Colorado Statesman

PATRONIZE MERCHANTS WHO ADV. IN THE PEOPLE'S PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY An Injustice To The Negro Press An Open Letter to Negro Merchants VOL. XX11. An Injust The Neg An Open Letter to As one reads the Negro newspapers from week to week, they cannot but feel that as a class the Negro editors are just about as unselfish as any set of people in the country. They are, in fact, the ultra exponents of unselfishness. No less than a dozen of these papers take their turn each week and speak editorially to the race, urging them to patronize the members of the race who are in business. That appears to be one topic on which all of the publishers agree and in agitating for more liberal and sustained patronage for Negro business enterprises they are prompted by no loftier motive than their pride of race and their absorbing desire for the race's upclimb into the more important avenues of commerce and industry. For this they are to be commended and should be encouraged. By continually urging the race to support its business men, these papers are extending the trade of the Negro business men. But what are the Negro merchants as a group giving back to the Negro papers in return and what are they doing to co-operate with all this agitation? It must be granted that quite a few individual merchants give their printing of stationary to colored printers and not a few insert small advertisements in Negro newspapers which in many instances is "traded out," but there is entire absence of group appreciation on the part of Negro merchants for the great work now being done for them by the Negro editors. Here are some questions which suggest themselves as we read the Negro papers and see how earnestly they are pulling for the Negro business men: Why do the colored merchants not speak up for themselves? Why do they continue to let the Negro newspapers pay their advertising bills? Why are they content with the business which "drifts in?" Why do they not combine and go after the race's business in a big way? The business is certainly there for the asking. The race is spending now about $600,000,000 a year for food and only about a fourth of this is going to colored merchants; the race is spending $50,000,000 a year for shoes and only about one-twentieth of this is going to Negro dealers. There is but one way to get this business and that is to go after it in a definite and determined way. The burden of educating and cultivating this trade rests with the business men themselves and should not be left to the colored papers. They have their hands quite full in getting our young folks educated and in protecting our rights. To accomplish something that would really justify the effort, the merchants must of course realize the situation as it is and then determine to work out a plan which will accomplish the desired results. First, have a common understanding on the question of service. White merchants are their competitors and no step towards securing bigger Negro trade can be made without studying the methods of competitors in order to meet them with methods equally as effective. Service has been one of the important contributing factors to the success of white business enterprises and service is fifty per cent of any selling plan. This appears to be the era of "getting to gether." Every magazine and daily paper tells of some class of men and women getting together to solve their problems and primarily to get more business. If the 25,000 colored retail merchants would each contribute $500 a year to a General Extension and Publicity Fund, there would be a fund of $125,000 a year which could be invested in educating and cultivating Negro trade and in making Negro business places more attractive. This Fund could be appropriated about as follows: 1. A strong national campaign of education and advertising through Negro newspapers to show the many advantages of patronizing Negro business enterprises. 2. A set of competent men to plan and carry out this national advertising campaign. 3. A few trained men to travel and organize local advertising campaigns, decorate show windows, arrange attractive displays of goods and otherwise cooperate with the national campaign by arousing local interests in patronizing Negro business enterprises With such a big movement the colored business men would have the active support of the Negro newspapers and the National Negro Business League through its six hundred Local Leagues and DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1915 State Hst & Nut Hst Sctery State House ANTS WHO ADO E JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO SA these Local Leagues would furnish a working nucleus with which to get such a campaign launched. In communities where local Leagues are not already established any representative citizen may address a letter to Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of the National Negro Business League, Tuskegee, Inst. Alabama, and he will gladly forward complete information regarding the plans for organizing them. DANGER OF RACE R1OT IN COATESVILLE Coatesville, Pa., Oct. 6.—This town is throbbing with repressed danger, with strong probability of racial friction, following the shooting of a white man, Assia George, by a Negro, Alexander Fisher, and the stabbing of Fisher by Joseph Korgus, white, a friend to George. The trouble started with an alleged attack by Fisher's dog on George's child. After rescuing his baby, George attacked the dog. Fisher resented the action and shot George in the right leg below the knee. Korgus crept up behind Fisher and plunged a knife into his back, stabbing him twice. George is in the hospital and will loose his leg. Fisher is also in the hospital and Korgus is in jail. Rumors that a band of 200 men was forming to take Fisher from his cot in the hospital and lynch him, aroused the Negroes. A few years ago Zack Walker, another Negro, was brutally lynched it this town, and recalling that tragedy, the colored men immediately prepared to defend Fisher. Many rushed to the hospital in automobiles and wagons. A party of twenty or more men, armed with rifles and shot guns, marching down Main street, arousing great excitement. The authorities promptly disarmed the men. Bungess Jones assured the Negroes that Fisher would be protected and swore in a large number of firemen and special officers. Fifty additional police were also sworn in. There is a heavy guard of Negroes at the hospital to protect Fisher, and others are stationed at every exit to the local prison, to prevent the release of Korgus Brandywine creek, which divides the town, is being patrolled, and citizens are not allowed to cross. The town authorities have decided to ask outside assistance if the matter gets beyond their control. True Enjoyment. Wife (returning from matinee) — "Oh, it was too lovely! She had on a pale Nile green silk, with bands of passementerie down the front, and the grandest diamonds you ever saw, and when she died, in the last act, she rolled over four times, and every woman in the house was crying. I never enjoyed a play so much in my life."— Puck. FIFTEEN HOUSES BUILT Columbia, Mo., Oct. 4.—Mrs. Annie Fisher couldn't (consistently) get cross if some one did tell her that her beaten biscuit were like bricks, because she lives in a house built with them. Moreover, she collects the rent from fourteen others also built with them. Mrs. Fisher's biscuit always just naturally melted in the mouth. No one in Columbia ever has been able to describe them, any more than a rainbow or a bird-song or any other natural wonder can be described. The only outlet for the emotion which the eating of one of Mrs. Fisher's biscuits evoked was telling the next person one met: "You certainly ought to taste those biscuits." And, of course, that was how it all started, this buiscuit business that bought so much real estate and solid independence. One person told about them, and another fellow did likewise; and so Mrs. Fisher's fame grew and grew, and flowed over the state line, and trickled into the four corners of the states, and finally went meandering across the ocean. As the receipts from grateful diners kept coming in, Mrs. Fisher turned them all into real estate, and stayed right on the job, only rolling down her sleeves long enough to have her picture taken the other morning. Another odd thing about Mrs. Fisher is that she doesn't raise her prices "on account of the war" on the high cost of living, or even for the commonest reason of all—success. Those biscuits of hers started their career at $12\frac{1}{2}$ cents per dozen, and at $12\frac{1}{2}$ cents they have stayed. While her biscuits are her main stay, on the side Mrs. Fisher makes fruit cake and wedding cake and other symbolic and dangerous concoctions, and also on the side she carries on quite a large catering business. This pleasant home of Mrs. Fisher's has fourteen rooms, and is equipped with all the modern conveniences. Of course, colored women are the traditional "best cooks," and it isn't strange that numbers of them have very successfully entered the catering business. Another profession for which ther race traditionally fits them is that of nursing; but, so far at least, ambitious young colored nurses have had a hard row to hoe in our hospitals, because of the race antagonism they meet there. Suffolk, Mass., Oct. 6—Among the bequests in the will of the late Horace W. Berry, are one of $5,000 to Storier College Harpers Ferry, W. Va., and one of $3,000 to Tuskegee Institute. ATLAS DRUG CO., 26TH AND WEL TON AND 2701 WELTON ST. The Atlas Drug Co. now handles a full line of Madame C. J. Walker's toilet requisites. RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Hagertown, Md., Oct. 6.—Mrs. Mary Jane Reeder, probably the wealthiest and one of the oldest colored women in Maryland, died here to-day, in her ninety-first year. She owned property valued at about $40,000. Her home was on Potomac street, the finest residential street in the city. may know something about it. The two men, after the killing, went to the house of Bill Harris, a brother to George W. Harris, editor of the New York News, and rented a room, Harris, from all indications, had no connection with the men or knowledge of the crime, but the police arrested him for Baltimore, Md., Oct. 6.—Dr. Ernest Lyon, Liberian Consul to the United States, has received a cablegram from the Liberian Government authorizing him to appoint Isaac W. Gillespie of this city, United States Army, retired, to a captaincy in the Liberian constabulary, and William Roundtree of Xenia, Ohio, to a lieutenancy. New Orleans, La, Oct. 5.—The Republican party of Louisiana in convention here today virtually eliminated the colored men from its ranks. The delegates met in a hotel inaccessible to colored men and organized a State central committee composed of white committeemen. The colored branch of the party will organize and send a delegation to the next Republican national convention to claim full recognition. Springfield, Mass., October 6 — "I'll never consent to the showing of 'The Birth of a Nation' in Springfield so long as I am mayor. Petitions from citizens will not change my mind. I've seen the picture and I think it is unfit to be shown here." This was Mayor Frank E. Stacy's answer last Sunday night when he was questioned about Promoter George R. Miller's newest effort to bring the notorious photoplay to this city, now that West Springfield has barred it. Mr. Miller today expects to get a long list of signers to a petition to Mayor Stacy. I've already committed myself" asserted the mayor, "and I still believe I was right. Petitions will not make any difference. I'll not let that picture come here so long as I have the power to keep it away." Portland, Me., Oct. 6.—The killing of a night watchman in one of the business stores, the crime being charged to two strange Negroes supposed to be from Boston, has arroused considerable feeling among the people. The authorities have put out a drag net and all the Negroes are being locked up on the supposition that they NO 9 may know something about it. The two men, after the killing, went to the house of Bill Harris, a brother to George W. Harris, editor of the New York News, and rented a room, Harris, from all indications, had no connection with the men or knowledge of the crime, but the police arrested him for possible complicity. The white people are sore and incensed, and besides arresting many of the Negro men, some of the Negro women of the town have been compelled to leave. Others are expecting to receive similar notices. JEWS IN FRISCO STAND BY NEGRO San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 6. Clay Ford, the tailor, 1318 Valencia street, and his wife, were invited to an entertainment given by a Jewish society on September 26 in the hall at Van Ness avenue and Sutter street, but the proprietor of the hall, a Southern white man, attempted to force them to leave the building, giving as reason. "I am a southerner and have lived among your people. They have several times tried to rent my hall and I refused because I did not intend for any of them to stand on this floor." Mr. and Mrs. Ford had been cordially received by their hosts, and the more than two hundred Jews presest had shown every sign of friendliness. After they had participated in several dances the Southerner, who is the proprietor, approached them and said to Mr. Ford, "Here is a dollar; you and your wife leave the hall. Mr. Ford refused to accept the dollar and immediately went to the manager of the entertainment. The manager said to the owner: "That man has a card of invitation and he is as good as you are." More than half of the guests present were attracted by the disturbance and when they had learned the cause of it, much indignation was expressed. One of the most indignant asked the owner, "Are you a Georgia lyncher?" He was told most pointedly that the hall had been rented by their organization, that Mr. and Mrs. Ford were their guests, and as such would stay as long as they did. The proprietor chagrined and disgruntled, left the hall, and the Jewish hosts paid extra attention to Mr. and Mrs. Ford, trying to remove even the remotest remembrance of the unkindly action of the prejudiced Southerner. CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR British casualties reported since Oct. 1 are more than 21,000. Bulgaria has definitely thrown in her lot with Germany, Austria and Turkey. The British steamer Halizones of 6,093 tons gross has been sunk. Her crew was saved. The British steamer Thorpwood, 3,184 tons gross, has been sunk. There was no loss of life. Three-quarters of the city of Belgrade has been destroyed by 6,000 Austro-German shells. Coincidently with Bulgaria's attack the British government sent the Belgian minister at London his passports. Two Russian torpedo boats have destroyed nineteen Turkish sailing ships off the Anatolian coast in a week, the Russian admiralty announced at London. Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, was attacked and taken by a German-Austrian force estimated at 150,000. Official announcement of the fall of Belgrade was made at Berlin. Rumania will join the allies actively and will make war on the Austro-German forces, choosing her own time to strike the blow, Premier Bratiano has informed the Italian government. Russian forces have pierced the Austro-German lines on the Stripa river. They have already taken prisoner more than 2,000 men and sixty officers and have captured four guns and ten rapid firers. Pope Benedict has been successful, the Paris Matin declares, in his efforts to obtain from belligerent governments a pledge that prisoners of war will be permitted to abstain from work on Sundays. WESTERN Cabaret performances in Minneapolis cafes will be prohibited after Nov 1. The fourth annual meeting of the Kansas Irrigation Congress was held at Garden City. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who returned to New York from his trip to Colorado, denied a report that his father had given him a $34,000,000 interest in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. After twenty-six hours of searching, the body of Lieut. Walter R. Taliaferro, the army aviator, who fell to his death, was located in San Diego bay by divers from the United States steamship San Diego. Closing saloons in Chicago on Sunday for the first time in forty-four years resulted in the day passing with the lowest crime record known to the police department, Chief of Police Healy announced. After locking C. E. Greising, assistant cashier of the Wilson Creek, Wash., State bank, in the vault and carrying away all the cash in sight, a lone robber was pursued and killed by a citizens' posse in a fight. James J. Hill, directing force in the Hill system of railroads, is planning to lend great sums of money to the farmers along the route of the Burlington lines in Colorado and Nebraska to stimulate the raising of livestock, particularly in the non-irrigated districts. WASHINGTON Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunlway, known as "the mother of woman suffrage in Oregon," died at Portland, aged 81. A license to marry his stepmother, Mrs. Laura E. Thomas, was denied to Albert E. Thomas of Coatesville, Pa. Armenian massacres in Asiatic Turkey have been renewed with vigor since Bulgaria's entrance into the war as Turkey's ally. Recognition of the Carranza government as the defacto government of Mexico was unanimously decided upon by the Pan-American conference. The United States in a note dispatched to Germany, to be presented by Ambassador Gerard, on the case of the American ship William P. Frye, asks that if it is found necessary to destroy American ships carrying absolute contraband, passengers and crews be removed to a safer place than small boats. Approximately 200 new warships, including fifteen to twenty of the dreadnought and battle cruiser type, with a proportionate number of seagoing submarines, coast submarines, scout cruisers, destroyers and auxiliaries—enough to make a new American fleet—is contemplated by Secretary Daniels for recommendation as a five-year building program. President Wilson has given formal sanction to the plan of the Pan-American conference to extend recognition to the Carranza government in Mexico. FOREIGN Harold Chapin, American actor, was killed in an action in France. Henri Febre, the entomologist, is dead. He was born in France in 1823. King Constantine of Greece is ill and confined to his room, says a dispatch from Athens. Rudyard Kipling in London has received no further news of his son, who was wounded and reported missing in the north of France. The Norwegian bark Seileren, from Clyde for Savannah, has been sunk as the result of a collision near Torr Head. Her crew was saved. The British government's intention to declare cotton piece goods and other cotton products contraband was announced by Foreign Secretary Grey in the House of Commons. The Austrian government has issued an appeal to the public to take all gold and silver jewelry, plate and other articles made of these metals to the mints for conversion into coins or bars. More than 1,000,000 pounds sterling ($5,000,000) weekly, is being paid by the British government to the wives and children of soldiers with the colors. This statement was made in the House of Commons. Another success for British arms in the Kamerun, a Germany colony in western Equatorial Africa, where allied troops have been fighting the Germans for several months, was officially announced in London. Prince George of Greece, brother of King Constantine, left Athens for Paris, where he is to be married to the daughter of Prince Roland Bonaparte. Prince George is highly in favor of the cause of the allies. There are now in the district forming the entrenched camp of Paris 1,448 charitable organizations working for the relief of victims of the war and more than 400 hospitals, which afford accommodations for about 40,000 wounded. "Five steamers are now known to have been sunk," says a Copenhagen newspaper. "How many British submarines have got through the narrow sound is not known, but it is evident that Germany was too late in laying the Baltic mine fields." SPORTING NEWS Hal Boy defeated Judge Ormone in the $10,000 match race at the Grand circuit meeting at Lexington, Ky. Best time: 2:01½. For the eighth time in his career, Ty Cobb is champion batter of the American league, according to averages published in Chicago. The University of Minnesota senate committee on athletics has decided to recommend the abolition of intercollegiate baseball at the university. At Braves' Field, Boston, the national commission announced the following figures for Tuesday's game: Attendance, 41,096; total receipts, $82,046.50; national commission's share, $8,204.65; players' share, $44.305.11; each club's share, $14,768.37. A new world's record in automobile speeding was made when Gil Anderson, at the new Sheepshead Bay speedway, driving at an average rate of 102.6 miles an hour, won the 350-mile automobile race for the Astor cup and $50,000 in prizes. His time was 3 hours, 24 minutes and 42 seconds, making a world's record by 10 minutes 42 38-100 seconds. The Boston Americans and the Philadelphia Nationals will go intact to the Pacific coast for a series of games, beginning in San Francisco, Oct. 29, according to arrangements made at Boston by the national commission, the presidents of the two clubs, and a representative of the Panama-Pacific exposition. The teams will play in Chicago, Omaha, Denver and Salt Lake City on the way to the coast, and also in Los Angeles and San Diego. GENERAL The trophy for battle efficiency was presented to the battleship Michigan at Newport, R. I. Two negroes who confessed that they killed A. H. Cage, cashier of the Planters' bank of Clarksdale, Miss., in an attempt at robbery, were lynched by a mob of 1,000 armed citizens. A second suit to test the constitutionality of the Illinois woman suffrage law was filed in the State Supreme Court at Springfield. In the previous suit the law was held to be constitutional. Grave anxiety is felt for the welfare of approximately 500 members of the Mormon colonies of the Casas Grandes district when the news of the recognition of Carranza becomes generally known in the Villa army mobilized there. The Rev. Byron Holley, rector of St. George's Episcopal church, one of the most fashionable congregations in New Orleans, La., shot and killed Lansing Pearsal, son of a prominent railroad man. Dr. Holley told the police he shot Pearsal thinking he was a burglar. The opening of the second week of the trial of Matthew A. Schmidt, at Los Angeles, charged with the murder of Charles A. Haggerty, in connection with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building Oct. 1, 1910 found four sworn men in the jury box Count Okuma, Japanese premier and Dr. Ng Poon Chew, a Chinese editor of San Francisco, assured delegates to the International Peace congress at San Francisco that world peace was yet a fantasy, and will be until the militaristic order of things is changed COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. Oct. 18.—Odd Fellows' Annual State Convention at Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs bank clearings continue to increase. The Denver trade excursionists were entertained at Sterling. A. L. Anderson of Denver was accidentally shot through the foot while out hunting. Forty-six homesteaders claimed lands at the Pueblo office in one day, breaking all records. Speaker Clark of the National House of Representatives favors Pueblo for a munitions factory. Mrs. Mary B. Kerstein, 81 years old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank H. Schutte, in Denver. Denver Odd Fellows will celebrate the election of Frank C. Goudy to the office of deputy grand sire of the organization for the United States. Sara Bard Field of Portland, and Frances Joliffe of San Francisco, two suffragists, were welcomed by Governor Carlson on their arrival in Denver. Securing enough labor for the farmers of the Greeley district is becoming a serious problem, and just now there is a decided shortage of help of all kinds. The two men under arrest at Alamosa charged with robbing the La Jara State bank, refuse to say one word regarding that crime or about themselves. One man was probably fatally injured, a second dangerously hurt and a third suffered bruises in an automobile crash at Sixteenth avenue and Clarkson street in Denver. Two moose heads, the first trophies of the first open season on moose last month in Wyoming, arrived in Denver from Moran, in the vicinity of which they had been shot. Mrs. Frank Sherwin, the one woman to whose efforts more than any other is probably due the selection of the columbine as the state flower for Colorado, died at her home in Palmer Lake. Postmaster B. F. Stapleton of Denver has received unofficial advices that Denver is to be made a distributing point for postal supplies after the removal of the office to the new building. Mrs. Charles Krebs, widow of a Denver & Rio Grande fireman, who was killed Feb. 22 last when his engine jumped the track near Fountain, was given judgment in the Federal Court at Denver for $5,000. The high schools of Canon City and South Cañon have been dismissed to give the students an opportunity of assisting the ranchers in gathering their apple crop, which is one of the largest in recent years. Joseph Parks, Denver hotel proprietor, has been held responsible by a coroner's jury for the death of Roy Bacon, whom he shot during an argument between the crippled cabaret entertainer and Parks' wife. With the $6,000 reward offered by the heirs of the dead man as an incentive for their work, private detective agencies and individuals in practically every portion of the United States have taken up the hunt for the slayers of Isaac Solomon, who was beaten to death in his pawnshop in Denver on the afternoon of July 21. Merchants and bankers are warned by government authorities to avoid cashing money orders made out on Johnstown, Colo., on blanks numbering between 12,142 and 12,200. These money orders, together with $100 and $350 in postage, were taken from the Johnstown postoffice when it was looted by unknown robbers. The prompt arrival of his son, David Hoffman, saved the life of George H. Hoffman, a farmer residing two miles east of Loveland, when the latter was at the mercy of an enraged bull which attacked him in the farm corral and after trampling him under foot, tossed him about the farm yard. Following a talk by Gov. George Carlson in which he addressed more than 150 enthusiastic Y. M. C. A. workers, devoting the first half of his talk to a plea to see that the recent prohibition amendment to the constitution of Colorado is strictly enforced, the membership campaign of the Greeley Y. M. C. A. was started. Miss Mildred Downing, sister of Roy Bacon, the cabaret entertainer, who died at the Denver county hospital from a bullet wound inflicted by Joseph Parks, raced to the county hospital in an automobile to be at her brother's side before he died. She reached the hospital three minutes after physicians pronounced her brother dead. Mother Pancratia, founder and head of the Loretto Heights academy, died at St. Joseph's hospital in Denver as the result of an operation performed three weeks ago. Until the last few days it was thought she would recover. Two women were injured and Warren Stewart Ball, 21 months old, sustained injuries from which he died within an hour, when the auto driven by James Ball, a merchant, was struck by a Denver & Rio Grande passenger train at Louviers station, twelve miles south of Littleton. LA JARA BANK ROBBED YEGGEMEN ESCAPE WITH STOLEN HORSE AND BUGGY. Bank Officers Lead Posse That Finds Two of the Robbers Within Two Miles of the City. Western Newspaper Union News Service. La Jarra, Colo.—Between $5,000 and $6,000 was stolen from the La Jarra State Bank when robbers blew the safe and escaped by a stolen horse and buggy. Two of the alleged robbers were caught by a posse headed by Sheriff Baumaster of Alamosa within two miles of that town. The sheriff declares they had between $200 and $300. It is thought that two other robbers headed for Taos, N. M., in an automobile, with more than $5,000. Shortly before 9 o'clock Sunday night the electric light plant in La Jarra went out of commission. At 9:30 o'clock a horse and buggy was stolen from Robert Guymon of La Jarra. At 4:10 o'clock W. W. Feyfer, a druggist across the street from the bank, heard an explosion. President B. J. Van Vechten of the bank, with the cashier, H. C. Hall, and Clark Moser and Wallace Forbes, two La Jara men, started after the robbers when the safe-blowing job was discovered. They were in an automobile and found the trail where the robbers had left the road two miles from Alamosa. The horse had been unhitched and driven off. The wheels had been taken from the buggy, which was lowered in the sagebrush so that it was invisible from the road. Mr. Van Vechten drove to Alamosa, where a posse was organized. This posse found two men bidden in a flume near the buggy. The men offered no resistance and were taken to Alamosa. They refused to give their names. Other posses were organized and sent toward Taos and other New Mexico towns. Colorado's Big Crops. Greeley, Colo—Estimates of crop production and prices for the state of Colorado, compiled by the Bureau of Crop Estimates at Washington, (and transmitted through the Weather Bureau), United States Department of Agriculture, are as follows: Corn—Oct. 1 forecast 11,700,000 bushels, final estimate last year 10; 626,000; price Oct. 1 to producers 63 cents, year ago 73 cents per bushel. Wheat—Estimate this year 12,200,000 bushels, final estimate last year 11,312,000; price Oct. 1 to producers 81 cents, year ago 81 cents. Oats—Production estimate Oct. 1 12,700,000 bushels, final estimate last year 13,000,000; price Oct. 1 to producers 41 cents, year ago 50 cents. Barley—Production estimate Oct. 1 3,680,000 bushels, final estimate last year 3,966,000; price Oct. 1 to producers 43 cents, year ago 63 cents. Potatoes—Oct. 1 forecast 10,900,000 bushels, final estimate last year 8,760,000; price Oct. 1 to producers 41 cents per bushel, year ago 70 cents. Apples—Oct. 1 forecast 811,000 barrels, final estimate last year 1,500,000; price Sept. 15 to producers $3.00 per barrel, year ago $2.25. Boy Killed by Engine. Salida.—While picking coal on the Rio Grande tracks with his mother, John Grolic, 10, was struck by a light engine and killed. The mother picked up the boy and ran with him for a mile to her home. Coroner Phalen took charge of the body. The boy's skull was crushed, his neck broken and his left leg fractured. Two Arrested for Forgeries Milliken.—Charles Robb of Frederick is under arrest on the charge of passing a forged check for $25. He was returned to Frederick for prosecution. Elias Baco of Hando, N. M., is charged with passing a bogus check on a saloon man here and was arrested shortly after. Despondent Man Drowns Himself. Boulder.—Despondent because of his inability to find work in the mines, Robert Jones, 45, a former coal striker, committed suicide at Lafayette by drowning himself in the reservoir near the electric power plant. Kannah Ranchman Hurt Grand Junction.—A collision between a street car and an automobile belonging to Walter Farmer, a wealthy Kannah Creek cattleman, resulted in the injuring of Mr. Farmer and the demolishing of his car. Colorado-New Mexico Fair Successful. Durango. — The sixteenth annual Colorado-New Mexico fair has passed into history, and was a success in every way. Girls Form College Band. Greeley.—A girls' brass band of fifty pieces has been organized among the students at the State Teachers College in Greeley. Medical Bill to Be Referred. Denver.—The medical practice bill passed by the last Legislature will be placed on the ballot at the next election for a referendum vote as a result of a decision by District Judge Butler. 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Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. 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 Hampton institute press service offers some interesting information concerning Titustown, a prosperous Negro community, which lies on the southern side of Hampton Roads, midway between Ocean View and Norfolk. At Titustown it is possible for a colored man to build an attractive and comfortable detached house, on a lot 35 by 110 feet, for $500. For $1,500 he can build and own a house of seven rooms. He is favored also in having a vacant lot left between his house and that of his neighbor. Every family has its full quota of air space. The children are not compelled to play in the streets and roadways. Titustown streets are straight, well graded, and bordered with trees, shrubs, and plants. To the people the rural free delivery brings the news of the outside world. It is said, on good authority, too, that every Negro in Titustown gets and reads a daily paper. Some Negroes buy and read two daily papers. "To millions of black folks, even now," says the institute's report, "this would seem ultra modern. To some it may seem strange and even dangerous that Negroes should be so up and coming, but the truth is that in proportion as Negroes get knowledge based on experience and have their wants increased, they settle down to habits of thrift and industry. This is what has happened to the Negroes of Titustown. They have enjoyed rare opportunities. They have had plenty of work to do—work on the rich trucking lands, in the United States navy yard at Portsmouth, on the great coal piers at Sewell's and Lamber's point, and on the estates of wealthy Norfolk business and professional men. They have also received good wages. "The church at Titustown—the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church—is a fine structure. It was recently built at a cost of $12,000 and has a membership of 1,500 persons. For long, long distances colored people come to attend this church and discuss problems of lively civic interest. "In Titustown the church is strong and very attractive, but the school is also strong and fully as substantial, if less outwardly attractive. The county school board spent $8,000 on the Titustown school, which is a brick, fourroom building so constructed that another story may easily be added. Some 250 children are enrolled and the average attendance is very satisfactory. The children in Titustown school have good teachers and a term of seven months. They are clean, happy and alert. They are physically well set up, and show the good results of careful home training. The Titustown mothers find it possible to remain at home and care for their children instead of eking out a meager living over the washtub. The school equipment is good and is being steadily improved. The county manual training teacher has been able to make, with the assistance of the boys, some useful articles of school furniture. The school playground of three-quarters of an acre is kept clear of weeds and trash. A plot of two acres has been reserved for a public park. It is important that in any scheme for community building some provision should be made for recreational activities. One of the crying needs of Negro country life is healthful recreation." A caterpillar's eyes can see nothing at a distance beyond two-fifths of an inch. The students at Tuskegee are quoting with enthusiasm the following statement from a recent census bulletin: "Farming in the South is passing into the hands of the black man. In the last ten-year census period the number of acres occupied by whites actually decreased; the negro acreage increased. "The proportion of whites engaged in farming decreased; the proportion of Negroes increased. Ownership of farms by whites increased 12 per cent; by Negroes, 17 per cent. Among the whites the increase in farm tenants—men who do not own the land they work—was 27 per cent; among the Negroes it was but 21 per cent. "The total number of white farmers working not their own but another man's land increased 188,000; the total number of Negro farmers working another man's land increased 118,000." With wireless stations powerful enough to reach vessels in all Chinese water, the government of that nation will establish a typhoon warning service. The ways of the law are sometimes like those of a heathen Chinese. A New York policeman, on whom three bulldogs were "sicked," had the "sicker" arrested for violating the sanitary code. It provides that canines must be muzzled. The sound of the military rifle bullet, traveling at 1,500 feet a second, is like that of a long blacksnake whip, violently cracked. However, the bullet beats the sound, and if a man struck by one hears a cracking it is from some other missile. The fifty-third anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation by Abraham Lincoln was celebrated by the National Emancipation Commemorative society at Mount Carmel Baptist church, Washington. Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation September 22, 1862. Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, was the principal speaker at the celebration, and congratulated the colored people of the country upon the progress made by them since their emancipation. He commended the society for having adopted September 22 as the day for the general observance and celebration throughout the country of the issuance of the proclamation by Lincoln. "England and France," said he, "were the eve of recognizing the southern confederacy as they were in need of cotton, and would have done so had not President Lincoln issued this preliminary proclamation, just when he did, threatening to forever abolish slavery in the cotton producing states should those states refuse to lay down their arms and come back into the Union. Not only should this day be celebrated by the colored people, but the people of all races throughout the country ought to unite in celebrating the anniversary of an event that was the first step calculated to making the Declaration of Independence a living verity." Prof. Jesse Lawson in opening the celebration commended the colored people for their loyalty to country and flag, and urged the establishment of a chair in patriotism in American universities and institutions of learning in every section of the country. H. Martin Williams, reading clerk of the house, said that the abolition of Negro slavery in the United States gave freedom, in part, to all of the people in the country. Rev. W. A. Taylor of the Florida Avenue Baptist church, and N. W. Magowan, chairman of the ways and means committee of the commemorative society, also delivered addresses. The society adopted resolutions recommending to the colored people of the country that they set apart September 22 of each year for a celebration of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation. The resolutions declared that no class of citizens in America will long suffer injustice because of the spirit of fair play of the American people and called attention to the recent decision of the Supreme court of the United States holding unconstitutional the "grandfather clause" of the constitutions of some of the states by which colored voters were discriminated against. The resolutions provided for the appointment of a committee of 100 by the president of the society to make all necessary arrangements for the congress of colored Americans to be held in Washington next year, and recommended to the colored people of the country that they take steps to participate in the national exposition of colored Americans to be held in Washington in 1920. The weather affects man in more ways, it appears, than many suspect. For example, it is believed that pressure variation due to fluctuating winds has peculiar pathological effects, that certain electrical conditions of the air induced by low atmospheric pressure have a pathological effect on nervous subjects and that solar radiation has peculiar effects which vary according to the season. A New Yorker left in his will a provision that loaves of bread stamped with his name should be given to the poor and that the will should be published in five papers. Heirs have tried to break the last provision on grounds of eccentricity, but the court, has said it must be done. Two thousand persons appeared in silk at Paterson, N. J., recently at a parade to boom Paterson looms, hosiers, gowns, suits and in some cases, among the men, even hats were of that material. Thus is progress made toward fixing the high cost of living. The tuna, which until within a few years was known only as one of the greatest of game fish, is now the basis of an extensive canning industry. It is predicted that 1,000,000 cans of it will be garnered this year on the Pacific coast. The Philippine islands produce approximately 10,000,000 gallons of alcohol yearly. About all of this is made from the sap of the nipa palm that grows in great abundance in various swamps of the country. A long and high English railroad bridge is equipped with automatic wind gauges, which set danger signals against trains should the wind blow at a dangerous velocity. A Bath (Me.) man recently received notice from the United States patent office that a patent for which he filed an application seven years ago had been granted. By reconstructing some parts an English railroad is using for light work a locomotive built in 1847. MINERS TO STAND TRIAL GOVERNOR CREDITS CITIZENS WITH GOOD FAITH IN CASE. Executive Issues Statement Following Supreme Court Decision Granting Lawson Ball at $35,000. "Denver.—Governor Carlson has issued a statement to the public in which he announced that he would take no action to end the prosecutions arising out of the recent coal strike that are now pending in the courts. The governor's statement is as follows: "For a number of days certain citizens have conferred with me with a view of having stopped the prosecution of all pending strike cases. The unsuspect motives of those who have incurred the already violated me and the importance of the subject caused me to give the most serious consideration to their requests and during the past two weeks those interested have most continuous conference at this office. "Premature publication was given these conferences and hence I feel it should be the duty of the state to declare the policy of this office in regard to the matter and to set at rest any controversy or speculation which may have caused by this premature publication. "On my advent to office I found that Governor Ammons had issued an exceeddering the investigation attorney general, the investigation prosecutor of all violations of the law growing out of the coal strike then in progress, knowing that order the attorney general, the grand juries of four different counties and several district attorneys made investigations, heard complaints of all who had complains them and as a result the indictments in question were presented. "I know of no reason for disregarding or belittling the judgment of these officials and grand juries and continued the order made by Governor Ammons. "The thought of this vexatious aftermath of conditions, in no wise created any doubt that I take the time and energies of myself and other state officials, was not a pleasant one and if continuing this order could have been avoided honorably "Events since that time have not changed my opinion and I do not feel that I can now order the annulment of these prosecutions. They were instituted because they were not directly convincing to the attorney general, grand juries and the different district attorneys to warrant bringing these defendants to trial. "This is from a legal point of view. However, the attorney already referred to, have urged my interference upon what might be called extra-legal grounds. "Considerations of so-called peace, meant business have been taken as a justification for the action when it was hoped I would take. To find answer to these arguments I do not desire to review the history of the strike and the terrible nature of the committee for which the defendants now stand under indictment and trial. "It will be sufficient to remind our citizens that state sovereignty was lost to protect the state from organized lawlessness. "These indictments will be subject to the double check of juries, trial and review courts, and any innocent among them, and any guilt will receive vindication." "The only question for me was to decide whether or not those who were legally charged with crime should be treated low down until trial for those extra-legal reasons given. "It has been asserted that such a course would put an end to the agitation that is going on in certain quarters of the state in a more peaceful condition. "Granting that such a result would follow, it is in effect to say that a citizen can be charged with any crime and receive immunity if they efficient agitation to disturb our peace of mind. I do not believe that our citizens are willing to purchase mental peace of mind. It has been said that it would be the merciful thing to do—and yet as justice should be tempered with mercy so should mercy be tempered with justice and what justice has been done society. If those charged with murder and arson are allowed to go free without trial? The wholesale character of these criminal deprives them of their criminality; instead it increases the offense because it increases the danger to society. I was elected a platform which, among other things, promised to restore the state sovereignty upon a firm basis. "In my belief, the only way this can be done is to punish any person or persons who attack that sovereignty, who attack that sovereignty of future crimes of the same nature if those of the past are to be ceded and forgotten. It has been urged that so long as the threat of public liability will be stagnant and that foreign capital will not come into the state. "In my opinion, capital never will invest in this state until it is demonstraced that property will not be tolerated and this cannot be demonstrated by turning loose persons charged with such crimes." New Bridge Over Huerfano River. Denver.—Following a conference in the office of the State Highway Commission plans were approved for a new bridge across the Huernano river just north of Walsenburg, and work will be commenced at once. This bridge will span the only weak spot in the north and south highway which runs from Cheyenne, through Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Trinidad and on to Raton, N. M., and into Texas. Youngest Woman Lawyer Files Sult. Denver.—Miss Clara Ruth Mozzor, the youngest woman lawyer in Colorado, who was admitted to the bar of the state last July, filed her first suit in the Justice Court of William A. Rice. The suit is against L. C. Miller for alleged breach of a contract. Coal Companies File Rate Sult. Denver.—Suit was filed with the State Public Utility Commission by the Grand Junction Mining and Fuel Company, with offices in Denver, and by the Palisade Coal and Supply Company to compel the Denver & Rio Grande railroad not only to give better rates for the carrying of coal from the mines at Cameo in Mesa county, operated by these companies, but also to compel the publication of tariffs for coal rates to Denver from Salida $400,000,000 FOR DEFENSE PRESIDENT WILSON TO ASK INCREASE OF ARMY FROM 87r 000 TO 120,000 MEN. A RESERVE OF 400,000 TO URGE STRONGEST NAVAL PROGRAM OF SHIPBUILDING U. S. EVER AUTHORIZED. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington.—Four hundred million dollars for national defense—an increase of approximately $140,000,000 over last year—constitutes the amount which President Wilson and his advisers at present estimate should be appropriated by the next Congress for the army and navy. As the date for completion of the annual estimates draws near, the President is giving preliminary consideration to the national defense budget, out of which it is hoped to lay down a stronger naval program than the United States ever has authorized and similarly a larger provision for the military establishment than has been customary in time of peace. The President has had before him for several weeks the outlines of military policy of a continuing character framed by Secretary Garrison after more than a year's study with officers of the general staff. With it the President is in hearty accord, regarding it as a conservative, well-balanced program, and briefly, it is: For national defense, including army and navy, $400,000,000, an increase of $140,000,000 over last year. Army increase from 87,000 to 120,000 men, with a reserve of 400,000. Army appropriation to be increased by $60,000,000 over last year's budget of $110,000,000. Navy increase to be $100,000,000 over last year's appropriation of $148,000,000. Bond issue proposed to meet additional expense. Continuous navy program for five years: Four capital fighting ships first year, three second year and enough thereafter to make between fifteen and twenty fighting ships for the entire period. Boston Wins Championship Series. Boston Wins Championship Series. Philadelphia.—A home run clouted over the center field fence by Harry Hooper, Capitola, California's favorite son, put a clincher on the claim of the Boston American League Club to the baseball championship of the world. The home run marked the final scoring effort of the 1915 world's series and gave the deciding game to the Boston Red Sox by a score of 5 to 4. Four games for the Red Sox to one for the National League champions was the game reeerd for the series. U. S. Clamps Embargo on Border. El Paso, Tex.—Customs officials refused to permit a shipment of powder to cross the border Wednesday. This was the first indication that an em bargo on the exportation of arms and ammunition is in effect at this point. It is understood the shipment was stopped by order of Gen. J. J. Per shing, commanding at Fort Bliss, co operating with the customs authori ties. Speaker Champ Clark in Denver. Denver.—Speaker Champ Clark of the National House of Representatives spent a busy day here Wednesday. RUSS SMASHING TOWARD SERB Bulgar Division Cut to Pieces as Slave Force Way Through Austrian Line. London, Oct. 14.—The reason for Rumania's delay in joining the allies is believed explained. The Russian Galician army has smashed its way across the Stripa river and has cut through the last of the Austrian defenses on that line. It is now threatening the right flank of the Kaiser's army. The Slavs at the same time are making almost superhuman efforts to cut a way to the Rumanian border. Should they succeed in this it is believed by military experts Rumania will find the time opportune to enter the conflict. With a clear road through Rumania the Russians could send an almost unlimited apply of men to the aid of Serbia. Meanwhile, with the Germans and Austrians pressing southward and eastward through Serbia the world* is awaiting expectantly the great battle, that must come when the Teutons and their Bulgarian allies finally meet the combined forces of the Serbs, the British and the French. Greybull Railroad Shops Burn Greybull.—Fire, said to have started from a minor explosion while a locomotive was being fired up, destroyed the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad roundhouse and the machine shops adjoining. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Princess Arthur Undergoes Operation, London.—The Princess Arthur of Connaught underwent an operation for acute appendicitis. Her condition is reported to be satisfactory. THE Midland Cafe MRS. NELLIE STEELE AND MRS. 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Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. 1633-39 Arapahoe Street Denver "STETSON HATS OUR SPECIALTY" Phone Main 3661. "BROWN, THE HATTER" HATS CLEANED AND BLOCKED 50 CENTS SATISFACTION GUARANTEED A Trial Will Convince You. 718½ 18TH STREET. RESTAURANT es and Short Orders 1848 Arapahoe Weatherhead Hat Co TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST Herhead Hat Co PHONE MAIN 3203 TTERS OF THE WEST We Make Old Hats New BLISHED 1876. ORIENTAL Chop Suey, Noodl Phone Main 4896 We Make Old Hats New PRACTICAL HATTERS RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS, DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description. 1624 CHAMPA ST., DENVER, COLO. The Sum and Substance of being a subscriber to this paper is that you and your family become attached to it. The paper becomes a member of the family and its coming each week will be as welcome as the arrival of anyone that's dear. 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Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Display advertising, 50 cents per inch. An inch contains twelve agate lines. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. DENVER MERCHANTS Our merchants are creating quite a stir, also extending their influence to other states of the Middle West, East and South. Their various sales—profit-sharing, overcoat and mackinaw, dress-up and other—where the best bargains can be had, place them in the front with competitors of long-established record who are alarmed about this overwhelming progress in trade which has gone by leaps and bounds in the Centennial State. The line of goods, the satisfaction guaranteed, the civility of the employés and, best of all, the reduced prices, advertise our merchants as second to none. Everything in hosiery and haberdashery, men's and women's clothing, furs and overcoats, millinery, paints, wall paper and every variety of merchandise, can be found in the various stores, being of a quality to suit the most critical. The Colorado Statesman faithfully acclaims that in its dealings with the merchants of Denver there has never been any cause for regret, and therefore we are satisfied that we are echoing the sentiment of the public that we are very fortunate and have every reason to be proud of the kind and class of merchants in our midst. The autumn trade is booming so that even the professional crier of "no business! bad business!" has ceased to wall, because his profits are increasing and he is delighted with the spirit of the people in their activity. Because it comes meritoriously we cannot but wish our merchants every success and trust that the present reputation will be in the years to come. Boost! Boom good merchants and good merchandise! NEGRO BUSINESS MEN AND THE COLORED PRESS. What a gigantic success would be scored and what a greatness would be heralded throughout the country by our Negro Press if those who are in business would be charitable enough to give the press a fair return financially for the continued support it gives to them in the appeal to the public to patronize their enterprises. Though we fill comparatively a small percentage of the business element in Denver, yet we are proud to say that very fair patronage is given by our colored business men and women to the press in the form of subscription, advertisement, printing, etc., in Colorado, our greatest desire being to see an increase in our population so that better and brighter things may obtain. While we are successful as a city and state in this particular, information reaches us from reliable and authentic sources that this is rather the exception than the rule, and the statistics furnished us compel the admission of this fact, as can be seen in our present issue on the front page. It will not do to be content with the idea of race pride, protection, co-operation, etc., without using the means to accomplish the ends, of which there can be no greater, larger and better than the PRESS. We had the pleasure of listening to a noted lecturer, who showed the value of the press to a community, a race, a country, and in proving the wonderful results from advertising, remarked that "there were no racial eggs, hogs or money," meaning that the man who had the money to spend was not so tuned up to the race he spent it with, or the goods to sell to the color of his purchaser, but where he got the best and the most his patronage would be. During our business career we have been personally addressed by business men, heads of firms, insurance agents, as to their successes by advertising with us, and so we are in a position to assure our fellow Negro business men to launch out and recognize the great achievements in store for them if they will support the press in a whole-hearted manner, which will be to their greater advantage. It is an established fact that business is a study, and if attention is carefully given to the system and method of the other side, it is noticed that there is the advertising agent who has more than an ordinary duty to perform, as his brain must be in constant revolution to have something attractive for the public at all times and seasons. Very good lesson for our Negro business men, as spending a little more brings them the most. We hope, therefore, to see in the near future and as early as possible a move in this direction which will enable our merchants to arrest more of the trade which will be theirs when they adopt modern methods, tact and system in business. Hoping that our advice will be taken and put into execution right away it is the purpose of the Colorado Statesman to suggest "a strong pull, a long pull and a pull all together." Mexico's Resources Something of a "Snap." Joseph had just started to kinder garden and therefore was required to go only half a day. The little boy next door saw him home one after noon and said: "Don't you go to school any more, Joe?" "Oh, yes," Joseph replied, "but I only have to go in the morning. Aln't I got it simple?" With its remarkable variation of climatic zones and great wealth and variety of vegetation, it might have been supposed that agriculture, not mining, would have been the great mainstay of Mexico. But the fame of silver has overhadowed that of wine and corn and oil. Benjamin Franklin said, "Nine men in ten are suicides." Indifference as to Personal Welfare By Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania. Personal Welfare By Samuel G. Dixon, M. D., Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania. The indifference of individuals to their continued personal welfare which inspired this remark 169 years ago is just as great today. Conditions have changed in many ways and some of them are less beneficial for the individual. Carefully accumulated statistics show that there has in all probability been a steady increase in Bright's disease and other degenerative diseases incident to advancing age within the last few years. Certainly the number of deaths from this cause is sufficiently high to warrant the serious consideration of every individual advancing toward middle life. Of course everyone nowadays is familiar with the doctrine of fresh air, exercise and simplicity of diet and so forth, which make up the creed of the sanitarian. Few are willing to go to the fancied discomfort of denying themselves the pleasures of eating, drinking or indolent ease. They are perfectly aware, to be sure, that indulgence is unwise. They have been warned by other people's experiences and not improbably have been admonished by their medical advisers as to the evil effects of certain favorite indulgences. But the fact that a single gratification of their weakness is not likely to be accompanied by any of the forecast ill effects seems to lead the majority of people on, regardless of the ultimate accounting which nature is certain to demand. The way of least resistance seems to be the popular path. Probably every individual will admit to himself that he is running a risk and that the ultimate outcome will probably prove serious. Nevertheless, continue he will and so there is more than a modicum of truth in what Poor Richard said. Self-denial and temperance may seem Spartan virtues to the self-indulgent, but they are worth cultivating if one would challenge Father Time and his grim companion. Custom of Raising Hats to Ladies By Richard McBride, Rochester, N. Y. Custom of Raising Hats to Ladies By Richard McBride, Rochester, N. Y. The custom of raising the hat when passing a lady or when speaking to one dates back to the days when helmets with visors were worn. A knight, entering a large gathering, invariably wore his helmet with the visor down, for enemies were likely to be lurking in the throng. When meeting a lady or when a woman's voice accosted him, however, as a matter of courtesy and to show that he regarded all women as friends and knew that they would take no advantage, every knight raised his visor. In a later age, when full armor was less worn, the helmet being principally a steel headpiece, the custom still prevailed of removing the sign of warlike protection, and this, absolutely unchanged, has continued through the ages. Little by little the custom of keeping the hat off during an entire conversation with a lady in the street is dying out, but the rule still holds good that the hat should be raised in meeting a lady, should be taken off and kept off while conversing with her; each party to the conversation being about to separate, but that in the event of the gentleman's turning to walk beside her the hat should be replaced. Late Experiments With Falling Bodies By Thomas G. Clifford, Manchester, Eng. Some interesting experiments have been made recently with falling bodies. It is stated, for instance, that a car of broken rock could be dumped into the Some interesting experiments have been made recently with falling bodies. It is stated, for instance, that a car of broken rock could be dumped into the shaft of a mine a mile deep without injury to a man standing directly underneath. The reason is that the rock would never reach the bottom, but would lodge in the sides of the shaft on timbers that protrude a few inches at intervals—that is, the rock would not fall straight, since these shafts are exactly vertical. In the experiments conducted two round metal balls were dropped into the center of a shaft by burning threads by which they were suspended, so as to give them no lateral motion. It was tried to catch the balls in a box of clay at the bottom of the shaft. None of them were caught. One ball was never found afterward. The other was found in the east wall of the shaft, only a few hundred feet below the surface. The explanation is that the earth is revolving from west to east, which gives the ball an eastward component in its fall, because a particle on the surface of the earth is traveling at a higher rate of speed than one nearer the center, although at the same angular velocity. Keep Bubbling Boy Out of Mischief By Lonnie B. Ezell, Charlotte, N. C. Keep Bubbling Boy Out of Mischief By Lonnie B. Ezell, Charlotte, N. C. Do you know the easiest way to keep that brimming, bubbling boy of yours out of mischief? It is a perplexing problem, yet one easily solved. The only way is to turn that superabundance of life and spirits into some useful channel; in short, give the boy something to do. Activity and accomplishment are parts of the boy's nature, and there must be some outlet for this energy. Therefore it is up to every parent to give his boy something to do, something into which he can put his energy and enthusiasm. Give him something to do that falls in with his own plans, not something diametrically opposed to them. Have some regard to his personality and you will see him doing the right thing. Hours formerly spent in mischief will be put in on the wood-pile. In the workshop he will make the chips fly, and when he gets out into the great workshop of the world he will continue to make the chips fly. He will do something and be somebody, and the world will hear from him. So, if you would be proud of your boy, fond parent, give him something to do. Conversations Over Telephone Too Long By Cora A. Calkins, St. Louis, Mo. All social and business conversation over the telephone could be conducted in five or seven minutes. Yet I have heard people talk an hour straight. Often All social and business conversation over the telephone could be conducted in five or seven minutes. Yet I have heard people talk an hour straight. Often each one conversing seems reluctant to take the initiative and say good-by. Talking so long on the telephone not only prevents people from getting you, which is very important, but it also prevents another member of the family from using the phone. This has reference, of course, only to unlimited phones, as the nickel instruments are already restricted to five-minute conversations. THE Joslin DRY GOODS CO. Annual Profit Sharing Sale Now in progress, our greatest success. To give you an idea of prices on Underwear you need now we quote It Behooves You to Come Early Boys' and Girls' Sample Garments, wool or winter weight cotton; sizes 2 to 14 years; only 2, 3 or 4 garments of a kind; reduced from 75c and $1.00..... Women's Separate Garments, Tights and Vests; fall weight; all shapes; Crestwood Mills make; sold everywhere at 75c..... 25 PER GARRE Boys' and Girls' Sample Garments, wool or winter weight cotton; sizes 2 to 14 years; only 2, 3 or 4 garments of a kind; reduced from 75c and $1.00. Women's Separate Garments, Tights and Vests; fall weight; all shapes; Crestwood Mills make; sold everywhere at 75c. FOURTH FLOOR ONE OF THE GREATEST OFFERINGS IN THE SALE Women's High Grade Superfine Union Suits Pure white, fall weight, or heavy fleece lined... 88¢ A POSITIVE $1.50 VALUE STYLES—High neck and long sleeves, ankle length; high neck and elbow sleeves, ankle length; duchess neck and elbow sleeves, ankle length; low neck, no sleeves, ankle length. Sizes, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 34 to 44 bust measure. Fourth Floor SPECIAL--Three Tables Women's Knit Underwear Table No. 1—Drawers and Vests, $1 and $1.20 qualities reduced to ..... 59¢ Table No. 2—Union Suits, $1.75 to $2.50 qualities reduced to ..... $1 Table No. 3—Union Suits, $2.75 to $4.00 qualities reduced to ..... $2 These are small lots—two, three and four garments of a kind—including wool, wool and silk, wool and cotton, in these various makes—Merode, Sterling & Kurzon. Fourth Floor. A man working on a machine. FACTORY SHOE REPAIRING W. CAMBERS, 1023 Eighteenth Street. MEN'S SEWED SOLES .....75c LADIES' SEWED SOLES .....60c NAILED SOLES, 50c and 60c. No Time to Get Divorce. From the best authorities we learn that colds are caused by three things—a chill, a germ and a uric acid tendency which provides a soil for the germ's growth. The pungent oil of the onion neutralizes and destroys the germs that infest the mouths of us all, even of those in good health. From the best authorities we learn that colds are caused by three things—a chill, a germ and a uric acid tendency which provides a soil for the germ's growth. The pungent oil of the onion neutralizes and destroys the germs that infest the mouths of us all, even of those in good health. The Lawyer—"You really want a divorce?" The Wife—"Yes." The Lawyer—"All right. What about the alimony?" The Wife—"He can't pay any alimony." The Lawyer—"Eh! What is this—a practical joke? Take my advice, madam, and go back home and wait until he gets something. Fifty dollars, please." THE COLORADO STATESMAN LADY SHALL BE FREE FAMILY COUNTRY PARTY ٢ Harry Jones continues very ill. Louis George of 2819 Glenarm place is still numbered among the sick. Miss Vivian Rivers, who has been ill with pleurisy, is improving. Burglars entered the McClanahan Garment Store last Wednesday night and several suits were stolen. Rev. A. M. Ward left the city Wednesday on a business trip "back to the farm," near Sweet Springs, Mo. E. D. Fountain of 1217 Gaylord street is very ill at his home, suffering with a complication of diseases. The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McWilliams was quietly married June 23rd to Ulysses Ralph Anderson. Our old friend, J. Henry Turner, and J. R. Elllett, of Chicago, spent several days in the city this week with several Burlington officials. Mrs. L. E. Bouland has returned to the city after a pleasant visit with her sister in Lawrence, Kan. Tickets for Fitzhugh musical on sale at Colorado Statesman, Denver Star, Barnes Hotel and both Elite Drug Stores. Secure your tickets early. Mr. R. L. Haggan, late of 2451 Lafayette street, departed this life Wednesday, October 13. Funeral notice later. Douglass in charge. Rev. R. L. Pope left the city Friday on a month's vacation. The Statesman wishes this popular minister a pleasant trip. Mrs. Mildred Johnson, who departed this life September 21, 1915, was buried Thursday, October 14, at 11:30 a.m. Interment Riverside. Douglass Undertaking Co. in charge. The baby show at Shorter's church Thursday night was quite a success, there-being quite a few entries. The Statesman never dreamed that there were so many handsome and healthy babies in Denver. No race suicide here. Mrs. Douglas, wife of our esteemed citizen, David Douglas, employe of the Turner Whole Millinery store, lies serious ill at her residence, Twenty-fourth avenue and Marion street. We wish her a speedy recovery. Miss Cassie Weisiger, a very intelligent and charming young lady of Frankfort, Ky., is the house guest of Mrs. Mabel Fallings. Miss Weisiger is a graduate of the high school and expects to spend several months in our city. Mrs. S. Summerville returned home Wednesday from a two months' visit to her old home in Abbeville, S. C. En route she visited friends in St. Joseph and St. Louis, Mo., and Birmingham, Ala. She reports having had the time of her life. Mrs. Summerville is a very charming young matron and makes friends readily. McClanahan's store, 1520 Welton street, offers the best inducement in ladies' and gentlemen's garments at very moderate prices on the easypayment plan. You cannot excuse yourself from having a nice up-to-date suit. Look at back page adv. Samuel Brannum, a veteran townsman, has purchased a Ford car and built a garage on the premises at Eighteenth and Marion street. Sam thinks it quite time for Mrs. Brannum and himself to have a little enjoyment of this world's goods after years of strenuous toil. Rev. Henry B. Brown, of the Episcopal church of the Holy Redeemer, returned to the city last Saturday after a delightful visit to Boston and other Eastern points. Father Brown expressed himself as being greatly benefitted and kept his congregation interested last Sunday in an address on his travels. Mrs. Belle Brown, of Leadville, Colo., received three prizes for her International Bed Spread, consisting of the names of the presidents from Washington to Wilson, at the Inter- national Soil Products exposition. Frist prize, blue ribbon; second prize, bronze medal; third prize, $2 in cash. She has been ten years making the spread and values it at $500. Miss Florence Macklin entertained several friends at her home on California street at an elaborate six-course dinner last Sunday afternoon in honor of the twenty-seventh birthday anniversary of Mr. Thomas Ecklos. The house and table were beautifully decorated with garden flowers. Those present were: Mrs. Bessie Jackson, Misses Beatrice and Clara Montgomery, Vivian Rivers, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Grant, Mr. William Turner, Mr. Tom Echlos. Miss Mary G. Evans, the evangelist, who has won the hearts of all by her ability and graciousness, preached at Shorter's both morning and evening service, to crowded houses. This young woman is, without doubt, one of the greatest evangelists that has ever been in our city. Quiet, unassuming and in her preaching thought she is imbued with the spirit of Jesus Christ; that she has a mission to perform, and she has many converts wherever she goes. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Cowen, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Newsom, arrived in the city Sunday morning from Ohio and are the guests of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Morrison of Fox street, Sunday afternoon. Mr. J. R. Jackson and Mr. Samuel Brannon, former Ohioans and friends, took the party on a motoring trip, visiting the most important parts of the city. Mr. Ross Cowen is the famous fruit grower and most prosperous fruit grower of his section of the state. Professor J. D. Newsom is the scientific engineering instructor of Wilberforce University. Mr. G. F. Morrison is in the East but returns home this week, at which time the party will leave for the Coast, accompanied by Mrs. G. F. Morrison. THE MAY CO. The May Company to the front again with Mackinaw coats and overcoats at prices defying competition. This firm, being well known for its square dealing with its customers, guarantees the best in men's goods and outfitting garments at astonishingly reduced rates. To miss this sale is a loss that cannot be regained. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Baxter, assisted by their daughter, Mrs. Nellie Buchan, entertained in honor of their thirty-sixth wedding anniversary at their home, 2727 California street, Tuesday evening, October 12. The home was beautifully decorated, the color scheme being pink and white. A number of beautiful and useful presents were received. Music for the occasion was furnished by Miss Thyra Morrison, pianist, and Mr. Frank Junior, mandolin. All reported a pleasant evening spent. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hill, W. B. Franklin, Jas. McWilliams, Lon Williams, Johnston, Geo. Anderson, Hattwood, J. W. Jackson, Richard Butler, Mme. Matilda Jacobs, L. Turner, Lina Jackson, C. Bonaparte, L. V. Morgan, L. C. Barnes, G. Catlett, A. Rease, Thos. Dickerson, Jas. G. Baxter; Misses Darlene and Ethel Rease; Messrs. Brown, Chas. Rose, Geo. Hall, Lance Ford, Harris and L. Davis. MR. FRANK S. REED. Our prominent licensed embalmer and director of the Douglass Undertaking Co. responded to invitation to attend the lectures and demonstrations of embalming by a new principle and a new method given by Prof. Weston Bates, October 12, 13, 14 and 15 at the Colorado Casket Company. Mr. Reed being the only embalmer of color in our state, was shown all due courtesy out of the eighty-five in number in attendance. Mr. Reed predicts that the new art consists of derma-surgery and ultra-embalming. The people of our community should appreciate and support such firms as are capable of rendering efficient service. FUNERAL NOTICE. Henry Jackson, who died at the County Hospital Sunday morning, was buried from the Cammel Undertaking Parlors Thursday afternoon. Interment at Riverside, Rev. P. R. Fossit, officiating. Mr. E. V. Cammel, our prominent undertaker, received the sad news of the death of his father Tuesday morning, who has for many years resided in Lawrence, Kan. Watch for particulars of Masons big entertainment Thursday, November 4, 1915. A great treat awaits the general public. MISS MARY G. EVANS DELIVERS A NOTABLE LECTURE. "A Trip to the Holy Land," the famous lecture delivered at Shorter's Church Monday evening by Miss Mary G. Evans, the brilliant pulpiteer, was the finest word-picture that one ever listened to, and the most graphically told. Coupled with a pleasing personality the lecturer has a copious command of language, and, without a note at hand, which showed a prodigious memory, she proceeded with her narrative. From the time she embarked on ship at New York and told of her journeyings through all the principal cities of Europe, the sights and scenes throughout Palestine, until she again returned to New York, Miss Evans carried her audience right along with her. There was wit, humor, pathos and sublimity, telling of her bathing in the Dead Sea and getting her mouth filled with that water was quite humorous, also her first attempt at riding a camel. She is without a peer as a platform speaker and as an evan gelist she possesses histrionic ability of a high order and had she preferred the stage instead of the pulpit she would today be one of the greatest emotional actress that this country has ever produced. May she long be spared for the uplift of humanity, is the heartfelt wish of The Colorado Statesman. MISS MARY L. FITZHUGH The Wonderful Blind Dramatic Singer and Elocutionist. Sings in three languages, plays the piano, recites pantomine, can knit, crochet, read and copy music by the Braile System and manipulates the typewriter. She was born in St. Louis and educated in the Missouri School for the Blind. Her repertoire embraces songs sung by the best artists. Miss Fitzhugh and her company will be at Shorter Chapel, Tuesday, October 26, at 8 p. m. Everybody should hear her. THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. Twenty-fourth avenue and Ogden street, David E. Over, D.D., minister. Telephones, York 6007, York 9377. The church, in common with the other churches of the city, will observe "Go to Church Sunday." As is well known, the effort is being made to get every person in the city if possible, to attend church on that Sunday. Zion will furnish two interesting and helpful programs, and invites all to worship with us. The Sunday School Rally Day is held on the same Sunday, November 7th. A great campaign is on to increase Sunday School attendance. Every element of the church and school is at work to this end. We expect a huge success. Come and become a member of the most up-to-date school in the West. Tomorrow is Annual Offering Day. Every member of the church is expected to respond. Every outstanding weekly pledge is expected to come in. Do not fail. The work is on you. SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D., Pastor The following order of service will be observed at Shorter tomorrow: 10 a. m., Sunday School; Mr. Geo. C. King, superintendent; 11 a. m., ser- mon by Dr. R. A. Randolph; 7:30 p. m., stereopticon lecture, "Alcohol and the Brain." Mr. John Hipp. our pastor left Friday morning over the Santa Fé for an extended trip through the South, terminating at Jacksonville, Fla. Our congregation granted him a month's vacation and the time will be spent in making brief visits to the following places: St. Louis, Mo.; Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn.; Athens, Atlanta and Savannah, Ga.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala.; Aberdeen, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; Little Rock and Hot Springs, Ark. During his absence Dr. R. A. Randolph will have charge of the pulpit. Our pastor desires to publicly express his deep appreciation for the gracious treatment which our officers and congregation have given him; first, in granting the vacation, and then in raising and presenting him a purse of $75 to assist in bearing the expense of the trip; also for a small purse presented by Lawyer Townsend, Mesdames Atkinson and Hicks, and others. The coming of Miss Mary G. Evans to the city last week drew out an overflowing crowd to Shorter's at all the Sunday services and a fine audience to the lecture Monday evening, Miss Evans preached to great advantage both morning and evening and in answer to the appeal two persons accepted Christ as their Saviour and eleven united with the church. The lecture Monday evening, "A trip to the Holy Land" casly came up to the high expectation of the audience. No finer lecture has been delivered in the City of Denver and the hearers were wondrously inspired, edified and entertained. Her popularity grows with each recurring visit. She will return to Denver August next to conduct a thirty days revival. Our Stewardess Board will conduct a fine baby contest Thursday evening, October 28, at shorter, for the benefit of the church. Every contest will be awarded a prize. A high class program will be rendered in connection with it. Don't miss! The annual election of officers of the Sewing Circle resulted as follows: Mrs. J. M. Atkinson, president; Mrs. Anna B. Hicks, vice president; Mrs. F. A. Early, secretary; Mrs. P. King, assistant secretary; Mrs. J. Pope, treasurer. FINE FURS. Fair prices, best work, fine materials, correct styles. You can ask no more, and we give you no less at the Youmans Fur Co., 422-424 Fifteenth St., phone Main 8045, Denver, Colo. Keep off the date of November 23, K. of P. entertainment. Overcoat Week THE rain and snow recently has shown that winter is truly here, and emphasize the opportuneness of this great overcoat week. Literally thousands of overcoats, in ALL the new 1915 models, in hundreds of colorings, are ready for your selection at prices which mean material savings to you. Never before in clothing history were the colorings in overcoats so striking as they are this season. This week is YOUR opportunity, and a most unusual one. Remember, we make no charges for alterations. Men's & Young Men's $15.00 and $16.50 Stylish Overcoats at $1150 Our Hand Tailored Overcoats Regularly Worth $25 and $28 $1950 $18.00, $20.00, $22.00 Overcoats Embodying all the Newest Ideas $1450 Distinctive Overcoats Regularly Worth $30.00 and $35.00 at $2350 THE MAY CO- 16TH & CHAMPA STS. THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East 22nd Ave. and Washington St., Pastor, J. A. Thos.-Hasell, S. T. B. Sermon topics Sunday, October 17: 11 a. m., "Deductions of a Bible Tragedy"; 5 p. m., "Education That Educates." Annual session of the Synod of Colorado will meet in the First Presbyterian Church, Fort Collins, next Tuesday. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Synod will convene at the same time and place. Rev. J. A. Thos.-Hazell and Elder Jas. H. Gibbs will represent the People's Church. Rev. Lionel B. West, S. T. B., of the Union Church at Dearfield, with an elder from that field, will represent the work in the Colony. By act of the fall meeting of Presbytery a special sermon on Christian Education will be preached tomorrow evening. A special offertory will be taken up for Westminster College of this city which institution is the property of the Synod of Colorado. Every member is urged to come prepared to help the college. The Sabbath School interest is at high water mark. Let every one work to continue the good work well begun. 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. YOU CAN BUY A PIANO ON PAYMENTS OF $5.00 A MONTH. ORRENT ONE FOR $2.50 A MONTH AT CASSSELL BROS. 16th and Broadway. More Sensible. The reason the motion picture sunrise is so much more popular than the real article is that it has the good sense to come at a more reasonable hour. HALL & EDWARDS THE COAL MEN COAL, 20c PER SACK, OR 6 SACKS FOR... $1.00 KINDLING, 10c PER SACK, OR 12 SACKS FOR $1.00 PROMPT DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY FRANK HALL AND T. A. EDWARDS, Proprietors. Phone Main 8559 CARPETS CLEANED FREE on your floor, with "Knocks Them All Spray." This preparation cleans carpets, kills moths, bedbugs and all germs. Household necessity. Send postal for demonstration. Lady demonstrator wanted. CLARENCE E. LANGSTON, Demonstrator. 2408 Humboldt St., Denver. 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 Don't fail to read the advertisements in the Colorado Statesman, if you are looking for bargains, as we carry ads for all the reliable and leading merchants of the city. Biggest snap in the city; a modern 8 room house, 3879 Tennyson. Owner East, request me to sell; price no object; am no agent; make your offer to Segal, 910 18th St. Easy terms. 2818 Arapahoe street, 7-room, bathroom, summer kitchen. Barn, cellar, furniture; $2,000. Eugene Roth. BARGAINS: 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. J. H. DONIPHAN, General Agent. 1721 Marton St. FOR RENT. A nice furnished front room, for man and wife. Must be responsible, can have privilege of dining room and kitchen. Rates reasonable. See Footman at A. T. Lewis & Son Dry Goods Co., 16th and Stout streets. J. HARRISON WALLACE, No. 19 Elati Street. Hair Cut, 15c. 2208 Larimer St. Brickler Barber Shop. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation VAN GOGH Beautiful Specimens of White Carnations. if you would have rich beds of tulip or give the beds or the corners of your lawns a beautiful springlike yellow or white glow of narcissus, daffodil and jonquil, you must begin to think of the early spring appearance of your garden in the fall, for the bulbs of these two flowers must be planted in the fall before the ground is frozen. In fact, this work should be undertaken as soon as or before an early frost has begun to make the annual flowers in the beds look weakened. In dealing with narcissus, which is the family to which the daffodil and jonquil belong, it might be well to think of trying to naturalize the narcissus to grow and blossom on the lawn much as do the wild flowers. How to plant and handle the bulbs, as well as the best method of getting them to become spring residents of grassy corners, are described in the following directions issued by the bulb specialists of the United States department of agriculture: These bulbs should be planted in light, rich soil that has been dug to a depth of at least 10 inches. The tulip bulbs should be set 5 inches apart and 4 inches deep and the narcissus bulbs about 10 inches apart and 6 inches deep. If they are to be grown in pots or window boxes, light, rich soil should be used. Place one or two inches of cinders or broken pots in the bottom of the pots or boxes to insure good drainage. After planting, place the pots or boxes out of doors and cover them with about four inches of ashes or sand, or they may be placed in a dark, cool room or cellar for a few weeks until the bulbs have formed a quantity of roots. They may then be brought into the light and heat for flowering. Keep the soil well moistened from time of planting, but avoid overmoistening, for if kept too wet the bulbs will decay. If planted in beds, the surface of the soil should be loosened after each rain and the bed kept free from weeds. In the late fall or early winter months it is well to cover the beds with a light mulch of straw or leaves to prevent injury to the young roots from the alternate freezing and thawing of the soil. This mulch should be gradually removed in spring, as soon as growth appears above ground. The bulbs are quite hardy and are not injured by severe cold if the soil is well drained. Lifting and Dividing. Tulip and narcissus plants are perennial, and if given proper care and grown under suitable soil and climatic conditions will increase and multiply from year to year. The bulbs may remain in the ground two or three years, or until the clumps begin to crowd. After blossoming in the spring, from six to eight weeks should elapse to allow the foliage to die partially down, when the bulbs may be lifted with a spade or fork. ROSE Cultivation. Ophelia Roses. Shake the soil from the roots and store the bulbs in a cool, shady place where they will ripen and cure. When the old leaves and roots are thoroughly dry they may be easily rubbed off and the clusters of bulbs divided. The bulbs may then be planted in the same manner as the original bulbs. In this way the stock may be increased in a few years. Naturalizing the Narcissus. Naturalizing the Narcissus. The narcissus often becomes naturalized when planted in the sod or partial shade, where it will continue to grow, blossom, and multiply for many years without further attention. Simply make a small hole in the soil five or six inches deep, insert the bulb pointed-end up, press the soil over the top, and nature will do the rest. For naturalizing, avoid planting in rows or rigid geometrical figures. A good plan is to scatter the bulbs like seed and plant where they fall. This method of planting is extensively followed in the home grounds and parks of England and other countries in Europe. In portions or North Carolina, on large estates along the James river in Virginia, and in old gardens in New England, narcissuses that were planted over half a century ago are still growing vigorously and every spring produce beautiful displays of blossoms. --- ```markdown ``` AMONG THE FLOWERS Among summer blossoms none are greater favorites than the syringa or mock orange, the flowers being as fragrant, as beautiful. While the shrub itself is perfectly hardy, late frosts sometimes kill the buds; and an observing grower gives the rule that there will be orange blossoms when there are peaches. Calycanthus is a curious shrub, the brownish blossom being odorous of strawberries; yet with so many beautiful as well as fragrant blossoms it could scarcely head the list. Purple fringe is an odd plant, the name smoke tree perhaps more accurately describing the appearance after midsummer, when the pedicles lengthen, branch and bear long, plumy hairs, either greenish or tinged with red. The spigelia is handsome when in bloom, the tubular blossoms of white, rose or purple being produced in profusion. A variety with leaves variegated with gold is especially pleasing. Instead of planting in rows, the fancy is now to group the shrubs and the flowers for cutting. Place the taller ones in the rear with the shorter ones in front. Arrange that the blooming season shall be prolonged throughout the summer, and see that no two specimens with blossoms which do not harmonize in color shall be in bloom side by side at the same time. Plants can wait upon themselves if food, properly prepared, is placed within their reach. NEWS and GOSSIP of WASHINGTON WASHINGTON.—The feathered tenants of the White House grounds have discovered the delights of the shower bath. And birds of many kinds are taking advantage of the excellent accommodations provided by the rotary And still the wonder grew as bird after bird submitted itself to the pleasure of the bath. The sparrows, who inhabit two whole trees in the White House grounds when they are at home for a night's rest, found it so good that they quarreled for place and turn There are a half dozen such lawn sprinklers scattered over the White House grounds, with purpose or hope to make the grass grow. They are going all day, scattering drops of rain in an ever revolving circle. As is modest, the birds take their shower baths in secluded spots where the sprinklers are at work. "Old Nick," the Champion Long-Distance Smoker UNCLE SAM has the champion long-distance smoker of the world, consuming 1,000 cigars a day on an average. They call him "Old Nick," not because he is in any way diabolic, but because he can hold an amazing tic are the same to him. In the lower left-hand corner of his mechanical anatomy is a jar, in the cork of which are inserted the tubes holding four cigars. The receptacle contains water which takes up the nicotine. So it is that none of it gets into the "lungs" of "Old Nick," and the smoke that goes out from his "mouth"—the exhaust—is wholly free from nicotine. The "lung" is at the extreme right and inhales and exhales the smoke of the cigars. A tube leads into the "lung" from the jar into which four individual cigar tubes are placed. There is also an intermediate jar, which arrests whatever of the nicotine may have escaped from the direct repository. Thus, you see that, while "Old Nick" may be literally soaked in nicotine and be a confirmed "inhaler," he has none of the vice of the inhaler, for the smoke that enters his "lungs" bears no deleterious elements. One Woman Who Knows Secrets, and Keeps Them THERE is only one woman in the United States who has knowledge of international events before they happen. Her name is Margaret M. Hanna. She is the confidential secretary and assistant of the second assistant score. precedents at his fingers' ends. But it goes without saying that such business involves an immense amount of detail, which is where the peculiar and exceptional talent of Miss Hanna comes into play. She takes all that part of the work off Mr. Adee's hands. To him she is like a card catalogue to a librarian—and quite a bit more, in addition. Incidentally to her duties she helps to prepare many state papers that are in the last degree confidential in character. She is the custodian of many an important secret affecting the welfare of the country; but, from her point of view, this is merely a part of the day's work. She forgets the secret automatically when she leaves the office and goes home. It has often been said that a woman cannot keep a secret. Perhaps most women cannot. Holding that belief, wrongly or rightly, the department of state prefers not to employ them in confidential capacities. But the rule is broken in Miss Hanna's case. She knows how to keep a secret, and the government of the United States is willing to bank on her reliability in this regard. Snake Bite Antidote for Forest Service Men Snake Bite Antidote for Forest Service Men BEST pocket instruments for treating snake bites, always possibilities among the experiences that beafall woodsmen, are to be furnished by the United States forest service to its field employees. The device when not in use is apparently a plain wooden ear. as possible after the bite is received, and become effective by dissolving and entering the blood. Similar instruments have been used regularly by the field force of the geological survey for several years and have in many cases been the means of saving life. The dangers to which forest workers are subjected of being bitten by poisonous reptiles are forcibly brought out in a recent report to forest service headquarters in Washington from the Shasta national forest in northern California. Three men, sent across the path of a recent fire to fight flames, found themselves completely surrounded by scores of rattlesnakes that had been driven from their rocky lairs by the neat. It was necessary for the firefighters to turn snake-fighters, since they could neither advance nor retreat. After a six-hour battle all the reptiles were killed and it was possible for the forest employees to reach and extinguish the fire. Raven after bird submitted itself to the plea inhabit two whole trees in the White for a night's rest, found it so good to Then a few thrushes who live in habit. And finally the pigeons and were converted. So the shower-bath of There are a half dozen such lew House grounds, with purpose or hope going all day, scattering drops of rain modest, the birds take their shower sprinklers are at work. "Old Nick," the Champion UNCLE SAM has the champion longing 1,000 cigars a day on an avocade because he is in any way diabolic amount of nicotine. And it takes very little effort of the imagination to characterize "Old Nick" as a human being; for, in make-up, he performs all the functions of the flesh and blood lover of the weed, even to the action of the lungs. "Old Nick" is merely an ingenious apparatus for testing cigars. Uncle Sam's mechanical man is no fastidious chooser of what he smokes. The most expensive imported brand and the humblest of the domes- tic are the same to him. In the low anatomy is a jar, in the cork of which cigars. The receptacle contains water that none of it gets into the "lungs" out from his "mouth"—the exhaust "lung" is at the extreme right and in cigars. A tube leads into the "lung" from cigar tubes are placed. There is also whatever of the nicotine may have esi- Thus, you see that, while "Old Nk and be a confirmed "inhaler," he has a smoke that enters his "lungs" bears no One Woman Who Knows THERE is only one woman in the U. international events before they hape She is the confidential secretary and a YES INDEED YOU CAN KEEP SECRETS, CAN'T YOU? precedents at his fingers' ends. But ness involves an immense amount of an exceptional talent of Miss Hanna corn of the work off Mr. Adee's hands. To librarian—and quite a bit more, in ad Incidentally to her duties she he are in the last degree confidential if many an important secret affecting the point of view, this is merely a part secret automatically when she leaves It has often been said that a w most women cannot. Holding that ment of state prefers not to employ the rule is broken in Miss Hanna's case. the government of the United States this regard. Snake Bite Antidote f BEST pocket instruments for treat among the experiences that befall United States forest service to its fiel use is apparently a plain wooden cylinder, about the length of a cigarette and slightly larger in diameter, and has a screw cap on each end. When one of the caps is removed there is disclosed a small lancet, with which the bitten part may be quickly slit open. The other end of the cylinder is hollow and contains a supply of permanganate of potash crystals, one of the most effective antidotes for the poison of snakes' fangs. The crystals are placed in the open wound as soon as possible after the bite is received, entering the blood. Similar instrument field force of the geological survey for been the means of saving life. The dangers to which forest worm poisonous reptiles are forcibly brought headquarters in Washington from the California. Three men, sent across the found themselves completely surround been driven from their rocky lairs by fighters to turn snake-fighters, since t After a six-hour battle all the reptiles forest employees to reach and extingu lawn sprinkler. The blackbirds, most inquisitive and curious of all birds, first found out about it. It may have been accident that led the bird Columbus in this exploit under the spattering drops of water thrown off by the sprinkler. If so he found it good. Generous, or unable to keep his counsel, he spread the news. Other blackbirds tried it with resulting delight. Then the tale spread of this advance in bird civilization. And still the wonder grew as bird measure of the bath. The sparrows, who house grounds when they are at home, that they quarreled for place and turn. the precincts acquired the shower-bath sloves, slowest to adopt new customs, cult has grown among the birds. in sprinklers scattered over the White he to make the grass grow. They are in in an ever revolving circle. As is in baths in secluded spots where the Long-Distance Smoker distance smoker of the world, consum-rage. They call him "Old Nick," not out because he can hold an amazing ? her left-hand corner of his mechanical hair are inserted the tubes holding four which takes up the nicotine. So it is of "Old Nick," and the smoke that goes —is wholly free from nicotine. The inhales and exhales the smoke of the from the jar into which four individual so an intermediate jar, which arrests caped from the direct repository. "kick" may be literally soaked in nicotine none of the vice of the inhaler, for the deleterious elements. Secrets, and Keeps Them United States who has knowledge of inpen. Her name is Margaret M. Hanna. assistant of the second assistant secre- tary of state, Alvey A. Adee, who is the only permanent official of high rank in the department. No matter who may be the executive head of the department, and regardless of whether the administration is Democratic or Republican, the course of the foreign office is steered by Mr. Adee. All of the diplomatic affairs are managed by him. The complex unwritten code called international law is to him familiar in its every paragraph, and he has all it goes without saying that such busi- detail, which is where the peculiar and does into play. She takes all that part him she is like a card catalogue to a edition. It helps to prepare many state papers that in character. She is the custodian of the welfare of the country; but, from her of the day's work. She forgets the the office and goes home. The woman cannot keep a secret. Perhaps belief, wrongly or rightly, the depart- ment in confidential capacities. 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Fruit Bowl PHONE MAIN 4730 Store No. 2 26TH AND WELTOM Main 4955-4956 Correspondent Tells of the Hospitality Extended to Him by a Mexi- can Couple Across the Rio Grande—Host Declaims Against the Depredations of the Bandits—Later an Amer- ican Farmer Tips Off Some “Real News.” By JOHN W. ROBERTS. eae my hosts squatted themselves | Midiaternationel News Bervices ‘On tha Mar ance ae pat ete ag acorn Ot ta) aes, Ee ceived.” I had ridden up on my horse to a Uttle mud hut on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and as I arrived I was met by four dogs, barking loud- ly, and the lord and master of the place—a small Mexican of many smiles and gleaming white teeth—who came forward to greet me. “It {8 a very warm day, senor! Come into this house, which is yours, and permit me to unsaddle your horse so that he can feed on the bountiful grass which God has given us.” “My name {s Roberts,” I said, dis- mounting. “I am a newspaper man, and I came up this way for a ride.” He stretched his hand in greeting. “Ramon Martinez, at your orders,” he smiled. “While you are here please consider me your most humble servant.” I unsaddled my pony, and threw the saddle on the shady side of the adobe hut. Ramon removed the bridle, and with an affectionate slap at the beast’s haunches, drove him out to the grass in the open prairie. “Won't he get away?” I asked. “No, senor; he is hungry, therefore he will spend all his time filling his belly. Now, into my house, senor; the heat is terrific here, and besides you are just in time for the dinner which my good wife is cooking.” The “house” had, as I thought, only one room. In one corner, neatly rolled against the wall, was some bedding which also served as settees. A num- ber of gaudy calendars decorated the thick adobe walls. Beneath them was a large crucifix, under which a candle was kept burning. At the other end of the room squatted a very pretty girl, making tortillas over a brazier. She wiped her perspiring brow as we entered, and smiled prettily when her husband introduced me. , Host Is Amazed. “Ramon is terrible,” she laughed. “He should not have taken your good taste by inviting you to partake of such a miserable meal. We have noth- Ing but tortillas and frijoles and cot- “Is there no chili?” her husband asked in surprise. “Oh, yes—and chill.” “Sit down, amigo,” Ramon sald, “and if I may be so rude as to ask you for a cigarette, we can smoke in comfort while Amelia cooks dinner.” 1 offered him my red case, from which he took a long, cork-tipped cig- arette. “Ah! Muy fino,” he said, ag he puffed eagerly. “You must be a very rich man.” “No,” I laughed. “Those only cost twenty-five cents, gold, a box.” “Veinte-cinco centavos oro!” he screamed in amazement. “Why, why, that means twenty-five dollars of our money.” His astonishment was un- limited. “What do you think of the warfare across the river?” I asked him. “‘Is it true that you Mexicans intend to in- vade our country? What does all this mean?” ‘The question seemed to amuse Ra: mon immensely and he slapped his knee and roared in laughter. “I was just discussing with my wife how foolish you Americans were to believe such tales. Most of the war. fare going on over there {s caused by the bad feeling between the Mexicans living in your own country and the American settlers. A lot of the Mex: fcans, of course, are brigands. who have been kicked out of the Carran- zista army, and having nowhere else to go, cross over into Texas and en- rich themselves by gathering a small band of paisanos and then raiding un- protected ranches of your countrymen. Of course, they carry guns, and {f they are shot at, they return the fire, but as for war between the two na tions—ah! It fs very funny.” and his body shook again as he laughed. More Foolishness. “What about the plan of San Diego,” I asked, “in which all Mexicans are invited to join an army which is going to invade the United States and cap- ture Texas?” “That is more foolishness which should not be taken seriously. It is the blind which these bandits leaders use to take men into their bands. As far as plans go, mi senor, could not you, or I, draw up elaborate procla: mations in which we declared war against the whole world? Does that mean that we could capture the world, or make an efficient warfare? Ridic- ulous!” “Dinner is served,” Amelia, blush- ing furiously, interrupted our con versation. She stood up and was wip- ing the perspiration from her face with a clean white towel. Neat in ap- pearance, round of figure, a delicate complexion and pretty white teeth while my hosts squatted themselves on the floor opposite me. “You must excuse the meal,” Ame- lia reiterated. “Four years of revo- lution has brought us hard times, and the job that my good husband Ramon had on an American ranch across the river—he lost it because of the trou- ble there. At that time we lived very happily because Ramon made a dollar a day, and we lived in some comfort, but since these bandits began to raid your ranches, the American will not tolerate a Mexican on his premises. Iam so sorry,” she finished, casting 8 loving look at her husband, “because Ramon is very good. He never beats me and always gives me most of what he earns.” Like in all Mexican homes of the lower classes, we had no spoons nor forks, so, as is the custom, we shov- eled the beans and chile from the plates into our mouths with a plede of flat tortilla. ‘The coffee, which was very weak and sugarless, I could not drink, I explained to Amelia that | never drank coffee. Down to Last Meal. “Oh! I should have offered you some milk. I have some fresh goat's milk here which is very good.” She arose and fetched an earthenware jar from which she poured the white liquid into my cup. Gingerly I tasted it. It was my first experience with goat's milk, and I did not like it. In the first place, it is of a green'sh yellow and much too sticky to drink in comfort. It had a strong smell of the sheep cor- ral. However, so as not to disappoint my good hostess I placed the cup to my lips, held my breath and literally poured the liquid down my throat. When we arose from our meal, | of. fered Ramon another cigarette which he accepted with alacrity. Amelia, in the meanwhile, was busily engaged in clearing the “table” and washing the dishes. “She is a good woman,” Ramon said lovingly as he watched her. “I have been unable to find any work since | was fired two weeks ago and I don't know what I am going to do. You may not believe it, senor, but we have provisions for only one more meal.” He hung his head as he puffed s| lently at his cigarette. “Damn those bandidos!” he shoo} his fist fiercely towards the United States, “If those crazy compatriot: of mine had not started this trouble | would not be in this condition. It {s due to them only that my Amelia has nothing to eat for the morrow. It {s due to them that we, the pacificos, suffer the name of “bandit greasers.” I do not blame the Americans; they are defending their property and thei families—I would do the same if the trouble were on this side, but I blame that band of disgruntled thieves who, FAVORS LARGE NAVY Wa | é 5 | a ee + “ of Ee 3 7 PSMA ee Senator Lee 8S. Overman, chairman of the senate rules committee and oné of the administration's leaders in the senate, bas announced himself as a supporter of a program for military preparedness, The senator called at the White House a few days ago and after his call announced his position on the matter. “I am for a large navy for the United States and 1 am hearti- ly in favor of legislation that will make our coast defenses strong enourh to ward off a!l kinds of attacks from the sea,” said he. This picture shows Senator Overman leaving the White House executive offices. An FTC He CHES Se) ep . aE, PE SEE a 4m ULE SCAR fa CVAIDEAUD IES {Full many-a man bas lost his head, GOOD THINGS WORTH KNOWING Swallowing a piece of dry bread or cracker if a fish bone is lodged in the mg thront is a good remedy, PRO but the acid trom a lem: BN eM on slowly sucked and Cara i swallowed will dissolve figdmnac ie win sip down Ha easy j The secret. of ono WTS pies was a pint of pre @ gallon of mince meat. This imparts @ most delicious flavor. Add sugar to sweet corn when cook- ing instead of salt, it will make it tender and sweet. When making apple pie, cut the ap- ples in irregular pieces, they will not pack together as if sliced, and will cook much quicker. When flowers are too short stemmed to arrange, put them into a shallow bowl with half a dozen corks. These will float and keep the flowers in po- sition. Water in which macaroni has been cooked will make excellent starch to use for dainty lingerie garments or fine ginghams, Butter potatoes when putting them into the oven to bake, as the fat soft- ens the skin and makes a more at- tractive vegetable to serve. A good idea is a list of all jellies and preserves either in the kitchen or fruit closet where it may be add- ed to or checked as preserves are made or used. Homemade pistachio favor, Tie in @ muslin a handful of bruised peach leaves, cover with either water or milk, and let stand to absorb the tla- vor. Hither milk or water in quan- tity to use in the cave or dish you wish flavored. Mint will grow in water as many other plants, if left iv a sunny win- dow and given plenty of air. Equal quantities of coal oil (kero- sene) and linseed of! warmed and used to rub on hardwood floors will make them look like new, ‘We shape ourselves the soy or fear Of which the coming life is made; And fill our future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. ‘The tissue of the life to be We weave with colors all our own; And In the fields of destiny Sirs Kons “MORSE aS w a. A very pretty and simple salad is prepared by coring, then peeling, good- = shaped apples; slice in Aili, thin slices and dip in a Sitios, well-seasoned French REUMCDU dressing: lay on let tuce or cress and fill the center with chopped nuts and celery mixed with dressing and gar- with a small round ball of cream cheese, Beet Salad.—Slice cooked beets very thin and place on the white leaves of lettuce. Put the yolks of six hard-cooked eggs through a ricer and make a garnish for the beets; chop the whites very fine and arrange around the yolks. Serve with boiled dressing. Eastern Salad.—Cook four eggs hard; remove the shells and cut the egg In slices, removing the yolk; rub the yolk to a paste; add gradually two tablespoonfuls of ofl, two tablespoon- fuls of lemon juice, salt and cayenne to taste. Mix lightly into this dress. ing @ cupful of grated cheese and a cupful of finely chopped chicken. Gar- nish with the rings of egg whites. Serve in lettuce nests. Spinach Salad—Boil a pint of spin- ach until tender, drain and press out; remove the water; chop fine; add horse-radish, ofl and salt to season. Pack in small custard cups or timble molds; allow it to get chilled. Serve on lettuce leaves with dressing and garnish with hard-cooked whites of eggs, which have been cut in eighths to resemble daisy petals. Marine Salad.—Sc6op out the inside of unpeeled cucumbers to resemble a small green boat. Chop the pulp fine and mix with an equal quantity of chopped onion; season with French dressing or any boiled dressing, fill the boat and with a toothpick place the place card to resemble a sail. Pea and Pickle Salad.—Take a can of green peas, a cupful of chopped pea- auts and six sour pickles, also chopped. Drain the liquor from the peas, add the nuts and pickles and any good salad dressing. Serve on crisp heart laavea ht lattace. Gracious Manners, ‘The charm of gracious manners and consideration for other human beings is a quality that develops rapidly if given half a chance. The woman who is always kind creates an atmospuere of loveliness tha: is like a halo about her head. [f you are naturally shy and reticent, {t is all the more neces sary that yor should endeavor to shine a bit. it Is not lack of pleasant thoughts that worrics the self-ccr- sctous, but the fear of giving expres- sion to them. You mst try to make yourself compantonable to others. everything out of this country and our only hope to get anything to eat was on your side of the river. Now that is gone, and—ah! Dios, I do not know what we are going to do. I will not permit Amelia to go hungry,” he add- ed flercely. “If it needs be I will sac: rifice my life to get her food.” “You should not talk like that,” ad- monished Amelia, who had finished her work, as she came towards us, “It 18 a sacrilege to talk like that. God will punish you.” Amelia sat besides me and began to chatter laugh ingly about the two goats she owned, Imitating their gestures with her pret- ty hands, she told how the goats but- ted one another in an effort to cap- ture some delicacy which she offered. She told me of Pedro, a pet horned toad which she had owned for tive years. “He will come whenever I call him,” she added. “Pedro! Pedro! Pedro! Vente pa aca.” Almost immediately the little flat head of the ir‘elligent pet peeped through the open doorway. The glar- ing sunlight played upon the colors on his fat belly. He scrambled over the threshold and came running to- wards his mistress. She picked him up and held him lovingly to her cheek. “Pedrito, Pedrito,” she cried caress- ingly. “I love you so much!” and she walked to the other end of the room where she fed him a large piece of tortilla. “Well, Ramon, I must be gc-+ now,” I said. “Let's get my horse. You don't know how much I enjoyed you and your wife's company, and how refreshed I am with the meal.” “But it is carly yet,” Amelia pro- tested. “I must be back in Brownsville by five o'clock,” I replied. In a few min- utes Ramon had saddled my horse and brought it to the door of the hut. He and his wife, the horned toad, the four dogs and the two little goats were all there to see me off. I stuck my hand in my pocket to reach for money, and found I had two dollars. I held them out to Ramon. “No! No! No!—valgame dios—im- possible! You were my guest and I cannot accept your money.” 1 knew by the earnestness in his voice that my money would not be ac- cepted, so going into the cabin as though I had forgotten something, I threw the two dollars on the bedding. Then I mounted my horse and rode away, Ramon and his wife remaining in the doorway until I disappeared around the corner of the hills. The End of the Story. Four days later Floyd Gibbons of the Chicago Tribune and I were rid- ing from Brownsville to Harlingen where Col. R. L. Bullard, commanding the American troops along the Rio Grande, was stationed. We stopped at a farmhouse on the way to get a drink of water. An old American rancher, whom we knew, met us at the gate. “Are you the fellers looking out for news?” he queried. “Yep,” answered Gibbons. “We are going over to see Colonel Bullard.” “That's fine,” answered the man at the gate. “You can give him a mes. sage from me. Tell him that I killed one of the greaser bandits last night.” “Is that so?” commented Gibbons “Did he attack you?” “Nope.” “Was he armed?” “Nope. But I caught him running of with two of my chickens and a bag of corn, He said that he was hungry and was taking the stuff to his wife, but they all pull that kind of stuff around here. They put a sor. rowful tale when you catch them, and if you tarn around they will knife you in the back.” “Humph,” said Gibbons. “Will you let us see him?” “Sure,” invited the old farmer. “Come right along,” and he led the way to a clump of mesquite beyond his chicken coop. “There is the old devil,” he pointed to the pathetic figure of a small Mex- ican huddled there on the ground— ston. dead. 1 kiehad him over with my foot and beneath the clots of blood which were plastered on his once pleasant face I recognized Ramon. “Poor Amelia!” I gasped aloud. “What's that?” the farmer asked. “Nothing,” ' said as I walked away. 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The low rainfall of the extreme north of Mexico of two to three inches on the border of Arizona, and the excessive fall, reaching 156 inches, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with the high rate for Monterey and the moderate fall for the capital, show how remarkable are the hygrometric conditions due to topography. The maximum rainfall is only exceeded in very few regions of the globe. Proving an Axiom. Silence is golden, for haven't for tunes been made out of stills? Optimistic Thought. It's an ill turn that does no good to anyone. Island of Hongkong. Hongkong is an island of 30 square miles. Three Types of Feet. Three types of human feet have been noted by a British naturalist. In the most common designated, the L type, the first or great toe projects beyond the others; in the much less frequent S type the second toe extends beyond the first, as well as the others; and in the rare E type the first and second toes, longer than any others, are of equal length. The S type, which seems to be a more youthful form than the others, is more common in females than in males. Abroad and at Home. The fellow in the movie show who laughs loudest at the picture in which a woman is chasing her husband around the house with a rolling-pin is the same lad whose wife makes him go out in the back yard when he wants to smoke a cigarette.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Life in Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh girl had an admirer arrested on the charge that he had stolen her teeth. Life and love in Pittsburgh seem to be curiously exciting.—Providence Journal. Alaska's Fisheries. Since the purchase of Alaska by the United States its waters have yielded fishery products valued at more than $250,000,000. Your objection to special privilege probably is based on the fact that you are not permitted to enjoy it.—Topeka Capital. If a man also strive for masteries, yet he is not crowned, except he strive lawfully.—Il Timothy 2:5. Cuba Uses Many Raisins. 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Unlike the maritime peoples of the west of Europe, the Slavs had no easement from the colonizing of the new world. When the era of machinery dawned, they were not able, as were the English, the French and and the Germans, to get into the sunshine by catering to the world's demand for cheap manufactured goods. Moreover, they have had to bear the brunt of oriental onslaught. The South Slavs, or Serbs, Bulgaria, Herzegovina and Macedonia fell under those Comanches of Asia, the Turks. Billie's Occupation Margaret had two boy playmates harnessed up and was driving them for horses. Margaret's mother called out and asked her why she didn't let Billie play with them. He was running beside them shouting at the top of his voice. Margaret called back: "Mother, don't you know Billie's playing he's the dog?" Valuable New Metal. A new metal called Titan bronze makes it possible to manufacture drop forged bronze that will take the place of brass castings. 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