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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-18
EAST BURKE.

(B. F. Humphrey, correspondent
Rev. A. R. Green from Peacham is
spending a few days with the Rev
Mr.. Keeling and wife.
Mrs. Walter Silsby from Rumney
N. H., spent the past week with he1
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Stafford
There will be no services at the
Methodist church the next two Sun
days on account of campmeeting or
no services through the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Heath from
Montpelier spent the weekend with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Scion
Walter.
Mrs. Addie Godding of St. Johns
bury visited Saturday at W. H. JEFF
frey's.
Amos Boulrusse has been getting
out lumber the past week to build
him a cottage near the school house
at Mt. Hunger.
Frank Counter moved to his farm
the first of the week and Harri S
Jenkins from Speedwell farms, who
recently purchased Mr.. Counters res
idence here is moving his family
there.
The Daughters of Liberty report a
fine time Saturday on the basket pic
mic.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cole spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Allyn
Hunter in Lyndonville.
Mrs. Charles Wilson from Bellows
Falls and son, Clarence Stowell, from
Ryegate, are visiting her mother, Mrs.
Lucy Jenkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Waite and
two children from Lynn, Mass, are
visiting at E. B. Chamberlain
Napoleon Paradee has finished
work at Mt. View and talks of going
to the Canadian northwest.
William Colby spent a part of last
week with friends in Twin Noun
tains, n. H.
Walter Wheeler and Jesse Counter
were in st. Johnsbury Center We'd
nesday on business.
w. H. jeffrey returned Friday
from his trip to West Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fuller and
son and Fred Fuller and daughter
of Lancaster, N. H., were recent Wis
itors at George Coles.
Earl Counter has moved his fam
lily into the Bundy house.
Rosa Lavely is visiting Mrs. Fred
Chabot in Sutton.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Sias are
spending a few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Grin Curtis in Sutton.
Miss Tefren of Lyndon spent
the past week with Mrs. Carl Colby.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Theburge
and daughter, Anna, from Montreal,
P. O., are visiting at B. F. Hum
phrey's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Lucia of SUIT
ton spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Page.
Mrs. Ella Wilson has been a little
more comfortable for a few days.
Mrs. H. d. Webster and Miss Floy
went from Manchester, N. H.,
to Boston, returning home Friday
night.
Mrs. o. B. Cutting of Concord
spent a part of last week with Mr..
and Mrs. F. E. Mcdonald.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ball were
in Newark Wednesday to attend the
funeral OF their uncle, Albro Ball.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Hyde and little
daughter from Boston spent a part
Of last week with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Mentally.
Mrs. J. d. Lawton spent last
week in Barre the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. c. Howard.
Mrs. Nora Gauvin and daughter,
Matte, from Orleans are visiting at
Oscar Phillips.
William Cole. Jesse Bailey. Ellis
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-18
SHEFFIELD
George L. BicIuford's Barn Destroyed
by Lightning-Locals.

W GASALutn1s
(Mrs. ID. s. Roberts, correspondent
Lightning struck the horse barn
of G. L. Bickford Sunday night about
11:15 p. m. Mr.. Bickford ran to
the barn and got out his three horses,
one registered Jersey bull and eight
head of young stock when the blaze
was right in his face. All the hens
and some of the turkeys were burn
ed. The large barn, attached to the
horse barn, and well filed with hay,
was soon burned to the ground. An
insurance win partly cover the dam
age.
Alice Davis has returned from
Boston, leaving her mother no bet
ter.
Mrs. Carrie Drake has returned to
Torrington, Conn, with her son, Roy,
who has been visiting her.
ID. s. Roberts has been at home
for a week sick with blood poison.
w. j. Farr and children are visit
ing at Frank PEARLS.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. s. Willard en-
tertained weekend visitors from
East st. Johnsbury.
Mrs. Oliver Dwyer and son Charles
have returned from Boston, improv-
ed in health.
John Phillips and wife were at
Bean pond over Sunday.
About SO Sunday school children
enjoyed picnic at Lyndonville Sat-
urday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-18

ard Phelps attended the wedding of
Mary Mclaughlin and Dwight Stod-
dard at Peacham last Wednesday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart, Mrs. Morgan
and Dorothy were at West Barnet
last week. Miss Julia Emery of st.
Johnsbury was the guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. Houghton, while they were
away.
Mrs. Luther Pollard is visiting at
Henry Carbee's in Bath.
Miss Bessie Kellogg has finished
work at her aunt's, and is at home.
Mrs. Jerry Byron Of Montpelier Is
visiting erlatives in town. Her grand
daughter is with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Kent have been
for a carriage drive through the
northern part of the state for the
past week.
The Boy Scouts with Mr.. Bliss are
camping at West Barnet for a week.
The burial of Mrs. John Markham
was at this cemetery last Tuesday
afternoon. 1t was certainly a very
sad accident causing her death. Her
husband and family have the sym
pathy of all.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Duncan, Mr..
and Mrs. G. B. Edgerton, Mrs. D.
M. Nichols and son, Mason, were at
Bradford Wednesday to attend the
funeral of F. X. Clement.
Mrs. Perley Phelps and Elizabeth
came last Monday from Duxbury,
Mass, to spend some time at w. NJ.
Phelps.
The 20 cent piece was made
famous by the American Liver
Tablets the nerfact Lava tive
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-18
Alnnlficance on tha Rlnn.

The signet ring and seals we're used
in Bible times as pledges of different
kinds from owner to owner in business
transactions. The "Gimmel," or wed
ding ring, also of Bible times, was q
cunningly devised affair in two SEQ
lions, and at the ceremony one was
given to the bride and the other to the
groom. This ring has been reproduc-
cd at several weddings in recent years
as an odd fancy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-18
SICKNESS COMMON IN SUMMER.

Hay fever is attributed to pollen
caused by dust and certain atmospheric
conditions common in summer. Suf-
the sea- Hay fever and asthma victims
compelled to remain at home will find
relief in FoIeyss Honey and Tar Com
pound which aIlays the Inflammation,
soothes and heals raw and rasping
bronchial tubes and helps to overcome
difficulty in breathing, and makes sound
refreshing sleep possible c. C. Bing-
ham.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-18

Ask us about California.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-08-18
Buying a Diamond

There is nothing we can say
which viii convince you why you
should buy a diamond here.
Diamonds are sold through con-
fdence-nothing else.
You know little of the compare
tive diamond values and must rely
on your jeweler.
Some day we will sell you dia-
monds and when we do Wen both
be better satisfied.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

simply for the dollars and cents thew
can make out of it. The second class
is composed of those who utilize race
prejudice for the purpose of securing
political distinction and official recog-
milton which they could never secure
through any merit of their own. It
makes no difference with these people
now. much harm to the public or in
justice is done to any people or race
as long as they can accomplish the
purpose desired. They know there is
not particle of truth in ANYTHING
tney say or produce relative to this
matter. But what difference does
that make to them? The Office seek
er finds that this is his best paying
polltlcai asset. What is the use, then,
OF considering or discussing the tariff
the financial, or any other subject or
question as long as this mythical race
question will answer the purpose?
They find that this is the one cues.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

to support them, their production can
hardly be less than criminal. In the
main they are false, slanderous, and
malicious. They are calculated and
intended to engender and intensity
race prejudice and race hatred. In
the interest of peace, order, truth,
justice, and morality they should be
suppressed. No good can come but
much harm may result from them. It
is, therefore, the duty of the authori-
ties to suppress them, just as they
would suppress any other nuisance
that is calculated to incite crime and
general disorder in the community.
In this connection allow me, as
southern man, to say, and to say
whereof know, that there are Just
two classes of white people at the
south who keep this so-called race
problem constantly before the public.
The first class is composed of those
who commercialize race prejudice
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
THE BRILL Of A NATION"

trolled by the northern carpetbaggers.
what happened with the Negro
ascendant and how the white re-estab-
hshed his supremacy is shown with
OBVIOUS natural sympathy for the
south, and no doubt with such height
enlng of effect as dramatic art has
right to employ. 1t presents what the
south says and the north of our day,
at least, is inclined to believe to be
truth. ..-
Exactly the reverse of this is true.
Tor there never was a time when any
one of the state governments of the
south was taken over by the newly
enfranchised blacks controlled by the
northern carpetbaggers.
That some mistakes were made DUR
ing the progress Of reconstruction will
not be denied. How could it be other.
wise? The war had just come to an
end. Sectional animosity was bitter
and intense. The Republican party
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
lie SOUTH

J. q. Woodward, mayor of Atlanta.
Ga, speaking what was on his mind
at the Dixie day celebration of the
San Francisco exposition, gave express
sion to the Identical thought that we
knew would prevail in the state which
permitted the murder of Leo NJ.
Frank.
Mr.. Woodward, exalted by the
knowledge that the freemen of his
commonwealth had arisen against the
authority of the commonwealth gave
his approval to the act He spoke as
we. expect misguided southerners to
speak. They have more rhapsody for
southern blood and the sanctity of
southern women than would be need
ed by a nation of Don Quixotes, but
they thoroughly lack the idealism and
the confluence of the Spanish don
whose language they feebly initiate.
He meant what he said. They are
content to talk about it. The north.
with its more ordered ways and it's
faulty but better civilization, thinks
more and talks less of the sanctity of
women than the rhetorical south.
What the South needs is less rhetoric
and more work.
Southerners already have protested
that The Tribune is vindictive and
inutile, unjust and malignant in its
abuse Of a whole section Of the coun-
try for the work Of twenty-five men.
The answer is that the work Of the
TWENTY-FIVE has the approval Of the
voting and controlling populace. The
answer Is that the twenty-five did
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
BY MAJOR JOHN R. LYNCH. IT 8 A lpa+;rod \

was looked upon as the enemy of the
south. No white man could identify
himself with the Republican party at
that time in any one of the southern
states without running the risk of be-
ing socially ostracised and publicly
characterized as an enemy to his Sec
ton, his state, and his race. Notwith-
standing these things, not less than
rs per cent of the white men of that
section-men who were to the man.
ner born, many of them ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers, identified themselves
with and became leaders of the Re-
publican party. These, in the main.
were the men that the newly enfran-
chlsed blacks selected as their lead
lowed -
do not hesitate to assert that the
reconstructed state governments at
the south were the best governments
those states ever had before or have
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

ever had since. There never was a
tlme when there was actual physical
NEGRO domination" or even carpet
Dagg1ng domination, in any one of the
reconstructed states.
The play to which you refer, in.
stead OF being grounded on histori-
cal facts" is grounded on historical
Misrepresentation, without having a
single actual fact as the basis of it's
existence. 1t is fiction pure and
simple, painted from a diseased and
prejudiced imagination, with a false
and deceptive background as a basis
upon which to stand. Such play
could not be otherwise than mischiev-
GUS in it's inception and dangerous in
it's results, even if the scenes depicted
were truthful reproduction of actual
occurrences. But when it is or ought
to be we'll known fact that the al
legged scenes are pure fabrications
with not a single background of truth
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

ZION upon which they can hold the
Wnlte men OF the south in abject DO
lltlcal subsection and upon which the
average white man at the north can
be easily fooled and deceived. As
long, tnen' as the country believes,
as you seem to believe, that these
things are true and that public senti-
ment must tolerate them and approve
methods that are criminal and prac-
tees that would be otherwise indie
tensible for the purpose of preventing
negro domination" just so long will
this state of affairs continue. Let us
hope that the eyes Of the people will
eventually be opened and that Justice
and fair play for all will be the ac.
cepted rule of action in all parts of
our country.
JOHN R. LYNCH,
Author of "The Facts of Reconstruc-
ton"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
(From the, Chicago Tribune.)

what the, people of Georgia and the
people of the South wanted done. and
did what the people Of the South toll
crate, defend, and advocate.
The South needs to feel that it's
code of conduct is so primitive and so
brutal that it has involved the whole
country in disrepute. It has made the
American nation stand in world opin-
ion for inhuman burning of convicted
or suspected persons, for passions
which cannot find expression nova
days among sayages.
The South needs a brutal, uncom-
promising, even unjust denunciation.
1t needs one which will not even con-
slider the South's tremendous limita.
tons. It needs one which will not
stop to weigh and take account of
causes, but which will go directly to
the results and treat those results as
If they had no explicable cause.
What the South needs is tongue
lashing and continued tongue lash
ing Of the most violent kind. It needs
to feel isolated from the respect of
the nation which is compromised BY
the acts it defends.
We do not say that the North is
free from the spirit which flares up in
the South. We know it is not free.
The North is able to show an act of
violence for every one exhibited in
the South, but the North does not
.condone them nor defend them, and
It does endeavor to get at the causes
which produce them.
The South needs every bitter word
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

The coloced people all over the
country have been fighting the mis-
chievous and dangerous prejudice
breeding film, '"The Birth of Ma
ton" Articles, editorials, etcetera,
have appeared in the papers all over
the country, but the best THE APP
PEAL has seen is the communication
to the Chicago Tribune, written by
Major John R. Lynch, who lived in
the south during the reconstruction
period and knows whereof he speaks.
Major Lynch's article is so excellent
that We reproduce it in full:
Chicago. editor of The Tribune.)
Speaking of the photoplay called
The Birth of a Nation" you say:
1t is in all essential episodes ground
ed on historical fact, representing the
struggles of that terrible time in the
south when the whites, back from
war, saw their government taken over
by the newly enfranchised blacks con-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
JIM CROW SCHOOL DANGER.
Philadelphia in Tight Grip of Race Prejudice Says the Very
Conservative Philadelphia Tribune Thoughtful Col
ored Leaders Cry Out.

At the Thomas Durham Public
School, Sixteenth and Lombard streets
the largest segregated school III this
city, 1t has been definitely settled that
the introduction of vocational train
ing for at least 400 Of the 1900 pupils
that attend that school will begin next
January. If the experiment succeeds
similar course will in all probability
follow in each of the IA separate
schools throughout the city.
Majority Of coIored See Whites Are
Increasing the Separate System.
While the gradual return of the
distinctive segregated schools in this
city seems inevitable, there seems to
be growing sentiment, nevertheless,
the part of large majority of col
ored citizens in opposition to the con.
tinual growth.
Blow at Higher Education in North.
THEY VIEW 1T WITH ALARM and
many regard the proposed innovation
OF vocational training as a direct blow
at the aspiration for higher education
and a more general acceptance nv
them in the North of DR.. Booker r.
Washington's idea that industrial edu-
cation Is best for at least the next
century.
The intelligent people of color know
that separate schools are breeders of
race prejudice; that such schools
serve to create spirit of disrespect
in the mind Of one class for the other.
The question is asked and even now
awaits an answer. How may one
foster the spirit Of genuine good will
between classes educated in separate
schools? The division Of classes, or
races, II you please, in so called pub
lie schools is not only unfair. to the
tax payer, white and colored alike, be-
cause It IL bound in due season to IN
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
LEARNED TO LOVE HONOR AND OBEY ;,
Ana GOOD Excerpts Taken From AfroAmerican Ledger St
Luke Herald Pioneer Press, Cleveland Gazette Rich
mond Planet and Christian Recorder

Have Learned to "Love, Honor and
Obey" -
FROM the Afro-American Ledger)
If | can live happily among the
colored people, if I can love them as I
love the people of my own race. then
Will know that our dream of broth.
erhood for all races may come true"
says Miss Florence MacFarlane, dele.
gate from London, England, to the
New Thought Congress, which met in
San Francisco recently. Miss Mac
Farlane announces her intention of
going out to live among colored people.
Inc experience of the Englishwoman
may prove interesting but it offers lit
tie that is new. Thousands of her
race and sex have not only learned
70 love their col0red brothers, but ito
love, honor and obey them.''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

which can be said against it. It needs
to know that when it parades the
sanctity of it's women it is making a
display of something the rest of the
nation assumes and holds too high to
spend useless words upon. Action,
not eloquence, is demanded of the
South.
The need is that it feel its disgrace
and correct so far as is humanity pos
sible the causes of bad government
and of bad thought which are ex-
pressed in the conditions it tolerates.
We are not ignoring the great prob
lem which it has in the Negro. We
simply assert that the South has per-
mitted its problem to work out to the
utter confusion Of its governmental
agencies and the confusion of its no.
litical thought.
It must, if it is to rehabiltate and
degenerate itself, correct it's opinion.
and stop exhausting itself in rhetoric
and damning itself by act. It must
put community lawfulness superior to
individual lawlessness.
It is a concern of the nation that the
southern states should re-establish
themselves as respected units in a
union. And if nothing but abuse can
bring them to realization that their
ways are unworthy of their traditions
and of the history Of the American re-
public, then the abuse ought to be
given them until the tongue Of the
abuser is tired, even il the sensible
ties OF the abused cannot be hurt and
the sense OF the abused aroused.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

crease their burdens, but it also gives
an impetus to race prejudices.
More Prejudice Where Schools
Separate.
The Intelligent colored citizen trav-
els and observes, that in every city
where the separate school system is
in vogue, race hatred has grown
apace.
Doubtless intelligent white citizens
know this to be true and are anxious
to DO everything in their power to en-
courage the growth of race hatred.
hence are DESTROYS of adding any feat.
ure in the public school curriculum
that tends toward that end.
Leads to Degrading of coIored curri.
cuium.
Whether or not the system begun in
this city in 1881, when the law enforc.
ing the creation of mixed schools was
passed, has been success or failure
after an experiment of quarter of a
century seems not to be the question,
but rather it seems to be the thought
of the school authorities to fit the col
ored boy and girl for work, as they
realize how exceedingly difficult it is
for the colored youth after graduation
to obtain, in the open competition of
trade, such occupational relation to So
ciety as will give them a chance to
earn a livelihood.
Better Chance in Life for Work if
Educated Side by Side With
White.
But even after graduation the col
ored youth who has been given the
cnance to work alongside of the white
boy at his trade, has a better oppor-
tunlty to demonstrate his ability and
build up strong line Of friendship
with members of the dominant race
than tina ne could possibly have in segre-
gated school.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

lady, IN spite Of allegations that as a
people we lack In grey of brain. Keep
a-comlng sisters, for we are a new
issue d1ffused through and through
with the worlds best blood, and its
pound to tell, because it is in giant
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

Scientific Study Opens Doors.
Iron the Richmond Planet.)
When colored men make a scientific
study of finance, just as white men
nave done, the doors of wealth and
competency will swing wide for them
too. A'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
Campaign Against Lynchina.
(FrOm the Christian Recorder

There is no better time than NOW
to begin National Crusade Against
Lynchlng In the United States. For
the rapldity with which this national
crime has spread, the barbarity with
winch It is committed and the utter
disgraceful complacency with which it
IS regarded, should arouse the con-
science of the country in one united
protest against its further spread and
for its final humiliation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
Blood Bought Rights Lasting.
(From st. Luke Herald

War is the greatest destroyer of
caste and race prejudice and the great
est leveler Of racial barriers. Blood
bought rights are generally perpetual
and world acknowledged.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
The Lynching Of Haiti.
(From st. Luke's Herald !

But, why not Mexico? Well, Mex
ico has population Of 1500O,0OO. It
has several men calling themselves
generals, backed by armies that will
night. We are a peaceable people; we
VII! not fight any people who can fight
back. The helpless and unarmed are
our prey. Just as we lynch helpless
Negroes this administration has lynch-
ed the Haitian government.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02
s'more Southern Social Equality"
(From the Cleveland Gaza4taA

Florence, s. Capt. Paul Whipple
was the father Of several Colored
children. He died recently at River
dale. s. G. leaving an estate of nearly
100000. His will provides that two
OF his Colored children, Sam and
George Moses, in association with =
white man; shall administer his estate.
The children will have no trouble "a
securing the nheritance. ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-02

colored Lady Leads All.
IRON Martinsburg Pioneer-Pre
The worlds record in stenography
and typewriting is held by colored