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MUST PAY THE INSURANCE.
The Tight Shoe. Sore Toe" Case Decided
by the Court.

In the United States Circuit Court, ST.
Louis, Mo-, Judge Adams handed down de-
cision giving Sarah t. Smith Judgment
against the Western Commercial Travellers
Association tor $2165 This is the somewhat
celebrated "tight shoe. sore toe" case.
The plaintiff Is the widow OF Freeman 0.
Smith, who was O member Of the defendant
association, anil she was his beneficiary. The
policy provided for the payment of an
amount not exceeding $500 in the event OF
death by 'externa violent accidental
means" Up to August, 1895, Smith was an
exceptionally healthy and strong person.
Early in that month he commenced wearing
n pair OF new shoes, aud "breaking them
i'm produced friction OF the shoe against his
foot, and there resulted unexpectedly as
the Judge finds, land moi according to the
usual course OF things, all abrasion Of the
skin OF one Of his toes, thereby causing g
sore"
Tho sore grew worse, and by the latter
part of September blood poisoning set in, and
on October he died from the effects OF such
blood poisoning, which, Judge Adams con-
cuded, was direct result OF the abrasion
of the toe caused by the tight shoe. These
are the facts as found by Judge Adams, and
he concludes that death was occasioned by
"external, violent, and accidental means"
within the true meaning of the certificate.
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An Enterprislng Schoolmarm.

AL enterprising schoolmarm of
Festbrook, Me-, seeing fine rooster
toking to death on her way to school
be morning, caught it, cut open its
3}op, which was cleaned out thorough
(i9, sewed up the incision with silk and
put the rooster in barrel where there
was nothing to eat. Three times daily
for two days she gave it medicine, and
it came around all right. New York
Fun.
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Hoods Pills %it6 afs n aoods od's sarsapars s ss Tia

egetarianisms Effect Upon Nations.
~ In a recent communication to the
3Societe d'Ethnographie, in Paris, M.
Verrier treated of vegetarianism from
1.-The point of view of its moral and in
kelleotual effect upon the nations who,
either from choice or necessity, are to
be classed as abstainers from animal
food. While fully recognizing the
dangers of too abundant meat diet,
as we'll as the advantages Of purely
vegetable nourishment, the speaker
nevertheless felt constrained to come
to the conclusion that nature intended
man to be carnivorous. The physical
constitution of the human race is so
ordered that to insure the develop.
ment of their higher qualities its mem
bers are of necessity compelled to be-
come to certain extent meat eaters.
The attributes that make for dominion
and progress are but imperfectly
present among the eschewers of animal
food, and hence vegetarianism causes
the downfall of dynssties and leads to
the enslavement of peoples. If. con.
eiplued NJ. Verrier, the Rindoos, in.
stead of following an absolutely vege.
table regimen, had made use of meat
in q rational manner, perhaps the
, British might not have found their
'su Ibjugation such an easy manner. His
az gument was equally applicable to
be Irish, who lived exclusively upon
Botatoes. As for the Japanese, with
whom rice was formerly the staple
food, the energetic nature of this
people could not be cited in suhVer-
sion of the rule laid down in his thesis.
The reawakening of the conquerors at
Port Arthur and the Yalu River was
coincident with the establishment of a
trade in butchers meat throughout
their archipelago Lancet.
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Strange Meeting of Mother and Son.

An aged and ponnlloss woman, who was
about to be dispossessed OF or lodgings atAt.
ianta, Ga, applied for aid to the Sergeant at
the police station. aud told him thut she had
not seen her sons Tor years, and that since
her husband had died life had been hard for
her. Just then strange man came i'll uni
asked for the Sergeant. Before stating his
case he looked ut the woman moment and
then clasped her in his arms. Her son had
come home to look for har
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The Meaning OF 1t.

Very often wo give the wrong meaning
word and thereby make serious mistakes
For instance, the true aud literal meaning OF
the word rheumatism is "aches or pains OF
the muscles, bones and Joints OF the human
body" 1t is general anil not specific. Also
the word relief does net mean cure. Relief
may be but short cessation OF pain. But
when we says Jacobs Oil cures rheumatism
promptly and permanently, we mean it con-
Quers pain quickly with no return OF e. un-
less the sufferer gives cause for new ATTACK.
and then 1t will cure again. 1t matters not
whether 1t is chronic, acute or inflammatory,
it will cure. That is sure, be sure OF it.
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Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
bg, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
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Over 100000 cured. Why not let No-To- Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood:
Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and sl.OO, at all
6rnnoisfs
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Cure cured me Of Throat and Lung
Pof three years standing.-E. CADY,
ton. Ind. Nov IL, 1894.
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Mxico claims population OF 10 >
90, 900.
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Eflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Tholnp.
fsEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
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Florida.

Florida.
The West Coast Of Florida. the finest semi.
topical country in the world. Illustrated de-
Griptive book sent upon receipt four cents
Ibstage. ]. ]. Farnsworth, Eastern Pass
kSent, Plant System, 26l Broadway, n. Y.
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500 Reward. 81OO.

Losses by fire were $4,000, 900 less in 1886
than in 1895.
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kaN bilious or costive, eat Cascaret,
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3CAscARETs stimulate liver, kidneys aud
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st. vitus' Dance One bottle DR.. Fenner's
becific cures Circular, Fredonia, N y.
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JUST try a 10c. box of Cascarets, candy ca
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Violent Deaths in 1896.
There were 652) deaths by suicide In the
United States last year.
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No.To.Bac for Fifty Cents.

Germany has population OF $4,000, 600,
according to her recent census
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'SHE DRESSES WE'LL"
BUT HER CLOTHES OFTEN COVER
A LIVING DEATH.
Beauty Is the Shrine of Mems Worship,
and Women Vie With Each Other to
Make Themselves Attractive.

The remark, "She dresses elegantly"
Is a very common one in this age of
wealth and progress.
Women vie with each other in MAX
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-09
BEING ABSORBED
Ere Long the African Race Will be u
Thing of the Past,

Ere Long the African Race Will be a
Thing of the Past,
Atlanta, Ca, Oct, 5.-bishop Gainee,
the portiest, broadcast and most deeply
colored of all the bishops Of the A. M E.
church, has become the prophet of q
startling creed which he has evolved
and embodied in book form of his con-
tribution to the literature of his race.
Hia book, which is not yet out of press
is the frankest that has yet appeared on
the subject and the most sensational
Gaines pr esents the theory that the bl ack
race is surely and gradually being ab-
eorbed by the white; that in the run of
the years the black Ince will die. ppear,
the evolution being reached through a
process of graded mulatto tints and con-
staptly letse ming African characteristics.
This process of BILE. ching out race he
declares, is goirg on year by year and
will continue inexora5ly until the
miracle il wrought, In fact, he main
taine, it is already in great measure
accomplished. Heroints to the figures
which shows that there are over $780,
600 mulattoes in the south.
The bishop believes that every sign Of
the times points to the contamination oil
the extinction of bis race. 1t will dis.
appear, miugling it's traits and qualities
with the white race, to the improvement
of the latter, rs the bishop believes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-09

Houston Delaney, the man who was
run over and badly mangled by a Big
Four train in Jacksonville, several Gays
ago, died at the City Hospital.
In the case of Emellne A Lawson
against William lawson. Judge Miller
Of the Cha, Gerry Division rendered q
judgement granting the vile absolute
diverse from William H Lawson, on the
ground of abandonment and failure to
provide and maintain his family. The
parties were married in this city in 1875
and have one child.
Aiming himself with navy pistol and
a large bowie knife, George Cross des-
perate man started out Wednesday night
to find his faithless sweetheart, whom
he claims Tilted him for another man
He first went to First street and the riv.
or, where he showed his arsenal 10
several bys anders and told them that
he vas going to kill some body before
morning. A white man who overheard
his remarks told Patrolman Dalton Of
the affair. The patrolman started out
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-09
MISS HILL OF MlLLERTON

The First Afro-Amerlcan to Enter Boston
University.
Boston Mass. Oct. 5-The freshmen
claes of Boston university has among it's
members the first Atro-American girl to
enter the college of liberal arts az a
regular candidate for the degree of A. B.
she is Mis- Ida Estelle Hill of Millerton.
N. Y. and is worthy representative of
the literally educated young women of
the country.
Miss Hill prepared tor college at the
Gilbert academy Winsted, Conn.,, from
which she was graduated with honors
last June. The several girls secret socie
ties, to he member of which is badge
of social prestige, it is said, are all
anxious TO claim Miss Hill as a sister,
Miss Hill is exceeding attractively She
has very engaging manner and her
gowns show a taste that is remal kable.
She is petite, pretty and graceful. and is
regarded as decided acquisition to the
social life of the college.
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rrevlous TO us destruction TN l7lU
there were but two cities on the American
hemisphere which compared to this old town.
In population, wealth. and magnificence, and
these were Lima, Peru. and the City of Mex
leo. New York was then a commercial In
FAINT. Boston was q mere village, where cows
roamed at will. Chicago yet UNBORN.
When Chicago Was Not.
But here in the heart of Central America
stood the proud city where conferred the
ecclesiastical and political interests of all
the surrounding colonies, where millions Of
dollars were spent In erecting churches. con-
vents and monasteries which covered acres
Of ground, and beautiful residences, whose
shattered portals still bear the escutcheons
of the noble families who ruled the region
and cultivated the plantations Of coffee, sugar.
and cochineal. It was not only the scene
Of wealth and influence, and the CONNER
cial metropolis Of Central America but the
home Of the most learned men on this side
of the world, the seat Of great schools Of
theology, science, and art; for two hundred
years it was the Athens and Rome Of the
Western hemisphere, the residence Of the uni
versity as we'll as the inquisition, and the
headquarters Of the Jesuits. The population,
at it's best, is supposed to have been about
$50, 900. I do not know that a census was ever
TAKEN but the estimate is probably based on
the vast area covered by the ruins and the
numbers it's walls could have contained. Sit
uated in the middle of the green valley, mid
way between the twin volcanoes Aqua and
Fuego, the old Spanish chronicIers used ts
say'tt had paradise on one side and inferno
on the other. The beauty of it's position
the grandeur Of the surrounding scenery
and the richness Of the adjacent country hav.
Teen the favorite theme Of native poets anG
called forth the most extravagant admiration
from travellers. Both city and valley are
Watered by a stream bearing the poetica
name OF Ell Rio ,Pensativo (the River Of Re-
membrance), which encircles the mountain,
and. fed by many rivulets, winds to and fro
| across the plain in many graceful curves,
and finally leaps over a cataract en- its way
! to the sea. FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD.
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tutlons. Now We would like to know
what is it because you give a white " ON
an or man a position after you get in
Office in preference to one of your race
or is it because you lecture and charge p
fee at the door for your own benefit? Or
is it because you write some article in a
paper about the race to advertise your
sell? Or is it because you educate your
masters daughter instead of one of your
own race? Or because you have never
been known to open your private purse
to charity? that you cay you give your
valuable time for the benefit of the race?
We cannot see it in that light.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-09

Miss Lola Johnson is in Louisville.
Put your ad in THE APPEAL-it vii
pay.
Mr.. c H Thomas of Buffalo is in thu
city.
Mr.. g. E.. Olden has returned from
Chicago.
Mrs. Ed. Caldwell has returned tc
Louisville. , ---------.------ --.--- IA
Mr.. Barazleton of Cincinnati, is visiting
Mr.. Logan 5546 Lake Ave.
Miss Birdie White formerly of this
city is teaching at Paris, Mo.
Mrs. D. ). Yates of 1873 Clark street
has removed to 1918 Wabash Ave.
THE APPEAL ia the best advertising
medium to reach the Afro-Amaricans
of Chicago.
Secure tickets Of committee for Prince
Hall Lodge entertainment Oct. 18th
Mr. Richard G Kelley from Baltimore,
Md, is visiting his uncle at 1881 Ar
moUr Ave.
1t is said that the indianapolis street
R R has given employment to Afro
Americans.
Mrs. A Lambert of Detroit, Mich, is
visiting her son & w Lambert 30O7 Dear
born street.
Mr.. and Mre. John Wooden of Bowl
ng Green, KY, have come to Chicago to
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GUATEMALA.
THE PICTURESQUE RUINS OF
GUATEMALA LAATICUA.
Where Time is not Money-Primitiye
Methods of Agricultural Fertile Valley
Or Antigua-At Vespers Among the
Ruins-Dress of the Antiguans.
Confined from End Col

Continued from End Col
bowl. Beyond on every side rise broken
walls, vine-twined columns, ruined arches.
In the midst of which are set the low t1atched
dwellings OF the lowly. Continuing through
the plaza, the roughly paved street runs on
past more ruined churches and monasteries
and palaces, curiously intermingled with the
adobe, tile-roofed abodes Of the present in
habitants to the Hotel Concrete, where we
are booked for weeks sojourn. How strange
and solemn it all u.s. the ghost of the former
queen OF Central America. yet with certain
uncanny gayety, as of thoughtless children
playing in a graveyard. From many flowery
patios hoated snatches Of songs and the tin
kle OF guitars. and from the doorways Of.
"chicherias" came the resonant notes of mar
imbas, and occasionally the patter of bare or
sandaled feet, dancing fandangoes and Zape-
teros. The better class of citizens were
emerging from the indoor retirement Of the
heated hours to vesper services or to stroll
In the plazas, and greeting acquaintance In
the customary ELUSIVE manner, the men
with an embrace and resounding kiss upon
each others mouth, the women falling into
one another's arms and laying their cheeks
together, first the left cheek, then the right
Dress of the Antiguans.
Lounging idly in the streets were many In
dams from the surrounding pucblos, each rep
resent1ng his own class by some distinctive
popularity Of dress. There were bright crim-
son skirts, and yellow skirts with bands Of
black. dark blue. and somber brown; white
chemises, embroidered in colors, displaying
arms and shoulders of polished bronze, and
bolero jackets, trimmed like bull fighters
With little dancing balls. There were men
in knee-breeches, men in breeches slit to the
thigh, and men in no breaches to speak Of
Some in white shirts, starched stiff as shing-
les and worn with the flaps outside; others
in shirts Of bright calico ruff1ed top and bot
tom, fore and aft; and others bare from the
waist up, with carape thrown over one
shoulder. Some wore long, red Romish look
ing caps, others hats Of Panama straw, and
the majority no other head covering than the
shock OF coarse black hair with which nature
mas SO generously provided the Indian. All
these, OF course, are los pobres C"the poor').
as the lower classes are indiscriminately des-
ignated by their betters in q social scale.
The naughty hidalgoes of Central America,
when not In the retirement of siesta, seem
to be on perpetual dress parade, in the finest
broadcloth and latest modes Of London and
rarls dress coats, low-cut vests. silk hats.
and shining patent-leathers, supplemented on
chilly evenings by that most graceful gar.
ment In the world, the long. black Spanish
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-09

The instruction Committee of the
School Board has decided that Monday
and Thursday of Fair Week shall be
school holidays.
Mr.. Beverly Jackson the Oldest man
in the government service in this city,
both in respect TO age and length of ser
vice, died Sunday morning at his home
4247 Garfield avenue. He leaves seven
daughters and five sons, the youngest
lS years ofage:
MIS-. Sallie Scott mother of twins has
attracted much attention at the CITY
Hospital. They were born there two
weeds ago. They have the appearance
of dolls with curley hair, and the nurses
in the division are very proud of them.
They are unusually large for their sge.
Charles Webb, murderer of Mollie
Wada, school teacher, May 30, 1895,
near Gravois and Jefferson, was trans
ferred to Jail Saturday, having been
brought here from Terre Haute, Ind,
by Detective Viehle at 2 o'clock Satur-
day mornidg. Webb made complete
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THIRTEENTH YIN
GUATEMALA.
THE PICTURESQUE RUINS {
GUATEMALA LAATIGUA,
Where Time is not MOney-Primitive
Methods of Agricultural Fertile Valley
or Antigua AT Vespers Among the
Ruins-Dress of the Antiguans.

ANTIGUA, Guatemale, 1897
Special orrespondence.--About thirty miles
southwest from The present capital of Guat-
emIla are the remains Of two earlier capitals,
each OF which was known in its day as "Gua-
temala City" The first, founded by Alvarado
in 1924, and destroyed in less than twenty
years by an eruption of Aqua volcano, is now
designated as "Cuidad Vieja" (Old City,:
while the seconG-built soon after the de-
struction Of the first, and RACED by an earth
quake in 1775-is called Guatemala la Anti
qua, to distinguish it from Guatemala la
NIGVa (Now Guatemala), the capital of today.
An excursion to the ancient towns is full of
interest and Of pleasure as WELL though the
road Is long and dusty, if the traveller is for
tunate enough to secure any sort OF private
carriage. couple Of the rat-lke mules of
the country and mozo to drive them It is
comparatively easy to hire pair of mules
On occasion. and q mozo, and even a rattle
trap hack, or cOach-but to bring the three
blessings into conjunction in this land of
manana is quite another matter. We were
assured that 1t had been done. and might
be again, tomorrow, next week, or some other
time; but after several days of promises
which came to naught, of carriage without
mules, md mules without carriage, and 4
mozo without either of the other essentials.
we were fam to go the usual way, by dill
gencla.' There are plenty Of mule trails ra-
dating from Guatemala Ia Neuva to all parts
of the country, but only two stage roads
leading to the interior, that to Antigua and
another to LueZeltenango, the second city OF
the republic in size and commercial i'm
pOrtance.
Where Time Is Not Money.
The diligencas are all built on one model.
an odd cross between a hearse and a Black
Maria. long. narrow boxes holding six per
Eons on three transverse seats. The driver
sits aloft in front Of the roof, with an as
sistant beside him who carries a bag of
stones with which to pelt the composite team
OF six mules and horses. intermingled hap
hazard and harnessed three abreast
The advertised hour Of starting on the An
tigua route Is a.. M; but as the stage goes
from house to house picking up passengers
and as time Is no object to Spanish Ameri-
cans and their adieux and "Beso sus manos'
are long out, the sun was high in
The heavens before We finally clattered out
81 the city gates. The way led along one
eide of the Fort of San Jose, between rows of
eaud huts forming long, struggling suburb;
past 81 Castillo, an old Spanish fort set on
h!lltop; then over broad, unpaved road
unto region of beautiful gardens and fra
krant groves of coffee and oranges. We met
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reside permanently. They are at Mrs.
Dozier's 1882 Dearborn street.
Miss A Ridgeway President of the
Blue Cross Lodge No. of Hyde Park,
is on the sick list.
Mrs. Tom Emery OF Paducah, KY, is
in the city the guest of Mrs. soloman
Taylor 423-34th street.
Mrs. James Lewis gave luncheon
Tuesday from to in honor of Mrs.
Womack end friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. H. Wright had very
nice card party at their home 1922 Dear
born street Thursday evening.
Ninth B .ttallion Armory has been re-
novated and repaired for Prince Hall
Lodge entertainment October eleventh
Prince Hall Lodge No. 50 is sparinq
no pains to make this entertainmen mt
given October eleventh grand success
Furnished house to let. with gas and
I'LL modern improvements, at $3.50 Ar
mour Ave Apply to 6420-6422 E"gereon
| Ave. formerly Dickey street, Mrs. Coz
nelia Moore.
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confession to Detective Vishle on the
train.

confession to Detective Viehle on the
train.
Mary Compton 26 years old, residing
with her husband at 1922 Randolph St.,
became Suddenly inesne Sunday after
noon. She threatened to kill every body
with when she came in contact, and
made a franic attempt to burn the house,
hold furniture. She is now at the City
Hospital for observation. She is 20 vio-
ler t that close restraint ie necessary.
At a meeting of The East ST. Louis
Council Club Sunday evening the follow.
ing officers were selected: President,
& W Coalby; First Vice President, JAS.
Robinson; Second Vice President, ] o
Wallace; Secretary, w w Buchanan
Financial Secretar:', Daniel Adams;
Treasurer, Woton Hawkins; Race Com
missioner, o H Banks; Sergeant a.
Arms, David Goldstein. The object of
the Council is to promote the interest of
Afro Amer cans.