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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-07
Cost OF the Tai Nah,I

The Tai Mahal. at Agra, would m.
ten millions if built today. II W..
begun in 1929, and finished In lss
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-07
McGovern and Young corbett Matched

New York, Nov. 29.-Following a
meeting of their managers here, it was
announced that Terry McGovern and
Young Corbett had been matched for
bout for not less than Is rounds, to
take place during the week ending Jan
81. Each side posted forfeit of ST..
600. Tim Hurst will referee the fight
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-07

The proper penalty for peehaboo
waists in the winter time is a doctors
bin.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

The scattering overland migration
to Oregon and California-beginn
so early as 1916, became never-par-
alleled tide by the spring of 1S49,
when the gold rush was really on, says
Charles f. Lammis in McClure's. In
all the chronicles of mankind there
is nothing else like this translation Of
humanity across an unconquered will
derness.
In it's painless distances, it's inevi-
table hardships, land its frequent saw
age perils, reckbned with the char
acter of the men, women and children
concerned. it stands alone. The era
was one Of national hard times, and
not only the professional failure, but
ministers, doctors, lawyers, merchants
and farmers, with their, families,
caught the new yellow fever and be-
took themselves to Journey fifty
times as long and hard as the aver
age of them had ever taken before.
Powder, lead, foodstuffs, household
goods, wives, sisters, mothers and ba-
bies rode on the Osnaberg sheeted
prairie schooners, or whatsoever
wheeled conveyance the emigrant
could scare up, from ancient top bug
gies to new Conestogas; while the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
IN. The NITRATE COUNTRY.

10 = q
In his Commercial Traveller in
South America Frank Wiborg writes:
1--WE stopped at number of the nj
trate towns, Pisagua, Iquique, Auto
fagasta, and visited some of the
mills or officials in order to see some
thing of the industry. Deposits of the
crude nitrate of soda, called here
scaliche,' are found in the pampa or
rolling plateau beyond the first range
of foothills. In some places this pla-
teau is but ten miles from the coast,
in others as far as fifty miles The
pampa is an utterly barren desert. On
the surface there is nothing to tempt
the heart Of man, but few feet down
lies the nitrate stratum. This pre-
sents much the appearance of rock
salt and varies in color, according to
the purity of the deposits, from whit
ish tint to a dark gray. The upper
earth is blown away with dynamite
and then the caliche is dug out with
pick and shovel, loaded on iron carts
and carried up to the mills
Here the caliche is first broken
into small pieces by heavy crushers
and then put into large boiling watts,
Inside these watts are coils Of steam
pipes, by means of which the temper
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

men rode their horses or mules or
truGged beside the caravans. A his
torlc party of five Frenchmen pushed
a handwagon from the Missouri to
the coast, and one man trundled his
possessions in wheelbarrow At it's
best it Was an itinerary untranslata-
BILE to the present generation; at it's
worst, with Indian massacres, thirsts,
SHOWS, ''tender-footedness'' and dis
ease, it was one of the ghastliest high
ways in history. The worst chapter
OF cannibalism in our national record
was that of the Bonner party, showed
in from November to March, 1S49-5O,
in the Sierra Nevada. In the SOS the
Asiatic cholera crawled in upon the
plains, and like a gray wolf followed
the. wagon trains from the "river" to
the Rockies. In the height of the mi
grafton, from 1890 to 5000 immi-
grants died of this pestilence, and if
there was half-mile where the In
dams had failed tor punctuate with a.
grave, the cholera took care. to remedy
the omission. The 2,OO0-mile trip was
a matter of four months when easy,
and of six with bad luck Children
were born and people died, Sworried
greenl1orns quarreled and killed one
another-and the train struggled on.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
COOLIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

E. Writes an observer in South Africa:
'The Chinese are everywhere. You
see them in the streets of the towns,
on the platforms of the railway sta
tons, or about the Rand. There are
now nearly $4,000 of them scattered
up and down slice Of country about
forty miles in length. Some are
working in mines which are practical
ly in johannesburg itself Yesterday
morning was walking down Commits
sioner street, when came across thir-
ty of them at work digging out the
foundations of a new hotel. They
were prisoners serving terms of hard
labor, and were leased out to the con-
tractor at one shilling head day.
And they were employed in the very
center of Johannesburg. Out at
knights l saw huge camp where
l,40O more Chinese prisoners are at
work making a deviation Of the rail-
way line from Germiston to Boksburg.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
FUNDING The real WORLD

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Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian
philosopher, writes in Harper's Maya
zine on the limitations of the senses
and the wonders of the universe that
lie beyond their ken. What keeps
and long still keep us from enjoy.
ing the treasures of the universe is
the hereditary resignation with which
we tarry in the gloomy prison of our
senses he says. "Our imagination,
as we lead it to-day, accommodates
itself too readily to that captivity. It
is true that it. is the slave of those
senses which alone feed it. But it
does not cultivate enough within it.
self the intuitions and presentiments
which tell it that it is absurdly cap
tive, and that it must seek outlets
even beyond the most resplendent
and most infinite circles which it pic
lures to itself. 1t is important that
our imagination should say to itself
more and more seriously that the
real world begins thousands of mil
lions OF leagues beyond it's most am
bilious and daring dreams. Never
was it entitled-nay, bound to be
more madly foolhardy than now.
All that it succeeds in building and
multiplying in the most enormous
space and time that it is capable of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
count. 1t is to be hoped that this will
be done speedily and effectually.

The statistics of births for the Bor-
ough of Manhattan. New York, show
that out of a total of 59,196 children
who were born during the year only
1903 were OF American parentage on
both sides. And though the foreign
ers are of many nationalities, the
births among the Jews alone number
ed 1860, the parents being Jews clas-
sified as from Russia Austria and PO-
land.
The Italians rank next among the
foreigners and come very close to the
Americans with ,29S births.
These statistics reveal the import
ant fact that the large cities of the
country are being de-Americanized
very rapidly. And in most cases, the
accessions to our population are OF the
most undesirable character. Their
habits. too. are such as to preclude the
hope that they WILDE assimilated within
any reasonable time. They now hud-
die in colonies, which in times of cpl
demic become foci for the dissemina-
ton of infection, and no attention is
paid to cleanliness. The children of
such parents are not much in the habit
OF attending the public or any other
schools and grow up in ignorance. The
prospects of their ever making desir-
able citizens are not very flattering.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

conceiving, is nothing compared with
that which is. Already the smallest
revelations of science in our humble
daily life teach it. that, even in that
modest environment, it can not cope
with reality, that it is constantly be-
ing overwhelmed, disconnected, daz-
zled by all the unexpected that lies
hidden in stone, a salt, glass Of
water, a plant, an insect. It is al
ready something to be convinced Of
this, for that places US in a state of
mind that watches every occasion to
break through the magic circle of our
blindness; it. persuades us also that
we must hope to find no decisive
truths within this circle, that they all
lie hidden beyond.
Let US say to ourselves that,
among the possibilities which the
universe still hides from us, one of
the most palpable, the least ambitious
and the least disconcerting, is--,cer-
tainly the possibility Of a means of
enjoying an existence much more spa
cious, lofty, perfect, durable and Sc
cure than that which is offered to us
by our actual consciousness. Admit
ting this possibility-an there are
few as probable-the problem of our
Immortality is, in principle, solved,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
SATURDAY.. JANUARY 10. 1906.
y special dispatch to the Inter Ocea
is As follows:

a special dispatch to the Inter Ocean
is As follows:
New York. jan 2-Samuel L,
Clemens MARK TwainD expresses the
Indignation OF Americans against Leo
pold, King of the Belgians. who has
had absolute control of the Congo Free
state Tor twenty years. In that time
the population has been killed down
from 25,OO0.000 to 100000 souls.
The massacres. starvation beatings.
mutations, and outrages visited upon
these helpless Africans by order of
King Leopold are incredible until one
has read the calm record of facts.
Beside Leopold" said Mr.. Clemens.
Nero, Caligula, Attila. Torquemada.
Genghis Khan, and such killers of men
are mere amateurs
The great powers of Europe are in
large measure responsible for this con
dition OF things. They invested this
Internal old scoundrel with control of
the Congo Free State, subject to GER
tain conditions and limitations. all of
which he has totally ignored Mr..
Clemens is best known as hlrmorist.
but he is doing grand work for hu.
mainly by calling attention to the hell
upon earth which old Leopold has
made of the portion of Africa intrusted
to his supervision by the Powers. He
proposes to distribute to every minis
ter in the country a pamphlet in which
he gives full account of Leopold
atrocious doings. And there are in.
dieations that the Powers have some
intention Of calling old Leopold to ac
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

allure can be regulated accurately.
Sea water is poured in and the caliche
is boiled for a certain time The
liquid solution that results is drawn off
into settling watts, which are exposed
to the open air and the sun. EvapOra-
ton is rapid and the pure nitrate of
soda soon begins crystallizing and set
thing to the bottom. After this has
gone on for some time the remaining
liquid is drawn off and the crust of
nitrate is scraped from the sides and
bottom of the vat and thoroughly
dried in the sun. Then it is graded
according to quality and packed for
shipment in 10O-pound sacks.
Most of the nitrates exported is
used as a fertilizer, but a part goes
to the manufacture of powder and
high explosives. The nitrate towns
are even barer and drier and less in
wiling than most of the other bare,
dry towns of the coast. To some of
them fresh water is brought in pipes
from distance of more than 100 miles.
Before the day of these pipes it used
to be sold in the streets by the gallon.
That water even now, though not
scarce, yet not plentiful, is per-
haps some excuse for the awful dust
that blows everywhere
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
Great ARMy or EDUcATION


The armyas of education in the
United States is made UP of 100000
teachers, of whom 100000 are men
and 100000 women. The overwhelm-
ing majority of the teachers are ma
ltives of the United States. less than
10000 having been born abroad-one
lin fifteen.
Most of the male teachers are be-
tween the years of 25 and IS. The
majority of the women teachers are
between Is and %.
There are 1900 male teachers over
SIS. There are less than LOO female
teachers over IS. Three times as
many female as male teachers are put
down as 1sage unknown.
There are 21,OOO colcred teachers
in the United States, thus divided be-
tween the two sexes 100 men and
1890 women. There are 500 Indian
teachers in the Int!;een schools of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

An addle-pated cub OF a clerk in the
Montgomery (Ala) postOffice, refused
to assist in distributing the mail be-
cause the other distributors We're Afro
Americans; whereupon the depart
ment reduced his salary by $4,000
per annum, hence there is consider
able indignation in Montgomery. We
see no occasion for this sky-rocketty
Indignation. nor any effect which it
will have. White men. far superior to
the Montgomery Bombastes, are by
thousands working with Afro-Ameri-
cans, but actually voluntarily, becom.
my their servants for hire. White
lawyers, physicians, merchants, me,
chanics and teachers hire themselves
to AfrO-Americans and render them
service for pay, and many of them are
very glad to get chance to do So
Such is the case in Montgomery and
in all the rest of the United States. We
rather suspect that that recalcitrant
clerk is a lily-white Republican. If SO
he should recall the fact that his
brother lily-whites in the last election
in Virginia refused to work with Afro
Americans and got sot down on, most
emphatically.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
OLD BOSTON ToLLHousE SOLD
One OF Many Relics of Bysone Days
in DiSuSe Since IS52

One of Many Relics OF Bysone Days
in Disuse Since 1858.
For the paltry sum Of $25 the old
dollhouse, one OF the many relics Of
bygone days in the city of Cambridge
which, during it's existence has held
probably many thousands Of dollars,
has been sold, says the Boston Tran
script. The house stood for more than
a century at the Cambridge end Of the
West Boston bridge, but during the
last few years had been so badly in
need of repairs that it was more of an
eyesore than a tE.ng to be admired as
having been handed down by our fore
fathers
The house had been in disuse since
1853, and from the appearance Of it at
the time OF it's demolition one might
readily believe that no repairs had
been made upon it since that time. Il
is probable that, SO great was the re-
joicing when the west Boston bridge
was made a "free" bridge. there was
no place in the hearts OF Cambridge
citizens for sentiment, and none arose
in the hearts Of their descendants to
prompt them to preserve the old land
mark. The toll house was first used
when the West Boston bridge, known
as the great bridge" was completed
ir 1893. No person was allowed tn
pass over without first visiting the
dollhouse to pay the pittance which
was demanded of him. In 1903 Moses
Hadley was made the toll collector,
and continued in that capacity until
1858 when the bridge was made a
free bridge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE.
Guaranty Loan Bldg. Room 1920
HARVEY q. BURk, Manager.
CHICAGO OFFICE,
1885 Dearborn St., Suite $40,
G. F. ADAMS, Manager.
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

These sweepings of the Chinese
prisons who are now overrunning
British colony, are not content with
mere robbery. They do that as a mat
ter of course. What those in isolated
farms and lonely stores dread is the
cry of lisa, tsa!'-'Kill, kill!'-from
the yellow fiends who roam over the
veldt. People in the country dare
scarcely go to bed at night. They
gather at each others houses for pro.
lection and companionship.
What wonder is it that terror
reigns on the veldt, or that the coun-
try people are now all armed, and
shoot first, when they see Chinaman
at night?" The same writer adds that
these circumstances are hidden care
fully from the outside world. The
white men of South Africa-with the
exception of the mine owners-he
says, are satisfied that the introduce
ton of coolie labor was mistake
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

The six Gilliland children are Great
ing lot of trouble in Buncombe coun-
ty, N. c.. owing to the darkness Of
their complexion. On this account,
they were excluded from the public
schools for 'alleged Negro blood" The
verdict of the court restored them to
the schools, on the theory that one of
their ancestors was a Portuguese A
great deal depended upon the action of
the court; for the Gillilands had inter
married with nearly all OF the best peo-
pie OF Buncombe county. That makes
THE APPEAL look upon the action
of the court with slight degree of
suspicion and causes it to regard the
story OF Portuguese ancestor as
little fishy. And, moreover, the jury
decided the matter in about Is minutes
"a most suspicious circumstance;
suggesting the idea that the jury was
aware of the fact that the future tran
quillity of Buncombe county depended
upon referring the matter to the grave
yard committee as quickly as possible.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

The Washington Post comments
truthfully on the merits of the prim-
airy election law, when it says:
There are great many respectable
folks who believe this whole primary
election agitation is arrant demagogy.
The late primary in. Virginia showed
how expensive it is, and if there ever
was a rich mans law in this country
law fashioned to the, purse, it is
your primary election law. A poor
man can run for office in a conven-
ton. He may get left, but he cannot
even run" in primary unless he
borroWs the money
For the foregoing reasons, the ':prim-
ary'' is very popular down South. and
is legalized in some states. 1t is the
iimcrowest of Jim Crow ,enactments.
1t positively debars all Afro-A Americans
from going Democratic. 1t admits the
hill-billies to vote. but debars them
from Office.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
One of the silliest exploits we have

One OF the silliest exploits we have
ever heard of, is that of a Southern
governor who disbanded company of
Afro-American militia, because it's
band played the tune Wen hang jeff
Davis on a sour apple tree The fact
is that there is no such tune. The
words quoted above were composed
during the rebellion and adapted to the
same time as Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's
Battle Hymn of the Republic. as were
also the words John Browns body
lies moldering in the clay Such
puerilities simply render the South. ri.
diculous
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
Lavish Gifts of the Mortons.

Former Vice President Levi P. Nor
ton has given to Rhinecliff, near which
his home, Ellerslie. is situated an in
dustrial home and reading room, to
cost $4,000. The new building will
have gymnasium. baths. reading
rooms, library and assembly hall IN
the same village Miss Mary Morton, a
daughter of Mr.. Morton, has estab
lished holiday farm, where the con-
valescent crippled poor Of New York
are cared for.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
His Idea Of a Fair Deal.

A Southern congressman tells a
story of an old negro in Alabama who,
in his bargaining, is always afraid that
he may get the worst Of it." On one
occasion, it appears, this aged darky
went after calf he had had pastured
all summer and asked what he owed
for the pasturing.
Il have a bill Of SO against you"
said the farmer, who had undertaken
the care Of the animal. but, if you are
willing, I'll take the calf and call it
settled
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
Reward for Faithful Service.

A. II. Mcleod. freight traffic man
ager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton, is to retire from that position.
which he has held for thirty years In
appreciation of his long and efficient
service he will be given the title of
general agent of the freight depart
ment on the Erie, which will carry
with ID a comfortable salary. This
place he will hold for life.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

The Chicago Chronicle takes on
nightly because two American
young women, who spoke disrespect-
fully Of the Kaiser on a railway in
Germany were arrested and ordered
to leave the country within "a hour.
We can see no special reason for sym.
pathising with those young women.
When American young women go
abroad, they should behave decently.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13
JEROME 3. PETERSON.
Ex-Consul to Puerto Cabello Becomes
Internal Revenue Deputy-Ander-
son Appoints Another.

New York City.-Jerome B. Peter
son, late consul to Puerto Cabello.
Venezuela has been appointed dep
uty collector of internal revenue by
Collector Charles W. Anderson. This
makes four Afro-American deputies
appointed by Mr. Anderson. besides
several other appointments
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

lieve that they must be honest and
truthful in their dealings with white
men, but are under no obligation to be
SO when dealing with dark races Chief
Justice fancy handed down this
doctrine from the Supreme Bench, to
which the Devil undoubtedly handed
it up.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-01-13

!. The home training of Americans in
respect to men of darker color pc
culiarly unfit them for missionaries or
even for trade agents among Asiatic.
African or South American countries.
A great many Americans actually be-