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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-03-27

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tracted cabinet council the rumor
was started that the entire minis.
try had decided to resign. Other
reports were current that Colonel
Seely, the war secretary, and Win
ston Spencer Churchill. first lord of
the admiralty. had handed their re-
sIgnations to Premier AsQuith.
The mutiny Of a section OF the
officers OF the British regular army
in Ireland when they believed they
were to be ordered to fight Ulster
men, was again before parliament
The correspondence between the
war Office and the army officers In
Ireland, which led to the recent
wholesale designations and their re-
instatement was made public in the
shape OF q white paper" or an
official communication TO both
houses OF parliament.
II can be seen from this CORES
pondenee that the war Office was
informed early In December or the
possibility Of the designations OF the
officers In case the Ulster Situation
came TO a crisis. In CONSEQUENCES Of
this information. Colonel John
Seely. war secretary, interviewed
the general officers in command and
explained to them that the officers
of the British army were compelled
. to obey orders TO shoot only in
case the order was reasonable
one under the circumstances"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-03-27
This Matter Again Came Before
Parliament Today

Associated Press Dispatch. ]

IAHsucIHIeu NIS55 D9V"I
london, March 25.-coIonei
seely formally resigned his port
folio as secretary Of war In
the British cabinet, after per
sonaiiy appearing before the
house Of commons and making
a speech In explanation Of VI.
ster affairs. ~
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03

signs, some Indian words they were
able to grasp, taught the Indian a
few OF their own bad English words.
and called the whole, THE Chinook
language" after a tribe by that name.
Through the medium of the Spig-
goty language a vast amount of prac-
teal labor is being performed. 1t has
been found adequate for inductive rea-
soning, for speaking ~persuasively, or
a%torically, vituperatively, and can be
used significantly while in a state of
disgust or anger.
There are many beautiful plazas
and patios set among the otherwise
bald, sere houses and streets of Pan.
anna. These are green and fragrant
all the year with fan palms and ban
vans casting a day-long shade over
he up-to-date benches. In Santana
park, when the shades of evening be-
gin to fall, a "Spiggoty band usually
playing some of our popular music.
comes from somewhere, and begins
The young people seem to think a
great deal of the music for they ac-
claim 1t loudly after each piece, and
will sit all night and listen, If the
band keeps up.
There are still a considerable num-
Der Of high-class families who make
various f~ar-reaching claims toward an
aristocracy, which, SO far as is actu-
ally known, never existed beyond the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03

to inject the blood of any other verte-
brate would cause immediate death.
In that we see the truth of the hypoth-
esis that apes and men have a COM
mon ancestor"
a"What, SORT" exclaimed Flaherty,
who had never heard of the D%arwinian
theory. 'D'youse mean to tell me,
sor, that Jocko and me had the same
grandfather"
We'll, yes, if you go a little further
back along the tree" said Doctor Hoff-
man.
MY grandfather -niver was up a
tree in his life, EXCEPT apple trees"
answered Flaherty Indignantly.
All the same, Donna has to co."
answered Doctor Hoffman. And, by
the way, Flaherty, there's one thing l
wanted to speak to you about. l am
told you are not kind to Jocko."
"Begorra, l niver hit the craythur in
me loife!" said the attendant.
Perhaps not, F1aherty, but you must
remember that the primates are very
susceptible to unkindness., l under
stand you have been heard to address
Jocko harshly. If that occurs again
you will have to find another position.
He is a helpless vertebrate in your
care, and you should consider 1t a
point of honor to treat him we'll"
"Yis, sor," muttered Flaherty, as he
made his way from the others pres
ence.
The thought of Donna's doom
weighed down his heart. He stood be-
fore her cage that night after the ZOO
had been closed and watched her eat
ing her supper. Donna put her head
against the bars and Flaherty
scratched it. Donna liked Flaherty to
be near her. In his cage adjoining
Jocko scolded and chartered. But Fla
herty had no heart to pay him any at
tention. On the ensuing Sunday morn
ing Donna was to give up her life
for the worthless Jocko.
That evening Flaherty paid a visit
to the zoo doctor, an elderly German,
who attended all the animals.
Cant you save Donna's life?" he
asked.
The elderly German was an irascible
man, but he was as sentimental as
most Germans are, and he was touched
by Flaherty's solicitude.
There may be a chance" he. an.
swered, But l doubt it. It's those
fine, strong apes that generally go of
at the least thing. Now If it had been
the other way round, he'd live through
it and flourish. Why, he's been living
for years now with blood hat would
kill you or me-"
Doctor" said F1aherty, lis it true
that apes have the same blood as men
have?"
Quite true" answered the doctor.
The difference is. in fact, impercep-
tibly small"
Then phwhy wouldn't a mans
blood do instead OF Donna's?" asked
Flaherty.
The old doctor looked at him grave.
ly. 1T would" he answered. but
where are you going to find the man
who will give his blood for an aper"
"Herel" answered Flaherty, beating
his breast. iii do ut, doctor"
The doctor was at first indignant
then surprised. Then, after ten min
utes Of Earnest conversation. he al
lowed himself to be persuaded.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
Value Of Honey.

Honey is as wholesome and nourish
ing as concentrated refined cane sugar
is unwholesome and lacking in nour-
ishment. Honey Is a medicine as well
as a food. Give 1t to the children in
place OF candy. Be sure, however, that
you get pure honey. Glucose is more
harmful than sugar. There are impor-
tant differences even in pure honey,
according to the conditions under which
it Is made, Just as there is a great
difference in fruit, according to the
soil on which 1t is grown. Dark red
honey is much the best. although the
people demand light yellow honey.
Just as they insist on light colored
dried fruit, because they eat with
their Eyes and do not think.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03

sion of the United States has attracted
every type of civilized mankind. There
is work to be done, needs to be as
suaged, money to be made. All the
resources of the surrounding country
must be brought to a focus so that
the ships that glide in at the Pacific
entrance and out into the Atlantic,
will carry away to the crowded mar
kets of the north Panama's quota of
fruits, hardwood, rubber, indigo, cof-
fee and hats. With this, civilized pros
perity begins, and it matters o what
race or conglomeration Of races are
involved.
The "Splggoty Lingo"
At first it was difficult for these peo-
pie to get along on any kind of footing
in the way of everyday speech. One
man having many interests in common
with another could find no medium Of
expression. And out of this confusion
of tongues grew a language which is
neither English, nor French, nor Span
ish, nor German, nor Chinese. nor Jap
anese, nor anything other than It.
self. 1t is not a very old language,
and consequently not well developed,
nor has it ever been written or spok-
en- outside of the canal zone and Pan
anna. II is called the "Spiggoty Lingo"
and its origin is substantially this:
II you ask a native something In
English he will say, mo speaka da
Engliss," because he doesn't. For a
long time they used this reply, until
the enterprising American found a
few words of their language and they
found a few of his, and OF all the others
brought in. 80 that there were words
enough of all languages known in COM
mon to make for a new language which
was promptly called the 'Spiggoty"
or "Speaka de-" as you please to
spell 1t.
This same method was used by the
Hudson Bay company in the earliest
days OF the West with the Indian tribes
Of the Northwest. They used some
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
BUDS, BUT DOESN'T BLOSSOM
Sad, Though Common Story of the
Man Who Expects to Astonlsh
the World.

In every man there yearns a great
and uncomfortable y%earning to take
pen in hand and inscribe his inmost
thoughts that the world may read and
marvel and read again. Also they
shall pay him. He muses. with him
self In solemn communion by water
side Or in the shelter Of his own
hearth and bethinks him that, if he
had only the time, his name should be
great and he be numbered among the
mighty.
So he takes his pen in hand and
writes his thoughts, pours out his spir-
1t, and is amazed at the e~loquence now
aroused, so long concealed from a bar
rem world. And, reading his magnum
opus, he is lifted up into the clouds
and dreams in a seventh heaven espe-
cially for amateur writers that a few
more morns he shall wake up and the
mailman, and the milkman, the grocer
and the iceman shall bow down be-
fore him and say: And this is the
ma we bothered for last weeks bill.
Shame upon u.s."
And he sends forth his writing, and
orders a new suit, and some silk shirts
and some fancy socks, and a hat with
a th~ree-cornered bow, and some natty
ties, and looks at automobiles with a
fraternizing air, and inspects houses
and doesn't comb his hair, and is
found oft in deep abstraction, and
starts, and makes notes on scraps of
paper.
And then his writing comes back,
and the editor say he is sorry, but
says it SO politely that the author
writes him a letter discussing the mat
ter and pointing out what he feels has
been overlooked in his masterpiece.
And then no answer comes, and the
author gets mad and writes a letter
to the papers. And then, some quiet
morning, when filters are scarce, some
body finds the letter and it is printed.
Whereupon the author buys three doz-
en- copies and sends them to his
friends, and is proud of spirit and
walks haughtily.
And in the evening his wife takes
the copies that are left and papers
the kitchen cupboard with them, and
he dies of a broken heart.-Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03

JOCKO AND DONNA
BY }. 3. UNDERWOOD.

Copyright. 1914. by w C. chapman)
Hey! Git back, we ugly %spalpeenl"
roared Flaherty, the zoo keeper.
Jocko grimaced at him and ratified
at his bars. Jocko did not like Fla
herty any more than Flaherty liked
Jocko. Jocko was a bald-headed chin
panzee, and in poor health; Flaherty
was a wellmeaning, kind-hearted,
rough-voiced Irishman, who had lately
landed and had secured the position
because something in his looks ap-
pealed to Doctor Hoffman, the presi-
dent of the geological society.
But if Jocko was an ailing specimen
of his race, Donna, the o~rang-outang.
was a perfect lady. Donna and Fla
herty liked each other just as much
as Flaherty and Jocko disagreed. So,
when the story came to Flaherty's
ears that Donna was to die, he vent
to the president. director with a rueful
face.
It's like this, Flaherty,' explained
Doctor Hoffman. The only thing that
a cure Jocko is an infusion of fresh
blood, and Donna, as the healthiest of
the primates, has been selected. 1t
may not kill Donna, but then, again,
it may, because those apes are very
delicate in captivity"
But why not let Donna live and let
Jocko die?" asked Flaherty miserably.
Because, my boy, Donna is just a
common orang, such as can be pro-
cured anywhere, while Jocko is n OF
the bald-headed chimpanzees, and it
might be years before we could secure
another.
ITS curious about the apes" he
continued. The blood of all the pes
is transfusibIe. 1t differs hardly at all
from that of man. On the other hand,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
wAFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

In innumepable perplexing cases of
community and extension work the cor
rect understanding of the situation
and the way to meet it is dependent
1pon the colored members of the force.
The anne need is often felt in the
inner life Of the school, and in the re-
lations of parents to it. The homes Of
the colored workers, which are unpre-
%tentious, comfortable, beautiful and
admirably kept, are accessible to the
imitation of the surrounding commu-
nifty. The negroes who are ambitious
for better things feel that these init
mate friends of theirs came from con
ditions like their own, and possess hab-
its and standards which they also can
attain. These colored workers under
stand also how to organize for prac-
teal benefit the devoted gratitude Of
the community to the school. They
are the mediators to their own people
of the best white influence, and bring
the white mebers of the faculty into
helpful relations. To this influence
they are continually opening their own
lives, that they may convey to their
people nothing less than the best
things.
Their attitude to the white members
of the faculty was expressed recently
by President Amiger, whose sister is
one of Calhoun's colored teachers, in
an address to the pupils and negro
workers. You can never appreciate
too highly" he said, the influence of
those who bring to you the finer things
gained by their inheritance of gen
erations Of culture" 1t was a superb
thing for such a man to say, and only
a superb man could say it. This word
is often repeated by the colored force.
What we value above all else" they
say, lis the continual inspiration from
our white leaders to richer thoughts
and more efficient service and larger
life" The appreciation does not end
with words. An eminent friend of the
school affirmed at a critical moment
in its history, that he had seen
a finer and more practical devotion
than was proved by the action of these
oolored workers. Yet this grateful
recognition is not dependent imitation.
The negro who has found himself is
receptive but not initiative. He trans
forms all hat he receives into his own
genius, where it becomes a new con-
tribution to civilization.
Are these people exceptional? Such
a school attracts and develops excep-
tional qualities. But some have come
from the plainest cabins and from
most repressive conditions, They are
representatives of results generally
possible to the spirit which safeguards
every valuable quality of both races,
and so attains their most workable CO.
operation.-Charles Henry Dickinson,
in charge of religious and extension
work.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
ALUMINIUM SOLDER MIXTURE
Formula Given Is Only One Of Many
and It May Succeed Or Fail Ac-
eordIna 70 Its Use.

CBy s. I. ROSS. Colorado Agricultural
College.)
The following aluminium solder mix
ture is one of the latest and much is
claimed for 1t.
1t contains zinc, rs per cent; tin, SO
per cent; and aluminium, 6 per cent.
To make the alloy, first melt the
zinc, add the aluminium, and after re-
moving the crucible from the fire, add
the tin. This formula is only one of
the many alloys intended for solder
ing aluminium and 1t may succeed or
fail according to the manner in which
1t is used.
1t is well known that aluminium Is a
difficult metal to solder satisfactorily
and even when soldered. the perman-
ency of the work is doubtful. The diff
fculty experienced is due to the film
Of oxide which covers all aluminium
surfaces and which is not removed by
the soldering fiuxes ordinarily used
for other metals.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03

imagination. But they nevertheless
observe strict relations with the in
ferior Americans" as they hold them
to be, and will not let their daughters
be seen unescorted in any of the
plazas. The girls Of the common class
are met and spoken to by the young
men, but come and return home in
groups after they have concluded a
merry evening at the concert.
Fol those who car afford it, the Ma
tional theater offers entertainment of
a type that is peculiarly original in
Panama. The productions are usually
in English, because the majority of
the audience is American, and they
correspond to our vaudeville, in that
they are put on in skits and separate
parts. Dancers are obtained from Peru,
Valparaiso, Chile and Mexico. who
do their native dances with skill and
grace, while the acts brought from
the States are coarse and mediocre in
comparison.
Another great paradox in relation to
the tones of this unique city is evil
lent in the unfaltering belief that still
prevails in the old Roman orthodox
form of religious Interpretation. All
the observances of the church are ad-
hered to as punctiliously today as In
bygone centuries. The workmen can
not be made to perform their labors
on any of the multitudinous days set
apart for the worship Of some saint
or other. 1t took more than 200 years
for the Spanish priests to grind this
holy zeal into them. and 1t will take
nearly as long to grind it out.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03

There has been another biennial
convention of women's clubs, but this
time the press has not kept the pub
lie informed as to its program, its
scope or its aims. Therefore when
IONA Gale and l were privileged to re-
ceive an invitation to attend this con
vention through our fellowship with
the Frederick Douglass Center, we &C.
cepted, expecting possibly to see some
good reason why this group OF 400
delegates, representing $4,000 other
club women, should be isolated to do
their work unaided by groups of white
ONE doing exactly the same work
simply because there was some fan
cied racial characteristic or a differ
ence in the complexion which keep
them apart.
The convention met at Wilberforce
university, one of the oldest schools
for colored people in the country. The
school was opened in 1S47 and was In.
corporated as a university in 1856. 1t
is co-educational, is we'll equipped, has
its trades building with fine auditor
ium In Galloway hall, where the con.
vention met.
The thirty university buildings are
ideally situated three and a half miles
from Xenia, among splendid oak trees
We arrived with many others and
were duly registered and assigned to
one of the dormitories before our ra.
ctal difference was discovered, and one
of us might have gone through the en-.
tire session without discovery based
upon physical characteristics had we
not said that we were there upon invi.
tation of the president of the associa-
ton. We were then taken to the home
of the president of the university,
where we were cared for with gener-
Gus hospitality by Professor and Mrs.
scarborough during our entire stay.
The reception to the delegates in the
evening was marked by nothing to
distinguish it from any other we'll
dressed, well hammered body of club
women except perhaps that there was
a modesty and fitness of dressing not
often seen in similar assemblies.
The regular session opened on Tues.
day morning with Mrs. Booker T.
Washington in the chair. The pro-
gram included men who did not differ
from men in other groups who failed
to keep within the time limit of speak
ing and who sometimes forgot that
they were not speaking to intellectual
interiors or to children. They were
indulgently dealt with by the presp
dent, an indulgence which was never
shown to women, for no paper was al.
lowed to go beyond the time assigned
to it.
The program contained reports from
nearly every state in the Union, show.
ing an amount of charitable and vel.
fare work hardly realized by those not
in touch with the work. Such subjects
as Suffrage" THE Negro in Litera-
ture." How May the Club Spirit Best
Serve the Community Life of Which
We are a Part" 1.-THE Cause of Tenn.
perance," Health and Hygiene" "Tu-
berculosis," etc.-Unity.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
You must be very fond Of Jocko,'

You must be very fond of Jocko,
he said.
mol" cried Flaherty. But I'm not
going to let a lady like Donna be killed
for the sake of a wretched, measly.
spindly craythur like Jocko.'
The operation had been performed
successfully. One of the zoo employees
had given away the story, and II had
appeared In all the newspapers. Fla
herty and Jocko were depicted side by
side, in the cage and on the operating
table. And Flaherty, pale and weak,
and nursing a b~andaged arm, nursed
his wrath also as a constant stream
of reporters and visitors who had read
OF the affair came to see him as he
limped about his work.
In Jocko's cage a new Jocko, much
more alert, much fatter, and much an
grier, sat, and he shook the bars and
Chartered and swore In simian Ian
guage as F1aherty passed.
He doesn't seem very fond of you,
in spite of what you did for him." sug-
gested a lady visitor.
Look, mammal" exclaimed a little
girl. That is the monkey man who
loves Jocko. Does Jocko love the
monkey mar as much as the monkey
man loves Jocko, mamma?"
1T don't look like it," sneered a fat
man, as Jocko thrust his arm through
the bars and shook his fist at his
keeper.
Flaherty turned away, sick at heart.
He could have borne the sneers and
taunts and misunderstanding, if-if
Donna had known. But she would
never know that he had saved her
from death. When he went back the
house was nearly empty. He passed
Donna, who put her head against the
bars, and Flaherty scratched 1t. In
the cage adjoining Jocko began to chat
ter at him.
Hey! Git back, ye ugly spalpeen,
or I'll knock the head often you!" he
roared, raising his arm, and Jocko fed
quivering into the recesses of his cage.
A shadow fell upon the sunlit floor.
Doctor Hoffman was passing with a
friend, and FIaherty, trembling, wait
ed for the word Of dismissal. But the
director turned to his friend with a
smile of amusement.
Yes, that is our hero" he said. He
loves Jocko so much that he scolds
him to avoid showing his feelings"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03
AM omnIpresent injection.

There is a German medical proverb
to the effect that every nan has had
at least one tubercle, some time in his
life. Every thoughtful physician
knows the truth Of this saying and
has known 1t for years. Then a few
days age Sir William Osler repeated
the statement in slightly altered appli-
cation to the audience before him, and
the whole world was reused into
shocked attention.
Which was a very good thing for
the world. If we could be made to
realize that the tubercle bacillus 1,
omnipresent. and that every human
being is touched at some time with
this infection there would result not
only a more active war on the germ,
but a more intelligent effort to build
up and maintain the health and resist.
ing power of the people.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-03

Woman suffrage was Endorsed and a
plea for representation in congress Of
the 100000 negroes in the United
States was made in the annual address
of Rev. E. C. Morris, president of the
national Baptist convention, at the
session of the organization at Phila-
delphia. "The suffrage movement had
its foundation in the fact that taxation
without representation is unjust, and
no class or rae is better prepared by
experience to sympaathize with such a
movement than the colored people"
THE capital Of our nation" he said.
III a hotbed of race hatred, and from
there 1t will continue to spread to all
sections of the country until the negro
men shall be elected to congress and
speak for themselves.
"As Christian workers" the speaker
added, 1--WE are for peace, and we pray
for the time to come when nations
shall study war no more, and yet as
true Americans in the face Of all dis
ordinations we stand ready to de-
fend the flag of our country against
any foreign foe"
More than 5000 delegates from near.
ly every state in the Union were In at
tendance upon the convention.