The Appeal
Saturday, March 6, 1915
St. Paul, Minnesota
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VOL. 31. NO. 10.
DR. JUST WINS SPINGARN MEDAL Young Howard Professor Is Awarded First Prize.
One Hundred Dollar Gold Medal, the Gift of Dr. Joel E. Spinning, presented to Successful Candidate by Governor Charles S. Whitman—Great Throng Witnesses Ceremony.
By N. BARNETT DODSON.
New York—On Friday evening, Feb. 12, in the presence of an audience of upward of 2,000 people, at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Ethical Culture hall, Governor Whitman awarded to Dr. Ernest Everett the first Splinger medal. This $100 gold medal is offered annually by Dr. J. E. Spinning, chairman of the board of directors of the National association, to the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor.
Dr. Just since 1912 has been professor and head of the department of physiology in Howard University Medical school. He was born in Charleston, S. C., thirty-one years ago. He was prepared for college at Kimball Union academy at McGraw, N. H., and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1907, madeude, being the only one of his class to receive his special honor. He was also elected to the Beta Kappa. From 1909 to 1914 he has summoned his research work at the Marine Biological laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. He has been doing special research work in physiology and zoology since 1911.
In spite of his youth and the amount of time that his professional position requires him to devote to academic routine, he has been since 1912 a regular contributor to scientific periodicals. The Biological Bulletin, the official organ of the marine biological laboratory, has published a series of his scholarly accounts of his scientific investigations. He has now in press an
DR RENNET EVERETT JUST, WINNER OF
DR RENNET EVERETT JUST, MAINMED PRESENTED
FEB. 14, 1974.
DR. RENEISH EVERETT JUST, WINNER OF THE FIRST SINGHAIN MEDAL, PRESENTED FEB. 12, 1915.
article which is to appear in the Journal of Morphology, which is the organ of the Wister Institute of Medicine and Biology, Philadelphia. Dr. Just was chosen from a long list of candidates in many fields. He was recommended by men of the highest professional standing of both races. Dr. Jacques Loeb of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, in writing of Dr. Just, sai "His knowledge of biology and his critical ability are of an unusually high and lofty order. In the work he devotes to Howard the man he is guided by very high motives, since he remuneration he receives is only a fraction of his nominal salary. He could easily increase his come by giving up his position. Dr. Just has sacrificed a good deal for the advancement of medical schools for colored people, and he will do a good deal hope that he is given a chance, as I hope he may be."
Professor Lille of Chicago university, who has collaborated with Dr. Just in some of his research work, in recommending him wrote: "Dr. Just is a relatively young man of high scientific attentions and has great enthusiasm and ability in research. In the last two and a half years he has published most recent work is of the greatest significance and would insure him a wide reputation if he were a white man. No doubt you know of his position in Howard university, in Washington, and the good work he is doing there in bringing up the standards of medical education in his own race. The conditions under which he is obliged to carry it on are in some respects highly discouraging. He decided the award were: Bishop John Hurst, chairman: Ex-President Taft, John Hope, president of Morehouse college; Dr.
James H. Dillard, director of the Jeanes and Shater funds, and Oswald Garrison Villard, president of the New York Evening Post company. The Spingarn medal is offered each year by Dr. Spingarn and is not restricted to any particular field of human endeavor. The next award will probably be made at the annual conference of the association during the first week in May. After the speech by Governor Whitman Professor William Pickens of Wiley university made an eloquent appeal for his race. There were ten minute addresses by Mirza All Kull Kahn, representative of Persia to the United States; Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Glilman.
FOR
MERIT
SPINGARN MEDAL
AWARDED TO
BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF COLORED PEOPLE
The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People seeks to uplift the colored men and women of this country by securing to them the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, justice in all courts and equality of opportunity everywhere. It favors and aims to aid every kind of education among them save that which teaches special privilege or pervasive, class or caste. It recognizes the national character of the Negro problem and no sectionalism. It believes in the upholding of the constitution of the United States and its amendments in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. It upholds the doctrine of "all men up and no man down." It abhors Negro crime, but, still more, the conditions which breed crime, and, most of all, the crimes committed by mobs in the mackey of the law or by individuals who commit crimes, the believes that the scientific truths of the Negro problem must be available before a country can see its way wholly clear to right existing wrongs. It has no other belief than that the best way to uplift the colored man is the best way to aid the white man to peace and social content. It has no other desire than exact justice and no other motive than humanity.
the committee on the Spingarn prize spent much time and thought before it finally decided that, taking all things into consideration, from the many names of candidates presented that the farreaching results of the professional and scientific work of Dr. Just in its relation to human enlightenment as touching racial advancement during the fiscal year of the association merited the gold medal thus presented the intellectual ability of Dr. J. shows it is capable of attaining to as high development in literature and science as men of other races are.
New Rector of St. Thomas' Church.
The Rev. William E. Hendricks, formerly of Porto Rico, was recently installed rector of the St. Thomas Episcopal church on Twelfth street, Philadelphia. The Rev. Mr. Hendricks is a graduate of the General Theological seminary, New York. For the past three years Rector Hendricks has been very successful in conducting missionary work in Porto Rico. He is also a graduate of Lincoln university and received the degree of bachelor of arts from Yale college. Bishop Rhinelander officiated at the installation ceremonies of the Rev. Mr. Hendricks.
Minnesota Odd Fellows Are Active.
The Odd Fellows' fidelity of Minnesota is showing timely interest in the erection of a new modern building for the order in St. Paul. The hall is being built at a cost of $75,000. The building when finished will become a center for the various secret, business and social organizations of St. Paul, Minnesota and vicinity.
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ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN., SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915.
CANAL NEUTRALITY RULE.
Only Six Fighting Ships of Warring Nations May Pass at One Time.
Washington.—President Wilson recently issued a proclamation announcing the neutrality regulations for the Panama canal zone.
It provides that all vessels of belligerent nations shall be allowed to pass through the canal in the order of their arrival at either end, but that twenty-four hours shall elapse between the departure of vessels flying the flags of two nations that are at war.
War vessels shall pass through as rapidly as possible and shall not remain in waters adjacent to the canal longer than absolutely necessary. No vessels shall remain in the canal more than twenty-four hours.
The docking and requiring facilities of the United States shall be used by belligerent ships only to make repairs that are necessary to make seaworthiness.
Aeroplanes are forbidden to cross the zone or to make a landing at any point on the zone.
Commanders of belligerent vessels are forbidden to embark or disembark troops in the canal zone except for the purpose of unkilling necessary repairs.
There are than three vessels flying the flag of the belligerent nation anchored in the waters adjacent to the canal at one time, and not more than three, making six in all, shall pass through the canal at one time.
MOUSE TIES UP WHOLE TOWN
Causes Short Circuit at Light Plant and Everything Stops.
Hutchinson, Kan. - An undersized mouse short circuiting some wires in the city electric light plant here stopped the street cars, put out all the lights in the city, shut down certain parts of the salt plants, chemical works, flour mills, strawboard plant, newspaper typesetting machines, one telegraph company and other industries depending on electric motors for power for an hour.
Edward Benson, assistant engineer at the plant, tried to get the mouse out with a pair of tongs without shutting down the plant, and the little animal jumped into a connection that electrocuted, causing several thousand people to take a precaution when the burned out switches and wires could be repaired.
Mr. Benson was badly burned about the hands, arms and face, but will recover.
PHYSICAL BLIGHT AS FRUIT OF THE WAR
Offspring of Survivors to Be Weak and Crippled.
Washington.—Over Europe of the future, no matter upon which side victory rests, declare medical men and scientists, will sweep the devastating hand of physical blight. Children with crippled forms, weak bodies and unhealthy nations will be the cradles of every nation now at war, pouring of the men made unit for parentage by the rigors of the great conflict.
Dr. Ales Hrdlščur, curator of the National museum and noted anthropologist, is one of the savants who has studied the effect of Europe's conflict upon the children yet to be born. To him the present war presents a vastly different aspect with regard to future generations than any conflict has ever presented before.
Since men of science first began to bandage effect of wars upon the human races it has been admitted whenever the best physical examples of a nation went to war to be destroyed the physical manhood of that nation suffered. Then it was discovered that for every man killed or fatally wounded four died of disease. As warfare approached its present modern character the number of killed and wounded in each engagement decreased, while the number who died from "natural causes" increased. Army physicians say the percentage of mortality from the present conflict is likely to be far less than it has been in the wars of the past.
But the scientists—both medical men and anthropologists—ad to that statement their belief that the loss of the men killed in the war will not detract from the future of Europe's future, one-hundred years much as will the men who return unwounded from the field, because war is no longer primarily an anthilogist of life, so far as the calculations of science are concerned, but a shatterer of nerves and constructions, a creator of neuronal nerve connections, a developer of mentalities and sapped vitalities.
REASONS WHY MEN DRINK.
"Toothache," "Heavy Cold" and "Stomach Trouble." So They Say.
Columbus, Ind.-A survey of the causes that take men into the city court here shows that toothache is to blame more than anything else. Next to "toothache" is "heavy cold," and "stomach trouble" runs a poor third. Nearly every man who is arrested on a crime such as such excuse. There are a few, however, admit they get drunk just to be drunk and have no excuse to offer.
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MANY OPINIONS ADVANCED.
Views of Former Advisor For United States Navy Department on Title by Which Our Race Should Be Recognized—Colored American Seems More Appropriate.
BY RALPH W. TYLER.
There is wide variance among us as to which of the descriptive terms Negro, colored or Afro-American should be applied to us as a people to distinguish us from the white race. In truth, we are Americans—that is, the very great majority of our people—who, with their forebears for many generations back, were born in this country. Dr. Booker T. Washington has insisted, and does insist today, on the use of the descriptive term "Negro" and has used his best endeavors and very great influence to not only have the Associated Press and many metropolitan publications by white people use that term exclusively, but to capitalize it.
But are we "Negroes?" The dictionary, and that is the final arbiter for all etymological disputes, says a "Negro" is a "black swain, a member of that African race" which is characterized by a "black or very dark skin and skin so woolly or crisp nature." African Mark, you it, is an African. African Mark, clearly indicating that because a black or dark skinned person may be in Africa he is not necessarily a "Negro." A "Negro" is a member of "THAT African race which etc."
We are not Africans because we are native born and native sired Americans. Some of us may be black; some of us are brown; some of us, like Dr. Washington, are mulattoes, and some of us because of an unlicensed miscegination have skin of alabaster white. Then why should this variegated people be arbitrarily sifted out with descriptive term "Negro," which means "a member of THAT African race." Out of the 10,000,000 of us who were born, like our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, in this country but 37 per cent of us have woolly hair. Some of us have hair similar in texture to the Malays; some of us have hair similar to the Jews; some of us have hair similar to the American Indian, and some of us are endowed with "golden tresses that float upon the pill." In color our hair ranges from a jet black to auburn. Now, if our hair is not woolly, why should we be born with a woolly hair? Its distinctive is the member of "that" African race, natives of a country the most of us know little or nothing about?
Some of us are but remotely connected with either an African or a Negro tribe; some of us are not even remotely so connected, and some of us, at least 66 per cent, are human hybrids, "a medley of bloods," through whose veins, in riotous confusion, the blood of many races. Take my dyslexia, for example, and illustrate of thousands. On my maternal side I would have to go back only three generations to plump up against an American Indian chief and on my paternal side might by the genealogical process trace kinship back to the tenth president of the United States, whose patronry I am, perforce, lugging through life. From this it is manifest I am not a Negro, though I am colored, because my skin is darker than my eyes. We are Americans by birth, not by adoption, as "Afro-American" would suggest to the uninitiated.
That final etymological arbiter, the dictionary, gives as a definition of "colored," "having a skin darker than the skin of a person of the white race." The great majority of our race, this variegated race, do possess skin "darker than the skin of a person of the white race"—at least 85 per cent of us that they should appear therefore that the description more clearly and more properly fits us as a people. It does not follow because we object to the descriptive term "Negro" or "Afro-American" that we are ashamed of our people; no more than it follows that because the Jew prefer to be called a Hebrew he is ashamed of his people. "A rose might smell as sweet by some other name," it is true, and this race or people of ours can succeed just as well by some other race than by some other American," either of which is actually wrong when applied to us as a people. There are not to exceed 25,000 native born Africans in this country. These might properly be called "Negroes" or "Africans" or, more properly, "Afro-Americans," since they are native Africans who have settled in this country. But why should quite 10,000,000 of native born Africans be called "Negroes" out of reference to the 25,000 native born Africans who have come to this country? Why should we be or is or not "woolly or crisp" and what is in a merry riot from a "wilken black" to an alabaster white be called "Negroes" simply because there happen to be 25,000 foreigners in this country who can qualify as "black and whose hair is woolly or crisp?"
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By RALPH W. TYLER.
RAISES CHICKEN THIEVES.
Otherwise known as *skunks*, Which Are Profitable.
Greenville, Cal.-Greenville has now established one of the most unique industries in the state—namely, a skunk ranch. Early in the spring Will Stevens, a butcher, formerly of Goldfield, rented the F. W. Peck ranch and entered the business on a small scale. Young skunks were captured in various parts of Indian valley and placed in pens. They grew and multiplied rapidly.
The business proved so lucrative that larger pens of corrugated iron were made, and the number of skunks increased. The skins sold for from $3 to $6 each. The oil is also valuable and is sold to druggists. Stevens now has large skunks that will be ready for market in a couple of months.
The skunks will eat all sorts of scraps and waste food, but are especially fond of milk and vegetables. They seem to like human companionship and when called come to be petted. To see forty chicken thieves with their long, white striped bodies and bushy tails feeding at a trough like so many pigs is an interesting sight.
CHURCH WOMEN HUSK CORN
On Farmer's Offer They Add to Aid Society Fund.
Marshaltown, Ia. - When Charles Miller, a Jasper county farmer, offered the ladies' Aid society of the Christian church at Kellogg an acre of his best corn if the women would pick it, he found he could not run a "bluff." The women snapped up the offer in a hurry. Attired in overalls or in old clothes they in two hours picked and cried the entire acre, which yielded forty-eight bushels. A citizen who was interested in the society's work offered the women $8 cents a bushel for the church and additional $6 cents if they husked it. This they did.
Four other citizens agreed to donate 5 cents for each bushel husked, so that the forty-eight bushels brought the church women $1.05 a bushel or $50.40, which goes into the society's treasury.
Washington.-Seven million eggs of the humpbacked salmon spawned in Alaska waters have been rushed across the continent by the federal bureau of fisheries to replace the all but extinct Atlantic salmon of Maine waters. Their destinations are the bureau hatchery stations at Green Lake and Craig Brook, Me. Dr. H. M. Smith, director of the bureau, is personally interested in the attempt to give Maine a new salmon industry.
With the single exception of the Ponocetos river, where Atlantic salmon come to spawn, there are but few salmon left in the waters of Maine. In the fall of 1913 the bureau sent 16,000,000 humpbacked salmon to that state, but because of the tendency of that species to spawn prolifically only every second year the bureau is planning to libere a new stock of the young fish next spring, which will spawn, it is expected, in the "off year."
The humpbacked salmon will spawn near the mouth of a small river or stream, while the other Pacific varieties as well as the Atlantic can insist on the headwaters of large streams as spawning places. The Chinook salmon of the Columbia river will very often "run" 2,100 miles upstream to spawn, while the humpbacked variety has no objection to spawning as near as 2,100 feet to the mouth of the stream.
FLOWER STALK SAVES BOY
His Guardian Uses It to Pull Him Out of Cistern.
St. Joseph, Mo.-A sunflower stalk in the hands of Mrs. Adeline Grimm saved the life of six-year-old Francis La Bouff, who had fallen into a cistern in Mrs. Grimm's back yard. The boy was playing near the cistern, and when he stepped on the covering the rotten boards gave way, and he plunged through into the water. Mrs. Grimm, who is the boy's guardian, heard his screams, pulled a tall sumo rope by the threads and thugged end through the hole. The youngster clung to the end of the stalk while she pulled him from the water. The water in the cistern is more than six feet deep.
PRACTICES LAW AT 85
Minnesota Man Attends to All Details of His Legal Business.
Rochester, Minn.-Charles C. Wilson, dean of the Olmsted county bar, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday recently.
Wilson daily gives personal attention to a lucrative law practice, attending to all of the details himself.
His legal talent was recognized by the state in 1892, when he was appointed official reporter of the decisions of the supreme court. He resigned in 1896, when the legislature reduced the salary to $4000 a year.
Mr. Wilson has never been in officeseeker, but has devoted his time to the practice of his profession.
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FRANK JAMES IS DYING.
One of Brothers, Formerly Notorious
Highwaymen, Has Heart Disease.
Excissor Springs, Mo.—Frank James, one of the James brothers, notorious as highwaymen shortly after the war between the states, was stricken with heart disease and was reported dying at the James home, near here. He is seventy-three years old. James is one of the last survivors of the bank robbers, made notorious by an almost unparalleled career of crime during the unsettled period that followed the war. He has been living the life of an ordinary farmer for more than thirty years. James was a son of a clergyman. He Joined Quantrell's guerrillas in the war between the states, together with his brother, Jesse, and took part in the sieving Lawrence, Kan. When the war ended they were hunted far and wide by relatives of those who had met death at their hands. They soon became outlaws. Many crimes of the decade following the war have been laid at the door of the James Younger bank, of which the only members left are Frank James and Cole Young, now living at Lee's Summit, Mo. Among their deeds were: The raid on the Commercial bank at Liberty, Mo. in 1806. One bank defender was killed and $70,000 stolen. Looting of the Russellville (KY.)
Looting of the Russellville (Ky.) bank in 1808 for $17,000.
Bank robbery at Gailatin, Mo., in 1808, in which the catcher, Captain John W. Sheets, was slain.
Robbery of a bank at Columbia, Ky., in 1872, in which R. A. C. Martin, casket killed.
Raid on a bank at Corydon, Ia., in which $40,000 was stolen in 1873.
The wrecking and robbing of Chicago, Rock island and Pacific train near Council Bluffs, Ia., in 1873. The engineer was killed, the freeman wounded and several passengers injured.
Box office in the fair grounds at Kansas City, Mo., was robbed of $30,000 in broad daylight in 1873.
Detectives surrounded the James bobber Kearney, Mo. Jan. 25, 1875, and threw the James brother into the house, thinking to kill the James brothers.
It exploded, tearing off the arm of their mother and killing their brother, Archie.
Omaha, Neb.-When is a child? The question has been put up to the Omaha city commission, the street railway company and the teachers in Creighton university, and it has not been solved. A city ordinance provides that the street railway company shall sell at certain reduced rates tickets good for the transportation of "children attending school."
Several days ago a party of Creighton university students boarded a car and tendered the conductor the reduced rate tickets. The conductor refused to accept them, and the young man refused to either pay the full rate or get off.
Later a committee of the students called on the street railway officials and another committee went to see the city commissioners and then to City Attorney Rine.
"Nonsense, boys," said Rine. "You are not children."
"When is a child, anyway?" one of them demanded.
"I'll show you," answered Rine, picking up a dictionary. Then he read aloud:
"Child-A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents."
"Certainly we Creightonians are all sons, descendants in the first degree and the immediate progeny of human parents," the spokesman argued.
Rine read on a little further:
"A young person of either sex; one who cares for the characteristics of a young person."
Mr. Rine thought it might be possible to consider university boys in this category. But he looked further and found this definition:
One who, by character or practice, shows signs of relationship to or of the need for a teacher, as a child of God, a child of the devil, a child of toil.
"We come under every one of these definitions." argued the twenty-eight year-old six foot "child" at the head of the committee.
"But the ordinance says these reduced fare tickets are good for children only," the lawyer reminded them.
"And if we are not children, then the dictionary is wrong." quoted the six foot child as he pulled out a ping and bit off a big chew.
English Walnut Record
Galt, Cali.-On the farm of Alfred O. North at Valley Oaks a young English walnut orchard holds a record which many of the old settlers claim to be the most remarkable in the state. Last March North put out forty acres of young walnut trees. By actual measurement recently it was found that a number of the trees stand twelve feet high and are planted in seven months. A large acreage in this vicinity is being planted to this variety of walnut.
$2.40 PER YEAR:
UNCLE SAM FINDS JOBS FOR JOBLESS Bureau For Unemployed Opened by Government.
POSTMASTERS ARE AGENTS
Carrying Out President Wilson's idea, the Labor, Immigration and Agriculture Departments Lend Aid—Plan Tested and Found to Be Practical and Satisfactory.
Washington.—A national employment bureau reaching into every section of the United States has been put in operation by the department of labor, carrying out the suggestion of President Wilson in the Indianapolis speech for "a systematic method of helping the workingmen of America."
President Wilson of the bureau was completed by Commissioner Caminetti of the immigration bureau and instructions sent to the thousands of postmasters and rural mail carriers throughout the country and to nearly 200,000 field agents of the department of agriculture, who are co-operating with the labor department to bring the jobless man and the manless job together.
All agents of the immigration bureau also participate in the huge task, Mr. Caminetti said.
The general plan of the employment bureau outlined by Mr. Caminetti as follows:
Notices are posted in all post offices announcing that applications for work or workers will be received by the post.
COMMISSIONER ANTHONY CAMINETTL
master, who will be supplied with forms to be filled out and forwarded to the labor department agent in charge of the zone in which the office is located. The distribution branch of the immigration service handles this part of the work, and to them also go the reports of the department of agriculture agents as to sections where help is needed in harvesting or other work. Applicants are then to be informed of the place where they can obtain work of the kind they seek and at the nearest point to them. The postal service acting as the distributing and collection agency for applications and replies throughout the transactions. In the readiness of the system, Commissary Canninetti said the plan was not a must, but the product of months of labor details. Already, he said, it had been tried out in a small way, and the results had been most satisfactory. After the fire at Salem, Mass., last June, when nearly 4,000 factory operatives were thrown out of employment, the labor department succeeded in finding work for many of them.
'DEAF AND DUMB.' CRIES 'OH!'
Girl Asking Alms and Getting Them Steps on Electric Buzzer.
Brazil, Ind.—A deaf and dumb girl who represented herself to be from Danville, Ill., visited this city recently, soliciting charity. She carried a well worn document and several alleged sworn statements of officials of Danville that she was deaf and dumb and worthy of all charity which might be bestowed. She did well until she stepped on a doormat at the office of Dr. Robert Hawkins. The mat was equipped with an electric buzzer. The young lady was so startled by this buzzer that she jumped and shouted "Oh!" Before the police could arrest her she had taken an interurban car for towns that have no buzkers under the doormats.
Pegud Worth a Whole Corps.
Paris. The French aviator Peydon's value to the allies is estimated as equivalent to one army corps. He flicks eight days a day and destroys many German lives and much property. Although he has had several aeroplanes destroyed, he has not been hurt.
Whale Sunk by Shells.
London. - A whale mistaken for a submarine was riddled with three inch shells by warships off the Dutch coast. The whale died.
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DR. JUST WINS SPINGARN MEDAL
FOR HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT
One Hundred Dollar, Gold Medal, the Gift of Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, presented to Successful Candidate by Governor Charles S. Whitman—Great Throng Witnesses Ceremony.
By N. BARNETT DODSON.
New York—On Friday evening, Feb. 12, in the presence of an audience of upward of 2,000 people, at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Ethical Culture hall, Governor Whitman awarded to Dr. Ernest Everett Just the First Spingarn medal. This $100 gold medal is offered annually by Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National association, to the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor.
Dr. Just since 1912 has been professor and head of the department of physiology in Howard University Medical school. He was born in Charleston, S. C. thirty-one years ago. He was prepared for college at Kimball Union academy at Meriden, N. H., and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1907, magna cum laude, being the only one of his class to receive this special honor. He was also elected to the Phi Beta Kappa. From 1909 to 1914 he devoted his summers to research work at the Marine Biological laboratory, Woods Hole. Mass. He has been doing special research work in physiology and zoology since 1911. He has contributed to the amount of time that his professional position requires him to devote to academic routine. he has been since 1912 a regular contributor to scientific periodicals. The Biological Bulletin, the official organ of the marine biological laboratory, has published a series of his scholarly accounts of his scientific investigations. He has now in press an
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DR. RENNIST EVERETT JUST, WINNER OF THE FIRST SPINGAIN MEDAL, PRESENTED FEB. 12, 1915.
article which is to appear in the Journal of Morphology, which is the organ of the Wister Institute of Medicine and Biology, Philadelphia. Dr. Just was chosen from a long list of candidates in many fields. He was recommended by men of the highest professional standing of both races. Dr. Jacques Loeb of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, in writing of Dr. Just, sai "His knowledge of biology and his critical ability are of an unusually high and lofty order. In the work he devotes to Howard W. H. H. H. high motives, since the remembrance he receives is only a fraction of his nominal salary. He could easily increase his income by giving up his position. Dr. Just has sacrificed a good deal for the advancement of medical schools for colored people, and he will do a good deal more if he is given a chance, as I hope he may be."
Professor Lille of Chicago university, who has collaborated with Dr. Just in some of his research work, in recommending him wrote: "Dr. Just is a relatively young man of high scientific attainments and has great enthusiasm and ability in research. In the last two and a half years he has published or has in press six articles. His most recent work is of the greatest significance and would insure him a wide reputation if he were a white man. No doubt you know of his position in Howard university, in Washington, and the good work he is doing there in bringing up the standards of medical education in his own race. The conditions under which he is obliged to carry it on are in some respects highly discouraged."
The committee who decided the award were: Bishop John Hurst, chairman; Ex-President Taft, John Hope, president of Morehouse College; Dr.
James H. Dillard, director of the Jeanes and Shater funds, and Oswald Garrison Villard, president of the New York Evening Post company. The Splungarian med is offered each year to Dr. Splungar and is not restricted to the position of human endeavor. The merit award is probably be made at the annual conference of the association during the first week in May.
After the speech by Governor Whitman Professor William Pickens of Wiley university made an eloquent appeal that there were ten minute addresses by Marianne Garrison representative of Persia to the United States; Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
FOR MERIT
SPINGARN MEDAL
AWARDED TO
BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF COLORED PEOPLE
Gold medal, costing $100, donated by Dr. Joel E. Spinningg of New York, chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The medal was awarded by Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York to the president. Just, head of the department of physiology, Howard university medical school, Washington, for having made him head of a special field of any person of the colored race during the year presiding over the annual meeting of the association. The presentation was witnessed by thousands at Ethical Culture hall, 2 West Sixtey-fifth Street, 1915. Dr. Just is a native of South Carolina, having been born in Charleston thirty-one years ago.
Moorfield Storey, president of the National association; Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois and Linden Bates, Jr. Oswald Garrison Villard presided.
The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People seeks to uplift the colored men and women of this country by securing to them the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, justice in all courts and equality of opportunity everywhere. It favors and aims to aid every kind of education among them save that which teaches special privilege or perogative, class or caste. It recognizes the national character of the Negro problem and no sectionalism. It believes in the upholding of the constitution of the United States and its amendments in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. It upholds the doctrine of "all men up and no man down." It abhors Negro crime, but, still more, the conditions which breed crime, and, most of all, the crimes committed by mobs in the mockery of the law or by individuals in the manner of the law. It believes that the enlistment of the Negro problem must be available because the country can see its way wholly clear to right existing wrongs. It has no other belief than that the best way to uplift the colored man is the best way to aid the white man to peace and social content. It has no other desire than exact justice and no other motive than humanity.
The committee on the Spingarn prize spent much time and thought before it finally decided that, taking all things into consideration, from the many names of candidates presented that the farreaching results of the professional and scientific work of Dr. Just in its relation to human enlightenment as touching racial advancement during the fiscal year of the association merited the gold medal thus presented. The intellectual ability of Dr. Just shows that the colored man is capable of attaining to as high development in literature and science as men of other races are.
New Rector of St. Thomas' Church.
The Rev. William E. Hendricks, formerly of Porto Rico, was recently installed rector of the St. Thomas Episcopal church on Twelfth street, Philadelphia. The Rev. Mr. Hendricks is a graduate of the General Theological seminary, New York. For the past three years Rector Hendricks has been very successful in conducting missionary work in Porto Rico. He is also a graduate of Lincoln University and received the bachelor of arts from Yale College of Arts. He is officially officiated at the installation ceremonies of the Rev. Mr. Hendricks.
Minnesota Odd Fellows Are Active.
The Odd Fellows fraternity of Minnesota is showing timely interest in the erection of a new modern building for the order in St. Paul. The hall is being built at a cost of $75,000. The building when finished will become a center for the various secret, business and social organizations of St. Paul, Minneapolis and vicinity.
THE APPEAL.
CANAL NEUTRALITY RULE.
Only Six Fighting Ships of Warring Nations May Pass at One Time.
Washington.—President Wilson recently issued a proclamation announcing the neutrality regulations for the Panama canal zone.
It provides that all vessels of belligerent nations shall be allowed to pass through the canal in the order of their arrival at either end, but that twenty-four hours shall elapse between the departure of vessels flying the flags of two nations that are at war.
War vessels shall pass through as rapidly as possible and shall not remain in waters adjacent to the canal longer than absolutely necessary. No vessel shall remain in the canal more than twenty-four hours.
The docking and repair facilities of the United States shall be used by belligerent ships only to make repairs that are necessary to their seaworthiness.
War vessels shall not be allowed to provision in the canal zone except when absolutely necessary and then shall take on only enough to meet their needs until they arrive at the next port. Aeroplanes are forbidden to cross the zone or to make a landing at any point on the zone.
Commanders of belligerent vessels are forbidden to embark or disembark troops in the canal zone except for the purpose of making necessary repairs.
Not more than three vessels flying the flag of any belligerent nation shall anchor in the waters adjacent to the canal at one time, and not more than three, making six in all, shall pass through the canal at one time.
MOUSE TIES UP WHOLE TOWN
Causes Short Circuit at Light Plant and Everything Stops.
Hutchinson, Kan. — An undersized mouse short circuiting some wires in the city electric light plant here stopped the street cars, put out all the lights in the city, shut down certain parts of the salt plants, chemical works, flour mills, strawboard plant, newspaper typesetting machines, one telegraph company and other industries depending on electric motors for power for an hour.
Edward Benson, assistant engineer at the plant, tried to get the mouse out with a pair of tongs without shutting down a plant, and the little animal jumped into a connection that electrocuted it, causing several thousand people to take a vacation when the burned out switches and wires could be repaired.
Mr. Benson was badly burned about the hands, arms and face, but will recover.
PHYSICAL BLIGHT AS FRUIT OF THE WAR
Offspring of Survivors to Be Weak and Crippled.
Washington. Over Europe of the future, no matter upon which side victory rests, declare medical men and scientists, will sweep the devastating hand of physical blight. Children with crippled forms, weak bodies and unbalanced minds will fill the cradles of every nation now at war, offspring of the unit for parentage by the rigors of the great conflict. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, director of the National museum and noted anthropologist, is one of the savants who has studied the effect of Europe's conflict upon the children yet to be born. To him the present war presents a vastly different aspect with regard to future generations than any conflict has ever presented before.
Since men of science first began to study the effect of wars upon the human races it has been admitted that whenever the best physical examples of a nation went to war to be destroyed the physical manhood of that nation was destroyed. It is also true for every man killed or fatally wounded four died of disease. As warfare approached its present modern character the number of killed and wounded in each engagement decreased. while the number who died from "natural causes" increased. Army physicians who account for the percentage of mortality from wounds in the conflict is likely to be far less than it has been in the wars of the past.
REASONS WHY MEN DRINK.
"Toothache," "Heavy Cold" and "Stomach
Trouble." So They Say.
Columbus, Ind.—A. the causes that take men into the city court here shows that toothache is to blame more than anything else. Next to "toothache" is a "heavy cold," and "stomach trouble" runs a poor third. Nearly every man who is arrested on an assault charge has some such excuse. There are cases in which admit they get drunk just to be drunk and have no excuse to offer.
MANY OPINIONS ADVANCED.
Views of Former Auditor For United States Navy Department on Title by Which Our Race Should Be Recognized—Colored American Seems More Appropriate.
By RALPH W. TYLER.
We are wide variance among us as to which of the descriptive terms Negro, colored or Afro-American should be applied to us as a people to distinguish us from the white race. In truth, we are Americans—that is, the very great majority of our people, who, with their forebears for many generations back, were born in this country. Dr. Booker T. Washington has insisted, and does insist today, on the use of the descriptive term "Negro" and has used his best endeavors and very great influence to not only have the Associated Press and many metropolitan publications by white people use that term exclusively, but to capitalize it.
But are we "Negroes?" The dictionary, and that is the final arbiter for all etymological disputes, says a "Negro" is a "black man" a member of that African race, which is characterized by a "black or dark dark skin and hair of wooly or crisp nature." Mark you, it says of "that" African race, clearly indicating that because a black or dark skinned person may be born in Africa he is not necessarily a "Negro." A "Negro" is a member of "THAT African race which, etc." We are not Africans because we are native born and native sired Americans. Some of us may be black; some are brown; some of us, like Dr. Washington, are multifacets, and some of us because of an untreated miscegenation have skin of white. Then why should this variegated people be arbitrarily outfitted with the descriptive term "Negro," which means a "member of TEAT African race?"
Out of the 10,000,000 of us who were born, like our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, in this country but 37 per cent of us have woolly hair. Some of us have hair similar in color to our hair, some of us have hair similar to the hair we have hair similar to the American Indian, and some of us are endowed with "golden tresses that float upon the pillow." In color our hair ranges from a jet black to auburn. Now, if our hair is not woolly, why should we be called "Negroes" when "woolly" hair is distinctive of the members of "the African race, natives of a country the most of us know little or nothing about?"
Some of us are but remotely connected with either an African or a Negro tribe; some of us are not even remotely so connected, and some of us, at least 66 per cent, are human hybrids, "a medley of bloods," through whose veins, in riotous confusion, many faces. Take myself, for instance, I am a literative of thousands. On my maternal side I would have to go back only three generations to plump up against an American Indian chief and on my paternal side might by the genealogical process trace kinship back to the tenth president of the United States, whose patronry I am, perform, lugging through life. From this I manifest I am not a Negro, though I am colored, because my skin is darker. I am not a Negro, because we Are Americans by birth, not by adoption, as "Afo-American" would suggest to the uninitiated.
That final etymological arbiter, the dictionary, gives as a definition of "colored," "having a skin darker than the skin of a person of the white race." The great majority of our race, this variegated race, do possess skin "darker than the skin of a person of the white race." We have—and it would appear therefore that the descriptive term "colored" more clearly and more properly fits us as a people. It does not follow because we object to the descriptive term "Negro" or "Afro-American" that we are ashamed of our people; no more than it follows that because the Jew prefers to be called a Hebrew he is ashamed of his people. "A rose might smell as sweet by some other name." it it refers to on people of our can succeed just as well as on people described than "Negro" or "Afro-American," either of which is actually wrong when applied to us as a people.
There are not to exceed 25,000 native born Africans in this country. These might properly be called "Negroes" or "Africans" or, more properly, "Afro-Americans," since they are native Africans who have settled in this country. But why should quite 10,000,000 of native born Africans be called "Negroes" out of reference to the 25,000 native born Africans who have settled in this country? Why should those who are not "woolly or crisp" and whose complicities in a merry riot from a "fallen black" to an alabaster white be called "Negroes" simply because there happen to be 25,000 foreigners in this country who can qualify as "black and whose hair is woolly or crisp."
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RAISES CHICKEN THIEVES.
Otherwise known as Skunks, Which Are Profitable.
Greenville, Cal.-Greenville has now established one of the most unique industries in the state—namely, a skunk ranch. Early in the spring Will Stevens, a butcher, formerly of Goldfield, rented the F. W. Peck ranch and entered the business on a small scale.
Young skunks were captured in vari- ties of the valley and placed in pens. They grew and multiplied rapidly.
The business proved so lucrative that larger pens of corrugated iron were made, and the number of skunks increased. The skins sell for from $ to $6 each. The oil is also valuable and is sold to druggists. Stevens now has large skunks that will be ready for market in a couple of months. The skunks will eat all sorts of seeds and waste food, but are especially useful for vegetables. They seem to like human companionship and when called to be treated. To see forty chicken thieves with their long, white striped bodies and bushy tails feeding at a trough like so many pigs is an interesting sight.
CHURCH WOMEN HUSK CORN.
On Farmer's Offer They Add to Aid Society Fund.
Marshalltown, Ia.—When Charles Miller, a Jasper county farmer, offered the ladies' Aid society of the Christian church at Kellogg an acre of his best corn if the women would pick it, he found he could not run a "bluff." The women snapped up the offer in a hurry. Attired in overalls or in old clothes they in two hours picked and cribbed the entire acre, which yielded forty-eight bushels. A citizen who was interested in the society's work offered the women 80 cents a bushel for the additional 5 cents if they husked it. This they did. Four other citizens agreed to donate 5 cents for each bushel husked, so that the forty-eight bushels brought the church women $1.05 a bushel or $50.40, which goes into the society's treasury.
HUMPBACKED SALMON ARE MOVED TO MAINE
Bureau Places 7,000,000 Eggs In Hatcheries There.
Washington—Seven million eggs of the humpbacked salmon spawned in Alaska waters have been rushed across the continent by the federal bureau of fisheries to replace the all but extinct Atlantic salmon of Maine waters. Their destinations are the bureau hatchery stations at Green Lake and Craig Brook, Me. Dr. H. M. Smith, director of the bureau, is personally interested in the attempt to give Maine a new salmon industry.
With the single exception of the Penobscot river, where Atlantic salmon come to spawn, there are but few salmon left in the waters of Maine. In the fall of 1913 the bureau sent 13,000,000 humpbacked salmon to that state, but because of the tendency of that species to spawn prolifically only every second year the bureau is planning to liberate a new stock of the young fish next spring, which will spawn, it is expected, in the "off" year.
The humpbacked salmon will spawn near the mouth of a small river or stream, while the other offshore coast varieties as well as the Atlantic monist insist on the headwaters of large streams as spawning places. The Chinook salmon of the Columbia river will very often "run" 2,000 miles upstream to spawn, while the humpbacked variety has no objection to spawning as near an 2,100 feet to the mouth of the stream.
FLOWER STALK SAVES BOY.
His Guardian Uses It to Pull Him Out of Cistern.
St. Joseph, Mo.-A sunflower stalk in the hands of Mrs. Adeline Grimm saved the life of six-year-old Francis La Bouff, who had fallen into a cistern in Mrs. Grimm's back yard.
The boy was playing near the cistern, and when he stepped on the covering the rotten boards gave way, and he plunged through into the water. Mrs. Grimm, who is the boy's guardian, the rotten boards gave way, and sunflower by the roof filled fire and end through the hole. The young clung to the end of the stalk while she pulled him from the water. The water in the cistern is more than six feet deep.
PRACTICES LAW AT 85.
Minnesota Man Attends to All Details of His Legal Business.
Rochester, Minn—Charles C. Wilson, dean of the Olmsted county bar, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday recently.
Mr. Wilson daily gives personal attention to a lucrative law practice, attending to all of the details himself.
His legal talent was recognized by the state in 1892, when he was appointed official reporter of the decisions of the supreme court. He resigned in 1896, when the legislature reduced the salary from $3,500 to $2,000 a year.
Mr. Wilson has never been an office-seeker, but has devoted his time to the practice of his profession.
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FRANK JAMES IS DYING.
One of Brothers, Formerly Notorious as
Highwayman, Has Heart Disease.
Excelsior Springs, Mo.-Frank James, one of the James brothers, notorious as highwaymen often after the war between the states, worked with heart disease and was reported dying at the James home, near here. He is seventy-three years old. James is one of the last survivors of the bank robbers, made notorious by an almost unparalleled career of crime during the unsettled period that followed the war. He has been living the life of an ordinary farmer for more than thirty years. James was a son of a clergyman. He Joined Quantrell's guillotin in the war between the states, together with his brother, Jesse, and took part in the sacking of Lawrence, Kan. When the war ended they were hunted and made by relatives of those who had medied with their bands. They soon became the main crimes of the decade following war have been laid at the door of the James-Younger group, of which the only members left are Frank James and Cole Younger, now living at Lee's Summit, Mo. Among their deeds were
The raid on the Commercial bank at Liberty, Mo., in 1808. One bank defender was killed and $70,000 stolen.
Looting of the Russellville (Ky.) bank in 1898 for $17,000.
Bank robbery at Gailatin, Mo., in 1808, in which the cashier, Captain John W. Sheets, was slain.
Robbery of a bank at Columbia, Ky., in 1872, in which R. A. C. Martin, cashier, was killed.
Raid on a bank at Corydon, in., in which $40,000 was stolen in 1873.
The wrecking and robbing of Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific train near Council Bluffs, Ia., in 1873. The engineer was killed, the fireman wounded and several passengers injured. Box office in the fair grounds at Kansas City, Mo., was robbed of 80,000 in broad daylight in 1873. Detectives surrounded the James home near Kearney, Mo. Jan. 25, 1875, and threw a bomb into the house, thinking to kill the James brothers. It exploded, tearing off the arm of their mottler and killing their brother, Archie.
Omaha, Neb.-When is a child? The question has been put up to the Omaha city commission, the street railway company and the teachers in Creighton university, and it has not been solved. A city ordinance provides that the street railway company shall sell at certain reduced rates tickets good for the transportation of "children attending school." Several days ago a party of Creighton university students boarded a car and tendered the conductor the reduced rate tickets. The conductor refused to accept them, and the young men refused to either pay the full rate or get off.
Later a committee of the students cried on the street railway officials and the committee went to see the city committees and then to City Attorney Rine.
"Nonsense, boys," said Rine. "You are not children."
"When is a child, anyway?" one of them demanded.
"I'll show you," answered Rine, picking up a dictionary. Then he read aloud:
"Child—a son or a daughter; a male or female descendant in the first degree; immediate progeny of human parents.
"Certainly we Creightonians are all sons, descendants in the first degree and the immediate progeny of human parents," the spokesman argued.
Rine read on a little further:
"A young person of either sex; one who exhibits the characteristics of a young person, as of knowledge."
Mr. Rine thought it might be possible to consider university boys in this country. But he looked further and found a solution:
One who, by character or practice, shows signs of relationship to or of the influence of another, as a disciple of a teacher, as a child of God, a child of a tot, or of tot.
"We come upon every one of those definitions," argued the twenty-eight-year-old six foot "child" at the head of the committee.
And City Attorney Rine had to acknowledge that he was right.
"But the ordinance says these reduced fare tickets are good for children only." the lawyer reminded them. "And if we are not children, then the dictionary is wrong." quoted the six foot child as he pulled out a plug and bit off a big chew.
English Walnut Record.
Galt, Cali.—On the farm of Alfred O. North at Valley Oaks a young English walnut orchard holds a record which many of the old settlers claim to be the most remarkable in the state. Last March North put out forty acres of young walnut trees. By actual measurement recently it was found that a number of the trees stand twelve feet high, giving a growth of ten feet in seven months. The average in this velocity is being planted to this variety of walnut.
$2.40 PER YEAR.
UNCLE SAM FINDS
JOBS FOR JOBLESS
Carrying Out President Wilson's idea, the Labor, Immigration and Agriculture Departments Lend Aid — Plan Tested and Found to Be Practical and Satisfactory.
Washington.—A national employment bureau reaching into every section of the United States has been put in operation by the department of labor. In the suggestion of President Wilson in the Indianapolis speech for "a systematic method of helping the workingmen of America.
Preliminary work for the bureau was completed by Commissioner Caminetti of the immigration bureau and instructions sent to the thousands of postmasters and rural mail carriers throughout the country and to nearly 200,000 field agents of the department of agriculture, who are co-operating with the labor department to bring the job man and the manless job together.
All agents of the immigration bureau also participate in the huge task, Mr. Caminetti said.
The general plan of the employment bureau was outlined by Mr. Caminetin as follows: Notices are posted in all postoffices announcing that applications for work or workers will be received by the post.
COMMISSIONER ANTHONY CAMINETTI
master, who will be supplied with forms to be filled out and forwarded to the labor department agent in charge of the zone in which the office is located. The distribution branch of the immigration service handles this part of the work, and to them also go the reports of the department of agriculture agents as to sections where help is needed in harvesting or other work. Applicants are then to be informed of the place where they can obtain work and to seek and at the nearest point to the office acting as the distributing and collection agency for applications and replies throughout the transactions.
In announcing the readiness of the system, Commissioner Caminetti said the plan was not a mushroom growth, but the product of months of labor over details. Already, he said, it had been tried out in a small way, and the results had been most satisfactory. After time, when nearly 4,000 factory workers were thrown out of employment, the labor department succeeded in finding work for many of them.
'DEAF AND DUMB.' CRIES 'OH!
Girl Asking Alms and Getting Them
Stops on Electric Buzzer
Brazil, Ind.—A deaf and dumb girl who represented herself to be from Danville, Ill., visited this city recently, soliciting charity. She carried a well worn document and several alleged sworn statements of officials of Danville that she was deaf and dumb and worthy of all charity which might be bestowed. She did well until she stepped on a doormat at the office of Dr. Robert Hawkins. The mat was equipped with an electric buzzer. The young lady was so startled by this buzzer that she jumped and shouted "Oh! Before the police could arrest her she had taken an interurban car for towns that have no buzkers under the doormats.
Pegoud Worth a Whole Corps.
Paria.—The French avian Peepoud's value to the allies is estimated as equivalent to one army corps. He fights eight a day and destroys many German lives and much property. Although he has had several aeroplanes destroyed, he has not been hurt.
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London. - A whale misidentified as a submarine was riddled with three inch shells by warships off the Dutch coast. The whale died.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915
REVISING "UNCLE TOM."
The so-called white people of Atlanta, Georgia have discovered that "Uncle om's Cabin" grates on their "Uncle om's Cabin" grates on their model the plot, change the morals of the characters and give Simon Legree a halo.
Yielding to the demands of a score of women's organizations, led by the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Memorial Association and the Pioneer Society, the management agreed to produce the play under the name of "Old Plantation Days."
The manager informed the women that he had out out the whipping post, eliminated the auction block and made Simon Legree almost a saint. But not until he agreed to change the name was there the least yielding by the women.
In other words, the so-called white women of Atlanta emasculated "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe's great story which aroused the nation and did more than any other one thing to wipe the great infamy of slavery from this country.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," censored into "Old Plantation Days," will bear little resemblance to the original and true story. The Atlanta women have taken the "story" out of history.
WILSON AND BEREAL
President Wilson is at it again. He was the principal speaker at a meeting held in Washington in the interest of Berea College, Kentucky, and as usual said some things which were long on rhetoric and lofty sentiment, but short on fact and sheerity.
For instance, in speaking of the work of the college, the Pesident declared that its object was to "do what America was intended to do, to give people who had not had it an opportunity and to give it to them upon absolutely equal terms, upon a basis not of birth but of merit."
There was a time when that was the object of Berea, but it is no longer true. When John G. Fee—God bless his name—the founder of the college
THE SIN OF SILENCE
To sin by silent protest makes con-
The human race haunt test. Had no voice, injustice, ignorance, quisition yet would guillotines decide The few who dare speak again to rife many.—Ella Wheel
To sin by 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 least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
was in charge Berea stood for opportunity upon a basis "not upon birth, but of merit." he white people and the colored people were being educated together. Both classes were learning the great lesson of human equality by studying together in the same class room and Berea was doing a great work in breaking down ancient prejudices. Then came one Frost and like his name he was a great bight upon the school. While pretending to work in the interest of the institution he was really trying to disrupt it and it is said that he more than any other worked up the sentiment which culminated in the infamous act of the Kentucky legislature making the teaching of white and colored students in the same class room a penal offense.
"What America has venerated above all things else," said the President, "is that native ability has nothing to do with social origin. It is very amusing sometimes to see the alms that high society gives itself. The world could dispense with high society and never miss it. High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do."
This is very true, but President Wilson has himself drawn the line between the classes outside of social lines. It is not nearly so wrong for "society" to assume "alrs" in social matters as it is for the President to advocate that one-tenth of the people of the country shall be set apart as parliaments, not even fit to work in the same room with other citizens.
ANOTHER INDIAN REGISTER
President Wilson has nominated Houston B. Teehee, a Cherokee Indian, of Talaquah, Okla., to be Register of the Treasury to succeed Gabe E. Parker, an alleged Indian who resigned to become commissioner of the Five Civilized Tribes.
The hundred or more hungry colored Democratic candidates who have been hanging around and licking their chops in anticipation of a delicious morsel have received another shock from their friend and leader.
CHARITY MAKES COWARDS.
"Charity makes for slaves, cowards and sycophants," said "Mother Jones" of Colorado mine field fame, recently. Her words are true.
Men cheat their employees out of what is their just due and become rich and when they have accumulated millions they pose as "philanthropists" and endeavor to perpetuate their names by giving money for libraries or "charities," or Christian (?) associations.
Instead of being great philanthropists, these men, in many cases, are simply thieves who really ought to be in prison for having robbed their fellow men.
No class has suffered more from the "philanthropies" of these rich thieves than the colored people and their nefarious work has been aided by so-called colored leaders who have taken the role of public mendicants and have begged for money to organize Jimcrow institutions and thus prevent their own class from securing their rights as American citizens.
The product of the segregated institution is usually a crop of young colored people with slavish instincts; cringing cowards, servile syciophants. Great God deliver the people from such charity and give them justice.
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"RACIAL WAR."
Viscount Bryce, former British ambassador at Washington, in a recent lecture at London University on "Racial Sentiment as a Factor in History," traced the origin of the present war to feelings of racial consciousness and national vanity developed during the last 150 years by the American and French revolutions. "Racial war," Viscount Bryce said, "has now led to a war conflagration on a scale vaster than the world ever has seen.
"What most is needed is the elimination of those feelings, the teachings of which in most nations breed jealousy and hatred and prompt men to defiance and aggression."
"Every race and nation must learn that it ought not, even in its own interest, to desire predominance or seek to enforce its own type on tac world."
These words ought to be carefully considered in the United States where there is a constant tendency to stir up racial feeling. It is worse here than in any other country because in this country all other classes have united against the colored people. Prior to 1912 this was largely a question of locality, but since the incoming of the Wilson Democratic Administration every effort has been made to nationalize racial antipathies. The most bitter harangues have been made against the colored people in Congress, where the speakers have endeavored to make up with vituperation what they have lacked in logic; infamous laws have been offered and have actually passed one branch of that legislative body, and the President of the United States, sworn to uphold the Constitution, has come out as a defender of racial segregation. The endeavor has been made to legislate the colored people nationally into a separate and inferior status and make them "negroes" instead of American citizens.
The American people must learn that the republic can not endure unless all citizens are on the same civil and political level. If the incitement of racial friction continues there may come to this country an internecine war as destructive as the conflict now raging in Europe.
In another column we publish an article from the pen of Ralph W. Tyler, former auditor for the navy, in which he makes many good points against the use of "negro" as a race name. Mr. Tyler is right. The colored people of America are Americans and not "negroes." Any man who uses the word "negro" to describe the Americans who happen to be darker than other Aemiricans does himself and his children a great wrong.
The Philadelphia Ledger is credited with the following, published as a good joke: "There was absolutely no evidence against the man you lynched." "No evidence!" Why he was as block- the ace of spades." Well, there is no joke about that, it's a plain unvarnished fact that when an alleged criminal is black, that is the strongest evidence for nine out of ten lynchings is the fact that the victims are black.
President Wilson has nominated the present Register of the Treasury, Gabe E. Parker, to be superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, and the Senate has confirmed the appointment. Who is to take Parker's place we wot not.
The Germans seem not to be troubled as to the ultimate outcome of the war being in their favor. The Reichstag has just voted a new war tax credit of $1,250,000,000.
n who in the con- ge of his duty dares the world, with ignor- odgment, may con- nances of relatives and the hearts of but the sense of sweeter than the world, the counten-
KNOT TIED IN EYE MUSCLE
New Operation Marks Distinct Advance in Otto Surgery.
Vineland in Optic Surgery.
Philadelphia.—A remarkable operation, representing the latest step in the development of assisting a method of trying knots in the muscles of the eye to shorten the muscles of the eye to shorten the store muscular balance, thereby curing squint eyes, was described here recently.
The operation has been named the "O'Connor method," after the originator, a western physician. The usual surgical operation for squint eyes is to shorten one of the eye muscles by taking out a section, but it has the disadvantage that frequently the sutures used to refasten the muscle will become too short of the strain. In the new method the muscle is taken up by the muscle itself and there is no tearing of the sutures. One of the hospital physicians said.
"in the few cases in which the new operation has been applied the suture seems to be soon absorbed, the knots of muscle gradually flatten out, with the muscle, making the muscle longer, and the bone does its work on moving the eyeball and exerting the pulling action, which brings the eye in alignment with the other one. The operation can be used in both types of squint, convergent as well as divergent" by shortening the proper muscle. The new operation is properly interesting and is a distinct advance in the surgery of the eye."
SECOND STRAWBERRY CROP.
Fruit Picked in November on Baltimore County Farm.
Baltimore. - Picking strawberries from a patch in the open air on a Baltimore county farm was the privilege this month of Miss Henrietta Sewell and Isabel I. Gibson of this city.
They were members of a week end house party at the home of T. Vickery Wedge, wife of the Montgomery Gildean farm, near Woodenburg. In the morning they were invited to visit the strawberry patch, and Miss Sewell says they found enough of the ripe, musculous fruit to give each a bountiful plate. The berries were the second growth in the patch, which had borne quite prolifically during the berry season. The patch was well protected from the cold north winds, as Mount Gildean is a rolling tract of land affording good protection for the growth of fruits of all kinds late in it—year.
Newspaper Man Loses Memory and Forgets His Past.
Lyons, Kan.—Walking out of his office in the middle of a busy day, leaving his family, friends and fortune and wandering through three states in search of one who would identify him and tell him who he was, is the strange story of Frank L. Funch, a newspaper man of Littleton, Colo., who under the name of F. S. O'Dell was employed last winter as expert in the office of the Lyons Republican. About two weeks after his disappearance in response to a query for a lino-tape operator addressed to a Great Bend paper, F. S. O'Dell arrived in Lyons and went to work. He seemed satisfied with his job, and the Republican force had no thought Saturday night that he would "hit the road" before Monday morning. Since January O'Dell seems to have wandered around Kansah and to bungnuts "hisself". When there were crowds O'Dell went. He visited newspaper offices hoping some itinerant printer would recognize him.
A short time ago he was working in a newspaper office in Clear Lake, Ia. While there his attention was attracted by an item signed "C. O. F." Julesburg, Colo. asking "F. L. F." to communicate with him. O'Dell wrote. Clarence O. Finch recognized the handwriting as that of his brother and telegraphed him at once. O'Dell answered that there had been a mistake—that he was not the man wanted. While changing cars at Omaha he made a call to doing and appealed to the police for assistance. The letter from his brother was found in his pocket, and he was notified. C. O. Finch came to Omaha on the first train and immediately recognized the man as his brother, Frank L. Kinch.
KILLS COYOTE IN HOUSE.
Animal Invades Home and Explores Several Rooms.
Cottage Grove, Ore.-Coyotes have been committing many depredations in Crook county, according to a letter from Mrs. Fannie Morses of Foost. One night the family of J. R. Knox was awakened by an unusual noise upstairs. Mrs. Knox went into the yard and could see a coyote tearing and biting at the window of the upstairs room in an effort to get out. Mr. Knox shot the animal.
An investigation showed that it had got in the house through a bedroom window through the tracks being plain on the bed that it had climbed over. The animal went through several rooms before going upstairs.
Mrs. Morses says that there have been many reports of rabid coyotes in that section, and that few go out after night without being well armed.
"BACK TO THE FARM."
The cry of "Back to the farm" should now be changed to "Back to the ballot." The ballot is about the only thing that will check these outrageous assaults upon the constitutional rights of the colored people in this country.
The foregoing is from the Richmond Planet and there is more common sense in those seven lines than is usually printed in seven columns of the average paper. Editor Mitchell has certainly struck the key note of the cause of the trouble.
WOUNDED, STICKS TO POST.
Directa British Ship From Chair In
Turkish Attack on Riyadh
Turkish Attack on Suz.
London. The Carlo correspondent of the Daily Chronicle telegraphs as follows:
"A stirring little story of quiet heroism displayed during a battle against Turkish invaders the other day has been told me here. The hero of the incident is a pilot named Carew, who was on board the Hardinge, one of the ships on the canal helping to repel the Ottoman attack.
"He came under the heaviest fire, and he was severely wounded in an arm and a leg. He would not, however, leave his post, although suffering terribly.
"Bring me a chair and prop me up, he said to one of the crew. 'I will see you through.'
"The gallant pilot is now in a hospice, where it was found necessary to amputate his legs. Happily he is making good progress, and his recovery is assured."
HOW TO CURE HAY FEVER.
Pick Your Favorite Pollen, Brew Vaccine and Inoculate.
Boston--Summer trips to high altitudes will be no longer necessary to hay fever sufferers if the experiments announced by Dr. Harris P. Mosher at the Harvard medical school fulfill his expectations. The hospital has been experimenting to find a vaccine for hay fever, and at a public lecture before the medical school he explained that if a hay fever patient could decide on the particular flower or weed pollen which caused his affection he had only to inoculate himself with a vaccine made from extracts of this pollen to become immune to its infection. The only effect thus far noticed from inoculation with pollen serum, the physician sald, was a local rash, which vanished in a short time.
IF YOU WOULD GET THIN, EAT CELERY
Chicago Woman Has Reduced Twenty-five Pounds.
Chicago. — “There is no reason for any healthy woman to weigh more than 130 pounds if she has any moral courage,” said Mrs. May Belle McArthur. “Look at me.
“This is my twenty-third day of fasting,” I’m cheerful, I’m happy. I weigh twenty-two pounds less than when I started. I haven’t any intention of giving up until I’m down to 123 pounds.
“I aspire to 125 pounds because stout women can’t think so well as medium weight ones. They can’t look so beautiful or feel so well.”
In the twenty-three days of her fast Mrs. McArthur ate two stalks of celery a day. One glass of water a day is necessary. “Celery is all I’ve eaten for almost a month,” she said. “I don’t mind the fasting much.”
“What do you eat for breakfast, Mrs. McArthur?” was asked.
"Nothing," she replied.
"For lunchche?"
"Nothing. Sometimes a glass of water."
"For dinner?"
"Ahl!" breathed Mrs. McArthur.
"Two stalks of celery.
"I don't exercise except to walk. I walk several miles every day."
"Do you think all women, if in good health, could reduce as you have done?"
"Absolutely. The trouble with women is cowardice. They like the sensation of eating too much. They would rather taste a chocolate drop than be able to think rapidly or move about gracefully."
"Do you consider dieting infallible?"
"Indeed. I do. Look at me. My figure has improved every day since I started, and there is little room left for further improvement. Most women are lazy-downright. They start to exercise, keep it up for two weeks, keep it up for two weeks, start to diet, keep it up for two meals, or two days and then slip."
"Stout women are handcapped a great deal in life. If they are indifferent about their weight and happy in spite of it, well and good. But those who long and dream of getting thin are more to be scolded than pitted. All women are not good at water and maybe watermelon, drink water and walk. They're bound to reduce."
SHIP SHOWS IDENTITY
Holland-America Liner Equipped With Huge Electric Sign.
New York.—In accordance with the order from the government of The Netherlands the Holland-American liner Nieuw Amsterdam, from Rotterdam, had her name painted on each side in huge capital letters before she started for the other side.
Of the same size as the painted lettering will be arranged huge electric light signs spelling the name of the ship. These will be located amidships and can be read at a distance of several miles.
**Armies' Health Excellent.**
London.—After five months observation surgical experts report that all records for health have been upset by this war. Fewer soldiers have died from illness than from wounds, which it is said, never happened before.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE AFRO-AMERICAN.
(From the Chicago Tribune.)
We are not ready to concede that any body of citizenship has less standing under the law than any other. If the south wishes to make any such issue as this it will find that the north, where there is prejudice, is nevertheless restless when as a part of the nation it is asked to declare that the main principle of the nation is a piece of hypocrisy and does not apply where it is inconvenient.
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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 of world. Through its book of coarse lust, suspicion and all the darkest soul.
--H. G. V.
nced myself that there is no more this present world than Race Pre- at all. I write deliberately—it is angle thing in life now. It justifies together more baseness, cruelty and than any other sort of error in theugh its body runs the black blood, suspicion, jealousy and persecu- the darkest poisons of the human
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
A PROTEST FROM FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE.
I hang my head for shame that a committee of the Anglo-Saxon Race, to which I belong, has reported to the Congress of the United States a bill to provide separate cars for Colored citizens of Columbia at the seat of the National Government. Such a bill, if presented at the close of the Civil War, fifty years ago, would have, excited less comment. It is rather late in our country’s history to separate any class of fellow citizens from another class in facilities for travel. Representatives of the Hebrew, Irish, Teutonic, Slavic and Latin races may ride where they please. If Booker Washington, on a mission to the United States, a degree of LL D.; Prof. Dickens, a honor man at Yale; DU Bols, the editor of “The Crisis”; former Assistant Attorney-General Lewis; and William Monroe Trotter must be put into separate cars in Washington as being unaware to associate with their fellow citizens it is time vigorous protest were made.
This is much more objectionable in the capitol of the Nation than elsewhere. Visitors from other nations who come to the building of Congressional Library and other public libraries will have an object lesson hourly before them in the separation and degradation of our fellow citizens. This is much more objectionable, which it is sought to pass is a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for six months for anyone who violates its provisions, and this applies to those in charge of street cars, taxcabs or any vehicle transported by Congressional Conductors, porters, etc., are authorized as special police for its enforcement.
Premidated.
That this is a part of a previously determined and clearly defined Southern policy is obvious from a letter written by Thos. H. Caraway, who is one of those who reported the proposed law and who wrote on the stationery of the House of Representatives under date of "Personally, I shall vote for every measure that tends to segregate the races, with reference to residence, transportation, and occupation, and I believe that measures of that kind are passed at the coming term of Congress."
From this it appears that he wishes
himself to be the main part of the city, ride only on cars
set apart for them, and to deprive
him of many things where they can
can see, be blessed, living.
Lose not Freedom Gained by Abolitionists.
Let us not lose the freedom for which Garrison, Phillips, Summer, Andrew, John Brown and a host of
"HUMAN NATURE
My ear is sick with evil
Of wrong and outrage,
There is no flesh in man
It does not feel for man
Of brotherhood is severe
That falls asunder at t
He finds his fellow guild
Not colored like his own
To enforce the wrong,
Dooms and devotes him
"NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT."
My ear is pained
kick with every day's report
outrage, with which earth is filled.
fish in man's obdurate heart.
el for man: the natural bond
god is severed as the flax
under at the touch of fire.
yellow guilty of a skin
take his own: and having power
be wrong, for such a worthy cause
votes him as his lawful prey
"HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT."
My soul is sick with every day's report
Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled.
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
It does not feel for man: the natural bond
Of brotherhood is severed as the flax
That falls asunder at the touch of fire.
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not colored like his own: and having power
To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Premeditated.
others laid down their lives. Let us remember, as one has said, that only the Golden Rule of Christ can ever be the age of man, and let all Northern Semi-Asian tribes, ministers and editors agitate and protest until the lowliest citizen has his rights under the flag, lease the rights of Heaven descend on us as a nation.
WILLIAM D. BRIGHAM
OUR NEED OF JUXTAPOSITION.
That we much rather have associates among ourselves, is a saying by Colored Americans that has become almost true. That is a mistake; it is a feeling of avowed cowardice and an utter impossibility for the two races to describe to a common government, and, at the same time, each race work out its own salvation. The "theory" has tried and resulted in a ghastly failure, and the false and treacherous leadership that it only breeds race hatred and antagonism; that the thing for us to do is to get property and bounds. We have heeded too well, and we have not inevitably follow. We have followed that we have fully and have been rewarded in terms of residence segregation, street segregation, confiscation and loss of property, anti-intermarriage—which is the most pleasing pieces of legislation, since that it defenseless and at the mercy of white brutes — separate schools, cars, and even legislating to exclude further. Negro immigration. These are not resistance, but same efortony and legislation will be manhood rights taken from us. That is a fact. Every congress offers legislation degrading and inimical to our well being. Race prejudice will be worn down by attrition. We must children, and go ourselves, to mixed institutions and other places where we can mix with the other races and become accustomed to one another. WE MUST WELCOME AND PRACTICE JUXTAPOSITION.
NEARLY 100 WANT JOBS
President has Long List of Applicants for Johnsons Place
Only 91 persons has signified directly or indirectly, their willingness to hold the office of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. A list of those who have served in the President. No ladies are in the list. The District has been without a recorder since last summer when Lincoln Johnson, followed, resigned a fellow of the White House. Following are the names of those who want the job.
J. L. F. Talton, Julius F. Taylor, B. T. Byson, M. J. Underwood, W. L. Benshaw, M. J. Waldenr, L. G. Warfield, Robert L. Grosso, John B. Colpoy, Wilbur F. Cleaver, D. C. Brantley, J. T. Davenport, William J. Dwyer, Prof. W. E. Reynolds, Jaymes, G. W. Tanner, Maurice Lyon, T. R. Knox, Lee Cranston, W. H. Howard, Charles W. Lancaster, Rev. George C. Clements, Rev. J. Francis Lee, Dr. A. H. Weathers, W. W. Woodward, Dr. Lewis A. Griffith, Cliff J. Glummer, Rev. R. B. Robinson, Adam E. Patterson, and William P. Morton
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8ST. PAUL
WEEK'S RECORD OF HAPPENINGS
IN MINNESOTA'S CAPITOL.
‘The “Saintly City” and Saintly City
Folke—Newsy Itema of Social, Re
Higious, Political and General Mat-
ters Among the People.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915.
It cost $9,662,281 to run St. Paul
last. year.
Mrs, E, H. MeDonald ts on the sick
list this week.
‘Tho worst thing one can take for a
cold 1s advice.
And they say meat prices will be
lower, hurrah!
Mrs, L. A. Porter has returned home
from the hospital.
Mrs. B.C, Archer was taken to the
City Hospital Wednesday.
Prof, Arthur Winstead, the dancing
master, is somewhat better.
Look out for Ye Old Folkes Concert
at Memorial Baptist Church, March
15th,
If you wish to hire an auto for
any occasion just call the Colbura
Auto Livery, day or night, Cedar 4616.
Mrs. Emma Harril left last Friday
for Great Falls, Mont,, to join her hus-
band and will reside there in the
future,
Look out for the baby show to be
given by the H. Y. W. K. Club Tues-
day, April 6, Valuable prizes for pop-
ular babies.
Even after some men see where they
have made mistakes, they go right on
making more.
FOR RENT—Neatly furnished rooms,
convenient to cars. Phone Dale 2195
Advertisement 2-20,
Most people would rather blame a
man for what he doesn’t do, than to
sive him credit for what he does do.
FOR RENT—Modern house, eight
rooms, 325 W. Central, $25.00. Tel.
Dale 5209.—Advertisement.
WATCH FOR THE OPENING OF
THE HOME SHOP, 598.600 WEST
CENTRAL AVE—ADVERTISEMENT.
PETE EETTOOO OOS
W. T. FRANCIS
WHO FOR A NUMBER OF
YEARS WAS IN THE EMPLOY
OF THE LEGAL DEPART-
MENT OF THE NORTHERN
PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY,
HAS OPENED OFFICES FOR
THE GENERAL PRACTICE OF
THE LAW AT 88 AND 89
UNION BLOCK, ST. PAUL.
Advertisement.
PA AREEEE OST OH OS
The road to success is open to all,
but too many want to reach the goal
without the trouble of “hitting the
pike.”
Articles mailed to THE APPEAL
for publication must bear the name
and address of the sender, to insure
publication.
Health Sunday, March 21st, will be
observed by a joint service of Pilgrim
Maptist and St. James A. M. E.
‘ehurehes, See further notice,
FOR RENT—Two front. rooms,
single or together, for light house-
keeping, 228° Sherburne. Call _eve-
nings or Saturdays —Advertisement.
Both Phones 808. St. Paul, Minn
‘T. H. LYLES.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers |
150 W. Fourth 8t. ;
Ries, 678 Bt. Anthony, Tel, Dale 2947
Calta Answered Day or Night I |
‘Twin Cities.
Active Pall Bearera Furnished it
Desired,
Lady Assistant When Necessary.
FORGET YOUR TROUBLES. SEE
“BROHER BILL AND ME” AT PIL.
GRIM BAPTIST CHURCH, TUESDAY
EVENING MARCH 23RD.
For the wages of sin is death, but
the gitt of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord—Romans 6:23
—Selected by E, W. Gilles,
‘The Bellview, 412 Carroll street, 1
A. Gross, propr. Neatly furnished
rooms with heat, light and bath. Rates
reasonable, Tel, Dale 3316.—Adver-
tisement.
Mr, Woodsey Jemison has bought
the interest of Mr. George Watkins
in the Cosmopolitan and Grill, No, 40
E, Third street and the firm’ is now
Ranks & Jemison,
Mr. Clifford A. Smith, the tailor, has
moved his business out on University
avenue between Western and Arundel.
Fine poreh and yard. Tel. T. S. 2557—
Advertisement 8-29,
FOR RENT—Eightroom house, mod-
emi, except Heat, 879 Rondo; Five-
wo
DEE
SAVE
No matter how much
one earns, if he spends
it all, he will never be
able to rest. He who
earns but little, and
Saves a part, can take a
vacation from care. Part
of each week’s wages
should go into a strong
savings bank. ‘
STATE SAVINGS BANK
93 Eas: Fourth Street,
Bhat! ly toms AD seer pertained
| Charles Street. Apply to James Tracy,
Globe Bldg.—Advertisement—1-23.
| Remember the big Baster tall by
jthe Uniformed Rank, Knights of
Pythias, Minnespolls," on “Monday
evening, April 5, at National Guard
Armory,’ Kenwood Parkway,
QUICK LUNCH.—When you wish
to get something good to eat in a
hurry call at “Utley's Place,” No. 30
East, Fourth street and try PRES-
TON’S LUNCH. Home cooked meals
and lunches at all hours from 7:00
a. m. to 11:30 p. m. Special break-
fast trom 7:00 to 10:00 am. 16
cents.
SHE BUSY BEE CAFE, 317 Waba-
sha street (upstairs), W. F. T. Chand.
ler proprietor. Unexcelled cuisine.
First class home cooked meals x la
carte at all hours. A splendid regu-
lar dinner served trom 11:20 a. m.
to 3:00 p. m., at 25 cents, Open day
and night. Tel. N. W. Cedar 4525.—
Advertisement.
Just bear in mind that the Uni
formed Rank, Knights of Pythias, will
have its regular Easter ball on Mon-
day ‘evening, April 5, at the National
Guard Armory. Big’ time for every-
boay.
On account of the European war,
Canadian money, which used to be
received at its face value is now dis-
counted at the rate of one per cent.
Bear this In mind when Canadian mon-
ey is offered.
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.
WANTED—GIRLS AGED FROM 8
TO 16 YEARS FOR GIRLS CULTURE
CLUB, FEE NOMINAL. ADDRESS
MRS. LUCILLE L. TIBBS, MATRON,
THE HOME SHOP, 698-600 WEST
CENTRAL AVE.—ADVERTISEMENT.
F. H, Harm & Bro, opticians and
Jewelers, are now located at 492 Wab-
asha street in the Shubert Building,
where they will welcome old and new
customers. If you want honest work
and goods at fair prices call on them.
PAPER HANGING.—Any one wish-
ing paper hanging done on short no-
tice and at reasonable rates should
address A. W. Holden, 527 St. Anthony
Ave., Tel. Dale 2055. Painting and
interior decorating also done—Adver-
tisement,
LAWYER WILLIAM T. FRANCIS
HAS MOVED HIS LAW OFFICES
FROM UNION BLOCK TO SUITE
324 AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
BUILDING, COR. FIFTH AND CE-
DAR STREETS.
Mr. C. Saunders returned from Chi-
cago last Sunday morning where he
had gone to secure four men to take
charge of the culinary department of
Hotel McKenzie at Bismarck, N. D.
and was successful in securing some
good men,
VOCAL AND PIANO LESSONS
GIVEN BY MRS. ADDIE CRAW-
FORD-MINOR, AT HER RESIDENCE,
320 FARRINGTON AVE. HOURS
ARRANGED TO SUIT PUPILS.
TERMS VERY REASONABLE. TEL.
DALE 1597.
The Social and Literary Society of
Pilgrim Baptist chureh will hold its
regular meeting at the home of Mrs.
A. T. Francis, 606 St. Anthony ave.
Dr. W. P. Womer, pastor of Plymouth
Congregational church will address
the: society.
“SHINE 'EM UP!" When you wish
your shoes shined or polished in the
most artistic and satisfactory style,
go to the PEOPLES’ SHINING PAR-
LOR, W. H. Porter, Propr, 349 Min-
nesota street, between 4th and Sth—
Advertisement.
Marty O'Brien, bartender for Thos.
O'Toole, 644 Mississippi, undertook to
“bounce” Dennis McGraw, who despite
his name, is a Colored American, from
the saloon and was cut three times.
McGraw was arrested and O'Brien
was sent to the hospital.
St. James A. M. E, Church has de-
clared war on debt. ‘The membership
of the church has been organized into
104 companies, each under the care
of a captain and each ten companies
has a colonel commanding. Rev. H. P.
Jones is commander in chief,
‘The St. Louis Kitchen has been
moved from its former quarters to
Just across the hall at 138 © Third
street up stairs, where the same good
home cooked meals may be found at
moderate prices. Mrs, Julia Hinson,
Cedar 6090. Regular dinner 25 cents
“BROTHER BILL AND ME” WILL
BE AT PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH
TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23RD.
WILL Your
ST. LOUIS KITCHEN, 136 E. Third
street, up stairs, Mrs. Julia Hinson,
proprietor. A Ja carte ‘meals at all
hours from 7:00 a, m. to 8:00 p. m.
All home cooking. Regular dinner
12:00 to 2:30 at 25 cents. Sunday
dinner 1 to 3 p.m, 35 cents. Tel.
Cedar 6090.
St. James A. M. B. Sunday School
meets every Sunday at 1:00 p. m,, im-
mediately after church services.” All
children who desire to become mem
bers are cordially invited. ‘The music
is under the direction of Mrs. Addie
C. Minor and Mr, T. R. Morgan—B, C.
Archer, Supt.
He came unto His own, and His
own received Him not,
But as many as received Him, to
them gave He power to become’ the
sons of God, even to them that believe
on His name—St, John 1:11, 12,
Your church néeds you in its serv-
ices.—E, W. Gilles,
‘The piace to have your shoe re
pairing done in the best possible way
at the lowest possible price is at
Rhee bal hee real marontines tan ype hci oe
and St. Anthony avenues at 4:00 p.m.
‘The subject for discussion 1s, “Re
solved that the tendency of the Negra
toward commercial life, is inclined to
be dormant.” Public cordially invited
Col. K, W. Mackey, returned last
week from a months trip to Hagers
town, Md., when he went to visit his
father now 81 years of age. Tt would
make any ones mouth water to hear
him tell of the luselous Maryland pork
sausage and sugar cured ham with
which he tickled his palate during
his visit. ,
| Mrs. Rebecea Marshall departed
this life on Tuesday, March 2 at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. N.
Smith, 230 Granite street, Funeral at
Lyles” mortuary chapel, Thursday af
‘ternoon. Rev. Joseph 8. Strong off
clating. The floral tributes were
numerous and beautiful. Interment
at Forest.
ST. MARTIN EXPRESS AND
FUEL CO, Vietor St. Martin, “pro-
prietor, 983 Rondo street, corner of
Western, Baggage moved to all parts
of the city. Wood and coal in large
and small quantities, Phone N. W.
Dale 5194; Residence, Dale 3248.
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icott Arcade —Advertisement.
Mr. Chas. A. Smith who died at
City Hospital, aged 42 years had his
funeral at Lyles’ mortuary chapel last
Monday afternoon under the auspices
of Gopher Lodge 105 1. B. PO. B. A.
of which he was a member. ‘The serv:
ices were conducted by Rev. H. P.
Jones. Quite a number were present
and the floral tributes were numerous.
Interment at Forest.
‘The B. Y. P. U. of Pilgrim Baptist
church entertained the St. Paul Union
Friday night of last week. H. EB,
Swanson, president of the St. Paui
Union presided. Rev. G. W. Bail, city
missionery Minneapolis Baptist Union
and Rev. B. N. Murrell pastor of Pil
grim made addresses. The Merriam
Park Union won the pennant for the
third time for having the largest num-
ber present,
The Twin City Charity Club will
sive a musical and literary entertain-
ment and a chitterling supper on
Wednesday, March 17th, St. Patrick's
Day, at St: James A, ME, Church,
Minneapolis, 315 Bighth Ave, 8. ‘The
ladies are preparing an. entertaining
‘musical and literary program in which
some of the best Twin City talent
will appear. The chitterling supper
will begin at 6:30 and the entertain-
ment follow at 8:00 o'clock. Admis-
sion 10 cents; supper 25 cents. Mrs,
Ella Coleman, president; Mrs. Hester
Keeyes, secretary; Mrs, Allee Smith,
chairman committee Advertisement,
On Friday evening of last week Mr.
and Mrs. F. D. Parker, 647 St. An-
tthony avenue gave a reception tor
Mr. Gale P. Hillyer, of Minneapolis in
honor of his recent admission’ to the
ban of the Supreme Court of the
State. ‘The spacious parlors” were
filled with representatives of the elite
of the Twin Cities and It proved to
de a very delightful affair. ‘The host
made a few remarks stating the ob-
ject of the occasion and was tollowed
‘by remarks from Mr. T. H. Lyles, B.
S, Smith, Esq., Mr. J. E. Johnson; and
‘Mre3, Le Titus. Mr. Hilyer most hap-
pily responded. During the course of
the evening Mr. and Mrs. T, H. Lyles
sang several duets and master Peavey
Johnson gave some piano selections,
Dainty refreshments were served and
all were highly delighted with the
good time everybody had.
‘The County Option bill, as passed
by the State Legislature, is not thor
oughly understood by many persons,
The measure provides that when 25
per cent of the voters in a. county
petition for an election, the county
‘auditor shall, not later than fitty days,
nor sooner than 40 days, call a special
election to vote on the license ques.
tion, If the “wets” win, towns can
exercise local option, but if the “drys”
win, the entire county goes “dry”, and
the issue cannot come up again for
three years, whichever way the elec
tion goes. ‘The measure also provides
that a period of six months shall
elapse ‘before saloons canbe abol
ished after a county votes “dry.” As
a matter of fact, if the “drys” win
any other counties, the saloons will
not, be abolished for many months,
perhaps not before January ist.
Mrs, Eliza E. Peterson, of Tex:
arkana, Texas, national W. ©. T. U.
organizer among colored people, will
speak in some of the St. Paul churches
March 7th and 8th. On Sunday morn:
ing she will speak at the Zion Presby.
terian, Farrington and St. Anthony
Aves, following which she will ad
‘ress the Sunday school of the Me
morial Baptist Chureh, “Rice and
Fuller Sts. Sunday evening she will
occupy the pulpit of the St. James
‘A. M. E. Church, Jay and Puiler Sts,
Monday evening’ she ‘will speak at
Pilgrim Baptist Church, Cedar and
Summit, Mrs. Peterson’ will seek to
arouse interest among the people of
her own race in the work of the W.
©. T. U. and will organize one or
more unions. She is a speaker of
unusual ability and all white ribboners
will be interested in her coming.
“Federal statistics show that more
than 75 per cent of insanity cases are
due to the use of drugs,” declared
‘Thomas Potts of Chicago, Secretary of
the National Asosclation of Registered
Druggists, in an address to delegates
to the Minnesota association whieh
held its convention in this city last
week, Mr. Potts explained that at
present there is no law to prevent the
MOVING PICTURE THEATER FOR
SALE.
An up-to-date, attractive moving
picture theater ‘for sale,
On a busy corner located in a fine
neighborhood, a sure money. making
investment.
Owner leaving this part of the coun:
try on account of fll health.
Price, $1,000.00. i
Apply to
Clarence L. Smith,
788 St. Anthony Ave.,
‘Te.l Dale 5413,
INNOCENT. MAN.HANGED.
‘Se Says Letter on Painter Case ts
Chief: of Chicagg Police.
Chicago.—That an innocent man wus
executed here in 1894, when George
‘H. Palmer was hanged for the murder
of Alice Martin, is the aptemeat made
in a letter received by of Police
Gleason from a person signing himself
“R. W. Baxter” of Buffalo, Sangamon
county, Ill.
‘The writer asked that Painter's rela-
fives be found and promised to remove
the stigma trom the family,
Painter's last words on the scaffold
were a declaration that he was not
‘guilty.
Alice Martin, Painter’s sweetheart,
‘was beaten to death in 1891, and Paint-
er was arrested nine months later.
After two years of fighting the prison-
er was convicted and executed. On
the scaffold be said:
“If I killed Alice Martin, the girl 1
dearly loved, the woman I loved so
much that I would almost commit any
rime for her, I pray this minute, my
last minute on earth, that the eternal
God will put me into eternal hell.”
‘The condemned man raised his voice
and continued:
“Look here, gentlemen, if there is
one man among you who is an Amerl-
can I say to him on bis soul—on his
soul, I say—see that the murderer of
Alice Martin is found.”
‘The scaffold prayer was delivered by
the Rev. A. P. Moerdyke, who said:
“May he whom so many believe in-
‘nocent of this crime join thee in ever-
lasting life for the sake, O Lord, of
thy son Jesus Christ, our Lord.”
Gleason said he would take no steps
in the matter except to look for Paint-
era relatives to make known to them
Baxter's request,
TOWN TURNS OUT TO
PAN GOLD IN STREETS
Great Excitement Until Metal
Proves to Bo Iron Pyrites.
| Sumner, Wash.—Excitement prevail-
ed in Sumner following the news of
“gold” strike made on Main street by
Frank Kelly, an ox-Alaskan miner of
nine years’ experience. For several
hours forty men and boys panned the
mud in the gutter and proudly exhib-
fter the “dust.” Kelly staked out a
twenty acre mining claim, including
the heart of the elty. and two hours
later the claim was jumped by Jesse
Childs. ‘The local druggist, Bill Nay-
smith, who made a hasty nitric acid
test of the glittering metal, pronounced
It pure gold,
Kelly was sweeping the sldewalk in
front of the Kelly & Darr grocery on
Main atreet when he saw bright specks
the size of pin heads in the mud in the
gutter. He hastily got a ple tin and
Panned some of the mud containing
half a spoonful of the dust. ‘Taking it
to Naysmith, he was assured after an
‘neld examination {t was geal gold.
| Kelly then obtained,;a government
‘mining claim blank apd; filled it out.
‘The claim was named the D. & K.
‘claim. ‘The location was the regular
twenty acres allowed by the govern-
ment. ‘The filed claim sheet was nail
ed toa two foot board that was placed
upright between two bricks at. the
edge of the street.
By this time. however, the report of
the strike had gone out, and as Kelly
‘went to mark the four corners of his
claim others began to. appear with
ans of all descriptions.
Brooms. shovels and all kinds of im-
plements for collecting a pile of the
valoable dirt were pressed into serv-
Jee. Tom Frye and several others ran
to the fre house and brought out the
fire hose. When this was turned on to
slulce the street a number of the slow-
cor miners got a bath. Frye obtained 1
bottleful of the “gold” mixed with the
lack sand and boasted that it con-
tained at least $500 worth.
By 2 o'clock the street had been
swept as clean as a billiard table, the
first time it has been washed clean
since it was lald, it was ald.
The metal was pronounced to be
pyrites of tron, or “fool's gold.” by
Streeter Beall of Puyallup after mlero-
scopic and heated nitric acid tests. It
was admitted by all, however, that it
looked to be real gold. and belng found
4m black sand was an added indleation
in tts favor. ‘The sand that fell on the
streets was from gravel and sand wag.
ong hauling tt from a gravel bank near
the Stuck river.
‘(Maui Sifemia Bhatdationt Clussale.
San Bernardino, Cal—Mayor J. W.
Catick issued a statement advocating
the abolishment of all churches in thie
city and the building in their stead, by
@ bond issue, of a tabernacle seating
more than 2.500 and the appointment
of a municipal minister, who would
administer the spiritual needs of San
Bernardino, He also proposed the ap-
Pointment of a municipal titnister, who
must perform all marriages and officl
ate at all funerals free: the probibition
by law of the soliciting of funds from
congregations; the entire city to be
members of the chureh, which would
be maintained by municipal taxation.
“Let us have only one good route to
heaven and a municlpal minister to
point the way.” concluded the mayor.
Joffre Doesn't Read Papers.
Paris.—General Joffre, the French
commander. bas not read a newspaper
since the war began. it is sald, and the
only thing in the way of letters he has
written were brief notes to bis wife
end cleter:
‘The regular monthly meeting of the
St. Paul branch of the National Inde-
pendent Equal Rights League was
held at St. James Mission 219 E. Sev-
enth street last Monday evening there
was a fair attendance and several new
members were received, Mr. T. H,
Lyles was the principal speaker, and
his remarks were quite apropos. Ad-
dresses were also made by Mrs. T.
H. Lyles, Mrs. Ethel Maxwell, Rev. J.
S. Strong, W. H. Gaston, and Mr.
J.B. Gay. The meeting was quite
interesting throughout. The next
meeting will be held at same place
Monday evening, April 5. Public cor-
dially invited.
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better understanding may be had.
FOR SALE—A litter of French
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$5.00, females $3.00. Apply to R.
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Tel. Robie 495; T. C. 3783—Adv 3-6
Mrs. David Driver, 258 St. Anthony
avenue, died after a short illness last
Thursday, March 4. She was a sister
of Mrs. Emma Kelly and sister-in-law
of Mrs. Birdella Driver. Notice o:
funeral later.
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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.
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915.
J. N. SELLERS, MANAGER
2812 Tenth Avenue So.
Tel. N. W. South 3372.
Mrs. Fields was called to the city
on account of the serious illness of
her daughter Mrs. Marguerite Fields-
Lee, who was taken to the hospital
Monday.
Lawyer W. H. Franklin, who has
had his office in the Metropolitan Life
Bldg., has moved to Iron Exchange
Bldg., cor. 4th ave. and So. 4th St.
Room 203. (Onosite Court House.)
Bear in mind that the Twin City Club Cafe is now specially prepared to furnish "Chilli Con Carne," "Frejoles," "Hot Tamales" and other Mexican and Creole dishes. Orders amounting to 50 cents of these specialties will be delivered in the city.
The entertainers at the Twin City Stag Club are Mr. W. O. Hegamin, "Kid" Carter and the Misses Alice Moore and Ada Smith. Miss Moore is featuring "Let's Toddle," and Miss Smith is featuring "5050." Drop in and hear them; they are great.
It is hoped that the right thinking people of the Twin Cities will donate liberally towards the support of Crispus Attucks Home, that it may be kept in the same condition of other institutions of its kind. Each and every one is asked to give something for this cause.
WHEN IN ST. PAUL, go to the St. Louis Kitchen, No. 136 E. Third street upstairs, for your meals. Meals to order from 7:00 a.m. m. to 8:00 p.m. m. Regular Sunday dinner from 1 to 3 p. m. 35 cts. All home cooking. Mrs. Julla Hinson, Prop. Tel. Cedar 6090, Regular dinner 25 cents.
The So-Lit Club held its regular social meeting on Friday evening of last week at the new home of Mrs. Jeser Gibbs. 3241 Columbus avenue, with Mr. Jasper Gibbs, Jr., as host. The features were dancing and a splendid lunch. The next meeting will be held on March 11, at the residence of Mrs. J. Homer Goins, 295 Sherburne avenue, St. Paul.
The Uniform Rank of the Twin City Knights of Pythias, announce their Sixth Annual Concert and Pythian Military Ball for Easter Monday, April 5th at National Guard Armory, Kenwood Parkway. A program of rare excellence will be presented by the best Twin City talent under the management of Charles H. Miller, assisted by Mrs. Alice C. Minor of St. Paul. Music by McCulough Orchestra. Doors open at 7:30; curtain at 8:30; Grand March at 10:00; call taxies at 2:00. Admission 50 cents—Advertisement.
The Twin City Charity Club will give an entertainment and chittering supper at St. James A. M. E. Church, 315 Eighth Ave. S. on St. Patricks Day, Wednesday, March 17. The ladies are preparing an elaborate and entertaining musical and literary program in which some of the best Twin City talent will appear. The Chittering supper will begin at 6:30 and the entertaining musical and admission cents, supper 25 cents. Coleman, president; Mrs. Ester Keeeys, secretary; Mrs. Alice Smith, chairman committee—Advertisement.
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The Board of Managers of Crispus Attucks Home wishes to call the attention of the public to its big rally to raise $500, which is now in progress, and makes an earnest appeal to the good people of the Twin Cities to help by donating something toward this worthy cause. We thank you for what you have done, and thank you in advance for what you will do. J. N. Sellers, Chairman, O. C. Hall, Secretary.
"Beer a Food."
Professor Charles Frederick Chandler of Columbia University, a well known chemist, declares that beer is the best brain food. In a recent address he said: "Beer is a beverage prepared from barley, water, hops and yeast. Beer is food. American beer contains 6 per cent solid food, only 3 to 4 per cent alcohol and also lecithin, which is real brain food. Beer and bread both made from cereals; bread with water and is solid; beer with more water and is liquid. Yeast converts both into palatable and readily digested food. Both contain alcohol. Beer is not intoxicating in new milk. Beer is one of the foods that is free fromeria. It is appetizing and aids digestion. I don't believe there is any beer made in the United States that is what you call adulterated. It may be misbranded, but not adulterated. If the prohibitionists drive beer from the household they will deprive a large part of the population of a wholesome article of food."
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Thursday Eve., March 11
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FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING
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491 University Ave. ST. PAUL
Your Credit is good at the
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473-475 St. Peter St.
The leading New and Second Hand
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Tel. Ceder 3817
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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
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THEO. HAMM BREWING CO. ST. PAUL
Preston's Lunch
UTLEY'S NEW PLACE
30 E. FOURTH STREET, ST. PAUL
FINE MEALS AND LUNCHES AT
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John Brown Cigar Co.
MAKERS OF
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115 E. THIRD STREET
THIRD FLOOR
ST. PAUL
PHONE CEDAR 9140
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SUITE 303 COURT BLOCK
Stoves and Furnaces Re-
eating stove, cooking range, gas stove or furnace.
condition, we are the people to do
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Repairs for stoves of all makes car-
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Y-FIVE YEARS AGO
We did the editor's laundry work. We
ing it today. Why not yours? Lov-
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ST. PAUL
NO. 345, N
meets first
month at
Ave. Min.
Barnett, W.
R. of D, 2.
PILGRIM
123rd and Co.
ing at 11 a
school at 12
Furnaces Repaired
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the people to do
have many years'
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Richard M.
ST. JAMES
Fuller and
prayes: 11:00
prayer meet
on Sunday and
nerals and
Paragonum
Jones, Pas-
S. PHILIP
corner bus
street.
Surgion of Hol-
cocked third Sunday
and fourth
week, 12:30
Week service
chas. 8:00
8:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
355 Thomas
ZION PR
Farrington
day service
8:00 P.M.
Young Prop
week meet
Rev. G. W.
Farrington
NAT TUU
P. Minneapolis
fourth Thu-
Labor Tee
corner for
nue south
in good st.
warehouse
228-230 W. 7th St.
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MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE
OF
MINNESOTA, A. F. AND A. M.
C. H. ROBINSON, GRAND MASTER.
3536 Clinton Ave., Minneapolis.
M. A. BOLLING, GRAND SECRETARY.
892 W. Central Avenue.
PIONEER LODGE NO. 1, F. AND A. M.
Meets first and third Mongolae
east of Wagner Hall, cor. Western
Ave. and Charles street, at 6 p.m. p. M.
D. Gamble, W. M.; j. H. Dillingham,
Secy. 599 Rondo.
PERFECT ASHL 1R LODGE NO. 4,
F. and A. M. meets second and fourth
east of Wagner Hall, cor. Western
Ave. and Charles street, at 6 p.m.
W. B. Elliott, W. M. W. F. Chandler,
Secy. 317 Wabasha.
BETHEL CHAPTER NO. 28 R. A. M.
Meets second Thursday in each month
at Wagner Hall, cor. Western Ave.
and Charles street, at 8:00 P. M. Artur D.
Adams, H. P. W. L. Green, Secy.
PILGRIM COMMANDERY NO. 22.
Knights Templar, meets fourth Thursday,
month at Wagner Hall.
corner Westerem and Charles street.
W. T. Joyce, E. C.; John Sayles, Sec.
479 Rondo street.
MARS LODGE NO. 2375 O. U. of O.
F. meets second and fourth Hall.
nights at Odd Fellows' Hall.
W. T. Joyce, cooner Farrington
avenue. Entrance, cooner Farrington.
S. L. Ransom, N. G. J. Wesley Kelly, P. S.
950 St. Anthony Ave.
HOUSEERD OF RUTH NO. 553 G. U. of O. F. meets first
guild in each month at Odd
fellowship. Cor. University and
Farrington Ave. Ave. University
N. M. G.; Mrs. Carrie E. Lindsay, W. K.
918 Woodbridge street.
FREEDERK DOUGLASS LODGE NO
9006 G. U. of O. F. meets first and
nights in each month at Odd
Fellows' Hall corner of Farrington
and University o'clock.
All Odd Fellows in good standing welcome
Hatton, N. G.; James K. Lynn, P.
S., 376 Carroll avenue.
PAUL PATRIARTHY NO. 14
Meets first and second month at
Odell Fellows Hall, header of W. University
and Fartington and Entrance on
Farrington. George B. Lowe. R. V.
P., Augustus Jones, W. P. R.
Mincepence
HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH NO. 75 G.
O. Q. Meets second and fourth
Tuesday in second month at Labor
Temple Hall, Cor. Fourth and Eighth
Ave. South, Mrs. S. Daragge, M. N. G.
Miss Cura Napier, W. R.
UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIENDSHIP
NORTH STAR LODGE NO. 138
Friday thursday in each month at
Wagner Hall, Western Ave. and
Charles street. Burcher good standing
always welcome. O. Howe, M. M.
J. Q. Adams, W. S. 49 E. 4th St.
JOHN H. HAYES LODGE NO. 4 K OF P.
Meets first and second month at
Hall Hall 221 W. University
Burcher. Knights of Fythias in
always welcomes
James Thomas Jas. A. Henderson, V. C. 149
HIDDLE CIRCLE, LADIES OF G. A. Rowe and third Tuesdays of each month, the third Tuesday room, old cap-tion building, Mrs. M. J. Leavitt, Press Mr. J. R. White, Secy. Phoenix Bldg.
FIDELITY COURT OF CALANTHO NO. 345, N. A. R. COURT, A. A. and A. meets first and third Mondays at K. of P. Hall, 211 Hemingway Ave. Ave. Mrs. Minerva M. Scott R. of D. 25, W. 23, W. 28th P.
PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH, Cor 12th and Cedar. Sunday services: Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45 at 2:30 o'clock. Wednesday evenings general school. Friday evenings Sunday school school. Funerals and weddings promptly attended.
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, corner Rice and Pall streets. Sunday services: Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday School, 12:45. Deaconess meeting 7: B. Y. School, 7:30 p.m. Public cordially invited. Rev. E. H. McDonald, pastor, 651 W. Central avenue.
ZION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Corr
Rington and St. Anthony avenue. Sues
praeceding, 11:00 A. M. and
8:00 P. M.; M.; 7:00 P. M. and
8:00 P. M.; Young Peoples meeting, 7:00 P. M.
week meeting, Wednesday, 8:00 P. M.
week meeting, Camp, pastor. Mansse 377
Farrington ave.
NAT TURNER LODGE NO. 2. K. OF P.
Nempleapolis, meets second and
fourth avenue each month at
Labor Temple Blidge.
corner Fourth street and Eighth avi-
corner 8:15 P. m. All Knights
in good standing and welcome. Ralph
Watson, C. C.; Wm. F. Newton, K. S. 321
Washington Ave. N.
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis
AYES LODGE No. 6 K QFP
first and third Tuesday
saturday, 21st Tuesday
Castle Hall 221, W. U.
Knights, or Farrington.
Knights, or Farrington, in good
standing always
James Thomas, C. C; Jas. A.
Jas. A.; 148 E 8th
St; E. O. James, K of
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