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THE APPEAL STEADILY GAINS BECAUSE: 4-It is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans. 5-It is not controlled by any ring or clique. 6-It asks no support but the people's VOL. 31. NO. 39 SEEKING PARDON FOR LEO FRANK Condemned Man's Only Hope Is Executive Clemency. COURT SAYS TRIAL WAS FAIR Manager of Pencil Factory, Convicted of Murder of Fourteen-year-old Employee, Exhausts All Legal Actions Without Avail, but Still Remains Hopeful—Nation Watching Case. Atlanta, Ga.—Although the highest court in the land has decreed that he must pay the death penalty for the murder of little Mary Phagan, Leo Frank has not given up his fight. His attorneys are now busy on new plans, and the young man, condemned to the gallows, is still hopeful. The supreme court of the United States in deciding that his trial had been fair, that the jury had not been influenced by public sentiment, apparently blasted his last hope. There was one ray of light, however. He could appeal to the governor of Georgia for clemency, but there was no further legal action apparent. All the nation watched this case closely. Friends of Frank held that race prejudice entered into the trial. Frank is a Jew. Hundreds of letters are pouring into the office of the governor of Georgia asking for a pardon or for commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment. Frank was manager and also a shareholder in a pencil factory at Atlanta. Photo by American Press Association. Mary Phagan, fourteen years of age, was employed in the factory. She called on a holiday to collect her wages and failing to reappear at her home, search was instituted and at 3 o'clock the following morning her body was found in a remote part of the plant, showing evidence of murder and assault. Suspects were taken in by the police, and then suspicion attached to Frank. He was convicted mainly on the testimony of Jim Conley, a negro, who said he had helped Frank to dispose of the body after the murder. Local sentiment was against the prisoner almost from the start. Remarkable stories of his alleged immorality were told. The defense tried to fasten the crime on Conley, the negro, who was an employee of the factory. A note which purported to have been written by the murdered girl just before her death was a link in the testimony. It was found torn in scraps near her body and purported to be addressed to her mother, in which she charged the crime on a negro without naming him. The handwriting bore a slight resemblance to Frank's writing, but Conley after first denying that he wrote the note or that he was in the factory on the day of the murder, finally confessed that he wrote the note, but at the direction of Frank. Leo M. Frank is a native of Brooklyn, a graduate of the Brooklyn high school, who won a scholarship in Cornell university and is also well educated along technical lines. He has a family in Atlanta and up to the time of the murder had a reputation generally in the community of being a successful business man of good moral reputation. The courtroom was crowded in anticipation of a decision in the Frank case and many people stood in line outside unable to gain admission. Since the case has been before the supreme court a nation wide agitation has been carried on in favor of the prisoner, and it was evident that his friends were many and influential and that money were not being spared in an effort to influence public sentiment in favor of the prisoner. $10,000 For Kind Act. Manitowoc, Wis.—Because he cared for him while sick William Gatterman was left $10,000 by Robert A. Wilson. Wilson came from Monroe and lived at the Gatterman home until taken to Milwaukee for treatment. Gatterman remained with him until he died. The two men were unknown to each other until five months ago. SNAKE CAUSES AUTO WRECK. Runaway Follows Owner's Effort to Kill Copperhead on Seat. East Orange, N. J. — James Morrison of Orange went automobiling with his family the other afternoon and when over the Second mountain drove into a dirt road so that his wife and two children could pick wild flowers. They left the car under a large oak tree and sauntered off. Half an hour later Mrs. Morrison and her two children returned to the car for the return trip. Colled up on the front seat was a large copperhead snake. The mother and children, dropping the flowers, ran away screaming. Mr. Morrison returned to the car and, as the branches hung low over it, pushed it back to the macadam road of Eagle Rock avenue. Getting a stout club from the woods, he swung at the snake, missed it and accidentally gave the car a push, and down the hill it went. The grade was very steep, and the automobile ran through a wooden fence into the farm of Jacob Miller, striking a calf, killing a couple of chickens and finally halting after it had torn away part of Miller's back porch. By this time there was not much left of the car, and Mr. Morrison, with his wife and two children, walked four miles home. The snake escaped. USE FOUND FOR BEAR GRASS Fiber Obtained From It Converted Into Cordage, Matting, Eto. Tucumcari, N. M.—Gathering the spear-like leaves of the wild bear grass that grows profusely over a large area of western Texas and baling the fiber that is obtained therefrom is a new industry for this part of the country. A large plant for preparing the fiber for market has been established here. The product is shipped to Chicago, where it is manufactured into rope, cordage, matting and other products. The available supply of the raw material is said to be practically inexhaustible. Up to the time it was discovered that the leaves contain a valuable fiber bear-grass was considered worthless by the ranchmen. It is now proving a source of considerable revenue for the land owners and the men who are employed in marketing it. FLOOD OF IMMIGRANTS COMING AFTER THE WAR Uncle Sam Must Be Careful to Bar the Unfit. Washington. — Eternal vigilance is needed on the part of the immigration department in restricting the number of unit immigrants trying to enter this country. Although immigration has had a tremendous drop, paupers, insane, epileptic and feeble minded persons, professional beggars, those likely to become a public charge, contract laborers, assisted aliens, those living on immorality and others debarred from entering this country still seem to be emigrating, though probably in smaller numbers. Last year 33,041 individuals were refused entrance to this country, a proportion to the total number of aliens (immigrant and nonimmigrant) landing of 2.3 per cent, while for the half year ending January, 1915, 15,208 were debarred, being 5.1 per cent of the total immigration during that time. Of those trying to enter during the last six months 249 were idols, imbeciles or feeble minded, 67 were insane or epileptic, 1,144 were suffering from lothsome or dangerous contagious diseases, 9,800 were likely to become a public charge, 1,746 were contract laborers, 344 were assisted aliens and 171 were coming for immoral purposes. Many people see in the fact that there is little reduction in the numbers of the mentally, physically and morally unfit who are attempting to enter this country an indication of what may be expected in the near future. At the end of the war Europe will try to keep its strong, its ablebodied and its healthy individuals, while enormous financial burdens will probably induce a marked tendency toward emigration, actively encouraged perhaps, of those who are apt to become a burden on the state. Such problems as far as possible will be shifted to other shoulders through a process of emigration. Only stringent regulations on the part of the American government and extraordinary efficiency in its immigration service will prevent such an unloading of the unfit upon the shoulders of Uncle Sam. NEW ORLEANS IS RAT PROOF Not a Case of Plague In City Since Oct. 4—Work Continues. Washington.—"More than half of the approximately 70,000 buildings in New Orleans have been made rat proof; there has not been a case of plague there since Oct. 4 last, and it will not be long before New Orleans will be one of the most rat proof cities in the world." announced Dr. W. C. Rucker, assistant surgeon general of the public health service. Dr. Rucker has charge of the eradication of the plague. Reports show that 318,000 rats have been caught by the health authorities in New Orleans since the anti-plague campaign began last autumn, and all of them have been subjected to bacteriological examination. "All the rats caught have been identified as to species and sex." said Dr. Rucker. "The species plays an important tart." THE APPEAL. U. S. NAVY BUSY IN FOREIGN PORTS Seventy-three Warships Have Seen Actual Service During the Past Year. Navy Short 18,000 Men and 100 Officers—Not Enough Sailors to Man All the Ships. Washington—Seventy-three warships are employed in protecting Americans and their interests in foreign lands, keeping the United States out of the war and backing Uncle Sam's "moral sussion" policy in Latin-American countries. Since Jan. 1, 1913, from one to seventy-three warships, ranging from super-Dreadnoughts to converted yachts, have been performing near war duty somewhere in the world. This list does not include the ships on duty in Asiatic waters, but does include the Tennessee and the North Carolina, now in eastern European waters. The big "blowup" in Mexico occurred in the February preceding Pres © 1914, by American Press Association. ident Wilson's inauguration. Between Jan. 1 and March 4, 1913, President Taft dispatched a number of smaller warships to Mexican and Central American waters. Immediately Mr. Wilson became president turmoil almost throughout Central America and Mexico began to develop into open warfare. No sooner had a few ships been dispatched to the east and west coasts of Mexico than trouble began in Venezuela. A revolution over in the western part of Venezuela, said to have been instigated by General Cipriano Castro, former president and dictator of that country, got well under way before the Washington authorities took cognizance of it. At once two warships were dispatched to the Venezuelan coast. Almost at the same time the cork popped from the bottle the Taft administration had closed up in Nicaragua, and it was necessary to send warships to the east and west coasts of Nicaragua, also to maintain the detachment of marines at Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Hardly had the anchors on the vessels ordered to Nicaragua been hoisted when a loud explosion was heard in Santo Domingo. A revolution had broken out there for the second time in less than a year. Down to Dominican waters rushed two gunboats. Upon their arrival it was learned that in the adjoining republic, Haiti, a revolution also was under way, and wireless orders sent two cruisers scurrying down there. The details of this service will be laid before congress this winter when the navy department is called upon to report the operations of the fleet in an effort to obtain additional ships and men. It is the purpose of Secretary Daniels to inform congress that the long service of the ships in tropical and semitropical waters necessitated the placing of several other vessels in reserve because of the insufficient number of men with which to man all the ships. He will tell congress the navy is short now something like 18,000 enlisted men and 100 officers and that in a year from now if no increase is allowed the navy will be short about 22,000 men and about 175 officers. TO MAKE SIRUP FROM CIDER Government Chemist Conducting Experiments in Oregon. Hood River, Ore.-H. C. Gore, expert of the United States department of agriculture and of the chemistry department, is in Hood River conducting experiments for the government in the making of stirp from clder, which is concentrated by a centrifugal process. The machinery has been installed in the chemical cold storage department of a Hood River produce company and will be in operation for several weeks in the manufacture of stirp that will be used for experimental work during the year. TO PAKDON ALL DERELICTS. Many Old Inmates of Georgia Prisons to Be Released. Atlanta, Ga.—One of the last official acts of Governor John M. Slaton, who will be succeeded this spring by Governor Nat E. Harris, will be the pardoning of some hundreds of Georgia's forgotten prisoners, who have been in prison so long that about all their friends and kindred have died. The governor recently visited the state farm at Milledgeville to learn something about these human derelicts. As they approached one by one to lay their petitions before the governor they seemed very weary. The governor found convicts who had been imprisoned for twenty-five years or more, learned that their friends were dead, that nobody remains to bring their petitions before the pardoning board; that in fact they are human beings utterly forgotten. He talked with them and then had details of their lives prepared, and now he is considering their petitions. "Those who I think deserve parole," the governor says, "have explicated fully any crime they have done. While I am opposed to maudlin sentiment in paroling prisoners, I found at the prison men who have lived without complaint or violation of the rules for twenty-five years or more. They are exhausted, worn out old people after half a lifetime in prison. They almost have forgotten what it is to have liberty. They are listless, and their faces have lost animation. They simply are very tired. I think considerable might well be shown for them." MISSING LINK HORSE FOUND. Discovery of Three Toed Fossil Reported to Scientists. Berkley, Cal.-The missing link in the evolution of the horse has been discovered in the miocene strata of the southern Sierra Nevadas, it was reported to the Pacific coast division of the Paleontological Society of America in convention here. The fossil form discovered by J. P. Buwalda of the University of California is that of a three toed horse of the merychippus type, said to have been long sought by scientists to fill the gap in the history of the horse. It is said the fossil fits precisely the description of the hypothetical animals which scientists have maintained must have existed in horse history. President Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History in New York said that fossils of the merychippus of the miocene period had been found in the western Dakotas and Nebraska, but not before in California. "NEVER AGAIN," SAYS YANKEE, EX-SOLDIER Seven Foot Baltimore Man Tells of Experiences In Trenches. New York. — "Never again!" This was the whole souled utterance of Rutledge F. Gardner of Baltimore, a seven foot (almost) passenger who went to England in December and enlisted in King Edward's horse and went to France with his regiment. He returned with much experience and a wrist watch. This is his chronicle: "We were sent to France in February, where we mounted at Calais and rode to Neuve Chapelle. There we spent a lot of time in holes in the ground, shooting at an unseen enemy and being shot at ad lib. "As I was a pretty big man I was often detailed as a 'creeper.' They're quite an institution in the service now. The duty of the 'creeper' is to snake toward the German lines at night to locate snipers. The way you locate them is by letting them fire at you. You catch the flash of the rifle, see? Then your side fires at the fiashes. It's quite a game, believe me! "A trench fell in on me, and I was sent back to England and there discharged. "The Americans fighting with the English are not very popular. They are called Yanks and come in for a lot of spoofing. In my regiment there wasn't much future." EAT, DRINK, SING FOR PEACE Milwaukee Thirty-niners Organize For Goodfellowship. Madison. Wis.—"To promote the use of the stein, the soothing weed and the story; to induce bolsterous laughter and to use such nicknames, terms of affection, handchaps and caresses as will promote good feeling" are some of the purposes of the Society of Thirtyninners, Milwaukee, which has asked permission to incorporate. Whether this organization can be sanctioned by the state is being considered. Another aim of the society is "to calm the rising tide of warfare which may be raging in our breasts by smoking the pipe of peace and smilingly watch our troubles float away." Souvenirs Are Valuable. London.—Pieces of German shells dropped in December raids at West Hartlepool are so valuable as souvenirs a bricklayer and a real estate agent hid a lawsuit over a fragment weighing ten-seven pounds. They value it at $2 a pound. The bricklayer claimed it because he saw it first, the other man because it hit the house of a client, and the latter hit it. Motorcycle Said to Have Toured Path of Raider and Indicated Route With Brilliant Headlight—People Treat Bombs Lightly, but Officials Take Many Precautions. Lowestoft, England.—A tour by motorcycle over the path which the latest Zeppelin raider took across and around this section of England supports the opinion that he had no particular military object in view. The big dirigible first was sighted at Southwold soon after midnight and disappeared over the sea at Lowestoft about an hour later. It made an extended tour over a considerable area, dropping a large number of incendiary bombs and a few explosive bombs, but spending nearly half its time maneuvering in the neighborhood of Henham hall, a rambling old mansion. It is possible the pilot mistook the hall for some other pilot which the he supposed to be of military importance. The dropping of the numerous incendiary bombs appears to have been done in an effort to set fire to barns or hay- Photo by American Press Association. TYPE OF BOMB DROPPED ON ENGLAND BY ZEPPELINS. stacks, which would illumine the landscape and enable the pilot to locate some landmark by which he could get his bearings. Dispatches from Holland quote German naval officers as stating the Zeppelin used for this raid was a new one and the trip was in the nature of a test. Oversea navigation is an art only to be acquired after long experience, and it is possible the visit to this section had little significance except as training for pilots and men. The raider passed over Lowestoft two or three times, a calm night making maneuvering easy. A fire bomb which fell into a pile of timber did damage estimated at $25,000, and the two or three explosive bombs which found targets did slight damage. Elsewhere there was nothing to tell of the passage of the invader except some holes in the ground, some broken windows, doors torn from their hinges and a gossiping countryside. The broken windows and damaged doors were regarded lightly by the inhabitants, and their feelings were rather of astonishment and surprise than fear or dismay. "I've lived in this house twenty years, and nothing like this ever happened before," was a characteristic comment in the farming districts. There are many stories of miraculous escapes, but most of them have little basis in actual fact. Countryside gossip is also bustly engaged in rounding up mysterious spies, and fully half the people in the visited district believe the hackneyed story of a mysterious motorcyclist who plotted the visitor by means of a headlight of peculiar brilliancy. While the civilians are generally inclined to treat lightly the result of the Zeppelin activity, military men in charge of the various defense projects incline to a more serious view. They are generally of the opinion that the raids are in the nature of reconnaissance and will be followed by more determined attempts shortly. Zeppelins have now reached the English coast several times, and with good luck and favorable weather they may be expected to return eventually in larger numbers and with more serious intentions. Allies' Air Man's Brilliant Escape. Paris.—An air man of the allies was fired on near Ghent, but by flying up side down he made the Germans believe he had been killed, and they ceased shooting. Suddenly he resumed his upright position, dropped two bombs and escaped. Paris Idolizes Jacques Goujon. Paris.—Before he lost an arm Jacques Goujon, seventeen, killed two German sentinels, blew up two quick fliers with bombs, caught escaped and carried to the French lines a German machine gun. He has been given a medal. THE APPEAL KEEPS IN FRONT RECAUSE: 1-It aims to publish all the news possible. 2-It does so impartially, wasting no words. 3-It its correspondents are able and energetic. PLAYS TUBA ALL DAY LONG. After Twenty-seven Hours of Blowing He Drank Gallons of Beer. New York.—Lambaertius Johannes de Jung says he is the champion tuba player of the world. He plays the big horn in the band of the Holland-America liner Potsdam, recently in port here. Lambaertius says he won the championship about a year ago in a contest at Rotterdam with Rintje Vouprinus, also a celebrated Holland tubist. In this contest De Jung played for twenty-seven hours continuously, easily outdistancing his competitor, who blew himself out at something over twenty-three hours. After this long period of playing Lambaertius said he was not particularly tired but very thirsty and had thirty-four seeldels, which was also a record. It was said, even for Rotterdam. From constant playing the lung power of Lambaertius has developed to such an extent that he often has to run around the deck several hours before playing. Otherwise, he says, the tremendous pressure might blow the lining out of the tuba. When steam is low in the boilers he is often called upon to blow the Potsdam's whistle. This is especially helpful in a fog, economizing on steam. Lambaartus hails from Leyden and has been an expert on the tuba ever since he can remember, as his father was before him. He has many decorations and is also barrel shaped to a great extent, as tuba players often become, according to Dr. Taft, the ship's surgeon. This makes him an expert wrestler. He has played the Potsdam In and out of Hoboken for six years. KICKED BY MULE; RETALIATES Because Wolton Kicked Back He Was Put In Jail In Kentucky. Independence, Ky—Were you ever kicked by a mule? If so, did you ever attempt to kick back? Doing the latter is what caused the arrest of Robert Wolton. He is charged by an S. P. C. A. officer with being cruel to a mule in that he "kicked it with so much force that the animal suffered great physical pain and agony." Wolton declares the mule kicked first. He said he kicked back in self defense, and that the special officer only saw that part of the entertainment and arrested him. NERO WAS MODERN; HAD THREE ELEVATORS Philadelphia. — The palace of Nero had three elevators. In the year 6 A. D. an income tax was established in Rome on all incomes in excess of $4,000. The hobble skirt was one of Dame Fashion's decrees in the days of Moses. These and many other interesting facts going to show that life among the ancients was not so different from that of today were brought out by Professor Camden M. Cobern, explorer and archaeologist, who has just returned from a trip to Palestine. Professor Cobern in a series of lectures upon his archaeological discoveries pointed out that the Jews had three systems of shorthand reporting in the first century and that in every Jewish court a shorthand reporter or clerk sat on each side of the judge. Many of the Roman aristocrats took "stenographers" with them upon their travels. Some of the other advantages enjoyed by the ancients according to Professor Cobern follow: In St. Paul's time there were seventy labor unions in Rome; hence a struggle between capital and labor must have been waged even then. There were several great monopolies in the first century, the greatest of all being the oil business, although no mention of Rockefeller appears on the papyrus examined by the American scholar. The "trust" had not cornered kerosene, which was unknown at that period, but dealt in olive oil. There also were monopolies in eggs, perfumes and bricks. As to homes the ancients made the New York millionaires look like "pikers." Professor Cobern says he has read in manuscripts dug from ancient tombs and houses of a Roman who spent $12,000,000 upon decorations for his house. Another plutocrat spent $50,000,000 in one year. Even Nero was no sloucher when it came to "burning money." On one occasion he spent $175,000 for roses on his banquet tables. The roses were brought from Egypt. Electric Light Good Belt Mount Vernon, Ill.—Chauney Houchin, Fred Van Nada and Rex Fowler, White river fishermen, have invented a plan which has been helpful to them in catching fish. They made an arrangement for lighting the water, which attracted hundreds of fish to the place, and these eagerly bit at the bait dropped to them on books. The catches were unusually large. The arrangement for lighting the water consisted of eight dry batteries, to which an electric light was attached and dropped into the water. The wire was heavily insulated to prevent charging the water with electricity. $2.40 PER YEAR BATTLES BY SEARCHLIGHTS. Brilliant Rays Show Location of Enemy and Make Attacks More Deadly. Vivid Account of Heroic Charge by Prussian Guards Told by Wounded British Soldier. Berlin.—The picturesque courier plays no part in the war of today. Formerly it was his duty to deliver messages and orders from one officer to another, running the greatest risks and facing the fire of the enemy. But he has been replaced by modern appliances, and now instructions are sent from generals to officers on the scene of fighting by telephone. Just as the scouts of the old days have been replaced by the air men in their big dirigibles and the big 42 centimeter stage guns have replaced the five inch artillery, the telephone replaces the midnight rider with important orders. Battles by searchlights are of almost nightly occurrence in Flanders, according to Ernest Macadams, the American sculptor attached to the American ambulance corps. "Last week masses of Germans charged the British near Ypres at Photo by American Press Association. GERMAN SCOUT PHONING HEADQUARTERS ON BATTLEFIELD. night," he said. "Beneath a searchlight they dashed through barbed wire. The British waited steadily with fixed bayonets, but the Germans never wavered and went to death heroically." "One of the six inch shells that the Germans were sending from Cernay over the Engelburg into this old Alsatian town crushed through the roof of a modest dwelling on the bank of the Thur," writes a correspondent. "A column of black smoke shot up through the hole and a cloud of dust and smoke poured into the street through a big hole in the front wall. The neighbors brought out a woman covered with dust stained red by a stream that flowed from a gash in her scalp. She clutched a piece of pasteboard in one hand. While some of the rescuers washed the red stained dust from her face she watched the others bring out her husband's lifesite body. "If you could see what they have done to your father," she cried bitterly, gazing at the cardboard, and what has become of your home you'd turn your gunstil the other way." "What she was looking at was a photograph of her two sons in the uniform of the Prussian infantry." The following account of the rout of the Prussian guards is by Private Jackson of a Hampshire regiment: "As soon as it was dark we heard the sound of trumpets, with a lot of shouting all along the line in front of us. We knew what this meant—the Germans had started to charge us. It was a night I shall never forget. They came shouting like mad. All we had to do was to keep up a rapid fire. They broke through our lines just below me. "I fired about 150 rounds after I was wounded, as I could manage all right. it being my left hand, so I expect I killed or wounded a few Germans after they wounded me. When they broke through us we could see it was the killer's crack regiment of Prussian guards. Well, I pity them that night, as they must have lost very heavily. "As soon as they broke through below me an officer gave us the order to get out of the trench and be ready to meet them with the bayonet. He told the wounded to try to get back to headquarters the best way they could. "We just not our re-enforcements up in time to make a charge. I stood and watched them a minute as they came up to help us. They killed nearly every German that got through. The rest ran back to their trunches." SAVE YOURS THE APPELL To sin by silence protest makes co The human race ha test. Had no voice injustice, ignorance quisition yet would guillotines decide The few who dare speak again to rig many.—Ella Wheel PEAL WSPAPER LY PUBLISHER THE APPEAL AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ISSUED WEEKLY J. Q. ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER No. 301-2 Court Block, 24 E. 4th st. J. Q. ADAMS, Manager. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE No. 2812 Tenth Avenue South J. N. SELLERS, Manager. TERMS STRICTLY IN ADVANCE SINGLE COPY, THREE MONTHS.....6.00 SINGLE COPY, SIX MONTHS.....1.10 SINGLE COPY, ONE YEAR.....$2.00 When subscriptions are by any means allowed to run without prepayment, they must be 15 weeks old and 9 cents for each odd week, or at the rate of $2.40 per year. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Post Office Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postmaster should be a member of the fractional parts of a dollar. Only one cent and two cent stamps taken. Silver should never be sent through the mail. It is almost sure to wear a nail on the back of the hand, else it may be stolen. 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With heaven, O God, crying: We beseech Thee to hear us, good We are not better than our fellow human men. When our devils do devil the deed: curse them as we curse the than ever they have done to innocence and home. Have mercy upon us, miserable sir And yet whose is the deeper guil Who nursed them in crime and fed them and debauched their mothers and their and sold their crime, and waxed fat and d, Thou whose voice afar in mist and mystery hath ears an-hungered in these fearful days— good Lord! s, Thy children: our faces dark with doubt, are mad thy sanctuary. With uplifted hands we front Thy vrying: ch Thee to hear us, good Lord! it better than our fellows, Lord, we are but weak and when our devils do devilty, curse Thou the doer and them as we curse them, do to them all and more have done to innocence and weakness, to womanhood very upon us, miserable sinners! nose is the deeper guilt? Who made these devils in crime and fed them on injustice? Who ravishe their mothers and their grandmothers? Who bough me, and waxed fat and rich on public iniquity? Silent God, Thou whose voice afar in mist and mystery hath left our ears an-hungered in these fearful days— Hear us, good Lord! Listen to us, Thy children: our faces dark with doubt, are made a mockery in Thy sanctuary. With uplifted hands we front Thy heaven, O God, crying: We are not better than our fellows, Lord, we are but weak and human men. When our devils do deviltry, curse Thou the doer and the deed: curse them as we curse them, do to them all and more than ever they have done to innocence and weakness, to womanhood and home. And yet whose is the deeper guilt? Who made these devils? Who nursed them in crime and fed them on injustice? Who ravished and debauched their mothers and their grandmothers? Who bought and sold their crime, and waxed fat and rich on public iniquity? Thou knowest, good God! Is this Thy justice, O Father, that guile be easier than innocence, and the innocent crucified for the guilt of the untouched guilty? Justice, O Judge of men! Wherefore do we pray? Is not the God of the fathers dead? Have not seers seen in Heaven's halls Thine hearsed and lifeless form stark amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin, where all along bow "bitter forms of endless dead?" justice, O Father, that guile be easier than innocence crucified for the guilt of the untouched guilty? O Judge of men I do we pray? Is not the God of the fathers dead men in Heaven's halls Thine hearsed and lifeless form black and rolling smoke of sin, where all along bowless dead? Is this Thy justice, O Father, that guile be easier than innocence, and the innocent crucified for the guilt of the untouched guilty? Justice, O Judge of men! Wherefore do we pray? Is not the God of the fathers dead? Have not seers seen in Heaven's halls Thine hearsed and lifeless form stark amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin, where all along bow bitter forms of endless dead? Awake, Thou that sleepest! Thou art not dead, but flown afar, up hills of endless light, thru blazing corridors of suns, where worlds do swing of good and gentle men, of women strong and free—far from the cozenage, black hypocrisy and chaste prostitution of this shameful speck of dust! Turn again, O Lord, leave us not to perish in our sin! not dead, but flown afar, up hills of endless light riders of suns, where worlds do swing of good and omen strong and free—far from the coenage, black dust prostitution of this shameful speck of dust! in, O Lord, leave us not to perish in our sin! Thou art not dead, but flown afar, up hills of endless light, thru blazing corridors of suns, where worlds do swing of good and gentle men, of women strong and free—far from the cozenage, black hypocrisy and chaste prostitution of this shameful speck of dust! Turn again, O Lord, leave us not to perish in our sin! From lust of body and lust of blood Great God deliver us! ```markdown ``` --- J. Q. ADAMS, Manager THE SIN OF SILENCE 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. ANNIVERSARY OF ATLANTA'S SHAME. The recent lynching of Leo Frank, a Jew, in Georgia, has aroused the country more than the murders of thousands of colored people in the South during the past twenty years. But only nine years have passed since Atlanta, Georgia, was the scene of one of the most uncalled for and bloodiest riots ever recorded in history. Colored men and women were ruthlessly slaughtered because of race hatred; not a single one killed had been guilty of any crime whatever. The massacre was caused by the incendiary editorials of the Atlanta News and Journal, owned by Hoke Smith, since Governor of Georgia and now United States senator from that state. In his gubernatorial canvass Smith also made incendiary speeches inciting the Caucasians against colored people and demanding that the race be disfranchised. Senator Hoke Smith is said to be the author of the jim crow policy of the present administration and he has the active support of Vardaman, Heflin and nearly every Southerner in Congress. THE APPEAL reprints in this issue "A Litany of Atlanta" by Dr. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor of The Crisis. It was written just after the riot, the author being at that time a resident of Atlanta. September, 1915, being the ninth anniversary of the massacre and the recent renaissance of burnings and lynchings in Georgia render the publication timely. NO ILLEGITIMATE BABIES. It is the consensus of opinion of the leading thinkers of the world that there should be no illegitimate children, that is, that babies should be declared illegitimate by the state, even if born out of wedlock. A new law was recently passed by Norway, giving the so-called illegitimate child a right to his father's name. The expenses of his rearing are divided between father and mother in proportion to their ability to pay, the basis to be the financial status of the wealthier parent. And the illegitimate Norwegian child is an heir to the father's property and on equal terms with the children born in marriage. Nature knows nothing of illegitimacy; she cares naught for marriage certificates and there is no reason why the innocent babe should be degraded and ostracized because of the sins of its parents. ANNIVERSARY OF SHAME once when we should wards out of men. us climbed on pro- been raised against me and lust, the in- d serve the law, and our least disputes. we must speak and right the wrongs of er Wilcox. Such a law would be especially valuable in the South where wealthy Caucasians are the fathers and mothers of many children of colored women and men. The equal inheritance feature would give to thousands of colored children their just share in many great estates and would also give them their proper social status. THE HYPHENATED AMERICAN. Oswald Garrison Villard's recent speech against hyphenated Americanism was a telling one. Mr. Villard was himself born on German soil and of a German father yet he is amazed at the divided citizenship of some Americans of German ancestry. He referred to Carl Schurz, and his true Americanism and said, "What would amaze him more than to find unnumbered Germans who, like himself, come to this country to escape the very militaristic autocracy they now uphold, today, denouncing the nation that adopted and sheltered and fed and clothed them." Other races have shown strong tendencies to form distinct bodies, Mr. Villard said, but the German propaganda is, so far, the most extensive. He then asked if it were true, as contended, that the German Kultur and political system were superior to the scheme of life and government in America, why the hordes who have flocked here did not go to Germany instead. Mr. Villard said, that to allow nationalistic groups to develop in this country such as they have in Austria-Hungary would be most disastrous. He said, such a proposal was "unthinkable to a true minded American." For many yearn it has been the custom to treat colored people as aliens, although they are more than ninety-nine per cent of American birth; and there is a growing tendency among the colored people to regard themselves as aliens. This is being encouraged by a class of leaders who call themselves "Negroes" and yell about "Negro Kultur" although they have not more than half and often less than one-eighth of Negro blood. Such men ought to stop the "Negro" propaganda and be Americans and demand justice because they are Americans and not by the false assertion that they are "Negroes." They should not have any rights as "Negroes" but every right of an American citizen should be and will be accorded them, if they fight for their rights as American citizens by right of birth. From the l Great Go A city lay twin Murder an and cry of death stars when chur sate the greed of Bend us In the pale, our ears and hel heads and leer an was mockery, fo ROM lust of power and lust of gold, Great God deliver us! From the leagued lying of despot and of brute, Great God deliver us! A city lay in travail, God our Lord, and from her loins sprang twin Murder and Black Hate. Red was the midnight; clang, crack and cry of death and fury filled the air and trembled underneath the stars when church spires pointed silently to Thee. And all this was to sate the greed of greedy men who hide behind the veil of vengeance! Bend us Thine ear, O Lord! In the pale, still morning we looked upon the deed. We stopped our ears and held our leaping hands, but they—did they not wag their heads and leer and cry with bloody jaws: Cease from Crime! The word was mockery, for thus they train a hundred crimes while we do cure one. Turn again our captivity, O Lord! Behold this maimed and broken thing; dear God it was an humble black man who toiled and sweat to save a bit from the pittance paid him. They told him: Work and Rise. He worked. Did this man sin? Nay, but some one told how some one said another did—one whom he had never seen nor known. Yet for that man's crime this man lieth maimed and murdered, his wife naked to shame, his children, to poverty and evil. Hear us, O heavenly Father! Doth not this justice of hell stink in Thy nostrils, O God? How long shall the mounting flood of innocent blood roar in Thine ears and pound in our hearts for vengeance? Pile the pale frenzy of blood-creazed brutes who-do such deeds high on Thine altar, Jehovah Jireh, and burn it in hell forever and forever! Forgive us, good Lord; we know not what we say! Bewildered we are, and passion-tost, mad with the madness of a mobbed and mocked and murdered people; straining at the armpasts of Thy Throne, we raise our shackled hands and charge Thee, God, by the bones of our stolen fathers, by the tears of our dead mothers, by the very blood of Thy crucified Christ: What meaneth this? Tell us the Plan; give us the Sign! Keep not thou silence, O God! THE COLOR LINE. A few days ago the yellow press printed with a scare head the following: COLOR LINE DRAWN. Springfield, Ill., Sept.-The Illinois conference of the Methodist Episcopal church drew the color line here today by refusing to adopt a resolution petitioning the general conference to appoint a colored bishop to represent the colored membership of the church in the south. The intent of the resolution was shielded by the phrase "a bishop of languages and races," but its meaning was made clear in the storm of discussion which followed. It was defeated by a vote of 41 to 114. Dr. W. J. Davidson of Evanston, one of the strongest opponents of the resolution, declared a commission appointed by the last general conference, of which he was a member, to investigate the need for a colored bishop, did not favor the idea. The headline is misleading. The conference did not draw the color line, but certain fool colored people, who believe in segregation are the ones who are attempting to draw the color line. They have begged to be separated and segregated from their white brethren, but the white people have saved them from themselves. The jimcrowists whose piny minds failed to see that there is no material difference between segregation in the church and in civil life have been properly rebuked. "COLORED COTTON." Remarkable results seem about to be achieved by W. A. Brabbam of Olar, S. C., who has succeeded in producing cotton which ranges in color from snow white to a deep olive green. Mr. Brabbam is positive in his assertion that black cotton sought for ages by spinners and manufacturers is about to become a reality. That these statements were no idle dream, is borne out by the receipt in Savannah, Ga., of samples of colored cottons. The exhibit has been framed and hung on the walls of the cotton exchange where it has occasioned general interest and comment. Brabbam has practiced seed selection extensively and in four years has secured in regular order from the Egyptian seed a cream, tan, yellowgreen, light brown, olive green and bronze. He is sanguine that attainments thus far achieved warrant the assertion that black cotton is coming in the near future. It is conceded by the trade that Brabbam is giving to the world a most valuable discovery, and that, as a result, the dye manufacturers of Germany, who have for generations had a monopoly on the business throughout the civilized world, and especially in this country, will lose thereby untold millions in trade. In this connection it is stated that a Chicago physician has discovered a process of turning colored people white by ether freezing. The raising of white cotton has been one of the great occupations with which the colored people of the South have been identified. Is it possible that cotton will turn colored and the cotton picker turn white? Strange things happen nowadays. TINSEL CHIVALRY. The Southern Caucasians are continually yelling about their chivalrous regard for women and their determination to protect females from assaults etc., but in view of many happenings in the Southland it is evident, that that their chivalry is of the tinsel variety. reagued lying of despot and of brute, and deliver us! in travail, God our Lord, and from h and Black Hate. Red was the midnight and fury filled the air and trembled h spires pointed silently to Thee. And greedy men who hide behind the veil still morning we looked upon the deed and our leaping hands, but they—did they and cry with bloody jaws: Cease from Cri thus they train a hundred crimes while brain our captivity, O Lord! maimed and broken thing; dear God it toiled and sweat to save a bit from told him: Work and Rise. He worked some one told how some one said an never seen nor known. Yet for that man and murdered, his wife naked forty and evil. this justice of hell stink in Thy nostrils, counting flood of innocent blood roar in th' arts for vengeance? Pile the pale for no-do such deeds high on Thine altar, well forever and forever! us, good Lord; we know not what we sa- we are, and passion-tost, mad with th' locked and murdered people; straining we raise our shackled hands and chal- our stolen fathers, by the tears of our de- Thy crucified Christ: What meaneth us the Sign! --- Last year a Caucasian went into the home of a respectable colored woman in Wagoner, Okla., and attempted to assault her, but was shot by the woman before he succeeded. When the chivalrous Oklahomans heard of the happening, the colored woman who killed the white man in protecting her virtue was lynched by an "orderly mob of the best citizens." In another Southern state recently, a colored man was walking along the street with his sweetheart when a white man made an insulting remark about her. The colored man promptly killed the white man and a few hours later he was lynched by a mob of "leading citizens." The Southern boast about defending the honor of women is a LIE. Southern chivalry is tinsel. KEEP OUT OF HAITI. The United States government has no right to meddle with the internal affairs of any nation however small. If the people chose to kill each other, it is their own affair. The ultimatum to Haiti is the act of a big bully nation to a plucky little republic which has maintained its independence through more than a century against tremendous odds. All this talk about the brutality of the Haitians is pure rot and is largely because of their color. Conditions in Haiti are no worse than in many other small republics in the Western Hemisphere. Before bullying the little country the United States ought to find some way of eliminating the lawlessness and burnings and mob murders which are so numerous within our own borders. More outrages have been committed in Europe in a single day than have occurred in Haiti in a hundred years, but the fear of the big guns of the powers has prevented Uncle Sam from butting in. Let Haiti solve her own problems. MANY JEWISH ENEMIES The fact that three Jews have bought the rights for the state of Massachusetts for the production of "The Birth of the Nation," the infamous and false film and that Jewish capitalists are exploiting the photo-play all over the country should cause the colored people to see that many of their most bitter enemies are Jews. A Jewish attorney general was responsible for the Maryland disfranchise law recently declared unconstitutional. A Jewish Senator and a Jewish Congressman have become notorious because of their tirades against the race. In many localities Jews aided the passage of the segregation laws. A Jew worth many millions is giving thousands of dollars to aid in the establishment of jimcrow Y. M. C. A.'s is actually aiding the alleged Christians in their efforts to segregate their believers of darker hue. All this is queer work for a people who have been oppressed for thousands of years and who are still massacred in many parts of Europe. All Jews are not enemies of the colored people but those who have power and money seem to take a special delight in swiping the colored man and also—gathering in the coin. Shun Them Like Vipers. *(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-Press)* Just as long as the negro believes "he has a place," and is constantly jerked at his own authority, will he be the cause of many others enduring hardships forever and aye. As long as a certain class of whites take to this class of sycophants, the more rigidly those who wear their sovereigns and those who should denounce, discard and shum them as they would a viper. THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man sclentious discharge to stand alone; the ant, intolerant ju- demn, the counter- may be averted, the friends grow cold, duty done shall be applause of the w ances of relatives friends.—Charles S "THE BIRTH OF A NATION." I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.—Charles Summer. The colored people all over the country have been fighting the mischievous and dangerous prejudice breeding film, "The Birth of a Nation." Articles, editorials, etcetera, have appeared in the papers all over the country, but the best THE APPEAL has seen is the communication to the Chicago Tribune, written by Major John R. Lynch, who lived in the south during the reconstruction period and knows whereof he speaks. Major Lynch's article is so excellent that we reproduce it in full: Chicago. (Editor of The Tribune.) —Speaking of the photoplay called "The Birth of a Nation," you say: "It is in all essential episodes grounded on historical fact, representing the struggles of that terrible time in the south when the fires back from war, saw their government burn by the newly enchanted blacks controlled by the northern carcasses. 'What happened with the Negro ascendant and how the white re-established his supremacy is shown with obvious natural sympathy for the man in no doubt with such heightening of deference and maternal right to employ. It presents what the south says and the north of our day, at least, is inclined to believe to be truth.' Exactly the reverse of this is true, for there never was a time when any one in the state governments of the south was taken by the newly enfranchised blacks controlled by the northern carpetbaggers. That some mistakes were made during the progress of reconstruction will not be denied. How could it be otherwise? The war had just come to an end. Sectional animosity was bitter and intense. The Republican party was looked upon as the enemy of the south. No white man could identify himself with the Republican party at that time in any one of the southern states without running the risk of being socially ostracised and publicly characterized as an enemy to his section, his state, and his race. Notwithstanding these things, not less than 25 per cent of the white men of that section—men who were a manner born, many of them ex-Confederate soldiers, identified themselves with and became leaders of the Republican party. These, in the main, were the men that the newly enfranchised blacks selected as their leadership they loyally and faithfully followed. I do not hesitate to assert that the reconstructed state governments at the south were the best governments those states ever had before or have ever had since. There never was a state that was actual physical "Negro domination," or even carpet-bagging domination, in any one of the reconstructed states. The play to which you refer, instead of being "grounded on historical facts," is grounded on historical misrepresentation, without having a single actual fact as the basis of its existence is fiction pure and simple, painted as a diseased and prejudiced imagination as a false and deceptive background as. IT no longer blind, Lord God, do our dumb suffering. Surely Thou pale, bloodless, heartless thing? Ah! Christ of all the Pilies! Forgive the thought! Forgive the chou art still the God of our black fath- ome soft darkenings of the evening, so SIT no longer blind, Lord God, deaf to our prayer and dumb to our dumb suffering. Surely Thou too art not white, O Lord, a pale, bloodless, heartless thing? Ah! Christ of all the Pities! Forgive the thought! Forgive these wild, blasphemous words. Thou art still the God of our black fathers, and in Thy soul's soul sit some soft darkenings of the evening, some shadowings of the velvet night. But whisper—speak—call, great God, for Thy silence is white terror to our hearts! The way, O God, show us the way and point us the path. Whither? North is greed and South is blood; within, the coward, and without, the liar. Whither? To death? Amen! Welcome dark sleep! Whither? To life? But not this life, dear God, not this. Let the cup pass from us, tempt us not beyond our strength, for there is that clamoring and clawing within, to whose voice we would not listen, yet shudder lest we must, and it is red, Ah! God! It is a red and awful shape. Lord, we have done these pleading, wavering words. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord! in who in the con- ge of his duty dares the world, with ignor- dgment, may con- nances of relatives and the hearts of but the sense of sweeter than the world, the counten- or the hearts of summer. upon which to stand. Such a play could not be otherwise than mischievous in its inception and dangerous in its results, even if the scenes depicted were a truthful reproduction of actual occurrences. But when it is or ought to be a well known fact that the alleged scenes are pure fabrications not a single background of truth to simplify their production can hardly be less than real, and main they are false, slanderous, and malicious. They are calculated and intended to engender and intensify race prejudice and race hatred. In the interest of peace, order, truth, justice, and morality they should be suppressed. No good can come but much harm may result from them. It is before the duty of the authorities to suppress them, and they would suppress any other mutilation that is calculated to incite crime and general disorder in the community. In this connection allow me, as a southern man, to say, and to say whereof I know, that there are just two classes of white people at the south who keep this so-called race problem constantly before the public. The first class is composed of those who believe in race prejudice simply for the collar's benefit can make out of it. The second class is composed of those who utilize race prejudice for the purpose of securing political distinction and official recognition which they could never secure through any merit of their own. It makes no difference with these people how much harm to the public or injustice is done to any people or race as long as they can accomplish the not a particle of anything anything they say or produce relative to the matter. But what difference does that make to them? The office seeker finds that this is his best paying political asset. What is the use, then, of considering or discussing the tariff, the financial, or any other subject or question as long as this is my mythical race question will answer the purpose? You find that this is the one question that they can hold the white men of the middle class political subjection and upon which the average white man at the north can be easily fooled and deceived. As long, then, as the country believes, as you seem to believe, that these things are true and that public sentiment must tolerate them and approve methods that are criminal and practices that would be otherwise indifferent to the purpose of preventing "Negro domination" just so long will this state of affairs continue, hope that the eyes of the people will eventually be opened and that justice and fair play for all will be the accepted rule of action in all parts of our country. JOHN R. LYCH, Author of "The Facts of Reconstruction." Not Worthy of Freedom. (From the Richmond Planet When a race or an individual submits uncomplaimingly to oppression, it is a practical demonstration that the race or the individual is not worthy of freedom. taf to our prayer and dumb to you too art not white, O Lord, a ese wild, blasphemous words. ers, and in Thy soul's soul sit some shadowings of the velvet ST. PAUL WEEK'S RECORD OF HAPPENINGS IN MINNESOTA CAPITOL. The "Saintly City" and Saintly City Folks—Neway items of Social, Raters Among the People, Ligious, Political and General Mat-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1915 Billy Sunday says: "Woman can make a heaven or hell of a home. It is better to be on time, even if you have to wait for the other fellow. Mrs. M. A. Johnson has been ill several days suffering from a severe cold. A woman with a shapely figure is as proud of it as a man is of a million dollars. It is easy to convince yourself that your troubles are larger than those of other people. Both Phones 508. St. Paul, Minn. T. H. LYLES. Funeral Directors and Embalmers 150 W. Fourth St. Res. 678 St. Anthony, Tel. Dale 2947 Calls Answered Day or Night In Twin Cities Active Pall Bearers Furnished if Desired. Lady Assistant When Necessary. W. Evans, the tailor, has moved from Wabasha to his new place, No. 9 East Sixth street. The young girl who paints her face and bleaches her hair will be old long before her time. If the things that used to make you happy no longer interest you it is time to change the brand. Most people would rather blame a man for what he doesn't do, than to give him credit for what he does do. --- OFFICE CEDAR 8948 RES. DALE 1465 W. T. FRANCIS LAWYER SUITE 329 AMR. NATL. BANK BLDG. COR. FIFTH AND CEDAR ST. PAUL If you wish to hire an auto for any occasion just call the Colburn Auto Livery, day or night, Cedar 4616. Mrs. C. H. Roper, 977 Fuller Ave. has been confined to her bed for several days with an attack of la gripe. Miss Laura Miller of Chicago enroute Winnipeg, Can., was in St. Paul last Monday the guest of Mrs. W. R. Hardy. Articles mailed to THE APPEAL for publication must bear the name and address of the sender, to insure publication. Ladies who desire Hair Goods or anything in that line should call on Madam E Gross, 250 Rondo street. Tel. Dale. 6230. INSIST on Purity BREAD FOR RENT — Nicely furnished rooms; heat, gas, bath, 478 St. Anthony avenue, Tel. Dale 6129—Advertisement, 9-18-15. Mr. Howard Patterson of Red Wing is in the city visiting his brother, Mr. Chester W. Patterson. He contemplates remaining in the city. James Saunders, a chauffeur, was found guilty in police court Thursday of speeding and driving without lighted tail lights and was fined $25.00. VANDER BIES SPECIAL FOR SUNDAY IS STRAWBERRY FRUIT, PER QUART 35 CENTS, PER HALF GALLON 60 CENTS. ORDER NOW. When your fire insurance expires just think of Fred D. McCracken, he will renew it for you. Office, Old Merchants Bank Building, 5th and Jackson. . The Belvieu, 412 Carroll street, I A. Goss, propr. Neatly furnished COURTESY It does not take a teacher of deportment to tell us that politeness is required of us. We know that we cannot hold our job unless we are courteous to all. Bank clerks are instructed to make no distinction between customers on account of race, age or occupation, but to treat all with equal politeness. STATE SAVINGS-BANK 38 East Fourth Street. 1890 1915 rooms with heat, light and bath. Rates reasonable. Tel. Dale 3316—Advertisement. PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER—Mrs. H. I. Williams, office of Atty, W. T. Francis, suite 329 American National Building, Fifth and Cedar. All work confidential. Dr. Frank Gordon, formerly a student at the University of Minnesota, now residing in South Dakota, is making a visit to his many friends in the Twin Cities. The Minnesota State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs is working on a series of meetings for the bene fit of our young people in Minnesota. Watch for dates—Don't miss them. Have you been to Young's Cafe, 138 E. Third street lately? Well, you want to go. They have renewed, rearranged and fixed things generally. You can get a good dinner there for 25 cents. Go try 'em. TAKE NOTICE—All matter intended for publication in THE APPEAL must reach the office Thursdays, to insure its insertion. Communications must bear the name of the sender to receive any attention. Please bear in mind that the NIQUE, corner of Seventh and Jackson streets, W. H. Baker proprietor, has the BEST moving pictures. A change of program every day. Any seat any time 5 cents. The contractors are making rapid strides in the construction of the new Union Hall, cor. Aurora and Kent street. And it will be some hall, if anybody should ask you. Just go out there and see for yourself. Among the students enrolled at the University of Minnesota this fall from St. Paul are Mrs. TURNER, Mr. Edgard Butler, Mr. ERNEST and Miss Alverta Phillips who graduated from Central High School last June. PAPER HANGING.—Any one wishing paper hanging done on short notice and at reasonable rates should address A. W. Holden, 527 St. Anthony Ave., Tel. Dale 2055. Painting and interior decorating also done.—Advertisement. VOCAL AND PIANO LESSONS GIVEN BY MRS. ADDIE CRAWFORD-MINOR, AT HER RESIDENCE, 120 FARRINGTON AVE. HOURS ARRANGED TO SUIT PUPILS. TERMS VERY REASONABLE. TELL DALE 1597. “SHINE 'EM UP!” When you wish your shoes shined or polished in the most artistic and satisfactory style, go to the PEOPLES' SHINING PARLOR, W. H. Porter, Propr, 349 Minnesota street, between 4th and 5th—Advertisement. Rev. Ernest Hall, who and 5th accompanied Rev. B. N. Murrell home from the Baptist Convention in Chicago and who has since been his guest, gave an able discourse Sunday morning at Pilgrim Baptist Church. Rev. Hall will leave for his home in Pittsburgh this week. All the fraternal organizations have secured meeting nights in the new Union Hall, which will be opened to the public in the near future. Full information as to the opening will be given to the public through the columns of THE APPEAL at an early date. WHEN YOU WISH FRESH FRUIT OR VEGETABLES, JUST TELEPHONE TO J. H. THURSTON, THE PEDDLER, DALE 6299. NEVER TOO LATE OR TOO EARLY; IF YOU WANT ANYTHING CALL HIM AND HE'LL COME. RESIDENCE, 394 RONDO STREET. Mrs Henry High entertained at dinner last Tuesday in honor of Dr. Ernest Hall of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Rev. W. D. Carter of Seattle, Wash. Others present were, Rev. B. N. Murrell, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Francis, Mesdames W. G. Hood and W. Wills. SAFE DEPOSIT AND STORAGE VAULTS—We invite your inspection. It costs little to place your valuable papers, cash, securities and other valuations in absolute safety. Boxes in the back are marked 44. Store your boxes, trunks, etc, with us. Northwestern Trust Co. 138 Endicott Arcade.—Advertisement. Mr. C. W. Wigington has moved his family to 582 Rondo street. Mr. Charles B. Preston, clerk in the postoffice and Mr. Wm. C. Jeter, foreman of the American Baptist office, Louisville, Ky., were in the city Tuesday and gave THE APPEAL a pleasant call. The gentlemen were on their vacation and were enroute to the Pacific coast. There will be a Special Dinner given at Young's Cafe next Thursday to celebrate the dinner beginning at 4:00 p.m. the next day. Celery, pickles, olives, soup, chicken with dumplings, rice, sweet and white potatoes, combination salad, pie, watermelon, tea, coffee, milk, all for 35 cents. You cannot afford to miss this epicurean feast. You are invited. RAILROAD EMPLOYEES: BEFORE HAVING YOUR ACCIDENT OR SICK INSURANCE POLICY RENEWED, SEE F. D. McCRACKEN, (OLD) MERCHANTS BANK BLDG, (OLD) MERCHANTS BANK MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY NEW POLICY, THE MOST COMPLETE AND LIBERAL POLICY FOR RAILROAD MEN EVER ISSUED. Mr. Geo. E. Frey, of Baltimore, Md, Lieut. Grand Commander of the Supreme Council 33 degree Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction, was the guest on Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. Jose H. Sherwood of St. home from Oakland and on his way place the annual session of the Supreme Council was held, Mr. Frey is a man of wealth and a well known caterer of Baltimore. The COMMISSARY CAFE, 753 Mississippi street, formerly operated by Mrs. F. E. Boyd and Mr. A. E. Buckner, has made a change in the proprietorship, Mrs. Boyd retiring and Mr. A. E. Buckner is now sole proprietor. The cafe hereafter will be open all night and meals to order may be had at all hours from 25 cents up, on the Great Seven days, for many years chef secured as night chef and you can get anything you call for on short no tice. Tel Jackson 1337. Mr. John F. Coquire, employed in postoffice, was a victim on last Tuesday of the reckless auto driving which is so prevalent in St. Paul. He was knocked down at Louis and Rondo streets by a machine driven by S. Labovitch and was quite seriously injured. He was taken to the city hospital where he is progressing quite well. He has entered a suit for 9250 damages against Louis, Samuel and Bobby. He is also stationers, 525 Jackson street who are the owners of the auto that ran him down. JOSEPH WADE BARNETT. Who Pased Away Last Saturday, Laid To Rest by His Brothers of Gopher Lodge 105. St. James A. M. E. church was completely filled with the friends of the late James Wade Barnett on the occasion of his funeral last Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The funeral was held under the auspices of Gopher Lodge No. 105 I. B. P. O. E. W. of which he was a member in good standing. The members of Gopher Lodge were present in a body in the regulation regalia for such an occasion. The funeral services included the singing of "Lead Kindly Light" by the choir. The Elk's funeral services were led by Exalted Ruler O. C. Hall. Prayer by Chaplain Walter Root, Thanatopsis by Geo Stewart. The church services consisted of scepters of the Rep. P. J. Jones, pastor, prayer by Rev. W. D. Jones, pastor of the Baptist church at Seattle, Wash Mrs. Addie Crawford-Minor sang "Face to Face" as only she can sing it. There was not regular set sermon from a text but Rev. B. N. Murrell of Pilgrim Baptist church told of his visits to the deceased and of his conversion to Christ during one of these visits. He told of his acquaintance JOSEPH WADE BARNETT. with the deceased and his family, and paid a tribute to the memory of his own family whose passing away was brought forcibly to mind by circumstances in connection with the life and death of the deceased. Rev. W. D. Carter made a few remarks, he was well acquainted with the deceased and his family, having been associated with them during his residence in this city for several years. He also referred to his sainted mother in glowing terms and gave words of consolation to the bereaved widow telling her not to weep because of the assurance that she would meet her husband where parting is no more. Rev. H. P. Jones told his visit to the deceased on Friday of last week and how he accounted on his fingers to date of Rev. Jones departure for conference Tuesday morning, and said, "you will be able to挑 my funeral before you go." Rev. Jones most eloquently and touchingly eulogized the deceased as a man. His remarks were most inspiring throughout and made a profound impressions, as in fact, the entire funeral services did. Joseph Wade Barnett was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, July 5, 1955, died Saturday, Sept. 18, 1915 at 1:30 A.M. aged 60 years, 2 months and 13 days. years where he was married 22 years He resided in Chicago about 25 ago He resided in St. Paul about 12 years. He had been in the railroad service about 35 years. He is survived by his wife, step-son and daughter, two brothers and a sister. The floral tributes laid up on his casket were both numerous and beautiful. The pall bearers were: W. N. Corneal, Link Overall. These Williams, H. Robinson, James Taylor, R. E. Cousby, Simpson & Wills, general directors, interment at Oakland cemetery. CARD OF THANKS We desire to tender our sincere and grateful thanks to the friends who gave assistance or words of consolation or in any way helped us to bear the burden of our bereavement in the loss of our husband and father. Ed. Ledbetter and Wife. Mary Barnett. "CABARET GIRLS." The Attraction at the Star Theatre Next Week. Commencing Sunday Sept. 26, at the Star Theatre. Kelly & Damsel's "Cabaret Girls," will be the current weeks offering and the patrons of this calabre of amusement are in store for a real treat in the way of a burlesque show that is up to the minute and positively the seen over entertaining offering of its kind seen over an entire day in many a day. From a scenic and point of view the "Cabaret Girls" out rivals anything ever attempted before in this line of entertainment. The cast is one of exceptional merit and include such well known performers as Mike Kelly, Frank Damsel, Joe Rose, Frances Farr, Frank Mischa, Dot Burnett, the marvelous, Livingston Family and the handsomest chorus before the footlights. The first anniversary of Memorial Baptist Church was celebrated by a series of meetings beginning Sunday, September 19th, and continuing to Tuesday, September 21st. The several meetings were all well attended because the failure to appear of several who attended the programs, it was a big success. The closed with a banquet Tuesday night, which was said to be one of the best feasts of "eats" the city has had in a long time. One of the notable features was the distribution of an elegant eight-page program containing the church and pastor and the twelve of the trustees and deacon's boards; also a history of church and a report of the sinking fund treasurer and the treasurer of the church and the official roster. Another pleasing feature that was given as the "grand finale" was a solo, "I'm Here on Business for My King," in little 5-year old Miss Mary Elizabeth whose whole affair was quite pleasing and the history and "Memorial" is to be congratulated upon the showing it made. To Our Customers and Friends: We beg to announce that we are now in our new location, No. 264 and 266 East Seventh Street, on the same side of the street, one block east. This move was necessary in order to care for our rapid growing business. We trust that you will favor us in the future as in the past with your patronage. Yours very truly, THE BRANCH FURNITURE CO. H. Harder, Mgr. THE FLOUR BEST PULLS BOURNE BE PARTICULAR FOR RENT. EIGHT ROOM HOUSE, HARDWOOD FLOORS, FIRE PLACE, NEWLY DECORATED, HOT WATER HEAT BEING INSTALLED, IN EXCELLENT NEIGHBORHOOD, $25 PER MONTH, F. D. McCRACKEN, (OLD) MERCHANTS BANK BLDG. FOR SALE. 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TWO SIZES 25 AND 50 CENTS. Office Cedar 1673 Dr. Valdo Turner PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Kendrick Block, 27 E. 7th OFFICE HOURS 9 to 11 a. m., 12 to 1 p. m., 3 to 5 p. m. Sundays 10 to 11 a. m. Res. 386 St. Albans Tel. Dale 621 PAINLESS DENTISTRY ```markdown ``` TEL. 8284 9946 ROUCHS 1 TO 18 A.M. 1 TO 8 P. M. BUNGOTA BY EWINGS BUNGOTA BY EWINGS First Class, Guaranteed Work is All Branches of Dentistry 404 KENDRICK BROOK 27 E. 7TH. ST. ST. PAUL Cedar 6190 PHONES a. a. 888 Geo.W. Nelson DRUGGIST Full Stock of Pure Drugs, Proprietary Medicines, Druggists' Sundries, Toilet Articles, Candles, Soda, Cigare, Etc. PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COM- POUNDED Gor, Wabasha and Summit, St. PAUL COAL $4.50 PER TON Splint Coal for Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces HOLMES & HALLOWELL CO. 7 Corners Phone 401 B. H. HARM W. W. GREEB OPTOMETRIST WATCHMAKER F. B. HARM & BRO. Sewelers & Opticians 492 WANAKA STREET N. W. Dale 5194 Res. Dale 3248 ST. MARTIN EXPRESS AND FUEL COMPANY Victor St. Martin, Prop. BAGGAGE MOVED TO ANY PART OF THE CITY WOOD AND COAL IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES 383 Rondo Street ST. PAUL Cor. Rondo and Western N. W. Cedar 2813 PHONES Tri-State 1028 COAL WOOD S. BRAND The Business That Quality Built EVERYTHING WE SELL BURNS Office: Wabasha St. and Park Ave. Yard: Marion St. and G. N. Tracks. ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS THE DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY." Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City. J. N. SELLERS, MANAGER 2812 Tenth Avenue So. Tel. N. W. South 3372. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1915 Mr. P. H. Southall has moved to 1622 Eighth street So. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Glover have moved to 3428 Oakland ave. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gilbert have moved to 3732 Minneaha avenue. Mrs. J. M. Mask have moved her Chop Suey Cafe to 300-302 Fifth Ave. So. Rev. T. B. Stovall, of St. Peter A. M. E. Church is in Milwaukee attending the annual conference. Announcement has been made of the marriage on October 6 of Mr. Augustus Sessions and Miss Eva Hall. Mrs. Louise Ford-Pitt and daughter of Winnipeg, Can, are the guests of her sister, Mrs. Roy Scott. to go. They have renovated, rear-Remember Judge Johnson's big AUTUMN BALL at Union Temple Hall, 28 Washington ave. So., Thursday night, September 30th. McCulloh's orchestra. Rev. E. R. Edwards of St. James A. M. E. Church is attending the meeting of the General Conference at Milwaukee. Bro. Daniel Williams will fill the pulpit tomorrow. 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. (Opposite Court House.) Miss Lena Smith entertained last Saturday afternoon at cards, for Miss Minnie Rose of Chicago and Miss Edna Grey of Washington D. C. There were seven tables. Miss Adina Adams won the first prize; Miss Mildred Shull the booby. The guests of honor were each presented a hand painted souvenir. N. W. PHONE COLFAX 3596 MRS. ROBERT A. VAN HOOK FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING AND LADIES' TAILORING PARTY GOWNS A SPECIALTY 3612 ELLIOTT AVENUE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. SAINT PAUL Thursday was the last day of summer. Some invalids seek every tonic save work. L. W. Bradley has moved to 375 Car roll street. Nobody loves a fat man with a lean pocketbook. Repairing Old Pianos. W. J. Dyer & Bro. are doing some of the finest work in the country in repairing and re-finishing old pianos. The original beauty of tone is fully restored and the pianos come out of their shop with re-finished cases looking like new. Charges are reasonable to have your piano made like new, asking them to make an estimate, for which there is no charge. RACE PRIDE. Write not above my grave: "He was a Christian man, and gave Of his scant store to feed the poor." "And paid his tithes and loved his neighbor well." For these things be of God and He will tell Me what my blessings are. When I stand before his judgment bar. But write instead—and plainly I implore: "Here lies a Race Man," just that, nothing more. From o'er the palisade Of heaven's harborage. My soul, after a thousand years will see A race new-born in Freedom's sanc- tity. Esteeming one who, long before his age, Boasted of Negro blood and parent- age. THE CONTENANTAL LEADS Other Health and Accident Companies Follow. You know what it means when somebody tells you, that this, that or the other health and accident policy is "as good as the Continental Casualty Company's"—it may be you feel Hike arguing the matter but—there's never any doubt about the Continental Casualty Company's policy. It was the first company to write complete protection policies, the first to employ colored agents, and has kept pace with progress of the country. It is the largest of all health and asset companies and is the only one that operates in every state in the union. During the year 1914 the Continental collected, approximately, twice the amount of premiums, in the State of Minnesota, as its nearest competitor, and paid out in claims more money than any other company collected in premiums. This large volume of business enables the Continental Casualty Company to give its policy holders a little better protection for a little less money than any of its competitors. We want your business. not talk it over with you? Chester W. Patterson, Agent, 212 Commercial Bldg. Cor. 6th and Cedar Tel. N. W. Cedar 1918 ANNOUNCEMENT! ANNOUNCEMENT! Attorney J. Louis Ervin announces that he will hereafter handle real estate and real estate investments, in connection with his law practice. This business, requiring a great deal of legal knowledge should properly be handled by a lawyer. I have a number of flats and houses for rent and for sale, I also have a number of First and Second Mortgages for sale. REAL ESTATE, MORTGAGES, BONDS Office Phone Cedar 8760. Res. Phone Cedar 8246 FREDERICK D McCRACKEN (Formerly secretary to Congressman Stewart) I GET THE RESULTS: Because my facilities are ample; My experience long and practical. My equipment is modern; IF I WORK FOR YOU— You will save your time; You will save your patience; I WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. OLD MERCHANTS BANK BUILDING. Fifth and Jackson Sts. "You too?" Everyone smokes the strictly High Grade DUKE OF PARMA CIGARS HART & MURPHY, MNFRS. ST. PAUL, MINN. Food for Thought HERE is a beer for brain workers as well as for men of brawn. It possesses all the elements that impart vigor to the system, aid the tired brain and strengthen the nerves as well as producing bone and muscle. All the nutritive ingredients of a perfect beer are found to the highest degree in The brainiest men of almost all nations have been consistent beer drinkers. The deepest thinking scientists and pure food experts have endorsed beer as a wholesome food product. Tel. Cedar 8477 Office Phone Cedar FRED INSURANCE. FIRE. PLATE GLASS AUTOMOBILE. TORNADO. SICK. ACCIDENT. LIFE. I GET THE RESULT IF I WORK FOR Yo Yo I W OLL Fifth and Jackson FO HERE is men of part vision strengthen the All the nutt found to the h The brainies consistent beer pure food expect product. 61 W. 10TH ST. MIDDLE TOWN, ILL. 628 ST. PAUL s. Phone Gedar 8246 CKEN (ens.) REAL ESTATE SALES. RENTALS. MORTGAGES. LOANS. CARE OF PROPERTY. NG. BULTS: because my facilities are ample; my experience long and practical. my equipment is modern; YOU— you will save your time; you will save your patience; WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. AND MERCHANTS BANK BUILDING. in Sts. ST. P. "You too?" everyone smokes the strictly High Grade DUKE OF PARMA CIGARS ART & MURPHY, MFRS. ST. PAUL, MINN. Good for Thought a beer for brain workers as well as for brawn. It possesses all the elements that im- migor to the system, aid the tired brain and nerves as well as producing bone and muscle. ritive ingredients of a perfect beer are highest degree in well as for ents that im- d brain and and muscle. et beer are have been scientists and olesome food most men of almost all nations have been drinkers. The deepest thinking scientists and erts have endorsed beer as a wholesome food THEO.HAMM BREWING CO. ST. PAUL ```markdown ``` THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN Hamm's BEER ST. PAUJ FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. Twenty Elegant, Steam Heated, Electric Lighted Rooms for Gentlemen Only. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, Barber Shop and Bath, Private Dining and Reception Room for Ladies. A LA CARTE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. BEST SERVICE. Daily, From 1 to 6 P. M. 25 to 35 Cts. Sunday, 35 to 50 Cents. Special Terms for Private Parties, Banquets, Etc. MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA. Phone Nlc. 9769. Main 9592 T. B. 2078 PORTERS' AND WAITERS' HOTEL FOR MEN ONLY GLOVER SHULL, Manager Rates 50 cents per day 209 Hennepin MINNEAPOLIS Phone Main 2560 Quick Service The France Hotel & Cafe MRS. J. M. MABK, PROP. 300-302 Fifth Ave. So. First Class A La Carte Meals at All Hours. Chinese Dishes a Specialty. REGULAR DINNER 25 CENTS Cor. Third Street MINNEAPOLIS. MINNESOTA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION. The Minnesota Public Health Association announces that its membership is open to all citizens interested. Anyone who is concerned about his own health, that if his neighbor, or that of this state as a whole, should take advantage of this opportunity, Weekly public health letters and various pamphlets will be sent to every member. "Minnesota the Healthiest State in the Union" is the slogan. Knowledge concerning disease and its prevention must be disseminated widely. The health and efficiency of this state depends directly upon the health and happiness of the individual citizen. Do you know, Mr. Citizen, that for your present hapazard way of preventing disease you are paying directly or indirectly, a tax greater than the tax of a foreign citizen? Consequently you should realize that it is not only an opportunity, but a duty to become informed and to spread this information to less affluent neighbors. Knowledge will enable you to do your share in Minnesota's great battle against preventable disease and death. Information will be sent to anyone who sends his or her name and address to the Minnesota Public Health Association, Old Capitol, Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Association's new year begins Joy the first. As new mailing lists send the first. As new mailing lists addresses: Minnesota Public Health association. Old Capitol St. Paul, Minn. POSTAL SAVING BANK. Open to Everyone, Whether Patrons of the Offices or Not. Postmaster General Burleson has issued a circular stating that every person in the United States ten years old or over may open an account in a postal savings bank after July 1st. He does not have to live where the postoffice is but may open an account by mail. Postal savings receipts have broken all previous records the past year. During the eight months prior to April 1st there was a net gain in deposits of $19,000,000. The St. Paul bank was organized Sept. 1, 1911, and up to the present time has received in deposits $2,505,086. During this same period the withdrawals have amounted to $1,760,890, leaving a credit to the depositors May 1st. of $144,196. Interest to the account of $15,618.50 has already been paid to depositors and $97,850 worth of United States government bonds purchased. The St. Paul Bank has 5,093 open accounts subject to withdrawal, with accrued interest at a moment's notice. Our institution is ranked among the four highest in the country in amount of deposits and the depositors are of Postmaster Raths says he hopes to bring the deposits up to $1,000,000 during the coming year. Tired of Praising Enemy. (From the Pioneer-Press, Martinsburgh, W. Va.) The Pioneer Press gets sick and tired of Negroes going off in refluent argument and praise of tardy judicial actions. For after the wicked grandfather rascality crime had served its plans and purposes and was by time getting thread-bare, this decision was made. Why should I go wild in praise of it after suffering fifty years because of the denials of my rights? For many be the times I've been compelled to ride over the very territory I fought in the war of the rebellion, though I paid first class fare, as a fimcrowed slave. A The End of a Perfect Day Eventide is one of the sweetest words in our language. To the laborer it means relief from the day's toil; to the man of affairs it means respite from the keen strife of business. It means the return to that haven of rest—the home. To the housewife it means her hour of triumph when she may gather around her those for whom she has made home a place of contentment. The evening meal is to her an occasion of cheer. How well she has planned if a part of that meal is a bottle of Hamm's BEER It is an adjunct to the perfect closing of a perfect day. THEO.HAMM BREWING CO. ST. PAUL DALE 6230 HAIR DRESSING Madam E. Gross 250 RONDO STREET ST. PAUL, MINN. INFACULTER OF HAIR GOODS SCALF TREATMENT SHAMPOOING SUITS 35¢ ED PHONE DALE 3823 MEN'S SUITS DRY CLEANED $1 ST. PAUL Meets third Odd Fellow ity and F or Pairing P. August HOUSEB U. O. OF Monday in lows Hall, Farrington M. N. G. M. 918 Woodruff HOUSEB U. O. O. I Tuesday in ave Hall, O. South Corr Miss Corr MEN'S SUITS PRESSED 35c PHONE DALE 382 MEN'S SUITS 35C PHONE DALE 3823 MEN'S SUITS $1 PRESSED DRY CLEANED CLIFFORD A. SMITH 421 W. UNIVERSITY AVENUE ES WORK A SPECIALTY CALL FOR AND DELIVER SUIT BOAT $25 ST. PAUL LADIES WORK A SPECIALTY Save money on your laundry. FLAT WORK 24 cents per dozen. Washed and Ironed. Phone us and our wagon will call. Both Phones 939 CAPITOL STEAM LAUNDRY. "The Old Reliable Laundry." 9140 LAW OFFICES OF J. LOUIS ERVIN ATTORNEY AT LAW SUITE 303. COURT BLOCK PAUL MINNESOTA Sedar 9282 Laundry Office BUTLEY'S PLACE BARBER SHOP POOL PARLOR LUNCHES ing, Hair Cutting, Shampooing, Head and Face massage. Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco Afro-American Newspapers LIGHT EXPRESSING POOL PARLOR OPEN SUNDAYS 'TIL 10:00 P. M. WABASHA ST. ST. PAUL UTLEY'S BARBER SHOP POOL PARLOR Shaving, Hair Cutting, Shampooing Massage. Best Brands of Cities Afro-American New LIGHT EXPRESS POOL PARLOR OPEN SUNDAY 311 WABASHA ST. UTLEY'S PLACE BARBER SHOP POOL PARLOR LUNCHES Shaving, Hair Cutting, Shampooing, Head and Face Massage. Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco Afro-American Newspapers LIGHT EXPRESSING POOL PARLOR OPEN SUNDAYS 'TIL 10:00 P. M. 311 WABASHA ST. ST. PAUL TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO We did the editor's laundr doing it today. Why not prices in the city. Perfect teed. did the editor's laundry work. We are ing it today. Why not yours? Lowest es in the city. Perfect service guaran- We did the editor's laundry work. We are doing it today. Why not yours? Lowest prices in the city. Perfect service guaranteed. SPICERS LAUNDRY 228-230 W. PHONE JACKSON 803 QUIC SERVICE THE I. A. & C. ASH CO. H. DAVIS, MGR. We will haul ashes by the week, month or jo'. We do light jobs of grading and sodding, remove dirt and fill lots We also furnish sand and black dirt We will put your coal in at the same price th it will cost you at the yards HE I. A. & C. ASH CO. H. DAVIS, MGR. will haul ashes by the week, month or jo'. do light jobs of grading and sodding, remove dirt and fill lots We also furnish sand and black dirt will put your coal in at the same price th it will cost you at the yards Rice Street ST. PAUL THE I. A. & C. ASH CO. H. DAVIS, MGR. We will haul ashes by the week, month or jo! We do light jobs of grading and sodding, remove dirt and fill lots We also furnish sand and black dirt We will put your coal in at the same price th it will cost you at the yards 1430 Rice Street ST PAUL MIX BROADWAY MOO TRIATHLETIC 835 TEL. DALE 6230 MANUFACTURER OF HAIR GOODS FULL SUIT OVERCOAT $25 PHONE CEDAR 9140 SAINT PAUL HAIR DRESSING SCALP TREATMENT SHAMPOOING CALL FOR AND DELIVERY ST. PAUL MINNESOTA 228-230 W. 7th St. 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 Mondays of each month at Wagner Hall, cor. West- ern Ave., Baltimore street; at 8: p. m. W. A. Benjamin, W. M.; J. H. Dillingham Secy., 569 Rondo. PERFECT ASHILAR LODGE NO. 4. P. FECT. A. M. Meets second and fourth Tuesday in each month. W. Eastern Ave. and Charles street at W. Western Ave. and Charles street at W. Western M. Johnson. W. M.; Oliver Taylor, Secy. 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. Anthur D Adams, H. P. W. L. Green, Secy. PILGRIM COMMANDERY NO. 22. Knights Tempel meets fourth Thursday in each month. W. Western and Charles street W. Western and Charles street at 479 Rong street ODD FELLOWS MARS LODGE NO. 2202 G. U. O. of O. meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, 221 West University corner at Farrington avenue. Entrance on Farrington, B. N. Jackson, N. G., J. Wesley Kelly, P. S., 950 St. Anthony Ave. FREDERICK DOUGLASS LODGE NO. 990 U. O. of O. F. meets first and third Wednesdays in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, 222 University and University avenues, at All Odd Fellows in good standing welcome Hattton, N. G.; James R. Lynn, P. S., 375 Carroll avenue. ST. PAUL PATRIARCHY NO. 314 Third Monday in each month at Odd Fellows corner of W. University and Farrington avenue. Entrance on Farrington. George B. Love, R. V. Augustus Jones, W. P. R. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 563 U. O. of O. F. meets first and third Monday in each month at N. W. Cor. University and Farrington, N. M. G.; Mrs. Carrie E. Lindsay, W. P. 918 Woodbridge street. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH NO. 77& U. O. O. meets second and fourth Tuesday in at labor Station at Labor Temple Hall, Cor. Fourth and Eighth Ave. South, Mrs. S. Darager, M. N. G. Miss Cora Napler, W. R. GOPHER LODGE NO. 105, I. B. P. O. E. of the World, meets the second Wed- nesday night in each month in the right corner Western Ave. and Chath- ST. PAUL, O. C. HALL, E. R. Richard M. Johnson, Sec. 572 Kent street JOHN H. HAYES LODGE NO. 6 K OF F. Meets third and third Tuesday in each month in Castle Hall 221 W. Washington cor. Farrington Knights in good standing always James Thomas, C. C. Jas. Handley, C. C.; 148 $1 St. E. O. O. K of R and S. 321 St. Albans street. BALLET DANCE E. O. James, K of R and S. 321 St. Albans street. BIDDLE CIRCLE LADIES R. meets first and third days of a month in Supreme Court on either building. Mrs. M. J. Leavitt Mr. J. R White Serv. Phyllis FIDELITY COURT OF CALANTHE NO. 345, N. A., S. A. E., A. A. and a month at third Monday in each month at K. H. 211 Hennep Ave. Minneapolis. Mrs. Minneva & Barnett. W. C.; Miss Arlane M. Scott R. of D. 25 W. 29th St. NAT TURNER LODGE no. 2, K. OF P. Minneapolis, meets each month and Fourth Thursdays in each month at K. H. 211 Blige, second floor, corner Fourth st. at 8:15 p.m. All Knights nue south at 8:15 p.m. Welcome. Ralph Watson, C. Standing are welcome. K. R. S. 521 Washington Ave, N. CHURCHES PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH, CEDAR dance hall and Summit avenue. Sunday services at 1:00 a.m. a. m. and 8:00 p. m. Sunday school a. m. 8:00 p. m. Prayer service and choir service Wednesday 8:00 p. m. Funerals and weddings attended attended. Rev. B. N. Murrell RU232 West Central avenue. Pastor's study at Tel. Jackson 346. MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, corner Rice and Fuller streets. Sunday services: Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday School 12:45: Deaconess meeting. B. Y. P. U. 7:30 p. m. Public cordial invited. Rev. E. H. McD. McDonald, pastor, 651 W. Central avenue. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, COR Fuller and Jay streets. Sunday prayer meeting. 7:30 p. m. Wednesday prayer meeting. P. M. pastor visits on Monday and Tuesday. Weddings, funerals and Thursday. 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