Colorado Statesman

Vote the Republican Ticket Straight May 21st THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY Tribute to Women Suffrage Party Women Pay Suffrage True Tribute. Representative Republican Women Aid Work of Colored Women's Club Meet With Heads of New Organization And Discuss Ticket's Success. VOL. XVIII. Tribute Women Party Women Pay Suffrage True T can Women Aid Work of Colo Heads of New Organization The following article appeared in Denver Republican last Satur- day morning:— A splendid tribute to the principles for which equal suffrage stands in Colorado was paid by the representative women of Denver at a meeting of the Colored Women's Republican club Friday, April 26. Upon the broad plane of political equality under the laws of nation, state and city, on which rests the structure of the Republican party, women who typify the highest and best ideals in the social, moral and material welfare of the community met with those who, though of another race, are intimately concerned with the progress of all under the guaranty which the Republican ticket holds out in this election. The Colored Women's Republican club, which but recently sprang into existence, is a conclusive answer to the critics of equal suffrage that the women as a whole are not alive to vital political issues. This club is composed of the intellectual element among the colored women of Denver and its membership members over 100. That it will be a vital, forceful agency in the promotion of Republican success is fully attested in the splendid work which the members of the club, under the presidency of Mrs. Ida DePriest, did in the registration last Thursday. It is doing organization work throughout the entire city and the results of its campaign will be plainly seen on election day when the colored women of Denver go to the polls and vote the Republican ticket. Mrs. J. D. Whitmore, vice chairman of the Republican city and county committee; Mrs. Dewey C. Bailey, wife of the Republican candidate for mayor; Miss Grace Ellen Shoe, Republican candidate for recorder; and Miss M. Ida Moore, who is on the ticket for county superintendent of schools, made addresses to the colored women and discussed the issues of the campaign. Mrs. Ida DePriest, president of the club, and Mrs. J. O'Brien, at whose be the meeting was held, also discussed the issues of the day from the standpoint of the interest which the colored women have in the success of the Republican ticket. The women of the club, represented by Mrs. DePriest and Mrs. O'Brien, are taxpayers, or the wives of taxpayers, and they have come to the conclusion of the importance of electing the Republican ticket next month as a security against broadcast civic demoralization of the importance of electing the Republican ticket next month as a security against broadcast civic demoralization and depreciation of property values. Mrs. Whitmore is grateful for the assistance she is receiving from the colored women in Denver and she is extending them every aid toward thorough organization all over the city. She feels confident that the Republican ticket will receive at least four-fifths of the entire vote of the colored citizens of Denver. Mrs. Whitmore is now making the arrangements for a great ratification meeting, to be conducted exclusively by the women, in the Broadway theatre on May 10. The opening event of the Republican campaign will be the ratification of the Republican ticket in the Auditorium Saturday night, May 4. After this great meeting the Republican committee will make a galvanic campaign of two weeks that will be a thriller all over the city. Short, sharp and decisive will be the battle, but the battle lines will be flung into every Denver precinct with old-time Republican enthusiasm in the air. COLORED GIRL AND RUSSIAN WIN HONORS IN VARSITY ORATORY Boulder, Colo., April 26.—Eugene Kayden, a graduate of the University of St. Petersburg and a member of the senior class of the University of Colorado, was awarded first place in the annual oratorical contest which was held at the university chapel tonigh. Miss Della Parker, who has the distinction of being the only Negro girl ever registered in the Colorado Law School, was given second place. Miss Parker is a member of the freshman law class and is a graduate of the East Denver High School. State Hist & Nat Hist Housing State Houses Weighing carefully the political platforms and candidates now before the people, and considering the conditions attending them and the effect of their respective politics upon the class of citizens for whom we speak, we can see no good reason why the colored voters of this city should support any other ticket than the Republican ticket. We have been reasonably considerate, careful and fair in arriving at this conclusion; we have desired to direct only in a course that seems just, honorable and right. That there is no more in Democracy now than ever before, for the black citizen, is readily apparent. We call upon the men and women of Denver to condemn without mercy those who seek to surrender and sacrifice their rights upon the despotic alter of Democratic experiment. The Negroes of Denver have waited long and patiently for the Democratic party to give them some consideration, but to no avail and it is up to the voters to rebuke them by casting their votes for the Republican ticket at the approaching municipal election. Exercise your right of franchise and show your loyalty to a ticket that will be of great interest in behalf of the Negroes as well as to the masses. NO 34 Negroes Condemn Laws.—"Grandfather laws" of Southern states which are declared to disfranchise thousands of Negroes were condemned by the delegates to the fourth annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at Chicago Tuesday. Trenton, April 23.—A legal battle is being conducted over the money made by "Blind Tom," the famous musician, during his life. Elsie Bethune Lerche's will, disposing of $70,000, is being attacked in the Peerogative Court on the ground that she lacked testamentary capacity. She was the manager of "Blind Tom." St. Louis, Mo. April 24.—Emma Howe, 40 years old, colored, who dropped dead at 908 North Twelfth St., is probably the largest woman ever taken to the morgue. Physicians estimated her weight at 500 pounds Her waist measured 66 inches, her chest the same, her thighs 34 inches and her upper arm, realed, 26 inches. Her death was pronounced due probably to fatty degeneration of the heart. Night Superintendent Fehinger, at the morgue, said the body was the largest he had ever seen. The total value of property owned by colored people in the United States and based inaccurate statistics to the disadvantages, is $600,000,000. A list of the states giving record of value of property owned by them and upon which they have paid taxes, is as follows: Value of property, Arkansas, $20,500,000; Georgia, $32,234,437; North Carolina, $28,600,000; Virginia, 27,000,000, and Texas, $30,000,000. Miss Lucille Pugh, the young North Carolina woman lawyer who was assigned by Judge Swann, in the Court of General Sessions, in New York, to defend Leroy Poindexter, indicted for the murder of Thomas Brown, in a crap game, all Negroes, has raised the point that Poindexter has been discriminated against, as there were no Negroes on the grand jury selected to try him. Miss Pugh says that if her motion was denied she would take the case to the Federal Courts under the Fourteenth Amendment. Assistant District Attorney Moss says there has been no discrimination. Perhaps not. Perhaps the fact that, although there are $5,000 Negroes in the county, it is rare that one gets on any of the juries is evidence of the discrimination in drawing juries. It is worth while to thresh out the matter anyhow. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR-EIGN COUNTRIES. DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. Preliminary plans have been perfected for the erection of a labor temple in Fresno, Calif. Colonel John M. C. Marble, one of the best known men of finance in southern California, died in New York recently. Mrs. William F. Curry, wife of the clerk of the Justice Court of San José, Cal., township, has been sworn in a deputy constable. H. O. Jeffries, editor of a Nowata, Okla., newspaper, was charged with murder in connection with the killing of Mrs. Irene Gohoen, an advertising solicitor, and ordered held without bail, at his preliminary hearing. Unless an immediate settlement of the strike of the Union Pacific shopmen is effected, a strike of the 300, 000 shop employés of the Denver & Rio Grande, Burlington, Colorado & Southern and other lines is threatened. The United States government, through its attorney, Harry Kelley, has filed suit in the Federal District Court against the Union Pacific Railroad Company, on the charge of violating the safety appliance act of March 2, 1893. In the stomach of a speckled trout cut open to determine what sort of bait was advisable, Henry Parrott, Homer Musser and Hugo Sillisch of Bellingham, Wash., found a one-carat diamond of the finest water in a Tiffany setting. "Ninety days of the highest meat prices of history are in store for the American people." C. A. S. Pickering of the Cleveland Butchers' Association made this statement. Pickering also declared the country was facing the greatest beef famine in history. Increase in our cotton exports contributed $30,900,000 to the $48,700,000 total increase in this country's export trade for March, as compared with a year ago, says the New York Evening Post. But the $116,000,000 increase in total exports for the nine completed months of the fiscal year was due largely to other commodities. As detailed reports come in, the extent of devastation and loss of life and property from the recent Oklahoma tornado increases. It is known that twenty towns were struck by the storm which swept northward through portions of southwestern and central Oklahoma; that two of them, Butler and Foss, were literally wiped out and forty-one dead and more than a hundred injured are accounted for. FOREIGN. The cable ship Mackay-Bennett has reached Halifax, N. S., with 200 of the Titanic's dead. The steamer Texas struck a mine at the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna and sank. Sixty people were drowned. The Pope's physicians, Drs. Pellac and Marchifafava, at Rome, are in close attendance on his holiness, who is very ill. It is estimated that a sum of £7,000,000 is in the hands of the British government waiting to be claimed by the rightful owners or their heirs. Four men were killed by a cave-in at the Elisa mine at Cananea, Mex. When rescuers reached the imprisoned men, one was dead, and the others died within five minutes after being taken out. With 220 dead and more than this number wounded, many of whom were unable even to crawl from the field of battle, a band of 2,000 rebels, under command of Manuel Guerrero, have been completely routed by the garrison at Tepic, Mexico, aided by the local police. Bonnot, the leader of an organized gang of automobile bandits who have been terrorizing Paris and the surrounding district for months, and Du Bois, a notorious anarchist, were shot to death in the most thrilling encounter in the annals of French crime. A garage at Choisy-le-Rol, six miles south of Paris, in which the bandits had taken refuge, was blown up by dynamite, after these two men had kept at bay for hours a large part of the police force of Paris. Jules Vedrines, the most famous and most popular aviator of France, may be fatally injured as a result of a fall with his monoplane at St. Denis, a suburb of Paris, while flying from Douan to Madrid. His doctors say he has slight hope of recovery. Thirty of the 1,000 rifles shipped to the Amrican Ambassador at Mexico City, for use of the American colony in the event of trouble were seized by the police as they were being distributed. More than 700 already had been apportioned among American residents. STANDING. Won, Lost Pet. $ 2 2 $ 2 727 $ 5 45 $ 5 45 $ 7 393 3 6 333 $ 4.55 1 8 111 Packey McFarland, who was introduced at Madison Square Garden in New York, as Chicago's Fighting Irishman, administered a drubbing to England's lightweight champion, Mass Wells. The men went ten rounds, and while McFarland was a 10 to 7 favorite, nobody thought his task would be so easy. WASHINGTON. Suit to dissolve the International Harvester Company has been brought in the United States Court in St. Paul, Minn., according to an announcement made at the Department of Justice. Partial home rule for Alaska, with authority vested in the Legislature to grant to women the right to vote, was approved in the House when it passed the bill for a local Alaskan government. To erect a memorial arch in Washington to the heroic men on board the Titanic who sacrificed themselves that the women and children might be rescued in the lifeboats, a movement has been set on foot by the women of the United States. It is generally believed that the United States is on the eve of intervening in Mexico. This is based upon the latest warlike movement of the army and navy, all of which hint at aggressiveness toward the Republic on the south. San Diego is looked upon as the most probable point of mobilization for an advance upon Mexico. Representatives Mondell, Taylor and Pray had a conference with Commissioner Dennett of the General Land Office regarding the bills which have been introduced in the Senate by Senator Warren, and in the House of Representatives by Representative Mondell, to provide for reducing the area required for cultivation in enlarged homesteads from eighty to forty acres. Representative Mondell's bill provides that but twenty acres be cultivated the second year, and forty acres the third year of the entry. Commissioner Dennett is inclined to favor legislation which will reduce the area to be cultivated from eighty to forty acres in the third year of the entry, with a provision that when proof is submitted at the end of the five-year term to complete the entry, it shall be shown that one-fourth of the entire entry, or eighty acres, is under cultivation. GENERAL Robert Cameron Rogers, poet, lover of nature, journalist, true friend, is dead. He died at his beautiful home in Mission cañon, Santa Barbara, Cal. Representatives Kindred, a physician who runs a sanitarium near New York, will introduce a bill providing for the establishment of a government sanitarium for the people who drink too much liquor and have other ailments. Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, has set up 1,200 Navy yard workmen in the restaurant business in New York. She surrendered control of her Brooklyn Navy Yard eating establishment to the yard employés, and gave a check for $1,000 as a sinking fund. Dr. D. K. Pearson, the aged philanthropist, died in a sanitarium at Hinsdals, Ill., at the age of ninety-two. He had been at the point of death several days, and physicians had given up all hope for his recovery. He was kept alive by the use of oxygen for several days. Dr. Pearson's fortune of $8,000,000 was given away to needy schools and colleges. More lifeboats on trans-Atlantic liners, an equipment of rafts that automatically would float clear of a sink'ink vessel, and the construction of great passenger steamers with double hulls and extended water-tight compartments—all these reforms as indicated before the Senate committee investigating the Titanic disaster, would follow in the immediate future. The steamer Minia, which has taken the place of the steamer Mackay-Bennett in search for bodies of victims of the Titanic disaster, has recovered a few bodies, but it was impossible to continue the search on account of stormy weather, according to wireless messages. Improvement in political and business conditions in the far East, plus the activities of Bombay speculators, are the underlying reasons for the advance of a penny an ounce in the price of bar silver in London and corresponding stiffness in New York. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. June 18-20.—State Sunday School Convention, Colorado Springs. Maybell Wants County Seat. Meeker.—Maybell's business men have begun a campaign for the county seat of Moffat county. It is now located at Craig, out Maybell contends that it is the logical place for the county seat. Tomato Growers Fear New Bug. Milliken.--Tomato growers in this vicinity are fearful that there will be a greatly reduced crop as the result of a new disease which has made its appearance. The cause is a small bug which eats the roots of the plants, causing them to shrivel. To Grade Meeker-Rifle Road. Meeker—The county commissioners, citizens of Meeker and ranchmen have decided that the government road, forty-five miles in length, the main mountain throughfare between Meeker and Rifle, shall be graded and placed in prime condition at once. Rocky Mountain Baseball League. Colorado Springs.—it is practically certain that Ira Birdwell, promoter of the new Rocky Mountain baseball league, will own the Colorado Springs franchise, and that the local games will be played at a park to be equipped by the business men of the city. Reconstructing $20,000 Ditch. Lamar.—The McDowell Construction Company has started to work on its contract to reconstruct the Manvel ditch just east of Lamar. This ditch will water from 5,000 to 6,000 acres of land already in cultivation when rebuilt and will add a great deal to the irrigation values of this end of the valley. The reconstruction of the ditch will cost $20,000. Canal Companies May Combine. Alamosa.—A meeting was held at Alamosa by farmers and business men to consider a proposal to unite the three great canal companies in a gigantic reservoir enterprise in the mountains about here, to control a greater quantity of water for irrigating lands which are not now under irrigation. Representatives of the three companies were present to assure their co-operation. It is expected that a new reservoir will furnish 95,000 acre feet of water. Result of Democratic State Convention. Colorado Springs—National commiteeeman, Thomas J. McCue, Denver. Delegates at large—Charles F. Tev, Greeley; Miles G. Saunders, Pueblo; A. C. McChesney, Trinidad; J. A. Ferris, Golden; John A. Donovan, Longmont; William H. Barlow, Antonito; Walter S. Stratton, Fort Morgan; L. A. Van Tilborg, Cripple Creek. Alternates—Lafayette Hughes, Denver; J. D. Harkless (colored), Pueblo; Carlo Sanchez, Walsenburg; Dr. J. D. Kerlin, Sterling; Clark Moore, Loveland; B. J. O'Connell, Georgetown; C. G. Pitschke, Denver; Edward W. Wheeler, Ouray. First district delegates—W. J. Galligan, Fort Collins; C. P. Maltby, Denver. Alternates—C. P. Hoyt, Golden; Richard Ryan, Denver. Second district delegates—Mrs. Anna B. Pitzer, Colorado Springs; Miss Gene Kelley, Grand Junction. Alternates—John C. Bell, Montrose; M. R. McCauley, Pueblo. Crop Outlook Bright. Holly.—Favorable reports of industrial activities all along the line are received from the farming districts of Prowers county, and especially the Holly district, where landseekers are locating new homes every day. Even more encouraging are the reports than given in March, due, doubtless, to the improved prospects for banner crops. The revival has not alone spread to the towns, but also to the cities, and every indication points to more extensive construction of buildings, bridges and roads in the rural districts than for many years. Reports from the sugar beet and wheat sections fairly glow with enthusiasm, the farmers finding a fine stand of wheat, green all the way to the tip and from one to three inches high. The state agricultural college is now co-operating with the farmers in an effort to have only high-grade seeds used for spring planting. From present indication the Holly sugar factory will run overtime next fall. New beet acreage is being signed up each day, and conditions seem favorable for the greatest crops ever grown in this section. Lambs Bring Fortune. Greeley.—John Couzzens, a farmer living west of here who fed 4,000 lamps near Windsor and placed them on sale in Chicago recently, returned with $36,000 for the flock. He received $9.25 per hundred pounds. Freight Train Kills Baby. Grand Junction—A Denver & Ri Grande freight (train struck and killed the 2-year-old baby of Conrad Scheir- man of Fruita. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS. Small Happenings Occurring Over the State Worth While. Western Newspaper Union News Service. The mail route from Red Mountain to Silverton has been discontinued. Prices of meats have practically doubled within the last week in Denver. Moffat county officers are after hunters who are killing elk for their teeth. "Swat the fly" is the slogan of the women of the Civic league of Colorado Springs. One of the worst windstorms for years visited the Rocky Ford valley recently. The Christian churches of Northern Colorado held their conference in Boulder. The upper section of the Uncompahgre will be stocked with trout this summer. After being a dry town for four years, three saloons have been opened in Evans. A quarter of a million new trees, mostly cherries, are being planted in Otero county. New Orleans is likely to adopt the Grand Junction commission form of government. The new union depot for the Rock Island and Union Pacific roads at Limon has been opened. Sebastian Marriaker, a well-known mine carpenter of Central City, was found dead in his cabin. Of late many assaults have been committed on non-union men in the coal camps in Boulder county. The three-year-old son of William Krueger of Pueblo died from the effects of drinking gasoline. Dick Cameron of Ault, Colo., was killed with a putty knife by a fellow prisoner in Decatur, Ill., jail. Leroy Pearcy, seven years old. son of A. R. Pearcy, was drowned in a bathtub in his home in Loveland. The citizens of Sugar Loaf have decided to build a new school house, the proposed structure to cost $2,000. John Hansen of Strawberry gulch, near Meeker, one of the best known cattlemen in the White River valley, is dead. Loss and damage, estimated at $4,000, was caused by a fire at the Cedar Hill mine, eighteen miles north of Trinidad. The two boys who confessed to the robbery of the Globe Express Company in Grand Junction of $14,000, will not be prosecuted. Owing to a disagreement, all but one of the trustees of All Souls Unitarion church in Colorado Springs, have resigned. Mrs. Margaret Delo, aged seventy-nine years, a pioneer of this state, died in Tacoma, Wash., recently. Her home was at Salida. S. Z. Schneck, formerly manager of the Union Trading Company, arrested in Denver recently has been released on bond of $6,000. At a special election held in Carr, $6,000 bonds were voted for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new school building. The annual track meet of the Rocky Ford and La Junta High schools resulted in a victory for the Rocky Ford team, with a score of 57 points to 29. No records were broken. The residents of the San Juan country have taken a stand toward the building of an independent line from Farmington, N. M., to Gallup, N. M., to serve as a southern outlet. A wreck occurred on the Rio Grande Southern narrow guage, two miles from Ouray, the second within a week on the Ouray-Salida division. No one was seriously injured. The City Council of Boulder has employed John J. Wilson to draw plans for a municipal lighting plant, $40,000 in bonds having been voted for that use. It is expected that this will cover all expenses. Announcement has again been made that the Uintah railroad is to be broad-gauged its entire length and made a part of the present transcontinental system. Five tunnels will be bored, one of which will be 5,000 feet long. La Junta is soon to become one of the best lighted cities in the state. A Pueblo company is building a high-power line from Pueblo to Arkansas valley points and will put in an ornamental street lighting system in La Junta. Mike Malone of Denver, and Phil Knight, the Kansas City lightweight, indulged in a whirlwind ten-round contest before the Pueblo Athletic Club in Pueblo. Although no decision was rendered, Knight had the better of the fight. It is expected that between forty and fifty auto owners of La Junta will join the auto club organized there to promote interest in good roads and motoring. To protect the dam at White's lake, two miles below Georgetown, from breaking on account of heavy pressure, men are making repairs and strengthening it. A Utah company has begun work on the big $6,000,000 irrigation project, which will furnish water for thousands of acres of desert land in eastern Utah and western Colorado. 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Our answer usually has been that, while we are not advised as to any definite cause for the action of these persons in every such instance, yet, according to an old saying, "Every man knows his own business best," consequently, the intermission is likely brought about by such knowledge. However, we sometimes surmise that the most of these "quitters," if you please, become discouraged; and so decide "to throw up the sponge" and not try any more. Such persons, as well as others, should bear in mind that life's a try. Success depends upon continual trying. One or two failures or even more, need not prove disastrous, provided one is willing to try and try again. How enthusiastically we enter upon a new task! But when it begins to go hard, the blaze dies down. In many cases, we did not anticipate these obstacles and discouragements. We run up against a strange feeling of inactivity of indifference within ourselves. So we say, "Let's quit this job, or at least stop for a while, and in the meantime try something that goes a little easier." Don't be a "quitter." That's not the way famous artists, musicians, poets, inventors, discoverers and captains of industry behaved, when they were facing what seemed an impassable wall. Had they turned aside when the road was hard, we should never have had the paintings, and statuary, the masterpieces of prose and poetry, the great achievements in the material realm and in the domain of commerce and finance, which have inured to the advantage of all mankind, and of which we avail ourselves today. We too often forget that these successes are the fruit of some one's patient and persevering industry. We have plenty of instances of men now successful in business, who in former years failed in the commercial sense of the term, but who were too plucky to give up the fight. Trying again, they climb high upon the ladder of success. Keep on trying.—Negro Business League Journal. One of the philosophers of the Philadelphia Tribune, Mr. Just Gone, talking about money, about which we all talk a great deal and of which most of us have very little, says: "Money is power. My! what a wealth of meaning there is in those few words, thoughtfully studied. Money is power! If our folks had money—I mean some more money—they would operate large factories, open large business places, publish larger papers, operate big banks and command such high respect that they would know for a fact that money is power. As a class, we handle lots of money, but we don't know how to make the money we get hold of make more money." But the race is learning how to do so. We must not overlook that fact, but give all the encouragement possible to those who are beginning to buy and sell and to put the money in banks of their own, and to read their own newspapers and advertise in them the things they have to sell or want to buy. Here and there we have a buggy, an axle-factory, a cotton seed oil and a textile mill, and the banks and insurance companies owned by us are growing in number and strength every year. Money is power. But money does not make men; men make money. The Negro people everywhere are learning this fact and trying to make good, and should be encouraged with our trade as well as our talk.—New York Age. In his book, "Race Ideals," revieweed in last month's issue of this magazine, ex-Congressman George W. Murray states that a way must be found to teach Afro-American youth to be self-respecting and proud of their racial connections, and also to turn their attentions toward commercial pursuits, for such provisions are not made in the white man's educational system which the black man is pursuing. It is exactly this need that makes the Negro school teacher and college professor an indispensable asset in training our young. There being provided no direct text-book instruction to counteract the pernicious teachings of nearly three centuries in slavery, unwritten instructions for this purpose must be given orally to the young by members of their own race, holding positions in their schools as teachers and college professors. Coupled with like instruction from the pulpit and press, our people can be brought gradually to an awakening along these vital lines. It can hardly be expected that provision will be made for a great while yet in our courses of study for training along the lines Mr. Murray shows up to be so sadly needed. But Negro teachers and college professors can and do lecture the youth under their tutelage on these particular matters with a degree of effect white teachers can never hope to attain unto.—Southern Life Magazine. Our people cannot be too liberal in their patronage and support of worthy race newspapers and magazines. A prominent educator in Georgia expressed the view of ye editor that in his opinion we must in the future rely largely on our own periodicals to get our appeals, statements, and contentions before the world. Newspapers and magazines of the proper type are educational institutions as much as are colleges and universities. If we contribute to the help of scools, why not to aid in the issuance of educative periodicals? If money is not given outright to help in the maintenance of a race publication, business can be secured for it through the influence of its friends, and cash subscriptions can be voluntarily solicited therefor and sent in promptly to the office of publication. Helping a race paper does not mean helping an individual to wealth, for colored newspapers on the whole are earning barely enough with which to keep going, and not enough to improve and enlarge as they should. Pride of race and a missionary spirit it must play some part in contributing to the support of the colored press. Workers are needed. Who will get in the front ranks and help the colored publications fight to win?—Southern Life Magazine. Friends of the Liberian republic are looking forward to a widened sphere for that country. Along with American money to help straighten out her financial tangles, and a receiver-general for customs collections who is an American, the further substantial interest of the United States is shown in the appointment of Major Charles Young, an Afro-American, as military attache at the American legation. The major, with three able young college graduates from the states as military assistants, wil organize a Liberian constabulary. The efforts of Bishops Scott and Hartzell and other friends of the country have borne fruits in Liberia's befall. The darker races that have absorbed the civilization of the whites, are charged with being IMITATIVE. The charge stands true. But those who make the charge are THEMSELVES imitative or they could not have made such astonishing progress. New concepts are made up of parts of things already known. We take a little imitation here, a little there, combine with a new idea and produce what is wrongly called ORIGINAL. But any people who can by imitation bring to pass the great things which the Japanese people have accomplished need not for a moment feel plued at being called imitators—Southern Life Magazine. There is more talk of a negro daily newspaper to be started at some strategic point in the upper south. Our advice would be to run a big 16-page weekly successfully, change within a year or two to a semi-weekly and make a success; later change to a tri-weekly and make that go; then swing into a daily and it OUGHT TO GO! As a further help in establishing negro dailies, get young colored men employed by white dailies as reporters of negro happenings, so they can learn from the whites the intricacies of conducting successful dailies. Later they may do service on daily papers for their own people. Miss Mary Hannah Johnson, city librarian of Nashville, Tenn., in making her annual report, emphasizes among other things the need of a library for negroes. The Nashville Globe says: "The endorsement of the plan by Miss Johnson, who is engaged in the work, and who is in a position to know better than any one else the good that libraries do, is worth more than that of any one else at this particular time." By the census of 1910 the total negro population is placed at 9,828,294, or 10.7 per cent of the total population of all races of 91,972,266. Among negroes there were 55,578 more females than males, or 98.9 males for every 100 females. In 1900 the proportion was 98.6 males to every 100 females. This disparity of males is significant, and should be investigated. Atlanta Baptist college has raised in cash $15,000 from colored friends of that institution after a cavass of 18 months. Gradually our people are rallying to the aid of those colleges where negro manhood is being fostered and encouraged and where negro worth is frankly recognized. George W. Smith, born a slave in Tennessee seventy-five years ago, now deceased, has left property worth $116,000, according to his will filed for probate in Champaign, Ill. LIGHT AHEAD FOR AFRO-AMERICANS SO SAYS DR. B. F. RILEY, WHOSE VERY LIFE WORK PLACES HIM IN POSITION TO SEE CONDITIONS IN A FAR BETTER LIGHT THAN, PERHAPS, WE OURSELVES CAN SEE THEM. What has long been called the race question in the south is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. It has been a period of throes through which the colored race has passed, but history teaches that such have attended on every people who have had to struggle from a lower to a higher position. Civilization has advanced only where man has had to struggle for existence, and where the struggle has been the most intense, the advance has been the most rapid. The African race in America has been no exception to this rule. While there are occasions and reasons for discontent among the negro people of the country, because of the injustice and cruelty to which they are subjects, I want to issue a note of cheer to my brethren in black, as a life-long friend belonging to the white race, that there is now reason for cheer and hopefulness. The clouds are certainly breaking, and the light is beginning to stream through. I would not mislead any with false hope, nor do I say that there will not yet be friction and trouble, but I am in position to say that the friends of the colored man are multiplying, as I am in position to know, and if they could see the situation as I do, they would take fresh cheer and press with vigor on. The general bearing and behavior of the colored race through the turmil of all the years has been, for the most part, most commendable, and still is. This is helping to dissolve the difficulty and lend practical aid to every white friend enlisted in the work for the good of the colored people in which work I have been engaged for three years. I am in position to know that there is light ahead. We are going to solve this question and bring joy and light to a people in an era of a second emancipation.—Birmingham (Ala.) National Review. A $50.000 COLORED BRIDE Aubrey, Tex.—In the country near this place there lived a dainty little brown skinned maiden who dreamed of a lover constant and true. Perhaps her dreams even included a lover of great wealth. So when it was learned that the maiden was really to wed a millionaire her relatives and friends were beside themselves with joy, and even her jealous friends, who envied her good luck, wished her a successful matrimonial voyage though a stipulation in her marriage agreement stated that she and her husband were not to live together. Mysterious? It happened this way. A very smooth young man who knew that maidens read the colored papers advertised for a wife, stating that she must have $1,000 in her own right, and the lucky girl was to be given $50,000 more. The young man was supposed to be the heir to a great fortune left him on condition that he marry by a certain date, and that the girl have $1,000. Miss Lula Lougrand, who lives near here, had the $1,000 and more, too. Correspondence brought the two moneyed young people together and arrangements made for the wedding. Relatives of the girl hired a lawyer, who supposed he had made a careful investigation and reported everything as O. K. McFall, as the young man was named, signed papers agreeing to give the girl the $50,000 upon their marriage and the ceremony was performed and a few days later the couple left for Muskogee, Okla. Now the girl is back and to date has failed to collect her $50,000, and everybody asks everybody else why McFall does not send the money to his bride. McFall was supposed to have a diamond mine and property unlimited. People even sympathized with him because of the conditions of the will that forced him to wed a girl he knew not while his heart was held by another fair maiden. If McFall was a fake, pure and simple, at least he was a live one, and knew that advertising paid. NEGROES OUGHT TO DRIVE PLOWS, NOT AUTOS, SAYS JUDGE. Macon, Ga.—"If Negroes will stick to their plows instead of learning to operate autos, they and the south will be better off," declared Judge W. H. Felton of the Bibb superior court in refusing to dismiss a warrant against George McDonald, a negro chauffeur, who was charged with having used his employer's machine, without permission. "It depreciates the general efficiency of the negro race for some of them to be employed as chauffeurs," added the judge. AN AWKWARD BREAK. "You've made a mistake in your paper," said the indignant man, entering the editorial sanctum. "I was one of the competitors at the athletic match yesterday, and you have called me the well-known lightweight champion." "Well, aren't you?" said the editor. "No, I'm nothing of the kind, and it's confoundedly awkward, because you see I'm a coal merchant." PITTSBURG CHURCH ENJOYING WAVE OF PROSPERITY REV. DR. P. A. SCOTT, THE PRESENT PASTOR, IS GUIDING "THE OLD SHIP WITH A MASTER HAND. Pittsburgh, Pa.—As an illustration of what may be accomplished by true religious fervor, coupled with a wise and businesslike administration of the finances of a church, the following article is of deep import: It is very gratifying to all who are interested in the welfare of the race and the Christian church, to note the marvelous progress that is being made in the spiritual, financial and social affairs of Bethel A. M. E. church, corner of Wylie avenue and Elm street. Those who have any knowledge of the history of this church, in recent years, know that it has passed through a long period of adversity and discouragement, and that, during those conditions, hundreds of its members have withdrawn their membership, while many others, being discouraged, went adrift on the "sea of neglect;" leaving less than half its former membership to grapple with the great problems facing the church, and the nearly fifty-thousand dollar debt, incident to the building of the beautiful and commodious structure now in use, which was erected during the eventful pastorate of the much-beloved Dr. J. M. Townsend in 1906. When the present pastor, Dr. P. A. Scott, took charge of this church about eight months ago, he found the congregation discouraged and scattered in almost every direction, with creditors threatening and instituting law suits, and the mortgagee preparing to foreclose the forty-two thousand eight hundred dollar mortgage, in a short while the interest being nearly a whole year in arrears. The new pastor was not long, however, in getting a strong grasp on the troublesome situation, and began at once the paying off of the old debts, and satisfying judgments, and warded off the foreclosure, and has inaugurated a new systematic financial method which is revolutionizing affairs in every department of this historic old charge. Even the much disputed "Avery Fund," which amounts to about three hundred dollars per month in rentals, and which has been a "bone of contention" for time immemorial, among people of varied ranks, is now being handled by one of Pittsburgh's most reliable real estate and banking institution, and the entire amount of income, less the cost of repairing the Avery property, is being applied on the large mortgage indebtedness. In the past six months seventeen hundred and fifty dollars have been paid on the large interest arrearage, and more than one thousand dollars on old floating debts, besides meeting all the current expenses of the church, which sum amounts to nearly four hundred dollars per month, and a happy state of confidence is being restored among the people of all classes. During this brief period one hundred and thirty new members have been added to the church, most of whom have been new converts to the Christian faith, as the result of the great revival meetings recently held at the church, in which the pastor was ably assisted by the noted evangelist, Dr. J. G. Robinson of Ohio, and other pastors in this city and vicinity, and the congregations have been more than doubled. At the quarterly meeting recently held here, at which the able and popular presiding elder, Dr. T. J. Askew, presided, the services were the most largely attended, and most successful that have been witnessed here for many years; and at the quarterly conference it was found that more than twenty-five hundred dollars had been raised and properly applied in the past three months, while the spiritual condition is most happy in every way. Dr. Scott is proving himself to be master of the situation in every detail of this great charge, and both church and pastor are universally popular among people of all ranks and creeds, and among secret societies of all names, of many of which he is a member. WHAT SHE WANTED. A big negress came before a Virginia judge the other day seeking redress for domestic troubles. "Ts a wronged woman," she declared in a give-me-back-my-child, you villain tone, "an' I wants redress fru' dis yere Cot'. "Tell me about your trouble, said the kind-hearted judge. "It's about mah old man. He's done been ca'yin' on plumb scandalous wif a lot of deeze yeh young niggh gals, an' it's got so ba'aad till I don' see him no moah'n once a week. Sumpin's gottah be did!" "H'm! I see," said the judge. "You are seeking a divorce—a legal separation—is that it?" "Go 'long, man! Divorce nothin'! 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Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. REPUBLICAN TICKET. Mayor DEWEY C. BAILEY. Sheriff THOMAS EVERARD WILLIAMS. Auditor ALBION K. VICKERY. Assessor HOWARD T. CHINN. Treasurer LEWIS C. GREENLEE. Clerk BERT F. DAVIS. Recorder MISS GRACE ELLEN SHOE. Superintendent of Schools MISS IDA MOORE. Coroner GEORGE H. BOSWICK. County Judges JOHN R. SMITH. JULIAN H. MOORE. Public Utilities Commission HARRY W. NEWCOMB. Justices of the Peace CHARLES C. SACKMAN. BEN F. BROWN. SIMON QUAIT. Constables JAMES N. HAMILL. BERT M. LAKE. N. A. BRONSTEIN. Supervisors ROBERT L. MEYERS. DR. W. M. ROBERTSON. JOHN T. PURSEL. J. H. CHRYSLER. Ward 1 ..... Archie Bloom Ward 2 ..... Joseph Brohm Ward 3 ..... Frank E. Johnson Ward 4 ..... George Wade Ward 5 ..... Fred Kessler Ward 6 ..... Gustave A. Imm Ward 7 ..... Frank W. Gyllensten Ward 8 ..... Fred W. Watson Ward 9 ..... Charles A. Benkelman Ward 10 ..... Frank L. Hoadley Ward 11 ..... F. J. Eccles Ward 12 ..... John H. McKee Ward 13 ..... Frank L. Dodge Ward 14 ..... F. M. Cochran Ward 15 ..... Thomas H. Ramsey Ward 16 ..... M. Tannenbaum UP GOES THE FLAG. The Republican ticket, which appears at the head of this column, comprises those possessed of the highest qualifications of character, efficient ability and who stands for an upright, clean and progressive municipal government. There is no man or woman in the city and county of Denver who has the right of franchise, who has had an opportunity to vote for a cleaner set of officials than those above named, and it behooves every voter to avail themselves of this right on election day by doing your duty at the polls. This duty is one that should demand the attention of the Negro especially, as the election of this ticket means no little amount of patronage in the way of political appointments for the race; not only that, but the administration will stand for a better government for the masses. Let us not forget these facts and make it a landslide for Republican victory. The head of the ticket, United States Marshal Dewey C. Bailey, is a man who needs no introduction to the public as he has long since been made popular by his accurate and wise business methods in the performance of his duties for fifteen years to the office which he now holds as United States marshal. To speak of each individual on the ticket would be to commend them in the highest possible terms. No convention has ever nominated a cleaner ticket than this, and it will receive the support of every voter who has the welfare of the city, county and people at heart. There has, perhaps, been no time in the history of Denver that the city needed a change of administration more than now, and for the betterment of all concerned, we are positive that the Republican ticket should be elected to succeed that which has been a constant turmoil. The Negro vote has always been counted upon to turn the tide, and let it be said at the close of the polls that we did our work up to the handle by electing the Republican ticket with a majority that will invite no contest. There are always a great amount of kicks after election by individuals who failed to vote, if the party of their choice fails to be elected. Let not this be the case of the Negro voter. ALBION K. VICKERY, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR CITY AUDITOR. No public official has conducted the office to which they were elected in a more businesslike manner than Mr. Albion K. Vickery, the Republican candidate for city auditor. The office which he now holds and has filled with a credit that has met the approval by the general public that has not been equaled. This credit is due to his great business efficiency as well as that of his unlimited courtesy to all. He is a man of sterling qualities and one of the most astute politicians in the ranks of the Republican party. All voters, who believe in a businesslike administration in this important office, should avail themselves of the opportunity of voting for Mr. Vickery, a man of unquestionable qualifications and a character beyond reproach. With these facts, the Colorado statesmen predicts Mr. Vickery's election by a tremendous majority as an endorsement of the record he has made as a public official. He does not believe in petty politics or race proscription, but guage all men by character rather than the color of their skin. This we deem the highest type of manhood and the Negro voters, at least, should form a solid phalanx in giving him their support at the polls on election day. Mr. Vickery has always been quoted as a believer in a square deal to all, irrespective of race or color, and especially is this true sharing of political appointments. Let every voter make himself a personal committee in working in the interest of Mr. Vickery's election. [Name not visible] LEWIS C. GREENLEE, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR TREASURER. Lewis C. Greenlee, the Republican candidate for Treasurer, has been a resident of Denver for twenty-four years, nineteen years of which time he was Superintendent of the City Schools. He is Vice President of the Inter-State Savings Bank. Mr. Greenlee was elected City and County Treasurer four years ago and has so conducted the affairs of that responsible office that nothing but the highest commendations can be heaped upon him by everybody. The Clayton School fund of half a million dollars and the sinking funds have all been invested in Denver bonds drawing six per cent. The voters of Denver will have nothing to regret by casting their votes for this worthy candidate, and The Colorado Statesman urges every Negro voter especially to cast their votes for Mr. Greenlee and thereby keep a true and tried official to handle the funds of this City and County. FIRST TREATMENT $1.50 OIL 60 CENTS OTHER TREATMENTS EACH $1.00 DISCOUNT TO CUSTOMERS RATES BY THE MONTH TREATED 10 CENTS oil 60 CENTS DISCOUNT TO CUSTOMERS TREATED 10 CENTS MADAM M. A. HOLLY Manufacturer Of Madam Holly's Wonderful Hair Grower PHONE. CHAMPA 2561 2118 ARAPAHOE STREET. The Denver Sanitary Laundry PHONE MAIN 5670 1082 Broadway. Denver. Colo May Pole Plaiting May Pole Plaiting SPRING CARNIVAL GIVEN BY EVERGREEN CHAPTER NO. 36, O. E. S. THURSDAY, MAY 16. OLD COLONY HALL. Music By Goodman's Orchestra. Refreshments. 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If none of these things interest you, there is the negro; always the negro, bearing about with him his problem, standing—to the thoughtful, serious tourist—like a heavily-loaded interrogation mark, on the southern page of American history. What shall we do about him? What can he do about himself? What answer is he giving in Florida to his own embodied interrogation? Booker T. Washington, the world-famous educator, is wisely and bravely giving his answers to this problem. He has recently completed an eight-days' journey through the land which Ponce de Leon discovered, but he did not travel there in search of the fountain of eternal youth; he went with a dozen friends and helpers to Pensacola, thence to Tallahassee, Ocala, Tampa, Jacksonville and other points, and addressed vast audiences of whites and blacks, and gave such wise, hopeful words of counsel that his own people responded to him with enthusiasm, and his white hearers—even in the regions made notorious by lynchings—expressed approval and urged him to come again and deepen the good influences which he had already established. This "missionary journey" was one of several which Dr. Washington has made through southern states; it was under the direction of M. M. Lewey, president of the Colored Men's Business league of Florida. The object which Dr. Washington has had in view in all these tours has been to ascertain the conditions existing among his own people and their relations to the white race, and to encourage public sentiment in the direction of plain elemental and industrial education for negroes. The state governments already do something in the direction, and private individuals help, but not over 5 per cent. of the total black population of the south is affected by schools like Hampton, Tuskegee and others. Many of the public school superintendents see the need of a more general education for the blacks, but are thwarted by an adverse public sentiment. This sentiment, hostile or indifferent, must be distinctly altered for good by Dr. Washington's impassioned addresses to such large audiences in so many centers of population. He does what more eloquent and theoretical speakers often do not; he changes the ideas and the feelings of his auditors; people who have heard this great man speak to audiences in the north have little idea of his addresses to southern gatherings, where he has his own people before him, and has also a considerable number of white people who begin the session in ill-concealed emmity. The dramatic situation at L——1 shall never forget; the famous negro leaders faced over 200 white men—about a fifth of his total audience—who sat with scowls of distrust on their faces, until his kindly appeals to their reason and better selves softened them and made them his friends. Probably almost every man in that white group carried a pistol; one or two weapons were displayed openly; some of those men must have taken part in the barbarous lynchings which disgraced the town fifteen months ago; but, like a lion facing jackals, and veritably with the royal mien of that king of the forests, Dr. Washington stood forth from his little group of friends alone and gave battle; a battle of right and reason against ignorance and prejudice; and he won; and some of those men said in my hearing afterward, that he was a great man and that the negro ought to be given a fair chance. I made the similar trip with Mr. Washington through Mississippi three years ago; and all my observations and reflections on that journey were confirmed by what I saw on this present trip through Florida. There is only one solution of this vast problem in the south; the negroes are to remain on the land; therefore, common sense dictates that they be educated in the simple branches of book education, and trained in some industrial pursuit; and then given a chance to "make good." That is all that their leading men ask. I have talked with colored physicians, lawyers, ministers and business men, on this recent journey, who would be a credit to any race and a valuable asset to any cause; they have pointed out to me the signs of progress among their people; the advance of spring up the Atlantic seaboard today is no more obvious and certain than is the advancement of the negro race in the southland toward all that is characteristic of a high civilization. The increase in homestead holdings, the increase of stores and banks and taxable property—these tell the story of that gain in material prosperity which alone will give the black man position and power and justice in the south. All honor to such broad men as the mayor of Pensacola, and Judge Bullock of Ocala, and many others, who are so highly civilized, themselves, that they are ready to grant their colored brothers the opportunity to struggle forward to that same civilization. A person of trained eyes, on going into a town or village in the south, can tell, by observing the faces and manners of either of the two races what the other will be like, for the two are closely bound together, tyranny and cruelty, on the part of the whites, show in their faces, and can also be read in the constraint and caution and timidity of their black neighbors; and again, where you find the blacks frank and joyous, as is their nature; you may be sure that the whites of that region are just and broad-minded and kindly, as is characteristic of people really civilized. What I here write comes from close personal observation; and I say that the bitter enemies which the negro has in the south are the ignorant sensual "crackers" the vicious lower classes of the whites; the higher grades of white men tend toward justice and patience and encouragement, in their treatment of the as yet immature black race; sometimes, when election is at hand, some educated white candidate will indulge in public denunciations of "niggers"; but this is usually for political effect; he is after the ignorant "cracker" vote; and very likely he is the friend and helper of a half-dozen colored neighbors. At Tallahassee I overheard significant comment on the closing words of Mr. Washington's address, made from a bandstand on the common; a group of white men had been listening closely, and ( feared sullenly, to the speaker's words; then, at the close one of them spoke to the others, concisely, solemnly: "That's true, what he says about our trusting each other; you know we have left today, part of our families at our homes, outside, with our niggers; and there's nobody else in God's world we'd have trusted them with." A charming and effective feature of the program of most of these Florida meetings was the singing by the blacks in the audience (usually a thousand of them) of the real "songs of slavery"; not the tawdry negroinstrel songs of later white composers, but the quaint old folk-songs of fifty and more years ago; the singing was led by Major Moton of Hampton, that sweet-voiced singer, with the physique of a Hercules and the sensibilities of a girl of seventeen. This singing seemed to bring the various elements in the audience together, before Dr. Washington gave his address; and it revealed the poetry and sentiment of this patient, toiling, loving race, as they groped their way out of their captivity, singing as they came, with faith in their God and confidence in the day-star which was rising out of their night of gloom. Many a time I have heard the dictum laid down by over-confident prophets like Thomas Nelson Page, that the negro was capable of a moderate degree of academic education, but could never go very high. In rebuttal, let me say that one of the members of Dr. Washington's party through Florida was a young colored man who is a graduate of Harvard, also of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and I have rarely met any man, of any race (as a Harvard man I speak) who possessed a more genuine and unostentatious cultivation of mind than does this young man, not in manners and voice alone, but in tastes and inner standards he is among the best graduated from our universities. Somebody will respond, "He is only an exception." Such was the comment made ten and twenty years ago, as young negro men came up, singly and by twos and threes, into the ranks of the professions; but those "exceptions" are now too numerous to be longer called "exceptions," there are scores and hundreds of them in the south; and similar results will be reached in the case of colored men of literary and esthetic taste; the number is steadily increasing. It is high time that we laid aside the bugaboo of "social equality." Dr. Washington and other educated colored men condemn all movements of their race in this direction; they urge, with great earnestness, that the negroes keep to their own social life, that they develop all they can of civilization, within their own borders; whatever mingling of the races there may be in the business life is easily arranged, but, socially, colored men and women are urged to keep apart by themselves, and already, in several southern cities I have been admitted, on my rounds of journalistic inquiry, into many charming negro homes, where good taste was the rule and the good offices of a genuine and tactful hospitality were extended to me. At the close of Dr. Washington's address at Tampa, I accosted, pleasantly, two white men coming out of the hall, and one said: "Booker Washington is as great a man as can be found in the world today." And the other man said, "The whole situation and inter-relationship of the two races can be summed up in that story which Washington told about the colored bishop and the white hackdriver." And this is the story in brief: At a town in North Carolina, a colored bishop of Dr. Washington's party was anxious to catch a train; he addressed a white hackman: "Take me to the depot, please, and I will pay you a quarter." The hackman replied, "I would like the quarter, but I can't drive a negro in my hack." Then the resourceful bishop suggested, "Very good! Now you take the back seat and ride, and I'll take the front seat and drive." And this was done; and the colored bishop got his train and the white hackman got his quarter; each gained by the transaction. That is the basis of an intelligent, reasonable self-interest upon which the future relations of the two races in the south must be established, and above their heads will float the ideal of human brotherhood, which, in time, will come into its own—Springfield (Mass.) Republican. STINSON GIVES ADVICE TO THE NEGRO RACE STINSON GIVES ADVICE TO THE NEGRO RACE EVERY NEGRO SHOULD BE TAUGHT A TRADE, DECLARES ATLANTA EDUCATOR. Atlanta, Ga.—In a recent address, delivered to a large audience of negroes in the Atoc African Methodist Episcopal church at Dawson, Ga., Rev. R. D. Stinson, president of the Atlanta Normal and Industrial school, and one of the best known negro educators in the south, offered much timely advice to the colored race. In part he said: "I am not unmindful that individuals among us are making headway that will permanently enable them to be fixtures in the communities where they live so far as their own comforts are concerned, but they are one in every thousand. Let me repeat, as forcibly as I am capable: Put the negro youth in a school that is manned and controlled by persons who believe in fortifying every boy and girl with a trade that will enable him to make a living for himself. "Find your place and stay in it. If you are a cook see to it that you are the best one in town. If you are a seamstress do your work so well that when those who employ you pass you on the streets will say of you, 'there goes the best seamstress in this place.' Character and common sense are the essential things to strive for, and a few definite things along the line of right have value with God and with men. You may die ignorant, but you can die honest and respectable. "The best thing you can give your child is a practical education. While I believe in higher education there are only ten out of a hundred that need it or would be benefited by it. God has set the metes and bounds of some things and some men." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS. A layman whose business brings him into direct contact with a large number of negro ministers asked us a few days ago: "What are we going to do for better preachers?" On being asked to explain he said that many of those he knew did not seem to have a very definite conception of what was expected of them and fell far short of measuring up to our acceptable standard of intelligent discharge of duty. They knew little of what was required of them, and frequently failed in that little. Now it has not been ours to observe so deplorable a condition, but we were struck with the sincerity of his words. He was a devout and loyal churchman who loved his own church in particular and would have given any reasonable proof of his love for the pastors. He had been made to believe that too many preachers failed in the knowledge of the Bible, in matters of common intelligence and above all, in sustained effort to fill the great place decreed unto them. Was he right? Perhaps not, altogether. Those who study the church today will agree that there is not the efficiency there should be, on the part of a number of pastors. Men enter the holy calling of the ministry without the consciousness of the gravity of the work taken upon themselves, they begin without any definite idea of what they are to do and proceed without special preparation. Why wonder that failure is soon written large all over their careers? Ignorance of the word of God, whether from inability to study it intelligently or evil mindedness, that precludes an insight into things which are spiritually discerned is inexcusable with the gospel ministry. If to this ignorance of mind and heart is added venality of purpose and practice there is to be expected a woeful state in the church. The church owes it to the gospel she preaches, to the great name she bears and for her own self-preservation to prepare men to fill her pulpits and shepherd her flocks. In the councils and conferences of the church, she does so urgent a demand, more time and care should be given to providing for the training of preachers; we mean preachers who can preach the word in season and out, rather than to the equipping of servers of tables and collectors of funds. These last are incidental and secondary. The first are vital and primary. Brethren, for Christ's sake and the kingdom's, let us have more preachers! Savannah, Ga.—Within the next few days it is expected that the directors of the Savannah colored library will conclude negotiations for a valuable piece of property upon which a Carnegie library building, costing $12,000, will be erected. The custodians of the Carnegie fund have consented to erect the building under certain conditions. All of these conditions, except obtaining the site, have been compiled with. There are a number of prominent white people of Savannah interested in the movement and a sufficient amount to make the purchase of the property will be obtained, it is expected. TOO READY TO QUIT "It is very kind of you to ask me to be your wife, but I must refuse," said the proud young woman haughtily. "I hope you will not hurry away and do anything rash." "Don't worry about that. I merely wanted to be sure that we understood each other." "You are so sensible that I am going to take back what I said and accept you." CONFESSED SLAYER INDICTED CLEMENTINE BERNABET IMPLI CATES TWO OTHER NEGRO WOMEN IN PART OF 17 MUR- DERS TOLD ABOUT. Lafayette, La.—Clementine Bernabet, the confessed slayer of 17 negroes in this and other towns, was indicted by the grand jury, the true bill returned charging her with the murder of Norbet Randall and his family of five here last November. The negress received the news of her indictment with no other emotion than the shrug of her shoulders. While the grand jury was considering her case the girl sang "Nearer, My God to Thee" and "Lead Kindly Light." The young negress talked freely with newspaper men and gleeled puffed a cigar which one of them gave her. She smiled while retelling the ghastly details of her confession and got added gratification out of the thought of her photograph appearing in the newspapers. She attributed her desire to unbomom her criminal and fanatical self to the loss of her "cunjah" bag. The grand jury will return an indictment against the negress for the murder of the Randall family. Two other negresses, Mary Conchon and "Irene," she said, helped Clementine in a part of the 17 murders she had confessed. Jo Thibodeaux, the "voodoo doctor," whom Clementine declares sold her and her accomplices the "unjah" bags, is not alarmed at the prospect of being involved in the murders. He acknowledged the distinction of being a "yerb doctah" and a "mystery worker," but insists that "the good white folks" of New Iberia, his home town, know him to be harmless and devoid of criminal intentions. He says Clementine is "hazy" and unbelievable. CURIOUS ACCIDENT IT CAUSED THE WRECK. LONG SHROUDED IN MYSTERY, OF A SCHOONER. The queer accidents that have, happened to Maine vessels would fill a volume, and some of them would not be believed. An old coaster captain recalled the mysterious wreck of the little schooner Active in Fox island thoroughfares some years ago. It was in the fall of the year, and the Active was going through the narrow passage between the islands. She carried only two men, the master, Captain Ray, and his sixteen-year-old son. When last seen under sail the Active was shipshape, the boy at the wheel and his father below taking a nap, as it was afterward found. Next day the Active was found on the rocks, with her stern stove in, the master drowned in his bunk and the boy dead at the wheel with a bullet hole in his head. This discovery caused a great sensation, and there appeared to be no motives for any one to kill the boy, and as it was known that the shot must have been fired by a third person, the whole affair was a mystery and remained thus for years, when a man in a distant state confessed on his death-bed that it was he who fired the shot that killed the helmsman of the Active. The man said that he had fired at a hawk, which was circling low, and did not see the schooner, which suddenly came into range, owing to an intervening clump of bushes. Then he was horrified to see the boy at the schooner's wheels throw up his hands and fall to the deck, while the vessel broached to and was driven ashore by the wind and tide. The gunner, who was after gulls and ducks, fled without waiting to investigate the result of his unfortunate shot, fearing that if he reported the matter to the authorities he might, although innocent of any criminal intent, be imprisoned.—Washington Post. SHARP CRITICISM FOR WICKERSHAM BAR ASSOCIATION SECRETARY ROASTS ATTORNEY GENERAL ABOUT NEGRO LEWIS. Washington.—George Whitelock of Baltimore, secretary of the American Bar association, in a letter to Attorney General Wickersham, made public, sharply criticizes the course taken by the latter to have W. A. Lewis of Boston, the negro assistant attorney general, retained as a member of the association. Assistant Attorney General Lewis' application for membership was favorably passed upon, but the governing board later rescinded his election to the bar association. 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Mr. Dube is a native Zulu, educated in America, and started some years ago in South Africa an industrial school on somewhat the same lines as that of Tuskegee institute. Mr. Dube has made himself to such an extent the leader of his own people in South Africa, that he has been chosen the first president of the first Interstate Native congress. His address follows: Gentlemen of the South African Native Congress: It is meet that my first word to you should be one expressive of my high and heartfelt appreciation of the confidence which my countrymen assembled in Boemfontein have thought well to repose in me, and of my thanks for this unique honor, all unexpected and undeserved, which they have thrust upon me. Not even present at their gathering (having been unavoidably debarred that pleasure by pressing educational and editorial calls at home), they nevertheless went out of their way to seek me out in this remotest corner of Natal and to elect me the first president of this the first Interstate Native congress of all South Africa. For this kind act I now do thank them and the dignity bestowed I hereby formally accept. Gentlemen, it seems to me that the day of our race's renaissance is at length at hand, indeed it would not be inappropriate to mark this 8th day of January, and in future years so to commemorate it as the "red letter day" of our people's hopes, as the birthday of our existence as a political entity in this new South Africa. I say this "New South Africa!" for the South Africa we see today developing before us is no more the South Africa known to our fathers. Yet none the less will it be the home and native land of our children. And for them we have to make straight the path and prepare a comfortable "place in the sun." Although, as a race we possess the unique distinction of being the first born sons of this great and beautiful continent; although as a race we can claim an ancestry more ancient than almost any round about us, yet as citizens of the glorious British empire, we are the last born children, just awakening into political life, born on the 8th day of January, in this the year of grace 1912. Yes; politically, new-born babes, we are still very young and inexperienced, and as such it behooves us to feel our way slowly and warily. While teaching ourselves to walk boldly and uprightly before all mankind, we must still be careful ever to seek out the way where wisdom (not mere sentiment or desire) leadeth, treading softly, ploddingly, along the bright path illumined by righteousness and reason—the steep, thorny path, yet only one that will safely and surely lead us to our goal, the attainment of our rightful inheritance as sons of Africa and citizens of the South African commonwealth. Many are the difficulties I foresee in our way—enemies without, flerce but frank; dangers within, undesigned perhaps, but still more harmful. It will be an uphill fight, but our watchword shall be "Excelsior!"—Onward, higher; cautiously, ploddingly! By dint of our perseverance, our patience, our reasonableness, our law-abiding methods and the justice of our demands, all these obstacles shall be removed and enemies overcome. We have been distinguished by the world as a race of born gentlemen—a truly glorious title, bestowed on few other people!—and by the gentlenes of our manners (poor though we may be, unlettered and ill-clad) and by the nobility of our character shall we break down the adamantine wall of color prejudice and force even our enemies to be our admirers and our friends. Gentlemen! for better or for worse, you have selected me to be for the nonce your president. As I trust you will therefore permit me to indicate the way, and I trow I shall never lead you astray. For while I shall at all times endeavor to be a straight goer, I propose also to be a strong leader—not one dragged by the nose, still less one pulled by the tall, for as already said, my war-cry is—Onward! Upward into the higher places of civilization and Christianity—not backward into the slump of darkness, nor downward into the abyss of antiquated tribal systems—our salvation is not there, but in preparing ourselves to take an honored place among the nations. You have asked me to lead, and perchance you would ask me now how I intend to do so. I will show you my frame of mind and my ideal in two words—I take for my motto (and I hope as faithful and dutiful followers, it will be yours also). Festina lente, Hasten-Slowly; and for my patron saint I select that great and edifying man, Booker T. Washington. I recognize that the hour is come when we, the native races of South Africa, must be up and doing; for God helps those who help themselves. But I recognize, too, the necessity of moving cautiously, of making progress prudently. I see the danger we have to fear, lest the too impetuous amongst us, in the first fervor of this new inspiration, become too ambitious in the start, too pushful, too eager; to attain their majority in a day; in a word, contracting swelled head, and toppling over the apple cart. Therefore I say, Festina lente. And Booker T. Washington is to be my guiding star (would that he were nigh to give us the help of his wise counsel!) I have chosen this great man, firstly, because he is perhaps the most famous and best living example of our Africa's sons; and secondly, because, like him, I, too, have my heart centered mainly in the education of my race. Therein methinks lies the shortest and best way to their mental, moral, material, social and political betterment. Throughout ten long, tiring years and up to the present moment I have sacrificed all my time, all my strength and all my means upon this altar of my people's supremest need—the need of enlightenment, of knowledge, of understanding, of refinement of manners and refinement of mind. And if for the nonce I am ready to respond to my compatriot's call to serve them in the more urgent, and withal more perilous sphere of political activity, I shall on that account by no means lessen my educational and editorial efforts on their behalf. On the contrary I cherish a hope that my more honored position in the Native Commonwealth and my wider contact with the native world, may rather tend to make those efforts still more extensive and effective. All the same, while I believe that in education my race will find its greatest earthly blessing, I am forced to avow that, at this present juncture of the reformation of the South African commonwealth, it has a still more pressing need—the need of political vigilance and guidance, of political emancipation and rights. This native congress, then—if I may venture to speak as its appointed mouthpiece—representing, as it does, the whole body of educated nativedom throughout South Africa, respectfully tenders the government its submission and its support, and prays that the government may in return honor it with its confidence and grant our lawful requests their due consideration. The policy which I am convinced will prove at once the surest, safest and quickest (and the policy which I hope our society will ever follow) is one of deep and dutiful respect for the rulers whom God has placed over us; a policy of hopeful reliance in that sense of common justice and love of freedom so innate in the British character, that these will ultimately triumph over all other baser tendencies to color prejudice and class tyranny. I feel assured that, if we approach this inherently religious and magnanimous British people in a respectful and reasonable manner, they will not refuse us a hearing, and will not refuse us our rights. Indeed they it is who have taught us to seek and to strive; we follow but their own example. Whatever political rights the British citizen now enjoys, he has won only at the cost of centuries of constant struggle; and surely he will not think ill of us if we now humbly follow in his footsteps. But while we wage our little war, it shall always and only be along the constitutional way of peaceful endeavor and patient pegging away. An honest, manly fight every Britisher admires. We propose to put one up; and by God's help we shall win. CONVEX LENS OF THE EYES A BURNING GLASS THAT ADJUSTS THE SIGHT TO VARYING DISTANCES. One of the manifold wonders of the human eye is the convex lens with which the focal distances of sight are made instantly and without mental effort. This lens in the eye is a literal "burning glass," as the small boy styles the glass lens with which he focuses the sun's rays and sets fire to a piece of paper. Just in this sense, too, is the lens of the eye a literal burning glass, as may be shown by the simplest of experiments. Let the person at midday hold a straw against the face of the sun and focus his eyes on the straw. He can look at the straw, with its background of a dazzling sun, and without discomfort. But the moment he looks at the fiery ball of the sun itself, subconsciously the lens of the eye comes to its proper focus, with the result that a "burning" sun spot appears on the retina of the eye, and it is said that a few seconds of such looking would burn out the retina as if by fire itself. In the subconscious adaptability of the eye lens to adjust itself to different distances lies its value to the human sight. The man with a camera adjusts the focus of his lenses by sliding them forward and back. The lenses of the human eye, by changing their curvatures, allow of one looking at fine print six inches from his nose and in a fraction of a second to look up and away, probably fifty miles to a mountain peak that in an instant is in true camera focus.—Pittsburg Press. WORDS DIDN'T FIT THE GAME. Mr. Justice McKenna of the United States Supreme court took up golf some time ago, and played it at it the Chevy Chase links near Washington. He was practicing one day, and there was nobody with him except his caddie. He teed up his ball, made the preliminary waggles he could think of and swiped at the ball. He missed it a foot. He tried again, and this time struck the earth 18 inches behind the tee. He made another effort and missed again. Then he stopped, and looked at the ball and said: "Tut-tut! Tut-tut-tut!" "Mister," observed the caddie, "you'll never learn to play golf wit dem words!" -- Saturday Evening Post. TEN YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN NORTH CAROLINA Mr. J. Y. Joyner, superintendent of of public instruction for this state, has just given to the public a statement of educational progress in North Carolina during the last decade. From this statement it appears that there were 238,000 colored children of school age in 1910 and 497,000 white, making a total of 735,000 with an average school term of 105 days for white and 94 for colored. It is also gratifying to note that this increase in days has been marked by 28 per cent. as to white and 20 per cent. as to colored, and there is put forth plans and suggestions which if enacted into law will so increase the school term throughout the state as to make it not less than six months anywhere. Such measures cannot but meet with the hearty approval of all even though they call for increased taxation. Experience has shown that those states are forward in material character and strength of their public schools. The backwardness of the south is due more to the decadence of their public schools than to any other cause, and her present awakening is also proportionate to the seriousness with which she has grappled with the public school problem. There is more, however. There are 8,369 white teachers in the state and 2,793 colored with average monthly salary for white teachers amounting to $34.47 and colored $23.48. The conclusion is obvious that the colored teacher controls a larger number of pupils for about two-thirds the pay and besides works under time. This is a hardship which the colored teacher must bear until the change comes. There is certainly no clearer reason for the dirth of colored teachers for the rural schools than that given by the above facts. A man can make more at common labor and have a steadier job than he can teaching school for $23 a month, and a good cook or laundress might find her monthly balances far in excess of that of her sister who teaches a colored school. This lack of adequate salary for colored school teachers makes school teaching a makeshift which in the end proves unsatisfactory to both the teacher and the state. Some plan will eventually be provided which will assure the teacher a living salary and thereby cause a larger number of trained men and women to devote their lives to this line of race uplift. It is noted that no word is said by the superintendent about compulsory education. This is of course a question upon which honest men may differ. Still there appears many cogent reasons why North Carolina should have such a law, and enforce it. The masses of the people of the state need education of such kind and character as will make them better citizens. The industrial turn which all education of the masses is taking spells a new day for the development of the resources of our state and country. Should North Carolina take the lead in providing adequate and necessary facilities for the intellectual and industrial training of both races and make it compulsory for every one of school age to be trained until he has acquired enough book learning for the purposes of his life work and enough skill to make a living with his hands? Such policy if adopted and adhered to would make North Carolina the model state of the Union. FIGHTING CONSUMPTION TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBITION CAMPAIGN IN MISSISSIPPI DOING MUCH GOOD. Columbus, Miss.—Some real results are being reported from the tuberculosis exhibition campaign among the colored people. Principal W. I. Mitchell of Union Academy, the colored school, has written the following letter: "I am sure the older pupils were very much benefited by visiting the exhibition. They have reduced to practice some things learned there. They now have their own drinking cups. They co-operate heartily in keeping their rooms clean. They are better prepared to listen to talks from their teachers along lines of health and cleanliness. "The younger students under ten years of age will remember that they went to the 'Locus' exhibition, and after a while the full meaning of it will dawn upon them. Furthermore, the fact of their going interested their parents and caused many to visit the exhibition who otherwise would not have been there. Since the exhibition has been here I have screened my kitchen and dining room, installed city hydrant water and made other sanitary improvements." PRESCRIBING A DIET. Sir Richard Jebb, the eminent physician, was a man of irritable temper, and when bored by the querulous complaints of some of his patients could not always force himself to return a civil answer. A troublesome patient, whose illness was purely imaginary, pestered him one day with questions as to what he should eat. "My directions on that point," said Sir Richard, "will be few and simple. 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JOHNSON, Newly Built and No Hot and Col Newly Built and Newly Furnished Hot and Cold Baths The Champa The Champa Pharmacy Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND WE SERVE HOME Prescriptions O Phone us and we will deliver the g JAMES E. THR PHONE MAIN When You THE HEADS, FEET, TAILS, SNOU CHITTERLINGS OR ANY OTHER Is the place to get your CHEMICALS AND PATENTS WE SERVE HOT DRINKS Scriptions Our Special we will deliver the goods to all pa- tes E. THRALL, B PHONE MAIN 2425. en You W FEET, TAILS, SNOUTS, EARS, N LINGS OR ANY OTHER PART OF DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE HOT DRINKS Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. When You Want THE HEADS, FEET, TAILS, SNOUTS, EARS, NECKBONES OR CHITTERLINGS OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE HOG EXCEPT THE SQUEAL, GO TO East's Market st's Marl R STREET PH 2300-6 LARIMER STREET The Purpose of an Advertisement is to serve your needs. It will help sell your goods—talk to the people you want to reach. An advertisement in this paper is a reference guide to those whose wants are worth supplying. A Dollar Kept with the home merchants it benefit. Business men should aware this dollar at home and make a bid Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of continuous benefit. Business men should awake to the importance of keeping this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious advertising. o home merchants it is a messeness men should awake to the imp home and make a bid for it by judi FIREPROOF 2130 ARAPAHOE ST. EARLY GORGE BREWER AND BREWER BREWER St. Main 6363 & Distributing Co. the famous IT'S CAPITAL delivered promptly; empties called for. Vines, and Cordials at Popular Prices our Sunday dinner, and aid digestion. HOTEL ON, Proprietor. Newly Furnished Cold Baths DENVER, COLO. to get your D PATENT MEDICINES HOT DRINKS. Our Specialty. e goods to all parts of the city. MIRALL, PROPR. AIN 2425. You Want OUTS, EARS, NECKBONES OR OTHER PART OF THE HOG Market PHONE 1461 MAIN has not affected our job printing prices. We're still doing commercial work of all kinds at prices satisfactory to you. spent at home reacts in its benefits with unceasing general profit. Sent out of town it's life is ended. s it is a messenger of continuous awake to the importance of keeping bid for it by judicious advertising. STEAM HEAT DENVER, COLO. PHONE 1461 MAIN THE HIGH COST OF LIVING WHILE YOU WAIT Sewed Soles 60 cts. and 75 cts. WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED FREE THE EASTERN SHOE REPAIR FACTORY Yellow Front 1527 Champa St. PHONE 8453 MAIN Tesch's Market & Grocery WHEN YOU WANT THE BEST LIVE CHICKENS Spring Lamb and Fresh Vegetables WE RENDER OUR OWN LARD 2601 Lafayette Street Phone York 19 For Drugs and Medicines GO TO MEYER'S The Leading East Side Druggist 2601 Humboldt Street Phones: York 462, York Order by Phones. We deliver anything, any time, any place. Drugs and Medicin GO TO MEYER'S Leading East Side Drug t Street Phones: York by Phones. We deliver anything, any time, am The Leading East Side Druggist 2601 Humboldt Street Phones: York 462, York 481 Order by Phones. We deliver anything, any time, any place. CARSON'S Now that Spring Housecleaning is over you no doubt have found out that you need a few matchings to fill out your dinner set. Our stock was never as complete or varied, nor were we ever in a better position to fill your wants as now. We have a very pretty 6-piece open stock dinner ware, pattern in a white and gold design, from which you can purchase: Dinner Plates at.....10c each Cups and Saucers at 12½c each B. & B. Plates at.....6c each And 100-piece Set at SPECIAL $9 PER SET Four open stock patterns, quantity limited, at ½ PRICE Three lines of Graniteware marked at specially Low Prices A line of Manufacturers Samples in Fancy China ...½ PRICE EXTRA SPECIAL An 8-in. fancy glass Berry Bowl fitted with silver plated rim, including fine plated berry spoon, well worth $2.50 EXTRA SPECIAL A large assortment of cut glass, including berry bowls, celery trays, vases, fern dishes, etc. well worth $5 and $6 each SPECIAL— $1.25 COMPLETE Your CHOICE $3.50 EXTRA SPECIAL An- 8-in, fancy glass Berry Bowl fitted with silver plated rim, including fine plated berry spoon, well worth $2.50 THE CARSON Denver's Largest Exclusive China Store CARSON CROCKERY Test Exclusive China Store 732-36 FI THE CARSON CROCKERY CO. Denver's Largest Exclusive China Store 732-36 Fifteenth Street PHONE MAIN 3028 JOHN K. Meats, Fancy and JOHN K. RETTIGE Fancy and Staple Gro 1864 CURTIS STREET THE PITOL CL A SOCIAL CLUB. PHONE M MACK SMART CAPITO A SOCI CAPITOL CLUB 2018 CHAMPA STREET ```markdown ``` The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT COPYRIGHTED BY BY A JLANG FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLG Corner Nineteenth. THE PETER B. Phone York 1979 Medicines ER'S Side Druggist Phones: York 462, York 481 anything, any time, any place. Four open stock patterns, quantity limited, at ½ PRICE Three lines of Graniteware marked at specially Low Prices A line of Manufacturers Samples in Fancy China ... ½ PRICE ROCKERY CO. 732-36 Fifteenth Street RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 RETTIG Staple Groceries L CLUB CLUB. PHONE MAIN 5496. --- EXTRA SPECIAL A large assortment of cut glass, including berry bowls, celery trays, vases, fern dishes, etc, well worth $5 and $8 each Your CHOICE $3.50 Denver, Colo. MANAGER. DENVER, COLO STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1911 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LTD. of Perth, Scotland. Assets ..... $2,743,935.68 Liabilities ..... 1,996,810.60 Bond capital ..... 250,000.00 Surplus ..... 497,125.08 U. S. branch, 55 John St., New York City. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance De- partment CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 28TH, 1913. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the General Corporation, Ltd., a corporation organized under the laws of the Kingdom of Great Britain whose principal office is located at Perth, Scotland, has com- piled its assets and is applicable to this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an in- stitutes Charter or Articles Incorporation, within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the the last day of February, in the year of our own one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. In testimony whereof, I, W. L. Clayton, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set hand and made the following office, at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1912. W. L. CLAYTON, (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance, EDWIN STARTID, Deputy. Published in the Colorado Statesman by authority of Commissioner of Insurance. NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY. Estate of John H. Wilson, Deceased, The undersigned, having been appointed administratrix of the estate of John H. Wilson, deceased, has given notice that she will appear before the County Court at Sale Court and County Denver, at the Court House, Denver in County, on Monday the 29th day of April, A. D. 1912, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock, a. m. of, said day, at which sale estate are requested and requested to attend for the purpose or having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to sale estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated at Denver to Colorado, this 25th day of March, A. D. 1912. CARRY WILSON, Administrator of the Estate of John H. Wilson, Deceased. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1911 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE FOR PITTSBURG FIRE INSURANCE COMP. PANY, OF Pittsburgh, Pennn. Assets ..... $810,833.49 Liabilities ..... 183,825.95 Capital ..... 200,000.00 Surplus ..... 176,557.54 SURFACE OF COLORADO, Insurance De- partment. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 28TH 1913 Office of Comptroller of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that the Pittsburgh Fire Insurance Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Pennsylvania, whose principal office is in Pittsburgh, has authorized with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an authorized Charter or Articles of Incorporation, within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, 1913, with a thousand hundred and thirteen. In testimony whereof, I. W. L. Clayman, of Colorado, have here set up the State of Colorado, have here set up my hand and affixed my seal of offfice to the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, D. 1912. 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 OF AUTHORITY. THE UNION HEALTH & ACCIDENT COMPANY of Denver, Colo. Assets $143,161.11 Liabilities 11,001.41 Capital 10,001.41 Stakeholder 32,159.65 STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 29TH, 1913. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified, that The University of Denver has compiled with corporation organized under the laws of Colorado, whose principal office is located at Denver, has compiled with their State applicable to said company, and the company is hereby hereby transacted business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter State applicable to said company, and the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year ending February, the thousand nine hundred and thirteen. In testimony whereof, I. W. L. Clayton, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set hand and affixed my seal, at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1912. W. L. CLAYTON, (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance. EDWIN STARKKEY, Deputy. Published in the Colorado Statesman by authority of Commissioner of Insurance. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. Denver, Colo., April 20, 1912. To the Stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association: You are hereby notified that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association will be held on Tuesday, May 21, 1912, at the hour of 8 o'clock p. m. of said day at room 25, Western Newspaper Union building, 1824 Curtis street, Denver, Colorado, for the election of officers and directors of said association and for the transaction of any and all other business which may properly come before said association. Mrs. D. B. Simmons of Silex, Ark., writes: "I tried one bottle of Ford's Hair Pomade and found it to be the best preparation I have ever used. It stopped my hair from falling out and breaking off and my hair is now as soft as it can be and is longer than it has been for a long time. My friends all want it. Ford's Hair Pomade, the old, reliable dressing for stubborn, curly hair makes harsh hair more pliable, glossy and easy to comb. Try it and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion, for the complexion. For sale by druggists, accept no other, see that it is Ford's and manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. Kayden is a native Russian and has won every prize for scholarship for which he has been eligible since he has entered the university. He received word Friday that he had been granted a fellowship at Harvard university, where he will go next year. Tuskegee, Ala., April 20.—A law enforced in this country and possibly not evident in any other section of the state, forbidding trespass on lands for the purpose of gathering berries, will be in force within the next few weeks. This method of procedure was adopted by the land owners last year in as endeavor to cause more laborers to work in the fields during the cottos chopping and hoeing time. The laborers would go out and in a few hours pick enough berries to amount to more than the price paid for farm labor, and finding a ready sale for them in schools here, would naturally take that method of support, leaving the planters without labor. Strict enforcement of the trespass laws caused them to return to the farm and a like course will be taken this year. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 24.—Jack Johnson, champion pugilist, was injured severely, it is believed, here today, when a large automobile truck ran into the rear of his machine. The champion had several tendons in his back sprained, while his clothes were torn and he was covered with mud. Johnson's valet was slightly hurt. Johnson was proceeding down Wylie avenue in his machine, having left his hotel but a few moments. The automobile truck, belonging to a wholesale liquor firm, followed, Without warning the big truck collided with Johuson's automobile. Johnson was assisted to a nearby hotel and given medical attention by a police surgeon. On advice of a physician, he has canceled his engagements for two weeks, in which time his injuries are expected to heal. CHURCH OF THE HOLY REDEEMER. Twenty-Second Avenue and Humboldt Street. The Rev. H. B. Brown, B. D., Priest. Our highest expectations were more than realized in connection with the attendance at and impressiveness of the service for the confirmation of candidates on Sunday evening last. Not only was the enlarged church filled to its utmost capacity but scores had to return home, here being no room to accommodate them. Those who took our advice to "come early" were among the fortunate ones to be seated. Thirty-two received the sactament of confirmation and will make their first communion on Sunday morning at 7:30 o'clock. The bishop of the diocese, the Right Rev. Charles Olmsted spoke eloquently and in felicitous terms referred to the great work accomplished by the priest, Father Brown, since he took charge nearly three months ago—a work he has been longing for ten years to see. The priest made the announcement at the service that he was ready to receive the names of candidates for the next confirmation class. Already quite a number have given in their names, and the indications are that the class being formed will equal if not exceed in number the one just confirmed. The class will assemble in the vestry of the church every Sunday evening at 6:30 o'clock for instruction and the date for the confirmation has been set for the evening of Sunday, the 2nd of June. Let all those who have been undecided about their confirmation make up their minds at once and receive the Apostolic Sacrament, and we shall be also glad to help those in search of a church home to find one. The subject of Sunday morning's sermon will be "The Source of Our Gift," that of the evening, "The Work of the Holy Spirit." The date of the Fete which the women's Guild of the church is getting up is set for the 28th of the month (May). It will take place in the upper and large Hall of the Chapter House by kind permission of Very Rev. Dean Hart and will be one of the great events of the season. Further notice will be given. DAY OR NIGHT. A. M. LAWHORN Undertakers A first-class Mortuary establishment time of death of loved ones. Prices be LAWRENCE JONES, LOUIS HUBBARD, FU PARLORS 1925 Arap W H Are you a member of THE ROCKY M TION? If not, why not? You can only give liquors. I will give thirteen reasons why you 1 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN Is the ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION United CLASS MORTUARY establishment. First aid to the bereaved of loved ones. Prices below competitors. Polite WRENCE JONES, Licenced Embalmers HUBBARD, Funeral Director ORS 1925 Arapahoe Street A first-class Mortuary establishment. First aid to the bereaved in the time of death of loved ones. Prices below competitors. Polite service LAWRENCE JONES, Licenced Embalmer LOUIS HUBBARD, Funeral Director PARLORS 1925 Arapahoe Street WHY? Are you a member of THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION? If not, why not? You can only give one reason, why not, to-wit: The sale of liquors. I will give thirteen reasons why you should be. 12 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 13 THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION contrib ganizat carries the pur grade gars th A. BRAD BRADSHA A. BRADSHAW THE BROOKLYN MILK CO. AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE OLD STAND 1443 THE CHAMPA THE CORNER E OLD STAND 1443-1447 Stou CHAMPA PHARMA AROUND THE CORNER 1443-1447 Stout St. FROM THE OLD STAND THE CHAMPA PHARMACY TWENTIETH AND CHAMPA. Is the place to get your Drugs, Chemicals and Pat- serve Hot Drinks. Perfumes, box candies or specialties. Get our prices before buying elsew JAMES E. THRALL, P e to get your Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medic Drinks. Perfumes, box candies and boxies. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. JAMES E. THRALL, Prop. Is the place to get your Drugs, Chemicals and Patent Medicines. We serve Hot Drinks. Perfumes, box candies and box paper or specialties. Get our prices before buying elsewhere. PHONE MAIN 2425. J. R. DRESSOR WALLACE CLOW The Colorado Wall Pap Company Theado Wall Paper & Company Colorado Wall Paper & Paint Company WALL PAPER, PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS Interior and Exterior Decorators. We Do House Painting. Coach Colors, Paints and Varnishes. Agents for John W. Masury & Sons. TELEPHONE MAIN 871. 728 W. Colfax, foot of Welton St. Denver, Colo. PHONE MAIN 6123—Day or Night RESIDENCE PHONE YORK 1669. PARLORS 1023 NINETEENTH STREET. THE DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING COMPANY J. R. CONTEE Pres. and Mgr. R. E. Handy Licensed Embalmer Frank Rogers Assistant Funeral Director. CURTIS M. HARRIS Asst. Manager and Funeral Director. Lady Assistant POLITE SERVICE TO ALL. Ambulance and Carriages Furnished for All Occasions J. R. DRESSOR PHONE MAIN 6243 Publishment. First aid to the bereaved in the services below competitors. Polite service NES, Licenced Embalmer RD, Funeral Director Arapahoe Street is the only club (not religious) in the United States where gambling is absolutely prohibited. physical, tracing, to its mem- will not sell liquors to one of its members who at the time is under the influx of new work. Employees pay $355.00 per month in salaries to men who support families. gives one Annual Outing and one Grand Dance each year. better clean, steam-heated rooms for Men only. patronizes the professional and business Men of the Race. employs Negro mechanics and arti salaries. acts as a clearing house for the unemployed of the race, its endorsement being sufficient with all the railways in and of Denver, all the commercial houses employing Negroes. contributes more to charity than any organization in Denver except the churches, carries nothing but the highest grade of the purest wines and liquors, and finest grade of domestic and clear Havana cigars that money can buy. ADSHAW Millinery FOR JUST ONE HALF WHAT YOU PAY ON SIXTEENTH STREET. WE OWN OUR BUILDING AND HAVE NO RENT TO PAY THIS ENABLES US TO SELL 10 PER CENT. CHEAPER 443-1447 Stout St. PA PHARMACY s, Chemicals and Patent Medicines. We ines, box candies and box paper s before buying elsewhere. E. THRALL, Prop. The All Paper & Paint Company A. B. CLOW