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PATRONIZE MERCHANTS WHO ADV. IN THE PEOPLE'S PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY SOME REA- SONS WHY Negro Business, Professional and Other Persons Should Attend the National Negro Business League Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, August 18, 19 and 20, 1915. VOL. XX1. SOME R SOME Negro Business, Professional and C National Negro Business Le Massachusetts. August Isaac Fisher, the nationally famous prize essay writer, winner of the $400 Trust Regulation Prize; the $100 Good Roads Prize, the $100 Prize for the "Ten Best Reasons Why Persons Should Live in Missouri;" the $500 Prize for the best essay on "What We've Learned About Rum," and more than a score of other prizes, has been asked by the officers of the National Negro Business League to summarize the important reasons why Colored Business Men, Colored Business Women, Professional Persons and others interested, should attend the next meeting of the league which is to be held in Boston, Massachusetts, August 18, 19 and 20, 1915. In his keenly analytic way, Mr. Fisher has digested these reasons; and they are given in his own words below: There are some emotions which you cannot analyze nor explain. To walk the streets of Boston pays no grocery bills, begins no bank accounts, purchases neither comforts nor luxuries; and yet I know that I am a different and a happier man because I have, once in my life, not only traveled all over the states of historic old New England, but have walked the streets of Boston and seen in person what I had felt and dreamed of in the spirit, that is, the place where men and women in the midst of plenty, surrounded by culture and refinement, suddenly awoke one day in the past to the realization that almost four millions of colored people in the United States were unhappy because they were not free; and that it was the duty of the strong to help the weak. Therefore, to me, the reason of reasons, which towers high above everything is the one which follows and which is given first place: 1. To see—and what colored person does not want to see—the city in which were the headquarters of those who labored to give freedom to the American slave There is no use to pretend that this is not one of the main reasons why every Negro should visit Boston. If a colored person has already visited Boston, he will find the following reasons compelling, nevertheless: 2. Because anyone deeply enough interested in the Business League to try to follow it because it helps him, is an individual who has worked faithfully enough to deserve such a vacation and pleasure trip as only a journey to Boston can give. 3. To see business done by a real business city. Boston is— (a) The commercial and financial center of New England. (b) The American seaport having the largest foreign commerce, excepting New York. (c) The greatest wool market in the United States and the second greatest in the world. (d) The chief distributing center of --- the United States for shoes, leather and hides. (e) The home of the Boston and Maine railroad—the most remarkable consolidation of railroads in the world, comprising 125 different roads. (f) The largest city market for fresh and salt fish in the United States. In Boston, one will see business done by men who know all about the subject and will see some of the greatest business establishments in the world. 4. Because many of the places that poets and history have made immortal are found in the beautiful "Hub of the Universe." Who wants to die without seeing once and again—Faneuil Hall, the "Cradle of Liberty." Old Statehouse. Old South Meeting House. Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, etc.? 5. To see once and again the center of education in America. In Boston, one finds, among other famous literary institutions— (a) The Public Library with over 800,000 volumes. (b) Harvard University (c) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (d) Boston University. (e) Boston Museum of Fine Arts. (f) New England Conservatory of Music. (g) Lowell Institute, giving free lectures to all. (h) Boston Symphony Orchestra (80 members). One has not studied the subject of education fully until he has seen these institutions. 6. To visit once and again the greatest and most beautiful parks in the country like— boston Commons, The Public Gardens, Back Bay Fens. Arnold Arboretum, Marine Park, Charles River Embankment. 7. To visit the homes of such famous men as Prescott, Ticknor, Bancroft, Motley, Parkman, Emerson, Hawthorne, Lowell, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, etc. These sights inspire the heart. 8. To compare the business conditions of the West and South with those obtaining among colored people in the great metropolis of famous, favored, Massachusetts; and to let the people of New England get a glimpse of the men and women who are doing things in the South and West, particularly the colored people. "Now abideth" Reasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8; "But the greatest of these" are numbers 1 and 3. ISAAC FISHER. DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. JULY 31, 1915 State Hist & Nut Hist Books State House ANTS WHO ADO E JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO COLORADO DAY PROCLAMATION Each year Aug. 1 is set aside to mark the anniversary of Colorado's admission to the Union, and is known as Colorado day. On Sunday next, Aug. 1, we will celebrate this state's thirty-ninth birthday. Sons and daughters of Colorado will come from afar to honor their native state. It is a day set aside and pre-eminently suitable for the entertainment of the homecomer and the stranger in our midst. Let those returning Coloradoans whom fate and fortune have carried to other lands and climes feel no lack of hospitality and welcome. Absence must not be allowed to dim home's attraction. It is a day to commence turning faith into action and mark the goal of great accomplishments for the next year. On Colorado day no son or daughter wiil come home from the battlefield, and for this let us be thankful and pray for continued honorable peace and for an end to the butchery abroad. It is esp. cially urged that our state and nation's flags be prominently displayed; that from 10:30 in the morning until 10:35 church bells ring out the message of peace and welcome; that Colorado made and grown products be used exclusively in the celebration of the day; that from 12 o'clock noon until five minutes past 12 we bow our heads in prayers for peace and thankfulness IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of state to be affixed at Denver, the capital city, this twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred fifteen. GEORGE A. CARLSON, Governor. WANT $68,072,388 FROM U. S. FOR WORK AS SLAVES Washington, D. C. July 21. Basing their claim on work performed during the year from 1859 to 1868 in the production and preparation of cotton for market, certain Negro residents of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee filed suit on Tuesday, July 13, in the District Supreme Court against William G. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, for the sum of $68,072,388, as a part of the fruit of the labor of the plaintiffs under "internal revenue tax on raw cotton." The plaintiffs are H. N. Johnson of Louisiana, R. Bowers of Texas, C. B. Williams of Mississippi, and Mamie Thompson of Tennessee, who say in the bill of complaint that they sue for themselves and others similarly interested. The bill sets forth that the Sec- --- retary of the Treasury of the United States, obtained possession, and the defendant herein now holds the custody, of certain money which was a part of the fruit of the labor of the plaintiffs amounting to $68,072,388 under "internal revenue tax on raw cotton," and that this sum is not the legitimate property of the United States, and should be paid to those by whose labor the cotton yielding the revenue was produced. Another paragraph of the bill reads: "Plaintiffs and such of them as claim here as heirs were subject to a system of involuntary servitude in the above named States, and other States commonly known as the Southern States." Referring further to the conditions under which the services were rendered the petition says: "That the system of involuntary servitude by which the plaintiffs were dominated, to wit, under and by force of a traditional law of force, forced plaintiffs and their ancestors, against their free will of action and by coercion and justifiable fear of bodily injury or destruction, to render said labor." The petition was filed by Attorney E. M. Hewlett, as the local attorney representing Attorneys Cornelius J. Jones, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and H. A. Guess Jones, who is said to have prepared a bill of complaint, is a colored lawyer. The petition asks that the case be referred to a master in chancery to take proof of the claims of the parties interested, and that a bill of discovery be issued to ascertain among whom the money shall be distributed and the amounts that each shall receive, and to have the Secretary of the Treasury disclose the source from which the sum held by him was derived. Captain L. C. Vaile, colored, chief of the Negro Catholic bureau of Chicago, was in Quincy, Illinois, lately and visited the grave of Rev. August Tolton at St. Peter's cemetery. He went back to Chicago to raise a fund which a suitable monument will be erected over the last resting place of the first Catholic Negro priest in the United States. Father Tolton was born in Brush Creek, Ralls county, Missouri, Apr. 1 1854 He labored with heoric zeal until Nov. 28, 1889, when he went to Chicago and held service in St. Mary's Church, later in a Church of his own which he dedicated to St. Monica. He was in charge of this Church when he died, July 9, 1897, in consequence of a sunstroke. The body was taken to Quincy and buried at St. Peter's cemetery. His grave is unmarked and Captain Valle feels that there should be a stone on it. His memory is revered by a large number of Negro Catholics in Chicergo and Captain Valle wants the stone to be paid entirely by Negro contributions. RACE NEWS Cincinnati—A new position was created at the Associated Charities recently when a colored woman was appointed to investigate and care for the colored cases that come to the institution for aid, Martha Fletcher was given the place by Secretary Edmonds. "We have a great number of cases among the colored people," he said, "and I believe that a colored assistant can more successfully investigate them than a white person. Miss Fletcher can not handle all, of course, but she will be able to care for a great many of them. "We will endeavor to co-operate with the colored schools and churches along this line and believe they will aid us greatly in the new way of handling the cases that affect their class." would be disclosed to the scientists that there is no dirt, to the botanist; no poison to the United States; no color problem. In all probability, this prophecy will be early realized, if Professor Waterman succeeds in gathering a goodly number of recruits beneath his banner, because it is reported that Professor Waterman asserts that anthropologists have found that there are no really black men; that the skin of the darkest Negro is only a chocolate brown, when guaged by color cards. He also points out that there are no normal human beings that are truly white except albinos. So-called white men are really a saffron brown. The greater pigmentation of the darker skins is in reality an advantage, as it means that the indi- Newport, R. I., July 21 —At the graduating exercises of the Child's Business College of this city, Friday afternoon, July 16, Miss Olyve L. Jeter, its only colored graduate, and the youngest daughter of the Rev. H. N. Jeter, was awarded a Remington gold medal for writing seventy-five words per minute for ten consecutive minutes on the Remington typewriter. During the exercises a typewriting test was held, at which time Miss Jeter won the first prize, a $5 gold piece, as the result of having the average of sixty six perfect words per minute for ten consecutive minutes. Miss Jeter recently was awarded the Underwood special credential certificate for writing sixty three words per minute on the Underwood typewriter. Chaplain Geo. W. Prioleau has been notified by Adjutant General that he will not accompany the Ninth to the Philippines on this tour of duty, but has beer transferred to the Tenth Cavalry. Chaplain Prioleau has had a longer continuous service with the Ninth Cavalry than any chaplain in the U.S. Army has had with any separate organization. In twenty years the chaplain has had one sick leave and has never been confined to bed. The men of the Ninth will regret this change as well as those of the Tenth in loosing Chaplain Carter. After a service of two years in the Philippines Chaplain Carter and Prioleau may exchange regiments, which is very probable. Berkeley, Cal., July 20.—Some years ago a noted writer predicted that as time advances, the fact NO 50 would be disclosed to the scientists that there is no dirt, to the botanist; no poison to the United States; no color problem. In all probability, this prophecy will be early realized, if Professor Waterman succeeds in gathering a goodly number of recruits beneath his banner, because it is reported that Professor Waterman asserts that anthropologists have found that there are no really black men; that the skin of the darkest Negro is only a chocolate brown, when guaged by color cards. He also points out that there are no normal human beings that are truly white except albinos. So-called white men are really a saffron brown. The greater pigmentation of the darker skins is in reality an advantage, as it means that the individual is less subject to skin diseases, and is practically immune to tropical diseases. St. Joseph, Md., July 21. — One of the most distinguished men, who has visited this city for years, is the Rev. Raleigh A. Scott, of Chesterfield, England. The story of his progress equals in interest that of Booker T. Washington. Rev Scott was educated entirely through his own efforts. He was pastor of one of the largest churches in Chesterfield, England, where he was elected pastor for life, of an English congregation. He was head of a musical academy during his residence there. He has done a great evangelistic work and his personality is of such force that he made the unusual success of 1,000 converts in ten days. Since the war he has returned to America and has found the great need of the people of his race. He is now devoting his time to their interests. Two daughters live in Washington D. C., and he has a son practicing medicine in California. Why Animals Change Color. As has long been known, the chameleon and several other cold-blooded creatures are able to change color at will. Science ascribes this ability to minute cells situated in the cutis and called chromatophores. They are filled with the pigments of the various colors, and capable of contraction or enlargement while the process of color change is going on. To Wash Varnished Paper. To wash varnished wall paper use two tablespoonfuls of liquid ammonia to about half a pailful of warm water, applied with a soft flannel or sponge. Then wipe the wall down with a chamois leather, wrung out of clean water to which has been added two tablespoonfuls of turpentine. The turpentine gives a polish to the par- CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DISP PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR It is stated that Gen. Natera has deserted Villa and taken his 8,000 men to Carranza. American vessel Leelanaw of New York sunk by German submarine off the Orkney islands. Casualties in the British army and navy have reached a total of 330,995, according to a printed statement issued by Premier Asquith. The Norwegian steamer Fimreite, of 3,819 tons gross, was sunk by a German submarine. The crew was landed at Stornoway, Scotland. An official statement issued at Rome says: "The island of Pelagosa, important on account of its strategic situation, has been occupied by the Italian forces. Two German submarines, which appeared suddenly in the midst of a fishing fleet off the north coast of Scotland, destroyed all of the nine vessels, by shell fire. The Danish steamer Nogill bound from Gothenburg, Sweden, for the river Tyne and laden with railway ties, has been sunk in the North Sea by a German submarine. The British steamer Grangewood, of 3,422 tons gross, bound from Archangel, Russia, for Havre, France, has been torpedoed and sunk in the North sea by a German submarine. The crew landed at Lerwick, Scotland. The Frankfuerter Zeitung's Vienna correspondent says the Austro-German forces have captured 131,250 Russian prisoners since July 14, besides forty-one cannon, 141 machine guns and an enormous quantity of military supplies. A Petrograd official bulletin says: "In the Black Sea Sunday our torpedo boats operating in the coal region destroyed forty sailing ships laden with coal. They also destroyed a new coal shaft and a suspension bridge." WESTERN The attendance at the Panama-Pacific Exposition to date totals more than 9,000,000. A memorial service was held for the Eastland victims at the San Francisco Exposition on Illinois Day. Eight men were killed and fifteen badly burned in a gas explosion at one of the entrances of the Moderwell mine at Christopher, Ill. The body of Eddie Bartlett, well-known as a fighter in the bare-knuckle days, has been identified among the victims of the steamship Eastland. L. M. Dean was bound over to the District Court on a charge of abducting E. A. Empey, a wealthy ranchman, east of Idaho Falls, Ida. He signed a full confession. After investigating the attack upon Leo M. Frank at the Milledgeville state prison farm, the Georgia prison commission gave out a statement exonerating Warden Smith. José Ignacio Rodriguez, 77, was killed by the collapse of the rear wall of his home, an adobe house which had been weakened by persistent heavy rains, at Albuquerque, N. T. Prediction that the United States would be drawn into war with Germany was made by Congressman Frank Buchanan of Chicago, speaking at Kansas City before the industrial council. WASHINGTON Russia's winter cereal crops promise heavy increases this year. Use of bicycles or motorcycles in the rural delivery service is prohibited by an order issued by Postmaster General Burleson, effective Jan. 1, 1916. President Wilson was told by Miss Jane Addams, representing the Women's Peace Conference which recently met at The Hague, that she saw no possibility for peace in Europe in the immediate future. Information on one point—whether the captain of the American steamer Leelanaw was requested to deliver out the contraband of his cargo and was willing to do so—is needed before officials can determine the nature of representations which may be made to Germany on the destruction of the vessel by a German submarine. The American embassy force at Petrograd is to be increased by three new attaches to meet the press of business caused by the war and the manifold interests which the United States has assumed for the belligerents. Suits are about to be brought by the government against American citizens who, though apparently able to do so, refuse to repay money expended for their relief when they were stranded in Europe at the outbreak of the war. FOREIGN The king of Bavaria has appointed the German emperor a field marshal of the Bavarian army and the emperor has accepted the appointment. Capt. Eugene Delk and the crew of the American steamer Leelanaw, which was sunk by a German submarine, arrived at Aberdeen, Scotland. German military authorities, according to information received in London, have announced that a census will be taken beginning at midnight. Aug. 2, of all stocks of cotton in Germany. Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of numerous works on historical subjects, died in London. He was born in 1837 and was created a knight in 1908. Telegraphing from Amsterdam the London Morning Post correspondent says: "The City of Antwerp was fined 250,000 francs ($50,000), for popular demonstration held there on the Belgian fete day." The British cable steamer Strathcona, en route from Auckland, New Zealand, to the Fanning islands and Honolulu, is a total loss in the South Pacific near the Fiji islands, according to information brought to Honolulu. Reports received at Valdez, Alaska, indicate that forest fires are raging from the coast to the Tanana river. Much damage has been done and many culverts and bridges on the government road to Fairbanks have been burned out. General Oscar, governor of Port au Prince, Haiti, and a supporter of President Guillaume, caused to be executed at the time of the outbreak of the revolutionary movement in that city all the political prisoners in the hands of the government to the number of about 160 men. Mrs. Harriet Boyce of San Francisco, and daughter, Margaret, whose stage name is Adele Boyer, have been pardoned by Lindau authorities, after being sentenced to prison for insulting German officere, Consul General Gaffney reported, on his arrival at Berlin from Munich. At Berlin the Overseas News agency gave out the following: Negotiations between Germany and Russia for the exchange of incapacitated prisoners of war have finally been successful after many fruitless efforts This is due largely to the work of James W. Gerard, the American ambassador at Berlin." SPORTING NEWS Harold Brinker, expert auto driver and a resident of Cheyenne, won the Denver-Cheyenne automobile-train race in an eight-cylinder automobile in two hours and seventeen minutes elapsed time, from Denver. Western entrants in the Longwood tennis events were successful at Boston. In the third round of the Longwood singles W. M. Johnston of San Francisco defeated A. N. Reggio of Boston, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. C. P. Dodge of Colorado Springs, playing in the first round of Eastern doubles with J. Richardson of Boston defeated D. S. Waters of New Orleans and H. D. Carpenter of Philadelphia, 6-0, 6-3, 2-6, 1-6, 6-4. GENERAL Fred C. Dideham, 20, and Leo J. Stanley, 23, both of St. Louis, were drowned in the Meramee river in sight of hundreds of picnickers when their canoe capsized. Capt. Harry Pedersen of the steamer Eastland was called as a witness by the Chicago coroner's jury at a night session investigating Sunday's disaster, in which 1,000 lives were lost. The strikers of the Standard Oil Company, at a street meeting at Bayonne, N. J., voted to accept the proposition of G. B. Hennessey, the plant superintendent, and return to work. Jordan Lawrence Mott, millionaire ironmaster and head of the J. L. Mott iron Works of New York, died at his home on Fifth avenue. He had been ill for a long time. Mr. Mott was 86 years old. Alton B. Parker, Democratic candidate for president in 1904, who was on his way from Los Angeles to San Francisco, said in an interview before his departure, that President Wilson would be renominated. News that the American ship Leelanaw had been torpedoed caused a slump in the Chicago grain market. Wheat lost from $1½ to 27% cents per bushel, while corn and oats slumped badly. The drop came after a firm and higher opening in all grains. After an investigation extending over several weeks the experts employed by the city of Omaha reported to the city commission thqy had found a shortage of $21,084 in the accounts of Ellery H. Westfeld, for twelve years treasurer of the village of Dundee. OF INTEREST TO ALL COLORADO PEOPLE Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. Aug. 12-14.—Frontier Days and Wild West Features at Grand Junction. Aug. 13.—Pickle Day at Platteville. Aug. 18-20.—Old Settlers' meeting at Coyote. Aug. 11-Sept. 2.—Grand Lodge, K. of P. at Colorado Springs. Aug. 26-28.—Fall Festival at Flagler. Sept. 27-Oct. 8.—Meeting International day Farming Congress at Denver Oct. 2-9.—Fair and Race Meeting at Denver. Many enjoyed fine strawberries at the Steamboat Springs festival last week. Women are barred from Denver downtown cafes by order of Chief of Police Duffield. The 1916 national convention of the Lambda Alpha Lambda Sorority will be held in Pueblo. Mrs. E. B. Everitt, 82 years old and a pioneer resident of Denver, died at the home of her sons in Mosca, Colo. Mrs. R. Leavy of Walsenburg was injured when the automobile which her husband was driving rolled into a ditch two miles from Fountain. The United States Civil Service Commission will hold an examination for stenographers and typewriters—both men and women—on Aug. 28, for the field service. Miss Daisy Seymour Fuller, formerly of Denver but for the last three years a resident of Thermopolis, Wyo., died in Denver following a brief illness from blood poison. Miss Lucile Woodard of Sterling has been appointed assistant county agriculturist for Logan county. Her work is to organize clubs of women to study home economics. Robbers entered the J. P. Redick residence at Telluride and got away with nearly $1,000 worth of jewelry belonging to Mrs. Redick and her daughter, Mrs. Frank B. Thomas. The pioneers of Kit Carson county are planning a particularly strong Old Settlers' meeting this year, which will be held at Cope, thirty miles north of Stratton, Aug. 18, 19 and 20. Serving as electrician on the United States submarine Alert, which is endeavoring to raise the ill-fated F-4, is a Denver boy, Harry Corson, who left the city a year ago last April to join the navy. George Sindelair, brother of Mrs. William Lonhart of Longmont and his wife and five children were drowned in the Eastland steamer accident in Chicago. A telegram received by Mrs. Lonhart informed her of the deaths, and stated that the bodies of all had been recovered and identified. After the questions of the court had been transmitted to him by means of the sign language, Edgar Fru Watson, deaf highwayman, pleaded guilty to four different robberies in the West Side Court in Denver. He was known as the Candy Kid No. 2, and imitated David Tyler's series of robberies. Michael P. Fox, Jr., eldest son of Mrs. Elizabeth Fox, who died in Denver July 8, has filed suit in the District Court at Boulder to obtain what he claims is his rightful share in his mother's $50,000 estate. The defendant is David Evans, Denver, whom he charges with having induced his mother to dishinherit him. Recommendations that leniency be shown Jacob H. Sherley have been made to the State Board of Pardons by Walter M. Morgan, the district attorney who prosecuted Sherley for the murder of John Zabranski, an aged Brighton jeweler, and by Charles McCall, formerly district judge who presided at the man's trial. The Denver tramway and gas companies paid into the city treasury $639,437.39, the full amount due for taxes on the property of these corporations for 1912, 1913 and 1914, under the compromise effected between them and the city. Of this amount the tramway company paid $378,066.33 and the gas company, $261,371.05. A check, drawn on a fictitious bank in Oklahoma for $49 and passed at a clothing store in Denver, resulted in a verdict of guilty for George A. Burnett of Kansas City in the West Side Criminal Court. When Burnett was arrested several weeks ago he had in his possession 200 unsigned checks, aggregating $17,000, drawn against the same fictitious bank. Locking one of the officials of the Mexico-Wyoming Petroleum Oil Company in a vault in the Equitable building in Denver, other officers of the company are charged with having thus prevented the serving of an injunction issued by Judge Butler of the District Court in a suit that involves Wyoming oil properties said to be valued at about $1,000,000. Deputy Sheriff O'Nell makes the charges against the capitalists. E. E. McLaughlin, chairman of the Industrial Commission of Colorado, issued a statement in which he warned employers that all insurance companies who attempt to cut the rates fixed by the commission are doing so against the law. While stealing a ride on a freight train to Sterling Peter Finorff, a Bulgarian laborer, was held up by two men who boarded the train ten miles out of Denver. They secured about $375, most of which was in endorsed certificates of deposit drawn on a Bulgarian bank in Chicago. RICH CRIPPLE HILL ORE DISTRICT THOUGHT BARREN IS HIGHLY MINERALIZED. Discovery in Molly Kathlee on Tenderfoot Hill Is Reported to Be Best Made in Years. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Cripple Creek, Colo.—After a quest of a quarter of a century, prospectors have tapped the locks of the treasure valuals of Tenderfoot hill, which is the scene of two of the most important gold strikes ever made in this district. A find is now reported in the Molly Kathleen, and two new mines have been added to the list of producers that are expected to rival the famous properties of the Bull Hill section. Following the announcement that a massive ore body had been opened in the "gold quarry," the name given to the Johnson Mack lease on the Ella W. property, the news flashed over the district of the discovery of ore running several dollars a pound in the Molly Kathleen. Both of these properties are situated on Tenderfoot hill, and the same mineral vein is believed to cut both claims. Mining men assert that these discoveries are of more significance than the recent rich strike made at 1,200 feet in the Cresson mines. Flaring out over the surface of the Ella W. claim like a gigantic capsheaf, the ore body was found at grass roots. Shipments sent to a local sampler have brought returns of $20 gold a ton. The "gold quarry" is now about the size of an ordinary living room, and the ore is taken out in large blocks. The extent of the ore shoot in the Ella W. claim has not been determined. Samples taken at the Ella W. indicate that the ore shoot will cover at least an acre of ground. The ore is being mined in the same manner that rock for building purposes is taken from a stone quarry. The vein of high grade ore discovered in the Molly Kathleen is twenty-eight inches wide, and the rock contains free gold and sylvanite. This ore shoot was encountered at a depth of 700 feet. Tenderfoot hill was formerly regarded as out of the mineral belt and condemned as barren territory. Since the new strikes were made on this hill prospectors have been flocking there in an attempt to trace the veins of the Molly Kathleen and the Ella W. U. S. Agents to Quiz Bandit. Denver.—On learning of the capture in Idaho Falls, Idaho, of Leon Dean, one of the three abductors of Ernest S. Empey, wealthy cattleman, Roy O. Samson and James Melrose, special agents of the federal department of justice, left Denver for Cheyenne, where they hope to connect Dean with the operations of the gang of bandits who early in July held up five stage coaches in Yellowstone park and are said by government officials to have planned in Denver for kidnapping of Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon church, in the hope of exacting $100,000 ransom. Vindicator Cuts $4,500 Melon. Denver.—One of Denver's most profitable mining investments, the Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Company, sent out from the company's offices checks for the second quarterly dividend in 1915. It is 3 per cent on $1,500,000, or $45,000, making $135,000 for the present year and $3,162,500 since 1895, when the company was organized and the shares sold in Colorado Springs and Denver at 25 cents on the dollar. Auto Licenses Pay Salary. Pueblo. — Automobile Inspector George C. Harper for the Pueblo district has rounded up in three weeks enough delinquent autoists to pay his salary for eight months from the license fees collected. The harvest has brought in 200 delinquent automobile owners and the fees collected amount to $1,000. Asks $5,000 for Husband's Death. Denver.—Laura Belle Bosley has started suit for $5,000 damages in the District Court against the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, Charles I. Manner and Alexander Levy, because of the death of her husband, Frank Bosley, Jan. 28, 1915, in a tunnel on the Rio Grande near La Veta pass. Mrs. Trott's New Husband Arrested. Cripple Creek.—Harry Allenson, 19-year-old son of a Goldfield merchant, who married Mrs. Evelyn Trott, who shot and killed her husband, Fred Trott, following a family quarrel at their home in Goldfield last February, was arrested on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Portland Pays $90,000 in Portland Pays $90,000 in Dividend. Colorado Springs. — The directors of the Portland Gold Mining Company, which recently took over Stratton's Independence properties for a cash payment of $325,000 to a British syndicate, voted a dividend of 3 cents a share. This equals the last quarterly dividend and a continuance of the amount will establish 12 per cent per year as the stock revenue. The dividend totaled $90,000 and brings the total amount the company has paid out in dividends to $10,027,080. The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO W. C. 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All shades of hair matched by sending sample of hair; also combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. COLORADO AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The president's proclamation bespeaking interest in the exposition at Richmond organized under the auspices of the Negro Historical and Industrial association is an evidence in itself of the extraordinary progress of that race in America since the door of opportunity was opened. It is the voice of all the people, white and black, and will bear good fruit. Only a thoroughly worthy object could have brought from the chief executive such a deliverance. The display at Richmond represented less than half a century of building along the lines of intelligent system and study. For not until a few years after the war closed did the Negro get fairly started on the road to individual effort and thrift. He was for a time in the clutches of the politicians, some pulling this way and some that, but none pulling for him. It was in the early '70s that he finally got his proper bearings and began to show under friendly leadership his capacity for good work and good citizenship. Since then he has done much; and all true men appreciate the performance, and wish him success in his further like course. The Negro is in America to stay. All the shallow outgivings of futile dreamers and selfish schemers about deportation have ceased. Neither the intelligent Negro nor the intelligent white man was misled. Both could appraise the real situation, and did appraise it at its right value. America, never more so than now, is opportunity for the man who wants to make himself useful, qualifies to that end and applies what he learns and saves what he earns. The Negro should be not only industrious but patient. Half a century is scarcely more than a day in reckoning the advancement and achievements of a race. But it is the first steps that count; and since his feet were set in the right path the Negro's steps have been steady and assuring. Reference, of course, is to the Negro who respects himself and solicits by his conduct the respect of his white neighbors. When he does that he propers. When he does his duty by himself he does it by others; and here he sees himself able to command the sympathy and recognition of the highest official of the government, speaking for all who live under the government and know the benefits of its protection. Some idea of the abounding good will of the people of Alabama toward the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, located in the Black belt of Alabama, is found in the fact that each year finds large crowds of prominent white visitors from surrounding villages and the larger cities of the state attending the annual commencement exercises. This year, in addition to other visitors, the Automobile club of the chamber of commerce of Montgomery, Ala., came in a body to the school. There were more than a hundred of these important business and professional men, with their families, and it was probably the first time in the history of the South that two such important white organizations have paid honor to a Negro institution by attending the commencement exercises in a body. As has been often pointed out, every man has his little distinction. John Klopfer hasn't had the back of his neck shaved in 30 years. A record of Negro progress is given in the new Negro Year Book for 1914-15, a volume of over 400 pages. We learn here on the basis of the figures of Dr. H. K. Carroll of the Federal Council of Churches and of the census bureau, that there are 38,300 Negro churches in the United States, with 4,250,000 members, and 1,740,099 Sunday school scholars. The property held by these churches reaches a total of near $57,000,000, while they contribute $100,000 to foreign and $200,000 to home missionary work. While Negro Christians are chiefly Protestant, there are four colored Roman Catholic priests in the United States, and one Greek Catholic. Northwestern Christian Advocate. The census bureau is about to issue a bulletin on Negroes. We are told it indicates that there has been an increased tendency among them toward home ownership, a marked increase in the percentage of school attendance, a pronounced decrease in the percentage of illiteracy, a decrease in the mortality rate, and an increase in the proportion of church attendance. —The Living Church. A boycott of French, English and Belgian goods is being proposed in the Vienna papers, and most of the foreign signs in front of the shops are being replaced by German inscriptions. A permanent purification of the language in this respect is being urged. Arthur Wardwell of Skohegan, Me., is said to have the largest elm tree in the country. It measures 18 feet in circumference, more than 75 feet in height and the branches spread nearly 50 feet. The White House issued the following proclamation, signed by President Wilson, heartily commending the Negro National exposition held in Richmond. It follows: By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION A national exposition in commemoration of the achievements of the Negro race during the last fifty years will be held in Richmond, Va., July 5 to 25, 1915. The occasion has been recognized as of national importance by congress through an appropriation of $55,000 to aid in its promotion and consummation. This sum is being expended by the terms of the appropriation under the direction of the governor of Virginia. The exposition is under the auspices of the Negro Historical and Industrial association. The action of congress in this matter indicates very happily the desire of the nation, as well as of the people of Virginia, to encourage the Negro in his efforts to solve his industrial problem. The national Negro exposition is designed to demonstrate his progress in the last fifty years and to emphasize his opportunities. As president of the United States I bespeak the active interest of the nation in the exposition and trust that every facility will be extended to the leaders, whose earnest work has made the undertaking possible. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 1st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-ninth. WOODROW WILSON. By the president. (Seal) ROBERT LANSING A clinic for colored mothers was organized at the Children's Homeopathic hospital, Franklin and Thompson streets, Philadelphia, and the initial lecture was delivered by Mrs. Margaret Simon, the superintendent of social work at the hospital. So great has been the attendance at the weekly lectures for mothers on Friday afternoons that the hospital was obliged to establish two additional clinics—one on Wednesdays for the mothers of sick babies and the third for colored mothers and babies. The attendance was larger than the nurses had provided for. Colored women from all parts of the city, and even from Chester, Camden, Haddonfield and other places, came and all had at least one baby; some of them as many as three. There was probably never a brighter lot of babies at the clinic, according to the attendant nurses, and certainly never a better-dressed set of infants. The interest of the mothers was so intent that the physicians regard this clinic as one of the most promising in the city. Mrs. Simon gave the mothers an informal talk, telling them of the purposes of the clinic and the advantage to be derived from attending it regularly and following the instruction given for the care of the babies. She explained the fundamental care of the babies, giving them plenty of food, easily digested food, proper exercises and allowing them plenty of water, and warned the mothers against "dope" remedies. Emancipation day was celebrated by the Negroes of Houston and Harris county Satu-day, June 19, with a street parade of decorated floats and exercises and entertainment at Emancipation park. The celebration this year, in the opinion of those in charge, eclipsed those of former years. At a meeting Friday night a number of additional decorated floats were entered for the parade. A resolution indorsing Hubert, Miller, Martimer, Sweatt, Crawford and Gilmore was read at the meeting. The celebration lasted three days. A number of orations were delivered at the park and the Emancipation proclamation was read. The Los Angeles municipal markets, established last year, are said to have met the approval of householders to such an extent that 25,000 people on market days come with their own baskets to carry their purchases home. Eph Wiley, who has followed the incidents of the war closely, says an ignorant man is one who gets his information from the news sent out of Petrograd. When writing, Confucius used a small brush, like a camel's-hair brush, for a pen, and so did his ancestors for centuries before his time. The reed came into use for writing in the marshy countries of the Orient. It was hollow and cut in short lengths. Greece is practically without home industries, says a consular report, and because of the outbreak of the war any first-class article of American manufacture could be sold there now if properly brought to the attention of the buyers. FINAL WARNING SENT TO KAISER AMERICA TO DEFEND RIGHTS AND NEXT ATTACK TO BE "UNPARDONABLE OFFENSE." ASKS FREEDOM OF SEAS U. S. WILL NOT ABATE ANY FUNDAMENTAL OR ESSEN- TIAL RIGHT OF ITS Western Newspaper Union News Service. Berlin, July 24.—The American note warning Germany to respect U. S. rights was delivered by Ambassador Gerard to Minister of Foreign Affairs Von Jagow. The full text follows: Department of State, Washington, July 21, 1915. The Secretary of State to Ambassador Gerard: You are instructed to deliver textually the following note to the minister of foreign affairs: The note of the imperial German government dated the 8th of July, 1915, has received the careful consideration of the government of the United States, and it regrets to be obliged to say that it has found it very unsatisfactory, because it fails to meet the real differences between the two governments, and indicates no way in which the accepted principles of law and humanity may be applied in the grave matter in controversy, but proposes, on the contrary, arrangements for a partial suspension of those principles which virtually set them aside. Validity of Principles Recognized. The government of the United States notes with satisfaction that the imperial German government recognizes without reservation the validity of the principles insisted upon in the several communications which this government has addressed to the imperial German government with regard to its announcement of a war zone and the use of submarines against merchantmen on the high seas—the principle that the high seas are free, that the character and cargo of a merchantman must first be ascertained before she can lawfully be seized or destroyed, and that the lives of non-combatants may in no case be put in jeopardy unless the vessel resists or seeks to escape after being summoned to submit to examination; for a belligerent act of retaliation in per se an act beyond the law, and the defense of an act as retaliatory is an admission that it is illegal. German View Disappointing. The government of the United States is, however, keenly disappointed to find that the imperial German government regards itself as in large degree exempt from the obligation to observe these principles, even where neutral vessels are concerned, by what it believes the policy and practice of the government of Great Britain to be in the present war with regard to neutral commerce. The imperial German government will readily understand that the government of the United States cannot discuss the policy of the government of Great Britain with regard to neutral trade except with that government itself, and that it must regard the conduct of other belligerent governments as irrelevant to any discussion with the imperial German government of what this government regards as grave and unjustifiable violations of the rights of American citizens by German naval commanders. Methods "Unpardonable." Illegal and inhuman acts, however justifiable they may be thought to be against an enemy who is believed to have acted in contravention of law and humanity, are manifestly indefensible when they deprive neutrals of their acknowledged rights, particularly when they violate the rights to life itself. If a belligerent cannot retaliate aaint an enemy without injuring the lives of neutrals as well as their property, humanity, as well as justice and a due regard for the dignity of neutral powers, should dictate that the practice be discontinued. If persisted in, it would in such circumstances constitute an unparadonable offense against the sovereigny of the neutral nation affected. The government of the United States is not unmindful of the extraordinary conditions created by this war or of the radical alterations of circumstances and method of attack produced by the use of instrumentalities of naval warfare which the nations of the world cannot have had in view when the existing rules of international law were formulated, and it is ready to make every reasonable allowance for these novel and unexpected aspects of war at sea; but it cannot consent to abate any essential or fundamental right of its people because of a mere alteration of circumstance. The rights of neutrals in time of war are based upon principle, not upon expediency, and the principles are immutable. SUGGESTS U. S. BUY BELGIUM. Proposition Made by John Wanamaker in Philadelphia Speech. Philadelphia.—The purchase of Belgium from Germany by the United States and the imposition of high duties on imports and exports by this country were among the suggestions made by John Wanamaker in an address here at a meeting at which prominent business and professional men formed a local branch of the National Security league. Mr. Wanamaker, who was later It is the duty and obligation of belligerents to find a way to adapt the new circumstances to them. The events of the past two months have clearly indicated that it is possible and practicable to conduct such submarine operations as have characterized the activity of the imperial German navy within the so-called war zone in substantial accord with the accepted practices of regulated warfare. The whole world has looked with interest and increasing satisfaction at the demonstration of that possibility by German naval commanders. It is manifestly possible, therefore, to lift the whole practice of submarine war above the criticism which it has aroused and remove the chief causes of offense. Germany's Proposal Rejected. Germany's Proposal Rejected. In view of the admission of illegality made by the imperial German government, when it pleaded the right of retaliation in defense of its acts, and in view of the manifest possibility of conforming to the established rules of naval warfare, the government of the United States cannot believe that the imperial German government will longer refrain from disavowing the wanton act of its naval commander in sinking the Lusitania or from offering reparation of the American lives lost, so far as reparation can be made for a needless destruction of human life by an illegal act. The government of the United States, while not indifferent to the friendly spirit in which it is made, cannot accept the suggestion of the imperial German government that certain vessels be designated and agreed upon which shall be free on the seas now illegally proscribed. The very agreement would, by implication, subject other vessels to illegal attack and would be a curtailment, and therefore a abandonment of the principles for which this government contends, and which in times of calmer counsels every nation would concede as of course. The government of the United States and the imperial German government are contending for the same great object, have long stood together in urging the very principles upon which the government of the United States now solemnly insists. They are both contending for the freedom of the seas. The government of the United States will continue to contend for that freedom, from whatever quarter violated, without compromise and at any cost. Scrupulous Observance Demanded. It invites the practical co-operation of the imperial German government at this time, when co-operation may accomplish most and this great common object be most strikingly and effectively achieved. The imperial German government expresses the hope that this object may be in some measure accomplished even before the present war ends. It can be. The government of the United States not only feels obligated to insist upon it, by whomsoever violated or ignored and in the protection of its own citizens, but is also deeply interested in seeing it made practicable between the belligerants themselves, and holds itself ready at any time to act as the common friend who may be pryllegled to suggest a way. In the meantime the very value which this government sets upon the long and unbroken friendship between the people and government of the United States and the people and government of the German nation impels it to press very solemnly upon the imperial German government the necessity for a scrupulous observance of neutral rights in this critical matter. Friendship itself prompts it to say to the imperial German government that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention of those rights must be regarded by the government of the United States, when they affect American citizens, as deliberately unfriendly. (Signed) LANSING. Extraordinary Precautions for Safety. Extraordinary Precautions for Safety. Denver.—The discovery of a plot to abduct Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon church in Salt Lake City, carry him to the impenetrable fastnesses of the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming, where a ransom of $100,000 was to be demanded for his release by the three daylight robbers who committed the holdup of 125 passengers touring Yellowstone park, July 9, and who more recently exacted $6,000 ransom for the release of a wealthy cattleman living near Idaho Falls, Idaho, has caused federal authorities of the department of justice to decide upon extraordinary precautions for the safety of the Mormon church head. New Board Upheld by Butler. Denver.—Judge Charles C. Butler of the third division of the District Court dismissed the petition of Henry Van Kleeck to compel John E. Ramer secretary of state, to file the petition to refer the act passed by the Legislature changing the civil service law of this state, and with it went the contention of the liquor interest which also had a similar petition awaiting the same place on the docket. After counsel for both sides had presented their argument Judge Butler decided the case without delay. Moose Convention Adjourns. San Diego, Cal.—Without choosing a site for a tuberculosis hospital, the Loyal Order of Moose convention ended officially here. elected president of the organization, said it is now the duty of the business men of this country to do all in their power to restore normal conditions in Europe, and proposed that $100,000,000,000 be loaned without interest to the government for the purchase of Belgium. He suggested that later the government of that country could be turned over to its own people. Mr. Wanamaker declared that the United States had made its first mistake when it had failed to protest against the violation of the neutrality of Belgium. Carpenter, Job and Repair Work. Paints, Oils and Glass. Coal, Wood a 1021 21st Street. oal, Wood and Express. Coal, Wood and Express. 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All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. OUR OBLIGATION While we are hoping and praying that the blessing of peace will remain with our country, yet from the standpoint of national respect and the preservation of our country's dignity and honor, it is apparent that a crisis is facing us which may terminate in our entrance into this bloody struggle which is not only engaging the countries and nations of the Eastern Hemisphere, but which extends to the Western, yea even at our very door. The part the Negro will and must play should America be compelled to be one of the belligerents in this war, amounts to something OBLIGATORY AND COMPULSORY: first, from self-preservation, and secondly because he can lay claim to no other country, no other home, no other refuge than America, whose household he is part and parcel thereof as our congressional records prove that he is a factor of no mean type or order in the up-building of this Republic from the wars of the Revolution, through the Civil, down to the Spanish-American and even to the Mexican troubles, as we are now doing patrol duty on the border for the protection of American lives and interests and the non-committal of breaches of the neutrality laws. There is a spirit of unrest among a portion of the Negro population that has been seen or noticed more conspicuously since the present administration has been tampering with certain points in our constitution; since the White House officials have been making racial differences more keenly felt among us by reducing us from positions of worth, intellectual recognition, etc., and in some parts of the United States some white Americans have resolved to institute actions tending to prove that we are out the pale of the liberty and freedom that we have acquired, not by charity, not by legacy, not an endowment or a gift, but what we have acquired as Americans pure and simple, first and last, by having fought and bled to make us possessors of the proud name of Americans, whether we reflect light enough to make us "white" or whether the EBONY HUE shows itself clearer and plainer as we develop and progress in self-respecting citizenship, national integrity and American patriotism, which history records is as prominent and genuine among the black population as it is among the white. In spite of whatever may be heaped upon us by a certain class of Americans on account of our appearance, yet the fact stares them in the face that the American Negro is in a class by himself, as not possessing the migratory spirit of the average emigrant, he remains at home and welcomes all comers who in their endeavor to get away from despotic rule, tyrannical government and deprivation of human right and liberty, rush to his country finding a city of relief, a haven of rest, a very paradise on earth. Seeing therefore that the Negro fills the role of the popular and in fact arch entertainer of these unfortunate "children of pity," his obligation becomes greater as he not only has to safeguard himself from ingratitude of some of these GUESTS OF PITY, but he must be ready to defend himself, his country, his flag, and his future against internal troubles that may arise from these BACKBONE Americans in the time of peace but SPINELESS when our nation faces any grave issues. It necessarily devolves therefore upon the nearly twelve millions of dark-skinned Americans to be alive to their obligation and remember, we never were nor will we be parasites on any other race for self-defense, and therefore must start to muster our grit, our courage, our manhood, to protect as we did in the former years, our firesides, our homes, our country, our flag, should we be unfortunately involved in this conflict. Remember— "Home, home, sweet home; there's no place like home." The Right Kind of Reading Matter The Right Kind of Reading Matter The home news; the doings of the people in this town; the gossip of our own community, that's the first kind of reading matter you want. It is more important, more interesting to you than that given by the paper or magazine from the outside world. It is the first reading matter you should buy. Each issue of this paper gives to you just what you will consider The Right Kind of Reading Matter stranger to the child and family, cannot undertake that as easily as the mother. I have traveled far and wide in my forty-eight years of life—about twenty-eight years of it—and it is my belief that women should stay at home and care for their own, or get one or two that need a home and training. When I was married and had my babies I stayed at home and took care of them. I did no "gadding." At bedtime a romping boy or girl should be there, at from one year to six, by seven o'clock; from six to twelve years at eight or 8:30; after that at nine or maybe ten o'clock at the latest. Keep open house, where all the friends of the children are welcome. Be one of them. Get all the amusements you can for them in your home or go with them to the outdoor amusements. I have two boys and a husband and daughter, and I demand the same courtesy as if we were almost strangers. It's second nature to them. At five years my toddlers knew when and where to raise their caps. Today, at nineteen and sixteen, it is their natural attitude. Moral thoughts and high ideas should also be instilled in the child. Teach your children not to be afraid to come to you with any question, no matter how bad. Then sit down and explain it to them. Take the time even if you are busy. More than 90 per cent of the children are neglected by their mothers. Women's clubs are all right if the home is not neglected. - I live in a town where grown men never practice taking off their hats—men of education and means. Here more than half of the boys fail to remove their hats. Home is the place to practice courtesy, not say "Oh, that's only my mother" or "my sister." Nothing is so admirable as real, easy, true polish learned at home. freedom to it—the greatest of all civilizers of the universe? Wars of the past have taught the great militarists of the present that certain crude and cruel methods of warfare should be prohibited by international agreements. War has instilled into man the spirit that a fallen foe shall receive the same tender care as a stricken brother. The bitterness and hatred that prevailed for centuries between enemies have almost disappeared after a war. They fight it out on the lines of duty, and when peace is declared the enemies of a yesterday break bread together and slake their thirsts to each other's well wishing on the morrow. But for the wars old Mother Earth would not be the tolerable abiding place for many that it is today. War is the firebrand that blazes the trail for millions of human beings on their bloody march to political and religious freedom, tearing away the barriers and leashes that hold them in serfdom and bondage to state and church. The French revolution, the American Indian wars, the American revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican war, our Civil war, the Spanish-American war, all are inspiring contributors to the evolution of civilization. Who would say that it would have been better that the oppressed and tyrannized of these wars had peacefully bided their time until relief came to them by consent of their persecutors? Who would say it were better that the righteous of these warriors had been less prepared for war? sitions in nearly every office and store in the city. Reference is made to those married women whose husbands are also on somebody's pay roll—presumably at a salary sufficient for the support of their families. Not many years ago it was exceptional for a woman to remain in a salaried position after marriage, but now it has become the rule. In fact, there is reason to believe that the average young couple marry with no thought of other arrangement. Doubtless there are cases in which no other method will solve the bread-and-butter problem, but there is little justification for the large scale on which this is done. It is difficult to see wherein this way of living is beneficial to anyone except the husband and wife who practice it. While it may seem good to them on account of its yielding two pay envelopes instead of one, yet, in accordance with a principle of economics, the tendency of each envelope is to reduce the other's value. The husband's envelope might contain a better salary were it not that his wife and the wives of other men are competing with him in the labor market. As for the welfare of the state and of society, it would be interesting to learn how that can be promoted by marriages from which there is little prospect of children because of the absence of the wife from the home. account of discomfort cannot have given summer apparel sufficient attention. For economy and comfort a man should have at least two weights of business suits, and three are better—one for winter, one for spring and one of Scotch homespun, a skeleton coat and trousers, for the hot season. Three suits will last four times as long as one suit and so be a saving of 25 per cent and give one comfort each season. Hold a piece of Scotch homespun up to the light and you will see it is 50 per cent open and so is much cooler than muslin or cambric, of which shirtwaists are made. A skeleton coat and trousers of that material are cool and comfortable, as they let the cool air in and the hot steam out. Wearing a winter suit all summer is something like a man closing the doors and windows of his house and turning on the steam heat during the summer and then complaining of discomfort. A skeleton suit of the material named will prove to be both comfortable and appropriate on any occasion during the hot season. Mother's Aid Shaping Young Characters By Mrs. W. O. O'Dell, Crystal Lake, Ill. stranger to the child and family, cannot un- mother. I have traveled far and wide in my for- twenty-eight years of it—and it is my beli- home and care for their own, or get one o- training. When I was married and had my baby care of them. I did no "gadding." At be- should be there, at from one year to six, b twelve years at eight or 8:30; after that at the latest. Keep open house, where all the friends. Be one of them. Get all the amusements you or go with them to the outdoor amusement. I have two boys and a husband and dau- courtesy as if we were almost strangers. It'i five years my toddlers knew when and where at nineteen and sixteen, it is their natural a Moral thoughts and high ideas should Teach your children not to be afraid to co- no matter how bad. Then sit down and ex- time even if you are busy. More than 90 per cent of the children a Women's clubs are all right if the home is m I live in a town where grown men ne- hats—men of education and means. Here fail to remove their hats. Home is the p- say "Oh, that's only my mother" or "my sis- as real, easy, true polish learned at home. War Acts as a Great Civilizer By William McGuineas, Oak Park, Ill. freedom to it—the greatest of all civilizers Wars of the past have taught the great certain crude and cruel methods of warfare national agreements. War has instilled into foe shall receive the same tender care as a ness and hatred that prevailed for centuries disappeared after a war. They fight it or when peace is declared the enemies of a y and slake their thirsts to each other's well w But for the wars old Mother Earth would place for many that it is today. War is the for millions of human beings on their blood gious freedom, tearing away the barriers as serfdom and bondage to state and church. The French revolution, the American revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican war American war, all are inspiring contribution. Who would say that it would have been tyrannized of these wars had peacefully bide to them by consent of their persecutors? that the righteous of these warriors had been Husband and Wife as Wage Earners By L. E. BARRON, Cincinnati, Chio sitions in nearly every office and store in the those married women whose husbands are a presumably at a salary sufficient for the sup Not many years ago it was exceptiona a salaried position after marriage, but now fact, there is reason to believe that the aver no thought of other arrangement. Doubt no other method will solve the bread-and-little justification for the large scale on whi It is difficult to see wherein this way of except the husband and wife who practice to them on account of its yielding two pay in accordance with a principle of economic lope is to reduce the other's value. The husb a better salary were it not that his wife are competing with him in the labor market. As for the welfare of the state and of s to learn how that can be promoted by marri prospect of children because of the absence Proper Clothing for the Hot Weather By R. E. Lawrence, Indianapolis, Ind. account of discomfort cannot have given suction. For economy and comfort a man should business suits, and three are better—one for one of Scotch homespun, a skeleton coat and Three suits will last four times as long of 25 per cent and give one comfort each se homespun up to the light and you will see so is much cooler than muslin or cambric, o A skeleton coat and trousers of that m able, as they let the cool air in and the hot Wearing a winter suit all summer is the doors and windows of his house and turn the summer and then complaining of disco In a recent article, "Where the School Stands," it is remarked that the moral beginning of a boy's or girl's life takes place in school. Home is the place to learn that. A teacher, a undertake that as easily as the twenty-eight years of life—about of that women should stay at two that need a home and as I stayed at home and took all time a romping boy or girl by seven o'clock; from six to nine or maybe ten o'clock at of the children are welcome. I can for them in your home. After, and I demand the same second nature to them. At to raise their caps. Today attitude. Also be instilled in the child. Due to you with any question, explain it to them. Take the neglected by their mothers. Not neglected. Ever practice taking off their more than half of the boys face to practice courtesy, not ar." Nothing is so admirable Why do so many people of today dread scientific preparation for war while civilization is yet so young? Why should we not reverence war, since we owe so much progress, liberty and of the universe? militarists of the present that should be prohibited by interman the spirit that a fallen tricken brother. The bitter-between enemies have almost it on the lines of duty, and yesterday break bread together fishing on the morrow. I did not be the tolerable abiding firebrand that blazes the trail march to political and relied leashes that hold them in Indian wars, the American war, our Civil war, the Spanish wars to the evolution of civilis-better that the oppressed and their time until relief came Who would say it were better less prepared for war? In these days when thousands of self-dependent girls are out of work and unable to find it, there is a class of women who, although in no particular need of employment, nevertheless hold po- the city. Reference is made to also on somebody's pay roll—support of their families. I need for a woman to remain in it has become the rule. In age young couple marry with less there are cases in whichutter problem, but there is such this is done. Living is beneficial to anyone it. While it may seem good envelopes instead of one, yet, the tendency of each enve-land's envelope might contain the wives of other men are society, it would be interesting ages from which there is little of the wife from the home. The hot season causes much suffering and calls forth letters and arguments for and against the discarding of coats in public places. Men who find it necessary to remove their coats on mmer apparel sufficient atten- have at least two weights of or winter, one for spring and trousers, for the hot season. has one suit and so be a saving season. Hold a piece of Scotch it is 50 per cent open and if which shirtwaists are made. material are cool and comfortteam out. something like a man closing wing on the steam heat during aport. A skeleton suit of the table and appropriate on any THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN, East Twenty-third Avenue and Washington St. Pastor, J. A. Thos-Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon topics, Sunday, Aug. 1: 11:00 a. m., "The Purging of Potentates and Powers;" 5:30 p. m., Thirty-ninth Anniversary of Colorado to Statehood. Our services last Sabbath were graced with very many faces of friends and visitors. The pulpit deliverances, coupled with the contributions of the worshipers through songs, prayer and offertory registered our efforts at high tide. The pastor continues his series of discourses on the history of the kings and kingdoms of Israel and Judea tomorrow. Tomorrow being "Colorado Day" a special program of addresses with special music by distinguished citizens will be the feature at the 5:30 p. m. services. Among the persons in addition to the choir that will participate with music are Mesdames Irene Fife, Lillian Jones, Miss Fannie May Adams, a pianist of great distinction, of Marshall, Texas, niece to Mrs. T. S. Clinkscale, and Mr. Geo. Morrison. The speakers and essayists are Judge A. W. Lewis, on "Colorado and Negro Citizenship;" Mr. O. T. Jackson, governor's message on "Colorado and Its Commercial Possibilities;" Miss Samira Harris, a recent graduate of Spelman University, Atlanta, Ga., on "Historical Facts of Colorado." The entire community is urged to commemorate the thirty-ninth anniversary of the birth of this magnificent commonwealth to statehood. Silver collection at the door. SHORTER'S CHAPEL NOTES. Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D., Pastor. Tomorrow will be quarterly meeting day and this being the final one for the conference year, a great outpouring of our congregation is desired and expected. Presiding Elder Ward will preach morning and evening and Rev. Jas. Washington of Campbell Chapel will deliver the communion sermon in the afternoon. A cordial invitation is extended to the congregations of Scott M. E. and Campbell Chapel and the public in general to the afternoon service. A hearty welcome awaists the Grand Lodge of the U. B. F. and S. M. T., which meets with us Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The pastor and officers wish to publicly express their gratitude for the very splendid way in which the several auxiliaries of the church responded to the call for the purpose of renovating our church: Ladies' Aid, $62.45; Sewing Circle, $15.00; Ushers' Club, $5.05; Deaconess Board, $40.00; Thrower Committee, $36.60; Allen C. E. League, $25.25; Trustees Board, $22.00; W. M. M. Society, $14.60; Choir, $12.50; Class Leaders, $10.10; Stewardess, $10.00; and the Sunday School, $8.10. The Ladies' Aid surprised our congregation last week with a handsome gas range for the church kitchen and the Woman's Mite Missionary Society had our piano put in first-class condition. Many, many thinks Shorter's celebration of its forty-seventh anniversary is now a matter of history. The program was executed as written with a very few exceptions and our cause has been stimulated and the kingdom of God advanced because of this religious festivity. Many thanks to the friends who assisted in making it a success The two weeks' religious campaign conducted here by Miss Mary G. Evans made a lasting impression upon our community. Through the preaching of the gospel with great simplicity and power, Miss Evans stirred Denver as it has not been our privilege to see it moved before. Few evangelists before the American public today can equal her as a preacher and soul-winner. She possesses a marvelous degree of spirituality and under her preaching all classes are subdued and overwhelmed. Sixty persons were added to the church during the ten days in which the meeting was conducted and fully three hundred people were turned away from the church for lack of room the last night of the meeting. Miss Evans will return to us the first of October. VICTOR AND CRIPPLE CREEK, COLO., NEWS. (W. C. Harris) Mr. Harris was in Cripple last Thursday looking for news. When in Cripple Creek stop at the Star Club. Madam J. T. Hammond of Denver was a business visitor in the district last week. Mr. James Carrothers was in the district last week, accompanied by Mr. Daily of Denver. Mrs. F. Hopkins entertained Madam Hammond and Rev. Jas. Washington as dinner guests last Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Hardiman is able to be up and around. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Black were visitors in Victor on Friday. Mrs. J. C. Carter is visiting in Denver. Mr. and Mrs. John Kimberling and Mrs. Hardiman entertained in honor of Miss Edna Robinson of Colorado Springs, at the residence of Mrs. Kimberling of Cripple Creek. Mr. James Logan was a visitor in Victor on Friday. You can secure this paper by calling W. C. Harris, $108\frac{1}{2}$ South 2nd St., or Phone Victor 01, Victor. Miss Edna Robinson of Little Lunnon, one of the cleverest young women who has visited the district in many a day. Miss Robinson possesses a strong personality which makes her a great favorite. Miss Robinson has been extensively entertained during her stay as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Cotwell and son of 402 So. 2nd St. Mr. Sam Waddy, one of the popular owners of the Star Club, is visiting in Denver. RECIPE FOR DUTCH CHEESE One of the Best Methods of Disposing of Sour Milk—Kept Dry, It Will Improve With Age. Dutch cheese can be made from sour milk. When solid and thick the milk should be put in an agate basin or pan over a slow, gentle heat, and allowed to become scalding hot but never to boil; boiling turns the curd to a tough leathery consistence and renders it indigestible. A clean finger is the best thermometer; as the curd forms in the center of the pan and the water recedes to the edges seperate the curd carefully with the finger so that the heat will be evenly distributed through it, but do not break it up too much. When the water or whey becomes scalding hot remove the pan from the fire, pour the contents into a cheese-cloth bag and hang it up to drain. When it has stopped dripping turn the cheese into a bowl, add salt, a generous dash of cayenne pepper, and enough sour cream to thin it so that it may be made into balls. Keep it in a dry place where it will not mold and it will improve with age. When it becomes dry moisten it again with sour cream or the sour cream dressing. Skim all the cream off the milk before putting it in the pan, as the cream melts in the hot whey and is lost. Cayenne pepper adds largely to the tastiness as well as the digestibility of all dishes made from cream or milk and is a good stomach tonic in hot weather. BROTHS TO START A MEAL Preparations Are Valuable Chiefly for the Stimulating Effect They Have on the Stomach. Broths are not particularly valuable from a nutritive standpoint, but they have a decided stimulating effect. In this way the extractives from the meat, contained in the broth, stimulate the gastric juice in the stomach and prepare it for the food which follows. On the contrary the cheaper, inferior parts of meat yield more nutriment. The chief object in making broth is, of course, to obtain the largest possible amount of nutriment, and this is best accomplished by observing the following rules: Cut meat in small pieces. Soak it in cold water before heating. Make a careful selection and proportion of meat, bone and water. Usually one pint of water to one pound of meat. Judicious seasoning. Long, slow cooking. Simmer (not boil) in a steam-tight kettle. Make the day before using, so that fat may be removed more easily. Various nourishments may be added to broth—rice, barley, vermicelli, noodles and the white or whole of egg, etc. Cream soups have a greater food value. Just one caution—when I advise broth before meats I mean not a soup plateful, but a small cupful to start the gastric juices—Kansas City Star. Prevents Lumpiness Possibly those who have kept houses for a long time know, but there are many others who have difficulty in making custards, cornstarch puddings and gravies smooth if there are eggs in them. A simple way is to remove the milk, sugar and other ingredients, supposing it is cornstarch pudding one is making, from the stove to cool enough to stop the boiling. Dip a few spoonfuls of the hot milk into the bowl in which there are the well beaten eggs, stirring as each spoonful is added. This heats them gradually, not allowing them to cook before they are thoroughly mixed with the milk. Then they may be added to the larger quantity on the stove, stirred in quickly and the pudding placed over the fire to finish cooking. Scotch Stew. Three pounds of mutton neck cut into convenient pieces. Put two tablespoonfuls of suet into a stewpan and shake over fire until nearly melted. Remove "cracklings" and sear the mutton, stirring so all sides are browned. Push to side of pan. Blend two tablespoonfuls flour into fat, then add a quart of strained tomatoes. Stir until boiling, add one sliced onion, one bay leaf and one tablespoonful mushroom or other table sauce. Cover pan. Simmer very gently an hour and a half. Serve in a border of boiled rice. The remainder, including bones, will make an excellent soup. Breast of Lamb About two and one-half pounds of breast of lamb, boiled tender in salted water; takes about two hours or a little longer to cook. Have what vegetables you like and thicken the broth for gravy. If there should be enough meat left chop and season and mold in a small, deep dish and put a weight on it. It will cut in nice thin slices for tea. Strawberry Cream Pudding. Buy a package of ice cream powder, mix one-half package with one heaping tablespoonful of cornstarch, and dissolve it in one pint of boiling milk, letting it boil until sufficiently thick and stir constantly. Serve with whipped cream. It is a pretty pink pudding. Cold Compress When you need a cold cloth and haven't ice try wringing a cloth out of cold water and shaking briskly in the air. The rapid evaporation will give you almost an ice cold compress. THE COLORADO STATESMAN The many friends of Mrs. A. A. Ealy will be sorry to learn that she is quite ill. W. A. Smith is very ill at the county hospital. Clarence Langstone is reported very ill at his home, Twenty-fourth and Humboldt street. nell, the aunt of Miss Hooper. Be ladies reside in Helena, Mont., I have been visiting friends in Tope Miss Hooper is a charming you lady and a recent graduate of high school of Helena. Dr. Justina L. Ford secured a vince last Saturday from Rev. J. E. Ford, former pastor of Zion Bapt Miss Melba Hobson, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hobson of Chicago, is visiting her cousin, Miss Cleo Hobson. Mrs. Annie Batiste, who has been in California several months for her health, returned home last week much improved. James Bufford, the chef, and James Deneal left the city last Friday on a private car for the Pacific coast. E. R. Sinclair, a real estate dealer of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mrs. E. M. Nogles of Austin, Texas, are guests of Mrs. M. B. Fallings, 1919 Clarkson street. Mrs. Nettie Williams of Paola, Kan., is spending the summer with Mrs. Sarah Jones and her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Calloway, of 1763 Marion street. Mrs. Jane Vernell came home sick from her California trip, but the Statesman is glad to state that she is improving rapidly since her return to sunny Colorado. O. C. Goens, the tonsorial artist, has one of the cosiest shops in the city, consisting of three chairs of the latest pattern. He also has baths, only 15c. Don't forget the place, 1121 19th St. The biggest, classiest excursion ever leaving Denver, the Five Points Special to Colorado Springs, Aug. 4th, Emancipation Day. The boys have made everything comfortable. Alex Cooley, who is employed at the public comfort station, was injured by being run over last Saturday by a motorcycle. He was only slightly injured and able to be at his work. Miss Lizzie Cowan became so ill in Baltimore, Md., where she has been residing for quite a while, that she concluded to go to Des Moines, Iowa, so as to be with her sister. Miss Thelia Tucker and Frank L. Caldwell, both of Denver, were quietly married last Wednesday. Their many friends wish them much happiness in their new venture. Mrs. Joseph A. Montier, of Philadelphia, Pa., arrived in the city Saturday on her annual visit with her husband, the popular letter carrier. Of course it goes without saying that the urbane Joe is all smiles over his good fortune. Miss Hermione Jones, the talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Jones of Leadville, has returned to the city from Iowa City, Ia., where she attended college. Miss Jones is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. George. Mme. C. J. Walker, the hair culturist, of Indianapolis, Ind., is the guest of Miss Breidlove, 1737 Logan street. Madame Walker has many friends in Denver who were glad to welcome her. She lectured Thursday evening to a large and appreciative audience at Shorter Chapel. Peter Boone, 76, was buried last Saturday from the Church of the Redeemer. Mr. Boone served in the civil war in the First Kansas Volunteer Regiment. He was employed for 35 years as a brickmaker with Colby Brothers. Prof. E. M. Fouse, superintendent of the public schools of Lexington, Ky., and Prof. F. M. Woods, president of the Educational convention of the state of Kentucky, en route to the coast, stopped off in Denver a few days this week, and were the guests of Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook. Miss Ruth Hooper, chaperoned by Mrs. R. Lee, arrrived in the city Sunday and are guests of Mrs. Jane Ver- nell, the aunt of Miss Hooper. Both ladies reside in Helena, Mont., but have been visiting friends in Topeka. Miss Hooper is a charming young lady and a recent graduate of the high school of Helena. Dr. Justina L. Ford secured a divorce last Saturday from Rev. John E. Ford, former pastor of Zion Baptist church, where he was very popular and was held in high esteem. Rev. Ford has charge of one of the finest churches and largest congregations in Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. J. N. Dell, a prominent citizen of Arkansas City, Kansas, was in the city Sunday and Monday of this week. While in the city he stopped at the Savoy hotel, being a friend of the Starkweather family for many years. Mr. Dell, in company with his old Kansas friend John W. Levell, was a pleasant caller at our office. He left Monday afternoon for Colorado Springs and from there returned to his home. Mrs. Mary B. Tolbert, who lectured to a small but rather appreciative audience at Shorter's Monday evening, is one of the brainiest and most pleasing women of the Negro race. Her address showed much thought and deep research. Miss Mae Tolbert, her accomplished daughter, rendered several musical numbers which captivated the audience. Our own George Morrison, as usual, played in his inimitable style. Mrs. Maude Banks Livingston of 716 Twenty-ninth street, entertained Sunday the following well-known society people. Mrs. Jennie Glies of New York, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Contee and Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Contee. The menu was excellent and the guests had an enjoyable time. Mrs. Livingston is a gracious hostess, who always has a kindly welcome for her many friends. Dr. Amanda V. Gray of Washington, D. C., one of the foremost and most talented women of the race, will arrive in Denver Saturday for a few days' visit en route to San Diego, San Francisco and other coast cities. She will be the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Carrie, 2609 Lafayette street. Dr. Gray is accompanied by Miss Daisy Ball, a young lady recognized as the leader of Washington's social smart set. At the Cotton States' Exposition, held in Atlanta, Ga., a number of years ago. Dr. Gray had charge of the colored women's exhibit. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of Colorado jurisdiction has just closed its tenth and most successful annual session. The reports from all delegates and officers were highly satisfactory and showed marked growth of the order in this state. A large and enthusiastic crowd turned out to the grand reception at Shorter on Wednesday night, where a great oratorical feast was enjoyed. Grand Chancellor Bess and Attorney W. B. Townsend were the principal speakers. Thursday evening the new officers were installed at East Turner hall before a packed house, after which the crowd had a grand promenade. Major A. R. (Dick) Butler, with his pleasing countenance, was much in evidence at all the sessions. Names of the new officers will be given in next edition. MASONS' ANNUAL PICNIC AND OUTING. Thursday, August 19th, 1915, at Tullerles Park, Englewood. First grand opening of this large and beautiful park. Combination skating and dancing pavilion. Morrison's orchestra. Refreshments served on the grounds. Park open from 2 p. m. to 2 a. m. Take Englewood car; owl car service. Admission 25 cents. MOUNTAIN LODGE OF ELKS NO. 39 WILL RENT THEIR MODERNLY EQUIPPED ELKS' HALL FOR SOCIAL GATHERINGS, LODGE PURPOSES, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DANCES TO ALL PERSONS DESIRING THE SAME. PHONE DR. J. H. P. WESTBROOK, MAIN 1433, OR E. R. PAGE, MAIN 2759. FOR RENT—A 5-room brick at 1837 Ogden street, also two furnished rooms for rent at 1837 Park avenue. Apply at Colorado Statesman office, 1824 Curtis street, Room 25, for information. Hair Cut, 15c. 2208 Larimer St. Brickler Barber Shop. MRS. ROBERT ROY ENTERTAINS. One of the handsomest affairs of the season was a whist party given by Mrs. Robert Roy of 3032 Columbine street, Monday, July 25, for Misses Mary and Martha Bunch, teachers of Henderson, Ky. Those to whom she extended her hospitality were: Mesdames Thomas, Edwards, M, Austin, J. Carrie, E. Webster, N. Stewart, A. Franklin, A. Weston, J. Houston, Williams, C. Stell, S. Harrington, Q. Hanks, J. Carter, R. Hereford, Miss Golden Smith. Out of town guests: Mesdames Robinson of New York, Rambo of Chicago, Ill.; Wright of Muskogee, Okla.; Langston, of Omaha, Neb.; Birdsong, of Nashville, Tenn. The Executive Committee of the Colored Citizens' League met at 1025 Twenty-first street Tuesday evening, and transacted some very important business. The league being organized for political, social and industrial purposes, finds much needed work to do in order that its usefulness may be extended. It has appointed many committees to look after its interest. Mr. Wade Robinson, who "personally" appeared before the committee at a previous meeting and made an application for membership, was elected as a member. The league has ordered a number of membership cards which is in keeping with its progressive ideas. They will meet every Tuesday evening at 1025 Twenty-first street and each member is expected to bring applications for membership. MASON'S ANNUAL PICNIC AND OUTING. Thursday, August 19th, 1915, at Tulleries Park, Englewood. First grand opening of this large and beautiful park. Combination skating and dancing pavilion. Morrison's orchestra. Refreshments served on the grounds. Park open from -2 p. m. to 2 a. m. Take Englewood car; owl service. Admission 25 cents. SEE THIS AND ACT. 160-acre homestead, close to Wiggins; part fenced; small farm house, 12x14, at $1.00 per acre. 80-acre homestead near Bush ranch, fenced three sides, good wheat land, new well, at $80 this week only. 160 acres, 3½ miles from Wiggins, small farm house, 14x14, 100 acres bottom land; sure crops; $1.00 per acre. 80-acre homestead adjoining Wiggins, Colo.; all fenced; well; good place; $2.00 per acre. Several whole sections all go in one body or quarters. See me this week. Office hours, 7 to 8 a. m., 3 to 10 p. m. All government land. J. L. JONES, 104 Josephine, Denver, Colo. YOU CAN BUY A PIANO ON PAYMENTS OF $5.00 A MONTH, OR RENT ONE FOR $2.50 A MONTH AT CASSSELL BROS. 12-room modern, $1/2 lots, close in, on California St. Good rooming house or club building. Worth $6,500. Owner says sell for $5,000; easy terms. Griffith & Co., 301 Boston Bldg. For Rent or Lease to reliable parties a furnished house (full of roomers), apply Wm. Slaughter, 1923 Clarkson St. We Just Cleaned Out 1,200 JOBS of $4 and $5 Shoes at 50c on the Dollar You Get th 5 Point UNDER NEW 5 Points Cafe Chop Suey, Noodles and All Kind Japanese and American D SHORT ORDERS AT ALL 2712 WELTON STREET P Chop Suey, Noodles and All Kinds of Chinese Japanese and American Dishes LOOKING AHEAD. THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. At last Denver goes on record with the other leading cities of the United States as having a branch of that colored organization and only interstate association, that is waging a continual war against race prejudice. Last Thursday evening a number of Denver's leading colored and white citizens gathered at the residence of Clarence F. Holmes, Jr., to discuss the advisability of forming a branch of the N. A. A. C. P. in Denver and vicinity. The purpose of the association and its constitution and by-laws were read by Mr. Holmes Jr., who presided, After much discussion and much interest and enthusiasm had been manifested, the temporary officers were elected: George Gross, of the State Secretary's office was chosen as temporary chairman and L. H. Lightner of the American Woodman as temporary secretary. The temporary committee has made application to the Official Organ in New York City for recognition, and will be a permanent local as soon as this application is granted. Mrs. Tolbert in her splendid lecture on Monday night hit the key note when she said, "Our actions of today, will determine our future for the next twenty-five years. We must look after our boys and girls." This organization sounds a compelling clarion to every right thinking, self-respecting man and woman. "Equality of opportunity for all mankind." Look out for further notice and membership campaign. Fern Hall closed for repair, will be opened Thursday, Aug. 5th, with a shirt waist social. Morrison's orchestra will furnish music. Admission 25c. NEGRO YEAR BOOK Should be in the home of every Negro. It contains the achievements, the industries and activities of the race. Every phase of the economic life of the Negro is discussed. It is a compendium of useful knowledge, a ready reference book of 450 pages. Order one today. Copies for sale at the Statesman office, 1824 Curtis street. Room 25. Whistling Develops Lungs. A doctor has discovered that whistling is good for the health. It fills the lungs with invigorating oxygen, and this revilvifies flagging spirits and flabby muscles. Boys are prone to be broader chested than girls, and better constructed for deep muscular tones because of the lung exercise which accompanies whistling, and one of the first things they try to do when you've passed babyhood is to whistle. 1 2 3 the Benefit AT HENNING'S $2.50 Shoe Store 820 and 822 15th Stree. ts Cafe MANAGEMENT. All Kinds of Chinese American Dishes AT ALL HOURS PHONE MAIN 4730 NOTICE. BROADHURST'S 45th Clearance Sale Is Now In Progress Almost Our Entire Stock of Summer Pumps and Ox-fords on Sale at Cut Prices Any Style of Men's and Women's Summer Footwear You Want at a Saving of $1 to $3 $4 to $7 Shoes for $2.95 and $5.35 COME FRIDAY OR SATURDAY Mr Rivers knows the kind of shoes we sell and how well we will treat you. ASK HIM. BROADHURST 1616 CHAMPA THE STORE ACCOMMODATING THE JOS PHOTO July C Sa Joslin PHONE 3270 July. 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Steele, secretary and treasurer of the St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Company, which owned the Eastland, built on Lake Erie in 1903 and remodeled later because topheavy, it is said, was arrested and locked up at the police station. The cororer at 11 o'clock Saturday night said that he had hopes that the number of dead would not exceed 1,000. The number of bodies in the morgue, according to official count, was 809. The coroner said that any bodies in addition to the 809 were in the river or the hull of the Eastland. The big steamer capsized within a few feet of land as it was about to leave its wharf in the Chicago river with 2,500 relatives and friends of employés of the Western Electric Company for a trip across Lake Michigan. The ship rolled on its side in twenty-five feet of water within five minutes after it began to list. Coroner's Physician Springer declared that 1,300 persons were killed, while other estimates ran as high as 2,100, but these did not agree with the statement that not more than 2,500 passengers were on board the vessel. During the day more than 800 bodies were taken from the river and the hull of the overturned vessel, whose sides were cut open with gas flames to admit divers. Several persons were taken alive from the cabins in the ship after it had lain on its side in the river for four hours, but the 200 other persons said to be in the hulk are all dead. Under the glare of searchlights scores of men worked in the hull of the vessel to remove the bodies. The steamer lay on the bottom of the river, one-half of its side protruding from the water. The cause of the capsizing had not been determined Saturday night, but federal, city and state officers were conducting investigations to determine whether the ship was topheavy from faulty designing, was improperly ballasted, or was poorly handled in warping from the wharf. Under misty skies, 7,000 men, women and children wended their way to the river wharf to fill five large lake steamers with holiday mirth in a trip to Michigan City. The steamer Eastland, brought to Chicago from Lake Two Denver Youths Are Safe. Denver, July 26.—There was rejoicing in two Denver homes Sunday when word was received that Arthur Ellery and Robert Manard, two young employés of the Western Electric Company in Chicago were safe. Neither was on board the steamer Eastland. Mrs. Frances Ellery, a teacher in the Garden Place school and mother of Arthur Ellery, was so ill that grave concern was felt for her until she received a telegram from her son stating that he was safe in New York Erie, after an unsatisfactory career, was the first to be loaded. Rain began to fall as the wharf superintendents lifted the gang planks from the Eastland, declaring that the government limit of 2,500 passengers had been reached. White dresses peeped from raincoats, as those aboard waved good-bye to friends on shore waiting to board the other vessels. Then the passengers swarmed to the left side of the ship as the other steamers drew up the river toward the wharf. A tug was hitched to the Eastland, ropes were ordered cast off and the engines began to hum. For nearly five minutes the ship turned before it finally dived under the swift current of the river, which, owing to the drainage canal system, flows from the lake. During the mighty turning of the ship with its cargo of humanity, lifeboats, chairs and other loose appurtenances on the decks slipped down the sloping floors, crushing the passengers toward the rising waters. Then there was a plunge with a sigh of air escaping from the hold, mingled with crying of children and shrieks of women, and the ship was on the bottom of the river, casting hundreds of its passengers into the water. Many sank, entangled with clothing and bundles, and did not rise, but scores came to the surface, giving the river the appearance of a crowded bathing beach. Many seized floating chairs and other objects. Those on shore threw out ropes and dragged in those who could hold these lifelines. Employés of commission firms along the river threw crates, chicken coops and other floatable things into the current, but most of these were swept away by the stream. Rushed to Aid of Drowning. Boats were put out, tugs rushed to the scene with shrieking whistles, and many men snatched off their coats and sprang into the river to aid the drowning. With thousands of spectators ready to aid and the wharf within grasp, hundreds went to death despite efforts at rescue. One mother grasped her two children in her arms as she slipped from the steamer into the water. One child was torn from her, but she and the other were saved. At 9 o'clock Saturday night 800 bodies had been removed to the Second Regiment armory. They were laid in rows of eighty-five across the whole length of the armory. Revised figures show 176 bodies had been identified. Of 114 partially identified bodies, forty-seven were men, forty-eight women, seven boys and twelve girls. The steamer Eastland was built in 1903 and owned by the Eastland Navigation Company of Cleveland, Ohio. It was 265 feet long, 38 feet wide and had a draft of 23 feet, with a net tonnage of 1,218. Rescuer Finds Daughter's Body Chicago. — Private tragedies were numerous about the wreck. The crowd moved and swayed against the police lines, striving to catch a glimpse of the dead or the tragedy-strenken survivors as the latter turned from their efforts to bring life back to loved ones. One city fireman, leaning far over an opening cut in the hull pulled out a body passed to him by a diver. He turned the form over, and fainted as he gazed into the face of his own daughter. The good news revived her. Miss Rosalie Manard, 762 Quebec street, received a telegram yesterday from the Western Electric Company announcing that her brother, Robert Manard, an architect employed by the company, was saved. Nothing has yet been heard from John Malnburg, brother of Mrs. Carl Eklund, wife of the pastor of the First Swedish M E Church. Mrs. Eklund believes that her brother, foreman of one of the departments at the Hawthorne plant, went on the excursion. BIG SHIP DISASTERS. Feb. 7. 1862—The Orpheus, Brittai land, 200 lives lost in New Zea- land. Oct. 29, 1867—The Rhine and Wine, royal mail steamer; driven asore at St. Thomas. West Indies, at about 50. The ship is the grin of a hurricane; 100 loyes lost. Sept. 3, 1878. — Princess Alice, Alicia colonized, as a mission in the Themages, 700 lives lost. Sept. 19, 1890. — Ertogrul, Turk- istan, founded off Japan; 540 lives lost. March 17, 1891—Utopia, Anchor line, sunk in collision with British ship Ansoa off Gibraltar, 574 lives lost. 2, 1892—Lay, Bourgoyne, July 2, 1893—Bourgoyne, British sailing vessel near Cromatayne, 584 lives lost. 2, 1904—General Docum-took fire at Hell Gate, East liver, New York; 1,000 lives lost. July 3, 1904—Norge, a steamship, founded at sea; 51 lives lost. founderated at sea; 51 lives lost. Feb. 6, 1907—Larchmont, steam- ship docked; 54 lives on Atlantic shore; 175 lives lost. April 15, 1912—Titanic, White star liner, struck iceberg and sank; 1,517 lives lost. 1913—Empress of Ireland, steamship, rammed by collier Storstad in St. Lawrence river; 945 lives lost. 1915—Lusitania, Camara liner, sunk by torpedo off Old Head Kinsale, Irish coast; 1,346 lives lost. July 24, 1915—Eastland, lake steamship carrying 2,500 excursion- ships docked in Chicago river; 1,000 lives lost. START TWO INVESTIGATIONS Chicago in Mourning and Prayers Offered for Victims and Their Relatives. Cornish, N. H., July 27.—President Wilson ordered a complete investigation by the Department of Commerce into the sinking of the excursion steamer Eastland. The President directed that nothing be left undone to fix the responsibility. Chicago, July 27.—Bodies of 809 persons killed in the capsizing of the steamer Eastland at its wharf in the Chicago river had been recovered Sunday after forty hours of searching by divers around the steel hulk, still lying on its side, half submerged, where it rolled Saturday, while laden with 2,408 excursionists. The total dead as a result of the turning over of the ship still remains at approximately 1,000, according to estimates made by Coroner Hoffman, whose reports indicated that probably 200 bodies still were held in the mud of the river by the superstructure of the overturned boat. While only 1,002 passengers of the Eastland have registered with the Western Electric Company as saved, it is thought that about 475 survivors, including the crew of seventy-two, had failed to report their escape. Acting Mayor Moorhouse and his advisors at a meeting Sunday began the raising of a relief fund of $200,000 to be distributed by a subcommittee acting under the direction of the national Red Cross, the Associated Charities and the municipal health department. In addition to this, the Western Electric Company, whose employés formed the majority of the ill-fated excursion party, has announced that $100,000 from its employés' insurance fund is available for relief. Numerous private relief funds also have been started. Meanwhile, Mayor Thompson, who was at the Panama-Pacific exposition to take part in the ceremonies in celebration of Illinois Day, left for Chicago on a special train to take his place in the direction of the relief work. Coroner Hoffman issued an appeal to the public for a fund for the burial of the unidentified dead. In churches and homes throughout the city Sunday were offered prayers for the suffering and victims. Russian Ship Sunk London.—The Russian ship Rubonia has been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine. Her crew of thirty was landed on the Orkney islands. The trawler, Star of Peace, also was torpedoed and sunk off the Orkneys. Her crew was landed at Stromness. Eastland Victims Had $12,500. Chicago.—Ten thousand dollars' worth of jewelry and $2,500 in currency has been found in the clothing of Eastland victims or near the scene of the accident. TELLS OF INFERNO IN SINKING SHIP Survivors Give Harrowing Descriptions of Their Fight for Life. FIREMAN FINDS OWN CHILD Pathetic Incidents Mark Work of Rescuers—Women Go Raving Mad and Men Fight Like Beasts for Life. Chicago. July 26.—Within an hour of the time the Eastland turned over on her side a rescue bureau had been established by the Western Electric company officials. To this refuge came those who either missed the Eastland or those who escaped when the "hoodoo ship" went over. From some of the survivors came harrowing tales that made the sloping decks of the steamer and her swaying cabins appear as an inferno during the first few moments after the upsetting. Men Eight for Life Deputy Commissioner of Public Works Burkhardt and Smoke Commissioner Reed told of picking the body of George Price, a prominent Shriner, out of the river. "Price was able to tell us of the fighting, screaming mass of humanity between decks," said Reed. "Then he died before we could even get him a doctor. "Women went raving mad before his eyes, Price said, and men fought like beasts for a chance to get to the single ventilator entrance that led from the cabin in which forty or more of them found themselves imprisoned. He was forced under water for minutes at a time and only escaped when a door broke under the water pressure and washed the whole roomful of them out into the water. Then Price was too far gone to recover." Fireman Finds Own Child. Perhaps one of the most pathetic incidents was the finding of his own daughter's body by Louis Schweichert, a city fireman connected with the fire department bureau, who was working at the mouth of the pit. He pulled at a dress that appeared familiar to him when one of the divers came up from the slime of the black space between decks. Then as the clothing fell back Schweichert saw the face of his twelve-year-old daughter, Louise. He wept. Then he swore vengeance at the Eastland. Finally he seized the body of the girl and made his way through the crowd. He refused to allow the body to be placed in the morgue, but instead took it directly to his home at 4750 South Loomis street. Crew Kicks Way Out. Chief Engineer J. M. Ericson and Jack Elbert, the gauge tender, had one of the narrowest escapes recorded. They were below and forward when the Eastland first began to list to starboard. Ericson at once assumed charge of the pumps and pumped the water ballast over until the boat righted. Then, as she started to heel to port, Elbert shouted: "She's going over," and started for the ventilator. He kicked his way through the ventilator sheath, broke down a stateroom door, swam across a room filled with water and finally reached a hatchway. Ericson and four of the crew followed him out and then it was that Ericson told Smoke Inspector Reed that he had reported five times previously the Eastland had listed, but that the owners paid no attention to his reports. Fifteen-year-old Hugh Thompson, 2233 South Springfield avenue, was with his elder sister, Susie, on the upper deck when the boat began to go over. "We jumped," said young Thompson, "but Susie disappeared. I swam around as long as I could looking for her, and a woman grabbed me around the neck until I thought I must go down. Luckily some wreckage came along that I was able to hang to until rescued. I have been to all thou morgues, but can find no trace of my sister." Mother Saves Son. Mrs. William Fitzgerald, 5216 West Twenty-third place, was saved, with her five-year-old son, Edward, but was separated from the baby. "My husband, the boy and I were thrown into the water, and I had him cling to my neck until we drifted in toward some piling, where some men pulled him out," said Mrs. Fitzgerald. "He disappeared, but I know he is safe. I fear for my husband, however, because he could not swim." Mrs. H. H. Thoyer, 5208 West Twenty-third street, was precipitated into the water with her husband and her SON IS WARNED BY MOTHER Feeling of Impending Danger Causes Return From Coast Earlier Than Planned. Chicago.—A warning of impending danger, something she could not explain save that it was a mysterious feeling that she should return, caused the mother of William Siegman, an Eastland victim, to return to Chicago a week earlier than she had planned two children. Helen, aged eight, and Harry, aged seven. Mrs. Thoyer and the boy were saved, while Thoyer and the little girl are missing. "When we landed in the water I put an arm around each child and tried to keep up." said Mrs. Thoyer. "I did it, I don't know how, until something struck my left arm, making it limp. I was forced to let go of Helen. But I managed to swim with my right hand until I got to the piling, where some men lifted me out." Repeats Acts of Dream. Annie Utz, 5219 Justine street, was dragged from the river by a policeman on one of the motorboats. She had a premonition and told of it. "I dreamed twice Friday night that the boat was sinking and screamed so that I woke up my sister and Anna Booth, my chum and roommate," said Miss Utz. "When the boat went over I did just as I dreamed I would—I caught a floating plank and hung on to it until a policeman came for me." G. F. Fligh of 5426 Twenty-second street was saved after he had pushed seven women out through a porthole to safety ahead of him. He was unconscious when picked up. "I thought I couldn't last to put that last woman up, but I felt that I just had to," said Fligh. "I don't know yet what happened to me or how I was saved after getting out of the stateroom." The body of Miss Kathryn Allen, 709 Kedzie avenue, has been identified by her sisters, Laura and Lucy, who were with her on the boat and were saved Boat Chained to Dock. Lucy Allen told their experience: "I don't know now whether Kathryn lost hold and wont under or was pushed off, but she was standing on deck with Laura and Lizzie Bosch of 1248 Millard avenue and me. When the boat began to turn she disappeared immediately. She must have lost her hold on the rail and been sucked under the boat. Lizzie went with her. "The first Laura and I knew we were hanging to something that seemed firm enough, within sound of the most awful screams for help. Then I felt someone pulling my arms. It seemed to me they would be pulled out of their sockets. Two men got hold of me and then of my sister, and when we got to shore we felt ten years older. "There was a chain that held the boat when it started to turn. It was the only one that they had not unfastened when the accident occurred. So we were really chained to the shore. After they loosened the other chains and the boat was ready to start some man who seemed to have authority said: 'Scatter, and get on the other side, some of you.' People started to walk around to the other side of the boat, but it was too late. It tipped too fast. "The people on the north side of the boat had absolutely no chance for their lives. They were plunged into the water like ants on the end of a stick. There were too many of them to hold to the boat, and there was nothing else; for them to get hold of. They had to go down. I think it was a porthole that I got my arms through, so that I held fast until someone got me by the arms." PERIL FORESEEN BY BODINE Disaster Prophesied by Superintendent of Compulsory Education's Report Year Ago. Chicago.—The following is an extract from the annual report of William L. Bodine, superintendent of compulsory education, as submitted to the board of education last year: "Our investigation shows that the average lake excursion boat is frequently crowded to the rail on weekend trips and holidays. Personal safety on overcrowded lake excursion boats is a risk of life in which humanity must depend upon fate as to whether it will be numbered among the lost or the saved, and many women and children will some day pay the tragic penalty of overcrowded boats and lack of adequate life-saving facilities "I recommend that the lake excursions of the vacation schools be abandoned. It is only a question of time when there will be a disaster on one of these excursion boats that will stagger Chicago." Uses of Gypsum Crude gypsum is used in Portland cement manufacture, for soil dressing, as an adulterant in flour, sugar and baking powder, and in the manufacture of crayons. Blocks of clear, white gypsum called alabaster are used by artists and sculptors. So it may be seen that ancient Egyptians were aware of the use of one of our most valuable modern materials when they plastered the commodious sides of old Cheops with gypsum. Almanac Memo Stands A memorandum written on an almanac was recognized as a will at Holcomb, N. Y., and $7,500 was disposed of according to the writing. from a trip to California. She reached the city the night before the disaster, and her last words to her son, as he started for the boat, were: "Be careful!" Siegman was twenty-five years old, and was a machinist, having been in the employ of the Western Electric seven years. He was regarded as a good swimmer, and made frequent trips to a natatorium in the vicinity of his home. The body was identified by the mother at the Central Undertaking establishment MOB BUTCHERS HAITI PRESIDENT GUILLAUME PUT TO DEATH DAY AFTER KILLING OF GOVERNOR WHO HAD EXECUTED 160. U. S. CRUISER ARRIVES FORCE OF MARINES LANDED TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY OF AMERICANS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Port au Prince, July 29.—A mob of infuriated Haitians removed Vilbrun Guillaume, President of Haiti, from the French Legation, where he took refuge Tuesday, and shot him dead in front of the building. This act of violence followed immediately the burial of the 160 political prisoners massacred in prison. The mob was mostly composed of relatives of the massacred victims. They invaded the French Legation and seized Guillaume, and, though M. Girard, the French minister, protested vigorously, he was powerless before their fury. Guillaume was dragged from the protection of the legation. Once in the street, while the crowd surged around him with imprecations, he was promptly shot to death. Even then, the anger of the people was not appeased. The body of the President was mutilated and, tied to the end of a rope, was dragged through the streets of the city. The mutilated body of President Guillaume, after being dragged through the streets, was buried by several women in a cemetery outside the capital. The people are in a state of intense excitement and further violence is feared. Washington. — American marines were landed Wednesday at Port au Prince, Haiti, to protect the lives and property of Americans and other foreigners. Rear Admiral Capertan advised the Navy department that he had sent a force ashore from the cruiser Washington. Read Admiral Benson, acting secretary of the navy, declined to make the message public, but said: "Admiral Caperton now has the situation in hand." There was no firing at the marines although disorder continued in the city. It was assumed a guard had been established at the French Legation and at other points, to protect foreigners. SUBMARINES SINK 292 SHIPS. Number Includes 229 English Vessels 30 Other Hostile Ships and 6 Neutral Craft. Amsterdam. — German submarines, according to a telegram received here from Berlin, had sunk in the war zone up to the 25th of July 229 English vessels, thirty other hostile ships and six neutral craft. The latter, the message says, were sent to the bottom by mistake. Twenty-seven additional neutral vessels, the dispatch adds, were examined and sunk because they carried contraband. London. — Ten persons were drowned in the sinking of a British freight steamer torpedoed off the Suffolk coast by a German submarine, according to dispatches received here. The vessel sank in three minutes. Eight of her crew were rescued and brought to shore. ESATLAND JURY HOLDS SIX. Federal Inspector, Heads of Company, Captain and Engineer Blamed. Chicago, July 29.—A coroner's jury returned a verdict, placing the blame for the loss of hundreds of lives by the capizing of the steamer Eastland in the Chicago river Saturday, on six men: William H. Hull, general manager of the Chicago-St. Joseph Steamship Company, owner of the Eastland; Capt. Harry Pedersen of the Eastland; J. M. Erickson, engineer; Robert Reild, federal inspector of steamships, who gave the Eastland license to carry 2,500 passengers July 2; J. C. Eckliff, federal inspector of steamships; W. K. Greenbaum, general manager of the Indiana Transportation Company, lessee of the Eastland. The jury recommended that these men be held to a grand jury for indictment on charges of manslaughter. Pueblans Lost on Eastland. Pueblo—Mrs. Lulu Christenson and daughters Margaret and Freda, residents of this city who had been visiting in Chicago, were drowned in the steamer Eastland disaster, according to word received here. Asks Reprieve for Arizona Men. Phoenix, Ariz., July 29. — Frank Trott, chairman of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, called a meeting last night for this morning to consider the cases of the five Mexicans condemned to be hanged Friday at Florence. At the same time habeas corpus proceedings will be held in the behalf of four of the prisoners. The board meeting was called after receipt of a telegram from Secretary of State Lansing asking for further reprieves for the condemned men NEWS and GOSSIP of WASHINGTON Why the Wives of Consuls Are Important Now WASHINGTON.—Nowadays, before sending anybody out in the diplomatic and consular service, the state department takes especial care to inquire into the antecedents of the wife of the appointee, if he has one. It does not thought of the man's wife, for to all appearances she seemed as good an American as he. The English government, however, was not so careless and no sooner had the consul and his wife appeared on English soil than the American government was informed that they were persona non grata on account of the German extraction of the consul's wife. There was nothing else to do but to recall them. They were on British soil just one week. As the compensation for traveling in the consular service is only five cents a mile, the journey of this couple has proved quite expensive, to say nothing of the humiliation the incident imposed. Meantime the state department has provided a place for the consul in the service in Washington until an opening shall occur at a post not involved in the war. And these are not now many. Crows Fight Fiercely in White House Grounds A VICIOUS fight between two crows in the White House grounds attracted such a large crowd that Policeman Gus Schraeder had to interpose and almost club the two birds before he could induce them to break away. One they enjoy there. According to Schraeder, who is not stuck on crowns, either, a big male crow from some other reservation ventured into the White House grounds and was promptly tackled. He was game, too, and the fight started. Persons passing along began to stop to watch the battle, and the crowd grew to large proportions. Teamsters and automobile drivers stopped their vehicles and joined the throng. Schraeder was some distance away and did not notice what was going on until the crowd grew into large proportions. Then he hustled down to the scene and went for the birds, which paid no attention to him until he actually stood over them and flourished his arms in a menacing manner. Oldest employees of the White House grounds, where birds of all kinds make their home, never saw or heard of such a bloody scrap among feathered fighters. Crows are generally credited with being the most cowardly and cautious of all birds, and are easily whipped by a small bee marten, from which they will flee for miles if pursued. Schraeder has been much perturbed over the affair, fearing that it is a bad omen of some kind. Moon Myths Shattered by Houston's Department Moon Myths Shattered by Houston's Department THE department of agriculture has smashed another tradition by declaring that from a scientific standpoint the moon has no more to do with the growing of crops than it has upon the temperature, the amount of rain, the The moon gives no virility to soil, neither does it affect the composition of atmosphere, hence the only remaining way by which it could influence plant growth is by its light. Experiments have shown that full daylight is about 600,000 times brighter than full moonlight, yet when a plant gets one-one-hundredth part of normal daylight it thrives little better than in total darkness. If one-one-hundredth part of normal daylight is too little to stimulate a plant, the department says that it is certain that one-six-hundredth part would impart no benefit at all. It is added that it is a waste of time to think about the moon in this connection with the planting of crops, since it has no more to do with this than it has with the building of fences, the time for killing hogs, or any other of the innumerable things over which it was once supposed to have strong influence. Music in Canoes Charms Potomac River Fishes MUSIC hath charms for fish, according to an expert of the bureau of fisheries, and if that is true fishing should be good in the Upper Potomac this summer. However, the bureau of fisheries has not installed brass bands here and there on the water alarmed the first news of Dan Cupid's latest innovation on the water alarmed the hundreds of worm diggers, who have passed the sentimental age and care not for the needs of the "spooners." They began to say one another: "These pesky talking machines will frighten the fish to other waters and our fishing days will be over." But the official of the bureau of fisheries disagreed with them when he heard of their pitiful wall, and reassured them, saying: "We have found that soft strains of music on the water do not frighten the fish, but on the contrary, may charm and draw them nearer." He would not promise that the fishermen's nets would be filled to the breaking point, as told in the Bible, but he at least dispelled their fears. WHAT NATIONALITY WAS YOUR WIFE'S GREAT GRAND FATHER? thought of the man's wife, for to all American as he. The English governno no sooner had the consul and his ww American government was informed a account of the German extraction of f else to do but to recall them. They w As the compensation for travelin cents a mile, the journey of this coul nothing of the humiliation the inciden ment has provided a place for the con an opening shall occur at a post not not now many. Crows Fight Fiercely in A VICIOUS fight between two crows if such a large crowd that Policecem almost club the two birds before he c had the other by the neck and was trying to pull his head off when Schraeder stood over the two and flourished his arms and club in such a threatening way that the grip was released and the two flew off to trees close by, making a terrible clatter about the affair. Several families of crows have for years flourished in the White House grounds, but they seem to have formed a combination to keep other birds out of the good things they enjoy there. According to Sch either, a big male crow from some other House grounds and was promptly tac started. Persons passing along began to s grew to large proportions. Teamsters vehicles and joined the throng. Schra not notice what was going on until Then he hustled down to the scene a attention to him until he actually sto in a menacing manner. Oldest employees of the White H make their home, never saw or heard ered fighters. Crows are generally c and cautious of all birds, and are easily which they will flee for miles if pu turbed over the affair, fearing that it Moon Myths Shattered THE department of agriculture has s that from a scientific standpoint growing of crops than it has upon the THAT'S ALL BUNK ABOUT THE MOON, MYRA. The moon gives no virility to soil, no atmosphere, hence the only remaining growth is by its light. Experiments of 600,000 times brighter than full moon hundredth part of normal daylight itness. If one-one-hundredth part of no a plant, the department says that it would impart no benefit at all. It is added that it is a waste of connection with the planting of crops than it has with the building of fences of the innumerable things over which influence. Music in Canoes Charm MUSIC hath charms for fish, acco fisheries, and if that is true fishing this summer. However, the bureau of or player pianos at points along the shore for the benefit of Washington's anglers. If the fish bite better during the summer the fishermen should thank the sentimental young folk, who have discovered a summer substitute for the tango dance hall. They have placed graphophones in their canoes, and one strolling along the banks of the river above the Aqueduct bridge these evenings hears soft strains rising here and there on the black surface. The first news of Dan Cupid's late hundreds of worm diggers, who have not for the needs of the "spooners." "These pesky talking machines will our fishing days will be over." But the official of the bureau of heard of their pitiful wall, and reas that soft strains of music on the wat contrary, may charm and draw them the fishermen's nets would be filled Bible, but he at least dispelled their f do for an American in the service, even if his own blood be American beyond question, to have a wife who is of foreign extraction or once or twice removed. The European war will not tolerate such. The state department was recently taught the lesson through the selection of an American who had passed a splendid examination and who was assigned to an English post in the consular service. The selection seemed impracticable but no one appearances she seemed as good an ment, however, was not so careless and life appeared on English soil than the that they were persona non grata on the consul's wife. There was nothing ere on British soil just one week. ing in the consular service is only five le has proved quite expensive, to say imposed. Meantime the state depart- sul in the service in Washington until involved in the war. And these are White House Grounds in the White House grounds attracted on Gus Schraeder had to interpose and could induce them to break away. One A man running away from a building. Schaefer, who is not stuck on crowns, never reservation ventured into the White Tailed. He was game, too, and the fight stop to watch the battle, and the crowds and automobile drivers stopped theirchaefer was some distance away and did the crowd grew into large proportions, and went for the birds, which paid no good over them and flourished his arms. house grounds, where birds of all kinds of such a bloody scrap among feath-credited with being the most cowardly by whipped by a small bee marten, from issued. Schaefer has been much perils a bad omen of some kind. by Houston's Department mashed another tradition by declaring the moon has no more to do with the temperature, the amount of rain, the wind, or any other element of weather. This will be a severe blow to those who have believed that potatoes in order to be a successful crop, should be planted during certain phases of the moon, or that garden truck flourishes more readily under moon influence when planted right. The department points out that growth of plants depends upon the amount of food in the soil and in the air that is available for them, and upon temperature, light and moisture. either does it affect the composition of a way by which it could influence plant have shown that full daylight is about light, yet when a plant gets one-one-thrives little better than in total dark-ermal daylight is too little to stimulate it is certain that one-six-hundredth part time to think about the moon in this since it has no more to do with this the time for killing hogs, or any other it was once supposed to have strong as Potomac River Fishesording to an expert of the bureau of should be good in the Upper Potomac fisheries has not installed brass bands A boy and a girl are sitting in a boat. They are holding a megaphone and singing. The sky is dark with a crescent moon. There are fish swimming in the water. first innovation on the water alarmed the passed the sentimental age and care They began to say one another: frighten the fish to other waters and fisheries disagreed with them when heured them, saying: "We have found her do not frighten the fish, but on the nearer." He would not promise that to the breaking point, as told in theears. MUCH DEPENDS ON COOKING Use Quantities of Water in Preparing Strong-Flavored Vegetables for the Table. The many people who believe they cannot eat cabbage, cauliflower, onions and turnips without suffering from indigestion, and the many others who do not like these strong-flavored vegetables, which are, very valuable in the diet, should change their method of cooking them, suggests Miss Oberlin of Colorado Agricultural college. Use a large quantity of water in proportion to the quantity of vegetable to be cooked. To prepare creamed cabbage cut the cabbage, not too fine, with a knife. Have two quarts of slightly salted water boiling rapidly, add one quart of coarsely cut cabbage. Boil, uncovered, until the cabbage is tender when tried with a fork. Drain at once and add one cupful of medium white sauce. The mixture may then be placed in a well buttered baking dish, covered with buttered crumbs, and browned in a moderate oven. Onions, cauliflower and turnips may be prepared in the same way. Small onions should be boiled whole, larger ones cut in quarters; cauliflower may be left in the head or broken into smaller pieces; and turnips should be cut in cubes. The advantage of this method of cooking are: The vegetable stays white or pale green in color, the odor in the house is not disagreeable, the flavor is much better, and the food more easily digested than when a covered kettle or fireless cooker is used. ECONOMY IN SIRUP MAKING That Made From Cider and Ginger Is Pure and Simple—Imitation Maple Sirup. The greatest of sugar economies is the making of sirups pure and simple. Cider sirup, for example, is an excellent relish for any meal, also a more than fair sauce for puddings, rolypolys and so on. To make it, bruise well three full races of ginger, taking care the root is not worm-eaten. Boil the ginger ten minutes in half a gallon of cider and let stand overnight—or twelve hours at least, Strain. Add five pounds of sugar—more if you like a very rich sirup. Simmer gently, skimming clean, for half an hour. Cool and keep in glass or clean stoneware. Water, instead of cider, makes an excellent sirup. Use six pounds of sugar to the half gallon. Skim clean and cook as thick as desired. Soft sugar, the coffee grade, so called, makes excellent sirup. If the almost black Porto Rico sugar is to be had, it makes a sirup that furnishes a close approach to maple sirup—so close as to warrant the suspicion that it is the first cause of a good deal that passes for maple. Tuna Loaf. To one can of tuna fish add two well-beaten eggs, one teaspoonful of lemon juice, one teaspoonful of chopped parsley, one teaspoonful of chopped green peppers, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt and one-eighth teaspoonful of pepper. Mold into loaf and bake in moderate oven one-half hour. Garnish with parsley and sliced stuffed olives. Serve lot with the following sauce: Melt two teaspoonfuls of butter and add two teaspoonfuls of flour, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt, one-eighth teaspoonful of paprika. When smooth add gradually one cupful of hot water. When thoroughly cooked add two tablespoonfuls of butter, a little at a time. Beat until thoroughly mixed and add two hard-cooked eggs chopped fine. Serve this very hot on the tuna loaf. Silence Cloth. Those of us who still cling to tablecloths instead of polished wood have often wondered at the exasperating qualities of the Canton flannel silence cloth. Almost every hot dish placed over it causes it to stick closer than a brother to the polished table and to leave white fuzzy rings on the wood. Instead, make a silence cloth out of cheesecloth or other washable material, with several layers of paper between the two folds. Overcast the edges and knot here and there as in a quilt—Mother's Magazine. Apple Tea Cake. One pint flour, one-half teaspoonful salt, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, few grains cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one tablespoonful butter, one egg, scant cupful of milk, five apples; mix and sift dry ingredients, work in butter, add milk gradually and egg (well beaten); spread in well-buttered baking pan; cut apples in eighths or sixteenths and stick in dough, sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over top, serve with butter. Convenient Clothespin Bag. This bag is made from a square bag just wide enough to have a clothes hanger sewed to the top. A slit is made down the middle to within four inches of each end, so that the pins may be put in and taken out easily. The advantage of this bag is that it can be hooked on the line and slid along as the clothes are hung up. Strawberry Muffins. One pint flour, two small teaspoonfuls baking powder, one-half cupful sugar, little salt sifted together. Add to one beaten egg and one cupful milk. Mix well and add one cupful mashed strawberries and two tablespoonfuls melted butter. Bake in muffin tins in quick oven. CANNOT GIVE REBATES CANNOT GIVE REBATES Do You Know That- RESOLUTION FORBIDS EVASION OF INSURANCE RATES. Industrial Commission Declares Rebates, Refunds and Participating Endorsements Unlawful. Denver.—An important regulation affecting the new workmen's compensation insurance in Colorado has been made through a set of resolutions passed by the State Industrial Commission forbidding all profit-sharing and refunds by any privately operated companies who issue compensation insurance policies. The resolutions as passed are as follows: The COLORADO STATESMAN "Whereas, In order that the insurance of compensation liability of employers may be made safe to employés, the workmen's compensation act has imposed upon the industrial commission of Colorado, the duty to approve the minimum basic and schedule rates at which insurance companies may do the business of workmen's compensation insurance in this state, none of which rates are to take effect unless approved by the commission as adequate, and IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING "Whereas, This commission on the 6th day of July, 1915, approved the minimum basic and schedule rates at which any company could do a compensation insurance business in this state, and Whereas, It was the intention by such approval to exclude refunds and rebates and 'participating' plans of any and all kinds, now therefore "Be it resolved, That any and all refunds, rebates and any and all 'participating endorsements' or any plans whereby the insurance carrier at the time of writing the insurance creates or attempts to create against itself an obligation, either absolute or contingent, to refund or give to the assured employer any sum of money or other consideration, or to permit the assured employer to share in any division of money or other thing of value, at any subsequent time, would be incompatible with the approval of rates which this commission has made, and would be an unlawful departure therefrom." Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY 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. Civil Service Referendum Case. Denver.—Attorneys for both sides in the case involving a referendum on the new civil service commission law, and which Judge Butler of the third division of the Distriet Court denied, appeared before the court and went through the formality of arguing and resisting a motion for a new trial, which Judge Butler promptly overruled, and a transcript was ordered by the attorneys for the old commission for the purpose of taking the case to the Supreme Court. Adequate State Guard Necessary. Denver.—Governor Carlson issued a statement to the people of the state bringing to their attention the necessity of building up the national guard for the sake of national defense. His statement is based in part upon the views the federal War Department now holds as to the general defensive condition of the country which the governor learned during his recent trip throughout the East. 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. Again Ask Lower Freight Rates. Denver.—A further reduction in the freight rates on coal from Ludlow to Trinidad now is sought by the Huerfano Coal Company, despite the fact that the State Public Utilities Commission recently ordered a reduction from 65 cents to 60 cents a ton. Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction State Board Orders Phone Inventory. Denver.—The State Public Utilities Commission ordered the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company to submit to it a complete inventory of all its property as part of the investigation recently begun into the reasonableness of the rates charged by the company. Fraser Names Deputy Game Wardens. Denver.—Five new deputy game wardens have been appointed under State Game and Fish Commissioner Fraser; A. S. Pindell, Fort Collins; S. A. Scheetz, Greeley; W. B. Chappel, Pueblo; Carl Birch, Delta, and J. F. Engel, Craig. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver State Insures $4,000,000 in Payrolls. Denver.—More than $4,000,000 in payrolls have been placed on the books of the State Industrial Commission under the workmen's compensation law, according to E. E. McLaughlin, a member of the commission. Appointed Claim Adjuster. Denver.—Charles O'Donnell, an attorney of Pueblo, has been appointed claim adjuster for the State Industrial Commission. He will begin his duties Aug. 1. State Collections Board Is Created. Denver.—All the state boards that formerly cared for the penitentiary, the insane asylum and the reformatory have been abolished. One board has been created to take their place. This new board will be known as the Colorado Board of Corrections. The members of the new organization are I. B. Allen of Denver, L. C. Paddock of Boulder, and E. W. Wicks of Pueblo. Mr. Allen will serve for six years, Mr. Paddock four years, and Mr. Wicks two years. Room 25 Phone Main 7417