Colorado Statesman

PATRONIZE MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY National Appo Official Patronage Under President tity and Quality. One thou at the Present Time t National Appointments Official Patronage Under President Taft has Excelled both in Quantity and Quality. One thousand more Negroes have jobs of the Administration. Washington, D.C., March 26. That the Taft administration has been kindly disposed to give Negroes employment is shown by statistics which furnish the pleasing information that in the classified service there are one thousand more colored men in the employ of the Federal Government than at the beginning of Mr. Taft's term as President. These figures support the contention of the administration of its friendly attitude toward the Negro with reference to jobs. Much has been said as to the record of President Taft in the matter of appointing colored men to office and the retention of colored men in office. In the absence of any carefully made record giving this information, your correspondent has made investigations and has found that as to representation, in the way of official patronage, now enjoyed under President Taft, the race has more both as to quantity and quality than under previous Presidents. Here are some of President Taft's appointments which won him favor with the Negro voters throughout the country: S. Laing Williams, of Illinois, who held the position of Special Assistant District Attorney, in charge of naturalization at Chicago, by the refusal of Congress to appropriate for such position, was at President Taft's request, appointed Assistant United States District Attorney at $2,000 per annum. But for the President's actions in his case Mr. Williams would have been dropped from the Government service. William H. Lewis, of Massachusetts, held a like position at Boston at a salary of $2,500. The failure of Congress to appropriate for naturalization attorneys, abolished his position, but, as in the case of Mr. Williams, the President caused him to be appointed Assistant District Attorney at Boston, at the same salary formerly received, $2,500. Later, as is well known, the President appointed Mr. Lewis Assistant Attorney General, at a salary of $5,000 per annum, the highest place in the Department of Justice to which a member of our race has yet attained. Upon the resignation of John VOL. XVIII. C. Dancy of North Carolina, as Recorder of Deeds, Henry Lincoln Johnson was appointed to succeed him at $4,000 per annum. Emmett J. Scott of Alabama, was appointed one of the three commissioners of Liberia, to report upon the internal conditions and needs of that Negro Republic. This position, though temporary, was one of great honor, and requiring a very high order of intelligence, tact and constructive ability, and his selection evidenced the President's ability of the race to furnish equipped men for any position. Upon the resignation of Mr. Lyons, as Minister to Liberia, Dr. W. D. Crumm, of South Carolina, was appointed to the vacancy at a salary of $5,000 per annum. Upon the resignation of Mr. Ellis as Secretary of the Liberian Legation, Richard C. Bundy, of Ohio, was appointed to succeed him at $2,000 per annum. At the direction of Mr. Taft, Captain W. T. Anderson, of Ohio, Chaplain of the 10th Cavalry, was promoted to the rank of Major at a salary of $3,600 per annum. Charles A. Cottrill, of Ohio, was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for Hawaii at a maximum salary of $4,000 per annum. Whitefield McKinlay of Washington, D. C., was appointed Collector of Customs for the District of Columbia, at a maximum salary of $5,000 per annum. James M. Alexander of California, upon executive order was appointed Deputy Collector at Los Angeles, Cal., at $1,600 per annum. This position is under the civil service and in making the executive order, President Taft specifically stated that one of the reasons for making the appointment on executive order was that the colored people of California had not adequate representation in the Government service. Ex-Governor E. S. Pinchback of Louisiana, was appointed to a position in the Internal Revenue service at New York at a salary of $10 per day, and later was covered in on the order of the President, under the civil service, making his position permanent and not contingent upon administration charges. W. T. Vernon, of Kansas, was DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, APRIL 6 1912. State Hist & Nat Hist College State House HANTS WE ADO THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO appointed at the President's direction, Supervisor of Indian and Negro Schools of Oklahoma. W. D. Johnson, of Kentucky, was appointed to a position in the Department of Agriculture at the direction of the President. Mrs. Booze was appointed Postmistress at Mound Bayou, Miss., at $1,800 per annum. The positions to which Messrs. Lewis Cottrill, McKinlay, Alexander, Pinchback, Vernon and Johnson were appointed, are positions not before filled by men of our race, they constituting new places opened to the race by President Taft. Not only has President Taft death generously with us, during the short three years he has been in office, in the matter of new appointments, but in the matter of retaining in the service efficient colored officials he found in office when he became President, the following list of colored officials retained by him attests to his fixed determination to deal justly with the race in the matter of representation. R. H. Terrell of Washington, D. C., was retained as judge of the Municipal Court at $2,500 per annum. James A Cobb of Washington, D. C., was retained as special District Attorney for the District of Columbia. Ralph W. Taylor of Ohio, was retained as Auditor for the Navy Department at $4,000 per annum; Charles W. Anderson of New York was retained as Internal Revenue Collector at New york at $4,500 per annum; Cyrus Field Adams of Illinois, was retained as Assistant Register of the Treasury at $2,500 per annum; Nathan Alexander of Alabama, as Register of the Land Office at Montgomery, Ala., at $1,500 per annum; Gen. Robert Smalls of South Carolina, as Collector of Customs at Beaufort, N.C., at $1,200 per annum; Joseph E. Lee of Florida, as Collector of Internal Revenue at Jacksonville, Fla., at $4,500; Dr. Henry Furniss of Indiana, as Minister to Haiti at $10,000 per annum. The eight colored men in the Consular Service, filling positions in foreign countries, were also retained by the President. The salaries of the above enumerated positions, held by colored men under the Taft administration, total $90,000 per annum. In the matter of evincing a deep interest in the progress of the masses of the race, and contributing to that progress by encouraging words, attention is called to the fact that in the three years Mr. Taft has been President, he has delivered no less than a dozen public addresses urging in strongest language, the most varied, and best educational opportunities of the race shall be equal to those enjoyed by the white people.—Age. --- EASTER SERVICES NINTH U. S. CAVALRY SUNDAY APRIL 7, 1912. "TROOP D" CHURCH CALL 7:15 P. M 2. Anthem. The Glad Easter, Ninth Cavalry Choir. 3. Hymn and Responsive Reading, No. 446 and 447. 4. Solo. Ninety and Nine, Miss Kathryne Thistle. 5. Invocation. 6. Anthem. Consider the Lilies, Ninth Cavalry Choir. 7. Solo. Cavalry, Corporal Brown. 8. Easter Sermon. Chaplain G. W. Prioleau. 9. Solo. Easter Morning, Mrs. Hamler. 10. Anthem. The Lord is Risen, Ninth Cavalry Choir. Those present at the Ninth Cavalry church Sunday enjoyed a very intellectual sermon by Chaplain G. W. Prioleau, Subject "Palm Sunda" The sermon showed much study and forethought on the part of its deliverer. The choir rendered very beautifully "Beckoning Hand" in memory of Lt. Zimmerma, 4th Field Artillery, who died at the Post Hospital, Sunday afternoon. The congregation enjoyed a very well rendered duett, "I Surrender All" by Miss Tyree and Mr. Vernon of the choir. The attendance was very good. The members of the Ninth Cav. choir are busy rehearsing a play "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party" to be given the first week after Easter. A great treat is promised to all who attend. Wednesday evening the cast of Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party were guests of Miss Tyree at a birthday Surprise party given in honor of Mrs. Coles. A very enjoyable evening was spent by all. NEGPO SCHOOL BURNED. Kansas City, Mo., April 4.—Ward hall, the largest dormitory of Western university, an industrial school for Negroes, at Quindaro, Kansas, seven miles northwest of here, was destroyed by first-to-night with a loss of $50,000. All the students escaped from the building safely. Telling the Banana. A banana is a hard thing for the greenhorn to buy right. One way to tell is by the tip end. If it is sweet the tip is small and comes to a sharp point. If there is an abundance of thick, tough skin, full of leathery fiber, something is wrong with the banana; maybe it has too much plantain in it. Avoid the banana with the tip all spread out with too much knotty skin at the end—New York Press. Near End of His Patience Reggy Deswelle (to his tallor)—Weally, I think I have been very patient with you. I promised again and again to pay you, but if you keep on bothering me I simply won't promise any more.—Flegende Blatter. RACE NEWS Seattle, Wash., March 23.—J. Edward Hawkins, a Negro attorney reputed to the wealthiest man of his race in the Pacific Northwest, died last night, aged 48 years. He was successively jockey barber, miner and lawyer, and in his professional work had many white clients. He was the head of the grand lodge of Negro Masons of Washington. a regular probation officer. Miss Walton, on behalf of the league, recommended for the appointment which will probably be made when the present court has a meeting of the judges.—New York Age. St. Louis, Mo., March 26.—A big protest has been raised by the colored citizens and the newspapers of this city against the new ule Ft. Smith, Ark, April 1.—Investigation of a lynching in which it is said the wrong Negro was hanged, resulted today in the city council removing Chief of Police Barry, Night Captain Smart, eight patrolman, abolishing the detective bureau and dismissing the chief detective. Witnesses at the hearing said the police did not try to protect the Negro. County authorities say they have evidence that the Negro lynched was not armed when Deputy Constable Andrew Carr was shot. Soon after Carr was shot the suspected Negro was lynched. Carr died today. St. Paul, Minn., March 18. The daughter of the Rev. Alfred H. Lealtad, colored, rector of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, Catherine Deaver Lealtad, 17 years old has proved herself the superior student in the mechanic art senior class, which graduates next June, and unless something unforeseen happen, she will be valedictorian. The girl, according to Principal Weitbrecht, has made a splendid record as a student, and has stood at the head of her class almost constantly since she entered three years ago last September. President Weitbrecht was non-committal regarding the question of Miss Lealtad acting as valedictorian next June. It is the rule, he explained, that the student showing the best records shall have that honor, and the second best shall be salutatorian. New York City is soon to have a colored regular probation officer in the person of Miss Grace Campbell who has been doing some effective probation work for the National League for the Protection of Colored Women. Several days ago Miss Elizabeth Walton of the League had a conference with Judges Cain, Mulqueen, Rosalsky and Swann on the probation question and during their talk the judges stated that Miss Campbell had done such effective work they thought it wise to appoint her as NO 30 a regular probation officer. Miss Walton, on behalf of the league, recommended for the appointment which will probably be made when the present court has a meeting of the judges.—New York Age. St. Louis, Mo., March 26.—A big protest has been raised by the colored citizens and the newspapers of this city against the new ruling recently made relative to the selection of apprentice teachers who finish the normal coarse at Sumner High School. The latest system provides that the graduates of the normal course be selected for apprentice work in accordance with their scholarship record and only in such numbers as needed. Should this system become operative it would mean that the hopes of many parents, who have sacrificed for many years would not be realized. In the past a normal graduate was called out to teach according to her rating, but she was sure of eventually teaching. If the new ruling is put in force only a certain number making the highest percentage will be permitted to teach. Principal Frank L. Williams of Sumner High School has been informed of the unpopularity of the ruling and has been requested to have the old order of things prevail. THE POLITICAL PREACHER The season is fast approaching when the political preacher, like the spring poet, will begin to thaw out. We wish there were some way of suppressing the political preacher. If a minister or a bishop wants to weaken his influence in his church and in his community and state, he can do so in no surer way than by going into active partisan politics. In nine cases out of ten, when a minister goes into politics, the public takes it for granted, either rightfully or wrongfully, that he is being paid for his services; and this question of pay, always tends to hurt the standing of the minister. We wish that all of our Negro ministers would keep out of political activities, except insofar as they have a right to vote and make speeches on special occasions in a dignified and proper manner. But the practice that has hitherto obtained among many of taking money for political purposes is damaging in the highest degree to the ministerial profession.—N. Y. Age. 4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR- EIGN COUNTRIES. DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. Western Nowspaner Union News Service. WESTERN. a | Dates for the American Mining Con- gress to be held in Spokane this year have been fixed for Nov. 25-30. The breaking up of the ice in the Platte Loup and Elkhorn rivers in Ne- braska {s causing serious floods. ‘The explosion of a gasoline tank in stheir sod house near Mead, Kan., brought instant death to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Miller. John Brisben Walker of Denver has been appointed director of exploitation of the Panama-Pacific exposition, to be held in San Francisco; Colorado Springs is to entertain the annual convention of the supreme council of the Knights of Columbus, an international organization, Aug. 6. 7 and 8. To make smooth the path of the bor- rowers, the legal authorities of Salt Lake county, Utah, are making war on loan sharks. Hearings on the House free sugar bill have begun before the Senate com- mittee on finance. They are expected to continue a fortnight. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has refused to grant the proposed @dvance on lemons from California points to Colorado, Montana and Utah. The proposition to bond the city of San Francisco for $8,800,000 for the purchase of land and the erection of municipal buildings in the proposed civic center carried by an overwhelm- ing majority. Perfecting its plans for intervention in Mexico, the war department at Washington is receiving hourly details as to the militia strength and condi- tion from adjutant generals of militia from the states. In a case of vital interest to trriga- tion farmers of the West, the Supreme Court held that land owners along 4 river had no right to object to a change in the river's current’ by riparian owners below them, That Jake McKinney, formerly the convict in the state prison at Rusk, ‘Texas, who was freed by Governor Colquitt because of a touching poem the conyict was said to have written, stole ihe poem, is the assertion made by, the News, published at the Colum- bus, Ohio, state prison, ‘The Democratic wool bill passed the House, 189 to 82, with twenty Pro. gressive Republicans voting for it. Supporters of the bill declared it would not cut the government's rey. enue, but would save more than $50, 000,000 a year to consumers, The Interstate Commerce Commis. sion and the express companies of the country have practically reached an agreement as to reforms to be insti: tuted in the express business, which will be of far-reaching importance and will, it is predicted, revolutionize the express business. The Postoffice Department ‘an- nounces that January 31, 1912, there were seventy-seven postal savings de- positories in operation in Colorado, with oeposits amounting to over $495,- 000. This amount was deposited by about 4,600 depositors, or an average of $108 per depositor. Frank Stribbling, who went duck hunting recently near Fremont, Neb, and was supposed to have been drowned in the Platte river flood, has been jocated in the top of a big tree two miles out In the river, from the city. He had been caught by the ris- ing waters and had climbed the tree, where he had been four days and where he must remain several days. SPORT. ‘The Chinese baseball team, repre. senting the College of Hawaii at Hon: olulu, will play the State University team at Boulder, Colo., April 19. In a go scheduled for fifteen rounds between Kid Williams of Vernon, Cal. and Kid Willard of Gallup, N. M., ban- tamweights, Williams knocked Willard out in the eighth round in Albuquer- que, N. M. The cost of equipping a major league bascbalt team of twenty-five players 1s somewhere in the neighbor. hod of $2,320 each spring, according to a statement by Thomas G. Davis of the New York Americans. Harry B, Stout of Milwaukee has an. nounced that New Orleans promoters had authorized him to offer a purse of $17,000 for a twenty-round fight be tween Ad Wolgast and Joe Mandot, the battle to be fought within two montbe. Mandot already has accept ed the offer and agreed to make 133 pounds ringside for the champion. He 4s willing that the bout go to a finish. W. E. Hasha of Dallas, Tex., low- ered the one mile world’s motorcycle record from 401-5 seconds to 398-5 seconds at the Stadium one-third mile track in Los Angeles. POLITICAL. Henry 1. Jost, Democrat, was elect- ed mayor of Kansas City over Darlus A. Brown, Republican tncumbent, One hundred and fifty-four cities and towns of Illinois voted under the provisions of the local option law. Re- turns received up to a late hour Indl- cated that the advantage was slightly on the “wet” side. Dr. G. A. Bading, nonpartisan candi- date for mayor, defeated Mayor Emil Seidel, the Soctalist, by a vote of 43,- 117 to 30,200. Of the thirty-three al- dermen elected, twenty-six were non- partisan and seven were Socialists, WASHINGTON, A bill to abolish the U. S. Commerce Court has been favorably reported to the House by the interstate commerce committee. ‘The $100,000 appropriation for the completion of the Denver postoffice that passed the Senate will not pass the House, it is reported. ‘The bill by Representative Hughes of New Jersey, virtually taxing out of existence the phosphorus match indus: try in the United States, was passed by the House after a heated debate. The House interstate and foreign commerce committee reported favor- ably a bill to amend the law giving the Interstate Commerce Commission authority over express companies. Pro, vision would be made for rate zones, the charges varying according to, the distance the package was carried from the point of origin. ‘The Senate of the United States will run a lottery to determine the length of tenure of office of the new senators from Arizona and New Mexico. There will be two five-year terms, one three year term, and one one-year term, The hew members will draw from a box squares of paper on which appears the length of the term they are to serve. President Taft will send to Congress soon what he regards as one of the most important messages he has writ ten this year, He will recommend leg islation designed to save millions, o! dollars each year, consolidate several generul bureaus and generally make the machinery of the government con. form more nearly with the plans drawn by the economy and efficiency commission appointed in June, 1910. It wil be Mr. Taft's second “economy” message during the present year, but in the one he wrote in January he made no recommendations as to legis lation. Practically every department of the government is concerned in the proposed reforms. Reforms indicated as feasible in the President's January mesage, he said, would probably save the people more than $2,000,000 an nually but {t is said that other changes worked out since then would largely increase the total. GENERAL. Six thousand tons of potatoes, the largest shipment ever received in New York, arrived recently from London, Suffragists have announced that they will print « daily paper in Chica- g0, devoted to the cause of equal sut. frage Reports from Rampart House, 150 miles north of the Arctic circle, tell of the mildest winter there for many years. The coldest weather during the winter was 39% degrees below zero and that only for three days. ‘The temperature usually drops as far as 70 below. To put her system of diet, whieh she believes is a solution of the cost of living problem, to the hardest pos sible test, Mrs. David Beach, wel known in musical circles in New York, will walk from that city to Chicago starting April 10, She expects to reach Chicago by June 1. By unanimous decision of the Su- preme Court in San Francisco, the heirs of Ellas J. (Lucky) Baldwin ave confirmed in possession of his estate, estimated to be worth approximately $11,000,000, and the claims against it of Beatrice Anita Galdwin or Turnbull, as a pretermitted child, are dismissed. A “mulatto” girl, nineteen years of age, told the police at Lafayette, La, that as high priestess of a negro cult, the “Church of the Sacrifice,” she had killed with her own hands, seventeen of the thirty-five negroes mysteriously murder in southwestern Louisiana and ‘Texas towns during the last fourteen months. Two other women and two men, she said, members of the cult, had participated in these sacrifices, which she, Clementine Barnabet, had directed. Altiough strikes are still in prog: ress in various Massachusetts textile centers, the Week has brought about a noticeable improvement im general conditions, Several of the smaller la- bor difficulties have been settled and a strike of 30,000 cotton mill opera. tives at New Bedford was averted by the granting of the ten per cent ad- vance. Similar advances were made in other mills in New England, so that at least 100,000 operatives will share in the distribution. The federal treasury is fast over. taking the big deficit that has been characteristic of the current fiscal year, The high total of revenue for the month of March, exceeding the expenditures by $10,635,000, has re- duced the deficit trom $20,570,000 to $9,932,000. ‘The surplus a yeur ago was only $1,963,000. Sentiment among the workers in the anthracite coal region seems to be crystallizing in favor of prolonging the lay-off until the operators grant recog- nition to the union. A conference is to be held on April 10. NEGRO SPEAKER TELLS HIS PEOPLE ABOUT FLORIDA Looking but a few years older, and showing that remarkable vigor which has characterized him as a noted speaker for nearly 20 years, Dr. Book- er T. Washington faced an audience that Mterally filled all space in Du- val theater, after his introduction by G. C. Bedell, a member of the county board of education, and a prominent lawyer of the bar of Jacksonville. Beginning with happy references to Jacksonville and {ts people, and of the whole state of Florida, the speak- er delivered an address of more than an hour's length, saying in part, as follows: “We not only have the advantage in a state like Florida of securing land, but the further advantages of finding plenty of work. I will guarantee to say that there are few {f any mem- bers of our race who have spent any considerable length of time in seeking labor. Instead of having to seek labor, labor seeks them. Our condition 1s dif ferent from laboring people in many parts of the old world where they have to spend days and sometimes months in seeking labor and then are not able to find it. And then after they do find work in many parts of the old countries, they receive a wage that Is much smaller than the wage pald to the average negro man or woman In the state of Florida. “While we may have disadvantages in other directions, we should, how- ever, bear in mind that the soll of Florida draws no color line; {ts so! will yield as much of her riches to the touch of the blackest hand in Florida as to the touch of the whitest hand in Florida, The rain draws no color line. The sun draws no color Ine. In all these fundamental respects we have the same advantages that the whitest man in Florida has, if “In Florida, like many other south- ern states, the negro 1s the main de pendence for labor. I want our people, in the first place, to get rid of the old {dea once for all that it fs a disgrace to labor. Get rid of the idea, once for all, that an educated man or woman shoule, not work in the fleld, in the shop, In the kitchen, in the laundry. We must impress upon our people everywhere that it just as dignified to work in a field or in a shop or in a Kitchen or laundry as it is to teach school, preach the gospel or write poetry. “I do not want It said of our people anywhere in Florida that they are merely tolerated as laborers. I want to hear {t sald that the negro is used as a laborer in Florida because he ren: ders such excellent service that peo- ple feel that they do not want to dis pense with his services. If we wonlt retain our place in the world of labor. in an increasing degree everywhere "we must make our labor reliable. If | we give our word that we will be at a | place of labor at a certain hour on | Monday morning, we must be right /there, not a half a mile away or five |mfnutes late. We should not let the temptation to go on an excursion or the temptation to go to town on Sat- urday pull us away from our places of labor. As a race we waste entirely too much time in idleness on Satur- day and in going on useless exeur- sions. | “And then if we are employed as laborers we must learn to improve in our methods of labor. The kind of labor that would satisfy a few years ago will not satisfy today. Progress 1s being made in methods of cooking /and serving food. In laundering in “every one of these respects the negro must make progress or he will find himself in a few days without a job. | “Everywhere, especially in the large towns and cities of Florida, we must _get rid of the {dle man or woman of [our race. Wherever there is idleness, | wherever there are people hanging | around on the street corners and rall- |road stations or loafing around bar rooms there you are likely to have crime and to find racial friction, From the pulpit, from the school teachers’ | desk, from the fireside, everywhere we must impress upon our people the fact that the {dle man or idle woman must be gotten rid of, that 4n influence must be brought to bear on them that will make them go to work and earn an “honest living and cease disgracing our race with their idleness. “I will guarantee to say that the average colored man who is a farmer 1n Florida does not work more than’ 140 days in a year, This means, then, that half of the farming year is thrown away. Suppose the merchant or the lawyer or the doctor only worked half the year, in what condition would they find themselves? In a climate like Florida, ina soil such as you have here the farmer can find work every day in the year. , “In connection with getting rid of the idle man and woman, we must bring about an influence that will pre- —mmmmevthphniidinta adiiecseme tenant aeaieae ae ee tee white man {s law-abiding, rirtuous and sober, the negro is likely to lead something’ of the same kind of life. On the other hand, if the white man in any community breaks the law, is @ drunkard or gambler, the negro ts likely to lead the same kind of life, so the white man has a great responsibility to see to It that he sets an example before the negro which shall help him to make himself a stronger and more useful citizen. “As I sald in the beginning, when we get down beneath the surface in every southern community we will find that notwithstanding what the sensational newspaper may say or the political demagogue may utter, when we get down beneath the surface we find that in every southern community that as individuals the negroes and white people live on friendly terms with each other, Every negro has a white friend and every white man has a negro friend, and the relations be- tween the Individual negro and the individual white man here in the south are often closer and more sym- pathetic than they are in any commu- nity outside of the south. There is going to be no racial war. There is going to be no emigration from the south. Both the black race and the white race 1s going to live here in my opinion, for all time in peace and har- mony. “I come into this state for the sole purpose of seeing for myself some- thing of the progress of the colored people and of the relations exis‘ing between white men and black men. I want at the same time, wherever I can, to speak a word which shall make our people more useful and will further friendly relations between the two races. I am perfectly aware of the fact that the average man who was not born here in the south, or who has never lived here for any length of time, often misunderstands and misjudges the south. One living outside of the south hears of the worst things that occur between white peo- ple and black people, but » seldom hears of the best things that occur. One living outside of the south hears of the lynchings, the burnings, and the work of the mob, but he rarely hears of what white people are doing in nearly every community of a state like Florida to help and encourage the colored people. The worst that oc curs between the races {s flashed by telegraph all through the world, while the best that occurs is seldom heard of outside of our immediate local com- |munities, In no other part of the world can there be found white and black people in so large numbers who are living side by side in such peace- |ful relations as 1s true In our south- ern states. This I say despite much that is wrong and unjust, despite the work of the mob which so often dis- graces both races. “[ want to impress upon my people in the state of Florida the advantages that you haye in a state like this. In the first place, you have the, opportu- nity of living In one of the best climates in the world, a climate which Is adapted to your condition and to your needs. In addition to that, you have the opptrtunity of being able to secure land in large quantities while it is reasonably cheap, but I warn you that land in a state like Florida will not always be cheap. Florida in many respects is the newest of the southern states. There are almost 30,500,000 acres of unimproved land in the state. I repeat, in no state in the south do negroes have such opportunities, and in few places are they better paid than here. ‘The average value of farm land In 1900 was $7.08. In 1910 it was $17.83, an increase of 153 per cent. At this rate of increase, if our people do not secure land in Florida within the next few years they will find it very hard to do so in the future. OFFER COLORED BOYS PRIZES FOR BEST CORN Bee OY IES OY Sobetae Savannah, Ga.—President R. R. Wright of the Georgia State Industrial College and of the Georgia Colored State Fair has been advised by A. F. Jackson, immigration agent of the Central of Georgia Railway, that the railroad will offer five prizes for the fair to be given as prizes to colored boys raising the greatest amountfof corn on an acre. The first prize will be a $60 cow, and the four other prizes will be sows valued at $25. No two prizes will be given in the same county and the con- testants are limited to counties through which the Central Railway passes, The Georgia State Industrial Col- lege also offers a scholarship to any boy under 18 years of age for the best acre of corn raised inside the state. ‘The scholarship includes board and all expenses. The Fair Association offers a prize of $100 to any boy in any county in the state for the best acre of corn. The fair will be held in Macon Nov 616 TROUBLESOME, “My husband has given me a check- ing account.” ‘Isn't that lovely? Now you can buy anything you want and just write out a check for it.” “Yes, I'm rather sorry on one ac count, though. 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Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway, not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Display advertising 25 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. 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 LET US DO OUR DUTY Have you ever thought of how much it would mean to yourself and to others if you would just resolve to do your duty? Duty is the debt you owe for citizenship, protection and privilege; if you want these to be kept free and untrammeled then we ought to do our duty. Duty is a graver term than obligation and should receive the more allegiance. The progressive, clear-sighted, colored citizens of the City and County of Denver have important duties to perform this spring at the primaries and precinct caucuses. The selection of officers and the proper delegates to the conventions determines the kind of nominees we may expect on the ticket. The time to think of the harvest is after you have cleared the ground, broken the soil and planted the seed. If you don't do your duty before the harvest, there will be no harvest. This law is as true in politics as it is in nature. We admit we can not do much alone. There must be numbers acting together to secure results. To do your duty then is to convince others of the justice of your position and the necessity of making their service and vote count for the party and the race. Every additional voter that you interest and secure to co-operate for the cause you help forward the movement for justice to the Negro just so much. There are three places where your full duty ought to be done, i.e., the primaries, the convention and the polls, and the one grand insignia of your sovereignty at these crucial stages of citizenship is the ballot. The Citizens with their ballots have built up this city and state just as carpenters and masons have built it with their tools, and it remains for them to keep it in a healthy condition by their continued interest in the state's welfare. This interest is determined by the way and manner in which you do your duty. THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. The case of William H. Lewis, assistant United States attorney general, whose election to membership in the American Bar Association about a year ago, is now sought to be rescinded "because he is a colored man," has served to bring a great deal of surprised attention to this representative body of American lawyers, because of its unexpected demonstration of subservience to a principle which has no legitimate place in civil law, or any of its institutions, anywhere in the world. Everybody knows, of course, that petty courts are often presided over by magistrates and judges whose judgments, passed upon the rights of classes, are based more upon personal prejudices than upon law or a fair sense of justice, but it is always a shock when a state supreme court adopts such procedure, and a source of consternation when the highest court in the land shows any disposition to controvert or distort fundamental law. The American Bar Association is not a court, but in a sense it occupies or seeks to occupy, a position above all courts. Its object is the perfection of the nation's legal system through the advancement of just laws and scientific principles, and it cannot properly and consistently entertain any idea or approach any conviction contradictory of such aims. The prejudices of individuals have no proper place in the laws of a nation so big and professing to be so free as the United States professes to be. The peculiar jurisprudence of the South deserves no recognition as a legitimate and permanent force in a national body seeking a perfect national system. In all of these voluntary national bodies there is, of course, a certain social feature, which, however, is entirely incidental. The social feature has no proper bearing upon the main feature involved, and when it comes to the law, or to any other high profession touching the learning and the scientific social progress of the nation, the tendency, or even the proposal, to sacrifice the greater aim upon the altar of the lesser incident, is evidence of a weakness that accounts almost to a perversion of moral worth and good intent on the part of the proponents. It is more than painful to reflect that the American Bar Association (or, rather, its executive committee) has taken such an extreme step as to attempt to expel a member only because he is colored. He occupies one of the highest legal positions in the land, and is fit for any legal associations. He might be of some practical value to the American Bar Association, and perhaps he is capable of imparting some knowledge of real value to many of its members. Brains and legal acumen are not now monopolized by the white American. But the colored American realizes, more and more every day, that his appeal to the white American to do himself justice is one which has an almost endless course to run. Midway Theatre 1946 Larimer St. 18-20 Larimer the Very Best Pictures Made program Every Day. We Strive ing Men Bring Your Families. ALWAYS 5 CENTS. nday Features ANNEX 2118-20 Larimer Showing Three Reels of the Very Best Pictures Made Complete Change of Program Every Day. We Strive to Please All. Laboring Men Bring Your Families. ADMISSION ALWAYS 5 CENTS. Special Sunday Features MIDWAY ANNEX NAIRE COWBOY) and (WILLIE) ST Western Comedies ever Produced. (THE MILLIONAIRE COWBOY) and (WILLIE) Two of the BEST Western Comedies ever Produced. O. SHER GROCERIES PHONE 4845 2357-59 LARIMER STREET STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1911 AND COMMENTS CATEGORIZE OF AUTHORITY GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LTD. of Perth, Scotland. Assets ..... $2,743,935.68 Liabilities ..... 1,996,810.60 Deposit capital ..... 450,000.00 Suspension ..... 497,125.08 U. S. branch, 55 John St., New York City. COLLISION STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR 2014 AND FEBRUARY 2015 2014, 113 Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd, a corporation organized under the laws of the Kingdom of Great Britain whose principal office is located at Perth, Scotland, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and authorized the company to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions required by the law until the last of February. In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. In testimony whereof, I, W. L. Clayton, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, hereby my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1912. (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance. EDWIN STARKEY. Deputy. Published in the Colorado Statesman by authority of Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1911 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE AUTHORIZED BY PITTSBURG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF Pittsburgh, Penn. Assets $560,833.49 Liabilities $183,825.95 Capital 200,000.00 STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR OF FEBRUARY 28TH, 1913 Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the Pittsburgh P.I. Insurance company, corporation organization under laws of Pennsylvania, whose principal office is located at Pittsburgh, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State to have a Dumbo to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with the laws of this State to have an Incorporation, within the State of Colorado subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February. In the year of our Lord one thousand and one hundred and sixty-seven. In testimony whereof, I. W. L. Clayton, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1912. W. L. CLAYTON, (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance. EDWIN STARK, Deputy. Published in the Colorado Statesman by authority of Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 19, 2014 OFFICE WITH THE Office of Commission of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that The Union Health and Accident Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Colorado has principal office is located at Denver, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to manage the requirements of the law, until the law of Colorado is in force in year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. In testimony whereof, I, W. L. Clayton, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. H. 1922. (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance, EDWIN STARKEY, Deputy. Published in the Colorado Statesman by authority of Commissioner of Insurance. J. H. BIGGINS Furniture Repairing and Upholstering. All work Cash. PHONE YORK 5566 2231 Washington St. Denver. --- For Rent—Nicely, modern-furnished rooms. Apply Mrs. T. Edwards, 2929 High street. Five-room house for rent, 320 24th street. Apply at 1824 Curtis street, Room 25. Three unfurnished rooms for rent. Mrs. Laura Gunnell, 1226 Champa street. Phone Olive 1208. FOR RENT—A nice modern front room; gentleman preferred. Apply Mrs. N. Dean, 2218 Clarkson street, phone York 6121. Fort Rent—Three nice unfurnished rooms. Apply 2929 Glenarm Place. NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY Estate of John H. Wilson, Deceased, appointed administratrix of the state of John H. Wilson, late of the City and County of Denver, in the State of colo- rnia, in the county of Colorado, she will appear before the County Court of said City and County of Denver, at the Court House in Denver, in said county, in said county of Colorado, in April, A. D. 1912, at the time of 9:30 o.clock a. m., of said day, at which time all persons having claims against the estate are requested to make attendance for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make attendance for the purpose of having Dated at Denver, Colorado, this 25th day of March, A. D. 1912. CARRY WILSON, Administratrix of the Estate of John H. Wilson, Deceased. FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HARSH, KINNY OR CURLY HAIR GLOSSY, SOFTER AND MORE PLABLE, EASY TO GMB AND PUP UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT UNEXCELED FOR PREVENTING HAIR FROM FALLING OUT DANORUFU AND TICHING OF SCALE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE. PUP UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE SKY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE TRY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCELLED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLES. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. 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Sale of Easter Millinery ALL NEXT WEEK 3 large floors and basement filled to overflow with everything new and beautiful in Grimmed Hats, Street Hats, Sailors, Untrimmed Hats, Flowers, Ornaments, Laces, Strawbraids and Wire Frames The CAPITOL BREWING COMPANY 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. SEWED HALF SOLES 60 cts. and 75 cts. HENRY WARNECKE, President MADAM M. A. HOLLY Manufacturer Of Madam Holly's Wonderful Hair Grower PHONE CHAMPA 2561 2118 ARAPAHOE STREET. THE SEWING MACHINE SHOE REPAIRING 1023 EIGHTEENTH ST. WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED TELEPH THE CAPIT REPA SEWED HALF SQN HENRY W 1511 CHAMPA STREET FIRST TREATMENT $1.50 OTHER TREATMENTS EACH $1.00 RATES BY THE MONTH REPAIRING DONE WHILE YOU WAIT TY SHOE CO. and 75 cts. udent DENVER, COLO. oil 60 CENTS DISCOUNT TO CUSTOMERS TREATED 10 CENTS THE COLORADO STATESMAN Dr. McClain and family have moved to 822 32nd street. Through the leadership of Mrs. na McPherson a little band of Ch ```markdown ``` Dr. Dennis of Pueblo spent several days in the city this week. Mr. Johnson, proprietor of the Palmer hotel, is slightly indisposed. Editor M. B. Brooks of Pueblo war in the city Monday on business. Mrs. Lillian Horn, of 1822 Arapahoe street, who has been very ill, is slowly improving. Pete Brumdage, for several years with Frazier & Lewis is not expected to live. Miss Tillie Randolph, one of our prominent young ladies, will leave the city next week for California. Coming Event, May 1.—Sisters of Charity, third anniversary, Eureka hall. Mrs. Anna B. Dawson left Tuesday evening for Galveston, Texas, to live with her son, Dr. L. D. Davis. D. B. Faw was in the city the first of last week from Estes Park, to see his brother, who is ill at Mercy hospital. Claybourne Smith, better known as "Tennessee," is suffering from a nervous attack and is at the County hospital. We are glad to note that quite a few of our people are beginning to prepare their lawns and beautify their homes. THE TIME! Easter Monday night, April 8th. THE PLACE! Eureka hall. 2235 Arapahoe street. Best music. Best floor. Refreshments and in fact just "OODLES" of fun. It is the biggest thing in 1912. Mrs. Thrower, wife of Sergt. Thrower of Ft. Russell, Wyo., who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Thrower several weeks, returned to her home last week. The Y. M. C. B. Fair, Carnival and Indoor Track Meet given at Shorter's Tuesday and Wednesday evening of this week proved a grand success and a goodly sum realized. When in need of auto service, don't forget Gasaway Walton. He has a new up-to-date car. Special rates for parties and balls. Stand 19th and Market streets. Phone Main 5038. Buy your Easter dinner from the Tesch grocery and market, 2601 Lafayette street. Phone York 1979. Fresh vegetables, strawberries and spring lamb are some of the specials for today. A very pleasant time was spent with Mr. and Mrs. Batts of 1050 Logan avenue, Tuesday evening of last week, where a few of their friends met to enjoy themselves. Dainty refreshments were served. A Spring ball and banquet will be given at Eureka hall Friday evening, April 12. Don't miss this grand Spring ball. Webster's full orchestra will furnish the music and Prof. Holley's trio will sing while supper is served. Admission 50 cents. Supper free. The Mount Olive Baptist church was organized last Sunday with 18 members. Rev. Geo. Williams, pastor, Mrs. I. H. Harper, mother of the church. The ordination sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Williams of Oklahoma City. The churches represented were Central, Zion and Antioch. Covenant meeting next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. SCOTT M. E. CHURCH NOTES. The decoration committee, which was read out Sunday are determined to make this a record breaking year for beauty and artistic arrangements of the church. Come out and see how well they have done their work. Special Easter sermon will be preached in the morning. The choir will render a musical program in the evening. The Junior choir will render their program just after the morning service. Mrs. Julia Murdock of Hot Springs, Ark., deposited her merbership in Scott's Sunday evening. Through the leadership of Mrs. Anna McPherson a little band of Christians visited the bedside of Mr. Vernon and held prayer services last Sunday afternoon. The Ladies Aid Society served a very successful dinner last Thursday. The election of officers will take place Thursday afternoon, April 11th. All members are urged to be present. The Missionary Society will render a special program on the last Sunday evening in this month. Mrs. Claudie Pash is getting up a spicy program. Mrs. A. C. Peck will be one of the speakers for this occasion. Miss Rice and Mrs. Florstein Dooley are on the sick list this week. The Epworth League, under its new arrangement, will be led by Miss Lela Rice during the month of April. Mrs. Luella Williams had charge of the programs during the month of March. The meetings were filled with interest and inspiration under this very able and faithful leader. Miss Rice will lead Sunday, after which one from her department will be appointed to lead. The Five Points Literary Society will be a reality soon. This society will be organized under the literary department of the Epworth League. Mrs. Ada Castry and her faithful corps of workers are responsible for the new life injected into the League's Sunday services. The Brotherhood will find a cordial welcome to Scott's when that excellent organization begins its monthly meeting with this church. The pastor has been requested to make the address of the afternoon of the 14th. We especially urge the men of Scott's to be present and of course it goes without saying that all men are urged to come. THE ANTLERS GOLD MINING AND MILLING COMPANY. The Antlers Gold Mining and Milling Company, located in the Hahn's Peak mining district in Routt county, met Wednesday afternoon at the office of The South Western Land and Brokerage Co., 1726 Broadway and elected Joseph D. D. Rivers vice-president and director of the company, the other officers are Andrew J. Smith, president, and Niels P. Johnson, secretarq. The Antlers company has about 200 acres of placer ground and eleven lode claims, in all 310 acres of ground with a large deposit of free milling ore. The metals are free gold and native silver, gold predominating. One hundred thousand shares have been placed on the market at the small price of 10 cents per share. If you are not able to pay the whole amount you wish to invest, you can pay one-fifth down and the balance in monthly installments. For further particulars call on A. J. Smith, 837 Acoma street, or the South Western Land and Brokerage Company, 1726 Broadway. THE CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER (EPISCOPAL.) Twenty-second Avenue and Humboldt Street. The Rev. Henry B. Brown, B.D., Priest. The bishop of the diocese, the Rt. Rev. Charles Olmsted, D.D., made his first visitation to the Church of the Redeemer since the new priest, Father Brown, took charge on Friday evening last, and delivered an excellent and interesting sermon, the season of "Lent" furnishing a suitable theme. His pleasure at the general improved condition of the church was tersely voiced by him in these words. "The Church of the Redeemer is now alive." And that statement fully and accurately describes the condition. That is the greatful expression of the hearts of all the members, visitors and friends of the church. This improved condition is seen in every direction. 'On entering the church it will be noted that the chance has been recently enlarged to accommodate the choir, this giving a more dignified and churchly appearance to the building. The choir, too, have been vested, and they made their initial appearance on Sunday last. They will be inducted into office at the beginning of the morning service on Easter day. The congregation beat the record last Sunday in point of numbers, and the wise ones are already talking about building a new church to accommodate the growing congregation. We shall need it in the near future. Already one of our prominent men members has voluntarily and generously promised the first $100 to the building fund. Next, if you please. And so let its good work go on. Ten persons received the sacrament of Holy Baptism at the impressive service last Sunday morning. There were some delightful surprises among the candidates, and it shows that Lent, the revival season of the church, is bearing fruit. To God be the glory. The members are acting on the advice of their Priest to "come early in order to secure their accustomed seats." They did so to such an extent last Sunday morning that they almost crowded out the Sunday school, which is held in the church. This is not, however, by way of criticism. Come along. That's the way to do it. Come early to church. God cannot be pleased with tardy worshippers. You will need to come very early on Sunday, Easter Day, and be ready to join in the first note of the Processional hymn, when the vested choir march through the main entrance, up the aisle of the church to their new position in the chancel, with the Crucifer learning the way. The early celebration of the Holy Eucharist will take place at 6 o'clock in the morning. The choir will make their corporate communion at that hour. The Sunday school will meet at 9:45 a. m. They will render their Easter Day programme at 3:30 p. m. The children will present their Lenten offering for missions at this service. Choral Solemn mass will be celebrated at 11 o'clock, preceded by shortened morning prayer. The sermon subject will be "Christ Our Passover." All the adjuncts to worship that the church directs will be in use. Choral Evensong and sermon will be held in the evening at a quarter of eight o'clock. The confirmation class is growing nu numbers. Four were added to the list last week. The coming week will be the last to receive candidates for the confirmation to be held on the 28th of April. If you are still undecided, you had better make up your mind now. The class meets every Sunday evening at 6:30 immediately before the evening service. The Brotherhood of the Church of the Redeemer will make their corporate communion at noon. The special Easter Day offerings are to defray the cost of the recent improvements, as well as to meet the apportionment for diocesan and general missions. The amount of your offerings, too, will indicate the extent of your appreciation of your temporal and spiritual blessings. "ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY" is the mark. Keep it in mind. Easter Day promises to be a "High Day." Have you found the church home you were in search of? Perhaps the Easter Day's services will help you to decide. Don't miss them. We are ready to welcome you, together with the twenty who have already been received into the church by holy baptism during the past month. The next class is being prepared for the evening of Low Sunday, the 14th inst. All are cordially invited and heartily welcomed to these services. THE ANTLER'S GOLD MINING AND MILLING COMPANY PROPERTY IN ROUTT COUNTY, COLODOR. The property of the Antler's Gold Mining, and Milling Company consists of about 200 acres of placer ground and eleven lode claims, in all 310 acres of ground with a large deposit of free filling ore. The metals are free gold and native silver. The gold is predominating. Assays can be picked to run up into the thousands; samples can be picked from the ore that are more than half gold, but the average value cannot be properly determined until the ore can be extracted from greater depth and tested by the car lot. The surface ores, as nearly as can be determined with their present developments, will average between $15 and $20 a ton. The company is going to install a complete plant of machinery in the spring of 40-horse power capacity and sink the main shaft to find the quality and quantity of the ore at considerable depth, and as soon as the mine will justify it, the company will erect a mill to treat the ore at the mine. The ore deposit on the surface is twenty-six feet wide and can be traced for a distance of 1,400 feet, and I am not afraid to say that in a short time will be able to prove the Antler's to be as good a mine as any in this state. The "Antler's" mine is situated in the Hahn's Peak Mining District, in the county of Routt and state of Colorado, and is the main source of the placer gold in that district. The Hahn's Peak placer was first discovered in the 60's and a great deal of gold was taken out of the gulches by panning and rocking, and later on a hydraulic plant was erected by J. B. Farwell of Chicago, and a great deal of gold has been taken out, but only a small percentage of what exists in the ground yet that can be taken out with a large profit. For the last thirty-five years continuous prospecting has been carried on and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent in the search for the source of the placer gold. I came to Hahn's Peak in the spring of 1881, and seeing all the course gold and nuggets taken from the placer I took the gold fever and, together with others, we started the first tunnel in the district to find the lode from where the gold came; but, like many others, we met with continuous failures. Placer gold can be found on all sides of Hahn's Peak, but the most extensive placer is on the south side, and, therefore, all prospecting has been carrier on on that side, but in the meantime a party of prospectors from Rawlins, Wyoming, came through the country and found some float on the north side of the mountain which assayed $7,000 in gold. Another party, from Denver, found float in the same vicinity assaying $44,000 in gold. Later on Mr. P. C. Coryell of New Castie did some placer mining at the head of Little Red Park, and through it I found the gold was going up the mountain in the vicinity where the richest floats were found. I started to follow the gold up the hill until I got on top of a Flat Top mountain, where the Antler's is now located. But I was not through, my discovery was not completed. I have, since that time, spent eight years and $9,000 dollars to find the ore in place. The ore body is now cut at a depth of fifty-five feet from the surface in place and in a fairly solid position. See what Mr. Newton, editor of the Daily Mining Record and one of the best mining experts, has to say about it: I have now formed the Antier's Gold Mining and Milling Company with a capitalization of 3,000 shares of stock of the par value of $1 per share and non-assessable. There is only one kind of stock; 100,000 shares of the stock I call capital stock, and 200,000 shares are placed in the treasury for development, machinery, mill and general expenses. No salaries are paid to officers except for actual services. I am only holding 15,000 shares of stock; 85,000 shares are sold to small hard working business men in Denver at 50 cents per share, part cash, and the balance I am to take out of the dividends on the stock held by them until paid, 50 cents per snare, which will give me $42,500 in cash for the mine. Now the company is offering 50,000 shares of the stock at 10 cents per share, and possibly a few shares will be offered with a raise of 5 to 10 cents per share to raise the necessary money to install a small plant of machinery and to do the necessary development on the mine to justify the installment of a mill. Now, at the present time this stock is too cheap for the millionaires, and we are not hunting them now, but we will try to have the mine properly opened up by September next, and by the showing we now have the stock should be considerably above par, perhaps $2 per share. Then is the time to draw the attention of capital, now, in the meantime, while this 10-cent stock is on the market, if you have a hundred or two dollars, and not enough to make a start in any kind of business, read this well over until you understand it correctly, and figure for yourself what an investment of $100 is liable to bring you in one year, and, take it on the other hand, with the capitalization of 300,000 shares it is nothing big to expect a dividend of $2 per share annually, which will give $2,000 a year on an investment of $100. If you have not got the amount of money you would like to invest in this stock, send us one-fifth of the amount you want to invest and pay the balance by June 1, 1912. We will receipt you for what money you pay, and if something should come in your way that you are not able to pay up in full by June 1, then we will issue stock to you for the amount paid. This is straight and a square, honest way for all, and we are going to continue business in that way. If you are in the city, call at our office, 887 Acoma street, and see some of the ore from the mine and let us tell you all about it. ANDREW J. SMITH, President and General Manager. KARL M. HANSEN, Vice President. NIELS P. JOHNSON, Secretary and Treasurer. The Daily Mining Record of Denver, under date of July 15, 1911, gives the following article: GOLD STRIKE ON THE ANDREW SMITH IS IMPORTANT. The excitement attending the recent developments at the Royal Flush did not have time to subside before attention was again directed to Hahn's Peak by a big gold strike made by Andrew Smith on the north side and over toward Little Red Park. I blazed a trail over the fallen timber on the shoulder of the peak from the Royal Flush to the Andrew Smith property, and spent a little time with Mr. Smith and his hard-working wife, who, by the way, has been assisting her husband in the actual mining operations. Andrew Smith owns a ranch on the road to Three Forks, but he has had the gold fever for many years, and 'tis said has mortgaged his ranch that he might dig for the stuff which would make him wealthier and in short time if he could but strike it right. With his wife, he has worked hard and faithfully, enduring privations together, but from what I saw and learned they have their reward in what looks like a bonanza. The old German and his Swedish wife received us hospitably, incidentally refreshing us after our hard climb with home-made cider, brewed of dried apples and yeast. The Andrew Smith properties here have been pretty well burrowed with tunnels and open cuts, and a shaft put down to a depth of 56 feet. The shaft cut an ore body, which was 26 feet on its dip, and the material is so solid that—well, I am glad that I do not have to drill in it. It is a quartzite, with conglomerates that showed a fine string of colors from the panning which Mr. Smith made for us. Large chunks of this ore, he said, had assayed four and one-half ounces gold, with silver values ranging from 40 to 80 ounces to the ton. He told me of having found wire silver, and of a gold assay of $1,200 from a piece of sandstone. STRIKE WILL HAVE BEARING UPON FUTURE OPERATIONS. I don't think that Mr. Smith will bother himself much about whether his find is in place—at least, not for the time being. He has a big deposit in sight, and which should yield into the tens of thousands. It looks like a permanent find, if we are to judge by the solid character and splendid appearance of the rock, and certainly the values should please the most particular. Here's luck to you, Andrew Smith, and I hope you make a million! 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EASTER HATS DECREASE IN NEGRO SCHOOL CHILDREN REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION OF MISSOURI SHOWS 2,268 LESS COLORED CHILDREN ATTENDED SCHOOL IN 1911 THAN IN 1910. Statistics compiled by William P. Evans, state superintendent of public schools of Missouri, for his forthcoming annual report, shows the number of negro children of school age decreased 2,268 between July 1, 1910, and July 1, 1911. An examination of the annual reports upon the public schools of Missouri for a number of years back reveal there has been a steady decrease in the number of negro children enumerated. The report for 1910 shows 42,899, while Mr. Evan's report, now under compilation, gives but 40,631. The state superintendent does not know what to make of this condition. He said today it either indicates an exodus of negro residents from Missouri or the race is decreasing. The large cities show no increase in negro children of school age, either, and the report for 1910 indicated none. The decrease for the school year ending July 1, 1911, is approximately five per cent. of the total number. The total enumeration of white children for 1911 was 934,873 of whom 475,163 were boys and 459,710 girls. The total enumeration, including negro children, was 975,504, against 1,003,434 in 1910. This decrease was largely due to the heavy slump at St. Joseph, where the enumeration dropped off approximately 23,000. St. Joseph received school money upon the basis of over 42,000 school children in 1910. The new enumeration gives fewer than 20,000. Mr. Evans held up moneys for St. Joseph to compel the authorities there to refund approximately $40,000 which the city received last year in excess of the amount to which it was entitled under the new school census. A suit to determine his right is now pending in the Supreme court. Missouri has 10,105 school districts of which 732 had an enumeration of less than 20; 1,584, an enumeration of between 20 and 30; 3,917, from 30 to 40; 2,542, from 50 to 80, and 1,320, an enumeration in excess of 80. These figures indicate the need of consolidation, Mr. Evans says. The small districts are able to maintain school less than six months and to pay teachers low wages. A law authorizing the consolidation of school districts was enacted last winter. Few districts have taken advantage of this law, however. Another measure empowering such consolidated districts to provide for free transportation of children was also enacted. Consolidation of districts and the transportation of children have been agitated by the State Teachers' association and superintendents for many years, but with little results. There was expended for teachers' wages for the school year ending July 1, 1911, $7,952,661.56. The total amount of money paid into that fund was $9,153,356.82. The salaries paid teachers is ridiculously low, when the increase in cost of living is considered. The average salary of male teachers in 1911 was $60.51 a month, while that for women was but $55.53 a month. The average earnings of male teachers annually was approximately $467 and that of women about $415. The poorest paid laborer would earn more than this sum if regularly employed. The total number of men employed at teaching in 1911 was 4,767, of whom 247 were negroes. There were 13,779 women employed as teachers, of whom 518 were colored. The average levv for school purposes was 56 cents on $100 valuation, as against 53 for 1910. There were 41 districts in Missouri which made no tax levy, 109 levled less than 20 cents, 785 levled between 20 and 40 cents, 3,181 levled 40 cents, while 5,989 levled over 40 cents on the $100 valuation. The average daily attendance last school year was 488,619. This is about half of the total enumeration. The average length of school term was 155 days. Sixty schools maintained less than four months; 746 between four and six months; 5,343 eight months or more. The average daily attendance was under 10 in 726, from 10 to 15 in 1,587 districts, 15 to 20 in 3,791, 25 to 40 in 2,464 and 40 or more in 1,395 districts. Nearly one-third of the teachers of Missouri taught on third-grade county certificates in 1911. There were 5,257 with third grade county certificates, 4,078 with second grade, 3,850 with first grade, 817 with Normal certificates, 936 with Normal diplomas, 412 with limited state certificates and 505 with life state certificates. Some important changes were made in the certificates of teachers by the last legislature. Under a law the state superintendent examines the papers written before county superintendents by applicants for first-grade county certificates. These, when granted, are good in any county in Missouri, when properly indorsed There was expended in Missouri for the school year ending July 1, 1911, $2,341,803.21 for new school buildings. How much of this sum was expended in the country is not known, but was probably less than 10 per cent. Estimated value of school property is $39,643,400. The public school districts have an aggregate bonded indebtedness of $10,256,829. The low valuation of property for taxation, Mr. Evans says, is largely responsible for the unsatisfactory condition of rural schools. Under the system of assessing property in Missouri the small districts while voting the maximum of taxes are rendered unable to procure enough money to conduct a creditable school. The legislature enacted a law providing for state aid for weak districts, but this rendered but little service. The solution of the difficulty, he believes, to be consolidation. The figures compiled upon the number of schools with an enumeration of fewer than 20 is an eloquent argument for larger districts. Mr. Evans and the State Teachers' association and the county superintendents of county schools are advocating the adoption of an amendment for the state constitution, levying a tax of one mill upon all property, this to be divided equally between the public schools, normals, and state university. SCIENTIFIC FARMING BY NEGROES REPORTS OF RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT STATION IN SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, CONDUCTED BY R. W. WESTBERRY, COUNTY DEMONSTRATOR IN CHARGE OF WORK AMONG NEGRO FARMERS. Many different varieties of cotton and corn were planted on a farm at Horatio, S. C., to determine which would make the best yield. The several plots were planted in one field so as to give each about the same grade of land. Among the different varieties of cotton mentioned, the Bates is the most favored, the yield of lint was 41 per cent. The Moneymaker made the largest amount of seed cotton, but the lint was only 34 per cent. The Russell big boll makes the finest lint of any of the short staple cotton. The Columbia long staple was planted near the experiment station, June 1, after oats, a little more than two acres was planted, and the amount of seed cotton gathered from the same was 1,524 pounds, lint cotton 510 pounds. The amount paid for the lint was $73.50. The seed are being sold for $1.50 per bushel, which will amount to about $45.00, making a total of $118.50 for one bale of long staple cotton nand seed. It would be a good idea if the farmers plant a portion of their farms with the good varieties of long staple cotton. There are factories in South Carolina that use no other cotton but the long staple, and whenever South Carolina farmers cannot supply the demands, it is ordered from other places. Cotton coming in from foreign markets is very likely to bring pests into the state that would be very injurious to our cotton crops, such as boll weevil and diseases, that have been kept out of the state thus far. The names of the different varieties of corn were: Dr. Simms, Mariboro Prolific, Strawberry, Hurson, Aldrich Perfection, Sanders Improved, Jerry Moore and Charlie Sanders. The number of bushels made per acre by each were as follows: Dr. Simms, 45 bushels. Marlborough Prolific, 43½ busels. Strawberry, 49 bushels. Hudson, 49 bushels. Aldrich Perfection, 40½ bushels. Sanders Improved, 49½ bushels. Charlie Sanders, 38½ bushels. Jerry Moore, 70 bushels. The Hudson variety is not a good seed for this section of the state, the weevils were in abundance on this plot. It is an early field variety, having matured nearly two weeks earlier than the other varieties. The Jerry Moore variety proved to be much heavier than the other, while Dr. Simms' was more prolific. Charley Sanders variety has a great deal of nutrition, it will not decay or rot, as easy as the other varieties, and the corn weevils do not affect it as much. The experiment station will be planted in the same plot this year with reference to the use of fertilizer. W. R. WESTBERRY, Sumter County Agricultural Agent, Sumter, S. C. HIS MANNERS. "You see that man across the way?" "Yes; what of him?" "I saw him puffing away lately in a room full of ladies." "Did they allow it?" "Certainly. He was dressing their hair."—Baltimore American. HENSON'S BOOKS ON TRIP TO THE POLE (From the New York Sun.) One of the most interesting of the spring's authors from many points of view is Matthew Henson, whose book, "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole," contains the only personal account other than Peary's that will ever be written of the climax of the expedition. It is significant, as Peary has said, that several races were represented on the day of the discovery. "It is an interesting fact," he said, "that in the final conquest of the 'prize of the centuries' not alone individuals but races were represented. On that bitter brilliant day in April, 1909, when the Stars and Stripes floated at the north pole Caucasian, Ethiopian and Mongolian stood side by side at the apex of the earth in the harmonious companionship resulting from hard work, exposure, danger and a common object. "Henson, son of the tropics, has proven through years his ability to stand tropical, temperate and the fiercest stress of frigid climate and exposure, while on the other hand, it is well known that the inhabitants of the highest north, and hardy as they are to the rigors of their own climate, succumb very quickly to the vagaries of even a temperate climate. 'Is it a difference in physical fibre or in brain and will power or is the difference in the climatic conditions themselves?' Henson, the author, who throughout his good luck shows a love and knowledge of good books surprising when one considers his limited advantages and the restrictions imposed by his 20 years of hardships in exploration, does not in appearance show an evidence of extreme hardihood. Though virile enough to reach the pole with Peary, he is no huge Jack Johnson nor anything resembling him, but a smallish, quiet, observant sort of man. He is well knit, quick of movement and clear of eye—like a trained runner. He wears eyeglasses, carries himself like a competent though modest man of affairs and shows an efficiency and ease coming from long association with big men. There were always a few books along on the exploring expeditions, and no one made better use of them than did Peary's Negro companion. He tells of the little library on board the Roosevelt during the last polar journey. "Out on the ice of the polar ocean," he says, "as far as reading matter went, I think Dr. Goodsell had a very small set of Shakespeare, and I know that I had a Holy Bible. The others who went out on the ice may have had reading matter with them, but they did not read it out loud, and so I am not in a position to say what their literary tastes were. "But on board ship there was quite an extensive library, especially on Arctic and Antarctic topics, but as it was in the commander's cabin it was not heavily patronized. In my own cabin I had Dickens's 'Bleak House,' Kipling's 'Barrack Room Ballads,' and the poems of Thomas Hood; also a copy of the Holy Bible which had been given to me by a dear old lady in Brooklyn. I also had Peary's book, 'Northward Over the Great Ice,' and his last work 'Nearest the Pole.' "During the long dreary midnights of the arctic winter I spent many a pleasant hour with my books. I also took along with me a calendar for the years 1908 and 1909, for in the regions of noonday darkness and midnight daylight, a calendar is absolutely necessary. But mostly I had rougher things than reading to do." In his book the English used by this Negro, who had only six years of schooling in his life, shows the influence of his constant reading of classical literature. It has been said that there is no better cultivator of a literary style than the Bible, and the work of Henson would seem to bear the statement out. Shakespeare is there, too, seemingly unconsciously on the author's part. For instance: "We forced the dogs," he writes, "and they took it on the run, the ice undulating beneath them the same as it does when little wanton boys play at tickey benders, often with serious results, on the newly formed ice on ponds and brooks down in civilization. Our tickey benders were not done in the spirit of play, but on account of urgent necessity." "He died alone, he passed into the great unknown alone, bravely and honorably," he writes with Biblical simplicity and repetition of the death of Prof. Marvin. "He is the last of earth's great martyrs; he is home, his work is done, he is where he longed to be, the sailor is home in the sea. It is sad to write this. He went back to his death, drowned in the cold black water of the Big Lead. In unmarked, unmarbled grave, he sleeps his last, long sleep." "Having no poetry in my soul," he says in a description of northernmost Grant Land, "and being somewhat hardened by years of experience in that un hospitable country, words proper to give you an idea of its unique beauty do not come to mind. "Imagine gorgeous bleakness, beautiful blankness. It never seems broad, bright day, even in the middle of June. and the sky has the different effects of the varying hours of morning and evening twilight from the first to the last peep of day. Early in February, at noon, a thin band of light appears far to the southward, heralding the approach of the sun, and daily the twilight lengthens, until early in March, the sun, a flaming disk of fiery crimson, shows his distorted image above the horizon. "The south sides of the lofty peaks have for days reflected the glory of the coming sun, and it does not require an artist to enjoy the unexampled spendor of the view. The snows covering the peaks show all of the colors, variations and tones of the artist's palette and more. Artists have gone with us into the arctic and I have heard them rave over the wondrous beauties of the scene and I have seen them at work trying to reproduce some of it with good results, but with nothing like the effect of the original. 'It is color run riot.' "To the northward all is dark and the brighter stars of the heavens are still visible, but growing fainter daily with the strengthening of the sunlight. "When the sun finally gets above the horizon and swings his daily circle the color effects grow less and less, but then the sky and cloud effects improve and the shadows in the mountains and clefts of the ice show forth their beauty, cold blues and grays, the bare patches of the land rich browns, and the whiteness of the snow is dazzling. "Above us the sky is blue and bright, bluer than the sky of the Mediterranean, and the clouds, from the silk cirrus mare's tails to the fantastic and heavy cumulus, are always objects of beauty. This is the description of fine weather." The closing paragraph of the Negro explorer's record is particularly interesting, for into it he weaves two of his favorite authors, Shakespeare and Kipling. "And now my story is ended; it is a tale that is told," he writes. "Now is Othello's occupation gone.' I long to see them all again, the brave, cheery companions of the trail of the north. I long to see again the lithe figure of my commander and to hear again his clear ringing voice urging and encouraging me onward with his 'Well done, my boy.' I want to be with the party when they reach the untrodd shores of Crocker Land. I yearn to be with those who reach the south pole; the lure of the arctic is tugging at my heart; to me the trail is calling. "'The old trail!' The trail that is always new!" Matt Henson was born in Charles county, Maryland, in 1866, and his mother dying when he was seven, he attended the N street school in Washington for six years while making his home with his uncle in that city. He began life as a cabin boy on an ocean steamship and before he met Peary he had already made a voyage to China. He was eighteen when he met the arctic explorer and he has been his companion for, twenty-three years. During that time he acquired a knowledge of books and got a practical understanding of everything that is a necessary part of daily life in the ice-bound wildernesses of polar exploration. He was at times a blacksmith, a carpenter and a cook. He became thoroughly acquainted with the life, customs and language of the Eskimos. He himself built the sledges with which the journey to the pole was successfully completed. He could not only drive a dog team or skin a musk ox, but was something of a navigator as well. He made himself not only one of the most trusted but also the most useful member of the expedition. JOHNSON FIGURES FLYNN A SOFT MARK St. Louis—"A good little man can't beat a good big man," chirped Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, when we asked him how he sized up his coming battle with Fireman Jim Flynn. Johnson picks himself to win. He believes it will be via the knockout route, although he claims he can't predict how far the contest will progress. But while he admits that he classes himself as a better man than the Brooklyn fighter, he says Flynn may be able to put up a good argument. "Flynn, to my way of thinking, is the best of the present crop of white hopes," continued Johnson. "I believe he has it on Morris, Palzer, Wells and Kennedy. That's because he has had more experience than the other men I have named. "But the man whom I regard as the most dangerous of the entire field is Sam McVey. McVey could wallop any of the men in the heavy-weight class today, outside of myself, I believe. "I have seen Morris, Palzer, Kennedy and Wells work. Morris and Palzer may develop into dangerous men in the heavyweight division. But today they are in a crude state. It will require lots of experience to make them finished fighters, and then I believe Morris will be too slow. "Palzer, they tell me, isn't a quick thinker, which is a big handicap for a first-class fighter. 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There is something peculiar in our efforts to cultivate the field of others in a distant clime, when our own territory, under direct supervision, is suffering from neglect. It would be better by far if our energies, in support of domestic missions, were doubled. The fruits derived therefrom would present themselves in realities, such as could be sen and appreciated by those with whom they come in contact. The most thorough preparation is required to perform successful duties in the department of heathendom; and this preparation should be perfected before an undertaking is attempted. It is true, perhaps, that Africa, the greater part, stands in need of redemption; but it is true, likewise, that America, as a whole, cannot boast the intelligence of angels; and if the inhabitants of the Dark Continent are more deeply stupid in ignorance and superstition than many of these surrounding us, their condition is pitiable indeed. The gospel is effective only to those who are sufficiently enlightened to understand its mission—the regulation of conduct between man and man, and a willing obedience to the commands of God. Whatever might be the zeal which prompts activity in missionary pursuits, little of importance, in religious elevation can be accomplished in the absence of intellectual cultivation. Religion may be begotten of belief; but it must be nurtured by practicing the things which savor of righteousness, ere we are properly entitled to lay claim to its possession. This is a point of vital consideration which very many of our Southern neighbors appear to overlook. We believe that ex-Governor Northern is sincere in his advocacy of the spiritual uplift of the negro. We believe he has given his services in earnest endeavor to improve the situation of the race; but there are errors to be corrected and powerful agencies to be combated ere the period of his desired consummation is attained. An educational campaign is necessary as the forerunner of wished-for results; and if those gentlemen who are benignly interested in the welfare of the negro would bestin themselves on this particular subject, much of the opposition which he now encounters would lose its force. There is something of a mystery in our desire for the bestowal of spiritual blessings without the materials necessary to their usage. Benighted souls can better realize the benefits of light after darkness shall have been dispelled. All methods utilized in the regeneration of any people, except those which pass through the channel of enlightened understanding, will avail very little towards uplifting the racial standard.^ These are our opinions concerning ing more of the zeal with which we are affected, regarding those we term our brethren in despair. Should the enthusiasts modify their tactics respecting the negro in Africa and the negro in America, radical changes for good could be wrought within a decade, and wonders now undreamed of would be the reward of labor. We welcome, however, the sympathy and aid of such as the ex-governor's type; for influences such as theirs can do much to lighten the weight of our burdens. "Rev. Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden, who has just died at the age of seventy-nine, was one of the most distinguished members of the negro race, a scholar of notable attainments, a wise statesman and a successful diplomat," comments the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in an informing reference to this eminent personage. "He was born in the Danish island of St. Thomas in the West Indies, of pure negro blood. His early ambition for a liberal education received a setback by the refusal of several American colleges to admit him as a student. This was just after the passage of the fugitive slave law, in 1850. He had intended, after a course of study in this country, to go to Liberia. As it was, he went without waiting, entered the high school in Monrovia, and in the course of time became president of Liberia college. He resigned in 1884 and took up independent work among the Mohammedans of Sierra Leone. He was somewhat proficient in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, but his special field was Arabic. He had the acquaintance of many distinguished scholars and other famous men and was the author of several books and many magazine articles. Hamilton college conferred upon him the degree of A. M., Lafayette the degree of D. D., and Lincoln university the degree of LL. D. Dr. Blyden had served as secretary of state and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of the president of Liberia, in 1862 was commissioner to the United States for Liberia, in 1877-79 was minister to Great Britain, and at one time served the British government as diplomatic agent to make treaties with the powerful Mohammedan and pagan chiefs of central Africa. Dr. Blyden was opposed to a general exodus of American negroes to Liberia, but believed that the migration of skilled workmen and men capable of intellectual leadership would be a good thing. He took a liberal view of race prejudice against the negro in the south, believing it to be due to a natural and proper desire of the whites to keep their racial stock pure." "Governors and other leaders from several southern states recently conferred in Baltimore on labor and industrial conditions in that section. The reawakened south, industrially and agriculturally expanding at a rate unknown since the Civil war, needs labor. There is insistent demand that European immigrants be steered to the south to supply this demand. "The negro is almost ignored in this demand for immigration. He is set down as hopeless, trifling, futile, impossible. But is it safe to rush to that conclusion? "Though the white population of the south is increasing more rapidly than the black, and though every decennial census makes it more clear that there is no possible danger of the black, as once was feared, coming to predominate—despite all this, the fact remains that there are some eleven millions of colored people in the country, and that they cannot be got rid of. There stands the hard fact. "It may be that the negro is not so desirable a worker in factory or field as the immigrant; but if the immigrant takes his place the negro will be left on the hands of society, demanding the means of livelihood, a menace to the community in greater and greater degree just in proportion as the hopelessness of his condition is made more apparent. "If the south's eleven million negroes could be traded off for eleven millions of whites, that would be a solution. But they cannot be. The negroes are there and will stay there. They must be provided for; made as useful as possible; made to support themselves. "To make the most, the best, of its negro workers is the first big duty of the south. It is the most difficult problem before the nation. "It cannot be solved by the effort to drive the negro out; he will not be driven out. He must be looked after, educated in the right way, given a chance to be self-respecting, encouraged to improve his condition."—Hampton's Magazine. There's a man in the world who is never turned down, wherever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers make hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's the welcoming hand—He's the Man Who Delivers the Goods. The failures of life sit around and complain; the gods haven't treated them white; they've lost their umbrellas whenever there's rain; and they haven't their lanterns at night; men tire of the failures who fill with their sighs the air of their own neighborhoods; there's the man who is greeted with love-lighted eyes—he's The Man Who Delivers the Goods. One fellow is lazy, and watches the clock, and waits for the whistle to blow; one has a hammer, with which he will knock, and one tells the story of woe; and one, if requested to travel a mile, will measure the perches and roods; but one does his stunt with a whistle or smile—he's The Man Who Delivers the Goods. One man is afraid he'll labor too hard—the world isn't yearning for such; and one man is ever alert, on his guard, lest he put in a minute too much; and one has a grouch or a temper that's bad, and one is a creature of moods, so it's hey for the joyous and rollicking lad—for The One Who Delivers the Goods!—Old Hickory. In an editorial on "French Exclusion Law," the Washington Post endeavors to show that when a nation becomes exclusive it ceases to grow, but strangely closes with this paragraph: "It is to the benefit of the United States, certainly, to keep her doors open to all healthy white immigrants, of good character." The Post ought not be so exclusive as to use the word "white." Perhaps some day the people of the United States will awaken to the fact that color prejudice has been of incalculable injury to the country.—The Appeal. There are 25,000,000 negroes in the new world, distributed as follows: Thirty thousand in the Dominion of Canada; 10,000,000 in the United States; 5,756,000 in the West Indies; 117,000 in Central America; 60,000 in Venezuela and Colombia; 225,000 in the Guineas; 8,300,000 in Brazil and 90,000 in the remainder of South America. A man's reputation is what his fellow-men think of him; his character is what God knows of him.—Anon. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS. Small Happenings Occurring Over the State Worth While. Western Newspaper Union News Service. John Sprochle has been elected mayor of Black Hawk. A Chautauqua is planned for Greeley, to begin June 22. Work has begun on the new opera house for Idaho Springs. The Fruita canning factory will be in operation again this season. Ward lines in Pueblo have been totally eliminated by the commissioners. Work on the main line of the Missouri Pacific between Pueblo and Kansas City will begin at once. Rocky Ford has a "Hugging Jack" who is causing consternation among the fair sex. Farmers in Weld county have begun their spring work and are plowing for the first time. John Liebinger died at Los Angeles, Cal. He was 38 and lived at Central City most of his life. May Day celebration will be given May 4, on the university campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. More than 2,000 hides of cattle which starved to death on the ranges near Fowler, Colo., were shipped recently. A new electric light system for Greeley will be installed if the franchise asked from the City Council April 16 is granted. The prices of all kinds of beef, increased in price in Denver, the increases ranging from twenty per cent. to fifty per cent. The Colorado Springs Zooz will begin the game this year with the strongest semi-professional team that the city has ever had. Joe Fishencord, a stockman of Greeley, says he was robbed of $50 in currency while traveling between Denver and Greeley. J. W. Ewing received a record price for fat lambs shipped from Greeley this reason when he topped the Chicago market at $8.25. At a meeting of the directors of the Brighton Sugar Company, the proposition of raising sufficient money to build a factory was adopted. The annual report of the coal mining industry of Colorado for 1911 shows that eight lives have been sacrificed for each million tons produced. E. H. Abbott, an original Union Colonist, a resident of Greeley for forty-one years, and the city's first mayor, died at his home in that city. William Neilheise, proprietor of a garage in Boulder had his neck slashed from ear to ear by C. E. Shilver, a barber, following a quarrel. Interest is already aroused over postcard day in Colorado when on May 18 thousands of postcards will be sent out advertising the resources of the state. It has been decided to hold the Jefferson county Democratic convention at Arvada on Saturday, April 20, 1912. The convention will have 190 delegates. Gunnison county took the lead when a group of her woman met at the court house in Gunnison and organized the Gunnison County Women's Good Roads Club. Elias Cohn of Aspen, one of the foremost mining men of the state, died at a hospital in Denver, where he has been ill since last October with malignant cancer of the throat. Denver has been selected as the meeting place of the supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and August 6 to 15 of this year will see, it is estimated, 50,000 members of the order in Denver. Mrs. Elizabeth Ennis, aged ninety-one, a member of a prominent Boulder county family, committed suicide recently by slashing open the arteries in her arms and bleeding to death at her home in Boulder. Jimmy Sullivan, for several years star backstop of the Lincoln team of the Western league and manager of that club two years ago, has been engaged to manage the La Junta team of the Rocky Mountain league. All midwives and other persons practicing obstetrics have been placed under the control of the State Board of Health by an opinion given by the attorney general. It was made on request of Dr. Paul S. Hunter, secretary of the board. To get 18,000 names in two weeks on a petition to initiate a new law is the task set for itself by the Colorado Realty Dealers' Association, which is proposing to reorganize the state bureau of immigration and make it a more active body. Alfalfa hay has long been valued as forage, but a new use has been found for it. Farmers at Milliken shipped five carloads to Lynchburg, Va., recently to be mixed with tobacco leaves and made into Virginia plug and smoking tobacco. About 400 acres have been contracted for growing peas for canning in the Greeley district. Nearly as much has been secured at Johnstown for the Longmont cannery. Hulling plants will be put up in Johnstown and Ault at a cost of $15,000 each. 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PHONE GALLUP 942 Staple Groceries STREET Denver, Colo. L CLUB CLUB. PHONE MAIN 5496. The chanc- tential week- ness and l morn has fe- religious elec- tion. Even thou- surging the Easter flowe- and join in t we fall far lack of Eas- civilization. The world in because spiritual sid- oped the m the blessing by the age Lord. What the without Eas- have been w Without th might would be a worse poor, the sie If we can world's men and the days the Easter f servances h however feel attention to Lord. Odd point THE EASTER MORNING World-Wide Observance of Easter HIS day of Christian joy is world-wide in its observance. From sea to sea, from the frozen North to the equally frozen South, "The world itself keeps Easter Day, And Easter larks are singing, And Easter flowers are blooming gay, And Easter buds are springing, Alleluia, Alleluia." Sometimes that observance falls short in the true meaning of the season that symbolizes to the Christian a risen Lord, and hope of immortality. Like our Christma celebrations, the religious side of Eastertide is o'er-shadowed by the social. The change from the solemn penitential week just past to the joyousness and light and color of Easter morn has for most of us too little of religious element. Even though we join the throngs surging the churches and revel in the Easter flowers that bank the altars, and join in the Easter carols of praise, we fall far short of realizing what a lack of Easter would have meant to civilization. The world is a better place to live in because of Eastertide. Though the spiritual side of us be but poorly developed the material should rejoice in the blessings and comforts bestowed by the ages-old belief in the risen Lord. What the world would have been without Easter; what women would have been we can but faintly imagine. Without the hope that sprang from that open grave in far-away Judea, life would lack a high incentive to purity, truth and love for our neighbor. If this were all; if with the ebbing of life there were no hope of a "beyond;" then would selfishness and pleasure reign supreme, the law of might would prevail, and this world be a worse place than it is for the poor, the sick, and the lowly. If we cannot wholly approve of the world's method of observing Easter and the days immediately preceding it, the Easter festival with its curious observances have an interest in that however feebly, they draw universal attention to the day of the risen Lord. Odd points of resemblance may be seen in many of these observances, and like many of the great days of the church, the customs, associated with it have been drawn from pagan worship. Easter is a time of joy and gladness, for it comes in the spring, when, according to pagan belief, Nature awoke from the winter death sleep and everything breathed of life and hope. Therefore there is a common note of joy in Easter celebrations, whether it be among the cool-headed Anglo-Saxon, the undemonstrative Scandinavian, or the intense, passionate Latin races. But perhaps nowhere is the spirit of the day more emphasized than in Russia, where when at the stroke of midnight on Easter Eve, the priest announces to the kneeling multitude "He is risen," the congregation bursts into unanimous response, "He is risen, indeed," and joy in the blessed Denver, Colo. MANAGER. DENVER, COLO By HELEN BRUCE WALLACE HS day of Christian joy is world-wide in its observance. From sea to sea, from the frozen North to the equally frozen South, thought is expressed in warm embraces among friends. During all of Easter Day, the Russian peasants visit among their friends, exchanging the joyous greeting with each acquaintance, "Christ is risen," to which the other responds, "He is risen, indeed!" followed by the triple kiss on either cheek and forehead. Yet even here is the trace of paganism in the use of the Easter egg, which was the symbol to the pagan of a new life. On the round of visits each guest presents a colored egg to the hostess, receiving one in return, with refreshments thrown in. In most Christian countries the joy of Eastertide is shown in music and flowers. Every church makes special preparation for the great day, but probably nowhere in the world is such music heard as in St. Peter's, in Rome, of which Mrs. Humphry Ward has given us so impressive a description in Eleanor. Besides the flower-banked churches the newer custom of marking Eastertide with flowers in the window of each house is one of much beauty and symbolism. When in palace and tenement alike there is a common bond of commemorative Easter flowers to greet the passer-by, the classes cannot be so far apart as the pessimist thinks. In Catholic countries the joy of Easter is less impressive than the solemn observances of Good Friday. The churches are thronged with reverent worshipers, the procession commemorative of the Crucifixion, the burning of Judas in effigy, so common a practice in Portugal, Greece, Mexico and South American countries, all bear witness that despite scoffers the story of The Cross with the joyous Resurrection is not deemed a myth. It is said that Portuguese sailors in whatever port they may be on Good Friday at sundown commit Judas to the waves as the sailors sing the Angelus. And there are those who say Christianity is passing. Less religious in its symbolism is the universal Easter-egg, beloved of children. Young America with his Easter basket or Easter hunt this morning, does not think that the Parsee children have eggs distributed to them at their spring festival; that the small Hungarians sprinkle their girl friends with rosewater and in return receive gifts of eggs; that French children in country districts will today make a round of visits begging for red eggs; while the little Russians will, for every gift of a red egg, set free a caged canary. The Easter bunny is another custom borrowed from Pagan times, as the hare was associated with the moon and new life. It may be from the firm belief of small Germans that if they are very good the white hare will steal into the house on Easter Eve and hide beautiful colored eggs, that young Americans feel their Easter celebration is incomplete without their bunnies, toy or real, candied or painted. A curious, but less common belief is that the sun dances with joy as it rises on the day of Resurrection. Our forefathers utilizing pagan worship of the sun taught that in it was seen an emblem of the Sun of Righteousness risen on Eastern morn. There are certain parts of Europe, where today the people rise early to climb the hill to watch for this phenomenon. However, it may be kept, whether with heartfelt worship or perfunctory following of long custom, this Easter morning finds the world united in celebration of that great day that brought joy and hope to a small band of men and women, weeping for a lost leader whom they called The Christ—until their faith was tested by the dire tragedy of the Cross. The joy of that long gone Easter morn has grown with the ages, until its radiance is felt the world over, even by those who do not call themselves believers in the "Risen Lord." DAY OR NIGHT. LAWHORN ertakers Establishment. First aid to the bereaved in the Prices below competitors. Polite service ONES, Licenced Embalmer ARD, Funeral Director 5 Arapahoe Street A. M. 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