Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY Prof. KelleY Mil- Ier's Greeting's To Educated Colored Men. Highest call of the Civilization of the World is the Educated Young Men of the Belated Races. VOL. XVIII. Prof. Kel Ier's G To Educated Colored Men. R tion of the World is the E Belated R To Educated Colored Men:— Greetings. I am taking advantage of the approaching New Year to address to you a few words of serious greeting. You represent the first generation of your race, now grown to the fullness of the stature of manhood, under the influence and power of education. You are the first ripened fruit of philanthropy, and by you alone will its wisdom or folly be justified. The hope of the race is focused in you. You are to furnish the headlight to direct the path through the dangers and viscissitudes of the wilderness. For want of vision the people perish; for want of wise direction, they stumble and fall. There is no body in the world today, nor in the history of the world who have, or ever have had, greater responsibilities or more coveted opportunities than devolve upon you. It is indeed a privilege to be a Negro of light and leading in such a time as this. The incidental embarrassments and disadvantages which, for the time being, must be endured are not to be compared with the far more exceeding weight of privilege and glory which awaits you if you rise to these high demands. For such a privilege well may you forego the pleasures of civilization for a season. Your world consists of ten million souls, who have wrapped up in them all the needs and necessities, powers and possibilities of human nature; they contain all the worms of civilization, from its roots to its florescence. Yours is the task to develop and vitalize these smothered faculties and potentialities. Your education will prove to be but vanity and vexation of spirit, unless it ultimates in this task. You are the salt of the earth, and if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? If the light within the racial world be darkness, how great is that darkness? The highest call of the civilization of the world today is to the educated young men of the belated races. The educated young manhood of Japan, China, India, Egypt and Turkey must lift their own people. Your task is the same as theirs, intensified' perhaps, by the more difficult and intricate tangle of circumstances and conditions --- with which you must deal. You cannot afford to sink into slothful satisfaction and do your little job, draw your little pay, and enjoy your tasteless leisure, and with insane self-deception, hide your little head under the shadow of your wings, like the foolish bird, which thereby hopes to escape the wrath to come. As you look over the field the whole sweep or racial movement seems to be retrograde. The race has been disfranchised and jim-crowed and segregated. Lynching and burning of Negroes amid horrors of indescribable atrocity, has become a fixed American institution. The Christian conscience is sere, and only Christ in Heaven weeps. There is no other source of help but God and you. The white race through philanthropy has done much. But its vicarious task was practically completed when it developed you. You must do the rest. Our gratitude can never repay the debt. They spoke for us when our tongues were tied; they pleaded for us when we were speechless. But now our faculties are unloosed; we must stand on our own footing. The greatest gratitude that the beneficiary can show to the benefactor is, as soon as possible, to do without his benefaction. True, we are not yet able to cut loose wholly from the benevolent assistance; we still need some more ear-rings and finger-rings and other furnishings from the Egyptians. But the great outstanding fact remains, the task of race statesmanship and reclamation is not primarily the white man's burden, but yours. Upon you will depend its success or failure. As far as righteous insistence upon inalienable human rights will permit, live at peace and helpful cooperation with all men, North and South, East and West. But never under any inducements of cowardice or prudence or thrift, should you deviate from the straight line of righteousness, which alone points out the way and points the way out. Moral energy and race loyalty should be brought to bear upon your task whether you be engaged in the production of wealth or in the more condite pursuits, which administer to the higher needs of DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13 1912. The white race is fast losing faith in the Negro as an efficient and acceptable factor in the equation of our civilization, privilege and opportunity is but the outward expression of this apostacy. As the white man's faith in you decreases, your faith in yourselves must increase. Every Negro in America should be taught daily, with his face toward the light to utter this prayer: "Lord, I believe; help Thou my unbelief." Through courage, expressed in the active as well as in the passive voice, courage to do and courage to endure, you must so assert and exert your manhood, that you will not only believe in yourselves, but the rest of the world will be compelled to believe in you. Then and not till then, all will be well. Such is the mark and the high calling to which you are called. May you rise to the level of it. EMANCIPATION DAY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Hampton, Va.. Jan. 2- Two thousand representative colored people of Hampton and vicinity gathered on New Year's Day in the Hampton Institute Gymnasium, at two-thirty, to celebrate the Forty-seventh anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Rev. A. A. Graham, pastor of Zion Church, Phoebus, Va., was the presiding officer. The best white and colored people came together to hear the wonderful story of Negro progress during the years of his freedom. The audience was made up of prosperous-looking, intelligent, attentive, and responsive people. The chief address was delivered by President J. A. Cotton, of Henderson Normal Institute, Henderson, N. C., who spoke on "The Negro's Opportunity for the Future" Address of Dr. Cotton Dr. Cotton grouped his remarks about four topics: cash, culture, character, and Christianity. He emphasized the importance of training Negro men and women who will prove themselves depend able and fearless in doing what is right. He urged the colored people to serve God aright by helping their fellow-men. He declared that the Negro race and the nation are dying for the want of love—love that means self-sacrifice and service which is Christlike. Dr. Frissell Speaks. Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute, spoke eloquently concerning the fitness of celebrating the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation on ground which has been dedicated for over forty years to the upbuilding of the Negro and Indian races through agricultural and industrial training. He referred to the excellent work which is being done by Hampton students who have gone out like Chfistian soldiers to fight against ignorance, superstition, and sin. Where men had given their lives for freedom, it was fitting, he declared, that Negro men and women should reconsecrate their lives to noble service. Dr. Frissell expressed the hope that year by year the colored people would gather at Hampton Institute and learn anew that through great tribulation men come to their best. Negro Progress Rev. A. A. Graham said that he was glad the young people of Hampton Institute, who are the hope of their race, could face the older people and hear the story of emantipation. He outlined the Negro's uphill climb and the marvelous transformation in the colored people through less than fifty years of freedom. He was significant, he declared, that on the old battle-fields there had sprung up institutions for the proper education of Negro youth. He referred with pride to the handwork of colored women which was on exhibition at the Hampton Institute Gymnasium and to the thirty-horse power automobile outside of the Gymnasium which had been built "from the ground up" by a Negro youth of Hampton. David Owl, a Cherokee Indian, who is a Hampton student, brought the people a simple, straightforward, manly message of congratulation on their progress. Tandy W. Coggs a colored student at Hampton Institute, spoke on "Negro Education." He declared that the educated Negro has been showing the people that thinking and doing go together. He showed that General Armstrong's belief in the capacity of the Negro for progress, which led to the founding of Hampton Institute, had been well grounded. Interesting Program Mr. Tressler Scott, of Hampton Institute, led a chorus of fifty voices in the singing of three selections, including "Fairy Land" and Native Land." Rev. J. W. Patterson, of Hampton, offered the invocation. The Emancipation Proclamation was read by Nannie Williams of Hampton. The Institute Band played a selection and a medly. The Audience sang "My Country 'is of Thee" and "O Freedom." The benediction was pronounced by Rev. John H. Gray, of Hampton. The Institute Battalion, commanded by Capt. Alleu Washington, associate commandant, met the large gathering of colored people in Hampton and escorted them to Hampton Institute. An Unclean Meal. Mamma Bookworm—Willie, you come right here and get cleaned. I never saw you so dirty. You've been eating through the pages of that divorce testimony, haven't you?—Puck RACE NEWS Allensworth, Cal., January 1. The residents of Allensworth are enthusiastic over the striking of a large strata of artesian water which will give this place a big gusher and forever settle the water question. More wells are to be developed. Elkins, W. Va., Dec. 29.—Dolliver Baxter, a Negro aged 113, died here today. At the age of 108 Baxter was a witness in a Federal court case, and made a remarkable impression because of the clearness of his testimony. Georgia comes forward with the bloodiest lynching record of 1911. Seventeen Negroes lynched, out of a total of 60 in the whole United States. Yet, we should not be surprised because the notorious Hoke Smith was Governor, and his hobby is, down with the Negro; and the effects of this policy is this awful lynching record noted above. Mrs. Anna Like of Cairo, Ill., fell heir to $10,000. Mrs. Like had lived in Chicago for about 14 years, making many friends, among whom was an old lady without relatives, a Mrs. Cartwright. Four years ago Mrs. Like moved to Cairo, Ill. The old lady died in the met. while, leaving her estate, etc., to Mrs. Like, who had be-friended her. Asbury Park, N. J., Jan. 2.—Police Officer George L. Miller, colored, is the hero of the hour in Asbury Park and has been given a purse by the citizens for bravery. He is acclaimed the bravest police officer on the local police force. The colored policeman is being praised for capturing the slayer of his white partner—Police Officer Charles F. Lippincott—although a revolver was aimed at his head. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 1.—Between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 worth of real estate in Pennsylvania is owned by Negroes, according to the forthcoming annual report of John L. Rockey, chief of the Bureau of industrial statistics in the department of internal affairs. In the forty-seven wards of Philadelphia Negroes own a total of 1080 parsels of taxable real estate exclusive of non-taxable property with a total tax valuation of $2,801,275. Monrovia, Liberia, January 1. President Daniel Howare was in- NO 18 augurated today as chief executive of the republic of Liberia, succeeding President Barclay, who for eight years had occupied the office. A procession headed by the members of the legislature, led by the speakers of the senate and house of representatives. Here the new president, after taking the oath, read his inaugural address, in which he sets forth his ideas on reform and announced several schemes for the development of the country. St. Louis, Mo.' January 2.—The election of President B. F. Allen to succeed Prof. J. Silas Harris to the Presidency of the Negro State Teachers' Association of Missouri at a recent meeting of that body in Hannibal, promises to create a deal of trouble in the school circles of this state. Prof. H. O Cook of the Department of Mathematics of Lincoln High School, opposed President Allen's election and openly charged that it was sought by Prof. Allen's friends in order to secure his re-election to the Presidency of Lincoln Institute, the State school for Negroes Washington, D. C. Jan. 3.—Tired of waiting for the Democratic House of Representatives to rescind its action abolishing the position of assistant to the clerk of the House, a place he had held for more than a quarter of a century, Aaron Russell last Saturday told Clerk South Trimble that he would not return to the Capitol to resume his labors. The Democrats abolished Russell's position, he being the only colored man outside of J. E. Johnson, holding a clerksbip in Congress when they came into power. With a thought that the Democrat might feel differently about the matter later, the veteran employee kept up his work for nearly eight months without compensation. Russell was consulted daily by members of Congress, who have regarded him as being one of the best informed persons relative to affairs around the Capitol in the country. Mr. Russell drew a salary of $1,600 per year, aud Mr. Johnson a salary of $2,000 per year. Both of these colored men have been dropped by the Democrats, though no colored man was appointed to succeed them. Russell has not only been regarded as one of the best informed but one of the best liked men around Congress, but the Democrats could not and would not stand for a Negro holding such a good position. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR- EIGN COUNTRIES. DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. Five inches is the average depth of snowfall over northern Idaho. In the southern part of the state the fall was less. The intense cold and deep snow have brought severe suffering among homesteaders in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Three acres of buildings comprising the plant of the Commercial Acid Company, near East St. Louis, burned. The loss was $200,000. George A. Neely, Democrat, of Hutchinson, was elected to the United States Congress from the Seventh Kansas district, to succeed the late E. H. Madison, Republican. Marooned for more than a week in a way car attached to an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe freight train, stuck fast in the snow near Laird in western Kansas, two brakemen lived on jackrabbits. Arthur Lewis, accused of murdering his stepniece, Helen Rumball, by breaking her neck, at Oroville, Cal., was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in San Quentin penitentiary. A jury found him guilty of manslaughter. The new county grand jury at Los Angeles has determined to renew the dynamite investigation, and subpoenaed five persons formerly connected with the McNamara defense. The principal charge is that of jury bribery. A sympathetic strike of more than 300,000 members of the Federated Railroad Shop Employes, to be called within a month and possibly within two weeks, was predicted by Ernest L. Reguin, president of the Federated Shop Employes of the Harriman lines. State Health Officer Steiner at Austin, Texas, announces that the commonwealth board of health would meet in Dallas to consider the spread of spinal meningitis in Texas. Dallas has had about 140 cases and Waco eighty-four cases since Oct. 1. A suit against the Independence Gas Company, the Consolidated Gas Company and the Kansas Natural Gas Company, charging conspiracy to raise prices and to prevent competition, has been filed by Attorney General Dawson in District Court at Independence, Kan. Most short railroad lines in the Black Hills of South Dakota are blocked with snow and the cold, and the Burlington & Northwestern, while they keep trains moving, are experiencing much difficulty and all the traffic is considerably behind schedule The temperature is 33 degrees below. Hope for the lives of thousands of starving cattle on the Texas ranges was held out by a sudden rise in temperature to 40 degrees above zero. This is the first thaw in the Texas Panhandle for three weeks. It was feared that stockmen would lose heavily. George Rives of Goldfield, Nev., was sentenced to seven years in Leavenworth prison at Sale Lake, on the charge of taking a young girl from Salt Lake to Goldfield for immoral purposes. Jessie Gray, alias Jessie Rives, was sentenced to six years in the Lansing, Mich., state prison on a similar charge. They were arrested at Carson, Nev. Unable to see the station lights in the blinding snowstorm which swept over western Kansas Engineer C. C. Deming of the Santa Fe passenger train No. 2 ran past the station at Wright, Kan. Before he could back his train into the siding after he had discovered his mistake, his train was hit by the Newton-Dodge City local westbound. Deming was fatally scaled, Engineer J. W. Chalfant of the local was killed and twelve passengers were hurt. WASHINGTON. Senator Crawford introduced a bill to provide for the appointment by the United States of members of an international commission to investigate the general increase of the cost of living. The measure would provide for a general inquiry relative to the wages, the effect of trusts and the influence of the increased volume of gold. The bill is in line with suggestions at the recent economic congress in Washington. Senator Warren of Wyoming introduced a bill to increase homestead entries to 640 acres. Enlarged application of the leasing principle as applied to the public domain, especially a liberal leasing law for the development of the mineral resources of Alaska, particularly its coal lands, and immediate consideration by Congress of the whole subject of water power development and control, are the most important recommendations contained in the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Fisher. FOREIGN. The influences being brought to bear in order to induce Italy to renew or not to renew the triple alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary are becoming daily more pressing. Two important developments have intensified the interest in the situation in China. These were a renewal of hostilities and the demand of the Russian government that China recognize the independence of outer Mongolia. Shen Chow has been captured. Unless Yuan Shi Kai yields to suasion and the armistice is extended, fighting will be resumed in China. The republican troops will commence the march on Peking. The carefully guarded movements of the troops, coupled with the deficiency of communication, makes it almost impossible to estimate correctly the strength of the revolutionists, but it is certain that it approximates 30,000 men. SPORT. Jack Johnson probably will fight a ten-round battle with someone before May 1, after which he must engage in no more contests until he has met Jim Flynn, according to the articlez of agreement signed in Chicago. Charlie Pierson, the fighting newsboy, knocked out Rube Smith in the fifteenth round of a 15-round bout in Dallas, Tex., in one of the most furious fights ever witnessed in the Lone Star state. He is matched to fight with Joe Gorman January 23rd. Benny Chavez, of Trinidad, bantamweight champion of Colorado, has posted a forfeit to back his challenge to meet a number of aspiring young bantamweights of the state, including Young Abe Attel, Harry Lubb, Harry Riede, Frankie Fowler and Kid Dix. The local whirlwind is anxious to meet any of these men at an early date. It is probable that he will participate in the annual elimination contests to be held by the D. A. C. in February. GENERAL. The temperature at St. Paul, Minn., was for several days 37 degrees below zero. Richard T. Crane, head of Crane company and foe of universities, died at his home in Chicago. Records for cold weather for years over Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma were broken, with temperatures of 6 to 21 below. The home of Horace G. Burt, of Chicago, former president of the Union Pacific, was destroyed by fire, Loss, $100,000. Twenty laundries in St. Louis have ceased operations because of a shortage of water supply which threatens to become a famine. Wisconsin's income tax law, enacted by the last Legislature, was held to be constitutional in a decision of the State Supreme Court. Five children of Irwin Carlile, were burned to death and Mr. Carlile was seriously burned in a fire which destroyed their home at Brainerd, Minn. Money talked in the contest before the National Democratic committee and enabled Baltimore with a cash offer of $100,000 to capture the convention. Mayor Shank took it upon himself to see that the poor did not suffer from the pangs of hunger, as well as the cold. In the basement of the market house, the mayor personally conducted a free lunch counter, at Indianapolis. With the appearance of a man who had abandoned all hope of life, Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson stood at the bar of justice, in Boston, declared his guilt of the premeditated murder of his former sweetheart, Miss Avis Linnell, and without a tremor heard Judge Sanderson sentence him to death in the electric chair during the week beginning May 19th. The home of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the immense marble and granite structure covering a block in lower Broadway, an historic landmark of New York's early period of skyscraper buildings and one of the city's important financial centers, was destroyed by fire with a loss of six lives and probably $6,000,000 in property. A dozen persons were injured. Valuable records, including the biography of E. H. Harriman and two priceless libraries, which cannot be replaced, went up in flames. Whatever Ortie E. McManigal, the confessed dynamiter, knows about the complicity of others besides the McNamara brothers in the blowing up of more than 100 "open shop" structures in various sections of the country in the last five or six years, is believed to have ben related by him in his preliminary story before the federal grand jury. Taken from his cell in the federal building, where he had been lodged before daylight after his secret trip in the custody of government officials from Los Angeles, McManigal went before the jurors after his written confession had been presented in detail. The common towel has been barred by the Department of Health of Greater-New York and must follow the common drinking cup into the discard. In all public places hereafter, if one would wash, one must bring his own drying apparatus. The Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson confessed his guilt of the murder of his former sweetheart, Avis Linnell of Hyannis, Mass., in a document made public by his counsel. The confession declares that the accused is guilty of murder in the first degree. All Parts of the State Western Newspaper Union News Service. Frozen Body Found. Grand Junction.—The frozen body of T. D. Savage, aged sixty-five, wealthy ranchman of this district, who disappeared Dec. 23, was found two miles from his home by Carrie Angel, a fourteen-year-old girl. College Professors Aid Farmers. Greeley.—The State Agricultural college will assist farmers who decide to enter the dairy business by helping select cows, and Prof. C. H. Hinnan has notified Secretary McClellan of the Weld County Farmers' Club to so inform farmers. Denver Hotel Man Killed. Denver.—Falling down the elevator shaft from the third floor of his hotel, to the basement and lighting on the iron rods in the landing, Ernest A. Barrows, owner of the Toovey hotel died just five hours after the accident, from the injuries received in the fall. Boulder Five Successful. Boulder.—The University of Colorado basketball five returned after a successful tour of the state, winning every game played and scoring a total of 555 points against 142 for their opponents, or making an average of fifty-five and one-half points in each of the ten games. Stage Slips Over Cliff Ouray.—The slippery condition of the stage road over Wet mountain from Ouray to Ironton caused a Circle route stage sleigh to leave the road and roll down the mountain 100 feet. The lone passenger and the driver jumped and escaped injury, but two of the four horses were killed. engineer Killed in Wreck. Cañon City.—Pinned beneath his locomotive, which turned over at Hillside it struck a snowbank, Engineer August Guyer was killed. His fireman, R. Roberts, was slightly injured. Guyer's body was crushed and was held beneath the cab in such a position that it could not be removed until the arrival of the wrecking crew. Grand Junction Wants Flynn. Grand Junction.—The Chamber of Commerce sent to Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, an offer to provide quarters for training for his battle with Jack Johnson next July and to pay the greater part of his expenses. Trout fishing near the quarters on Cottonwood lake is one of the allurements of the offer. Flynn's father-in-law resides here. Cattlemen Rejoicing. Hugo—Great moderation in the weather, and resupmation of traffic on the Union Pacific are two events that have sent the hopes of the stockman skyward. A continuation of the warm weather prevailing means a clearing of the range of ice and snow, giving the cattle which have admittedly suffered greatly during the last two weeks, an opportunity to secure feed and water. Farm Extension Work Favored. Rocky Ford.—The committee which has been interviewing the people all over Otero county relative to the movement to keep up the farm extension work of the State Agricultural college will make a favorable report. The committee has found the great majority of Otero county people are in favor of the scheme. The committee will go before the County Commissioners at the next meeting and ask that support be given the movement. To Pension Indian War Veterans. Denver.—Henry Hegwer, secretary of the United Indian War Veterans, with headquarters in Denver, has issued a circular asking for the names of all soldiers who served on the western frontier ninety days or more, from 1865 to 1890. House Bill No. 779, which was introduced in Congress by Mr. Rucker of Colorado, and provides for pensions for the old Indian fighters, is expected to be acted upon invorably. Colorado Files Demurrer. Washington. Benjamin Griffith, attorney general for Colorado, filed in the Supreme Court a demurrer to the complaint of the state of Wyoming, which seeks to restrain the state of Colorado, the Greeley-Poudre Irrigation district and the Laramie-Poudre Reservoir & Irrigation Company, from diverting the waters of the Laramie river in Colorado and preventing their flow into Wyoming. The demurrer states that the bill of complaint is without equity and asks that it be dismissed. Barbed Wire Telephone Lines. Fosston.—Barbed wire fences are doing double duty in the vicinity of Fosston, where homesteaders are using them for telephone lines, the system having been made possible by H. W Foss, a farmer who inaugurated it and connected the private lines with the trunk system at Greeley through a switchboard set up in his house. This system is managed over the fences for a distance east of nearly twenty miles. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS. Small Happenings Occurring Over the State Worth While. Western Newspaper Union News Service. The Windsor creamy will be in operation in thirty days. The Antonito postoffice will soon be admitted into the third class. A fire in Montrose recently did damage to the extent of $15,000. The total valuation of property in El Paso county is $22,209,220. A factory to make stock food will soon be established at Greeley. The Fort Lupton bank has declared a dividend of twenty per cent. The bridge in Grand Junction to cost $67,215, has been started. W. S. Sevier of Eaton is one of the heirs to an estate valued at $8,000,000. The Capitol Heights Presbyterian church, in Denver, was recently dedicated. The city authorities of Rocky Ford have abolished the office of health officer. Station A postoffice at Pueblo was recently robbed of $300 in stamps and money. As a result of the protracted cold the city of Greeley is threatened with a water famine. Grand Junction will make a strong fight for the Republican state convention next summer. Armed guards are patrolling the Alpha mine near Fort Lupton, where rioting has occurred. A modern sanitarium for tuberculosis will be established in the near future at Greeley. The government is now ready to begin the construction of the Grand Valley irrigation project. George Johnstone, a pioneer and veteran of the civil war, died at La Salle, aged 71 years. The Olathe Produce Association has been incorporated. The association is capitalized at $25,000. The Arkansas Valley Light and Power Company is putting in a line from Pueblo to La Junta. All of the right-of-way contracts for the government high line canal at Palisade have been signed. Weld county farmers who have potatoes in their cellars are using stover to keep them from freezing. Judge Greeley W. Whitford of Denver granted the first Japanese divorce in the history of the Colorado courts. R. F. Backus, a postal clerk at Cañon City, was fined $25 for replacing good stamps with cancelled ones. John Coulton, a ranchman, living near Rocky Ford, was so badly frozen recently that his feet may have to be amputated. An interesting program has been arranged for the Farmers' Institute, which is to be held in Longmont Jan 25, 26 and 27. The County Commissioners of Pueblo county have issued a neat little booklet entitled "Seeing Along the Santa Fe Trail." To vote an additional $42,000 in bonds for completion of the Greeley High school, district No. 6 will hold a special election. A bill has been introduced in the Senate having for its purpose the removal of the Federal Court from Montrose to Grand Junction. The Cripple Creek Short Line is considering the advisability of establishing up-to-date sightseeing automobiles in the Pike's Peak region. Lyman Robinson, one of the wealthiest and best known citizens of Cañon City and Fremont county, died at his residence on South Cañon of paralysis. A Catholic mission, something on the order of the evangelical services held by the Protestants has been started in Grand Junction by St. Joseph's church. Machinery, which will doubt the capacity of their power plant, has been ordered by the Redlands Irrigation Company, near Grand Junction, at a cost of $10,000. Churches, the W. T. C. U. and other temperance organizations of Evans are merging their forces to inaugurate an active campaign for local option, the election to be held in April. The Breckenridge Chamber of Commerce has drawn up resolutions censuring the mail service accorded Summit county since the Colorado & Southern ceased operating the South Park branch. The farmers and stockgrowers in the eastern part of Colorado and the Arkansas valley are shipping their stock to Pueblo and other places where food and shelter can be provided for them. Inundation of that portion of Meeker abutting on the White river, caused by the biggest ice gorge recorded in the history of the valley, has compelled numerous families residing near the river front to seek shelter in other sections of the city. Wild animals, driven out of the mountains by the severe cold, in various parts of the state, are doing considerable damage among live stock. Mountain lions, wolves, coyotes and wild cats are the ones doing the most damage. On account of the severe cold weather in the higher mountains during the past few days many mountain lions have come down into the foothills west of Loveland and have also havoc among the cattle'herds, many head having been killed. OEM-ALIEN BEWELRY CO. STERLING SIN 10th Avenue H. HEUER, PR RESTING PLACE FOR MEALS AT A Pool Room in Corner West 10th and Osage Denver, C ASK FOR CARLS Peerless Ic Phones: M DID YOU E Neef Bro It's made right, a None better made This is a Strictly C BELLING SILVERVIEW An Avenue H H. 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Many of them have not stopped at "bullyragging" and nagging each other with words both shameful and disgraceful to use, but they have gone forth with their vulgarity upon their brother in white. White people can stand plain truth and honest discussion that carries sentiment with it. But whenever a negro pours out a bottle of vulgarity and vituperation upon the white man, he must look for judgment and a hall storm falling from somewhere. The reason we love Charleston so much, is because it has some of the most liberal and conservative white people that God has ever permitted to live in a city. We have seen articles published in little sheets, here and there in this city, against the best intentions and efforts of the white people, in interest of the negro, that had the same been published in other cities, the negro who did the writing could not have escaped the jail and penitentiary on a charge of criminal libel and general disturbance between whites and blacks. While the Messenger's staff is composed of both white and colored writers, the editor-in-chief has watched with the eye of an eagle to see that nothing goes into its columns untrue or reflecting upon any individual. The plain truth told, cuts to the bone, and we advise our colored contemporaries to find facts and subjects that are full of discussion and give the general news as it is, or go out of business. The average foolish negro editor doesn't believe his paper will be sold unless he is slandering some one, whose shoe latches he is not worthy to stoop down and fasten. Such papers only live for a time, they sink themselves and those who publish them into oblivion. If the negro intends to live in this country side by side with the white man, he has got to make up his mind that, regardless to what the white man does, he has got to obey the laws and be a gentleman, and such negroes will get all that is coming to them in the way of protection as American citizens at the hand of the powers that be.—Charleston Messenger. For years the various religious sects among the negro race have gathered thousands of dollars for foreign missions, and from authentic records they have made very little headway in the foreign work. The foreign missionary work is beneficial and should be executed, but some accurate system should be applied to the work so as to bring better results. We have a great mission in America that needs all the time of missionaries; and that is home missionary. In some sections of civilized United States, there are people who are greatly in need of the great work. The Afro-American missionaries should carry on their home missions until every ignorant being would relize the existence of the Great Lord, perfect their morality, which are dominant portals of civilization. Go into the dense settlements of our people, dwelling largely in the southern states; go into the slums and alleys and commit your mission to the perishing; then when you have straightened out domestic affairs, extend the work throughout the world wherever there is man to be found.—Palestine Plaindealer. The problem of furnishing employment for negro boys and girls who are preparing themselves for efficient service, recently came home to a certain ministerial friends of ours. The problem was regarded as one of sufficient importance for him to mention it in a sermon and to urge his congregation to unite their efforts to the end that their boys and girls might have a job after they have finished their schooling. "My boys," he said, "grew up and played with the white boys of the community, each went to his own school, each went off to his own college, finished up and returned home. Jobs were waiting for the white boys—there was nothing for my boys to do." The problem, you see, after lookly, vaguely in the distance, had finally invaded his neighborhood—his street—his home! It is seen then that the man who, by his words and actions is doing anything towards making this problem less acute, is in reality a leader and benefactor of the race.—Dallas Express. When congress was assembling at its opening in December, Speaker Clarke was heard to say: "I wonder where he is? The old regular. He must be dead!" The speaker was referring to an old colored man who has occupied a place near the great clock at the opening session of every congress for the past sixteen years. His absence brought out the foregoing expressions from the speaker. The great tides in the labor and trades question will turn some day and the negro will have a chance. Continue to educate your soos and daughters in the trades. The way will some day open to the patients. No one can read the census figures which have recently been published without being forced to the conclusion that the negro race is not increasing so fast in numbers as is desirable, not is the increase so large as it was some years ago. We make this statement disregarding the fact that we know mistakes have been made and many negroes in the southern states especially have not been counted. Our own doctors are almost unlimous in the opinion that in the large cities of the north the death rate of the negro race is much larger than is true of the white race, and but for the immigration from the south the negro would soon cease to appear in large numbers in northern cities. The death rate in the large cities of the south is too large. All this indicates a "bugle call to duty" on the part of the negro minister, negro teacher and other leaders. They should not mince words, but should get right down to business, in the pulpit, in the schoolroom and everywhere, and teach our people how to live and how to keep themselves clean, how to protect their bodies from cold, how to get plenty of good air and clothes, and how to secure and eat good, fresh food. If we do not give immediate attention to the health of the negro the end of the next decade will show a serious condition of affairs. No amount of time and money spent in yelling for the "freedom" and rights of the negro can help him much unless he has a strong, vigorous body.—New York Age. The question of increasing landlordism in Texas and the south generally is causing reflection and comment in various quaters. Farm and Ranch has been making some investigations into the subject, and the findings are somewhat surprising. Its representative in that work says: 1. Landlordism spreads in Texas by three chief means; (a) Individual farmers buying more lands adjacent to their property; () creditors (town merchants usually) foreclosing mortgages on owners' farms; (c) owners moving their families into towns. 4. In the last ten years the rate of white tenant increase over black tenant increase has been 350 per cent. 3. Negro tenants, renting as a rule lands worth less than half as much as lands rented by white tenants in 1900 produced per acre on improved land $11.96 worth of crops, white white tenant farmers the same year produced crops worth only $10.42 per acre. 4. The negro tenant is following the white owner to the town and city. 5. The white tenant, who is gaining the field, is not one whit better off, economically, under present cropping systems, than the negro, while he is much the financial inferior of the landlord. From the foregoing it will be seen that though given the poorest sort of land to work, the colored brother has been getting the best results both for himself and for the landlord. That item about the increase of white tenants over negro tenants by 350 percent is significant and shows that the negro is "round here somewhere."—Old Hickory. It seems as but a vision passing briefly, since a new year greeted earth and man to reign its unit and record the diversified incidents of man, civilization, progress and invention. Like a rolling ball of perpetual motion, Mother Earth records fading time annum after annum, and man after man disappears in its fathomless mists. Vegetation springs and decays, mountains change their magnitude by erosion; streams waver from their original courses, for which many years are consumed, but the "Grim Usurper." Time, reigns, numbered by the years. On man's countenance shines childhood, his advent to deal with worldly things, and as but a dream these joyous days pass, and ere many years his hair is hoary, and he has spent a life time: now ready for his final resting place; yet the ages of time retain their original poise and mock at the fading of humanity to the unknown. Let each being make the best of life. Let it be exemplary of all that is good, and when time marks your passing let the unknown future be in the promised heaven—Palestine Plaindealer. If all men could look each other in the face and say they attend to their own affairs and let others alone, and would be telling the truth much trouble could be prevented among us. Ye teachers of "Support Race Enterprise," go forth into all the world and show the people that you are practicing your doctrine. Wouldn't there be a great shortage?—Ex. No bishop should remain longer than two terms of four years each in the same conferences.—Star of Zion. We despise the very thought of a man insulting a woman.—Charleston Messenger. SAYS HE HAS ORIGINAL DEED NEGRO WHO CLAIMS OWNERSHIP OF WILMINGTONN WILL FIGHT CASE. Wilmington, N. C.—Special.—Fred McKenzie, colored, better know in Wilmington as Fred Davis, has laid claim to the realty upon which practically the entire business district is located and embraces also a portion of the residential section in the northern part of the city. Should he be able prove his claims in a court of law and get the property or its equivalent, which is not probable, he would probably be the wealthiest negro in the country. McKenzie has asked the aid of Governor Kitchen and other state officials in his effort to recover the property which he alleges was willed to his ancestors back in the colonial days. The property which he alleges belongs to him and his relatives begins at a point on the Cape Fear river at the foot Market street, runs north up the river to a point some distance north of the seaboard track, thence south to Market street and west down Market street 150 poles to the point of beginning. His story goes back to the colonial days and according to his statement the property, as far back as he has been able to trace it, was first owned by Mr. Marsden Campbell of New Hanover county. On the death of Mr. Campbell it went to his heirs, James G. Campbell, Marsden Campbell, Jr., Hugh Y. Waddell and wife, John Marsden Waddell and William Campbell. It was finally acquired by the last named, William Campbell, who later left this state for Louisiana. On leaving the state Mr. Campbell desired to leave his property to Mosses Davls, a slave, but as the laws of North Carolina prohibited a slave from holding property, he was forced to leave it in the hands of a number of trustees, these being Messrs. T. C. Miller, Fred D. Lord, Thomas D. Meares, William A. Wright, Joahua Wright and the town of Wilmington. At that time the town of Wilmington did not cover any of the property owned by Mr. Campbell. On the death of Mosses Davis, McKenzie claims, the property went to his daughter, Lucy Davis, who married a negro named McKenzie. She soon left McKenzie, however, but not until after she had borne him children. Her first child was Fred McKenzie or Fred Davis. He was the father of a second Fred Davis, who in turn had a son named Fred Davis, or Fred McKenzie, the present claimant to the land. McKenzie claims to have the original deed of trust, in which the land is left to the trustees to hold for Mosses Davis. This, he says, is in Washington just at present, but he says there is a certified copy in the city. He also has several other legal papers bearing on the matter. He is now awaiting a letter from the governor and other state officials, whom he expects will look into the matter for him. He seems confident that the land upon which a great part of the city of Wilmington is located rightfully belongs to him.—Charlotte Observer. FORM STATE ASSOCIATION COLORED BUSINESS MEN OF OHIO ORGANIZE—WELCOME T. BLUE ELECTED PRESIDENT. Cleveland, O.—A meeting of about 75 colored business men from every section of Ohio was held in Columbus at the Lincoln Ohio Industrial school. After talks by several of the delegates, an organization was formed to be known as the Colored Business Men's Association of Ohio The following officers were chosen: President, Welcome T. Blue, Cleveland; vice-president, B. F. Stewart, Norwalk; J. H. Finley, Dayton, Alfred C. Alfred, Marletta, and G. A. Morgan of Cleveland; secretary, Leroy Godman, Columbus; corresponding secretary, James M. French, Sandusky; treasurer, D. C. Fisher, Loral; executive committee, P. W. Chavers, E. A. Shankill, Thomas Williams and Wheeler Brooks, Columbus; Edward Peterson, Uhrichsville; John Williams and Henry Tuck, Oberlin. The organization was perfected through the efforts of Welcome T. Blue, a prominent real estate dealer of Cleveland. The object of the association is to encourage thrift and industry among colored people. Meetings will be held annually on the third Monday in August. WHITES LEAD IN CRIME. Greensboro, N. C.—During the month of November warrants were issued from the police department for seven more white people than negroes, this result being an unusual one, and being regarded with interest by those connected with the police department. The total number of warrants issued was 155, 81 of whom were white people and 74 negroes, 9 of the latter being negro women. Six of the warrants for white people have not yet been served, but of those served 65 have been convicted in the municipal court, the remaining number either being found not guilty or the cases against them nolle prossed. Three of the warrants for negroes have not yet been served. Forty-nine negroes have been convicted, leaving a remainder nolle prossed or found not guilty. Five of the warrants against negro women were nolle prossed or the defendants found not guilty. Three of the negroes have not been tried. PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH Sentiment Favoring Better Facilities in the Increase. STATE'S PART IN EDUCATION GROWTH OF PRAIRIE VIEW NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE LARGELY DUE TO THE INFLUENCE AND WISE MANAGEMENT OF PROFESSOR E, L. BLACKSHEAR — TEXAS GIVES LIBERAL AID. Prairie View, Tex.—Whatever one might say of the disposition of the south toward negro education, it must be admitted that in recent years sentiment has gradually changed in favor of giving to the children of the race a better chance to improve their condition. Practically every southern state makes some provision for education beyond that afforded in the public schools. Tennessee is the latest state to make such provision; the last legislature providing handsomely for the commencement of the state normal school in Nashville. In Texas, where more than in any other state the colored people have taken advantage of the opportunities offered and have begun to make records for themselves, the state has been very liberal. In his recent trip through Texas, Dr. Booker T. Washington repeatedly called attention to the matter of providing educational facilities. Texas leads all other states, and there are more colored high schools in Texas than in all other southern states combined. The Prairie View State Normal college has been in existence since 1879. It was established primarily for the training of colored teachers. Later under the Twenty-sixth legislature the name was changed to the Prairie View Normal and Industrial college and placed under the supervision of the board of directors of the A. and M. college. Its work is conducted practically along the same lines, with the possible exception of the fact that more pronounced Industrial work is done. Prairie View is best known to the public by reason of the fact that Professor E. D. Blackshear, a well known educator and leader, has been its head for 15 years, and that much of its real and substantial growth is due to his wise and efficient management. While the Texas school under the management of Professor Blackshear has done good work and has made its influence felt, all over the southland there is no getting around the fact that it would have done much better work, borne much better fruit, have been able to do more real and substantial good with a more commensurate appropriation. None of the schools in the south get what they deserve or what they need when the work they are expected to do is taken into account. The same may be said of all the state schools, whether for white or black. In the first place, the legislatures are not always made up of men to whom the needs of the young people so far as an education is concerned are paramount. Then, again, the state treasuries are not always in condition to take care of the needs of those institutions for a future period. The best that can be done frequently is to take care of the growth that has taken place instead of making provisions for the future. For example, time was when appropriations were made for the usual accommodation of 350 or perhaps 500 students. Suddenly, in face of this provision, which was then adequate, the student body suddenly jumped to about 800, due to an educational awakening that spread throughout the south among the colored people. Churches, fraternal organizations and newspapers were crying out the need of education, and the response in the increased enrollment that taxed facilities in all the colored schools was startling. The appropriations by the recent legislature seek to remedy that situation within the next few months, and a new mess hall, capable of accommodating a thousand students, with an assembly hall above, is now being planned by Professor Terrell, the head of the mechanical department. A new dormitory for girls will also be erected during the year, which will greatly increase the facilities and relieve the overcrowded condition. That students are willing to come to an institution and suffer overcrowded conditions means much of a tribute to the work done. The need, however, in Texas is greater than in any other state in the Union. While there are church schools and private schools in nearly every important center in Texas, the students are crowding into them also, and there is no other state school in the country that has a larger or better appearing set of students. Good work is done in spite of the congested conditions, and the class of equipment that most of our schools have to cut up with. It must be borne in mind that state schools are handicapped often with the burden of the state name—that is to say, that an institution owned and controlled by the state cannot so readily receive aid from the generous public as other schools, the presumption being that the state is amply able to maintain them, whether it be so or not. 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Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. THE IDLE NEGRO. LAST WEEK we had something to say about the "crime of idleness" as applied in a general way to all classes of individuals. Now we propose to add something to the subject with particular reference to its application to the colored American. Perhaps other classes of people furnish as great a proportion of idlers as the colored people do, but from our point of observation it does not seem so. Fewer avenues of employment are open to us, and discouragements in many more forms than appears to be the case with other classes of people, lay a check upon our ambitions; but these things do not justify us in becoming the leaders of that profligate horde which aims to "get by" without that steady and studious exertion which is supposed to be necessary to permanent success and progress. The difficulties of an individual or of a people are rightfully the greatest incentive to effort. It is not merely to enjoy privilege and ease that we struggle, but it is to overcome the things that are ever in the way of our progress. When the things that beset us today are overcome, we will find others to employ our efforts upon the morrow. But the comparative depths from which we must rise, obligate us, more or less, to avoid waste of time and opportunity, and to apply ourselves with diligence, patience, determination and untiring energy to the work necessary to bring us abreast of the times and of the people who set the pace for that portion of the world in which we live. The colored people of the United States have a great and mighty work before them; a work so important and so imperative that there can be no excuse for the man or the woman who wantonly abandon the solemn obligation which his or her own conscience and innermost desires thrust upon them as soon as they arrive at that stage of intelligence where they realize that we are a proscribed people, struggling at the very bottom of the writhing mass of humanity. Looking immediately about us, we see another race of people dominating every avenue of life, and holding us in fierce and fearful check, even while professing devotion to the principles of human justice, and an equal opportunity and universal interest. We realize the disabling conditions that beset us, and when we look away into the world and its history we see the racial root from which we sprang still in its savage state. And we see no other great, distinct division of the human family without an organized, civilized government. Negroes without intelligence enough to appreciate comparisons do not let such grave thoughts disturb their natural joy of living; but the young, who are imbibing modern knowledge and modern conceptions of life, and the old, whose wiser heads and clearer minds give them deeper discernment, feel the rush of awakening ambition and the tug and throb of race love and race pride, and hear the voice of human nature urging them to work, strive, struggle, fight, without waste, and with all care and wisdom for the uplift of a race whose inherent powers are as great as those of any race that the world has known. If every Negro could be brought to realize the solemnity of this situation, the crime of the idler, the gambler, and all the shiftless followers of the immoral and reckless examples of the white man's poorest representatives, would be more apparent. But nothing but the ding, ding, of everlasting admonition and condemnation will bring some Negroes to a realization of the truth. SOCIALISM, viewed in the light of a practical proposition for the perfection of civil government, is not thoroughly understood in this country, nor, perhaps, in any other country; the study and application of the Socialistic idea, we may better say, has not gone to such depths in this country as it has gone in Europe. Students of political economy, uninfluenced by political ambitions, have given careful study to the principles outlined by Socialistic writers of note, but the ordinary individual's idea of a Socialist arises out of his recollections of some street-corner harangue, heard usually at night under the glare of a naphtha light and delivered by some superficially educated and youthful talking machine, who denounced with assured vehemence all existing social and political conditions and laughed to scorn all ideas of reform save the simple, Utopian remedy which he seemed to understand, but never fully or satisfactorily explained to that questioning element whose curiosity had detained them in his audience. The usurpations of the capitalistic class and the yokes and burdens of the wage-carners; the greed of the corporations and the crimes of bought-up statesmen; the wrongs of suffering labor, the producer; and tyranny of the idle rich, the consumer; and many other startling and ill-defined ideas are carried away by the inexperienced and amazed auditor from these foot-to-foot "talks." And the average Socialist is an argumentative individual with a large stock of hatred against various classes of his fellow-men whose circumstances place them in some degree of opposition to his own arbitrary ideas and desires. But there is a true Socialism, and the true Socialistic idea seeks such a readjustment of the social conditions and relations of humanity, that all may enjoy the highest possible benefits arising from the aggregate relationship without imposing upon the actual and just rights of one another. It is an ideal conception and its development calls for the most sincere and devoted sacrifice of the spirit of selfishness in all classes and among all individuals. But Socialists, as a rule, do not realize the depths of their own doctrine, which they deem to be a political doctrine. Hence a studious Socialist in Cripple Creek who asked Dr. McIvor Tyndall why he does not advocate Socialism, will hardly appreciate his far-hailing reply when he says: "I believe in all the principles expressed in the best exposition of the political doctrines of Socialism. But I do not believe that the carrying out of those principles can be forced by battle or ballot. To desire to carry them out must be born of wisdom, tolerance and understanding. These qualities I do not find among the Socialists of the average class. They are usually the first to declaim against "foreign" immigration. They are not tolerant; in fact, they are not even just. They advocate the same old, primitive medieval principles of force that are the direct cause of present economic conditions. In other words, the ideals and the principles of Socialism must appeal to everyone with the power to think, but the methods by which they seek to obtain the adoption of these principles are open to citicism. "Firstly, my Socialistic brothers, take into your hearts this truth: There can be no 'foreigners' in true Socialism. There can be no 'scabs.' There can be no 'enemies.' There can be no distinction of class or of color or of caste. When you are ready to acknowledge this evident, fundamental and palpable truth, then you can count me an active Socialist." By H. H. BOND, Cambridge, Mass. attitude of public libraries toward fiction by the purpose for which they have been trained. This purpose, as recorded in the charters under whose authority they were reports of their trustees, is public of a typical Massachusetts library given incorporation, "the diffusion of knowledge of intellectual improvement." Trustees for public support upon the education of education was uppermost in the movement for the general establishment of Massachusetts, and formed the basis of his 1839 Horace Mann devoted the answer to this question. He showed that there was in Massachusetts, and that few books. He deprecated the evils of excessive public libraries which should "cultivate the mind and truth." Influence the general court passed at the act of 1851, granting to every authority to establish and maintain the public education. The understands by public education applications of Massachusetts relating thereto. The declared that "Forasmuch as the good man behoof to any commonwealth, the sick children are taught perfectly to read." The views of Massachusetts had so expanded in the state constitution: "We virtue, diffused generally among the body of the preservation of their rights and life of legislatures and magistrates in all that to cherish the interests of literature the private and public institutions . . . arts, sciences, trades, manufactures of the country; to countenance principles of humanity and generality, industry and frugality; honesty sincerity, good humor, and all social serious sentiments among the people." Before, as this conception of the scope prevails, and so long as the promotion is recognized as their legitimate attitude of our public libraries which tends to accomplish this great need of friendliness and welcome. HE attitude of public libraries toward fiction must be determined by the purpose for which they have been established and maintained. This purpose, as recorded in their deeds of gift, in the charters under whose authority they act, and in the published reports of their trustees, is public education. The charter of a typical Massachusetts library gives as the purpose of its incorporation, "the diffusion of knowledge and promotion of intellectual improvement." Trustees uniformly base appeals for public support upon the educational value of their libraries. The promotion of edu- who inaugurated the move libraries in Massachusetts, encouragement. In 1839 I board of education to this qu free town libraries in Mass- educational value. He depr insisted upon school librar- gence, benevolence and truth Through his influence which culminated in the ac- the commonwealth authority the interest of public educu- What the state unders- ambles and statutes of Mass- ute, May, 1642, declared the dren is of singular behoof town shall see that children tongue." Before 1780 the views of lowing article was inserted in edge, as well as virtue, diff- being necessary for the pres- shall be the duty of legislat- this commonwealth to cheri ... to encourage priva- tion of agriculture, arts, sci- cie and a natural history of the and inculcate the principles benevolence, charity, indust- and punctuality; sincerity, g affections, and generous sent So long, therefore, as to of public education prevails, tion of such education is reco- purpose, the ideal attitude toward all fiction which tende design must be one of friend The promotion of education was uppermost in the mind of the man who inaugurated the movement for the general establishment of public libraries in Massachusetts, and formed the basis of his appeal for state encouragement. In 1839 Horace Mann devoted the annual report of the board of education to this question. He showed that there were only fifteen free town libraries in Massachusetts, and that few books in them were of educational value. He deprecated the evils of excessive novel reading, and insisted upon school libraries which should "cultivate the germs of intelligence, benevolence and truth." Through his influence the general court passed a series of statutes which culminated in the act of 1851, granting to every city and town of the commonwealth authority to establish and maintain a public library in the interest of public education. What the state understands by public education appears in the preambles and statutes of Massachusetts relating thereto. The first such statute, May, 1642, declared that "Forasmuch as the good education of children is of singular behoof to any commonwealth, the selectmen of every town shall see that children are taught perfectly to read the English tongue." Before 1780 the views of Massachusetts had so expanded that the following article was inserted in the state constitution: "Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, . . . it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, . . . to encourage private and public institutions . . . for the promo- tion of agriculture, arts, sciences, trades, manufactures and a natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, charity, industry and frugality; honesty and punctuality; sincerity, good humor, and all social affections, and generous sentiments among the people." So long, therefore, as this conception of the scope of public education prevails, and so long as the promotion of such education is recognized as their legitimate purpose, the ideal attitude of our public libraries toward all fiction which tends to accomplish this great design must be one of friendliness and welcome. All People Are Interested In Trusts By E.H.WELLS, Glen Moore, N.J. salaries and accept and ent guard and be responsible for checks we draw, unless they people doing big business. The banks must also bui of corporations and trusts. companies, where a small i these institutions loaning or greater. So that we are more ness, corporations or trusts, savings and deposits, be it If our savings are sma through the banks where we If we are of large mear porations outright. So that question of morals involved If we kick and hamme ourselves. and enter our deposits on their and possible for our money, honor and kee- less they lend out, for profit, the mo- business. It also buy with surplus funds not loa- d trusts. In the case of savings bank- a small interest is allowed depositors loaning out our money or investing t are more or less interested and invest or trusts, directly or indirectly, to t its, be it more or less. are small we are interested in big b where we deposit. large means we buy the stocks and bond So that we are all in the same boa involved. d hammer big business we are kickin salaries and accept and enter our deposits on their and our books, safeguard and be responsible for our money, honor and keep account of the checks we draw, unless they lend out, for profit, the money we deposit to people doing big business. The banks must also buy with surplus funds not loaned out the bonds of corporations and trusts. In the case of savings banks and safe deposit companies, where a small interest is allowed depositors, the necessity of these institutions loaning out our money or investing the surplus is still greater. So that we are more or less interested and investors in big business, corporations or trusts, directly or indirectly, to the amount of our savings and deposits, be it more or less. If our savings are small we are interested in big business indirectly through the banks where we deposit. If we are of large means we buy the stocks and bonds of the big corporations outright. So that we are all in the same boat and there is no question of morals involved. If we kick and hammer big business we are kicking and hammering ourselves. Making Friends With Various Animals By H. J. HILL the floor, seemingly unconce that he was about to shoot I crawling behind the skirts. The woman had all sh animal. I believe that we unde value of their affection. If you make friends o friends. They study and k You need never regret kindness on these friends. ly unconcerned, but hardly had his to shoot Bob when the animal jumped the skirts of the hunter's wife. had all she could do to comfort the we underestimate the intelligence or action. friends of dogs or cats or birds, the daily and know you better than you kno- ver regret or be disappointed in hav- friends. the floor, seemingly unconcerned, but hardly had his master announced that he was about to shoot Bob when the animal jumped up, whining and crawling behind the skirts of the hunter's wife. The woman had all she could do to comfort the badly frightened animal. I believe that we underestimate the intelligence of animals and the value of their affection. If you make friends of dogs or cats or birds, they are always your friends. They study and know you better than you know them. You need never regret or be disappointed in having bestowed your kindness on these friends. T public libraries toward fiction must be deterred for which they have been established and is purpose, as recorded in their deeds of gift under whose authority they act, and in the of their trustees, is public education. The general Massachusetts library gives as the purpose, "the diffusion of knowledge and promotal improvement." Trustees uniformly base support upon the educational value of their fiction was uppermost in the mind of the man- ment for the general establishment of public and formed the basis of his appeal for state grace Mann devoted the annual report of the question. He showed that there were only fifteen chusets, and that few books in them were ofied the evils of excessive novel reading, and which should "cultivate the germs of intelli- tion." The general court passed a series of statutes of 1851, granting to every city and town of to establish and maintain a public library in- tion. Bands by public education appears in the pre-chusets relating thereto. The first such stat- tion "Forasmuch as the good education of chil- ders commonwealth, the selectmen of every are taught perfectly to read the English Massachusetts had so expanded that the fol- low the state constitution: "Wisdom and knowl- led generally among the body of the people,oration of their rights and liberties, . . . it res and magistrates in all future periods of the interests of literature and the sciences, and public institutions . . . for the promo- The people who are kicking against monopolies are mostly those who think they are not in them. Nearly everybody except the tramp, probably 80 per cent of the entire population, men, women and children, are to some degree, directly or indirectly, interested in big business, corporations or trusts. Anyone having as much as a single dollar deposited in open account in a national bank is indirectly interested in the success, stability and profits of big business of some kind. Bankers cannot afford to pay rent and our deposits on their and our books, safe-our money, honor and keep account of the end out, for profit, the money we deposit to with surplus funds not loaned out the bonds in the case of savings banks and safe deposit interest is allowed depositors, the necessity of our money or investing the surplus is still less interested and investors in big busi-directly or indirectly, to the amount of our more or less. we are interested in big business indirectly deposit. we buy the stocks and bonds of the big cor-we are all in the same boat and there is no big business we are kicking and hammering I believe that many of our household animals can understand our conversation, and comprehend much of the daily talk between men. I have a friend in the country who is a great hunter of foxes and rabbits, and when I visited him some time ago I found him in the act of cleaning his hunting gun. I said to him, "Are you getting ready to go hunting?" "No," he replied, "I am going to shoot Bob here. The dog is getting too old and stiff for hunting." The dog until then had been lying on oined, but hardly had his master announced job when the animal jumped up, whining and the hunter's wife. could do to comfort the badly frightened estimate the intelligence of animals and the dogs or cats or birds, they are always your now you better than you know them. or be disappointed in having bestowed your M. and our books, safes keep account of the money we deposit to named out the bonds and safe deposit the necessity of the surplus is still factors in big busi- the amount of our business indirectly bands of the big cor- t and there is no g and hammering imaster announced up, whining and badly frightened of animals and the y are always you w them. Three Straight Games By MICHAEL J. PORTER (Copyright 1911, by Associated Literary Press) If the man selling a patent churn or washing machine had appeared in the village of Hillsdale he might possibly have made a sale, but it would only have been after a week and after he had listened to the gossip of the village and taken a seeming interest. The stranger would have learned that Nancy Friars, the old maid, had almost taken a dose of paris green because she had to go home alone from prayer meeting; that Mr. George Scott and wife were thinking of separating because she liked codfish and he didn't; that Tom Henderson, the carpenter, had been disappointed in love, and that it had made a wreck of him; that old Mrs. Travers was using a wrinkle remover and many, many other things. The biggest and best thing would have been saved till the last, and he would have been expected to exclaim that it was fierce. Philetus Narmore was a feature in Hillsdale. He was forty-five years old and a widower; he owned the woodenware factory and sung bass in church on Sunday; he was in charge of the fireworks on the Fourth of July, and he had been known to give five dollars to the heathen of Africa all at once; he had brought about the arrest of a horse thief, and he had speculated in Wall street and made $28. The stranger would have been told this astounding news as an appetizer, and then the real corn beef and cabbage would have been set before him. There were three widows in Hillsdale when Mr. Narmore became a widower. It was four weeks after the death of his wife before he smiled in public. Two hours later the gossips were betting two to one that he would marry one of the widows within six months. He didn't, however. He didn't within a year. He didn't at all. It was said that any one of the three widows would give her old shoes to catch the widower. This was probably exaggerated. Had he proposed to Mrs. Dakin, Mrs. Stevens or Mrs. Everett the proposal would have been received with downcast eyes and taken under advisement. There would have been no rushing into his arms. In a month or so he would have got his answer. It would have been a timid yes or no. The chances were even that he would have been turned down. Mr. Narmore called on each of the widows. Why not? The gossips said he was courting, but they were mistaken. He called to talk about the weather, potato bugs, church affairs, fly screens and things of that sort. He always sat with his hat in his hands, and he always rose up exactly with the clock striking nine. Each of the three widows received private and confidential advice as to how to "catch" the widower Narmore. They should invite him to dinner; they should simper; they should look at him coyly and archy; they should sigh and talk of their loneliness; they should boast of their economy and how much work they could get through with in a day. Even old maids who had never had a beau and never would have one sat down and looked as wise as Solomon and said: "Ah, if you only understood how to handle a man as well as I do you'd bring Mr. Narmore to his knees within a week." Perhaps the three widows didn't want to marry again. Perhaps, but for the arrival of a fourth widow in the village they would not have resorted to rats and puffs and powder and told white lies about their ages. The fourth widow was a Mrs. Harper. She was no younger or more attractive than the other three. She was seemingly handicapped by trailing in at the end of the string. Within a week Mrs. Harper had heard all the gossip. Within a fortnight she had been introduced to Mr. Narmore. Within a month she had sent for her father to pay her a visit. He was sixty-five years old and had to come all the way from Illinois, but he came The widower Narmore had a fad. It was known to every one in Hillsdale, and yet those three widows, each one of whom might possibly have answered yes to a proposal, hadn't the acumen to take advantage of it. Mr. Narmore was a checker fiend. He didn't care for horse races, dog fights, pugilism or baseball, but seat him in front of a checker board and he was there for all night if necessary to beat the other player. He was the champion of Hillsdale county. In fact, he claimed the championship of the state. "Father," said the widow Harper, when her parent arrived, "aren't you accounted one of the best checker players in Pekin?" "In Pekin? Why, Mary, I was champion of all illinoin years ago; in Pekin! Lord love you, but I've beaten everything in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Colorado and Texas! Five years ago I issued a deft to the whole United States and nobody dared play me. Why do you ask?" "There's a man right in this village who thinks he's some pumpkins at the game!" "I'll beat him with my eyes shut." "He's won over everybody around here." "I'll beat him in my sleep!" "But I don't want you to." "Why?" "Because I want to beat him myself. I want to beat him at checkers and then mary him." "Shoo! I never heard the like. I thought women married for love." "It's sometimes just as well to love after marriage. When I was a girl at home I played a pretty good game of checkers, didn't I?" "Um-m-m-m. Yes, I remember." "But not good enough?" "Not good enough to beat a county champion." "Now listen. You are not to let on here in Hillsdale that you ever played a game. You are to devote six hours a day to instructing me. You have got to teach me all the tricks in the business." "And then what?" "I'll play against this man and beat him and marry him!" "I don't see how beating a man at checkers is going—" "You never mind that. Teach me to beat him and Ill take care of the rest." Work was begun the next day, and it was thirty days and one more for good measure when the father said: "That's enough, Mary. I can't teach you another darned trick. Say, you'll down him, but maybe he won't propose after all." "Then mawbe you've got a mushroom for a daughter!" The game of checkers that was brought about between the widow and widower will be remembered in Hillsdale until long after the children of that day are married off. It was brought about through badinage on the part of the widow—a little badinage and a little boasting. The novelty of playing checkers with a woman rather appealed to Mr. Narmore. The struggle came off in the town hall, where the hundreds of spectators could see. On that day, an hour before the game began, the widow Dakin, the widow Stevens and the widow Everett fainted away and had to have the doctor. They realized that they were out of the running. There were predictions that the struggle, which was to be for the best three games out of five, would last a week. A whole day was the most conservative prediction, and many spectators brought noon lunchoon. But things went like a cyclone after a rabbit. In two hours it was begun and ended. The widow Harper won three straight games, and the widower Narmore never had a chance. There were cheers and shouts and yells, and the victor was draped in Old Glory. "Daughter, what was Narmore saying to you after the game?" asked the father after the two had reached home. "Why, he was asking me to be his wife." "By thunder!" "But doesn't a man want a wife that he can brag of and that everybody else will brag of? Thanks, daddy. You can go back home now if you are lonesome for mother!" Turkey Thoughts. H. O. Blaisdell, the world's champion typewriter, was talking to a New York reporter at the Madison Square garden about speed. "You acquire speed," he said, "only by keeping your mind on it all the time. Your thoughts throughout the year must bear on that one thing as the little boy's thoughts bore on one thing in December. "The little boy's teacher was giving him a lesson in anatomy. She said: "Now, suppose we took the head and the trunk from a body, what would be left? "The boy, his thoughts concentrated on the Christmas dinner that was approaching, answered: "'The giblets. ma'am.'" Momentous Business Dr. George B. Chopin of Church road, North St. Louis, recently had a patient who for five years had worked eight hours a day, performing the same task of putting pieces of wood against a buzz saw and turning out lengths for wagon spokes. But his hand came into contact with the saw teeth one day and damaged three fingers. That is how Doctor Chopin came into his life. Every day he watched the physician dress his wounds, unwinding the old bandage and putting on the new. At last he could contain himself no longer, and exclaimed: "Gee, doctor, your business must be monotonous!" Always Backward. A couple of women, well sented on a crowded street car, were loudly engaged in a conversation regarding woman suffrage, to the delight of their fellow passengers. The two were somewhat startled when the car passed the corner at which they wished to alight. They bustled through the standing crowd, continuing their conversation meanwhile. "Well," remarked a man to the conductor, "there's nothing backward about women nowadays." "Watch 'em get off," said the official. They got off backward! Mrs. Mary Vandis is very ill. John Tolbert is very ill. N. J. Skillern is numbered among the sick. Mrs. W. A. Moore is convalescent after a serious illness. bers to pay their assessment. Quite a few debts were taken care of from the recent effort. The Epworth Herald issued a special Emancipation number December 30th. It showed the progress of the race through the Epworth League. Penn contributed largely to this number. It is filled with photographs. Mrs. Bettie Tolbert, who has been suffering with the rheumatism, is improving. Mrs. Wm. Slaughter left last week for Oak Creek, Colo., to visit one month with her daughter. Mrs. E. T. McClain and father, Mr. Stewart, are confined to their home on account of illness. Mrs. Olethia Oglesby of 2918 Glenarm place, who has been suffering with nervous prostration for several days, is much improved. Victor Walker, the affable proprietor of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Association, who has been quite ill for some time, is able to appear at his place of business. Miss Martha Hubbard has accepted a position of teacher in the city schools of Kansas City, Kan. Miss Hubbard is one of our intellectual young ladies. Mrs. John Hines and Mrs. Tillie Miller of Grand Junction, Colo., were in the city this week a few days, visiting friends. They are en route home from a visit to Kansas City. While here they were the guests of Mrs. H. J. M. Brown, 1115 Inca street. P. W. Heath died Thursday morning at the residence of Mrs. S. B. Jones of 2853 South Sherman of consumption. Mr. Heath is a prominent Elk of New York city. Rice Lodge No. 39 is looking after the remains, Douglass Undertaking Co. in charge. The Y. M. C. B. installed the following officers at Shorter Chapel last Sunday for the ensuing year: Dr. De-Frantz, president; Clarence Holmes, Jr., vice president; Bert Patrick, secretary, and S. A. Bondurant, treasurer. They will meet at Zion Baptist church tomorrow at 3:30. John W. Wilson, a well known pioneer of Denver, who died December 30, 1911, was buried from Douglass Undertaking Co. last Sunday, under the auspices of Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 2320, G. U. O. of O. F. Mr. Wilson was very industrious, and by thrift had accumulated some valuable real estate. He was buried at Riverside cemetery. The death of Mrs. Carrie Reed-Russell, which occurred at Manitou on the 6th inst., was indeed a shock to her many Denver friends when the news reached here. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from Zion Baptist church, and the remains were laid to rest at Fairmount cemetery. Deceased was reared in Denver and was well liked by all who knew her. Besides a father, husband and other relatives, she leaves a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. Robert Rogester Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Parker of 1320 Fox street, died Thursday, Jan. 11, 1912, aged 24 years, after an illness of several years. Mr. Parker was a very exemplary young man whose loss will be felt in the community. He is survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters. His funeral takes place today from the Douglass Undertaking parlors at 2 p. m. Interment at Fairmount cemetery. SCOTT'S NOTES. The Rev. J. J. Harrison, our pastor at LaFayette, Ala., will preach Sunday morning. The Rev. Harrison is visiting his relatives who live in this city. Do not fall to hear him. He is a speaker of great power. He is one of Gammon's sons, having graduated from this famous institution in 1905. Mrs. Dora F. Wallace, accompanied by Masters Thomas, Wendell and LeRoy, will leave for Selma, Ala., next Tuesday. She will visit her parents, sisters and brothers and a host of friends in her home town. The Rally will continue until all members of the church have been reached. The clubs will report from time to time. We urge all loyal mem- --- bers to pay their assessment. Quite a few debts were taken care of from the recent effort. The Epworth Herald issued a special Emancipation number December 30th. It showed the progress of the race through the Epworth League. Dr. Penn contributed largely to this number. It is filled with photographs of prominent young people engaged in Epworth League work. Our own brother, J. D. Rice, is quoted from a letter written about the Epworth League in Clark University and Gammon. Mr. Rice is the president of this great league, which has 175 members. The following persons connected themselves with Scott's last Sunday: Mrs. Emma Galimore, Mrs. M. J. Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Eva Jackson. We are praying for a revival. Let every member help to bring about this desired spiritual meeting. Mrs. Ada Castry, the energetic president of the Epworth League, banqueted the league last Thursday evening. The young people went away with happy hearts. The repast was sumptuous. The following officers were elected. First vice president, Mrs. Claudie Pash; second vice president, Miss Esther Raglen; third vice president, Mrs. Williams; fourth vice president, Miss Lela Rice; secretary, Miss Florstein Dooley; treasurer, Mrs. Anna Rice, librarian; Mrs. Mallory. The installation of the newly elected officers will be held Thursday, January 18th. Mrs. Claudie Pash will entertain the league at this time. Mrs. J. D. Williams, president of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, is on the sick list. CENTRAL CHURCH NOTES. The officers and members of the Central Baptist church are much elated over the prospective arrival of their new pastor, Dr. Williams of Atlanta, Ga., and arrangements are being made for an elaborate public reception in honor of him and the present pastor, Rev. Rainey. The following program will be rendered, after which refreshments will be served: Chorus ..... Choir People's Presbyterian Church Invocation ..... Welcome in Rehalf of Citizens .....Lawyer W. B. Townsend Vocal Solo.....Miss G. Harris Welcome Behalf of the Church..... .....Deacon W. A. Moore Welcome in Behalf of the Ministers .....Rev. A. M. Ward Chorus.....Choir Welcome in Behalf of Colorado Baptist Association..... .....Rev. A. E. Reynolds Instrumental Solo.....Miss Rosie Bell "Rev, Rarney, Our Leader"..... .....Deacon James Brown Vocal Solo.....Mrs. Lillian Jones Remarks by the pastor, Rev. Williams Song..... Dr. Huff, master of ceremony. Drs. Westbrook and Faulkner as usual acquitted themselves creditably before the Dunbar Literary of Central Church last Thursday evening by their discussions of "Tuberculosis." Their audience manifested a keen interest and as predicted, rich food was disseminated for digestion. NINTH CAVALRY BAND CONCERT AND BALL. One of the grandest entertainments ever given in Denver will take place at East Turner Hall, Wednesday, January 17th, by the Ninth Cavalry band of Fort Russell, Wyo. The entire band will give a concert early in the evening and the band orchestra will furnish music for the dance. The Ninth Cavalry band is considered to be the best band in the United States army. Do not miss this concert and ball. Encourage the leader, Prof. Wade Hammond and the band boys by your presence. ODD FELLOWS OFFICERS INSTALLED. Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 2320, G. U. O. of O. F., on last Thursday evening installed the following annual and quarterly officers for the year and quarter: J. A. Crumbly, I. G.; W. H. Morris, warden; A. J. Bradford, R. S. to V. G.; G. T. Washington, L. S. to V. G.; Chas. A. Clark, R. S. to N. G; H. Fields, L. S. to N. G; Bert Ellis, E. S.; Lon Williams, V. G.; Geo. G. Ross, N. G.; A. A. Hill, P. N. G.; W. S. Evans, N. F.; R. M. Johnson, P. N. F.; James W. Russell, W. C.; J. W. Jackson, J. A.; P. W. Walker, W. T; George S. Contee. Per. secretary. WASHINGTON GOSSIP BIRTHPLACE OF MELLIE CUSTIS IT'S GOT TER GO — I NEED TH' LAND TER MAKE MORE BRICKS WASHINGTON—Steam shovels are eating their way into the birthplace of Nellie Custis, granddaughter of Mrs. George Washington and ward and adopted daughter of Washington. For years the shovels have been biting trainloads of yellow clay out of the fields of Abingdon—as this estate was named by John Parke Custis, son of Mrs. Washington—and this clay has been molded and baked into brick for the upbuilding of Washington city. Year by year the shovels have dug nearer to the old and battered frame house where the most popular woman of the late revolutionary and the early republican eras came into the world and where her childhood was spent. Now the deep clay pits are but a few yards from the house and probably not many months will pass when the house will be no more. The clay exhausted and the level of the fields reduced about thirty feet, the place may be converted into railroad yards by the Washington Southern railroad—the Washington Richmond line. Abingdon was a great estate, but the house was never a noble bit of building, according to an exchange. When John Pastek Custis married Nellie Calvert of Maryland he seems to have caused the erection of this am- --- Chinese to Adopt Western Calendar Chinese to Adopt Western Calendar THE adoption of the western calendar was among the many changes ordered in decree issued by the cabinet in China, according to advice transmitted to the state department through the Chinese charge d'affaires in this city. The message also confirms the reported retirement of the prince regent and his return to the order of imperial princes, and the appointment of Shi-Hsu and Hsu Shih Chang as guardians of the emperor. The message says that Chow Tszchi has been appointed assistant minister of finance. The department was also informed that by a decree issued Chinese subjects are permitted to cut off their cues. When the Chinese government ordered that the western method of reckoning months and years be adopted, the date jumped from the 19th day of the tenth month to the third year of Hsuantung to the 9th day of the eleventh month of the year 1911 A. D. It was a long jump, apparently, and in reality the change to the use of the Gregorian calendar, used by most of the great nations of the world, was a significant step in China's advance toward modern civilization. For centuries it has been the custom in China to reckon the days of to reckon their the day of the year change with the ruler, but it be month of the first the new ruler's Chinese history to work overtime straight, for it was the date of an even ten or fifteen hun the historian has was on the thru his reign the eve all this is now to Form of Court Oath May be Changed FORM OF COURT OATH TO BE CHANGED SOON DEY SHOULD CUT IT OUT ALL TO GEDDER. THE bill recently introduced by Senator Burton of Ohio, which proposes to change the form of oath in federal courts and elsewhere under the jurisdiction of the United States, is in the hands of the judiciary committee of the senate and is now being considered with a view of early action upon the subject. The bill, of which Charles J. Bonaparte, the former attorney general of the United States, and Dr. Ira Remsen, president of Johns Hopkins university, are the sponsors, does not contemplate to change the religious character of the oath. The principal change which it proposes is the omission of the expression "So help me God" at the end of an oath and the substitution of Great Wood Waste a National Peril Great Wood Waste a National Peril A GREAT undeveloped industry, worth millions of dollars annually, lies at the doors of the people of the south and the far northwest in the immense wastes of wood incident to the manufacture of lumber. An amazing statement of these wastes and the consequent loss in wealth and conservation of timber resources is made as a result of a two-year government investigation, not yet concluded, by F. P. Veitch, chief of the leather and paper division of the bureau of chemistry, and M. G. Donk, assistant chemist, whose preliminary conclusions have just been made public. "The waste wood of the south and northwest from the lumber industry—tops, stumps, slabs and sawdust and the dead and down timber from fires and storms—supplies one of the great indeveloped resources of this country," say the investigators. "From this wood, by industrially developed chemical methods, the entire output ple though plain dwelling with the idea that later he would erect a house in keeping with his wealth and standing in the community. Abingdon, being a Custis home, was directly o remotely associated with nearly all the colonial and revolutionary families in Virginia and Maryland. The house was built by John Parke Custis in 1778. It stands about 300 yards back from the Potomac river and about three miles south of Washington. John Parke Custis was descended from John Custis, who came to Virginia from Holland in 1640. The son of this immigrant, John Custis II., built Arlington house in Northampton county, Virginia, naming it after Henry, the earl of Arlington, who, with Lord Culpeper, held Virginia under patent from Charles II. Young Custis bought from Gerald Alexander 1,100 acres of land, part of which is now Arlington National cemetery. He built Abingdon House and there in 1779 Eleanor Parke Custis (Nellie Custis) was born. John Parke Custis, an aid on Washington's staff, died at Yorktown in 1781 and Washington adopted Nellie and her young brother, George Washington Parke Custis. The children thereafter made their home at Mount Vernon. Nellie remained there till she became the wife of Lawrence Lewis, Washington's sister's son, and George Washington Parke Custis remained there till the death of Mrs. Washington, in 1802. Abingdon House is now occupied by the foreman of the brick-making company and his family. JAN 1912 SOME SENSE TO THAT CHINESE CALENDAR the year by the luna calendar, each year having 360 days, and the months having twenty-nine or thirty days, as the case might be. Every third year it was necessary to slip in an extra month so as to keep the season in place and the years running smoothly. Whenever a new emperor ascended the throne the Chinese began to reckon their years all over again. The day of the year, however, did not change with the coming of a new ruler, but it became that day and month of the first year of _____, and the new ruler's name was given. Chinese historians were compelled to work overtime keeping their dates straight, for it was no joke to reckon the date of an event which happened ten or fifteen hundred years ago when the historian had to figure out who was on the throne and what year of his reign the event occurred in. But all this is now to be changed. "promise" or "declare" for the word "swear" in the formula. Since the introduction of Senator Burton's bill the attention of the judiciary committee has been called to the fact that several of the most progressive countries of Europe have materially changed and modernized the ancient and antiquated forms of the oaths used in judicial proceedings. No country as yet has gone quite so far as Switzerland. the cantons of Zurich and Aargau took the radical step of entirely abolishing the oath several years ago, and the result has been so satisfactory that there is no desire to return to the old system. When the great council of the Canton of Vaud at its last session considered the draft of a new civil code, the abolition of the oath in any form from judicial proceedings was strongly urged, and, after an interesting debate, a provision abolishing the oath was incorporated in the new code, which went into effect on January 1 of this year. NATURAL RESORCES IT'S LEAKIN' of naval stores, embracing turpentine, rosin, tars, pitch, rosin spirits and rosin oils, having an annual value of at least $30,000,000, may be obtained without boxing or turpentine a single live tree. "It is possible to recover from the wastes of the yellow-pine lumber in dustry (including dead-and-down timber) as much or more turpentine rosin and rosin oils as now are produced by the ordinary methods of turpentine from the living tree. The profitable utilization of mill wastes in this way would add materially to the wealth of the south and help to conserve its timber resources." NO. 12. K. O. P. 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NEW NEWS of YESTERDAY First Standard Oil Probe A fitting but intense expression of for self stocks, but at this time he Old Coat That Made a Success New York Sun's Inquiries in 1878 Were Met With Courtesy but Silence, but the Information Was Obtained Elsewhere. In the early fall of 1878 I was sent for by the late Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, and when I answered the summons I found him reading a communication from a correspondent in Pennsylvania. The letter was very brief; it suggested to Mr. Dana that he cause an investigation to be made into the history and methods of the Standard Oil company of Cleveland, O., which about that time had come to be looked upon as a trust, by the oil world especially. As he handed me this letter Mr. Dana said: "You go out there and make an investigation; make it thorough no matter how long it takes." I first went to the oil regions of western Pennsylvania and was there about three weeks. The oil producers gave me every facility for getting such information as was to be had in the oil regions. They also called my attention to certain litigation which had then been begun in Pennsylvania with intent to break up the Standard Oil company in so far as it operated in that state. Having completed the investigation at Tittusville and Oll City, I went to Cleveland, presuming that the officers of the Standard Oil company would be willing. If not anxious, to furnish me with information which would serve to explain some of the more grievous charges made against it and its methods by the oil producers. Furthermore, I had no doubt the Standard Oil company would be glad of an opportunity to gain the public ear and to explain the economic principles which had led to the organization of the so-called trust. When I called at the main offices of the Standard Oil company, after an annoying amount of red tape had been unraveled I was received by a very pleasant-faced and gracious-mannered young man. He listened with apparent earnestness and sincerity as I stated that it was Mr. Dana's desire that an absolutely impartial and perfectly fair report, based upon investigations into the rise and growth of the Standard Oil company, be printed in the New York Sun. "Have you ever been to Cleveland before?" he asked with utmost politte mess, as I finished. "Only to pass through by train," I replied. "It is a beautiful city," he said; "you should not return to New York without seeing it." "I cannot return to New York." I replied, "until I have learned, from the point of view of your organization, something of its history and growth, and have obtained from you, if possible, some answer to the serious accusations that are made against your company by the oil producers of Pennsylvania." The young man continued to smile blandly. But not the slightest indication did he show of a desire in any way to serve me. "Can I see Mr. John D. Rockefeller?" I asked. Garment That Ned Sothern Wore as Lord Dundreary in "Our American Cousin" Was Borrowed From John Brougham. When Lester Wallack knew that his day had passed as a great actor and theatrical manager, he and the late A.M. Palmer, then coming into prominence as successful theatrical manager, and later the successor of Lester Wallack in the management of Wallack's theater, in New York, used to make the trip together between the metropolis and Stamford, Conn., where each had his summer home. It was during one of these trips that Wallack told Palmer the story of the old coat that made a great historic hit. "It was in 1858 that Laura Keene produced 'Our American Cousin,' with Joseph Jefferson as Asa Trenchard and Ned Sothern as Lord Dundreary," said Mr. Wallack. "I know that in a general way it has passed into tradition that Sothern at first refused to play the part of Lord Dundreary, because he thought the part was beneath him, and that he only consented to play it when Miss Keene told him that she was in despair and after she had consented that Sothern should 'gag' the part. But while all this is true up to a certain point, I have no doubt that from the moment Sothern read the part of Lord Dundreary he saw the possibilities that were in it for a delicate, humorous sattire of certain of the nobility of England, and felt sure that this satire would not offend, but would amuse the upper classes of Great Britain, if ever he were permitted to play the part as he would like to play it before English audiences. "Well, Sothern made up his mind that it would be necessary to dress Million That Might Have Been Million That Might Have Been By E. J. EDWARDS rd Oil Probe surprise and reproach passed over the young man's countenance. Then he resumed his bland smile, simply saying: "Nobody sees Mr. Rockefeller these days." "Could I see Col. Oliver Payne?" I asked. "Colonel Payne is a very busy man; I would not care to ask him to make an appointment with you." "Who, then, is there, with whom I may talk and who can furnish me with the information I require?" "I don't think there is any information; there is nothing to say." "Have you been instructed to tell me this?" I asked. With the most affable smile imaginable and the utmost courtesy and deference of manner the young man replied: "It was not necessary to instruct me. Have you been to the theater?" I understand that Robson and Crane are playing in a very funny farce called 'Our Boarding House' at a local Million That M Commodore Alfred Van Santvoord's Regret Because He Didn't Make a Quick Turn In St. Paul Stock During Panic of 1901. The late Commodore Alfred Van Santvoord, who owed his title to his prominence in the Hudson river steamboat business, (when he died in 1901 he was the largest owner of river steamboats in America), but who was also a very able railroad man, having been a director in several big railroad companies, combined a large amount of caution with a very strong spirit of enterprise. He accumulated in the course of his long and honorable business career a large fortune by constructive work in the transportation business and by wise investment. He was worth seven or eight million dollars when he died. But although he had won success and fortune ample enough to satisfy the ambitions of most men, his last years, as his friends believed, were made somewhat unhappy by a single thought—the thought of the million that might have been his. Commodore Van Sanvoord was a man of large frame and feature, with smooth shaven face and clear, keen gray eyes, a man of great dignity and composure, yet most affable and genial. It was very seldom, indeed, that his customary composure and affability were affected by circumstances. But at the time of the famous Northern Pacific corner in 1901—when Hill and Harriman were fighting for the control of that system, and the value of Northern Pacific, and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul shares rose several hundred points in a few days, causing one of the worst bear panics on record—Commodore Van Santvoord was observed by his friends to be somewhat restless and distraught. He hung over the ticker in the New York broker's office where he usually went when he wanted to buy or sell stocks, but at this time he Made a Success the part with elongated black side whiskers, which were, in the late fifties and early sixties, the fashionable way, at least in France, of wearing the beard. He also decided that it was essential in the first act, which was a drawing room scene, for him to wear a long-tailed frock coat with very voluminous tails. But it slipped his mind that he should obtain a coat of that sort from the costumer, or have one made, and because of this slip he was in despair at the time of the dress rehearsal of the play. "John Brougham, the playwright, was upon the stage at the time, and he told Sothern that he had in his dressing room a long-tailed coat, very full in its folds, which had been used by me in a play in which I had appeared some months earlier. 'It's just the frock for you, Ned,' said Brougham. "'Produce it, John,' returned Sothern. "A moment later Brougham brought the long-tailed coat to Sothern's dressing room. It didn't fit very well upon the shoulders, but the tails were long enough and expansive enough to suit Sothern perfectly, and he said he would wear it until he could have a coat made. And so in a coat which I had worn in an earlier play and had lent to John Brougham—an emergency coat, Sothern appeared for the first time upon any stage as Lord Dundreary, and the coat was a success." "By the way," said Mr. Palmer, "Wallack also told me that Sothern predicted that the play would greatly amuse the British aristocracy. It did. It ran for an entire season with fashionable audiences, and the manager made nearly $200,000 out of it in that single season." (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) theater. I should be glad to send you a ticket." "Then this is the answer that I am to make to Mr. Dana?" I replied—"that the Standard Oll company has no information to give?" "As you please," he said. "Well," I replied, "you may say to your superior officers that if I can't get the information at first hand I will get it at second hand." "That, also, is as you please," he said, politely. If the smiling young man read the Sun he must have discovered about two weeks later, in an article covering a page and a half, that much of the information I had sought from him I had obtained elsewhere. That was, I believe, the first investigation into the history and growth of the Standard Oll company which was ever made. In later years some of the officers of that company confessed that it might have been the better part had they taken the public into their confidence in the beginning of the trust's career. (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) seemed to be neither buying or selling. His friends felt sure that he was not caught in the squeeze, and that he was not threatened with any loss. His operations were always too conservative for that to be likely. Yet it was evident that something was weighing on his mind, and that the stock market situation was absorbing his attention. The panic was as short as it was severe. The conflicting Hill and Harriman interests were adjusted and stocks dropped back to their normal level far more rapidly than they had riven to their sensational high figure. Commodore Van Santvoord, when the calm came, recovered his composure and affability, but those who knew him well detected an unwonted solemnity in his expression. "Is any thing the matter? Aren't you feeling well today, Commodore?" one of his friends asked him, in some concern. "Oh, I'm feeling all right—that is, my health is good," he replied. "But I'm feeling rather chagrined. As a matter of fact, I feel as though I were out a million dollars by this panic." "How is that? Do you mean that you have actually lost a million?" "No, I haven't actually lost a dollar. But I own quite a block of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul stock. I could have sold it a few days ago at a very high figure, bought it back today at a very low figure, and made a million by the transaction. And I didn't sell it." "Well, Commodore, what do you want another million for?" his friend asked "A man always hates to miss a chance to make a million dollars," he replied, with a laugh that yet had a tinge of sadness in it. And it was said truly, probably, that he never ceased to regret that he missed this chance. (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Great Salmon Traps. For catching Puget sound salmon in traps there is a "pot," a large net about forty feet square, fastened to piles driven into the ground about half a mile from the shore in water 50 feet or so deep. Running to the shore is a "lead," a long single row of piles ten or fifteen feet apart, with wire netting hung in and held down by weights. The "lead" reaches almost to the "pot," but between the "pot" and the "lead" are two opposite rows of piling hung with wire netting and called "hearts," being so set that schools of fish follow the "lead," enter the "heart," and are turned into the mouth of the net, alongside of which is a smaller pot connecting with the first pot. Once in the second pot the fated salmon jump and cavort until they are dipped out wagon load at a time by great nets run by steam. Now and Later Infant mortality is a heavy drain on the whole race, and especially on the women. In Chicago recently the subject was discussed by experts. The milk supply was one of the most important subjects considered, and one of the easiest to remedy. Housing, files and ventilation are also matters in which vast improvement can be made at once by mere energy and intelligence. As an example of improvements that must by their nature be more slow in coming may be mentioned the conquest of the alcohol habit, the diffusion of intelligent ideas regarding sex and the introduction of eugenic standards in marriage. Some of the improvements discussed at Chicago may be rapid, some slow. All must come.—Collier's Weekly. Something in That. Chorus Lady—Why should I marry you, Jim? You haven't got a dollar to your name! The Nervy One—No; but think of the advertising you'd get—beautiful chorus-girl marries a scene-shifter!—Puck TABLE TOP IMMUNE TO HEAT How Surface of Antique Furniture Was Made to Defy Hot Plates and Dishes. I was staying with an antique furniture enthusiast the other day and was very much interested to find that hot plates and dishes seem to have no effect on his old gate-leg dining table, says a writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer. I inquired how it was managed, and this is what he told me: When the table was bought, the first thing he did was to remove the coating of French polish that was already on. This he did by scrubbing it with hot water to which a good allowance of washing powder had been added. When the whole was off, the wood was rinsed with clear, warm water, and then rubbed over with a cloth dipped in vinegar and water (equal quantities.) You'll probably think that after such harsh treatment it was ruined, but it wasn't. After applying the vinegar and water, he rubbed it as dry as possbile, and when dry he started to polish it with boiled linseed oil. One can buy it all ready for use at any oil and paint shop. Taking a very little of the oil on a soft cloth, he began to polish with a circular movement round and round. When he had gone all over the surface he polished well with a clean soft duster till all trace of the oil was removed. Next day he repeated the process, and this he did every day, barring Sunday, for six months, adding just a wee drop of ammonia to the oil during the last month or two. The result is a hard, beautifully polished surface that does not mark even if hot plates or dishes are put on the table. It is now polished very occasionally only, with a little turpentine and beeswax, made so thin that it can be shaken up in a bottle. I have come back terribly dissatisfied with my own French polish dining table, which shows a white mark on the slightest provocation. SECRETS OF TOAST-MAKING Cut Bread Night Before so That Surface Is Dry Before It Is Toasted. The secret of having crisp toast is to cut the bread the night before, so that the surface is dry before it is toasted. Another trick is to have the slices, when toasted, stood up on edge in some place where they can be kept hot until they are served. If the slices are placed one on top of the other they become soggy. For toast that is to be used as the foundation for poached eggs, mushrooms or any creamed food, half an inch is the correct thickness, hot water is distributed over it evenly with a small spoon, and meated butter spread on with a bristle brush, which comes for the purpose. People who Hislik the softness produced by this treatment are a course, preserve the crisps of the toast by omitting the he water. Often when bread very stale, it may be steamed a little before it is toasted otherwise so hard that ever the bes of teeth rebel at it. Housekeeper who do not possess ancient silver toast racks have been heard to say that these only act as coolers for the slices they hold, and that they are not desirable at all. On the other hand, a covered toast dish holds the heat and steams the slices to sogginess in a short time. The surest way to have perfect toast seems to be to dispense with the ancient formalities and take to ultramodern inventions, such as the electric toaster, which stands on the table at millady's elbow and makes the toast "while you wait." Sponge Rings with Fruit Make a sponge cake by using two eggs, half cup of sugar, half cup of flour and half teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in a ring mold. Serve by removing from the mold and into the center piling cut oranges, or oranges and bananas. This may be served with foamy sauce, made as follows: One cup of milk, two tablespoons of butter, half cup of sugar, one tablespoon of cornstarch, one egg. Moisten the cornstarch in a small portion of milk. Scald the remainder, stir in the cornstarch and add the butter. Beat the white of the egg until stiff and fold into the custard carefully. Fruit Cake. One pound butter, two pounds brown sugar, six eggs well beaten, three pounds flour, half teaspoon soda dissolved in teaspoon of hot water, half pound blanched and chopped almonds, two pounds currants, two pounds raisins (seedless), half pound citron (cut fine), half pound lemon peel (candled), half pound prunes (pitted and soaked and chopped), half pound New Orleans molasses, half teaspoon all kinds of spice. Ple Crust. Here is my way of making pie crust for two pies. Two and one-half cups of dour, one heaping teaspoon of baking powder, salt. Sift all together. Mix in with hands, one cup of lard, cold water to roll. Mix with silver knife. Gingersnaps. Half cup molasses, half cup sugar, half cup butter and lard, three tablespoons hot water, three cups flour, one teaspoon soda, three teaspoons ginger; salt Furnished Rooms SHORT ORDERS AT ALL ahoe Street. DE THE MONARCH LIQUOR COMPANY 1841-45 Arapahoe Street. MONARCH LIQUOR COMPANY TELEPHONE CHAMPA 1231 IMPORTED & D D. W. 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Baltimore, Md.—Dr, Ernest Lyon, former American minister to Liberia, has published a pamphlet dealing with the question of autonomy or segrega- tion for the colored membership of the M. E. church, in which he says: “We have been in the church over two-score years, reckoning from the close of the Civil war. What have we been doing all this time? In some school, some say, ‘undergoing training. Well that is a good and noble thing, but when will be graduation day? Will there ever be a commencement day? Such a day {s always Inspiring to par- ents as well as to professors and pu- pils. Is there none worthy among the 300,000 pupils in training since 1850? Why is it that we have no commencement? Has it been the fault of the instructors of the pupils? Christendom is interested In the an- swer. Somebody 1s responsible for results, Eitner the instructors have failed tu instruct or the pupils have been incapable of receiving instruc- tion. In either case it !s a reflection on all parties concerned. In my judgment, anything ts best that will throw us on our own re- sources; that will enable us to stand upon our own feet; that will enabic us to act and to plan for ourselves as other independent denominations—any condition that will develop race con- sciousness, self reliance and self de- pendence. Whether that be autonomy or segregation, {t would seem to make very little difference, provided it brought about the desired results. Personally I would prefer autonomy to segregation. By autonomy I mean the plan sug- gested by the late Bishop Foster—to wit, that we remain exactly as we are in the mother church, but governing ourselves instead of being governed by the whites; that where we now have annual conferences presided over by white bishops they be presided over by colored bishops who meet with the white bishops in their semi-annual gathering to plan for the work among both white and colored people; that we have a school union. Epworth league, Freed-missionary, church ex: tension, Sunday men’s aid, and other connectional societies of our own, con ducted exactly like the present ones, with the exception that instead of white secretaries, as we now have they be colored secretaries. This ar. rangement would give us full pledged secretaries instead of the agents, as now. x This arrangement would open up opportunities for development of the race, would quicken its aspirations and give it an impetus that, would be magical in its consequences. Surely no colored man who has the interest of his race at heart would object to a plan that had in {t larger opportuni. tles for us. What just reason can he give for not wanting such a plan? As to the matter of elections, he would act singly and alone, voting in his own convention for men selected for lead ers, according to his own preference ‘and not, as now constituted. AGAINST TIPPING EVIL INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WORK- ERS’ UNION DECLARES FOR “LIVING WAGES.” New York.—A campaign against the tipping evil is to be the chief work of the newly organized International Hotel Workers union. The union's platform declared for “a ving wage for hotel workers,” which would ren- der tips unnecessary, “The tipping evil is a relic of pa- triarchal times,” declares a statement by President Paul Vehling. He scoffs at the idea that waiters can make for- tunes these times, and scores the heavy fines levied by employers on their men. Then he explains the perils of hotel employment. Hotel workers, he says, are more prone to disease than any other workmen except miners. He attributes this condition to the fact that many of them work in overheated rooms, in a smoke- laden and often “alcoholic-saturated” atmosphere. Shorter hours will help alleviate these conditions, he declares, and he adyocates a twelve-hour work: day, with one day off each week. Shorter hours of employment and bet: ter pay Is the solution of the tipping evil, he says. ACCURATE. A Brooklyn Sunday school teacher ‘once had occasion to catechize a new pupil whose ignorance of his Testa: ment would have been amusing had it not been so appalling. One Sunday she asked the little fellow how many commandments there were. ‘To her surprise, the lad answered glibly enough, “Ten, ma’am.” “And now, Sammy,” asked the teacher, “what would be the result if you should break one of them?” “Then there'd be nine,” triumphantly answered the youngster. PLEA FOR WEGRO HISTORY ALAINE LE ROY LOCKE AD DRESSES NEGRO SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH, , Yonkers, N. ¥.—Under the auspices of the Negro Society for Historical re- search at Yonkers Alain Le Roy Locke, of Philadelphia, ex-Rhodea scholar from Pennsylvania to Oxford during 1907-10, and a present student at Berlin university, where he is study- ing for the degree of Ph. D., read a paper on “The Negro and a Race Tra- dition.” Mr. Locke is visiting his mother in Philadelphia and will be in this country until January. The meot- ing was held at the home of J. B. Bruce, of Sunny Slope Cottage, and was largely attended by local and out- of-town guests. A general musical pro: gram was arranged, which was follow- ed by an inspection” of the society's archives and mementoes. Severat presentations were made, chief among them being an early engraving of Vaw Dyke's portrait of Jacobas Capatem, the necro graduate of the Univers'ty of Leyden, in the early seventeerth century. Mr. Locke's paper was a discussion of the alm of a negro bistorical sccl- ety. The speaker made a reasored plea for a consistent and thorough-ge- ing rac propaganda along historical lines, belfeving it to be the sanest way of giving content and dignity to wl specifically negro enterprises and of ganizations. The American negro, bt believed, faces a difficult historical ¢~ lemma, and can only solve it through a voluntary adoption and reconstrw ‘ion of his own tradition. The lastisg injury of the slave regime, indeed, of his whole history in the country, has been to degrade his past and deprive him for his racia’ affiliations, in re- deeming his past, he may largely re- deem himself, at least in his own es- “imation, for the most vital of negro problems is the problem of self-re- spect and corporate pride. Effective and necessary as this self-respect and orporate pride $s to the negro for hiv practical progress in the country, & fevelopment of tat pride and self-re- spect in intellectual and spiritual mat- ers would not only react favorably apon his social condition in this coun- cry, but anticipate his ultimate solu- fon of his own yroblem and make it vasier to live meanwhile under con- iitions as they are. The best teal way to fight anfair distinction and discriminations ‘& io begin to set up standards and coctrasts of one’s own, to replace and ratfeem the distinctions forced upon th> race. The speaker was further of the opinion that noth- ing short of a racial consciousness stretching out beyond mere American boundaries would satisfy the ultimate mental and spiritual needs of the ne- gro in thie country. EDUCATED COLORED ; GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE HUNGRY, DESTITUTE—“NO PLACE TO LAY HER HEAD,” THE CAUSE OF ACT. Jackson, Mich.—One of the most pa thetic cases of suicide on record is that of Miss Lena Brooks (colored), who dropped dead from effects of pol- soning in a local drug store November 15. A letter left by the young woman, who was pretty, well educated and well dressed, has just been found. It says: “Have no money, and oh, Anna, you don't know what {t means for dark- aess to close down over the city and you have no place to Iie your head. “They haye ordered me out of a store, where I went just to get warm, they also told me to get out of the public Mbrary, Michigan Central de- pot and the M. U. R. waiting room “Now, remember, dearest, I just went into those to get warm. It seemed as If my very blood was iced. I presume I looked so forlorn, that is why they put me out.” ‘The letter goes on to tell that she has been out of work for a long time, and that no one would have her in Jackson. She also told how she en- joyed herself in the public library, and how she enjoyed reading Booker ‘T. Washington’s works. She also said that she intended to take her life. From other sources it was learned that Miss Brooks found {t difficult to obtain employment in keeping with her education and refinement because of prejudice and that she finally be came disgusted with the world. CAN YOU TELL? When the English tongue we speak Why is “break” not rhymed with “freak?” Winl-you tell me why it's true We say “sew,” but likewise “few;” And the fashioner of verse Cannot cap his “horse” with “worse?” “Beard” sounds not the same as “heard;” “Cord” is different from “word;” “Cow” is cow, but “low” Is low; Think of “hose” and “dose” and “lose,” And of “goose” and also “choose.” Think of “comb” and “tomb” and “bomb,” “Doll” and “roll” and “home” and “some;” And since “pay” is rhymed with “sayy” Why not “paid” and “said” i pray? We have “blood” and “food” and “good;” “Mould” is not pronounced like “could,” Wherefore “done” but “gone” and “lone?” Is there any reason known? —Pittsburg Dispatch TUNNEL THROUGH CONTINEN: TAL DIVIDE TO BE BORED; $16,000,000 1S SECURED. LINE TO BE BUILT FROM STEAM BOAT SPRINGS TO SALT LAKE CITY. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver. — Financial arrangements for extending the Denver, Northwest- ern & Pacific railroad (Moffat Road) from Steamboat Springs to Salt Lake City have been completed. The tunnel through the Continental Divide is to be bored by the same in- terests that will finance the extension of the roads. Construction work will be begun this year and the date is put in some quar- ters as early as May Ist. It is understood that the Company hopes to begin not later than June lst. The tunnel and extension are to be financed by French and American capital and the Denver men now at the head of the road are to remainin control. ‘Phe cost of the extension and the tunnel will be $16,000,000. This shows that business conditions are greatly improved throughout the country, since the men behind the Moffat Road, after three years of fruitless effort to obtain funds in an unsympathetic money market, have about closed a deal for fully $16,000,- 000. William G. Evans is now presi- dent of the road. The distance from Steamboat Springs to Salt Lake City by the route the road will follow is about 390 miles. It will pass through some of the fin- est coal land in the world, in Routt and Moffat counties, and some of the richest agricultural land in the coun- try in western Colorado and eastern Utah. On January 10, 1908, the Denver- Steamboat Construction Company was ‘organized to complete the road to ‘Steamboat Springs. This company was composed of the same men who had aided in the construction of the road to Yarmony and who had organ- ized the tunnel company. It pushed construction work rapidly, and on Sep- tember 1, 1909, the first train pulled into Steamboat Springs. Preparations for the Stock Show. Denver.—The Seventh Annual Na- tional Western Stock Show will open on Saturday at the Union Stockyards here with the greatest show ever held in the West. ‘The opening on Satur- day is for the students of the Agri- cultural College who have a number of contests in judging and will occu- py the whole day in the amphitheatre. Monday morning the work of judging the exhibits of the show will com- mence at 9:30 and will continue all day. It is claimed that the show this year will probably be larger than any other show in the country except the international at Chicago. The horse show will open Monday night with a full program of events and more than 150 individual exhibitors with about 500 horses. The poultry show will be packed to its full capacity. The feed and forage show will be larger than the state fair display and will be shipped to Kansas City to the big land show there after the stock show. The breeding exhibit is the greatest ever neld in the West both as to quantity and quality. It fs expected that the attendance from outside of Denver will be fully 40,000 people and Denver is arranging to take care of one of the largest crowds of visitors that has ever at- tended a stock show. ‘The railroads haye made reduced rates which will help to attract visitors, A large num- ber of exhibits are already here and by Saturday most of the show will be on the grounds and by Monday the show Will be installed and ready for the crowds. Charged With Juggling Funds. Trinidad, Colo.—Charges of misap- propriation of funds of the old South- ern Colorado Light & Power Company against Recelver Frank P. Read of Denver are contained in a bill of ex- ceptions filed here in the District Court by the St. Louis Union Trust Company. Gold for 1911 $46,000,000. Washington.—The director of the mint estimated the world’s gold pro- duction of 1911 at approximately $466,- 000,000." Negro Fiend Shoots Six. Rochester, N. ¥.—William Twiman, a negro, murdered his father, Turner ‘Twiman, shot dead a deputy sheriff, seriously wounded three other deputies and silghly injured Sheriff Harley Hamil, the leaders in a posse of more than @ hundred persons Sun Will Lead Army. San Francisco—Sun Yat Sen, pres {dent of the new Chinese republic, personally, will lead an army of 100, 000 men against the Manchus The Prior Furniture Co. 1814 Curtis Street We bny and sell new and second hand Furniture, also repair work. Window shades. Sewing Machines sold and repaired a specialty. Phone Champa 392 Cash or Credit Railroad Men and Waiters Club We lead, others follow. Home for Railroad and Club Men. A welcome to visitors. All the latest magazines and papers will be found in the Library room. ° FRANK BURNLEY, Manager 2149 Curtis Street Denver, Colo. Phone Main 8232 THE ZOBEL BROTHERS’ 1004 Nineteenth Street, Corner of Curtis FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS COORS' CELEBRATED BEER ON TAP DENVER COLORADO : Boost Colorado Products Patronize Home Industry ;—§ ZANG’S } § COLUMBINE, . : VIENNA AND : PILSENER § 2 The Ph. Zang Brewing Co. S emarmeedes vsetetne adh Who pays the high up-town rent? Is it the tailor? No! Just guess who it is-- The Customer Give us a chance and we will give you the satisfac: Gon) OnnRull andy Winter(Styles ateu all’ in Our prices are moderate. We do all sewing in our kore Respectfully, N. Ferry 1905 Curtis Street Turn Over a New Leaf ——Saa——— By subscribing for THIS PAPER ‘Hours: 10 to 11a. m,, 2 to 5 and 7 to9 Pp. m. and by Appointment. ‘ Dr. J. H. P, Westbrook COR. 21ST AND ARAPAHOE STS Day Phone Main 1144. Do You Know That OAe Colorado Statesman ls Prepared to Do All Kinds of | p 1 {| ) |! oe Re a Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Station- ery Jobs a Specialty Ball and Concert Pro- grams, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envel- opes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. We have supplied our office with job presse and typo ef up-to-date style and our work will be on a par with the Very Best Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction Porcupine Band & : SN TAA LEA BEREAN Of om me 844, ; a UE : re , =a - oS ce nL . oe Ss . z e : i m Serv : = Noe ae a : a : SS e Sas a & a Sony » E SN, .N ; bas : Yo WS ib su ig ht Wa Ye we SMa i Ps. AOA ae he Es a 4 ye ee “gy DS A 3 s ) 4 OS SRAM DSS. ei a aD SS FS f ae aK ‘ A ae Se | Ee Ta. > a oe. ae ye YN C4 | ee ee i S i x es Pai g Re ee Ee } Bie 4 Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, N. x. ‘This charming creation bears a faint resemblance to the “fretful quilis of the porcupine,” hence the name. The great demand this season for feather bands has been responsible for many strangely beautiful effects, and this is probably the best of them all. nO MAY BE MADE AN ORNAMENT SERGE COSTUME innumerable Designs Suggest Them- | selves for the Humble but Use- 1 ful Pincushion. | 4 “A pincushion in every room,” was one of the rules recently given by a novelist, who was describing the ideal house. We all use pinctshions every day, yet usally we allow them to be shabby and undistinguished or over- elaborate and vulgar. ‘The pincushion that hangs up must be separated by a sharp line from those that are designed to repose upon the dressing table, to rest in the sew- Ing basket or to be a part of the “bach- elor’s friend.” Again, almost all house. ‘hold utensils, frults and flowers, vege- tables, animals, birds, butterflies, fish and leaves have been represented by the pincushion caterer, without omtt- ting the gallery of national costumes composed of native dolls dressed from original sketches, and keeping com- pany with a legion of fanciful concelts ‘bought in toy shops. Odd little baskets have sawdust filled cushions with coverings of bright ‘silks, satins, ribbons or lace, The han- ‘dies are ribbon trimmed, or are done away with altogether, it the cushion 1s ‘to be set upon a stand. A volume could be written upon the various styles and ways to make novel cushion covers, but {t must not be forgotten that many people prefer to have their pincushions ook Ike nothing but what they are. For these there are the plain cov- ers of quaintly figured silk or brocade, ‘The long flat shape buttoned down by tiny silk buttons—like a miniature mat- tress—is among the best. It {s not generally known that cof- fee grounds, washed and dried, make ‘an excellent filling for pincushtons. Eawdust is not always easy to get, and bran, which is often used as a substi- tute, is not always clean. USEFUL LITTLE BUTTON BAGS Boon for the Busy Housewife in That the Contents Are Always on ‘Hand. If buttons are kept in little bags they are always at hand, and if, too, @ tiny needlecase and silk winders filled with black and white cotton Were kept with them, what a boon it Would be! These little bags are quite simple and may be made in a few minutes of holland linen or silk. ‘The ma- terfal {8 cut four inches wide and nine inches long. This strip is fold- ed in two, the edges turned in and ‘neatly seamed to within rather more than an inch of the top. The ends ‘are then turned down and neatly hemmed, the hem being just over half an inch wide, the ends of the hem seamed together. Just below the hem, on each side, vork an eyelet hote; put the bags ogether, and attach by seaming the ends of the inner hem of each to- gether; thread baby ribbon of one color through the eyelet from one bag to the other; then thread an- other color ribbon through in the op- Posite direction and tle—the ribbon should be about 16 inches in length, to tle into pretty bows; put linen buttons on one side and pearl or fancy buttons on the other, draw the bbons to close the bag and you will see at once what a pretty useful It tle addition you have for the work table, These bags would find ready salo at bazaars. SERGE COSTUME % ae Ee : RS. We ¢| y\ (roe S By | i. Z gil i |W YA AW ey ON a Ni Uh eo a A useful everyday costume in thick serge is shown here; the skirt {s plain, The coat consists of a bodice and sep arate basque; the latter is quite plain, but the bodice is gathered into the waist; both wrap over to the left side The revers and cuffs are trimmed with small buttons and loops; a patent leather belt is worn, Hat of stretched satin, trimmed with wings, Materlals required for the costume: Five and one-half yards 46 inches wide, four and one-half yards satin for lime ing coat, 14 buttons, Unusual Combinations. A combination seen a good deal just now is of blue and lavender mousseline. It 1s often touched with black velvet or else trimmed with er mine tails, thus giving the necessary contrast. But we see other pretty and unusual combinations, too. For im stance, old pink and old blue, lavem der and buff, gold and purple. Many of these have a touch of dark fur oF black velvet, for while delicacy char acterizes all the evening tints they must not be tod dfy. Fringe of all kinds is fashionable for the evening. Perhaps chenille is softest; but bead fringe 1s rich, and also jet. And Jet fringe trims so much just now, both for afternoon and evening, that one might say there was almost a craze for it. It is put on goods of any color and any weight, the chiffons em ploying it fully as much as the vek vets. One of the new effects in neckwear is a bow consisting of broad ends of black panne velvet, with loop and ends of black messaline and finished with @ silk tassel, Waslinme + theca. MANY USES FUR GumnUN one FFE H EP EF EFF F FFE FFF EF ESP FETE F FFF FF TPF PPP T THT T Pret tet ; DAY OR NIGHT. PHONE MAIN 6243 } ; A. M. LAWHORN : Undertakers : : A first-class Mortuary establishment. First aid to the bereaved in the cj time of death of loved ones. Prices below competitors. Polite service : LAWRENCE JONES, Licenced Embalmer : LOUIS HUBBARD, Funeral Director r PARLORS 1925 Arapahoe Street EEE FFEFEEFFEEE PEGE StF EHHE4d+4+t4++++4+-+++4++4++4444- Indispensable Household Mineral Hu Medicinal as Well as Culin- ary Value, Salt on the fingers when cleaning fowls, meat or fish will prevent slip- ping, ‘thrown on a coal fire when broil- ing steak it will prevent blazing from the dripping fat. Salt as a gargle will cure soreness of the throat. Salt in water is the best thing to clean willow ware and matting. Im the oyen under baking tins it will prevent their scorching on the bottom, Salt puts out a fire in the chim- ney. Salt and vinegar will remove stains from discolored teacups. Salt and soda are excellent for bee stings and spider bites. Thrown on soot which has fall- en on the carpet salt will prevent stain, Salt put on ink when freshly splll- ed on a carpet will help in removing the spot. Salt in whitewash makes it stick, Salt thrown on a coal fire which is low will revive it. Used in sweeping carpets it keeps out moths, Never salt meat that is to be grill- ed, as it hardens the fibers of the meat and tends to extract the juices. Salt on the table platter just before sending to the table. No meat should be salted uncooked, but after the sur- face has been seared and the meat partly cooked. Saane THE CAPITOL a manger 2s SOCIAL CLUB. PHONE CHAMPA 2540, 921 20TH. ST. DENVER, COLO. CARING FOR THE KITCHEN Should Be Kept Scrupulously Clean and Furnished With That Bndin View, ae A complete line of Oy Holiday Goods Se “a < é BIE gE Call and see our stook of BULA Corsets | -@ Gents’ Furnishings 2 vila | Be poe Hae Millinery fromTne oi stax) 1443-1447 Stout St. No part of our home is more impor- tant than the kitchen, whether we oc- cupy it ourselves or relegate it to a maid. It does not do to imagine when furnishing that “any old thing” is good enough for kitchen use. Faded oileloth and soiled rag carpets should not be seen fn a part of the house that from the hygienic point of view should be all freshness and brightness, Our kitchens should be kept scrupulously clean, and they must be furnished with this end in view. No unnecessary articles should be there to get in the way of the occu- pants. ‘The walls should be painted or, it there is paper, it should be light and easily washed, and the floor ought to be covered with light inlaid lino- leum. Inlaid floor covering costs in the beginning more, but it is the only satisfactory wear, and it has been found that light colors are really more economical than dark. A bright table cover and a basket chair are details of kitchen furnishing that will be much appreciated by the occupants, ‘mhceied kan: i . ‘ | am da = gaa | — y y, yO ==, | 4 Mies. gi IGP ore aoa a Be ti ee BR ie Ww, Ve oF. ND BS et Gy Pn RU ie Eee iA Ke ot LEA gry PRE ERO ye . for 5 Pe "Oe Git Cw | DENVER’S PRIDE ‘The purity of Capitol Beer is demonstrated by its superior flavor and strength-giving qualities. It’s capital. HAVE A CASE SENT HOME, The Capitol Brewing Co. Phone Champa 356. Delivered Anywhere. Stuffed dates with whipped cream: Remove seeds from choice dates; fill with English walnuts and press into original shape; stew in a little hot water, adding sugar and lemon juice at the last; whip a cup of double cream and a cup of milk with whip churn; remove the froth, drain and serve with the dates around it. Dates stuffed with walnuts: Select large dates, remove the seed by cut- ting one side only and fill with chopped nuts prepared with a little powdered sugar and lemon juice to forn a paste. Press the dates togeth- er and dust with powdered sugar. Stewed Cucumbers. Cut the cucumbers fully half an inch thick right through; put them in @ saucepan, just covering them with hot water, and let them boil slowly for a quarter of an hour or until ten- der, but not long enough to break them; then drain them. You want now a pint of good cream with a tea- spoon of butter in a saucepan, and when it is warm drop in the cucum- bers; season with a little salt and white pepper; cook five minutes, shak- ing the saucepan all the time, and serve hot. It is just as delicate as asparagus and a very nice dish, in- deed. TWENTIETH AND CHAMPA. Is the place to get your Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines. Wé serve Hot Drinks. Christmas perfumes, box candies and box paper or specialties. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. JAMES E. THRALL, Prop. PRONE MAIN 2425, Whipped Cream Fudge. Four cups granulated sugar, 1 pint milk, % teaspoon of cream of tartar. Place in pan and boll to a very hard ball or dry snap when tested in water. In the meantime have the whites of 2 fresh eggs beaten real stiff. Now when your syrup is cooked have some one pour it on in a fine stream over the eggs and beat continually until all is mixed through, then add ounce of vanilla flavor and % cup of walnuts. Pour out on wax paper and Jet set for a few hours. PHONE MAIN 6123—Day or Night ak siete PARLORS 1023 NINETEENTH STREET. so Dy THE DOUGLASS ages (ee A UNDERTAKING (ee ose bg COMPANY J. R. CONTEE CURTIS M. Pres. and Mgr. zs M7 a4 9q HARRIS = Wee ie ® nsst, Manager croaimers eget reners RE Mandy “Reese Fareaanes SEs ee Sas any Lady Assistant POLITE SERVICE TO ALL, Ambulance and Carriages Furnished for All Occasions Cabbage Pudding. Chop fine a small white cabbage and put enough into a large, deep baking pan to fill it up when the cab- bage is done. Put it into a pint of salted, bolling water and boll until tender. Drain thoroughly in a coland- er. Into two partg of the cabbage put two-thirds of a cup of butter, with salt and pepper to suit the taste; a pint of cream, four eggs beaten separately, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Put the mixture in a pan and bake for half an hour. Orange Ice. Four cups water, two cups sugar, cwo cups orange juice, one-quarter cup lemon juice, grated rind two oranges; make a syrup by boiling sugar and water 20 minutes; add grated rind; cool; add fruit juice; strain and freeze, using three measures ice to one of salt.