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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25
HENRY WARD BEECHER.

bott. Sis. Boston and New York:
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.
He attended DR.. Bee cher's church in
Brooklyn. and is thus we'll qualified to
give an outline of the character of the
not so much a history of the life of
Beecher as it is sketch OF his NE ana
character as he appeared to DR.. ABBOTT.
The career Of Beecher as an anti-slaVery
reformer before and during the civil war
period. he tells in five chapters, full Of
historical matter of the utmost value. 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 a season on the
continent. his intention being to rest be-
fore sailing for New York. But IL, tate Or
pathy Of the English people, more espe-
cially the aristocratic and moneyed class
es, was overwhelmingly in favor of the
in behalf of the American cause was
sure to invite every species of insult and
ndignity. sThis sympathy for the South
and hatred Of the North had. at the time
Of Mr.. Bcecher's arrival. assumed alarm
ing proportions, and rumors were afloat
to the effect that the British government,
in all probability would be forced by pub
lie sentiment 20 intervene in the struggle
of the South. Such was the state Of feel
ing when Dr. Eeecher 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 a lecturing
tour through England, speaking in behalf
Of the Federal cause. BY this they hoped
to counteract the work of agents of the
Confereracy who were then seduously- fam
ming the flame of British enmity by their
speeches and publications. Any other man
would have weakened but having prom
mobs, bloodred placards. insults. boot
ngs and all the other annoyances which
the British public consider perfectly legit-
innate to prevent an unpopular speaker
Used his friends to prosecute the campaign
from being heard.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1905
THANK you, Mr.. PRESIDENT.

THANK YOU, Mr.. PRESIDENT.
One OF the very pleasing of the
many pleasing things in connection
with President Roosevelt's speech on
l.incoln's birthday was. that he did
not use the word negro" in it, Now,
rose by any other name, would
smell just as sweet and, the word
negro" in itself. which only means
black, would not be Objectionable if
it was not for the willfully malicious
manner in which it is used in. the
daily press. The word negro" has
become. by the manner in which it
IS used. to be more opprobrius than
any other in the category, murderer
not excepted. and, we voice the senti-
ments OF many Afro-Americans in
thanking the president for not using
it in referring to them.
According to Websters Unabridged
Dictionary negro is common
noun defined as meaning: "A black
man; especially one of a race of black
or very dark persons who INHABIT
THE GREATER PART OF AFRICA,
and are distinguished by crisped or
curly hair, fiat noses. high cheek
bones, and thick protruding lips"
Anyone not blinded by negro phobia"
can easily see that the Afro Ameri-
cans in the United States cannot
properly be classed as negroes
Then, another thing, among all of
the many, many words or names used
to designate human beings. everyone
except that one, is sclassed as prop
er noun and invariably capitalized:
whereas the solitary word negro"
even when used to refer to a class of
American citizens numbering upward
of 10.OO0,OoO is almost invariably not
capitalized, not treated as a proper
noun.
If one wishes to arouse all that s
oevilish in the hearts and brains of a
very large number of Caucasians in
the United States. Just use the word
negro in connection with man or
that, even more detestible word
'negress," in connection with a wo.
man and you'll succeed AND THE
PUBLISHERS OF THE DAILY PA.
PERS ARE USING IT FOR THAT
PURPOSE EVERY DAY
So again we say we are truly
thankful to President Roosevelt. the
acknowledged head of this nation for
setting them a good example in not
using it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25
Cause of Mysterious Sounds.

There is an old superstition that tap
ping sounds in room foretell death.
A correspondent suggests that these
sounds are emitted from wooden fur
njt,,re. Il have generally noticed he
saws that heard them after a sud
den change in the temperature from
heat to cold. Heat causes furniture
to expand and open the interstices OF
the wood, which become filed with
air. IA sudden cooling, on the other
hand. causes the wood to contract
and the interstices then close and
forcibly expel the air With these ex,
plosive sounds.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25

Fortunately all the white people do
not feel Just as Jeff Davis-the man
who disgraces Arkansas as it's Gov
ernor-does on the question of edu-
eating Afro-Americans. Mother Cath
crime Drexel Of Philadelphia. who
some years ago gave up society and
entered religious work, founding the
Roman Cothalic order OF the Blessed
Sacrament for the education of In
,ians and Afro-Americans and de-
voting her immense fortune entirely
to the work is going to found in
Nashville an industrial school and
academy for Afro-American girls. She
has purchased valuable property there
and the school will be put in opera
ton
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25

Berea college situated in Berea, KY,
has been fined $1,000 for violating a
law passed by the last Legislature
prohibiting the co-education OF whites
and Afro-Americans. Berea was
founded more than a quarter OF CEN
fury ago for that very purpose ana
the law was framed Just to get at
Berea. The case will be taken to the
Supreme Court of the United States II
necessary to determine whether or
not it is constitutional.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25
Presents to Bible Society.

A number of curious presents have
come to the Bible society in London.
Gifts of embroidery to the value OF
over $3.50 have ben received from
native Christian women in Manchuria.
From the New Hebrides, the Aneity-
umese sent more than $50. These peo-
pie manufacture arrowroot< annually
to pay for the bibles they: need.
About SIS was contributed in kind
BY the aborigines Of Mapoon, North
Queensland, who collected oysters for
the purpose, as they have no money
of their own. Even the Dyaks~of Bor-
REQ sent a collection in to London
though in former days their fathers
collected human heads much as Amer
lean boys collect postage stamps.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25

Miss Anna Fitzhugh Lee, daughter
of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who was retired
from the Army Wednesday of last
week, and on the same day attended
wedding OF his daughter to Lieuten-
ant Lewis Brown, Jr., of the Seventh
U. S. cavalry was once elected from
the ladies carr on a train in Virginia
by a conductor who presumed she was
an Afro American. We have her pic
ture and the picture OF Hannah Elias
before us and must admit that they
need labels to determine which is
which.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25

There is terrible h1bbub being
worked up because by the whirl-a- gig
Of time and unavoidable circum-
stances James H. Wolr' becomes De-
lartment Commander J., he Massa-
cl,usetts Division of the and Army
Of the Republic and as the daily pa
-,ers- put it: ~
las Massachusetts is the oldest G..
\. R. encampment. it will lead the
line of march at the next grand ma
tional encampment at Denver, and,
thus. the leader of the whole line
will be James H. Wolff, a negro d.
There is dissatisfaction because by
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25

strategists Won Moltke.
In reading certain chapters of this book
ing cruelties of the Revolution were again
being enacted in Paris and elsewhere
Throughout the country 49,
Inc events which led up to Thea war
author:
bismarck prepared the war Napoleon
III wanted it. the great hourgeoise looked
earnest gesture n n iers contented
himself with grimace. He saw in this
war our certain ruin Yhe knew our terrible
inferorty in .everythi:9g; he could have
nalists have made palpable to them the
folly Of the attack. and supported by this
strength OF opinion. have said to the
Tuileries; to Paris if needs be, War is
impossible; we shall combat it as trea-
SON.
Poor France! Who will save thee?
The humble. the poor. those who for six
while the upper classes sell the nation
for a few hours of rest and the liberals
seek to feather their nests under the
empire. handful ct men, without arms
despo 81 az one t hama ds yo a
, men who form the bourgeoise have gone
over to the people, faithful children of
1889. resolved to continue the work Of
lnSmen unite for the study and conquest
| of the rights of labor. In vain the en-
pire attempts to split their forces, to Sc
duce the workingmen'
The author then follows up with de-
scription of the terrific political struggle
between the contending factions which
finally burst forth in all the horrors OF tn.
Paris, Marseilles. Toulouse and Narbon
were soon to be converted into veritable
human slaughter houses. in this fratricidal
struggle which for madness and I'M
checked violence finds few counterparts
| in the history of the human family.
| Many new events--that is events which
nave hitherto been obscure to the student
author. in his work which considered
either from literary or historical view
point is an achievement Of inconsid-
cradle merit.
MONEY. BANKING. AND FINANCE.
By Albert S. Bolles, Phi. D.. LII. D..
Author of practical Banking" Bank
versity of Pennsylvania and Haverford
College. Cloth 12mo, 1886 pages. Price
York, Cincinnati, and Chicago.
This volume, while designed especially
as a textbook for Commercial High
Schools and the, Commercial Courses Of
Colleges, is equally suited for. the general
reader. It is a brief practical treatise
pies of Finance. The author describes
the best banking practice of the day, and
adds those legal principles which refer to
the topics taken up. This is the first
book OF it's scope. filing a place between
treatises on methods of bank bookkeep-
ing and works on the theory and history
Of money and banking. DR.. Bolles is an
authority on the subject. and presents
the essential principles in clear and
concise manner. This book will appeal
alike to those who intend to devote
themselves to the business of banking. to
those who are thus engaged. and to
those who are studying the history and
theories of banking.
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At What Temperature Water BoiIs.


Water boils at different tempera-
lures, according to the elevation above
the sea level. In LONDON water Dolls
practically at PIP degrees Fahrenheit;
in Munich, Germany, at 2091a de-
.srees; in the City of Mexico, at 200
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elevation of 900 feet above the lev
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25

While all this hul-la-bal-loo is going
on on the NEGRO question there is
a man named Paul Marx of Woods
Cross, Utah. who was refused license
to marry an Afro-American woman
because he was supposed to be pure
Caucasian and he although to all ap-
peacances an Italian agreed to swear
he was a "negro.' All this for love
of Miss Belle Johnson: an unmistak-
able AfrO-American woman.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25
contonn1ary SaoeIV saws ::

A contemplary sagely says:
IF YOU are looking for good man
it's pretty safe plan to pick out all
ugly one
We add, that the rule will work
lust about as we'll among women. &C.
cording to the fair Lillian Russell who
saws: It's a curse for woman to be
born beautiful And Lillian ought to
know
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-02-25

This color question. in a country
that is the only one that says in it's
fundamental law all men are born
equal. etc.. and in the veins OF fully
one-fourth of it's population there is
strain of African blood, ought to be
let M on "A mans man for a that
and a that
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CIVIL WAR TIMES,

l.
Civil War Times: BY Daniel Walt
Howe: author of the Puritan Republic.
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least in the present generation. to be a
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its "ha1r breadth escapes and the immi-
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Because OF these things the authors
volume is Interesting. It can be read
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erto remained unwritten. is brought forth
One of. the most interesting chapters
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lation of the Confederacy toward the NE
gro Soldier. The author tells us. that
nearly every important Confederate COM
mander favored the enlistment of black
soldiers: that the matter was finally de-
ba ! in the Confederate Senate, and the
soldiers. was defeated by but one vote
that Of Senator Hunter That when the
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eracy became so visible that the leaders
cause draft order was issued to force
the black soldier to fight under the Con
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the flight of Jefferson Davis was at hand
This chapter is especially interesting al
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There are other very interesting chap.
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HISTORY OF THE COMMUNE OF 1871
History of the Commune of 1871
Translated from the French of Lissagara,
by Eleanor Marx AveIing. New York
International Publishing Co.
History of the Commune of 1871
translated from the French OF Lissagar;,,
by Eleanor Marx Aveling. is a we'll wri :
| ten volume, of history. dealing with one .
those political commissions: Hhich{Aaye .,
frequently shook France to it's found l
tons. ~ o.. -...... ..-e-
The translator has performed the diff
| cult art of preserving the peculiar e. j
| grammatic and pointed style of all FreI, 81
prose and of which LISA garay appe ar
| to be a master. -,
The descriptive art Of the author neve
| lags from the opening to the clos n:
chapter of this book OF exta ardi.llr.
| happenings z&< - 49,. III
The Commune Of 1871 was tn culmina
ton of French weakness and irnhecility-
| the elimination of criminal torpor tina
rested upon those in authority: and whic]
Z followed swiftly upon the heels of tn
prostration of the French by the wonder
full armies under that primo, ..ef militar,
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AETISEMITISM.


Translated from the French. svo. Pp.
ternational Library Publishing Co.
this book peculiar timeliness. 1t is a
translation from the French. and it's
pages must have been written many
most painful interest to the Jewish ques-
ton. The author is himself a Hebrew,
and subject to all the odium that is i'm
piled IN the title to his book but this
ased his Judgment in the forming of his
opinions. The case is certainly stated
with great candor. and the blame is dis
tributed with fairness. The fault is found
world. but the Israelite himself is char
ged with having brought much of the
trouble to his people by manifest short
comings
The treatment given the subject is his
torical In successive chapters the re-
lations between Jews and Gentiles are
traced from the earliest times. Perhaps
learn how much Of prosecuting has been
carried on reciprocally between the He
brews and their neighbors. From this
has resulted a greater mixture Of race
| nit. The author does not believe in race
distinctions whether these be founded up
on language. shape of the head. or color
| Of the skin. So long, however, as the
opinion prevails that races are distinct
and that there is superiority on the one
part and inferiority on the other part
| there is likely to be trouble between Jew
| and Gentle as we'll as between black and
white. There are too many illustrative
! examples of this in the current history
| of this country. and this book can be
read with profit by many Who are called
! upon to decide questions daily arising
| here.
FORMS OF ENGLISH POETRY.
| Jollnson's Forms of English Poetry.
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as an art and as a, social force IS al,
ways kept in evidence. The book will
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poetic literature. and Will arouse in the
stu bert a love of poetry.
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LOCATION
In the Black Belt of Alabama where the
blacks outnumber tie whites three to one.
ENROLMENT AND FACULTY
Enrolment last year 1883; males. 8sz:
females, 81. Average attendance. 1,1o5.--
Instructors, SO.
COURSE OF STUDY
English education ombined with industrial.
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Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land.
so buildings almost wholly built with student
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Besides the work done by graduates as class
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