The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-08-24
Miscellaneous
{ From the August Crisis.)

. | 'N>S''i' Pe'i oucu through the streets
dressed in white linen in a cart drawn
by sixteen white oxen and surrounded
by attendants also arrayed in white
various fair ladies who believe that
the Negro should be kept down threw
white nowers at the gentleman and
the populace generally had an enter
tanning time.
Governor Bleasc, of South Carolina
IS having history written to suit him.
self. 1t is a disputed point whether
or not the Federal army fred Column
pa III 1868 wht'A the city was burned.
The author Of fhe history of South
Carolina which is to be used in the
pubic schools said there was som/
doubt about it, but Governor Bleasc
SAID there was none in his mind and
orucrcd the offending paragraph
cEahSed. he author of the history
oollslngly did as he was told and his
text book has been adopted.
chocolate" is the stage name Of q
colored clown in Paris who has de-
lshted that city for twcaty-seven
years, while in his spare hours he
mas gone to hospitals and amused
SICK children. He is now retiring and
at meeting in his honor he will be
decorated by the French government
Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy in Lincoln's cabinet felt that no
o"eu MS lie to Chester Stanton, his
colored body-servant, and on his death
pea requested that the man should
be buried beside him. Stanton died =
lew weeks ago and was duly buried in
the Wclles plot in Hartford, whereup-
on reporter in search of a sensation
sent out dispatches to the effect that
tne exclusive owners of cemetery
lo's objected to the interment to such
an extent that they would remove the
bones of their own relatives from the
pcrnlclous contact. This silly story.
or 'CEiE" untrue, was quite widely
~ & late and believed. Only the
Ne" You'd World. among the papers
li'1> painted II. VAS honest enough to
investigate and contradict its own dis
puicn.
Il; asst 80 rolorcd children of Men,
PMS have seen the Zoo. For four
hours they were permitted to LOOK
upon the wonders of that white sane
tun, the park, in which colored folk
may not walk. though they have al
ways the pleasure OF paying taxes for
IT,. There were Especial deputized ex-
ccutors of the law" to see that their
conduct Was seemly. AS nothing des-
pcrate occurred, the children NAV go
again some day.
IL may be safely said that the color
ed Georgia convict by the name of
Neal has established a record for hon.
esty. He was convicted of assault
with intent to murder in 1909. His
ofense consisted of pointing a gun at
another, and the jury recommended
Neal to mercy. The Judge felt that
the recommendation was not justified
ana sentenced Neal to imprisonment
on TWO counts. four years for one and
one year for the otner. Bv mistake
the man was liberated after having
served one year. He presented his
case 10 Judge Edwards and said that
ne ala not know what to do about it.
but he felt he ought to serve his full
time. The judge told him to 20 back
to prison, but was so much impressed
with the mans honesty Vat he has
petllloned the Governor for a pardon
saying that he himself was mistaken
IN not accepting the jury's recon-
mendation to mercy.
MIS-. isabelle Wbrrell Ball made an
address, in PRESENTING a play to
colored social settlement in Washing
ton, and said: IF the United States
government we're to pay ten cents a
day to the descendants of the slaves.
who titled the soil in the South dur
ing the clghty-seven years that slav-
cry existed in this country, it would
| De indebted TO them more than Sill
| 000. 900 900"
Life, the humorous weekly, becomes
| serious in speaking of several recent
cases of Negro batting in New York.
New York, it says, lis a cosmOpoli-
tan city. 1t should have more cos
| mopolltan manners. 1t is quite intol-
cradle that light-complexioned voters
should regard themselves with con-
| &"hltal police powers for the rcgua-
N@on OF voters whose skins are dark o."
One hundred and sixty-one union
ScGro miners Of Ogden, Iowa, are ST.
ING the international president, the
Iowa president and other mine offic-
lalS for more than million and a
nan dollars on the ground that they
were used against their knowledge as
Strikobrcakcrs. The men are asking
for $1o,oh0 each They claim that
When they were imported to Ogden