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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
THAT RICHMOND FAIR.

OuuoF lie dUOVe meaning the star
of Norfolk, Va, prints the following:
Today ends the existence of one
of the greatest farces that has ever
been inflicted upon the people of this
section of the country.
Sometime ago the congress of the
United States appropriated the sum
of tifty-fve thousand dollars to assist
in celebrating the fiftieth year of the
Negroes freedom in this land, and that
money was entrusted to Giles B. Jack
son and some other men, whom we
have never heard mentioned, for the
contamination of the result named;
but never in all our experience and
observations have we seen a more
miserable failure in projecting sucn
an affair.
The Richmond people who usually
make a success of any undertaking,
in which any of the citizens of the
progressive city is interestd did not
take the trouble to lose any of their
time, in giving the concern the least
consideration. The celebration was
held in the grounds of the State Fair
Association, therefore there was no
necessity for the expenditure of any
money for buildings or improvements
and while there were a few things of
interest on exhibition, there were so
few that they were not of sufficient
interest to command the attention OF
even the local people, let alone the
people from other parts of Virginia
or the country in general.
At no time during the existence OF
the exposition, were there more than
few-a very few-people in attend
ance.
The more one inquired the cause
of the terrible frost, the more you
were met with the answer, the af-
fair was entirely one-man concern,
and that since the success, if any
success, would be credited to Col.
Giles B. Jackson, the more deter
mined was the public to show that
the failure should be attributed to the
same source.
That the affair was most miserably
advertised and more miserably man.
aged goes without saying, and since it
! was in the hands of one man, the Ne.
groes of Richmond, of the State of
Virginia and the entire country, have
no regrets at it's failure"
THE APPEAL has always opposed
the appropriation of funds for
jimcrow affairs of any kind. The ap.
preparation of $4,000 by the United
States was class legislation, a thing
which the colored people ought to
avoid even if it seems to favor them
! The colored man has no right to any
special consideration and if he gets
few thousands in cash he must nav
by losing some right Jimcrow appro
pr1ations are dangerous things.
The appropriation was given to
| Giles Jackson because he is of the
/ ante-bellum type so loved by the
South. He knew how to bow and
koWtow before his white frens'' and
he got the coin. It is not strange that
ne arranged "a white folks day" as
the great event of his TODD.
Let us hear no more of the appro-
priation of public money for jimcrow
affairs. "
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21

Mol1ere!s Though the cathedrals quar-.
re- together and sing praises with
s1ege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, I take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls of their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs of their heroes, artists, in.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. l will not say of any
one nation what I will not say of the
others; and l will not say of any man
what l will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
the, MAN VINO pAREs

] honor the man who in tho con
sclentious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the world, with ienor-
ant, intolerant Judgment, may con-
denim. the countenances Il relatives
may be avertsd, and tho hearts Of
friends grow cold, but the sense Of
duty done shall be swsetsr than tho
applause Of the world, the ceunten-
ances Of relatives or the hearts Of
friends. Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
Each Victory ENCOURAGES.
(From the Martinsburg Pioneer.Pres

(From the Martinsburg Pioneer-Press)
All hail to our brave confrere the
Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of the old
reliable Gazette for going to the Gov
ernor OF Ohio, and preventing that
internal play, 1.-THE Niger" to be ex.
hibited in the great state of Ohio. To
boldly fight such impositions is the un-
flinching duty of every decent man
among US. Every victory won by the
rev courageous agitators encourages
others to step into the arena of de-
renee; and may the time come soon
when towards will be unknown, and
all stand united for manhood rights.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
Embitters All but DociIe Negro.
(From the Savannah TribuneO

In many of the Southern States,
years ago, colored troops were allowed
and maintained. One by one these
states disbanded the colored troops.
Georgia was better orgonized than any
OF the other states, and was the last
to disband the colored trops. In event
of war, especially of any duration, the
colored man will be badly needed, but
has he been trained or has he been
encouraged to take up arms to fight
in defense of his country? He has
been prescribed and debarred of many
privileges that are justly his and which
would embitter any other race but the
docile Negro.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
He Is a Real Man.
(From the Pioneer.Press. Mart

(F'rom the Pioneer-Press, Martins.
burgh, w. Val
Editor w. P. Dabney, of the Cincin.
natl Union, is busy day and night
these days fighting segregation and all
other forms of discrimination in the
Queen City. This is noble in him,
too, and especially so when it is
known that Mr.. Dabney is in an Of.
fetal position. Men of that sort are
generally as mum as clam, but this
Is not so in the case Of Mr.. Dabney.
He is man.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21

The Louisville News is making a
great fight against segregation Of res
licences and tells the colored citizens
that they can help by refusing to be
segregated In other walks OF life.
Segregation is wrong whether in a
dive or church and any church
which practices it is no better than a
dive.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
The SIN OF SILENCE

To sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards out Of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lust, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
euilIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
un-American South.

When the Georgia senate recently
passed law forbidding white persons
to teach coloredt pupils some of these
human skunks rushed into print to de-
fend> the action, saying that it would
benefit the, colored man. r..
The white Georgians who burn and
hang and legislate against their col
ored fellow citizens are saints wher
compared with colored men who con
done their crimes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
THE coLoRED MANS STAND
ARDS.

3 : -fi VA
The Christian Register, the leading
Unitarian publication of the country,
prints so excellent an article on col
ored mans own standards that we are
constrained to print extracts from it.
White men have set standards for
the colored man for many years. Dur
Ing slavery days the standard was
mainly one of health and strength, a
good disposition" was also esirable:
bad niger was harder to sell
than one who would make no trouble.
Taken altogether the standard of ante.
bellum days for colored men was
much the same as that for horses
warranted sound and kind and al
the rest. During the war, with the
splendid record of black men as sol
diers, the standard held up for them
by the white man shifted, though only
slightly. After the war, and after the
Fifteenth Amendment began to oper.
ate, the white man gradually altered
his expectation of what the black
could be and ought to be. Whites diff.
fer greatly to-day, both North and
South, upon this question; as a rule,
the more civilized the white man, the
reader he is, in Judging the colored
man, to see his great possibilities and
his remarkable progress, as already
shown. 1}>trt $3.50.
The subtler problem, and more
vital to the colored people, is regard
ing the races standards for itself in
the various arts of civilization. And
his most serious obstacle is-not the
injustice OF his white neighbors, evi
dent and regrettable as that is, blu,
the danger he continuously incurs Of
holding up low standards of attain
ment for himself. If ne is to com
pete with the white man in business
! manufactures, arts, scholarship, anc
other pursuits, he must hold himself
up to as high standard of excellence
as does the. white man. AS a rule
colored people do not quite come ur
to this; they have the faults of thei,
qualities; they are too easily satisfied
with attainment which is distinct,
second-rate in the worlds Bradstreet
The colored musician, or painter, or
artisan, or writer is too apt to meas
ure himself by the many people be
low him in skill instead of keeping his
eye fixed on the few who surpass him
For this reason it is good for col
ored boy or girl to attend a school O,
college which white boys and girl.
attend. Well-meaning friends of tn,
colored people have pitied such pupil.
OF mixed schools and academies he
cause of the many sights put upol
them by careless or unfeeling Whit
schoolmates; but people who see NOR,
deeply into the real problems OF III,
colored race believe that it is bette
for such affronted young people t,
undergo the affronts and to remain il
the keen atmosphere of white stand
ards of custom, costume, and scholar
ship than to live in mild atmospher,
of half-attainment, among brother
and sisters of their own race, all alike
half blindly cropping their slow wa,
out of the darkness. Better tina,
colored boy should bear whateve
sights are put upon him by certai,
narrow, selfish, white boys at YAH
or Harvard than to drift comfortabl,
along in some Negro school which ha,
not got itself as yet squared to tn
world standards, in a world wher,
white men rule ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
Right You Are.
(From the Amsterdam News.

(From the Amsterdam News.)
Young man! Young woman! In
whatever position, in whatever sphere
OF life, whatever your attachments
Whatever your past accomplishments
whoever and whatever you are, If you
are not DISCONTINUED you are
Ost!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-08-21
RACE PREJUDICE.

am convinced myself that there is no more
evil thing in this present world than Race Pre-
Judice; none at all. I write deliberately is
the worst single thing in life now. It justihes
and holds together more baseness cruelty and
apomlnatlon than any other sort of error in the
world. Through its body runs the black blood
OF coarse lust suspicion, jealousy and persecu-
tlon and all the darkest poisons of the human
soul.
III. G. Wells in N Y Independent,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
How Different!

HOW DIUGFENI!
"Just being mothers daughter was
a great help" says Jose Collins. but
heaven bless the critics!" There you
are boys-read il again.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
Germans Destroy
French Submarine

BERLIN, (by wireless TO Sayville).
July 27.-The French submarine Ma
r!otte, was destroyed by German sub
marine on July 26. in the narrows OF
the Dardanelles. according to dis
patch from Constantinople to the Nit
tag Zietung. Thirty-one members OF
the French crew were captured.
The parrows where the engagement
between French and German subma-
rines took place is about midway in
the Dardanelles strait between the
Aegean Sea and the Sea OF Mormora.
They are Is miles from the entrance
to the strait The French submarine
Mariotte was built in Cherbourg in
1911. The vessel displaced SIS tons
when submerged and wa: 215.7 feet
long. She was fitted with six torpedo
tubes and capable Of travelling is knots
an hour on surface and ten below.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27

West virsnIan want ads bring re
suits. Try one.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
HoULT.

THE heated term" is with US now
in dead earnest which favors the har
Yesting OF oats and early hay harvest
James H. Snider got his hand very
severely hurt at a shaft mine last
week
Mrs. Benjamin Wilson has beer
very sick for a week past.
Mrs. William F. Houit is sick at the
present.
John c. Bowman, Of Little Falls. is
visiting his brother, John D. Bow
man. here.
Friends OF Harvey McElresh. Of
near Owens Bottle Works. will be glad
to hear that the doctors at Johns Hop
kins Hospital at Baltimore have de
cided he can cure him without ar
operation. He was accompanied &c
Baltimore last week by his father
John o. McElfresh. OF this place. who
returned Sunday with the welcome
news. He will probably have to re
main several weeks.
Mrs. Marion Mcdaniel and son anc
niece. Edith Parker. Of Belleview, are
guests OF Mrs. Rebecca Robe.
Mr.. Order. who works on the B. &
o. tracks here was at Morgantowr
Sunday visiting his family. He Is
preparing TO move into the house late
" vacated by ?. NJ. Huey.
Mr.. Ezra Morgan. OF Mt. Zion. or
ganized a singing class here Sunday
OF over 0 pupils. The class organized
by the election OF F. E. Wills. presi
dent; Miss Bertha Bowman, secretary
and Jas. D. Bowman, treasurer.
Mr.. Lester Pitcher and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. c. z. McElfresh were
visiting MIR. and Mrs. Eliza klnkald
OF Samuel Run. Sunday.
Rev. Ephraim Doolittle. Of Bun
uers Ridge was in Hoult Sunday.
} Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Sergent. Of East
Park, were visiting in Hoult Sunday
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27

CHICAGO. July 27.-Secretary of
Commerce William c. Redfield arrived
today and took up what he promised
would be a thorough inquiry. A short
time later attorneys from the L. 5. dis
trict attorneys office visited all the
men held in custody as witnesses and
obtained statements from them. at
the same time Supporting them TO ap'
pear before the federal grand jury.
which meets THURSDAY.
Secretary Redfield upon his arrival:
said he welcomed the most searching
investigation possible. and that If an
inspector was at fault. no one was
more interested in it than he.
At noon the official list of dead and
missing was: Identified dead So; I'M
identified dead 5; missing. Western
Electric list. 92$-total 1920.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
lGightiest Battle Of Of
War On Isonzo River

i BERLIN, July 27.-The battle be-
4viesn the Italians and Austrians along
/. STs Tsonzo river is described by a
CORRESPONDENT in the Tyrol as the
SmigStiest and the most frighttul OF
the war. The great struggle mas !ast'
Cd week, without any decision nav
ing been reached.
! The principal Italian onslaught has
been directed against the Doverdo
nlsnteau. where the artillery FIRE ex.
.ceeds that OF the battle at Tarnow aud
Gorlice In Galicia.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
viii Receive
Continued from Page one.)

company had advised that the more
tickets sold the greater would be the
rebate paid 10 the employees organiza-
ton. Tickets were to be sold TO en-
ployes OF the Western Electric Com
pany for as cents at the factory, or
81 at the wharf. According the States
attorney, the letters showed there
would be a rebate of one-third on all
tickets over 1000 and something less
on those above $500.
Complaint had already been made
by several employees OF the Western
Electric Company that they had been
almost compelled to purchase tickets
for the excursion by fear that Officers
Of the employees organization who
sold them. would discriminate against
those who failed to 80 on the excur-
sion. The picnic to Michigan City
has been an annual affair, and these
men said that employees who had re-
fused to buy tickets in previous years
had been given less rumuneratIve
work or discharged, although probab-
" without the sanction Of the execu-
tive OF the company.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27

WASHINGTON. D. c., July 81
Secretary Redfeld Of the Department
OF Commerce will arrive in Chicago TO-
morrow to take personal charge OF
the departments investigation Of the
Eastland disaster. He is enroute TO-
night from Syracuse. y. Y, where ne
has been taking a vacation. Solicitor
Thurman OF the department, armed
with all the records relating TO the
Eastland, left tonight to join the Sec
rotary and George Uhler. chief OF the
steamboat inspection service. now
touring the Pacific Coast. probably
will be called to Chicago also.
Solicitor Thurman, who will have
charge Of the legal phases Of the IN
vestigation, will cooperate with loca.
officials Of the department at Chicago
in ascertaining the causes Of the tFas'
edy. Possibilities OF a general reor'
ganization of the steamboat inspection
service were much discussed at the
department today. and it was indicat.
ed that something Of the sort was 10
be expected soon.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
Italian Towns
Are Bombarded

ROME. By way Of Paris, July 81
Certain light Austrian cruisers and
Austrian torpedo boat destroyers at
dawn today bombarded several points
on the railroad which runs along
shore OF the Adriatic between Semi
gallia, Is miles west OF Ancona, and
Pesaro.
AT the same time several shells
were thrown into the villages Of Fano
and Senigallia.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
Carranza Troops
EvaCuate NaCo
lRv Associated Prose-

WASHINGTON. July 27.-Carranza
troops have evacuated Naco and left
civil administration Their action
relives the threatening situation in
which Major General Funston had or.
ders to shell the Mexican factions
away from the border il their fighting
endangered American territory. 1t is
believed that the Carranza advance on
Eogales will be halted and the danger
OF fighting will pass.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27

The public spirited people of Hoult
have improved the church by new
carpet and pulpit rug and revarnish-
ing the pulpit.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-07-27
Will Open State
Rifle Meet Aug. Is
Ry Associated PrSs)

CHARLESTON. ". Va, July 27-
Ad3utant John c. Bond issued an order
today fixing the week OF August is for
state rife matches at Petersburg.
The program has been increased by
the addition Of match to determine
state individual championship.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-05
THE NEED FOR FATHERS.

The crying want OF the age is
good fathers. Not fathers who
Will toll night and day in order
To amaSS a competence ior their
children, but fathers who will
give themselves to their growing
sons. The only boy that is safe
Is the boy whose saved father
makes OF him a conhdant, a plav-
mate and a friend. Let some
one else teach the boy his multi
pilcation tables; the Christian
father must teach him to spin
his top. and fly his kite, and
trundle his hoop. Let somebody
else, If need be, teach the lad his
algebra; but let no one excent
the father teach him how to bait
a hook, and build a fire and dress
his first sinner" Let some
outsider teach him the Greek al
phabet; but no one except his
own father should teach him
how to pitch ball. or vault a
pole. or load a gun. The most
precious opportunities of life are
those offered to the parent to en-
ter alphabetically into the life
OF child by means OF the pleas.
u n, which are native to Youth.
The busiest man in the world
can :, tar better afford to neglect
ms business than to neglect his
boy. His most sacred duty is to
keep in touch with the lad
Somebody, if not his father. will
be his intimate. and SO his mar.
tern, Years ago a young man
SAID to us, when we expostuIated
with him regarding his exerc;s-
eS S | never knew my father.
fte was too busy writing SER
mons to give any time to me y
Was 1t to be wondered at tb.+
the boy broke that father heart
eai'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-05
DISCOVERED BUT NOT KNOWN
Extensive Areas In Brazil and Aus
traIia still Without the Pale Of
Our knowledge.

Lying within the basin Of the head
waters Of the Amazon in western Bra
I'll are three regions much larger in
area than all the New England states
which are still outside the pale Of our
knowledge. This large territory lies
between the parallel Of 10 degrees
south latitude and degrees north lat
itude, and the meridians Of 60 de-
grees west longitude. Not a country
OF South America has been accurately
defined and fully explored. The great
difficulties with which the scientist
must contend in mapping this CONT
nent In the equatorial regions ac-
count for the large areas still un-
charted. 1t is the hardest section Of
the world to penetrate. Dense for.
ests, a deadly climate inducing the
worst scourges Of disease, as yellow
fever. cholera, beriberi, etc, the fierce
wild beasts, poisonous serpents and
savage tribes are some of the obsta-
cles to be encountered In penetrating
the Amazon country.
The entire central portion of Aus.
tralia Is an unknown tract save for
direct line in which the transconti.
mental telegraph system has been
laid. The greatest difficulty was en-
countered in stretching the wires
across the desert waste and the small
strip thus opened up Is all that is
known Of the heart of the island con.
tinent. 1t is supposed to be a vast
sandy plain. interspersed here and
there with salt lakes to vary the
horrible monotony. Hundreds of dar.
ing men have tried to penetrate its
mysteries. and most Of them have paid
for their temerity with their lives.
Then there is the "Never-Never" land
In western Queensland. into which
many have gone and few have return
ed. In the south Of the country, ex.
tending for hundreds of miles inland
from the great Australian Blight. ia a
terra incognita. the extent and ma.
ture OF which can only be surmised.-
Christian Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-05-05
The Lady of
the House
By Ward Trail

Copyright. 1912. by Associated Literary
Press)
She met him first at the oyster
supper in the Memorial church base
ment where she was helping to serve.
Coming from the little kitchen with
a large tray heavily loaded with
fry" she had looked very pretty
with her face framed with little
curling tendrils and flushed from ex-
ertion. and he had gone to her in
stantly
He relieved her Of the heavy tray
and masterfully took her over to eat
supper with him. and she did not
serve any more that evening. They
were never introduced because every
one thought from the look of recog-
milton that passed between them
that they had met before. He laugh
ingly called her attention to 1t, ex-
planned 1t to her obvious satisfaction
and demanded her name In exchange
for his.
All her life Electra Arnold had
lived in Rockville, and all during the
Poitiou vi ucT lie sue u6Q
been waiting for the right man to
come and take her away. She hoped
he would take her to New York She
had spurned the tentative attentions
of the village SWANS that she might
be fancy free when he came. In her
dreamt his name had always been
Charles Algernon, nothing else, but
when he owned up to Arthur Taswell
Palmer. she thought that even better.
He saw her every day and escorted
her to all the village social functions,
and she was much envied and more
quizzed by the neglected bellies.
Others there were who loved Electra,
and they warned her of the dangers
OF taking up with man whose
people no one knew He might even
be married The warnings fell on
deaf ears
He told her of his work; he was
writer, and one day he told her that
he had succeeded in landing in an
editorial chair at a salary that per-
mitted him TO marry and live in New
York. She never knew exactly what
1t was he had said or what she had
answered, but he had kissed her again
and again and slipped ring on her