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The colored American., 1904-01-09
THE TWENTY-FIFTH
MILESTONE.
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Major and Mrs. Arthur Brooks,
Miss S. c. Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Winston Payne, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hughes, DR.. w. Lotion, Mrs. Tu-
plet, Miss Butler, Mr.. and Miss [.
w. Scott, Mr.. and Mrs. J. r.
Scott, Mr.. Pannell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson Booker, Mr.. West, Mr..
and Mrs. w. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mason, Miss Mason, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. c. Brown. Mr.. M. Hon
esty, Mr.. B. Wade, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Jackson, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Gaskins, Miss Ida J. John
son, Mr.. S. Douglass, Mr. and
Mrs. A. H. Cooper, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. Lucas, Mr.. and Mrs. J. R.
Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. F. H.
Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. P.
Green, Miss Green, Mr.. and Mrs.
M. Deane, Miss Deane, Mr.. Jack
SON, Mr.. and Mrs. Selby, Mr.. R.
Boyd, Prof. J. 7. Layton, Mr.. w.
H. H. Terrel, Miss Vawter, Miss
Waugh, Mrs. Waugh, Miss L. Da-
Wis, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Pay1lter, Mr.. Eugene Brooks,
Mr.. De1lham, Mr.. and Mrs. J. r.
F. Browne, Mr.. S. w. Fuller, Mr..
and Mrs. F. E. Cooper, Mrs. Bag
by, Miss Ruth Johnson, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. B. Williams, of Philadel-
phia, Mr.. and Mrs. Mcclure.
Among the friends who pre-
sented Mr.. and Mrs. Diug-uid with
tokens of respect were: Col, and
Mrs. Wright Rives, who Mr.. Diu-
guild lived with twenty-five years
ago, lovely lot of cut flowers;
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Mcclure,
beautiful ornament; Mr.. and Mrs.
J. w. Davis, a lovely set of oys-
ter forks Messrs. Grimes & Gas
kins a handsome chatting dish; Mr..
and Mrs. G. Poor, lovely water
color, painted for the occasion;
Mr., and Mrs. Nelson Parker, sill
yer ink stand and pen holder;
MIR. and Mrs. ]. Selby, collar but
ton holder; Mr. and Mrs. VIM.
Jackson, a handsome vase; Mrs.
Ralph Cross Johnson, very pref
ty vase.
Mrs. Diuguid had the following
ladies receiving with her. Mrs.
Winifor G. Diuguid, her sister-in-
law, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. J. B.
Williams, of Phil, her daughter,
Mrs. S. c. Lewis, and Miss Ella
Wills.
The colored American., 1904-01-09
LAWYER MORRIS HERE.

Hon. Edward H. Morris, the
celebrated lawyer of Chicago, will
appear before Bethel Literary next
Tuesday evening, in lecture, en-
titled, "Shams.
Mr.. Morris has a reputation in
this country and in England as a
thinker and speaker, and it is be-
lieved that his address before the
literary will be one of unusual in
terest and merit. The public has
endeavored to forecast his talk for
that evening, but no authorized
disclosures have been made by the
speaker or anyone empowered to
represent him.
The colored American., 1904-01-09

Lawyer Wilfreu H. Smith, of New
York City, is manIng a fight before the
Supreme court in this city this week,
on the celebrated Alabama case. Many
prominnt lawyers attended the court
room during the trial, and Mr.. Smith
received many incomiums from the
leading lights Of thelocal bar,
The colored American., 1904-01-09

Mr.. James H. Hayes, President OF
the National Negro Suffrage League,
has issued a call for a convention to
meet in Chicago on June 20, 1904. He
calls for the largest gathering of rep
resentative Negroes ever assembled in
the country, and is asking the assis-
tance of all Of theraee journals,
The colored American., 1904-01-09

There was an impromptu recep-
ton given at the home of Mrs.
Anna F. Jones, on the 20th, at 833
Druid Hill avenue, Baltimore,
Md, in honor Of Mr.. Benjamin
P. Brownley, of Howard Prepara-
tory School. Among the guests
present were Miss Agnes Meri-
weather, Miss a. Lindsay, the
Misses Cecilia Diggs, Grace and
Martha Bowen and A1farrettas
Moore, and NIessrs. B. P. Brown
ley, Floyd Thomas, Robert
Young, Arthur l.. Waters, Wal
ter, Taylor, Jones and James
Pinckney.
The colored American., 1904-01-09
NEGRO SUFFRAGE CASE.
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bama, and the judgment of the trial
court was there affirmed. Whereupon
Writs of error were sued out to the
Supreme Court Of Alabama bringing
the cases to the United States SUI
preme Court.
Mr.. Smith in his argument claimed
that federal question was presented
to the highest Court of Alabama for
decision and that it's decision was alb
solutely necessary to the determination
OF the causes; that the Judgment rem
dered by the Supreme Court of Ala
bama could not have been rendered
which the Alabama Supreme Court
undertook to avoid. The effect was to
deny the rights claimed by the plain
tiff under the Constitution of the
United States and to uphold the suf
frage provisions of the Constitution of
Alabama and the authority exercised
under them.
That the convention which adopted
this Constitution was composed exclu-
sively OF white mep and was called
for the avowed purpose of disfranchis-
ing the Negroes without disfranchis-
ing a single white man.
THAT the purpose sought to be ac-
complished by the fvamers of the suf-
frage provisions of the Constitution
of Alabama was repugnant to the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to
the Constitution of the United States.
Mr.. Smith closed as follows:
Because section 1S1 of the suffrage
article of the Constitution of Alabama
is a part of one entire scheme to evade
the fifteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States, and to
subject the Negroes of Alabama to a
different test than that required of
white citizens, and should also be de-
clared null and void, since it is ad-
mitted that practically all the white
men have been admitted to the cleo
torate for life under section $50, or
IhC temp al pId-I anu pldCLlCdlly oil
the Negroes have been refused.
ITO allow section 181 to stand would
be to sanction the discrimination
against Negroes. and force them to
submit to an educational and prop
erty qualification test not required of
white men, in contravention of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
to the Federal Constitution"
In the case of The United States VS.
Reese, 92d U. s., 214, Chief Justice
Waite said:
The fifteenth amendment does not
confer the right OF suffrage upon any
one. 1t prevents the States of the
United States from giving preferences
in this particular to one citizen of the
United States over another, on account
of race, color or previous condition of
servitude."
Fair and equal treatment as a citf-
zen all that the plaintiff in error and
the Negroes of Alabama are contending
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
THE SAVING
GLANCE
Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Col
BY r. H. n ARTENS

1T WAS a lovely morning in May
i From the sunny gardens OF the Al
cazar a light breeze carried into the
great hall of justice the fragrance OF
the poisoning lime and orange trees,
momentarily clearing its perfumed at
mosphere with breath of refreshing
GOODNESS On his raised dias at thu
farther end of the chamber the most
noble and powerful Dom Pedro, by
the grace of God, king of CASTLE and
Leon, allowed his pale blue eyes TO
wander restlessly over its crowded
confines. Beside the royal chair OF
state, with its overhanging dorseret,
was another, somewhat lower, occu-
pied by the kings beautiful mistress.
the good Maria de Padilla, one en-
nobling influence of his brutal and
sanguinary life. The tapestried wall
where the three castles stood out in
gold broidery against a crimson back
ground, were lined with a throng of
the proudest knights and barons of
CASTLE, nearer the dais were clustered
the great officials of state and the most
intimate of the monarch's courtly en-
tourage, as well as the ladies in at
tendance on the uncrowned queen. At
the entrance of the chamber stood a
guard.
But 1t was no routine matter that
held the attention of the courtly multi
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
ANIMAL FEAR AND HATRED.
Hereditary Enmity Which Exists Be-
tween Certain Species of the
Brute Creation.

Animals, both domestic and wild,
often show decided preferences for
certain persons and a strong dislike
to other persons. Sometimes a whole
race of creatures show a universal
hatred toward other animals.
These dislikes, says an authority,
are sometimes inherited Cows and all
herds of cattle seem instinctively to
hate dogs. This hatred can possibly
be traced back to the time when wild
herds were in constant danger of be-
ing attacked by wild dogs or wolves,
which were always hiding about in the
vicinity of the herds, watching a
chance to slip upon and drag down a
helpless calf. The cows ever-present
fear of danger from dogs became al
most part of the animals nature, or
hereditary, and thus to-day even a
newborn calf will instinctively flee
from a dog
Cats and dogs, as is we'll known,
have an Unborn hatred of each other.
1t has been noticed that a tiger in
captivity pays no attention to a wolf,
but If dog comes near, the tiger will
make desperate efforts to get at the
dog, and vent his wrath in bowls and
fierce attempts to break the bars of his
| cage. This is doubtless caused by the
old fear in the tiger of wild dogs. But
the leopard. which lives in trees and
could easily keep out of the way Of
wild dogs, manifests no fear at the ap-
proach of dog. On the other hand
the dog is afraid of the leopard. This
no doubt comes from the fact that
the leopard, from his vantage point in
the tree, could easily and successfully
attack the wild dog.
Animals seem to have a peculiar dis
like to dark-skinned men. The story
Is told that one time when there were
some natives of Somaliland in this
country they we're invited to visit the
Zoo. There was nothing in the ap-
pearance of these Arabs that. could
possibly be Objectionable to anyone,
but when the dark men came near the
animals, there was an immediate up
roar. The lions were furious and
roared with rage. The antelopes were
frightened, the apes and monkeys were
very angry, and even the peaceful cat
tie were excited. They seemed to recog-
nize in these dark-skinned men their
natural enemies who had hunted them
for centuries in the jungles.
While the fear and hatred of some
animals for other animals can be &C.
counted for by heredity, yet there are
some cases where this hatred is unex.
plainable. For instance, the horse dis
likes the camel, and it is sometimes
very hard to get horse to go near
a camel. Hounds and foxes are nearly
related, yet the hound takes great de-
light in hunting the fox and will chase
fox with a fierceness and anger far
greater than that aroused when pursu-
ing deer or other animal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
WOODSMEN POOR SHOTS,
Maine Guides Fail to Do Good Work
at Target in Rifle Tourn-
ament

1t was demonstrated at rifle shooting
tournament held at Kineo recently that
the so-called dead shot woodsmen are
not good target shots.
Twenty-Five of the best woods shots in
the Moosehead lake region participated
in the contest, men who think running
deer an easy target, and who shoot the
heads off grouse easily-so they say
and the best score made on the Standard
American target for 200 yards, at a
range of 100 yards, half the required dis
lance, was "a out of possible so, or 60
per cent.
The shooting was witnessed by num-
Der of expert rifiemen, and some mill
tary shots, who studied the woodsmen
and their method of shooting carefully
to discover the cause of their inaccura-
cy; and they set aside the popular opin-
ion of past years to the effect that the
poor shooting is due to nervousness.
"The cause of this shooting" said a
former military shot who holds record
of 101 out of 105 at Sea Girt, sis due to
nothing more or less than poor, form.
These men may be able to do the shoot
ing credited to them in the woods, but it
seems hard to believe it after seeing
their exhibition.
First of all the rifle is held improp-
erly. These woodsmen handle a rifle
just as bird shot does a shotgun, and
when they shoot they shoot much as a
bird shot would, quickly and without
elaboration. They fail to do many
things which the expert finds necessary
to high average. and the result is just
what would naturally be expected.
"Then again many of them are good
shots, but they do not shoot close-or,
in other words, occasional poor shots
pull down the average.
'Tt may be that these men are able to
handle the rifle as part of themselves
when shooting game, that they shoot
straight by intuition, just as a western
er shoots a revolver on the drop, or a
boy slingshot; but at target work 1
am satisfied that the best of them would
be no match for even the most indiffer-
ent of the amateurs one finds at the rifle
range"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
This idea of budding and grating is in
Good Way to Pick Apples.

One man suggests that a good way
to pick apples is to put a tick filled
with hay under tree and drop the
apples into it from the limbs. He
asserts that this has been his practice
and that the fruit is not thereby in
jured. This may be all right for
some kinds of fruit, but it would not
be for others. There are some of our
varieties that injure so easily that
even the pressure of the thumb and
finger must be looked out for. Be-
sides, in the letting fall of apples from
the top Of the tree great deal of skill
is required not to hit the other ap-
pies in the tick or the limbs of the
tree when the apples are being
dropped. The apple basket and the
apple bag will be found most advan-
tageous for most of the work of fruit
gathering.-Farmers' Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

In my experience, find that bone will
not discolor the sap like steel or iron.
After making a sufficient hole in the
bark, inserted the bud and then tackled
piece of leather (shown at By over the
bud, using upholsterers' one-half-inch
gimp pins. The pins are enameled and
do not rust
Several buds were inserted in this
manner and when they swelled the tacks
were loosened so that the leather could
be easily removed. Wedge gratis, six
inches long, were also put in the same
way. The buds, however, grew much
more evenly and were stronger than the
gratis. I inserted II buds of three diff
ferent varieties of peaches in this tree.
They are now all bearing large and ex-
cellent fruit. I would recommend the
adoption of this method for all old trees
requiring new wood. This can be done
without interfering with the trees bear
ing fruit while the buds are maturing.
No string. clay, grating wax or other
material is required with this system.
The accompanying illustration gives a
fairly good idea of this method, including
the shape of the awl and piece of leather
used. This method can also be applied
to the old T-system of budding by tack
ing wet sole leather over the buds, leav-
ing space for growth. A hole should be
made in the leather for the pins, so the
bark or bud will not be bruised. The best
time for doing this work is when the sap
is full and when the bark will strip
easily"
This idea of budding and grating is in
teresting and may have some advan-
tages, but it is questionable whether or
not it will prove as effective in the long
run, as where buds are put in young
growth and where the graft is properly
set. Mr.. Bells method, however, is
worthy of attention from the fact that
the production of the tree is not inter-
rupted. At any rate, the system is
worthy of careful trial and may be Of
special value on trees where it is not de-
sirable to cut them off to force new
growth for budding or grating in the
regular way.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
PURCHASING FRUIT TREES.
Many Farmers Pay Too Much Atten-
ton to the Beauty of Branches
and of Foliage.

Ordinarily it is better to purchase trees
near home than at a distance, as they
will have just that much less to endure
in the way of transportation. If they
come fxom long distance they can, it is
true, be delivered in good shape, if their
roots are properly packed in damp moss
and like material. But this is not always
certainty. 1t does not pay the buyer to
always select the cheapest trees, nor
will it pay him always to select the ex-
pensive trees. The younger the tree
within certain limit the better. In this
matter of selling young trees the nur-
serymen cannot always do as they
would. One nurseryman says that young
and small fruit trees are better than the
longer and older ones, but the customer
can't be made to believe that. He wants
bigness. The nurseryman says that If
he tries to sell one-year-old trees the
other fellow-the competitor in
with his big trees, and the buyer Is
caught by him. A young tree has more
power of getting hold Of the soil, and for
some unaccountable reason makes bet
ter growth in five or six years than does
the older and larger tree. The buyer will
do we'll to say to the nurseryman that he
is willing to take young trees, if, in the
opinion of the nurseryman, they are the
best. In that case the nurseryman will
be frank and state his real views of the
matter.
There is another thing that the buyer
of fruit trees should remember, and that
is that many varieties of fruit, many va
rieties of apples as well as of other fruits.
are grown on trees that are ill-shaped
This is due to their variety characters
tics, and the buyer should not try to get
fine-shaped tree in such case.
The desire of the buyer to get nicely
shaped tree has more than once resulted
in the nurseryman selling him some
other variety. The buyer demanded a
smooth, nice-looking tree The seller
could not find it in his variety, because it
did not exist, and so palmed off on him
trees of another variety to keep from los
ing the sale. When the trees get old
enough for the buyer to find fault, the
nurseryman may go out of business.
When we select fruit tree it is selected
for the fruit it will bear. and not for the
beauty of its branches or it's foliage
Farmers Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
How Air Affects Cream.

A French savant claims to have found
out that air affects cream very detrimen-
tally on account of the oxygen in it. Per-
fectly pure air he would have us believe
so affects the upper layers of cream that
has stood for any time that to get the
best results in the matter of flavor these
layers must be SKINNED on and not used
in the making of butter. This is drawing
the line very close, and we are not sure
that he is right. In fact our scientists
have looked into these matters very care
fully and are of the opinion that perfect
ly pure air does not affect cream detri-
mentally. There is. however, room for
further investigation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
MULCH FOR THE ORCHARD.
Noted Horticultural Discusses Sub
ject Of Vital Interest to Every
Grower Of Fruit.

At the Michigan Horticultural So
ciety meeting w. j. Green discussed
the subject, and his advice was as fol-
lows: when the orchard is young
probably more material can be grown
on the entire area than will be need
ed, but as the orchard grows the guam
tity needed will be increased Finally
little can be grown because of the
shade; in other words, mulching ma
terial must be brought from some
other field. The orchard may perhaps
be made profitable enough to pay for
the use of other ground, but such a
process is contrary to the best princi-
Piles of modern husbandry, which de-
mand that each field be nearly or
orchard by the usual method of Guilt
walton with catch crops, the first out
lay, and all cost of producing the
crop, and at the same time cultivating
the orchard for ten years, can, under
favorable conditions of rich, fairly
level ground, be got out of the sale Of
crops produced; but if much extra fer
tilizing is done the crops will have to
be such as bring the highest price with
least drain on the soil. OF two or
chards, one cultivated and the other
mulched, the former will be apt to
show the best growth at the end Of
the first, ten years. After the first
ten years the ground would have to
be wholly given up to the needs of
the orchard, growing cover crops alone
Cover crops act as mulch half the year,
and when plowed under become plant
food very soon. If left on the sur
face they in time become plant food,
also. Doubtless heavily mulched
orchard suffers less from changes of
temperature and variation of rainfall
than one unmulched. In orchards
planted on very stony or mountainous
ground and steep hillsides it is of great
value to know that the trees can be
brought to full bearing age without
blowing. Whatever course seems best
in any case one fact should be kept
steadily in mind-that sufficient plant
food should be furnished and the or
chard never allowed to suffer for want
of moisture. An orchard with store
of plant food constantly increasing in
the soil is like a man with life in
surance in a solvent company"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01
AN IDEA FROM AUSTRALIA.
Interesting Method of Budding Which
Is Worthy of Careful Trial in
Other Countries.

A simple and very successful method
of budding trees has been used by j. Bell,
a fruit grower of New South Wales, with
splendid results. He says: 81 have a
large peach tree in my yard measuring
% inches in circumference at the base
and 1917 inches feet from the ground.
1t is about ten years old. l made
some experiments upon it with new
method of budding. sharpened piece
Of bone to point like lead pencil and
fixed it in handle as shown at a. The
tool resembled a carpenters awl. The
handle of an old tooth brush can be
used to good advantage in making this
point, as it can be mounted in the handle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-09-01

tude this day. A brave and loyal gen.
tleman, beloved and esteemed by all
who knew him, was within the hour
to answer with his life for an alleged
neglect of duty, and those who knew
the tender mercies of their sovereign
had but little faith in his chances of
escape. 1t was but three days past
that Don Diego de Guzman, alcayde Of
Seville, had been made answerable
with his head for the first unpublished
murder within the city walls, for many
brawls took place between the hot
headed caballeros who thronged the
town in attendance on the court, and
the king was set on putting an end to
their continuance. Scarcely "a hours
ago, however, Don Sancho de Espinc-
sa, cavalier of Aragon, had been
found dead in pool of his own blood
In one of the narrow streets of the
Moorish quarter, without a trace of
any Eind to give a clue of the assas-
sins identity. The alcayde had left
no stone unturned in his endeayor to
discover the culprit, but could rest his
case on no firmer foundation than the
testimony of the old crone before
whose dwelling-place the CORPSE had
been found. Drawn to the window.
slit by the clash Of steel, she had no.
tced, by the glimmer of her oil lamu
that one of the combatants was a tall,
man, with a profusion of fair hair
the other. being In the shadow abe
could not see at all. The alcayde had
his enemies, and the matter had been
brought to the king, who, delighted
with SO favorable an opportunity Of
gratifying his cruelty with so fair a
semblance of justice, had Commanded
Don Diego's presence in the hall OF
justice to answer for his remissness
There was a slight stir at the lower
end OF the great room, and the al
cayde. escorted by four archers. pro-
ceeded up the hall in the direction of
the throne. Arrived at some ten paces
of the dais. he sank on one knee then
rising said. simply, yet not without
pride. Il place myself in your males
TVS hands" The royal Judge smiled
vaguely. and rejoined, with a delicate.
ly affected sadness in his even voice:
mo one grieves more deeply than I
Senior do Guzman, over the VOW made