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THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT RECAUSE: 1-It aims to publish all the news possible. 2-It does so imperially, weeting no words. 3-His correspondents are also and energetic. VOL. 30. NO. 16. Indeterminate Sentence Measure Opens Prison Doors to Men Guilty of All Kinds of Crimes—Farmers Anxious to Employ Prisoners, as There Exists a Security of Labor. Hopkinsville, Ky.-Kentucky is facing the problem of caring for 422 convicts to be liberated at approximately the same time and for whom no provision has been made. The prospect is viewed with varying sensations in different parts of the state. In cities and towns there is alarm, but on the land and plantations, where help is scarce, and in fact, and in fact the liberated criminals will be made welcome for their labor. This condition is brought about by the new indeterminate sentence law which is now operative in Kentucky and which does away with the old law by which the jury trying a case fixed the term of years for which a person should be confined, in the same verdict declaring him guilty. As it is now, the jury merely passes upon a prisoner's guilt or innocence, and if he is found guilty his prison term is automatically fixed by the law covering the sentences, of which he is charged. These sentences, of which he is charged, a specified minimum number of years to a maximum. And it has been the rule heretofore for the prison board, with whom the power of parole rests. Photo by American Press Association. GOVERNOR M'CREARY OF KENTUCKY. to allow the prisoners their freedom largely upon the character of their crimes and their prison conduct. But in the John De Moss case, recently decided by the court of appeals, it is held that if a prisoner has completed his minimum sentence and shows a clear record in the prison he must receive a parole then. Another feature is that he must be able to show that he has some legitimate occupation waiting for him when he is set at liberty again. This parole of course does not free the prisoner absolutely. A string is held on him, and he will even all classify again he may be brought back and made to complete his original sentence. Naturally, the convicts are delighted. Of the 422 convicts to get their liberty 232 will go from the penitentiary at Frankfort and 190 from the Dyffyville prison. One of the requirements of which a prisoner must conform before he can be paroled, even under the new order, that he must have a job awaiting him, has caused the 422 prisoners who are to be released to cast about individuals of the poor. Among them are expert in certain lines, but the most of them are ordinary laborers, this being especially true of the negroes, who are in the majority. Right here is where the release of the prisoners promises to be a good thing for the state at large. For several years the question of farm labor has grown to be more and more a matter of serious nature. The negroes are on the public works, where they together in crowds. Often the farmers are sorely tried in their efforts to get labor at rush seasons and are forced to pay exorbitant prices. But the ordinary laborers among the convicts find the farms their best chance for getting the coveted job. The farmers are willing to take the risk, if it is, and they are offering to give them the land, and county the seventeen necropsies that due to return have all been thus guaranteed work. Other counties are doing the same thing, and probably the majority of this class of the convicts will find a home and freedom on the farms. Governor James B. McCreary has pointed out that, but the executive has nothing to do with the wholesale liberations. The court ruled that he is powerless to interfere in any way with the release of the prisoners TOE RINGS A NEW CRAZE. Paris.-Sandals, with bare feet and toe rings, are the latest fad in Paris. Jewelers are already busy making toe rings with set design, match the color of the sandals. The new fashion was started by Mile. Jeanne Prevost, the dainty actress who launched the trouser skirt. She made her debut in the crowded foyer of a theater during a dress rehearsal with her bare feet shot in pretty sandals. She were fastened around her shapey ankles by cross ribbons in the old Greek style. "Why should women cram their feet into narrow boots with footfeet's?" she said later. "It's delightful to have the feet quite free." OFFERS STUDENTS A CHANCE Government to Provide Outdoor Work For College Men. Washington.—The United States forestry service and geological survey are offering many positions to college men for vacation work. Health and endurance are the two biggest requirements for the positions, which will keep the collegians out of doors the greater part of the time. The students will have most of their expenses paid and at the same time draw good wages. The geological survey desires to employ a limited number of men during the summer months to assist geologists in their field work to serve as camp hands. Only those who are fit mentally and physically for rough outdoor work are eligible. The appointees are required to pay their traveling expenses to the field of operation, all other expenses incurred while under the supervision of the survey being met by the government. The forestry service offers a more limited form of employment. In addition to the permanent force, temporary assistants are employed during the summer months as fire guards or when other special work requires addition to the regular forest force. The forestry service is belected who are qualified by familiarity in the district in which the work is required. No examination is necessary, but guards may be called upon to perform work similar to that of a ranger. Now Want Probe of Living Cost In Washington. Washington.—The passage a short time ago of the Peters-La Follette bill limiting the hours of labor for women in the District of Columbia, exclusive of stenographers, to eight a day has by no means settled the woman labor problem in Washington. It has brought the problem into the field of open discussion, with a result that more people are talking about the problems of women workers in the capital than ever before. The center of the discussion is the District branch of the National Consumers' league, whose operations are directed by Miss Constance D. Lepp, Inasmuch as the activities of the Consumers' league here are typical of the kind of work which is being done by the same or other organizations throughout the country, the matter is really one of more than local interest. The Consumers' league has laid out a definite program of action. Having passed the eight hour law, it is now asking the senate to appropriate $6,000 for a study of the cost of living in the District of Columbia to be made by the federal bureau of labor statistics. It is being issued officially the statistics of living—and in favorable report on the resolution in that issue, that the chances are in favor of the inquiry's being ordered—the Consumers' league will next press for a minimum wage law. MUSIC TO CURE INSANITY. Instead of Listening Only, -Patients Are to Be the Musicians. Kankakee, ill.-Music as a cure for insanity is to have a more extended test in the Eastern Illinois State Hospital For the Insane than has ever before been attempted in the institutions of the state. The plan is an advance on previous music cures in which the patients were merely listeners. It is intended that the patients shall be the musicicians. Instruction and coaching in music will be given, and patients who are capable of it will be encouraged to undertake the teaching of less advanced students. Women Buy For Farm Colony. Richton. Miss.-Mrs. L. A. Johnson of Chicago, representing the Chicago Business Women's Commerce association, has visited Richton to inspect the presence of less and which have been bought by business women of Chicago. The land was acquired by those men for farm sites, and it now just two miles west of Richton. It is the association's intention to colonize this land with young women, who are to develop and farm it under the direction of an expert. They intend building a model dormitory and dairy farm. THE APPEAL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. DESERTED IN '61, SHE SUES. For Thirty Years She Lived Near Husband, Unaware of His Existence. San Francisco, -Contending that she was legally married to Hiram Hughson in 1860 and had thought him dead since 1861, Mrs. F. H. Brigham has filed suit in Modesto, Cal., for the widow's share of the $600,000 estate left by Hughson, who died intestate three years ago. Mrs. Brigham alleges that a year after their marriage in Norwich, N. Y., fifty-three years ago Hughson left his home, saying he was going to seek his fortune in California and promising to send for her later. But she never heard from him again. Thinking him dead, she married Brigham and moved to Ventura, Cal., in 1880, and for more than thirty years she lived half a day's ride from Hughson's home without knowing it. The truth was revealed by accident recently to a man whose father knew of her marriage to Hughson in New York, and the presentation of the claim followed. Hughson prospered as a rancher after coming to California. In 1864 he married Luella R. Avery, a schoolteacher in Stockton. The second Mrs. Hughson, with whom he had ten children, took charge of the estate upon her husband's death. BILLY SUNDAY, SUICIDE CURE Has Checked Despondency at U. of P., Provest Smith Says. Philadelphia.—The hope that a religious revival would tend to prevent suicides by students is said by Provest Edgar F. Smith to be among his reasons for inviting Billy Sunday to hold meetings at the University of Pennsylvania. Since the number of suicides in the university began to be a subject of public comment Provest Smith has felt that a religious awakening would be the best deterrent. His believed that Sunday was sincere and that his method of mixing religion with athletics in the language of his discourses might excite the students' interest. The results of Sunday's abstinence evangelism exceed what Provest Smith had hoped for. Much furher has been shown by the students at meetings, and Bible classes are being organized in all departments of the institution. The fraternities, among them Provest Smith's own fraternity, are inaugurating classes for the study of the Scripture. For all this Provest Smith gives a good share of credit to Billy Sunday. Will Study Labor Conditions by Actual Experience. Springfield, Ill.—In order to study labor conditions in cotton mills of the east and south Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara and Mrs. O'Hara will move to two months or more at the looms by the side of the common laborer. The lieutenant governor's identity will not be known. "I'm going to get the best job in a New England factory that I can get," the young lieutenant governor said, "and so is my wife, because we want to find out what our respective economic values are in the eyes of a mill owner. I know my economic value both as a lawyer and as a reporter, but I want to find out what the New England values me at." When this question has been answered for the lieutenant governor and Mrs. O'Hara they will go to a factory town in the south and get the best day laboring jobs they can corral. And after answering the morning whistle call for two weeks or so in the south Mr. and Mrs. O'Hara will return to Illinois, where the lieutenant governor during four months of campaigning for the United States senatorship will use his practical knowledge of factory conditions during his campaign. "The work of the Illinois vice commission, in which we were personally interested," he said, "showed that thousands of girls in Chicago alone received $15 million in employer funds to testify that they paid their girls less than the girls can possibly live on. "I am largely basing my campaign for senator from my state on what I think to be about the most important question before the country, the necessity for a federal minimum wage law. Therefore, now that our legislature is in session, I am taking the present time to learn about factory conditions at first hand. I hope in this way to make my arguments for a federal law much more graphic. "The necessity for the law is a national one, and therefore Illinois cannot settle the problem all by itself. Because the question is national is the reason why we are going to work in the east and south instead of looking into conditions merely in my own state." Says Sun Will Run Milla. London—Sun power will replace coal as the source of industrial energy and heat. So predicted A. S. E. Ackermann to the Society of Engineers. When Europe's mills would close for lack of coal her manufacturers will find in upper Egypt a motive power many times greater than that now employed in them. Egypt's sun pours down 4,440 horsepower per acre. Revenue Cutter Service Likewise May Be Forced to Eliminate Liquor on Vessels—Possible Modifications In Sweeping Navy Changes Before They Become Effective July 1. Washington—William C. Gorgas, the new surgeon general of the army, on his return from South Africa expressed his approval of the order issued by Secretary Daniels forbidding the use of liquor aboard naval vessels and in all navy yards and all naval stations. Many army officers expressed the opinion that this forestshadows an official order making the army as "dry" as the navy will be when Daniels' new regulation goes into effect on July 1. Moreover, rumors are in circulation that William G. McAdoo, secretary of by American Press Association. SURGEON GENERAL W. C. GORGAS, U. S. A. the treasury, will apply a similar rule to the officers of the revenue cutter service. It is certain that President Wilson will do nothing to stem the tide of prohibition, the chief executive having indicated his position clearly when he asserted it is a departmental question in which he is not concerned. The president said that Secretary Daniels had not consulted him about the prohibition order, but that it was not necessary for him to do so. Gorgas, who has been in South Africa, installing in the diamond mines sanitary methods similar to those in the Panama canal zone, expressed great interest in the new move made by Secretary Daniels. The officers in both branches of the service would be better off if they never touched liger. Secretary Daniels let remarks drop indicating that modifications in the order are likely to be made before it goes into effect July 1. "There is plenty of time between now and July," said the secretary, "to make any modifications that may seem necessary. But the order will remain absolute to the extent of prohibiting wine messes or the use of intoxicating liquors in officers' quarters, clubs or other kinds of organizations on shipboard." "I am convinced not only from what I have seen, but from the examination of cases that come before me daily, that many a young officer fresh from the Naval academy learns to touch the first drop in these wine messes, and not infrequently this leads to his dismissal from the service." BONUS FOR EACH BABY. "Taxless Town" to Reward Stork on Every Visit. Harrisville, W. Va.-With surplus funds rapidly accumulating, this town of 800 inhabitants, famous as the "taxless town," is becoming so rich through its ownership of gas and oil properties that the mayor, backed by council, has decided to offer a sugm as a bonus for every baby born here. The mayor says that "it is the desire of the population" for future generations may paratech in efforts of the prosperous municipality in the city. Harrisville is unique among cities of the world in that it levies no property taxes. This comes about because the town owns its own natural gas plant, wells, lines and equipment. The plant is rented to the highest bidder and, with other dividends derived from the lease of property on which are located many producing oil wells, the municipality is "relling in money." To Keep Care Sanitary. Washington.-The senate passed the house bill directing the interstate commerce commission and the secretary of the treasury to promulgate regulations for keeping in sanitary condition all interstate passenger cars. Alienist Tells of Peculiar Cases Among Women. Baltimore — Emphasizing what be terms the mistaken impression that exists among physicians and the general public concerning the treatment of "borderland," "acute" or "chronic" stages of insanity, Dr. D. K. Henderson believes that the only way to treat such patients is to have them legally committed to an institution by two physicians. Dr. Henderson cites cases where patients have defeated scientific treatment at the clinic by refusing to cooperate with the doctors. Out of the 238 cases recorded as having been treated at the hospital between May 1 and Dec. 31, 1913, there have been patients from all walks of life. Dr. Henderson tells of one patient, a married woman, thirty old, who was obsessed with the idea that she could not breathe enough air. She tried to greedy of her complaints to the other patients. At times she would take a long, deep breath and sigh. "When I breathe it does not seem to satisfy me." She refused to eat anything but cracked ice and milk. She refused to co-operate with the treatment and was discharged. VISION·MAKES HIM CONFESS Son of Wealthy Family Tells of Having Forged Father's Name. Denver.—A vision of his dead mother, who pointed an accusing finger at him in his dreams, was responsible for Philip F. Perna, eighteen years old, surrendering himself to the Denver police and confessing to the forgery of his father's name on a check for $400. Perna chins to be the son of a real building contractor. He entered police headquarters and asked to be locked up. He says he forged the check last September, and his conscience has troubled him since the deed throughout his six months' flight. Perna says his father's name is Joseph Perna and that the family home is in Philadelphia. He estimates his father's income to $500,000. "I went to bed!" Perna said, "and my mother seemed to stand over me. She didn't say anything. She just pointed her finger at me, and her face bore a look of unspeakable contempt. I jumped up and screamed and covered my eyes with my hands. "Finally I ran out of doors and walked me. I knew the vision would make us less I cleared myself in her eyes. So I decided 'give my self-up.'" Display Keen Ability In Operations In Oklahoma. Hingling, Okla. — Women have become among the most adept operators in Oklahoma oil lands. In the older fields in the southwest many women have become rich—even millionaires—because of owning real estate that happened to be located within the territory where oil was found. This is true in particular as regards women of Indian blood, for it is nothing uncommon to find women among the Cherokee, Okeechobee and Creek tribes who have acquired land from this source, but for women to become operators and to play the game for themselves is now being done here for the first time. In this field the same as in the other Oklahoma fields, there are also woman land owners who are fast acquiring wealth, and among these are women of Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian blood who took their land allotments in this locality in 1904, when congress decided to divide the Indian lands per capita. Oil leases here in the proved field are selling as high as $1,000 an acre, while in the outlying, unproved territory high prices are given to secure oil and gas rights, and in adjoining land owner an eighth royalty and other minerals may be found on the land. The woman operator in this field started soon after the first well was brought in, about seven months ago. She was Miss Willa Richards of Waukia, at the present time of deeds for Jefferson county, the first woman in Oklahoma to hold that office. WHEN DYING GETS SIGHT. For an Hour Preceding Death Can See His Relatives. Willows, Cal.-Before death took him from his family W. D. W. Martin, eighty-six years of age, after years of blindness had the satisfaction of seeing for an hour the faces of his loved ones and of taking a farewell look at earth. The aged man had been blind and helpless to yeasts and for a few weeks prayed earnestly that sight should be restored to him for once before be died. His prayer was answered, as for an hour he could see and recognize those around his bed. Then he became blind again. He had no disease, but was simply wearing out with the infirmities of advanced years. No Work for Police Chief Hollister, Mo.-The chief of police of this place has quit his job, also the town, because it is so peaceable. He has made only one arrest in a year, and then the prisoner was discharged. THE APPEAL DAILY GAINS BECAUSE 4-It is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans 5-It is not controlled by any ring or shige. 6-It does not support but the people. RABBIT SKINS BY MAIL. Sent by Parcel Post from Washington State to Paris. Tacoma, Wash.—From Chewelah, in Stevens county, this state, 80,000 rabbit skins have just been sent by parcel post to Paris for manufacture into fur hats. The shipments were made by men who rounded up many rabbits and paid ranchers for those in need. Ranchers hope that a market will be found for millions of jack rabbits, now regarded as pests throughout eastern Washington and Oregon. Each package of pelts for Paris required a blank customs invoice on a linen tag specially provided by the postoffice. Surrounding counties and adjacent states including Chewelah with letters of Inquiry regarding the rabbit market. The department of agriculture is seeking information to assist in extending the market. TWENTY DOGS TO EACH BABY Legislator Shocked by Conditions in Boston's Back Bay. Boston.-That the Back Bay has twenty dogs to every infant, a full score of kennels to each perambulator, was the assertion made by Representative John L. Donovan, the "Mayer of Chinatown," in opposing the bill authorizing cities and towns to provide for the care and disposal of homeless dogs and cats. "There are more cats and dogs than there are children and I am not surprised if the Back Bay has become alarmed over its unfortunate. I say let the Back Bay take care of its cats and dogs. I hope the bill will be killed." BLOOD FROZEN 40,000 YEARS Taxidermists Discover Liquid In Animal Found In Ice Block. Paris—the taxidermists at the Natural History museum are now preparing the body of a mammoth which lived 40,000 years ago and was recently found frozen in a Siberian ice block. The animal was so large that it had to be quartered before being brought to the Paris museum. The experts discovered in a vein a few drops of brownish substance which proved on analysis to be blood which had remained liquid through 400 centuries. The carcass was in excellent condition, the hide being intact and the flesh showing no signs of decomposition. Offer, Made In Spirit of Levity, Accepted by Writer. Chesaning, Mich.-Blanche D. Ingalls, editor and part owner of the Cheasing Monitor, a weekly newspaper, has been appointed marshal to fill the vacancy caused by the dismissal of the man officer some weeks ago. She has formally accepted the appointment and says she will begin the work of improving the morals of the town at the old marshal was dismissed because the village officials had no money to pay for his services, and he was no sooner off the job than things upset the peace and dignity of this stalled little town began to happen. Miss Ingalls also began to write and in her paper said uncomplimentary things about the way things were being run. The whole place was "going to the bad because there was no one to maintain order." she often hides. But the officials remained firm until now and kept the marshal job open until a special meeting of the council was called and the president named a man for the place. The other members declined to confirm the appointment and Miss Ingalls' name was suggested. The vote for her was unanimous, partly; she says, "because they thought I wanted to run the town." At the outset Marshal Ingalls faces a knotty problem, as there is no jail "fit to house a human." "And, she says, 'I am never going to be in the office' place they call a jail. I don't know what I'm doing to do, but I'm going to do something. Things will begin to pop here pretty quick and I am going to be right in the center of the popper." LONDON HAS ESCALATORS. Thirty Thousand Ride on "New Toy" 'the First Day' London.-London has been given another new toy to play with. Escalators at Charing Cross Embankment station connecting the district and the Waterloo railways were opened, and it is estimated in the first three hours 10.000 passengers made trips on them. When the escalators ceased working in the early hours the total cargo for the day probably reached 30,000 passengers. Proposes $15,000,000 Air Fleet. Washington.-A $15,000,000 aeroplane fleet was proposed in a bill by Representative L'Engle of Florida. He painted a picture of cities being defended by bombs and compared the foreign air fleets with that of the United States, which he said, was composed of "twelve obsolete man killing aeroplanes." $2.40 PER YEAR. FORD'S RESERVE HAVEN OF BIRDS Feathered Tribe Fed and Protected on 3,000 Acre Tract. Known as Home to the Pets, Although Many of Them Spend the Winter In a Warmer Climate—Shruba Especially Planted to Produce Food and Places For Nests. Detroit. Mich.-Thomas A. Edison, John Burroughs and Henry Ford were taking a vacation together in Florida—just a loaf, they said, denying a report that they would make a study of bird life in the Everglades. Yet each is keenly interested in birds, and they found much of the enjoyment of their rest in bird study. These things up a fact not generally known that Mr. Ford has a bird farm in Michigan, where he finds great enjoyment and much relaxation. A recent visit shows the great things Mr. Ford has done and is doing for bird life in America. Ten miles west of Detroit lies a tract of land containing nearly 3,000 acres, which represents many individual farms purchased by Mr. Ford. On one of these farms Henry Ford was born fifty-two years ago, so he is familiar with his vast farm—the woodlands where he romped when a youngster and the swimming hole in the river Rouge, which flows through his lands. Being both a lover and student of wild animals and knowing their true value as crop保护师, Mr. Ford bird reserve—has built homes for them and is building more and encourages the feathered tribes to live with him. Many visitors to the Ford farm wonder if there really are more birds than are common to the surrounding country, in city parks, etc., but if an early morning observation were made near the feeding stations, in the swamp regions where weeds are abundant and along the river banks, it would reveal the feathered visitors that come for the suet on trees and for the grain placed for them in familiar places, which will easily convince one of the greater abundance and larger variety of birds than are common to such places where food is not supplied for them. Two years ago Mr. Ford, on a visit to England, took a great fancy to a pair of Irish larks and was told that the birds would be sent as a present to his Dearborn farm. Mr. Ford returned to his home and nearly forgot his Irish larks, but the promise of his English friend was kept. A cable message announced the departure of the larks, and about 500 other birds of various varieties. This was indeed a surprise to Mr. Ford, who at once arranged to have his secretary, E. G. Liebold, himself a bird fancier, meet the birds upon their arrival in New York. The English attendant experienced all the horrors of seasickness on his way over, and consequently his mammoth family of 500 did not receive the necessary attention they should, the reason being a loss of 20 per cent by death. For the last leg of the long journey a special car was chartered as the safest way to get the birds "home," where they finally arrived. The correct number of healthy birds and variety were 15 yellow hammers, 51 chaffinches, 63 greenfinches, 16 repats, 10 twits, 13 bulfinches, 23 blackbirds, 6 jays, 75 larks and 158 linnets, a total of 440 birds. For attracting and keeping the wild birds at least 5,000 shrubs of various kinds or have been set out. Five hundred or more are planting from an ordinary square design, and four room house, have been constructed. Food houses have been erected, which are daily supplied with hemp, millet seed, oatmeal, sunflower seed, etc., while suet is tacked to trees behind screens to prevent it being carried away by larger varieties. To a casual observer extensive work of this kind might seem unprofitable, but the mere fact that results have been obtained in itself is sufficient to repay any one at all interested in so important a question. HAVE YOU READ THE APPEAL? National Afro-American Newspaper J. Q. ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER 49 E. 4th Street, St. Paul, Minn. ST. 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Good wishes are wanted everywhere. Write for terms. Written free in every letter that you write us never to give your full name and address state. Business letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from the letter. Entered as second class matter June 6, 1885 at the postoffice at St Paul Street, under act of Congress, March 3 1871. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1914. THE CLARK ANTI-MARRIAGE BILL THE CLARK ANTI-MARRIAGE BILL The Clark Bill prohibiting inter-marriage of the races in the District of Columbia, recently reported favorably by the District Committee of the House, and making the marriage of Afro-Americans and Caucasians a "crime" is one of the most infamous measures ever offered in Congress. It strikes at the very foundation of Christianity for among Christians of every creed, marriage is regarded as a divine institution. There is no reason for such legislation. Caucasians usually marry Caucasians and Afro-Americans usually marry Afro-Americans. The number who marry interracially is wholly negligible. The real purpose of the Bill is to place a stigma upon the Afro-American people. The Clark Bill is really an open invitation to immorality and leaves the Afro-American woman without protection and an easy prey to vicious men of the white race. If there is to be any mixing of the races it ought to be done legitimately in Christian marriage and not in an immoral manner. It is not the proper function of the Government to draw lines of invidious distinction between its various classes of citizens and place on the statute books a law which in effect brands one group of citizens as unfit, classing it with imbeciles, idolts, defectives, degenerates and criminals. And then there is another point of view. The mixing which has already taken place has not resulted in degenerate specimens of manhood. The first blood spilled in the Revolutionary War was that of a mixed-blood —Crispus Attucks. Frederick Douglass, one of America's greatest orators, a patriot and a statesman was of mixed-blood. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, the great literate and sociologist, is a mixed-blood. Dr. Booker T. Washington, the great industrial educator, is a mixed-blood. H. Y. Tanner, the great artist whose pictures have been purchased by the French Government and now hang in the Louvre, is a mixed- $x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}=1$ PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust; the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our last disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust; the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our last disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. blood. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, one of the world's greatest surgeons and who was the first man surgeon in all the world to operate successfully on the human heart, is a mixed-blood. THE APPEAL could name thousands of other mixed-bloods of whom America may well be proud. Every Afro-American in the United States ought to do every thing in his power to prevent the passage of the Clark Bill and all other jim-crow legislation. Write to your Congressman and ask him to vote against and work against every jim-crow Bill now in Congress. WHEN IS MIXED BLOOD INDIAN? Many perplexing questions have propounded to government experts, but they are all mere incidents to the puzzle now before the Supreme Court of the United States. It is: "When is a mixed-blood Indian?" It is the contention of the government that the term mixed-blood can be applied only to those Indians who possess a quantity of white blood amounting to one-half or more. This question arises over the term "mixed-blood" Indians, as employed in the Clapp amendment to the Indian appropriation bill of 1906, removing restrictions as to sale, incumbrance and taxation of the allotments. The circuit court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that every Indian who had an admixture of other than Indian blood, however small, is a mixed-blood. In the three cases decided it was stipulated that one of the Indians had one-eighth white blood, another one-sixteenth, and the other one-thirty-second, so the court dismissed the cases. The Department of Justice then appealed the case to the Supreme Court. By the way, the question: What is a Negro? has never been decided by the Supreme Court and it would probably be as interesting as the Indian case. THE APPEAL2 has always contended that Negro is not a proper racial designation for Americans of African descent. To hear men who are not more than one-thirty-second Negro yell themselves hoarse about being "Negroes" presumably for the purpose of making themselves popular with black men has always seemed very ludicrous. Afro-American will cover all the various admixtures. "GROWTH OF IDEALISM." "Idealism is making rapid growth in America despite the commercialism of the age" is the opinion of Dr. J. S. Lyons, of Louisville, Ky., moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly of the United States. "Americans are beginning to look at things from a moral standpoint instead of a material one. America is the big brother of other nations." This is a specimen of the loud noise prominent men are handing out to the people. BUT IS IT TRUE? Take for instance, the growth of "idealism" in Louisville, the home of Dr. Lyons. There is no question about the increase of race prejudice since the editor lived there thirty years ago. Even ten years ago who would have dreamed that in 1914 there would be an agitation for the formation of a ghetto for Afro-American, but it is a fact. If there has been any growth of idealism in this country the Afro-American has been left out of the equation. The "idealism" of the great mass of the Caucasians seems to be: What can be done to retard the real progress of my brother of darker hue? How can we humiliate and degrade the race by discriminating laws? How can we prevent him from exercising the rights of a free man? How can we use the Christian religion to degrade the race? True idealism, true morality would abolish Kentucky's infamous color line laws, jimcrow cars and ghettoes. RACE PREJUDICE. I am convinced myself evil thing in this present justice; none at all. I the worst single thing and holds together more abomination than any other world. Through its body of coarse lust, suspicion and all the darkest soul. —H. G. V. I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than Race Prejudice; none at all. I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. Through its body runs the black blood of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecution and all the darkest poisons of the human soul. —H. G. Wells in N. Y. Independent. BUT IS IT TRUE? Ella Wheeler Wilcox. If the Caucasian Christians of Kentucky are doing anything to abolish the color line we have not heard of it. SPREAD OF MOHAMMEDANISM. Every true Christian should be glad to learn of the remarkable growth of Mohammedanism. Among the colored peoples of the world it is outstripping Christianity. This may seem a queer statement but it is true. Christianity is so decadent in America today that there are few real Christians except Afro-Americans. The souls of American Caucasians have been so warped by the infamous color prejudice rampant in this country that in the majority of cases they are not true followers of the Nazareme. Before the awful color line American Christianity stands paralyzed and dumb. There are today 5,000,000 more Moslems than Christians in the British empire. One-seventh of the whole human race is Mohammedan and the proportion is not at a standstill; it is increasing yearly. In Asia and Africa more natives are becoming Mohammedans every year than are turning to Christianity. Today nearly all of the sacred places named in the Bible are under Mohammedan rule. There is a reason why the colored races cling to the religion of Mohammed. It is a religion in which there is no color line. The brotherhood of man is not a mere figure of speech as it is in Christianity, but a living reality. The orientals are too shrewd to be caught in any large numbers by a jimcrow religion, for that is what it means when Caucasian Christianity gets them into its clutches. The conquest of Colored America for Mohammedanism has not yet begun, but it is coming some day, THE AP-PEAL believes and predicts and the brotherhood religion will spread like wildfire. JEFF DAVIS IN THE CAPITOL A statue of Jeff Davis, the arch traitor who tried to disrupt the Union in order that human slavery should be preserved and extended, is soon to be added to the collection in Statuary Hall in the Capitol at Washington. The statue will be a contribution to the Nation from the state of Mississippi. The more or less grand old Commonwealth of Mississippi has contributed the arch demagogue Vardaman who represents the state in the United States Senate, because its Afro-American citizens have been robbed of their votes. Mississippi has also contributed to the world the greatest number of lynchings which have taken place in any state in the Union. The unlawful and unjustifiable slaughter of Afro-Americans has made Mississippi a veritable shambles. Whither are we drifting? What is to be the end of a Nation which permits its citizens to be murdered by mobs; accepts as Senators men who openly boast in the Senate Chamber of the murder of their fellows; a Nation which attempts to degrade some of its citizenry by discriminatory laws and segregates the segregation of men and women who have won their places after severe tests and in spite of the prejudice against them? A statue of Jeff Davis in the Capitol at Washington! God preserve our Nation! Gov. Cruce of Oklahoma boasts of the fact that he married an Indian woman. That is all right according to his code, but his state has many "jim crow" laws which not only forbid the marriage of whites and Afro-Americans but ordain that the Afro-Americans shall be denied ordinary civil rights. It would be better if the Governor could boast that his state was a firm believer in the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule and put its precepts into practice. COL. ROOSEVELT'S OWN STORY OF EVENTFUL TRIP UP THE PARAGUAY Tells of Wonderful Birds and Most Ferocious Fish In the World. THE MEN WHO SET OUT WITH COLONEL ROOSEVELT. Colonel Roosevelt's party, before it divided for the trip down to the Amazon, included, besides himself and his son, Father Zahm, an old naval officer, and his brother, Cherie ornithologist, and Leo C. Miller, a mammalologist, representing the American Museum of Natural History, and thony Flain, artistic explorer; Frank Harper, Colonel Roosevelt's secretary; Jacob Sigg, who served three years as a nurse; and was qualified as a nurse and cook; Captain Amilcar de Magalhaes, an experienced explorer; Lieutenant Joao Lyre, Julio Barbosa and Joaquin de Mec Filho; Acides de Balsam, a biologist; Dr. Euzolio de Oliveira, a geologist, and Frederico Hoehne, a botanist, with two assistant taxi-dermists. From Colonel Roosevelt's (first) article describing his journey in the Brazilian business in Scribner's Magazines for the expedition, 184, by Charles Scribner's Son II. T is a veritable wonder journey that Theodore Roosevelt begins in the April number of Scribner's. Having been invited to deliver addresses in South America, he decided not to return in the conventional way, but to "come north through the middle of the continent into the valley of the Amazon," and then he wrote to Father Zahn, a priest who used to talk South America with him when he was pres SAFING ON THE AMAZON. dent, and, with the co-operation of the American Museum of Natural History and its naturalists, this piquancy varied party is now far on its journey, a dispatch recently announcing its discovery of an unknown river. Colonel Roosevelt calls his narrative "A Hunter Naturalist In the Brazilian Wilderness," and this first installment describes the journey "Up the Paraguay," made on a Paraguayan government gunboat, with many stops by the way. Readers who appreciate good writing will find here the very best of its kind—a real literary interpretation of this tropical landscape with its native native people, its gorgeous birds of plumage, its grotesque animals, its absolutely unknown in North America. It is with the sights of a boy for a new adventure and the trained eye of a naturalist that Colonel Roosevelt start's the reader on his romantic journey. The illustrations, by Kermit and other members of the party, follow the text exactly, so that what is described in text is also pictured. Colonel Roosevelt says, in part: Typical American Expedition "In its competition ours was a typical American expedition. Cherlie and Kermit and I were of the old Revolutionary stock. Cherlie being of Scotch-Irish and Huguenot descent, and we not only of Dutch, but of about every other strain of blood that there was on this side of the water during colonial times. Father Zahm's father was an Alasian immigrant, and his mother was partly of Irish and partly of old French. He was the niece of General Brudock. Miller's father came from Germany and his mother from France. Fiala's father and mother were both from Bohemia, being Czech, and his father had served four years in the civil war in the Union army. His Tennessee wife was of old Revolutionary stock. Harper was born in England and Sigg in Switzerland. "We were as varied in religious creed as ethnic origin. Father Zahm and Miller were both Episcopalians. Cherlie a Presbyterian, Fiala a Baptist, Sigg a Lutheran, while I belonged to the Dutch Reformed church. Describes Party's Guns. "For arms the naturalists took 10 bore shotguns, one of Cherie's having a rife barrel underneath. The firearms for the rest of the party were supplied by Kermit and myself, including my Springfield ride, Kermit's two Winchester, a 405 and 30-40, the Fox 12 gauge shotgun and another 16 gauge gun and a couple of revolvers. "We took from New York a couple of canvas canes, tents, mosquito bars, plenty of cheesecloth, including nets for the hats and both light cots and hammocks. Each equipped himself with a rifle, and consisted of knifes such as I wore in Africa, with a couple of United States army fannel shirts and a couple of silk shirts, one pair of hobnail shoes Paints Vivid Word Picture of His Observations In the Wilds of Brazil. with leggings and one pair of laceed leather boots coming nearly to the knees. Both the naturalists told me that it was well to have either the boots or leggings as a protection against snake bites, and I also had gauntlets because of the mosquitoles and sand files. "We intended where possible to live on what we could get from time to T. E. B. Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons. COLONEL ROOSEVELT AND COLONEL BONDON ABOARD THE NYOAC. Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons. COLONEL ROOSEVELT STRAMING UP THE PARAGUAY RIVER ON THE NYOAC. time in the country, but we took some United States army emergency rations and also ninety cans, each containing a day's provisions for six men, made up by Fiala. Brazilian Bird Songs. "In a strange land a man who cares for wild birds and wild beasts always sees and hears something that is new to him and interests him. In the dense tropical woods near Rio Janeiro he in ear late October–springtime near the southern tropic—the songs of many birds that I could not identify. But he is so beautiful music was from a bryo woodland, through somber coloured which lived near the ground in the thick timber, but sang high among the branches. "At a great distance we could hear the ringing, musical, bell-like note, long drawn and of piercing sweetness, which occurs at intervals in the song. At first I thought this was the song, but when it was possible to approach the singer I found that these far away birds were uttered the same a continuous song of great melody. I never listened to one that impressed me more. "In different places in Argentina I heard and saw the Argentine mockingbird, which is not very unlike our own, and is also a delightful and remarkable singer. But I never heard the wonderful white banded mockingbird, which is sald by Hudson, who knew well the birds of both South America and Europe, to be the song king of them all. "Most of the birds I thus noticed while hurriedly passing through the country were, of course, the conspicuous ones. The spurred lapwings, big-tailed owls, and many owls everywhere. They were very noisy and active and both inquisitive and daring, and they have a very curious dance custom. No man need look for them. They will look for him, and when they find him they will fairly tell the discovery to the universe. In the mouth of both birds, they saw flocks of scorlet headed blackbirds on the tops of the reeds. The females are as strikingly colored as the males, and their jet black bodies and brilliant red heads make it impossible for them to escape observation among their natural surroundings. Man Eating Fish. "We caught many fish. They belong to one of the most formidable genera of fish in the world, the piraya or cannibal fish, the fish that eats men when it can get the chance. Farther north there are species of small pirayas that go in schools. At this point on the Paraguay the piraya do not seem to go in regular schools, but they swarm in all the waters and attack a length of eighteen inches or so. The most ferocious fish in the world. "Even the most formidable fish, the sharks or the barracudas, usually attack things smaller than themselves. But the pirayas habitually attack Evidences of Christianity WANTED, A SAMARITAN. Prone in the road he lay. Wounded and sore bestead: Priests, Levites past that way, And turned aside the head. They were not hardened men In human service slack: His need was great: but then His face, you see, was black. From the New York Independent. Jewish Girl Outraged and Crucified By Russians. Berlin—One of the most revolting crimes in the dark history of Russia was reported here in a special dispatch from St. Petersburg, telling of three Russian youths having outraged and dragged the daughter of a poor Jewish fisherman in Stavapol, on the Volga. After outraging the young girl, the dispatch declares, the three youths dragged her to a cemetery, where they nailed her to a cross above one of the graves. Nalls were driven through her hands and feet and even through her eyes. The officers were arrested, but their friends in the town released them and they escaped, it is asserted. tments mum larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water; they mutilate swimmers—in every river town in Paraguay there are men who have been thus mutilated; they will rend and devour alive any wounded man or beast, for blood in the water excites them to madness. They will tear wounded wild fowl to pieces and bite off the tails of big fish as they grow exhausted when fighting after be booked. Miller, before I reached Assunción, had been badly bitten by an Objects of Evil Ferocity. "Those that we caught sometimes bit through the hooks or the double strands of copper wire that served as leaders and got away. Those that we hauled on deck lived for many minutes. "Most predatory fish are long and slim, like the alligator and pickerel, but the piraya is a short, deep body fish, with a blunt face and a heavily undershot or projecting lower jaw teeth that are wedge shaped like a shark's, and the jaw muscles possess great power. The rabid, furious snaps drive the teeth through flesh and bone. The head, with its short muzzle, staring ONE OF THE PALLS OF MADEIRA RIVER WHICH ROOSEVELT PARTY TRAVERSED. malignant eyes, and gaping, cruelly armed jaws, is the embodiment of evil ferocity, and the actions of the fish exactly match its looks. "I never witnessed an exhibition of such impotent, savage fury as was shown by the pirayas as they flapped on deck. When fresh from the water and thrown on the boards they uttered extravagant shrieks and theyapped on them bit with vicious eagerness at whatever presented itself." A Lack of Churches. Writing of the church as a civilizing power, Colonel Roosevelt says: "A very short experience of communities where there is no church ought to convince the most heterodox of the absolute need of a church. I earnestly wish there could be such an increase in the personnel and equipment of the Catholic church in South America as to permit the establishment of one good and earnest priest in every villa or little community in the far interior. Nor is there any inconsistency between this wish and the further wish that there could be a marked extension and development of the native Protestant churches, such as I saw emancipated here and there, Truguay, Truguay, and the Young Men's Christian associations. The bulk of these good people who prefer religion will continue to be Catholics, but the spiritual needs of a more or less considerable minority will best be met by the establishment of Protestant churches or in places even of a Postnist church or ethical culture society. "Not only is the establishment of such churches a good thing for the body politic as a whole, but a good thing for the Catholic church itself, for their presence is a constant spur to activity and clean and honorable conduct and a constant reflection on sloth and misuse." The government in each of these commonwealths is doing everything possible to further the cause of education, and the tendency is to treat education as peculiarly a function of government and to make it, where the government acts, nonsectarian, obliga- IN CHRISTIAN U. S. Afro-American Woman Lynched by Americans. Muskogee, Okla.—Lemuel Peace, a Caucasian, went into the colored section of the city Sunday night and mistreated Marie Scott, an Afro-American woman. To defend herself, she killed him. She was arrested and put into the Wagoner county jail for safe keeping. Tuesday she was taken out of the jail by a masked mob and hanged to a telephone pole. The mob got into the jail by strategy. The mob pulled the screaming woman from her cell, tied a rope about her neck and dragged her some distance through the streets before reaching the telephone pole. tory and tree—a cardinal doctrine or our own great democracy, to which we are committed by every principle of sound Americanism. But no democracy can afford to overlook the vital importance of the ethical and spiritual, the truly religious element in life." ALWAYS RIGHT TO, PROTEST. A number of colored newspaper met recently in Nashville, Tenn., and among other things decided not to protest against segregation "owing to the changing attitude of the Southern whites." The attitude is undoubtedly changing but it is for the worse. There were more lynchings in 1913 than in 1912; the unjust franchise laws are still in force; segregation in the government service is a matter of fact; ghettoes are being established in many Southern cities; the jimcrow car is still running; discriminating laws are being enacted by "our good friends" in the Southern legislatures. Thousands of wrongs are being done every day. THE APPEAL believes that the newspapermen have made a very serious mistake in this the greatest crisis since the civil war. We should always protest against wrong. It is not necessary to use violent or abusive language; a protest may be couched in courteous terms. The principal mission of the colored press is to aid in righting the wrongs of the race. If it fails to do this there is really no excuse for its existence. THE REPUBLIC'S SHAME. For the first time in the history of the United States, the machinery of the government of 90,000,000 people is being used to humilate and degrade 10,000,000 of its loyal and law-abiding citizens. In some of the departments of the Federal Government at Washington Afro-American employees have been segregated from their former associates and fellow workers and ordered to use separate retiring rooms. In some instances cages have been built to separate Afro-American and white government clerks. No other class is obliged to bear this badge of degradation. There is no warrant in law for these orders of subordinate officials. The facts have been brought to the attention of the Department heads and thousands of petitions, memorials and letters have been sent to President Wilson, but up to this writing he has not seen fit to rescind this infamous un-American policy. The clerks who have been humiliated by the segregation orders are in no sense wards of the government. They have won their places by examination and women and the government which they have so faithfully and efficiently served has no right to place upon them this badge of dishonor. It is not a question of social equality that chimera which so many Caucasians claim to fear, but of civil equality which is the right of every citizen. Heretofore the attempts to degrade the citizenry have been the work of individual states in the Southern tier; the Federal Government must be held responsible for this new attempt to establish that impossible thing, caste in a Republic. dent and we believe that he will carefully consider the many protests which have been made and give the word which a Christian Statesman should give, that during his administration there shall be no segregation or discrimination on account of race, among the servants of the government. Honest fair minded Americans feel that the fair fame of our country is being trapped in the dust; they hang in the head and shame. It is the Nation's shame. We hold President Wilson responsible because in the final analysis the officials are his and he has the power to end this injustice by a word. Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City. Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson, was the guest of W. R. Morris, Esq., during his visit to Minneapolis. Judge Johnson scored his usual success with his big Easter Ball, on Wednesday evening. He had a big crowd and a big time. Mr. J. E. Stewart had an accidental fall while in his bath room the other day and knocked out a few teeth, but he is still in the ring. The Cason Bro's Orchestra, T. E. Cason, manager, Earl C. Cason, assistant manager, is prepared to furnish music for all occasions at reasonable rates. Phone Hyland 3770. Residence 1210 Sixth ave. N. WHEN IN ST. PAUL, go to the St. Louis Kitchen, No. 138 E. Third street, upstairs, for your meals. Meals to order from: 7:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. m. Regular Sunday dinner from 1 to 3 p. m. 40 cts. All home cooking. Mrs. Julia Hinson, Prop. Tel. Cedar 6090. —Advertisement. THE BIG THING will be tie Sixth Annual Reception and Grand Easter Ball by the Minneapolis Knights of Pythias at National Guard Armory, Kenwood Parkway, Tuesday evening, April 14. The feature of the occasion is the address of Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson of Chicago. Do not at 7:00; reception at 9:00; Grand Marsh at 9:30; Taxi call at 2:00. Refreshments served. Admission 50 cents. The Young Men's Progressive Club held its annual election of officers last Thursday evening at the club rooms, 17 W. 29th street, with the following result: Carl Wade, president; Chas. T. Sexton, vice president; Stephen Springer, secretary; Clarence McCullough, treasurer; Messrs B. M. McDear, C. McCullough and R. Watson were reappointed trustees. The club will have its annual sermon preached at St. Peter A. M. E. Church, Sunday evening, April 26, by Rev E. G. Jackson. Program at 8:15 All welcome. The Minneapolis Knights of Pythias scored another success with their Sixth Annual Reception and Easter Ball at National Guard Armory, last Tuesday evening. There was the usual large crowd of handsomely gowned ladies, and the latest fad, colored wigs, was very strikingly in evidence. The program was short, consisting of a solo by Miss Mildred Shull and speeches by Brig. Gen. W. R. Morris and Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson of Chicago, who was the guest of honor of the occasion. He made a splendid address replete with eloquence, wit and wisdom that was punctured with much applause, and gave general satisfaction. One of the most notable social functions of the week was the banquet tendered to Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson by the Minneapolis Knights of Pythias at their Castle hall, on last Wednesday evening. The menu was superb and bountiful and the fluid accompaniments were the same. After the inner man had been satisfied the banquetters were called to order by toastmaster Gen. W. R. Morris who very felicitously introduced the guest of honor, Maj. Gen. Jackson, who made a splendid address. He specialized along the line of military training for our boys, both in and out of school. Also gave good advice on commercial advancement. He told a number of good stories and endeared himself with all by his soldierly bearing and general good nature. Other speaker were: Rev. E. G. Jackson and Rev. Edwards, who also made a good impression. Those who enjoyed this feast of reason and flow of soul were Gen. W. R. Morris, Cols. J. H. Hayes, K. W. Mitchell, M. Scott, P. H. Southall, Jas. Roberts, F. Thomas, H. Thompson, Glover Shull, Capt. S. G. West, Lieuts. G. E. Southall, W. D. Cratic, Sergts. R. C. Marshall, C. T. Lewis, C. C. Frank Terry, Revs. E. G. Jackson, —Edwards, W. S. Malone, Messrs. Wm. Moden, John Washington, J. tansberry, Collison, Bradley. J. collison, Collison, M. Shanahan, G. Stewart, H. Carter, W. Lattimore, I. Newton, J. Moss, R. Watson, D. Williams, L. F. Thompson, C. Brody, C. S. Smith and J. Q. Adams. During the evening excellent musical entertainment was furnished by Billy D. Black's Southland Serenaders. The occasion was highly enjoyed by all present. HARD TIME PARTY. By Young Men's Progressive Club, Monday Evening, April 27. The one chance during the year to have a good time at little expense will occur Monday evening, April 27. "Barrel legged" or "gun stock" britches, either one will do for the men. Ladies may dig up the long discarded hat and dress and once more put them to use. This idea was presented by the Y. M. P. A a year ago and the management discovered how much real satisfaction the occasion seemed to give everyone, so it has been decided to make it an annual affair. The club invites you to come out and see, be seen and enjoy yourself. The same grade of good punch with McCullough's Orchestra and a few stunts by the club members will add to your evening's enjoyment. Admission, 35 cents. Come early and get a whole benefit. Masonic Hall, cor. 5th ave. So. and 24th street, Monday evening, April 27. CARL WADE, Chairman Reception Committee GEO. JOHNSON. AUTUMN LEAF DANCING SCHOOL WILL GIVE ITS $5 ANNUAL PRIZE WALTZ SOIREE $5 —At— MASONIC HALL COR. 24TH AND 5TH AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS FED PEROXIDE TO HENS. Only One of the Flock of Thirty Now Survives. Rochester, N. Y - John B. Cramer and a fine flock of chickens which he was desirous of selling. He was told by a prospective purchaser who looked at some of the eggs that the eggs were not white enough for the market to which he was shipping. A friend of Mr. Cramer advised him that small doses of peroxide of hydrogen fed in water or mash would aid his hens to produce eggs of the proper degree of whiteness. Cramer made the experiment and thought the eggs were growing whiter, but not fast enough to suit him. He then increased the dose. His hens soon stopped laying eggs of any color, and one of them died. Now all that is left of his flock of thirty is one old rooster, which Mr. Cramer would like to give away to some worthy person. BIGGEST HYDROAEROPLANE. Makes First Trip=Designer May Try Atlantic Flight In 1915. Paris.—The biggest hydroeroplanet in the world has just made its first trip on the Seine. The boat is 8 meters 70 centimeters long by 2 meters 60 centimeters wide. It has two planes, each 27 meters long and 145 square meters surface. There are two motors of 200 horsepower. The machine carries two pilots, two mechanics and enough gasoline and oil for 1,600 kilometers. It weighs, thus loaded, nearly five tons. It was built by an engineer. Maurice Collierx, with the aid of M. Janson. M. Collierx has no intention of attempting a transatlantic flight this year, but in 1915 he hopes to try, with a flying boat of larger size—one twenty meters long—first a Mediterranean and then an Atlantic flight. PICKS POCKET WHILE KISSING. Italian Thief Employs Novel Ruse to Plunder American. Rome.-Dr. John Francis Hurie's pocket was picked in the Plaza Despagna the other day as he emerged from a bank where he had cashed a check for $150. In relating his experience to the police Dr. Hurie said that what surprised him was the way the thief accomplished his purpose. "He embraced me and tried to kiss me on both cheeks in the true Italian fashion," said the doctor. "I freed myself immediately and the man apologized courteously and apparently was sorry for the mistake. When he disappeared I discovered the loss of my wallet." EAT SALMON AND LOWER EXPENSES Bureau of Fisheries In Bulletin Tells of Advantages. Washington—The bureau of fisheries has issued a bulletin to show folks how to smite the high cost of living by eating less meat and more salmon. Statistics are presented to show that one can buy more bone, muscle, blood and brain building material for less money by purchasing salmon than by purchasing most forms of meat. One pound of canned red salmon, according to the bureau of fisheries, will cost, if of the best quality, about 16 cents. The same quantity of nutriment in the form of strictly fresh eggs would cost 36 cents; steak, 33 cents; mutton, 32 cents; chicken, $21\frac{1}{2}$ cents; smoked ham, $13\frac{1}{4}$ cents; pink salmon, $12\frac{1}{2}$ cents. The best grades of canned salmon. the bureau of fisheries finds, are richer than meat in body building materials and contain about the same amount of fats. Pink salmon, which is a cheaper grade, is better than meats for making flesh and bone, but has less fat. "Either is as digestible as the best sirloin steak, there is no waste and nothing has to be thrown away except the can," says the bureau. "To reduce the cost of living eat more salmon, especially of the cheaper grades, and less meat. Meets spool quickly in the home. Canned salmon will keep indefinitely if unopened." ASKS DIVORCE AND RECALL. Sheriff's Wife Seeks Liberty and Loss of Husband's Job. San Francisco.—In addition to having brought divorce proceedings against Frederick S. Eggers, sheriff of San Francisco county, his wife announced in a signed statement that she would circulate a petition for his recall from office. They have lived together thirty years. "This is not spite work," said Mrs. Eggers. "I simply do not believe that Sheriff Eggers is a fit man to be in a public office." In her statement Mrs. Eggers outlined testimony which she had given before the grand jury. Missing Father Found. Decatur, Ill.--Mont Schultz, who was said to have been drowned in the Sangamon seven years ago and who was recently discovered in Sharon. Pa. working under an assumed name, returned to Decatur to visit his family, which consists of his wife, one son eighteen years old and a girl seven years old. The family will be united again, but expects to move from Decatur. The Hair Manufacturer and Hair Dresser in St. Paul. Mrs. Millie Alexander the famous hair artist, well known in many states is now located at 499 Western avenue, St. Paul, manufacturers all kinds of hair goods, transformations, switches, puffs, etc. Will give four scalp treatments per month for $1.50 and one jar of her wonderful Hair Grower free. Office hours from 8:00 a.m. m. to 9:00 p. m. Phone Dale 4926. Hair dressing for weddings and parties a specialty. EVERY PATRON OF THE RECENT CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF EMANCIPATION OBLIGATED HIMSELF TO PAY $2, THE PRICE OF TWO TICKETS, WHETHER HE PERSONALLY ATTENDED THE CELEBRATION OR NOT. HE WAS ALSO UNDER THE OBLIGATION OF MAKING A REPORT IN REGARD TO THE 5 TICKETS WHICH WERE ENTRUSTED TO HIM, BEFORE OR ON THE NIGHT THE CELEBRATION. THERE IS A VIRGIN SERABLE NUMBER OF THE ATPRONS WHO HAVE FAILED TO FILL ONE OR THE OTHER OR BOTH OF THESE OBLIGATIONS UP TO THIS TIME. IT IS SINGERELY HOPED THAT THE PATRONS TO WHOM THIS REFERS WILL NO LONGER DELAY ABOUT MAKING REPORTS AND FULFILLING THESE MORAL OBLIGATIONS. THIS APLIES TO EVERY PATRON WHOSE NAME WAS ON THE LIST, THAT HAS NOT REPORTED. DO IT NOW. CITATION FOR EXAMINATION OF FINAL ACCOUNT. The State of Minnesota to All Whom it May Concern: Witness the Judge of said court this 1st day of April, A. D. 1914. E. W. BAZILLE. Judge of Probate. (Seal of Probate Court.) Attest: F. P. W. Gosewisch, Clerk of Probate. J. W. 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