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THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT RECAUSE: 1- It aim to publish all the news possible. 2- It does no imperially, wasting no words. 3- His correspondents are able and energetic. VOL. 30. NO. 18. VILLA LOVER OF FIGHTING BIRDS Often Wagers $5,000 on Out- come of Chicken Fight. HIS GAMECOCKS ARE BEST Descended From Those Bred by George Washington—Thinks Example Set In Cockpit is Good For His Troops on Eve of Great Battle—Admires Their Unconquerable Nerve. BIDS $500,000 But Rich Virginiaian, by the Chi- Washington. — A connected with the ton mission, which exhibit here to he summer camp and a wealthy man fr offered to endow the 000 if he was perm infant he had seen Kate Waller Bar- dent of the Critt- tle that the Richmond the boy, who is Frank," resembled his ancestors. "Arrange for me will have my lawy pers turning over money to the mis- Barrett quoted the Mrs. Barrett set Juarrez, Mexico—"I will fight this gamecock in the City of Mexico on the Fourth of July," said General Villa, as he exhibited a favorite fighting rooster to Mars Cassidy, the famous starter of race horses, who has handled the barrier at the Juarez race track over a hundred days a year since its organization five years ago. The gamecock in question had just won its twenty-fifth victory and was one of a shipment of forty-eight gamecocks which Villa had received from the breeding farm of Colonel S. J. Hester of Hester, S. C., who has been supplying the rebel chieftain with fighting birds for several years. "General Villa," said Mr. Cassidy, in telling of this incident, "is the most remarkable man I have ever known. I have met every revolutionary leader in northern Mexico. Many of them were highly educated, and the history of these continuous revolutions reveals the names of several great men, but the most remarkable is, according to opinions held by military men, the greatest organizer, the greatest fighter and the best loved and worst feared man in the republic of Mexico. His followers idolize him, his fame is constantly spreading in Mexico, and recruits are joining his army at an enormous rate. "I have had ample opportunity to study the man, both at the race track and in the field, but he are freely mingled with his officers. His companions included Alfredo Madero, brother of the martyred president, who is interpreter for General Villa. It is generally believed that the expenses of the Villa campaign are being defrayed by the Madero family. "Villa is what might be called a natural born sportsman. He frequently wagered $5,000 gold on a favorite fighting cock. "I have won enough on this gamecock to defray the expenses of the army for two months," remarked General Villa as he handed the plot." of the bird referred to in his remark already quoted." General Villa receives a dozen gamecocks in his South Carolina breeder every week. These birds are with the military equipment in a special wagon. It contains twenty-eight separate coops and is drawn by a pair of mules. Before the commencement of a battle General Villa has gamecocks fought before his soldiers and urges them to emulate the heroic conduct of these feathered gladiators, that did the ancient warriors in the dim and distant past. One familiar with ancient history is forced to believe that this illiterate but able fighter in one respect at least resembles Themistocles, who introduced cock fighting into Athens after the Persian wars. The incident is thus related: "When the famous general was leading the Athenian army against the Persians he saw some cocks fighting, and he took occasion from this circumcise to emulate his troops by observing to them. "These animals fight not for their gods or country, nor for the monuments of their ancestors, nor for glory, nor for freedom, nor for their children, but for the sake of victory and that one may not yield to the other," and from this topic he insisted the Athenians." Vide Aelian, V. Hart, i.c. 28. Church Installs a Band. Lancaster, O.--A new plan was put into effect in church circles in this city when the First Methodist Episcopal church engaged the Citizens' band to play at Sunday school. The band marched through Main street and took part in the musical program at the church prior to the opening of Sunday school. BIDS $500,000 FOR A BABY. But Rich Virginian's Offer Is Spurned by the Child's Mother. by the Child's Mother. Washington. - According to women connected with the Florence Crittenton mission, which is having a baby exhibit here to help raise funds for a summer camp and hospital for babies, a wealthy man from Richmond, Va., if he opened the mission with $500,000 if he opened it to adopt a boy infant he had seen at the exhibition Mr. Kate Walter Barrett, national president of the Crittenton mission, said that the Richmond man told her that the boy, who is known as "Baby Frank," resembled a portrait of one of his ancestors. "Arrange for me to adopt him and I will have my lawyers draw up the paper turning over that amount of money to the mission of ones." Mrs. Barrett quotes the man as saying. Mrs. Barrett said she told the man that the babies at the exhibit were not for sale and that she knew "Baby Frank's" mother would not consent to an adoption. In a statement Mrs. Barrett said that many persons who had visited the exhibition had demonstrated with the baby's presence she could not part with him. Almost all of them substance, according to Mrs. Barrett: "They ought to think of the child and its future. This man is rich and can give the child every advantage." TO DRINK RUM 214 "YEARS OLD That's What Wistar Institute's Directors Will Do In 1992. Philadelphia—Jamaica rum 214 years old is promised to the directors of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy of the University of Pennsylvania at the centenary of the institute. But the only directors who will be allowed to drink it will be those who are in office in 1992, when a dinner will be arranged for them for the specific purpose of drinking the rum. The centenary of the institute will be in 1992. A bottle of Jamaica rum was left unopened in this city by British officers upon their evacuation of Philadelphia in the War of the Revolution, and its second time that cake is recited on a card tie to the neck. The card was written by Isaac Wistar, founder of the institute. Mr. Wistar inherited the bottle from his uncle, Franklin Jones. In 1894, two years after he founded the institute, he presented the bottle to the institute, with the request that it be held for the centenary celebration. The bottle is of green colored glass and holds about three pints. Revised Calendar Would Cause Easter to Fall on Fixed Date. Paris—Recommendations by the international calendar commission at the meeting to be held in Berlin shortly by the International Association of Academics include the adoption of a perpetual calendar and a fixed, unchangeable date for Easter. The commission also advocates giving thirty-one days to June and September, thirty days to February and cutting down other months. The idea is to give to each month an equal number of working days, and it has been so arranged that the first, fifteenth or thirtieth of the month never falls on Sunday. So far as Easter is concerned, the commission will take no action unless it is sanctioned by the religious authorities. M. Lecolon, director of the Royal Belgian conservatory, one of the men interested, says the warmest partisans of the proposed reform are not utoothed with practical advice. They are, he says, friendly and business man. M. Lecolon recalled that at a meeting of chambers of commerce the German delegates declared that German commerce lost millions of francs when Easter came in March. The two academic semesters, separated according to universal custom by Easter, are declared also to cause inconvenience in teaching, while spring vacations are apt to come during bad weather when Easter falls too soon. As to the actual division of the year, it is true, say those interested, that one is accustomed to the anomalies, but that it is nevertheless highly desirable to do away with them. BRIDAL HAT 59 YEARS OLD. Eler Wears it on Every Anniversary of His Wedding. Jamesburg, N. J. — When he was married fifty-one years ago Matthew Eler, now eighty, promised his bride he would wear the silk hat he wore then on every anniversary of the wedding. Mrs. Eler died sixteen years ago. Eler wore the hat the other day. The hat is a little less shiny than it was when Eler was a bridegroom of twenty-one, and it is slightly out of fashion. But he has kept it carefully, and, with the exception of the year of Mrs. Eler's funeral, has worn it once each year. One of the oldest pensioners on the relief fund that he hopes to wear the hat on many more anniversaries. "I bought it from John B. Stewart of New Brunswick, who died at the age of eighty-four two months ago," he said. "I remember the day well." THE APPEAL FINANCIAL TRADE DOBLED. In Last 4 months, imports $365 TWO TOES HIS FRAT Student Losses Them While Stealing a Qualifying Ride. Kansas City, Mo.-Cameron Reed of Cambridge, Mass., gave two toes as part of his initiation fee in a fraternity at the University of Missouri, where he is a sophomore. Reed, with three other students, came to Kansas City riding the brake beam in order to qualify for the fraternity. Only those who have traveled "a thousand miles without a cent" are eligible to attend university. The students boarded the rods of a train to make their return trip to Columbia. Reed fell as the train started, and a wheel crushed his foot. He was taken to a hospital, and two of his toes were amputated. KEEPS HIS TREASURE IN A MARINE BANK Snorky Dives to Bottom of River When Funds Are Low. Washington.-Snorky draws checks on the First Submarine bank of southwest Washington. He indorses them with a file and wrench and cashes them with a cable. Snorky, known to his mother and two or three others as Edward Thomas, is sixty years old and is to the Seventh street wharves in Washington what a beach comber is to the water front at Anaconda. One day about a decade ago they were shunting freight cars down in the old Jersey yards by the gas works when a switch engine ran off a trestle and plunged into the eastern branch of the Potomac. The water is pretty deep at this spot, and securely embedded in the mud bottom of the river the engine reposed as peacefully as a Spanish galeon at the bottom of the Caribbean until Snorky came along. As a child Snorky had taken a liking to the water, so when the story of the submerged freight engine came to his mind he went to the point on the railroad trestle from which the engine was roadtrestle to have plunged, Snorky dived into the turbid Anacostia river, as the eastern branch is known, and started a submarine investigation. It took two or three dives to locate the engine, but Snorky eventually found it, and made a submarine investigation. He fled a claim with Neptune for the engine or such parts of it as he desired. He returned to the surface to equip himself with such tools as he might need. Calling on the junk dealer, he made a dicker with that individual. The junkman agreed to advance tools if, in return, Snorky would give him an initial option on all goods to be replenished from the deep. The covenant was made, and Snorky dived into the file and wrench and screwdriver until he had depached the choicest and most easily obtainable portions of the engine. Then he attached a cable and rose to the surface. Standing on the trestle, he hauled away at the cable until there appeared the beautiful brass bell of the locomotive. This he disposed of profitably and earned his first commission. His greasy cash drawer. ever since he has sold the engine piece by piece to the dealer. MOVES HOUSE TO DIE HAPPY. Shifts It From Vermont to Massachusetts Where It Faces WI setts, Where It Formerly Was. Pittsfield, Mass. - Elazer Larabee has moved his house from Vermont into Massachusetts because he was born in Massachusetts and wants to die in the old Bay State. When he built a home in Williamsburg he supposed that he was in the state. Then government surveyors came along and changed the state boundary after he had paid taxes to Massachusetts for several years. Larabee then had a new cellar dug over in Massachusetts and moved his residence into the Bay State. The change cost him $1,000. **Million For Chewing Gum.** Troy, N. Y. - Americans grant $9,000-000 more for chewing gum last year than they did on foreign missions was the complaint made by Methodist ministers in conference here. Last Family Reunion on Christmas Day Attended by Scores—They Were Both In Excellent Health Then—Remarkable Parallels In Life of Two Men—Each Had Eight Children. Babylon, N. Y.—Samuel Muncy, one of the oldest twins in the world, died at his home here in his ninety-sixth year. Samuel and his brother William were born on the old farm in Babylon on Christmas day, 1818, and lived there ever since. Last Christmas, when the twins celebrated their ninety-fifth birthday, there gathered about them at Samuel's home thirty of their many descendants. Including sons and daughters, grandchild- dren and great-grandchildren. The twins sat side at the dinner table. On one side sat the children of Samuel and their children's children, and on the other sat the progeny of William. Samuel was not in the best of health then, and he grew weaker and weaker, until he succumbed. William was at his bedside, and it is feared that the shock of his brother death will be more than he can endure. The two saw each other daily and the companionship of the two was keen. Both men were tall and stalwart. It was only until recently that they could not devote much time every day to some sort of labor. Together they took walks, and the friendship between the two was just as keen as when they went fishing or hunting together as boys. The two men were proud of their health and longevity. They attributed their long life to work in the open air and absinence from alcohol and tobacco. They never gambled. Both were ardent Prohibitionists and argued hard for the cause. They voted for Huey Ford for president, but since then they have been in the Prohibition party. The twins were descended from a long line of prosperous farmers. The farmhouse in West Babylon in which they were born is probably the oldest building on Long Island. The twins had two brothers and one sister, but they outlived them all by many years. The twins married about the same time. Samuel married Rebecca Samnis of Babylon when thirty years old, and shortly afterward William married Mary E. Fleet of Brooklyn. They had been widowers for many years. Both men were blessed with eight children each. Up to a few years ago four of Samuel's children and seven of William's were alive. Just how many descendants of the two are alive today it would be hard to calculate. At the time of their respective marriages each built a home for himself on the old Muncy farm. After the death of their wives the two went to live together, but they decided finally it would be better for Samuel to have his daughter, Mrs. Samuel Smith, with him, William went to live with his brother, by the way. The two men owned a great deal of property on Long Island. Both believed they would celebrate their one hundredth anniversary together, and they decided they did not want their children to wait for years to enjoy things, so they parceled out the property. There was some talk shortly before their last birthday of biring a special car and sending them to Washington to see President Wilson, but the twins for they were too old to make the trip, and the project was abandoned. CALL OUT FOR BACHELORS. Husbands Wanted For Sixty-five Widows Who Own Property Widows Who Own Property. Syracuse, N. Y.-President F. M. Parsons of the village of Weedport has sounded a caution bell for bachelors to come to his village and marry sixty-five widows who own property there. The town has too many widows, he says, adding that he knows sixty-five of them who would marry again. Sauce From Sawdust. Somerville, Mass.-Adulterating sauces which a man was found guilty. Sentence was deferred to enable the judge to find a punishment to fit the crime. 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 1869 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 proposed 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. He believed that Sunday was sincere and that his method of making religion with athletics in the language with his discourses might excite the students' attention. The results of Sunday's shirtsleeve 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. 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 work for 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 factory boss 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 the summer of campaigning for the United States senator 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 receive only $1 or $1.50 a week. Many employers had 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 Mills. London—Sun power will replace coal as the source of industrial energy and heat. So predicted A. S. E. Adcock 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. THE APPEAL STEADILY GAINS BECAUSE: 4-It is the organ of ALL Are-Americans. 5-It is not controlled by any ring or elixer. 6-It does no support but the people's. SAYS LIVING IS NO HIGHER. Investigator Digs Up Records and Makes Public His Conclusions. Bellefontaine, O.-Anson Carter, a pioneer grocer of Bellefontaine, has been searching old records regarding the comparative cost of food products now and in the past and has reached this conclusion: "Aside from three things—butter, poultry and meat—prices of staple groceries in the bulk are not higher than, they were twenty-five years ago. "A man and woman can," to housekeeping today in better manner for the amount of money than a couple could of the budgetary age. It is the desire of the business owner so much prepared food and so many things done up in attractive packages that has increased the cost of living. "The average can of baked beans does not contain 2 cents' worth of beans, and a package of crackers contains but little more than four ounces. People are avoiding preparing food for themselves. "If people would continue to buy everything in the bulk at the grocery they used to do and cook their food for themselves as they used to do there would not be a high cost of living problem." RENTED HEN STRIKES. Quits Laying, and Owner Has to Sue Neighbor For Rent. Sunbury, Pa.-When eggs touched 60 cents a dozen recently Philip Bradford of Sunbury discovered a new form of speculation? It was revealed in Squire Tierney's court when Bradford brought suit against a neighbor to collect rental for a hen. Bradford has a lot of hens. Instead of collecting his eggs and selling them he rented out the fowls at 2 cents a day, the renter winning if the hens contained the property. One of them was rented to Jake Snyder, but instead of laying she wanted to sit in, she was all she did. When Bradford attempted to collect his rental Snyder refused to pay. Squire Tierney gave judgment for 50 cents against Snyder. BABY TALK BREAKS HIS LONG SILENCE Spo-Pe, Indian of Mystery, Speaks For First Time. Washington—Spo-Pe, the Indian man of mystery, an inmate of the criminal division of the Government Hospital For the Insane at Washington, has broken a silence of more than thirty-two years. Spo-Pe's self imposed disuse of his talking apparatus has continued ever since the first day of his incarceration at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, in 1882. Adjudged of unsound mind at the fort, he went to the government hospital in 1882. His silence was accepted by the army medical examinator as a convincing measure of melancholy. The crime for which the Indian was imprisoned was the murder of a fur trader, an act of reprisal against the white race for the killing of his mother in one of the hostile interchanges between the United States troops and the Blackfoot Indians in 1879. It remained for Mrs. Malcolm Clark, one of a party of members of the Black-foot tribe, herself a halfbreed, to reawaken Spo-Pe's slumbering vocal organs. Times without number during his incarceration Spo-Pe to talk. Not a sylvester not even a grunt, has the aged warrior. But when Mr. and Mrs. Clark, in company with James Perrine and Charles W. Buck, paid a visit to the insane hospital they explained to the superintendent that they had understood there was an Indian among the inmates. Mrs. Clark had Spo-Pe pointed out to her. With her husband she addressed him in the stilted but eloquent Indian tongue. Spo-Pe gave no indication that he understood. Then Mrs. Clark said to her friends, "Step back, let me whisper to him." She sat down beside the solemn red man and began a musical form of baby talk, "the language of little people," as the Indians call it. She crooned and crooned to the gray headed man until finally the stold heart seemed to melt. "What is your name?" she said, still in mid-dialect. "Spo-Pe." Come from the lips of the stole. And for the first time since he entered the hospital Spo-Pe had broken his silence. Finding that his tongue would really perform its office, Spo-Pe's first question was: "Where is Three Bears?" Three Bears was a brother of the Indian who died in 1888. Since the breaking of the thirty-two years' silence Spo-Pe has expressed a willingness to discourse, but as the Blackfoot language is not universally understood, government hospital he finds considerably difficult in obtaining companionship. Injury Restores Hearing. Logootee, Ind.-Charles A. Bertrand, aged sixty-five, a harnessmaker, deaf fifteen years, met with a fortunate accident. He was stooping to pick a tool from the floor when a sile fell, from a bench and stuck in his ear. It was removed by a doctor. Bertrand found that his hearing had been restored. $2.40 PER YEAR. RESERVE ARMY AMERICA'S NEED Must Have It to Maintain Our Position, Says Wood. ADVOCATES SUMMER GAMPS In Address to Students at Yale He Explains the Duties of a Member of These Camps and Urges College Men In All Parts of Nation to Affiliate With Them. New Haven, Conn.-Just before the outbreak of the war with Mexico General Wood, commanding general of the army, asserted that the United States needed a large reserve army, not for war, but to prevent war. General Wood originated the idea of students' camps of military instruction, and he was working up enthusiasm among collegians for the four camps which will be held this summer. He holds they will do much to develop officers for a volunteer army if needed. "There is a good reason for these camps," he said in addressing the Yale students. "The United States, always a great power, has recently become a world power in the broadest sense of the term. All sorts of new responsibilities are belonging us. We in the army do not believe in a large standing army, but we are all of us believers in a well prepared people—believe in that preparedness does not mean war, but that it means avoidance of war. "We know that arbitration is very effective. Every soldier works for ar- by American Press Association. MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD. bitration, just as every life saver on the beach works for any apparatus or device which will minimize the risk of bathers. He is not going to shirk his duty to go into the storm when it comes, but he is going to try to avoid all unnecessary loss of life. "We men responsible for the military preparedness of the country—and I mean preparedness in the technical sense—are doing all we can to get the country ready. We know perfectly well that the regular army is only a drop in the bucket and that when the milita is added you get but a slightly larger drop. Consider that in the civil war there were more than 2,000,000 men in the army of the north and more than 1,000,000 in the army of the south and then you will realize that our call for 200,000 competent men is not a large war. "We don't want a large standing army, but we want to see this idea worked out as in Switzerland, where the bulk of the people have had a military training without interfering with their economic or professional lives. This sums up what we want to do. National has ever lived which allowed other people to do its work or its fighting. It is all right to talk about arbitration, but there are certain vital questions which can never be arbitrated. They must be fought out. "In this country we must look to our volunteers in time of war. The great bulk of our fighting force comes from the people themselves. First comes the regular army, then the milita, but the greatest numbers and strength are from the volunteer forces. We can't get them from the military and from the milita to direct these great numbers. We must instruct a volunteer officers' force in times of peace. "In these summer camps we will learn something not only of military art, but of military history. You learn something of military reserves. They are as important to the army as are substitutes in the football game when one of the regulars is injured. We must have men to build up organizations which can maintain the maximum strength. War at present is short and forceful. Two well organized fleet, and the superiority is soon deeded. "We look to young men all over the country to get straight ideas. Now, don't confuse with this idea any thought of militarism, for that to us means a large standing army, something which we do not want. We want a force sufficient for the needs of the day and to train by it a large reserve" PU 5 sor RR GuelouRe "" 77 + Wye Apeenisy come S o%, ar A anes Ais A ay ae Sut) fin yt ye i [eae ¥ A 5 es oma ee THE APPEAL National Afro-American Newspaper J. Q .ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER | 40 5, 4an seroat, St, Foal tan, ST. PAUL OFFICE No, 286 Union Bloek, 49 E. 4th St. J. @. 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THERE'LL BE SOMETHING DOING WE HOPE. ‘The state of California seems bound to be of some assistance finally in settling the status of the railroad porter in-sofar as tipping has been made a part of his income. The Pull man Company pays the porter $27.50 per month for services and the State of California considers this altogether too small a wage upon which a man can live. Just how much’the Pullman Company expects the public to pay per month to each porter to make up the balance of the wage of the porter and just what the company estimates that balance: to be, and whether or not the Pullman Company cannot find enough money to pay the porter a living wage out of the enormous “dividends” and “melons,” which are cut and distributed almost yearly to the stockholders, are some of the main matters which will be brought to light by the proposed investigation. To this might be added the query as to how much of the linen of the com- pany is paid for out of the regular monthly deductions for “lost linen” from the porter’s “princely” monthly wage? BEGGARS WHO HARM. .. Just now the North is overrun by Afro-American beggars, who are col- lecting contributions for colleges and universities, which are alleged to have been organized for the “uplift” of the race, s ‘The Rev. H. 0. T. Hamphat, A. M, D. D, Ph. D., of Mussel Creek, Okla: homa; Ketchuman Cheatem, A M., D. D, D.C, L, of Heavenly View, Mis- sissipp!; the Very Reverend A. S. S. Gobbleumup, P. D. Q., of Bear | Wal- low, Georgia, and a host of other wor- thies with queer names, welghted down with a string of degrees, con- ferred 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. 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. THE APPEAL does not object to the collection of funds for proper edu: cational purposes but is opposed to some of the methods of these unctuous collectors, who are evidently more in- terested in providing food and drink and raiment for their own fat and sleek bodies than in uplift work. In order to curry favor witn the whites, they make false.and disgist- ing statements in their speeches, praise their Southern oppressors, up- hold segregation and laud their own degradation. If the South is so at- tractive 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. AGERE eee Oa age aE NR er ee The Clark Bill prohibiting inter-mar- riage of the races in the District of Columbia, recently reported favorably hy 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 legisla- tion. Caucasians usually marry Cau- casians and Afro-Americans usually marry Afro-Americans, The number who marry interracially is wholly neg- ligible. ‘She real purpose of the Bill is to place a stigma upon the Afro- Ametican people, The Clark Bill is really an open in- vitation to immorality and leaves the Afro-American woman without protec tion and an easy prey to vicious men of the white race. If there is to be any mixing of thé races it ought to be done legitimately in Christian mar- riage 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, de- generates and criminals. | And then there is another point of view. ‘The mixing which has already taken place has not resulted in de- generate specimens of manhood. The ‘rst blood spilled in the Revolution- ary War was that of a mixed-blood —Crispus Attucks. Frederick Doug- lass, one of £merica’s greatest orators, a patriot and a statesman was of mixed-blood. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, the great llterateur and sociologist, is a mixed-blood. Dr. Booker T. Wash- ington, the great industrial educator, is a mixed-blood, HL Y. Tanner, the great artist whose pictures have been pur- chased 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-bioods of whom Amer- fea may well be proud, i 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 legis- lation. Write to your 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 tne opinion of Dr. J. S. Lyons, of Louisville, Ky., moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly of the United States. “Americans are be- ginning to look at things from a moral RACE PREJUDICE. z I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than Race Pre- judice; 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 persecu- tion and all the darkest poisons of the human soul, | ‘-H. @. Wells in N. Y. Independent. standpoint instead of a material one. America is the big brother of other nations.” This is a speciman 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 sn 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 de- grade the race? . ‘True idealism, true morality would abolish Kentucky's infamous color line laws, jimcrow cars and ghettos. If the Caucasian Christians of Ken- tucky 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 de- cadent in America today that there jare few real Christians except Afro- Americans. ‘The souls of American Caucasians have been so: warped by the infamous color prejudice rampant in this coun- try that in the majority of cases they are not true followers of the Nazarene. ‘Before the awful color line American Christianity stands paralyzed and aumb. ‘There are today 5,000,000 more Mos- lems 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 Moham- medans every year than are turifing 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 Moham- med. 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 rea’- ity. The orientals are too shrewd to be caught in any large numbers by a jimerow 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. Congressman J. B. Aswell, of Louisi- ana, addressed the Hibernian Associa- tion of Savannah, Ga. recently on “The Freedom of Man.” As Aswell is the author of the Bill to jimerow Afro- Americans in the Civil Service we pre- sume his idea of freedom is limited to certain varieties of men, Savannah, Georgia, where the speech was de- livered, also claims the rather doubt- ful honor of being the home of -Con- gressman Edwards, author of another jimerow Bill. SAFE DEPOSIT AND STORAGE VAULTS—We invite your inspection. Ht costs little to place your valuable papers, cash, securities and other val- uables’in absolute saféty. Boxes in our vaults can be had for $4 per year. Store your boxes, trunks, etc, with us. Northwestern Trust Co., 138 En- dicott Arcade—Advertisement. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. For the. Advancement of Colored People. Baltimore, April 29—One of the largest gatherings ever held in this country on the Negro question, will take place in this city on May 3rd, 4th and 5th, under the auspices of’ the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. Distinguished social workers and Dublicists from all parts of the country will assemble here to discuss the prob- lems growing out of the industrial and educational needs of the colored peo- Dle, as well as those relating to segre- gation and discrimination. Both white and colored speakers are on the program. Among the former are ‘Moorfield Storey of Boston, the Presi- dent of the Association;’ Professor Jacques Loeb, a leading American bi- ologist; Mrs. Robert La Follette, wife of the senator from Wisconsin; ‘Sena- tor Wesley L, Jones of Washington; ex-Attorney-General Charles J. Bona- Parte of Baltimore; Mrs. Havelock Ellis, wife of the English. scientist; Dr, Joel B. Spingarn; and Oswald Gar- rison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post, The conference opens on May 3rd, with a message from His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons. The address by Professor Loeb, which is likely to attract widespread attention, on “The Theory of Racial Inferiority in the Light, of Recent Biological Know! edge.” Professor Loeb is said to be strongly opposed to some of the dog- matic assertions which have been made in the name of science, by Cham- berlain and others, regarding the al- leged superiority of the Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic stock. He speaks with more than ordinary authority on this a ; 7. =: 6S hae subject as one of America’s leading biologists and the head of the Rocke- feller Institute for biological research. At the sama session Mrs. La Follétte will speak |on "Colored Folk and Philanthropy,” and addresses will be made by Dr. Howard Kelley, of Johns Hopkins University, Rev. R. W. Bag: nall of Detroit, and’ others. On Monday there will be addresses by Dr. Katherine Bement Davis, of the Department of Correction of New York City, on “The Delinquent Col ored Woman;” Mr, Justin Carter, of Harrisburg, Pa,, on “Discrimination in the Professions;”” Mrs. Havelock Ellis; Dr. Joel E. Spingarn; Arichbald H. Grimke, of Washington, D. C. The Teading’ address on Monday evening will be one by Senator Wesley L. Jones, on Agricultural Education, Southerners will take, a significant part in the program. ‘Chief among them will be Miss Adelene Moffat, a Souther white woman who speaks on “The Southern Renaissance.” EX-At- torney-General Charles J. Bonapart, of Baltimore, will speak on “Legal and Economic’ Equality” and there will be addresses by Attorney W. Ashbie Haw- Kins and the Rev. G, R. Waller, also of Baltimore. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, editor of “The Crisis,” published by the association, will ‘preside at the afternoon session and Bishop Hurst, of Baltimore, at the evening session. The conference adjourns Tuesday night after an address by Oswald Garrison Villard on “Some traitors, to. the South.” 2 Orie of the features of the confer. ence: will be the award of the Spin- garn medal for “the highest or nob- lest achievement by a Negro man or woman during the year just past.” This medal,; which is given annually by Dr, Joel EK. ‘Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the Associa: tion, will be awarded this year by a committee “consisting of ex-President Taft, Oswald Garrison Villard, Dr James -H. Dillard, .director of the Jeanes and, Slater Funds; President John Hope bf Morehouse College, At lanta; and Bishop Hurst, of Baltimore who is chairman. (Minnesota is taking a prominent part in the program and on May 5th, at the afterpoon session, Father 8. Theobald, of St. Peter Claver church as the delegate from the branches o ‘St. Paul and Minneapolis, will speak on, “The Catholic church and_ the Negro,” and at the Post Conference ‘Meeting, in Washington, D. C., U. S Senator Moses E. Clapp will make @n ‘address.—Wa.] TO THE PUBLIC. The Colored Citizens’ Civic and Com- mercial League, Incorporated, has re- moved its charter and belongings from 19 ‘Washington Ave. North, Minne- apolis, and is at present without per- manent club rooms; temporary head- quarters, 1020 Met. Life Bldg., Min- neapolis, Minn, at the office of the president, Wm. H. H. Franklin. The members and directors were 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 ques- tion of allowing either’ the conditions to exist at this address that-exist in every other colored dive in Minne- apolis, viz.,. protected vice, or, Keep- ing up our {deals and our faith with the public. We have chosen. We shall not be connected, in any man- ner, with said place, hereafter, nor in any wise responsible for what occurs therein or thereat, ‘The Board of Directors, - 6 C & C. LEAGUE. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared and issued by Orrington C. Hall, 763 Fauquier St, St. Paul, for which $1.00 per ineh is to be paid. WHO I8-Y.0UR REAL FRIEND? At first it seemed an inadvertent error that Mr. Powers was not asked to join the Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. Now that Mr. Nash's membership in that organization is being deliberately used to oppose Mr. Powers the error seems well designed. Mr. Powers is and always has been an active friend of our people. He is modest and always operates, quietly. Through the Sunshine Society his family has done much for needy Col- ored people, but they do not parade it, / Last Christmas when the Goodfel- lows Club had not sufficient means to care for demands, and when others said “We will care for our own first,” Mr. and Mrs. Powers deliberately chose Colored children to care for. Mr. ‘Nash's closet friends are the people who control the Y. M. C. A. and locked the doors of that institu. tion against Colored boys, and affable person, who is attempting to build up a machine to beat Congressman Stev- ens this fall. ‘Mr. Power's friends are the persons who have opened every political door- way that the Colored peole of St. Paul enter, beginning with the Fire De- partment and ending with Mrs, Boo- ker's appointment as Assistant Matron at the County Jail, including appoint- ments at the State Capitol, Frank Kingry, deputy sheriff, and 0. C. Hall clerk in office of County Auditor. If you wish to vote for the Advance- ment of Colored people, vote for Winn Powers for Mayor. Orrington C. Hall. Colored Business Men’s Association. | On last Wednesday evening Bowlby Hall was the scene of a notable gath- ering, the occasion being the Get- together Supper of the Colored Bus- iness Men's Association of St. Paul, an organization which, it properly fostered and supported, will mean much for the welfare of the Afro- Americans of the city. | The table was set in the spacious dining room in the shape of one-half of a hollow square and was ‘quite inviting with its handsome decora- ‘tions of potted plants; and, as evi dence of the ability of Messrs. 0. Howell, J. H. Zedricks and Clifford A. Smith, the supper committee, as caterers, it was very convincing. The menu was as follows: Pickles Celery Olives Boston Baked Beans * Kentucky Boiled Ham Minnesota Potted Corn Beet Sliced Tomatoes and Lettuce Swedish Sardines, Saratoga Potatoes , Potato Salad Krispy’ Crackers Cream Cheese Buttered Parker House Roils Coftee Cigars And as J. Q. Adams, chairman of the "Entertainment Committee said: “Can you beat it for 35 cents.” ‘The guests sat down at 9:30. Rev. A. H. Lealtad said grace and in ab- sence of the president, T. H. Lyles the first vice president, Rev. Jos. S. Strong presided. He made a few re- marks in reference to the organization and speeches followed by Dr. Valdo Turner, Dr. 0. D. Howard, B. J. Wil Vams, ‘Clarence .L. Smith, "Charles Sumner Smith, of the Twin City Star, Rey. A. H. Lealtad, 0. Howell, Dr. 1. H, Williams, G. T, Williams, J. H. Loomis, J. H. Charleston. ‘The prin: cipal speaker of the evening was W. T. Francis, Esq, who had for his theme “Organization” and he handled his subject in a masterly manner. The other speakers also all made -ex- cellent speeches showing that all are fully alive to importance of objects for which the organization is intended. Those who enjoyed this splendid affair were: J. H. Loomis, ©. S. Smith, Rev. A. H. Lealtad, W. T. Fran- cis, Rev. J. S. Strong, J. Q. Adams, Dr. 0, D. Howard, J. H. Hayes, Dr. Valdo Turner, C.”L. Smith, Gd. B. Lowe, E. J. Williams, S. L. Maxwell, J. H. Charleston, G. T. Williams, Dr. 1. H. Williams, 0. Howell, W. Gard- ner, R. Beard, C. A. Smith, W. J. Ut ley, H. Robinson, J. H. Zedricks, A. ©. Lyles. During the evening splendid music was furnished by the Imperial Orches- tra, ‘ Four new members were added to the membership list. ‘The next meeting will be held at the Valet Tailoring Co.'s, 154 B. 6th street next Monday night to which all interested persons are cordially ‘invited. Men's Club Opening, ‘The formal opening of the “Men's Club,” at the parish hall of St. Peter Claver Church last Monday evening Was quite a notable event. The club was organized some weeks ago, but has just been fitted up with patent exerciser, punching ‘bags, boxing gloves, dumb bells, pool table, nucleus of a brary, ete, and makes quite an attractive appearance, and doubt- ess will soon become a popular re- sort of young anf old of both sexes as, one evening each week is to be “Ladies' Night.” Upward of seventy- five persons, many being ladies, were present Monday night and listened to the program consisting of a piano prelude by Miss Patrick, the organist of the church; solo, “Oh, Dry Those Tears,” by Mrs. Hattie Loomis-Oliver; address by Archbishop Ireland, who was fittingly introduced by Father S. Lv Theobald, president of the club; address by C. D. O'Brien, Bsa.; ad- dress by Father Reardon, editor of the Catholic Bulletin, and ‘as a finale a number of very clever tricks in parlor magic by Mr. A.B. White. It is needless to say that the address by the Archbishop was replete with scund, wholesome advice and words of encouragement, as also was that of Mr. O'Brien and Father Reardon. ‘After the program refreshments were served and a general good time was had by all present until a late hour. Dr. H. I. Williams, the dentist, 27 , Seventh street; who has been un- able for some time to comfortably ac- commodate his patients, is now pre- pared to do so, He has secured the adjoining room, removed the partitions and now has two large operating Tooms and a much ‘larger reception Toom. 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 dafly increasing clientele. For tooth troubles see-Dr. H. I. Williams, second floor Kendrick Block, 27 XE. Seventh street.—Advertisement. f Q : a ar 3 | dot a an, — P \ ee yA W.E. i oe rola rotee NN e SS PAID ADVERTISEMENT Nagel, 906 King street, St. Paul, for Prepared by and issued for R. C. which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. y _~ To be Voted for all Over the City ¥ R. C. NAGLE 4 p Candidate for Re-Election Ry SECOND TERM : We ror co or NSTABLE PAID ADVERTISEMENT § Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 E. $ PAID ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 East Fourth street, St. Paul, in behalf of the eandldats' here named, for amie $100 per inch is b> beat JAMES L. JOHNSON ee Candidate for Re-Election as JUSTICE OF, THE PEACE Voted for all over the City Judge Johnson, for many years has served the people as Justice of the Peace with that fidelity and singleness of purpose to balance the scales of justice between man and man that al- though in every case that is tried be- fore him some one must lose and someone win, he has maintained the confidence of the people. This he, deserves and is ample endorsement: of a Just Judge. : we 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. eon FOR COUNCILMAN Ocwfilr Oscar H. Keller, candidate for coun- | p cllman of the city of St. Paul, is the | o father and most energetic promoter | h of the free concerts, and as president | n ofthe Assembly he helped to make | i up three successive budgets. a Experience is a valuable asset for |p any futur8 councilman, c Fourth street, St. Paul, Minn, for the candidate named below, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who- soever believeth in Him should not perish but nave everlasting life. John 3:16. There is a way which seometh right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.—Proverbs 14:12.—Selected by E. W. Gilles. The place to have your shoe re- pairing done in the best possible way at the lowest possible price Is at YARVIS', 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. 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. ji 4 Qe F. E. BAKER. 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 om Fourth street. He is worthy d capable and should get the elec- fon with no trouble. PAID ADVERTISEMENT |_ Prepared by J. Q. Adams, 49 E, |Fourth street, St. Paul, Minn, for the candidate named below, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. ® i ay ™ i 2 so q C Ne a " eR aA dO me cet Ee Ree eee eR of St, Paul. ait: 8. Goss, candidate for Council man, served as chief of police some fourteen years ago and is quite fam- fliar with the civie condition and needs of the clty. His platform is as follows: If elected to said office, I shall ful- fill my duties with the following aims and objects in view: “That as a servant of all the peo- ple and not of any particular faction of. interest, 1, will strive toward. an honest, efficient and economical ad- ministration of the city’s affairs, keep- ing constantly in mind the intention and wishes of our citizenship as ex- Dressed in the commission form of charter.” A a Look out for the grand Fish Fry, at the Acme Club, next Monday evening, May 4. FOR RENT—To a woman only, a nice furnished room at 636 University avenue. Phone Dale 7724.—Advertisement, 5-2. Owing to the inclement weather last Monday evening, the concert of the Buckner Jubilee Singers at St. James Church was not given. Mr. and Mrs. James Lane, who have been stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Saunders for some time, left Tuesday for Chicago, for an indefinite stay. If you have anything good to say of THE APPEAL tell it to you: friends. If you have anything bad, tell it to "Hustling" Morgan, the agent. D. D. D., which stands for Dozen Doughnuts Dime. You can get them at the Home Bakery, 443 Rondo street. Another D. might be added for Delicious, for that's what they are. HAIR CULTURE—Scalp Treatment and Hair Culture. Any one wishing the PORO treatment and PORO Hair Grower, should apply to Mrs. G. W. Bell, 1776 W. Minnehaha street, St. Paul, Minn.—Advertisement, 5-2. 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 2076.—Advertisement. For the first time in ten years, this week, the Ramsey County Work House is without a female prisoner. There are 92 men and in the absence of female prisoners, who usually do the laundry work, the men had to do it themselves. THE GRANBERRY TAILORING CO., N. T. Granberry & F. H. Monroe, Props, have taken over the Walden and Bodene tailor shop, 30 E. 4th street, and they are prepared to do anything in the line of up-to-date tailoring. Give them a call.—Advertisement. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Brown, of 179 Charles street, entertained at 11 o'clock breakfast, last Sunday, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Ware, of Minneapolis. Covers were laid for six and the hostess showed herself to be an adept in the art of entertaining. Judges G. M. Orr, O. B. Lewis and F. M. Catlin, the present incumbents of the district bench filed Thursday for re-election. Judge Hugo O. Hantt and Walter L. Chapin also filed for District Judgeships. R. D. O'Brien, the present County Attorney also filed for re-election. The most recherech social function for some time was the dancing party given by the "Social Six," at Bowly Hall, last Friday evening. Elite society was splendidly represented, both in pennelle and dress. There were about 40 couple present and all spent the evening delightfully. Mr. Chester W. Patterson is now acting as agent for the John Brown Cigar Co., and is making good. The special brands of the company are: "John Brown," "Thin Dime" and "Blue Head." When you wish a cigar just call for one of these. Mr. Patterson is still writing insurance also, don't forget that. THE BUSY BEE CAFE. 317 Wabasha street (upstairs), W. F. T. Chandler proprietor. Unexcelled cuisine. First class home cooked meals a la carte at all hours. A splendid regular served from 11:30 a. m. to 3:00 p. m., at 25 cents. Open day and night. Tel. N. W. Cedar 4525—Advertisement. J. Will King was on trial this week for collecting money in the name of the Crispus Attucks Home and applying it to his own use. He was sentenced 90 days in the work house, but the sentence was suspended for 48 hours on the condition that he leave the state of Minnesota, which he agreed to do. Tomorrow morning, at 10:30 o'clock, Mr. Sumio Uesugi, a native of Japan, will speak at St. James A. M. E. church. He will appear in Japanese costume. His subject will be, "How I Became a Christian." The regular morning serman will be preached by the pastor; subject, "Resistance." Mr. Sudeth will be baptised at this service. Wesley Grisham, former door man at the Orpheum, seems to be playing in hard luck. He was arrested some days ago in connection with the disappearance of an automobile from the Orpheum. His case came to trial Tuesday, and was stricken from the calendar. But half hour later he was rearrested and his case was continued to May 6. Mrs. E. E. Covington, 42 W. Fourth street, entertained at cards and a Dutch lunch, last Saturday evening, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tandy, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Brown, Mrs. C. Thomas, of Chicago, Mrs. F. E. Henley, Mr. Henry Johnson and Master James Henley. As Mrs. Covington is a delightful hostess al had a very delightful time. The Grand Rally, which was held by the Eighth Ward Afro-American Voters' Non-Partisan Club at Loeffelholt Hall, in the interest of Winn Powers, last Thursday evening, was quite a meeting, the house was full. Geo. B. Lowe presided and J. H. Zedricks acted as secretary. Speeches were made by Winn Powers, O. C Hall, D. J. Sullivan, J. W. Boerner, Wm. Quinn, Henry McColl, Irwin Wellborne, R. O. Lee and others. There was much enthusiasm and refreshments. Mr. Sylvester Bellenes and Miss Pearl Harrison were united in marriage at the parsonage of St. James A. M. E. church last Monday evening. Rev. H. P. Jones officiating. Only a few intimate friends were present. The bride wore a traveling costume of blue. The attendants were Mr. Adrian Cotton and Miss Erma Valley. After the ceremony the wedding reception and supper was held at the residence of Mr. A. A. Cotton on Carroll avenue. Tuesday morning the young couple left for their future home near Swift Current. Sask., Can. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so kindly assisted us in our recent bereavement in the loss of our dear mother and grandmother, Mrs. Julia Smith. We also wish to thank the members of the Union Fraternal Benevolent Association and the Ladies of the G. A. R. and all who kindly gave floral tributes. Mrs. John Warren, Burt Smith and Grandchildren. WANTED—A good managing housekeeper, man or woman, to take charge of a large rooming house. Call at once at 1015 South Fifth street. Tel. Nicollet 951. Advertisement. 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 once to Israel J. "Putnam, Palace Hotel, Hibbing, Minn." 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. CAPITOL STEAM LAUNDRY. "The House of Quality and Service." Besides doing first class laundry work at low rates, also does DRY CLEANING, and for a short time offers these special rates: Ladies' Suits $1.50 Ladies' Long Coats, full lining 1.50 Ladies' Long Coats, half lining 1.50 Ladies' Long Coats, no lining 1.00 Ladies' Long Gloves 10 Ladies' Short Gloves .05 Men's Suits 1.00 Men's Spring Over Coats 1.00 Try us and you will be convinced. Our wagons go everywhere. Phone N. W. Cedar $39. Tri-State 1643 Phone N. W. Cedar 939, Tri-State 1643 743 Wabasha S. St. Paul, Minn. 743 Wabasha S. St. Paul, Minn. Afro-American Labor League The Afro-American Labor League met Thursday night at The Little Diamond Cafe, 476 Robert street, and had a splendid meeting. They had sent letters to the various candidates asking where they stood on "St. Paul Men for St. Paul Jobs," and satisfactory replies were received from Winn Powers, D. J. Sullivan, Henry McColl, W. C. Stieger, H. G. Haas and J. W. Ryan. The regular routine business was conducted, including the adoption of the constitution which provides for a 25-cent membership fee and monthly dues of 25 cents. The membership was increased to 35. Arrangements were made for the establishment of a free labor bureau. The next meeting will be held at same place next Thursday evening. J. Louis Irvin, Esq. and Dr. W. T. Mitchell made addresses. Stick to Your Friends To Honest Afro-American Voters:— In these days when friends are few and needed much, we must care well for those we have. As clerk in the office of the County Auditor, I represent our race in one of the best positions ever accorded any Afro-American in St. Paul. The person immediately responsible for the appointment is, of course, Geo. I Ries, county auditor, but it was an unhappy result, honest hearted German boy demanding a square deal for every one that attained 'Ries' attention to our people. That individual is now the man W. C. Stieger, alderman of the 12th ward, who seeks election as councilman. It is to the benefit of all that we elect men to office who are unbiased on the race question. Such men possess a degree of moral courage that may be trusted in other affairs. We are under obligation to W. C. Stieger. Let us joyfully show our appreciation of him at the polls, May 5th. Will the ladies who read this article please remind the men to vote for W. C. Stieger for councilman? Thanking my fellow citizens for their confidence and honors, I am, Looking for brighter days, Orrington C. Hall. MRS, MILLIE ALEXANDER 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. to 9:00 p. m. Phone Dale 4926. Hair dressing for weddings and parties a specialty. GOOD SHOES The Florsheim SHOE For the man who cares STANLEY SHOE CO. 421 Robert Street, St. Paul 422 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis. Office Cedar 5552 PHONES Res. Dale 2410 J. S. STRONG DEALER IN Real Estate Insurance Handles Farm Lands and City Property; Bulldie, Buys, Sells or Renta Houses. Insures your Life, your House, your Household Goods Insures against damage by Fire, Lightning or Tornade. See STRONG before closing a deal Elsewhere. Office 25-26 Union Block Corner of Fourth and Codar. ST. PAUL MINN. EVERY PATRON OF THE RECENT CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF EMANCIPATION OBLIGATED HIMSELF TO PAY $2, THE PRICE OF TWO TICKETS, WHERE THE HER 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 OF THE CELEBRATION. THERE IS A VERY CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF THE PATRONS 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 APPLIES TO EVERY PATRON WHOSE NAME WAS ON THE LIST, THAT HAS NOT REPORTED. IT DO IT NOW. CITATION FOR EXAMINATION OF CITATION OF FINAL ACCOUNT STATE OF OMNIA COUNTY' OF Ramsey—ss. In Probate Court. In the Matter of the Estate of Annie K. Gerke, the Seventh decedent. In the Matter of the Minnesota to All Whom it May Concern. On reading and filing the petition of the petition of the estate, praying that the Court fix a time and place, examining, adjusting and allowing his Account, and for the assignment of the rest, give said estate to the persons thereto entitled. TWIN CITY STAG CLUB 246-50 FOURTH AVE S. J.E. STEWART, Manager FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. Twenty Elegant, Steam Heated, Electric Lighted Rooms for Gentlemen Only. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, Barber Shop and Bath, Private Dining and Reception Room for Ladies. A LA CARTE MEALS AT. ALL HOURS. BEST SERVICE. Daily, From 1 to 6 P. M. 25 to 35 Cts Sunday, 35 to 50 Cents. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. Phone Nic. 9769. SMOKE THE OLD RELIABLE Sight Draft CIGAR The King of Nickel Cigars W. S. CONRAD CO. ST. PAUL G. W. MOORE PROPRIETOR READING ROOM LAUNDRY OFFICE FOR FIRST CLASS TONSORIAL WORK GO TO UTLEY'S 30 EAST FOURTH STREET Shaving, Hair-Cutting, Shampooing, Electric Head and Face Massage, Manieuring, Sanitary Baths, Shoes Polished BAGGAGE MAKERS AND MENDERS F. V. GARLAND CO 377 Robert Str et THE BARMAN'S BAR Whoknows thequality, purity and exquisite flavor of Hamm's Beer will serve his guest with no other. Try a case "Leads them all" Theo. Hamm Brewing Co. Saint Paul, Minn. Dont grow Old Digesto PAINT AND TOP TONIC Digesto keeps you young Sold by all druggists THEO HAMM BREWING COMPANY ST PAUL MINN Let us show you how to SAVE MONEY and SPACE in your home by using the NORTHWESTERN REVERSIBLE CONCEALED WALL BED For full information call, write or Phone NORTHWESTERN BEDDING CO. Bradford and Wycliff Sts. St. Paul. T. S. Park 6275—N. W. Midway 137 Best Service Good Music "LA FRANCE" CHOP SUEY CAFE Mrs. J. M, Mask, Prop. & Mgr. AMERICAN AND CHINESE DISHES Regular Dinner from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. OPEN FROM 7 A. M. TO 2 A. M. 255 First Av S. Minneapolis QUITO PRESSED VALET TAILORING CO 130 E. SURTH ST $1 TRUCK Cases and AGE MAKERS AND MEN V. GARLAND C Spring Wollens Are In TRY Clifford A. Smith THE TAILOR FOR A Summer Suit or Light Overcoat He has Pleased Others, He W Please You! PRESSING AND REPAIRING DOCK 09 Eighth St. Opposite Golden Telephone Main 3488-L St. Paul, - - Minn PHONE CEDAR 5352 F. D. Cummins Secy., 569 B PERFEC F. and A. Tuesdays, 5 Ave. and C. W. B. Ellis Secy., 317 BETHEL Meets secs. R. O. LEE ATTORNEY AT LAW PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS N. W. 940 Telephones T. S. 789 UL STEAM LAUNDRY! "The Sanitary Laundry" W. B. Webster, Prop. Class Work at Right Prices Called for and Delivered Price Street ST. PAUL N. W. 940 T ST. PAUL ST. "The Sam W. B. First Class W Called for 289-291 Rice Street LAW OFFICES OF J. LOUIS ERVIN ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 303 COURT BLOCK UL MINNESOTA 252 TWO FIFTY TWO PILGRIM 12th hall of O ing at T11 school at B ing general ing study S and wedding E. H. McD GOPHER E. of the e nesday night Hall, county St., St. F. Richard M. ST. JAM Fuller and ices: 11:00 prayer meet on Monday TWO FIFTY TWO 2 TWO FIFTY TWO 252 TWO FIFTY TWO Mild, Rich, Satisfying! 5c Try It Once and You'll Become a 252 "Fan" Sold by the Good Dealers Ask any Cigar Dealer for 'the King of Nickel Smokes' MADE ONLY BY HART & MURPHY SMOKE MAKERS SINCE 1857. SAINT PAUL, U.S.A. 25 UNION BLOCK 4TH AND CEDAR PHONE CEDAR 9140 SAINT PAUL ST. PAUL .INN. THE BOSTON EDITOR ST. PAUL ST. PAUL MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MINNESOTA, A. J. AND A. M. PIONEER LODGE NO. 1. F. AND A. M. meets first and third Mondays of each month at Warner Hall. U. of. mern Ave. and Charles street, at 8:00 p.m. F. D. Gamble, W. M.; J. H. Dillingham, Scey. 569 Rondo. PERFECT ASHLR LODGE NO. 4. F. A. meets second and fourth Tuesdays at Warner Hall. U. of. Western Ave. and Charles street at 8 p.m. W. B. Billott, W. M. W. F. Chandler, Scey. 317 Wabasha. BETHEL CHAPTER NO. 28 R. A. M. meets second Thursdays in each month at Warner Hall, cor. Western Ave. and Charles street, at 8:00 p.m. P. M. Arthur D. Adams, H. P. W. L. Green. Sec'y. PILGRIM COMMANDER NO. 22, Mines Templar, meets fourth Thursdays in month at Warner Hall, cogner West. and Charles street. W. T. Joyce, E. C.; John Sayles, W. 479 Rondo street. MARS LODGE NO. 2202 F. U. O. of O. P. meets first and third Mondays nights at Odd Fellows Hall, cogner West. and Warnerington, J. H. avenue. B. N. G. J. Wesley Kelly, P. G. 950 St. Anthony路. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 553 G U. O. of O. F. meet first and third month at Odd Fellows Fellows Hall, N. W. of Farrington and Farrington av. M. W. Clemantin N. M. G.; Mrs. Carrie E. Lindsay, W. K. 506 Thomas street. FREDERICK DOUGLASS LODGE NO. 9005 G. U. O. of O. F. meet first Friday nights in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, corner of Farrington and University in good standing welcome. All Odd Fellows in good standing welcome. A. J. Roberts, N. G.; James R. Lynn, P. S., 375 Carroll avenue. ST. PAUL PATRIARCHY NO. 114 meets third Monday in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, corner of W. University and Farrington. Entrance on Farrington. George B. Howe, R. V. ,P. Augustus Jones, W. P. R. Minneapolis. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH NO. 776 G U. meets second and fourth Tuesday in the Labor and Temple Hall, Cor. Fourth street and Ave. South, Mrs. S. Darager, M. N. G. Miss Cora Napler, W. R. UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP NORTH PARK LODGE NO. 138. U. B. F. Meets 3d hourly in each month as Wagner Hall, W. Ave. Charles street. Brothers are standing always welcome. O. Howell, M. J. Adams, W. S., 49. E. 4th St. MAMSEY LODGE NO. 3, U. B. F. Wear second Friday in each month at Magenis cor. Western Ave. and Charles Street. Brothers in good standing always welcome. M. A. Davig, W. M. A. D. Adams, W. S. 411 Charles Street. AYES LODGE No. 6 K. OF P. pies first and third Tuesday Castle Hall 221 W. Uni- versity cor. Farrington. Farrington in good standing always James Thomas, C. C.; Jas. A. Jason, C. C.; 148 E $th. St. E; K. R of R. St. Albans street. VOLCANO DE MADRID 1893 BIDDLE CIRCLE, LADIES OF G. A. R. meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Supreme Court room, old capitol building, M. J. Leavitt Pres. Mr. J. White, Secy., Phoenix Blvd. FIDELITY COURT OF CALANTEH NO. 345, N. A., S. A. E. A. A. and A. A. Hearn, M. J. Monday, each month at K. of P. Hall, 711 North Ave., Minneapolis. Mrs. Minerva E. Barnett, W. C.; Mist Arlene M. Scott, R. of D., 5. W. 29th St. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH, Cor 12th and Cedar. Sunday services: p. Preach school at 12:30 and 7:45 p.m. Sunday general general meeting. Friday waggle sandy Sunday school lesson. Funerals and weddings promptly attended. Rev. E. H. McDonald, Pastor, 591 W. Central. GOPHER LODGE NO. 105, I. B. P. O. of the World, meets the second Wednesday, in each month at Warner Hall, corner in McDonald St. St. Paul, B. L. Greer, E. E. Richard M. Johnson, Sec. 572 Kent street. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, COR- Fuller and Jay A. streets. Sunday serve- prayer meeting: 8:00 a.m. Monday, on Monday and Tuesday, at home Wed- nesday and Thursday. Weddings, fu- nished and skipped attend on notice. Parsonage 435 Jay street. Rev. Henry P. Jones, Pastor. S. PHILIPS EPISCOPAL MISSION corner Aurora. Aurora is located on street. Sunday services; Early pickup of Holy Eucharist, 7:30 a.m. h. High school. Holy Eucharist first and third Sundays, 11:00 a.m. and fourth Sundays, 11:00 a.m. m. Sunday school, 12:30 p.m. Brotherhood of h. Week services, Wednesdays, confirmation class, 8:00 p.m. Fridays, evening prayer week services, Holy Eucharist, 8:00 p.m. Rev. A. H. Lealtad, Rector, 395 Thomas St. ZION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Cor- Bington and St. Anthony avenues. Sun- day services, 8:00 a.m. Monday, 8:00 p.m. M.; Sunday School 12:30 p.m. M.; Young Peoples meeting, 7:00 p.m. M.; Mid- day Peoples meeting, 8:00 p.m. M. Rev. G. 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