is at the disposal of the nations. In the next continental war it is uncertain whether such a mode of attack will not be utilized. After the lessons of the recent siege of Port Arthur any one can realize the immense service a practicable warship of sufficient size would have been to the operations it, instead of the enormous labor of having to bring immense siege guns from Japan in order to destroy the ships in the harbor, lyddite could have been dropped upon the vessel's decks The gloomy looking man walked slowly up the dingy flight of stairs that led to the abode of the successors to the oracle at Delphos. He was immediately ushered into a darkened apartment fitted with Oriental draperies and was greeted solemnly by a secrex in white samite. "What would you of the mystic beyond?" she asked. "Well," said the man, "I'll give you $10 if you call up the spirit of my deceased wife, Maria." "Have you the money? Yes, thank you, you may place it here. You know," went on the medium apologetically, "I wish to have filthy here and all sorcil mundane things off my mind before I plunge into the world of shades." The medium mumbled with wide staring eyes, while the two able-bodied stage assistants waved phosphorescent draperies with telling effect. "Ah," droned the medium, "I see Maria, beautiful and happy. She points to you and smiles." "All right," said the business man In the first place, there is no definite moment of death. We all are gradually dying for years, says the World of To-Day. The moment which is ordinarily ascribed to death is when the breathing stops, but this is purely arbitrary and the survival of an old belief that life was drawn in in the breath and the soul passed out with the breath. The heart may continue to beat many minutes, and in animals under experimental conditions even for hours after respiration has stopped, the muscles are still irritable, the nerves are still able to carry nerve impulses. But, while the cessation of respiration cannot be called the moment of death, it is the cause of it, because the body cannot live without air; the heart, accordingly, stops and the tissues die of suffocation. Now arbitrary it is to call a man dead when the heart ceases to beat and he no longer breathes will be apparent when it is remembered that dogs may easily be revived after they "My father changed his methods of discipline instantly and radically when I was about half grown," said Martin W. Littleston, the president of the Borough of Brooklyn, the other day in telling of his youth. "He had always been noted as a hard, hitter and severe disciplinarian, and we boys had taken measures accordingly. "One day I misbehaved at the table and he told me to go upstairs. I knew what that meant. It meant that he would be around after a while with a paddle. So I got busy as soon as I reached the bedroom. "When he came to me he dumfounded me by saying briefly; 'Take off your shirt.' I hesitated and began to whimper. I don't want to," said I. He inspected me narrowly, "Strikes The number of obsolete words that are to be found in Webster's Dictionary is considerably larger than people have any idea of. The following letter, written by an alleged poet to an editor who had treated his poetry with deflation, furnishes some idea of them: the word petitioned, the word petitioned sergele! Like those who, envious of any moral celticism, carry their unglutency to the height of creating symposisely the fecund words which my polymathic genius uses with uberty to abligate the tongues of the weetless! Sir, you have crassly parodied my own pet words as though they were trangrams. I will not coasserve reproachfully theimental ingratiation which has chamfered even my indispertable heart. I am silent on the哄iliation which my coaduvancy $2.40 PER YEAR. uable for War from above. Unquestionably the cheaper form of attack in this instance would have been by airships. "It will perhaps be urged that the gasbag of a large airship would over a comparatively easy target, but, at a sufficient elevation, I think this is by no means the case. During No. 50 siege of Ladysmith, myself saw our captive balloon brought slowly to the ground by Boer fire alone, but then it must be borne in mind that the balloon was stationary and at a low elevation, very little higher than the hill from which the fire came. A moving airship at a considerable elevation would form a very difficult target, and if only slight damage were inflicted, there would always be the chance of being able to get away outside the enemy's lines before having to come to earth. Shrapnel fire will probably be found the most effective against such vessels, but there must always be the difficulty of getting the proper elevation for the arms, and they could not be fired vertically with out the chance of the projectiles on their return doing more harm to the side that fired than they inflicted on the enemy. in a businesslike tone of voice. "Now ask Maria what is the combination of the safe in my store. When she died the secret numbers of the combination died with her, and I can't open the blamed thing." But she enlarged the sorceress, "perhaps she forgot the combination in the abode of bliss." "Not on your life," said the man. "Maria had a good memory, and she'll tell the combination all right. Just ask her." "Maria will tell you the combination—listen. She says: 'Hocus pocus superpowers' and will vidi vici sit some pamphlets." "Hey, what that's?" asked the man. "I can't make head or tail out of it. It sounds like Latin." "It is Latin," said the medium. "It is Latin," said the meadroom. "Gimme back my money, you fake!" yelled the man. "Marla never knew a word of Latin in her life." "Gimme back my money," Latin is one of the dead languages, isn't it? Show him out, John!" And that was the end of the seance and of his $10-Chicago Inter Ocean. have hain in this state for six or more minutes. If the dog's chest is opened and artificial respiration begun, and if the heart is taken in the hand and rhythmically squeezed, gradually it begins to beat again, the dog begins to breathe—in fact, he recovers normal life. I believe the same experiment has not been tried in men, for the reason that in illness the system is generally so positioned by the body to make it impossible spontaneously to recover, even though the heart should be kept beating. The heart of a man may in some cases be made to beat again outside the body if deflurated blood is circulated through it. We cannot, therefore, answer the question. When does a man die? If we mean by a man his body, this piecemeal, one organ after another; if we mean the man's personality, this consciousness; and from this point of view he may be said to die when he falls in deep slumber, certainly when he is anesthetized. me you look rather stout," said he. "Executing a flank movement, he caught me over his knee and stripped down my trousers. Under the first pair he found another. Under the second pair he found another. Under the third pair he found another. When he left the third pair he stopped and said gravely: "How many pairs of pants did you put on? "I dumno; I put on all of mine and all of Jim's," said I weakly. "He burst out laughing, and from that day on I never got a laugh. But he used to talk to me when I was bad, and it wasn't long before I would have taken half a dozen kickles thankfully followed than one of the pictures he made me ashamed of myself for hours and hours afterward."—New York Press. must have given you when I offered to become your fanor and admicle. I will not speak of the lippitude, the oblepsy, you have shown in exacerbating me, one whose gening you should have approached with mental discalceation. So I tell you, without supervacuousoes, nothing will render ignosible your conduct to me. I warn you that I would vellicate your nose if I thought that any moral diarrhosis thereby could be performed—if I thought I should not impigraphic scroogle, band with your crass inquinate fanors; draw objectionats from the thought, if you can, of having synchronically lost the exaltation of the greatest poet since Milton." And yet all these words are to be found in the dictionary.—London Tit-Bits. HAVE YOUR RIGHT THE ARPEAL? ADAMS BROS. 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Write in every letter that you write us never fail to give your full name and address, plainly written. Your letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication.* SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1905. THE SOUTHERN LILY WHITES. There have been numerous "tily white" movements at the South, all of them in violation of the fundamentals of the Republican creed. It is proclaimed from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and from the Rio Grande to the Negro, the Southern Republicans could break up the solid South. In Louisiana they say the sugar industry would give them the State, if they were not incumbered with the Negro element, and it was in Louisiana that the "tily whites" first appeared. There were now movement in nearly every other Southern State—Washington Post. The above is a fair summary of the situation, but the article from which it is taken fails to notice a point which is not only material, but the most material. That point is that thousands of African American babies do not rally at the call of the pie-counter bedriders. They are everlastingly disgusted with the operations of the ring which controls the machine and sulk in their tents. They do not value the presence of the police officer, the treasurer, any wiggle into office and stay there to the end of time and beginning of eternity. The lily whites are the outs and wish to be the ins. They have no constituency and no prospect of ever getting any. They demand the treasurer be a Democrat; for the Democrats pat them on the shoulder when in their presence and laugh at them when around the corner. They can not control a single Afro-American vote; for the Afro-American ranks with Benedict Cumberbatch. The tension is in supposing that they are more acceptable to the Democracy than the Afro-American is; when the real fact is that a real true-blood Southerner thinks that they are the real antagonists between blim and his former slaves. Lily whitestes is nothing but hot air. Among the delegates from the United States to the international Baptist convention which net recently in London, England, were a lot of alleged Christians of the Caucasian persuasion, and a hundred of these worties organized a propaganda of ostracism against the Afro-American delegates and tried to persuade the English members of the convention to ignore their darkskinned brethren, begged them not to invite them to the convention, pumplists and demanded that they be absolutely ostracised socially. Instead of doing as the Southern hypocrites desired the people of England showed their Afro-American brethren with social attentions, treating them with more consideration than they did the Southerners. The damnable Southern prejudice was very properly rebuked. Mr. Apperious of Alabama recently declined in the most dignified manner to play a game of base ball because Matthews, the Afro-American player, was in the opposing team. This was in Montpellier, Vt., but Mr. Apperious probably imagined that he was commenting on the comments of the newspapers upon his performance, he learned something. The Southern states ought to pass laws which would prevent their fools from leaving home. That American youth are rapidly assimilating the many lessons in hoodlumism given by their elders, is shown Mr. a recent occurrence near Baltimore, Md., a Jewish funeral party was attacked and stoned by a crowd of boys. One of the strangest things of the present time is the readiness with which some Northern newspapers gulp down the fake stories respecting Afro-American which are sent out from abroad. The latest of these fakes is the story of a silk mill in North Carolina, which has been a success because the Afro-American operatives agree to submit to corporal punishment. if in the opinion of the superintendent—also the president—it is necessary. We have no hesitation in pronouncing the whole story a fat-fooled lie. A man who has been convicted of long continued stealing must not suppose that the world regards him as incapable of lying in self-defence. The latest time is a prival evidence of magna cum laude attainment in the other. At last it seems we have, or have had, an Afro-American millionaire according to the following: The wife of Perry Cooper, of Wittman, Talbot county, Md., is an heiress to nearly every part of California, went some years abroad, purchased a small farm, which was afterward found to contain copper. He died this year, leaving over a million to his four half brothers and half sisters. Eighty-seven Afro-American delegates attended the International Sunday School Convention and they were entertained just like other people in the homes of the best people of the city. But the convention met in Toronto, Canada, and not in prejudiced cursed United States. Since the Ogden movement has set the Southern people to quarrelring over school matters, it may be doubled good is promising. The South will naturally distrust an educational movement engineered in New York. The secret of the late John Hay's success was that he did not resort to trickery, but meant what he said. What the world calls a diplomat, is often a mere shyster. Heretest when the newspapers publish glowing accounts of Mrs. Millionaire's diamond necklace, the people who wonder her husband stole the money; to lay it. The eduvia from the Equitaaboole Insurance Company has become almost asphyxiating. VALUE OF COOL HEAD. Self-Possession One of the Most Useful of All Traits. The cool head conduces to a successful meeting of emergencies with a feeling that everything is going to some out all right. The feeling of quiet, self-control in itself makes one he better able to work toward the good result. To a mother this self-possession is invaluable. In a large family small events calculated to upset the domestic machinery constantly occur. To the mother it seems to be a law of nature that children should continually have hairbreak escapes and come out within an inch of their lives. But is it equally a law of nature that they should escape. And whenever the critical moment arrives in her own life or in the life of another, it is important for a woman to remember that the worst thing she can do at that moment is to lose it. The best thing she can is to keep the head cool that she is to keep her head cool means that she is a help instead of a hindrance, an assistance instead of a drag. In an emergency it is better to seem heartless than to be inefficient. Better the one person who stands coolly by the sufferer and sees the way to help him than the ten persons who are ready to cr: out and faint and shed tears over his calamities and pains. Affection and sympathy are sometimes best proved by ignoring them, particularly when the moment arrives for action, not tears.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Most Deadly of Snakes. Most deadly of all snakes is the cobra or cobra del capello. It inhabits Indian and Ceylon, Buram, the Andamans, southern China, Indo China and the Malay peninsula and archipelago. To the west it ranges to Afghanistan, northeast Persia and south Turkestan, as far as the east coast of the Caspian sea. Cobras are most active at night. They feed on small animals, birds' eggs, frogs, fish or insects. They attack hen roosts and swallow the eggs whole. They drink a great deal of water, although they can live for weeks, even months, in water. They are not touching or water. As a rule they are not aggressive, and unless interfered with or irritated they crawl along the ground with necti undilated, looking like some harmless snake. Red Hair a Mark of Character "There never has been an important revolutionary movement without a red-haired person intimately concerned, if not the leader," says a writer. "Nearly all the great reformers or founders of religions had red hair; history mentions that Mohammed was a red-haired man. King David was ruddy. Louis XIV was a sandy-hairman with man many of the characteristic peculiarities of the type. Cleopatra is called 'the red-haired Greek. Mary Queen of Scots had red hair. John Calvin had red hair in her coloring. Lucrencia Boris looks in her portraits somewhat abunna. Queen Elizabeth was of decidedly red coloring, which will suit both her admirers and her detractors." NIAGARA MOVEMENT. New National Race Organization Launched at Buffalo. A national conference of Afro Americans met at Buffalo, N. Y., ected Prof. W. Buffalo, D. Du Plessy, George G. Jackson, W. Mason, treasurer; also an executive committee. The conference adopted the following address to the country: The conference known as the Niagara Movement, assembled in annual meeting at Buffalo, July 11, 12 and 13, 1905, congratulate the Afro-Americans on certain unintended consequences of the last decade, particularly the increase of intelligence, the buying of property, the checking of crime, the uplift in home life, the advance in literature and art, and the demonstration of constructive and executive ability in the economic and educational institutions. At the same time, we believe that this class of American citizens should protest emphatically and continually against the curtailment of their political rights, the lack of suffrage; we believe that no man is so good, intelligent or wealthy as to be entrusted wholly with the welfare of his neighbor. We believe also in protest against the curtailment of one civil right. All American citizens have the right to equal treatment in places of public entertainment according to their behavior and deserts. We especially complain against the denial of equal opportunities to us in economic life; in the rural districts of the country; in the rural and virtual slavery; all over the South it tends to crush labor and small business enterprises; and everywhere American prejudice, helped often by iniquitous laws, is making it more diffi- Common school education should be free to all American children and compulsory. High school training should be adequately provided for all, and college training should be the monopoly of no class or race in any section of our common country. We believe that the United States should aid the schools, school education, particularly in the South, and we especially recommend concerted agitation to this end. We urge an increase in public high school facilities in the South, where the Afro-Americans are almost wholly without such provisions. We favor well-equipped trade and technical training and the need of adequate and liberal endowment for a few institutions of higher education must be patent to sincerely well-wishers of the race. We demand upright judges in courts, juries selected without discrimination on account of color and the same measure of punishment and the same efforts at reformation for white offenders. We need orphanages and farm schools for dependent children, juvenile reformories for delinquents, and the abolition of the dehumanizing convict-lease system. We note with alarm the evident retrogression in this land, of sound public opinion on the subject of manhood and womanhood. We man brotherhood, and we pray God that this nation will not degenerate into a mob of boasters and oppressors, but rather will return to the faith of the fathers, that all men were created free and equal, with certain unallenable rights. We plead for health—for an opportunity to live in decent houses, and families, for a chance to rear our children in physical and moral cleanliness. We hold up for public execution the conduct of two opposite classes of men; the practice among employers of importing ignorant Afro-American laborers in emergencies, and then affording them neither protection nor the degree of labor unions of proscribing and boycotting and oppressing thousands of their fellow-tailors, simply because they are black. These methods have accentuated and will accentuate the war of labor and capital, and they are the cause of insurrection. We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Afro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults. Through helplessness we may submit, but the voice of protest of ten million Americans must never cease to be followed, so fellows, so long as America is unjust. We urge upon Congress the enactment of appropriate legislation for securing the proper enforcement of those articles of freedom, the thirteenth amendment and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States. We repudiate the monstrous doctrine that the oppressor should be the sole authority as to the rights of the oppressed. The Afro-American race in America, savior, ravished and degraded, struggle up through militaries and oppression symbols and sympathetic receives criticism; needs help and is given hindrance, needs protection and is given mob violence, needs justice and is given charity, needs leadership and is given cowardice and apology, needs bread and is given a stone. This will never stand justified before God until these things are changed. Especially are we surprised and astonished at the recent attitude of the church of Christ on the increase of a desire to bow to racial prejudice, to narrow the bounds of human brotherhood and to segregate black men in the church of wrong, unchristian "and" disgraceful. Twentieth century civilization. Of the above grievances we do not hesitate to complain, and to complain loudly and insistently. To ignore, overlook, or apologize for these wrongs is to prove ourselves unworthy of respect. To acknowledge the way to liberty, and toward this goal the Niagara Movement has started and asks the co-operation of all men of all races. We want to acknowledge with deep thankfulness the help of our fellowmen from the abolitionist down to those who today still stand for equal opportunity and who have given and still give of their power for our advancement. And while we are demanding, and ought to demand, and will continue to demand the rights enumerated above, that we should even forget to urge correspondence duties upon our people: The duty to vote. The duty to respect the rights of others. The duty to work. The duty to obey the laws. The duty to send our children to school. The duty to be clean and orderly. The duty to respect ourselves, even as we respect others. This statement, complaint and prayer we submit to the American people, and to Almighty God. Signed by: W. E. B. DUOJOS, Georgia. WILLIAM H. RICHARDS, South Carolina. B. S. SMITH, Kansas. WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER Massachusetts. WILLIAM H. H. HART, District of Congress Representing delegates from four teen States; assented to by members in twenty-four States. PLATFORM OF THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT. 1. Freedom of speech and criticism. 2. An unfettered and unsubsidized press. 3. Full manhood suffrage. 4. The abolition of all caste distinctions based simply on race or color. 5. The recognition of the principle of human brotherhood as a practical, present creed. 6. The recognition of the highest and best human training as the monophonic ideal. 7. A belief in the dignity of labor. 8. United effort to realize these ideals under a wise, pure and fearless leadership. National Negro Business League. New York, July 18—In addition to the very attractive program of the National Negro Business League, the sixth annual session of which is to be held here, August 16, 17, 18, in the Palm Garden, 58th street and Lexington avenue, a series of entertainments and are being arranged for the delegates. On the afternoon of the first day's session an automobile expedition will carry visitors about the city and the countryside, and a port of forest; on the afternoon of the second day a large excursion steamer will be chartered to carry the delegates for a ride up the Hudson river; on the evening of the third and last day a banquet, being arranged to welcome the guests, will be here, will be tendered, the delegates. The famous Glee Club of the Williams and Walker Company has offered its services for the opening day's session, morning and evening, and throughout the three days if engagement is not obtained. Amsterdam Musical Association will render the music on the evening of the banquet. The coming session has stirred New Yorkers, and they are in readiness to extend a welcome as has never before been given. Through the influence of Dr. Booker Washington, the president of the organization, many of the most prominent capitalists and philanthropists of New York have become interested and will not only attend, but in every way toward making the meeting a success. Reduced rates of one and one-third fare from every section of the country, on the certificate plan, have been secured. Delegates are requested to secure certificates when purchasing tickets. Any further assistance may be secured by addressing: Booker T. Washington, Corresponding Secretary. Tuskagee, Ala. Sport on His Supposed Deadhatted Wanted to Bet With Parson. "That story about Ed Butcher, the noted old lowa racehorse man, reminds me of a tale the boys used to tell of Butcher," said Morris Lynch recently to the Des Moines Register and Leader. "Butcher was a good fellow, as the men who follow the racego. His family was religious. One time Butcher goes sick, very sick, in the rain. He goes home end, sent for a minion. Butcher talked to the minister, who urged him that he should not stay away from his God. The road to salvation was not very plain to Butcher. He questioned the minister closely about what he thought would happen if he should reform just prior to his death. The minister told him he would be saved. "Will I have wings just like the picture angels? asked Butcher. "You most certainly will," replied the minister. I can tell, I just bet you $$ I can be well, flying when you meet me in heaven," retorted Butcher, his eye lighting up with the accustomed flash. "The minister left in despair and Butcher recovered and followed the races for many years afterward." A1. Wed Without Permission. A wealthy Australian squatter, it order to protect his six daughters from fortune hunters, left his property to them in equal shares, but decreed that if either married with out the consent of the crusties she should forfeit her share to her sisters. Recently, when the case came up at Sydney, it was found that the six sisters had been forfeited permissiones and thus each had forfeited their share in the property to her sisters, a state of affairs which the sisters doubtless considered highly satisfactory. Knowles Building. Boys' Hall. Stone Hall. Girls' Hall. Model Home. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga. An unsectarian Christian institution, devoted especially to advanced education. College, New Pal, College preparatory and junior in high schools courses with Industrial, Technical, superior advantages in music and Printing. Athletic for boys. Physical culture for girls. Home L. and training. Aid given to needy and deserving students. Term begins the first Wednesday in October. For catalogue and information, address President, HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.B. Virginia Normal Collegiate Institute. PETERSBURG, VA. departments: Normal and Collegiate Syllabus Institute; Vocational Instrumental Music; Theoretical Agriculture; Sewing and Booking. Facilities: Room, and by stairs lighted by electricity; room, boon, tuition, light and seat. $80. For Catalog and Parties, write to J. H. JOHNSTON, President. Knoxville College. Classical, Scientific, Agricultural, School Co. runs, together with Theological and Medical will cover all expenses of world tuition, feel light and mattoral for little girls and another for little boys Monday in September. Send for catalogue to President Town. Knoxville College, Classical, Scientific, Agricultural, Mechanical, Normal and Common School Classes, begins with Twelve weeks, and Natural Science. Knoxville will cover all expenses of board, tuition, fuel, light and furnished room. Separate home and matron for little girls and another for little boys from 6 to 15 years. Term begins last Monday in September. Send or catalogue to President of Knoxville College, Knoxville Joseph D. MAYONCY Municipal Attendance, Pa. Morristown Normal College FOUNDED IN 1881 BALTIMORE & OH CHICAGO CLEVELAND PITTSBURG COLUMBIA DENVER ST. LOUIS LOUISVILLE ALL TRAINS VIAW BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. ALL TRAINS VIA WASHINGTON TEN DAY STOPOVER ALLOWED AT WASHINGTON BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA BRIDGE TICKETS IMPREDIATELY ON ARRIVAL AT EITHER CITY TUSKEGEE Normal and Industrial Institute (INCORPORATED) Organized July 4, 1883, by the State Legislature at The University School. Exempt from taxation. BOOKSTORE SHINGHONG, Principal. BROOKLYN KING, TOWNSIDE. LOCATION In the Black Belt of Alabama where the blacks outnumber the whites three to one. ENROLLMEN FACULTY 145 students, year 1253, 882, females, 371. Average attendance, 1,105, Instructors, 88. COURSE OF STUDY English education combined with Industrial training; 28 industries in constant operation. Property consisting of 2,267 acres of land, 50 buildings almost wholly built with student labor, is valued at $350,000, and no mortgage. NEEDS $50 annually for each of six students; $200 enables one to finish the course; $1,000 creates permanent scholarship. Students must pay $1,000 for Money in any amount for current expenses and building. Work done by graduates as class room and industrial leaders, thousands are reached through the Tuskegee Negro Conference. Tuskegee is 40 miles east of Montgomery and 135 miles west of Atlanta on the Western Railway. Takemura is a quiet, beautiful old Southern French town. It is a place of quiet, uniform, thus making the place as excellent a place to visit. SCOTIA SEMINARY F02S08B N. F. This well known school, established for the first education of girls, will open for the next education of girls, will be made to provide for the comfort, the health, the education of students. Expense for board, light, fuel, washing, $15, for term of eight months. Address: D. V. D. Satterfield, D. D., A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trades School for Afro-American Boys and Girls. Unusual advantages for Girls and a parallel building. Address. Fourteen teachers. Elegant and commodious colleges. College Preparatory Normal, baggage storage, hand, Typewriting and industrial TELLING. FIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE Will pay for board, room, light, fuel, tuition $200.00 per month; tuition $200.00 per term. Send for circuits to the president. REV. JUDSONS HILL D. D. Department New England CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC BOSTON, Mass. All the advantages of the finest and most completely equipped Conservatory building in the world, the academy of the arts, are associated with the Masters in the Profession are offered students at the New England Conservatory of Music. The conservatory can be arranged in Education and Graduation. GEORGE W. CHADWICK, Musical Director. All performances and year book will be sent on application. Virginia Normal College Institute. PETERSBURG, VA. Department: Normal and College. Special instruction to Woman and Instrumental Music, Theoretical Agriculture, Sewing and Cooking. Hotel Location: located by steams lighted by electricity, room, booth, tuition, light and heat. $40. For Cannot and Parties write to J. H. FOOKSTON, President] Agricultural, Mechanical, Normal and Common and Medical Schools. Fifty-five Dollars a year for light and electric equipment for little boys from 6 to 15 years. Turn begins last to President of Knoxville College, nowville GAMMON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ATLANTA, GEORGIA AIMS AND METHODS The aim of this school is to do practical work in helping men towards success in the arts; it is broad and practical; its ideas are high; its work is thorough; its methods are fresh, systematic, clear and simple. **COURSE OF STUDY** The school occupies three years, and covers the lines of work in the several departments of theological instruction, leading the teaching seminaries of the country. **EXPENSES AND AID** Tuition and room rent are free. The apartments for students are plainly furnished, and covers seven dollars per month. Buildings heated by steam. Books without interest, and gifts of friends, are granted to deserving students who do their utmost in the preparation of the course, with grace, gifts, and energy, need be deprived of the advantages now opened to him in Seminary. For further particulars address: L. G. ADKINSON, D. D. Pres. Gammon Theological Seminary. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 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. Music is a part of the regular course. Music a special feature of the school. Special advantages for earnest students seeking to attend the school. Send for catalogs and circular to REV. MARSHALL R. GAINES, A.M. PRESIDENT. SAMUEL HUSTON COLLEGE A Christian School Experienced Faculty Progressive in all departments, best Methods of teaching, most students looked after. Students taught to do manual work as well as think. For catalogue and other information, write to the president. R.S. LOVINGOOD, AUSTIN, TEXAC- BRAINERD INSTITUTE A normal and industrial school with a many courses offered. A thorough, symmetrical and complete English education, and lay a solid foundation for success in university and later vocational education of the Board and boarding hall CHESTER, S. C Howard University MEDICAL DEPARTMENT INCLUDING MEDICAL, DENTAL and PHARMACETIC COLLEGS INHOMERATED 1867 Thirty-eight session begin October 2. 1908, continue eight students matriculate for Day instruction. 4-Years' Graded Course in Medicine, 4-Years' Graded Course in Dental Science. 2-Year's Graded Course in Pharmacy, Immunology, Surgery, Infectious treatments, quizzes, clinics and practical laboratory demonstrations. Well-equip- lated laboratories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 14, 1965. For further information or catalogue, apply by F. H. HADDJ, M. M. D. Scey, 901 R Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. OHIO R. R. LA WASHINGTON AN OLD BOOKKEEPER IS DISCRIMINATING. Better take his advice and use CARTER'S. Need for Bookkeeper liaison to PIEKES. THE CARTER INK CO. @Setton, Marx. GARLAND STOVES AND RANGES The World's Best Often Imitated Never Equaled Sold by First Class Stove Merchants Everywhere. Put it down in Black and White the MONON ROUTE IS THE DIRECT LINE BETWEEN CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS CINCINNATI AND LOUISVILLE CITY OFFICE 232 CLARK ST. CHICAGO. WE LAT Malta-Vita THE PERFECT FOOD FOR Brain and Muscle MALTA-VITA contains more nutrition, maintains building, qualifies, nurture nerve stimulant than any other food. PURE, PALATABLE, POPULAR Millions are eating MALTA-VITA, it gives health, strength, and happiness. MALTA-VITA PURE FOOD CO. Battle Creek, Mich. Toronto, Canada The highest possible polish attainable upon metal surface is impaired by the presence of antimicrobial iantrius in copper, copper, tin, zinc, nickel, silver or all metals. A few nicks on metal surfaces dingest metal shocks like new. Does not gum nor injure the head. Soil by all dealers. J. C. PAUL & Co., Manufacturers, CHICAGO. CHEW Beeman's The Original Pepsin Gum Cures Indigestion and Sew-sickness. PHOTOGRAPHS OF WORKS OF ART Catalogue of 18,000 works with sample photographs. CARBON AND PLATINUM Prints from American Paintings and Old Masters. New illustrated catalogue, cents. Lantern Slides Prumed Pictures SOULE ART CO. 60 Washburn Street BORNON, MASS. The why some shop- keepers do not sell President Suspenders is they make more money on imitations 50 cents and a dollar. Ask at favorite shop, special offer. C. A. Edgerton Mfg. Co. Boron215, Shilroy, Mass. Send 4 cents for catalogue. FURNITURE SENSE Some people who are not given to thinking imagine that a house that sells on the installment plan necessarily carries trashy merchandise. Nothing is farther from the truth, so far as this house is concerned. For 22 years we have catered to the wants of the people of the Northwest and never a dissatisfied customer. The goods we carry are made by the VERY BEST MANUFACTURERS in America, and the only difference in this house and others which claim to be exclusive and high-class is that we make good furniture easy for the man of modest means, while the so-called exclusive houses shut him off entirely by making him pay cash. Again, it is thought by some that an installment house asks higher prices than those which sell for cash. This is another "visionary theory," which is so far from the truth as to be ridiculous. One visit here will explode it. We sell at lower prices than any exclusive house, and WE GIVE YOU CREDIT BECAUSE WE KNOW YOU NEED IT, and because we can sell twice as much merchandise that way as we can for cash. Take these matters home and think them over. They are worth the consideration of any sane man or woman. Sixth and Minnesota——THE HOME FURNISHERS——St. Paul, Minn. ST. PAUL. The Colonade Dancing Academy has a splendid crowd on last Wednesday evening and all enjoyed themselves. The splendid music by Prof. Lafayette Mason and Armant's orchestra gave the usual satisfaction. Armant's orchestra will be present at all the assemblies of the Colonade Dancing Academy, corner of University and Farrington Aves. Be sure to attend next Wednesday evening, Arthur Winstead, principal. The Colonade Dancing Academy seems to be pleasing the public immensely as the number of patrons is constantly on the increase. The hall is a very nice one, has a fine floor and everything is as snug as can be. Despite all counter attractions every Wednesday night the usual large and highly pleased crowd is present. Principal Winstead is constantly on the lookout to please his patrons and especial attention is paid to beginners. Did it ever occur to you—that this is the time of the year to put your stoves and ranges in repair for winter? THE ST. PAUL STOVE REPAIR WORKS, 126 W. Seventh street, has the best workmen and the best equipment in the city, and can furnish any part of any stove or range at any time and any place. A card will bring us, or you may 'phone N. W. Main 126-Li, or T. C. 242. Bear in mind that we can do your work now better and cheaper than when cold weather sets in and we are rushed with orders. Time is short so DO IT NOW. --- Have you seen the new magazine, see the new magazine. See notice where in this issue. WAGNER HALL FOR RENT Persons desiring to rent Wagner hall, corner Charles and Western avenues for lodge meetings, parties dances, meetings or for any occasion may obtain the same at reasonable rates upon application to J. W Wynne, 558 University or Judge Johnston, 352 Cedar street. N. B. MARSHALL. Carpenter and Builder, 554 Aurora Avenue. We have in our midst a first class carpenter and builder in the person of Mr. N. B. Marshall of 554 Aurora Ave. He will also give prompt attention to ongoing general repairing, painting and decorating. Estimates furnished upon application. Telephone N. W. Dale 381 J-2. He has 50 lots on University avenue for sale on a cash payment of $25, and a monthly payment of $10. Will build houses on these lots to suit purchasers on monthly payments. DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY. THE ELK EXPRESS CO. Has Moved to Larger and Better Quarters. The Elk Express Co. is growing and spreading out now that spring is here. The company has leased the building on the corner of St. Peter and Ninth streets, No. 467 St. Peter for its office and storage. There has also been added to the present equipment one large stake wagon and two small ones. The company is now prepared to move any one as quickly as any other firm in the business and at as low rates. Only competent men are employed to handle the goods. G. J. Charleston, MONKEYS AS GAY WAGS. Observation Proves They Have a Sense of Humor. Recently a monkey got the better of the common enemy, the carrion crow, by feigning illness. He was fastened to a bamboo pole with a running ring. When he was on his perch the crows annoyed him by stealing from his porringer on the ground. One morning they had been specially disagreeable. He closed his eyes and feigned a bad illness. When his day's food was brought the crows descended upon it, and he had scarcely strength to defend it. By good acting he managed to capture one of the crows. To pluck it alive was the obvious course. Then, instead of pulling it to pieces, like the king monkey when Kipling and Sir Edward Buck watched enjoying a similar triumph in Simla, this monkey tossed the crow into the air, where its own companions fell upon it and killed it. Monkeys certainly have a sense of fun. Darwin used to spend hours watching a young female orang-outang in the zoological gardens, and was sure that she had the comic sentiment. She delighted to put on her head, like a cap, a peculiar shaped bowl, which had a droll effect, and she was sensitive to the effect which her joke produced upon the spectators.—Lahore Tribure. To the hypocrite one man's religion is another man's revenue. WE TRUST YOU Some people who are not g carries trashy merchandise we have catered to the war carry are made by the VEH and others which claim to modest means, while the so Again, it is thought b This is another "visionary explode it. We sell at low KNOW YOU NEED IT, a Take these matters hom WE TRUST YOU SM Sixth and Mi FOR SENSIBLE PEOPLE MINNEAPOLIS When in St. Paul and you wish to get FIRST CLASS MEALS, like you used to at home call on Mrs. Ella Smith, No. 352 Cedar street. Breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m.; lunch from 12 m. to 2:30 p.m.; dinner from 5 to 8 p.m. Meals to order when desired. Sunday dinners a speciality. Regular meals 25 cents. Mrs. J. W. Robertson and Mrs. C. F. King received informally Friday afternoon from 3 to 5 for Mrs. J. F. Macom and Mrs. Geo. Jackson of Paris, Ky., Mrs. Carrie Clifford of Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. E. Lindsay and Mrs. H. A. Kirley of St. Lindsay, Mrs. Marie Artist and Mrs. Wife. We were among the twenty-five callers. The parlors were beautifully decorated with carnations, roses and sweet peas. Leroy Roberts furnished the music. The social evening held by the guild of St. Thomas' mission at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. J. Jeffrey was a very successful affair. The lawn was pretty decorated with Japanese lanterns where during the evening refreshments were served. In the house Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Nelson played very excellently a mandolin and a bass. Miss Ada Van C. C. B. F. Pierre and M. Van F. C. Nelson rendered them only a soprano, contralto and tenor solo in excellent shape and Miss Lulu Blair and Mr. C. S. Turner each gave a reading in splendid style. A neat sum was realized toward the building fund. The State Federation of Afro-American women, which was held at Bethesda Baptist church last week, was a splendid gathering, being well attended by the women of the Twin Cities at each session, and numerous good papers were read and good speeches made. Mrs. Lucy Thurman, national representative of the W. C. T. U., and Mrs. Carrie Clifford of Cleveland, Ohio, honorary president of the Ohio State Federation, were the guests of honor at the meetings. An interesting feature of the program of the last day's session was the playing of an original composition, "The Afro-American Federation March," by the author, Mr. Lafayette Mason. Officers elected were: Chaplain, Mrs. Emma Jeffrey, Minneapolis; historian, Mrs. Sarah Kirtley, St. Paul; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Nellie Taylor, St. Paul; first associate' editor, Mrs. Mattie Wade, Superior, Wis.; second associate editor, Mrs. Hattie Sherwood, St. The tenure of the office of president, which is held by Mrs. Ione E. Gibbs, Minneapolis; first vice president, Mrs. Kittie Terrill, St. Paul; second vice president, Alice Johnson, Duluth, will expire until July, 1906. THE HEIGHT OF HAPPINESS. Good Reason for Sam Wilson's Indulgence in Snicker. Sam Wilson was twenty-five years old and had never been home with a girl. He refused to tend shop for his father one night and went to singing school. At the close he sidled up to Sophia Smith, made his little speech, and soon the two were walking arm in arm down the Valley road. Sam carried his head so high he seemed to Sophia several inches taller than usual. But little was said, but Sam now and then ducked his head and suppressed a snicker. "You seem much amused," said Sophia, wondering. Another snicker was the response. "What is it please you so, Mr. Wilson?" asked Sophia. This was too much. With a perfect snort of laughter, he exclaimed: "Golly! If ever anything is slicker 'n this I shall die.'"—Boston Herald. Under the Apple Tree. In the garden of a great man six persons were sitting, a scientific man, a merchant, a poet, a young man—very much in love—a lawyer and a lady. The wind was blowing rather hard and six apples fell down. Each took one. The scientific man took his apple and discovered a new law of nature. The merchant sold his. The poet ate his. The young man who was very much in love gave his to his sweetheart. The lawyer went to law against the owner of the tree on account of being hit by the fallen apple. But the lady took her apple to the owner of the tree, gained his affections, and as he was rich she had lots of money all the rest of her life. —From the Fables of Eugen Heltal The man who puts heart into his work will always get ahead of it. The reward of mastering one difficulty is to meet another. We find no better feelings in others than we foster in ourselves. You cannot escape your taxes here by talking about your citizenship there. 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