The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1903-05-16

port or entry. ana blacks We're TO De seen
tnere in goodly numbers, many of them
freshly imported and still bearing their
tribal marks. Adults sold from 5000 to
$780, The system Of white bondage,
throughout the seventeenth and eigh--
teenth centuries. This form of bondage
was usually. voluntary, and at the expira-
ton of the term the redemptioners We're
merged into the mass of white population
without any special faint of servitude.
The importation into the colony of Negro
slaves who We're found to be cheaper
ure the trade in r9demptlOnerS.
Many white convicts We're shipped to
New Jersey from the British Islands. and
lation. An act providing for the gradual
abolition Of slavery was passed by the
New Jersey legislature in 1904. A fur
in 1916. did not bring about the complete
emancipation of the slaves, although
there were but Is in the entire state when
Lincoln's proclamation was Issued. In
a member of the state senate, introduced
and had passed a bill which removed
from the statutes the last vestigc Of slav-
cry in New Jersey.
The little book contains much valuable
information.
SALLY WISTER'S JOURNAL. -
Sally Wister's- Journal. A true MARIA
tive, being a Quaker maiden's account
Of her experiences Wt 9ceES dit OF the he
Albert Cook Myers. With reproductions
of portraits, manuscripts, relics and
views views; ! T. IN mo- 10 PIP. 22' Philadelphia:
Sally Wisters Journal is the record
kept by a Quaker girl of Is during Win
ter famous in the history of this country:
with the savings and doings OF American
soldiers visiting or quartered at the farm
house, to their attentions , to the the writer writer
when certain of them go upon missions
Of peril. Her teeth rattled' and her
'hand shook like an aspen leaf' when
she first saw these soldiers, but she soon
says to her Philadelphia friend: my ad-
vice is summon up all your resolution
call fortitude to your aid, and don't SUI
nothing like courage; iis what I. stand
in need of myself f>aNy soon discov-
cred that soldiers ar, biz :uman. They.
she theS livery gat s 6t6er so f6ks
talk like them and behave with ELEGANCE,
One sis the most amiable of men; tall
and genteei," whom the "following lines
How skilled he is in each obliging
The mildest manners with the bravest
Another soldier. A second is mons
trous tall and brown, but has a certain
something in his face and conversation
very agreeable And then, Here comes
t @eus g0 etc. the he Ee csnhot BE- SO
tolTd for the graces of person, but for
those of the mind he may justly be cele-
brated; he is large in his person, manly,
| and an engaging countenance and ad-
Dress
ROMANCE OF THE COMMONPLACE.
The Romance of the Commonplace, By
Gelett Burgess. $3.50. San Francisco.
Paul Elder and Morgan Shepard.
This is volume Of modern philosophy,
which ranks in that class of essays made
famous by jerome K. Jerome. Mr.. Bur
/ CESS says many clever things in his book,
and one may glance at any chapter and
discover many commonplace things writ
| ten in very uncommon manner. The
desire to tell secrets" writes the author,
and few of us are immune. Some viSor-
Gus moral constitutions never succumb,
| but once an epidemic begins it is hard
| work stopping it, and a secret on the RAM
| secret, then, broadcast, and let it have it's
| way until it dies out But above all never
confide it to her who asserts she never has
| the slightest desire to tell, for there, like
inmate and flower long after GU have for
gotten it, aye, and bring forth fruit you
never planted
Again: "Flattery is, however, an edged
| not everyone who has the tact to decide at
a glance just how much his victim Will
stand"
The author treats of art, science and
literature with such delicate, 1conlca!
criticism, and withal, with SO much OF
masterful art as to render this book Of
unusual interest
PICTURES OF SWEDISH LIFE:
Pictures of Swedish Life; or Svea and