St. Paul Echo
Saturday, February 5, 1927
St. Paul, Minnesota
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THE SUN will soon be shining on both sides of the street, so save a few pennies each day to buy a lot at Minesure.
VOL. 2, NO. 14
THOMAS MORGAN MADE DIRECTOR OF CREDIT UNION
Negro Postal Workers Hold Offices and Co-Operate in Organization.
Unions Promote Thrift
Credit Unions Have No Equal as a Practical Means for Teaching Thrift.
Thomas R. Morgan, well known postal clerk and publisher of the Helper, a church periodical, was unanimously elected a member of the board of directors at the election of officers and directors that took place at the annual meeting of the St. Paul Postal Credit Union, held Wednesday evening, January 26th, at the Main Post Office. Mr. Morgan has been a postal worker for the past 13 years.
Credit Union Purposes.
One of the purposes of the Credit Union is the promotion of thrift among postal workers. Recently in a letter to members of Service Councils, Harry S. Dennison, Director of Service Relations, writes:
"It has been said that Credit Unions are demonstrating in increasing measures their great value to accomplish at least three things: (1) They promote thrift by supplying a convenient, regular and systematic means for saving; (2) they demonstrate that by the co-operative credit plan, provision is made for borrowing for provident purposes at normal rates of interest; (3) they turn out to be educators, capable of bringing knowledge to the members on matters of finance. One writer has this to say about the Credit Union: 'As a practical means for teaching thrift, and the fundamentals of finance, the Credit Union has no equal. As a formula for promoting good fellowship, fraternity and Americanism, it serves equally the employer and the workers. Those who promote and operate a Credit Union come in close relations with the human problems of their associations.'
Organizations Grow.
"The first postal Credit Union was organized four years ago, January 5, 1923, with eight shareholders owning ten shares of stock and assets of less than $20.00. There now are sixty-five such organizations and five other groups are planning to organize during the present month, and in all probability on January 17. It is believed the number will reach 100 by the end of this year. The amount paid on shares, by approximately 12,000 shareholders, represents more than $600,000 and fully indicates the thrift value of this movement, since this amount has been accumulated by the regular and systematic payments on shares of small amounts, generally 10 to 25 cents, weekly or semi-monthly. As a means for promoting thrift and furnishing members with credit facilities for provident purposes, it has proved a decided success in the postal service and it is difficult to predict the future growth and development. One postal Credit Union now has assets of $150,000, all accumulated by the Credit Union procedure as outlined above."
Lerman Organizes.
Attorney Louis E. Lerman of the law firm of Mallory and Lerman organized the St. Paul Postal Credit Union, and it now has about 200 shareholders, and their monthly deposits total about $700. R. L. Stokes was one of the incorporators and John H. Hickman, Jr., was elected on the first board of directors, serving one year.
Charles J. Moos, St. Paul postmaster, in a statement to an "Echo" representative, stated that the department endorsed the Credit Unions and that he believed the local Credit Union will be of great help to the postal workers and that he wished to do all he could to promote the functioning of the organization.
ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
Johnny Baker Post No. 291 of the American Legion made preparations to organize a woman's auxiliary. Miss Thelma C. Williams daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Williams, 318 No. Grotto accepted a position as musical director at Houston College. The annual election of officers of the N. A. A. C. P., Minneapolis, was held at Phyllis Whettley House.
Minn Historical Society Minn Historical Bldg St Paul Minn The St. Paul Echo
Clerk Unanimously
Elected as Director
Of Postal Credit Union
A. E.
Thomas R. Morgan
Thomas R. Morgan, St. Paul postal clerk, was made one of the directors of the St. Paul Postal Union at their annual meeting held Thursday, January 27, 1927.
CAPTAIN GODETTE RECEIVES CHARM
CAPTAIN GODETTE RECEIVES CHARM
Long Period of Service Marked by Many Miraculous Experiences.
On Thursday evening January 27th, 1927 a testimonial was given at the Sterling club for Captain Wm. R. Godette who retired from the St. Paul fire department in 1926 after serving 41 years. Captain Godette's long period of service is marked by many miraculous experiences that date back from the horse drawn, crude fire fighting apparatus, to the most modern motor driven and mechanical devices, linked with technical teachings and life saving methods.
Speakers at the testimonial were Tom O'Connell, assistant to the commissioner of Public Safety and secretary of the Firemen's Union; Father Lealatt; acting Captain Davenport of No. 9; Geo. Charleston, retired pipeman of No. 9, who served 20 years, Chief Dunn was present but was forced to leave on account of a call from a fire.
Sterling club members presented Captain Godette with a beautiful white gold Masonic watch charm with this inscription: "Presented to Captain Wm. R. Godette, City Fire Department 1885-1926 by the Sterling Club." The presentation speech was made by President Wiggington and Mr. O. C. Hall presided. Mrs. Hattie Olliver rendered a solo.
ERMINE HALL IN RECITAL
Miss Ermine Hall, sixteen-year-old soprano, will appear in song recital Thursday evening, Feb. 10, at St. James A. M. E. church. Assisting in the program will be Miss Anna Foster, reader, and Miss Dorothy Hall, accompanist.
Miss Hall is aspiring for the concert stage and is a student of Minnesota College, where she is working for a diploma. Those who heard her before know she is well worth hearing again.
BETTER MUSIC CLUB TO
GIVE STUDENT DANCE
The Better Music club will give a dance at Phyllis Wheatley House Friday evening, Feb. 11, 1927. Al Freeman's Black and Gold Orchestra will furnish the music, and a good time is assured. Dancing from 7:30 to 11:30. Admission 35 cents.
The club wishes to thank those who attended their dance given at the Minneapolis Coliseum, for their efforts in making the affair such a marked success.
The Friday night dances are given for the convenience of the University and other school friends of the club who might not be able to attend on other evenings.
The excellent music played by Al Freeman's orchestra should attract a good crowd. The club cordially invites all to attend.
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ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1927
No Fundamental Differences Of Heart Between The White And The Colored Man, Says Rotarian
NATIONAL NEGRO HISTORY WEEK TO BE CELEBRATED
NATIONAL NEGRO HISTORY WEEK TO BE CELEBRATED
Schools, Churches and Social Agencies Giving Time to Neglected Records.
Exercises Will Be Held
The Negro Must Learn His Past and Publish it to This Prejudiced World.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 3.—Schools, churches and social agencies will pause during the week of February 6th to 13th inclusive, to invite attention to the long neglected record of the Negro. This Week, which covers the birthday of Lincoln and approaches that of Douglass, is a most appropriate occasion for this timely observance. Around the story of these great characters and others who have worked for the benefit of humanity and for the Negro in particular, the brilliant record of the Negro may be so dramatized as to inspire the Negro youth to noble deeds.
Exercises Arranged.
To invite attention to the romantic story of the Negro, there have been engaged throughout the country numerous teachers, ministers, professional men, and leaders of business who will participate in various exercises held throughout the Week. Public schools will use the hour of assembly for this purpose. City and state school authorities have set aside special days of this Week and social uplift agencies will hold appropriate exercises in the evenings. The enthusiasm has decidedly increased since last year, when this celebration was held for the first time, and the preliminary reports from the field indicate that it will be in every sense of the word a national celebration.
Communities to organize.
The people throughout the country have been called upon to do certain definite things. They are asked to organize their community through committees for the celebration, to appeal to their boards of education for the adoption of Negro history textbooks, to interest their library and school in securing a shelf of scientific works on the Negro and pictures of distinguished men of the race, to urge every one to write to the Association all he knows about Negro family history and to send it any important documents bearing on the record of the Negro.
Claims Misunderstandings Cause Unfriendliness Between Races.
Berkeley, Cal., Jan.—(Pacific Coast News Bureau). "Have you ever thought of the good qualities of the Negro?" was the pertinent question asked the assembled Rotarians at the recent meeting of the Berkeley Rotary Club, by their Chairman Charles Keeler, who is also managing director of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.
"In the past we have been capitalizing their worst qualities. Why would it not be better to capitalize their best points?" asked Mr. Keeler. "There is need for a greater understanding between the white and dark races. It is only misunderstanding which causes any feeling other than friendliness. Kipling was wrong when he said 'East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.' The differences between races are differences of custom only; there is no fundamental difference of heart between the white and colored man."
"The advancement of understanding, good will and international peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men unite in the Rotary ideal of service" the sixth object of the Rotary Clubs Mr Keeler explained and told his audience of Rotarians from San Francisco, Oakland, Portland and other points, and that their object boiled down meant the "Brotherhood of Man."
Negroes Here To Stay. Referring to the idea of some people that the race problem could be
THE MACHINE
From a little two by four shoe shining stand, 30 years ago, in the Scandinavian Bank Bldg. at 6th and Jackson Sts. Owen Howell the proprietor, has steadily increased his business and kept pace with the times and is now conducting the only all modern shop in St. Paul, known as the Up-Town Sanitary shop at 372 Wabasha St.
His latest improvement was the installation of a new electrically operated shoe shining stand. Mr. Howell states that, "The brushes on this machine are operated at a speed of 1200 revolutions a minute. Brushes
TODD MANAGES REST
TODD MANAGES REST
Mr. A. J. Todd, former deputy
sheriff of Ramsey County, and finan-
cial secretary of Gopher Lodge, 105
has been appointed manager of the
Elks' Rest, 207 W. Central. The
Rest will be open during each day
from 12-12 for members only. All
members are requested to come out
during their leisure hours and use
the Rest for their comfort, pleasure
and meeting place.
settled by having the Negroes in the United States colonize in Liberia, Mr. Keeler said, "There are some eleven or twelve million Negroes in the United States and if they were to leave at the rate of a steamer load of 1,154 each week, only the increase would be leaving. This shows the impracticability of the plan. They were brought here as slaves and they are here to stay." "Moreover the Negroes are coming from the South into the North" Mr. Keeler continued. "They want more freedom and a better life which they find in the North. So the South is now becoming worried, the attitude of the Southerner is changing and he is treating the Negro better because he does not want to lose the working population of his section."
Mr. Keeler gave many interesting facts about the colored people in Berkeley as developed by a Chamber of Commerce survey recently made. This showed that there are 700 Negroes in Berkeley and the same number of Japanese, Chinese number 279 and there is a sprinkling of other oriental nationalities. "The Negroes coming to Berkeley are the finest of the Race," declared Mr. Keeler. "They come here because Berkeley is a superior City, one in which they find the most advantages for culture. Sixty-one per cent own their own homes here, and ninety per cent have books and buy good periodicals. They have good homes, good gardens, and are good citizens. Very few Negroes made any trouble. In Berkeley their chil-
are 12 inches in circumference, making a total of 20 lineal feet of brush passing over the shoe every second. The result of a shine from these high speed brushes is a hard enameled finish given in half the time and lasts twice as long as a shine given by the old style hand method. For those who have tender feet, and the old method of hand brushing has been disagreeable, will find this new Electrically Operated Shining Machine a pleasure when taking a shine. The revolving of the brushes has a soothing effect on your tender feet, and you will be delighted with your shine. The new style foot rest, which, when a shine is completed folds back out of the way, causing no inconvenience to the customer in getting in or out of the chair." The greatest feature of the Sani-
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Emphasizes the Essential Equality of, and the Good That Is in All Men
Is in All Men. dren receive nine months of schooling as against three in the South. Capitalize Best Qualities. "It is Berkeley's problem to establish just and astisfactory relations between the white and Negro population. So far, only the covenant plan has been proposed. But this is a selfish and non-constructive policy. Have you ever thought of the good qualities of the Negroes? They are genial, good-natured, fond of music, and they make the best and gentlest of nurses. Why would it not be better to capitalize their best points? Take for instance their natural love for music, and develop it. The right man should form a choral society of Negroes in Berkeley that would be a source of pleasure and benefit to the community.
suggests Distinctive Architecture. "Under the proper leadership it might be possible to develop a distinctive architecture in the section which they occupy. For instance the architecture of Algiers in which the Negroes' love of color was emphasized would be a step in which Berkeley might set an example to the whole world. "We have in Berkeley a cultured Negro lady who is making a research into Negro lore. There are many college graduates among them here, and the only reason some of them do not stand out in a cultural way to a greater extent is that no one will give them anything but common labor to do.
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Mr. Howell is manager of the Sanitary Shop, with Jacob Haas managing the shoe department and Wm. Klein managing the key department. The Up-Town Sanitary shop has ten employees and a delivery car.
WOMAN ATTORNEY DEPUTY DIRECTOR
National Bar Association Makes Mill City Lawyer Regional Head.
The only Negro woman attorney in the Twin Cities, Miss Leona O. Smith of Minneapolis was appointed Deputy Regional Director of the National Bar Association, District No. 3. After assuming her duties, Miss Smith immediately began completing arrangements for the celebration of the birthdays of Lincoln and Douglas by the National Bar Association, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, February 13th, 1927, at Pilgrim Baptist church, Cedar and Summit Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Mayor Hodgson of St. Paul will deliver the welcome address. Other speakers on the program are: Judge J. W. Finehout, Senior Judge of the Municipal Bench, and Oscar E. Hallam, former Associate Justice of the States Supreme Court and Hon. William H. Haynes, Asst. States Attorney of Chicago, who will deliver the principal address. The judges of the District Bench of both Minneapolis and St. Paul are to be the special guests of the National Bar Association here.
There will be a large musical program and a luncheon served. All churches of the Twin Cities have been requested to participate in the services.
CARTER SPEAKS
The Men's Club of St. James A. M. E. church held their regular meeting on Monday, Jan. 31st. Mr. E. A. Carter, secretary of the Urban League delivered a very eloquent and interesting address relative to the economic condition as it applies to our group in St. Paul. There will be an interesting discussion at the next meeting to be held at the church Monday evening, February 7th.
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High-Handed Methods Used by Conrad Paeben in Running Affairs at Poro.
SaysHeWasOnlyJoking
Court Protects Mrs. Malone's Formula Ruling That It Was a Trade Secret.
St. Louis, Mo., Feb. — (By the Associated Negro Press). An attempt by Conrad Paeben, the white receiver in charge of Poro College, to obtain the secret formula by which Mrs. Malone makes the famour hair preparation, was frustrated last Monday only by court action. Paeben, who is described as a bumptious lawyer of a rather mediocre type, and who has won the soubriquet of "crimson neck" here, was appointed by the court when Aaron E. Malone filed a petition seeking to obtain a fifty per cent interest in the million dollar institution.
Uses High-Handed Methods.
He is charged during the few days he has been in control with using rather high-handed methods in running affairs at Poro, badgering employees and proclaiming loudly that "I am the boss now." He orders Mrs. Malone's car out to bring, him to and from his office for the couple of hours which he spends with the accounting who are checking up the assets of the concern, in questioning employees about the methods which have made the business such a success and in ordering changes. Mrs. Malone has remained in her apartment since the receivership and taken no part in running her office.
Asks For Formula.
The receiver capped his interference in the routine affairs of the institution Tuesday, however, by asking for the formula. Employees advised him that no one knew the secret of compounding except Mrs. Malone and that no one entered the laboratory except with her. "There will be another fellow in there tomorrow, for I'm going in," he declared. Mrs. Malone appealed at once to the judge who called his appointee in and told him in open court that he had nothing to do with Mrs. Malone's formula which was a trade secret and to avoid overstepping his bounds. Paeben told the judge that he was "only joking" when he asked for the formula, but it is rumored that a large sum has been offered for it by a white syndicate.
Adds Another Counsel.
Add Another Counsel.
Homer G. Phillips, well-known colored attorney and national political figure, has been retained by Mrs. Malone as counsel associated with Nagel and Kirby and Congressman Newton, her white lawyers. Mr. Newton has handled her legal business for years, even before she married, presenting her suit some years ago against "Dr." Majors, a former business associate, and preparing and dissolving the corporation, Poro College Company of which Mr. Malone was president and on which he rests most of his claim to ownership.
S. E. Garner, another capable colored attorney, has been promised appointment as co-receiver by Judge Moes Hartman in case the receivership is made permanent. This choice ended a race between a number of colored lawyers who desired to share the plum and who made representations to the court that it would pacify the colored people who think there is a combination to pluck Mrs. Malone of her holdings. While many people viewed with apprehension the sudden appointment of a temporary receiver for a business known to be substantial and prosperous and felt certain that a permanent receiver would be named with consequent great cost and injury to the institution, the pendulum is now swinging the other way, and the public is conceding Mrs. Malone a more even chance to protect herself from her husband's claims, and the debacle which his suit threatens.
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DON'T MISS the Ermine Hall Recital at St. James A. M. E. church, Thursday evening, Feb. 10. Encourage the young talent.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WHITE RECEIVER ATTEMPTS TO GET "PORO"FORMULA
Asks For Formula.
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OUR NATIONAL BANKS
We wish to call the attention of Editor Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier to the fact that the race owns and operates two NATIONAL BANKS. We esteem the Courier very highly among our contemporaries for we have many things to admire the Courier for, one of which is its constant endeavors to give its readers a line on the race's business and to encourage new business and race co-operation, all of which the Echo tries in its way to do.
In the issue of January 15th when it pointed out the great service that the Douglass National Bank of Chicago had performed for the ex-soldiers of the race in making loans to them on their adjusted compensation certificates, Mr. Vann flew wide of the mark when he said that the Douglass National was the only National Bank that the race had. Mr. Vann overlooked the fact that THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Boley, Oklahoma, was the FIRST and for a time the ONLY National Bank owned and operated by the race.
If Mr. Vann had taken the trouble to investigate he would have been able to learn from Mr. Geo. S. Schuyler, a writer in the Courier, or from consulting an old copy of the Courier in which Mr. Schuyler wrote about Boley and its business and conditions when he made a visit to the $100\%$ Negro town last year.
We waited patiently for Mr. Vann to make a correction but since two issues of the Courier have come since the error and no conspicuous correction made we deem it to the best interest of the readers of the Echo to speak now.
The First National Bank of Boley, Oklahoma, is owned and controlled by Negroes. Mr. S. J. King, who is a large and prosperous farmer and cotton-gin owner, is the president, and is associated in the institution with other prosperous and influential men of Boley. We take for granted that the Echo readers are familiar with the name of the financial wizard who heads the Douglass National of Chicago and who also heads other large corporations and has directorships, etc.
THE EXPLOITED PULLMAN PORTER
The laws of economics are such that you cannot have what you cannot take. It is the law of might. When a person is satisfied no one opens that individual's pockets and forces something good into them.
The Pullman porters are missing their share in the cutting of a fine melon, because they have not organized and taken their share. According to a Wall Street announcement three financial giants are to re-organize the Pullman Co. When the re-organization is consummated, stock holders will receive two and one-half shares of stock in a new holding company for each share of stock of $100 par value now held in the Pullman Co. This means that 1,350,000 outstanding shares, whose market value has fluctuated between 186 and $188½, will be turned into 3,375,000 shares.
The "Yes-sah-boss" porter is content to let his wife assist in the support of the family, and permit his children to get their education the best they can. If he would organize he would get his fair share of that great melon. But Hon. Thos. Sullivan says you cannot organize a lot of crazy folks.
REPRESENTATIVE AND REPRESENTED
Persons appointed to positions in public service have a poor understanding of conditions if they think they secure their position upon merit, alone, even if they are in civil service. Appointments are made upon merit plus the number, standing and demands of friends or interested persons. And the value of the plus portion must not be ignored.
In St. Paul there is a growing consciousness among appointers, that the appointed shall represent some organized group. And there is a growing consciousness among organized groups that they be represented in appointments. The membership of Engine Co. No. 9, and the Colored citizens of St. Paul function under those rules.
It is common information that Engine Co. No. 9 is suffering from internal strifes. If that disease breaks out in any other company a transfer to another company is effected. That normalizes the health of the organization. The treatment of the ailment in No. 9 is different. The germ carrier is transferred out into the cold, cruel world, and that method has the sanction of the Colored people of St. Paul. Any other method would tend to disband an institution of which we are justly proud.
We are not so much interested in jobs for certain people as we are in perpetuating the existence of the Engine Co. And we intend to show our temper toward any one within, or without, under whatever pretense, who would rob us of this possession which we enjoy. We have the word of Commissioner Clancy that he intends to keep the company intact. If the internal conditions of No. 9 warrant transfers out, we are with the commissioner. We want Engine Co. No. 9 composed of the present members if possible. If they cannot agree there are others who will welcome the pay check. The present members should lay aside their petty differences.
There are said to be 3,424 spoken languages or dialects in the world, distributed as follows: America, 1,624; Asia, 937; Europe, 587; Africa, 276.
A minister in a church in Houston, Texas, was recently arrested and fined $25 for disturbing the peace by his loud and frequent hallelujahs. The neighbors could not sleep.
JAMES N. SMITH.
Fear not the Grim Reaper,
Or the terror that he brings;
Just place your trust in Jesus
That takes away the sting.
He'll come in the morning, in the
evening,
Noon and night;
He'll come when day is dawning,
He'll come in broad daylight.
It doesn't matter where we are
roaming,
Over land or on the sea;
Matters not what we are doing,
Lurking around always, is he.
The most unwelcome visitor,
Never wanted when he calls;
But if we will only trust in Jesus,
Death is harmless, that's all.
JEAN MATTHEWS.
"Hold Monday, Feb. 21, for an
other M. W. C. club serial dance as
the Oxford Ballroom."
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in Giant Whirlpool
Just before the junction of the Madre de Dois and the Inambari river in Peru the latter divides into two arms, with an island some two miles long between. The right arm, which is usually the safer for navigation, is at times impassable, owing to excessive drought that causes the formation of perilous rapids. Travelers must in consequence take the wide left arm, down which the main volume of the river then flows.
An enormous force of water is shown into the Madre de Dios; the Inambarl at its left-arm junction is 300 yards wide, perhaps 30 feet in depth, and flows at six knots an hour. This great mass of water meets the Madre de Dios, itself 400 yards wide here, at a right angle. The current of the Inambarl, being faster than the Madre de Dios, the former river cuts right across to the farther bank. There the Inambarl is thrown back and surges round in a huge circle 200 yards in diameter, to join up again with the water flowing to the bank. The whirlpool thus formed is probably one of the largest in the world. The circles of seething water curl inward and downward, screw-fashion, to their center, which appears as a great hole, at least six feet being below the level of the outer rim.
Birch-Bark Canoe Not
Popular With Indians
Though the birch-bark canoe is the traditional vehicle of the Indians of northern Canada, few are to be seen today among those Indians frequenting trading posts or mining camps in Ontario or Quebec, writes Courtney Ryley Cooper in the Saturday Evening Post. There is an art in making a birch-bark canoe that only the oldtimers truly know. Then there is work to it and "an Indian and unnecessary work are about as well mated as a bulldog and a black jaguar." Far better, if he can trap enough rats or corral enough ermine skins, he owns a chestnut canoe with an outboard motor, with which he can scoot along the streams and lakes in serenity and swiftness, while the wind waves his hair and creates a grin across his face, comparable only to an Oklahoma Cherokee enjoying his oil royalties and a new motor. There's only one thing more exciting, and that is to stand close enough to the track to get the ballast in his eyes as he watches the transcontinental go by.
Finished
A traveling man put up one night in a cheap little hotel, where the thin partitions of a range of bedrooms, like the stalls of a stable, stopped halfway to the ceiling. And in the stily watches of the night he lay awake and listened to the finest demonstration of plain and fancy snoring that it had ever been his fate to hear. It was full of sudden and awful variations. Sometimes strangulation seemed imminent; then, in the middle of a fantasia, the agony stopped suddenly, and there was silence.
From a nearby room he heard a voice exclaim wearily, "Thank goodness! He's dead!"
Landmark on Old Trail
One of the early landmarks was Pawnee rock on the Santa Fe trail, in what is now Barton county, Kan. This giant rock standing on the level plain was a noted spot, for the trail ran near its base. It provided a place of rest and safety for many a traveler. In later years this landmark was disappearing. The Woman's Kansas Day club resolved to save the historic spot and secured a deed for the rock and five acres surrounding it. On Kansas day, 1909, the women presented this deed to the state. This was done with the condition that the state spend $3,000 for improvements.
Lake Affected by Canal
Experts have decided that the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans mingle with the fresh water in Miraflores lake in the Panama canal. The progressive rise of a certain amount of sea water to this lake and in a lesser amount to Gatun lake began with the first ship to pass through the canal and will probably continue indefinitely with the operation of the locks of the canal under traffic. A rise also takes place when the ships are locked downward.
Time-Sense Center
Why is it that most of us beat time whenever a lively time is played? The reason, says the Swiss scientist Hoepil, is that the nerve centers which react to the sensations of hearing music are located in the feet at a point in each foot under the bend between the ankle and the toe bones. Moreover, the nerve spots which react to musical rhythm, he adds, are in the feet, near the big toes. In the feet also are the nerves controlling the ability to dance rhythmically.
Traffic-Blocking Islands
Floating islands are formed by the accumulations of soil and grasses that push their way over the normal shore line of streams and oceans. These floating masses are lifted at high tide and will break away if the pull is strong enough. In less than 40 years one of the traveling islands, or "rattfs," as they are known, grew in size until it was 10 miles long, 600 feet wide and 8 feet thick, blocking the lower area of the Mississippi. Four years of labor were required to remove it.
Old Roman Pageants
The wonderful, long-necked, spotted creature, the giraffe, has an interesting history. Zoologists in declining its actual species place it between the deer and the hollow-horned ruminants. The name "giraffe" seems to be derived from the Arabian "zerapha" which by some is supposed to have been a corruption of "zoraphe" the Egyptian for "long neck."
In the days of imperial Rome giraffes from the Libyan desert were exhibited in the triumphs of various emperors, and were probably shown to the Romans during the dictatorship of Julius Caesar.
From the period of the Roman empire till the close of the Fifteenth century these magnificent animals were unknown in Europe.
In the last years of that century Lorenzo de Medicl became possessed of a specimen, apparently perfectly tame, which was shown in Florence, and as it was led through the streets often halted, and raising its lofty head to some high balcony, received some dalny—fruit or confection—from the dwellers of the house before which it had stayed its progress.
From that date till the reign of George IV no giraffe was seen in Europe until the year 1827, when Mahomed All, viceroy of Egypt, sent one as a present to the king of England.
Grim Death Lurks in
Holy Waters of India
The holiest waters in India are man-
tled with a green and brilliant scum.
Those who would bathe must break it,
as hardy swimmers in our colder
countries break the ice, before they
can reach the spiritually cleansing
liquid. Coming out of the water,
bathers leave behind them jagged
rifts of blackness in the green; riffs
that gradually close, if no more pilgrims come down to bathe, till the green skin of the lake is altogether whole again.
There were but few bathers when we were at Pushkar.
On days of little concourse the bathers do not venture far out into the lake. Death.lurks invisible under the scum, swims noiselessly inshore, snaps, drags down. We saw him basking on a little shrine-crowned island a hundred yards from land, monstrous and scaly, grinning even in his sleep—a crocodile. Pushkar is so holy that no life may be taken within its waters or on its banks, not even the manatees. A dozen pilgrims disappear each year between those enormous jaws. It is considered lucky to be eaten by a crocodile at Pushkar.—From "Jesting Pilate" by Adux Hauxley.
Something to Remember
One thing they have learned in cold Alaska is to make no attempt to clean a silk or woolen garment in gasoline in the winter time.
Writing in Scribner's Magazine, Mary Lee Davis, the wife of an engineer, says that two women of her acquaintance were burned to death in so doing.
"Just the friction," she says, "of lifting the material from the gasoline bath produces such sparks in the electrified air that an explosion almost invariably occurs."
Although there isn't quite so much electricity in the air in this section of the country, there are few indoor sports more dangerous than washing articles in gasoline.
If you must wash things in gasoline, do it outdoors.
Egyptian Spite
The childish trait of "taking it out" on an inanimate object when one has a fit of temper seems to have been a serious business in ancient Egypt. An archeological expedition of the Berlin museum has just returned from Egypt with 290 pieces of pottery, fragments of some 80 clay vessels, all written over with the names of foreign princes and peoples with whom the Egyptians of about 2000 B. C. were at war, together with a number of Egyptian names as well, presumably of rebellious communities. These names, it is believed, were inscribed on the vessels, which were then shattered with suitable ceremonials, in the belief that the foes would thereby be injured.
"Sweat of Your Brow"
This quotation does not appear in the Bible. The nearest thing to it is the following found in the third chapter of Genesis, nineteenth verse: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken." Yet the great majority of people seem to think that "Ye shall earn thy bread by the sweat of the brow" is a Biblical saying. How the error got started nobody knows. It may have been suggested by Milton's phrase, "Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toll our little day." At any rate, it has been employed by English writers for 250 years—Exchange.
"Maru's" Proper Meaning
The Japanese embassy says that maru means, first, a sphere or circle, and, secondly, perfection, entitlement, completeness. Expressive of perfection, it was formerly used as a suffix to the names of persons, sword masterpieces, etc, and to ships; but at present the last usage has become the common one. Thus the word maru when used in conjunction with a proper name, may be said to designate a ship, it being the most popular suffix used in that connection.
The great man has usually looked the part. Lowell said of Emerson that there "was a majesty about him beyond all the men I have ever known." Washington impressed those about him as being no ordinary man, and Dr. James Thatcher said "the strength and proportion of his joints and muscles appeared to be commensurate with the pre-eminent powers of his mind." Goethe was likened in youth to an Apollo, and the physician Hufeland declared that never had he "met with a man in whom bodily and mental organization were so perfect." Tennyson was "one of the finest looking men in the world." Wordsworth was, according to the artist Hayden, "of very fine heroic proportions." Southey looked an ideal poet. Byron was as beautiful as his verse and was likened to "the god of the Vatican, the Apollo Belvidere." Leonardo da Vinci had a figure of beautiful proportions and a noble and engaging presence. Walter Scott was eminently handsome, "much above the usual standard" and "cast in the mold of young Hercules," with a "fresh and brilliant complexion and a countenance of great dignity."—Scientific Monthly.
Historians Skip Many
Matters of Interest
An American history written in the old-fashioned way would never mention the rise of the motion picture diversion. The kind of histories to which we have been accustomed don't appear to be in the least interested in the ordinary life of the people, which is as much history as taking a fort or carrying an election, a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat asserts. Between wars there is almost a blank interregnum; and—from the history—you would never know that a book had been written, a picture painted or a machine invented. We once knew a school history of the United States that did not mention the coming of the railroad; but every Indian chieftain from Massasoit to Sitting Bull was personalized.
These strange silences of formal history leave us to the historical novels for our general information of the times—the clothing our ancestors wore, their pastimes, their religious faiths, their literature, their customs and their modes of thought.
Heaven as a Republic
Dr. James Madison, second cousin of the President of the United States of that name, was elected president of William and Mary College when he was only twenty-eight years old. It was necessary, before he could assume office, to suspend a statute requiring that the head of the institution be not less than thirty years old. The young college president, who was ordained in the Episcopal ministry in 1775, was an ardent believer in the republican form of government. It is said that in his sermons he never would speak of heaven as a kingdom. He would always refer to it as the "great republic where there is no distinction of rank, and where all men are free and equal."-Pathfinder Magazine.
Embarrassed
He was enjoying the picture at a downtown theater recently when he was disturbed from his leisure by a coin rolling from his pocket. The coin hit the floor with a clink and continued its course to the orchestra pit. The rather embarrassed man was not sure of the denomination of the lost coin and proceeded to go after it. Being unable to find it, he summoned two ushers, who aided him with flashlights. At last, after quite a search, the coin was found, and when it was picked up, there in the finder's hand lay a shining penny.
Color Highly Important
Man has apparently become careless about one of the most important items in his environment—color. As soon as he realizes fully the inhibitive and repressive influence of drab, uninteresting color surroundings, the vistas about will be immediately transformed. Man has always conquered or changed conditions unfavorable to his best development. There is no reason to believe that he will not rise to the present situation and reinstate into his daily life the color which is so important to his well being—Exchange.
Deadly "Milk Sickness"
Milk sickness, the ailment of which Abraham Lincoln's mother died, is a peculiar malignant disease occurring in part of the western United States. It affects certain kinds of farm stock, especially cows, and persons using the meat and dairy products of infected cattle. In man it causes uncontrollable vomiting and other serious symptoms. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food and to polluted water.
Best Known in America
Messrs. Smith, Johnson and Brown are the three best known individuals in the United States, a nation-wide search of city and telephone directories reveals. There are at least 1,300,000 Smiths in America, 1,000,000 Johnson and 730,000 Brown. Then come the Williamses and the Joneses, with 685,000 and 658,000 respectively. The Millers, according to this unofficial census, number 626,000 and the Davies 538,000.
Possessed by Youth
Dear me, with all their superior knowledge, how ignorant the younger generation, one might say the youngest generation, is about some things. A new story came into the house and mother essayed to read it aloud. It was about "gypes." Hardly had she begun when a chorus of small voices asked, "What's a 'gypse'?" And it was hard explaining about a covered wagon, for the next question was, "What's a 'wagon'?" And some didn't even understand what a "pair of horses" was. Never did mother have it brought home to her so keenly that this was an automobile age.
And there is nothing that makes a high-school pupil feel that her mother is more ancient than to have that same mother say, "There were no automobiles in my high-school days; we always went buggy riding." Instantly the high-school mind thinks of her mother, as dated some time before the Civil war, and one high school child had the nerve to question her mother as to her experiences during the Revolutionary war.
Mother came back at daughter a bit, though. She said casually, "There was no such thing as a radio in your life until you reached high-school age, was there?" Daughter tried to prove that radio only happened the other day, as it were, but mother emphasized her point that inventions are coming along faster than people are.—Springfield Union.
Credit for "Want Ad"
Goes to Englishman
In 1672 John Houghton, a fellow of the Royal society, established a weekly paper for the improvement of husbandry and trade, and undertook to educate the merchants of England in the art of advertising, says World's Work.
First he established a bureau for supplying servants to masters and masters to servants, carrying on operations through advertising. From this he went into the advertising of schools, houses and lodgings to let and so forth, laying down the idea of what has grown into our present "want ads." He instructed the public class by class, inducing lawyers, physicians and farmers to use his columns and built up a large miscellaneous patronage for his paper. The clergy in particular found his columns an excellent medium for securing or disposing of second-hand sermons, for there were no Monday morning papers in those days, with ever-present reporters, and a sermon could be preached around in various parishes until it was worn out.
Jewels in Watches
Watches do not have even numbers of jewels. If a watch has 23 jewels, then the going band or center wheel and third wheel, the fourth wheel the escape wheel, the lever and the balance have a whole jewel at each arbor, which make 14. The balance, the lever and the escape wheel have end stones as well, which make 6 more. Then there are 3 jewels in the escapement, which make 23. If the movement has 21 jewels, then the hole jewels of the going barrel have been omitted. If 19, the end stones of the escapement wheel have been omitted also. If the watch has only 7 jewels, they usually consist of the 3 escapement jewels and 2 end stones for the balance arbor.
Legend of Faust
Faustus (D. Johann Faust) was a person born at Kundling, Wurtemberg, or at Roda, near Welmar. He is said to have died in 1538. He was a magician, soothsayer and astrologer, and boasted of having performed the miracles of Christ. It was believed that the magician was carried off by the devil, who had lived with him in the form of a black dog. Legends say that this event occurred on the night between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth of October, 1538. Goethe's tragedy (published in 1808) is based on the Faust legends.
Must Have Pulled Hard
The occupation of dentistry is not usually rated as dangerous. Unless a patient snaps at a dentist while the latter is busy with one of the former's molars, and seldom does a patient act in such a way, there is small hazard to the profession.
Nevertheless at times accidents do occur. A man tortured by a toothache called up a dentist and asked him for help. The office attendant replied that Doctor Soanso regretted to state he would be unable to take patients for some days to come as he had sprained his wrist pulling a tooth.
Beauty in Dislocation
A peculiarity of the Stamases dancing girls is the position of their fingers, which are held at all times turned upward as much as possible. Not turned up to heaven, but turned the way opposite to the normal bend of the knuckles. This is considered very beautiful, and dancing girls spend long hours pressing their fingers against their knees to the point almost of dislocation in order to induce the desired back curve.—Adventure Magazine.
Usage Makes Difference
Some men fall where others are successful. The former regard as obstacles what the latter see as opportunities. This suggests that the real difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is in the way one may use them.-Grit.
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ST. PAUL NOTES -
A Boy Scout Troup is to be formed
at Pilgrim Baptist chureh. All boys
12 years or over who are interested
meet Thursday evening, Feb. 10, at
7p. m, at Little Pilgrim, Grotto and
Central. Come out and be charter
members of St. Paul's second colored
troop of Boy Scouts of America.
Miss Thelma Johnson arrived in
the city Thursday from Chicago and
is the guest of Miss Florence Robin-
son, 447 Charles St.
‘The Twin City Chorus will meet
‘Thursday evening at the Y. W. C. A.,
598 W. Central.
Mrs. Henrietta James will be host-
ess to the Adelphai club Tuesday
evening at the annual evening ses-
sion.
Mr. Elliot O. Brown has arrived
home from Washington, D. C., where
he was called because of the serious
illness of his nephew. Mr. Brown
received a telegram that his nephew
passed away Wednesday.
Mrs. W. A. Bryant of Chicago, IIL,
came to St. Paul last week to see her
brother, Rev. T. J. Carr, who had a
nine-day attack of hiccoughing.
Mr. Walker Williams, proprietor
of the grocery store, Kent and St.
Anthony Ave., fell and sustained a
painful injury to his ankle. We hope
for his speedy recovery.
“- Mr. H. Crosthwaite, former resi-
dent of St. Paul and brother of our
Dr. L. T. Crosthwaite, was in the
city to attend the funeral of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. 0, D. Howard.
Mrs, L. Garrett, 546 St. Anthony,
gave a card party in honor of Mrs.
R, White of New York City. A buffet
lunch was served at midnight. About
25 guests were present.
‘The St. Paul Hiking club was en-
tertained at the home of Mrs. Rus-
sell, 394 Ronde St., Thursday, Jan.
20. Lunch was served by the host-
ess. A business meeting was also
held at the home of Mrs. MePheters,
536 St. Anthony, Thursday, Jan. 27.
After business was transacted, a de-
lightful lunch was served.
‘The Industrial Matrons’ Art club
met with Mrs, L. R. Blair, 711 St,
Anthony Ave., Thursday afternoon.
‘The Kings Daughters Charity Cir-
cle met with Mrs. Aloma Ruffner,
403 Western Ave., on Feb. 1 at 3
p.m. in good attendance. Much
business of importance was trans-
acted. After the usual procedure of
business, a dainty lunch was served.
‘The circle voted the hostess a charm-
ing entertainer.
‘Twin City Liberal Art club met at
the home of Mrs. J. A. Smith.
‘The Cameo Social club met Jan. 21
at the home of the Misses Martha
and Esther Bradley, 934 St. Anthony
Ave. The next meeting will be held
at the home of Miss Anita Roberts,
978 St. Anthony.
On Thursday, Feb. 3, a delightful
birthday party was given at the home
of Mrs, Bettie Jones, 747 St. Anthony
Ave., in honor of Mrs, Geneva Ayres,
Mrs. M. O. Cannon and Mrs. Bettie
Jones, whose birthdays occur in the
same week. Delicious refreshments
were served and a pleasant time was
had by all,
MINNEAPOLIS NOTES
Charles Brody of 811% W. Lake
St. has bert ordered back to the Unt-
versity hospital to take Radium treat-
ments.
The Minneapolis Sunday Forum
invites you to come to the Phyllis
‘Wheatley House Sunday afternoon at
3:80 o'clock and enjoy its splendid
program. Miss Armeda Wilkins of
St. Paul, one of the Twin Cities’ most
talented and charming young women,
will be the speaker of the afternoon.
Mr. Geo. W. Hamilton of St. Paul,
WCCO's favorite story teller, will
read. Mrs. Katherine Manderville
will give one of her alfvays enjoyable
vocal numbers and Grayfleld and
Clendenon, on string instruments,
have promised a rare treat. Installa-
tion of newly elected officers.
Mrs, Fred Jones of 632 Sixth Ave.
No. was called to Atlanta, Ga., to the
bedside of her mother.
Mrs, Anna Jordan, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. B. Fitzger-
ald, left for her home in Aurora, Ill
Y. W. C. A. NOTES
Services Sunday will be held joint-
ly with the N. A. A.C. P. Father
‘A. W. Lealtad will speak.
Eleven members of the Branch at-
tended the Annual Meeting at the
Main Association Monday night.
‘They were represented on the pro-
gram by the Girl Reserves in spiritu-
als with two numbers by Irmine
Hall.
Our attendance at Vesper Services
Sunday afternoon was one of the
largest we've had during the year.
‘The meeting was in charge of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and was
presided over by its president, Miss
Helen Jackson. Interesting talks
were given by Miss Kathryn Tandy,
Messrs. Ramon Cannon, Earl Kyle
‘and Ferdinand Johnson. Miss Pearl
Renfrau rendered a piano selection.
Join the Northwestern Negro Busi-
ness and Professional Men’s Associa-
tion. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar
4879, 614 Court Block.
Argument Ended When
Hungry Diner Acted
“1 beg your pardon,” sald a crusty
old bean to the generous fragment of
pork with which it was making a por-
tlon of pork of beans, “but your con-
tiguity is insufferable.”
“Go wan,” retorted the pork. “Go
wan back to Bosting!”
“Coarse westerner!” sald the bean.
“Eastern sissy!" answered the pork.
“At least,” sald the bean with great
dignity, “we are not unclvilized. We
come from the fount of culture. We
have background—"
“Yeah?” sald the pork. “Your
background 1s a lot of common, ordi-
nary dirt. That's all tt 1s. I come
from the great open spaces—”
“Where pigs ix pigs.”
“Tl say so. And what's more,
we're proud of It. We're the back:
bone of the nation—"
“You're all” fat,” sald the bean
“Can't see your backbone for It.”
“Get back in the pot,” yelped the
pork.
“Boor! screamed the bean.
“Stockyard boor !"
“Chicago moron! screamed all the
other beans,
At that moment, the argument was
settled by a man’ from Little Rock,
Ark,
He ate the contestants —Kansas
City Times.
Woman's Confidence in
Her Protege Justified
“At that tlmg (1798), astonishing as
ft may seem, the cotton crop of the en-
tire country could have been raised
on a field comprising not more than
200 acres. ‘The price of cotton was
exceedingly high because of the cost
of preparing it for the market. ‘The
ehlef expense was in cleansing It of
dirt, leaves and the seeds which clung
to the fibers. It appeared unlikely
that cotton could ever be raised in
large quantities in this country be-
cause of the cost of preparing It for
the use of the spinner.
“One evening Mrs. Greene was ep:
tertaining a distinguished gathering of
southern gentry, and the conversa
tion turned to this particular problem.
“‘Surely Mr. Whitney can supply
your needs,’ sald Mrs. Greene, with
confidence in her protege. Her guests
regarded the remark as a pleasantry,
but young Whitney took it in all serl-
ousness, Never having seen a cotton
plant, the next day he went into the
country and obtained samples of the
bolls, "Ten days later he had a model
of a cotton-cleaning machine."—From
“A Popular History of American In-
vention,” by Waldemar Kaempftert,
Perfect Behavior
‘The boys and girls of a congested
neighborhood were invited by their
teacher to write their own personal
rules of life. The collection included
the following:
“You must always be obigent, clean
your neck, stand ereck, and swallow
good fresh hair.”
“Don't get nosey or hit anybody
with cross eyes because it gives you
bad luck.”
“Never try to steal a dog's bone or
you'll have no pants.”
“Always live fair and never ask
your father or uncle for money when
they are drunk,
“Don't steal from the Five and Ten
and if you hit a girl you are a
coward.”
“Every week you must have a bath
and don’t do no murderin.”—Collier’s.
Defining “Christian”
“The London policeman Is the finest
example of a Christian T have met; he
will answer any foolish question that
any fool asks Mita,” said Doctor Nor
wood, the bishop. As a definision of
a Christian that seems to leave some
thing lacking. The precise duty of
the Christian to the fool has never
been satisfactorily stated. ‘The au
thor of the Book of Proverbs evade¢
the question by writing, in two con
secutive verses, “Answer a fool accord
Ing to his folly” and “Answer not &
fool according to his folly,” but then
the author of Proverbs was not, in the
strict sense of the word, a Christian
St. Paul congratulated the Corinthians
‘on suffering fools gladly. But then the
Corinthians probably had no traf
problems.—Plerre Van Paassen, in the
Atlanta Constitution,
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Early Majolica
‘The earliest date found on an Ital
fan luster-piece Is 1489. The oply
men acquainted with the use of lus
ter were Pesaro, Gubbio and Deruta
and after a vogue of 80 years It be
came a lost art about 1570. ‘The craft
has been revived with varying sue
cess, but the new enamels cannot
compare in beauty with the old mod
els, The finest specimens of majolics
were made in northeastern Italy.
Vases, pitchers, plates, bottles and
odd-shaped flasks were the most com
monly decorated objects, but tiles
were sometimes made for floors an¢
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Comic Tragedies?
‘A boy came to the desk of one of
the branch libraries with a request
for “mystery stories” for his mother,
On being asked by an assistant what
type or author his mother preferred,
the boy answered confidingly: “Well,
I think she might like something more
light and cheerful than she has been
getting. Those “Sherlock Holmes”
stores made her nervous, Haven't
you got anything with a pleasant,
snappy murder in it, that she can
read without getting nervous when
she Is all alone in the house?"—In-
dianapolis News.
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_ DEATHS
Simon Jackson
‘Simon Jackson, aged 43 years, 322
BE, 13th St., died at Ancker Hospital
Monday, Jan. 31st, after a brief {il-
ness. He was born and spent all of
his life in Saint Paul.
Funeral services were held Thurs-
day, Feb. 3, at 2:30 p. m, from Me-
Gavock Mortuary. Rev. P. A. Mor-
Tow officiated.
Mr. Jackson is survived by his
widow, Corrine; Daughters, Mrs. L.
T. Hogan, Mrs. T. J. Howard, Misses
Bllen and Harriet; Sister, Mrs,
Phoebe Chambers, and Brother, Will-
fam, and four grandchildren.
Interment was at Oakland ceme-
tery.
Jim Dover
‘Jim Dover resided at 501 12th Ave.
So., about 80 years of age. Died at
Parkview Sanatorium, Jan. 22nd. No
known relatives. Burial at Crystal
Lake cemetery. W. Squire Neal, fu-
neral director.
Edward Wricht
Edward Wright resided at 721
Bryant Ave No., died at Glen Lake
Sanatorium, Jan. 27th. Husband of
Lulu McCoy Wright. Services from
Neal Chapel, Jan. 29th, 11 a. m., Rev.
Canney officiating. Burial at.Crystal
Lake cemetery.
Dilcey Bailey
Dilcey Bailey died at Minneapolis
General hospital, Jan. 27th. Mother
of Elizabeth Hall, 625 7th Ave. So.
Body shipped to Cincinnati, Ohio, ac-
companied by daughter, Jan. 29th.
WELCOME HALL NOTES
Send your Little ones to the Kin-
dergarten at Welcome Hall. This
class meets every morning from 10-
12.
On Tuesday and Wednesday in-
structions in dressmaking are given.
Come and get some new ideas for
your spring sewing. Junior class
from 3:30 to 5.
Neighborhood club meets every
Wednesday. If you are interested in
helping the needy, join this club.
‘Thursday at 4:15, Professor Mor-
ton instructs the “Teen age” in sing-
ing. This is a wonderful opportunity
for voice training.
A large class meets Saturday aft-
ernoon for Story Hour and Recrea-
tion.
ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Brown of Memorial church,
St. Paul preached the missionary
sermon for the M. C, Sunday after-
noon. Text was, Isaiah 66:1.
Mrs. E. M. Golden of St. Paul,
State President of Minnesota conven-
tion had a wonderful paper, “Oppor-
tunity.” Mrs. Leland Camp, a re-
turned missionary from Africa, also
spoke. Rev. Solomon of Humbolt
Heights Mission was also present.
B, Y. P. U. every Sunday evening
at 6 o'clock. Debate for Sunday Feb.
14th, “Resolved That a Physician is
more beneficial to a community than
a Minister.” Mission C, Thursday
afternoon three o'clock. Rey. C. B.
Burton is inuch improved in health.
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Few Leave Much Wealth
Eieven people out of & hundred—
whose estates are probated with the
courts—bequeath to thelr heirs less
than $500; ten leave from $500 to
$1,000; twenty trom $1,000 to $2,500,
‘and eighteen from $2,500 to $5,000;
about fifteen out of a hundred: will
leave estates valued from $5,000 to
$10,000; Afteen will pass on to their
Feward and leave from $10,000 to
$25,000; between five and six will
leave estates trom $25,000 to $50,000,
according to figures gathered by the
federal trade commission when it was
making a survey of our national
wealth. The records of the probate
courts of twenty-four “sample” coun-
ties throughout the United States
were searched to see just what the
average individual leaves to his helrs,
the records covering a period of twelve
years—Thrift Magazine. == *
His Opportunity Lost
‘The small boy had received many
presents on his birthday, but the best
of all—a real watering can—arrived
fust as he was going to.bed, and de-
spite his tears and protests the owner
of this treasure was told that he coul¢
not use it till next morning.
Soon after dawn his mother heard
howls of anguish from the garden,
‘and, looking out, she discovered that
these came from her small son, who
stood in a drenching rain clad only
fn his nightshirt, grasping the cher-
{shed can in his hand.
“What on earth is the matter?” de
manded the anxious mother.
“Oh, ob, oh! walled the disappoint-
ed one. “I did so want to water the
garden, and now God's been and done
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Good Money in Whaling
‘The Vastfold district of Norway,
where many of the old Vikings had
thetr homes, is still the recruiting re-
gion for one of the most romantic
callings of modern times—whale hunt-
ing. Leaving their small farms in the
care of wives and children, the men
set out for south Georgia and the
Ross in September and return at
the beginning of the following sum-
mer, The Norwegian whale-hunting
fleet numbers about 20 ships and em-
ploys 4,000 men.
‘The work is very hard, but is ex-
traordinarily well paid, every man re-
celving a royalty from the catch.
Some men average $6,000 a year, and
the ablest, after years of good serv-
{ce, is trusted with the harpooning.
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Mast Have Overlooked
About the year 1860 Mohammed
Baus, a celebrated dwart, and the cen-
ter of much interest, and for many
years later the pet of the districts
around Calcutta, because of what
were described as his amiable conduct
and pleasing manner.
Mohammed was born at Benares in
1880. At birth he gave no indication
that he would be dwarf. His par-
ents and his brothers and sisters were
all rather above the medium height,
and he himself was not considered a
small child. But soon it was discov-
ered that, although his mental quall-
ties were rather above the average
he did not increase in size as other
children did and never in his life stood
more than 87 inches in his socks.
One of his English friends took him
to England, where he was the subject
of even greater interest than in India.
He had “very easy, unembarrassed
manners, was able to discourse in
English and was remarkable for his
gentlemanly deportment.”
Art Copied From Nature
Man's early inclination toward art
frequently found expression through
examination of various forms of nuts,
and his drinking vessels were fash-
foned in imitation of the halved coco-
nut or some other hard shell protect-
ing the kernel. In India ancient dip-
pers were made of nutshells, and
specimens of antiquity are now on ex-
hibition at the Indian museum, South
Kensiggton, London. King Henry VI
possessed a silver vessel made like
@ nut in 1428, Chinese carvers still
work artistic devices on nutshells. In
Tibet Buddhist priests often possess
rosaries comprising more than 100
beads, all made from carved nuts.
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‘The M. W. C. Club Announces That It Will Entertain Its Friends
at a Serial Dance
MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21
‘The Place Is the
Beautiful Oxford Ball Room
‘Oxford and Grand
MUSIC BY JOE PEYER’S 8-PIECE ORCHESTRA
Admission 50c WALTER MINOR, Committee Chairman
Bill Says:
= eee Some folks say
ge .y it with flowers;
(s =) others use apple-
1 ee) sauce, and there’s
ARF a few that “sound
SS off” like a nest
\A é of mad hornets.
Personally, I’ve found that those
who say it with a smile make
everyone see how pleasant
life can be. And they’re the big
majority.
Courtesy and cheerful grin will
win everytime. The old man
has prescribed it for the com-
pany.
Bill.
TWIN CITY LINES
On Drawing a Crowd
4 A committee of three from a large organization was {
puzzled as to what would be the most economical way of
drawing a crowd to one of their coming events... One sug-
gested passing out hand bills, the second said, “Mail out
cireulars” while the third simply said, “Newspaper.”
To say the least the last suggestion is the most log-
ical. When you realize you get the three suggestions
combined which is “Triple Service” for the cost of one.
When claims of economy in advertising are set forth re-
member this, in the first place, the one way among many
ways to get advertising at a low cost is to use the news-
paper that creates and offers “Triple Service.”
Your ideas can be portrayed and conveyed to more
) than 7,000 readers through
THE ST.PAUL ECHO
614 Court Block— Cedar 1879
THE RACE’S YOUNGEST GREAT NEWSPAPER
Meooris Put Up Brave
: Battle for Country
‘The history of the Maoris of New
Zealand if a most remarkable one.
Primitive and even cannibalistic up to
sixty years ago, they have in a brief
space of years achieved equality with
the white man.
It 1s hundreds of years since six
large canoes, each holding about 200
persons, arrived there from the Tahitt
archipelago. Maori tradition has pre-
served the names of these boats, and
the New Zealand fleet now employs
them. By the time of the British
conquest the 1,000 people who had
landed, utterly exhausted by their tre-
mendous journey, had become 100,000
—a small population for such a large
territory.
No tribe ever exhibited such hero-
fam In the face of European conquest
as did the Maoris. In seizing New
Zealand, Great Britain lost 15,000 sol-
diers, though the forces of the Maoris,
armed only with old-fashioned wooden
weapons, did not exceed 2,000. When
peace finally came, the conquerors
found they had a deep respect for the
conquered. —Arnaldo Cipolla in La
Stampa, Turin (Living Age).
PAGE THREE
Y. W. C. A. ANNUAL HELD
Nearly one hundred members and
friends of the Association assembled
at dinner in the St. James A. M. E.
Church on Jan. 27th for the Third
Annual Meeting of the Y Branch.
Overhead decorations in the form of
8 triangle in Y. W. C. A. colers added
to the attractiveness of the surround-
ings, while the dinner hour was made
lively by songs from the Girl Re-
serves. Mrs. Zula Tandy, Chairman
of the Committee of Management,
presided over the meeting and
brought a message from the National
Convention. Miss Leona MacGeorge,
General Secretary, spoke on “Mem-
bership.” The Girl Reserves appear-
ed on the program in a ceremonial
and in spirituals. Mr. B, H. Miller,
as head waiter with a group of effi-
clent young men, gave splendid serv-
fee. The following members were
elected to the Committee of Manage-
ment for a term of three years:
Mesdames Floretta Artis, Odelle
Smith, Gladys James and Doris
Roper.
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COMING ‘ATTRACTIONS
‘The Minnesota Federation of Col-
cred Womens’ clubs will hold their
‘annual MidWinter Breakfast at Phyl-
lis Wheatley House, Minneapolis,
Feb. 10. J. Young, Pres., M. Rhodes,
Chairman Publicity.
The Self Culture Club will give
their annual dinner at 697 St. An-
thony, Feb. 9th.
Dinner will be served from 12
noon to 9 p.m. Chitterlings cooked
by Mrs. Wilson and committee.
Episcopal Ladies’ Dinner, Feb, 23.
Chicken and chitterlings.
Keep off date of May 5. A May
Pole to be given by Kings Daughters
Circle.
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY NOTES
The Vesper Services presented by
the Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary, un-
der the direction of Mrs. Blanche
Mason, were most enjoyable. The
Glee Club rendered “O Mother Dear,”
“In My Heart,” “The Lord Is My
Shepherd,” “Seek Ye the Lord,”
“Prayer Perfeet,” and “Now the Day
Is Over,” Mr, Ira Allen singing the
solo part in “Seek Ye the Lord.”
Mrs. Mae Glenn beautifully sang
“Dear Lord.” ‘The ladies in their
uniforms of white with black tles
made a most pleasing picture. The
group deserves much praise for the
splendid work it is doing. Wateh
the paper for its next big musical
event.
Phyllis Wheatley House had its
Annual Dinner Meeting Monday
night, January 31, in the gym, which
was beautifully decorated with -pot
plants. The house was packed to its
capacity. Over three hundred people
were present. Tables were set from
the gym almost to the front door. It
was the best meeting ever held in
the house. A delicious dinner was
prepared by Mr. Duncan, chef on the
Soo Line, and Mr. Chavis of the
Great Northern, assisted by members
of the Auxiliary, and was served by
young men from the “University,”
under the leadership of Mr. David
Francis,
After the chairman of the board,
Mrs. Luther Oakes, commended the
group for the fine way in which they
had supported the House, the Annual
Report was read by Miss Brown,
Head Resident. Before reading her
report, Miss Brown spoke of the re-
cent gift from the late Mrs. Mary 7.
Welleome of $10,000 toward a new
gym, and asked all to stand in silent
prayer in memory of the giver. She
Teported that attendance for 1926
was 46,465, an increase of almost
6,000 over 1925.
Seventy-one applications were re-
celved for work. Twenty-two refer-
red to the Urban League and forty-
nine sent to jobs. The majority of
these applications were received in
the office after 5 p.m, and before
8:30 a. m,
The house owes much to the won-
derful Volunteer services trom the
high schools, university and many
other interested friends.
Too much prgise cannot be given
the Auxiliary,’ which has been the
real backbone of the House. The
members have answered the call at
all times, assisting in making the
House program most effective.
During 1926 a full time worker in
the person of Miss Ethel Ray was
added to the staff and has proven
most capable. A full time boys’
worker added to the staff for the
1927 program for that year will be
far better.
The greatest need of Phyllis
Wheatley House today is a gym. It
1s almost impossible for groups to
meet in the adjoining room when
& basketball game or practice is be-
ing conducted. When right in the
midst of the meeting two or three
players fall against the doors and
sometimes come into your meeting
uninvited because the doors opened
suddenly. Since our substantial gift
of $10,000 trom Mrs. Mary T. Well-
come and $500 from our Musteal last
January, we are sure some other in-
terested friends will come to our
rescue that we may have our gym,
We are most anxious that our
sym building include suMeient space
to care for the Nursery and School
Home Economies, as these are abso-
lutely necessary for our children,
Who are forced to stay home while
Parents work, as our neighboring
nurseries are filled, and to prepare
the young and old to do the ordinary
daily duties well. We have included
the above in our two-year program
and we are praying and working 80
when Father Time ushers in 1929
our Nursery and School of Home
Economies will be a reality.
‘The Masque by fifty men, women
and children was much enjoyed.
This masque vividly depleted the
House program. We take this op-
Portunity to thank all who assisted
in making the program a success,
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ness and Professional Men's Associa-
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1879, 614 Court Block,
New Zealander Proud .
of His Native Land
As soon as you arrive in Auckland,
New Zealand, you feel the peculiar
character of this most original of
dominions: a blissful land where the
1,500,000 British settlers—for the oth-
er nationalities form only small and
transient groups—are producing and
exporting precious raw materials and
engaging in sports of every concelv-
able kind, which they pursue with in-
credible verve and enthusiasm.
‘They are also fully convinced of
their superiority to the rest of man-
kind and of the unique privilege they
enjoy in living in these islands. They
have thelr reasons down pat.
We must not smile at the question-
naire to be filled before disembarking
in New Zealand. In it you must
Promise before the Almighty to be
00d, to observe strictly the wise laws
of the land, and, finally, to remember
that the experience of spending even
a brief period of your existence in
these islands is something to be proud
of for the rest of your life,
On’ making inquiries I learned that
there is a little unemployment—not,
to be sure, because there is no work,
but because the English inhabitants
prefer to leave hard labor to people of
other nationalities, ‘The several hun-
dred Italians here all find good em-
ployment in building rallroads—ar-
naldo Cipolla in La Stampa, Turin
(Living Age).
Men Sought Means of
Flying Centuries Ago
Flying in motor-driven airplanes had
Its birth December 17, 1903, on the
sand hills near Kitty Hawk, N. C.,
when Wilbur and Orville Wright
achieved the first authenticated flight
in a heavierethan-air machine, but fly-
ing was in the minds of men centuries
before that.
‘The story of man's longing to fly
comes down tn hundreds of legends,
mixed with fact, about individuals who
flew and those who tried it and died.
Probably the original flying legend is
the Greek story about Daedalus, who
made a pair of wings with which he
flew, and his son, Icarus, who took
them out one day and came to grief
when he got so near the sun that the
wax wings melted.
Glovannt Baptist! Dantl, tate in
1400, 1s sald to have flown across the
Piazza of Perugia, Italy, in what seems
to have been an authentic glider. It
was about this time that Leonardo da
Vinel began to study the possibilities
of filght from the scientific angle and
made a helicopter of paper, wire and
springs that really lifted itself, Fol-
lowing this there were numerous ex-
periments with gliders, some of them
successful, but not until 1908 did the
motor-driven plane conquer the alr—
Milwaukee Journal,
Big Feet Caused Downfall
Difficulty in obtaining a pair of
boots large enough for his feet led
to the downfall of Rocky Whelan, once
notorious bushranger of ‘Tasmania.
Rocky worked alone and had a nasty
habit of shooting wayfarers in the
back. He acquired his wardrobe by
the simple process of taking whatever
articles of clothing he needed from
his victims. But he had very large
feet and was unable to get a fit in
‘his usual manner, So he went into a
bootmaker’s shop to buy a pair. A
constable who had seen him in an-
other part of the country spotted him
‘as he entered the shop and followed,
effecting a capture just as the outlaw
was trying on a pair of boots, Whelan
was executed a few days later on the
gallows.—Sydney Bulletin,
Immortal “Serenade”
Schubert wrote the “Serenade” to
sult the words of a poem by Ludwig
Rellstab. A number of Rellstab’s
poems were originally sent by thelr
author to Beethoven, who declined to
do anything with them because of the
state of his health, but who recom-
mended that they be turned over to
Schubert, This was done after Bee-
thoven’s death, In 1828 Schubert
wrote a number of fine songs, which
were brought out after his death un-
der the title of “Swan Songs." “Sere-
nade” is No. 4 of the Swan Songs,
which include six others written to
Rellstab's words, Schubert was born
January 81, 1797, and died November
19, 1828,
Lucky
A woman with a particularly dls.
agreeable expression bad been hold:
Ing forth to the man sitting next to
her at the dinner party.
“Ah,” she sald at iast, “my busband
has always been lucky. As a child he
was thrown by a horse, but wasn't In-
Jured; as @ youth the tee broke be
neath’ him, but he wasn't drowned;
and as a young man he was caught In
an avalanche, but escaped uninjured,”
“Yes,” put In the man, quletly, “but
strangest of all he has now been mar-
rled to you for 20 years and fs still
alive.” — Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
Best Way to Leave
An ambitious young man was being
Instructed at his own request by a pro-
fessor of elocution in the art of pub-
le speaking. ‘The professor knew that
his vagity far exceeded his ability, so
he gave him one last plece of advice.
“When you have finished your lec
ture, bow gracefully and ieave the
platform on tip-toe.”
“Why on tip-toe?” queried the
would-be orator.
“So a8 not to wake the audience,"
was the quiet reply.
Napoleon Had Planned
Unification of Europe
But though he dismisses Fouche
from his ministerial post and has the
watcher watched, Napoleon cannot get
on without him and talks to him about
the most private matters.
“Since my marriage people fancy
that the on is asleep, ‘They will soon
learn whether I am asleep. I need
800,000 men and have them; I shall
tow all Europe in my wake. Europe
4s nothing more than an old woman
and with my 800,000 men I can make
her do whatever I please. . . . Did
not you yourself say to me, ‘You let
your genius have its way, because it
does not know the word impossible’?
How can I help it if a great power
drives me on to become dictator of
the world? You and the others, who
eritfelze me today and would like me
to become a good-natured ruler—have
not you all been accessories? I have
not yet fulfilled my mission and I
mean to end what I have begun. We
need a European legal code, a Euro-
pean court of appeal, a untied coin-
age, a common system of weights and
measures. ‘The same law must run
throughout Europe. I shall fuse all
the nations into one."—From “Napo-
eon, the Man of Destiny,” by Emil
Ludwig.
Originality Shown in
Ordering of Funerals
Two Englishmen and one English
lady, who certainly did not know each
other, decided practically at the same
time to have fantastic funerals, Pierre
Van Paasen writes, in the Atlanta Con-
stitution. Harry Armour, one of them,
twenty-four years old, who committed
sulclde, left a note in which he or-
dered that he was to be buried in
hunting costume, booted and spurred,
with rifle in bis arms and a plentiful
supply of cartridges in his coffin. Then
there was Colonel Samson of Hastings,
who demanded that his corpse be
dumped in the middle of the channel,
We learn from the Dover Gazette that
his funeral had at least the compensa-
tion of a “Jolly trip on a bright, sunny
day.” In London, a young lady, Miss
Edith Koll, aged twenty, asked that
she be laid out in her best evening
gown, with dancing slippers and a
small gramophone in the casket, She
personally selected a number of jazz
records, which were buried with her.
All three expressed themselves bellev-
ers in the resurrection of the body. ‘The
lady fs the most original of all. When
that last morn comes, and Gabriel
blows his trumpet, she wants to or
ganize a two-piece orchestra, no doubt.
Dog’s Smart Trick
An old hunter says that on one
occasion a small dog belonging to him
chased and caught up with a very
large raccoon. The dog flew at his
enemy and tried to shake him, but the
raccoon, being quick, caught the dog
by the side of the head.
His teeth were sharp and his tiold
firm, so that the dog found it im-
possible to break loose. Suddenly, as
it a bright Idea had occurred to him,
the dog began to drag the raccoon tn-
to a neighboring creek.
Once in the water the dog held the
raceoon tnder the surface, adroitly
keeping his own nose out, until the
raccoon released his grip. Then the
dog easily mastered the haif-drowned
animal.
Not in This World
‘Men and women do not get along
well. The quarrel is mainly about
money. A woman never seems to
care much because her husband tsn’t
as much of a lover as when they were
first engaged. She doesn’t expect it;
and realizes she has cooled off, too.
We have learned that these things
are natural, but men are still shocked
at the extravagance of women, and
women are still shocked at the stingl-
ness of men. Is there any way of
coming to a better understanding on
this subject of money?—E. W. Howe's
Monthly.
Comedienne
Here's another one on Allentown, A
visitor recently dropped in a restau-
rant on the “main drag” and after
perusing the menu, urdered the native
dish of sauerkraut and spare ribs.
‘There must have been an unusually
heavy run on that savory platter, for
the Pennsylvania Dutch waitress
shook her head and sald: “All”
Wishing to be funny, the man re.
turned: “All what?” She: “All over.”
He: “All over what?” She finally:
“All over with."—Philadelphia Record.
First Fossil
What 1s probably the first fossil to
have been collected by man Is in the
Possession of Barnum Brown, associ-
ate curator of fossil reptiles in the
American Museum of Natural History.
‘The priceless relic is an elephant's
tooth dating back around 5,000,000
years and was picked up by Mr.
Brown in the ruins of the Asklepleion,
the medical school of ancient Greece,
where Hippocrates, the father of
me ‘icine, carried on bis studies.
Roman Numerals
‘The Komans had no symbols to fn-
dicate mathematical processes and
operations. Orginally they expressed
every process and operation in words
of full length, ‘Their mathematical
calculations were never simplified fur-
ther than to abbreviate centum, 100,
{nto C; mille, 1,000, into M, and s0
on. The Romans were never reputed
specially good mathematicians and
they contributed little to the sclence.
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So On, Ad Infinitum
A family moved from the elty to the
suburbs and were told that they ought
to get a watchdog to guard the prem-
fees at night. So they bought the
largest dog that was for sale in the
kennels of a nearby dealer.
Shortly afterwards the house was
entered by burglars, who made.a good
haul while the dog slept.
The householder went to the dealer
and told him about it
“Well, what you need now,” he sald,
“is a little dog to wake up the big
dog." — Pittsburgh Chronicle ‘Tele-
graph.
Prized Testimonial by
No Means Flattering
Have you ever been curious about
a letter that some friend has written
about you to introduce you to another?
‘Then imagine how trying it would
be to have the letter in a language
you could not read! In the early days
of the Hudson's Bay company they
used to give “certificates” of good
character to those Indians who
Seemed to deserve it. ‘These the In-
dians called “teapots,” since that was
as near as they could get to the pro-
nunclation, They valued them great-
ly, carried them around with them,
and always presented them when they
wished to do some trading with a
white man. One old Indian kept one
for years, presenting It whenever oc-
casion offered, and never guessed
that what it said was: “This old fel-
low is a regular scamp. Watch him
or he will cheat you out of everything.
He les like the mischief.”
Ads, Items and Headlines
Ad in Exchange—A young girl, age
fifteen months, would lke to learn
dressmaking.
‘They begin early these days.
Seattle Paper—P. R. Godfrey came
home Friday and stay until SHun-
day.
He should have shunned the home-
brew.
Headline in Exchange—Messenger
boy is found unconscious by bieycle.
A St. Bernard bike.
Atlanta Ad—Fresh pork sausages.
From pleased pigs that made perfect
hogs of themselves.
Southern News Item—Fannie Jobn-
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Bethel A. M, E, church, Thomas
and Marion Sts., held a special meet-
ing last Sunday to elect trustees for
the ensuing year namely: Lee John-
son, L. Day and C. Ross.
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will be held Sunday Feb. 6th at 2:30
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er a special message. Everybody in-
vited. Rev. J. 8. Strong, pastor.
CAMPHOR M. E. CHURCH
Last Sunday found Camphor in
the midst of a self-denial rally. The
services were well attended and the
collection showed that the members
are really denying themselves. This
Sunday will be the closing of the
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STORAGE, REPAIRING
and RECONDITIONED CARS ’
rally. Dr. W. ©. Sainsbury, D. D.
will preach at 3 p.m. At 7:30 p.
m. Attorney G. W. Hamilton will
speak on the progress of the race,
Mrs, J. P, Douglass, 655 St. An-
thony is chairman of the committee
for subscriptions to the Echo, and
we are asking that all members and
friends of Camphor give her thelr
subscriptions.
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