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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

1t has been more or less asserted by
scientists and others that both Adam
and Jesus Christ were not white,
which, of course, is easy to believe,
when one thinks of the fact that even
at the present time only about one
eight of the population of the world
is white. But now comes a Theoso-
phist, D. S. M. Unger Of Chicago, who
declares he knows for a fact that
Christ is coming back to earth within
the next twenty years. Says Mr..
Unger: whenever nation or the
world really needs a great leader, he
turns up. The world is sadly in need
of a great religious leader these days
and so I know Christ is coming back
within the next twenty years. And,
in order that humanity may have no
trouble in being certain of the pres
ence of Christ, he will have a brown
body"
Well, if Christ returns to this earth
brown in color, there are people in
the United States who will not accept
him.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
Was Not the First to Wear a Uniform

know diplomats and be interested in
everything they may chance to be
doing, there was no surprise at the
navy blue shade Of the Leishman uni
form, and the gold braid caused no
shudders to run down any official
spine for fear that the ambassador
would be recalled by his government
or censured by resolution by con-
gress.
On all sides officials we're fortified
with precedents for wearing various
sorts OF clothes at state functions
abroad. Mr.. Breckenridge, who, in
Arkansas, wore homespun trousers,
put on white silk stockings and knee
breeches at the coronation Of the car
and got along very well at that ex-
cept for the snickering of the ladies'
at the attenuated condition of the
ministerial calves. Theodore Runyan.
who at one time held some sort of a
commission in the New Jersey mi
l1t1a that gave warrant for a uniform.
served his country as minister to Ger
many during the last Cleveland ad-
ministration, and put that old militia
uniform on and wore it to a court
reception with great success.
Nobody there could tell whether he
had been in tin brigade in New Jer-
sey or the real thing scalping Indians
on the plains Of Chicago.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
$4,000 Miles of Postage Stamps a Year

in the lower denominations. Thus the
one-cent and the eight-cent are differ
ent shades Of green; the three-centl
and fifty-cent different shades of pur-
pie; the five-cent and the ffteen-centI
different shades of blue. In the rapid
handling of mail matter one denomi-.
nation is very apt to be mistaken for
another, especially under artificial'
light. The first six stamps are Of
sufficiently contrasting colors.
The department is now arranging to-
print the remaining five with different
border designs. Further, the first six.
will bear the head of Washington,
while the remaining five will bear the
head Of Franklin. The one-cent and
two-cent stamps will also be altered to
express the denomination in numerals
instead of in words, thus making them
conform to the other stamps of the
series. Thus they will show the head
of the first president on the first six
denominations and that of the first
postmaster general, with a different
border design, on the last five. The
new designs will be issued within the
current fiscal year.
The growth Of the domestic money
order system has been tremendous
In 1865, when it was first put in oper-
alton, there were but 419 money order
offices in this country; today there
are $1,000, and they issued last year
990,747,557 domestic money orders,
having a value of $S,373 ,578,789.
There were 4,500,70O paid registra-
tons at the New York city postoffice
during the last fiscal year, an in
crease of nearly three per cent. over
the previous year. Chicago, New
Yorks nearest competitor, showed but
2,115,0S5 registrations. There were
1,043,44O letters and parcels sent by
registered mail during the year, rep
resenting value of $1,000, 215,452.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
Young Congress1nan's Dates Were Mixed

A STRANGER entered the office of
"A Representative William S. Rey,
burn of Philadelphia, who broke lot
of youngest congressman records by
landing in the lower house last spring
at the age of twenty-eight.
The visitor wore highly polished
black frock coat, talked with a Bos-
tonese> accent and looked as if he
might be professor of botany.
It seemed that he belonged to some
society for psychological research and
Reyburn's case had appealed to him.
He introduced himself and then began
to ply the congressman with ques-
tons.
you knew your multiplication table
by the time you were a year and a
half old, I presumed" he suggested.
"Oh, certainly" said Reyburn,
deeming it wise to humor the fellow
and avoid q scene.
"And at what age had you mastered
Latin GRAMMAR pursued the inves-
,tigator. Five years perhaps?"
Somewhere around there" nodded
Reyburn.
"And as You grew older" went on
the visitor. that ID, when you got to
he nine or ten years Of age. which Of
your college studies appealed to you
;most?'
At drSt the mans talk had been
merely funny, but now Il looked seTi-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
How Adee Turned the Joke ON Himself

A SS1STANT Secretary of State Al
IA vey A. Adee is one of the men in
the government service who are said
to be indispensable. He is a walking
encyclopedia on matters diplomatic
and can handle the most intricate af-
fair of state with the confidence born
OF long and faithful service. His
predecessor in his line of work held
of1ce for more than a generation and
was such public official as Mr.. Adee.
One Of Mr.. Adee's chief character
1st1cs is his tremendous fund of good
nature and stories concerning his off,
clal actions never grow old. One Of
the best stories told of him was a joke
on the secretary himself which he
never relished, although his intimate
friends say he has privately admitted
the humOr Of the situation.
When Mr.. Adee gets down to seri-
Gus work he does not like to be inter-
rupted and at one stage in his official
service he found Interruptions so nu-
merous he hit upon the scheme Of
putting special lock upon the door
OF his office, the working Of which he
himself could control. One day he
dismissed his secretary and messen-
ger, carefully locked the door and got
down to business.
In the course of the morning no
wanted his messenger and rang the
usual bell to call him. The messenger
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
A SENSIBLE MOVE.

The Baptist clergymen of Chicago
will hereafter be addressed as mis-
ter or Pastor" according to a reso-
luton adopted at a meeting of the
Baptist ministers.
Rev. Thomas, who introduced the
resolution, said that the idea of adj
dressing ministers of the gospel as
doctors, reverends and such titles is
obnoxious.
That's good sense and the move.
ment should be made to include PRO.
fessor," I'M. d. ''Ph. d." 81. L. D.
when the degrees have been conferred
upon some blatherskite who has little
more than a primary education and
manages to try the hardest to
teach CD some country cross roads
school or preach CD in some little
2X4 church.
And while they are at it, why not
abolish the extra long black coat and
the fake sanity mien?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
THE accounts Of Ambassador Leish-

THE accounts Of Ambassador Leish-
/ mans respondent court costume
of navy blue with gold braid created
very little stir in Washington. Public
men have ceased to have the old-fash-
toned interest in the governments
representatives abroad. Few even
keep in mind the names of the con-
stantly shifting procession of diplo-
mats, and it is only when an interna-
tional affair Of some proportions arises
that the average senator or congress-
man takes the trouble to recall what
particular individual represents the
United States at any particular court.
There was here and there a man
who had something to say of the Incl
dent. The many, however, neither
knew Mr.. Leishman nor cared how he
might choose to dress at court func-
ton. But at the state department.,
where Mr.. Leishman is known, and it
is the daily business Of everybody to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

knocked at the door and received no
response. When the bell rang a Sec
ond time he called upon Mr. Adee's
secretary to witness the fact that he
had knocked again for entrance, but
had not been received.
After one or two rings on the mes
senger call, which sounded like q
small-sized fire alarm, Mr.. Adee
placed his finger on the button and
kept it there. The result was conster-
nation all over the state department.
Poundings and kicks on the secre-
tary's door brought no response and
fears began to grow that he was seri-
ously ILL., In the end the combined
office force had to break the door of
it's hinges and Mr.. Adee was found
sitting at his desk, angry and indig-
nant that his calls had not been an
swered. The secret of the situation
was that Mr.. Adee had forgotten about
the new lock and an impairment of
his hearing had prevented him from
answering the repeated knocking at
his door.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

Any old excuse will do so that the
inhuman southerners may indulge in
their most delightful pastime of lynch
ing ASro-Americans. On last Tuesday,
near Marshall, Tex, George Sanders
and Mary Jackson were taken from
their home and hanged by a mob of
unidentified CO brutes in human form
because they chad lived in the same
rouse with Tennie Sneed" who shot
and killed Paul Strange, a white man,
January 20. They used to claim they
seldom resorted to lynching except
for assaults or alleged assaults upon
white women, but now any sort of
excuse will do. It seems strange that
these superior race people are so
heartless. If God is just, and we be-
lieve He is, they are heaping up wrath
against the day of wrath. vengeance
is mine, I will repay saith the Lord"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
AN EAST INDIAN "GOoD NIGER"
knowledge

An East indian by the name of Bus
tonjee, Or Tombigbee, or something of
the sort, is in the United States de-
nouncing the courageous East Indians
who are fighting for their rights as
men against the aggressions of the
British.
Evidently Bustonjee is paid ennis
sary of the British government, or of
some organization which has for it's
object the crushing out of the liberty
of the masses of the East indians.
1t is strange fact that every race
produces a class of men who are will
ing to belittle their own people for
the smiles or cash Of the oppressor.
We have hundreds of the good mig
ger" class here in the United States,
who glory in doing all they can to in
jure the Afro-American people, pro-
vided they can get jimcrow office in
some alleged Christian organization or
the cash of the white man. Many
would sell their souls to have some
cheap Caucasian refer to them as
good niggers."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912.
HELLlSH COLOR PREJUDICE.

HELllSH COLOR PREJUDICE.
To what contemplate depths does
the hellish color prejudice of some
white men lead them! 1t is under
stood that the executive committee of
the American Bar Association has de-
cided to GUST Hon. William H. Lewis,
Assistant Attorney General of the
United States, from membership in the
bar association.
1t is claimed by members of the
committee that they did not know that
Mr.. Lewis was an Afro-American when
he was elected, all of which is a mis-
statement of facts.
The action of the committee has
aroused Attorney General Wickersham
and he has sent a spirited letter to
each of the 400 members of the as
ISOLATION, charging the executive CON-
mittee with an arrogance of power un-
warranted by the body's constitution
in order to crafty race prejudice en-
tertained by some of it's members.
The constitution of the association
has no provision upon which to base
such discrimination.
All honor to Attorney General Wick
ersham!
As so many hundreds of thousands of
supposedly "pure-blooded white men"
really have Negro blood in their COM
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

The "Grizzly Bear" and the Turkey
Trot,' a couple of new dances of the
superior race" seem not only to be
immodest, but actually very dangerous
propositions, according to recent re-
ports. A man in La Crosse, Wis.
after doing the "Grizzly" for the edit
cation of some of his friends, died
from over-exertion. But he was 50
years old and ought to have known
better. mo fool like an old fool"
And, now comes man in Washington
who had to have his appendix re-
moved on account of excessive dan
cling of the Turkey Trot." He was
man Of nerve, too, for he had the
operation performed without taking an
anaesthetic. Well, it takes men with
nerve to do the turkey Trot."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
GIT PAYS TO ADVERTISE"

That it pays to advertise in news
papers and that the bigger the adver-
tlsement the better the result, are
twin conclusions drawn by the Rev.
George Macadam, pastor of the Meth
od'st Episcopal church, Joliet, ILL.,,
after thus exploiting his services.
The minister advertised his sermon
for last Sunday in a local newspaper
taking space larger than the space
taken by the theater management in
advertising theatrical attractions on
that day. His crowd was larger than
those at the play. He will keep up
the publicity campaign. And a great
many others would do we'll to get wise
to the fact that it pays to advertise.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

GUS and Reyburn became nervous.
There was no telling at what moment
the visitor might become violent.
"Say, what are you getting att"
asked Reyburn, fidgeting in his chair
"Why, naturally your case interest
ed me, and many other earnest stu
dents Of psychology" replied the WIS.,
itor, quietly. ANY young man who
could finish college at the age of
twelve seemed to US"
Hold on there!" exclaimed Rey-
burn. "Way-tay-minute! Who was it
told you such bughouse stuff that
finished college at the age Of twelve7''
why, saw 1t In your biography
In the Congressional Directory"
Reyburn seized the directory on his
desk and turned to the page where it
says he was born In 1882 ana was
graduated from Yale in 1894. It was
the hrst time his attention had been
called to the misprint. The latter
date should have read 1904.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
W ASHINGTON.-If all the postage
yX Stamns issnad hx tho IInitad

WASH1NGTON.-If all the postage
W stamps issued by the United
States government during the last ifs
cal year were collected and laid end
to end they would form a chain over
$1,000 miles long, stretching three
fourths around the world, or from
New York to the Philippines and back.
The number was 1O,O61, 439,768, with
representing face value Of $180,957,-
1856.
or the whole number 5,13O,249, O1S
were tWo-cent stamps and 3,79S,961, O39
were one-cent. Only one thirty-cent
stamp was issued.
The American postage stamp is now
serving it's sixty-sixth year, the first
issue having been placed on sale July
l, lS47; the total issued during that
year was S60,38O. Prepayment of
postage did not become compulsory
until 1856.
The postage stamps of the current
issue have given considerable trouble
to the public and to the postal service
on account of the similarity of the
designs of the different denominations.
All OF the eleven denominations in use
are OF Identical design, except that
the one-cent bears the head Of Frank
lin and the others the head Of Wash
1ngton. There are not sufficient num-
Der OF distinctive colors for all the
stamps, making it necessary in the
case Of those above the six-cent to
use different shades of the colors used
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

J. e. B. Cunningham, deputy attor-
ney general of, Pennsylvania, in as5:-
ing for change of venue in the cases
of seven defendants yet to be tried on
murder charges growing out Of the
lynching of Zach Walker near Coats
vile, Pa, last August, declared that
there is deep-seated purpose on the
part of Chester county not to convict
a white man for the murder of a Ne
gro" We have been taught to be-
lieve that Justice is blind and, that
for one human being, with malice
aforethought, to kill another is MUIR
der, no matter what the color of the
slayer or the slain; and for the peo-
pie of a whole county to have it un-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

The white people of this country
are having great times over the al
legged lndecency of some of their re-.
Gently inaugurated dances, know as
the Turkey Trot," "Grizzly Bear"
Bunny Hug etc., and their papers
are exploiting them in great shape.
NOW comes new one, the "Wiggle
Wiggle," which must be awful, since
1t caused eight detectives to blush
when they saw it danced in a restau
rant a few nights ago. The Afro
American, who is generally believed
to be an imitator of the white mans
vices rather than virtues, hasn't
caught onto these objectionable
dances yet.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

Universal suffrage for the citizens
of the District of Columbia was pro-
posed in bill introduced in Congress
by Representative Berger of Wiscon-
sin. The people of the District we're
disfranchised many years ago because
of the large population of Intelligent
Afro-Americans, the white people be-
ing willing to deprive themselves of
the right to vote, provided the colored
brother did not exercise the privilege
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

position, il is not unreasonable to pre-
sumo that at least several scores of
the 400 are so tainted" and that
THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMIT
TEE WHO OBJECTED ARE IN
THAT NUMBER. Stranger things
than that are in existence to our
knowledge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
CANNON THE0L LOGICAL SEMINARY
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

AIMS AND METHODS.
The aim of this school is to do prac-
teal work in helping men towards Sr"-
cess in the ministry. Its course of study
is broad and practical; it's ideas are high;
it's work is thorough; it's methods are
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
niShed. Good board can be had for seven
dollars per month Buildings heated by
steam
A from loans without interest, and
gifts of friends, are granted to deserving
students who do their utmost in the line
Of Self-help. No young man with grace.
Sits, and energy, need be deprived or
the advantages now opened TO him in
this Seminary. For further particulars
address
THE PRESIDENT,
Cannon Theological Seminary,
Atlanta, Georgia.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

Just think Of it! There were 14S
murders committed in New York City
last year, but only the unlucky number
IL OF the murderers were convicted,
and not one executed. Is it strange
that murder is committed so often
upon the slightest pretext?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

derstood that they will deliberately
violate their oaths in a court of JUS
tice CD does not argue we'll for the
moral status of those people. There
is no question that change OF venue
should be granted in this case.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
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Their information address
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
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This institution of learning, established in 1865
has industrial departments for both young men
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The facilities have recently been increased
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Applications should be made several months or
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during the last few years receive all who apply.
The present enrolment is 500.
The academic year begins on the Thursday
nearest the first day of October and continues for
thirty.two consecutive weeks The charges are
moderate. Catalogues furnished upon application.
Address THE PRESIDENT
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02


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