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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
DISFRANCHISEME IN MARY
LAND,

The Democratic leaders in Maryland
are giving careful consideration to the
matter of an amendment to the consti-
tuition of the state to disfranchise Afro
Americans.
The Democrats injected the race
question into the campaign last fall
and made it one of the principal issues.
AS the Democrats won a victory for
their state and legislative ticket, they
consider they stand pledged to the
white voters of the state to place a
limitation upon the suffrage which will
deprive the Afro-Americans of partici-
patton in the elections.
The Maryland leaders recently had
a conference with Senator German in
Washington and the matter was dis
cussed. but no definite conclusion
reached. It has been suggested that
the proposed amendment be drafted
by committee of the best Democratic
lawyers of the state. 1t is then to be
submitted to the most prominent Dem
ocratic lawyers in the United States
to get an opinion whether the amend
ment would stand the test of the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

belief that they are treating their
dark-skinned brothers and sisters right
when they do the damnable, outrage
GUS things they do; or that they can
imagine that they-the dark-skinned
brothers and sisters-are satisfied
with such treatment. Every one knows
that all distinctions are odious, and
when any distinctions are made they
ought to know that spirit Of resent
ment is engendered. Such an unac-
countable spirit of unfairness seems to
dominate where Afro-Americans are
concerned. The most despicable, the
meanest, the most unfair incident
which has come to our notice recently,
although it is only. one of one million
which have happened and are happen
ing every day, is the following:
A few days since a state 'Eistedd-
fod" was held by the Welsh residents
of Iowa at Des Moines there was "a
pianoforte competition for prize held,
and the judges were seated in an adj
joining room where they were not per-
mitted to see the performers. When
the decisions of the judges was rem
dered it was found that Marguerite
Field, a pupil of Irving School, Des
Moines, had been awarded first prize.
So far so good! But Marguerite Field
is an Afro-American, and although she
had been allowed to compete for the
prize without protest, when it was
found that she had won the first prize,
the wise men of the "Eisteddfod" held
a meeting and decided that the prize
could not be given to the winner be-
cause she was an Afro-American. The
child, for she is only thirteen years
old, was heart-brol1en by: the decree of
the association. She shed tears in
abundance and walled again and again.
Il am not to blame for having black
skim" But it had no effect and she
was forced to do without the honors
she had earned. 1t is claimed that
according to the rules of the associa-
ton the color line had to be drawn;
and if that is fact, the poor little girl
should not have been Inundated in
this cruel way, but should not have
been allowed to enter the contest.
Shame! shame!! shame!!!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1904.
THE ALTON SCHOOL CASE.

The famous Alton School case has
been decided against the Afro-Amer-
lean. The board of education several
years ago built special school for
Afro-Americans. Scott Bibb and a
number OF others refused to send their
children there and attempted to send
them to the nearest public school,
The superintendent of schools refused
to permit this and suit for manda-
mus was brought in Bibbs' name
against the officials. .E.,. '.a- ~ =,
The suit has been to the appellate
and supreme courts number of times,
and has been reversed and remanded
upon various points each time An
appeal will be taken to the state SUI
preme court. 8
Money will be needed to make the
fight and the Afro-Americans of Illi-
nois ought to furnish it.
The Appeal will give SO to start the
fund. How much will you give, kind
reader?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

.; KNOW OF THE BRAVERY AND
CHARACTER OF THE NEGRO SOL
DER. HE S!.VED MY LIFE AT
SANTIAGO, AND ! HAVE HAD oc-
GASiCN TO SAY SO IN MANY ARF-
ICLES AND SPEECHES. THE
ROUGH RIDERS WERE I'm A BAD
POSITION WHEN THE NINTH AND
TENTH CAVALRY CAME RUSHING
UP THE HILL. CARRYING EVERY
THING BEFORE THEM. THE Me-
GRO SOLDIER HAS THE FACULTY
OF COMING TO THE FRONT WHEN
HE is NEEDED MOST. IN THE
CIVIL WAR HE CAME 100000
STRONG, AND | BELIEVE HE saw
ed THE UNlON.'-President Roose-
welt.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

The United States is by many per-
sons regarded as the leading country
in the matter of publishing books and
pamphlets, yet statistics show that
our country is sixth on the list. Ger
many leads with 26,609; Japan is Sec
ond with 21,255: and, surprising as it
is, Russia makes a good third with
1885; France, 12,199; Italy, 1915;
and the United States with an output
last year of 1888. Perhaps we have
quality to offset mere numbers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
CORRESPONDENT WANTED

With View to Matrimony - Good
Chance for Young Lady. -r
Manila. Philippine Islands.
Editor Appeal: :, 4.
have the honor to advertise through
the. columns of your valuable paper
for a lady correspondent who possess
es a good knowledge of stenography
and typewriting. I desire this CORE
spondent with view to matrimony.
I'll give references: Edward Cheat
ham, Quartermaster's department,
Washington, D. c.; T. Thomas For
tune, The Age, New York City; Will
liam Mckinney, 1914 w. Houston
street, San Antonio, Texas.
The lady must be between l8 and 81
years of age. Ny age is q. Occupa-
ton, business manager for the firm of
Lack & Davis, Manila, p T., and
Shanghai, China.
Respectfully,
Z. Nimrod Mckinney,
p. o. Box 499,
Manila, p.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

Nine. Yucca, the strong woman who
lifted fifteen horses, has convinced
Judge Roe of Jersey City that her tiny
husband beat her and was granted a
divorce. The husband was five feet in
height and weighed 100 pounds.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

The Afro-American is making good
along many lines. Ford Thompson
Dabney, young Afro-American plan
list of Washington, sailed last week for
Haiti. where he will occupy the posi-
ton of pianist to the President of
Haiti for four months at a salary OF
$4,000 for that period. At the expira-
ton of that time young Dabney will go
to France to play for President Loubet
and then to Germany.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

The Tazewell (Va.) Republican, a
Caucasian journal, says that amalga-
nation is a violation of the laws Of
God. If the illegal amalgamation of
white men and Afro-American women,
SO customary in the South, is referred
to we guess he is right
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

Elsewhere we publish in full the as
ISOLATED press account of the reception
given by the white people of Los An
geles to the world-famed Fisk Jubilee
Singers" an organization that has
travelled all over the world and ap-
peared before crowned heads and the
royal families and been entertained
socially and otherwise everywhere
they have gone except in the land of
heir birth
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

There is so much money in the
Treasury that it will be possible to
make payment on the canal without
issuing bonds. That's Republican
prosperity. : :, ",~~1.~~s -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

Roosevelt will have no contest for
for the nomination next June There
is a slight opposition, but by the time
the convention meets it will have van
ished.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

The American Negro Academy met
last week at Washington and tried its
hand at settling the Negro problem ;
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

Washington City has an Afro-Amer-
lean population of more than 100000,
the largest Of any city in the United
States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
HISTORY OF THE GERMAN sTRUG-
GLE FOR LIBERTY.

History Of the German Struggle for
Liberty. BY Poultney Bigelow. Volume 3.
s2.25 net. New York: Harper & Brothers.
|. While the literature of Germany leads
the world in advanced thought concern
ing philosophy science. and even the
ology, it is absolutely barren as to biog-
raphies of the men who We're prominent
in the struggle for liberty which began
terloo, and ended in 1s4s. The author
feelingly states that no mention Is made
in German literature of men above medi-
OGRE ability who took part in that move
mem and that his task has been one Of
pages Of dead records of the past to OBJ
tain the information desired, not page
of which was enlivened by a personal
lreminiseenee or. Sanecdote Of the leaders
of tint movements. @@'%GG ,sss,~s.''' D.,
rising of the people was never sanctioned
by those In power, and its leaders were
ruthlessly sent to prison. Nevertheless
there. were many advocates, the pen
Of documents urging any change in the
prerogatives of the existing absolute mon
archy. The censor even went so far as
to confiscate private papers, and several
thanks that their papers and houshold
possessions were destroyed either by fire
Or other disaster. ~,
With this dearth of material to work
upon, the student can fully appreciate
the exhaustive labor the author, imposed
upon himself to acquire data from which
to accurately describe this momentous
struggle for liberty. That he has done
his work we'll is apparent to any one who
will read this volume; and no better en-
conium can be given than to say it will
stand as a monument to his unwearying
industry and literary ability in present.
the struggle of the German people for
liberty. ~ 49, .-'s 80 = -.'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
Clark University

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Seven DEPARTMENTS: Classical, Scientific
Higher Normal, Normal College Preparatory,
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

.@ SALLY w1sTER's JOURNAL. r.
Sally Wisters Journal. A true narra-
tive, being a Quaker maiden's account
Continental army, 1777-177S. Edited by
Albert Cook Myers. With reproductions
of PORTRAITS: manuscripts. RELIES ant
Sally, Wisters Journal is the record
kept by a Quaker girl of 16 during Will
The greater part or, the book has to do
with the savings and doings of American
soldiers visiting or quartered at the farm
a0G her to and TO f ber
when certain of them go upon missions
Of peril, Her teeth ratified and her
hand shook like an aspen leaf when
says to her Philadelphia friend: My adj
vice is summon up all your resolution,
fer your spirits to sink; my dear; there's
in need of myself" l>aj!y soon discov-
cred that soldiers ar, + : cuman. Thew
men; + they eat like other folks
talk like them and behave with elegance
One lis the most amiable Of men,, tall
will most fully characterize:-
"How skilled he is in each obligins
The ,s mildes st manners with the bravest
Another soldier, n second is mons
something in his face and conversation.
the glory, the major ' - ~: bashfui, 50 fas
nous, ETC. He cannot be ex-
tolld 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. ~ - -:.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
SOCIAL LIFE IN THE EARLY REPUB-


Social Life in the Early Republic. BY
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton. Pro-
fusely Illustrated. 8vo. Buckram, gilt
top, uncut edges. So net. Philadel-
phia: J. B. Lippincott Company.
Within the last year or two there has
been written a good deal Of interesting
reading matter dealing with the early
life of the Republic, and of the colonial
been given to the public bears the stamp
! Of hastiness and ill preparation, and can
hardly be classed as standard literature.
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, however, in
Social Life in the Early Republic" has
written historically and well. This lady
has made profound study of the colon
| ial period and the previous volumes which
she has written dealing with the men,
the politics and the tragic events Of that
| most strenuous period of development and
evolution was not only we'll received by
| the reading people, but caused them to
look forward with much expectation to
the present volume, which may be termed
exhaustive.
The first chapter on "a Social Evolu-
| ton" carries one straight to the heart
of the subject, without any of the sicken-
ing little prOlOgueS or apologies which
usually characterize works OF this class.
''Ine Boston1ans unite simplicity OF
morals with that French politeness and
more amiable," wrote Brissot de War
vile, who visited the principal cities of
America soon after the Revolution. In
the New England city the observing
"neatness without luxury" and, if in 9TH
er cities and towns that he visited he
found more luxury and less neatness, In
all of them he met cultivated men and
women so charming that he frankly ad-
mitted that for beauty and conversational
ability they compared favorably with
/ In discussing the landed gentry of the
southern states size writes: TN nothing
were the English characteristics Of the
Southern settler more clearly shown than
in his love for field sports. A Maryland
chronicler writes Of his countrymen: On
with dogs like the horses, they sometimes
chased Reynard across the eastern pen
insula from the Chesapeake to the At
lantic. The return journey and the stops
at hospitable mansions on the way, took
more time than the pursuit Of the fc..,
and the whole expedition sometimes last
ed week.
In a chapter on "Jefersonian Simplic-
ity' she writes the following story:
When Mrs. Madison gave expression to
her sweeping structures upon Democrats,
she must have made a mental reservation
in favor of Mr.. Jefferson, with whom
she was a great favorite. Indeed it was
given the precedence to Mrs. Madison at
state dinner that he aroused the ami
mostly of the British minister, Anthony
Merry. White House etiquette does not
seem to have occupied Mr.. JeffersOn's
thoughts very considerably at this time,
and either from carelessness or because of
his defiant red-republicanism. he quite Sc
riously offended a number of people,
The author writes interesting chapters
on the politics, society and intellectual
interests Of the early inhabitants of the
Republic.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

It seems very strange that the white
people can fatter themselves into the.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
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HENRY WARD BEECHER.

HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Henry Ward Beecher. BY Lyman l. d Ab.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
DR.. Abbott made the acquaintance OF
Beecher in 1854, and was close and init
mate friend of his from that time forward.
Brooklyn, and is thus well qualified to
give an outline of the character of the
great preacher. The book is therefore
not so much a history of the life OF
Beecher as it is a sketch of his life and
character as he appeared to DIR. Abbott.
The career of Beecher an anti-slavery
reformer before and during the civil war
period, he tells in five chapters, full OF
especial Importance is the chapter on Mr..
Beecher's anti-slavery campaign in Eng
land in 1868. He reached London in the
autumn of that year from season on the
continent, his intention being to rest be-
fore sailing for New York. But fate Or
dered otherwise. At that time the SYM
cially the aristocratic and moneyed class
es. was overwhelmingly in favor of the
South, and the man who dared to speak
in behalf Of the American cause was
indignity.' This sympathy for the South
and hatred of the North had, at the time
of Mr.. Beecher's arrival, assumed alarm
ing proportions, and rumors were af1oat
in all probability would be forced by pub
lie sentiment to intervene in the struggle
then going forward in America in behalf
of the South. Such was the state Of feel
ing when DR.. Beecher reached England.
The Americans residing in London were,
of course, greatly alarmed over such a
prospect, and after much trouble, per-
suaded DR.. Beecher to make lecturing
tour through England, speaking in behalf
of the Federal cause. By this they hoped
to counterfeit the work of agents of the
Confereracy who We're then seduously fan
ming the flame of British enmity by their
speeches and publications. Any other man
would have weakened, but having prom
ised his friends to prosecute the campaign
mobs blood-red placards, insults, boot
ings and all the other annoyances which
the British public consider perfectly legit-
innate to prevent an unpopular speaker
from being heard
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-01-09

MORE FIVE MINUTE STORIES.
More Five Minute Stories: Illustrated
by Wallace Goldsmith. Cloth square
I2mo. Net 81. Boston: Dana Estes &
Co. 49,"
The second volume Of the successful
series of Five Minute Stories. A note
worthy collection of short tales for chill
mothers as with boys and girls. A re-
viewer in PRIMARY EDUCATION, writ
ing of the first series, stated, with truth:
1.-The children have found a fairy god
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Of her resources for making the little
ones happy" The publishers can assure
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-20
EddyviIIe,

Eddyyille Feb. 19.-Died, at 9 o'clock
Tuesday evening, February 16, at his
home at ,Pekay, Lewis Edwards, aged
65 years, death being due to complica-
tions. Mr.. Edwards, who was coal
miner, leaves a wife and several chill
dren. He had lived in Pekay for a
number Of years. The funeral takes
place Sunday afternoon with interment
in Highland cemetery.
Mrs. Gardner who resides on the
county line south of town, has heen
quite i'll. DR.. E. L. Bay Of this piece,
was called Tuesday afternoon in con-
sultation with DR.. D. I. Rambo Of Chill
licothe. and DR.. D. c. Brockman of
Ottumwa. Mrs. Gardner is the mother
Of Joseph and James johnson, who live
across the river.
Mrs. David Cowden entertained a
number of little girls at valentine
party at her home on First street Mon
day night. Light refreshments were
served.
Mr.. and Mrs G. L. Clancy and their
daughter, Goldie, and Mrs. Asa Fisher
were in Oskaloosa Friday afternoon on
business and pleasure
A little son of Will Huntley has
been Ill with fever and complications.
The child Is six or seven years of
age.
Pleiades lodge. knights Of Pythias,
entertained the members and their
families and friends at a social in their
castle hall Tuesday evening About one
hundred people were in attendance and
the evening was passed in conversation
playing cards and dancing. Before the
dancing began supper was served. The
bill of fare consisted of peaches, cake,
sandwiches, coffee, pickles, cts. Those
who participated report an enjoyable
time. Among those in attendance from
a distance were Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Reddick Of Clinton, Mich, who have
been visiting with Mrs. Lucy Laf-
ferty
ivan Albaugh. son of VIM. Albaugh,
who resides across the river, has
been sick with severe attack Of ton
silitis.
Mrs. w. ]. Allen and daughter, Miss
Flossie, departed Tuesday night for
Pennsylvania to spend a few weeks
with relatives at New Castle, New Will
mington and other points. They for
merly lived in that state.
Mrs. Alice Heki moved Thursday
from her property on South Fifth
street to her farm north of town. Hen
ry Martin, who has purchased her res
idence. has been repapering and i'm
proving it, preparatory to moving to
the same in short time =
Mrs. iTheo OFT has been very sick
for several days past.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. e. Bootes of First
street, departed Wednesday morning
for Kansas City to spend a couple of
months at their old home. They may
decide to move back to Kansas
City.
Miss Eta Brown. formerly Of this