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Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-10
THE MAN WHO I AXIS

l pity those who have the habit of
complaining. for it seems to be akin
to misfortune. They who let LIE
look awry to them will soon become
dismal foreboders of trouble. The
, trials of life are made much lighter by
a cheerful spirit and a hopeful heart.
Complaint very naturally commands
at first pity; but after it has become
a habit it simply excites disgust and
contempt. Some everyday habits
which are seldom spoken of are worse
than profanity, and make more peo-
pie uncomfortable and have a more
baneful effect upon the complainer.
Resist temptation, incivility and try
many. but do not whine A bold bat
tier in life attracts to himself sup
port. while the yelper has for his por-
ton cuffs and kicks and jeers.
1t is we'll to remember that hatred
is madness of the heart" and that
vengeance has no foresight and
that their effect upon the soul is al
ways debasing. Neither are essential
to life, both diminish life's achieve
ments and pleasures. To entertain
either or both is putting the mind to
a mean occupation and deliberately
demeaning ones self. If you have
never thought of it in this way it will
certainly pay to do so. Next to
worrying, hating stands as common
folly 1t makes the hater more I'M
comfortable than the party hated,
which may mean the extinction of
both Time is too valuable to be
wasted in such a Way-iife too
precious to be marred. 1t is a bit
of the savage in us which needs ex-
tinction-a fault which once corrected
opens wider avenues to our aims and
enjoyments.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-10

Norwich, Saturday, Jan. 10, 1914.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
PLAYING WITH FIRE,

The Afro-Americans in Atlantic City
who are bending every energy to get
jimcrow principal for their jimcrow
school ought to be in better business,
They are making great mistake. In.
stead of extending jimcrowism they
ought to fight it and have the Jim.
crow school abolished as it is contrary
to the laws of the state of New Jersey.
Segregation NEVER plays. Perhaps
the children of the men who are agi-
tating this matter will curse them in
the days to come and they will be
justified in doing so.
Any man who at any time justifes
and fights for the segregation of his
people from other American citizens
is not only an enemy of his race but
he is also an enemy of the Republic.
Caste begets caste. If the Afro Ameri-
can people are segregated why not the
Jews next? Then perhaps some
numerically weak class of citizens of
foreign birth. Then perhaps the rich
and the poor will be separated in the
schools. Who knows?
The jimcrow agitators of Atlantic
City are playing with fire.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
CLIMATES EFFECT ON WHEAT
Interesting Experiments Made Prove
Soil Is Secondary.

Interesting Experiments Made Prove
Soil Is Secondary.
Washington. - Experiments conduct
ed by the department of agriculture
demonstrate that climate is the chief
factor in determining the varying
characteristics of wheat grown in diff
ferent regions, it was announced.
To ascertain this experimenters grew
wheat for six years in California, Kan
sas and Maryland on soil taken from
each Of these states. The results show
ed that all wheat grown in California.
for example, was much alike, whether
raised on soil of that state or on soil
imported from Kansas and Maryland.
On the other hand. it differed consider
ably from the Kansas and Maryland
wheat, no matter on what soil these
were grown. In other words. it is stat
ed the wheat grown on the three soils
in one locality was similar in compost
ton and appearance. but quite differ
ent from the same wheat grown on the
same soils in the two other localities.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
By REV. QUINCY EWING.

But we are very far from needing
to rely upon any general consideration
IN support of the proposition advanced
above. It is supported by evidences
on every hand, waiting only the eye
of recognition. Scarcely day passes
but something is said or done with this
end in view, to emphasize, lest they
forget, the conviction for both white
man and Negro that the latter is and
must remain an inferior. Let me in
stance few such evidences.
Consider, first, the "Jim Crow" legis-
latlon in the manner of it's enforce
ment. Such legislation is supposed to
have for its object the separation of
the races in trains, street cars, etc., to
save the white people from occasional
contact with drunken, rowdy, illsmell-
Ing Negroes, and to prevent personal
encounters between the whites and
blacks. Members of the different
races occupy the same cars, separated
only by absurdly inadequate little
open-mesh wire screens, so tiny and
light that a conductor can move them
from one seat to another with the
strength of his little finger. Needless
TO add, these screens would serve to
obscure: neither sound, sight, nor smell
OF drunken rowdies who sat behind
them! In summer cars, black and
white passengers may be separated
not even by a make-believe screen;
they are simply required, respectively,
to occupy certain seats in the front
or the back end Of the cars.
In Birmingham, Alabama, the front
seats are assigned to Negroes in all
closed cars, and the back seats in all
open ones. Why the front seats in the
one case, and the back seats in the
other, 1t is not easy to understand in
the light of the letter and alleged
spirit OF the Jim Grow law! The un-
oerlylng purpose of the law is clearly
not the separation of the races in
space; for public sentiment does not
INSIST upon it's fulillment to that end
Inc underlying purpose of it would
seem to be the separation OF the races
IN status. The doctrine of INEQUALITY
would be attacked if white and black
passengers rode in public conveyances
on equal terms; therefore the Negro
who rides in a public convevan1r
must 40 so, not as of undoubted right
out as with the white mans reguIa-
Ion. "This place you may OCCUPY,
mat other you may not, because ! am
and you are you, lest to you or to me
1t should be obscured that am | and
YOU are YOU" Such is the real spirit
OF the Jim Crow laws.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11

A ray Of hope may now reach the
hearts of the faithful Afro-American
Democrats. Representative Smith of
Maryland called on President Wilson
a few days ago to urge the appoint
ment of white man as Recorder OF
Deeds, of the District of Columbia.
now held by Henry Lincoln Johnson,
or was held by him prior to July 1.
1t is understood he was to resign
July 1. President Wilson told Rep
resentative Smith that soon after his
inauguration he promised to appoint
only Afro-Americans to positions held
by Afro-Americans whenever changes
were made and he intended to do So.
This was not done in the case of
minister to Hayti, the best position
held by an Afro-American and a few
other less important places, but we
suppose like Rip Van Wrinkle, 1--WE
won't count those"
Well see what we will see.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11

the rebel troops on the other. Sonora
Huerta does not give up her social &C.
tivities.
She is fond of the things that her
husband likes. On Sundays she at
tends the bullfghts, so popular in Mex
leo, and. like her husband. mingles
freely with the masses. She can be
frequently seen in the Mexican cafes
IN the evenings wining. dining and
dancing. and one would little realize
the great cares that hang over the
shoulders of her soldier husband.
She loves her children dearly Her
son was recently married. The cere-
mony was performed about the time
American Charge d'Affaires O'Shaugh-
messy was handed his passports by the
Mexican minister of foreign relations
Although representative of a hostile
government. O'Shaughnessy. who is a
close friend of the dictator's family.
was urged to remain in Mexico City
not as an official representative Of the
United States government. but rather
as a private citizen. and attend the
marriage of Sonora Huerta's son.
Her life is full of activity. She looks
not to tomorrow and lives only for to-
day. 1t is she, DESTROYS of retaining
the highest social position in all Mex
leo and of residing in the National pal
ace, who urges the stanch old Indian
to hold on to the last to defy the pow
ers Of the civilized world and fight for
the retention of the position stained by
blood Of his predecessor
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
The ONLY SOLUTION.

Recently at the Church of England
Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney
Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end OF 1912, put for
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by reso]ute disclaimer of the
color line and the race differention
theory.
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is a British colony and the govern
ment is just Colored men enjoy ev-
cry civil and political right which white
men have and there is no color line.
Among ocner things Sir Sidney said:
my study and comparison of con-
ditions in the United States and the
West Indies," he said, "has brought
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men are
not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. I
DO not expect them to adopt the meth
DDS of missionaries, nor do 1 sympa-
thize with all their programmes. But
1t cannot be ignored that it happened
that the faiths of the men who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-
velopment of the mixed community in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
ATTACKED BY WILDCAT.
Animal Killed In Air as II Leaped on
Shoulders of Warden.

Animal Killed lnsAir as II |Leaped on
Shoulders of Warden.
Bangor, Me.-The life Of Game Ward.
en- e. S. Hodgkins was saved recently
in the woods near here by the quick
ness and unerring aim of William
Ryer, proprietor Of set Of sporting
camps at Hound Brook lake. The two
men had been hunting wildcats with
dogs and had killed two of the ami
mails. They were standing under a tree
when Mr.. Ryer CHANGED to look up-
ward.
Perched on branch directly above
the game warden was another cat. as
large again as either of those that had
been killed. The animal was creeping
slowly forward, his lips drawn back
over his glittering teeth and the look of
demon on his savage face. Just as
Ryers eye caught the cat the animal
gave start and leaped full for War
den Hodgkins. still unconscious of his
danger. Ryer, shouting a hasty cry of
warning, whipped his 80 caliber re-
volver from his holster and fired while
the cat was in the air. The bullet
struck the animal between the ewes.
and he dropped dead.
1T was the closest call ever had,
and l never want another like it."
Warden Hodgkins said in telling of the
affair.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
BROKE. LAST YEAR,
now WORTH $4,000
BorroWS Sc, Goes to Alaska
and Makes Fortune,

PORTLAND, Ore.-Dead broke less than
a year ago and working at odd Jobs
cleaning easements and yards in this
city and now worth $4,000, all of
Which was secured through his own ef-
forts, is the experience of w. B. Con-
nell, an Alaska miner.
10 81. A. Davie, deputy city attorney
OF this city, is largely due much of the
credit for the good fortune which has
befallen the lucky miner. Cornell
came to Davie last July with the story
that he knew Judge Davie, the local
attorneys father, who was formerly a
judge in British Columbia. He had a
hard luck story and pleaded for work,
DaVie gave him some odd jobs clean
ing the yard and basement in his
home. for which he paid the man 50.
After the work was completed the
stranger asked for Sc for railway fare
to Seattle, from which place he in
tended to 60 to Alaska The man ap-
peared to be honest, and he gave Con-
nell &c.
That was the last heard of the man
until few days ago, when he received
a letter written from the White Horse
river, Yukon territory. Cornell said
that he had reached Alaska and had
gone to the Chisana gold fields and
there had located on three claims.
II have sold the three Claims" writes
Cornell, Ito a New York syndicate for
$S3,000-$12,000 cash. $4,000 in three
months and the remainder in six
months. So, taking everything into
consideration. have not done so aw-
fully bad since last July, when l was
fiat broke. l shall certainly make it
my business to visit Portland and see
you and your family. l have a notion
to quit the mining game. as $4,000 will
keep me if l use it as it should be used.
by the way. l have couple of mug
gets to send you and your wife and
also one for your sister. l often
thought of you and Mrs. Davie. She
was very kind to me when l was
cleaning out your basement. This is
real happening in a miners life-broke
one day and plenty of money the
next
Concluding his letter. Cornell said
the Chisana country was no place for a
poor man, because all the claims were
staked and prices of everything are
''sky high"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11

On July the New York Evening
Journal published a picture contain.
Ing three figures, viz: Jack Johnson,
an orang-outang and leopard. 1t al
so published an editorial in substantial.
ton of the statement that liability
TO WIN IN A PHYSICAL FIGHT IS
PROOF OF INFERIORITY," and fur.
Their says, mot deplorable, but en-.
couraging, is the fact that no white
man can be found to beat this tall
Negro.' Years ago, to be an adept in
"the manly art of self-defense" was
considered one of the highest achieve.
ments for any man, yet nothing
that has happened in a half CEN
tury has so taken the conceit
out of the Caucasian for "superi-
GRITTY" as the victories of Johnson in
the squared circle" In speaking of
the heavy weight championship the
white press has been looking to sew
eral 'White hopes" to bring back the
championship "where it rightfully be.
longs" but three times in succession,
johnson "carried home the bacon"
Had Moran won the decision in
France the other day, no such picture
would have appeared in the New York
Journal and no such editorial. It
seems to us this is a case of "sour
grapes" pure and simple. 1t makes all
the difference in the world whose OK is
gored.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
THE JEWS DID 1T,

The great wholesale drygoods house
of H. B. Claim & Co. has faileu and
the Jews did it.
Years ago A. T. Stewart the first
great drygoods merchant prince of
America, angered the Jews by refus-
ing to receive them as guests at the
Grand Hotel at Saratoga, of which he
was the owner Jewish merchants all
over the country combined and in a
few years forced him to the wall,
The Chaflin Company is really the
reorganized Stewart business. For
years Jewish merchants have been
withdrawing their trade and when the
pinch came Jewish bankers, remem-
bering the insult to their people in
the past, refused to furnish the money
to enable the firm to tide over the
trouble.
The Jews never forget an injury
and who wrongs the race must pay
the price.
Would that the Afro-American would
lear to punish their enemies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
SEEKING LAFITTE TREASURE.
Two Parties Have Chart Disclosing tho
Aoard's Whereabouts.

Two Parties Have Chart Disclosing tho
Hoard's Whereabouts.
Gueydan. La.-An expedition, headed
by Captain j. D. Bonnin. from Guey-
dan. is in the wilds of White lake,
south of this place. in search of the
treasure of Pirate Jean LATTE. The
party is composed Of DR.. j. Milton
White. Adam Brasseaux and X. P.
Foote. Captain J. D. Bonnin. de-
scendant of one of the oldest families
Of Vermilion parish, has chart and
map left him by his grandfather short
~ before his death. describing the To-
tality of the famous treasure.
On their trip the Gueydan party
launch was hit by the steamer Bobby
White. One end of the boat was dam
aged.
In White lake also are Frederick
Mackenzie. magazine editor, and
Charles Tenney Jackson, novelist. They
claim to have the real LATTE chart
and started their hunt from New Or
leans three weeks ago.
Still another party is on the treasure
hunt, having started from Abbeville,
La. Its identity has been kept secret,
however.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11

jamaica were democratic and human
ltarlan and, above all, uncompromis-
ingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to it
must increase civil discord. When the
balance of numbers is as it is in the
South in America it must tend to
foster obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. If statesmen and
citizens face in the contrary direction
l do not say that they will attain i'm
mediately civil peace, but I am conf
dent that they will be travelling tho
only road toward it.
1 do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina.
ton between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference is
only one of many schismatic agencies
The solution of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man a, :,
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11

city have not been aggressive in their
fight against Injustice
Some years ago proposal was made
for jimcrow library and it was &C.
cepted without protest.
Residential segregation came as a
natural sequence.
The idea of the Caucasian fends OF
the South is that persons with an ad
mixture of African blood must be kept
in separate social status subject tc
their whims and caprices.
The Afro-Americans who accept
public segregation in any form, WITH
OUT PROTEST are doing themselves
a great wrong and hanging a mill.
stone about their children's necks.
EVERY KIND OF JIMCROWISM
SHOULD BE FOUGHT TO A FINISH
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
SATURDAY, JULY II, 1914
THE DEATH OF A MAN.

DCH VI - mANs
There recently died in Chicago, an
Afro-American who was every inch a
man.
In these latter days when the Windy
City has been overrun by jimcrowists,
self-seekers at the expense of the race,
self-segregationists separate Christian
association builders and others STEPPED
in servility, a character like John G..
Jones stands out in all it's greatness
and brilliancy.
In the olden days he fought every
exhibition Of hostility to his people, to
a finish. So great was his indignation
when his people were wronged, and so
vigorous was his fight against every
form of jimcroWism that he earned for
himself the sobriquet of "Indignation
Jones'"
While in a lowly calling he earned
and saved enough money to pay his
eral years was admitted to the bar
and built up a paying practice. He
was prominent in Masonic circles and
was received with great honors by
members of the craft when he visited
Europe some years ago.
Although somewhat dark in COM
plexion he knew that he was not a
Negro and resented being addressed
as one and insisted on being called an
American. He acted as an American
citizen, demanded all the rights of
American citizenship and he seldom
failed to get his rights.
Jones was absolutely unafraid.
Many years ago when he was mem
Der of the Illinois legislature, he re-
fused to vote for the late S. M. Cul-
lom for United States Senator, because
he felt that Cullom had not been
square in his dealings with his Afro
American constituents. Every posi-
BILE influence was brought to bear on
Jones by the then powerful Republi-
can machine to induce him to give
his vote to Cullom. He was cajoled
and threatened but he stood like ada
mant and even after Cullom had been
elected and a motion was made to
make the election unanimous, Jones
refused to change and registered his
vote against the man he believed to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11
HAS KEY TO ALL LANGUAGES.
French Teacher Invents System of In
ternationaI Correspondents.

French Teacher lnvents System of In
ternationai Correspondence.
Paris.-A teacher named j. Orsat has
invented an ingenious system Of inter-
national correspondence. Every word
in the French language is referred to
by number. and a corresponding num-
Der is given to the same word in all
other languages
Thus a merchant desiring to write to
a foreign customer need only turn the
words Of his own language into mum
,bers. and the customer can retranslate
the numbers into the words Of his Ian
suage. Dictionaries based on this sys-
tenn In all tongues are being prepared.
NJ. David. the minister Of commerce,
has given his appreciation to the idea.
NJ. Orsat does not believe in the prac-
t1cabtlfty Of a spoken universal Ian
guage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1914-07-11

This is the glorious 18th of July, the
anniversary of the day that the great
Declaration of Independence was
signed, which declares, "all men are
born free and equal and endowed by
their Creator with certain inaliena BILE
rights, among which are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, etc, etc.
There are 100000 good, loyal citi-
zens of this country, to the manor
born, to whom that Declaration now
means nothing, therefore they are not
very much enthused over the glorious
4th.