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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
Maine Legend of the "Witch's Foot -

witchcraft, at the first clamorings OF
the populace, Col. Buck ordered that
she be imprisoned, and later she was
sentenced as a witch.
The execution day came and the
woman went to the gallows cursing
her judge The hangman was about
to perform his duty when the woman
turned to Col. Buck and said:
Jonathan Buck, listen to these
words, the last my tongue shall utter.
It is the spirit of the living God which
bids me to speak to you. You will
soon die and over your grave they
will erect a. stone that all may know
the spot where your bones lay and
crumble to dust. Upon that stone the
imprint of my foot shall appear, and
for all time, after your accursed race
has vanished from the face OF the
earth, will the people from far and
near know that you murdered wom-
an"
The imprint of the foot, the story
goes, appeared on the stone month
after it was erected. Certainly it is
there to-day as plain as ever. ANA
teur photographers have taken pic
lures of it, and visit to the Buck
cemetery to see the "witch's FOOT is
one of the pastimes of summer visit
Ors.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30

Rev. 90 Dixon, who wrote some sort
Of a book, as some of our readers may
possibly remember, inquiries in a re-
cent article:
"And what did Saint Frederick do?
Spent life in bOmbastic vituperation
of the men whose genius created the
American Republic, wore himself out
finally drawing his salary as Federal
office-holder, and at last achieved the
climax of negro sainthood by marry
ing a white WOman!''
The "Reverend" fails to remember
one item which we take pleasure in
supplying. saint Frederick ELECTED
from Wendell Phillips the encomium:
"Matchless among American ora.ors,
Negro though he be-" Wendell Phil
lips was probably as competent a
judge of "bombastic vituperation" as
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr.. and was a lin
cal descendant Of 1.-THE men whose
genius created the American Repub.
lic."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
The NORIh'S IDENTIFICATION.

The Charleston News and Courier is
somewhat worked up because the New
York Evening Post says: THE North
severe denunciation of lynching is
bearing fruit at last 1t moreover
asserts that: 'The superior right
eousness assumed by our Northern
friends is most offensive and is really
a serious obstruction to the efforts
which the responsible people in this
part of the country have made, and
would make in the interest of law and
order" The Post commends the reso-
1utions condemning lynching adopted
by the Georgia legislature; but the
News and Courier thinks that they
did not amount to much, and COM
ments as follows: # -
"why. did the Georgia Legislature
not pass law looking to the proven
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
MISTAKEN THEORIES.

Says the Baltimore Sun in comment
Republic:
mo doubt politics and mistaken the
cries Of education have debauched a
large portion of the Negro population.
AS respects this portion the Republic
is not wholly wrong when it says:
1.-THE Negro is not qualified for the
better classes of employment, and he
does not encroach upon the trades He
is slothful, careless and th0ughtleSS in
all occupations, and even in the work
at which he has been most useful, at
which it was thought that his labor
was indispensable, the growing of cot
ton and rice, he is found to be inferior.
Every occupation which the Negro has
engaged in can be followed better by
the white man."
Both of these journals look at the
question discussed from the stand
point of the white mans interest and
give no force to any other cOnsidera-
ton. Neither do they care even lit
tie bit for the truth. Nor do they
seem to know that their arguments
have been refuted, times innumerable.
1t is true mistaken theories of educa-
ton have ''debauched'' the Afro
American into accommodating millions
of dollars of real estate, into owning
his own home, into educating his chill
dren at Yale, Harvard and Cornell
in a word, into transforming himself
from a common laborer into capital
list, alas, it is all true. 1t is true that
his daughter prefers playing the piano
to hoeing in the cotton patch; but all
these things are regarded as commend
able in white folks. and sensible.
reasonable white people regard them
as very commendable in AfrO-Amerj-
cans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
HOMES FOR AGED Ex-SLAVES.

THE APPEAL cannot quite go into
ecstacies over the movement inaugural
ed by the Daughters of the Confed'
eracy to establish homes all over the
South for aged and feeble ex-slaves,
since we regard the action as a very
commonplace piece of humanity, such
as is often extended to a superannu-
ated horse or dog. Still we are glad
to learn of the fact and give it so
much on commentator as it is really
entitled to. 1t tends to perpetuate
kindly feelings between the races;
which is a good thing for both sides.
1t also suggests another fact which is
of infinite credit to the Afro-American
that, ever since emancipation, he has
supported the aged ones of his race
who were worn out in the cotton
patch. AS a contrast to the care of
the Afro-American for his helpless
and dependent ones, we quote the fol-
lowing from the annual report of the
State Charities Aid Association OF
New York:
1.-THE ever.growing immigration prob
lem touches us deeply along two lines
wife and child desertion and illegiti-
macy. In no other country is commit
ment Of children so easy. To our for
eign brother it appears quite as GUS
tom of the country. The institution
appeals to him as sort of superior
order of public school, where his chill
dren not only acquire the language,
but are sheltered, fed and clothed at
no expense to him. His sense of the
paternal relation steadily decreases as
the city fathers assume his RESPONSE
bilities."
The average Afro-American has not
read Rousseau and does not send his
children to the founding hospital; but,
when he comes in contact with such a
class of newcomers, he may learn their
ways.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 80 1905.
DIXON MEETS HIS MASTER.

We just received this week in
pamphlet form a copy of an open let
ter to Thomas Dixon, Jr., by Prof.
Kelly Miller of Howard University,
Washington, D. c., entitled. CAS- to the
Leopard's Spots" and we read the
same through from beginning to end
several times, and enjoyed it immense
ly and more immensely at each read
ing 1t is the most beautiful piece of
lambasting in the most polite and gen
tie way we have have had the pleasure
of feasting our optics upon for many
moons and if after carefully perusing
it as Mr.. Dixon doubtless did he was
not heartily sorry he spoke. he is a
hopeless case, hell bent and don't wish
to be headed. 1t seems that the ST..
Paul Pioneer Press also received a
copy of the letter and carefully Pc
rused it and headed a three-quarter
column EDITORIAL; "FLAGELLATED
BY A NEGRO" in which appears the
following:
"Thomas Dixon, Jr, author of The
Leopards Spots and other works de-
voted to the perpetuation of race ami
mosities and to keeping the Negro
down. has lately been treated to a
new sensation. He has been given
such a polite, genteel, but thoroughly
effective faying, in an open letter ad-
dressed to him by Kelly Miller-a bril-
liant Negro writer connected with
Howard University, Washington, D. c.,
as must have filled him with amaze
ment. Kelly writes better English
than this contemner of the black race
ever achieved. He sticks to the truth,
in his argument in behalf of his peo-
Plea thing that as is clearly shown,
Dixon does not do in his attacks upon
them
The Pioneer Press quotes consider
able from Prof Miller's letter and
winds up by saying:
verify, Mr.. Dixons favorite doc
trineof the intellectuali nferiority of the
Negro to the white man. if it is to be
established at all. is not to be estab-
lished by comparison of his own lit
erary product with that of a Negro
like Kelly Miller.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
Prophecy of Legally Murdered
Woman That Came True
Bucksport Has Monument to
Prove Truth OF the Story.

Close by the road on the outskirts
of the, seaport town of Bucksport, on
the Penobscot river, in Maine, is
small family cemetery. In it's inclos'
ure sleep the Bucks, the family which
founded the town and gave it the
name and a legend.
The largest and most conspicuous
monument in the cemetery is tall
granite shaft, which is in plain sight
of the highway. On one side is the
inscription "Col. John Buck, the
founder of BuckspOrt, A. D. 1762.
Born in Haverhill, Mass, IT'S. Died
March 10, 1885,"
On the other side is the single
word "Buck" and a curious outline
which, with the help Of the magma,
ton, might be the print of a foot OF
normal size.
The legend as told is that Col. Jona-
than Buck was very harsh man and
the leading spirit of his day and gen.
Grafton. He was the highest in civil
authority and his word was law in the
community in which he resided. When
a certain woman was accused OF
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
Centenary of the Use of Steam
in Navigation to Be Appropri-
ately Celebrated in the Year
l007

Plans are being made in New York
to celebrate two years hence the CEN
tenary of the use of steam in naVlga-
ton by the holding of what would
seem to be sort of maritime worlds
fair, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
On Aug. Z, 1907, Robert Fulton's "Cler-
mont" made her epoch-making voyage
on the Hudson, which revolutionized
sea commerce and sea warfare. The
"Clermont' was not the first steam
boat, for attention is now being called
to an interesting coincidence which
should give the proposed celebration
a double significance. In 1907 it will
he just 200 years since the F'renchman'
Papin, drove crude steamboat on the
river Fulda But though the "Cler-
mont" was not the first steamship, she
marked at all events the beginning OF
steam navigation, and it will not de-
tract from her inventors fame to re-
call that the centennial celebration in
his honor will be also bicentenary in
marine annals.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30

Mr.. w. H. Diamond, an Afro-Amer-
lean and assistant bridge engineer for
the Michigan Central Railway, has in
vented a railway block signal which
practically eliminates collisions on
railways either between trains or with
any kind of obstruction on the track
1t is operated by means of electric
ity, and is by far the most improved
system of signalling now known.
Briefly, it is this. The signals are
displayed in the cab of the locomotive
and nowhere else. A large white disc
indicates that the track is clear. If
there be train or other obstruction
on the track the white disc is at once
superseded by green disc when the
approaching train arrives within ten
miles of the obstruction, cautioning
the men in the cab to slow down.
When the train arrives within three
hundred feet Of three miles from the
obstruction the green light is auto
matically displaced by a red light or
the danger signal.
A whistle is also connected with
these signals, which calls the atten-
ton of the men in the cab to the
changing cOlOrs.
The friends of Oscar J. Ricketts,, the
acting public printer, say that his am
bition has been to win the public
Partnership, and that he has acquired
the knowledge and experience. to fit
him for that important position should
he secure it. The advantages to the
government in retaining Mr.. Ricketts,
permanently in his present position,
they point out, would be many. He
knows personally the ability of every
man in the office, what line OF work
he is best suited to perform, and,
having the ambition of a young,
healthy American to excel as model
would be constantly before him in
making his selections for important
positions.
Mr.. Ricketts, is thoroughly familiar
with the weak spots in the manage
ment of the big plant, and the little
abuses that have 'crept in unnoticed
for years past and which have become
fixtures through precedent, because
it has always been done that way"
In Mr. Ricketts, favor his champions
insist that there must be something
out of the ordinary in a man who can
get and retain the loyalty of the great
number and variety of men that Mr..
Ricketts, counts as my friends from
the humble 1aborers, whom he has be
friended, to men in the highest walks
of life ~. .>,..E .... 81. LII
The Association of Cemetery Super
intendents met here recently Are
they working for increased business in
their line?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
Lead In the Composition 10 What
- Makes Il Ring Why tho Fin
isI'ed Product IL So Elk
trefnely Costly. #&

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Lead in the composition is what
makes cut glass ring, and If it doesn't
ring, it isn't cut glass. Also, If 1t
rings. it's perfect; if it is cut glass and
doesn't ring, then it's cracked. O. D.
Irwin Of Newark kicked $40 worth of
broken pieces aside as he led the way
to his sample tables, says the Kansas
City Journal.
Broke them in travel" he said.
"This one piece here was worth $29
alone. Found them in pieces when /
opened my trunks. Now, they'll go to
the ash pile" -
"How much ought a complete out
fit of cut glass cost?"
"Counting whisky, brandy, wine,
medicine and other glasses, water COB
lets, etc., about $1,000" said Mr.. IT.
win. "The water goblets alone are
worth 81 each, wholesale, and some of
the pieces run up into the high three
figures. That's because of the amount
of work necessary to turn out cut
glass. In the first place, all cut glass
contains lead to give it weight. body
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
WASHINGTONt
THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DIS
- TANcEs. :n7 49,
A Collection Of Events Occurring
Among Afro.Americans of the Cap.
ital Of this Great and Glorious Ma
ton for our Many Readers. - ,-

Special Correspondence THE APPEAL.
Washington, Sept. 28.-In the past two
months telegraph tolls on commercial
business in Alaska have amounted to
more than $4,000, while the cost OF
government business during this time
exceeded $4,000. The excellence of
the wireless system in Alaska is
shown through it's record in trans
hitting many thousand code words
during the fifteen months it has been
in operation without single error.
There are 1000 Afro-Jamaicans en-
ployed on the Panama canal. They
are scattered along in camps from one
to two miles apart, there being thirty
camps along the forty-seven miles Of
canal. These camps have from 200 to
800 men in each. The houses are
built especially for the purpose, and
are thoroughly sanitary. There are
strict rules for keeping them clean.
The houses are thoroughly scrubbed
once a week and fumigated every two
weeks They have comfortable can
vas beds. The Jamaicans get from
$1.75 to $225 silver per day.
Secretary of Treasury Shaw an
nounces that he will leave the cabinet
February 1, 1906.
A little more than a year. ago Pres
ident Roosevelt sent a letter express
ing the qualification of the government
and people of the United States to the
six principal chieftains of the Manuan
group of the Samoan Islands for their
volunteer cession of the islands to the
United States. He also forwarded at
the same time to these chieftains six
watches and six medals, which were
properly inscribed. A letter Of thanks
on behalf OF the people of Manua has
just been received at the Navy De-
partment from Tuimanua, the gov
ernor of Manua.
President Roosevelt returns to
washington Saturday and will find
number of administration questions
awaiting his attention.
The board of directors of the Fred
erick Douglass Memorial Exposition
feel much encouraged by reports of
activity in many states relative to
prospective exhibits and financial con"
tributions The board claims that the
present outlook indicates that the
space for exhibits is nearly, if not en-
tirely, taken.
The exposition will be held in Wash
ington from May 1 to July 2, 1906.
The board of directors is composed of
H. C. Scott, of Washington; J. H. C.
Redd, Leadville, Co..; G. R. France,
Pittsburg, Pa; C. J. King, Cambridge,
Mass; C. J. w. Bland, Keokuk, Iowa.
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The royal library at TOXIC, Japan

The royal library at TOXIC, Japan,
has issued a report which shows that
during the last year number of vol
umes equivalent to Fl per cent of the
whole number in the library have been
mathematics, science and medicine, 20
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30

T, ay that man or race has mere
physical courage is not much of COM
pliment, as it is common to all races,
high and low, black, yellow and white.
1t belongs even to animals; for a New
Jersey mosquito would not hesitate to
sail into the biggest man on earth.
Moreover physical courage is readily
manufactured to order by the simple
expedient of administering quantum
suf of whisky. That was the old, time
honored plan The two plans were
we'll tested in the conflict between JAP
an and Russia and the results are
known
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30

knC1oe1lI AIAnS S0SAAAS W. ~ $500
Nature Has Not Changed Since
the Days of Adam. and Is Not
Likely 10.
There are those who believe that
love was stronger and truer in the
prehistoric days when young Romeo
clad only in sunlight, batted his Juliet
over the head with the thigh bone OF
a dinosaur and carried her to his
cave, where they lived happily ever
after. So far as is known, there was
no divorces in those days.
Strength, aggressiveness' daring
brute force count with women to-day.
A Rome dispatch tells OF young
italian who loved a. flower girl IN
tensely. She wouldn't have him. she
laughed at him. publicly and ne STAB
he'd her in the neck.
He wore ball and chain six
months for that.
In his second attempt at matrlmony
he used a stiletto and had the lady
pretty we'll carved when the police
came He served a year Tor assault
and again came to the front with I'm
rrotestations of undying love. me
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30

Every race loving Afro-American and
every Caucasian who wishes to know
the truth should send Is cents to Prof.
Kelly Miller. Howard University,
Washington, D. c.. and get copy of
his open letter replying to Thomas
Dixon's Leopard, Spots!'' It's worth
the money. .@,t. 81. IL 81:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
Woman's Love for the Aggressive Man

lady said no and he blew up her house
with dynamite The kitchen flew over
the barn and the parlor disappeared
into the cellar, while the girl was
taken to the hospital and her lover
sent to Jail.
Now, you would naturally think
that the young woman would have
cheerful1y seen her assai1ant boiled
in oil or drawn and quartered, all OF
which shows how little you know OF
a woman's heart.
On her knees she went before the
Judge and begged the law to excuse
the man who loved her so we'll. The
Judge couldn't quite excuse the dyna-
hitting, but he made the sentence as
light as possible, and later the couple
were married and are said to be liv-
ing happily.
Of course it wouldn't be wise to
advise lovers to 60 a-wooing with
Calling guns or dynamite, but certain
it is that the strong man, the fellow
who does things, can command re-
spect and love. It has been that way
since the time of Adam and it prob
ably Away will be.-Atlanta Journal.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
From an Unpublished Novel.

From an Unpublished Novel.
A publishers reader drew 1ortn MS
notebook.
"a French masseur has written a
novel in English" he said, "and sub
mitted it to my house for publication:
T ro.d this novel last week. I copied
low sentences from it. Let me read
YOU one or two of them.
The man read these sentences:
"Her hand was cold, like that OF
serpent"
THE artist wore velvet JACKIE
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30

with pants of the same color"
"There is bright flush on your
cheek" he whispered, "a flush as
beautiful and red as lobster"
"'Ha, ha,' he exclaimed in Span
ish."
"He paced the floor, his hands be-
hind him, reading newspaper.
LAS she was about to reply a door
opened and closed her mouth"
'She ran to open the portal, with
her dear little feet pattering along
the CORRIDOR
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
SEMINARY

VOINVOT1O1 N. u
This we'll known school, established for
the higher education of girls will open
for the next term October l. Every effort
will be made to provide for the comfort
health and thorough instruction of stu
dents. Expense for board, light, fuel
washing, $45, for term of eight months
Address
Rev. D. J. Satterf1eld, .. o.,
Concord, n. c.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
A Forward Age.

"Back to the Soil admonishesH. RI
der Haggar /" 'Back to the people"
SAYS Brother Bryan. "Back to Baltl'
more, comes the hurGy-gurdy's re-
frain. This is forward age, my mas
tiers. : .@.5s.s ss&&; f. p. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-09-30
A Coincidence.

"How is your husband?
Charley was very i'll yesterday, OUT
he is better this morning. 1t IS a SIN
gular coincidence, but ne always re-
covers when there is a prospect OF
goO(, ball game" III. a..