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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-01

are of heavy copper, and represent an
outlay of SEQ each. They will add ma
terially to the upto-date appearance of
the store
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-01

Ziegler-Bostock.-A beautiful church
wedding was celebrated last evening at
trinity Episcopal church. when Miss
Mary Agnes Bostock, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Bostock, 1922 Fourth
avenue, became the bride of C. ELS
worth Ziegler of Indianapolis. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-01
Exeursiou

Steamer Columbia to Mus btine ev-
cry Saturday at D. m.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-01
Secure New Siuns,

Young & McCombs today received
from Boston the most metropolitan pill
lar signs seen in the tri-cities. They
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-01
SOCIAL AFFAIRS

lSocfety news. written or telephonefl
to the society editor of The Argus. will
be gladly received and published. But
must be made known, to insure relia-
billy. Written notices must bear sig
nature and addressl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-01

Mckerg Young. - Miss Bertha M.
Young and Harvey A. McKerg, both of
this city, were married yesterday after.
noon at O'Clock at the home of Rev.
w. G. Oglevee, .,3015 Tenth avenue.
Rev Oglevee officiating at the cere-
mony. They were attended by Mrs
Johns of Silvis. sister of the bride.
Mr.. McKerg Is a fireman on the Rock
Island. His bride has been employed
as an operator for the Central Union
Telephone company. They will make
their home at 1895 Fifth-and- a half
avenue.
{ Will Entertain Busy Workers.-Mrs.
:H. L. Dooley, at her home, 2402 Sew
enth avenue, will this evening enter.
tain the Busy Workers bible class of
the Memorial Christian church.
Juniors Will Give SociabIe. - The
Juniors of the Memorial Christian
church will give a sociable at the
chra,h parlors Friday evening.
Will Give Bakery SaIe.-The ladies'
of the G. A. r. will conduct home
baking sale in the jewelry department
OF Young & McCombs old store Satur-
day afternoon.
Excursion.
Steamer Columbia to Mus@tine ev-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
HIGH CLASS CAUCASIAN THIEVES

AT last the sugar trust has been
caught at it's tricks. A federal court
has found it guilty of cheating the
government out of customs duties by
the use of false weights. That great
business association could stoop to
such petty thieving is astonishing. 1t
is a sad commentary on the business
ethics practiced by a few of the great
corporations in this country-for the
sugar trust is not alone in it's iniqui
ty.''
In other words some hundreds OF
the best Caucasian citizens of the
United States are thieves who live by
stealing so contemplate as to make
the invasion of a hen roost by hun
CRY Southern Afro-A American a com.
paratively commendable performance
Now THE APPEAL may venture tc
suggest to the Washington Post from
which the above is taken that if the
members Of the sugar trust were dealt
with exactly as Afro-Americans are
when CHARGED with crime that jour
nal would have much less occasion for
establishment.
Try grandfather clauses, disfran.
chisement and lynching upon them a
time or two and perhaps these nabobs
will stop their petty thieving."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
THE CIRCLE SQUARED.

Quincy Ewing has given to the
world what he conceives to be a full
and complete solution Of the famous
race problem which has for so long
a time puzzled our statesmen, savants,
philosophers and divines.
1t is obvious that in matter of
such vital Importance, a great degree
of caution must be used; for even
in the exact sciences, there are in
stances of the most accomplished ex-
perts having made the most egregious
plumbers.
For instances, the famous Russian
mathematician Wrongski once claimed
that he had effected a complete solu-
ton of the problem of solving an
equation of any degree. His process
was submitted to the French Academy
and found to be a glazing absurdity,
and not long after it was proved that
q general solution of equations above
the fourth degree is simply impos-
sible.
Mr.. Ewing first disposes of several
theories as to the reason for the fric-
ton between the races, and contends
that it does NOT exist for ANY of
the following so-called causes:
First, that the Afro-American is lazy.
Second: that he is excessively GRIM
inal.
Third, that he is illiterate.
Mr.. Ewing certainly dispOses or
these theories very effectively by ad-
ducing facts which are known to all
people of average intelligence, and
then assigns his own opinion as fol-
lows:
''The foundation of it, true or false,
is the white mans conviction that the
Negro as a race and as an individual,
is his inferior, not human in the sense
that he is human, and entitled to the
exercise OF human rights in the sense
that he is entitled to the exercise Of
them" $3.50. -. -. II ~. ;;2 .-s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
SATURDAY, MAY Is, 1909.
THE BAKER FAMILY.

Some time ago the Afro-American
postmaster at Lake City, S. c., was
murdered by mob. Soon after the
bereaved family moved to Chelsea,
Mass. and lost all they had in the
big fire. Whereupon, the Charleston
Is. c. News and Courier mudrakes
the BOstonians as pretended friends
and Boston as that city of loud pro.
fessions and empty Deeds" It slurs
both the one and compares the other
in venomous style. but it is hard to
see in what respect Massachusetts
compares unfavorably with South
Carolina.
South Carolina murdered the father
of the family and should have paid a
handsome indemnity to the family de.
prived by the states lawlessness OF
it's natural protector. There is no
evidence of such a thing having been
done in a single instance in South
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15

THE APPEAL is satisfied that Mr.
Ewing correctly states one of the
causes of our racial hostilities, without
however suggesting any remedy. 1t
can easily be shown that the closer
the races get together, the farther
they get apart. The white man has no
fear Of the lowest type of Negro IS
piring to become his equal or rival;
the lowest type of the race does not
resent the grandfather clause and the
jim crow car. He willing comedies
the superiority of white men, one
and all, highest as we'll as lowest.
But SO accomplished a scholar and
author as DR.. Dubois can not help see-
ing and knowing the immense infer
iority to himself of the greater part
Of the white population of Georgia;
very possibly he doubts the superior
ity Of Joe Brown and Hoke Smith.
Hoke Smith does not like to have
to- look up to see DR.. Dubois; his idea
is that DR.. Dubois ought to have
stayed where he could see him by
looking down. Nearly every white
man feels the same way. When the
old feudal nobleman detected his wife
in adultery with his page, he slew
both and ordered them to be buried
in the same grave, but cried he:
Put my lady on the upper hand,
For she comes of the nobler blood.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
THE SUPREME MOMENT.
The Man, the Crisis and the Sacrifice
His Ideals Demanded.

Ills locals demanded.
Could he make the sacrifice that
her searching eyes seemed to demand
of him? 1t was Of no use to pretend
that they did not. He felt that she
knew that he understood her silent
appeal and that if he failed her now
he would stand disgraced forever in
her sight.
1t was not question of conscience
there was nothing eith:r in their
colorless past of their cherries pres
ent that called for this remuneration
On his part-it was rather some finer
instinct in him that cried out against
letting an innocent woman suffer the
consequences of what was no fault of
hers.
For that matter, he himself was in
nowise 10 blame, and if he did the
thing that doomed before him with
dreary distinctness it would be to sat
isfy his own perhaps too lofty ideals
| rather than for her sake.
Why had fate thrown her upon his
mercy, he impotently wondered in
his desire to put off the decisive mo-
ment.
Those eyes of hers! They stabbed,
they reproached, they eloquently
! pleaded with him. If she would only
turn them away and let him think
the thing out clearly.
One thing was certain If it was to
be done at all it must be done at once.
Every moment that passed helped to
rob the act of any grace it might pos.
sess. Then, too, he felt that some
trace of his struggle was beginning
to write itself On his features, and his
pride cried out against such betrayal
| of his emotions. It must be ended
| here and now. =. "
With a mighty effort he arose and
| bowed. He even tried to smile, but
a sudden lurch of the car nearly threw
him headlong.
Didn't even thank me! They never
do!" he murmured bitterly as he
clutched the strap that hung above
the seat in which she was already
| comfortably settled.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
DIsTANcE-SENS OF THE BLIND
Remarkably Deyeoped in Some
Person.

1t has long been known that some
b,lnd persons can move about in
PAGES that are entirely strange to
them with remarkable degree of
certainty and without coming into COL
nslon with any large object.
Hall a century ago Spallanzani dis
| covered that bats can steer clear of
obstacles in total darkness. In order
10 make sure that the sense of sight
was not employed he blinded some
bats and found that they flew about as
confidently and safely as before.
This experiment proved that warn
ing OF the presence of objects is re-
celVed through some part of the sur
face of the body other than the eyes.
IN the case of blind persons it was
! thought at one time that this warning
| was given by sound waves reflected
| by the objects, but this theory is dis
! proved by a simple experiment.
When a blind mans ears are stopped
! completely the sense of distance re-
mains, although it is greatly dimin-
ished.
| This shows that the sense of dis
| lance is not identical with the sense
| OF nearing, and that distinction
! must be made between the sense of
distance and the directional power
OF the blind. The power depends
chiefly on the sense of distance. but
involves also hearing, smell, the tenn
perature sense and perhaps still other
factors.
1t is a noteworthy fact that the
sense OF distance is not possessed by
all blind persons, but is found only in
a few, and to very different degrees
in these. The blind possessors of
this sense locate it in and near the
forehead, and say that the sensation
is vague and somewhat resembles a
light touch.
From the experiments of Kunz,
Woelff1in and others it appears very
probable that the distance sense is a
function of the sensory fibers of the
trst branch of the nervous tribemi-
nus, which ramifies thu ough the face.
1t is still unknown whether the dis
lance sense is served by special
nerves or by fibers which also serve
the pressure and other Senses An
investigation of the conditions which
favor this sense would be very valua-
Bile, practically as we'll as theoretical
ly, for thorough development of the
distance sense would make the lives
of the blind far safer and more indie
pendent than they are at present.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15

Carolina or any other Southern state,
by either the state or private individ-
uals. We doubt if such thing has
even been thought of much less put
in practice.
And the journal quoted did not even
hint that it would be a cemmendable
thing for South Carolina philanthro-
pists to do something for the relief
of the suffering family, but sneers at
Boston for not doing what it's own
people ought to have done.
The trucking Afro-American, Hart,
who called the attention of the News
contempt of all decent people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
AMERICAN HOTELS LEAD THE WORLD

The proprietor of one of the fore
most hotels in Berlin, Mr.. Louis Ad-
Ion, is now in the United States get
ting points on the management of no.
tells. The continent and England as
we'll has at last been forced to admit
that when it comes to garnering the
ideas that will make attractive the
space within the four walls of a pub
lie hostelry the United States leads
the world. Kings in their palaces
know no greater luxury than the mod
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
THE PASSING OF THE COWBOY

Seymour, Tex, has abandoned its
proposed reunion of cowboys for the
pathetic reason that there are only
a few hundred plainsmen to be found
where once there were thousands.
The turning of the grazing land into
farm lands, the application of the auto
to the uses of ranch life and the sup
preston Of the Indians who used to
make work for the cowboys in pro-
recting ranches has SO cHtai!ed the
usefulness of the rough rider sharp
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15

ern hotel affords to the patron wealthy
enough to pay for the best. Convent
ences impossible in his own home tc
even the man of means are at the
service of the casual hotel guest ir
the United States and have come tt
be accepted as matter of course
Europe has finally sat up to take no
tice, for American tourists educated
in what is best in this direction are
now demanding that the hotels of the
old country be modelled along the
same lines
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15

days that the old familiar haunts nc
longer know him.
Real estate operators found that p
lot of the land used for grazing could
under proper conditions be turned in.
to the most fertile farm land and
yield far greater profit. The life in
Texas underwent a change. The farm.
er began to take the place of the cat.
tleman, and even where the latter
managed to maintain his way he be.
gan to apply new methods to the care
of his herds, and SO the cowboy was
forced further into the West and the
Southwest
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
CANNON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
ATLANTA. oEORaIA
AIMS AND METHODS.

AIMS AND METHODS.
The aim Of this school is to do p:ac-
teal work in helping men towards sue
cess In the ministry. Its course of study
is broad and practical: it's ideas are high;
ITS work is thorough; it's methods ara
fresh, systematic. clear and simple.
COURSE OF STUDY.
The regular course Of study occupies
three years, and covers the lines of work
IN the several departments of theological
instruction usually pursued in the lead
ing theological seminaries of The country
EXPENSES AND AID.
Tuition and room rent are free The
apartments for students are plainly fur
nlShed. Good board can be had for seye:,
dollars per month. Buildings heated by
steam. ~
AID from loans without interest, and
g1tts or friends, are granted to deserv-
Ing Ing students who do their utmost in the
i 1me OF seif-heip: No young man with
of the advantages now opened tt, him
address
REV. J. w. E. BOWEN, d. n.
Pres. Cannon Theological Seminary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
TILL0TS0N COLLEGE

AUSTIN. TEXAS.
The Oldest and Best School in Texas
for Coored Students. Faculty mostly
graduates OF we'll known colleges in the
north. Reputation unsurpassed Manua
training a part of the regular course
Music a special feature of the school.
Srecial advantages for earnest students
seeking to help themselves. Send for
catalogue and circular to
SEW. MARSHALL r. GAINES, A. NJ
President.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
Awakened Sympathy.

when the balmy zephyrs come
stealing DER the scene,' said the
young man with feathery hair
doesn't it make you feel kinder to
ward human nature to dream of beins
on the moonlit lake with your light
guitar waking the echoes with song?'
1T does," answered Mr.. Sirius Bar
ker. 1T makes me feel kinder than
ever did before toward the fellow thai
rocks the boat
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
Looking After Business,

Looking After Business. "".
II like this fiat very well,' she said.
Il will be very glad to rent it to
you,'' replied the landlord.
But we have two children?''
''They need not interfere with YOU
and your husband having the fiat. T
have a house two blocks down the
street which you can rent for the chill.
dren and the nurse.'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15


BOOKER r. WASHINGTON, PRINCIPAL.
WARREN LOGANs Treasurer.
LOCATION
In the Black Belt of Alabama where thu
blacks outnnmber the whites three to one.
ENROLMENT AND FACULTY
Enrolment last year 1253; males. 49,:
FEMALES, 31. Average attendance, >,1O5.~,
Instructors, SO.
COURSE OF STUDY
English education combined with industrial;
;rairing; rs industries in constant operation.
VALUE OF PROPERTY
Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land.
o buildings almost wholly built with student
abor, is valued at S35OOOO. and no mortgage.
$50 annually for the education OF each STU
dent; (S2O0 enables one to finish the course;
81 200 creates permanent scholarship. Students
pay the ir own board in cash and labor J
: -oney in any amount for current expenses
md building.
Besides the work done by graduates as class
room and industrial leaders, thousands &c
reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer.
ence.
Tuskegee is 40 miles east of Montgomery anS
$50 miles west of Atlanta on the Western Rail-
roa0 g. Alabama.
Tuskegee is quiet, beautiful cd Southern
town, and is an ideal place for study. The eli.
Tate is at all times mild and uniform, thus
waking the place al excellent winter resc~'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
BRAINERD INSTITUTE

CHESTER, S. G.
A normal and Industrial school with a
graded course of study. designed to give
a thorough, symmetrical and co,NDlete
English education. and Law a solid foun-
dat1on for success and usefulness in every
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15

The Republican PLATFORM,
adopted at Chicago. explicitly de-
nnndS justice for all men with
out regard to race or color. and
just az explicitly declares for the
enforcement. and without reser-
walton, in letter and spirit Of
the thirteenth. fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the Con-
StitutiOn. Is needless to state
that stand with my party
1 Squnrely on that plank in the
platform. and believe that equal
4 justice to all men and the fair
and impartial enforcement of
these amendments are In keeping
with the real American spirit of
Z fair plny.-HOn. VIM. ii. Taft'S
I speech accepting Republication
! nomination for Presidency.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15

You never know how much good
there is in men until some dark dav
falls on us all
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15

At the Game.
Charley, DEAR said young Mrs.
Torkins, Il am learning lot about
baseball I can pick out the umpire
every time
ooh, you cant"
eyes. He's the gentleman with the
Marcelle waves on his chest"
An Omission.
Knicker-Did your father give you
an auto?
Bocker-Yes, but he didn't endow
II
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1909-05-15
TuSkEGEE
|N0rmal and Industrial Institute
TIlSKEGEE Al ARAA6A

001XI0NE zaI1zADz3MA,
INCORPORATED
Organized July 4, 1881, by the State Legis.
1ature as The Tuskegee State Normal School
Exempt from taxation.
BOOKER r. WASHINGTON, PRINCIPAL.
WARREN LOGAN Treasurer.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-09
The Rust of Custom.

The bitterness toward innovation is
Just the same in an army as out of it.
but perhaps with more reason. A new
thing cannot possibly be accepted I'M
I'll it has proved itself better than that
(which it displaces. The first cannons
were possibly rejected, and the Chris
tan inventor took them to the Turk,
who used them at the siege of Con-
stantinOple. The first firearms were
bitterly opposed because they destroy
ed the sOldierly bearing of the troops.
The British navy strenuously objected
10 the first large guns because one
charge would cost as much as one of
Nelson's broadsides. EricsSon's Mon
flor met with more opposition in
Washington than it did in Hampton
Roads. At the outbreak OF the civil
war it is said that congress ordered
the adoption of the new weapon, over
the objection Of the chief of ordnance,
who kept specimen of the old one in
his Office to show visitors how good it
Was.-Army and Navy Life.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-09
The peviIfish In Action.
ssmf

A naturalist who observed devil.
Ashes in action says that he thought
no more diabolical creature could be
Imagined. They resembled enormous
bats and in following one another
around in circle raised the outer tip
Of one of the long winglike fins high
out Of the water in a graceful curve,
the other being deeply submerged.
They might be seen now gliding down
with a flying motion of the wings.
sweeping, gyrating upward with a
twisting vertical motion marvellous in
ats perfect grace; now they flashed
white, again black, so that one would
say they were rolling over and over,
turning somerSaults. While swimming
along the two great arms or feelers of
the devilfish are whirled about in
constant motion, like the tentacles of
a squid. When these tentacles come
In contact with anything they close
upon it. 1t is generally believed that
this clasping, although at times doinc
considerable harm to fishermen and
their boats, is largely automatic and
that, upon the whole, the devilfish is
timid rather than fighter.