The Appeal

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. ART'S FIERCE STRAIN WORSE THAN FINANCE'S WORRIES --- VOL. 23. NO. 19. More terrible than the nervous racking of the financier's life is the strain of art. The Sages, Morgans, Rockefellers Guggenheimers go into ripe years despite the excitement of their calling, but the artist who is seized with the desire to excel in his profession ever traverses a tempest-tossed sea, where he steers a dangerous passage between the dangers of a sudden death or, what is far worse, the possibility of death collapse. Nor are these the only perils that confront the musician, the actor or the painter. The recent movement of Julian Story and Emma Eames toward a separation is but another visitation of the woes that confront the virtuoso. "She has the artistic temperament." HEINRICH CONRIED. Who is Now Ill and Obliged to Relinquish Work to Save His Life, said Mr. Story when asked what lay at the bottom of his wife's suit for divorce. This sentence he deemed answer enough. He need go no further. Mrs. Story had the artistic temperament. That meant she lived a life that put it out of question to adapt herself to the hundred annoyances and trivialities that are part of marital existence. And yet at one time this pair was spoken of as the one which proved that the marriage of artists could be happy. The painter and his prima donna spouse were pointed to as the ideal union of talent. Now both speak kindly of each other, but find matrimony incompatible with art. Not so long ago Herr Heinrich Conried was looked on with envy. He was the impressor artist. He had conducted with distinguished success a German theater in New York. When the directors of the Metropolitan opera house sought a successor to Maurice Gran, they did Conried the honor to pick him. The new incumbent of the place started in a manner to show that the truth was not misplaced. In the face of extraordinary difficulties he produced "Parasite" in the United States, and thus put his to the one of the greatest feats in the history of music. He discovered Caruso, and gave the Metropolitan opera house one of the greatest tenors God ever made. Moreover, Conried proved a business man as well as an artist. He not only gave the Metropolitan great opera, but he turned in a handsome profit, something unexpected, but none the less welcome to the business men who support the famous institution. Conried was spoken of as that lucky Heinrich. Then art he forced him to pay the price which must be yielded by those who succeed. Suddenly he was stricken with something which the doctors fear is the beginning of locomotor ataxia. At once he was forced to drop all active work, and though the officials of the Metropolitan will give him a reasonable time to decide whether by next year he will be able to resume direction of the opera, it is feared that he may never be able to take the place again. The question will be fought out at a Swiss sanitarium. Not long after Conried began his battle with one of the most dreaded of nervous troubles, word came from Paris that Maurice Gran, whom Conried succeeded at the Metropolitan, was dead. Grau was still in the prime of his life, and had he picked any other call- Sun Spots and Sun. Heat. Prof. Peters, of the United States naval observatory, maintains that sun spots diminish the heat we receive from the sun, but the terrestrial effect is too slight to be perceptible. The spots appear in the greater number every eleven years. This astronomer is firm in the conviction that if we are ever involved in a celestial catastrophe it will not be due to the sun. A thing well begun is better than a thing overdone. ing, might still have been active and successful, but the terrific stress of handling an enterprise where he paid as much as $25,000 a week in salaries to singers alone made such demands on his nervous vitality that the instant he was stricken the certainty of death was on him The greatest American composer, Edward MacDowell, who occupies in our music a position as secure as that of Poe in our literature, is ending his life with a clouded brain. In fact he is in complete darkness. Yet not so long ago MacDowell was on the high crest of success. A big man, of athletic habits, and a love for adventure, he was the born poet. Locomotor ataxia and aphasia, those disorders most dreaded of the artist, and with which Conried is making his battle, came upon MacDowell and took him from the pinnacle of art back to childhood again. Doctors hold out no hope of his recovery. Equally pitiful is the case of Fritz Scheel, conductor of the Philadelphia orchestra, who died a few weeks ago. A German conductor of authority, who had been the friend and pupil of some of the greatest directors of Europe, Scheel was the United States to conduct a series of concerts at the world's fair. Next he went to Francisco, and finally to Philadelphia. There he speedily built up a place in the regard of musicians, and when the project of a Philadelphia symphony orchestra was broached, every one turned to Scheel as the man to assume direction. Scheel did so with results that were astonishingly successful. His crowning achievement was the first American production of Richard Strauss' tremendously difficult "Sinfonia Domestica," a piece of enterprise that attracted attention to the orchestra from all over the country. But while working for his loved art, Scheel forgot the dangers. His mind gave way. He became a vagabander and finally another had to take over. He was taken away in the hope that a change might prove beneficial, but a complication of troubles brought a death that mercifully saved the musician from THE LADY OF THE MIDDLE AGE Mary MME, EMMA EAMES-STORY. Portrait by Her Husband, Julian Story. Remarkable Will Proviso. There is a remarkable proviso to a bequest by the late Harry Cowen Coley of Bishop's Stortford. Money is conditionally left to the Royal National Lifeboat station, but the deceased's wife or any child of his "shall be at liberty to enter upon, row, or sail in the said boat at any time when she is affloat, be the weather fair or foul, so long as their doing so or their presence there shall not hinder the life-saving efforts of the crew." THE APPEAL. the fate that has overtaken MacDowell. A short time ago a carriage met an incoming train in New York, and a distinguished looking man was helped into it and driven rapidly to his home. The little incident meant that on other artist had paid the price of overwork. The man was the foremost of American actors, Richard Mansfield. He is now completely broken down, and doctors say he will not be able to act before next season, though by the sudden end of his tour he forfeits thousands of dollars. The part of "Peer Gynt" is said to be responsible for Mr. Mansfield's breakdown. THE BONAPARTE LINE IS ALMOST EXTINGUISH Only Ten Members Survive, and There Is No Place in Sight. The Bonaparte are passing—only ten of them remain. In a generation, perhaps, will have gone from existence, the last of the line of that might warrior who overturned all Europe little more than a parte, is now a member of P. Roosevelt's cabinet. The line of Jerome, after he led to Europe at the orders of peror, cast off his American brother, married a daughter of the MAURICE GRAU, Who, by His Strenuous Efforts as a Grand Opera Impresario, Sacrificed His Life. A Diet for Tramps "Lady," began the wandered, "kin I chop some wood for you?" "No, thank you," replied the up-to-date housewife; "we cook and heat entirely by electricity." "Nothin' I can do to git a bite to eat." "Yes. If you care to peel the shocks from the electric wires I'll allow you to eat the currents."-Harper's Weekly. THE MUSICIAN Miss Edith Rock, Daughter of Secretary of State Ellhu Root, is as diplomatic and unassuming as her brilliant father and one of the most popular girls in Washington society. Miss Root accompanies her father on his trips, and wins the esteem of even the most dignified ministers by her intimate knowledge of statecraft and her modest way of revealing it. It's hard on the aeronaut when he takes a drop too much. THE BONAPARTE LINE IS ALMOST EXTINCT The Bonapartes are passing—only parte, is now a member of Presiden ten of them remain. Roseveil's cahnet. In a generation, perhaps, will have gone from existence the last of the line that might warrior who overturned all Europe little more than a century ago, and put his family on its thrones. Only a short time ago Princess Christina died in Rome. She was a Bonaparte by marriage only, but her husband had the blood of the emperor from two sources. His name was Prince Napoleon Charles Bonaparte. PRINCE VICTOR NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. His father was grandson of Lucien, brother of the great emperor, and his mother was Princess Zenaide, granddaughter of Joseph Bonaparte, whom Napoleon made King of Naples and later king of Spain. Christina's death reduced the number of Bonaparte to ten, which small total would be less surprising were it not for the fact that there were perhaps more than a hundred of them a century ago. It was a big family that the head of the line, Charles Bonaparte, brought into the line, Napoleon, afterwards to the emperor Napoleon, was Joseph; Lucien, who had seven children; Maria Anna, Louis, who married Hortense, daughter of Josephine; Beauharnais, Carloita, Annunciata and Jerome. The lines of this liberal family multiplied. Napoleon had one son, the unfortunate Duke de Reichstadt, who never reigned, and the family he gained by his marriage to Josephine, who was a widow. The line of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, produced three sons, the younger of whom became Napoleon III, mounted the throne of France, and gave Josephine the revenge of furnishing in her grandson a king for France, the younger of whom descent the descent of Maria Louise of Austria, for whom Napoleon discarded Josephine. From Jerome, the youngest member of the family, came the Baltimore connections of the Bonapartes, for it was he who married Miss Elizabeth Patterson, whose grandson, Charles Bona- PRINCE LOUIS BONAPARTE. The "golah" at Bankipil, India, was built for a granary in 1783, but has never been used for that purpose. It is 426 feet round at the base, with walls 12 feet 2 inches in thickness, the interior diameter being 109 feet. It is about ninety feet high and might contain 137,000 tons. Inside is a most wonderful echo, best heard from the gallery there is, perhaps, no such building in the world, not even the famous Mormon temple. Defective Page The line of Jerome, after he returned to Europe at the orders of the emperor, cast off his American bride and married a daughter of the king of Wurtemberg, has furnished the present claimant to the Napoleonic succession. Of those who survive the head of the family in point of interest, is the venerable empress Eugenie, now eighty years old, wife of Napoleon III. One of the most pathetic figures of the present day is she when is recalled the glories of the second empire when the lovely Eugenie de Montijo came to France as a queen only to leave the country in flight when the terrors of the commune placed her regal head in danger. The story of that flight is well remembered, for she was saved only by the timely arrival of the American and Italian ambassadors, who took the frightened empress from the Tulleries by stealth while on the outside a mob for her blood. To the home of the American dentist, Dr. Thomas Evans, who conveyed her to the seacoast and then to England. After the death of the emperor at Chislehurst and of his only son, the Prince Imperial, at the hands of the Zulus in Africa, Eugenie retired to Franborough, an hour and a half from London. It was long years before she again returned to that Paris of bitter memories, but she has lately visited the French capital several times, and made the journey for the funeral of Princess Mathilde, in the early days of January, 1904. Princess Clothilde is of somewhat more heroic mould than Eugenie, for when the horror of the commune fell instead of escaping by stealth, Clothilde called for her state carriage and drove through the principal streets of Paris with no effort at concealment. This wonderful courage caused her to be thrown before a same mob that only a few minutes had been hurling threats of death. PRINCESS LAETITIA BONAPARTE, The Dowager Duchess of Aosta. Clothilde is a member of Italy's reigning family. All the surviving Bonapartes except the dethroned empress descend from two lines. First there are the offspring of Lucien, who never accepted a throne from his brother, and married twice according to his own inclinations. The Bonapartes of royal pretensions come through the line of Jerome. Prince Roland Bonaparte, head of the Lucien descendants, is a grandson of the brother of the great emperor and a son of Prince Pierre. Like his grandfather, Prince Roland Bonaparte has several times refused thrones or the chance of succession to them, and to-day knows only the passion of study. There are three more Bonapartes descended from Lucien. One is Roland's sister, Princess Jeanne Bonaparte, wife of the marquis of Villeneuve. Roland and Princess Jeanne have two cousins, the daughters of Princess Christina and Prince Napoleon Charles. One was married in 1891 to an Italian lieutenant of infantry, Cunico Gotti, the other married Prince de la Moskova, a great grandson of Marshal Ney, from whom she is divorced. Both these ladies are childless, therefore there is no chance of the John S. Porteous, of Paducah, Ky, twenty-four years old, is just seven feet tall and is still growing. He is now in colorado for his health, and at a recent secret society parade won the prize for being the tallest in line. His father, wearing a silk hat, can stand under the young man's out- stretched arm, and his mother is quite a small woman. The big stick is all right—if it doesn't get into wrong hands. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE APPEAL STEADILY GAINS BECAUSE: 4-It is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans. 5-It is not controlled by any ring or olique. 6-It asks no support but the people's. line of Lucien being continued on the male side. The Jerome branch is better supplied. Prince Napoleon Joseph and Clothilde were blessed with three children, all of whom are still living. Prince Napoleon Victor is forty-five years old and a bachelor. He is especially an interesting figure from the fact that he is now the claimant to the throne. When Victor Imperial, the son of Eugenie, died, it was found that he had willed the succession to Napoleon Victor. The latter is a man of education and considerable sense. The second son of Clothilde is Prince Louis Napoleon, who at forty-three years of age is also unmarried. Her third child is the Dowager Duchess of Aosta. This beautiful sister of Prince Napoleon and Louis is a noted beauty. She married her uncle, Prince Amadeus of Savoy, exking of Spain. EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE. (Latest Picture.) This glance at the Bonapartes shows how slender is the strand which keeps the name of the family in existence. Save for Roland, Lucien's male issue has died out completely, and only the child of a great granddaughter can perpetuate the line. Jerome has a number of descendants, but unfortunately there are no children among them. Thus within eighty-six years of Napoleon's death at St. Helena one finds his beautiful line threatened with extinction on no very distant day. New Banks Last Year Four hundred and sixty-two new national banks were created in 1906. For the last seven years the average has been within a fraction of forty a month. We now have 6,345 national banks, with $77,079,497 capital and $596,343,022 circulation. Seven years ago the banks numbered 3,617, with $816,308,095 capital and $254,462,730 circulation. Cost of European Armament At the present moment the countries of Europe are spending on their armies and navies as much as $4,000,000 a day. England spends $180,000,000 a year on her navy. This is $5,000,000 more than the combined expenditure of France, Russia and Germany. M. One of the growing methods of cheating in New York is by "short change." The system has taken firm hold in many ticket shops and shops, and has notably increased when small payments are being made through dumbwalters, in which latter instance the person delivering goods says too much down or that he returned more than he received can find, and that there must have been 2 loss in transit ALL A DEAD LOSS UNDERTAKER NEVER DID COL LECT HIS BILL. "Yes, sirs, gents, I 'ave been in a good many businesses in my lifetime, I 'ave', said Webb, the rubber in the Turkish bathhouse, as he sighed reminiscently. "I was born in bold Hengland, many's the year ago, and since that day I 'ave been a good many things in my lifetime, I 'ave. I 'ave been a clerk in a gents' furnishing store, I 'ave been a bartender, I 'ave been a waiter in a cheap John restaurant, and once I was a b hunder-taker. "Yes, gents," said Webb, as he sighed again, "I 'ave been a b hunder-taker. And whilst I was hengaged in that business I 'ad han hexperience that I 'opes not 'won't append to none of you; for, gents, it cost me dear. "It was on an hoccasion we'en I 'wired to bury a hepilectic of 56 years. Hold man Gormley e' was; a rich hold codger, and mean and stingy as never lived, and I 'ave seen many a mean stingy man in my time. There was man as give me a five-cent tip for service in an height-five cent dinner, and, blirst the 'aole in it. But hold man Gormley died at last, and is 'oirs 'ad 'ig hops. But they give 'im a decent funeral, I will say that for 'em, and the money was spent for givin' it a good send-off run well hup into the 'undreds. They 'hordered the best I 'ad in the shop, and I was hespecting a right decent profit on the 'ole. "Well, gents, right in the middle of the ceremony, whilst the preacher was reading solemn words from the Good Book and whilst the 'eirs was all setin' round tryin' to look has and has they could hinder the circumstances, we 'eard hinside the coffing a rippin', snortin' sound. One of the young lady 'eirs gives a scream, and the rest of 'em had bugged out at the heyes, and "What's This Hall Habout?" I hadmit that I felt some creepy inside myself. The ceremony come to a full stop. "Hopen the coffing!" horders one of 'the 'eirs. "I hopen it, and up riz the dead man, mad as a 'ornet and hall blowin' and snortin'. ""What's this hall habout?' e says, glarin' haround the room. "Beggin' your pardon, sir, says I steppin' forward, but we was just habout to bury you, beggin' your pardon, sir." "Just habout to bury me! he screams. 'Get hout of this house, you hold vulture!' e says. 'Go back, keep up my stuff and go, leave' the 'eirs to pacify' him. But arter a few days I send in my bill, me 'aveng been put to a good deal of expense, and so, 'elp me, what do you s'pose e' said? Said 'e' didn't bordered no funeral, and blarst me, 'e' wouldn't pay for none! "Well, I 'ad to 'ave my money from some one, so I went to the 'eirs, who was awful sore at being disappointed. They was pore, they said, and their huncle was rich. It wasn't for them to help. 'I ad to 'ave my money somehow, and so I went to law. I used the dead man what had come back in life. And so 'elp me, the judge said it wasn't 'is funeral and 'e—hold man Gormley, that is—didn't ave to pay! 'Well, there it was. It wasn't no use using the 'eirs, bein' as they 'adnoth' to pay with. I thought of suing the doctor, but him and me 'ad been in the 'abit of thrown' a good deal in one another's way, professionally, you know, and I couldn't afford to lose money. I 'ad rendered services, but who was to charge them? That was enough for me. I quit the hundertaking business soon after."—New York Press. Johnny's Allment. "Yes," said Mrs. Lapsling, "Johnny is alling, but I'm not going to give him any drugs. I believe the trouble is in his bones, and I am going to take him to a costly cooisthist." At Dinner. "Who is the taciturn man opposite, next to Miss Smith?" "That is Louis the Fourteenth." "Louis the Fourteenth?" "Well, you see, his name Louis, and he is called the Fourteenth because he's only asked to keep us from being thirteen at table." Lease Majesty. Ann—You don't tell me that that gem of a cook left, Mrs. Dust!. Flo—Yes, you see my Dust refused to change grocers when the cook and the delivery boy fell out—Puck. atin biostieh naw | Defective Page bs ii ‘ iii oN cot Auualoue* pA ue Mpper Ay iy Ni 7} tt gay Been \eN Ra ) eg \ it MY i Zig er bi (agama ee ae iN ee IN iN Jee a LS ny a THE APPHAL, AMATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN KEWSPAPER: ADAMS BROS. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS 49 Bath St, St Pas, i, ST. PAUL OFFICE. No. .£0 Union Blk, 4th « Cedav, J-0.ADAMS, Manager. mutNEAPOLIS OFFICE, Gas. -ty Loan Bldg. Room 1020 WanvEY B. BURK. Manexer. eHICAGO OFFICE, 323-5 Learborn St., Suite 510, C. F. ADAMS, Manager. TERMS. STRICTLY IN ADVANCE: SINGLE COPY, GIX MONTHS........... 1.10 SINGLE COPY, THREE MONTHE---- 180 ‘When subserptlone ar by any means atone ‘SBeconrs for each’ 13 weeks sind Scents for ‘Sach odd weak, or af Cae mate Ot BL fer Seat cemittances should, be, made by, Express ie "Money Order, Post Omce Money Orden, Se sisoad tian oc ite Dt Petage Slam sil be receive the name as cach fr ti fractlonal pars of dollar.” ‘Only’ one Senuond two cent straps tae, Sliver should nover be seat through the mall ahmont iro 8 meat a bole three tho ovelope and te tot gr ae it mus We sc itm, "Dersome wu mead slver tos in ottes to's ae tote oma re ‘arriage and death notices 10\nes or Les EOE Mationat Thor's ‘sau’ “etan e Mrlcuy in advan, abd te anpoteed sift somo iu season toe tomes ‘Advertising rates, Isconts por agate line, each vertion. ""itore are tourtees agate fines ian eh gpd abost ‘eves: Wolds int tentoline, ‘No slagto aoverasements iss Wan Novseoust allowed tows than ints nigh egatcasn Cas set eco uy all ordors ie unoowa 0 Birther particulars da apptcation Renn eden cots prin, eachnerion, Noldieounts tor wwe gr pace ead thavter te nee ta ‘oreiee eau ae Sout oO Wada st oat 1e date, on the address label shows hen “bteription expla Renewale whould be imade to wosks prior ww expratont so task sopueray be sco, soe pa Map 11 ocenstonaity Rappens tbat papers sent tosu- ‘Sonibers are lontor svatens fa ease foe bs'postal card at te oupkraton st te dass froin that dave, and we ‘wilt ebeertully for ‘rora dupicats of se albatag as ‘communications pve atenone mt, be Tews. upon ‘nportantsubjscts. "pinky elit Oy up one le ot cho ener Hotiaterthan Wedueclays and seer ise oe ‘batco of the author. No ‘manuscript re- Eenee unless neamps are Sent fo postage "Wego not hold oursaives responsible fOr the ‘Hewes of out correspontent Soneling ap “wanted everswhere. Write forte "Ne copies fren. Inevery teter that you write ux novor fal to rg sour tll ome” am uadrexs” plainly ‘Gritdon, pont ones county and state. uxt Scparuto mhecee from ieturrecontalalas bees ‘ornmatter tor publication. m : ¥ \ TS ae ae . A 4A mS ORS SUAS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. so0oeeseeseecoeseoeseooes $ ‘Treat each man according to $ nis worth as a man, Distrust ail who. would have any. one class’ placed before ‘any other. Other republics have fallen. be- feause "the unscrupulous have Subatiuited toyalty to class. for 3 loyalty to the people aaa whole “President flvonevelt'e speech aU Litle Rock, “Ark ; teoosceesooeoncososonsees SATURDAY, MAY 11,1900, A beouaberrucien A peentiar situation has developed in Warrensburg, Mo., a noted eduea- tional center, the seat of the great- est Normal school th the state. ‘The Glove-Domocrat gives the following ac- conat of the status quo: Ir Is now claimed by those who keep track of school affairs that the teach- © of republican families have been graduelly eliminated, and the female members of democratic families have been selected to All thelr places. Tn foot, a year ago, itis sald, two mem- bors of the board were elected on the slogan of “Places in the schools for cigmovrats alone." Tt is claimed that the tea of making the schools a part ff the local democratic machine was 80 strong that even old and faithful Janitors of school buildings were re. moved and laces made for colored ruen who Had been voting with the democrats, And this spring the {ax levy to con: duet a ten months’ school was beagen a{ the polls the first thne in the his tory of the ity, . 1s clatmed that the {axnavers. believing’ the schools were being used 05 a partisan machine, ov'etly Kdlled the levy. The result created consternation among schoo! | eo i oy = ¥ ¢ be fe OK Si tee: iF ee & : y Rae AS ; HON. ALGERT J. HOPKINS Iinois’ Virite Junior Senator Who Will be Reelected at End of Presen ‘Sarai: (ines ee iz 2 ' : | hg a Ce sg ioe a ee s a4 i aes / | ae : | i ae & ee HON. W. T, VERNON Register of the Us 8: Treasury, Who Made a Great Speech In Baaton ‘Thi men generally, as the regular school tax is adequate to conduct the schools or only five months. Al of which Indicates very signif cantly that. despite of the hallelujans Of the politicians over the entire elimi- nation of sectional feeling, yet and stil in that respect, the year of jubtlee las not come. Between Southern dicta- tors aud Northern flunkeys there is, it must be admitted, an amount of gush- Ing affection that would smash a sels- anoxraph, but the South has no use for a man who adheres to the principles which brought the Republican party into existence. ‘The Northern teacher who adheres to even a Iittle of the traditional opinions of his section. is oersona non grata all over the South, and men of his class are being quietly eliminated from scholastic positions, as the result of a concerted plan which. for reasons of policy are not proclaimed upon the housetops. FLORIDA FOOLISHNESS. “Tallahassee, Fla.—The Senate by u vote of 25 t0 5 has adopted a joint reso: Intion to declare the fourteenth and fifteenth amediments to the Federal Constitution void and to disfranchise the megro in’ Plorida. ~The resolution was introduced by Senator John 8. Beard, of Pensacola, who spoke at length upon the subject. Senator Beard declared he believed that the Supreme Conrt of the United States would uphold the action of this State in disfranchising the negro. “The house Is overwhelmingly for the resolution, and the question of the legality cf the amendments in question will Lins go before the United States Supreme Court. Crowded galleries cheered the action of the senate.” We quote the above as the most ex. azgerated specimen of exaggerated tomfoolery that any of the Jimerow legislatures has brought forth, The recommendation of the governor of the state that the entire Afro-American population should be deported was a specialy brilliant performance, but the legislature has eclipsed the executive. In the opinion of THE APPEAL, the Supreme Court will not be very apt to decide that the legislature of Florida hos the authority to declare any por. tion of the constitution vold, as that would imply the right to declare the whole instrument vold, which would, of course do away with the court. it self. Il ts not reasonable to suppose that the whole country is prepared to ve governed either by Joint resolutions of the Florida legislature, or by the alligators and lizards of Okefnokee tae RANTERS RULE THE SOUTH. ‘Yae Baltimore Sun says: “It is high time for the prudent and sagacious public men of the South to advise the Southern people concerning the con ditions which seem to make Mr, Bry an's nomination in 1908 uttesly inad visable from the standpoint of’ prac tical polittes.” Unfortunately, the South has turne: its back upon the counsels of its pru- dent and sagactous men and is govern ed almost entirely by the ravings and rantings of such blatherskites as Till man. John ‘Temple Graves and Hoke Smith. ‘The substratum of sliteracs tapon which southern civilization rest is a most prolife breeding-place for demagogues, for fakirs and feather head ranters, while {t is @ regula duagmire for prudent and sagacious men. The Ignorant masses of the South have had no proper political training they know nothing and care less for prudence or sagacity; their only code fs that it Is the proper thing to drink ‘whisky, hate Negroes and Yankees and think themselves the superiors of ev erybody else. Bryan and his. heneh men know exaetly how to manipulate this mass of fgnorance and immorality; that is ia the style adopted in Hoke Smith's campaign in Georgia. BRYAN AND THE DENé. Mr. Bryan knows that he holds the Democratic reins and is not at all back- ward in laying down the polley of the party, nor does he care a continental for the time-honored principles. what ever they are of the organization, he Just forces it to swallow his nostrams without any rogard to the state of its stomach. He has now prescribed the initiative and referendum, in other ‘words mob government as the policy of the organization. And the party. will bbe forced to accept the mess, just as ls has partially. accepted the govern. ment ovnership theors. ‘The assets of the party consist of @ few threadbare traditions, including nullifeation, ‘bat Me Diva g tatoy i 5 fash Hak novelties whlea Ne proposes to farce spon his victims. Paeeermana |_ For some reason or another, od Tom Watson seems unable to travel without coming Im contact with the Afro-An erican attendants upon the railway trains. Not long ago. he swatted a porter over in ‘Texat: and, more re- cently he, struck another in Georgia with bis gripauck. We know nothing about the right or wrong in the matter; but we do know this that the time is ‘past when such things could be done without any risk of unpleasant conse- quences. ‘There are thousands of Afro Americans in the South who will give tit for tat, if they die for it a moment afterwards: and ‘Tom may meet one ot that kind, {€ he Keeps up his foo! Golige: The faculty of the Oak Dale, Pa. High School are entitled to the thanks of all fair minded people for the stand they have taken in regard to Roy Wooten an Afro-American member of the graduating class. Wooten has taken honors and been named as vale- dietorian, and twelve white members of the class have refused to take part in the commencement exercises. ‘The faculty announces that they will take part or there will be no diplomas for ‘hem: Good? CRYSTAL WEDDING Editor and Mrs. J. Q. Adams Celebrate the 15th Anniv- ersary of their Wedding The Reception the Largest and Grandest Private Social Function Ever Witness- ed in the Northwest ‘The residence of Editor and Mrs. 4. Q. Adams, No, 527 St. Anthony Ave., Was, on last Monday evening, the seene of the largest and most brilliant pri. vate social function ever witnessed’ in St Paul (80 the guosts said who were there. ‘The occasion was the celebration of their “Crystal Wedding,” or fifteenth anniversary of thelr wedding’ day. A large number of Invitations had been extended to their friends and ac: quaintances in the Twin Citles and in fact all over the United States, ‘The home of the host and hostess is admirably arranged for ordinary so: clal affairs but on this occasion it wad taxed, to its utmost capuelty to accom: modate the throng of guests whieh fll. pd every room in it. The spacious Fooms had been divested of all. super: fluous furniture and were tastefully decorated for the occasion. On entering the hall the eyes frst met a wreath of smilax, hanging in the center of the archway to the front pa lor in which was a large monogram composed of the letters J, Q. A,, pink on one side and white on the other, {1 fact the color ‘scheme was pink and white throughout. In the front parlor pink and white carnations were found in vases on the mantel and in the second archway hung a frame of smilax extending clear across in which were the figures 1892. 1907 in pink and. white. Tn the back parlor there were large vases of pink and white carnations on the plano and pedestals, In the archway between the back parlor and library hung another smilax wreath surrounding the figures 15. Doors opened from both back parlor and library into the dining room, which Was specially decorated with a frieze of pink bunting looped up with white rosettes and streamers at Intervals of two feet. Extending from the chan: delier to the walls were fifteen curled ribbons, white and pink alternating. ‘The table wag set on a line running diagonally through the room; overhead was a dome chandelier the center shade of Which was: pink on the out: side and white! within, outside of the dome were two pink candle jets, which shed a brilliant light directly. upon the table in the center of which was a | & | ba Nica 3 large Renaissance lace centerpiece through the meshes of which the pink tint of a mat underneath could be seen, [Upon the centerpiece was a. mirror plateau "on which was''& large. cat Ziass vase, decorated with a pak sit ‘bon bow, and filled with pink and white roses, "At each corner of the tate was 4 lange pin ribvon bow the streams Ot which extended to the floor Dainty cut glass dishes filled. with salted nuts, olives, pickles, pink ‘and white reception waters and a few Ne Uret formed. of napkins and. ferns, completed the table decorations. “The napkine which were specially de signea by Baltor Adams were of white crepe naper with a narrow pinked bor der within which were Afteen ‘narrow Hines of pink, watte and gold alterna ing. The napkins ‘were folded. tn. the shape of a narrow angle and upon each twas printed tn gold the: design’ here vith shown ‘The guests began to arrive early ana were weleomed by the ladies’ reception Committee of fifteen ladies as follows Mrs, RC. Howard, Mrs. William {legins, Sirs, FD. Parker, Sirs, W. A Hilyard, ars, W. Francis, Mrs. 0. Be Howard. Mrs. William. R. Moree Nos. Minnie. Plummer. Mfrs, Jase? Gibbs, Drs. 8, J. Bellesen, Mrs. J. W. Milton, Mrs, 3, 1. Dillingham, Stes, ©. Me allen, Mira, Jo Loomis, MSW /R. Govltie, : | "The members of the committee wore pink: satin badges. bearing the same eaten shown ‘on the napkins, and pln nea: with large crystal headed pins. “There! was alao a sentlenien's recep: tion ‘committee’ of fitteen. as follows Me Ju R. White, Me, Co at Tibbs Mn Addista Davie, Me eG. algor Me. RD, Parker, Mr. TH Lyles, Mt i, B. Johnson, sir. W. H. Parker, Mr WA Hilyard, ale, J) Hi Dillingham MiO. Mo alten, ate HB. Howard Mr. J. H. Hickman, Mr. Richard And- erson, Mr. thos, R. Morgan. The menibers of the. gentlemen's conmittes ‘wore white. satin. badges vith the desten the same as the ladies but oinmed with pink headed pins Shortly after wine oflock Mrs, R. B Chapman, who ad presided. atthe pian when the host and hostess were trrlded In welloes fifteen years before Sain played the welding march while tho weadine party entered: the parlor {nthe following ‘order: Joba" and Hvthelle. newt Margarstang Adina. the children of the Host and hostess. Then fame the brige aad. groom—of ‘Ateen Sears Hetorecwnen the party” reached ihe conter of the parlor the children ‘Hanged themselves" on either alde.of ‘thelr parents and Mr. Adams proceed: fed -with the following ceremony: “Thee. Ella, with this ring I, wed—" So, Aiteen sears azo. {suid Behold another ting! Por what? ‘To wed thes o'er again? Why not? With that rst tine 1 married youth, Grace. beauty, innocence and truth; ete foment, enue ln revere a en appeared. it thou, by. mont since disclosed; Se Re et Oe es sappoeets I plead that double merit, now, Yo justify a double vow; Here, then, tonight, (with faith as sure With ardor as Intense, as pure, AS when, amidst the rites divine, I took thy troth and plighted mine.) To thee, sweet wife, m second ring, A token and a piedge 1 bring: With this ring I wed, “ti death us part, Thy riper virtues to my heart: ‘Those virtues which before untried, he wite has added to the bride:! ‘Those virtues whose progressive claim, Endearing wedlock’s very. name, My soul enjoys, my song approves, For conscience’s galke as well as love's And why?) ‘They show me every hour Honor’s high thoneht, affections power Diseretion’s deed, sound judgment’s sentence, : And teach me all things—but_repen: tance. Mr. Adams then Kissed his wife and turning to the guests sald: “Now, to you, dear friends who' have come to assist’ us in celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of our wedding day, that memorable day, fifteen years ago. which, be it remembered, was alsa the anniversary of my birthday, upon which, God, the giver of all good and perfect gifts, gave to me the most nresious and valued birthday. present of my Iife, inthe person of the hand: some specimen of His last and best gift to man, who now stands by my side. Speaking for her, for myself and for the four ocular evidences of our en: Geavor to obey the divine injunction: “Be fruitful and multiply,” we weleome you to our home—you already have an abiding place in our hearts. If any evidence is necessary to prove that we are not lacking in friends, that our lives and our efforts to deserve the good will of our fellow men have not been in vain, your presence here in Such large numbers fully supplies it and our hearts are filled with joy and thankfulness. And we sincerely wish that all of us may live to celebrate ‘together our “silver wedding.” ten BGROGD 1892-1907 CRYSTAL WEDDING SYIX aa hence. Again we say, welcome, thrlee welcome to our home.” ‘The ring which was used, is an an- niversary gift from Mr. Adams to Mrs, Adams. and is what is known asa “regard” ring the initial letters of the stones it, contains spelling “Regard.” Mrs. Adams’ gown was composed ‘of the identical material which was in her wedding gown fifteen years be- fore altered to the prevailing mode ‘and to fit her more buxom figure of today. It is a handsome creme faille ‘silk with Ince wast and lace over dress. She wore several other por. ‘tons of her wedding costume. And it was the generally expressed opinion of many. of the guests present, who were also at the wedding, that she appearea even more charming in ap: pearance than when the beautiful costume first graced Mer slender fig: ure, Mr. Adams wore the identical fun dress suit in which he. was married and it—if not he—looked as well as ‘The gowns worn by the ladies pres: ent were dreems of the modiste’s art, {t seemed that each lady had vied with the others in endeavoring to look most charmire and seldom has such an array of beautiful women ang magni- ficent costumes graced such an occa- sion. ‘The gentlemen too ‘were regular ‘Beau Brumells and never looked bet- ter. ‘There were fully three hundred present during the evening, Immediately after the “ceremony” the guests began to repair to the dining room where Mesdames H..B. Howard and F. De Baptiste served while the members of the gentlemens committee sae thonsselees eenerally usefil sp well as ornamental. ‘The meni cor sisted of chicken salad fn pink and white cases, olives. finger rolls. cocoa, yenilla sce eream through whfch ink strawberry hearts were run; lady fingers. macearoons, egg kisses and rake scvares, iced In pink and white: Purch was served ad libitum during the entire evening by Misses Frances El- Nott and Belle Salters in the library. Music was furnished at intervals by Prof. W. A. Weir on the plano ana Prof. K. J. Hamilton on the mandolin, and others. Just after the “ceremony” Mrs, RC. Minoy sang, “For all Bter- nity.” and later Miss Hattie Loomis tendered, “A Dream.” As the magnt- ficent voices of these ladies are un- surpassed it ts needless to say this feature was enjoyed. Misses Bitdella Robinson and Gar- nett Smith had charge of receiving the presents’ which were displayed in the front room up stairs. ‘ ‘ ‘That Mr. and Mrs. Adams are held in high esteem no one can doubt, If the beautiful, magnificent, superb pre- sents they received in’ such large numbers is any indication. Here Is ‘the list It speaks for itself: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lyons, Wash- ington, D. C,, large cut glass carver fresh 0 Mr. and’ Mrs. J. R. White. green glass, gold band, frult bow! and dishes. Mr. H. G. Johnson, colonial water pitcher and tumblers, Mrs. T. E. Stumm, Boston, Mass, large cut glass berry bowl, Mr, J. J. Johnson, large press ent glass berry bowl, Mt P. N. Cardozo, press cut. celery Gish and set of sherbet glasses. Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Charleston, Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Charleston, Mr. and Mrs. 3. H. Charleston, Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Charleston, Mr." and Mrs, Geo, Ed: wards, set etched champagne glasses, Set of cut glass individual salts, ent glass knife rest. Mr. 0. 8, Sanders, antique blue bordered Dresden plate. ‘Mr. and Mrs Geo. Grissam, set etch: ‘ea tumblers, Mr. Arthur Winstead, press cut fruit stand. ‘Mrs. S."F. Duty. Winnipeg. Can.. cut glass knife rest, Mrs. 8. E. Penn, Jeffersonville, cut glass carver rest. Lit, Col. Allen Allensworth (Retired) Los “Angeles, Col., cut glass almond ash, Miss Lottie Adams, Fargo, N. D. six point star pattern, cut glass (Hawkes) Jelly atsh. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. R, Hickman, etched claret glasses, , Mr. Glifford’ A. Smith, gold band. press cut, berry bowl and dishes: Mr. and Mrs, Nathaniel Goins, cut glass cream and sugar, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Green, ent glass water pitcher. Mr. Henry Mosley, Minneapolis, set cut glass tumblers, ‘Miss Lizzle Churchill, Chicago, largé cut glass salad dish, MMr.and Mrs, Wm, H. Steward, Mv and Mrs. J. J. C. McKinley, Mr. anc Mrs, A. S. White, Mr, and Mrs Joseph 8. Cotter, Mr and Mrs. Joseph Robin son. Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Perry, Mr and Mrs. 8. W. Jordan, Dr, and Mrs F. G. Fowler, Dr. and Mrs. C. W, Hou ser, Miss Prima Fitsbutler, Mri, An nie C. Anderson, Miss Jeannette S Steward, Miss G. A. Nugent, Miss A E, Nugent, Louisville, Ky., large, hand. some, cut glass water “pitcher and set of tumblers. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bardeay, St Louis, Mo.. set cut glass tumblers. Mr. and Mrs. W. C, Bell, Chleago, ML, cut glass olive dish, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Pierre, Minne polis, handsome, press ent, celery stand. ‘Me, and? Mrs, W. A. Lawrence, cut alas olive dish. Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Martin, cut glas water carafe. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Thompson cut glass, compote. Mr. and Mrs. L, N. ‘Terrill, Mfr. and Mrs,"A. French, ‘Mr. and. Mrs, J. A Roper, Mr. and Mrs. 3. Pettit, Mr, and Mrs, J. H. Sherwood, Mtr. and. Mrs B. Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. N. Brown Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fare, Mr, and Mrs W. H. Reynolds, Mr. and. Mrs. Wm Mills, Mtr, and rs, J. W. Peyton, Mr and Mrs. Samuel Wright, Mr. and ‘Mrs 1, Green, atesdames. Delia Pettis Floience Henley, Ida Lindsay. Messrs Wm. French, and Monroe Rit, hand some, cut. glass water carafe, sot cut glass | tumblers and large silver’ band mirror slateau. Mr. and Mrs J. W. Hackerney, and Mrs. J.B. Turner, doz. etched cham pagne glasses. Mr. W. S, Butler, cut glass plekle dish ‘Mr. and Mrs. J. 1. Cloak, eut glass bon ton dish. Mr. and Mirs, John G. Jones, Chi cago, TI, pair cut glass knife rests, Mi. aud Mrs James MeClain, Mr. and Mrs, 8. C. Toble, Mrs. Sable’ Law. rence, doz. etched goblets. ‘Mr. and Mrs. John Jenkins, etched water pitcher and set tumblers, Mr. E,W. Crancum, cut glass salt and pepper eructs Mr, and. Mrs. M. Fort, cut glass (Monroe) rose vase. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gardner, cu glass bon bon dish, Mrs. “Emma Roed. Louisville, Ky. henidsome silver gold bowl berry spoon. Mr. and Mrs, George Hunton, -Mon: treal, Can., eut glass berry dish Mr. Cyrus Pleld Adams, Washington, D.C. $15.00. Mrs.” Wim. Watson, Louisville, Ky. cut glass olive dish Mr and Mrs. C.-M, ‘Mbbs, blown slass flower vase. Mr. and Mrs, Jon Joyce, Minne- polis, set blown glass champagne lasses. Mr. foseph Bisinger, large cut glass (ry) berry bowl Mr. and Mrs. A. H, Drake, Stiliwa ter, Minn., silver stand, three bottle caster, glass cruets, Mrs. C. A. Curl, Chicago, IIL, hand: some, cut glass rose jar Mrz Wm. Hyde, cut glass jelly stand, Mr. Milion Fogg. and Family, cui lass bon bon dish, Mr. Andrew Jackson, silver band water hottle Mr James Howard, cut glass bon bon dish. Mr Clarence Smith, cut glass salt and pepper eruets. Mrs. J. A. Glenn, “Minneapolis, Goubie Mandied, cut glass olive dish Mrs. Bila Smith and) Daughters, press ent water piteher. “Prof, and Mrs. K, J. Hamilton, cut slags almond dish Mr. and Mfrs. Chas. H. Walker and song, Earl ang Harry, tall, cut glass fruft salad stand. ‘ Mr, and Mrs. €. A. Mason. cut glass ‘mustard jar. ‘Mr. Edward G. Krahmer, cut glass ‘cream and sugar, : ‘Mrs and Mro, 0... Harper. Mre. Mary T. Grey. Mr. RB. Grey, Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Tarner, Mr. and Mrs. H. Sykes, Minneapolis, large eut glass, berry bowl. Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Hatener, Rev. and Mrs, H.'S. Graves, Mr. and_ Mrs, Joseph S. Strong, Mr. and Mrs, Jonas 3. Strong, Mr. and Mis. 1 Morgan, Mr. and. Mrs, J. 1. Johnson, Me and Mrs..G. B. Laszenborry. Mr, and atrs. C.F after, Me. and Mire. W. A. Jen. kins, Mr, aid Mrs. J. 8. Murphy, Ste and Mrs. 8. L. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B, Lowe, Mr and Ms. W. B, Elliot, ‘Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Brown, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mitehel, Me. and. Bee. Joseph ‘Adama, Mt and Mes... Dong, Mt and. Mis. 0.D.Clalbora, Mi and Mrs. B. L. White, Mr. and Mrs, 0. G. Hall, ht. find Mrs. 1. C. Brewin, Mf. and Mrs M.A. Lowery, Mr. and Mis... Tucobs, ‘Mr. and Mrs, F. D. Parker, Mr and Mis. P. J. Owens, Mr, and Mro,"B. J, William, Mr and. Mrs. HL. Vincent, Mr and Mra. Adam. Wit ams. Me. and Mrs, Gilbert Valley [Mrs, Rosh Ewing, Mrs. Mary. Robin: son, Miss Birdella Robinson, Mrs. Hat- ‘Ue Davenport, Mrs, Virgins Meintyre, Miss Maymie G. Williams, “Mr. and Mrs. We ‘Pamer, large handsome, Notched glass long stemmed ower vase, 24cinch footed, mirvor platen and eut lass handled’ silver punch ladle- [PM and Me. JH, Loomis, Afr: and Hyqrs. J.B, Johnaoa, Bie. ang” at, W- England, Af and Bis. R. E. Anderson, iM and’ Mrs, J./H. Hickman, Ms- and Mrs W. A. Hillyard, Targe, handsome, cut glass (Clario) Derry bowl | Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Kelly and | Miss Mayme Comis, ent glass water arate. Prof. W, A, Weir, handsome, cut slaiy water pitcher. Mra. Carrie Mills and. Mr, and Mes. Geo. H, Taveas, set colontal champagne lasses Mr and Mrs. A. N, MeDonald, cut |elass ower vase. | Mrs. liza Hill and atrs, Rosa pull Richardson, Chicago. il. large beau: {ital Venttlan true bow: Dr. 8. Stone, Loulerllie. Ks. glass candie stick with crystal fringed Mla Breed silver shade, Mr, and Mra, Wm. Bean, cut gloss bon on dish. Mr. and Mrs, Scott J. Mason, band: some ent glass oll eret ‘Winslow Furniture and Carget Co. large, ent glass. frult bow. Mr. and Mrs, E. 1, Johnson, Mr, and Mra. 3.'P. Anderson, Mr and MIS. H, B. Rogers, ‘Mr. and_ Mrs. B. F. Day, Mr and Mrs, BB. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Alston Sr., Mr. and Mrs, Win, Alston, Jr, large, colonial glass candle stick with red silk poppy shade Mr. K. W. Mackey, colonial, ‘cut lass claret piteher. Mr. and Mrs. March Salters, etched water pitcher. Mr. and Mffs. C. W. Serutehin, Be: midi, Minn. eut glass mustard Jar. Mr. and Sirs. FD. Parker and 30n, Frederick, doz. press cut sauce alshes, Mr. and Mrs. FA. Williams, hand some’ cut glass Deriy bow Mrs, Sallie C. Rogers, Kansas City, Mo, etched vinegar eruet. De. and Mrs. Robert §. Brown, Min neapotts, cut glass bon bon dish ev. and Mrt. J, G. Reid, Sioux City, trowa. Venetian, handled olive. bow Me and Mrs, B. Archer, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A, Vass, cut glass olive dish Messrs. B, B- Reid and J. R. Taylor leut glass, double ‘handled, quadrupte relish ish: Mr. B. 1, Robinson, silver handled, Veneiian bon bon basket Rev. and Mrs, .'H. Parrish, Louls ville, Ky. silver sugar alstribitor Mz ani Min @. W. Bel, set etched tombiers, ire'Sfowes A Johuson,- cut “glass olive dish, Rev. and Mrs. George H. Wado, Minneapolis, ‘pair press. cui Rnger howls. Mr. J. W. Thompson, Rochester. X Y., large, at slash bon bon dish Hon. Ralph W. ‘Tyler, Columbus, Onto, cut gate plekte dist fr. and Mrs, Felix C. Spillers, hand. some, ‘cut glass (Clark) salad’ bow! Mr. Harvey B. Bark, Minneapolls cut glass: Dont bon, dich: Mr. and rs, ‘Wesley Dorsey, hand some. press cuit punch bow, stand and Set of lasses. Hon. Nelson C. Crews, Kansas City jMo..sitver and Bohemian fruit basket {" Air. and Mrs, James “Roberts, Mr ‘and ‘Mn. Batiles, Mr, and Mrs. Vai ‘Hook, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cunningham, (Mr. and Mr, "Moss, Mr. and: Mrs |B. 4- Steward, Mtr. and Mrs, Geo, Bar nett, Mr. and’ Mis. W. R Moric, ate and"Mrs. H.C. Richardson, Mir. and Mrs. Jasper Gibbs, Mesdames, Preston. Mason, Plummer, Watson, Freeman, ‘Thompson, La Koree, Fails, Napier Neal, Misses J. Waters, ~-Aarshatl Johnson, 7. La Foree, C. Napier, ties srs. Wit, Moden. J. Allison, 4.’ Nea Minneapolis, large. handsonie, eu ee (Egginton) salad bowl and set Mr. and Mrs, James Barnett, Chi cago, Il, cut glass, pepper and salt. (Me. and’ Mrs. J. 'W. Harger, Stinne polis, cut glass olive dish Mr.‘and Mrs. G. H. Bvans, eut glass berry bowl, Mr. and Mrs, % A. Pope, Mrs. 8. C | Philips, Mrs. G. W. Day, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Watson, Minneapolis, cut glass, | (Clark) berry vow! Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bruce Yancey, Mioneapolis. cut glass mustard Jar |" Mfr 'and ‘stra, 8. D. Cuthbert, cut | glass olive dish Mr. EH. Lee, Chicago, 1, hand {Some painting (original) (MMe. A. W. Bragg, Centralia, Wash, jset sliver orange spoons and Set of silver salad forks | Mr. and Mra, George Duckett, eut jalass berry ‘dish, Me. and Mrs) W. ML Smith, ate Latayetts Mason and Miss. Isle. Ma: {fon, Minneapolis, “ext glass water "arate and wastes Me segac te keane ke 364 LABOR PAPERS in the United States and Canada— Reach a Wide Circle of Readers. One hundred and eighty-five month- ly and 179 weekly journals in the United States and Canada are devoted exclusively to the advocacy of trade unionism. ‘These 364 publications, which num- ber does not include socialist peri- odieals, reach a not inconsiderable portion of the laboring community and exercise an influence in it which is little suspected. There are in North America ap- proximately 2,500,000 working people organized into trades unions, and each of them receives the official or- xan of the craft to which he or she belongs, and usually one or two other labor papers. But the prestige of these journals exten@s beyond the enrolled mem- hership of established organizations. They number among their subseribers many sympathizers and non-mion workmen; they are placed onthe tables of reading rooms all over the country, and for every subseriber there are probably two readers. It is no exaggeration to say that they reach 5,000,000 readers, perhaps hatf as many more, STINGY FOLKS AT CHURCH. How a Preacher Rebuked Those Who ‘Contribsted ‘the Pansies. Dr. Munhali vecently closed a sue- cessful religious campaign in Empo- rht. A great many pennies had been put in the offering, and his attention was called to this. One night he held up a silver dollar and a copper penpy and gave a conversation held by the two coins. - “You poor little red cent, you: you don't amount to anything. I'd hate to be you,” said the big dollar. “I know I'm not very big," replied the cent, “but the children’ like me and fcan buy 9 good many things.” “Hub! you can't buy anything at all,” said ‘the dollar. “ust look at me; .big and bright and shiny. [ean buy a whole lot more than you ean.” “May be so." suid the little red cent meekly, “but T go tg church a heap oftener than you do inyway.” Laying a Ghost. (Un one occasion in Scotlind a guest arriving rather late at a couniry house was quartered in the haunted yoom. Althonzh professing to be a septic, like many others, his cour- age vanished with the light. Deter. mined, however, to protect himself as well as possiple, he placed a loaded vevolver under his pillow and awaited events. As the clock struck midnight he saw a fleshy hand at the end of the bed, and, steadying his nerye, he addressed the visitant thus: "4 you do not instantly remove your hand T shall fire without furjher warning.” He counted three and then dscharged the bullet. A howl of pain which aroused the household followed, and it was soon discovered that the successful marks: man had shot away two of his own feos. Wronisa: Wear: Rubles Bootes. While {t has always served is pur- pose as waterproof footwear, the wear. ing of the rubber boot has been con: fined largely to the masculine sex. A number of the young women of Mus: kogee, however, have discovered that Muskogee mud is real mud and that the shoe will not stand the continual quantity of earth and water which couis the streets of the elty during the winter or rainy season. Many of them appear on the sireet wearing neat lit tle rubber boots. ‘The dress of the kirl may he of the latest et, and. the hat of the latest siyle, but peeping from beneath the skirt is the rubber dot, plain and sensible. Where Man Is Gallant, In many foreign cities there is a marked absence of the gallantry that in thjs country habitually characterizes the attitude of men toward women Bleanor Gates, a young American writer, who has traveled widely in the Vnited States, says that deference to ward her sex decreases with the in creasing density of population. In sparsely settled regions of the West woman stands upon 2 plane tacitly stv perior. New York is the most ungat Jant city in the United States. Pn et 4 ttm AF ete in Bread. A new phase of the arto) norte, is practiced by Mlle. Susan Meyer in | Paris. The material employed by her is crumbs of bread colored with va- riows liquids. She has discovered a process of making the mass elastic znd almost unbreakable, A proof of her success is, the purehase by the state of one of her works represent- ing an apple tree in full bloom. It is on exhibition at the Luxembourg gal- lery. New Window Plant, A novel and aitraetive window plant may be developed from the common tomato, Planted in a pot, with a frame arranged to support the climb- inb vine, It causes much curlosity as a foliage plant, and when the small fruit it bears ripens in midwinter it is quite pretty and is seldom recog. nized for what It really ts. « ‘An Impossible Conversation. Eccentric-appearing Person—I have here, sir, $100,000 saved from carn ings, which T wish you would invest -for me in some good-paying stock. Banker—Yes, sir. And your name, sir, is—er—? Eecentrie-appearing Person—I_ am ‘Tennyson W. Wrightfellow, the poet. —Puek, Hie. Definitions. “Faith,” said Brother Williams, “is 4e faculty what kin turn de'song er a sawmill into de hallulla er de an els.” “An’ what is hope?” “Hope is de faculty. what keeps you jookin’ for somethin’ you never gits.” Had to Close. “The bakers didn't mind ét so much when their men went out on strike,” said the boarder who wants to be an endman, “but when their yeast quit working they had to close up shop.” se | 59° SHOE me [DEAL COMPOMT SHOE THE KNAPP SHADE ADJUSTERS W. J. WORK, SALES AGENT P.0.80x192 WHITE BEAR LARE, MINN. Have your old shades rehung by the new meth od, and by which you obtain better ventil- lation, control the amount ‘of light and secure privacy when desired. ORDERS LEFT AT THIS OFEICE WILL “RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION fd ee | a rah val | GOLDEX™ BEERS COAL AND WOOD FLOUR, FEED AND HAY Cc. W. STAEHLE. Everything at the right price, Rice, Carroll and Iglehart Sts The Gapital National Bank D wna, OF ST. PAUL. 4g, 5). | ~ IN THE MANHATTAN BUILDING, - + Corner Fifth and Robert Streets. | oR, - PAID IN CAPITAL $500,000.00 % ral SURPLUS - - - $50,000.00 fs DEPOSITS - - $3,500,000.00 SOLICITS YOUR BUSINESS WHETHER LARGE OR SMALL, ‘We pay Interest on Certificates of Deposit and in our Savings Department at the Rte of atin THREE PER CENT per annum. [ ar om OFFICERS: JOHN R.MITCHELL, “775 HARRY E. HALLENBECK, President, Cashier. WALTER ¥. MYERS, WILLARD B. CLOW, Vice President. Assistant Cashier. WILLIAM 8B. GEERY, EDWARD H. MILLER, ‘Vice President. __ Assistant Cashier, ARDEP gine sabi inic ms 1 Heuer aieahaerign oom or a 66 99 ‘BLATZ Milwaulee’s Most Exquisite Beer VAL. BLATZ BREWING CO. - 1316 Sixth Street South. _. WM. L. GOEBEL, Representative $1.20 AND A PROMISE 1S ALL..THAT 1S NECESSARY TO SECURE AN 4¢® | Edison Phonograph or @ EE hy) Victor Talking Machine ue: WRITE FOR PARTICULARS W. J. DYER & BRO. wcsrcrns1ST- PAUL, MINN. § FOR THE MAN WHO CARES STANLEY SHOE COMPANY © 422 Nicollet Ave. $< _ _____ LESSON IN POSTAL WAYS, Superiority of Foreign Service to That In America is Asserted. In New York it takes two hours to ‘send a special delivery etter from Harlem to Twenty-third street, In ‘Berlin, through the rohrpost, a letter can be sent a similar distance in two minutes, says Hardee Rolce in Apfie- ‘ton's. __ It would be advantageous to all peo- ple if the statesmen of the world, fore- going for a season their provincial boasting, would convene in interna- tional session and exchange ideas re- garding the world’s progress. I was impressed with this fact when I had occasion in Budapest to send a regis: tered letter. Instead of having to wait for a clerk to copy the superseription and hand me a reeetpt L had simply to show the letter properly stamped and then drop it in a mechanical contriv- anee, which immediately issued a re: ceipt card automatically dated and numbered. Tt makes the system of registering a letter in Hungary as simple as drop- ping a piece of mail in a letter box is in America. [I desired to test this Inno- vation and so I mailed a letter in Buda. Best addressed to myself in a hotel at ‘Munich. Twb hours later I took the ,tvain for the Bavarian capital axi the day after 1 arrived in’ the hote. I re- ceived word that there was a reg ‘er- [ed letter for me at the postotice, |The German system of postal mor 2y ‘orders fs far superior. It seems to me, ‘tothe American, You hand the money into a German postofiice, give the 2d- dress of the person to whom It is to hy sent and walk away with the receipt. That ends your responsibility. ‘The government carries the money to the house and even to the roum of the ad- emcees Much Used Wedding Present. A Providence girl, who has. been married about six months, had wed- @ing cards « short time ago from an ‘old school friend who had given her a wedding present, whieh; of course, ce manded one in return. Among hee wedding presents the Providence gir) had duplicates in. the shape of two silvér.card trays, and ina spirit of economy ‘she. decided to:give one of these to her friend. It was marked with her own initials, but_it would be only a matter of a few mintites to have then removed and the proper mono- gram cut. She took it to the jeweler and ex- plained what was to be done, He picked up the tray, looked at it closely and smiled, “Madame,” said he, “it will be im possible. Ihave already changed the initials on this same tray five thmes, and it has worn so thin tht T cannot do it again without cutting through the bottom.” Sivnen tAaGhine in Am@alesita: The greatest industry of Australia is sheep raising, mainly for the sake of the ‘woot, but qlso in part. of course, for the meat, Australia now ranks see: ‘ond among the great. sheop. faising countries, Argentina being first with $2,000.00 sheep, Austvalia, second wit 72,000,000 and Ieussia thid. with, 70. 000,000, Only a few “years ago Ans: tralia was firct, possessing no less than 106,260,000 head of sheep! ‘That was in 1891. Prolonged drouths were the cause of the destruction of many imiliions Ot Auatfallai: tues). But pes 1902 there has been an annual gain. Yet these sheep were not ludlgenons to Australia. “They were intvoduccd in 1797, being of the Spunfsh merino species, One Advantage of a Long Night. “The Lant of the Midnight Sun’ was a subject assigned to Judge Berry at a feast shortly before his last sick- hess. : “The Land of the Afidnight Sant“ exclaimed, “Ah, gentlemen, 1 find that a most pA TBUect In the land of the midnight shin, P've read, the days are six months lous, and 30 are the nights. Just think what a blessing that would be to some of us. Why, I ‘one of my ¢reditors ame to me and said: ‘Berry, | want you to pay up that $10 you owe me," it wouldy’t both- er nfe in the least. ‘My dear fellow,’ I would rerly, ‘come around duy after to Jnorrow and Til pay yony and then 1 j wouldn't hear any more of him fo eciveenien ier Ancient Instance. Moses was numbering the children of Israel, “What are you doing that for?” somebody asked him. “They wouldn't stand for a referen- dum," explained Moses, “and I had to turn it into a census.” Not even his worst enemies, howev- ‘er accused Moses of doing it for polit: al purposes The Deacon's indiscretion. | he deacon called in at the smithy [for the chain which the blacksmith jhad been welding together. Seeing the chain on the floor, the deacoh litt: jed it, and finding it red-hot, dropped Lit with-an explosive “H—I!" then, re- | covering himself, hasiily said, “I like | to have said.” An Example. “The whale that absorbed Jonah was really a model for men who are looking for a position under circum. ‘stances trying to thelr pride.” ‘s “How do yon make that out?” “He swallowed everything that was coming to him, but finally Janded his Jov.” ‘Grind Grad foc the Opinion: © “On what ground,” the allenist was asked, “do you declare the prisoner in sane” “On the simple ground of humanity,” replied the alienist, “for if he isn" érazy he’s up against {t.” (( AV A |modern | af : brewery AMET f ae a Se e fe eae a ae Seg hi 1 ~ BREWERY tin) tir mae QS . a7” mg and do make o LEAVY Case or draught. CALL FORIT | : Vg | Tsien re >) CLIFFORD A. SMITH i ac Fall and Winter Suits pi 2 “They Wil be Exclsive Frocs All Others in B ™ Siesta Qatty a: & No. 411 BRADLEY BUHLDING ; Mad sth st, between Wabasha and Cedar ets, pa gaa . Gh pc ee r SMe Sa es Md NN oe \ - ee no 5 EYE DEFECTS AND SYMPTOMS. Bye defects are few—symptoms many. ‘There can be but two defects in the human eye. i Theeye may be too long in whole. Then we have the Myopic eye.” : Or too short in whole—the Hyperopic eye. Combine the two in one eye and we have Astigmatism. Properly adjusted glasses will sorrect these defects, Medicines or waiting, nevec- Symptoms that spring from these two simple eye mal- ormations are manifold; such as eye and headaches, Indi- gestion, Dyspepsia, Nervous Debility, Chorea, Epilepsy and other ailments having their origin in lack of nerve force. We correct all Defects of the human eye that glasses will remedy. Charges reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. HARMS OGULO CURES SORE EYES 25¢ PER BOTTLE, BR. H. HARM & BRO. OPTICIANS, 33% ROBERT STREET, ST. PAUL, MINN. NO gr ssa "You too?’ \\ Re hao eae) 720295 On 77 fe nh _ strictly High Grade iz a) UL) ae AOU Ss a HART & MURPHY, rN Zz] RS Sa hie i Defective Page SULLETY WIRECTORY:, S¥. PAUL, \ MASONIC | Sa AX © nora an 2 i Se ee A — MosT WonsHIPrUL GRAND LoDce ages gg aes THE M.A. HANNA el for the Shippers, “Seatt”” High Grade Anthracite A Bituminous Coal [. Coal COMPANY 104% EAST FOURTH STREET ‘BOTH PHONES: ST. PAUL, MINN. | ie 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE ‘Trae Manns Desicns Corvricuts &c. dagen ceca, ESS oay Eom andi seas see Scientific fimerican, Abeeresteees tes Sere i oar martha # Sala bye inctnt — UM & to stemenfe Yok ee aprile iil oe