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YOL. 1L NO. 35
TWIN CITY NEWS.
MINNEAPOLIS.
Mrs. Joseph Medley has returned
home after visiting St. Louis, Racine,
Chicago and Milwaukee.
Mrs. 1.. F. Warren, who has been
visiting Mrs. Frank Williams, of this
city, and Mrs. Addison Davis, of St
Paul, has returned to her home in Chi
cago. Mrs. Warren made many friends
in the Twin Cities while here.
Mrs. A. G. Plumer entertained at tea
last Thursday evening Mrs. C. E.
James, Mrs. Frank ]. Robinson and
Misses Lee and Dora, of St. Louis.
Mrs. Rob Walters. who is employed
by the N. P. R. R., is reported quaran
tined out West, on account of a case
of small pox on her car.
Misses Tarqueenia Harper and Edna
Grey are riding new ‘O9 wheels.
The young belles and beaux are look
ing forward to another swell hop soon.
. What's the matter with the Alpha
Au.
Mr. Geo. W. Nelson has just moved
into his new drug store on the corner
of Central avenue and Tenth street.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott entertained at
dinner Thursday, in honor of Rev. Lena
Mason, Mesdames J. Willking, Spencer,
Clark and Chesney.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
ST. THOMAS MISSION (Episco
pal), No. 614 Sixth avenue S. Rev.
Jno. J. Faude, D. D., in charge.
ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH.
Rev. E. E. Jackson, pastor of the
Mt. Olive church, Plainfield, N. ]{ who
has been assisting Rev. J. Will Ring at
the camp meeting, will preach Sunday
evening, at Bp. m. Rev. Jackson 1s one
of the leading ministers of his denom
ination and, indeed, an able speaker. His
church is perhaps one of the largest in
the state. e graduated in theology
from Samson's College, New York
City. His subject Sunday evening will
be “The Holy Ghost, Succession of the
Church, or the Blood Crying Stone.”
Mrs. 1. B. Koger entertained Mrs.
Mason Saturday and Sunday.
There will be no services on Sunday,
the 13th, as all are invited to join St
James on East Side. in the Exposition
building, at which time the church will
be rededicated,
Mra.MJ. W. Koger entertained the
Rev.” Mrs. Lena Mason at dinner
Tuesday. Those present were Mrs.
Lena Watson. Rev. and Mrs. Brooks,
Mrs. 1. Will King, Mrs, C. C. Caldwell,
Mrs. J. B. Koger and Mrs, T. W. El
liott. After dinner the ladies spent the
remainder of the afternoon at Lake
Harriet,
Miss Bertha Alden, of Keokuk, la., is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Manning, of 2010
Washington avenue south.
“The Seven Days’ Fast in the Wilder
ness” will begin Monday, Aug. 21st, to
Monday, the 28th. The program will
soon be out,
The Chrysanthemum Club will give
their famous concert on the 15th.
Rev. Lena Mason, Mrs. W. S
Brooks, Mrs. { Will King, Mrs. C. C
Caldwell and Mrs. T. W. Elliott spent
Saturday afternoon at Minnehaha Falls,
A NEW CAFE.
Editor J. C. Reid has opened a new
and commodious cafe at 427 Washing
ton Ave. So. He will be glad to have
all his iriends patronize the enterprise.
There is not a first-class restaurant in
the city that caters to Afro-American
trade. Especial attention will be given
parties of ladies and gentlemen. The
place will be known as the Advance
Cafe.
ST. PAUL.
The restaurant formerly owned by
Mr. James Leger at No. — Minnesota
St., has been purchased by E. W. Cran
cum and Mrs. J. H. Di!fingham. The
new firm will be open for busmness
about Aug. sth, and promise the public
first-class service at popular prices. We
wish the new enterprise every success.
Miss Elizabeth O'Mallory died Fri
day, July 2%th, at St. Luke's Hosputal,
of consumption. The funeral was held
Sunday from Shroeders’ undertaking
rooms on Sixth St
Mrs. F. C. Tobey, of 239 Front St
entertained Miss Alice Jackson, of Sull
water, at dinner Sunday.
St. Peter Claver's church is preparing
to tender a reception to Archbishop Ire
land when he returns.
Gone to Rest—Oliver Harworth Blige,
aged 20 years. Monday morning, July
3oth. The passing away of Oliver Blige
takes away from the scene of activity a
young man of great worth and of whom
a splendid career was predicted. His
geniality and sterling qualities brought
to him a host of friends who will moeurn
his loss as that of a brother. He has
been actively connected with Pilgrim
Baptist church for a number of years,
serving in any capacity where help was
ncedfl{ with a spirit of cheerfulness
that was a shining example to all the
young people whom he came 1n contact
with. Mr. Blige was afflicted with a
complication o? diseases. He first had
a stroke of partial paralysis, followed
closely by a severe attack of pneumonia,
which finally cettled n his left lung
and after eight months of suffering
caused his death. The funeral services
were held at the house, Rev. J. C.
Anderson, of St. James A. M. E church.
;firiuu’nl. The body was interred at
orest . A mother and three
sisters survive L- E
_ Mr. Charles E. Farsr. who was in-
Jtlrcdk some time ago n a railroad
wreck, is not improving as nra as
his many friends hadmoptd or, ’aud
some fears are entertained as to his re-
Covery.
Era of Amity.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
CHICAGO, ILL.
(Special to Advance.)
Rev. Willlam Gray, president of the
National Federation of Colored Men,
has issued a call for a convention to be
held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Aug. loth,
“to consider questions of vital impor
tance to the colored race.” Each state,
society and association will be entitled
to three delegates upon affiliations with
the National Federation. We trust that
much good will be accomplished at the
convention. James A, Ross is secre
tary of the Federation.
The G. U. O. O. F. are holding their
annual session at Springfield, IL, this
week. A large delegation ot that fra
ternity are in attendance from this city.
The auditorium and gallery of Bethel
church has been redecorated, frescoed
and painted, also new carpets have been
laid, which make a great improvement
in the appearance of the church. Sun
day. the 6th inst., they wiil hold serv
ices in the auditorium in the morning,
afternoon and evening.
At last some of the Northern dailics
have had something to say editorially
in regard to what Gov. Chandler says
is the cause of so much lynching n
Georgia. It gives us great pleasure to
know that the greatest daily papers do
not agree with the governor of Geor
gia's Ideas. If the press will condemn
lynching it will be of great assistance
to us in quelling some of the lynching,
The Rev. A J. Carey delivered an ad
dress at Springfield, I, Thursday to
the G. U. 0. 0O F.
Rev. J. M. Townsend. of Cincinnati,
Ohio, a former pastor of Ovinn chapel,
will visit our city this week.
Mrs. E. Ward, of 2947 Armour Ave,
is convalescent.
The Misses Nettie B. Miles, Emma
Parker, Stella Bush, Junior McLamore,
Mollic Parks, Mary B. Rogers, Mrs
Leona Kellar, gave a reception at the
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T. THOMAS FORTUNE.
The Brilliant and Fearless Editor of
the New York Age, now seriously
ill at his home in New
York City.
home of Mrs. Norman Booker, 2330
Dearborn ‘St., last Friday evening. Over
50 guests were present and ali were in
unison in saying that they had spent an
enjoyable evening.
The Flontilla Pqeasure Club will give
a pink tea social at the home of Miss
Blanchie Wright in the near future.
Send all news to the oflice of The
Afro-American Advance, 2713 State St,
E. W. Thompson, Manager.
OUGHT TO BE UNIFORM.
Attention of Congress to He Called to
Different Emblems in Use by Army,
Navy and Coast Survey.
Attention of congress will be called
to the advisability of establishing uni
form flags for the army, navy and coast
survey services. Each of these serv
ices has ships in commission, and if the
president were to board vessels repre
senting them one after the other three
distinet flags would be hoisted in his
bonor.
In European countries there is one
emblem recoguized as the “ruler’s” col
ors, and it is hoisted on shore and
afloat whenever he is present.
REED’S NARROW SHOES.
Washington Shoe Dealer Tells of the
Pecaliarities of the Great
Man's Foot,
“Comment about Speaker Reed's
necktie when he sailed for Furope,”
said a Washington shoe dealer, “brings
to mind the size of shoe the speaker
wears. He has the parrowest foot for
a man of his proportions | ever saw,
and I do not believe there is another
man in this eountry possessing the
same kind of a foot. We have sold him
a number of pairs and know something
of his foot. His size is 11 A. Thisisa
remarkably narrow foot for an ordi
nary size man. Our numbers are small
er than the usnal shoe, and, measured
in the general acceptance of shoedom,
the speaker wears about a ten, which is
not too long for a man of his size. Mr.
Reed prefers a soft shoe and we gen
erally furnish him a kid.”
Twe Electricians on Sieep.
Edison and Tesla, both eminent elee
tricians, are not agreed as tosleep. Ed
ison said recently that “sleep is a dread
ful habit,” in connection with his state
ment that some nights he did not sieep
a wink. Tesla says that sleep is a vital
fzer and that if a 3 man could sleep 19
hours aday he might live to be 200 years
old.
Great Rritatn o China,
Great Britain's “sphere of influence™
in the Yang-tse-Kiang valley. China,
embraces 530,000 square miles and »
population of 188000000,
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL, MINN,, SATURDAY, AUG. 5, 1899.
DEAFNESS GROWING.
Census of 1900 Likely to Show Great
Increase in the Affliction.
Prof. Alexander M. Bell Declares
There Is Fast Growing to Be a
Deaf Mate Varlety of
Human Race.
Prof. Alexander M. Bell, father of
Prof. Bell, of telephone fame, declares
that the census of 1900 is likely to bring
out some notable facts in regard to the
increase of the deaf-mute affliction in
this country. According to the figures
of 1890, there were in the United States
in that year 40,502 deaf and dumb peo
ple and 80,616 persons totally deaf, but
not dumb. The rapidity with which the
curse is spreading will be made obvious
by statistics adduced for the last year
of the nineteenth century. Said Mr.
Bell:
“The first recorded marriage of deaf
and dumb persons was in 1819, In the
30 years from 18530 to 1880 there were
1,400 such marriages. We find, in short,
that the deaf-mute clement is growing
at a rate enormously greater than the
population at large, and it is entirely
obvious that this is due to intermar
riages among deaf and dumb people.
There is every prospect that before
long we shall come to recognize the ex
istence of a deaf-mute variety of the
human race, entirely distinct and apart,
At all events, it is to be hoped that the
variety will be set apart, inasmuch as
we must otherwise reconcile ourselves
to the prospect of the existence of deaf
and dumb members in nearly every
familv.
“This seems rather a startling nsser
tion, but it may be easily demonstrated.
Already there are groups of deaf-mute
families scattered all over the United
States and intermarriage among them
has become so common, simply by rea
son of the affliction which they share,
that certain names are associated with
deaf-muteness. l'or example, when
you meet anybody who is named Clos
son, Brasher, Gortschalg, Hopper, Hul
let, or Blizzard, you have a right to in
fer that the individual is likely to be
deaf and dumb.
“Unquestionably a person born deaf
ought not to marry, even though the
other partner in the contract possesses
the sense of hearing. This assertion
may be proved by the records, which
show that in cases of that kind one out
of ten of the resulting children will be
a deaf mute, 1 the trouble ended with
the children it would not be so bad, but
it is likely to reappear intermittently
for generatlons, thus propagating the
mischief indefinitely. 1f both of the
persons are deaf and dumb the expecta
tion is that one in five of their offspring
will be a deaf mute, and after a few
generations of such intermarriages the
faculty of speech will practically pass
away from that family."”
EXPORTATION OF FLOUR.
It Reaches the Highest Point in Its
History During the Fiseal
Year 1800,
Millers of the United States, like
manufacturers generally, made their
banner record in the fiscal year 1599,
While other lines of breadstutfs show a
reduction in exportation, flour not only
shows an inecrease, but reaches the
highest point in history. For the fis
cal year the total exportation of flour
was over 19,000,000 barrels, represent
ing 80,000,000 bushels of wheat, That
flour exports should have continued to
increase in the face of the reduction
in other lines is especially gratifying
to those interested in seeing American
labor participate as largely as possible
in the profits of American exportation.
The average price per bushel of
wheat exported during the fiseal year
1599 was 74.77, and the average price
per bushel for the wheat exported in
the form of flour was 87.67, ealculating
that four and one-half bushels of wheat
are utilized in the production of one
barrel of flour. This adds 12.9 to the
amount of money received for each
bushel of wheat sent abroad in this
form, thus bringing to American in
dustry over $10,000,000 during the year
as a compensation to the enterprise
which transferred the §0,000.900 bush
els of grain into the 18,000,000 barrels
of flour exported.
TO RIDE ACROSS CONTINENT.
Trip for m Cripple Who Usesn Biceyele
Without the Ald of Han
dle Bars.
Messenger No. 574 of the Postal Tele
graph company, who has only one arm,
and who attracts attention by the ease
with which he rides a bicycle without
bandle bars, is about to attempt to
ride from New York to San Francisco
in record breaking time. He purposes
to start from the New York city hall
and hopes (o maintain runs of from
60 to 75 miles a day for the entire dis
tance. lHe will follow the route taken
by Mr. and Mrs, Davis in their trans
continental sutomobile.
No. 574 in private life is Albert V.
Roe. He is 19 years old apd usually
lives at Mills Hotel No. 1, in Bleecker
street. His Jeft arm was cut off at the
shoulder while switching esrs at Los
Angeles, Cal, two yearsago. A brother
and three sisters, his nearest lHring
relatives, live in Grinnell, la., and he
means to eall on them in passing.
He rides a wheel geared to 9] inches,
sndd steers it by a eroteh four inches
iong on the head of the machine, A
skeleton rack bullt over the rear wheel
will carry bis baggasge. He has ridden
a hundred miles every Bunday for ten
weeks to put him in condition for the
journey.
Not Eitgaette,
Professionaletiquette prevents Freneh
judges and judicial officials from riding
in omnibuses,
OUR GUESTS.
REV.E. E JACKSON.D. D,
Of Plainfield. N, ]., who clectritied his audience with a
brilliant oration Tuesday evening last at
the Camp Meeting,
REV. LENA MASON,
The wonderful woman evangelist, The center of attrac
tion at the Camp Meeting Her wonderful gift of
oratory highly commended Ly the masses,
PROMINENT MINNESOTA AFRO-AMERICANS.
VAL DO TURNER,
Physician and Surgeon, St. Paul, Minn
}. C. REID,
Editor and Publisher of the Afro-American Advance,
Minneapolis, Mina,
LIFE-SAVING OUTFIT.
Dectded by Commiasioner Peck to
Send One to the Paris Exvpo
sition,
It has been decided by Commissioner
Peck to send a fine life-ssaving outfit to
the Paris exposition. It will be one of
the most complete ever gotten togeth
er, and the visitors to the exposition
will be given an opportunity to see how
the apparatus works. This move has
been contemplated for some time by
the commissioner,
Commissioner PPeck wants Perry and
Thorn, members of the life-saving serv
ice stationed at Evanston, 111, to be
sent to Paris to put the exhibit in
shape. While there is no doubt the ex
hibit will be sent, as the proposition is
favored by Secretary Gage, there fs a
question as to who will defray the ex
penses. The comminsion has offered to
pay the expenses of the two men who
will be sentif the government will pay
their saluries during their stay in
Paris,
This is p question which will have to
be (h‘l'il\l‘g by Alie comptroller of the
treasury, and it has been submitted to
him for an opinion. Thix will be ren
dered within a day or two, when prepa
rations will be made for putting the ex
hibit in shape.
A VALUABLE ADDITION.
Nationnl Museum Necares the Kntire
Hudson Collection of Indian
Nasket Waork,
The national musenm, through the
bureau of ethnology, has just received
from Californin the entire Hudson col
lection of Indian basket work, Thia is
the finest eollection in existence, The
museum collection now is not only the
tinest in the world, but one which never
can be dupliented, as basket-making s
already adying art among the Indians,
The Hudson collection numbers about
250 pleces, at least half of which would
be worth from $lOO to 5250 each in the
market, It was made by Dr. J, W, Hud
son during about 25 yvears' intimate as
gociation with the Pomo and other Pas
cifle coast tribes. Many of the speecl
mens are sacrificial baskets which re
quire from one te three years to make
and are seldom secured by collectors,
being burned on the death of their
AWNErs.
The British muouseum has been after
this collection, but failed to secure it,
Prof. Mctioe, of the burean, obtaining
an option on it lnst yenr, ‘The price to
the national musenin was almost nom
inal,
STONE DOCK NEEDED.
Effort to e Made to Hnve Doamaged
Dry Dock nt Brookiyn Hepatreed
with Stone and Concrete,
A special from Washington to the
New York Hernld says: Convineed even
more than before of the necessity of
a stone dock at the Brooklyn navy
vard by the aceident to timber dry
doek No, 2, Admiral Endicott, ehief of
the burean of yards and docks, will rec
ommend in his anoual report the con
struction of wuch a structure, e will
take prompt netion to put the dry dock
in good condition ngain. He proposes
to rebuild the entranee with stone and
concrete. When additional money is ob
tained the body of the dock will he
wimilarly repaired. By this menns the
government will secure a stone and con
erete dock which will nccommodate ves
sels as large as the Texns, Admirh] En
dicott will make a personal inspeetion
of the dock. From the newspaper re
ports he judges that at least ten
mwonths' time will be necessary to make
repairs,
DIED HATING MINISTERS.
Willof an Californin Banker Provides
Thut His Money Shull He Kept
from the Chureh,
Willium Steel, the banker who died
recently in Ban Rafael, Cal, leaving an
estute of $lOO,OOO, often expressed an
aversion to minksters, and his will just
filed for probate proves that he meant
just what he suid, The closing para
graph rends: “And | make the spec®al
request that my body be eremnted, and
that not one copper coin of the incoms
of my estate be expended upon or in
any chapel or chureh or upon the sup
port or encourngement, direetly or in.
directly, of any so-called minister of
the Gospel or on missionaries of any
sect, for the whole of the tribe of whom
[ entertain a sincere, well founded and
unconguerable aversion, because dur
tng my lifetime 1 found that both the
men und the women preachers did not
know sbout what they were talking."”
Income of Stanfourd Lnlversity,
The total endowment of Leland Blan«
ford university, ss the result of the
munificent deeds of ex-Benator Stan
ford and his wife, now reaches the un
precedented sum of $45,000,000. This
valuation Is un the basis of a five per
cent, return from the properties In
which the Stanford fortune is invested,
The incoie of §45,060600 ut five per
eent, is 82,250,600, The income of Har
vard, hitherto the largest coming to
any American university, amounis to
sbout $1,091.000,
Mage Better Time, Too,
A man has started from New york
to Ban Franciseo with a gasoline motor.,
Hired girls, says the Chicago Hecord,
have frequently taken trips longer
than that by the vid-time, popular gas
oline route.
Diserect Hussinn Diplomst.
The diplomatic eareer of Baron De
Staal, who presides at the peace confer
ence, has been o long and distinguished
one. He is the soul of diseretion, hav
ing never opened his lips in public.
Adulieration of Radishes,
Foven radishen are adulterated now in
Derlin, They are dipped into aniline
dye 10 make them look fresh and vink
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
JASPER AT EIGHTY.
Still Insists Vehemently That ¢‘The
Sun Do Move.”
interesting Chat with Richmond's
Celebrated Negro Clergyman—ie
Gives His Rensons for One
of His Theories.
In his humble cottage in “Africa,”
the negro guarter i Richmond, =
puaint old clergyman, known the world
wer for one ldea persistently preached
for 15 years, on the Fourth of July cele
brated his cighty-seventh birthday.
Pastor of the Sixth Mount Zion chureh,
paid $6OO a year by his 3,000 parishion=
ers, Rev, John Jasper has made an in
ternational reputation by propounding
the doctrine *the sun do move,"” :
Somewhat enfeebled by his great age,
the negro preacher spends most of his
time in weditation, a strikingly orige
inal and picturesque eharacter. John
Jasper has a remarkable head, Tre
mendously high and prominent cheek
bones under Kindly eves strongly mark
a face of benevolenee and good nature,
In the pulpit he wenrs large silver spee
taeles that add to his otherwise elerieal
look. A phrenologist would be puzzied
to declde where his intellectunl bumps
lie, as his forehead commences with
protruding eyebrows and runs ot an
angle of 43 degrees to the top of his
head, when his eraninm swells out, only
to end in an abrupt preeipice,
Newspaper veporters have made him
onut wholly illiterate and grotesque, and
biographers of his own race are prone
to picture him ax o learned doctor of
divinity, Nelther pleture is correet,
sava the New York Hemld,
John Jusper does not speak in the
negro dialect, as he is often quoted, but
in hin effort to “talk proper,” and in the
quaint originality of expression, no less
than his vehemence of gesture, the vis
itorlooking for amusement finds plenty
to interest him. Of his ministry Jas
per himaclf says: :
~ 1 was inspired before 1 was born,
My father told my mother so. She did
REV. JOMN JARPER
(Author of the Theory That “the Bun Do
Move ')
not believe much about it until 1 got
to be ten or vleven years old, for | was
just as bad ws any other little nigger,
but when I commenced to get big and
commenced to notice | knew that | was
inapired, and the Word of the lLord
cnme to me like a flash,
“For 60 years | have been a minister,
and 1 reckon 1 have brought thousands
of souls from perdition, 11 haven't it
nin't my fault. I have worked hard
enough.”
The text of Jusper's famous sermon
is Fxodus, chapter 16, verse 3, “The
Lord in a Man of war, The Lord is His
name.” The theories advanced are:
The earth in square and lmmovable,
The sun rises in the east and moves (o«
ward the west and there sets. The
waorld is flat,
“The Bible says the sun stood still,”
hie announces dogmatically, “Is any
body going to say the sun was standing
still before Jasher told it 1o stand still?
Do you think Jasher would have asked
the privilege to stop the sun if she had
not been moving? This merning when
the sun rose it was over there (pointing
to the east), How, in the name of God,
could the sun get from that side of the
house over to this (pointing to the
west) unless it moved,
“Now, Bolomon was certainly a
scholar. Do you know he was the man
who sald: “The sun ariseth and goeth
down and hasteneth back to the place
he moved from.” 1t is nonsense 1o say
the sun does not move, The man who
says the sun does not move he does not
read the Bible "
He fortifies himself in the same man
ner in his belief that the earth is square
and flat,
The Oldest of the Pupes,
TLeo Xlll bids fair to be the oldest
of the popes. The sears of the operation
performed by Dr. Mazzoni on the aged
poutiff are said to have thoroughly dis
appenred, Three weeks sgo, when the
physicians removed the lust bandages,
the pope said jokingly to his doector:
“Now, Dr. Mazzonl, how mavy years
of life can you promise me?’ “1 be
lieve eonfidently,” replied the physi
cian, “that your holiness will live to be
over 108" “No, no,” answered the
pope, “you are stretching my years a
little too far” The Roman correspond
ent of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt, how
ever, who reports this chat between pa
tient and doetor, thinks that the doetor
might prove a true prophet, and Leo
Xlll, exhibits signs of such extraordi
pary mental vigor, and his memory
seems absolutely unimpaired.
The Perfeet Human Fool.
A perfectly-formed foot should, ae
cording 1o anstomists, be as long as
the bone in the forearm, which extends
from the elbow to the joint of the wrist,
This seems to be abnormally long in
a tall person, but is the measurement
taken by artists. Of course, arms are
sometimes out of proportion, being far
100 short for the general height, but it
Is rave that an arm fs too Tong for the
stature of & person. : o