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The Appeal., 1909-11-20
ILL. CONGRESSIONAL DIS
= TRICT,

> Unless all prediction signs fail,
VIM. j. Moxley, the staunch friend of
Senator William Lorimer. will have a
walk over in the Sixth Illinois Con-
gressional District. Gov. Deneen, ex-
Gov. Yates, Speaker Cannon, John
Maynard Harlan and all the big guns
OF the party are lined up with Senator
Lorimer in his great fight for the
party. The Afro-Americans of Chi
cago are with Col. Moxley to a man,
and all who live in the Sixth District
may be counted on to vote straight on
the 23d for Moxley and the G. O. P.
The Appeal., 1909-11-20

Washington finishing schools in
stigmatizing his daughter as of an in.
ferior caste, and refusing her admit
tance. The Senator could not make
much headway in rebuking the. prin-
cipal of a Finishing school, for pro-
scribing Jewish females, so long as
he is making such strenuous efforts
to prescribe thousands of intelligent
worthy citizens of his own state.
The Appeal., 1909-11-20

! the Afro a American nc in Mississippi, is
lit not?
It is very easy to deduce the con-
clusion that the nation most ad-
vanced in civilization, which the most
rapid-fire guns and readnaughts can
so arrange matters that his less civ
j ilized neighbor shall be incapable OF
self-elevation.
The Appeal., 1909-11-20
An exchange says:

perhaps one of the best evidences
of good times is afforded by the dia-
mond trade. The Importation of dia-
monds during September is reported
to have been greater than in any cor
responding period ina the history of
the trade
But people generally are much more
interested in the price of butter than
that of diamonds; SO what they need
is proof that forty cents pound but
ter is an evidence of good times.
The Appeal., 1909-11-20

For an Afro-American to get justice
from the courts of the South in any
case in which he is opposed to a
white man is the rarest of occurrences
in that section. That the poor man
same footing before the courts is true
all over the world, but in the South
conditions are worse than anywhere
else.
The Appeal., 1909-11-20
CANNON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA

AIMS AND METHODS.
D., The aim of this school is to do prac-
tlcal work in helping men towards sue
cess in the ministry. It's 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.
I'M, Ihe regular course Of study occupies
three years, and covers the lines of work
IN N st tne several departments of theological
iinstruction usually pursued in the lead
ing theological seminaries of the countrv
EXPENSES AND AID.
du1tlon and room rent are free. The
apartments for students are plainly furo
nlshed. Good board can be had for seva,,
ata.ars stesn?' per month. Buildings heated by
r,tAl Ald from loans without interest. and
E1ts fna OF TRENDS, are granted to deserv-
t1rs sms IS students who do their utmost in the
grace, gf gifts. and energy. need be derived
in Gd Inc tne Gadvantages now opened tc him
address 'oi par'Aculars
REV. j. w. e. BOWEN, d. n.
Pres. Cannon Theological Seminary
The Appeal., 1909-11-20
This may seem a very unimportant

This may seem very unimportant
incident, but it is one of great signifi-
canoe, since it refers to the matter of
gaining a living. It is the testimony
of the railroads of the country to the
of industry, the Afro-American has no
rival. .-...
The Appeal., 1909-11-20
TlLL0TS0N c0Ll,E(,E:

AUSTIN. TEXAS.
The Oldest and Best School in Texas
for Colored Students. Faculty mostly
graduates of well known colleges in the
North. Reputation unsurpassed. Manua
training a part Of the regular course.
Music a special feature of the school.
Special advantages for earnest students
The Appeal., 1909-11-20


unor DeeoWater Of
can VINO Is Now Battling for Republican
Illinois
senator Wn Lorimer
Yates J0hn MAYNARD Harlan and several other big
Oeen great light
or co., Wm Moey the regular Republican
of Republican
Senator Secures Delivery for
senator
would
posomce inspector
1e"
e~0 Nl0A 'NA 'AO ~N1AA3 VI A0 '03Aen'"
cne delivery
osohe authorities at Washington
NOW that the request has
expected that
The Appeal., 1909-11-20

The Republican platform,
, adopted Mt Chicago, explicitly de-
, mands justice for all men with
, out regard to race or color, and
, just as explicitly declares tor the
, enforcement, and without reser-
HntiOn. in letter and spirit of
the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the Con-
stitutiOn. is needless to state
that I stand with my party
squarely on that plank in the
PLATFORM, and believe that equal
Justice to all men and the fair
and impartial enforcement of
these amendments are in keeping
with the real American spirit Of
fair play.-HOn. VIM. III. Taft's
speech accepting Republication
} nomination for Presidency.
The Appeal., 1909-11-20
He MARYLAND VILLAINY AND
SENATOR RAYNER

The defeat of tho Maryland vii
lainy. by which it Was proposed to
disfranchise $4,000 aintelligent Re-
publicans, because Of their race, was
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Classical
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felloW-feeling for those comparatively
few Jews who have turned to vice. to
graft, or to other wrongdoing as a
source of income"
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BRAINERD INSTITUTE

CHESTER, S. C..
"A normal and industrial school with
gra4ed course of study. designed to give
q thorough, symmetrical and cemnlete
Enghsh education. and lay a solid foun-
t.aan udelon Tor SUCCESS ard usefulness in everv
VOCATION OF life. Board and boarding hall
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1lNGLE COPY. ONE YEAR... co
SINGLE COPY. SIX MONTHS. Ito
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THE APPEAn.

ST. PAUL OFFICE
No. 336 Union Block, 4th & Cedar.
j. q. ADAMS. Manager
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
ChlIdren's Sayings.

Wordsworth's lines OF the child at
play, "as II his whole vocation were
endless imitation" were recently re.
called by a conversation overheard in
the children's ward at the John Hop.
kins Hospital.
A little girl OF mine, whose role was
that Of nurse, rang an imaginary tele.
phone on the wall to talk to her com.
panion at the farther end of the room,
who played the part of doctor.
"Hello!" said the nurse. "Is this
the doctor?"
YES" answered a deep voice; "this
Is the Doctor"
This lady is very SICK" he was in.
formed
well, what seems to be the trou,
ble?" a bit grufny.
"She has swallowed whole bottle
OF ink!" said the nurse.
The doctor, not llurried, inquired
what had been done for the patient;
but the nurse, too, was ready in emer-
gencies She answered.
81 gave her two large pads of blot.
ting paper!"
Ben, aged 5, was inclined last au-
tumn to dispute the fact, as taught
him by his father, that God gave him
all he had After an incredulous even
those peanuts from the store?" he
yielded to an older mind, and, screw.
ing his eyes tight shut, continued his
evening prayer.
After asking a blessing for each
member OF the family, he said,-
THANK God for the peanuts and my
express wagon" adding after a slight
pause, but, oh, Lord, you certainly
did send baby some wormy chestnuts."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
THE POWER OF WATER.
A Stream from q Firemsn's Hoeo VIII
Knock a Man Down.

When man goes in swimming at
the seashore and slars the wG,er for
cibly with his hand, or takes back
dive from a pier and lands square.y
on his back, he realizes that the un-
stable liquid offers not a little resist
ance. Yet, says writer in the New
York Tribune, 1t would surprise almos.
anybody to see what water will do un-
der certain conditions.
A stream from fireman's hose will
knock a man down. The Jet from n
nozzle used in placer-mining in the
West eats away large piece of land
in a day, toys with great boulders as
II they were pebbles, and would shoot
a man over the country as though he
were a projectile from a cannon.
There is story of an Eastern
blacksmith who went West and made
a bet that he could knock hole
through the Jet of one of these noZ-
zles with sledge-hammer He lifted
his arms. swung the sedge, and came
down on the ten.inch stream with a
force that would have dented an anvil.
But the Jet, never penetrated. whisked
the massive hammer out of the black.
smiths hands, and tossed it several
hundred feet away into the debris OF
gold-bearing gravel beneath a crum-
bling cliff. After this the blacksmith
left out iron when he spoke of hard
substances.
There is also a power plant near
Durango, Colorado. where United
States cavalryman one day thought he
had an easy job in cutting q twoinch
stream with his sword. He made a
valiant attack. The result was that
his sword was shivered in two and
his wrist broken.
A little thinner Jet of water descend
ing sixteen hundred feet to a manu-
factory at Grenoble. Spain, and travel
ing at the moderate speed of one hun
dred yards second, fractures the best
blades of Toledo.
or course some people will not be-
lieve such stories without having seen
the thing, and one may think 1t a
proof Of the scientific imagination to
say that an inch-thick sheet OF water,
provided 1t had sufficient velocity,
would ward off bombshells as we'll as
steel plate.
Nevertheless. many persons, while
travelling, have seen a brakeman put
a small hydraulic Jack under one end
OF Pullman car and lift twenty tons
or so by few leisurely strokes of the
pump handle; and the experience Of
riding every day in hydraulic eleva.
tor tends to remove doubts OF the
magic power possessed by water hitch.
ed to a machine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
PSYCHOLOGY OF CLEAN SHIRTS.
First inclination to Send Linen to
Laundry Must Be Famed.

Chicago. Ill.-In sending shirt to
laundry and repeating the perform
ance a man goes through varied psy-
Geological states, according to A. f.
Sheldon, of Libertyville, H., in com.
muncation to the annual convention
of laundrymen in session here.
First he feels an interest in send
ing his shirt to be laundried," says Mr..
Sheldon "But before he actually does
tn deed his mind must be built up
to the intenseness of DESIRE" This, it
is explained is the work of the boy
who solicits trade. THE desire must
blaze up until it m,lts the will" Mr..
Sheldon continues, 1T is not until
the will is touched that the decision is
really made to have the work done"
This is also said to be the business OF
the boy"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
Cost of Railroad Ties.

The railroads of this country are
each year calling for more crossties,
and they are rapidly shrinking in
number and increasing in cost. The
total number of ties purchased in
1907 was 153,699,620. an increase of
50,S65,57S over 1906. The total cost
of the crossties purchased in 1907 was
$7S,95S, S95, an average of 81 cents a
tie. The increase in total cost was,
therefore, S30,139,571, or 61.7 per cent.
For 1907 the highest average cost, SO
cents, was reported for redwood ties.
Many experiments have been made
with metal ties, with view of finding
a substitute for wood, but nothing
satisfactory has yet been produced.
Several of the leading roads have
large tracts of trees growing, and man
in dozen years or more may be able
to supply their own wants. Growing
trees on railroad lands seems to be
the most practical way to provide for
the future.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
THIS MAN BOASTS
256 DESCENDANTS
They Are All Living and Moses
Russell Sends Complete List to
Former Pres. Roosevelt
IS WORLDS RECORD, He SAYS
Patriarch OF Adirondacks Lives at
MORA, N. Y, with His Generations
Be this country's Largest Family.

Malone. n. "a patriarch of mod
eru days is reported from the town
of Moira a resident of which an
nounces, with no little pride. that he
has just counted up and finds that he
has 25G living descendants-13 chill
dren 80 grandchildren, 139 great
grandchildren and great-great-
grandchildren This father of many
living generations Is Moses Russell.
who was born in st. ROGUE, Canada,
and came to Franklin county in 1887.
He lived at various times in North
Bangor, Potsdam, Parishville and Col
ton. Forty-flve years ago he settled
in Mora. He was married sixty-nine
years ago to Rosa Larocque, to whom
were born five children, three of
whom are living After the death of
his wife, Russell married Mary Bar
low, to whom were born ten children.
all of whom are now living within
mile of the old home.
For several weeks the Russells have
been gathering data on the numerical
strength of the family and they have
forwarded to former President Roose-
welt, in the belief that he will be in
terested, the following list OF chill
dren. together with their living de.
scendants: Great
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
SKETCHES A P|CKPOCKET
New York Artist Sends Drawing to Po-
lice Commissioner Bingham and
Crook Gets Eiaht Years.

New York City.-An artist who has
refused to make his identity public. a
few weeks ago saw pickpocket at
work on Hoboken ferryboat. He
quickly sketched the man on postal
card and mailed it to Police Commits
sioner Bingham. William Springer,
an Englishman. was arrested on the
strength of the postal card sketch.
and he was sentenced to eight years
In Sing Sing for stealing a diamond
ring and S5j from Jacob Schneider OF
No. 5l7 West 162d street.
Schneider's pockets were picked
when he was a passenger in q street
car in the Bronx on February q last.
Tie gave to the police description of
the man he suspected of the crime,
and a few days afterward Bingham
received the postal card. The sketch
on the card fitted the description CIV
on by Schneider. Detectives were sent
out and they found Springer in a
street car. He denied he was a thief,
but Schneider afterward picked him
out of a long line of men. On the pos
tai card the artist wrote he had seen
the original of his sketch attempting
to pick pockets on the ferryboat.
Springer was convicted, jury return.
ing a verdict after two minutes de-
liberation. He denied that he had
police record in England His photo
graph and thumb prints were sent to
Scotland Yard, and yesterday came
the reply that Springer had served
fourteen short terms in English pris-
ons for picking pockets and "other
roguery." The Scotland Yard report
was read to Springer and he said:
Yes. | am the man"
He was taken without delay before
Judge O'Sullivan, in the Court of Spe.
cia Sessions, to receive sentence. He
said he had escaped long sentences in
England by pleading guilty before
Magistrates whose powers of sentenc-
ing are limited. Judge O'Sullivan de-
scribed him as a dangerous crook"
and imposed sentence.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
SECRET Observation-Disclosures
No Ono Ever Heard Of a Detective
BeInu Killed.

Funny thing, but can you remem-
Der ever having heard or read Of a
Secret Service operator having been
murdered?" 1t was an old New York
detective speaking. "Of course you
haven't, and yet they are in line OF
work in which men are killed now and
then, in spite of the fine way in which
all the Secret Service men stand
by each other The fact Is that
the Secret Service keeps the
murder of one of its agents
Just as secret as some important mat
ter of State it has discovered. The
Secret Service man when he joins
knows that If he dies in the discharge
Of his duty he simply disappears and
becomes az one who never lived. His
relatives never know.
They are told he has gone on
some far distant mission, in which he
finally disappears and they begin to
receive his pension. Yet, while the
murderer of Secret Service man Is
never arrested or punished for the
crime, never even accused, he is pun
ished just the same.
81 remember the case Of Secret
Service man who was stabbed to death
after midnight by an infuriated Italian
counterfeiter in Mulberry street. not
half mile from Police Headquarters.
A Secret Service man drove up swift
ly in cab intended for the captured
counterfeiter. The dying man was put
in before he had left much blood on
the pavement to tell Of the murder.
He died next day. No one ever heard
Of 1t nor Of any punishment for this
murderer. But the counterfeiter was
shortly after brought up for counter
feiting and got sentence long enough
to keep him in State prison for the
rest Of his life"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
TOOTH BRUSHES FOR COWS.
Hygiene Craze Spreads Into All Walks
of Life.

Paris. France.-F'Tance has the hy-
ried so far as insistent on the neces.
sity of tooth brushes for mich cows,
because their mouths are "veritable
hotbeds of microbes"
Fashionable hygienists have already
prohibited te coffee and chocolate on
the ground that they encourage gout.
They now declare that pure and harm.
lo 5 milk hardly exists at all. Even
ii the COW Is not suffering from tuber-
culosis, it's milk has been contami-
mated by the hands of a milkmaid.
Professor Metchnikoff has now a
large following of French people who
refuse to eat fruit unless it has been
cooked or washed in sterilized water
ICilet water Is only considered safe
after having Deen boiled two or three
times, and cen bathing water should
be boiled
Servants who wait at table, say the
hygiene cranks should wear gloves
which are boiled after each meal and
dried by hot air. in order to avoid all
risk of contamination of the food, and
they should, after washing their hands
with soap and boiled water, cleanse
them in alcohol.
II hygiene is to be regarded, all ami
mals-even the canary-must be ban
ished fr~m he house. They are capa-
Bile of communicating contagious dis
eases. ,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
KNEW HUMAN NATURE.
The Wiles of the willy Medical Fa-
lsir Are Many and Various

Two belligerent appearing men
faced each other.
You're a liar"
you're a yellow pup"
Fight" shrieked a small boy
Then a crowd of curious began to
gather in front of the Grant build
ing in upper Market street.
IF you're looking for trouble
guess / can give 1T to YOU" Kissed
the liar" between his teeth.
You can place bet that l in
tend to see things to a finish" re-
piled the pup" striking a fighting
pose.
Come around the corner where
cop won't bother us. then" said
the first. and. war thus declared, the
duo hastened around to an empty lot
behind the post-ofiice, while a crowd
of bloodthirsty men and boys logged
at their heels.
Arrived, the liar" mounted
wooden platform newly built, while
the pup" dove into a dry goods box
and extracted therefrom a bulging
suitcase.
while the doctor gets out the
packages of our magical herbs. guar
anteed to cure cancer, bunions. all
skin diseases. etc, will entertain
you with few sleight-of-hand
tricks" announced the liar" in
you with few sleight-of-hand
stentorian tones.
The crowd then realized that 1t
had been gulled. A few on the out
skirts skunk away. but the majority
remained to fall victims to the wiles
of the willy medical fakirs and their
cureall at 81 per package, and
pair Of cuff buttons warranted solid
gold. thrown in"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
Conservation.

The resources of the earth are the
basis of our national wealth. BY
means Of them alone. in material
things, comes leadership among the
nations. The conservation movement
now fully under way embraces the for
est movement as one OF it's sources
and great divisions. Thus the cause
OF forest conservation throughout the
country has won powerful ally and
a more effective support for the work
that lies Just before us.-Gifford Pin.
chot in New England Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20

Mauritius stamp (unused) wa sold
for the record price of s7,250 The
owner of this rare prize secured the
stamp forty years ago when making .
boys collection at school,
The value of this particular stamp
results from the fact that by an en-.
graver's error the words Post Office"
were substituted for Post Paid"
This was soon discovered, the issue
recalled, and the plates destroyed
but meanwhile few copies of tn
stamp had got into public use.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
The Law and the Profits.

1t is always relreshing," says a
Cleveland lawyer, Ito hear of an at
torney who will not undertake a
shady case. | konw of at least one
such, a lawyer in Toledo.
AT one time a chap in business
in that town known to be practising
questionable methods sought to re-
tain the Toledo lawyer, and was
smoothing over his crooked conduct
as well as he knew how. when the
attorney astonished him by exclaim-
ing:
i think you have acted like an
Internal scoundrel, sir!'
Is there any charge for that
opinion?" asked the man, as he rose
to go.
Yes, sir; five dollars"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
Satan Terried.

There is as great genius displayed
in advertising as in the higher
branches Of literature. says Woman's
Home Companion. No problem
daunts the modern advertising man.
In the window Of little book
store in Eighth avenue, New York,
was recently heaped a great pile Of
bibles. marked very low-never be-
fore were bibles offered at such q
bargain: and above them all. in big
letters, was the inscription:
Satan trembles when he sees
Biblss sold a. low ~ these"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
Photoaraphy on Balloons.

The balloon is rapidly being gradu.
ated from the scientific toy and circus
attraction class to the more utilitaria1
uses. Atmospheric phenomena Of
higher attitudes are studied almost ex
c,ugiyely by means of kites and bal.
looms; in campaign the war balloon
affords an Indispensable auxiliary, and
for exploration purposes and dirigible
a,rsh'ls ii has a field with immense
possibilities One of the most novel
purposes to which IL has been pro.
pO'cd to employ captive ballons is as
an adjunct t0 survey ships to assist
= lcr7tirg shadows and rocks. 1t ia
r3.ate3 out that shallow sea waters
2ro red,iy d!sceTnaOle from a height
81 t@o variation in color which they
sac" compared to surrounding
5ett'-.
With the assistance of photography
-r@ ? c7Dtive balloon, operated from q
~ Is deck 1t is declared tortuous
oGourels and submerged rocks can be
'"~"t"d with facility and eXactness.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
Plant that Prevents Mosquitoes.

Washington, d. c. - Consul-Gen
Guenther, at Frankfort, reports that
the Director of Fisheries at Biebrich
after experiments covering fourteen
years. has found that the most relia'
BILE safeguard against mosquitoes In
stagnant waters is the growing Of the
various kinds of the semi-tropical
plant arzolla. The plant covers the
water with layer of about 1882
inches. which suffocates all the mos.
quito larvae below and prevents the
living insects from depositing their
eggs In the water.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-05-20
HER SKELETON FOUND IN CAVE.
Woman's Strange Disappearance Ex-
planned After 20 Years.

st. Alban3. Vt.-Having been a mys.
terry for more than twenty years. the
strange disappearance of Mrs. Matil.
da Moss of Benson, Rutland county,
was solved by the finding of her skele
ton near the mouth of cave. The
strange disappearance of the woman
is remembered clearly by he. former
: townfolk. who say she and her hus.
band. John Moss, lived happily for fif-
teen years, until q man named Isaac
Ierrill came between them.
Mr. and Mrs. Moss were at a coun-
try dance when they met Terrill. The
intruder's attentions 10 Mrs. Moss an
gered her husband ano there was a
fight that resulted in the dance end.
ing abruptly. Two days after the
fight Mrs. Moss disappeared. Her hus-
band said she committed suicide by
jumping into the river but her body
was not found. The authorities kept
Moss undtr surveillance for time
bat no e,:dence against him was OBJ.
timed, and he left the State.
George p. Norton and his son Frank
were out hunting when they discover
ed cave near Roots Pond. They
struck a match and peered into the
cave. Close to the opening they saw
a human skeleton, and dragged it out.
Dy the heap of bones was locket, in
wEich was small picture of Moss.
On one side of the lock-t was in
scribed Matilda Moss, 1887"
1t is beneved here that Mrs. Moss
was ta'yen TO the cave bound, and left
IN the darkness to starve to death.