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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-07-24
National Negro
Business League
Convention to DO Held at Louisville,
KY, August 10, 10, 2o.-Fine
Program.-Trip to Mammoth
Cave.

League which is to be held at
Louisville, in ''old Kentucky. .
Wednesday, Thur sday and Fri
day, August 18, 10 and Goth,
promises to be one of the most
interesting and best attended
conventions that has been held
since the organization of the
League at Boston, nine years
ago. The stimulating effect upon
Negro business enterprise which
this League has been exerting
under the direction of DR.. Book.
er T. Washington and his official
staff has been clearly seen and
appreciated and. in part, ex-
plains the Leagues constantly
Increasing membership.
The League welcomes to it's
membership every man and wo
man of the race who is engaged
in some worthy Negro business
enterprise and only a nominal
charge of 81 per year is expect.
ed from each member, which
membership fund is used in pros
ecuting the work and extending
the influence of the organization;
this membership fee of 81 also
procures for each delegate
badge which entities the dele
gate to seat upon the floor of
the convention as we'll as free
admission and service at the an.
nual banquet and at all of the
other social functions provided by
the local committee for the bene-
fit of the delegates.
The central location of Louis
vile, the special railroad rates
that have been secured for all
delegates Ia fare and third. plus
so cent? the excellent program
which is being arranged, and the
many social features and other
attractions which have been pro-
vided for all, indicate an unusu-
ally large attendance. The Off
GERS of TIE local Negro Business
League of Louisville are work
ing energetically to make this
the banner meeting of the Lea
que and the generous provisions
already made for the reception
and entertainment of delegates
and visitors, justifies the predic
ton that all those who attend
will be treated to genuine Ken
lucky hospitality
What promises to be an espec.
tally unique and interesting fea.
ture on the program is known as
mississippi Day." which means
that one entire day will be given
over to the state of Mississippi,
whose delegates will discuss and
illustrate the phenomenal pro.
gress that has been made by Me-
gro men in that state since the
emancipatlcn of the slaves. The
program is nearly completed and
is being carefully prepared by
Mr.. Emmett j Scott, correspond.
ing secretary of the National
League. who has just returned
from Liberia; printed copies will
soon be available.
: On Saturday, August 81,
special excursion to Mammoth
Cave, (46 miles from Louisville,
will be conducted by the Louis
vile Negro League for the bene
fit of the delegates, all of whom
will doubtless be glad to visit
what is universally conceded to
be one of the grandest wonders
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-07-24

UNPAID the pay roll at the city
hall and hush talking about it.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-07-24

The soldier boys made cred.
liable showing this week in camp.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

er and lack of money had much to do with
the former soldiers surrender to the authori.
ties
The records were looked up and it was
found that the man was what he declared him.
SELF to be-a deserter, and nothing less. He
was locked in the guardhouse to await trial,
and the waiting was not long, for a court-mar.
tlal was convened and the result Of the off,
GERS deliberations was sentence of four
years in Fort Leavenworth for the prisoner
Then it was that the deserter began to
think he had been a fool to give himself up
and he began to think of something else as
We'll 1t was just week before Christmas
when the prisoner sat down in has cell and
wrote letter to Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
White House, D. G. Afterward fellow pris-
oner OF the deserter said that he had been
allowed to read the letter before it was sent
to Washington and that it was such an appeal
ing epistle that it made him weep. Mrs. Har.
rlson was told how hard it was to be in prison
during the glad Christmastide when the world
was bright from the reflection of happy faces,
and when, if ever, pardon should come to the
erring.
The presidents wife received the letter
and was so touched that she made it point
at once to interest her husband in the case.
The result was that President Harrison par
doned the prisoner. The young fellow was
o" ouu Ny peiAulssloH lie stayed around
the barracks at Fort Sheridan few hours
before leaving for Chicago
When he left he carried away all the
money which sergeant of F company had
been saving for year to use on furlough The
pardoned one also took gold watch belong
Ing to the first sergeant Of the same company.
That deserter never was caught and as far
as II IS known he never again gave himself
up TO the authorities. There was more than a
1o-
men IN the United States army saw to it that
the tale of the deserters deeds was sent to
the White House in order that the presidents
wife might learn that even a woman and q
presidents wife may sometimes mistake hu.
man nature.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
S2.40 PER YEAR,
PERPETUAL MOTION
Has Chicago Man Solved the
Great Mystery?
Figures Six and Nine Keep Glass
Wheel Turning-Inventor Ex.
plains the Theory of His
Simple Device.

Chicago.-The discovery of perpet-
ual motion, of a sort, is the claim Of
Chicago man, W. L. Saunders; and
picture Of his invention is repro
duced herewith. AS will be seen, the
device consists of a wheel made en-
tlrely of glass with IL hollow glass
balls, on each of which is painted the
figure 49, or the figure 49," according
to its position on the wheel.
Fright there is the principle of the
discovery" says the inventor. "It is
simplicity itself, so simple that it is
wonder nobody has discovered it un-
til now.
"The figures are skies going up and
mines coming down. A nine is more
than a six. The mines going down on
the left overbalance the skies that
are going up on the right and in this
manner the wheel is started and kept
turning without any other power. In
short, a nine is more than a six.
$50 delicate is the adjustment of the
wheels balance that the painted num-
bers are enough to start it going. It
is the first device of the kind that the
government has seen fit to grant
patent on
One of the machines is said to have
run 13 weeks without stopping. The
one on exhibition in Chicago has been
running continuously for two months.
The device is used as a window at,
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
Sailors Seasick- on Mississippi.

The report has reached Memphis OF
three of the sailors getting seasick.
or more properly speaking river
SICK" during the storm which ragged
on the Mississippi river a few nights
ago. Along with the old salts, it is
said, Capt. H. c. Partee, one of the
pilots who steered the torpedo fotilla
to Memphis, who is said to have sui.
fered greatly from seasickness when
the craft was rocking in the turbulent
waters Of "Old Miss"
Sailors who have been accustomed
for years to life on the high seas
were among those who succumbed to
the churning which the storm gave
to the rivers bosom. For nearly two
days those old timers, who have been
wont to scout at the idea of seasick-
ness, were unable to appear on deck
to perform their duties. while Capt
Partee is just recovering from his ex-
perience.
"I take my hat OF to the Mississippi
river" said Lieut.. Mitchell. When
an inland stream can make any Of
those boys sick it can command my
Utmost respect Memphis News
Hcimitar.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
Japanese Abandoning Farm Life.

The hard conditions of living under
the new civilization, with it's heavy
and increasing tax burdens, it's higher
standards, it's intensifying competi-
ton, and its cutting off of all respon-
sibility of overlords, drove the youth
Of the farming families into the cities
for factory or shop employment, thus
shifting population from the rural to
the urban regions, precisely as we
find population shifting in the United
States, and for precisely the same
cause. So that out of the misery of
the farming poor, land speculation in
Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Ma
goya and other cities profited enor.
mously. In all those place population
made amazingly rapid increase.
While there Is considerable scat.
tered sentiment in favor of a small
land-value tax, the political power of
the country is centered in the hands
Of a comparatively few, and the land
ed class can, for the present at least,
hold things as they are.-Henry
George, Jr., in Golfers Weekly.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
RESTORES HARVARD HOUSE
Edward Morris Of Chicago Provides
Free Resort for Americans Visit
ing Shakespeare's Birthplace.

London Harvard house, which was
opened at Stratford-on-Avon by Am
bassador Whitelaw Reid in the pres
7nce of large and distinguished audi
ence, is a historic building which has
been bought and restored by Edward
Morris of Chicago, the work being di.
rected by Marie Corelli, the novelist.
In this house, which was built in
1896, Robert Harvard, the father of
John Harvard, for whom Harvard COL
lege was named. married Katherine
Rogers in 1905. Robert Harvard and
his wife removed to London, where
John Harvard was born in 1907. The
house will be the property of Harvard
university and a free resort for Amer
leans visiting Shakespeare's birth
place.
In restoring it some exceptionally
fine carved woodwork was discovered,
and the structure is considered a fine
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

He picked out of the command five men who
had some music in their souls and provided
them with instruments.
When the British officers arrived and pre-
liminary courtesies had been exchanged they
were shown into a banquet hall with a table
in it's center glittering with silver and with
cut glass. The red-coats ate of delicacies and
of substantials that none of them thought
could be found nearer than New York, and
they drank wine of the kind that needs no
bush.
There were two walters for every guest
and five enlisted men fddled away and blew
at their instruments throughout the 20
courses of the dinner. There were toasts and
toasts and toasts, and it not all over until
about an hour after the host had excused him
self temporarily to attend reveille roll call.
Then came the cold gray light of the week
after. The joy of remembrance of the ban
quet had kept Lieut. FitzGerald's heart up for
the week that had passed. Then the bills
came in from San Francisco In amount they
were $1400. Second Lieut.. FitzGerald's ban
quet had cost 5000 plate.
II the lieutenant should pay the bills the
banquet would mean bankruptcy. The COM
mand1ng officer of the island post passed
night In thought. In the morning there was
look OF relief upon his face. In an hours time
there was ready for transmission to Gen. Nc
DoWell in San Francisco large official en-
velope marked in large letters in red ink "In-
ternational Courtesies"
1nclosed were the bills for pate de foie
gras rare old Burgundy and other things
which never before had found their way to the
northwestern coast. With the Enclosures went
this, written in Lieut.. Michael FftzGerald's
own hand: Excerpt from Maj.Gen. McDow-
ellis instruction: above all things, Mr.. Fitz-
Gerald, observe the rules of international
courtesies.'"
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that he swore, but he ordered that the bills
be paid out of the contingent fund.- and the
memory of that banquet in the wilds of one
of the islands which now forms part Of San
Juan county in the state of Washington, lives
to this day in the minds of several veterans
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
A BookMARk CHURCH.

In Japan, under the guidance Of Rev. David
8. Spencer as presiding elder, many of the
native churches have been engaged in strong
effort toward self-support The Toyohashi
church was built Of the proceeds of the sale
OF silk bookmarks made by the members of
the congregation. These silk slips with tas-
sells were sold by friends in other lands. Some
OF the workers made elegant embroidered silk
handkerchiefs, which are also sent for sale
among the people of the home land The ia
panese are showing themselves in labors and
patience true types of the Christian
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
Crossing the Channel on a Plank.

A day or two after Bleriot's sue
cessful flight across the English chan.
mel man named Westlake announced
his intention of crossing on plank
two feet wide 18 feet long and two
inches thick, fitted with mast and
sail and two empty oil drums to give
it buoyancy. Westlake, however, was
picked up more dead than alive of
the Belgian coast, but still hopes to
accomplish the feat
A few days later Thomas Wakerell
set out to row across the channel in a
boat of his own construction, consist
ing of two planks, with sides a few
inches high. He was ultimately
picked up in the North sea and land
ed at Rotterdam.
Some two or three years ago four
old Etonians attempted to row from
Dover to Calais in a four-car sculling
boat, but before they got half way
across the channel the boat was
swamped and the crew nearly
drowned That it is not impossible
however, to cross the channel in a
small boat was proved some time ago
by young French man named Felix
Chauchois, who, alone and unaided
crossed from Dover to Calais in a
canoe in q hours and seemed little
the worse for his adventurous voyage.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
CONDENSED COURTESY.
Wise Club Member Wheatcaked German Bar
on Instead of Wineing and Dining Him.

A German baron-he said-blew into New
York and got acquainted with some clubmen.
He was put up at a club by one of them for
the customary two weeks and paid his bills
promptly.
There was great surprise when the man
who put him up refused to make an applica-
tion for renewal of the courtesies of the club
for the baron Club members were indignant
about it and one of them had new card
issued. -
The baron appreciated the compliment and
entertained lavishly. He left without paying
his bills and the member who volunteered the
second time had to SETTLE IL
did you lose anything?" he asked tho
man who had stood sponsor first time.
NO" he said. 'I didn't wine and dine him.
like you. I took him out one day and wheat
caked him."-Saturday Evening Post
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
Windv Willis.

AS contrast to the short will of e. II
Hartman, one might mention the will of the
late Lord Grimthorpe, in the framing Of which
no fewer than 11,070 words were used; and
that of Mr.. Edward Bush, retired Gloucester
engineer, who died last autumn worth Ella
813, and disposed of it in will containing
$4,000 words-Strand.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

plies arrived
at FitzGerald's
quarters.
The American
officer was no
mere di n n e r
giver. The in
vitations which
he sent to the
six British Of
fcers were en-
graved, bore the
arms of the
United States
in colors and
announced a
banquet.
It took Lieut..
FitZGerald a
full week to un-
pack the boxes
which had come
from San Fran
cisco. He told
about 10 of his
enlisted m 9 n
that it would
not do for an
American off,
Ger to be out
done in hospi-
tality by the
British. Forth
W i t h he in
structed t h e m
carefully in du-
fioc &C uyaitorc
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
Harvard House.

example of late sixteenth century con-
struction.
Lately it has been used as a bust
ness place of a firm of auctioneers,
and is said to have cost Mr.. Morris
$6,750, with as much more expended
for restoration.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

against the governments treatment
of suffragette prisoners.
The demonstration took the form of
a rush on the chancellor as he was
making his way to his motor car from
the Palace theater, in which he had
addressed an audience on the subject
Of the budget.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
Veqetarians in Dispute.

English vegetarians are awfully sore
On the Japs for proving traitors to
their old vegetarian mode of living.
and are predicting endless calamity,
even ruin, saying: when rice-eating
peoples take up meat the result is al
ways disastrous to their health" Japs
know what to eat, and are too wise
to listen to any British advice In
tended to weaken them as WARRIORS
New York Press.
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

The United States was represented hv one
company OF the old Ninth infantry, command
ed by Second Lieut.. Michael FitzGerald Fitz-
Gerald was the only American commissioned
officer in the field. Not far awav from his
headquarters were two companies of British
regulars with full complement of officers.
Before FITZGERALD and his command were
sent to the island, occupied in part by the
British, Gen. Mcdowell who commanded the
division of the Pacific sent for the second
lieutenant for the purpose of impressing upon
him the delicate nature of his mission.
above all things, Mr.. FtzGerald," said
the general "observe the rules of international
courtesy"
''Pll do it, general answered the second
lieutenant promptly, "and no war will grow
out of my treatment Of the redc coats"
The British and American garrisons were
only few miles apart. When Lieut. Fitz-
Gerald finally became comfortably fixed in his
quarters and feeling the full weight of
being not only company commander but COM
mandng officer of United States garrison as
we'll, he was called upon in turn by each Of
the half-dozen relocated officers stationed be-
yond the hill. FitzGerald returned the calls
promptly and shortly thereafter he was in
vited to dine with the six Englishmen his
hosts.
At that dinner the American lieutenant
was entertained royalty. There was nothing
in the British garrison that was too good for
him, and, as the veterans say to-day, "Fitz-
Gerald afterward told his comrades in the
states, 1T was a wet night" ....... 49,.
When FITZGERALD returned to his quarters
and three weeks had passed away he made up
his mind that it was time to prepare to return
in some way the hospitality of the English
men. He took an account of the provender at
hand and found that the supply at his disposal
were the ordinary army rations and jug
of whisky.
There nothing fit for banquet such
as FitzGerald was to give, nearer than San
Francisco. The second lieutenant was man
of expedients The next boat to San Francisco
carried some communications to certain sup
nly houses. and not long afterward the sup
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

SIX ANY gray-haired
retired-list American
soldier in Washington
for an army story and
instantly he will start
to tell you of the tale
of Lieut.. Michael Fitz-
Gerald's dinner party.
1t is a favorite army
yarn, but not often
does it find it's way
outside of the circle of
the blue.
Lieut.. Michael Fitz-
Gerald became Major
Michael FitZGera1d in
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

course of time and because of wounds
received in the very forefront Of a
battle for his adopted country he was
placed upon the retired list of the
army. He died within a few months
at his quiet little home town in Penn
sylvania.
The dinner Of Lieut.. FITZGERALD was
an international episode. Some Of
the elders will remember that it was
not until shortly after the close of
the civil war that the last echo was
heard of the dispute between Great
Britain and the United States over
territory in the northwest The ones-
tion of the ownership of the islands
between Vancouver and WASHINGTON
territory was still unsettled. The two
governments in order not to lose pres.
tige felt it necessary to maintain gar.
riSOnS on the diSDuted grounds
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
COUNTESS SENT 70 PRISON
Lady Constance Lytton Placed In Jail
Tor Taking Part in suffragette
... ~. Demonstration.

Newcastle, yEngland.-Lady Con.
stance LYtton and Mrs. H. N. Brails:
ford, arrested following suffragette
demonstration against David Lloyd
George, chancellor of the exchequer,
were sentenced to months imprison-
ment. -,
Mrs. Brailsford is the wife of a for
mer leading writer on the London
Daily News, who resigned his editorial
position week ago as a protest
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

In Arlington cemetery,
just across the Potomac
from Washington lies the
body of John G. Bourke,
who in life was an officer
of the fighting Third cav
o1rv NToior po,,r1rose 1oSt
The Appeal., 1909-11-06

of the English service, a1td
has a place in the story
telling groups Of the Amer
ican army as IAN interna-
tional episode" !
The Appeal., 1909-11-06
Perpetual Motion Machine

traction, no claim being made that the
principle is available for furnishing
power, etc.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-03-24
NOTICE OF REDEMPTION OF
BONDS OF KAHUKU PLAN
TATION COMPANY.

Kahuku Plantation Company, pur-
suant to the terms of that certain
Deed of Trust dated September &c.,
1899, made by it to the Hawaiian Trust
& Investment Company, Limited, here
by gives notice to the holders of bonds
of Kahuku Plantation Company, issued
under said Deed Of Trust, of the cleo
ton of said Kahuku Plantation Com
pany to redeem and pay and Of the
redemption and payment of tue fol-
lowing numbered bonds of said Ka-
huku Plantation Company, on the Slst
day of March, 1909, at the office of the
Hawaiian Trust Company, Limited,
Honolulu, County of Oahu, Territory
of Hawaii, to-wit:
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-03-24
REPORTS FROM MEXICO
AROUSED CALIFORNIA

Americans would all be killed OF. |
told the Mexican foreman to find out
all he could from others, and he re-
ported to me that they all talked alike;
that they hated the Americans and
geoing to kin them just as they did
the Russians.
In Cudad Poriirio Diaz | often saw
one who was manifestly a high Off
Ger, wearing as he did an ofiicerc
undress uniform. A reputable bust
ness man told me that he was an army
officer, and that he was getting maps
and pictures of the frontier He told
me that the Japanese had a room full
of blueprints and photographs. There
was also a very bright Japanese,
speaking English fluenty, and said to
be a rihee, who purchased cameras
and Photographic material by whole
sale, as | accidentally learned.
The immigration authorities on the
bridge at Eagle Pass do their work
thoroughly and intelligently but | am
quite sure that not one-tenth part Of
the Japanese whom | have seen dur
ing the past two years headed for the
Rio Grande ever tried to cross the
bridge. Both above and below Eagle
Pass is vast territory almost I'M
settled, on either side, and the river
can easily be crossed with boats, while
am told that here are many places
where it can be forded at low water
There is a little town about miles
south of Diaz where there are a num-
Der of Japanese and Chinese employ
ed at coal mine. | became pretty
well acquainted here, ana finally had
my attention attracted by some sus-
picious movements. The Chinaman
who was the boss" at the village was
a pretty good friend of mine, and one
day after had seen and heard some
things that were suspicious | taxed
him in private with knowing some
thing about smuggling Chinese and
Japanese across the river He ac-
knowledged that ! was right, and
when l asked him how much it cost,
he said the rate was $500 Mexican. |
asked him how they got across and
he said by a boat but he would not
tell me where the crossing was made.
| reported to the immigration inspec-
tors on the bridge at Eagle Pass that
was something doing" in the way of
smuggling at the rate of $500 a head,
I but as the Chinaman whom l bluffed
out of the information had done sew
eral friendly services for me | did not
feel warranted in giving him away.
The bulk of the immigration that
l have noted occurred during the last
three months of 1906 and all Of 1907
There had been some during 1908,
down to the time l was transferred
from the main line of the railroad to
this place, but since September l
have no knowledge.
1t would be of interest to know just
how many Japanese immigrants were
reported crossing the Diaz-Eagle Pass
bridge during 1907-S. That thousands
got across the river in some way is
well known to many Americans in
Mexico, who had an opportunity to
see something fit or themselves.
And it is not at all unlikely that the
experience of this particular line of
travel was repeated both by the La
redo and the Ell Paso routes.
If I can be of any service in fur
nishing further information in this
direction, l shall be glad to do so.
! If you will ask Congressman Know