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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-24
Married sixty Years.

Iowa Falls, May 21.-While golden
weddin anniversaries are quite com
mon, Mr.. and Mrs. P. M. Edwards OF
Alden in celebrating the sixtieth an
niversary of their wedding, have gone
the usual record ten years better.
They were married in Newark, N. j..
May, 1850, and for three score years
have been permitted to travel LIES
pathway together.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Downing near
Troy visited with their uncle Richard
Conner Sunday.
The NJ. E. Sunday school vii have
Childrens duy June 5.
Miss Ora Strait of Keosauqua spent
Sunday with her cousin Coda Strait,
Frank Moss of Fairfield spent few
days here last week.
Miss Wealthy Countryman Of Donds
Leando spent last week with Alresta
Sadler.
Mr. and Mrs. Sadler and Abbie Con-
ner were shopping in Milton Thurs
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-24

The Courier in its issue today pub
fishes the full text of the commission
plan law. This subject is now before
the people of Ottumwa and the law as
given in full should be carefully read.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-24

ity that this man has a spark Of or
binary intelligence that would prevent
him from attaining the North Dakota
ideal Of juryman.
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Tuesday May II, 1910, Margarett;t
Selring, daughter of Abraham and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-24
LlBERTYvlLl

LIBERTYVlLLE. =
Mrs. Ward Yost was visiting in Of
tumwa Friday.
Denton Tedlow left Wednesday for
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
NOT A SPECIAL RACIAL DE-
PRAVITY.

The Afro-American has been often
and severely censured on account of
his having changed his "lcngin' fur
de ole plantation" to a longin'" to-
hike to town and there abide.
This has been attributed by South
ern savans to a special racial deprav-
ity, to which the "superior' race was
not subject, but the latest develop
ment upon the subject shows that the
white man is doing exactly what the
Afro-American has been so berated
for doing: that is, moving to town.
Very eminent authorities are salts
fled that if the present conditions con-
tinue, in a few years our population
will not produce enough for it's own
consumption and will be compelled to
import what it now exports.
During the past year, Argentine, for
the first time, exported more grain
than this country did; and Of, course,
bought all her supplies from the coun-
tries to which she sold her products.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
is HEELlN A CHRISTIAN?

Representative Heflin of Alabama
preached at Central Union Mission,
Washington, D. c., Sunday night on
'The Christian Spirit"
Evidently he was talking on a sub
ject with which he was little acquaint-
ed. For years he has labored like a
iend to misrepresent and injure a
class of people who compose a large
percentage of the population of his
congressional district.
Because the Afro-Americans are
cheated out Of their votes, Hefiin is
able to represent Alabama in Con-
gress. He has no moral right to the
place, and if he were a true Christian
he would scorn to accept a place to
which he is not entitled.
It was Heflin who suggested that
President Roosevelt should have been
blown up with dynamite because he
entertained an Afro-American at din
iASA. Id IudC oil CFlUSllCe VI NIIlS-
tianity?
Heflin, in his efforts to have some
of his fellow citizens labeled as pa.
riahs has introduced a number of
jimcrow measures in Congress. Is
that the Christian Spirit?
Hef1in spends lot of his time writ
ing articles and making public speech
es against his brothers in black. Is
that the Christian Spirit?
Some time ago Hef]in shot and dam
gerously wounded two men, one an
Afrc-American, the other a. Caucasian.
He came near being a murderer
Christ never tried to kill anyone,
Judging Hef1in by his life and deeds,
he is not Christian, but a lieutenant
of Satan.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
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The Appeal., 1910-03-12

THE APPEAL quotes the foregoing
as an excellent sample of absurd ar
gumeGts respecting education. 1t is
based upon the assumption that edu-
cational courses that "once held
sway had no relation to the "condi-
tions of human life"
But, when a palefaced student dis
covered vaccination, had the discov-
cry no relations to those conditions?
When pale-faced students banished
the plague from London and lighted
her streets with gas, did that have no
relation to the conditions Of life?
When pale-faced students translated
the Bible did that have no relation to
those conditions?
When pale-faced student studied
the vibrations of the pendulum, did
that have no relation to such condi-
tions?
When a pale-faced student invented
printing with movable type, cid that
have no such relation?
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
GAS HE WAS. NOT AS He is."

Maj. Holmes Conrad of Winchester,
Va, addressing meeting of Confed-
crates, said: I'VE love the Negro as
ne was, not as he is" The sentiment.
was applauded with vigor by the. men
who sought to destroy the Union.
That's the Southern idea When
the Afro-American was a slave a good
able-bcdied man was worth $1,5OO or
$4,000 and that's why he was loved
Now that the Afro-American has
some freedom he is not yet absolute
ly free-and is acquiring property and
educating his children he isn't 'sloved'
by the Southerner. He's becoming "a
menace to Caucasian civilization"
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
AS YE SOW, so SHALL YE REAP

wv - wv w SJ0ALL REAP.
All persons acquainted with race
conditions in the South are aware
that in that section miscegenation
has prevailed to a vast extent. Pub
tic sentiment made no protest against
this condition of things, and, indeed,
it was by many Southern thinkers
stoutly maintained that it was in
reality a benefit, that the sacrifice of
the virtue of the black woman was
almost an absolute protection of the
purity of the white woman. This was
regarded as an admirable dispensa-
tion of Providence, showing His high
regard for the superior" race But
it is evident from an article in one
Of the magazines that such views in
the matter are changing. The con-
tention of the article is simply this,
that the young white man, by his
Illicit intercourse with the black wom-
an contracts "socisl disease" which
by subsequent marriage, he communi-
Gated to the white woman; and that
to an appalling extent. From this
cause there resulted such diseases as
tuberculosis, locomotor ataxia and in
fantile blindness.
If there is any truth in the matter
it shows that the South is still pay
ing the penalty of it's violation of the
laws of God in slavery days.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

Despite the fact that many have
predicted that the man and brother
would not be considered when the in
vitations were issued to come up to
the pie counter, number have been
handed slices. The latest to come to
our notice are: w. D. Johnson, editor
Of the Kentucky Standard, who has
been appointed special agent of the
Land Department, at a salary Of $1,000
per year and expenses: Nelson Crews
of Kansas City, Mo-, who has been
appointed Special Agent in the De-
2artment Of Agriculture at $4,000 per
year and expenses Let tee good
work go on, We can stand few slices
more and what is more to the point
we deserve them.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
ABSURD ARGUMENTS.

The relation of the larger universi-
ties Of the United States to the prac-
tical problems of existence is being
emphasized in an astonishing degree
nowadays. If the notion of clustered
halls where pale-faced students porel
over musty tones once held sway,
that idea has entirely disappeared
The dominant thought appears to be-,
how can the training of the schools
be made most useful in bettering the
conditions of human life.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

nations is in the direction of war. All
of the religion which is alleged to ex-
ist in the United States does not pre-
vent the newspapers from being filled
with their scandalous tales of graft
White slave trade, divorce, stealing,
lynching and plain murder.
The colored races of the East
would do we'll to consider carefully
before accepting the American brand
of Christianity. AS Mohammedans,
Ruddhists or Confucianists they can
hold up their heads and retain their
self-respect. Converted tc Christiani-
ty, they would become :'niggers" in
the sight of white American Chris
tians and would be" "jimcrowed' lust
as the Afro-Americans have been.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
JOHNSON FOR RECORDER

The President has sent to the Sen.
ate the nomination of Henry Lincoln
Johnson, Esq, the Afro-American law
yer OF Atlanta, Ca, to be recorder of
deeds for the District of Columbia,
succeeding John c. Dancy.
Mr.. johnson took a prominent part
in the Chicago national convention in
securing delegates for Taft
During the campaign for the nomi-
nation he assisted former Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Ormsby McHarg in Georgia and han
died the Taft and of the Georgia con-
test before the national committee.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
SATURDAY, MARCH IL, 1910.
AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY.

DR.. Wilbur Chapman predicts that
the whole world is ripe for a revival
and that if hundred influential busi-
ness men will take the proper active
interest in the evangelizatioa move
ment the whole world. including
China. Japan and Australia, will be
rocking with the power of god within
five years."
Then that unchristian race preiu-
diced journal, the Washington Times
says: His message, promising the
ultimate conversion of the, Mohamme-
dan heathen, the Bhuddist heather.
and the Confucian heather to the
Christian faith ought to move the
Christian church to great rejoicing:
THE APPEAL fails to see any rea-
son foc such conclusion and many
reasons for discerning it's utter alb
surdity. The trend among nearly all
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
MADE FOR "MIGGERS."

DR.. Oscar Haywood, who has made
a study of prevailing conditions in the
South, doubts the sincerity of the
whites who make and administer the
law. He found that everywhere there
is prohibition for the Afro-American
and license for the white.
DR.. Haywood has sized up the situ-
alton exactly: A Northern man was
once visiting friend in the South
and noticed that the friend had a
great big pistol under his coat-tail.
"Why, JONES'" said he, Il thought your
law prohibited carrying concealed
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
"THE THINKING. scITizENs,v

The Louisville Courier-Journal is
not delighted with the fact of Sheriff
Shipp having made an ass OF him.
self, but evidently admires the action
of Gov. Deneen. who removed the
Cairo sheriff from Office The Cour-
ier-Journal intimates that the Shipp
ovation "does not reflect the spirit Of
the thinking citizens of Chattanooga
But unfortunately the aforesaid
thinking citizens" are such towards:
that they do not give utterance to
their thoughts; ;and such moral cow
ardice exists all over the South.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
Mr.. eRAcIE's SUBSTITUTION.

Mr.. John II. Oracle is one Of the
Wealthiest and most progressive farm
ers in the South, owning and cultivat-
ing land by the thousand acres.
A few years since he substituted
Italians for Afro-Americans upon his
various plantations in Arkansas. He
now pronounces the Italians 'ingrates
OF the deepest dye appear to have
no idea of fair business methods" and
appear to be practically worthless. -
Mr.. Gracie's experience is but rep
etition of that of every other planter
who has tried the same experiment.
Mr.. Oracle has tried everything he
could think Of to make his laborers
contented: built them a chapel, Sc
cured an Italian priest, etc., but the
thing Was a dismal failure.
Mr.. Oracle is probably a wiser man
than ne was.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

The Mississippi legislature has
elected white man as senator and
left our mixed blood friend CD Var
daman in the suds. Such being the
case. it is fair to presume that the
Fifteenth Amendment will ':still wave
Ger the land of the free (?) and the
home of the brave for few years
longer.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

Anent the order of King Edward
that Lady Constance Richardson must
never again appear at court becouse
her ladyship has recently been dan
cling in skirts most extraordinarily abb
breviated, THE APPEAL will bet two
to one that Eddie will slip off from
the queen and take a good look at the
abbreviated lingerie.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
CANNON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA


AIMS AND METHODS.
The aim OF this school is to do prac.
tical work in helping men towards sue
is broad and practical; it's ideas are high;
its work is thoro:1gh; it's methods ara
fresh, systematic. clear and simple.
COURSE OF STUDY.
=, The regular course OF study occun,es
three years, and covers the lines of work
IN IT.. 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 plainlv fure
alshed: ansIn Good board can be had for seven
steam. iealea oy
aid from loans without interest and
sltts or friends. are granted to, desery-
ing ing students "ie1 who do their utmost in the
efatG 81 H. gnts: and energy. need be deprived
or me advantages now opened t. bin
address o' pai 'Acuifrs
REV. j. w. E. BOWEN. d. n.
Fres. Cannon Theological Seminary
;;"@ss'7 ~: ~:atf-l.. iEn ~" "a asT
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

Senator Tillnlan is still seriously i'll
and while the Afro-America1 has no
reason to regret any misfortune which
may happen to this prosecutor of his
race, THE APPEAL only hopes that
the senator may arise from his bed a
wiser and better man.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
TILL0TS0N COLLEGE
AUSTIN. TEXAS.

AUSTIN. TEXAS.
The Oldest and Best School in Texas
for Colored Students. Faculty mostly
graduates Of we'll known colleges in the
north. Reputation unsurpassed. Manua
training a part of the regular course.
Music special feature of the school.
Special advantages for earnest students
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
RACE PREJUDICE.

s . 7
an? convinced myself that
there is no more evil thing in
this present world than Race
Prejudice;; none at all. write
de''berately-it is the worst
single thing in life now. 1t JUS
tries and holds together more
baseness, cruelty and abomina-
t!on than any other sort Of er-
ror in the world. Through it's
!2ody runs the black blood of
coarse lust. suspicion, Jealousy
and persecution and all the
darkest poisons of the human
soul.
-. G. Wells in the
N. Y. independent.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

Mr.. Johnson is a good lawyer and
an, astute politician and THE AP-
PEAL congratulates him.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
BRA|NERD INSTITUTE
" IT. lVo
CHESTER, S. C..

C1ESTERs S. c.
"A normal and Industrial school with 4
graGed course of study. designed to give
e e.! thorough, symmetrical and complete
Engllsh education and lav a solid foun-
uao!on Tor SUCCESS and usefulness in every
SoedIlon OF life. Board and boarding hall
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, re-
fused to make speeches in favor of
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

Representative Lowden
Representative Frank Lowdn of Illinois,
set permanent markers
War.
Mr. Lowden has donated considerable
the places where the followers
mouth " ~ ~
wdns plan to have of the territory
public
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

The Republican PLATFORM,
adopted ut 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-
walton. in letter and snirit of
the thirteenth, fourteenth and
hfteenth amendments to the Con-
StitutiOn. t is needless to state
that l stand with my party
squhrely on that plank in the
justice to all men and the fair
and impartial enforcement of
these amendments are in keepinr
with The real American spirit Of
1alr play.-HOn. VIM. II. Taft's
speech accepting Republication
nomination for Presidency.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

prohibition in Chicago, saying: PRO
hibition is a failure I am not in
sympathy with that movement" And
MIR. Gompers is right. Prohibition is
the monumental fake. Nowhere in the
country do prohibition laws prohibit
the sale of liquor. In the South thew
were enacted for the purpose of pre-
venting AfrO-Americans from drinking
and allowing the white people to get
all the liquor.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12

weapons "Yes, it, does, said the
friend, '8but that law was made for
niggers.''
And the so-called prohibition laws
are made for '.niggers. = Z.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
SEMINARY

CONCORD, N. G.
This we'll known school. established
Tor the higher education of girls viii
open fG2. for the next term October l.
EVERY effort will be made to provide
for, the comfort. health and thorough
1nstruction of students. Expense for
board light fuel washing, s45, fo1
term of eight months. Address,
Rev. ID. j. Satterfeld, d. d..
Concord, N. c.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
Observation-Disclosures

r0ON080 IN 1831.
fourteen teachers. Elegant and COM
modlous buildings. Climate unsIlr-
Passed: pa Sa4 DEPARTMENTS: College Pre-
SHORTHAND, SS Typewriting and Industriai
EIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
tuition and incidentals for the entiTe ,HT,,
year. Board $500 per month: tuition
300 per, term. Thorough work done
to the president o'ar
Rev. Judson S. Hill. ID. D.,
Morristown, Tenn.
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
TuSkEGEE
aorlnal and Industrial Ilstit1ln
TUSKEGEE ALABAMA,
(1NcoRPoRArED)
Organized July 4, 1881, by the State 1eg;s.
sature as The Tuskegee State NORMAL Sckopl
Exempt from taxation.
BOOKER r. WASHINGTON, Principal,
WARREN LOGAN. Treasurer.

BOOKER r. WASHINGTON. Principal.
WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer.
LOCATION
In the Black Belt of Alabama where tho
o,acks outnumber the whites three to one.
ENROLMENT AND FACULTY
Enrolment last year 1888; males, Ss2:
FEMALES, 81. Average attendance. 1,105.-
Instructors, 88.
COURSE OF STUDY
English education com bined with industrial
asairing; 28 industries in constant operation.
VALUE OF PROPERTY
Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land.
g buildings almost wholly built with student
.aoor, is valued at $350,00O, and no mortgage.
NEEDS
$50 annually for the education of each stu.
cent; ($200 enables ore to finish the course;
T., ZOO creates permanent scholarship. Students
gay their own board in cash and labor }
F.-oney in any amount for current expenses
and building.
Besides the work done by graduates as class
3oom and industrial leaders, thousands ara
reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer.
5nce.
,Iuskegee is 40 miles east of Montgomery AMI
40 miles west of Atlanta, on the Western E:!*$:.
say 5l Alabama.
;aaskegee is quiet, beautiful old St+:.=H1'.E
~, and is an ideal place for st1,ty. ''"j .:
rs is at all times mild and :-t4f::.., -. ,
Wig the place an ex&csxGns Et:- - r.;
The Appeal., 1910-03-12
THE APPEAL,

ST. PAUL OFFICE
No. 236 Union Block, 4th & Cedar.
j. @. ADAMS. Manager
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-22
OLD ENGLISH HUMOR.

The "Joe Miller Jest Book"--it Is
famous. Mark Twain mentions it as
the alpha and omega of detected hui
NOR. 1t is unrivaled, incompatible.
apart. Further, it is English-very
English.
Possibly the latter phenomenon is re-
sponsible for the difficulty searcher
had in finding an unrevised copy. Aft
er an afternoon of search a second
hand but scarcely worn copy finally
was discovered in q little bookstore.
The bookseller eyed the buyer curious
ly. but with some awe, and seemed
very glad to get rid of it for % cents.
Twenty-Five cents! How instantly
reminiscent of one of the Joe Miller
jokes-beg pardon, jests:
THE LIGHT SUBJECT.
The government having threatened to
proceed vigorously against those who re-
fused to pay assessed taxes offered to
them remission of one-fourth. This at
least" said one sufferer may be called
giving them some quarter"
You can get that off in your very
next after dinner speech. You can put
little accent on one-fourth and quar-
ter and get quite as loud q laugh.
Second specimen Qt must be remem-
bered that the jest book was compiled
In the early part Of the eighteenth
century, when there were librarians;
therefore the jests that aren't blamed
OH lords are mostly charged to writ
ers):
A DIFFERENCE,
Jerrold one day met Scotch gentleman
whose name was Leiteh, who explained
that he was not the popular cartoonist
John Leech. I'm aware of that" said
Jerrold. You're the Scotchman with the
t-t-c-h In your name"
There! Just think of the triumph with
which Mr.. Jerrold later related that quip
to his friends
Specimen:
THE CoNNoISSEuR.
A person to whom the curosities. build
lngs etc, In Oxford were shown one very
hot day was asked by his companion If
he would see the remainder of the univer-
sity. "NIy dear sir" replied the connois-
seur, II am stone blind already"
Whether the friend expired In
spasms of mirth or subsequently was
hanged for mayhem the jest book
doesn't say.
The wit of the Irish is called in too,
Gpanln,au.