The Appeal., 1904-09-24
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would have weakened, but having prom
ised his friends to prosecute the campaign
mobs, @blood-red placards, insults, hoot-l
lngsJ and all4thes other annoyances SWhich
the British public consider perfectly legit-
innate to prevent an unpopular speaker
from being heard. - ~. @-s- sE$#5
+ TWO ON THEIR TRAVELS. n
1.-TWO on Their Travels by Ethel Col
quhoun, $3.50. New York, A. S. Barnes &
Two on Their Travels by Ethel Col-
quhoun, with Photographic Illustrations
by the writer is a very interesting BOOK
Of travel r. : 2, - u. S z.f+ -.sgs.5< :
The writer describes the out of the wa
places which she visited with style en-
tirely natural and yet which exhibits a
style Of trea atment quite unique. In the
chapter called "A voyage of misery and
happy ending she writes: If the food
sal male demand for whiskey led to the
production of a bottle bearing wonder
ful label and the statement Used in the
Houses Of Parliament - The commercial
stared thoughtfully at the label, Then ad-
dressing the head boy he said with his:
and yon pottie?" The delicate Scots
same commercial traveller who, few
days later was invited by Andrew to
share rather less poisonous drink un
ea eaFth1a ht from fepea someWhsre h2nk ye
he'd as much as guild for-r me- He then
related how, feeling thirsty in the mid
die of the night, he had got up. and drunk
tie of water In the morning he discovered
the water bottle full and the whisky bot
tie empty! Il thoucht it was vary guild
Wata-r!' he remarked. .:-.
The writer describes in a very interest
ing manner scenes, people and places in
the Philippines, the straits settlement,
Japan. China, and other countries in the
The Illustrations are. many of them in
colors and are very elaborate.
THE CURSE OF CASTE
:: The Curse Of Caste. BY N. J. W. LIE
Cato. Dedicated to President Roosevelt.
svo. PIP. 32O. 81. New York: Walker
':Antip6dal, as they may seem, the
worst foes to a republic are Democracy
and Caste. The first leads to anarchy,
the second to oligarchy. The middle way
walk therein.
This is very interesting story, and
being contribution to the race question,
and written by an author who exhibits
mastery over the accepted literary forms,
it's interest is therefore enhanced.
1t is the tale of young boy developing
into youth, in a northern community, and
belonging to the prescribed class of black
folk. Early in life he begins to curse the
fate that had cast his lot with that of
the lowly people of color. Being fair of
sical characteristics Of the white race, he
could not understand why he should be
called a "nigger," Notwithstanding the
fact that NANNY Sally" his ostensible
mother, was black.
His attachment to his dark mother was
very pronounced and when in the course
of time she decided to return to the more
congenial climate of the South, because of
gle for existence at the North, against the
tireless competition of New England
labor, Jack Sally as he was called by
his Rayatf worked af as iabere
was the source of much assistance and
comfort to his hard working mother.
On their way south the boy has his first
encounter with the Jim Crow car. and
soon after his arrival at the place where
he took up his permanent abode, he soon
became the victim of petty prosecutions,
because of his race identity, which cul-
minated in his attempted assassination.
His life as a farm laborer was one
1reary round of uninviting and monoton-
Gus toll, relieved occasionally by the COM
radeship Of old "Un Gle Kiah,' typical
ante bellum Negro, and Joe Watkins. a
white boy, with whom he hunted possuns
at night.
Denied admission to the local public
school, because of his race he would have
been allowed to grow up in iliteracy and
of a New England woman, living on an
adjoining plantation who gave him pri-
vate lessons. AS his young mind COM
apace, and he fretted like a Gagged bird
under the Course of Caste" which fell
heavily upon his sensitive spirit.
On hunting expedition one night with
Joe Watkins, he got himself into the
tolls Of the law, and was condemned to a
public whipping for a crime of which he
was innocent, but was unable to establish
to the incident for which he had been
tried, was sent out of the jurisdiction of
the court in order. that there might be no
possibility, of his exoneration. Saved
however, by stay of execution obtained
by a friend, he returns to his lowly habi-
tation, and is shortly afterward taken
sick after rescuing a drowning woman.
The rescue Of this woman instead of at
neighbors only served to increase their
hatred and dislike Of the .'white niger
While in a delrious condition, and nursed
by his benefactress, very dramatic
scene is enacted, which results in his be-
ing carried to the "Great House, where
he is Installed as one of the family
Treated as an adopted son, he is finally
sent to Harvard University, where for the
second time he meets Theodore Roose-
welt, who once again comes into his life
and influences MIN Tor SOOd.
Falling in love with a white girl living
| on an adjoining estate, his suffering be-
| comes so intense at the realization OF the
| disparity between their race and stations
| that he is nearly driven craZy-was on
| the verge of insanity. when he confesses
| his love to the beautiful daushters of
| Colonel Custis. only to be treated with
| inexpressible. contempt.
It is just at this climax that it becomes
| known that he is in realty white man OF
good birth. who had been given to
| 1:Mammy Sally when babe to raise, III
order that his mother might be spared
! the humiliation and disgrace Of a clan
destine marriage with a man who had
killed her brother in duel at college.
The literary power of the writer may
! be seen from the following description Of
! a Negro burying ground:
1T marked the spot Of Negro grave
yard Here in the bramble infested with
reptiles and the haunt Of rabbits, slept
the nameless and unhonored men Of toll;
the faithful, sons of Africa who for many
generations had watered these very
fields with the sweat of their brow, bear
ing with remarkable patience the subJu-
eating yoke of slavery, going to their
toll from day to day and returning like
a galley slave to his dungeon night
after night without change and without
hope, only to fall down in the harvest
field or the long furrow and be carted out
to find rest at last under the shade OF
this old tree"