DEMONsTTBATORS OF
THEIK SUPERIORITY
Southern Hoodlums Shoot Up Home
of Respectable and Unoffending
Colored (itixetis and Severely
Injure Residents.
SHERIFF MAKING INVESTIGATION
Elberton. Ga.. Jan. 22.—Six or eight j
unknown white men went to the house
of Joe Jackson, colored, living on the |
farm of M. D. Moss, about six miles
from Elberton, and shot all the win- j
dow panes out, knocked the doors of
the house down with an axe. Tom
Guest .brother-in-law of Jackson, was
sleeping in the house at the time and
states he heard pistol shots and ran
from the house in his night clothes.
As he got about 30 yards from the
house some one shot him in the back
with a shotgun. He is in a critical
condition and is not expected to live.
Sam Jones, the uncle of Jackson,
who is 65 years of age, was sleeping
in a side room. Some members of the
mob knocked the panel out of the door >
leading to his room and thrust a
pistol through the hole in the door
and shot him through the neck. He
will recover.
They can give no explanation as to
why the mob attacked them and claim
they do not know any of them. Bullet
holes show some shots were fired
from inside the house.
The people here are very indignant
over the occurrence and are deter
mined to run down and punish the
guilty persons. It is not known, how
ever, whether they live in this county, j
in an adjoining county, or across the
state line in South Carolina.
Deputy Sheriff Jack Haley was on
the scene shortly after the occurrence
and obtained all facts possible. He
Is making a thorough investigation,
and states he feels that he is on the
track of the guilty ones and will be
able to make arrests within a short
while.
BRITISH EMPIRE DIED
IN 1914, SATS SMUTS
# ———
Aggressive Imperialism Is Dead, Says
Manchester Guardian.
London.—Discussing the future of
the empire with special reference to
the assertion of General Smuts that
“the British empire ceased to exist In
August, 1914.” the Manchester Guar
dian says the statement is “startling
but perfectly true as a direct means of
driving home the fact that the changes
wrought by the war in the status and
relations of the dominions have rung
the death-knell of such concerted ag
gressive imperialism as the South
African Nationalists fear.”
The Guardian proceeds to argue
that Downing street’s authority in the
dominions is now “reduced to a
shadow,” and adds:
"In the new relationship on which
the British people are embarking, the
need for common counsel and advice
will be even greater than before, but [
. will be a conference between nations
of equal status in a sisterhood.”
REQUEST GOVERNOR
TO DENY EXTRADITION
Petition Kansas Chief Executive Not
to Return Hill, Accused Riot
Leader, to Arkansas.
New York, Feb. 3.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has announced that it
had telegraphed Governor Allen of
Kansas requesting that he postpone i
extradition from Kansas of Robert j
Hill, alleged leader of Negroes in the
Arkansas race riots.
“Hill cannot receive a fair trial in
Arkansas,” says the statement. “Jur
ies from which colored men were ex
cluded sentenced five colored men to
death in a trial lasting only 45 min
utes. Witnesses were not put on the
stand in their behalf. Governor Mc
Call of Massachusetts in 1918 denied
extradition of John Johnson, Negro,
to West Virginia on similar grounds.”
BLACK STAR LINE
STEAMER SEIZED
Yarmouth Attached Because of Al
leged Debt to Engineering Com
pany—Cargo Exempt.
New York, Feb 3.—For the second
time in a fortnight the steamship
Yarmouth of the Black Star Line was
libelled Thursday, January 22, in
Brooklyn and attached by United
States Marshall Power.
The Yarmouth is the vessel that,
loaded with whiskey valued at $2,000,
000, put back to port because she
sprang a leak en route to Havana,
Cuba. The Irvine Engineering Com
pany brought a libel action against
her, alleging a debt of $1.1,791. Mar
shal Power attached her at her dock
at the foot of 27th street, Brooklyn.
» He has ho power to touch the liquor
aboard her, which she will be per
mitted to take out of port as soon as
she is repaired.
She cannot leave, though, until the
debt alleged by the Irvine Engineer
ing Company is paid or a suitable
bond furnished.
SSL •
appointed by mayob'on
BOARD OF EDUCATION
Two Members Find Plausible Reasons
for Resigning When Colored
Man Becomes Member.
Philadelphia, Feb. 3.—Dr. Clement
T. Branch was appointed a member
of the Camden (N. J.) Board of Edu
cation by Mayor Ellis Monday, Jan
uary 19. E. E. Read, president of the
board for many years, resigned that
night. Harry C. Dole, a member
eleven years, has now sent in his res
ignation to the mayor. Mr. Dole as
signed his health and “other reasons”
for resigning, and Mr. Read found
business duties were pressing.
Those who object to the appoint
ment do so on the ground that the
mayor had not consulted the members
of the board, and the appointment was
purely political. Dr. Branch being
in politics.
COLORED AMERICAN'S
PROTEST SEDITION BILL
New York, Feb. 4.—Tbe National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has announced that
its representative would appear in
Washington at the hearing on the
Graham sedition bill to protest
against the enactment of it.
The following statement has been
issued by the association:
"One of the provisions of the bill is
designed to exclude from the mails
Negro publications protesting against
the flagrant injustices to which the
race is subjected. Liberty loving
colored citizens, as well as white, are
urged to see to it that this bill does
not become a law.”
IOWA ELOCUTIONIST
PLEASES AUDIENCE
Helen U. Merritt- Dramatic Reader,
Makes First Appearance Before
Omaha Audience. Pleasingly Sup
ported by Local Talent.
The discriminating audience which
greeted Mrs. Helen Ricks Merritt,
dramatic reader, of Iowa Falls, la., at
Columbia hall, Tuesday night was de
lighted with the excellent program
rendered. She captured her audience
with her first number, “Billy Brad,
Liar.” by Ellis Parker Butler, and
carried It with her through her con
cluding number, “The Barrier,” by
Mary Brecht Pulver. Her second
number included “Little Brown Baby, ’
by Paul Laurence Dunbar; "The Hair
Pin,” by Edmund Vance Cook, and
"The Raggedy Man,” by James Whit
comb Riley. Her rendition and inter
pretation of "Patsy,” the pathetic
story of the little crippled waif, by
Kate Douglas Wiggins, was superb.
“The Barrier” equally moved her
audience. With a petite figure, a
pleasing personality and a rich, well
trained sympathetic voice which read
ily lends itself to pathos, in which
she excels, or humor, Mrs. Merritt in
telligently interprets her selections
and delights her audience.
Mrs. Merritt was pleasingly sup
ported by local talent. As the open
ing number, Worthington Williams
gave as violin selections Solveig’s
Song, Peer Oynt Suite No. IV, by
Orieg and LeCygne; “The Swan.” by
Saint-Saens. He was accompanied
by Mrs. William G. Haynes. Mrs.
Estella McCoy, who was in excellent
voice, sang "Thou Art Risen, Thou
Beloved,” by S. Coleridge Taylor.
Dr. John Andrew- Singleton, whose
fine tenor voice always pleases, sang
“Her Eyes, Twin Pools.” by Harry
Burleigh; and Mrs. McCoy gave as
a piano number, with her usual bril
liance, “A Parisian Waltz.” Mrs.
James Hieronymous accompanied Mrs.
McCoy and Mrs. McCoy accompanied
Dr. Singleton. ,
The recital was given under the
auspices of the Woman’s Auxiliary of
the Church of St. Philip the Deacon.
FAIL TO SECURE JURY
IN MOORE CASE
As The Monitor goes to press it is
reported that the case against J.
Harry Moore, reporter on the Omaha
Bee and indicted by the grand jury
on the charge of arson in connection
with the September riot, has been
dismissed in Judge Troup’s court
through failure to secure a Jury.
Tuesday District Judge Troup over
ruled a motion to quash the indict
ment against Moore, on the ground
that the special grand jury was irreg
ularly drawn.
Stanley Rosewater, attorney for
Moore, said John W. Towle, foreman
was incompetent to sit on the gram1
jury because he was a co-defendan1
in a pending lawsuit, and that Henr1
W. Dunn, former chief of police, was
irregularly drawn, being pressed int'
service by Sheriff Mike Clark.
Powerful influences have beet
brrught to bear to prevent Moore’
trial. Evidently some facts damag
ing to somebody would have beer
brought out.
A chance for the kiddies to earn
prize. Read Monitor Mother Goos
offer on page six.
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THE
DOUBLE LIFE
By ALVAH J. GARTH
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(Copyright. 1820, Western Newspaper Union]
For good or bad the world was all
before him—no man ever more solemn
ly realized that a parting and a start
ing was at his choice. He stood jus1
outside an Isolated dilapidated hul
and faced the dawning day. Its ro
seate glow, the waking birds and
gently sighing breeze wrought influ
ences of thought and decision clear,
| comprehensive and abiding.
His past bad been blighting and
the present uncertain. Only to the
fathomless future could he look as
to a new birth. He was nobody—
^ worse than that, a discharged convict.
His real name was a menace. He
t-nnist lose It and begin anew, go hack
J recklessly among the old avenues of
berime, or divest himself of every ves
tige of his natural personality and
assume a new identity.
The specious forces of evil beckon
ed him to the companionship that had
sent him to five years in the peniten
1 tiaty, and he had paid his debt.
Looking back two weeks, he saw
' himself freed from prison with time
allowed for good behavior. Looking
fhack a week, he saw himself entering
this same deserted hut. seeking a
night’s shelter, to find within, lying
) on a bed of straw, a well favored
hyoung man about his own age. Thi>
latter tossed restlessly in fever and
i delirium, and from his ravings John
Blake gathered that he was a person
addicted to drink and drugs, had fall
en by the wayside and his weakened
vitality was fast oozing away. A hu
mane and new Impulse had been
born into John Blake the last two
years of his Imprisonment through the
friendly ministrations of the peniten
tiary chaplain. For three days and
nights he acted as nurse and provider
out of the little store lie had earned
in prison through overtime, securing
food and medicine from the village
nearby. The morning of the fourth
day the invalid had died. His pillow
had been an old valise, but it contain
ed only a few articles of clothing and
letters, and from these Blake gleaned
: that his name was Arthur Gride, and
1 that his former home was In Cnnada.
One of the letters was evidently
from the uncle of Gride and It told
the whole history of that blighted life.
: It ran: “You have forfeited the es
teem of every friend and relative
through your evil, dissipated ways.
They and I have disowned you. I of
! fer you one last chance. I inclose
i you a letter to an old friend. I have
written him telling him of your frail
ties and past. He will give you work.
If you make a man of yourself, he will
he a stanch helper. If not, he wll
speedily send you about your busi
ness.”
The other letter was directed to
“Adam Marshall” at a little city In
a western state, and It simply intro
duced “Arthur Gride, whom X have
already written you about.”
When the poor wanderer was dead
Blake went to the village and told
of his finding the man and of his car
ing for him. They hurled him decent
ly in tin* little country cemetery, and
now, after passing a last lonely night
at the hut, John Blake stood at the
parting of the ways.
Two months later, assuming the
name of the dead man, Blake was In
stalled at Leesvllle as an employee ol
Adam Marshall in the grain and f'-ed
\ business. The latter was old and in
firm, but he gave the pretended nephew
of his friend every chance to make
I good. Within a year the new Blak«
had completely won the confidence ol
j his patron. When the latter died his
family later engaged him as manager
| of the business. Trusted and beloved
by everybody, a man among men, the
! new Arthur Gride became a citizen ol
j importance.
It was about this time that a young
jvornan came to Leesvllle and after
^making many Inquiries about Arthui
:Gr!de settled down into seclusion
One day when Blake left the city on t
train she covertly followed him. It
was the anniversary of the death ol
the real Arthur Gride, and the man
who hod assumed his Identity weni
to the little settlement where he wat
■burled. He placed a wreath upon hit
grave and sat lost In reverent thought
He looked up, puzzled and startled, ai
a shadow crossed the spot. The mys
terlons woman stood beside him. He
recalled having seen her once or twfc<
Jn Leesvllle. Her accusing face an(
manner made a really comely face ap
pear dark and forbidding.
“I have followed you day after day,’
she Rpoke, “to find the man you pre
tend to he. I am the sister of Arthui
Gride. You are not he. Where li
I
ne'
"There.” spoke John P.lake, polntlni
to the grave. "H!s sister? Then yo\
shall know all. I come here becausi
jot him. I have redeemed myself arn
have honored his name.”
* Luella Gride sank to the ground, tin
tears falling fast, all save tenderne*
leaving her face as she listened ti
^he story of the redeemed man. Thei
"she told of how, after the death o
her father and mother, the hard-heart
ed uncle had consented to tell he
that her lost brother had become i
man of Importance at Leesrvtlle.
In mutual gorrow for the poor un
fortunate, those two mingled tbel
4ears. Strangely brought together b:
■ '4 secret no one else should ever share
hand in hand they left the sacred spot
tvith a presage that thus they shouh
journey through life together.
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