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of adaptation. This is interpreted by
some to be defect from an evolution
airy point of view. In white children
brightness increases with age in most
studies. In Afro-Anerican children
the reverse is the case. Dull children
are the most unruly and unruly chill
idren the dullest. Mixture of national
tiles does not seem to be Favorable to
the development Of mental ability in
the offspring.
Prof. Jesse Lawson addressed the
members of the Baptist Lyceum Sun
day afternoon on .The Political Flu
ture of the Negro in America. Among
other things Mr.. Lawson said: Jus
tice has departed from this country
and humanity has taken wings. We
are about thirty-six years removed
from slavery and have had a hand in
politics for about quarter of a cen
fury. We were first made welcome by
the Republican party, and in our early
power we had Senators and Represent
atives in Congress-. This is no more.
Our political greatness has departed.
The North and South have joined
hands and babe the Afro-American
farewell. 1 AS one of the leaders in a
local Baptist church and as speaking
to an audience of Baptists, I say now
that only the great and powerful Cath
Ollie church can help us. (Great APP
plause:) We may not all desire to
join the Catholic church at once, but
we will see the way in time. I think
it must be Gods will that we effect
our salvation through the agency OF
the Catholic church. The leaders
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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1901.

The first round in the Minnesota
Women's Federation fight has been
fought and won by the noble women
who believe in right, pure and simple.
The New Century, Club, the leading
woman's club of the state, held a
meeting in St. Paul Wednesday after
noon and by vote of forty-two to
eighteen passed the following resolu-
ton:
Whereas, clubs of colored women
have applied for membership in both
the general and the state declarations
Of women's clubs: and
Whereas, the club women through
out the country have been requested
to consider the desirability of such
membership;
Therefore, be it resolved. That the
New Century Club protests against any
color line in the Minnesota state feder-
alton, and desires the conditions Of
membership therein to remain as they
are at present hose Of intellectual
and moral fitness
T. i &
The . resolution had been presented
by Mrs Henry G. James month ago
and has been before the members since
that time and therefore has been
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FAMILY OF ISAAC WELLS. KING OF THE GYPsIEs

by Bishop B.. w. Arnett, of Wilber-
! force, and Bishop 81. I'M. Turner, of At
lanta, Ga. About 125 ministers are in
attendance, a number of whom are
from Washington
| Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Tyson, of 2124
X street northwest, gave a. card party
| Saturday in honor of Mrs. Fannie Bar
rier Williams, who is visiting her sis
ter in this city Among those present
| were Register and Mrs. Lyons, DR.. and
| Mrs. Francis, Miss Anna ]. Cooper,
Miss Reed, the Misses Tyson, Prof.
Love, e. F. Adams. The evening was
pleasantly passed, playing progressive
euchre, and at II O'Clock delicious re-
freshments were served. III
Robert B. Robinson, who is wanted
in Boston, Mass, to answer to an in
dictment charging him with embezzle-
ment and false. pretenses, and who was
arrested in this city On Monday, was
turned over to the Massachusetts, au-
thorities on a requisitions from the
governor of that state Robinson was
employed at the government printing
Office. He did not resist being taken
back to Boston to answer the charge
against him. Robinson is charged
with appropriating funds of the Orr
der Of Mystic Shriners Of Boston,
Mass, to his own use.
BENJAMIN o. Davis, Of this city, a
graduate of the High School, and an
officer Of the cadet corps, has been app
pointed a second lieutenant in the
army and assigned to the Tenth cav
airy This young man has the dis
inction OF being the first Afro Ameri-
can no has ever&risen from the ranks
to a commiss stoned grade. He enlisted
three years ago and served as a pri-.
vate, corporal and sergeant in the
Ninth cavalry. He recently entered "a
competitive examination for promotion
to the grade Of second lieutenant, and
made an almost perfect record. The
only other Afro American officers in
the army are Capt. Young. graduate
of West Point, and Mai. Lynch. pay
master, formerly a representa- in
Congress from Mississippi
Dr.. Arthur MaeD onald specialist in
the Bureau of Education, speaking Of
the present tendency toward child.
study. recently declared that more was
known bout the insane, the criminal,
of animal even the frog, than of the.
normal man There is a very general
representation from all states among
the residents of Washington. Conc1u-s
.sions concerning the ildren, there.
fore may be more applicable to our
country as a whole We give some re-
suits from our study Of %, 900 children
IN the public schools AS circumfer-
ence OF head increases mental ability
increases. Afro American girls have
larger circumference of head at all
ages than white 81 girls. Boys have
greater circumfeTence of head than.
girls; yet girls are superior to boys in
their studies. but girls show higher
percentages Of average ABILITY and so
less variability Indicating less power
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The commissioners of the District of
Columbia are considering an anti-ex-
pectoration ordinance which has called
forth many protests. One writer, a
Mr.. Gilmer, says that the long trains
of women are more disgusting than the
splitting habit. He suggests that a
regulation be adopted prohibiting long
skirts or leaguing their wearers with
the street sweepers. Mr.. Gilmer asks
that if the ''ukase"'' is to be promulgat-
ed that it be amended so as to exempt
the alleys, as men will certainly have
to have some place to spit.
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thoroughly canvassed, and the i'm
mortal forty-two knew just what they
were doing, in fact one of them re-
marked, 1.-THE new century woman is
not afraid to act %.9
Yet the emphatic adoption Of the
resolution by a vote of more than two
to one was not secured without toll.
Palma non sine Dulvere,'' commented
classical Centurion, COMPRISING a
red cheek with her handkerchief's
limp lace. Perspiration, at least, ac-
companied the contest, which lasted
from o'clock till after 5. But the
club retained throughout it's reputation
mercury and. a burning question in
duced really overhasty speech. The
rulings of Mrs George C. Scuires, the
president, at the first meeting of her
term, were never criticised The car
toonists were confounded, the para
graphists were brought low. ...=
1t was maintained by the contras
that a club association is in effect a
social association. If one, can vote
with a woman, applaud her essays and
labor with her in committee, one
CANNOT REFUSE TO VISIT HER. .
"You can't shake wonan's hand
here and cut her on the avenue-that
is, you can, but you shouldn't" If a
colored woman sits in ones federation,
why not in ones own club, and if in
ones club, why not at ones dinner
table? ..-.... ~. il r..
But the pros controverted such as
sumptions. 1t was, said Mrs: James
majority, the manifest duty of club
women, as progressive and patriotic
citizens, to be true to the spirit of the
law and Of the fourteenth amendment.
If the nation has declared that it's coll
ored citizens are no less worthy than
it's white citizens, enlightened women
should not presume to contradict.
These views prevailed, although it
was pointed out by the ants that the
resolution Endorsed not only the admis-
sion of colored clubs into the fedora
ton, but of .colored women into the
white clubs. ts,
Now, we hope to see the state feder-
alton sustain the action of the New
Century Club and prove that as one of
the members said Wednesday: '''As
goes the Century SO goes the state
Again we say all honor to the noble
women of the New Century Club of St.
Paul - ~ E5.ss }* :. 5t.-sS u IS
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WASHINGTON.
TIL F CITY OF MAGNIFICENT
DISTANCES. ~
a Collection Of . Few of the Events Oc-
curing Among the Afro-AmerIcans Of the
Capital 1t Of This Great and Glorious Nation
for Our Many Readers. Is 3

&C olate,' {, the Afro American
clown at the Nouyeau Cirque, Paris,
was once a stable boy in WASHINGTON.
He now earns 800 francs a week. ..
~ ss fs5, . - .
Prof. Jesse Lawson addressed the
lycenm of the Second Baptist church
Sunday afternoon on the Political Flu
ture Of the Negro in America" Mr..
R.sW. Thompson presided.
"A Maryland Afro American dislo-
Gated his jaw while yaWning the other
day, and the services of three doctors
were required to get the bones into
place again. 3,
Edward Robinson nine years old,
fell from Metropolitan car at Ninth
and D streets northwest Saturday and
his arm was painfully injured 81 He
was able to go home without assist
ance. g sg +. @
Catherine PloWden, a young woman,
who was employed'as dom stic at the
house OF Mr. Donaldson, No. 29O7 Sew
enth street northeast, Brookland, died
LII IAAC Po11CO uO0uCly EWAllS
being taken to Freedmen's hospital. Il
5.5,.SEz $500: ~ = - f Is &n.y7 )
Hobson Rowe, four years old, died
at the Children's hospital Tuesday
morning from the effects of burns re
.ceived Saturday at his home near Ar
lington, Va. The boy was playing
about an open latrobe when his cloth
ing caught fire, and he was i burned
about the face, hands and abdomen.
George Paine, thirty-four years OF
age, and Mary Smith we're thrown from
a wagon near the corner of Fourteenth
and H streets northeast during run
away and both were badly injured
They were placed in No. patrol
wagon and taken to the Casualty hos
pital, and after having their wounds
dressed went to their homes. i
The eighty-fourth annual session OF
the Baltimore Conference of the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal church, which
embraces the state of Maryland and the
District Of Columbia, is being held in
Frederick. Md. Bishop B. r. Lee, OF
.Wilberforce, O., is presiding, assisted
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: Liberals desire for the establishment
by the United States of coaling sta
ton on her coast will not be acceded
to. Iberia believed that all danger Of
attempts on the part of France and
other governments to seize territory
from her would cease if such action
were taken. Examination of the Lii
berian coast made by the Montgomery
some time ago, and other information
received by the navy department, show
that there is no suitable site for a sta
ton, and the project has been aban-
doned =et
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It seems to be all mistake about
the finding of rara avis in the person
of ALA II. Crook, professor of miner
ology and petrology at Northwestern
University, Chicago, who was reported
in the daily papers to have admitted
that he never swore, drank intoxi-
cants, or.kissed woman. The profess
sor has been interviewed again and
says he never made any such admis-
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Washington is behind St. Paul in
this progressive move. Signs decorate
many buildings, posts, etc, which say:
s:Do not spit or throw fruit rinds upon
the pavements under penalty of from
81 to $50 fine.' @s>
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AGENTS WANTED.

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DarrelIs Island, one Of the English
Bermudas, is to be utilized as a prison
for 100 Boer prisoners The First
West India Negro regiment of English
soldiers will, be the guards Of the
Beers. II s: s s
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have offered us protection and politi-
cal, rights within the folds Of the Cath
olicA church. We are assured our
rights as citizens and as human beings
and see no other way in which we
may save ourselves and save our fu-
ture. We are being ground to powder
by the white man in this country, and
only the Catholic church can save us.
Let us take matters into our hands
now and let us act" The address was
debated after the speaker, had closed,
and each speaker greeted the idea of
allying with the Catholic church as
the only way out of the problem and
the only hope for the Afro American
s. ..i5 LITERARY
y Der Meister Won Palmyra Dramatische
Dichtung in funf Aufzugen, Won Adolf
Wilbrandt, edited with Introduction and
Notes by Theodore Henckels, Morton Pro-
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sions. The professor also gets back at
them thus: 'sAre men who lead clean
" lives so scarce, shat when one is
thought to be discovered he is regard
ed as a rara avis and called upon for,
ordinations e s#. / 5s.5ss s5s II
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The popularity of President McKin-
ley with all classes. Of people is being
shown during hjs trip through the BE
country
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THE APPEAL,
ANATIOHAL AFRo-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
40 e. 4th St., St. Paul, ninn. j

ISSUED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN
Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago,
Washington, Louisville, St. Louis.
The San Francisco call., 1901-10-05
NATIONAL|sTS
ARE IN PRISON
President Castro Takes
Severe Measures in
Venezuela.
Several Hundred the Mum
Der Killed in a Recent
Battle.

WILLEMSTAD, Oct. 4.-From an abso-
lutcly authoritative source it was asCer-
tained to-day that President Castro on
September 50 ordered the immediate I'M
prisonment of all nationansts in Vene-
zueIa. Affairs at Tachira are substantial
ly as follows:
President Castro on September rs
ordered Ceestino Castro, one of bis
brothers. and General Tribe Uribe, COM
manders of the Venezuelan forces on Ia
chira frontier, to attack the Colombians
under General Rangel Garbiras General
Uribe-Uribe on September q ordered the
guerrilla bands under General Rovira to
attack the rear guard oil the Colombian
Government troops, with the result that
the Colombian Government troops under
General Valencia utterly destroyed Gene-
raj ROVira S Out1t.
1t is reported that Mendoza, president
Castro's Minister of Finance, was shoe at
at Caracas October 1 by wOuld-be as
sassin who missed him.
A correspondent here mas received the
following message from a correspondent
in the field:
ION the road between Sinamaica. Vene-
zuela. and La Hacha, Colombia, Guaija
Peninsula, September 29-General DaVi-
las first hight at Curoga was an absoiute'
rout. Five Venezuelan battaltons of 40
men each were engaged and the Colon-
bians are estimated at the same number
General Echeverria was killed on the bat
ticfield and not shot by the Colonbians
After Echeverria was killed Generals Da-
villa. Clodomiro Castillo and Emilio Cas-
tro. a brother of President Castro. fed
from the field. Another battalion then
broke. The three remaining battalions
kept up the fighting until routed. About
500 were killed on the Venezuelan side, in
Guiding thirty minor officers. The In
dams ambushed General Davlas' retrcac-
ing vanguard, composed OF 200 men, and
annihilated it..
Persistent reports have been current
for four days to the effect that President
Castro's Venezuelan forces at Tachird
suffered defeat at the hands of General
Rangel Garbiras and his Colombian Con-
servative supporters September 25 and 26.
According TO another report General
! 11rihe-TTribe is fleeing from Tachira as Il
result of the recent defeat. According to
! other reports General Uribe-Uribe was
!
The San Francisco call., 1901-10-05
TAKING WAYS
Of A DOMESTIC
Arrest of Caroline Peter
son for Stealing a
Fine Diamond.

OAKLAND, Oct. 4.-Caroline Peterson,
a domestic employed by Mrs. H. {. Cap
we'll residing at Oakland and FairVleW
avenues is in custody of the pol1ce. Ih;
Young woman surrendered $40 diamond
ring to-day, the disappearance of when
Mrs. Capwell had reported to Chief OF
Police Hodgkins only an hour before the
gem was found in the servant girls pos
session.
The detectives also have in charge
valise containing considerable Jewelry,
silverware bric-a-brac, purses and smali
pistol. This property was found in the
woman's room at the Capwell residence.
Until satisfactory evidence concerning
the presence of the strange miscellaneous
collect1on of yaluables shall have been Sc
cured the prisoner will be detained at the
City Prison.
she declares that the wares are her
own property, given to her by Lady Leilah
Yarde Butler, with whom she torIheriy re-
sided as a companion. Some OF the sliver, we :,
Other spoons and forks in the collection
are marked IN. p. " ca, and a single
spoon is stamped Albany.
The ring incident which led to the un-
covering of the bag of jewelry occurred
this afternoon Mrs Capwell missed the
valuable gem shortly after noon, she I'M
Shorey and Holland went. post haste to
the residence and there found the dom
estic very defiant and indignant, her
mistress having suggested that the girl
might know something about the missing
jewelry.
During a conversation with Detective
Shorey the girl made pretext to leave
the room She was followed and finally
took the gem from it's hiding place in her
clothing and passed it to Mrs. Capwen in
the detectives presence. He arrested the
girl and then took the valise which was In
her room.
The woman was taken to the City Pri-
son. There the contents of the satchel
were exposed. Such motley collection or
stuff was never before uncovered IN the
jail.
Besides several dozen assorted pieces Of
tableware, variously inscribed, there Were
smelling salts bottles, cracker jars, gold
lined cups and other utensils for table
use gold bracelets and brooches, stick
pins and rings. a score of odds and ends
in fancy design for women'S wear, orna-
mental clasps in abundance, half a dozen
gold finished strainers, fruit knives nap
kins, silk handkerchiefs contributed to
this miniature "old curiosity shop"
Among the stolen property records at
the police office there is no note of miss
ing jewelry which meets the description of
that contained in the prisoners valise.
The Capwells say they will not prose-
cute the woman for the theft of the ring,
so happy are they to have recovered it.
The police have not decided what to do
with their charge and her motley array
of wares.