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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1916 "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who 4f 4 do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature." John Stuart Mill. "HIGH PRICES AND SUICIDE." Last week the Associated Press dis patches told a sad case of suicide of a Chicago mother who determined that it was cheaper to die than to live. Her husband was earning $12 per week, but it was not enough. She wrote a note before turning on the gas that sent her soul to the great beyond in which she said: "This is what it takes a weekr-$4 rent, $2 lunch and car fare that leaves $6 a week for light, fuel, food, clothing, medicine and incidentals for husband, children and myself. God help the poor." This case seemed to be peculiarly pathetic and according to our obser vations indicated a wide spread feel ing among the poorer class of people. The same trend of thought seems to have been indulged in by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the result of which was the appearance under the above caption of the following: "Responsibility "for the increasing ^.number of suicides in New York City is placed upon the high cost of living by Israel Feinberg, president of Gotham's board of coroners. The coroner also says he traced many deaths from lack of proper nourish ment to the mounting prices of food stuffs and contends the suicides are alarming in their increased frequency. "There is no reason to doubt the i~ statement of Coroner Feinberg, for statistics fronf every civilized coun- *&., try in the world show that periods of financial depression are almost in- $* variably accompanied by increased |4 berime, suicide and divorce and fol- J&." lowed by fewer marriages and a de ifpS^ dining birth rate. &&%& in 1893 there were only 803 more marriages in the United States than there were the preceding year, al though the five years preceding 1893 showed a yearly increase in the num ber of marriages running from 11,080 to 26,027 and in 1894, the year after the panic, the marriages actually de creased to the extent of 12,512 while the suicide rate in 1908, the year after the financial panic of 1907, was 21.6 per 100,000 persons, the highest aver age ever recorded in this country. "That this is popularly known as a period of prosperity rather than de pression does not invalidate the con clusions of Coroner Feinberg, for in most cases the cost of living has so far outstriped any advances in wages that hundreds of thousands of per sons relatively are much poorer than they were under normal conditions be fore the war." LET THE CONSTITUTION ALONE. Wind Jammer Bryan, elated with the undeserved success of tine Demo crats in the recent national election, is asking a little too much of his party. In a speech at a dinner recently given in his honor at Washington he urged the adoption of nation-wide prohibi tion and woman suffrage which is a little more than the average Democrat can stand for. He also advocated the passage of an amendment for the .election of the President by direct popular vote and to amend the con stitution so as to make that instru ment more easily amendable. This latter suggestion would undoubtedly meet their hearty approval as the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution have been worm wood and gall that they would like very much to get rid of and in their place put something that would further outrage and crush the colored people. We have got to stand the Democratic administration for the next four years but we most sincerely hope that after that this beautiful land of ours will not be cursed by their domination any longer. AS OTHERS SEE US. "O, wad some power the giftie gi'e us, To se ourseP as ithers see us." Bobby Burns was, what we would call now-a-days, a "wise guy." We Americans think we are the "whole show," but are we? Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the fa mous East Indian poet, winner of the THE SIN OF SILENCE To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on pro test. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in- quisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.Elia Wheeler Wileox. assured, are nationally conceited andV are forgetting the fine simplicity ofi life in our mad rush for money, and we must admit that he is about right. He says, there is more to life than just making money. Life calls for leisure not money-mad activities. "You hurry so you forget that life at its is just, Um Z?!L th ngs that money can never buy. \statl mndirn .^TL JS. *1 modern ideas of life. Everything is popping and bursting in different di-j rections, no peace, no poise any- i. *J I Of* Hi. aB Speaking of the bill editorially, the Pioneer Press states that it would have no chance of passing, while ad mitting the justice of the measure. The Pioneer Press states facts, but, is it not a sad commentary upon the white people of this country, that they will deliberately act with such unfair and inhuman a spirit, knowing all the while that they are absolutely wrong. Might does not make right, and if it is a fact that right must prevail, the day of retribution must come some time. BAD MANAGEMENT. The recent national election which resulted in the dire calamity of four years more of Wilson, was brought about by the very bad management of the leaders of the G. O. P. Es pecially did they blunder in California in not properly taking Hiram Johnson into consideration and the state was lost for Hughes by just 1,887 votes and Wilson won out. The leaders of the G. O. P. did not give the proper recognition the most loyal class of votersthe colored peo ple and but for their fealty and loyalty to the Republican party Minnesota would not have been in the Republican column, as it is onlcially decided that Hughes' plurality in Minnesota was only 392. The Republican campaign managers had a fund of $2,445,421 to make the campaign with but they ignored the colored newspapers, in the distribu tion of the same and it is now shown that there was a surplus of $3,856 which could not have-been devoted to a better channel than the loyal colored newspapers. Roosevelt told the truth, too, in the Metropolitan Magazine in which he says, among other things: "We have permitted our politicians, our candidates for public offices, to treat the promises, made in party plat* forms and on the stump with a cynical indifference which reflects itself in a similar indifference on the part of the voters." PASTOR RUSSELL NOT RICH. There are very few reading people in this country who have not noticed "Pastor Russell's Sermons" in the daily papers or the other publications which they appeared. Nobel Prize for literature, doesn't. People of the world, knowing the think we are, and recently criticized us I selfish trend of man generally, v most unmercifully. He said we are inclined to believe that PMtor Russei, building ugly cities, are too self-, wa no publlsnin nI th sermon 8 Teligi0VLS Denefi man bu i^ 8 will tbest 0 the hi m0*t i tha where. i Have Learned to "Love, Honor and Obey." (From thn Ledger.)e PENROSE FORCE BILL. Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsyl vania has announced his intention toj introduce and press for passage, a bill'colored ','I U1" that provides for Federal supervision fove the^eople of my own race? then of national elections. The object I will know that our dream of broth- sought is to put a stop to the unfair eriuo f0r all races may come true,'* methods that have for many years 2 2 *Jorej* J^CMO ga been practiced in the south which de- New Thought Congress, which met in prives a majority of the colored men San Francisco recently. Miss 'Mac- from voting, although ttie were Farlan counted t. maintaia the concession* fK""^ ?S a3&& representation. may prove interesting but it offers lit- THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man who in the consci entious discharge of his, duty dares to stand alone the world, with ignorant. Intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends. r-ai& fello mthy\se seemed to be in them, however this appears to not be the fact, for accord ing to the Associated Press dispatches an estate of $200 was all "Pastor" machine-made days of, Charles T. Russell left, according to CU i th appointed by him* as th******** editorial fecFe Dmbe Watc ssu Tower Tn 8tipulate magazine 0 additlo five ar Doar recelv an lo Thi 8 ougn cnang man tne plnlo person Ud th deceased Afro-Americanamong I hPPUy th ca people, if I can love them as I MacParlane, dele- fTom London, England, to the announces her intention of Charles Sumner. Jm DIG UP BI&JPOTH OF PRttlSfofoiejUASTODOli WillT Preserved, Though Found Far Be- "i-J^ ,ov Surface of the Ground. WXr Cottonwood Falls, Kan'.A big tooth, which is supposed to have come from the jaw of some mastodon of prehis toric ages, has been unearthed by T. B. Nichols of this city by men employed In making a deep cut on Diamond creek, a mile and a half northeast of Elmdale. The trench had been sunk to a depth of fifty-three feet and had passed through an eight foot gravel strata when the big tooth was found. A soapstone formation was encounter ed just beneath it The tooth is well preserved. 'It weighs over three pounds, measures a foot and three inches in circumfer ence around its base and is three Inches in height from its base to the points of the tooth. It is oblong in shape, its width being three and a half inches. There are six"flangesor points to the tooth, which extend up ward in regular pairs. The tooth has two large roots, there being about three or four Inches of the root intact, but the lower parts are broken off. It is believed the tooth belonged to a car nivorous, or flesh eating, animal be cause of the flanges or sharp points. After finding the tooth another bone only a few feet away was uncovered by another worfcman. It is a large flat, round shaped bone, which resem bles a kneecap. FAITHFUL DOG'S BAPKING GALLS FATHER TO CHILD Little One, Playing In Pasture, Where It Strayed, Kicked by Horses. Wheatland, Wyo. G. F. Harold's little son, Alvin, two and a half years old, was kicked in the head by a horse the other day, his skull was fractured and other severe wounds, seemingly sufficient to cause death, were sus tained. The father's attention was called to the child by the frantic barking of the farm dog, and upon investigating he found that -the dog was guarding the Insensible form of the little boy from a bunch of horses in the pasture where the little felltfw had wandered in his play. The child's forehead was crushed, the nose broken and the eye laid open by the flesh being all torn from it. As he was still alive he was rushed to a hospital with all possible speed. The surgeon performed a very delicate op eration, lifting ^he broken bones into position and sewing the torn skin around the eye back into place, and at present writing the little fellow is get ting along nicely and gives promise of complete recovery. That he was not instantly killed is probably due to the fact that the horse's hoof struck a. glancing blow, and that he lives at all is because there was a skillful surgeon available. SISTERS EARN $2,400. Set Now Agricultural Record Raising Cabbages. Greensburg, Pa. Four Westmore land county young women, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith, near Ruffsdale, have established a new agri cultural record in the yield and profits to be derived from a two acre plot of cabbage. The Misses" Smith, the eldest of whom is eighteen, now have a bank account of $900, with accounts due fronf Pittsburgh commission men amounting to $900, and a quarter of their cabbage yet remains to be cut and marketed. Buyers estimate the value of the entire field at about $2,- 400. EarlyAlast spring Smith turned the two acre plot over to his daughters, telling them to make any use of it they desired. The girls, after closely scan ning the market reports for weeks, de cided to grow cabbages. They set about 18,000 plants. KILL WHITC FACED IBIS. Kansas Hunters Were Puzzled, but Pro fessor Solved the Problem. Topeka, KanA party of hunters were near Stafford when a long legged bird, which looked like a crane and flew like a duck, suddenly rose and started toward Oklahoma. Six guns spoke at the same time. The bird gave up the southern trip. The men did not know what they had killed. They guessed everything from a mud hen to a wild turkey. George StansSeld made a secret trip to Lawrence and conferred with some of the professors. They labeled the kill a white faced glossy ibis, a species of waterfowl very ,rare in Kansas. The coloring is very delicate and changes continually. It is one of the snipe fam ily, but is unfit for food. Long Trip of Bible. Mays Landing, N. J.It will take fifty years of traveling, during which time 100,000 miles will be covered, for a "traveling Bible," now in the lodge quarters of P. O. S. of A. camp, No. 106, to fulfill its mission. The Bible is to be taken fromin camp to another in each county until every county in the state has been covered, then it will go to every camp in eaeh county, re maining three weeks with each. |ui^*jggbs The Crucible. He was a sweet-temper'd, natur'd soul/ V, Possessing a generous spirit, and a heart of gold. Came a time when he certain ideals XOSl Sc^-v- Sfss GETS $68 A WEEK gentle Changing him and these virtues, to things of dross. -_. The Guardian. ~^.s~~ The spirit of the North, sweeps across Wide stretclifis and vast,. H^JSS Leaving behind ohffl winter *$3| Who remains to guard amte&jfrk The virgin lass. White-robed snow. SSJHSfc WASHING, *%}]&% Sfe Stenography loj-ake In %y%^ vS^CIothes. Norrlstown, Pa.Quitting her posi tion as stenographer to go to the wash tub, Miss Georgianna Cuthbert is mak ing $68 a week, and she handles only five washes to do it, according to her testimony in the equity action in which she is defendant and Mrs. Marie Lus son, her neighbor, plaintiff^ Miss Cuthbert informed Judge Swartz that one family alone paid her $30, an other $12, two $9 and a fifth $8 a week. She gets the business, she says, be cause she does not use bleach or acids in cleansing them. "None of the.clothing I handle is soiled, only mussed," she said. Mrs. Marie Lusson seeks to prevent Miss Cuthbert erecting a laundry in the rear of her lot in Ardmore, Pa. Mrs. Lusson says that a laundry there would be undesirable, unhealthy and in violation of building restrictions. In the testimony experts said a laun dry would be unobjectionable that there would be no dirt, no noise, no smell and, in fact, no reason why this woman should not be permitted to pro peed with the laundry. PAY FARES AFTER 20 YEARS. Charity Finally Took $1 That Railway Official Refused to Accept Findlay, O. Philosophers for cen turies have attempted to analyze the" conscience of the human race and what prompts it, but have been unsuccessful. That such a thing does really exist, Charles F. Smith, general manager of the Toledo, Bowling Green and South ern railway, can now testify. Recently he was sitting in his oflice when two men walked in and each threw a fifty cent piece on his desk, ex plainhig that twenty years ago they had ridden from the north side to the Tangent depot without paying fare. That was because they were compelled to stand most of the way. During all this time their consciences, they said, had troubled them and they got no rest until they had returned the money with interest. Mr. Smith refused to take the money, but Dr. J. P. Baker, head of the As sociated charities, who happened in Smith's office at the time, confiscated the money for that purpose. DEER ATTACKS POSTMAN. Herd Within Three Miles of Pennsylva nia Town. Huntington, Pa.-Clark Smith, the oldest rural route agent attached to the Huntington postofflce, met with a spir ited attack from a big buck deer while' on his return trip a few evenings ago within three miles of this place. A herd of six does, led by a large buck, had been feeding in a mountain meadow and were about to emerge into the open highway just as Smith was driving leisurely past His horse, a calico colored bronco, seemed to have aroused the ire of the buck, which leaped a fence and at tacked the bronco by rearing up and endeavoring to strike it with its fore feet. Mr. Smith used his whip vigor ously on the deer. The bronco took fright and finally drew itself and driver to a place of safety. A herd of ten deer, including one elk. has been seen by a farmer at the further end of Smith's route. DREAMED ABOUT SNAKES. Then He Woke Up to Find a Three Foot Rattler In His Room. Altoona, Pa. George Meritts of Franklinville, Huntingdon county, toss ed in the throes of a frightful night mare and dreamed of rattlesnakes. In bed with Meritts was Samuel Alley of the same place. When Meritts came to himself he still believed himself dreaming, for a hid eous rattle sounded in his ears. Alley also heard it The frightful whirr maintained a steady cadence, and both men were then aware that a rattlesnake was in their room. Having no light handy, the men were imprisoned in their bed for some time. Finally a match and lantern were procured. The snake, more than three feet long, with seven rattles and a but ton, was coiled in the center of the floor. It was killed. WANTS TO GET OUT OF JAIL Amandus Kessler's Plea to Join Marine Corps Likely to Go Unheeded. New York.Because he Is a good porch climber, rifle shooter and has other marked accomplishments, Aman dus Kessler wants to get out of jail at Easton, Pa., and become a fighter for Uncle Sam in the ranks of the United States marine corps, according to an appealing letter addressed to the ma rine recruiting station in this city. Amandus wrote several pages in, his patriotic outburst and promised to use his influence to awaken his fellow pris oners to the call of the flag if the ma rines would only come and get him out Although the young man claims to be a good, "healthy feller/' unfortunately his morals are not in the same flourish ing condition, so Amandus and his pals must languish in prison while the ma rine corps remains heartless but un contaminated. 8cholars Read Original Poems. Westmont N. J.Eighteen grade pu pils In the public schools read original poems during the afternoon session, creating considerable amusement and uncovering some latent literary talent Recently each pupil in this grade was required to make a five minute address without manuscript Z\ MOVING PICTURES. Th Making of Film for the "Modern Minnehaha" to be Postponed^ Until Spring. tSA Owing to the season and other "un- favorable (conditions, the making of the film for the photo-play, "The Mod ern' Minnehaha/' must be postponed until next spring, when the promoter, Mr. Tr W. Stepp, will again go to work on it The standing of tire contest ants will remain the same as when last published and the voting will go on from the, time of .beginning next sprtoc .f^|f|/' *k~ New York, Nov. 22.Governor Rich ard I. Manning, of South Carolina, as a result of the recent lynching of An thony Crawford, at Abbeville, has taken a stand which promises to clear the name of his State of the stigma which attached to it during the admin istration of his predecessor, the notor ious Cole Blease. Governor Manning, in a statement given out to the press on the day before election, says: "I was out of the State when the Abbeville lynching occurred. As soon as I learned of it I called Solicitor R. A. Cooper and Sheriff R. M. Burts of Abbeville to the office and called on Coroner F. W. R. Nance of Abbeville County to comply with the law and fur nish me with a copy of the testimony taken at the coroner's inquest. I found that the coroner held an inquest, but took no testimony. "Solicitor Cooper and Sheriff Burts came to my offce and I requested them to secure the names of all parties con nected with this affair, those who took part in the whipping, in the tak ing of the Negro from the jail, in the lynching, and all those who were at the meeting reported to have been held on the following Monday. I have requested Solicitor Cooper and Sher iff Burts to make a complete investi gation of the whole matter and get the names of all parties concerned and to swear out warrants and arrest them. "I intend to do everything in my power to uphold the law and let the offenders know that such acts will not be tolerated, and that those guilty of violating the law must suffer for it, I have requested Solicitor Cooper as the State's representative and Sheriff Burts as the highest peace officer in the county, to leave no stone unturned in order to vindicate the law and all the powers of the "governor's office are at their disposal in bringing the guilty ones to justice." The lynching referred to occurred on October 21 in one of South Caro lina's most beautiful and progressive cities. Anthony Crawford, the victim, was a Negro fifty-one years old worth over $20,000. He got into a row with a white storekeeper named Barksdale over the price of cottonseed. It is re ported that Mr. Barksdale called him a liar and Crawford cursed him roundly in return, whereupon a clerk ran out to give Crawford a beating with an ax handle. He was saved from this by a policeman who ar rested Crawford and took him to the municipal building, but when they let him out on bail a crowd of men took after him again intent on punishing him for daring to curse a white man. "The day a v^hite man hits me is the day I die," Anthony Crawford once said to a friend. When he saw the crowd coming after him, he went down in the boiler room of the gin, picked up a four-pound hammer, and waited. The first man who came at him, McKinney Cann, received a blow 'n the head which fractured his skull, but someone hurled a stone which knocked out Crawford before he reach ed anyone else. While he was down, they knifed him in the back and kicked him until they thought they had finished him, when they permitte he sheriff to arrest the unconscioud Crawford on condition that he would not take his prisoner out of town until they knew whether Cann would live or lie. Cann hurt as as they lhought,wasn't ANTHONY CRAWFORD. Who Was Brutally Lynched at Abbeville, 8. for Obeying the First Law of NatureSelf Protection. The Abbeville* lynching was personally investigated, on the ground, by Roy Nash, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the following is his report: but neverthelesbadly a mob went back to the jail at four o'clock that af ternoon, took their keys and guns away from the sheriff and jailor, dragged Crawford through the streets of the Negro quarter with a rope around his neck, hung his mutilated body to a pine treo at the entrance to the fair grounds, and expended a couple of hundred rounds of ammu nition at it. On Monday a meeting was called in the Abbeville courthouse at which it was decided to order the sixteen sons and daughters of Crawford and their families to abandon their $20,000 home and get out of the State by Nov-: ember 15. After the meeting this i mob proceeded to close up all the Negro shops in Abbeville. The Columbia State, in a powerful K" GOD GIVE US MEN. God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands Men whom the lust of office does not kill Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy P# Men who possess opinions and a will II Men who have honormen who'will not lie Men who can stand before a editorial, pointed out that in view of the exodus of Negro labor from the South to northern industrial fields and the approach of the boll weevil. South Carolina's problem was to keep her colored men instead of serving notice on them that no matter how industrious or successful they might be, their case was absolutely hope less. It so convinced the business men of Abbeville that they had lynched their own pocket-books, that on November 6 another meeting was held in the court-house at which the following resolutions were unani mously passed: "We, the citizens of the city of Ab beville, in mass meeting assembled, do hereby express in unqualified terms our disapproval of the recent violent acts of certain persons com mitted in our community, and the spirit of lawlessness that seems rife in the county, resulting in continued acts of lawlessness it is, "RESOLVED: That the Sheriff of Abbeville County, the Mayor of Abbe ville, the Police Force, and every offi cer of the county and -city, be urged to use every effort to enforce the law and to protect the citizens of the town and county regardless of condition or color. "RESOLVED FURTHER: That we do hereby pledge ourselves as indi viduals to give to the officers of the law our physical support in maintain ing the law. "RESOLVED FURTHER: That if it be necessary to carry out this deter mination that the aid of the State and Federal Government be called in or der that every citizen may enjoy his rights under the constitution. "RESOLVED FURTHER: That a committee with Capt. J. L. Perrin as Chairman, be appointed for the pur pose of ascertaining what can be done towards the organization of a local military company for the protection of the citizens of this county and for maintaining order in our midst. That this committee be empowered to act in the premises. "RESOLVED FURTHER: That EVERY CITIZEN OF THE TOWN OF ABBEVILLE BE ASSURED the pro tection of the men of this meeting as long as he obeys the laws of the state, and pursues only his own legiti mate business. "RESOLVED FURTHER: That a meeting of the law-abiding citizens of Abbeville County be called to meet in this Court House on next Monday at noon to perfect an organization for enforcing law and order in this county, and that every community in the county be represented at this meeting, and that steps be taken to show to the people of the state and United States that the men of Abbe ville County will defend the law, and protect the citizens of the common-' v-ealth in the enjoyment of all rights guaranteed by the law." At the meeting on November 13 the above resolutions were endorsed by prominent citizens from all parts of the county, and a committee of twelve men are to be appointed, "who shall have for their duties the furtherance of the ends sought by the meeting, by taking up with the citizens of the county the mattera discussed and en deavoring to bring about a proper un derstanding between the people of the county, and a due observance of the laws of the land." As a further guarantee that the Crawford family is to be defended in their right to live in South Can lina and enjoy the property accumu lated by three generations, Governor Manning has written Mr. Oswald Gar rison Villard, vice-president of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People as follows: "I realize the gravity of this offense and am determined to do everything in my power to bring the offenders to justice. I have called on the Sher iff of Abbeville County to take the necessary steps to prevent any un lawful action with regard to the ex pulsion of the family of Crawford. I am giving serious consideration to this matter with a view to making recommendations to the Legislature, so as to be able to deal with such conditions when they arise.""' demagogue.tanking And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall meiv*un crowned, who live above the fog Privat fa mM ?W%0** an *l .V x*., ur- &F