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THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT RECAUSE: 1- it aims to publish all the news possible. 2- it does so impartially, weasting no words. 3- its correspondents are safe and energetic. VOL. 30. NO. 17. PLANNING TO SAVE NATION'S BABIES Expert Says We Do Not Know How to Raise Children. EXPECTS TO HELP 100,000. Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson Asserts That Schools and Colleges Teach Everything but the Mechanism of the Little Body—Congress of Mothers Starts Campaign. Philadelphia, Pa.—Mrs. Anna Steese Richardson, who has attained nation wide fame through the successful conducting of "better baby" contests throughout the country, expressed the opinion here that the women of this country are being trained to do everything except raise babies. "Girls in the high schools and in private schools may be taught to sew a little, to cook a little and may know something of biology, but when these same girls become mothers they only know that the baby they are so proud MIS. ANNA STEESE RICHARDSON, of is something sweet, cuddling and adorable," said Mrs. Richardson. "They know nothing whatever of the mechanism of the little body, how it should be fed, nor how it should be clothed. "This is not only true of the mother of the slums, but of that great army of mothers that belong to the middle class, who would give their very lives for their babies when they realize they are the victims of ignorance. "The great mistake of the baby saving campaigns in the larger cities is that they have been conducted for the poor mother. To interest the mother in the all around development of the child is one way to stem wastefulness, laziness and degeneracy." Mrs. McKenzie, who is chairman of the hygiene committee of the National Congress of Mothers, also said she would not think it possible for public school teachers to give instruction properly in sex hygiene. Plans were outlined whereby it is hoped to save at least 100,000 babies under the age of two years during the coming year through the co-operation of the National Congress of Mothers. This will take the form of better baby contests, under the auspices of the organization, and the distribution of pamphlets and bulletins. TO GET SCHRANK'S WEAPON. Roosevelt Will Receive Revolver With He Waa Wounded. Milwaukee--Theodore Roosevelt will come into possession of the revolver used by John Schrank in his attempt upon the ex-president's life in Milwaukee two years ago. Judge A. C. Backus of the municipal court has entrusted the weapon to E. E. Martin, one of the stenographers who accompanied Colonel Roosevelt at the time of the attack. Mr. Martin was shot and killed after the first bullet had been fired at the ex-president. He will take the weapon to Oyster Bay and present it to Mr. Roosevelt upon the latter's return from the South American trip. The revolver still contains the six shells placed in the chamber by Schrank. Only one was discharged. HOPE FOR JESSE POMEROY. After Thirty-eight Years He May Be Taken Out of Solitary Confinement. Boston.-Hope is dawning on the horizon of Jesse Pomeroy, boy murderer of other children, after thirty-eight years of solitary confinement. Pomeroy is not to be freed, but through the kindly interest of Frank L. Randall, who came from St. Cloud, Minn., last year to be commissioner of prisons, the most widely known of all American life prisoners probably will be taken out of solitary confinement soon and placed where he can have the companionship of his fellows. **Deaf Mute Wins Cambridge M. A. London.-Cambridge university has just conferred the degree of master of art on Armand Mackenzie, the first deaf and dumb man who ever won the master's hood in a British university. Mackenzie, who was born deaf and dumb, paid the university fees out of his scanty earnings. He married a deaf wife.** SPEAKING ABOUT HOGS. Ohio Editor Grows Earnest In His War on Cholera. Washington.--Representative White of Ohio is showing his friends in the house just how the hog cholera lobby is working here. Mr. White has a constituent in Ohio, an editor, who stands close to him in many ways. To this editor came A. P. Sandles, most ardent exponent of the projected law, with the plan that he "get George busy for the hog cholera bill." Here is a part of the letter which the congressman received from the editor: I had a sort of idea that the white plague was about the worst thing we had to contend with in this country, but no, a thousand times no! For frightful destructions of money the hog cholera loss of money the hog cholera has the white plague backed up in the corner yelling for ice water. I firmly believe this is the reason why I add my urgent insist that you fly to the section of the innocent hog instanter. If a few odd thousand children should die from this disease, they are bringing from 8% to 10% in Pitcher today, and the visible supply is limited. THESE CHICKENS ARE VAMPS. Survived a Fire and Wouldn't Leave Shells Till Bell Rang. Tarrytown, N. X. -Fire destroyed the North Tarrytown fire house. Water played on the blaze flooded the house of Charles Minnerly next door, and a box with a sitting hite and fifteen eggs floated around the cellar. The hen, however, stuck to the post while the fames crackled around her. When the eggs were due to hatch no chicks appeared. Minnerly spoke to some of his friends, and they told him they were fire chickens and if he wanted to hatch them he would have to sound an alarm of the bell. Then Minnerly went to the coop and rang an old dinner bell for fifteen hours to surprise the eggs began to open, and in the hour an every one of them hatched. The chicks would not stay with the mother as long as Minnerly rang the bell. He solved the problem by tying a small bell around the mother's neck. HEAVY SNOWS TO BRING BIG CROPS Washington.—For a number of years the country at large has not enjoyed such general snow as whitened the countryside during February and March of the present year. Also it has been the occasional catastrophe that one great heavy snow has fallen late in the season to be followed by a quick thaw and consequent floods. Now the soil sharps, seeing that conditions are more nearly ideal this season than for a number of springs, are encouraged to believe that 1914 is destined to be a year of bumper crops. Dr. J. A. Bonestee of the bureau of soils is quoted: "Since the snow blanket took its time in departing we will have a better crop start this year than for several years. To date conditions could be hardly more ideal. We had snow after snow—not too heavy, but persistent enough to keep the ground covered well and the tender shoots of the wheat in perfect condition. "This is particularly true of the eastern states generally, but at the same time conditions are far better in the middle west than is the general average. "In the corn belt, where there was a considerable depletion of the crop through too persistent drought last season, the snow will prove of incalculable benefit. The corn belt ought to have a splendid start. "Where snow remained a long time and there has been extensive opportunity for it to seep down into the earth, carrying its moisture from one to two feet, the soil is prepared to develop sturdy roots for the cereal crops. The plants therefore stand a better chance against possible deficiencies in the matter of rainfall during the period of their growth." WOMEN IN BUSINESS. Statistics Show That Many Females Are In Various Professions. Washington. — The extent to which women are leaving the home to enter the business world is shown by the following figures for the United States. There are: 239,077 stenographers. 327,635 teachers and professors. 481,159 in various trades. 770,055 engaged in agricultural pursuits 1,037 architects, designers and draftsmans. 1,010 lawyers. 429,497 women in various other professions. Man's Mind Ten Years Old. St. Paul, MN—According to allists who examined George Preston, twenty-four years old, charged with robbery, his mental age is from eight to ten years. He has the knowledge of a child of that age. THE APPEAL 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 sighs. 6-It does no support but the people's. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914. STARVING; HE HAD $10,050. Aged Man Accepts Charity and Loses His Wallet. New York.—James A. Farvin, assistant station master at the Pennsylvania station, has lost his faith in human nature. He helped a supposedly starving man and then found him possessed of thousands of dollars. The man was evidently exhausted and an alcoholic. "I've not had a pizza to eat in two days," he murmured. Having helped the old man to a seat, Mr. Farvin a porter away for hot coffee and sandwiches. The old man ate ravenously and wept as he told his story. The old man said his name was Uriah Lane and on foot he had dragged himself all the way from up state in an effort to reach his son, whom he had not since they parted at Sag Harbor after a dispute. The 4:15 train for Sag Harbor was nearly due. Deeply affected. Mr. Farvin tried to cheer the old man up, paid his fare, $3.04, to Sag Harbor and gave him the change from a five dollar bill. Just afterward Mr. Farvin caught sight of a wallet lying under the chair on which the aged man had sat. Opening it, he found the name Uriah Lane on the flap. Inside eight $1,000 bills and a wallet containing $100 and ten $bills - $10,050 in all. When Mr. Farvin overtook the old man he demanded to be repaid for the sum already advanced. After much argument the old man did so. WOULD MAKE SOLDIERS WORK Congressman Would Also P put Sailors at Manual Labor. Washington—Warren W. Bailley of Pennsylvania introduced in the house a bill directing the president to "put the officers and enlisted men of the army and navy to work." The president is directed to employ the officers and men in the construction of the Alaska railway, the reclamation of swamp land, construction of Mississippi river levees, river and harbor improvements, and is forbidden to hire manual labor outside of the services the supply from within them is exhausted. Mr. Bailey issued a statement in which he said: "If we must have a huge standing army and a big navy—and all the jigges agree that we must in the interests of the world's peace—then let's put them to work." MIDSHIPMEN WILL TAKE UP DEBATING Daniels' Suggestion to Be Carried Out by Captain Fullam. Annapolis, Md.-Captain William F. Fullam, superintendent of the navy academy, has taken up the suggestion of the secretary of the navy that the midshipmen of the first class engage in debates on current subjects to improve their acquaintance with the news of the day and to increase their ability to think and talk on their feet. He has had several consultations with members of the department of English and other instructors and officers and will endeavor to fit something along this line into the already rather crowded curriculum of the first class. The need for special training of the midshipman along the lines of writing and speaking on the topics of the day has been recognized, and much has been done to further it. The practice of having the first class men respond to toasts was started more than a year by captain Gibbons, then superintendent of writing. Success of an hour and a half or two hours is devoted to this every week, one midshipman acting as toastmaster, others responding to toasts or making extemporaneous remarks on each occasion. In this way each member of the graduating class has the opportunity of speaking several times during the year. Members of the English department are always present as critics. WHISTLE HYMNS IN CHURCH Boy Chorus of Fifty Helps to "Humanize" Service. Philadelphia.—A chorus of fifty boys, after considerable training with no small amount of patience, whistled the hymn tunes in the services of the Calvary Reformed church here. The girls carried the hymn with their soprano voices, and the effect is said to have been rather startling. Innovation in the movement for "humanizing" such services was the "all girl" service in the same church preceding whistling. Unjoints Shoulder Twelve Times. Philadelphia.—For the twelfth time within a year William Symonds, thirty years old, a driver, applied for treatment at a hospital suffering from a dislocated shoulder blade. Since the first injury the bone has dropped from its socket every time the victim gives his arm a slight wrench. Boasts He Is Tallest Man. Manhattan Town.—G. Tarver, twenty-eight years old, who is seven feet four inches tall and weight 307 pounds, claims he is the tallest man in the United States. He was born in Dallas, Tex. His father was not unusually tall, and none of his four brothers is quite six feet tall. Delivers Message From Governor to Violators of the Law and is Always Treated With Respect—Pays No Attention to Threats Against Her, and They Are Never Executed. Portland, Ore.—The cares of office, an exacting one, too, lie lightly on the shoulders of probably the only woman private secretary to a governor of any state in America. Miss Fern Hobbs has won fame and honor as the "right hand woman" of Governor Oswald West, Oregon's unusual Democratic executive. Witness her trip to the rough mining regions of the state, when she stood to the utmost height of her five feet three inches and read the governor's proclamation that ordered closed the saloons run by the accused Copperfield officials, and incidentally divested the same city officials of their authority. "I truly did feel rather timid when I read in a morning paper that I was to be sent to Copperfield, but it's part of my job, so I trotted right along." Outside of that Miss Hobbs refused to say any more about her trip—that is about the "frightening" part of it; asked as she inappropriately replied to questions: "Why should I afraid? I heard that the men were lawless element, but found many respectable people. When I arrived they were quiet, kind and considerate. "There was absolutely no noise to speak of while I read the governor's message. These men, who had vowed vengeance on Governor West and had made open brags that they would not heed my message, stood peacefully by Photo by American Press Association. GOVERNOR WEST OF OREGON. the track and listened to what I had to read. Some of them even shook hands with me, and a number of women carrying small children came to me with tears in their eyes and thanked me for coming to their town with law and order back of me. Yes, I will admit that I did dread it at first. What woman wouldn't? But when I got there I just got up and told them what I had come for—and it wasn't had at all." All the pleasing prominence that her recent appointment has given her has not "turned her head," as our grandmothers would say. She is just the same sweet, clever little girl who left Hilsboro. Ore, several years ago to accept a position as stenographer in the office of an attorney in Portland. Her father is J. A. Hobbs, who lives on a farm near Hilsboro, and her mother is—just her mother. She always studied, and she put her heart and soul into her work. When she went to Salem as a stenographer in the office of the governor she enrolled in the Williamette College of Law and was hired in the class of 1913. Several months ago, upon the resignation of Ralph Wetson, she promoted from his position as private secretary to the governor to that of corporation commissioner. Miss Hobbs was appointed to succeed him. She is the only woman in the world who holds a position. At Copperfield Miss Hobbs stood on the rickety little platform surrounded by an interested crowd of citizens, some in rags and most of them wearing great top boots and bandana handkerchiefs tied about their necks. Greeted by a silence that at times seemed almost omnious, the little woman, who would scarcely tie the scares at 110 pounds, fearlessly warned the city officials that the town must be cleaned up at once or action would be taken by the Oregon state militia. It is said that a number of threats were made among a few, but as a general ting the governor's representative was treated with the utmost respect. However, Miss Fern Hobbs, lawyer and teacher, implicitly trusted American chivalry—she was not disappointed. TO MARRY COUPLES FREE. One of the New Social Places of Twin One of the New Social Plans of Trinity Church in Chicago ity Church In Chicago. Chicago — Marriage ceremonies for which no fee will be accepted is one of the innovations which will be inaugurated at Trinity Episcopal church in case a fund of $10,000 a year can be raised to make possible the extension of the church's activities. "We wish to make historic Trinity something, like the Little Church Around the Corner in New York," declared Andrew R. Sheriff, chairman of the campaign committee. "It is proposed to have a clergyman in attendance at all hours of the day and night to offer a service in company baptism and marriage ceremonies and attend to the physical needs of the poor. An after midnight service on Sunday mornings for actors, newspaper people and those detained downtown late is also probable, while the social center work of the church will be greatly extended." At one time Trinity church had eightteen millionaires as members of its congregation, the wealthy members have moved away, making the task of maintaining the church a serious problem. "SABLES" OF RABBIT SKINS America | Sends Many Pelts to Paris Every Year. Spokane, Wash.—Local postoffice employees who loaded and unloaded four wagon loads of rabbit pelts congrised to Paris believe they have discovered the source of some of the "sable" furts of the world's fashion center. Elwol, superintendent of the railway mails, as assigned not long ago when the postmaster at Chewethwired him that sixty big mail pelts would be required to ship a consignment of rabbit skins to Paris. While Mr. Elwol considered the request a joke, he finally sent the pouches. Railway mail clerks declared that they had been receiving small shipments of the pelts for several weeks. The latest shipment is said to have been delivered to Openerhamel, a buyer. The parcel cost rules provide dried pelts may be sent through the mails. New York.—The spinner lives longer than the married woman. The business woman lives longer than the business man. The woman who takes out an endowment insurance policy lives longer than the woman who takes out a straight life policy. These facts—and Arthur Hunter, actuary of a leading company, said they were facts—were gathered last year by experts in the employ of the forty-leading companies in this country. Mr. Hunter didn't explain why the unmarried woman survives the matron nor why the business woman outlives the business man, but he revealed why the woman who takes onto herself an endowment policy lasts longer than the woman who has to die to win. "The endowment woman just gets up her spirit and determines to live until the policy matures," he said. "The other woman sighs, 'Oh, what's the use?' and shuffles off." Mr. Hunter said there were more fatal accidents in this country than elsewhere because of the American "I will take a chance" spirit. The American "I will save time and improve life." The everigner doesn't do that at home, but when he comes here he becomes infected. "The mortality rate among engineers and firemen is eight times that of men in other callings," he said, "and among policemen about 40 per cent higher. With policemen it is on the increase." Mr. Hunter said that the business woman kept herself going by a determination to fight it out. She had something tangible, something to live for. The business woman had to work as a matter of course and is apathetic. "JAG" CURE COSTS $10,000. Minnesota Experimental Farm, Saves Thirty-nine Patients in a Year. St. Paul—Minnesota's "jag farm" at Wilmar has succeeded in his mission, but it has been an expensive enterprise, according to the report. The cost of running the farm for a year was $88,520. Eighty-eight men were chlamed by treatment. Thirty-nine were said to have been cured. Thirteen have relapsed. Eleven are missing and thirteen are back for more treatment at $10,000 per cure. Feel of Cope Revives Him. Elwood City, Pa. — When Ed Williams, a negro, who was thought dead revived, stretched his arms and touched a nearby corpse he "came to life" suddenly. With a yell he sprang from a stretcher on which he had been placed and raced down the street with only a sheet as a covering. Police to Step All Swearing. Cleveland, O. — The police of this city have been ordered to halt all persons heard swearing and scold them. OFFICIALLY HE WAS A GIRL. Cambridge Boy Gets the Family Doc- tor to Fix the City's Books. Boston. After being registered for sixteen years as a girl in the city clerk's office at Cambridge, Frederick Melanson of that city forced the clerk to correct the official birth registration book. The boy wanted to go to work and applied for the necessary birth certificate. At city hall a clerk searched through the blues and said, "The only Melanson we have in that year is a girl born to J. A. and Berta Melanson." "That me," said Fred. "I can't take your word for it," said the clerk. -Frederick hustled to the office of the family physician, Dr. Lancaster, and brought him to the clerk's office. "I remember perfectly the day he was born," the doctor and took the required oath to this. The clerk's book now reads, "Frederick Melanson, boy, born April 20, 1888." GIRL WANDERS IN SLEEP. Kalamazoo Miss Awakens In the Streets of Battle Creek Battle Creek, Mich.-Walking in the streets of Battle Creek and asking a policeman where she was, Miss Myrtle Green of Kalamazoo, fourteen years old, was taken home by Captain Putnam and County Agent Thayer of her home city, ending a search that had been instituted by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Green. The theory is that the girl, in a somnambulistic state, boarded an interurban car at night and came as far as her money took her, to Urbandeau, which belonged to this city. The girl comes of a good family, and when last seen in Kalamazoo was on her way to church. She seemed dazed when found here, but recovered her senses later. SMOKERS' MINDS LOSE 10 PER CENT OF POWER SMOKERS' MINDS LOSE 10 PER CENT OF POWER Tests Show Cigarettes Worst of Nicotine Foes. New York.-Tobacco smoking causes a decrease of 10.5 per cent in mental efficiency, according to a series of experiments by Dr. A. D. Bush. There was a series of 120 tests on each of fifteen men in several different psychic fields. The subjects volunteering for the experiments all were medical students ranging in age from twentyeight to seventy-five years. The previous experience, from the farm laborer to the lifelong student, of divergent mental capacity, from the failure to the honor student and of differing habits as to tobacco addiction. The subjects were attendants at the University of Vermont, where Professor Bush is an instructor in physiology. Among his findings are: The greatest actual loss was in the field of imagery, 22 per cent. The three greatest losses were in the field of imagery, perception and association. The greatest loss in these experiments occurred with cigarettes. Nicotine was found in the distillates of all tobacco tested. Nicotine was not found in the smoke of any tobacco except that of cigarettes, and then only in traces. Pyridine was found in the smoke of all tobacco. Pyridine is one of the decomposition products of nicotine, the latter being almost twenty-two times as poisonous as pyridine, so far as its action on the human body is concerned. This was the first extensive investigation of the mental effect of smoking. The recent tests at Columbia university showed that we were chiefly for the physical effects on students in athletic training. HARVARD LEADS IN CONGRESS Has Forty Representatives There While Yale Has Only Ten. Cambridge, Mass.—Harvard university takes all the honors in representation in the Sixty-third congress, with Yale running a poor second and Princeton in third place. There are seventeen graduates of Harvard in the house of representatives, many of whom are from Massachusetts, and there are twenty-three Harvard alumni in the senate. The total Harvard representation is forty. Yale, which is runner up in the collegiate political competition, has a total of ten, with five alumni in the house and five in the senate. Princeton, with a graduate in the chief magistrate's chair, has two graduates in the house and two in the senate. MAY WAR ON CATS. Extermination Is Asked by a Game Protective Association. Tacoma. Wash.-The domestic cat is doomed if the recommendations adopted by the Pierce county branch of the Washington State Game Protective and Propagation association, at its annual meeting at the Tacoma hotel, is adopted by the Pierce county game commission. War on tabby was declared because she turned out to be an enemy of game and a destroyer of wild life. The association requests the commission to offer a small bounty for each domestic cat killed to further extermination. --- $2.40 PER YEAR. MENTAL TAINT BAR TO ALIENS CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS HIT. Two Physicians Will Examine Each Person Coming In at All United States Ports—Humanitarian Provision Prescribes Treatment For Foreigners Who Are Ill. Washington—The immigration bill as it emerged from the senate committee on immigration contains many new restrictive regulations in addition to the literacy test. The changes include restrictions against the admission of aliens suffering from every form of mental ailment 'and from mental deficiency in any and every degree. In the bill as it passed the house under section 3 there appeared the following language: "In the following classes of aliens shall be excluded from the United States: All idots, ambeciles, feeble minded persons, epileptics, insane persons, persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously." To this senate added: "Persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority, persons with chronic alcoholism." The Burnett bill as it came from the committee excludes all who are certified by the examining surgeons as "being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living." This the senate committee changed by striking out the adjective "mental." Photo by American Press Association. Capacity to earn a living is thus removed as a possible excuse for the admission of a mentally undesirable. A decided amplification of the scope and exhaustiveness of the psychiatric and psychopathic examination of incoming aliens is provided in section 16 of the bill. After setting forth the character of the training which the examining medical officers shall possess with a view to insuring thoroughness in the examination, as in the Burnett bill, the senate committee has inserted this provision: "All aliens arriving at ports of the United States shall be examined by two such medical officers," which in turn must be thoroughly thorough. Under the Burnett bill this formal examination was provided for all "large ports of ports." The senate committee has struck out the qualifying "large." The examination must be made wherever aliens may enter. The senate committee while endeavoring to make the law more certain in its provision for exclusion of the undesirable has shown a humanitarian disposition along some other lines. It is provided that immigrants found to be suffering from tuberculosis in any form or any other loathsome or dangerous contagious disease other than that of a quarantinable nature must be at once deported, but the following leeway is given to the secretary of labor: "Unless the secretary of labor is satisfied that the existence of the disease could not have been detected by competent medical examination at the point of foreign debarkation and that to refuse treatment would be inhuman or cause unusual hardship." This provisio admits the alien to hos pital treatment. ADVERTISEMENTS IN 1773. George Washington Advertised 20,000 Acres of Land For Lease. Johnette, Pa.-L. E. Allen has a copy of the first edition of the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, dated Aug. 26, 1773. The paper contains an advertisement inserted by George Washington. 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Just now the North is overrun by Afro-American beggars, who are collecting contributions for colleges and universities, which are alleged to have been organized for the "uplift" of the race. The Rev. H. O. T. Hamphat, A. M. D. D. Ph. D. of Mussel Creek, Oklahoma; Ketchum Cheatem, A. M. D. D. C. L. of, Heavenly View, Mississippi; the Very Reverend A. S. Gobbleumn, P. D. Q., of Pear Wallow, Georgia, and a host of other worries with queer names, weighted down with a string of degrees, conferred by some 2x4 university, hailing from strange towns, are telling of the wonderful work they are doing for their people and incidentally asking for cash to continue their operations. THE APPEAL does not object to the collection of funds for proper educational purposes but is opposed to some of the methods of these unconscious collectors, who are evidently more interested in providing food and drink and ralment for their own fat and sleek bodies than in uplift work. In order to curry favor with the whites, they make false and disgusting statements in their speeches, praise their Southern oppressors, uphold segregation and laud their own degradation. If the South is so attractive as they picture it, they ought to stay there and not come North to injure their brethren by their jim-crow utterances. They have done incalculable harm in the North and they teach the same stuff in their schools that they talk when on this side of Mason and Dixon's line. God help the students under their control. 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 PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has cimbed 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. 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, idiots, 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 literateur 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-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 the Congressman and ask him to vote against and work against every jim-crow Bill now in Congress. "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 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 am the worst single thing and holds together more abomination than any other world. Through its book 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 more 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 unfitting 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 allows the segregation as lepers 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! Congressman J. B. Aswell, of Louisiana, addressed the Hibernian Association of Savannah, Ga., recently on the "Freedom of Man." As Aswell is the author of the Bill to jimcrow Afro-Americans in the Civil Service we presume his idea of freedom is limited to certain varieties of men. Savannah, Georgia, where the speech was delivered, also claims the rather doubtful honor of being the home of Congressman Edwards, author of another jimcrow Bill. Oswald Garrison Villard, Grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, Writes a Strong Article for the North American Review, On October 16, 1912, Woodrow Wilson, then the Democratic nominee for President, declared that: "Should I become President of the United States, they (the colored people) may count upon me for absolute fair dealing and for everything by which I should invest in advancing the interests of their life in the United States." This utterance complete satisfaction to those leaders the colored people and the friends of the race who were urging them to break away from their thraldom to the Republican party and to vote for the Governor of New Jersey on the ground that the country would profit by it. Qualified by the Democratic ticket, "Qualified by the belief that many more colored men voted the Democratic ticket in 1912 than ever before." It was with dismay, therefore, that early in the Administration of Mr. Wilson, whose Cabinet is equally divided between Southerners and Northerners, there became noticeable in certain quarters a distinct hostility to the colored people. For a long time no appointment of Negroes were made to President E. Patterson he nominated Adam E. Patterson of Oklahoma for the position of Register of the Treasury, a place long held by colored men. Patterson's nomination was the signal for outbursts from those violent negrophobes in the Senate. Senator South Smith of Georgia, Vardaman of South Carolina, Tilman of South Carolina, and others, declaring that Patterson should not be confirmed, or any other colored man, for an office which would put him over white women clerks. With abject cowardice Patterson rushed to the house and demanded that his name be given to a killing at this time to meet the issue raised, Mr. Wilson consented to his request, unlike Presidents Cleveland and Roosevelt, who, under similar circumstances, put the responsibility on the Senate by continuing to nominate the candidates for office and by giving them statements when the Senate was not in place. Instead, Mr. Wilson appointed a Cherokee Indian as Register. * * * * * good enough to die alongside of white men in saving the day at San Juan Hill are now learning to know the gratitude of Republics. These colored people who are thus branded are not roustabouts, or corner loafers, or worthless laborers, are educated men and women, colleges are many of them, from all over the country, and their civil service examinations and entered the Government's employ with full faith in its justice, asking merely the right to serve on equal terms with their fellows. The readers of the North Carolina law understand the bitter humiliation of the segregation orders if they can imagine themselves set apart as unworthy by brute authority, but they can hardly appreciate the added sense of injustice which comes from the fact that this is the law of the Government. The colored people have borne as patiently as the children of Israel bore their burdens, the wrongs of disfranchisement, the lynchings and burnings of innocent and gully, humiliation of the "Jim Crow" car, humiliation of the "Jim Crow" low whites; these were the acts of individuals or of States lately in rebellion. But that the Federal Government, under whose flag they have fought the entire war, under whose jurisdiction they have struck their fetters from their limbs, now take the side of the oppressors in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation—this is what hurts and ranks beyond all else. Is it any wonder that national renown writes that he has seen his people so discouraged and so embittered to as-day? They rightly declare—as must every fair-minded man free from prejudice—that this spells castle. They believe that it is intended to drive out of the public service by rendering it self-respect; they assert that one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury has already held up the promotion of two colored clerks because of their color. Segregation is, beyond doubt, an entering wing, and here he has a precedent be established, and who shall say what the outcome will be, to what lengths despicotic officials will take their way by means of discrimination, intimidation, by aboveboard or underhand methods? Who shall prophesy to what extent this castle deserves to come? If colonies thus be set apart contrary to the spirit of the civil-service law and of the Constitution itself, why not others—Jews, for instance? * * * * * * * * * indeed, it may come to pass that Mr. Wilson will go down to history as the man in motion terrible forces for evil without adequate conception or provision of the dangers he was inviting. * he he remains silent and segregates further, will be wrong, his democracy gravely at fault; he has given us his book called "The New Freedom," and in his various speeches prior to and since his election to the Presidency. But nowhere thus far do we and any indication that his democracy is not limited both by the sex line and by the race line, we see that to discriminate in his democracy against any one is to bring whole carefully reared edifice crashing to the ground. The principles upon which our democracy rests must be explained, as exactly a law of science, or they are open to doubt at once. Thus, we should not believe in the law of gravitation if it did not apply alike to every human being; we should not permit the use of wireless invention if he could transmit only the first half of the alphabet and not the last. It avails the apologists for the President not at all to say that "The New Freedom" applies only to political and economic problem but an economic and political one. It would certainly be ridiculous for Mr. Wilson, or his publishers, to expect any appreciative reading among the millions of distrised men and women or white men and women, of his theory of the coming of a new political freedom at the very moment when there is placed upon the colored by two of his own cabinet an official stigma to the amount of producing an office will be. What Mr. McDoe does not appreciate is that the slightest etting yield to prejudice on the part of a high Federal official will find a dozen imitators in the lower official ranks this difficult to handle their masters to curry favor with those in power. What he does not see is that if only one colored man or woman has been segregated it gives the deliberate lie to Mr. Wilson's promise to advance the interests of the race and violates his pledge of absolute non-discrimination. The man was during the President are not use defenders of this Government's reputation or honor and of the rights or the colored people, but those subordinates who by their official actions have made sublous the President's word. Wittingly or unwittingly the Wilson Administration has allied it to the subordinates who put itself on the side of every perpetrator, of every oppressor, of every perpetrator of racial injustice in the South or the North. But the folly of raising this race issue does not stop there. It differs but very little from the one that rent the Union. The great struggle which convulsed the United States was, in its simplest terms, nothing else but the use of cotton and land to create two classes of human beings in this country, the slaves and the free. They were willing to sacrifice the Union and everything else to this end. Those who in this day and generation are seeking to establish two classes of government employees—as does Mr. McAdoo's Cabinet associate—the are on the high road to convulsing anew this land of liberty, which will never know peace and quiet as long as there are discrimination among the people who are the responsibility of forcing the issue. To oppress any group of human beings, or to deny them full equality, is to court disaster. For each repression there is certain to crenate a terrible reckoning. Evidences of Christianity 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 murdered the daughter of a poor Jewish fisherman in Stavrapol, 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. Nails were driven through her eyes. The murderer through her eyes. The three murderers arrested, but their friends in the town released them and they escaped, it is asserted. 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 APPEAL 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 yellings 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. 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 humiliate 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 oblified 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, creed or color among the servants of the government. 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. New York Independent. Defective Page IN HOLY RUSSIA. 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 Wagner 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, dragged a rope about her neck and dragged her some distance through the streets before reaching the telephone pole. Honest fair minded Americans feel that the fair fame of our country is being trailed in the dust; ueyang hang their heads in shame. It is the Nation's shame. We hold President Wilson responsible because in the final analysis the acts of his subordinate officials are his and he has the power to end this injustice by a word. ALWAYS RIGHT TO PROTEST. A number of colored newspapermet recently in Nashville, Tenn., and among other things decided not toprotest 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 then in 1920; 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. AFRO-AMERICAN RIGHT WORD. We congratulate our up-to-date contemporary the Chicago Defender on its new "make up." It is chock full of news and presents a fine appearance. We are especially pleased that the Defender has adopted the word Afro-American as a racial designation. It is a shame that it is necessary in this alleged land of the free to differentiate between Americans, but it is true. Who has not been disgusted by the use of the word Negro with a small "n" as is almost invariably the case in the daily newspapers. Although the words Jew, Mexican, Filipino, Chinaman, Japanese are always capitalized, Americans of more or less African blood have been described as "negroes" and "negresses," as if they were wild animals. In view of the fact that not more than one-third of the Americans of African descent are of pure Negro blood it follows that the word Negro is not correct, while Afro-American would include people of various percentages of admixture and if generally adopted the daily papers would be compelled to capitalize it. The word Afro-American has been used by THE APEAL for thirty years. UNJUST JUDGE DENOUNCED. · Judge Willis of the criminal department of the Superior Court of Los Angeles, California, sentenced a young colored man to thirty years in the penitentiary for highway robbery, although his only loot was a white girl's kiss. · When the fact became generally known that so unjust a sentence had been imposed white women sent in protests, threats of recall and denunciations. Deputations of white women visited the judge to demand that the young man from such severe punishment. Telephone messages informed him that petitions were being prepared for his recall. Other women called in person to say that steps would be taken to procure a pardon from the governor. The action of the women shows the difference between California and the South. The bobby had occurred in Vardaman's state there would have been a lynching. SAINT PAUL A WEEK'S RECORD IN MINNESOTA'S CAPITAL The "Saintly City" and Iaintly City Folks—Newway Items of Social, Religious, Political and General Matters Among the People. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1914. Mr. Theodore Reynolds, 308 W. Central avenue, died Thursday. For Sale—The Little Diamond Cafe, 476 Robert street. For terms apply to the proprietor, Mrs. M. J. Hicks. You should get in on the ground floor by buying some shares in the Citizens ice and Fuel Company now. Banks & Watkins have issued invitations for a "Popularity Entertainment" at their place next Tuesday evening, April 28. Mad. L. A. Porter, 550 Fuller street, on last Tuesday, entertained at dinner, Mrs. John Mathews of Minneapolis, formerly of Duluth. Mr. G. W. Moore is now the proprietor of "Ulley's New Place," 30 E. 4th street and invites the patronage of all old and new customers. W. I. FRANCIS WHO FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS WAS IN THE EMPLO OF THE LEGAL DEPART- MENT OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY HAS OPENED OFFICES FOR THE GENERAL PRACTICE OF THE LAW AT 88 AND 88 UNION BLOCK, ST. PAUL. Advertisement. Mr. Harry Robinson is employed as messenger at the headquarters of Louis Nash, one of the candidates for mayor. Dr. J. R. French, the dentist, has moved his offices from the third to the fourth floor of the Kendrick block, suite 404. FOR RENT—Six-room flat, all modern. Apply to Clarence L. Smith, 788 St. Anthony avenue. Tel. Dale 5413—Advertisement. The B. Y. P. U. of Pilgrim Baptist Church meets each Sunday at 6:45 P. M. The meetings are very interesting. All are cordially invited. The State Savings Bank has fallen in line with other banks and has raised the rate of interest paid on deposits to FOUR PER CENT. T. H. LYLES. Funeral Directors and Embalmers 150. W. Fourth St. Active Pall Bearers Furnished if Desired. Lady Assistant When Necessary. Both Phones 508. St. Paul, Minn. If the readers and well-wishers of THE APPEAL will send items of social news to this office it will be ap preciated and the news will be published. The St. Louis Kitchen complying with a general demand is again serving regular dinners from 11:30 to 2:30 o'clock at 25 cents. All home cooking.—Advertisement. Another big time when the famous Buckle Original Jubilee Concert Company comes to St. James A. M. E. church next Monday evenig, April 27. Don't miss them. Bear in mind the formal dedication of Zion Presbyterian Church, corner of Farrington on St. Anthony, tomorrow afternoon, at 2:30 p. m. You are invited to be present. SPIRELLA CORSET, Cora E. Anderson corsetier. Any lady wishing to be properly corseted call or address 365 Aurora Ave. Tel. N. W. Dale 1345—Advertisement. FOR RENT—Upper flat, four rooms, large alcove, attic and cellar. All modern except heat, 408 Cathedral Place. Rent reasonable. Apply at 281 Rondo street.—Advertisement. Gopher Lodge, Elks, has given up its hall at 126 E. Third street and now meets at Wagner Hall, corner Charles and Western Ave., on the second Wednesday in each month. Friday evening of last week, Mrs. E. W. Lindsay gave a supper party for Mrs. E. B. Speer of Minneapolis, formerly of Duluth. The remainder of the evening was spent at the "movies." All arrangements have been completed for the joint observance of the annual sermon of St. Paul and Minneapolis Odd Fellows at St. James A. M. E. church on Sunday, May 10, at 2:30 p.m. Vacation Pleasures Are only for those who have been wise enough to lay aside part of their earnings in winter for use when needed in summer. For this purpose use a large, strong institution. STATE SAVINGS BANK 93 East Fourth Street. FOR RENT — Furnished room, steam heat, separate kitchen, for man and wife. Apply to G. W. Moker, 869 Thomas street. Tel. Dale 1369—Advertisement. VOCAL AND PIANO LESSONS given by Mrs. Addie, Crawford-Minor at her residence 251 Rondo street, only. Hours for instruction arranged to suit patrons. Terms reasonable. Tel. Dale 1597—Advertisement. The ladies of Corinthian Temple No.1, S. M. T. will give a grand MAY FESTIVAL, at Bowlby Sixth and Robert streets, on Wednesday evening, May 20. McCullough Orchestra. Tickets, 35 cents.—Advertisement. Mrs. Birddilla Driver has bought out the grocery of Young & Barksdale, 441 Rondo street, corner of Arundel, and contemplates making many improvements, some of which have already begun. The store is now open for business. Mr. John H. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American Ledger, Baltimore, Md., and Imperial Potentate of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, will be in St. Paul, May 12, to make his official visit to Fezzan Temple; Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. FOR SALE—$2,400.00. Six-room stucco dwelling, No. 969 Rondo street near Chatsworth. Hardwood finish, electric lights, gas for cooking. Easy payments. Apply to W. T. Francis, 88-89 Union Block, Fourth and Cedar. — Advertisement. "SHINE'EM UP!" When you wish your shoes shined or polished in the most artistic and satisfactory style, go to the PEOPLES' SHINING PARLOR, W. H. Porter, Propr, 349 Minnesota street, between 4th and 5th—Advertisement. NOTICE — There will be a Grand Entertainment under the auspices of Frederick Douglass Lodge 9005 and Household of Ruth 4671, G. U. O. O. F., at Bowley Hall, Thursday evening, April 23. Bear this in mind. Tickets 50 cents. Advertisement. ST. LOUIS KITCHEN, 138 E. Third street, up stairs, Mrs. Julia Hinson, Prop. A la carte meals at all hours from 7:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. m. All home cooking. Regular Sunday dinner from 1 to 3 p. m. 40 cents. Tel. Phone Cedar 6090.—Advertisement. The Colored Business Men's Association will have a supper at Bowlby Hall on next Wednesday evening which all the members are expected to attend and bring other business men with them. Don't forget, next Thursday evening at 8:30 at Bowlby Hall. NORTHWESTERN REALTY CO., I. S. ELAM, MNGR—NENT, BUYING, SELLING, MONEY TO LOAN, INSURANCE, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH US, 415 RONDO STREET, PHONE, DALE 2282.—ADVERTISEMENT. There will be a "Five-Cent Sale" at St. Philip's Guild Hall, Mackubin and Aurora streets, on May 5th, afternoon and evening, with a fine program in the evening. The proceeds are to be used to paint the church to correspond with the new rectory. Help this good cause. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death—Proverbs 14:12.—Selected by E. W. Gilles. One of the most delightful entertainments recently, was that furnished by the Southland Concert Co., at St. James Church, on Friday night of last week. There were only four of them but they made music and sang, "to beat the band." A large crowd greeted them and enjoyed every minute. The Colored Business Men's Association is preparing to have a get-together supper at Bowley Hall on Wednesday evening, April 29. A number of good speakers will be present and a very pleasant and profitable time is expected. Tickets, 35 cents, may be obtained from the members of the association. The place to have your shoe repairing done in the best possible way at the lowest possible price is at JARVIS' 104-106 East Fifth street. He has a complete stock of men's, women's and boys' shoes of the best grades for the money to be found in the city—Advertisement. THE BUSY BEE CAFE, 317 Wabasha street (upstair), W. F. T. Chand, proprietor. Unexcelled cuisine. First class home cooked meals a carte at all hours. A splendid regular dinner served from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at, m. 25 cents. Open day and night. Tel. N. W. Cedar 4525.—Advertisement. The political game for the Ramsey county offices started in earnest last Thursday, when Frank J. Obst, county treasurer; Michael W. Fitzgerald, register of deeds, and Wm. J. Bazille, abstract clerk, filed with county auditor Ries, for re-election to their respective offices. They have all made good and there is no good reason why they should not be re-elected. The entertainment which was given by Fredrick Douglass Lodge, No. 0005, assisted by Household of Ruth No. 4671 G. U. O. of O. F. at Bowlby Hall Thursday night was a splendid affair in every way. There was a big crowd, fine music, elegant refreshments. The ladies were handsomely gowned and the best of spirits prevailed. The committee in charge, to whose indefatigable labors the credit T. Claiborne, Jerome Covington, Edfor the success is due comprised: J. ward Hatton, Geo. Mercer, James Relley, R. O. Lee, Chauncey Miller, J. A. Hanley, W. Wolden. Many persons, doubtless, saw the article by Mr. O. C. Hall in the Pioneer Press one day this week relative had discharged residents of the city to the fact that the city of St. Paul and imported men from Indianapolis to work on the asphalt paving. This article started something, for on last Thursday evening a mass meeting was held at the Little Diamond Cafe, 476 Robert street. The meeting was called, to order by G. T. Williams and he was chosen temporary chairman and R. M. Johnson secretary. The objects of the meeting was stated and speeches were made by Messrs. Moher, Williams, Black Hatte, Johnson and R. M. Johnson secretary. The outcome of the meeting was the organization of the Afro-American Labor League with G. T. Williams as president, O. C. Hall secretary, R. M. Johnson treasurer. Twenty-six members were enrolled. The next meeting will be held at the same place on next Thursday evening, April 30, and all who are interested in the matter are cordially invited to be present. There will be something doing. Dr. H. I. Williams, the dentist, 27 E. Seventh street, who has been unable for some time to comfortably accommodate his patients, is now prepared to do so. He has secured the adjoining room, removed the partitions and now has two large operating rooms and a much larger reception room. He has also changed the main entrance of his suite to No. 203, just in front of the elevator. He is now, better than ever, able to take care of his daily increasing clientele. For tooth troubles see Dr. H. I. Williams, second floor Kendrick Block, 27 E. Seventh street—Advertisement. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 East Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate here named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. 2024-10-23 Candidate for Councilman of the City of St. Paul. M. N. Goss, candidate for Councilman, served as chief of police some four years ago, and he is quite familiar with the civic condition and needs of the city. His platform is as follows: If elected to said office, I shall fulfill my duties with the following aims and objects in view: That as a servant of all the people, I should of any particular fashion or interest, I will strive toward honest, efficient and economical administration of the city's affairs, keeping constantly in mind the intention and wishes of our citizenship as expressed in the commission form of charter." PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by and for W. C. Stieger, 629 Edmund street, St. Paul, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. WM. C. STIEGER, Candidate for Councilman of the City of St. Paul. Wm. C. Stieger, candidate for councilman of the city of St. Paul, was born, reared and educated in St. Paul, and though only 29 years old, has served two terms in the city council, having been elected when only 24 years of age. He is unmarried and still lives with his mother at 629 Edmund street. He has for 8 years been in the coal, wood, flour, feed and expressing business at 591 Dale street, where he has made good as he always does when given a chance. He respectfully solicits your vote. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams 49 Ea Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. [Picture of] S. A. FARNWORTH. Candidate for Counselor in the Board Candidate for Councilman of St. Paul. S. A. Farnsworth, candidate for Councilman, is the present city treasurer of St. Paul, a position he has held for four years. At the primaries he received the highest vote of any for councilman. He has been a consistent advocate of the new charter and believes it is a long step in the right direction. He also believes that if the friends of the charter are elected, the new system will be installed without friction and that the results will more than justify the most sanguine expectations of any of our citizens. THE VALET TAILORING No. 154-156 E. Sixth street. The most up-to-date establishment of its land in the city. Clothing made to order, stopped, pressed, renovated and repaired. Goods called for and delivered. Four suits pressed for $1. They are prepared to give best service at lowest rates. Tel. N. W. Cedar, 4362. O. Howell manager.—W. Advertisement. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 East Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate here named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. PETER H. Candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court of St. Paul. John W. Boerner, candidate for Judge of the Municipal Court, was born and educated in St. Paul. He is a son of former Lieut. E. Boerner, and for twenty years a resident of the 3d precinct of the eighth ward. He is at present Assistant County Attorney of Ramsey County and has in the performance of his duties become thoroughly familiar with Municipal Court practice. As evidence of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow attorneys he got the highest vote of indorsement of the Ramsey County Bar Association as its choice for Municipal Judge. Mr. Boerner harmlessly Mr. Boerner is happily married and resides at 1058 Fairmount avenue. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 E. Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate here named for which he is to pay $5.00. Emil W. Helmes A. H. Judge Municipal Court Judge Municipal Court Have resided in the City of St. Paul since 1892. Graduated from Law Department of the University of Minnesota, was appointed Third Assistant Corporation Attorney and City Prosecutor in March 1903, continued in that office until first day of February, 1907, and have been engaged in the general practice of law in the Globe Bldg. since 1907. Reside at 182 Maria Ave. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 East 4th street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate here named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. M. H. Candidate for Justice of the Peace. F. E. Baker, candidate for Justice of the Peace, has held the office for years and is well known all over the city. He holds his court in the Court Block on Fourth street. He is worthy and capable and should get the election with no trouble. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 East Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate here named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. P. E. V. Candidate for Vice-President Court of St. Paul. Born and raised on a farm in this state. Worked his entire way through high school, college ad law school, graduating from Georgetown Univer- I positively guarantees to extract teeth and remove nerves ABSOLUTELY PAINLESSLY Get prices here before going elsewhere A Written Guarantee for 20 Years Given With All Work, Dr. Williams, 27 E. 7th St TEL. C. 6132 KUTENDRICK BLDG. 2ND FLOOR ST. PAUH I positively guarantee to ext ABSOLUTELY Get prices here best A Written Guarantee for 20 Dr. Williams, TEL. C. 6132 KENDRICK B city College of Law at Washington, D.C. in 1903. Has practiced law in this city for ten years. During his college days at Georgetown, he became a member of the Washington Base Ball Club, which made him popularly known as a "big league" ball player. Readers will no doubt remember his spectacular run for this office four years ago. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 E. Fourth street, in behalf of the candidate-herein named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. I. H. C. Candidate for Councilman, An Honest Man. As time rolls on, every man who is at all familiar with events in the city hall realizes that one of the most fearless, able and intelligent officials the city has ever had is John J. O'Leary, president of the Board of Public Works. Should he decide to enter the campaign for commissioner under the new charter next spring, he should receive the vote of every man who believes in government by men absolutely free from any suspicion of undue influences. For nearly four strenuous years Mr. O'Leary has been proving himself a friend of the people and a public man of splendid fighting qualities.-Editorial in the RAZOO, December, 1913. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 East Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate here named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. T. H. HENRY McCOLL CANDIDATE FOR COUNCILMAN Has served four years in the House of Representatives and four years in the State Senate and two years in the Board of Aldermen, of which body he is the Presiding Officer. His record commends him to the voters. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 East Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the candidate here named, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. M. B. FOR COUNCILMAN Oscar E. Keller Oscar E. Keller, candidate for councilman of the city of St. Paul, is the father and most energetic promoter of the free concerts, and as president of the Assembly he helped to make up three successive budgets. Experience is a valuable asset for any future councilman. Dr.H.I.WILLIAMS Announces his NEW method of PAINLESS DENTISTRY extract teeth and remove nerves Y PAINLESSLY before going elsewhere 10 Years Given With All Work, 27 E. 7th St BLDG. 2ND FLOOR ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS THE DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY." Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City. 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. 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" brittles, 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. Chairman Refreshment Committee. C. L. McCULLOUGH, Chairman Arrangement Committee. RALPH WATSON, Chairman Entertainment Committee. TO THE PUBLIC. The Colored Citizens' Civic and Commercial League, Incorporated, has removed its charter and belongings from 19 Washington Ave., North, Minneapolis, and is at present without permanent club rooms; temporary headquarters, 1020 Met. Life Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn., at the office of the president, Wm. H. H. Franklin. And are resolved, at whatever cost, to keep implicit faith with the public and themselves, and on account of the unlimited license given colored "clubs" by the city authorities, the directors found it impossible to meet the competing bids for the location, No. 19 Wash. Ave. So. It was a question of allowing either the conditions to exist at this address that exist in every other colored dive in Minneapolis, viz., protected vice, or, keeping up our ideals and our faith with the community, in any manner, with said place, hereafter, nor in any wise responsible for what occurs there or threat. The Board of Directors, C. C. C. & C. LEAGUE BARBER WANTED. A good first class experienced barber (light complexion), or a young man of two or three years' experience may secure a position at good wages by applying at once to Israel J. Putnam, Palace Hotel, Hibbing, Minn.—Advertisement. If your wife is alling buy her a GOSARD CORSET and she will be in better SHAPE than ever before. For sale by Mrs. J. E. Cloak, 292 St. Albans street. N. W. Phone, Dale 2075.—Advertisement. SAFE DEPOSIT AND STORAGE VAULTS—We invite your inspection. It costs little to place your valuable papers, cash, securities and other valuables in absolute safety. Boxes in your vaults can be had for $4 per year. Store your boxes, trunks, etc., with us. Northwestern Trust Co. 138 Endicott Arcade.—Advertisement. DO YOU WISH A SUIT OF CLOTHES? Then consult Walden & Bodene, 30 East Fourth street, about it. They are now prepared to furnish up-to-the-minute suits and overcoats at the very lowest prices for women. They also do cleaning, repairing and pressing on short notice. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Can you beat it? - Advertisement. AGENTS WANTED Any proper persons, male or female, who wish to act as agents for the great book "FACTS OF RECONSTRUCTION," by Major John R. Lynch, should write for territory and terms to Major John R. Lynch, 4321 Forestville Ave. Chicago. The book is just from the press and sells at sight. Do it now—Advertisement. WATCH FOR THE OPENING. Madam Notah Wilson will shortly open a new Beauty Parlor at 563 Charles street, St. Paul, with all-teh modern conveniences of the down half what is charged down town. She town parlor with rates practically will have the latest electric beauty lights and electric hair straightening and drying. Will also do facial massaging, manicuring and chiropody for ladies and gentlemen. Hair switches made to order. Watch for the date of the opening.—Advertisement. DENTIST 804 BENDRICK BLOCK 27 E. SEVENTH ST. ST. PAUL Office Cedar 1673 Dr, Valdo Turner - PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Kendrick Block, 27 E. 7th OFFICE HOURS 9 to 11 a. m., 12 to 1 p. m., 3 to 5 p. m. Sundays 10 to 11 a. m. Res. 386 St. Albans Tel. Dale 912. N. W. PHONE DALE 3676 FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING LADIES' TAILORING 491 University Ave. ST. PAUL Cedar 6190 PHONES T. S. 3347 Geo.W. Nelson DRUGGIST Full Stock of Pure Drugs, Proprietary Medicines, Druggists' Sundries, Toilet Articles, Candies, Soda, Cigars, Etc. High Brown and High Brown De Luxe Powder a Specialty. Cor. Wabasha and Summit, St. PAUL PHONE DALE 3601 "THE BUSY CORNER" "THE BUSY CORNER" A. J. McMURRAY & CO Staple and Fancy Groceries, Candies, Con- fectionery, Cigars, School Supplies, Ete. Ice Cream Parlor and Cafe, Lunch at all Hours. REAL ESTATL AND RENTALS HANDLED. Cor. Western and Ronde. ST. PAUL VANDER BIE'S ICE CREAM IS THE BEST For Sale Everywhere J. C. VANDER BIE 496 Partridge ST. PAUL, MN Tel. Dale 7817 City References MADAME L. A. PORTER. Shampooing, Hair Dressing, Maniouring, Facial Massage, Scalp Treatment. Switches Made to Order. Sore Corns, Ingrowing Nails, Bunlions Removed. TRY PORTER'S WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER. 550 Fuller St., ST. PAUL Grace Ferguson. Mayme Lobbins. Phone Dale 7417. HOME BAKERY Our Bread, Pies, Cakes, Etc., Are Made from the Best Materials. They "Can't be Beat." Dainties for Receptions, Luncheons, Teas and Old Fashioned Pound Cake (40 cents per pound) Our Specialties. Orders Delivered. 443 Rondo St. St Paul, Minn. TEL. CEDAR 441 TRI-STATE 1034 U. S. TRANSFER CO. SAINT PAUL MIDWAY MINNEAPOLIS VANS AND AUTO TRUCKS FOR MOVING LIGHT AND HEAVY HAULING LET U.S. HAUL IT STORAGE MAIN OFFICE Cor. Ninth & Jackson ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA CENTRAL DRUG CO. Expert Pharmacists Corner State and Washington Sts.