Colorado Statesman

PATRONIZE MERCHANTS WHO ADV. IN THE PEOPLE'S PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY Negro Educator Sees No Hope For The Race In Colonization VOL. XX. Negro Ec Sees No For The Colo (From Denver Post) Dr. E. G. Granville-Sutton has been visiting this country for the last twenty months at the invitation of Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee. Granville Sutton is an educated West African of Free Town, near where he owns 1,000 acres of land. He is 62 years old, but a mere chicken compared to his father, who is known to have lived 120 years and probably longer. The elder Sutton enlisted in the British army in 1773, drawing a pension for the last fifty-two years of his life and dying in 1872 in Granville Sutton's presence, so that the two already furnished a long link with the past, the father serving during the period of the Napoleonic wars, which, whilst they had their main theatre in Europe, were carried on all over the world, and many French colonies passed into the hands of the British. Granville-Sutton belongs to the Liberal church, which believes more in deeds than professions and that work and accomplishment will cause the rise of the Negro race. He is, indeed was at one with Booker Washington in his ideas for Negro evolution long before he met him, and has only been confirmed in his ideas for Negro evolution long before he met him, and has only been confirmed in his ideas by which he has seen in America through which he traveled extensively, especially in those cities and the country where the Negro was either, being taught to work the land or become a mechanic. The old idea of Liberia and sending the Negro back to the cradle of his race no more, indeed, perhaps less, fitted to succeed than when he left it, is not a practical one, in fact would probably cause a relapse into barbarism for the American Negro must be reacclimated and is entirely unable to resist many diseases from which natives are immune. What is sought by Granville-Sutton is men from the Booker Washington schools to teach his people and also the admission to Negro institutions for a number of his students. On his return a building larger than the present one will be erected—160 by 60 and 40 feet high—in which to install workshops in tin, shoe-making and all the other crafts necessary to present day needs. While trades are important, they are considered chiefly so that the Negroes may then make lands and farming preferable, for it is in the soil which the Negro has so often tilled for others that their greatest future lies, and their is plenty of land one place and another which they can cultivate so soon as they reach a stage into other industrialism where they can found communities. I used to hear the South African Kaffir criticised in that he was a mere copyist and never originated any thing, though capable of making things mechanically perfect. Sutton tells me, however, that at Tuskegee and other places the boys develop originality and will improve on models set before them, and that the same is true of those in West Africa, where indeed they design their own buildings and have originated substitutes in the way of materials for those that used to be imported from abroad. Mathematics and written language existed on the west coast before the advent of the whites, but it is doubtful if they originated with the Negro; more likely they came from the Arabs, who were always great slave makers long before the exportation of black ivory to the West Indies or the United States. Constant wars among themselves and slave raids seem always to have kept the Negro from going beyond a certain stage of development, and they lacked both the admixture and competition of other people to make them progress. The Zulus are a truly great and warlike nation, drilled in mass as well as individual troop movements, an adhesive people who might in truth have conquered all South Africa but for the whites and their rifles. Yet nearer the coast were Swazis, who inhabited the bush country, a black, tall race with little development and full of strange and horrid superstitions. I remember seeing one of their DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. MARCH 14, 1914 State Hist & Nat Hist Society State House GIANTS WHO ADO THE JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO chiefs, who at the instigation of a witch doctor had ordered and consumed the slaughter of 1,500 people when his grandmother was sick, and yet what a gulf of ideas lay between at the present, though to be sure, they did burn witches in Salem and there are records not more than 150 years ago in Scotland of services being postponed as the minister was absent for the burning of a witch. It is pretty hard to find a real measure for the difference in point of view when we remember that clairvoyants in Denver have lately been repressed by special edict. A king who regarded his grandmother with sufficient filled piety to sacrifice 1,500 or 15,000 people of the more hardy might be the acme of self-negation when he thus weakened his tribe to save the old lady from discomfort. I am still in doubt as to where the Swazi chief belongs, at the pinnacle or at the base of humanity. The case is arguable either way, though an American snap judgment would execute him or a Chinaman might say all right. NINE STORY HOTEL IS PLANNED FOR HARLEM NINE STORY HOTEL IS PLANNED FOR HARLEM HOSTELRY TO BE BUILT FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF NEGRO PATRONS One hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be the estimated cost of a nine-story hotel to be erected for the accommodation of Negro patrons, according to a statement from the Workers' Realty Company, 1913 Broadway, company is composed of Negro business men. Jesse W. Watkins is the president and W. J. Green, Jr., manager. Negotiations have been pending for some time and the announcement was made last Saturday by Mr. Greene that an option had been secured on a vacant plot, 75x 100 feet, located on West 138th street, between Lenox and Seventh avenues, owned by the Mary G. Pinckney estate. Work on the building is expected to begin May 1, and the company announces the probable opening of the hotel for early in the fall. The hotel will be complete in every detail, the fittings and decorations elaborate and tasty, and the equipment and conveniences will be up-to-date. In the basement will be the engine room, laundry, a dining room for servants an officer's dining hall, a safe deposit vault, the boxes of which will be rented to the guests, a store room, the kitchen, a billiard room, a barber shop and a tailor shop. On the ground floor will be the restaurant and dining room, a cafe, --- a ladies' reception room, a palm garden, men's waiting room, the office and a news and cigar stand. The parlors and bed rooms will be on the upper floors. On the second floor an apartment will be fitted up in luxurious style and denominated as the bridal suite. More than 150 bed rooms will be provided, single and en suite, many of them with private baths. The scheme of decorations is not complete, but it is intended that harmony and good taste will prevail in this important part of the work. On the second floor will also be provided a banquet hall with a seating capacity of at least one hundred and on top of the building will be fitted up a roof garden. The plans call for two stores on the ground floor and it is reported that several applications have been made to lease them, one of which is free a florist and one from a retail walking cane merchant. Mr. Green states that the erection of this hotel will be in response to a long felt want. That many well-to do colored people from out of town who come to New York on business, on shopping trips or on pleasure have been in convenience by inadequate and inferior accommodations. This need will be provided for in the proposed new hotel.—New York Age. Prohibition Movement SPECIAL TO COLORADO STATESMAN There are two great vital questions confronting us a nation today. One is the Negro question, that every statesman south of the Mason and Dixon line seems to gain popularity and a ascendency in the councils of his party. The other is Prohibition, whose followers have made great inroads in several states of this great union The purpose of this article is to enlighten the readers of the Colorado Statesman on the evils of prohibition whether it has been a blessing or a curse to the nation. In the states where the law is strictly enforced it has cost thousands of dollars of taxpayers' money, and hundreds of lives. We believe that prohibition has made more hypocrites than any political propaganda that has ever been put before the electorate, and a hypocrite is the most despisable human being in history. Drunkenness and licentious living amongst our race or any race we condemn, but if we were to delve deep into history either pagan, ancient and modern, also biblical, we find that wine was used at every celebration of importance. Christ himself turned water into wine at a marriage celebration. The great church herself uses wine to celebrate the incarnation of the Christ. Very true there are many men and women who abuse the use of RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Mr. Thomas A. Stewart, a Negro, has been appointed chief messenger in the United States patent office, a $1,000 job, succeeding a white man, who had held the position for fifteen years. Mr. Stewart was considered the best equipped man for the work, having been a messenger in the Patent Office for twenty-five years and is said to be the first colored man appointed chief messenger in the Patent Office. There are 20,000 Negroes in Little Rock, Ark. They have invested in the different business enterprises $350,000 and have estate valued at $1,000,000 and the per capita wealth $92. They have 72 teachers in the public schools and 50 instructors in two colleges. There are fifteen Baptist and twelve Method churches, one Roman Catholic, Congregational Presbyterian and Episcopal to teach the principles of Christianity. Negro men must cultivate a greater respect for Negro women alcoholic beverages, but on the other hand there is no use for a lot of fanatics trying to foster nation-wide prohibition upon the citizens of the various states of this union. Quoting the words of James Cardinal Gibbons, the most eminent prelate of the Catholic church in America: "Prohibition can never be enforced in a Christian country. It tends to make hypocrites and leads to the manufacture of ulicit whisky, replacing the good material with the bad, and at the same time robbing the government of the legitimate tax." I am in a position to know that in a few months from now, that one of the greatest campaigns in the history of this state will be waged for this great question, and taking time by the forelock, to warn the people, that prohibition means absolute loss to us as a state especially to Denver as a city. Can we expect to induce tourist and great conventions to meet in our city when they can drink only water. Those of you who are contemplating voting for this question, consider your own welfare. Think of the revenue that will be lost for you as taxpayers. So fellow citizens it is of vital importance that you should give this question serious consideration before deciding. A SUBSCRIBER. NO 29 and the women must cultivate a greater respect for themselves. It is not a onesided question by any means. It is quite frequent that women even lead in course, boisterous conduct in public. One such act offsets the refinement of a dozen good women. In our race it is the exception which breaks rather than proves the rule. It is always galling to hear a crowd of our women indulging in loud laughing and talking on street cars or in other public places. As Goldsmith says, it betrays "the vacant mind," and is the index of very common breeding. Such women not only expose themselves to the contempt of other people but their lack of refinement and modesty reflects upon all other colored women.-Kansas City Sun. Philadelphia, Pa.—March 4.—Ora Griffin, the colored girl who was shot and seriously wounded by Charles Kinlock a white man, will recover according to the latest report from her bedside. Kinlock, who was so infuriated that he turned the weapon on himself after shooting Miss Griffin, is reported to be out of danger. Kinlock who was madly in love with the colored girl, went into Hanscom's restaurant. Market near Seventh streets, where Ora Griffin was employed, and, after whispering in the girl's ear, drew a revolver and shot her. A white woman standing nearby attempted to seize Kinlock's arm and was shot dead. Then the infuriated man shot himself. The shooting is the chief topic for conversation here. Kinston, N. C., Feb. 27.—One experiment here with Negro labor tends to disprove the claims of the race's shiftlessness advanced by employers in this vicinage recently when they imported foreigners to take the places of native blacks. A silk mill in north-east Kinston which previously had had a rather turbulent career is being profitably conducted with Negro management and operatives, and is said to be a model manufactory. T. W. Thurston, a colored preacher, is at the head of the enterprise, which is locally owned, and the 83 men, women and children employed are all Negroes. No lint, very little noise, and excellent light is noticeable in this competently conducted plant, and efficiency is attested by the output. The labor is well paid and the operatives say working conditions are nearly ideal. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. D. C. Collier has resigned from the presidency of the Panama-Facific California Exposition at San Diego. L. H. Bashor of Waterloo, Iowa, formally announced his candidacy for United States senator on the Progressive ticket. A successful operation for appendicitis was performed on C. W. Post, the millionaire cereal manufacturer, at Rochester, Minn. The first general primaries through the state since the enactment of the Illinois suffrage law brought out only a light woman vote. Maud Ballington Booth, of the Volunteers of America spoke to 1,200 convicts in the open prison yard at Folsom, Cal., penitentiary. Three men are believed to have been killed and three fatally injured in a fire which destroyed the Lowe building and seriously damaged the ten-story building of the Union National bank of Clarksburg, W. Va. Four automobile bandits, believed to be wanted in several parts of the country, were nabbed in Davenport, Ia., twenty minutes after a daring daylight holdup of an out-of-the-way grocery store and cleaning the till of $5. Don B. Sebastian and John Sebastian, son and grandson of the late John Sebastian, former vice president of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway, were given $1 each from his $62,000 estate, according to his will filed in Chicago. Orders for the sterilization of twenty convicts in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison and the reformatory at Anamons, under a new state law, were issued by the State Board of control at Des Moines, Ia., and forwarded to the authorities of those institutions. Suffering with bruised heads and empty stomachs, 1,000 members of the unemployed armies that have been in Sacramento, were encamped on the Yolo county side of the Sacramento river, to which they were driven by Sacramento county officers. Not all of them were suffering from injuries, but all were hungry. Most of them were cold from the drenching given them by the city fire department in routing them from their Sacramento camp. WASHINGTON. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Henry Clay Hall of Colorado as interstate commerce commissioner to succeed Charles A. Prouty. It is rumored at Washington that John Lind, President Wilson's special envoy to Mexico, will succeed John Bassett. Moore as counselor to the State Department. Dr. Barton W. Evermann has resigned as chief of the Alaska fisheries service and accepted the directorship of the Museum of the California Academy of Sciences at San Francisco. Charges by W. H. Cooper, a Washington banker, against Justice D. T. Wright of the District Supreme Court, asking for his impeachment, were dismissed by the House judiciary committee as "uncorroborated." The Mexican lid was lifted in the Senate of the United States by Senator Fall, Republican, of New Mexico, who urged armed intervention for the protection of Americans and other foreigners in the stricken republic. President Wilson nominated John L. De Saulles of Pennsylvania to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Uruguay. De Saulles is a former Yale football player, who won wide distinction on the gridiron. Action on the proposed repeal of the toll exemption provision of the Panama canal act will be concluded in the House before the Senate committee on interoceanic canals begins formal consideration of the controversy. President Wilson expects a full report from Governor Colquitt and American Consul Garrett as to the manner in which the body of Clemente Vergara, an American citizen, killed in Mexico, was returned to American scil. The Alaska railway bill, providing for the construction of 1,000 miles of government railroad, and the expenditure of $35,000,000, was ready for the President's signature when the Senate adopted the conference report already adopted by the House. Development of American foreign policy as an influence for commercial expansion and the cause of universal peace is a vital concern of the Washington administration in its efforts to have repealed the tolls exemption clause in the Panama canal act. FOREIGN Five filibusters who landed at Mendu, state of Yucatan, from a Cuban sloop, have been executed. It is stated that the commission appointed by General Carranza to investigate the killing of William S. Benton is still in Juarez, and has never been away. Count Moriana, brother of the duke of Santo Mauro, grand master of the queen's household, was killed in a collision between his automobile and a wagon at Santander, Spain. Giovanni Gioletti, premier of Italy, and his cabinet resigned. The withdrawal of the cabinet was due largely to the Socialist opposition in the chamber of deputies to the approbation of the government's expenditures in the war with Tripoli. Martial law was proclaimed throughout the state of Ceara. Federal troops have been placed on guard at the principal commercial and private houses in Fortaleza, the state capital, owing to the outbreak of a strike. Martial law was proclaimed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, several days ago. Frauds have been discovered in the management of the National lottery at Havana, Cuba, amounting to more than $1,000,000. President Menocal's cabinet decided to send a message to Congress, asking either for the suppression of the lottery or the legislation lessening the chances of fraud and evil effects from it. May Richardson, a militant suffragette, inflicted severe damage on the famous Velasquez picture, known as the "Rokeby Venus," which is hung in the National gallery, Trafalgar Square, London. The picture was purchased for $225,000 in 1906, and presented to the nation. Art experts have estimated its present market value at $500,000. SPORT. The University of Wisconsin defeated the Purdue basketball team 27 to 13 in the last game of the big nine conference at Lafayette, Ind. W. W. Naughton, sporting editor of the San Francisco Examiner, the oldest sporting writer in the United States, died at San Francisco of heart trouble. Jack Torres of Albuquerque was declared winner on a foul over Harry Riede of Aspen, Colo., in the tenth round of a scheduled ten-round bout at Albuquerque, N. M. Capt. Cyril Downer of the army aviation corps was killed while flying at Salisbury plains, in Wilshire, Eng. His aeroplane turned turtle and fell from a great height. Battling Levinsky was proclaimed Jim Coffey's master at New York, following his third straight victory over the Dublin giant in a ten-round mill at Madison Square garden. Lieutenant Esner, a military aviator and a non-comissioned officer, who accompanied him as a passenger, were killed at the Aspern aerodrome in Vienna when their aeroplane fell. The accident was due to the breakdown of the motor. The announcement of the Tavern stakes for amateur drivers, valued at $500, to be held at Overland park in Denver during the nineteen-day harness and running meeting, June 13 to July 4, is creating great interest among Denver horsemen. GENERAL. James Corrigio, also known as "Jimmy Curley," leader of a gang bearing his name, was shot and killed on the East side in New York by two men who escaped without being identified. Resolutions advising men and women who are out of work to steal food and clothing to maintain themselves were adopted at a mass meeting of the unemployed at Boston. Mrs. W. A Miller, who escaped with her children from Mexico eight weeks ago, after the home was burned by rebels and returned to Hastings, Neb., has not heard from her husband for six week's, and it is feared he has been killed Judge C. M. Walker denied the request of counsel for Mrs. Louise Van Keuren, accused of her husband's murder, that a jury of women be impaneled to try the woman defendant, and the work of impaneling a male jury began at Chicago. The body of George W. Vanderbilt was laid to rest in the family mausoleum in the Moravian cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, near the old Vanderbilt residence, where he was born, fifty-two years ago. The Right Rev. David H. Greer, Episcopal bishop of New York, conducted a brief service at the tomb. The funeral of Bishop Thomas Bowman, former president of De Pauw university and patriarch of Methodism in America, was held from Meharry hall of De Pauw university at Greencastle, Ind. Burial was in Forest Hill cemetery where the bishop's wife and other members of his family are buried. Bishop John H. Vincent of Chicago, retired, delivered the funeral address. A committee on "free speech" and "public assembly," which will study the scope and limits of the rights of free speech and assembly in connection with a survey being made of social and industrial progress of the United States during the last generation, has been appointed by the National Civic Federation, it was announced at New York. Alton B. Parker is chairman of the committee. The order of confiscation against the ranch of Gen. W. B. Snyman, a British subject, in the state of Chihuahua, was revoked by General Villa COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. The work on the new concrete bridge across the Arkansas river at La Junta is about completed and it is now in use. A conference of managers of exchanges in the Pueblo district of the Mountain States Telephone Company was held at Pueblo. Judge N. E. Graham has issued an order calling for the selection of twelve men as a special grand jury for Weld county. David Epstein, a Denver jewelry salesman charged with embezzlement, committed suicide in Pueblo by taking carbolic acid. Henry Lee, seventy-five years old, prominent Denver pioneer, was run down and fatally injured by an automobile at Sixteenth and Curtis streets. Irving Aker, ten-year-old son of L. G. Aker, Weldona farmer, was accidentally shot and died almost instantly from a bullet wound in the breast. Two pioneers, residents of Fort Collins, died; John McMullin, eighty-five, succumbing to pneumonia, and Harry J. Widdows dying of heart trouble. The decision of the State Court of Appeals in the Morris and Nordloh cases at Brighton ends the last of several political suits which marked the formation of the new county. Despondent over the threatened foreclosure of a mortgage on his home at 1327 Sheridan boulevard caused Chris Rowedey, a barber, of Denver, to end his life by taking prussic acid. One of the triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Shuster of Denver died. The baby was a boy and weighed four pounds. According to the physician, the mother and remaining boy and girl are doing well. The Denver Public Utilities Commission appointed W. H. Bryant, former city attorney, as special counsel to assist it in active steps to be taken immediately for the acquisition of a municipal water plant. State Treasurer Michael A. Leddy returned to Denver after a six weeks' rest. He is much improved in health. The treasurer spent his time in the southern Gulf states and was in New Orleans during Mardi Gras week. Mrs. Mary Ann Bryley, one of the first four white women to settle in Grand Junction, died. She was seventy-six years old. She and her husband were among the first people in Leadville when the boom started. The Colorado National Bank is the Denver correspondent of the Boatmen's Bank of St. Louis and has been for fully forty years. The Boatmen's is the oldest bank in Missouri and has an unbroken record of service to business interests in St. Louis and the Southwest since 1847, when it was organized. Revenue and postage stamps for use by a civil government to be established in northern Mexico are being manufactured in Denver. General Victoriano Carranza, leader of the constitutionalists, is now proceeding from Nogales, Ariz., to Juarez, Mexico, for the purpose of organizing the civil government. Unwilling to swear to a lie in his own defense, Antone Ginter, aged seventy-eight, withdrew a plea of not guilty in the bootlegging case against him at Grand Junction and admitted his guilt. A fine of $100 and costs were assessed against him by Judge Black, which he promptly paid. The other indictment against him was dismissed. Marriage at the age of seventy years proved a failure to Lars Hansen, a wealthy Palisade rancher, who is both plaintiff and defendant in a divorce suit filed by him in District Court at Grand Junction and followed by a cross petition submitted by his fifty-year-old wife whom he married after a few weeks' courtship a year ago. Thirty-three separate charges of misconduct and violation of army regulations, including serious criminal misdeeds, such as burglary and larceny, assault and battery, threats to kill and receiving stolen goods, have been preferred against Private John A. Cross of Company K, Colorado National Guard, who is being tried by court martial at Trinidad. Turning loose a mangy coyote that he had captured and inoculated with the germ causing mange, H. Piper of Hereford has commenced an experiment that he hopes will destroy all coyotes in his section by spreading the disease among those now on the prairie. The coyotes have been so troublesome that the farmers have been unable to keep them out of their poultry pens. Colorado's fame as "the radium state' already is beginning to bring results, with the announcement that the American Institute of Banking is considering the location of its national sanitarium in the state, probably near the radio-active waters of Idaho Springs. Two more detachments of the National Guard, Company A of the First infantry and Company C of the Second infantry, were discharged from duty in the strike zone and will return to their homes, according to General Chase. WOMAN PLANS FUNERAL WOMAN PLANS FUNERAL BOUGHT $500 COFFIN AND DIES AS SHE PREDICTED. Mrs. Clara B. Carter Tells Nurses She Will Return in Spirit to See Her Wishes Fulfilled. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Grand Junction, Colo.-Mrs. Clara B. Carter died two weeks to the hour after the date she had predicted her death. A post-mortem examination will be made to determine the cause of her death, although physicians attribute it to starvation, a condition the woman brought on herself. Mrs. Carter spent her last hours making paper flowers to be used in decorating her coffin. She left an extended obituary notice of her life, with the request that it be published in the newspapers. According to this, she was born in 1876, in Belleplain, Kan., and was converted at Burlingame, Kan., at the age of sixteen. She was educated in the schools of Kansas and came to Grand Junction eight years ago, since which time she had been prominent in the upbuilding of the city, using every opportunity to advance its interests, according to her own statements. Mrs. Carter made every preparation for her burial, even to the extent of arranging with the Rev. J. J. Gibliu a few days ago to preach her funeral sermon on Wednesday. She told him at the time that she was 'certain she would die in plenty of time for the funeral services. She also told the nurses that she intended to return to earth in spirit form and see how her instructions had been carried out. She was especially cheerful in arranging for her burial and funeral and took genuine delight in it, according to the nurses. She purchased a $500 coffin, had her grave dug and cemented, and picked out the gravestone to be placed at her grave. The body of her six-year-old daughter, who had been buried in Kansas, was brought here at her request some time ago, to be interred in the grave with her. Mrs. Carter is survived by two brothers, one residing in Montana and the other in Canada. Good Gone: $4,000 Shortage Reported Good Gone, $4,000 Shortage Reported Denver.—Investigation into the sudden disappearance of W. G. Good, general manager of the Denver branch of the Portage Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, has disclosed, according to the police, a near-parallel to the case of Harmon C. Snyder, former sales manager of the Portland Cement Company, arrested on embezzlement charges in Calgary, Canada. An examination into the accounts of Good, whose unexplained departure caused suspicion among his employers, shows a shortage approximating $4,000, according to T. T. Wildman, one of the company's accountants, sent from Chicago to complete an audit. Good is married and has a wife and two children in Akron, Ohio. He is said to have abandoned them, according to the police. No clew as to where he went after leaving Denver has been found and the police took active steps to ascertain if "the woman in the case" is still in Duluth, Minn., where she went after leaving Denver about Christmas time. Her home is in that city. Annual Conference of D. A. R. Colorado Springs.—Such subjects as suffrage, politics, prohibition and eugenics are strictly barred by the bylaws of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the opening session of the eleventh annual conference of Colorado chapters was given over to subjects of patriotism. Prominent women from several cities were in attendance, and the social features of the conference were an important part of the program. Reports submitted show that the society is doing a praiseworthy work in making historic trails and highways. On the Lincoln highway, for example, a replica of the insignia of the D. A. R. has been painted, in addition to the national color band that adorns telegraph and telephone poles along the route. As an encouragement to inculcating patriotism in the school children, the society is offering prizes for seventh and eighth grade pupils for the best essays on "The Star Spangled Banner." Mrs. Snyder Would Save Husband. Denver.—Mrs. Harmon C. Snyder, wife of the former general sales manager of a cement company, arrested at Calgary, Alberta, with Mrs. Bonnie- bell Sutherland, "the Living Venus, will sacrifice her equity in an estate of $20,000, to save her husband from imprisonment on the émbezzlement charges. The money which Mrs. Snyder has inherited from her mother will be offered to satisfy the cement company's $13,000 claim against her husband. She hopes by this offer to gain for him a light sentence. Women Send Appeal to Wilson Trinidad.-The assistance of President Wilson in a plan to investigate the records of the coal corporations of southern Colorado is sought in a resolution sent to Washington by the women members of the Union Labor Alliance, an auxiliary of the local federation of labor unions. The women seek permission for a representative to investigate the books and records of the federal land office. Mrs. Sylvia T. Smith of Denver has been selected to compile the information desired. The Monarch Liquor Co. 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BAUR & CO. CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS When Alonzo Steele died in Texas a year or two ago the last white man who fought in the battle of San Jacinto passed away, writes Frank Putnam. A few days ago W. P. Zuber, who, as a boy of sixteen, was with the Texas army at San Jacinto, but did not bear arms in the fight, died at his Texas home. He was on hospital duty during the fighting. He was the last survivor of all the white men present on that occasion, but it is not wholly clear that he was the last survivor. It is likely that honor belongs to an ancient darkey, believed to have been Sam Houston's body servant, who still lives in or near Houston. The old man's story is accepted by the oldest residents, sons, some of them, of men who fought at San Jacinto, and more familiar than any one else with the history of that affair. The passing of the last white survivor of San Jacinto directs attention to one of the most extraordinary pages of all history. San Jacinto ranks next after the battle of Saratoga and Gettysburg among the decisive battles fought on this continent. Saratoga proved the British could not subdue their revolting American colonists; Gettysburg determined the fate of the Confederacy; San Jacinto pushed the American rule southward from a vast region on the Pacific coast and from an inland region including all of Texas, with parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. The battle of San Jacinto was in character unique. It was won with the bowie knife against odds of three to one; won by undisciplined plainsmen opposing Santa Anna's best drilled and best equipped regiments. It was the only battle in which the lesser army lured the greater into a position from which there was no escape for either except by death or victory. Houston, retreating before Santa Anna, led him into a region bounded by swamps and marshes on two sides, with a wide, deep bayou on another and a narrow bayou, branch of the first, on the fourth side. Houston backed into his position and Santa Anna followed. Then Houston burned the bridge across the narrow bayou, the only entrance or exit of the theater of battle. A whirlwind campaign was carried on by the colored people of Philadelphia to raise enough of the money pledged last year toward a colored Y. M. C. A. to make the $15,000 originally asked of them. It was announced at a meeting of the board of directirs of the Y. M. C. A. that the choice of location had narrowed down to two lots, on both of which they have options. The money for the lot is already in bank, and when a decision is made it will be bought at once. An architect accompanied a special committee to Indianapolis to study the new colored Y. M. C. A. that has recently been erected there and is considered one of the most complete in the country. It is expected the building will be well under way early in the summer. The building will contain a gymnasium, swimming pool, etc. It will have educational features and be a social center for the colored men of the city. It will also provide a hotel for the better class of colored people who are passing through the city and now have no accommodations. Of the 2,273,000 illiterates 617,000 are native whites, including both those of native, foreign and mixed parentage; 879,000 are negroes and 738,000 are immigrants. There are interesting and encouraging points with regard to the two latter classes. The negro illiterates seem to be a large number. But it represents a decrease of 157,999 during the decade, while the total of that population shows an increase of 398,000. The illiterate negroes are almost wholly located in the south, where they are not permitted to vote and are decreasing there. In 1894 the total forest area of Switzerland was 2,091,000 acres, representing 20.2 per cent. of the total surface area of the country. In 1911 the forest acreage was 2,258,000, equal to 21.86 per cent. of the total area of the country, an increase of 167,000 acres. Instead of being an expense, the forests of Switzerland are a source of profit to the government. Most of the widows of Paris are remarried within 18 months of their first bereavement. The colored men's branch of the Y. M. C. A. of Indianapolis closed its observance of health week. The state exhibit placed in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. was studied by hundreds of persons. A special lecture was given each evening in the auditorium of the building, to which the public was invited. A large number heard Dr. I. N. Hurty deliver an illustrated lecture. Doctor Atkins and Dr. L. A. Lewis lectured Friday evening to men only. A man is, indeed, ignorant if he is ignorant of his own ignorance. After a careful investigation of the facts, I am convinced that every day in the year there are as many as 200,000 people of my race who are sick enough to be incapacitated for work, writes Booker T. Washington. Other persons have estimated the number of negroes who are sick all the time to be as high as 450,000. If these figures are correct, it means that on the average every member of my race spends annually 18 days in bed, in the hospital, suffering pain or recuperating from sickness that might be spent in some form of wholesome enjoyment or in useful and efficient labor. It is safe to say, on the same basis, that every day In the year there are 112,000 negro workers idle, as result of sickness, who would otherwise be at work in some form of useful employment. This is a great loss not only to the negro, but it is a great loss to the country. It has been estimated that in the south alone there is a net loss to the negro in earnings and to the community as a whole in productive labor of $40,000,000 a year. "This immense loss is not due to the physical weakness of the negro race. I have frequently heard it said that the negro, as he lived in Africa, was more vigorous and more robust than any other race on earth. He had to be so to stand the climate. Even today one will seldom find among any race of people finer specimens of physical manhood than the sturdy, unspoiled people of the negro race in the country districts of the south. These people are an asset to the country and to the south, and it seems to me that it is the duty of every patriotic citizen to do what he can to conserve the life and health of this portion of the population in the condition in which it now is. Boston people who are deeply interested in the work that Dr. Booker T. Washington is doing at Tuskegee turned out in numbers to hear him at Trinity church, where he told the story of Tuskegee's progress during the last year. Dr. Washington has just come from the south on his annual visit to Boston. Owing to the generosity of thousands of Tuskegee's friends Dr. Washington has been able to give more of his time to the administrative work of the institution year after year. One of the great problems now is that of training specialists in varied lines of southern work, particularly those of education and agriculture. Just before Dr. Washington left Tuskegee 26 county superintendents of education from various counties in Alabama spent a part of two days at Tuskegee with the idea of getting information and plans for their work among the colored children. The influence which Tuskegee is exerting as a strictly educational force is rightly gratifying to the trustees. Furthermore, Tuskegee cannot begin to supply the demand for farm leaders. The boll weevil has convinced the southern planters that they must take up diversified farming in order to make their lands pay. Bankers and merchants are also vitally interested in the training of these agriculturists and many prizes are being offered. Dr. Washington told his Boston audience about the greatest year the institution ever had and the possibilities of splendid advances in the near future. Many a man punctures his tire on the road to wealth. The United Layman's evangelistic campaign was one of the largest religious efforts that has been attempted by the colored people of Indianapolis. Rev. S. L. Howard of Nashville, Tenn., conducted the meetings. Special meetings for boys were held several afternoons during the week. The series of meetings closed with a united church service under the direction of the Interdenominational Ministers' association, Sunday evening, March 1. The state of Hyderabad, located about midway between Madras and Bombay, in the south central part of India, with a population of about 13., 500,000 (about equal to that of New York and Massachusetts combined), and with an area of 82,698 square miles (just about the same area as Kansas), is, generally speaking, the most important native state in India in population, wealth and potential resources. Co-operative stores, owned and managed by natives, are fostered wherever possible in Alaska by the United States bureau of education, which has charge of education for the natives of Alaska. Theodore Harris, colored, whose funeral was held at Camden, N. J., recently, was one hundred and eleven years old when he died, according to war department records. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, February 13, 1803. Harris was a veteran of the Civil war and received a pension. In Greece the minister of education has opened negotiations for the installation of 4,000 natural color moving picture machines, with supplies of films, for use in the state schools. FUNDS FOR HIGHWAYS COLORADO STATE COMMISSION APPORTIONS $21,300. Amount Will Be Used for Emergency Road Improvements, With Like Amount from Each County. Denver.—The state highway commission, after a two days' conference with representatives of the various counties of the state, allotted a total of $21,300 for emergency road improvements, based on a dollar for dollar appropriation from each county, as follows: Adams, $2,000 for the Boulevard F road; Boulder, $2,000 for improving the road between Lafayette and Broomfield; Jefferson, $2,000 for the Mount Morrison road; Morgan, $2,000 to be spent on the road between Fort Morgan and Weldona; Larimer, $3,500 for the Poudre road; Moffat $800 to be expended on bridge approaches; Elbert, $2,000 for its Denver to Limon and Colorado Springs to Limon roads; Douglas, $5,000 for Palmer Lake highway and, Fremont, $2,000 to be expended on the Cañon City and Cripple Creek road. Though strong appeals were made by many counties for large appropriations, all further requests were laid on the table till the next meeting, which convenes April 15. Especially urgent were the demands of San Miguel, which wanted $22,000 for its road between Telluride and Paradox; Summit, which demanded $15,000 for the Fairplay to Breckenridge highway; Jackson for the same amount to spend on the Rabbit Ear Pass road, and Moffat, which asked for $12,000 for its state line road. Jefferson and Gilpin combined in an appeal for $13,000 to spend on the road between Central City and Golden. The commission unanimously agreed that it would refuse to accept the conditions of the Shackelford bill now pending in Congress unless the measure is changed to permit part of the state's share of the $320,000 appropriation to be applied to the state road system instead of post roads. Bill for Road Tax Levy Drafted. Denver.—The first draft of the bill which is to be initiated for the creation of a half-mill levy for a state road fund was presented by attorneys at a meeting of the executive committee of the Colorado Good Roads Association and the legislative committee of the County Commissioners' Association. A second meeting was held to discuss suggested changes in the draft as it was presented. It is proposed to have the initiative petitions in circulation throughout the state by April 1, as they must be filed not later than July 1 in order that the measure may come to a vote at the general election next November. A total of 20,291 signatures is required. W. P. Harlow of Boulder, Charles R. McLain of Cañon City, George M. Patterson of Fort Morgan, Charles F. Tew of Greeley and Secretary W. H. Emmons of Denver represented the Colorado Good Roads Association, and Edward Levin of Leadville, J. C. G. Clark of Boulder, W. C. Lewis of Greeley and J. G. Schweigart of Cañon City the County Commissioners' Association at the meeting. Henahen Gets Grain of Radium Denver.—State Mining Commissioner T. R. Henaen has received from the Standard Chemical Company in Cannonsburg, Pa., a glass tube containing one gram of radium salts, in which there are three millograms of radium element, and a sign spelling "Radium," with letters drawn with radium paint. The radium in the tube is that made from the first test of Colorado carnotite ores. Four hundred and fifty tons of 2 per cent carnotite ore, reduced at a saving of 50 per cent, is required to give the one gram of radium salts in the small glass tube Henaen received. Fund of $6,300 Raised for Fair. Denver—Enough money has been raised to start actively on the work of getting together an exhibit for Colorado at the Panama-Pacific exposition. As a fund to begin this work, $7,500 was sought in private subscriptions and $6,300 has been raised. All parts of the state and all industries of the state will be asked to join in the work of assembling such an exhibit as was never gathered in Colorado before. The actual collection of the products will require time, so that a beginning could not be much longer delayed. McGinnis Made Immigration Official. Denver. — Stanley McGinnis has been formally appointed secretary of the State Board of Immigration by Governor Ammons. Requisition for Suspected Burglar. Denver.—Governor Ammons signed a requisition on the governor of Montana for the return to Denver of Calvin McLar, who is charged with having burglarized the storehouse of Alice Wilson, a milliner, July 3 last. McLar was arraigned and bound over to the District Court on a bond of $1,000 furnished by Alexander A. Ealey, and shortly after left the state. He was discovered in Helena, where he is under arrest awaiting the arrival of Special Agent J. W. Ronaldson, who will bring him back for trial. TROOPS SENT TO MEXICAN BORDER ACTION TAKEN TO PROTECT CASH IN TEXAS BANKS FROM RAIDERS. 18,000 MEN ON GUARD GENERAL DIAZ IN WASHINGTON TO EXPLAIN HIS PLANS FOR FUTURE ACTION. Washington.—Dispatch of two additional regiments of American infantry to Eagle Pass and Laredo, Tex., to prevent raids by Mexicans, and the appearance in Washington of General Felix Diaz and friends with a new plan to solve the Mexican problem caused a stir in diplomatic circles here. The troops, the Ninth and Seventeenth regiments, were ordered to the border at the request of Senator Sheppard and Representative Garner. The latter told the President there was a good deal of cash in the border banks and Americans wanted to be protected against any raid or invasion which might result from sensational overnight developments at any time in the Mexican situation. Garner also said many cattle had disappeared lately and residents believed Mexicans were responsible. General Diaz and his friends here said they would announce their purposes here in a statement. Members of the party included Pedro Del Villar, who was before the Senate foreign relations committee recently and was reported to have asked support for a counter revolutionary movement. The Mexicans denied that they were seeking support or sanction for any revolutionary movement, saying their idea chiefly was a campaign of information about Mexico and to acquaint Washington with the personality of General Diaz so that his part in subsequent events in Mexico might be judged from a study at close range. Just what their plans are for the restoration of peace was not divulged, but it was learned that they are seeking the elimination of General Huerta and are not allied in any way with the Constitutionalists. Members of the party said Senator Root met General Diaz on the latter's visit to Washington and that Diaz came to Washington at the invitation of Senator Fall. The orders for the dispatch of two more regiments to Texas will result in the assembly in that state of nearly 18,000 troops, more by 3,000 than the entire force of the regular army which General Shafter led into Cuba. Nearly 11,000 of these soldiers are in camp at Texas City, under command of Brig. Gen. Fred Funston of Philippine fame. The so-called commission named by Carranza to investigate the entire Benton matter, according to the confidential advices received at the State Department, has not made a move in the case. It remains at Juarez seemingly doing nothing. Strike Facts Amaze Congressmen. Washington.—"Amazing and shocking conditions that will require drastic remedies" were found in the Colorado coal fields by the congressional investigating committee, according to Representative Foster of Illinois, the chairman, who, with his colleagues, returned to Washington after spending several weeks in Colorado. Before preparing a report the committee will allow thirty days for presentation of evidence by operators and miners. CIGARETTE END STARTED FIRE That Is Opinion of Tom Rowe, in Charge of Athletic Club Check Room. St. Louis, Mo.—Tom Rowe, who was in charge of the Missouri Athletic Club check room on the night of the fire when over a score lost their lives, said he thought the blaze was caused by the throwing of a lighted cigarette or a match into a curtain. The young woman who discovered the fire is Miss Adelaide Mason of New York, 20 years old, an actress. "I had been dining at the club," said Miss Mason, "and we had just started for home. Suddenly I saw the reflection of flames in windows across the street. I rushed at the night clerk and cried: 'The whole place is on fire. Run for your life.'" Bank Cashier Large Acquitted. Canon City, Colo.—After forty-eight hours' deliberation the jury in the trial of Newton C. 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It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen, you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card, we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. SPRING. Even though we are having an occasional snow at present, yet the time fast approaching when we will revel in the idea that Spring has come. Reflecting on the experience of the terrible snowstorms of last winter, when the consensus of opinion was: no chance of clearing away the mantle of white until June, we cannot but conclude that we live in a country of wonderful climatic conditions, suited to all phases of human adaptability to which brings renewed health and vigor to suffering ones. In the enjoyment of an average temperature above 50 degrees, brilliant and pureness of atmosphere, it necessarily follows that an awakening of thought, spirit and action should be possessed by us, and acting cert with the beautiful strains that proceed from the birds as they fly in branch to branch heralding the incoming of the season, there is every reason for hope and encouragement for some progress and betterment of the present state of business. As we go along the business section of the notice stores being renovated, new stock in the various lines being filled, wagon after wagon awaiting its turn to be unloaded of its valuable right, and the people in their usual manner peering at the windows, such the first glimpse of spring garments, etc. While it is conceded that we had a very trying time during the winter when we contrast the happenings for the past six weeks in the New England cities and some of the southern towns with ours, it can be said that had a comparatively modified form of bad weather. The complaint of hard times is prevalent throughout the country, we have every reason to hope that we will be amply rewarded in this next season for the test that we have undergone, and it needs only an energy and backbone to take time by the forelock, accomplishing the task before us, and obtain what seems to be in store for us. The blessings of spring are too innumerable to mention herein, but with all our hearts give praise and thanks to Him who provides reasons for the comfort and enjoyment of all creation, and with this we will rejoice in the season that brings us good cheer—Spring. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. Display advertising, 50 cents per inch. An inch contains twelve agate lines. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. 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Reflecting on the experience of the terrible snowstorms of last December, when the consensus of opinion was; no chance of clearing away our mantle of white until June, we cannot but conclude that we live in a country of wonderful climatic conditions, suited to all phases of humanity, the adaptability to which brings renewed health and vigor to suffering ones. In the enjoyment of an average temperature above 50 degrees, brilliant sunshine and pureness of atmosphere, it necessarily follows that an awakening of thought, spirit and action should be possessed by us, and acting in concert with the beautiful strains that proceed from the birds as they fly from branch to branch heralding the incoming of the season, there is every reason for hope and encouragement for some progress and betterment of the present state of business. As we go along the business section of the city we notice stores being renovated, new stock in the various lines being installed, wagon after wagon awaiting its turn to be unloaded of its valuable freight, and the people in their usual manner peering at the windows to catch the first glimpse of spring garments, etc. While it is conceded that we had a very trying time during the winter, yet when we contrast the happenings for the past six weeks in the New England cities and some of the southern towns with ours, it can be said that we had a comparatively modified form of bad weather. The complaint of hard times is prevalent throughout the country, but we have every reason to hope that we will be amply rewarded in this and the next season for the test that we have undergone, and it needs only our energy and backbone to take time by the forelock, accomplishing the task set before us, and obtain what seems to be in store for us. The blessings of spring are too innumerable to mention herein, but we can with all our hearts give praise and thanks to Him who provides the seasons for the comfort and enjoyment of all creation, and with this fact alone we will rejoice in the season that brings us good cheer—Spring. "A THORN IN OUR FLESH." ("Out of the eater came forth meat, etc.") If we are readers of the pages of Holy Writ, we will recount the life of Samson and the thirty Philistines to whom he gave his riddle, out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth swine, "when he went into their country to get a wife, and after the men are puzzled and could not guess the riddle, they entreated Samson's fiancé to get the answer from him, so that they could get the reward. She is dressed in her wily influence over Samson, and he, knowing (when the eater did not answer was given) how the men got it, "arose," as the Scriptures say, and went out, slew thirty of their own men, took their goods and chatted, paid the reward." Now, Senator Vardeman of Mississippi has again demonstrated his prowess—"Race Hatred for the Negro"—a quality which is indispensable, it appears, to satisfy the morbid appetite of his constituents of the state, and which quality will not be eradicated until Nature or Nature humiliates him in a measure as great if not greater than his colleague. This most recent action took place at a meeting of the commission on nation-wide franchise for women held in Washington last week. Vardeman, in his usual outspoken manner emphatically remarks that he would be compelled to vote against the bill, as the same did to discriminate, and being an arch-opposer to Negroes possessing the frise, it would be inconsistent with his principle (he should have said less tendency) to vote the affirmative. This hobby-horse of the senator practically be summed up in his caseology—"A thorn in our flesh"—and our resolution at this time shows that to try and find more ways and means of extracting this thorn would detriment to ourselves; and the establishing of the fact that Vardeman in his associates, Tillman, Cole, Blease, Davis and others of their kind are continually goading the ox, though he is cheerfully pulling his lion calmly bearing his burden, will soon prove to the American nation a world at large that their policy tends to lawlessness among a law-abiding people, and if the same is generally accepted, then disruption, disunion, and disintegration must inevitably follow. Has the senator forgotten, he ever know, that there are colored women of the nation that have entered into political campaigns and shown their ability to use the franchise used it in a manner meriting admiration, but whose names have never given prominence on account of his vile doctrine that he has partied in the minds of a few mental weaklings? Has he ever visited schools and see the girls who are not only ambitious to qualify and graduate in the various arts and sciences in this country, but will go abroad to girls of his race do? But the thorn may be a blessing in disguise,erner or later, after we have worked out our own salvation, we may thankful that such oppressors came into existence, just as Israel was that they had the experience of the Pharaohs. We feel that the time is far distant when the acquiring of education in all its forms and features enable us to become thrifty and economical, etc., etc., and eventually as the other side; and like the little drops of water, permeate it, make everything before them, unheeding impediments, surmount instructions; then will be clearly proven to this vile and cruel member of federal government our determination to get rid of "the thorn in his skin"; and the answer to the riddle ("out of the eater, etc.") which he and followers would then be glad to participate,—"what is sweeter than they, etc.," will surely be mortifying to him over his actions. Thus far we will not lose heart, as time, backed up by our own devotion, cause of our progress and our perseverance and courage, will not owe and remedy, but roll away forever the blackened clouds that now occupies us. If we are readers of the pages of Holy Writ, we will recount the incident of Samson and the thirty Philistines to whom he gave his riddle—"out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," when he went into their country to get a wife, and after the men were puzzled and could not guess the riddle, they entreated Samson's fiancee to get the answer from him, so that they could get the reward. She succeeded in her wily influence over Samson, and he, knowing (when the correct answer was given) how the men got it, "arose," as the Scriptures say, "and went out, slew thirty of their own men, took their goods and chattels and paid the reward." Now, Senator Vardeman of Mississippi has again demonstrated his platform—"Race Hatred for the Negro"—a quality which is indispensable to him, it appears, to satisfy the morbid appetite of his constitutents of his state, and which quality will not be eradicated until Nature or Nature's God humiliates him in a measure as great if not greater than his colleague, Tillman. This most recent action took place at a meeting of the committee on nation-wide franchise for women held in Washington last week, when Vardeman, in his usual outspoken manner emphatically remarked that he would be compelled to vote against the bill, as the same did not discriminate, and being an arch-opposer to Negroes possessing the franchise, it would be inconsistent with his principle (he should have said his baseless tendency) to vote the affirmative. This hobby-horse of the senator can practically be summed up in the phraseology—"A thorn in our flesh"—and our resolution at this time should point to try and find more ways and means of extracting this thorn without detriment to ourselves; and the establishing of the fact that Vardeman, with his associates, Tillman, Cole, Blease, Davis and others of their kin, who are continually goading the ox, though he is cheerfully pulling his load and calmly bearing his burden, will soon prove to the American nation and the world at large that their policy tends to lawlessness among a law-abiding people, and if the same is generally accepted, then disruption, disunion and disintegration must inevitably follow. Has the senator forgotten, or did he ever know, that there are colored women of the nation that have entered into political campaigns and shown their ability to use the franchise, and used it in a manner meriting admiration, but whose names have never been given prominence on account of his vile doctrine that he has partially instilled in the minds of a few mental weaklings? Has he ever visited our schools and see the girls who are not only ambitious to qualify and graduate in the various arts and sciences in this country, but will go abroad as the girls of his race do? But the thorn may be a blessing in disguise, and sooner or later, after we have worked out our own salvation, we may be thankful that such oppressors came into existence, just as Israel was thankful that they had the experience of the Pharaohs. We feel that the time is not far distant when the acquiring of education in all its forms and features will enable us to become thrifty and economical, etc., etc., and eventually wealthy as the other side; and like the little drops of water, permeate and permeate until we burst forth alike the Mississippi, Amazon and Orinoco, which carry everything before them, unheeding impediments, surmounting obstructions; then will be clearly proven to this vile and cruel member of our federal government our determination to get rid of "the thorn in our flesh"; and the answer to the riddle ("out of the eater, etc.") which he and his followers would then be glad to participate,—"what is sweeter than honey, etc." will surely be mortifying to him over his actions. Thus far we will not lose heart, as time, backed up by our own devotion to the cause of our progress and our perseverance and courage, will not only heal and remedy, but roll away forever the blackened clouds that now o'er-hangs us. "God's ways are not our ways," and He should certainly be trusted. It has been my observation that women are not only more economical than men, but that they are much more economical. A false standard of living is responsible for the fact that many boys, as well as men, are not so saving, not so economical as the other sex. Girls are trained from infancy, in the average family, to help save, help to care for what the family may later need. Why are boys not so disciplined? As a rule boys are more desired than girls, and in many cases seem to be more spoiled. In early school days few boys can stand it to be behind the other boys in the matter of possessions, and usually their desires are gratified, at some cost, perhaps to the claims of the less assertive children. Girls may have the same desire, but seem to be taught earlier that theirs is a life of giving up. A boy's idea is to have! What a mistake such families make in their discrimination between girls and boys. As the boy is father to the man, responsibilities in caring for others are bound to fall on him later. The future happiness of man is going to depend on him. Is such discipline, or lack of discipline, preparing him for the greater task as husband and father of a family? In college days the average girl considers carefully all the extras and goes without many a coveted pleasure because "it is asking too much of father." I find that boys very seldom do this, although, when the need comes for such effort a boy may make very strenuous efforts at earning his own way—in his own way. His extravagance in college still comes through false standards. He must keep up with the crowd, regardless of the cost. Sometimes the family is sacrificed to gain his ends and keep up with the procession. With the same false standards he marries and starts the home that so often leads to ruin. Oh, for the days of our grandmothers and the simple life! Men often go in debt for the sake of keeping up in the procession and thus many a house that might be so beautiful falls to the ground. The world demands, and man pays, and then he blames the world when all the while he is making the mistake of helping the world to worship at false altars. Man is more responsible than woman for this false standard, in my opinion. As a boy he can't stand ridicule, he won't stand it as a man, and this leads him into one long mistake of trying to grasp that unseen goof of false standards that is ever eluding him. In the last analysis I believe woman will be found the great econ- not so saving, not so economical as infancy, in the average family, to family may later need. As a rule boys are more desired to be more spoiled. In early school and the other boys in the matter of care gratified, at some cost, perhaps children. Girls may have the same that theirs is a life of giving up. Take in their discrimination between the man, responsibilities in caring later. The future happiness of many discipline, or lack of discipline, preband and father of a family? Considers carefully all the extras, sure because "it is asking too much to do this, although, when the need be very strenuous efforts at earning extravagance in college still comes up with the crowd, regardless of sacrificed to gain his ends and keep some false standards he marries and to ruin. Oh, for the days of our sake of keeping up in the procession. Be so beautiful falls to the ground. And then he blames the world when sake of helping the world to worship man for this false standard, in my rule, he won't stand it as a man, and of trying to grasp that unseen god him. In the last analysis I believe that many boys, as well as men, are not so saving, not so economical as the other sex. Girls are trained from infancy, in the average family, to help save, help to care for what the family may later need. Why are boys not so disciplined? As a rule boys are more desired than girls, and in many cases seem to be more spoiled. In early school days few boys can stand it to be behind the other boys in the matter of possessions, and usually their desires are gratified, at some cost, perhaps to the claims of the less assertive children. Girls may have the same desire, but seem to be taught earlier that theirs is a life of giving up. A boy's idea is to have! What a mistake such families make in their discrimination between girls and boys. As the boy is father to the man, responsibilities in caring for others are bound to fall on him later. The future happiness of many is going to depend on him. Is such discipline, or lack of discipline, preparing him for the greater task as husband and father of a family? In college days the average girl considers carefully all the extras, and goes without many a coveted pleasure because "it is asking too much of father." I find that boys very seldom do this, although, when the need comes for such effort a boy may make very strenuous efforts at earning his own way—in his own way. His extravagance in college still comes through false standards. He must keep up with the crowd, regardless of the cost. Sometimes the family is sacrificed to gain his ends and keep up with the procession. With the same false standards he marries and starts the home that so often leads to ruin. Oh, for the days of our grandmothers and the simple life! Men often go in debt for the sake of keeping up in the procession, and thus many a house that might be so beautiful falls to the ground. The world demands, and man pays, and then he blames the world when all the while he is making the mistake of helping the world to worship at false altars. Man is more responsible than woman for this false standard, in my opinion. As a boy he can't stand ridicule, he won't stand it as a man, and this leads him into one long mistake of trying to grasp that unseen god of false standards that is ever eluding him. In the last analysis I believe woman will be found the great economist of the family. The number of accidents that have occurred lately and are still taking place in hunting expeditions is appalling. In almost every case the cause of the accident is either carelessness or ignorance. The hunter should be sure that he understands every detail of the handling of his gun before he decides to go out on a hunt. Following are a few simple suggestions, which if carefully observed might prevent these accidents, or at least decrease the number thereof. 1. Don't hold or rest your gun in a position so that dirt or any other obstruction can get into the muzzle. This would almost certainly make it explode when fired. 2. Don't pull the gun toward you by the muzzle, wherever you may be. 3. In climbing over a fence or a log put the gun over first, and see that it is placed in a safe, steady position; then go over yourself and take up the gun. 4. Always keep the gun pointed from you and from other persons carry it with the muzzle pointing upward or directly downward. 5. Don't carry your gun cocked, except when actually expecting the game to rise. 6. Don't fire into moving bushes or in the direction of a sound because you think the game is there; be sure it is there and then fire. 7. Don't load the gun until you have left the house, and in returning from your hunt discharge it, if a muzzle loader, or remove the cartridge if a breech loader. Never, under any circumstances, carry it loaded into the house. are that he understands every detail decides to go out on a hunt. questions, which if carefully observed least decrease the number thereof: a position so that dirt or any other. This would almost certainly make it you by the muzzle, wherever you a log put the gun over first, and see section; then go over yourself and take from you and from other persons: ward or directly downward. except when actually expecting the es or in the direction of a sound e sure it is there and then fire. have left the house, and in returning zzle loader, or remove the cartridges circumstances, carry it loaded into ignorance. The hunter should be sure that he understands every detail of the handling of his gun before he decides to go out on a hunt. 1. Don't hold or rest your gun in a position so that dirt or any other obstruction can get into the muzzle. This would almost certainly make it explode when fired. 2. Don't pull the gun toward you by the muzzle, wherever you may be. 3. In climbing over a fence or a log put the gun over first, and see that it is placed in a safe, steady position; then go over yourself and take up the gun. 4. Always keep the gun pointed from you and from other persons: carry it with the muzzle pointing upward or directly downward. 5. Don't carry your gun cocked, except when actually expecting the game to rise. 6. Don't fire into moving bushes or in the direction of a sound because you think the game is there; be sure it is there and then fire. 7. Don't load the gun until you have left the house, and in returning from your hunt discharge it, if a muzzle loader, or remove the cartridges if a breech loader. Never, under any circumstances, carry it loaded into the house. Remember that discretion is the better part of valor. By what rule or principle shall one discriminate between good and bad slang? Between the admissible and the inadmissible? Between the allowable and the forbidden? According to the dictionary, slang is "a popular, but unauthorized word, phrase or mode of expression." But we are not informed who has authority to authorize. Another definition of slang is "words or phrases which have acquired capricious or extravagantly metaphorical meanings." A western college professor has just issued certificates of good character to several phrases that do not bear the best of reputations in some circles. He likes "Not on your life." He thinks "On the level" and "A good sport" are admirable, and he sees nothing wrong in "She's peach" and "He's a pippin." He regards "Taking to the tall timber" a fine and picturesque. He puts, however, on his lingual index expurgatorius such expressions as "On the square," "Put you wise," "Getting the gravy"—the last named being synonymous with "Copping the coin." How shall the average person, who is not a college professor, know where to draw the line? Perhaps there is no line. unauthorized word, phrase or mode ned who has authority to authorize ls or phrases which have acquired cal meanings." Just issued certificates of good char- ear the best of reputations in some .” He thinks “On the level” and he sees nothing wrong in “She's a cards “Taking to the tall timber” as ever, on his lingual index expurga- square,” “Put you wise,” “Getting anonymous with “Copping the coin.” who is not a college professor, know- re is no line. dictionary, slang is "a popular, but unauthorized word, phrase or mode of expression." But we are not informed who has authority to authorize. Another definition of slang is "words cr phrases which have acquired capricious or extravagantly metaphorical meanings." A western college professor has just issued certificates of good character to several phrases that do not bear the best of reputations in some circles. He likes "Not on your life." He thinks "On the level" and "A good sport" are admirable, and he sees nothing wrong in "She's a peach" and "He's a pippin." He regards "Taking to the tall timber" as fine and picturesque. He puts, however, on his lingual index expurgatorius such expressions as "On the square," "Put you wise," "Getting the gravy"—the last named being synonymous with "Copping the coin." How shall the average person, who is not a college professor, know where to draw the line? Perhaps there is no line. Studying the Causes of Tidal Waves By J. M. THOMAS, Portland, Ore. Just what causes tidal waves has been a subject of much interest to learned men all over the world. The term tidal wave is erroneously applied to almost any unexpected wave that inundates the seacoast or the shore of a great lake. These waves are rarely if ever due to the tides, since the real tidal wave is a phenomenon admitting of exact calculation and prediction, but they may be traced usually to some distant earthquake or violent storm. When an earthquake occurs beneath the sea, the vertical movements of the sea bed generate a great wave which is propagated outwards from the center of the shock and reaches the land after the arrival of the earth wave. In the open sea this wave is so broad that it cannot be perceived but when it reaches shallow water near the shore it rushes forward as an immense breaker, sometimes 60 feet or more high, and overwhelming everything in its course. more of a great lake. These waves once the real tidal wave is a phenomenon and prediction, but they may be make or violent storm. With the sea, the vertical movements which is propagated outwards from the land after the arrival of the earth broad that it cannot be perceived near the shore it rushes forward at set or more high, and overwhelming that inundates the seacoast or the shore of a great lake. These waves are rarely if ever due to the tides, since the real tidal wave is a phenomenon admitting of exact calculation and prediction, but they may be traced usually to some distant earthquake or violent storm. When an earthquake occurs beneath the sea, the vertical movements of the sea bed generate a great wave which is propagated outwards from the center of the shock and reaches the land after the arrival of the earth wave. In the open sea this wave is so broad that it cannot be perceived but when it reaches shallow water near the shore it rushes forward as an immense breaker, sometimes 60 feet or more high, and overwhelming everything in its course. The Japanese are studying the subject, as it interests them deeply --- ```markdown ``` Girls are Much More Economical Than Boys By Emma Van Vechten Shaffer How Hunter Should Carry His Weapon By J. B. BRUCE, Tracy City, Idaho Drawing Line on Good and Bad Slang By H. G. WOODRUFF, Boston, Mass. Studying the Causes of Tidal Waves By J. M. THOMAS, Portland, Ore. Union Restaurant Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Dykes, Proprietors First Class Meals, Short Orders and Good Service Denver, Colorado THE SEWING MACHINE PAIRING TEENTH ST. SHOE REPAIRING We Have the Best Equipped Outfit in the West to Produce the Good in the West to Produce the Good Resolving from heel to heel, entire new bottom and heel ..... $1.50 SHOES MADE TO ORDER. Tailor Made ..... $10 WE CAN FIT ANY KIND OF DEFORMED FOOT. HILE YOU WAIT MBERS 1023 Eighteenth St Three nicely furnished rooms for light housekeeping at 2929 Glenarm Place. Call at 2815 Arapahoe St. AGENTS WANTED To Sell MAGIC SHAVING POWDER. A new discovery for shaving the face and head without using razor or shears. Will send half pound can by mail, postage paid, for eight cents in stamps. Write THE SHAVING POWDER CO. Savannah, Georgia. Before You Buy Property, Let Lawyer W. B. TOWNSEND EXAMINE THE TITLE AND MAKE YOUR CONTRACT. LAWYER TOWN-SEND MAKES A SPECIALTY OF COLLECTING FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES, ALSO ENDOWMENT MONIES. OFFICE 313 KITTREDGE BUILDING Bolden Bros.' Barber Shop Rufus Bolden, Mgr. W. D. Smith, G. C. Craig Artists BATHS AND ELECTRICAL MASSAGE QUICK SERVICE PHONE MAIN 4052 926 19th Street Denver. Near Curtis Seth Hoffman Coal Co. Dealers in Coal, Wood, Coke, Hay Grain Coal from Sack to Carload Delivered Anywhere in the City. Office: 2807 Welton Street DENVER - COLORADO THE TIVOLI UNION BREWING CO. MADE IN USA Tivoli DENVER, COLO. 1831 Arapahoe Street, Sewed Soles ..... 60c 75c, $1.00 Nailed Soles ..... 50c 65c, 75c Heels ..... 25c, 35c, 50c Rubber Heels ..... 50c Turn Rips ..... 15c to 25c Patches ..... 15c to 25c For rent a five room frame house at 322 24th street. Apply at 1824 Curtis street, room 25. Nicely furnished rooms in modern house, suitable for man and wife, or ladies who work out. Call at 2933 Welton street, Mrs. D. C. Strosier. THE DE LUXE Furnished apartments. Two and three rooms, with hot and cold water in each kitchen. Also front room, single, electric lights and gas. Modern throughout. Rates very reasonable. 2352-2358 Odgen street, corner Twenty-fourth avenue. Phone York 6707. Mrs. R. M. Blakey. H. C. Radcliff has opened a nice, neat barber shop at his old stand, 1226 18th street. The shop has been remodeled in the latest style, and the only colored shop in the city giving artesian baths. Mr. Radcliff is well known and liked by the citizens of Denver. He solicits the trade of all his friends. TION. ETC. Of Colorado Statesman, published weekly at Denver, Colorado, required by the act of August 24, 1912. Editor, Joseph D. D. Rivers, Denver Colorado. Managing Editor, Joseph D. D. Rivers, Denver, Colorado. Business Manager, Joseph D. D. Rivers, Denver, Colorado. Publisher, Joseph D. D. Rivers, Denver Colorado. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 7th day of March, 1914. LULU O. TROUTE. Notary Public. (My Commission expires July 22, 1916.) The Masons' big entertainment Easter Monday. Eureka hall. Good music. Admission, 35c. Brotherly Amenities "We don't have any grass growing on our streets," sneered the New Yorker. "No, I dare say not," replied the Philadelphian. "I suppose your street car horses nibble it off as they browse along."—Lippincott's Magazine. Her Opportunity. Maid—"I've come to give notice, ma'am." Mistress—"Indeed?" Maid—"And would you give me a good reference, ma'am? I'm going to Mrs. Jones, across the way." Mistress—"The best in the world, Maggie. I hate that woman."—New York Globe. Had Much to Learn First Stenog—"How do you like your new boss?" Second Stenog—"Great! He don't know no more about grammar, spellin', an' punctuation than I do; he's jout out 'er college."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 13 CENTS A DAY BUYS A PIANO. WITH MUSIC LESSONS FREE. PIANOS FROM $88 UP. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO., 920-924 15th STREET, CHARLES BUILDING. A Woman Carrying a Basket THE COLORADO STATESMAN Stephen Lowe has been a sufferer this week with tonsilitis. Mrs. H. R. Crawford is reported as being still quite ill. Mrs. E. Tyler of La Junta is in town with her little daughter, who is having surgical treatment. Denver will show her usual charita bleness in such causes is the earnest hope of The Colorado Statesman. SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES Our pastor preached to a large congregation Sabbath morning and evening. Mr. Y S. Reid rendered the bark tone solo, "Fear Thou Not O Israel," Mrs. Ella Brumage has returned from Omaha, where she has been visiting her sister. Miss Bonzetta Stafford was unable to work several days this week on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Graves arrived Wednesday morning from Lincoln, Neb., to attend the funeral of Mr. Willis Rease. Mrs. J. W. Washington, wife of the pastor of Campbell's A. M. E. church, is numbered among the sick this week. Mr. R. J. Von Dickensohn leaves this week for the southern part of the state in the interest of the Union Health and Accident Company. Edward Brumer, who spent the past four months in Philadelphia visiting with relatives, returned home Saturday. The relatives of Pearl Mason arrived this week from Galesburg, Ill. They are Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Mason, brother and sister, Mrs. Thompson and daughter, and Mrs. Alcon. Big Easter Dance given by the W. S. S. Club at Houston Hall Tuesday evening, April 14. Admission 35c. Committee: Pete Nelson, Alvin Wright and Fred O'Neal. Morrison's Orchestra. Mr. Willis Rease, the husband of Mrs. Amanda Rease, died at his residence, 2358 Curtis street, Monday March 9th. The funeral will be held from the residence, Sunday, March 15th, at 2 o'clock. Douglas Undertaking Co., in charge. John R. Jackson, the well known cleaner and dyer on West Eleventh avenue, has installed some of the latest style of modern machinery and made other necessary improvements, making his place one of the most up-to-date places in the city. Were you to go to Torrey's millinery store, 2647 Welton and see the fine up-to-date display of spring and Easter goods, you surely would make your purchases before going elsewhere. New goods, new styles and moderate prices are offered by the firm, and with their experience in this particular line of business they guarantee to satisfy the most fastidious. Mr. E. L. Gibson, formerly of Chicago, ill., and Miss Mary Lee Taylor, were quietly married last Sunday by Rev. James Washington in the presence of a few immediate friends. They will leave in the near future for St. Paul, Minn., where they will make their future home. Their many friends wish them much happiness. DR. DAN CRAWFORD, THE AF- RICAN MISSIONARY. Any one who didn't hear this missionary missed an opportunity that may never be theirs again. He spoke at the Twenty-third avenue Presbyterian church, Y. M. C. A. hall, and First Baptist church last Sunday, to large audiences, before whom he revealed the wonderful results achieved by the Christian religion during his twenty-three years' sojourn in Central Africa. We had the privilege of attending these meetings and so convinced were we of the ability of the African native to grasp the teachings and instructions given by his white brother that we left fully satisfied that the Doctor is doing a great work and merits the support of the American and all other nations of the world in conveying civilization and Christianity to a people who are ready and anxious to receive the Light of God in all its glorious forms and features. Dr. Crawford is making requests for the erection of more schools, that his translation of the Bible in the African language may be read at large, and general education be diffused among the people. Other cities have pledged to give from one to three schools, and that Denver will show her usual charisableness in such causes is the earnest hope of The Colorado Statesman. SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES Our pastor preached to a large congregation Sabbath morning and evening. Mr. Y S. Reid rendered the baritone solo, "Fear Thou Not O Israel," very effectively. Mrs. W. T. McKnight of Brooklyn, N. Y., Brothers Alvin Burnett of Louisville, Ky., and C. Montgomery (convert) were our accessions. The second of a series of sermons, "Beneath the Shadow of the Cross," will be delivered tomorrow morning by Dr. R. A. Randolph. Our pastor will preach at the evening hour on "Five Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God." The many friends of Sister Cora E. Fisher, who recently under went an operation at Mercy hospital, will be pleased to know that she is rapidly recovering. Sister M. E. Brown, 732 W. Colfax, is on the sick list. At this writing, the condition of her health is much improved. Brother Henry Brown, 1185 South Pearl street, left Wednesday afternoon over the Burlington for Hannibal Mo., on an extended visit to relatives and friends. CAMPBELL A. M. E. CHURCH. Corner Twenty-Third and Lawrence Streets. Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. Preaching at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Class meeting at 12:00 noon. Allen's Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m., and a cordial invitation is extended to all. Official Board Monday at 8 p. m. The usual prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. All the officers and members of the church are specially requested to attend the Sunday evening service. The second quarterly meeting will be held March 22nd. Rev. A. M. Ward, P. E., will conduct the services for the day. Rev. J. P. Howard will preach the sacramental sermon. Rev. H. B. Perry of Boulder, Colo., will also be present to assist us. On March the 29th at 2 p. m., the pastor will preach the annual sermon for the Knights of Pythias at the church. The rival meetings, which have been going on at Campbell for the past three weeks, closed Monday evening with the spirit of high water mark. Never in the history of the church has there been such a spiritual meeting as the one Monday evening. The success of these meetings has been pre-eminent above all others, there being forty-five converts and Rev. Howard received $105 for his services. The pastor feels highly elated over the meetings and thankful to everyone who aided in making the revival what it was, for the church has been materially strengthened, spiritually and in membership. JAMES WASHINGTON. Pastor. Campbell A. M. E. Church is active, preparing for their Annual Fair, April 1st, 2nd and 3rd. April 1st the Milkmaid Convention will be produced by the Young Ladies' Literary and Art Club. April 2nd, at 8 p. m., a grand Musical Concert will be given by local talent. April 3rd, at 8 p. m., the Women's Mite Missionary Society will give a Jubilee Concert. Some of the best talent in the city has been secured for these concerts and many beautiful pieces of needlework and useful articles will be on sale at the various booths. Tickets are now on sale. (Adv.) THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH East 24th Avenue and Ogden Streets, David E. Over, Minister. The evangelistic meetings begin to-morrow morning, under the leadership of Dr. Howard. These meetings will continue through the month of March. Preaching each evening, except Saturdays. The purpose and hope is the salvation of men. Dr. Howard will present Jesus Christ, crucified, as the remedy for lost souls. We earnestly invite the presence of the unsaved and also the cooperation of all saints who seek to be useful at such a time as this. It is hoped and desired that each person, who has an unsaved friend in whom he is interested, will secure a "Request for Prayer" card, write the name and address and turn it over to the pastor. During these meetings neighborhood prayer groups will gather on Wednesday, Fridays and Saturdays afternoon in the following homes: Mrs. Carrie Washington, 2140 Humboldt street. Mrs. Carrie Waller, 2606 Gilpin street. Mrs. Lillie Moore, 2925 Glenarm place. Mrs. Pauline Watkins, 2431 Ogden street. Mrs. Dora Fleming, 2719 California street. Mrs. Helen Gatewood, 3223 Marion street. Mrs. Nettie Boalware, 3329 Williams street. Mrs. Mary Russell, 419 West 8th avenue. Mrs. Eliza Green, 267 King street. On Thursdays afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, all the forces will gather for prayer and conference at the church. The Masons' big entertainment Easter Monday. Eureka hall. Good music. Admission, 35c. MAKES AN UNEQUALED CAKE Recipe Is an Old One, but Years Have Passed Without an Improvement Being Made in It. A woman who for years has made and sold cakes always uses the same recipe for all kinds of festivities, for wedding cakes, special cakes, holiday cakes, party cakes, and everyday cakes, simply because the cake which she made was so delicious that all the guests wanted one like it, and this desire has been passed on to their children and friends. She keeps many cakes on hand, so that customers may have their cake a day, a week, or a month old, as they like. Each cake weighs about one and one-half pounds, and is labeled with the date of its baking. They are kept in stone jars wrapped in waxed paper. Here is the recipe: One cupful each of sugar, butter and molasses; one cupful home-made jelly or strawberry preserves; one cupful buttermilk; one-half cupful strong coffee; two eggs; one grated nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves; two teaspoonfuls saleratus (dissolved in one-half cup boiling water); two pounds raisins; one pound cleaned currants; one pound chopped candied fruit (lemon orange, citron); six cupfuls flour (measured before sifting). Mix the fruit thoroughly in the flour Cream butter and sugar, add the eggs milk and coffee, then the flour containing the fruit. Beat thoroughly and add the spices. Turn into well-buttered pans, and bake at least one hour in a slow oven ALL AROUND the HOUSE The kitchen will take on a new atmosphere of cheer if it is given a blue and white tile pattern paper and blue oilcloth for floor and table. On the emergency shelf there should be some canned milk with the cans of vegetables and fruit, as there may come a time when oysters will have to be cooked at night or something else cooked for which there is not cream or milk enough. A woman who likes nice things always makes her own lavender water She takes a bottle of white vinegar and into it puts a handful of lavender flowers. It is allowed to stand five days in a warm place and when strained is ready for use. Handkerchiefs or other articles of wear that have ink spots on them may be washed better if the spot is smeared with mutton tallow before sending it to the laundry. A weak solution of turpentine poured down the water pipes once a week will drive the water bugs away. Half a lemon dipped in salt is excellent for cleaning copper articles. Oxalic acid, too, is equally successful both for copper and brass. Currled Meats. Curried meats and vegetables are delicious. Here is a recipe for a good curry sauce that is not especially difficult to make. It can be served with left-over chicken, cut into little strips, and heated in the curry, then put on a platter with a ring or mold of hot rice. It can be served with left-over mutton or lamb, cut in dice or thin slices. It can be served with several vegetables. To make it, slice a medium-sized onion thin and fry it in two ounces of butter. When it is brown add a dessertspoonful of curry powder. Let it cook a minute or two and then add a cupful of beef gravy. Dish gravy from roast beef or beefsteak is the best sort, but if this is not at hand beef stock will do. Add also 12 whole cloves, a clove of garlic, a strip or two of lemon peel, a half teaspoonful of salt, two bay leaves, and a teaspoonful or two of tarragon vinegar. Cook this gently for half an hour and then strain it. Handy Window Pole. Take an old broom-handle. Paint it to harmonize with your room and insert at one end a screw-hook. Screw into the upper sash of each window in the room a ring-screw for the hook on the pole and your window pole is ready for immediate use. This will save you from having to run up and down and through the house looking for a window pole, or climbing on chairs to reach the sashes every time you wish to raise or lower a window. For Your Oilcloth. A very good and inexpensive polish for oilcloth and lino'cew is made by melting bits of candle and adding common turpentine to the grease. Apply the mixture with a soft rag and polish with a clean cloth. Fruit Salad One pineapple, sliced, peeled chopped; two oranges, peeled and cut up; three bananas sliced, juice of half a lemon, two tablespoonfuls grape juice, 1½ cups sugar. Stir and blend. Prepare 1½ hours before using. Baked Pork Chops. Take as many thick slices as are needed for the meal, place in a pan with a little water, lay a thin slice of onion on each, season with salt and pepper and bake till done. 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That perhaps gives a very proper idea of the gentleman and renders it unnecessary to mention his heavy-lensed toro-tise-shelled spectacles, his baggy clothes, his absurd ties, and his air of always having something very important on his mind. Besides Greek roots there was one thing worthy of mention in William's rather austere and ascetic life; and that was a bow-legged undershot, 70-pound bulldog rejoicing in the highly un-Hellenic name of Frazzles. William Boles sat alone that April evening in his study at the house of his widowed wife with whom he boarded and who was inordinately proud of William's bulging forehead and his success with Greek roots. Frazzles was capering joyfully somewhere about the yard below, and William should have been on the trail of the usual Greek root. But instead he was staring moodily at a bit of paper before him. On the paper were sundry lines, each beginning with a capital. One would never have thought of the austere William as breaking out into metrical thought; indeed, it surprised William as much as it would have done any one else. New neighbors had moved into the house next door, and one of the said new neighbors—the daughter of the house—had a most amazing pair of violet eyes. William had first noticed them when he had seen her making friends with Frazzles through the fence one day. They were most disturbing eyes. William had known by certain all too apparent sighs that he was rapidly descending into paths of insanity, but tonight the crowning climax of it all had come. He had written a poem, a poem about her eyes—28 lines of soulful drivel in iambic hexameter. "William, oh, William!" called his sister's voice from the hall below. "Here's Frazzles coming up to you." A moment later Frazzles was clawing vigorously at the door. William opened it and in bounded 70-odd pounds of animation, fresh from a romp with the girl next door. William abstractedly watched him scurrying about the study. He stepped to the table and picked up his recent assault upon prosody. Her eyes were starry and liquid and like the stars and all the rest of it; that was perfectly true, but that didn't make him any less a silly fool for writing those verses. What would she say if she ever saw them? He snatched them angrily up, crumpled them in his hand and hurled them to the floor. "And that's the end of that," said William Boles, with finalty. Frazzles ceased growling at a hassock and cocked an ear. When the paper hit the floor he bounded forward. In another moment it was in his mouth. "Here! Here, sir! Come here!" William commanded in his most domineering voice. But Frazzles, remembering many a gambol with an old shoe in his mouth and William in pursuit, bounded joyfully about the room, bolted down the stairs with the howling William in pursuit, edged through the front door, which was open, and sped down the front path. William went to the gate and whistled. Then on the next porch he heard words that fairly froze his blood. "That's the good Frazzles! Give it to me! That's the good old fellow!" it to me! That's the good old yellow!" William felt his knees giving way beneath him. He had headed those verses—headed them like a the sentimental fool he was, he now remembered—"To Margaret's Eyes." Quite involuntarily he whistled for Frazzles again. Footsteps sounded on that next porch. The vines were pushed aside. She stood there looking over at them. "Where you looking for Frazzles, Professor Boles?" she asked. Every one called him "professor," although he was not a full-fledged one as yet. It seemed so natural, and so eminently fitting. "No—er—yes—that is, is he there?" he stammered miserably. She leaned farther across the porch ralling. "He's just brought me—what you sent me," said she. "I didn't send it," he cried in anguish. "You didn't? Didn't you write it?" "Yes; I'll have to admit I wrote it, but I never intended you to see it." "Oh," she said in disappointment. "It's such a lovely poem, too." William gripped the gateposts harder. Was she having covert fun with him? "I—I—good heavens, what do you think of me?" he groaned. There was a little embarrassed laugh. "You've—you've flattered my eyes awfully," she said softly, "but—about what I think of you—suppose you come over and see." She had Frazzles in her arms. She was burying her flushed face in his ugly wrinkled face. William Boles forgot there was such a thing as a Greek root. And for the first time in his life Frazzles found that one and the same moment two of his staunchest friends would pay no attention whatever to him, despite all his frolicsome cavortings about them. Uncle Sam Introduces Vegetable Good for Winter Use. Blanched Dasheen Shoots Are Something Like Asparagus, With Delicate Flavor Which Is Suggestive of Mushrooms. Washington.—The newly introduced vegetable, the dasheen, which resembles the potato and is a peculiarly suitable crop for our southern states, has been experimented with by scientists of the department of agriculture, who now give the details of a special way in which it may be forced. By forcing and blanching the shoots of this tuber crop (which originally is grown like the potato), the scientists have obtained a new tender delicacy for the table, which may be used much like asparagus, while its flavor is suggestive of mushrooms. Several ways of forcing and blanching the shoots of this vegetable have been tried, and satisfactory shoots have been grown in all these ways. In one of the experiments blanching was accomplished by keeping the shoots covered with sand. In other experiments by the department, a frame covered with several thicknesses of burlap was used. The boxes in which these experiments were carried on were placed in a greenhouse on a bench that was supplied with bottom heat. Where the production of shoots on a large scale is desired, other methods are more suitable. These are described in a circular just issued by the office of foreign seed and plant introduction, entitled: "The Forcing and Blanching of Dasheen Shoots." The office will supply the bulletin to anyone that requests it. Requests should be addressed to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The new circular gives a number of illustrations, one of which shows a bed of dasheens in a greenhouse at Battle Creek, Mich. There is a board covering shown in the course of construction which is for the purpose of blanching the shoots. This is practically light-proof, and should have sides from 18 to 24 inches high. The temperature inside this should be about 70 degrees F. The soil (or sand) should be a little warmer, say 80 degrees. To obtain this temperature it is best to partially inclose the space beneath the bed. To obtain the shoots, corms of the dasheen, weighing two to three pounds or more, are planted in a fairly warm place in very moist sand or sandy soil. "Corm" is the term used to describe the bulb-like root of the plant, as "tuber" is used to describe that of the potato. A half-and-half mixture of sand and ordinary potting soil has given good results. The corms are just covered, the terminal bud being at the surface. Provision must be made for keeping the shoots in total darkness from the time they begin to grow. Water should be supplied often enough to keep the sand or soil continuously moist. The first crop of shoots is usually ready for cutting in 35 to 40 days after planting. From sfx to ten cuttings can be made at intervals of 10 to 14 days, depending upon temperature and the size of the corms used. The shoots are cut close to the corm, and as far as practicable, before the leaves begin to expand. They will then usually be 8 to 16 inches long. After the corms become exhausted, which is indicated by the weak growth of the shoots, they are discarded. Out of doors in a warm region, as in Florida, the corms may be planted in rows in sandy soil and the shoots blanched by ridging the soil as growth progresses. Instead of ridging the soil, boards may be used, as in blanching celery, but the shoots must not at any stage of their growth be exposed to light for any considerable length of time. The shoots have been found to keep well for several days, if in a cool, dry place. As they are very succulent, however, it is better that the period of storage be very limited—not over two to four days when avoidable. A little ventilation is necessary, but as the shoots soon wilt if evaporation is too rapid, a paraffined paper should be used in wrapping and a slight opening left. Sometimes, when the shoots are to be kept for only a day or two before using, it may be advisable to wrap first in wet paper and then with paraffined paper, especially if the place where they are to be kept is not quite cool enough. A special method of cooking is required for blanched dasheen shoots, in order to destroy a slight bitterness of taste. They should never be tasted raw. The following recipes, although prepared with a good deal of care, are not considered as final, and it is hoped that housewives and others will try modifications of them: 1. Cut the shoots into two-inch lengths, pour on an abundance of boiling water, add salt, and boil for 12 minutes; drain, pour on enough cold milk so that the shoots will be completely covered when it boils; season with salt, and boil for five minutes; drain, season with butter, and serve on toast, or plain. Cream sauce may be used in serving, if desired. 2. Instead of boiling in milk after draining off the first water, add a little piece of bacon or other fat meat, and then cover the shoots with cold water, season with salt, and boil for five minutes. Drain and serve. GOOD ROADS AND RURAL SCHOOLS. The rural population is more willing to support better schools today than at any previous time. It is being realized that all educational activities or agencies must be more or less correlated, and, more than all else, that they must be made accessible to the children. In many counties where bad roads prevail, most of the schools are of the antiquated oneroom variety. They are usually located along bad roads which, during the winter, when the schools are usually in session, become so nearly impassable as to make it difficult for the children to reach them. This condition causes irregular attendance and restricts the educational opportunities of the child. Not only this, but it often impedes the economic consolidation of these smaller schools into larger, stronger graded schools, with high school courses, directed by a competent principal and corps of teachers, according to the office of public roads, U. S. department of agriculture. On the other hand, in counties which have improved their roads, the schools are easily reached, the average attendance greater, the efficiency largely increased and economic consolidation made possible. Regular attendance at school means consistent and regular growth of both school and pupil, and consolidation of schools means a maximum of efficiency at a minimum of cost. It is also noteworthy that there is a marked tendency for the consolidated school to become the social and intellectual center of the community. Most modern rural schoolhouses are so constructed as to serve the community as gathering places for various kinds of public meetings, and where vans are used to convey the children to school during the day they are frequently pressed into service to haul the farmers and their wives to institute work, lectures or entertainments at the schoolhouse. The consolidated school becomes a sort of community center to which all educational and social activities converge, and in order that it may properly perform that function all of the highways leading to it should be so improved as to render it readily accessible throughout the year. LIGHT FOR UNCLE SAM Early beginning of construction upon the mammoth heat, light and power plant to supply the government department buildings in this city was assured when Byron R. Newton, assistant secretary of the treasury, designated L. B Stilwell, consulting engineer of New York city, as an expert to cooperate with the engineering force of the supervising architect's office in the treasury department. This is the first step by the government to bring about complete control of the heat, light and power service for the local departments, and the treasury department expressed a desire to rush the project forward as rapidly as possible. The central works is to be located on the river front facing Potomac park, at Water street, between Thirteenth and Thirteen-and-a-Half streets southwest. The sundry civil bill in congress appropriated $1,494,104 for plant. The land upon which it will be built is owned by the government. The plant will not occupy all of the land for buildings, but will allow enough space to provide a site for a municipal works for the district. The government now spends a large sum each year for electric current, and it is said that the new central station will prove a good investment in addition to providing better service. Buildings which are to receive light, heat and power from the plant are: Department of agriculture, bureau of engraving and printing, treasury building, White House buildings and grounds, state, war and navy, winder and mills buildings, court of claims, national museum, Smithsonian institution, army medical museum, fish commission, the district building, Washington monument, and post of office department. The plant also will supply the departments of state, justice, commerce and labor when these are constructed. YOUNG PHILANTHROPISTS President Wilson recently received a post office money order for $2.60 from pupils of the fifth grade in the Lincoln school, at Anaconda, Mont., who asked him to send it to the sufferers from the recent disaster in Japan. "Dear Mr. Wilson," wrote little Miss Isis Winters: "We have all heard of the terrible disaster that has just occurred in Japan. We have all contributed a nickel or dime toward helping these poor people. We haven't much money to spare, so gave up the movies on Saturday and some of us ran errands to earn the money. We hope it will get to Japan in time to help the poor boys and girls. We are also all interested in the Red Cross society, and would be much obliged if you would please send us a leaflet of their work." President Wilson wrote a letter thanking the donors and turned the money order over to the American Red Cross. So It Goes. "Romance is always getting smashed these days." "How now?" "I see that Robin Hood's record for long distance archery has been broken by a draper's clerk." MRS. JOHN K. SHIELDS, LOT/ER OF ANTIQUES SENATOR JONESWOULD EMULATE THE GREEKS SENATOR JONESWOULD EMULATE THE GREEKS LEARN TO USE ARMY RIFLE—BRECKINRIDGE MEMOIRS OF THE INFANTA EULALIE OF SPAIN The desk at which Mrs. John K. Shields sits when she goes over her household accounts or replies to the invitations that the morning mail has brought is the identical one at which a member of the royal family of France transacted similar business during the reign of the ill-fated Louis XVI. One which resembles it closely, but is less elaborate in workmanship, is now counted among the treasures of the Brit- M. ish embassy and near this desk in the library of Senator and Mrs. Shields of Tennessee is a wonderful old clock of tortoise shell, with the elaborate gilt decorations that were once a part of the splendor of court life in France. It ticks away today just as it did before the French revolution, says the Washington Star. "Both pieces," explained Mrs. Shields, "came into possession of my mother's family long before she was born. They have been in constant use all these years." To a woman who loves genuine and beautiful antiques, anything from an ancient Chinese incense burner to an old pie-crust mahogany table, a day spent in the home of Mrs. Shields would be a rare privilege. Senator and Mrs. Shields may be regarded as newcomers in Washington. That is, they have been here less than twelve months. They were married a little over a year ago in Knoxville, and Senator Shields took his seat in the United States senate in January of last year. They have taken for the Senator Jones the other day introduced a bill providing for the establishment in Washington of the Parthenon as a site for memorials to women and their achievements. In the last session of congress he introduced a bill to designate certain lands lying between the Union station and the Capitol grounds as the Acropolis and another part as the Parthenon, but the bill now introduced is for the purpose of instment in washington of the Parthenon as a site for memorials to women and their achievements. In the last session of congress he introduced a bill to designate certain lands lying between the Union station and the Capitol grounds as the Acropolis and another part as the Parthenon, but the bill now introduced is for the purpose of separating the two and providing exclusively for the Parthenon. "This measure is introduced in the hope and belief," said Senator Jones, "that from it may come a fitting memorial to American womanhood, the sweetest and best in the world. The ancient Parthenon was the finest expression of Grecian art in architecture, and was erected by Pericles in honor of Athena, who represented to the Greek all that was good, noble and inspiring in woman. It was intended That our greatest national safety would lie in the marksmanship of our young men and boys if they should become masters of the army rifle, is the opinion of Henry Breckinridge, assistant secretary of war. "We are sadly deficient in the rifle training of our citizens—men who would compose our army in case of invasion," says he. "The little republic of Switzerland, with a population only one-thirteenth of our coun- PETER B. try's and an area of about that of Rhode Island, has 3,600 shooting societies and 214,000 trained marksmen. If we should train our citizens in the same ratio we would have in the neigh- The infanta Eulalie of Spain is publishing her souvenirs of childhood in the monthly magazine, Je Sais Tout, according to a Paris letter. They were not happy. She complains that she was never alone. M. "I was irritated by the restrictions of our existence, and I believe that from this bodily revolt was born the revolt of my mind the moment this thought took form. "I imagine, we had never a play-room at the pal- ace. We were obliged to amuse ourselves peacefully in a sumptuous drawing room. We had never the present season the big apartment on the Avenue of the Presidents which the Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark formerly occupied. It is here that one sees to advantage the number of rare and beautiful objects in Mrs. Shields' possession. "The best thing about my collection," says Mrs. Shields, "is that it is not a collection at all. By this I mean that I have never been in any sense of the word a collector. These things, which my friends are good enough to find interesting, are merely those that I delight to use every day and which have given pleasure to the women of my family for generations. Pointing to two great Sevres vases, almost as large as those which ornament the mantels in the east room of the White House, Mrs. Shields continued: "You will rarely find two such old pieces in such a state of perfect preservation. Here, too, is some old English silver in the form of a severely plain and much used little sugar bowl and cream pitcher, and in two rather ornate cake and fruit baskets. "This odd cabinet you see in the drawing room belonged to my great-grandmother. In it I have placed the necklace she wore, its gold pendants fine as lace work and set with what are said to be white sapphires, though as to this I cannot speak authentically. The old desk you saw in my library is an authentic royal piece of the time of Louis XVI. The tortoise-shell clock belongs to the same period." Old fans, their mother-of-pearl sticks and their rose point lace unbroken, their figures after Watteau, as charming in color as when painted; miniatures by Dodge; boxes of ivory ornate with rare carving; Chippendale chairs and portraits that are interesting examples of the early American painters are other objects that go to make Senator and Mrs. Shields' home one of the most interesting in the city. to honor woman and her noble and inspiring attributes. "But few monuments or memorials have been erected to our women. A magnificent memorial is soon to be erected to the women of the Civil war, but it will be placed away down on the reclaimed flats toward the Potomac river, to be seen only by those who ride in automobiles or who take the sightseeing cars. "Our women deserve recognition. They have done well their part in the development of our country and in the making of its history. "It is time a suitable memorial should be provided to commemorate the splendid American womanhood. How better can we do this than to set aside a beautiful park for such monuments, statues and memorials as a grateful people may place there from time to time? What more appropriate location for such a park and memorial site than the territory fronting the magnificent edifice through which the people of the nation come to visit their capital? "This bill sets aside the territory to be acquired between C street and the Union station for an outdoor Parthenon, so that the first view to greet persons as they enter the national capital will be memorials and monuments commemorative to the sublime womanhood of their beloved country." borhood of 6,000,000 trained markskmen. A more potent argument for peace could not be imagined, for what country would undertake to land an army on our shores, knowing that it would face such a horde of trained riflemen? · "Germany since 1883 has spent $33,000,000 in acquiring and equipping field ranges and France has spent nearly as much in order that their young men might perfect themselves in marksmanship. "We have in this country approximately 20,000,000 males between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, of whom not more than 121,000 are enrolled in the National Guard, and of this number not more than 40 per cent, are instructed in rifle practice. Taking our National Guard and the regular army together, we have but one soldier to every 1,800 male citizens. Approximately we have about 207,000 men trained in warfare, more or less, of whom probably not more than 35 per cent, have ever had proper training in the use of the rifle." right to remain alone. We were always under the surveillance of some Spanish lady of honor, who spied upon us and scolded us. "When we were taken to the park for a walk we were accompanied by governesses, who prevented us from playing with the children we met. At the house we could do nothing that was not regulated. At night they watched over our sleep; some one always slept close to us. "Until after my marriage I was never allowed to sit alone for a second in a room. This is the strict truth; it appears to me very melancholy." At Houlgate, where was a royal summer residence, the infanta attempted flight, but was brought back ignominiously by a lady of the court, who suspected that she had taken refuge with an old apple woman. A little more liberty followed, but the princess struggled for a room to herself freed from royal servants FREE FREE KEYSTON OPEN FOR BUSINESS New D to Key like it Strictly home cooking. Low food. 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ONCE more the round of the seasons brings the approach of St. Patrick's day. As the ancient Celts, 15 centuries ago waited in a strange unrest, not unmixed with a hope of deliverance from the mental and moral subjection imposed upon them by the horrible and degrading practices of Druidism, for the coming of the conqueror which had been foretold by their magicians, so the Irish people of the present day are standing expectantly on the threshold of a great change, harkening impatiently to the tumult which delays the advent of their nationhood and clogs the wheels of their recent wonderful progress. The return of her native parliament, by stilling the political unrest of a century and satisfying the unconquerable aspirations of her people, will set the seal upon the marvelous social regeneration which has transformed Ireland, in less than 20 years, from a condition of hopeless apathy to a state of prosperity and conscious power. A revivifying influence has passed over the land. Intellectual unrest, social improvement and an astonishing material progress have been the result. The Naomi of the nations has dried her tears and serenely confronts the future of happy augury which is opening to her gaze. Not with forgetfulness of the past, but in obedience to her destiny, Dark Rosaeen has relinquished "the rising of the moon" for "the dawning of the day." May her coming glory strengthen her soul and lighten her heart as the gift of Patrick purified and transformed the ancient Milesian land. At the coming of St. Patrick, the Celts were a highly cultivated people, then, as afterward, noted for their devotion to knowledge and their appreciation of learned men. Scholars, poets and historians were held in veneration. Much progress had been made in decorative art, in the fashioning of gold and silver ornaments, and in music. The whole nation was of an inquiring turn of mind and it is interesting to note that Patrick's first converts were among the learned men. Patrick shone particularly as an organizer. He journeyed incessantly throughout the land, founding churches and monasteries, baptizing converts and consecrating bishops and priests, accompanied always by his scribes and architects, his goldsmiths and carpenters. He adapted his methods to the genius and character of the Copyright Underwood & Underwood St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. nation, and gave a Christian direction to the natural and lively curiosity of the Celt, which has never been weakened nor diverted. His influence and teachings, touching magically on the burning temperament of soul and ardent imagination, which are characteristic of the Celt, made the Christian Irish undoubtedly the most scholarly and cultivated people of the middle ages. At his death, after 30 years of glorious endeavor, Patrick left behind him a varitable church militant, eager, enthusiastic and undaunted in pursuit of the only good. Besides cleansing the Augean stable of Irish Druidism from its many dreadful and disgusting habits and rooting out the revolting rites of paganism, Patrick brought into the country some knowledge of Roman civilization and, all over the island, established schools and trained teachers in arts and letters. He revised the Brehon laws of the kingdom, bringing them into harmony with Christian teaching. A copy of this famous code, which was known as "the law of Patrick" and as the "Seanchus Mor," is to be seen in the Dublin museum. But it was as an inspiring leader, as the apostle and prophet of a whole, people, as the Moses of a nation, that St. Patrick left his mark on Ireland for all time. If his influence is so persisting and inspiring among the far-flung Irish race of today, what must have been its effect on his immediate successors—those ardent, devoted disciples who had warmed their hearts and imaginations at the blaze of his genius, who caught from his dying grasp the torch of erudition and religion which, passed from hand to hand, was to gain for Ireland the well-merited title of "the Island of Saints and Scholars?" In a troubled and darkened world, plunged in intellectual gloom and disaster by the disintegration of the Greek and Roman civilizations, Ire- Saint-Étienne Interior of St. Patrick's Cathedral. land alone kept the lamp of learning alight. Her schools were the resort of students from all parts of Europe and Britain; her hearthstones the refuge and asylum of learned men, Alfrid, king of Northumbria, and Dagobert II, king of France, were students at Clonmacnoise. During this period of four or five centuries, from the death of Patrick until the Danish invasions, the monasteries were unmolested. Learning was cultivated and brought to the highest state of perfection. Law and philosophy, architecture and sculpture, music and science flourished and were encouraged. Irish teachers were in demand throughout Europe. At the court of Charlemagne they were described as "men incomparably skilled in human learning." THE SEVENTEENTH. Mother Eire! Mother Eire! By whatever name they call you. Comes the echo down the ages of the "T'sean bean bochaud!"* Mother Eire! Mother Eire! Though your loved ones turned to smile you. Though Gael has split the blood of Gael by hill and field and moat; Though the scaffold took its toll, though son fought son to right you. Their hearts still join in honoring the "T'sean bean bochaud!" Mother Eire! Mother Eire! Open-armed we come to meet you. Forgetting creed or party hate or vote that strives with vote; On this day we meet as one, and in wel- coming we greet you With a "Slainte! Slainte! Slainte to the T'sean bean bochaud!" *Pronounced "Shaun vaun vote." In considering the history of Patrick, we cannot exclude consideration of the country because to christianize for faith and fatherland are inextricably intertwined in the Emerald isle. And this the more strongly, because of the persecution of both. There is a rift in the clouds, however, and we already behold the first glimmer of the promised dawn. Home rule seems a matter of parliamentary procedure, when the work of the brave men whom we have known for their fidelity and exacting labor, shall, after thirty years of strenuous effort, realize the ambition of their lives, in an Ireland redeemed, rehabilitated and disenthralled. For this good work, the Redmonds, Dillons and their conferes deserve well of the country and will be the exemplars of future ages. So, let us rejoice that Ireland borne down by centuries of oppression, shall at last bask in the sunlight of peace; that her fair daughters shall attune the harp to notes of joy, and her faithful sons forever guard with jealous care the brighter hopes, the loftiest ambitions and untarnished fame of the "Isle of destiny." Has Added to Britain's Glory. Many of Britain's statesmen, soldiers, jurists and orators were of Irish birth. SUGAR BEET PRODUCTION ON IRRIGATED AREAS Methods of Culture In the Central, Western and Southern Portions of the United States Death With in Department of Agriculture's New Bulletin. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, D. C.—Methods of culture for the sugar beet in the Central, Western and Southwestern portions of the United States are dealt with in the Department of Agriculture's new bulletin, "Sugar Beet Growing Under Irrigation." This is the second bulletin of interest to sugar beet growers which has been issued recently. The other was entitled: "Sugar Beet Growing Under Humid Conditions," and was of interest more particularly to the northern portion of our country, where most of the present sugar beet crop is grown. While there is a feeling of safety in having an unlimited supply of water for irrigation purposes, it must always be remembered that irrigation costs money and labor, says the government's investigator. Such precipitation of moisture then, as there is in a ocality should not be permitted to escape from the soil with the idea that more water can always be applied when needed. All moisture that falls upon the ground and is received and retained by the soil acts upon the plant foods day after day and accomplishes most for plant growth. Precipitation is nature's gift, and should never be despised. The ground in irrigated sections where the sugar beet plant is grown should be plowed to a good depth in the fall and every effort made to retain the moisture in the soil from the time the previous crop is harvested until the beet crop is laid by. Much depends upon the condition of the soil as to whether or not it is able to receive and retain the moisture. A large number of showers may show several inches of rainfall in the aggregate, and yet they may have accomplished little, if any, good so far as crop production is concerned, because they failed to moisten the ground to a sufficient depth. On the other hand, one or more heavy, dashing rains may show a satisfactory total rainfall for the season and at the same time be entirely unsatisfactory from the standpoint of crop production. Indeed, such rains may be more injurious than beneficial, because of packing and crusting the ground. The record of the total rainfall for a season, or even month by month, is of little value unless we know the nature and amount of each precipitation. The point of most vital importance is to have the ground in condition to receive as much as possible of the moisture that falls upon it and then to make every effort to retain that moisture in the soil. Points to Be Considered. Other points to be considered by growers of sugar beets under irrigation are the following: Sugar beet soil should be selected with reference to its fertility, its physical condition, its previous cropping, and its ability to be properly drained and irrigated. The seed and root beds should be so prepared that they will be fine, firm, moist and well aerated, with a sufficiently lumpy mulch on the surface to prevent blowing. Beet ground should never be flooded after the seed is planted. The soil should be well supplied with humus. Beet seed should be planted in moist soil, but not more than one and one-half inches deep. Beets should be spaced and thinned just as soon as they are large enough to handle. Beets should be cultivated and hoed often enough to destroy all weeds and to keep the entire surface of the ground covered with a mulch. Beets should always be rotated with other crops in order to keep the soil in good tilth and free from pests. Live stock, especially dairy cows, should always be found on beet farms. The by-products of the sugar beet and of the sugar mill are worthy of careful attention. These are described in detail in both the newly issued bulletins on the sugar beet. Consider Temperature and Winds. Besides the precipitation, two important climatic factors to be considered are the temperature and winds. Both high and low temperatures have a direct bearing upon the growth or quality of the beets. A study of the most successful sugar-beet localities of the world leads to the conclusion that beets of the best quality can not be grown where the average temperature for the growing season is much above $70^{\circ}\mathrm{F}$. This does not mean that sugar beets can not be successfully grown in warm countries or in warm sections of a country, but it does mean that in such localities beets should be produced during the cooler portion of the year, which is now done successfully in certain portions of our own country. It is possible that beets adapted to higher temperatures may be produced by selection and breeding, and in this way the present large sugar-beet territory in the Colorado Springs.—Allanson S. Hall, millionaire former American consul to the Argentine Republic, who died recently, left his entire estate, estimated at $10,000,000, to his daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Hall Sturgis of this city. Mrs. Sturgis is wife of Prof. William C. Sturgis, dean of forestry at Colorado College. Mrs. Sturgis is named as executrix of the estate in the will tiled for proxivate. Mr. Hill was American consul at Rosario, Argentina, for several years Do You Know That— United States may be greatly increased. Low temperatures are most likely to be injurious to sugar beets when the plantlets are just breaking through the ground. At this period the young plants are very tender and susceptible to injury by frost, but after the roots are established in the soil they rapidly become hardy and resistant to frost to a marked degree. Since the time of killing frosts varies from year to year in the same territory it is not always possible to avoid injury from this cause. A killing frost when the beets are coming up does not destroy the chance for a successful beet crop, but it often necessitates the expense and labor of replanting. It is therefore wise to delay the planting until the ground is warm and the growing conditions are otherwise favorable, since such conditions will rapidly push the beets beyond the period of frost injury. When the beets are mature they will stand a severe freeze without injury. The great danger from low temperatures at the end of the growing season is that the beets may be frozen in the ground, making the harvesting of the crop difficult or even impossible. To avoid this danger and the consequent loss that might result from such a condition it is advisable to get the beets out of the ground as soon as possible after they are ripe and to cover them to avoid freezing or dying. Apparently beet roots are not injured for sugar-making purposes by freezing, provided that they freeze and remain frozen until they are put through the mill, but alternate freezing and thawing causes them to decay and blacken, so that their value for sugar making is materially decreased. The COLORADO STATESMAN IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY Winds are briefly mentioned in connection with soil selection for sugar beets, but they have a still wider bearing upon crop conditions. Not only do high winds have a tendency to destroy young beets and other plants by cutting and burying them with shifting sands, but they have a marked influence upon the amount of evaporation from the soil. For this reason a given amount of moisture in a locality where hot, dry winds prevail during the spring is much less effective in crop production than would be the same amount of moisture in a locality where winds do not prevail, other conditions being the same. Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in the Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. However, the injurious effects of winds may be overcome to a great extent by the use of proper cultural methods. For example, both the blowing of the soil and the excessive evaporation may often be reduced to the point of successful crop production by keeping the surface of the ground covered with a lump mulch. The mulch retards the evaporation, while its lump condition reduces the shifting of the soil. The cutting action of the shifting sand may be controlled by planting the beet rows at right angles to the direction of the prevailing winds when practicable and by attaching irrigating shovels to the drills, so that ridges capable of protecting the young plants will be thrown up between the rows at planting time. It's true that the slope of the land and the consequent direction of irrigation must also be considered in planting the beets, but whenever practicable the rows should be at right angles to the direction of the prevailing winds. We Have Supplied Our Office with New Job Press & Type of Up-to-Date Style and Our Work Will Be on a Par with the Very Best. SNYDER ARRESTED IN CALGARY. Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction The "Living Venus," With Daughter in Boy's Garb, Vanishes. Denver.—A pursuit of 1,500 miles by members of detective agencies resulted in the arrest at Calgary, Canada, of Harmon C. Snyder, former general sales manager for the United States Portland Cement Company. He is charged with embezzlements amounting approximately to $10,000. With Snyder at the time of his arrest was Mrs. Bonnibell Sutherland, the "Living Venus," divorcee and Denver beauty, who fled the city Feb. 12, and was joined by Snyder four days later at Great Falls, Mont. With the couple was also Mrs. Sutherland's seven-year-old daughter, Lucille, who had been disguised by her mother as a boy. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver Mrs. Sutherland and the child, according to telegrams received by the Denver police, Fled Calgary immediately following the arrest after forcing Snyder and the police to give her $750 which she said she had deposited in Snyder's bank account. Snyder, who was found with Mrs. Sutherland in a private residence, which he had engaged preparatory to establishing himself in business, waived extradition and left Calgary for Denver. About $7,000 of the alleged shortage is said to have been recovered—$2,920 in cash, $2,500 in bank checks and bills of exchange and $1,500 in other securities Name Federal Bank, Board April 1. Washington.—The federal reserve board probably will be selected by April 1. In talking with callers, President Wilson gave that date as the one toward which the organization committee was looking for the establishment of the new federal reserve system of banks. Missouri Bank Closed. Cape Girardeau, Mo.—The First National bank of Cape Girardeau was closed by a national bank examiner, pending an examination of its books. THE B.L. JAMES M. & M. CO. DEALERS IN PAINTS-OILS-GLASS -VARNISHES- -WALL-PAPERS- ARTISTS-MATERIALS -ARAPAHOE NEAR FIFTEENTH - PAINTING - GRAINING - GLAZING - - PAPERHANGING - DECORATING - - AND - HARDWOOD FINISHING - Rocky Mountain Athletic Ass'n. Rocky Mountain Athletic Ass'n. It is a tribute to the officers and members of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Association, of Denver, Colorado, that in a city noted the world over for its hospitality, it has been accorded first honors as a place of social amusement and relaxation. Colorado is the Switzerland of America. Its snow-clad hills and verdant valleys, its charming resorts, its rugged beauty are famous the world over. Denver, its capital, is one of the most beautiful cities in America. Matchless in climate, situated where first the eternal snowy hills rear their snowy tops to the heavens, it has long been the mecca of visitors. Its people have been well trained in hospitality, and of that training the Rocky Mountain Athletic Association is the highest expression. In offering to the public this set of interior views of its home, the Board of Directors of the Association have only one regret, that they cannot reproduce in black and white the cordial good fellowship that exists among the members, and the hearty welcome which is accorded visitors. The limitations of the camera are understood, so that they will convey an idea of the building and accommodations, but words cannot take the place of the handshake, the smile and friendly greeting. Therefore the Association extends to all men of good character a cordial invitation to visit the Association quarters while in Denver, and assures them that their inspection is no intrusion...but, on the other hand, will give it an opportunity for doing for them the duty which Denver lays upon its citizens. It is the spirit of good fellowship that has made the Rocky Mountain Athletic Association a factor in Denver life, though it is only a year and a half old, and it has occupied its present quarters, 2014 Champa street, since April. In that time it has grown to 900 members, a part of whom are non-residents, being accorded the privileges of the Association under the provisions of the by-laws relative to non-resident members. It is not the desire to burden you with facts and figures, but to entertain you—on paper now, and in the hope that some day we may entertain you in person. Therefore let's make an inspection of the Association quarters. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Association is housed in a twenty-room two-story brick building situated at 2014 Champa street, Denver, Colorado, on a plot of ground 50x125 feet, one block from the new postoffice now building. In preparation for its occupancy this building was remodeled a year ago. WALTON & FRAZIER, Managers. The Rocky Mountain Athletic Association is housed in a twenty-room two-story brick building situated at 2014 Champa street, Denver, Colorado, on a plot of ground 50x125 feet, one block from the new postoffice now building. In preparation for its occupancy this building was remodeled a year ago. WALTON & FRAZIER, Managers. THE BENCHROOM The pool and billiard room is high class. To those who have never played upon the famous Wellington tables with Monarch cushions, a game upon these tables would be a revelation. The equipment is entirely new, with special attendants and instructors at your service. WORK CALLED FOR AND REPAIRING DONE WHILE DELIVERED YOU WAIT TELEPHONE MAIN 7377 THE CAPITAL CITY SHOE REPAIRING CO. SEWED HALF SOLES 60 cts. and 75 cts. HENRY WARNECKE, President 1511 CHAMPA STREET DENVER, COLO. JOHN H. HARRIS THE NEWPORT SALOON 1841-45 ARAPAHOE STREET. PHONE CHAMPA 2570 THI PHONE CHAMPA 2570 THE MACEO F. S. DENTON, PROPRIETOR FOUNTAIN DRINKS OF ALL KINDS. 'SHORT ORDERS CHILE, AND SANDWICHES, AT ALL HOURS. ORDERS SENT OUT ON SHORT NOTICE BEST OF SERVICE GUARANTEED 2721 Welton Steet 2721 Welton Steet Denve. ANNEX CAFE AND LUNCH ROOM SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS CHINESE DISHES OF ALL KINDS THE SOFT and lustrous chiffon taffeta in a light pink tone is employed for making up the smart and novel model pictured here. It promises well among the new styles that are bidding for favor. It is one of the corsetless models, witness its broad swathing at the waist line. Such bouffant designs are impossible for the short and plump figure. There are others equally new, with floures and pannier effects, that in reality do not shorten the figure, and the plump woman must abjure styles which make her look shapeless, confining herself to those designed for her. But the new gowns, to be worn over the new corsets—which hardly extend above the waist line—or over no corset, have demonstrated one thing. The stout figure looks less stout in the easy styles than it did in a tight high-bust corset. There are practically no plain skirts with entirely unbroken lines among the new spring models. Nearly all of them have drapery which adds width to the hip line. Just how successful the puckerings and drapings will become in point of popularity, remain to be proved. Group of Parisian Coiffures A THE "careful carelessness" which is the dominant note in French styles for this coming spring seems not to hold good in the matter of coiffures. Here is a group of recently photographed styles which show the hair waved before it is dressed, and carefully arranged in each case more or less high on the head. Two novel headresses are also shown, the first one quite unknown and newly introduced to America. It is a plaiting of maline supported by invisible wires. In the picture it is shown undecorated, but has been developed with a row of tiny beads or jewels outlining it. It is one of the most effective and beautiful embellishments that have appeared in a long time. Short curls and light fringes of hair about the face are noticeable in these styles. These and the short, soft neck curls seem to be demanded by the new styles in dresses. In all the new coifures the arrangement of the hair is rather simple, but in all of them the hair is waved and there is much attention, to its finish about the face. No stray ends are Voiles, plain and printed, wool challies, novelty weaves in crepe, chiffon taffeta, light weight satins, crepe de chine and similar fabrics are made up in designs similar to that shown in the picture. It is not suited to heavy fabrics. A similar design has a plain underskirt with an overdress reaching from the waist to a point below the hips, that is, about half way to the knees. The overdress is slightly full about the waist and is gathered in at the bottom and sewed to the underskirt. It is long enough to fall over a girdle of ribbon which is placed about the skirt at the bottom of the overdress. The girdle is of messaline ribbon and is tied in the simplest of bows with hanging loops and ends, at the left side. A design of this kind does not shorten a stout figure if the fabric selected is supple so that it clings to the body. Altogether, gowns for spring look as if they might prove comfortable. We have never had airier fabrics—more lace or more entirely feminine compositions than are demonstrated in the new modes. left uncurled. Across the forehead the little hair that shows is trimmed neatly or curled. The ears are covered. Few coils or braids are in evidence and the hair is apparently loose, spread over the crown or on top of the head, with ends turned under and pinned down. Inconspicuous shell pins are liked. A splendid headdress shows an embroidered net with beads and silk used in working up the design. It is an oriental inspiration. There is a smart standing decoration at the front, a double fan of fine plumage. Such a garniture is, of course, intended for the very dresiest of occasions. The tendency is distinctly toward high styles and elaboration in coifures. As the season grows older certain styles will assert their supremacy, but no one of the new designs has established itself as the favorite as yet. 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