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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
LABOR UNIONS
AND THE NEGRO" BY JOHN s.
DURHAMlN ATLANTIC MONTHLY
The Ex-Cpnsul General to santo Domingo
Writes Very Forctbly and Logically in
Reference Thereto-An Interesting Arti-
Gle on an Important Subject.

Perhaps he used it from choice. 1t
may have b en- the rule of thu company
that be should use it. However tina,
may be, I conld not do otherwise than
remark the fact that the porter deferen.
italy held out q silverstra 10 receive the
char-checks from passengers. It ives the
incest acssof discrimination. I had ever
observed in the worldly world. I was
on train between New York and Bes-
ton. The porter was only an agent in a
business transaction of corporation; but
the agent at the station who had thrown
out the check with businesslike dizziness
and the conductor who had briskly ex-
changed that check for another, where
also only agents in the transaction. In
their daily int r:ourse with the public
they must make friends; and. with the
faithful pc rformance of ,eir du'ies they
verv properly look forward to adva 1ce-
ment in their chosen career. The silver
salver howsve marks the porter; it is
the b sdge of all his trib,: Fla may be
an educated man. as ambitious and as
intelligent as the baggage agent or as
tue conductor; but hs must keep his
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
SAINT LOUIS.
SOCIAL MATTERS, CONDENSED
INTO SMALL SPACE.
tor the BENEFIT of our Thousands Of Read.
ers-An Sorts of News Items From the
City BY tho Big Bridge-The Future
Great" at the Present Time.

Mrs. Ada wood has returned from the
city after visit to her sister in Chicago
The case Of Charles Webb, who murd-
cred his sweetheart, Mallie Wade, De.
coration day, 1895 was called for trial in
Judge Z,chritz's court Mondoy morning.
Lizzie Overtop, drank quart of whisky
and nearly half ounce of cocaine Monday
night because some one eaid she couldn't.
Then her 200 pounds of avolrdupois was
bundled into an ambulance and taken to
the City Hospital for repairs.
Fannie Elizabeth Vaughn, Afro-Amer
lean a recent arrival in St. Louis, living
at 2s06 Adams street, claims the distinc-
ton of being the smallest miss living in
St. Louis. She tipped the scale at two
pounds, minus her garments. At birth
eleven days ago, tile little tot weighed
In the same condition, tweatyfour
ounces.
A meeting Of the executive board OF
the Colored Baptist State Convention
held Yesterday at the Central Baptist
Church, beginning at 10 o'clock. Rev. E
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more then one tenth Of it's population,
while it makes the most active efforts to
oArnoko khovo -e-f.s ~ E-.5 = ~. Fl. r

while it makes the most active efforts to
educate them.
II this hostility to the Negro could be
traced to an innate social antipathy, one
might consider it hopeless to try to Grad.
icate it. But it cannot be go ira led. His
industrial advancement is now checked
oy the interference Of the labor organi-
cations. In the, labor movement, the
Old guild idea of exclusiyeness is yet op-
posed to the more recent idea OF inclue-
iveness; and the Negroes fate involved
in this struggle In order to make the
subje Ct clear. it is necessary briefly to
review the labor movement in the Uni
ted States with reference to the career
of the Negro as handcraftsman. In a
very clear analysis of the conditions of
.laborinx mes. b,iiadelphia century
ago. Mr.. Talcott Williams has shown
that "side by side With the slave of color
Iabored the white redemptioner,' not
the less slave. The little city OF 10000
inhabitants, with 1000 or 5000 wage
earners, yearly saw from 1900 to 8 600
whie men and women land whose la
Dor for six and eight years to come was
cold on the auction-block to the highest
bidder to pay the cost of passage. This
" bite slavery......wsst the rue for all the
of century ago." With
irregular work and With deprecated,
currency, laborer received
fourty-tbree cents day. A carpenter
or a blacksmith work ed a month for
suit of clothes. and two weeks for a pair
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of boots. In other ords, at the begin
ming of the American Revolu ion, COM
,non laborers degraded to the slave stan
dard. The workmen were slaves, a few
free Negroes, ''redemptioners," and
"poor whites" They worked side by
by eide !; No social antipat hies seem to
have disturbed the miserable monotony
of their service, though there are many
evidences that tho white workman in
etinctively felt that the cause of their
wretchedness was the existence Of slav-
cry. e.
Already IN the slave popula'ion there
had appeared three distinct classes, aud
tho fisld-nsnds. the mansion aouse Ger
vants aud t@e hsndcraftemen wero clear
~. separated groups. The agricultural
'.borera we're berded in the quarters.
subject to system OF repres,io which
| varied with the ratio vt white to black
| ,pu ;ation in the several colonies. In
New Hampshire, for instance. where the
ratio was one black to one hundred viii
tea. the blacks emf eyed comparative fire.
edom. They learned to read and they
o1gauiz I'd their own societies. In South
Carolina. where there we're two black
to one white, such freedom would hav.
been dangerous; and the sense Of self
protection naturally impelled the maste
class to enact .:black'' code. and to pu
nish severely any one who should try t.
teach the slaves or to effect m oraani
zation among them. This code was di
rected particularly against the field
hands, because of the great number q
them.
The servants ct the ''great house
were taken from the quarters. Tidy an,
bright men and women were selecte,
and this service soon developed dll
tinct class.
To BIZ CONTINUED.
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Steering by Echoes.

An interesting popularity of Alas
kan navigation is thus described BY
Mr.. La Verne w. Noyes in the Chicago
Times Herald. He extols the beauty
Of the scenery and the smoothness OF
the water-by the inland steamer route
and says: The channel Is tortuous
and full OF rocks, and whenever fog
is encountered every movement Of the
ship is fraught with danger. I was
awakened about 8 o'clock one morning
by long blast of the steamers whis-
tie. This struck me as unusual, for
vessels are rarely met on that trip,
and there are comparatively no settle
ments. A moment later heard the
captain and the pilot on the bridge
over my stateroom in lively colloquy.
II tell you it's right there! said one
of them, excitedly. 1T must be, or
we'll be on the rocks in minute!'
That was enough for me. tumbled
out of my berth and, half-dressed,
rushed on deck, just as the whistle
gave another unearthly screech. 1t
seemed to be answered Immediately
by another whistle near by, and i'm
agined we were meeting q steamer
What did I tell you?" cried the pilot
There she is, all right! After wait.
ing ten minutes or more, hoping to BIZ
able to catch a glimpse Of the strange
craft, accosted the captain. and ask.
ed him where the other steamer was
My question nearly gave him an ep
| ileptic At. We had run into densl
fog, and our. pilot was guiding US II
that crooked channel and among thos,
treacherous rocks by the echoes sen
back from the mountains which her
and there rise precipitously from tn
waters edge.
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place. and that place is at the bottom.
and hia color fixes it. He is an Amer
lean ct;zan, AMI theoret ically he enjoys
inaliensble rights, among which are lib
erty and the pursuit Of happiness; but IN
bis cass liberty and the pursuit Of hap.
mess have their limits, fixed rigidly by
a sen,iment,-the sentiment of organiz-
ed labor in the Tilted Statee. -.
1.-THE ;rporshon insists on the silver
saaver, it only frankly Indicates to the
por g. his place, aud warns him not to
aspire TO higher one. corporation is
organic at to % .ke money along the lines
tofleass resistance, ard MOTTO cromo,e
democratic principles. When one rem
en,b ore the controversies With Walking
De'egs q, Mas'er Wo,kner, Grand O :
vaniZ :ra, and Chi .fs of Brosnerhnoda
which the officers of the Company
NUT ,const ,n'ly gendurt, one cam I
o ame them if, they r-tu,a 10 prov'k
any trouble that can be avoided. If the
porter uses his tray from choice, and
not in ob 'dience to formal order fro II
his mployer, he frankly indicates tina,
/ be- knows his place and that he defera Il
y feeling too powerful to oppose. Hi
wages are very email. for he il expected
! t, live on the generosity Of the travslin,
/ public. The tray is the badg. Of defer
ence: he philosophically keeps himsel
/ in his place and makes the best Of it.
The sentiment which denies him pro
! motion and his own difference t., it ar
the result of two seperate social develop
ments which it ls the purpose of this pc
j. per to point cut. They present . gray
neglected problem. The subject doe
!, not suggest to my mind merely an ap
/, peal fer sym patty or justice. 1tsuggest
this less diguif fed but more importantir
quiry; How long can the community q
ford to deny equality Of opportunity :
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
= glimpse Of Dye..

Lynn canal is a long, deep trench be.
tween towering mountains. It is no
more than mile wide here. It splits
on a ragged point Of rocks, the right
hand and by far shallower fork being
Skagway Bay. On the left, the larger
fork continues for about four miles
toward long blue gap similar to
White Pass, until another low beach is
reached, where from q distance more
tents are to be seen. The tide rises
and falls ten or twelve feet, SO It can
be seen what difference 1t makes.
Scows cannot approach more than q
mile from high-water mark. Here
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29

The Cincinnati; papers are having fun
with 1.-THE Twentieth Century 6 ut" Of
that city. It's made up of"the modern
women who believe in reform. Tie
report is that they met the other day to
discuss some unusually grave and excit-
ing questions and while the debate was
IN .san Oriental dealer in fine laces in
yaded the hal, and united his bundle. /"
"a knot Of leading members soon gather
! ed about him admiring the beautiful dis
play, and the papers assert that subjects
for discussion we're laid as: de indefinitely
and embroideries and lacss had the fooI
| the remaining hours Of the session. I
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
Drawing the Line.

"No," said the young woman with the
standing collar and the lawn tie, Il cannot
follow the dictates Of my heart. cannot
marry him."
why not?" inquired her confdante.
"The difference in our positions is tee
great"
Love should be capsule Of any sacrifice"
Il suppose so. But cannot forget that my
position pays me $25 week, while he gets
only $12."-Washington Star.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29

NJ. Cohron of St. Joeeph,s Mo-. was chair
man, and devoted exercise were led by
Rev. Nj. l.. Clay, of Lou 'siana, Mo. Re-
ports were heard from the missionarie
and from the officers of Missouri Baptis
College at Macon City, Mo. Prof. E. L,
Scrugxs. president OF the co)leg,, said
that the school was in a fair condition
and the attendance increasing, but tha
financial needs were correspondingly
great. Ekx6
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
Kaiser's Reign Disastrous.

: The Fortnightly Review, discussing
Kaiser Williams reign, sums up the
results of his activity in foreign poll
tics since his dismissal of Prince Bis
marck as follows: (D Germany has
lost her position as the leading power
in Europe; 90 Russia has taken her
place; 60 the triple alliance has al
most ceased to exist; az France has
become the ally of Russia; 90 Eng
land has been alienated from Ger
many; (6) the bond between Russia
and Germany has been snapped and
not renewed.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29

MIN tnIs way: TT you appea! to the tribu-
nails, you will never get to the end Of the
matter. 1t will take years to make even q
commencement, by finding out who issued the
arbitrary orders. AS the property is un-
doubtedly yours. by clear title and Lndisputed
purchase, go ahead and deInOIish the fur
mace thus unlawfully constructed
Tedious and Oppressive right.
The proprietor proceeded to act upon the
advice One morning, early before the ar
rival of the soldiers and policemen with their
prison laborers, he gathered his mcn and be-
gan to tear down the works Of the usurper.
But presently the police arrived, reinforced
by squad of soldiers from the .,s..,e,, and
dragged the unhappy owner and his men q. 20
prison, like common malefactors after i
lime he managed to get word to .ra consul
81 his native country, who ran to the Min
ster OF Foreign Affairs, threatening inter-
aat'onal complications unless his innocent
:ountryman were Immediately rst:,.xed and
.ull restitution made for the dxp.ag. he had
suffered. The Minister listened with the ut
lContinued IN ,7tA.-Ua1unn.)I -~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
A Quiet Evening.

N. Peck-1 think shall stay at home this
evening and enjoy 4 good, quiet. homelike
evening something have not done for some
time.
Watts-A homelike evening? thought
your wife was out Of town.
"She is"-Indianapolis Journal.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
Keeping Faith.

81 thought you advertised home fare" said
the summer boarder Indignantly.
WAL" replied Farmer Corntossel, that's
what you're getting; canned peaches, canned
tomattusses, canned corned beef; and con-
densed milk, the same as you're used to.
in pton Star $50
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
Getting on Cheaply.

Mrs. Commonstock Cat the summer hoteD-
They say the waiter at our table is foreign
nobleman.
Mr.. Commonstock (excitedly) Good! I'll
| offer him one of our daughters and share
| in may business and escape tipping him
i Iud9a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
. DRIFTWOOD.
CAUGHT ONTHE NEWS SEA AND
STEERED INTO

Our ONCE by Our Army Of Correspond
ents at All Points Of the Compass and
Carefully Condensed for Hasty Readers
Peru3al.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-01-29
MILWAUKEE,.
THE CREAM CITY OF THELAkES
AND ITS FOLKS.

Items of all Sorts Gathered Together b,
Our Ubiquitous Reporter and Served at
in Dainty Style for the Dedication ~,
Our Readers.
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Connicting ACCOUNT.

Tom-Why, he's one Of the best tailors I'M
London! He has made clothes for the Prince
of Wales.
are strictly G. o. D.-Puck.
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Snow in the city 10 feet deep
Mr.. Calvin Lyvers is on thu eick list
Mas. 6. J. Wheeler is on the sick list.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14

effective measures for reducing operating
expenses Which are in course Of auop,loh.
Fear for the effect of the outlaWing OF the
Joint Traffic Association and similar bodies
are relieved by the demonstrated made
quacy of these cumbersome and expensive
bodies to prevent rate cutting and the
saving that will accompany their aboll-
ton. TneaSineSS over the possibilities or
embodiment with European powers-nota-
bly, German. in connection with the Phil
iprines settlement. is allied by confidence
that Spain is bound to come to terms 1t is
nevertheless true that a certain undertone
of apprehension Is felt over this question
and over the tension among foreign govern
ments over Central African and Chinese
questions and over the unsatisfactory con
dition of some important domestic indus
tries, notably coal cotton and wool and
wooleus. There is tho possibility recognized
that these factors may bring doubt and APP
prohcnSion to the surface again. especially
III view of the prevailing high level of
prices of securities.
The weeks unprecedented business In
bonds has resulted in higher prices all
around, the lower and middle grade issues
showing the most pronounced effects.
United States new 4s coupons dave ad-
NanCed rs, United States new As coupons
registered =. the old Is registered 3-S and
the IS coupon, the old As coupon and the
IS 5-S i'll the bid price.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14
THE MIss1NG WORD CONTEST.
a Handsome Amount No


The premium sum now on hand in the
missing word contest is $93S. We aunounc-
ed last week that the correct word had
been named by ono party and offered SO
for the next correct guesser We can now
say that tie second guess is in, not sent
by the party who first named the word
A lady and gentleman have hit the right
answer ami we hope this week TO have the
pleasure Of recording more correct an
swers ana from many successful contest
ants.
1t may De that you have sent the right
word; If you have. repeat II. You are en-
titled to send It In as often as you send
subscriptions for yourself or your friends.
Swell the list Of correct answers and push
the 10 per cent fund the more subscribers
entering the contest the more the money
to be distributed. The ladies have taken
hold of the matter ana they will secure
clubs and increase the number OF their
guessos and the sizo of the premium check
to be mailed to them December 1st. We
hope to announce $l,2,n on hand next week.
subject 10 check under this contest. II
Won can secure a list send them this week
promptly. give every subscriber his own
guess and take your agents guess and get
your name on the prize list.
And to think OF it! After lodging around
and hunting about and getting missed SO
long the poor little word was finally hit
right between the eyes. Now keep it mp,
keep the ball rolling and see II you don't
get some Of this money Ii IS only one
word it is not as hard to spell as thous-
ands Of answers We have received, but We
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14

till folks who knew nothing of her troubles
said she was dyspeptic and that she didn't
make her home happy.
SO matters were moving till one cold De-
cembcr night. when a few neighbOr women
had gathered in to see Lucy die john was
off at the still and had been off for a
week, and only got nome IN uIG me to Near near
out her hands in a senscless manner and
"TelI the folks around old Hebron That
this is Lucy-thc little. bluc-cyed girl that
they SO loved To pet, Lucy that was bap-
tized by the spriuE ut the old church and
who lived In the big white house in the
forks Tell them how Lucy"
She stoned for q moment and a shadow
seemed to TT across her face. when she re-
sumcd:
Lucy: poor poor LuCy--my father made
his riches by selling whisky and running
a still and thus the little girl he loved 50
well must pass away
She was dead and Brown and knew tho
story and as we looked upon the tomb
stone. "Erccted by her husband we sad
and stNl say; What mocNery, what mock
cry" This was no new made grave. Lucy
has been dead a long, long time. ana |
think that her going was not 50 hard. Tor
she was laid beside her only little babe
that seemed so lonesome here alone but inc
tombstone was fresh and implies - C0nSlli-
GRAFTON that she should have found Whl!9
here. We may feel too hard on John IN
this: I think We do. Tor he le an o'd haI,
now and often thinks of the blooming EiIt
and of how She dropped till her poor tplll
hands were too weak to work and her
Spirite too low to ever raise n smile, 80 IS
life We often save till after death the
Kindly acts that should come here.
Brown and ! are both suspicious THAT the
present Georgia legislature VIII MAKE an
effort to cut down the pensions or coul' a.,
crate soldiers and widows II they 40
every monument that has been raised 10
the confederate cause will point down 20
"What mockcry! What 1nockory"
SARGE PLUNKETT.
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Ht'>rt, November = -Noastsf' corn. 81 20. loss
h0c per O0b cnses Green cOGe0 choice 10 fntr 20;
prim, 2. Sugar ctandavf graduated $40: New
OrIpans white "a; DO yellow baSc. EirNp New or
Jeans open kettle 26ee40o; mixed l2}Aqt2oc; suEar
house 26l3Hc. Teas, black 3o1b5c; Freen IA @oua
Nice head mo; choice 6i4@Gaic salt, dairy sacts
! g; do. bhls S2.5, ice cream E .0G common -
&C. zoe Cheese full cream l0ie@ll &c. Matches, COS
SGc: zoos RI .3OGD -: 30hs rs. Soda, boxes Sc
Crackers, soda size; cream sc; gngcrsn0 Sc Can
dy. common stick &c; fancy I2Wl8e, oysters, +. W.
81 80; l. 500
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14

stani- Nohcmhcr 12-C le7r lib. Hovc' s'de.6Ss;
rcar sides iai ic"- Surrd heliies 7Ac sucaranrsd
bonn, sltGollc; Cali ornia 40; breakfast bacon 3
@ISe lard, Gu ality 5Tso; tsconu quality 3stc;
compouuG5
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Piles ristnla. Rupture, Structure
CREEK INDIANS ON WAR PATH

and Varicocelc: cure guaranteed, Or. Tuck
er, Is Broad street. Atlanta, Ga
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14
SYSTEM OF
Sullivan, Crichton & Smiths

Business { Oege Atlanta, Gin. Full business oourss
s35 Shorthand $50 For catalogue, address;
CREIGHTON q SMITH. Proprietors
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The Low Price of Cotton.

From s. Nun Son & Co.'S Weekly Cotton
Letter.
one thing Is certain; the low price Of cot
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14

S9A MONTHLY TO 4atFTs 'oaoo '} ,'ag olsas
Tgrne gives heriI Casloh chimney Cnespsst
light known sample Enterprise MIG Co, 20 Cp.luu@e0~
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-11-14

qgu 40 II. p Greenweld slide Valve Engine
EuT 3aIS cheap Has butterfly valve specially
suited Tor saw miIl FUKMAN FARM IMPROVE
MENT co, Atlanta, ia,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-10-01
MARROONS ARE RISING.
Ssflous Insurrection Among Descendant
of Negroes in Jamaica.

SERIOUS Insurrection Among Descendants
of Negroes in Jamaica.
New YORK, Sept. 3o.-A dispatch to
The Herald from Kingston, Jamaica,
says: The marroons on the coast line
are rising and are taking possession of
valuable property belonging to English
proprietors and threatening to hold
them with force.
There are fears of a serious insured.
ton, and the government is making
preparations to cope with it. Some of
the residents have sought safety in the
city.
information Of the threatening atti.
tude of the marroons, who are descend.
ants of negroes who fed to the noun.
tains when the British took possession
of the islands, was published in July
last. \ deputation Of the tribal con.
ference held on the maroon reserva.
ton called OF Governor Hemming and
asked him to overturn a decision of the
courts giving to white men the title to
certain lands which the marroons de.
clared had been allotted to them as "a
paw u AlS ACSC1 lliOll ullSE lu0 re-
bellion
Governor Hemming refused to inter.
fere.
\ correspondent interviewed the
deputies III kiugsto2. They said that
when the marroons signed the treaty
OF peace with the government they
took al oath, drunk in blood, never to
fight the whites g H.. This oath,
they declared, must be broken, as they
were being ROBBED OF territory and
provoked by the white men.
On their return their people, they
said, woud seize the land by force.
and ii the mi itary interfered, the
judgment day would follow, as the
marroons would die before 1elinquish.
ing their rights.