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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17

Demands of conventional fashion are
about to exterminate the whole fam
lily of lizards in the United States and
to make deep inroads upon serpents
Of many kinds. "
Beginning with the dainty little
chameleon, held by the tiny gilded
chain that is the mark of his captivity,
up to the handbag made of the skin of
the diamond back rattlesnake, and car
Erfed at the wrist Of the woman os11Up-
ping, it looks as if the reptilian family
of the twentieth century is doomed.
Even to the scientist and the ecOnO-
mist some of the representatives of
these creeping and crawling things of
the earth pass into. oblivion without
regret; to the masses, even, there are
others that will be missed because of
their harmlessness, their vivid chang
ing colors, and their disposition to
live their lives in those waste places
where so few other things of life are
to be found.
The passing of the alligator from
the rivers and swamps of the south
seems to be more surely and quickly
certain than does the extinction of
others Of the lizard tribe. Years ago
he was the despised and feared Of all
the reptiles that came to the view of
the negro in the southern swamps.
The horrible water moccasin was moth
ing to the southern darby as compared
to the alligator, even though death
from the snake might come the quick
er and the reptile be lying ten to one
in numbers among the logs and in
the mud of the sluggish streams and
bayous. The gator always was the
armored evil one to the darby, but
the southern white man, hunting in
the same swampland for deer and bear
found the eye Of the alligator an ex-
cellent target for his rifle, and in the
tooth of the saurian beautifully
adapted charger for measuring the
gunpowder behind the ball in his muz-
zle-loading gun.
Thus through all the years the ALI
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
ASSAULTED A CHILD.

John Hickey Commits Awful Crime al
Rome, Ga.
Special to Atlanta Constitution.
Rome, Ca, Oct. John Hickey mas
been landed in Jail here, charged with
criminal assault on Eliza Turner, the
8-year-old child of respectable Afro
American people.
The details of the crime are shock
ing in the extreme. After the crime
was committed he is said to have beat
en- the girl into insensibility. When
found several hours later she was just
barely alive and may yet die.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
PASSES FOR AN AFRo-AMERiCAN
Pastor of Afro-American Church turns
Out to be Caucasian.

Pastor of Afro-AmerIcan Cnurcn ufnS
Out to be Caucasian.
Milwaukee, Oct. 12.-Pastor Fen
wick of the African M. E. church has
been found to be white man; and &C
cordingly some of the brethren are
drawing the color line tonight and try
ing to replace him by an Afro-Ameri
can. The story came out during the
trial of j. w. Bess. member OF the
church, who was charged by Pasto'
Fenwick with robbing his residence
The preacher being asked about his
color, replied, Il am gentleman bu:
later admitted his Caucasian descent.
Mr.. Fenwick' says he never claimed tc
be anything but white man, in spite
Of the fact that he passed as an Afro
American. He Joined the church at
Keokuk. Iowa, in 1884, being drawn. to
the work through a desire to help the
American people. At that time
he claims to have had a lucrative prac-
tice as physician and displayed his
diplomas. He does not intend to give
I'D his charge, and says the little
group of malcontents" will have live
" time in driving him out.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
ESCAPED A LYNCHiNG.

CHICAGO Police Rescue from Mob Man
Accused of Ascaulting Girl.
Arthur Warren, 4 young man living
in the suburb OF Berwyn, twelve miles
from Chicago, had a narrow escape
from lynching Monday night, and but
for the efforts of two policemen 1t IS
possible that he would have been
hanged to telegraph pole. Warren
was accused of assaulting an eight
year-old girl.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17

M. Plehve, the Russian statesman,
declares that self-government was re-
stricted in Finland "for the peoples
good That has familiar sound. All
of the crimes against the Afro-Amer-
lean in this country have been perpe-
trated, according to Southern testi--
mony ssfor the peoples good. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17

John Aggerhuis of 50 Boston street,
Chicago, told the Chicago police q
great story of having been assaulted
by two Afro-Americans in South Chi
cago, but the coroner's jury which in
yestigated the case found that death
came from natural causes. Another
lie nailed. 49,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
THE EQUAL RIGHTS AND
PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF ILL.
HOLDS IT'S INITIAL MEETING IN SPRINGFIELD
-~:. LAST MONDAY

Large Gathering OF Enthusiastic, Earnest, Flo
quent Citizens of the State, Who Seek TO
Protect the Rights they Now Erjoy, and Have
those Recognized Of Which they are Now De-
prived-President Roosevelt, Governor Yates,
Sheriff Win1ock and Gov. Durbin Praised.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
Step in Advance.

The wagons Of the London fire com
psny are to be supplied with bells so
that the firemen will no longer be
conpelled to utter cries to clear the
sire SIS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
HEIGHT and Depth,

| The deepest depression in the earth,
ascertained by sounding, is five and
! a fourth miles; the greatest height,
| the peak of Mount Everest, five and
three-fourths miles.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
Indian Baskets.

Collectors of Indian baskets agree
in, conceding the greatest beauty in
form and design to .ne products Of
certain parts of California.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
SIN KILLER GRIFFIN.

He Is in the Midst of a Campaign
Against the Devil at Tyler.
Tyler, Texas, Oct. 16.-Rev. j: l..
Griffin, the famous Afro-American
evangelist, is conducting meeting IN
this city and is meeting with good re-
suits. He is known all over the South
as Sin Killer Griffin.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
MINI. OCTOBER 1. 1903
VIOLENT RESISTANCE TO -"
AMENDMENTS REPEAL
WOULD BE JUSTIFIED, SAYS REV. FRANK M
BRISTOL, A WASHINGTON DIVINE.

Prejudice Against the Afro American Illogical
Learned Criminal Instincts from the Witt s.
He Declares that LynChing Destroys Magma
Charta Rights-As the Majority of the Human
Race is Co1ored There Should Be. No Pre-
~ iudiCe Based OH Color.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17

Hon. j. w. Lyons, Register OF the
Treasury, IS making campaign speech
es in Ohio. YES
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
Secretary shaw's Satire at Expense OF
Government Official.

Secretary shaw's Satire at Expense OF
Government Official.
Although Secretary Shaw is a man
of diplomacy he enjoys loosing an oc-
casional shaft of satire. An othclal
who takes great pride in his dress but
who in spite of elaborate toilets, is
not conspicuous for his beauty, re-
Gently attemp pied to grow Whlskers'
Evidently his effort stirred up domes'
tic objection, for few days ago, after
three months of assiduous cultivation
If a black but somewhat reluctant
growth of beard, he appeared clean
shaver. again, explaining to MS col
leagues. that it was his wife's birthday
and that in her honor he had removed
what she had bewailed as an unnec-
essary designation. T. - D.
Forthwith he showed hlmseH 10
Secretary Shaw, craving commenda-
ton. -~ = -.
Eyes, I. congratulate you," said the
secretary. "Your case reminds me OF
the good wife who, venturing on a
change in wearing her hair, tim1dly
asked her nuSOand Il u .nou5nt ~
unbecoming.
...Bless you, MOI he exclaimed, try
ine his hest to be complimentary; any
change wo,Id be an improvement in
YOU. '',-Philadelphil Post.
Wiping Out Accounts.
DR.. Morris Bailey OF Titusville,
Penn. lately celebrated his eighty
fifth birthday, and especially marked
the day by serasing from his books &C
counts extending over half century
and aggregating about $4,000. He
still has some $4,000 hard to collect"
accounts. and may some day settle
these in the same way. But paying
patients havo supplied him with 9 COM
Oeteney.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-10-17

This years cotton will amount to-
about 100000 900 bales, worth half
billion dollars. AT least 80 per cent OF
lit was produced by the Drawn OF
Southern Afro-Americans. Read be
tween the Zines.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-08
SHA1TINCER'S,
CHRISTMAS PIANOS.

We have Just received q carload Of the most
beautiful fancy burl. walnut. oak and ma
hogany cased pianos to be found in st. Louis:
we defy any one show their equal: these
goods were all personally selected by our firm
and the purchaser can rest assured that there
Is nothing better: select your piano now: a
small deposit will hold II until delivery: open
evenings after December ].
REYER'S. Seventeenth and Locust.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-08
FINE PIANOS
WAY-DoWN PRICES,

BRADBURY Piano warerooms. l0lc Olive
St, +. G. Smith. Iifr.. a. L. Whitaker. Mgr.
There is no raise in prices here for the holi-
days: on the contrary our prices We're never
are making special reductions this week.
Note some OF our prices:
NEW TPRlGHTS.
New uprishts: usually $3.50 and 500. our
New iapsishss. usually $500 and $3.50. our
New aprigh,ss. usually $3.50 and $50. our
New uprishts. usually $3.50 and $3.50. our
A most complete and elegant assortment in
the leading makes. including the worid-re-
nown BRADBURY Pianos.
USED UPRIGHTS.
Four beautiful first-class uprights. sold for
stp to 500. used but little, this week, S2Go.
500 $500. $40: BRADBURY and other makes.
Five high grade uprights In beautiful , cases ;"a
They have been used Just little. and they
Seven splendid uprights. in perfect condition,
used some. but really as good as new; they
originally sold fer so TO 500: they go this
Hartman. Henning and other makes.
Coed ones Mt $50 to $50
Fine ones at $50. SO $50. $50.
Good makes-they originally cost from $500 to
$500.
We sell on easy terms IL desired or make
YOU a special discount for cash. On most OF
our used pianos We will allow all you have
paid IL YOU wish to exchange within rea-
sonabe time for a new one. This gives you
the use OF a plano practically free and Is much
better than paving rent Remember the place.
BRADBURY Piano Warerooms. 1ol2 Olive St,
F. G. Smith. Mfr. A E. Whitaker. MEr.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-08
SOUVENIR week.

During this our opening week we will give
free OF cr 1rge a beautiful! piece Of sheet music
TO those who visit US in our new store In the
Frisco building. Our Piano pariors are as fine
a. any in the city and we invite you to call on
us in cur new store.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30

Upon an authors first book he gets 10 per cent. of the price at which the book is sold. As many books are published at SIPS and $i.5O this means that from the sale of each of these books the au- thor gets 15 or 121k cents.
 Accepted authors those who have, as the French say arrived" practically make their own terms. Many of them demand as high as 30 per cent. AS their books are good sellers, the publishers can afford to pay the price. If any par ticular publisher does not see fit to do so there are always other publishers to whom the author may go.
 Serial rights are a pretty item and short stories bring big money Then there are the rights of dramatization to be considered, and there are few of the best authors of contemporary literature who are not earning much more at the writ ing trade than they could earn at any other.
 And there are always lectures to be delivered by authors and sometimes sign ed articles upon features of passing in- terest.
 That the authors of to-day cannot write so well and may not live so long in their works as the writers of bygone time means little to them when they consider that many of them are earning in a year more money than Shakespeare ever saw in his life or that their single book mounting higher and higher in sales eclipses at every bound the monetary re- turns of some of the absolute master pieces of the worlds literature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
TRIBUTES TO WIVES.
Words of Tenderness and Affection
 Uttered hv Great MAn-

Uttered by Great Men.
 Few great men have paid more enthu- siastic tributes to their wives than Tom Hood. and probably few wives have bet ter deserved such homage. You will think" he wrote to her In one of his let ters, that I am more foolish than any boy lover, and l plead guilty. For never was wooer so young of heart and so steeped in love as I, but it is love sane tifed and strengthened by long years of experience. May God ever bless my darl- ing-the sweetest. most helpful angel who ever stopped to bless a man." Has there ever, we wonder. lived a wife to whom a more delicate and beautiful tribute was paid than those verses of which the bur den is, "I love thee, I love thee, 'tis all that can say?"
 ''I want thee much" Nathaniel flaw thorne wrote to his wife many years af- ter hls long patience had won for him the flower that was lent from heaven to show the possibilities of the human soul" Thou art the only person in the world that ever was necessary to me. And now am only myself when thou art within my reach. Thou art an unspeakably be- loved woman." Sophia Hawthorne was little better than chronic invalid, and 1t may be that this physical weakness woke all the deep chivalry and tenderness of the man. And he reaped a rich reward for an almost unrivaled devotion in the atmosphere of love and happiness and inspiration with which his delicate wife always surrounded him.
 The welded life of Wordsworth with his cousin, ''the phantom of delight" was poem more exquisitely beautiful than any his pen ever wrote. Mrs. Wordsworth was never fair to look upon, but she had that priceless and rare beauty of soul which made her life "a center of sweet ness" to all around her. ''All that she has been to me-" the poet once said in his latter days, none but God and my self can ever know" and 1t would be diff ficult to find a more touching and beauti- full picture in the gallery of great mems lives than that of Wordsworth and his wife, both bowed under the burden of many years and almost blind. walking hand in hand together in the garden. with all the blssful absorption and tender con fidence of youthful lovers"
 It never needed 'the welding touch of a great sorrow" to make the lives of Arch bishop Tait and his devoted wife "a per feet whole" Speaking oi her many years after she had been taken from him. he said: "To part from her, if only for a day, was a pain only less intense than the pleasures with which I returned to her, and when l took her with me 1t was one of the purest joys given to man to watch the meeting between her and our children"
 When David Livingstone had passed his thirtieth birthday with barely thought for such "an indulgence as wooing and wedding he declared humorously that when he was a little less busy he would send home an advertisement for wife preferably a decent sort of widow" and yet so unconsclously near was his fate that only year later he was introducing his bride, Mary Moffat. to the home he had built largely with his own hands. at Mabotsa. From that "supremely happy hour" to the day when, eighteen years
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
OLD FOLKS TESTIFY.
vINoL WORTH 5000 TO A. J.
 BAKER.
The Aged, and All Sons and Daugh- ters of Aged People in Montgom-
 cry Should be Interested.

MT. A. J. Baker of 713 Locust Street, Evansville, Ind. writes: "I believe there is no other medicine equal to Vinol for elderly people I would not take $1, ,OO0 for the good 1t has done me. It makes strength for the aged as no other medi- cine seems to do. and invigorates the whole system. Vinol was first recom- mended to me for a bad cough, which I could not seem to get rid of Vinol not only cured my cough, but 1t made me strong and well, and I enthusiastically indorse Vinol.'
 Mir E. G. Fowler, our well-known drug gist. when interviewed. in regard to this matter said: We have never sold in our store such a wonderful vitalizer and strength maker for the aged as Vinol; 1t Is natures remedy for the sick, the weak and the aged.
 ''Vinol owes Ibts virtue and great medi- cinal power to the fact that 1t contains in a highly concentrated form all the active curative properties of cod liver oil, without drop of the nauseating grease
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30

later, he received her last faint wtis- perings'' at Shupanga. no man ever had Ia more seIf-sacrihcing. brave. devoted wife than the missionary's daughter. In fact, they were more like two happy, lighthearted children than sedate married folk, and under the magic of their merri- ment the hardships and dangers of life in the heart of the dark continent were stripped of all their terrors.
 Jean Paul Richter confessed that he never even suspected the potentialities of human happiness until he met Caroline Mayer, "that sweetest and most gifted of women," when he was fast approaching his fortieth year, and that he had no mo- nopoly of the resultant happiness is proved by his wife's declaration that Richter Is the purest. the hoiiest, the most godlike man that lives. To be the wife of such a man is the greatest glory that can fall to a woman," while of his wife Richter once wrote: T thought when married her that had sounded the depths of human love. but have since realized how unfathomable is the heart in which noble woman has her shrine.''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
NOW IS GOLDEN
 AGE OF WRITERS
Larger Incomes Are Earned Today
 Than Ever Before in Literature.

Larger Incomes Are Earned Today
 Than Ever Before in Literature. Chicago Tribune.
 If Shakespeare came to town to-day, within a week he could be one of the richest men in the world. Were any of the old masters to come back to earth they could make more money than they ever saw during their lifetime here.
 Richard Steele. who enlivened the pages of Addison's Spectator, would be free from bailiffs. Samuel Johnson would never be plagued by duns Oliver Gold smith would never have to pawn the books he was given to review for enough money to buy dinner.
 For this, financially. Is the golden age of literature. Artistically. of course, it is nothing of the sort.
 But Clyde Fitch and Harry B. Smith, the two most successful men in their de- partments on this side of the Atlantic. have said recently that money is the thing, and surely never till now was so much money poured out upon authors of every sort.
 One of the prominent members of the Indiana school has been paid $22, 900 ad- vance royalties on his latest book An other writer. whose name appeared a any title page. has lived at the expense of his publisher for a year and a half. Ten thousand dollars was paid not long ago for a popular piece of instrumental music. What is the use of grinding teeth and tearing hair even when 1t Is known that the piece Is ~HTawatha"?
 In Rome Marion Crawford lives in a splendid villa and by writing two books year earns an income greater than that of many bank presidents
 Clyde Fftch's income is said by those who ought to know to be $3oO.O00 a year. Harry B. Smith. who writes musical comedies. never sees his income fall be- low $60.00O a year. In England James Da- wis, whose pen name, owen Hall" is connected with many musical pieces from "The Geisha' to The Medal and the Maid" derives from his work an income twice as large as that of President Roose- welt.
 Even poetry. that much despised arti- cle in the literary mart. Is picking up.
 Thomas Hardy. the foremost novelist in England. unless George Meredith be excepted, lives in almost regal state in Wessex and signs receipts for a great income.
 Authors of detective stories can sell all they write at an average of $2O a col umn.
 Authors of the best selling books can make enough on one book to keen them in luxurious ease for long time
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
,,IHds which .,, eharacterizes old-fashioned cod

which characterizes old-fashioned cod liver oil and emusions,
 Vinol acts first upon the stomach, ton ing 1t up, and enabling 1t to obtain from the food eaten the elements needed for rich. red blood, healthy body material and sound, steady nerves. In this way it re- pairs worn tissues, checks the natural decline of the aged and never fails to re- place weakness with strength.
 In the strongest manner we unhesi- tatingly indorse and guarantee Vinol to increase the appetite, cure stomach troubles give strength and renewed vii tality to the aged, build up the run down, tired and debilitated, make the weak strong. cure chronic coughs. colds and build up the convalescent, or will return to the purchaser every dollar paid for if {" E. G. Fowler. Druggist.
 This seemed a strong statement for a reliable druggist to make, and we think every person in Montgomery ought to take advantage of Mir. Fowlers offer; as. of course, he has very wide knowledge of medicines, and what they will, or will not accomplish.-Editor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
AT THE DEPARTMENTS.
Alabama Postmasters, Pensions and
 patents

&1Ao0SAA" ANSShSSSCAo, \ ShS4OAA0 OAAA
 Patents.
 Washington, Oct. 29.-(Special. .)-Post- masters appointed:
 Boguechitto, Dallas county: Elijah B. Moseley. Jr., vice E. B. Moseley. resign ed
 Stringer, Morgan county: James c. Tan ner, vice George w. Clayton, resigned. Hargrove, Bibb county: George Archer, vice Peter B. Thomas, resigned. Level Road. Randolph county: L. M. Gray, vice James L. Hearn, resigned. Wallace, Escambia county: Carrie M. Sowell, vice A. J. Jackson, resigned. Daws, Chambers county (new kofflce) John D. -Leverett.
 Pensions granted to Alabamiars: David Long, $6; Jeremiah B. Mann AL fred P. Odom, Samuel Lyons,t Alexander Raglan. $S each; James J. Stewart, John F. Tomerlin, SIP each.
 Patents issued this week:
 Edwin R. Cox, Jr., Birmingham; dyna- mo-electric machine or motor.
 Cyrus w. Gillis. Andalusia; animal trap.
 Lawrence c. Mooney Montgomery; smoke-consuming furnace. ..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
THOkINCTON MAY RUN
SUGGESTED AS CANDIDATE FOR
 CHIEF JUsTICE3EIP.
Is Dean of the Law Faculty of the unive -sity of A1abama-Has Not Yet Announced His
 Intentions.

Tuscaloosa. Oct. 2s.-(special.)-It is un- derstood here that Judge William s. Thorington. dean of the law faculty of the University of Alabama, Is being urg- ed to offer for the nomination for chief justice. and that he has the matter un- der advisement
 Judge Thorington, so far as is known, has not yet given any intimation of his purpose; but, if he should decide to en- ter the race. interest in the approaching judicial nominations would be greatly in- creased. Certainly Judge Thorington's distinguished career as a practitioner, his extensive judicial experience. and his scholarly attainments and judicial learn ing would place him in the front rank of the candidates for that exalted posi- tion