Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY COLORADO, WYOMING, MONTANA, IDAHO AND NEW MEXICO A POLITICAL FORECAST 1 VOL. XX11. A POLITI FOR JONATHAN COVER With the big political conventions but a little more than a month distant, the quadrennial battle for the control and direction of the domestic affairs and foreign policies of the government may be considered well under way. The interests and anxieties which hedge about the gathering of these important bodies are at this time far in excess of normal. The ordinary four year national event develops only two questions of commanding importance; each of them centering in the speculation as to the probable nominee of the Republicans and that of the Democrats. At this time one of these questions is eliminated thru the generally concerned nomination by the Democrats of the present incumbent. In its place there has, however, been interposed, thru the development and continuance of extraordinary conditions a question of such supreme importance, that its answer one way or another may be taken to foreshadow the political complexion of the government for the next four years. That question is: Will Republicans and Progressives conciliate differences; discover a common ground upon which they can stand and by forming a solid wedge of loyal Republicanism make victory sure in the battle of the ballots next November? It is encouraging to note that every indication seems to point to the achievement of this result. The political stage is being studiously and skillfully set. Scenic and property details have not been overlooked and each wheel or pulley that might have rusted during four years of disuse has been properly oiled and rigidly overhauled. Republicans and Progressives convening at the same time and in the same city, may in a most practical way, be considered a sort of political Siamese twins—these two heads claiming and controlling one and the same body, while influenced by a singleness of purpose and aspiration, were frequently at variances as to details and methods. The parties in question claim the same ideals and a virtuous impulse to save and restore the country. The methods they propose are identical and all cluster about the essential objective of turning out the Democrats. Each claims, however, and is insistent that its standard of men and principles should be rigidly proclaimed and strenuously adhered to in establishing the lines of cleavage for the coming contest. The men who stand at the head and forefront of old-line Republicanism and those in the same relationship to Progressive-Republicanism are much closer now than could have been possible after the extraordinary convention developments of four years ago. Still they cannot by any possible stretch of the imagination be considered as reflecting Patrick Henry's eloquent "One and Inseparable; Now and Forever." The spirit of conciliation is strong however, and very much in evidence. The exceptionally prominent and potent position in which the United States is placed in regard to world politics and possibilities demands that an exalted patriotism should be conceded the foremost place in any scheme of personal duty or affection. In this spirit it is easily conceivable that the big men on either side of the line will yield much of any personal desire or opinion for what they deem the best interests of the State and the larger good of all its citizens. The three great names in the order of their apparent strength and standing with the American electorate are Roosevelt, Root and Hughes. The two former have already a number of instructed delegates and others, too, who stand committed as favorable, tho uninstructed. The attitude of Justice Hughes reflects, and perhaps very properly so, the dominant characteristics of the Sphinx. But his friends and supporters are insistent. Doubtless he'll have to break the silence soon. The ex-president no doubt carries an enormous amount of popular sentiment and at the same time more than one man's share of the most bitter and venomous hatred. It is impossible that this should be otherwise, for no other man in the republic has so persistently broken precedents and violated traditions in the interest of the fundamental ideals of justice and humanity. He is the veritable Stormy Petrel of American life and politics. He has not required that a man be big and white to secure his sympathy and favor. He might be little and he might be black, but in either case he had of necessity to be right and "have his quarrel just." One of these men will, in all probability, be the standard bearer to break a political lance with the present occupant of the White House, that is if the spirit of conciliation prevails. If it does not and personal differences be insistent, as was the case in 1912 then from the three names mentioned may be selected two, each of whom will be the nominee of his party for election to the highest office within the gift of the American people. Should this happen, we'll all, like good and loyal patriots, step up and take a little more Wilson, "That's all." All Averse to Drugs It is the dictum of scientists that it is better to suffer the worst torment from pain and torture from sleeplessness than to resort to the allurement and temporary soothing and lullabies of drugs, for once the drug habit is formed the victim is directly within the grasp of the devil and damnation. This is the testimony of all who have submitted to the lure of opium, morphine, chloral, hashish, cocaine, heroin and kindred drugs, which have so mul-tiplied within the last few years as to tell the whole story of the increase of the habit, which may be accepted in a large sense as indicative of the increase of insomnia and the conditions that lead to insomnia. DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. MAY 13, 1916 ROBERT W. SPEER ELECTED MAYOR OF DENVER. The Hon. Robert W. Speer, who was elected Mayor on Tuesday, May 9th, by a majority of 8,727 as Mayor of the City and County of Denver, will take up his position within a few days, applying all his energy to build Denver along the lines of his charter amendment, and whose watchword, PROSPERITY, will be the guiding star of his administration for a Greater and Better Denver. The result of the election proves the confidence of the people in Mr. Speer, and all should join in lending their assistance to the successful carrying out of his plans. Knowing the Mayor-elect for thirty years, twenty-five of which he engaged in public service of some sort, we are satisfied that he is qualified to conduct our city's affairs, and his word, which is always relied on, will find every fulfillment in the growth of Denver and the attractions offered to business men to invest without fear of influences that place a stumbling-block in the road of progress. With Mr. Speer's promise to run the city government on non-partisan political lines and the introduction of his industrial bureau, in which special attention will be paid to industrial and economic conditions, universal satisfaction is being expressed by the working class as well as the business men and factory owners, and every opportunity will be afforded him to give his system a fair and proper trial. Associated with Mayor Speer will be four Cabinet officers, whom he will appoint, as Manager of Improvements and Parks, Manager of Revenue, Manager of Health and Charity and Manager of Safety and Excise. These app pointments will surely be among men experienced in civic life, who will be particularly interested in the upbuilding of Denver and who will heartily shout the slogan "PROSPERITY BEFORE US!" In congratulating Mr. Speer on his selection by the people for this high [Image of a man in profile, wearing a suit and tie]. and noble position, THE COLORADO STATESMAN offers its best wishes for a successful administration and promises to do its part in bringing conspicuously before the people through its columns progress made from time to time which will result in making Denver become one of the greatest commercial and educational centers of the country, of which we will be justly proud. A LONG PULL, A STRONG PULL AND A PULL ALTOGETHER will place on record an administration of which not only Denver will boast, but Colorado in her book of memories will inscribe indelibly the name of ROBERT W. SPEER. (From Journal & Guide, Norfolk, Va.) Certain that the 12 or 15 sailors who had chased his brother, George Carter, Wednesday afternoon from Washington street to Charlotte Cumberland, intended to lynch him. Willie Carter, a 19-year-old Colored youth, snatched a pistol from a store in which he worked on Washington street, followed the mob, and, when they were dragging his brother out of a house at the corner of Charlotte and Cumberland streets, fired on the sailors, killing two of them, each of whom had a hold on his brother. The mob quickly dispersed, the sailors and marines seeking cover, and the boy who did the shooting made his escape and had not been apprehended up to the time of our going to press. Immediately after the shooting, sailors and marines began to gather from all parts of the city, beat upon starting another lynching, and when a group of them saw Carl Reed, a colored boy about 18 years o'd, on Church street, they made a dash for him crying "String him up, string him up." Seven police officers came to Young Reed's rescue and he was placed in an automobile and carried to the first precinct police station, not before the sailors had handled him roughly, however. and marines seeking cover, and the boy who did the shooting made his escape and had not been apprehended up to the time of our going to press. Immediately after the shooting, sailors and marines began to gather from all parts of the city, bent upon starting another lynching, and when a group of them saw Carl Reed, a colored boy about 18 years o'd, on Church street, they made a dash for him, crying "String him up, string him up." Seven police officers came to Young Reed's rescue and he was placed in an automobile and carried to the first precinct police station, not before the sailors had handled him roughly, however. PLAIN TALK FROM A WHITE MAN VETERAN WRITER AND JOURNALIST OF JACKSONVILLE. ILL, GIVES ANOTHER VIEW TO RACE PREJUDICE Jacksonville, Ill. (Reciprocal News Service.) On Sunday, April 16, there appeared in the Jacksonville Daily Journal what is regarded here and elsewhere by those who read it as the most forceful denunciation of "The Birth of a Nation," as well as the most timely compliment to the work of the Negro as a citizen, that has yet been presented. The writer, Mr. J. M. Swales, says: The picturization of the events during the reconstruction period from 1868 to 1872 is one gigantic, colossal lie, gilded and sugar-coated, which makes it easy for the present generation to swallow. It is a masterpiece of misrepresentation and a reflection on the Union soldier who gave the best that was in him and slipped off the four best years of his life. It is also a reflection on the character of the real sons of "southern chivalry" ane the southern character in general. Those who lived through that period of the nation's history know that the "Rev" Thomas Dixon, at one time an eminent sky pilot, quit the pulpit and turned to the literary field because there was more in it for him than trying to bring sinners to the mourner's bench. Like many others of his ilk be is out for the money, and the sinners be blowed. He pictures the Ku Klux Klan as a band of heroes, composed of the best blood of the south, when the truth is that the Klan was composed mostly of the riffraff and sum of the south, a lot of cowardly cuffians who did all their acts of "heroism" in the night, and the blacker the night the better to carry on their work of assassination with the dagger and bloody rape. In the four years of the red reign of the Ku Klux, scores and hundreds of innocent whites and blacks were done to death by this gang of murderous cutthroats because they dared to stand for the Union and the flag that has never yet been furled in the face of an enemy. The whole thing is the song of the siren of secession and disunion wafted back to us from a thousand battle fields and should be suppressed before the poison picturized permeates the life of the nation—more especially the generations that have come upon the stage of actions since the close of the rebdest period in our national life—a war that filled a million graves and caused rivers of tears to flow for loved ones who laid down their lives not for "the birth of a NO 39 nation," but the salvation of a nation born at Concord and Bunker Hill, and not in the brain of the "Rev." Thomas Dixon. The story is a beautiful perversion of history and as a screen production has no parallel in the moving picture industry. Therein lies the seductive danger. This is well known by the sky pilot who wrote the "Clansman," and Mr. Griffith who put it on the screen. But they are in it for what they can get out of a gullible public. I wonder if the fact ever occurred to the author of the "Clansman" that if he and his ilk (meaning the Ku Klux Klan) had not fired on the flag at Fort Sumter five and fifty years ago this month there would have been no necessity for the four years of reconstruction and the dark days of blood and death that followed in their train? "A house divided against itself cannot stand," said the immortal Lincoln. Let Mr. Dixon pass in or out and softly close the door. St. Augustine, Fla., May 4.—In what was regarded preliminary steps to test the recently enacted State law making it illegal for which persons to teach colored children three nuns from St. Joseph's content were placed under technical charges of arrest here yesterday. They were allowed their freedom on their own recognition. The charges, it was said, were brought at the instigation of several, who sought to test the law, and it was indicated that the case probably would be carried to the United States Supreme Court. Boston, Mass., April 26.—When Miss Bosfield was first discharged from the state hospital some time ago, a storm of protest went up from quite a number of people, not only in Massachusetts, but in many parts of the country. But like many other cases most of the protestants forgot about the case and left it to die, and the young woman, out of her position that she had competed for, and won. But the Equal Rights League of Boston, led by Mr Monroe Trotter editor of the Boston Guardian, kept up the fight until the case finally reached the governor of the state, who heard the case with his council and he decided that Miss Bosfield's discharge was a case of pure discrimination on account of color. Therefore the governor issued the following order: "Ordered That it is the opinion of the Governor and council that Miss Bosfield should be reinstated forthwith in the position from which she was discharged at the Medfield State Hospital; that notice of this order be transmitted to the trustees of said hospital and any other officer having jurisdiction, in order that the requisite steps may be fourthwith taken to secure reinstatement." THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS- PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS, ‘Wentern Newspaper Union Paws Rervice, ABOUT THE WAR pea ala te ica il tao i Sea tata of Denmark. Mexican raiders killed boy mute and three U. 8. soldiers at Glenn Springs, Tex. German infantry attack launched “at Hill No. 304 stopped by French curtain of fire. Italian aircraft raid Durazzo, Al- bania, and Austrian airmen raid Av- Jona and Brindist, Constantinople reports big uprising of natives in Sudan against British, who are retreating to Nile. Berlin reports sinking of transport in Mediterranean and death of nearly 600 Russian soldiers aboard. Germans continue shelling of Rus- sians at Ikskull bridgehead, which bas been in progress many days. Germans and French at Verdun deadlocked in desperate fighting, neither side being able to advance. Germans report twenty-six allied aeroplanes destroyed in April and ad- mit loss of twenty-two machines. Petrograd reports Turkish cruiser Breslau bombarded Eupatoria, an un- fortified health station in the Crimea. White Star liner Cymric torpedoed by submarine. London reports one other British ship and one French vessel sunk, Dispatches received in Paris from Saloniki are to the effect that there has been vigorous activity on the Macedonian front. Russians drive Turks from moun- tain chain in Armenia, in region of Husk, and also drive Turks before them in move toward Bagdad. A full squadron of 230 men of the Eleventh cavalry surprised and routed 9» much larger force of Vil- listas at Ojo-Azules, seventeen miles south of Cusihuiriachic, killing forty- two Mexicans and taking many pris- oners, With 8,000 additional troops under orders for the Mexican border, in- cluding 4,000 national guardsmen from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, Washington officials felt that neces- sary steps had been taken to prevent further raiding of American border towns by bandits. WESTERN The Arizona Republican delegates to the Chicago convention go unin- structed. R. W. Kramer, of ‘Tucson, was chosen State Deputy of the Knights of Columbus of Arizona. The strike of 15,000 electrical work- ers and shell-makers of the Westing- house Electric and Manufacturing Co., at Bast Pittsburg, Pa., ended in a mad rush of the strikers to regain their old places under the old work- ing conditions and salaries, The Wyoming Democratic State Convention at Casper, unanimously elected John E, Osborne national commiiteeman and named Gov. J. B. Kendrick, George T. Johnson, J. R. Carpenter, Peter Kinney, J. J. Cash and P J, O'Connor delegates to the national convention at St. Louis, Six delegates to the Republican Na: tional Convention were elected at the Wyoming State Convention at Chey- enne. They are: D, &. Hollister, Cody; Ralph Denio, Sheridan; Pat rick Sullivan, Casper; John Hay Rock Springs; C. L. Hinkle, Chey enne and Thomas Sneddon, Diamond ville, ‘The peace strength of the Arizona Naticnal Guard, included in. orders by Secretary Baker sending more men to the border for patrol duty, is 860 men, according to Adjt Gen. Charles W. Harris. The militia could be recruited to its full war strength of 1800 men within five days if neces sary, he said. Equipment for the full strength of the force is on hand. w fON The Senate passed without a rec ‘ord vote the Bankhead good roads Déil to spend $85,000,000 in construc- tion of post roads, contingent on an €qiu) e.penditure by the states. Ap propriaticn for $10,000,000 for roads in national forests is included. Williay, M, Ingrahaw of Portland, Maine, took up his dut es as assistant secrotary of war, succeeding Henry Brgckenridge, resigned In announcing b!e determination to retire frum «ig Senate neat March, Senator v'Gorman of New York would add nothing to a formal state- ment he had prepared. Supplies forwarded by the Ameri ean Red Cross for , war relief in Burope reached a total value of more than $1,000,000 during the first nine- teen months of hostil’ties FOREIGN Four more rebel prisoners were sentenced to death by court-martial and shot in Dublin. A Havas dispatch from Athens says that several pretenders to the throne of Albania are conducting active propaganda, The Afton Bladet prints a rumor of an unsuccessful plot by Socialists and anarchists against the life of King Gustave of Sweden. The revolutionists have organized a southern republic in Canton, em- bracing the provinces of Yunnan, Kweichow, Kwangtung and Kwangsi. Four more of the leaders in the Irish revolt have been sentenced to death by the Dublin court-martial and executed, according to an official statement issued in London. ‘The Irish question was aguin raised in the house of commons by Laurence Ginnell, nationalist, who attacked the government on account of the put- ting to death of leaders of the Dub: lin uprising. Joseph Plunkett, one of the leaders in the rebellion, was married in Dub- lin, an hour before he was put to death, to Miss Giffard, sister of Mrs, Thomas MacDonagh, widow of one of the first rebels who was put to death after court-martial. ‘The postmaster general of Sweden, according to the Overseas News Agency, has protested to the British authorities, “against the illegal con- fiscation of at least 15,000 money or- ders, sent during April from the United States to Sweden.” Direct word from Washington that President Wilson will accept Ger. many’s submarine concessions, has caused the greatest satisfaction at Berlin. ‘The public now believes the German-American controversy is de- finitely closed. The newspapers are discussing the possibility that Presi. dent Wilson may prove acceptable to Germany as a peace mediator when the time comes to end the world-war. SPORTING NEWS Standing of Wentern League Clubs. Clubs — Won, Lost. Pet, WOPGKOs;ermceeeeserser 20 (5 (68T EinGGIne cacecsssesa seve 10) 16) 1-086 WABNItwhciceoper erties 10, 1G. NARS: Omahaencss.sosccsses GB 7 688) Des Moines y.vvseserres 79 ABT SiouxiCityiccsaj.Jcss2. % 40) 412 Dienverts-c-tsseourses-7 6) 30 misTE BE SSOMEDI cocsvesssoce (BASS eas: Thitry-five members were enrolled in the Pueblo Rifle Club. Kansas defeated Nebraska, 68 to 41, In the ninth annual dual meet at Lawrence, Kan. | Umpire Anderson was beaten se verely by a crowd of fans at the Wichita baseball game — between Wichita and Topeka of the Western League, which Topeka won, § to 6. W. R. Crosby of O'Fallon, Ml, and Jake Gibbs, Union City, Tenn. pro- fessionals, had perfect scores of 100 breaks in the practice shoot at Mem: phis, Tenn., preliminary to the South- ern trap shooting tournament. Omaha will be awarded the silver loving cup offered by Gov. Arthur Capper of Kansas to the team in the Western League that had the largest attendance on opening day, according to a message from President F. C. Zehrun of Topeka. Iron Mask, Syear-old gelding by DisguiseRoyal Rose, owned by Jett Livingston, died at the Kentucky As: sociation farm at Lexington, In 1914, at Juarez, Iron Mask set a new world’s record for three-quarters of a mile, 1:09 35. Later in the same year and at the same track he went five and a half furlongs in 1.03 25, which was a new world’s record, GENERAL New Mexico's forces, comprising approximately 1,100 men, are ready to start to the border, according to Ad: jutant General Herring, Eleven companies of coast artillery stationed at Guf and Atlantic coast posts were ordered to San Antonio, Tex., to serve as infantry with the border patrol. Reuben H. Shafford was brought to trial in the United States District Court at Cheyenne, Wyo. charged with attacking a young woman in the Yellowstone National Park in 1914. A violent wind storm which swept Minnesota and parts of North Dakota and western Wisconsin caused con: siderable property damage. At Two Harbors, Minn. a man was killed by lightning. At Crookston, Minn., a abernacle was unroofed during serv. ces but no one was hurt. ‘The roof of the grandstand at a La Crosse, Wis,, baseball park was lifted by the wind and dropped on a street car, slightly injuring several passengers. Hope that at the end of the present war the nations of the world would undertake a joint effort to keep the peace, backed by a common police orce, was expressed by President Wilson in an interview with a com- mittee of the American Union Against Militarism, which called to pretest against his preparedness pro- sram and advise him that they had found a fear of militarism in the country west of the Alleghenies. Robert Fay, former Meutenant in he German army, and his brotherin- aw, Walter Scholz, convicted in the Federal Court in New York of con- spiring to destroy munitions ships of the allies through bomb contrivances, were sentenced to eight years each in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. Paul Daeche, also convicted but with a recommendation of leniency, was sentenced to two years. Seven thousand union men, mem- bers of sixteen urfons in the build. Ing trades, were called on strike at Bt. Louls, COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. "Store: Morgans oe a Fort Morgan is to haye a baseball team. ‘The Loveland Chautauqua date has been changed to July 1. President Wilson nominated J. O. Miller for postmaster at Boulder. Loveland is preparing to sell $79, 00 bonds to build a light plant. Revival services are being held in the Methodist church in Florence. The Loveland Canning Company {s preparing for the 1916 campaign. ‘The First Presbyterian Church at Greeley is arranging to build a $50,- 000 chureh, Fort Morgan's Frontier Days’ cele- bration this year will be held Sep- tember 5:8. Sixyear-old Andy Urban fell into the Bessemer ditch in Pueblo and was drowned, Governor Carlson appointed Rev. F. B. Cain, of Fruita, chaplain at the Canon City Penitentiary. Edward P, Pitkin, 81, Civil war vet- eran, and member of Byron L. Carr Post, G, A. R., died in Denver, M. L. Mowry, of Wiggins, was bad- ly crushed beneath his wagon, which was loaded with wheat and logs. Camp Loveland is coming into prominence as one of the mining cen- ters in the tungsten district of Boul- der county, A frame house, valued at $3,500, belonging to Mrs, B. C. Rollin, a wid- owed school teacher at Victor, was destroyed by fire. Martin Morales pleaded guilty at Fort Collins to bootlegging, and was sentenced to from one year to fifteen months in the penitentiary. ‘The largest “melon” ever cut in the West by a corporation will be dis- tributed in July by the Great West- ern Sugar Company, say Denver re- ports, The Rev, Joshua L. Gravett, pastor of Galilee Baptist church in Denver, celebrated the quarter-century anni- versary of his services. as pastor of that chureh. . William G, M. Stone, 84 years old, well known throughout the state be- cause of his work on behalf of Colo- rado forests, died at his. home in Longmont. According to an inventory filed by Mrs, Sallie M. Lee, the estate of former Mayor W. S. Lee, of Denver, is only $7,250, with special bequests amounting to $7,000. ‘The trangcontinental _raflroads through their vice president and traf- fie managers, have offered to make a number of important adjustments in Colorado freight rates. Frank Winters, 22, a machinists’ helper at Pueblo, was thrown from a plunging motoreycle with such force that his skull was fractured and he died at St, Mary's hospital. Driven to suicide by something in his past life that would not let him alone, J. H. Johnson, 52, a wealthy Swedish farmer living six miles southeast of Longmont, shot himself. Porter Bveland, for years chief electrical engineer and inspector of the Colorado Power Company and who until a short time ago lived in Denver and Boulder, died in Phila- delphia. Walter, the 9-year-old son of Henry Mall, of Fort Morgan, was smothered to death when the bank of the San Arroyo irrigation ditch slid down on the cave in which he and his lit- tle brother had been playing, At a meeting of representatives from leading Northern —Colorade towns he'd in Fort Collins, an organ- ization was perfected and plang were adopted for the holding of the an- hual tennis tournament at Boulder, July 18 and 19, At a meeting of the State Board of Pardons, the case of Gerrit J Van Wyk, a Hollander who was sen- tenced to the State Penitentiary for life on the charge of having mur- dered his sisterinlaw, Gertrude Uaast, will be heard. Three enlisted men from the Colo rado National Guard will be given the opportunity of taking examinations on June 6 for admission to the mili: tary academy at West Point, accord ing to the provisions of the act passed ‘Sy Congress on May 4, A new ore, valuable for fluxing Purposes in the manufnoture of iron and steel products, has been discov: ered in the vicinity of Cortez, Monte zuma county. It is called “hallarite” after its discoverer, and, although its exact composition is held a seeret, it is sald to contain 10 por cent of ar See AST acco etna a TY Aah | at geen $465,000,000 IN GOLD STORED BY UNCLE SAM IN DEN- VER TREASURE HOUSE. Largest Amount on Deposit in Any Mint or Subtreasury, but Not Greatest Ever Stored in Denver, Western Newspaper Union News fervice. Denver—The stock of gold now stored in the Denver mint by the United States government is the larg est on deposit in any government mint or subtreasury in the country. This condition has been brought about by the Buropean war. Until re cently the subtreasury in New York and the mint in San Francisco had the largest amount of gold. This was due to foreign exchange and the re- ceipt of gold from Hurope and Asia at these ports. Little gold has come from foreign countries since the war began and as a result the stock in the Denver mint now is larger than in either the New York subtreasury or the San Fran- ‘cisco mint, | ‘The gold on hand at the Denver ‘mint is $465,000,000. It comprises about one-third of the government's entire gold reserve. Deposits of bul- lion at the local mint have been in- creasing lately. The gold now stored in the Denver mint is not, however, the largest amount ever held there at one time. Several years ago it reached $28,000,- 000, the largest amount stored under any one roof in the world. The gov- ernment removed large stocks of gold to Denver from San Francisco at that time on account of danger of trouble between this country and Japan. Q Colorado and the | Entire West & a ae 2 ; A RELIABLE chronicle ; of their doings and 2 progress; a faithful mirror : of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. THE - COLORADO 2 | STATESMAN EAE ET I ; Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business : of professional men and women. _ An excellent family journal » speaking toand-for many § thousand colored citizens. Rh pa a oe ae (eee era ee eee } TWODOLLARSA YEAR RNR Re rar cs Rt care Tre ae R ‘ ; THE GREAT ORGAN —————_ OF THE ———_____ : ‘ LABORING MASSES | Bandit Served Two-Year Sentence. Golden—William 1. Carlisle, the Union Pacific train robber, served a two-year sentence at the State In- dustrial School at Golden from 1900 to 1902 for stealing shoes from his father at Loveland. Carlisle was brought to the institution April 25, 1900, and was released on parole dur- ing March, 1902. Carlisle's conduct while at the school was good. Carl- isle"s Zather, who at that time owned a small shoe store at Loveland, de- clared the boy was incorrigible and that he could not control him, Aged Labor Agitator Visits Denver. Denver—“Mother” Jones arrived in Denver for what she said was likely to be a three months’ visit in Colo- rado. She explained her presence in the state by saying that she “just wanted to see how the boys down in the coal fields were getting on.” The aged agitator, still vigorous in spite of her years, declared that the Rocke: feller industrial plan, now in effect among the Colorado Fuel & Iron em: ployés in the southern coal fields and in the steel plant at Pueblo, was doomed to failure, Predicts Big Yield for Long Time. Grand Junction—D, B. Wright, man- ger of the Book Cliff Coal Mine and Rallway, has completed an investiga- tion of the mine which the Isaae Wy- man millionaire estate leased to him. He finds that this mine, the oldest mine in Mesa county, established on 920 acres of coal land, after being in operation twenty-six years, has enough coal in sight now to furnish 150 tons a day for forty years, Farmer Burned Out. Ault—Joe Sachez of the Cactus Hill district west of here, lost his barn, six head of cows, three head of horses and a large quantity of hay, crain and farming implements by a ‘ire of unknown origin. The loss is estimated at $2,000, with no insur. ance, Neighbors are helping him get started In farm work again. ged Woman Dies, Clothing Aflame. Pueblo—Mrs, Saraly Field, 77, was burned to death in her home here The woman lived alone and it is pre- sumed she accidentally overturne.! the lamp setting on a table at the head of her bed, ‘The bed clothing caught fire and Mrs Field, who was ill, was unable to beat out the flames Man Fallat Nipaty Beet add Dika. Pueblo.—George Savigh, 34, a Ser vian, died at the Minnequa hospita. ag the result of a ninety-foot fall from the top of one of the blast furnaces af, the steel works, Pete Medonovich Who was struck by the body of Su tigh, is in a serfous condition. Baby Burned to Death. Cafion Gity~Teddy tiughart, the 2yearold son of W. W. Hughart, wa burned to death at the home of his parents here, State Rests in Dickens Case. Boulder, May 10.—Ihe state has rested its case against Rienzi C. Dick ens, charged with the turder of his father. Mad Suitor Kills Gil With Razor, Pueblo.—Agosta Magnello, 30 years old, killed Carmeilo Suiiio, a 17-year old bride, on one of the main street of Pueblo, by slashing her throat with a razor, He then fired a shot into the girl’s body and fied. An inspector who saw the killing hell Magnello un cil a policeman toox him into custody Magnello declares that the gt:l bride, who was married about two years ago and whose husband has disappeared. had promised to’ marry him and then had refused to carry out the compact. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS For 15 years O T. Jackson was the only Negro farmer near Boulder, Colo. He was industrious and was well liked by his white neighbors, but in the planting and harvest times when there was a dearth of farmhands they could generally outbid him in the labor market, leaving him without assistance at the crucial times He found it impossible to keep colored farm hands for any length of time because, with no other members of their race near at hand, they found it a lonely life. In 1906 Jackson began to think about the situation and decided that what was needed was a community of colored people which would be large enough to be self-sufficient. Having come to a decision he started to work out his plans. Since then there has grown up on former government land in Weld county, Colo., a settlement of 250 Negro men and women fairly started toward independence. The name of the settlement is Dearfield, and the force behind it is the Dearfield Developing company, organized on a cooperative basis and preaching self-help. The story of the struggles which the founder and the small group of pioneers which he gathered around him had, and of the momentum which the movement gained as it became successful, is told by W. J. Harsha in an interview with Jackson in the Southern Workman. Efforts were first made to obtain suitable land from the state land office, but none was found available. Then attention was directed to the federal authorities and locations were offered in three different counties in Colorado. Jackson and the two or three men whom he had associated with him finally selected the Weld county site because of its fertility, availability of water, and good railroad connections with the large markets of Denver only 70 miles away. The Jackson family was the first to settle, in May, 1910, and a home was established a year later. Of the first settlers Mr. Jackson says: "I met most of the first settlers in a casual way—in restaurants and barber shops and on street corners. I was invited to speak at our Denver church on the importance to our people of getting land before it is too late; after the meeting people crowded around me asking for particulars. After several men had filed they sent their friends to me. Woman claimants—widows, spinsters, deserted wives—were particularly active. We publish a little paper and mention in it all filings made, and this attracted attention. I am now receiving lots of mail and many callers asking for homes. "The Dearfield settlers were as poor as people could be when they took up homesteads. Their advancement has been something wonderful for our people, who know nothing of pioneer life. Some who filed on their claims had not enough money to ship their household goods and pay all their railroad fare. They paid their fare as far as they could and walked the balance of the way to Dearfield. Soon after arriving in Dearfield they secured work with the wealthy white farmers in the district and began to build houses on their claims. Some lived in tents, others in ducouts, and some in natural caves in hillsides. "The first year there were only seven families in the settlement, and we had only three teams. We managed to get in some garden corn, nelons, pumpkins, squash, Mexican A big piece of work done at Daytona by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was the clearing up of the turpentine districts. Such places have an evil reputation in the South. A man will buy a large tract of pine forest for the purpose of getting the turpentine. He puts up a few shanties and a distillery and gathers together the riff-raff that he can find on the streets and sets them to work at small pay and large promise of rum. Women are sent out as cooks, and the place is soon unavovoringly spoken of as a "turpentine camp." "We are changing conditions down there." Mrs Bethune declared. "Once a week two or three workers or students of the school are sent to the various camps to speak to the women and children. The people are shown the right method of living, the dignity of the home, and the error of their ways. The children get three months of schooling every year. The men get higher wages and have learned how to spend and save judiciously. We have established a temperance sentiment in everything, and have driven out strong drink. We carried the polls when Day A new method of using coal in competition with oil fuel has been tried at Vancouver, British Columbia. Those conducting the experiments say that crushed coal can be supplied to steam producing furnaces by the same method in use for oil. It is proposed to use the new process for smelting in the big mining plants. Japan is planning to adopt an alphabet of 47 letters, including most of the Roman characters, some Russian and the rest original symbols. beans and potatoes. We cleared a few acres for hay ground, removing the sagebrush by hand, the women and children wielding grubbers as industriously as the men, though not as sturdily, perhaps; and after grubbing we plowed, harrowed and burned the remaining brush." Suffering in the little community was intense during the first winter. There were only two frame houses. Firewood had to be carried from three to seven miles. Three of the horses died from starvation, and the other three were too weak to pull even an empty wagon, Mr. Jackson continued. Yet the little group managed to keep up their own and each other's courage, and after the first winter was weathered, further problems and hardships were more easily met and overcome. Now, in addition to having settled all the available claims, a small Negro town is growing up at Dearfield, where professional men, tradespeople, artists and manufacturers on a small scale serve the needs of the farming community. From the inception of the settlement Jackson and his colleagues tried to advertise their movement for a Negro farming community in such a way that white people would not hear about it and come in and take up the land where it was hopeful that colored farmers would settle. These efforts were only successful in a measure, and many of the best locations were taken up by white settlers. At the same time Mr. Jackson speaks with considerable satisfaction of the type of white man who came into the community, and of the fact that most of them have shown a willingness to sell out their holdings at reasonable valuations to prospective Negro settlers. Owing to the laws governing the taking up of homesteads it was not possible for the settlers to gather together and clear one common plot for cultivation. Instead, the method of co-operative help used was for a group to collect on the homestead of one settler after another and clear away enough land on each claim to start the prospective owner. In this way each colonist soon had under cultivation the amount of land required by the government for proving up his title to the homestead. After the first few years, during which it was absolutely necessary to devote all the tillable land available to the cultivation of the commonest staples and forage for the stock, the farmers gradually began to add various kinds of vegetables and fruits, including the inevitable watermelon, not only for home consumption, but also as a surplus, was raised, for sale in the markets of Denver. Then attention was turned to improving the yield of the crops, particularly hay, until now the colony has passed from the stage of bare self-sufficiency to increasing prosperity. The scarcity and high price of coal in Spain has become a problem as well as a menace to all manfacturing industries in that country. With lessened importations of British coal and soaring prices for freight more attention is being paid to domestic coal, of which there are large undeveloped deposits. According to returns, 1,595,028 tons of coal were imported into Spain and 167,795 tons of coke during the first 11 months of 1715, in contrast to 2,313,630 tons of coal and 328,107 tons of coke in 1914, a decrease of 718,602 tons of coal and 160,312 tons of coke. tona had to vote on the drink question. Three hundred and fifty of our children marched through the streets singing songs of prayer and faith. I was waiting at the poll and as the men passed me I begged them in the names of their families and the citizenship with which they could do so much, to vote dry—and they did. "I consider the Daytona school a civilizer. I do not know of a better name to give it. The spirit of efficiency is instilled into the minda of the people. I want to bring about a dignity of labor and service The work has grown a good deal since I first began. We have added truck gardening, poultry raising, dairying, and chair caning to the curriculum. Our girls go out and become efficient workers, among whom are numbered dressmakers, laudresses, teachers, and students in higher schools. A great deal of stress is laid on moral and religious training, I believe that that is the only foundation." The United States public health service maintains a loan library of stereopticon slides. A Californian has patented a document envelope with an inner lining of asbestos covered with carbon paper to receive and retain copies of inscriptions written on an outer paper covering should the latter be destroyed by fire. The government is encouraging experiments in France with a device to protect against hail, essentially a large lightning rod of pure copper, which is said to so affect atmospheric electricity that hallstones cannot form. WILL BE ENFORCED BY STATE BANK COMMISSIONER. Frank R. Stanisfield Named Deputy to Assist Rono Reed in Examining State Banks. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Enforcement of the loan shark law passed by the Legislature in 1913 will be begun by the State Bank Commissioner's department. The law has been in the courts since it was passed until a few days ago, when the State Supreme Court upheld it in the case of E. J. Cava-naugh against the people. Under the law no individual on concern can loan money at a rate of more than 12 per cent a year unless a license at a cost of $50 is taken out from the state and a bond of $2,000 filed. If the license is obtained the maximum interest which can be charged is 24 per cent a year or 2 per cent a month. Investigations made recently in this city showed that many firms were charging as high as 10 per cent a month on loans. Under an opinion from Attorney General Farrar interest beyond the maximum prescribed cannot be charged on loans of securities "either tangible or intangible." The attorney general interpreted the word "intangible" to apply to notes which are backed by "character, reputation and general standing in the community." Enforcement of the law will be under J. S. Steadley, deputy bank commissioner. The enforcement will mean additional work for the department, so Frank R. Stanisfield has been appointed a deputy commissioner to assist Rono Reed in examining the state banks A total of 14,558 shipments of liquor was received in Colorado during March, according to W. B. Slife, flat tax clerk of the secretary o. state's department, who has finished compiling figures for that month. The state received as its half of the payments on the shipments $1,826.12, as compared with $1,111.07 for February and $438.53 in January. Shipments for April promise to show the same steady increase, from the few scattering reports already received from the smaller counties. The greatest number of shipments received during March were by Denver county, totaling 5,186. Pueblo county received 1,355; El Paso, 686; Weld, 671, and Las Animas, 517. The total shipments received in the state during February were 8,387 and in January 3,506. Hold Third Telephone Hearing. The third of a series of hearings in an investigation into the reasonableness of the rates and rules and the adequacy of the service of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company was held at the State house. The cost of reproduction and the present book value of the plant were gone into by experts for both the commission and the company as a preliminary step to public hearings on the rates now in effect. The next of the series of hearings is scheduled for June 12. Allen Doesn't Want Bar Endorsement. Following George W. Musser's letter to the chairman of the elections committee of the Colorado bar, refusing to submit his name to the bar election of candidates to be selected to be presented to the conventions of the various political parties to fill the two vacancies in the State Supreme bench this fall, Judge George W. Allen wrote a letter to the chairman declining to submit to the bar method. Contracts for Road Work Awarded. The contract for the concrete road work to be done this year on the South Golden highway from Denver to the Denver mountain parks was awarded by the State Highway Commission. Work on the paving will be begun within a few days. There will be about five miles built this year. The cost will be approximately $14,000 a mile. Civil Service Glves Ruling. The State Civil Service Commission notified the State Public Utilities Commission that its members cannot be recognized as heads of departments under the provisions of the merit law, and that, therefore, they are not each entitled, to a stenographer who is exempt from the civil service examination. Governor's Conference June 27. The ninth annual governors' conference will be held at Salt Lake June 27, according to word received by Governor Carlison. It is expected many of the governors will participate in a camping trip through Yellowstone park. To Add 500,000 Acres to Forest Area. The Federal Departments of Agriculture and the interior have united in favor of a bill introduced by Congressman Timberlake adding 500,000 acres to the Colorado National Forest area, according to dispatches from Washington. The land will be taken from Boulder, Larimer and Well counties and will include the watershed of the city of Boulder. Congressman Timberlake first introduced a bill to add 480,000 acres to the forestry area but the Interior Department protested. NOTE TO AMBASSADOR GERARD OFFERS INDEMNITY TO U. S. VICTIMS. NOWARNING TO CYMRIC CREW OBLIGED TO SPEND OVER SEVEN HOURS IN OPEN BOATS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, May 11.—Germany, in a note received by the State Department by cable from Ambassador Gerard, admits that a German submarine torpedoed the channel steamer Sussex in violation of assurances given the United States; expresses regret for the incident; announces that the submarine commander has been "appropriately punished" and declares readiness to pay an adequate indemnity to Americans injured on the vessel. It was indicated at the State Department that the German statement that the offending commander had been punished would be accepted and the Sussex case considered closed, except for arranging for the payment of indemnity of the several citizens of the United States who were hurt. There probably will be no attempt to negotiate for these indemnities or for final settlement of the Lusatania and other cases pending, however, until sufficient time has elapsed to indicate how the last American note was received in Berlin and whether the new submarine policy is being lived up to. It is brought out in the communication that the German submarine commander believed the Sussex was an enemy warship. In pursuing the State Department's investigation of the torpedoing of the White Star liner Cymric, American Consul Frost at Queenstown cabled from Baytry, where the Cymric survivors were landed, as follows: "No Americans on Cymric. Five British lives lost. No warning given by submarine. Wake of torpedo seen after explosion. Cymric was not armed. Weather rough. Crew in open boats from 1:30 to 9:00 p. m. May 8, former hour being that of the explosion. Cymric sunk 3:00· o'clock this morning." Teutons Begin Saloniki Attack. Fighting about Verdun has lessened in ferocity although heavy bombardments are in progress. Paris reports repulse of German attack near Hill No. 287 and capture of part of trench at Le Mort romme. Germans repulse Russian attack south of Garbunovka with heavy casualties. What appears to be the first engagement in the long-expected German offensive against Saloniki is reported from Athens, the Germans capturing a village and later being forced to evacuate it by a French counter attack. Russians defeated by Turks with heavy losses in northern Asia Minor, according to Constantinople. Turks bombard Russian ports on Black Sea in retaliation for attacks on open towns along Anatolian coast Train Robber Carlisle Found Guilty Cheyenne, Wyo.-William L. Carlisle, the "White Masked" Union Pacific train robber, was found guilty in the United States Federal Court here The jury was out less than five hours and fixed Carlisle's punishment a life imprisonment. MEXICANS CROSS INTO TEXAS De Facto Consul Turns Over to American Army Officials Raiders in Mounging Vulta Marathon, Tex., May 11.—Approximately forty bandits crossed to the American side of the Rio Grande above Eagle Pass yesterday and rode up and down the river for several miles, later crossing to the Mexican side without doing any apparent damage, according to a report here. A detachment of the Nineteenth infantry was sent to the scene. Maj. Langhorne and his command are well over the river into Mexico. Y. M. Vasquez, Mexican consul at Del Rio, Tex., who went to Boquillas at the instance of his government to investigate the raid, returned and says that he has established beyond doubt that the Boquillas raiders were Villistas. Vasquez said the three bandits captured and turned over to United States army officials wore mourning bands for Villa, whom they believe to be dead, and that the prisoners admitted they were formerly part of a detachment belonging to Canuto Reyes' command in the Laguna district, near Torreon. Sheep Camp Foul Killing Justified. Kemmerer. — That Jack Kitchin killed Albert Pfeifer in self-defense is the finding behind the verdict of not guilty returned by the jury which heard Kitchin tried in the Lincoln County District Court here. Old Strike Cases All Dismissed. Cañon City.—Ninety cases against as many defendants, arrested on charges growing out of rioting during the coal mine strike in Fremont county, were dismissed in the District Court here. the Chesapeake Fish & Oyster Co. Denver's Only Exclusive Fish and Oyster Co. Fish, Oysters, Salt, Smoked, Dried and Ca Poultry and Game of All Kinds Fifteenth Street Denver BLEY, Pres. J. C. HAMPS PAUL J. SHIRLEY, Sec. and Treas. 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While we are interested in all the delegates of the state, yet our attention is particularly directed to those from Denver County, whom we sincerely hope will act in a manner commendably of them, sinking all differences for the success of one common cause, the strengthening and restoring of the Republican party. Governor Carlson, Honorables Karl C. Schuyler, C. W. Waterman, A. M. Stevenson and Ralph W. Smith, elected from the County of Denver, are resolved on the platform of helping to bring the party together, and if they work to that end will prove that our endorsement of them in their choice as representatives was not in vain. Seeing that the Republicans have not settled on one man for the nomination, our delegates from this state must go fully equipped to combat with any grave issues which confront them, and with the fact of the "burial of the hatchet" by the Republican and Progressive parties, there is every reason to believe that these men will act in the real spirit of our Grand Old Party and destroy or remove any influence which tends to create a recurrence of the unfortunate incident of four years ago, when our ranks were thinned out by internal dissension making it possible for the Democrats to secure their election to power. Whether instructed or not, every delegation is bent upon a Republican administration for our next presidential term. Their only method is the acceptance of the candidate as the Democrats do—the thought uppermost should be THE PARTY. We have faith in our Colorado delegation, and that makes us so hopeful of one of the greatest achievements in the history of the Republican party, when we think that the men who will represent us will act so unanimously as to become a magnet in that huge assembly, drawing others to them and finally bringing about that cohesive action which is absolutely necessary to Republican success. HON. ROBERT W. SPEER, MAYOR OF DENVER In taking the stand for Mr. Booth in the election just past, we fought the cause with decency and every quality that was necessary to a manly fight. While announcement was made from our opponent's side of non-partisanship in the campaign, yet we found the majority of Democrats arraying themselves in a strong bodyguard for Mr. Speer, thereby proving loyalty to their party and we felt justified in serving our party, the Republicans, whose banner we have been under for half a century, whenever a candidate whom we know is qualified for a position is slated for election. Now we are defeated, like a well-drilled and disciplined soldier we lay our arms down and hail the victor. The electors of Denver have proven by their votes that the giving of a third term to Mr. Speer as Mayor of this city is an absolute indication of their confidence in him, and therefore we ought to strictly adhere to the wise expression of Mr. Booth in his exhibition of true manliness, when he asserts: "The thing to do now is to assist Mr. Speer, in every possible way, to give Denver the kind of government he has promised us." We have always had the highest respect for Mr. Speer's business ability and his general way of reasoning questions of importance and matters of weight for the good of the community, and we are sure that if he is allowed to carry out his system, from the harmonious working between himself and his staff, backed up and heartily supported by the citizens of Denver, nothing will result short of prosperity to our City of the Plains. The business men will no longer hesitate to invest, being satisfied that the man at the helm of our city government has made a special study of his duties—his traveling to different parts of the world and improving or enlarging his sphere of civic knowledge having given him a wonderful storehouse and a reservoir of very large capacity to draw from to carry his system of government to success. The workman in his diurnal laborious toil who had actually lost heart over the pittance in wages which cannot adequately meet the requirements of his family and hardly furnish the necessaries conducive to good living, begins to revive in spirit, and is hopeful as he is reminded of "a full dinner pall" in the promise of Mr. Speer. The wandering unemployed, with Nature's bestowal of extraordinary physical power and fitness, in his non-achievement of work as he makes his rounds day after day, cursing the day of his birth, now resurrects the good old maxim, "while there is life there is hope," as he gets assurances from Mayor Speer that there will be no bread-line, and business men and manufacturers must be prepared to increase their staff of employés, so that a lesser expenditure on workhouses and asylums for the poor will result, as every one will get a fair share of this world's goods to make him comfortable in house and home. All these evidences of prosperity are included in the promises of Mr. Speer and there can be no doubt as to the possibility of success if concerted action and loyalty of our citizens to Denver is engaged in. In our sphere we will do our part and in our impression on the public from time to time we will emphasize the idea of an united front for a cause of which the people will become the beneficiaries of a legacy which will, we hope, be permanent. Our politics differ, but our hearts beat in unison for the democracy of America, and if we work for the good of all surely success must come to the individual. Need of Conserving the Wild Bird Life By MRS. J. P. MacCULLOCH, Juliet, Ill. It seems to be a depiorable fact that the people in general do not realize the very great necessity of conserving the wild bird life of both city and country. In the city the birds will work to repay amply the small care necessary by destroying the innumerable and in many cases invisible eggs and cocoons. In the country they will do the same work on the trees and fruit bushes in early spring and in the fall, when it is remembered that the trees and bushes are laden to a large extent with embryo insect life that is almost certain to develop its full destructive power by early spring. There is great monetary value in the work done by the wild birds. The cotton growers of Texas lose every year more than forty million dollars by the boll weevil. The wheat growers lose $100,000,000 a year by the chinch bug. The farmers of the eastern states pay $15,000,000 a year for material to kill the potato bug. The apple-producing states pay from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 a year for spraying trees to keep down the codling moth. Truck raisers lose yearly $50,000,000 by insects. Shade trees everywhere and the forests are being destroyed by insect pests. Why this great loss? Ninety per cent of the bird life of this country has been destroyed. Birds, and birds only, are able to keep in check the ravages of insects. While most of the readers of this letter may not be interested in the boll weevil and the chinch bug, a great many are or should be interested in the potato bug, the rose beetle and the many common insects that infes home flower and vegetable gardens. Wild birds with very little encouragement will keep these pests down to a large extent. Getting away altogether from the commercial side of the question, there is a great deal of genuine pleasure in having the friendship of the birds, in having them call in your yard several times a day. Put out a feeding tray on a post and two suet baskets and watch your feathered friends enjoy the "handout." Of course the sparrows will try to consume the feed, but they can be chased two or three times a day when the wild birds are not around, and it has been my experience that the sparrows are more easily frightened than the wild birds. I have quite a large feeding house in the yard, where it can be easily observed from my living room window, and two suet baskets on trees near by. These luxuries have induced steady visits from bluejays, juncos chickadees (black cap), downy woodpeckers, titmouse and, best of all, a pair of cardinals. The white-breasted nuthatch also is among the visitors. I have not as yet been able to get the cardinals to come in the yard, but they come very near and eat the wheat that is put out every day. I trust that they will soon get as friendly as the rest of the birds. Vanity Will Work Wonders Among Women By THOMAS G. BARRY, New York There is no doubt of it at all that a little vanity does more to bring out a girl's best than all the modesty in the world. This does not mean that we should let ourselves grow puffed and silly with conceit. After all, overweening conceit is certainly a sign of inferior intelligence, for no one with common sense would ever allow himself to become foolishly vain. There are always scores of others far more intelligent, more beautiful, more attractive, more gifted and more fascinating than we are, if we searched with impartial eyes. To be the most accomplished and wonderful woman in the world is quite impossible, except in one's own mind, for at least a hundred other contestants would claim the same title. So, no matter how pretty or attractive a girl may be, she would be a silly idiot to become inflated over her charms. In fact, no one with any real claims to intelligence ever does become overconceited. Nevertheless, every girl should instill some grains of vanity in her system. Without it she will lose her looks and her charms. But that little spark of conceit will keep her up to the mark, will keep alive her interest in herself and others and will make her far more attractive in every way. Vanity in the proper proportions will work wonders in the weaker sex, and every one of us should have a moderate share. Divorce Is Indication of Rising Standards By Dr. JAMES P. LICHTENBERGER, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Divorce must not be regarded as an evil. It never wrecks families founded on ties of love and sympathy, but simply serves to give legal status to families Divorce Is Indication of Rising Standards Furthermore, I contend that the divorce rate does not indicate the falling off of morals among women. If anything, it denotes the coming of higher intellectual and moral standards. I should be willing to urge a law to compel families who live together without ties of mutual affection and exist under conditions in which the mother would prefer to earn her own living, rather than live with her husband, to separate. In such cases divorce is better. I believe that more good families are being formed today, despite divorce increase, than ever before in the history of the United States. Home Economics Is Social Study By MISS HEI EN HALM, Assistant Professor of Home Economics, Kansas Agricultural College Home economics means more than just cooking and sewing. It is really a social study, which meets the needs of the people and solves their problems. This study is one of the greatest of the day. Many persons are becoming interested in this work and are desirous of finding out its real significance. The teaching of home economics is being made more interesting, as the work is being vitalized; that is, connected with the study of the human side of life. This study should not be made so scientific that no one but a scientist can understand the work, but it should correlate the theoretical side of home economics with the practical problems of the day. Well-Dressed Woman Is Not Appreciated By RUTH BROWER, Akron, Ohio Who dares to say that women, poor persecuted women, are too daring in the clothes they wear? Why is it that it is always the women who are persecuted for dressing and not the men? Because the majority of the people of today are so narrow-minded that they don't appreciate a well-dressed woman. Or perhaps it is because he men do not appreciate the fact that women are dressing to please them People say that a well-dressed woman of today is an undressed woman. But they stop to think that it is only because of their evil-mindedness that a well-dressed woman is classed as such? Henning's Shoes P Have the pleasant effect of throwing the spotlight on your feet, and there are reasons: Customers appreciate beauty—Henning's styles, lasts and colorings are what girls call "adorable." Women, most of them at least, have to count dollars, and Henning's shoes, with their moderate prices, comes within the purse reach of them all. 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CARSONS 732-36 FIFTEENTH STREET (AT STOUT) FLORAL DECORATIONS Cut Flowers. PLANTS of the Best Quality at the Right Prices Funeral Designs carefully prepared Prompt Delivery COLUMBINE FLORAL COMPANY Phone Champa 2649 1535 BUY GOODS MADE IN COLORADO SURE SKIN SOAP THE NATIONAL WASH. A Cream Soap for Toilet, Bath and Shampoo. Cleans Everything it Touches. Keeps the Skin Soft and Smooth. C. J. TOLLIVER, Agent. Save money by buying wallpaper, paints and glass at S. R. Weigand & Co., 728 W. Colfax Ave., foot of Wet- ton street.. Phone Champa 3356. NEGRO YEAR BOOK. Should be in the home of every Negro. It contains the achievements, the industries and activities of the life of the Negro. NEGRO YEAR BOOK. Should be in the home of every Negro. It contains the achievements, the industries and activities of the life of the Negro is discussed. It is a race. Every phase of the economic 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. Tribute to Hubby. A Kansas woman posted this notice for peddlers and agents, who kept her doorbell busy: "I want absolutely nothing, every wish being supplied by a loving husband." nothing, every wish being supplied by a loving husband." J. H. DONIPHAN, General Agent. 1721 Marion St. THE COLORADO STATESMAN CAR PUBLISHING OF THE STATE LARUM MUNICIPAL PUBLIC HACK COUNTRY BABY THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE PEOPLE'S BUREAU OF INFORMATION 1824 CURTIS STREET Room 25. DENVER, COLORADO Phone: Main /417. Sam J. McClure, a prominent policeman of Pueblo, spent several days with friends in the city this week. Jesse Scott, returned home Monday from a three months' trip, South and East. He reports a very enjoyable as well as profitable trip. Mrs. Hetty Pulliam will leave the city next week for Kansas City, Mo., to visit her mother and other relatives and friends. James Walker, the oldest porter at the Union depot was run over by an automobile Friday night and badly injured. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Anderson of Ogden street, have added very much to the appearance of their cosy home by adding a bungalow porch with doric pillars. Secretary Thomas J. Bell of the Y M. C. A. conducted both morning and evening services at Shorter's A M. E. Church last Sunday. The attendance was very good. In another column will be found the program to be rendered at Shorter A. M. E. Church next Sunday night under the auspices of the N. A. A. C. P. This worthy association has shown wonderful growth and strength since it was founded a year ago. It is a part of its policy to hold public meetings once every two months to be addressed by some noted public speaker. On this occasion, Rabbi W. S. Friedman will deliver the principal address and this fact alone should pack Shorter to overflowing. It is to be hoped that Denver's most representative citizens will be out in full. The Statesman commends the officers and members of this association for their energetic efforts in arranging such a program. ALL ODD FELLOWS IN GODD STANDING Are requested to meet at Odd Fellows' Hall, 2630 Welton street, at 1:30 p. m., Sunday, May, 14th, 1916, to take part in the annual Thanksgiving address which will be held at Shorter's A. M. Church at 2:30 p. m. DEATH OF HENRY BRYANT. Mr. Henry Bryant, custodian of the Good Block, and an old and much respected citizen of Denver, died at St. Anthony's Hospital Tuesday after a long illness. Mr. Bryant has resided in Colorado for many years and is mourned by a large circle of friends. He had no immediate relatives. Funeral services were held yesterday at Douglass Undertaking Company under auspices of Arapahoe Lodge No. 2936, G. U. O. of O. F. Interment at Riverside. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. A team composed of members of the first and second teams met the second team of the Barnum Fire Department on Grasshopper Hill last Saturday afternoon, in the first real game of the season. The Barnum boys were outclassed from the very beginning, and barely saved themselves from a complete shut-out, the score being 30 to 1 in favor of the "Y" 'boys. Next Saturday afternoon on the Barnum Grounds our junior team, known as "Hiney's Team," will play the Barnum second, and our first team will play Barnum first. Each of the "Y" teams has a strong line-up and fully expects to win. Dr. D. E. Over delivered a strong and powerful address before the men's meeting last Sunday afternoon. The meeting was in connection with the 100th anniversary of the American Bible Society. Preparations for the track-meet at Rocky Mountain Lake on Decoration Day are progressing nicely and Managers Parks and Smith are greatly pleased with the outlook. The croquet grounds will be ready for use next week, and then the fun will begin. A big checker meet will be held on Saturday evening. Some of the best checker players in the city are expected to be present and organize for a regular tournament. All checker players will be welcome. The "Life Problems" class, under Mr. Temple, will meet as usual at 8 o'clock Saturday evening. An interesting program is being prepared for both the boys' and men's meeting for next Sunday afternoon, which is Mothers' Day. Many of the little fellows will take part in the boys' meeting which will be held at 2:30 o'clock. The men's meeting will be held at 4 o'clock, when a most interesting program will be rendered. The boys are asked to bring their mothers and fathers. Men may bring their mothers and wives. All are invited. MAYOR SPEER TAKES SEAT THURSDAY. On next Thursday, Hon. Robert W. Speer will be sworn in by one of the district judges as mayor of the city and county of Denver. The elections commission sent Mr. Speer a certificate of his election yesterday morning and after the usual formalities are gone through, the mayor takes his position at the City Hall. The charter amendment now becomes law and the council to work with Mr. Speer will be established. The organizations entitled to send councilmen are busy naming their candidates and preparing for their election, which begins the new form of city government, making the commission form an event of the past. NOTICE. Harry Jones will open Barber Shop at 1021 Nineteenth street, Monday, May 15th and cordially invites his old customers as well as new to come. First class work guaranteed. SILOH BAPTIST MISSION Corner Twenty-ninth and Larimer streets. Rev. T. E. Henderson, Pastor. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Christions and sinners are cordially invited to attend these meetings. Rev. I. H. Wallace will preach at Shiloh Sunday night. RABBI FRIEDMAN AT SHORTER— SUNDAY NIGHT. The Denver Local of the National Association of Advancement of Colored people offers attractive program to the public Sunday night May 14th. Program. Hymn—Shorter Choir. Invocation. Extracts from address of Oswald Garrison Villard—Mrs. Fate McClaim. Organ Prelude from Flagler—Miss Jessie Andrews. Address—"Material Advancement" Mrs. Amelia Reeves. Anthem—Shorter Choir. Address—Rabbi W. S. Friedman— Subject, "Making the Most of Life." Music—Duet by Atwell Rose and Cleo Hobson. CAMMEL AND COMPANY IN CHARGE. The funeral of Mrs. Louisa Hartley the beloved mother of Mrs. Mary Watson, of 2814 Glenarm Place, departed this life May 3rd. Services from Zion Baptist Church, Saturday, May 6th, 2 p. m. Rev. D. E. Over officiated. Interment, Riverside. Baby Lavenia Harold departed this life May 3rd at the parents' residence, 2835 Glenarm Place. Services were held Thursday, May 11 from parlors. Interment, Riverside. Mr. Julius Johnson departed this life May the 7th, at the County Hospital. Funeral notice later. Mr. Wm. H. Durham the beloved brother of Mrs. Ike Gilmore of 3040 Lafayette street, dropped dead on Stout street, Wednesday, May 10. Services were held Friday, May 12 at 2 p. m. from Cammel parlors. Mr. Durham lived for a long time in Georgetown, Colo. Interment, Riverside. FOR RENT—Five-room modern nicely furnished house at 1746 Humboldt street. Wash Goods, Linens and Domestics Sheer Printed Voiles, Mercerized Batiste and Fancy Crepes on plain and tinted grounds. Regular 25c values. DRESS GINGHAMS At 10c Yard Regular 12½ c and 15c values. Fine assortment of stripes, checks and plaids 66 inches wide; choice assorted designs; regular 50c value. JOS Joslin DRY GOODS CO. was, "Does Preparedness Make for War?" The young ladies who took part deserve much credit for the subject entailed much work on their part. Those who took part were the Misses Nelson, Hall, Messrs. Dickerson and Howard. On Decoration Day the Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. will have a joint track meet. The events are open to all and the prizes are attractive enough to tempt anyone. It is not necessary to belong to either association to participate in these events. The meet will be held at Rocky Mountain Lake. A house party is announced for this Monday evening's program. Our Bible study class that is conducted by Miss Venable is open to all. We are desirous of having this be a successful class and a hearty welcome awaits any who wish to enter. Sunday, 3:30, p. m.—Mothers' Vessers. Monday, 8 p. m.—Regular Meeting Thursday, 8 p. m.—Bible Study Class. Monday, 9 p. m.—First Aid Class. The Gym class meeting is post- poned until next Saturday. Don't 'forget the Vesper service Sunday. NOTES OF THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. Twenty-fourth Avenue and Ogden Street. David E. Over, D. D., Minister. Next Sunday is Mothers' Day and Zion is prepared to celebrate it in a manner befitting the occasion and the sentiment which gave it birth. There will be music of a high order, a special sermon by the pastor, subject, "Motherhood," and decorations sufficiently elaborate to give beauty and charm to the service. All mothers will be presented with white carnations and seated in a place of honor in the church. All are invited to share with us this sacred privilege. Last Sunday a large crowd greeted the pastor at each hour of worship, and seemed to receive profit from the messages delivered. Communion was served at the close of the evening service. Two members were added to the fellowship. On Monday evening the Church Aid gave a May Day program. A Maypole drill being the principle feature. A full audience greatly enjoyed the program and the social time afterward. On the 24th, 25th and 26th days of May the annual May Festival will be given. Three nights of interesting and enjoyable program will be presented. You cannot afford to miss a single night. Watch for the programs. The Bible Class work is drawing toward the end of the season. The few remaining lessons will be helpful. You are invited to enjoy them with us. They meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. The women on Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Come! FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 919 Twenty-Second street, strictly modern and within easy reach of Stout and Curtis street car lines. Apply Mrs. Carrie E. Butler. FOR RENT—3 houses at 2360 Tremont Place; 320 and 322 24th street. Call at the Colorado Statesmen office. 1824 Curtis street. Room 25. For Rent—Furnished rooms at the Reo Club, 2710 Welton street, E. R. Page, proprietor. Permanent or transient. --- Summer Wash Fabrics at 15c Regular 25c values. Irish Linen Table Damask At82cYard Pure linen, full bleached, 68 inches wide; regular $1.00 value. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East Twenty-third Avenue and Washington street. Pastor—J. A. Thos. Hazell, S. T. B. Bermon Topics—Sunday, May 14th. Preaching services at 11 a. m. and 5:30 p. m., by Rev. I. H. Wallace. The Rev. Thos. Bell, secretary of the Colored Department of the Y. M. C. A. occupies the pulpit during the absence of the Pastor the last Sabbath of the month, the 28th, when Rev. L. B. West of the Union Church Dearfield, will preach the annual sermon to Sisters of Mysterious Tens. The second Sabbath of June at 5:30 p. m. Children's Day program will be rendered. At the monthly meeting of the session last Monday night it was decided that a call be issued to every member of the church adult to pay into the treasury $5.00 each on the second Sabbath of July. The same is to meet our obligation to the board of Church Erection. Rev. J. A. Thos. Hazell, Bishop Commissioner and Mr. W. S. Evans, Elder Commissioner to the 28th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., at Atlantic City are now en route to this Supreme Court of the Church. The Bishop Commissioner, being a Commissioner delegate to the Pre-Assembly Conference on Evangelism in the First Presbyterian Church, Atlantic City, May 16th and 17th left Friday. He will worship with the congregation of Grace Presbyterian Church tomorrow. The Assembly continues its sessions to June 1. In an adjourned meeting of the Presbytery of Denver held last Thursday night in the Twenty-third Avenue Presbyterian Church. Mr. Richard Jenness, son of Dr. P. V. Jenness, pastor of the church, was examined in all the arts and sciences required by the Presbytery for a candidate for the gospel ministry. The young man having passed his examination most creditably and having just graduated from the Theological Seminary of McCormick, Chicago, was ordained by the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery of Denver to the gospel ministry as a Foreign Missionary to China. The prayer of the Presbytery and that of the entire church at large is with this minister. YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION NOTES. A very excellent program is being prepared for Mothers' Day. The numbers are as follows: 1. Hymn. 2. Piano solo—Miss Jessie Andrews. 3. Scripture reading. 4. Prayer. 5. Quotations on Mothers. 6. Solo—Mrs. Paul Rose. 7. Vocal Solo—Miss Helen Minnis. 8. Piano solo—Miss White. 9. Vocal solo—Miss Olive Harris. 10. Recitation — Miss Winifred Steele. 11. Piano solo—Miss Hattie Logan. Mrs. C M. White will preside. Car nations will be given to all attending. Mrs. Alfred Froman was the speaker at last Sunday's vesper service. Her talk was very inspiring. Do not forget Mothers' Day. Our Vesper service is open to all. Come and hear an excellent program and by so doing honor your mother. The association will give pink and white carnations to the visitors at the Vesper service at 318 East Twenty-fifth street. The debate of last Monday evening was very interesting. 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The performance was pronounced by several newspapercritics to be excellent and super or to some white performances they had seen of the same drama. Edward Wright, as the Moor, rend red a wonderful interpretation of his lines and thrilled his audience to a high state of enthusiasm. Vincent Bradley, a Boston woman, as Emelia, wife of Iago, was a genuine surprise. She was gracefully pleasing in the earlier acts, holding her powers for her strong scenes. In the bed-chamber she fairly electrified her audience. She was superb. The rest of the cast adequate. This company with their special scenery and costumes will be seen in Othello at the Grand Opera House, Boston on week commencing Monday, May 8. Fruit Diet and Beauty. A diet of oranges will clear muddy complexions and reduce superabundant curves. Lemon, taken internally, quenches thirst and prevents the bad habit of overindulgence in ice water. Lemons clear the skin, assist digestion and have a tendency to rid one of obesity. Applied externally, they are a bleach which will remove stains from fingers and neck, freckles from arms and cheeks and other sallowblemishes. Pineapple will sweeten the voice, restore the quality if it has grown husky and assist digestion, which means that it will help to beautify the completion. Apricots are used for the same purpose and are much favored by the Orientals. German Tower With History. Said to be the first place in Germany where cannon were mounted the tower of Ehrenfels, built in 1210 by Philip von Bolander, governor of Rheingau, has been a dismantled ruin since 1689. It is one of the romantic features of the Rhine near Bingen, with Bishop Hatto's "mouse tower" opposite. Kew's Nameless Tree. Kew gardens has its mystery in the form of a tree which no one yet has been able to name. It is not far from the entrance from Kew Green, and a tablet confesses the inability of the learned men at Kew correctly to place it in the botanical system. It is something like a plane tree, but it is not a plane tree. It is, or was as late as last summer, when the present writer saw it, simply "a tree." Can any reader solve the mystery and restore it to its lost family?—London Chronicle. DRESSING FOR THE SALAD Important Part of Dinner's Preparation That May Make or Mar the Occasion. The dressing is the making of a salad—just as it is of a woman. To begin with, of course, there must be crisp, fresh greens. Then there must be a delicious dressing. French dressing is best made in this way: Beat a teaspoonful of salt with six tablespoonfuls of olive oil until thick. Then slowly beat in two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, add red pepper and pour over the salad. Sardine dressing for crisp lettuce is delicious. Here is the recipe: Skin and bone two sardines and add the powdered yolk of two hard-boiled eggs. Rub to a smooth paste. Add, a teaspoonful of sugar, one of dry mustard, half a teaspoonful of olive oil, a tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar, half a "gaspoonful of cream and salt and pepper. Add a little lemon juice to thin to a creamy consistency. Golden salad dressing is good with fruit salads. Beat two eggs slightly, add a quarter cupful of fruit juice—orange or pineapple—a quarter cupful of lemon juice and a quarter cupful of sugar. Stir over hot water in a double boiler until it begins to thicken, cool and use for fruit salads. This is a good boiled salad dressing: Beat the yolks of two eggs until creamy. Mix with a teaspoonful of mustard, the same of salt, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of cream and one of butter. Over this pour two-thirds of a cupful of hot vinegar and cook over hot water, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth. Cool and use with vegetable salad. Horse-radish sauce is made by mixing in a bowl a teaspoonful of mustard, teaspoonful of vinegar, half teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Break on this mixture the yolks of two eggs and beat with an egg beater. Add olive oil until a thick sauce results, and then add a tablespoonful of grated horse-radish. This is a good and easily made dressing to serve with celery or lettuce salad: Mix four tablespoonfuls of olive oil with the juice of two small lemons, the chopped yolk of a hard-boiled egg, salt and pepper, and a teaspoonful of chopped chervil. MOST DELICIOUS OF SOUPS French Preparations That Are Among the Best in the Catalogue of Cooks Who Know. French Bouillie—An acceptable soup for early warm days is the French bouillie, made of thickened milk. Put in a saucepan two tablespoonfuls of wheat flour, a dessertspoonful of sugar and a teaspoonful of salt. Mix to a smooth paste and add a quart of hot milk. Cook in a double boiler until thickened and serve with crisp crouns and a dash of pepper. The hot milk will be found stimulating, yet delicate, proving just the soup one requires for a spring day. Potage a la Crecy—Scrape four large carrots and cut fine. Add two potatoes peeled and diced, two onions and two stalks of celery cut fine and fry brown in good beef drippings. Then put into a saucepan with a quart of boiling water and cook until all the vegetables are tender. Press through a coarse sieve and return to the fire with the addition of a tablespoonful of butter, a half tablespoonful of salt, two cloves, pepper to season and a tablespoonful of minced parsley. Have ready a pint of milk scalded and thickened with a teaspoonful of cornstarch. add to the soup and serve with croutons. Stewed Oxtail. Take a fine oxtail, disjoint it, cut it into pieces about one inch and a half long, dividing the thick parts into quarters. Throw these pieces into boiling water and let them remain for a quarter of an hour, then drain and soak them. Take up, wipe them with a soft cloth and put them into a stewpan with two quarts of stock or water, a large onion stuck with three cloves; three carrots, a bunch of savory herbs, a little salt and pepper. Simmer gently until the meat will part easily from the bones then put the pieces on a hot dish, reduce the gravy, strain it over them and garnish with toast sippers. A little lemon juice can be added if liked. Time, three hours and a half to stew the tail. Sufficient for three or four persons. Coffee Cream Pie. Three-quarters cupful clear, very strong coffee, three-quarters cupful cream, one-third cupful sugar, one-third cupful flour, three eggs, pie crust. Put coffee and cream in a double boiler. Mix sugar and flour together and drop into the hot liquid, beating it up rapidly with an egg beater. When it has thickened, add the slightly beaten egg yolks and cook five minutes more. Pour into a baked pie shell. Make a meringue of two of the remaining egg white, sweeten and cover pie. Brown in a hot oven.—Mother's Magazine. Cover the Apple Pie. If you are doubtful of the apples in your open-top pies cooking tender, just invert another pie pan over the pie and the steam will serve to cook them thoroughly.—February Mother's Magazine. Always Good Investment If you have a little extra money to spend and a desire to spend it, invest it in something to make the fireside more attractive—a toasting fork, a new set of andirons, a comfortable fireside chair. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation THE WOODLAND Effective Planting Makes for Beauty. HOME GROUNDS BEAUTIFUL By BETTY PAKE. Look out for dahlias, gladiolus and other rank-growing plants that are likely to be blown down by the wind and stake them. Pick the pansies and nasturtiums every day if you want to have plenty of bloom. When the lilacs have finished blooming all the seed clusters should be cut away. It is fatal to some plants to fertilize them with rich manures when the ground is very dry. Never allow roses to remain on the bush until the petals fall. If the seed is allowed to develop on the lilac it generally has few flowers except every other year. The best way to kill weeds is to pull them up by hand. Do not allow them to get ahead of you. Look out for the red bug and other enemies of the rose. An excellent spray for the rose bushes is made of one-half pound of laundry soap melted in hot water to which is added one cupful of kerosene. When this comes to a boil, use about one part to fifteen parts of water. Keep the moisture in your soil around your plants by applying road dust about the roots during the hot and droughty weather. Lawn clippings make an excellent mulch for bushes, shrubs and large plants. Tea roses like to have the soil about their roots cool and moist. Grass clippings are good for that purpose. Spread the grass over the bed to a depth of two or three inches. As soon as it withers work it into the soil when as it decays it will act as a fertilizer. Apply fresh clippings. HELPS IN FLOWER GROWING Don't drain the soil before the moisture of winter and spring has drained from it, so that it will pulverize perfectly. If the soil drops from the spade in moist, soggy lumps, be sure it is not ready to work. As the frost leaves the soil dig in the manure-mulch placed last fall about the shrubs, roses and hardy perennials. If there be no winter mulch about such plants, be sure to apply some kind of fertilizer to them. A good coat of bone meal in the absence of well-rotted manure will serve. Scatter it about the base of the plants after the soil is stirred, and let the rain drive it to the roots. Dig a strip 15 or 18 inches wide across the bed or border and then rake it, beginning at the bottom of the trench and fining the soil from the subsoil to the top. Continue this throughout the length of the bed, and then you will have worked the soil perfectly. By planting everything in long rows across the entire length of the garden, planting all the things that require a whole season to mature on one side, all the second crop vegetables will be in a compact plat on the other side of the garden plat. THE HOME OF THE MISSING CHILDREN A Charming Place in Miniature—A Girl's Playhouse. To insure a succession of blooming periods, do not sow all your annuals at the same time, nor your blooming bulbs. Wait two or three weeks. Start cosmos as early as possible, and at the end of April plant in the open two to four feet apart, for they need plenty of room. They want light, rich soil, and can stand a great deal of pinching back to keep them stocky. It is said that the quickest growing hardy vine is the Kudzu vine—pueraria Thunbergiana—which often grows 40 feet in a season. It needs winter protection as it sometimes winterkills. Just as soon as the frost is gone, plant the Madeira vine. It is propagated by tubers. It grows rapidly, has thick, waxy leaves, and its flowers—drifts of creamy snow—cover the plant when in bloom. The finest example of what this plant can do was seen on a second-story porch, turning a prosaic second-story flat porch into a Juliet bower of beauty. Give the wild grape a place about the home. It is so hardy and its flowers so sweet. If you have a dry, bare spot that gets sun all day, seed it to portulacas. They will beat weed seeds growing. TRANSPLANTING SEEDLINGS As soon as seedlings can be conveniently handled, transplant in pots or boxes; give them plenty of room on all sides. Transplanting carefully by hand is the way professional gardeners do their transplanting, but a forked stick can be used if carefully handled. Shade from the bright sun for a few days and water carefully. If the weather is advanced, give the newly transplanted plants plenty of air. In this way they are hardened off until they will be able to stand full exposure in the open ground. Care must be exercised with all plants removed from conservatories, hotbeds or from plants raised in boxes or pots in the house. WHEN THERE'S A DROUGHT Use the hoe more, the hose less. A dust mulch is a better aid in dry weather than the artificial shower. If you must use a watering can, do it with a wilt. Give enough water that the moisture will penetrate to the roots instead of coaxing them to the surface, there to be the more susceptible to a protracted drought. PLANT IN LONG ROWS By planting everything in long rows across the entire length of the garden, planting all the things that require a whole season to mature on one side, all the second crop vegetables will be in a compact plat on the other side of the garden plat. WASHINGTON GOSSIP How Speaker Clark Attended a G. O. P. Dinner WASHINGTON.Through a comedy of errors, Champ Clark, speaker of the house, recently became one of the guests of honor at a dinner given by Representative B. M. Chiperfield of Illinois to his veteran colleague "Uncle It appears that Speaker Clark and Mr. Chiperfield are members of the same college fraternity—the Phi Kappa Psi—and were to be guests at a dinner given by the members of that organization in Washington. Mr. Clark suddenly recalled the dinner, and, having misplaced his engagement book, bethought him that the dinner was that evening. Summoning his chauffeur, he hastily drove to Rauscher's, dismissed his car, and walked up to the dining-room floor. The only function he could discover was a ball, at which members of congress were conspicuous by their absence. Then the speaker hastened to the Willard, supposing that the dinner must be there. But no, it wasn't. Mr. Clark then returned home to renew the search for his engagement book. Here he told his dilemma to Bennett, his son and parliamentary clerk of the house. "That's easy," said Bennett. "That dinner is wherever Jim Mann is. Why not call up Mrs. Mann. She ought to know where her husband is." Mrs. Mann did know. Mr. Mann was at dinner at the Army and Navy club, and that, of course, was where the Phi Kappa Psi banquet was then, surely. So down to the club the speaker drove hastily, inquiring as he entered where "the dinner" was being given. The clerk said it was on the fourth floor, and without a doubt the speaker bent his steps thither. The first sign of misgiving penetrated his mind as Mr. Clark caught a glimpse of the diners through the door, which stood partially open. He began to think he had made some egregious blunder and would have pulled back, when at that moment Mr. Chiperfield, catching sight of him, shouted his name and every Republican present joined in bringing in the speaker. Vice President's Stories Worry Senate Chaplain Vice President's Stories Worry Senate Chaplain VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL has a habit of telling a funny story at the eleventh hour. In fact, he usually waits until the eleventh hour and about fifty-five minutes. The consequence is that when he enters the senate chamber few minutes before the noon hour the callers thin out, and the chaplain comes to be in readiness to accompany the vice president into the senate chamber. Now, for some unaccountable reason, the presence of the chaplain makes Marshall think of a funny story. At about five minutes prior to the hour of opening the senate he starts to tell this story with calm deliberation. The golden moments speed on their way, and by the time Marshall has the basic part of his story outlined it lacks only two minutes or less until twelve o'clock. All hands begin to grow nervous, and the sergeant at arms comes to the door, watch in hand, to make certain that the vice president is going to reach his seat in due season. It would not do at all to have the senate open a minute late. Marshall gets up from his desk and proceeds across the corridor, still working toward the point of his story, and by a burst of speed gets out the climax just as he pushes open the door into the senate chamber. Chaplain Prettyman has his choice then of not laughing at the story, which would be impolite on his part, or of laughing and then pulling his face back into shape ready to offer prayer while walking the few steps from the door to the rostrum. "I think," said Prettyman one morning after a particularly amusing little yarn by Marshall, "that after, this I'll keep out of your way and just study the weather map out in the next room until time to go in." Mint and Treasury Relics Put on Exhibition Mint and Treasury Relics Put on Exhibition VARIOUS activities of the United States mint and of the office of the treasurer of the United States are illustrated in an exhibit of twelve cases recently set up in the north corridor of the treasury building. The display warrants for big payments made out of the treasury or on treasury order. The warrant for the largest amount is for $140,000,000 on account of the public debt. Others are for $40,000,000 in payment for the Panama canal, $10,000,000 for the Canr' zone, $20,000,000 for the Philippines and $200,000 paying General Lafayette for his military services to the colonies during the Revolutionary war. With the warrants is a transfer order directing the transfer of $60,000,000 from the Denver mint to the subtreasury in New York city. Another interesting feature of the display is the mutilated bills that through expert examination have been identified and redeemed. "Spooning" All Right in Parks of Washington "SPOONING," while not recognized by that generic term, is permitted in the parks of Washington just as it is in Pittsburgh, where the chief of police confesses he does not know what "spooning" is, and intends fostering it These parks are for the beautification of the city and the recreation and enjoyment of its innabitants. Benches laden with lovers cannot but contribute to the beautification plan, and what more human and delightful recreation is there to be found than lovemaking? Realizing that "in the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns," Colonel Harts has installed 1,000 additional benches in the parks of Washington. As adjutant to General Cupid, he believes he has done his full duty. There are no restrictions on the use of the national capital's parks by lovers, provided, says Colonel Harts, "their recreation and happiness does not interfere with the enjoyment of the parks by others." A Mr. Chiperfield are members of the s Psi—and were to be guests at a dinner ization in Washington. Mr. Clark sud misplaced his engagement book, bet evening. Summoning his chauffeur, he his car, and walked up to the dining-r discover was a ball, at which members absence. Then the speaker hastened to the V be there. But no, it wasn't. Mr. Clark for his engagement book. Here he tol parliamentary clerk of the house. "That's easy," said Bennett. "That not call up Mrs. Mann. She ought to be Mrs. Mann did know. Mr. Mann was and that, of course, was where the Phil So down to the club the speaker where "the dinner" was being given. T and without a doubt the speaker best. T The first sign of misgiving penet glimpse of the diners through the door to think he had made some egregious when at that moment Mr. Chiperfield, o and every Republican present joined in Vice President's Stories VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL has eleventh hour. In fact, he usually fifty-five minutes. The consequence is to convene that body of solemn toilers, he is apt to have a half-suppressed little smile on his face, and Rev. Forest J. Prettyman, the senate chaplain, has even more difficulty in maintaining the serious countenance of a man about to lead in prayer. Here is the way the thing works out: Along about 11:30 Marshall shifts from his office in the senate office building to his room in the capitol. He lights a cigar and smokes as he receives any callers that drop in. A few minutes before the noon hour the day to be in readiness to accompany the wi Now, for some unaccountable reason Marshall think of a funny story. At opening the senate he starts to tell the The golden moments speed on the basic part of his story outlined in twelve o'clock. All hands begin to gr come to the door, watch in hand, to go to reach his seat in due season senate open a minute late. Marshall gets up from his desk a working toward the point of his story climax just as he pushes open the do Prettyman has his choice then of not impolite on his part, or of laughing and ready to offer prayer while walking the "I think," said Prettyman one more yarn by Marshall, "that after this I'll k weather map out in the next room until Mint and Treasury Re VARIOUS activities of the United Sta rurer of the United States are ill recently set up in the north corridor TREASURY RE warrants for big payments made out of The warrant for the largest amount public debt. Others are for $40,000,00 $10,000,00 for the Canal zone, $20,000,00 General Lafayette for his military servi- tion war. With the warrants is a t $60,000,000 from the Denver mint to the Another interesting feature of the through expert examination have been "Spooning" All Right i "SPOONING," while not recognized b parks of Washington just as it is confesses he does not know what "s Col. W, W, Harts, superintendent of buildings and grounds, when in- formed that Pittsburgh's chief of police had extended a general invitation to all lovers to "spoon" in the Smoky City parks, said: "We do not know what 'spooning' is here, but the parks of Washington are open to lovers, sweethearts, beaux, and belles, and others under the spell of the tender emotion. "There is no regulation prohibiting lovemaking in Washington parks. These parks are for the beautification of its innabitants. Benches laden the beautification plan, and what more there to be found than lovemaking?" Realizing that "in the spring the ye Harts has installed 1,000 additional be adjutant to General Cupid, he believes restrictions on the use of the national Colonel Harts, "their recreation and enjoyment of the parks by others." Joe" Cannon. It was intended to be strictly a Republican affair, and the 25 guests, other than Mr. Clark, were all members of that party. Mr. Clark, an unexpected, but nevertheless welcome, guest, appeared suddenly at the dinner. He had a good time, and so did the others. How he became a part of the gathering, as told by himself, proved to be one of the most amusing after-dinner speeches he ever told. It appears that Speaker Clark and name college fraternity—the Phi Kappa given by the members of that organi- denly recalled the dinner, and, having bought him that the dinner was that hastily drove to Rauscher's, dismissed room floor. The only function he could of congress were conspicuous by their Willard, supposing that the dinner must then returned home to renew the search did his dilemma to Bennett, his son and at dinner is wherever Jim Mann is. Why now where her husband is." as at dinner at the Army and Navy club, Kappa Psi banquet was then, surely. drove hastily, inquiring as he entered the clerk said it was on the fourth floor, his steps thither. rated his mind as Mr. Clark caught a which stood partially open. He began blunder and would have pulled back, catching sight of him, shouted his name bringing in the speaker. Worry Senate Chaplain a habit of telling a funny story at the waits until the eleventh hour and about that when he enters the senate chamber 12 callers thin out, and the chaplain comes vice president into the senate chamber. In the presence of the chaplain makes about five minutes prior to the hour of his story with calm deliberation. Their way, and by the time Marshall has it lacks only two minutes or less until now nervous, and the sergeant at arms make certain that the vice president is. It would not do at all to have the hand proceeds across the corridor, still, and by a burst of speed gets out the door into the senate chamber. Chaplain laughing at the story, which would be and then pulling his face back into shape few steps from the door to the rostrum. Ning after a particularly amusing little keep out of your way and just study the full time to go in." **Elicics Put on Exhibition** States mint and of the office of the treasured in an exhibit of twelve cases of the treasury building. The display represents the most interesting part of the exhibit of the treasury department shown at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco. Included in the cases are presidential medals struck off by the mint; coins, planchets and bars of gold, indicating stages of the processes of making gold money; keys of the safes and vaults of the treasury used from 1774 to the day of the advent of safe combination and time locks; mutilated currency redeemed, and a number of of the treasury or on treasury order entrant is for $140,000,000 on account of the 000 in payment for the Panama canal, 000 for the Philippines and $200,000 paying vices to the colonies during the Revolu- transfer order directing the transfer of the subtreasury in New York city. The display is the mutilated bills that identified and redeemed. 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KAISER'S NOTE CONCILIATORY Answer to Wilson's Communication Says Every Consideration Is Shown Neutrals in Restraint of Submarine Warefare — Partiality Is Charged to United States and Sale of Munitions Is Cited as Evidence. The German admiralty has issued a new order to commanders of submarines that no more merchant vessels are to be sunk without first being visited and searched and that the people on board are to be given a chance to save their lives. Berlin, Germany (by wireless via Sayville, N Y.), May 5.—Following is the text of the note of the German government in reply to the American note respecting submarine warfare, delivered yesterday by Gottlieb von Jagow, the foreign secretary, to Ambassador Gerard: "The undersigned, on behalf of the imperial German government, has the honor to present to his excellency, the ambassador of the United States, Mr. James W. Gerard, the following reply to the note of April 20 regarding the conduct of German submarine warfare: "The German government handed over to the proper naval authorities for early investigation the evidence concerning the Sussex as communicated by the government of the United States. Judging by the results that the investigation has hitherto yielded, the German government is alive to the possibility that the ship mentioned in the note of April 10 as having been torpedoed by a German submarine is actually identical with the Sussex. Looking Into the Sussex Case. "The German government begs to reserve further communication on the matter until certain points are ascertained which are of decisive importance for establishing the facts in the case. Should it turn out that the commander was wrong in assuming the vessel to be a man-of-war, the German government will not fail to draw the consequence resulting therefrom. "In connection with the case of the Sussex the government of the United States made a series of statements the gist of which is the assertion that the incident is to be considered but one instance of a deliberate method of indiscriminate destruction of vessels of all sorts, nationalities and destinations by German submarine commanders. Repudiate Charge by U. S. "The German government must emphatically repudiate the assertion. The German government, however, thinks it of little avail to enter into details in the present stage of affairs, more particularly at the government of the United States omitted to substantiate the assertion by reference to concrete facts. "The German government will only state that it has imposed far-reaching restraints upon the use of the submarine weapon, solely in consideration of neutral interests, in spite of the fact that these restrictions are necessarily of advantage to Germany's enemies. No such consideration has ever been shown neutrals by Great Britain and her allies. Orders International Law Obeyed. "The German submarine forces have had, in fact, orders to conduct the submarine warfare in accordance with the general principles of visit and search and the destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law, the sole exception being the conduct of warfare against enemy trade carried on enemy freight ships encountered in the war zone surrounding Great Britain. With regard to these no assurances have ever been given to the government of the United States. No such assurances are contained in *the declaration of February 8, 1916.* "The German government cannot admit any doubt that these orders were given or are executed in good faith. Errors actually occurred. They can in no kind of warfare be avoided altogether. Allowances must be made in the conduct of naval warfare against an enemy resorting to all kinds of ruses, whether permissible or illicit. Danger Can't Be Avoided. "But apart from the possibility of errors, naval warfare, just like warfare on land, implies unavoidable dangers for neutral persons and goods entering the fighting zone. Even in cases where the naval action is confined to ordinary forms of cruiser warfare, neutral persons and goods repeatedly come to grief. "The German government has repeatedly and explicitly pointed out the dangers from mines that have led to the loss of numerous ships. Proposals Are Not Accepted. "The German government has made several proposals to the government of the United States in order to reduce to a minimum for American travelers and goods the inherent dangers of naval warfare. Unfortunately the government of the United States decided not to accept the proposals. Had it accepted, the government of the United States would have been instrumental in preventing the greater part of the accidents that Americans have met with in the meantime. The German government still stands by its offer to come to an agreement along these lines. Can't Dispense With Submarine. "As the German government repeatedly declared, it cannot dispense with the use of warfare against enemy trade. The German government, however, has now decided to make a further concession, adapting methods of submarine war to the interests of neutrals. "In reaching this decision the German government is actuated by considerations which are above the level of the disputed question. "The German government attaches no less importance to the sacred principles of humanity than the government of the United States. It again fully takes into account that both governments for many years co operated in developing international law in conformity with these principles, the ultimate object of which has always been to confine warfare on sea and land to armed forces of belligerents and safeguard as far as possible noncombatants against the horrors of war. Repeats Britain Is to Blame. "But although considerations are of great weight, they alone would not under present circumstances have determined the attitude of the German government. For in answer to the appeal by the government of the United States on behalf of the sacred principles of humanity and international law, the German government must repeat once more, with all emphasis, that it was not the German but the British government which ignored all accepted rules of international law and extended this terrible war to the lives and property of noncombatants, having no regard whatever for the interests and rights of neutrals and noncombatants who through this method of warfare have been severely injured. "In self-defense against the illegal conduct of British warfare, while fighting a bitter struggle for national existence. Germany had to resort to the hard but effective weapon of submarine warfare. Discrimination Is Charged. "As matters stand, the German government cannot but reiterate regret that the sentiments of humanity which the government of the United States extends with such fervor to the unhapy victims of submarine warfare are not extended with the same warmth of feeling to many millions of women and children who, according to the avowed intention of the British government, shall be scarred, and who, by their sufferings, shall force the victorious armies of the central powers into ignominious capitulation. The German government, in agreement with the German people, fails to understand this discrimination, all the more as it has repeatedly and explicitly declared itself ready to use the submarine weapon in strict conformity with the rules of international laws as recognized before the outbreak of the war if Great Britain likewise was ready to adapt her conduct of warfare to these rules Britain Did Not Heed America. "Several attempts made by the government of the United States to prevail upon the British government to act accordingly failed because of that refusal on the part of the British government. Moreover, Great Britain again and again has violated international law, surpassing all bounds in outraging neutral rights. The latest measure adopted by Great Britain declaring German bunker coal contraband and establishing conditions under which English bunker coal alone is supplied to neutrals is nothing but an unheard-of attempt by way of exaction to force neutral tonnage into the service of British trade. Severely Chides United States. "The German people know that the government of the United States has the power to confine the war to armed forces of the belligerent countries in the interest of humanity and maintenance of international law. The government of the United States would have been certain of attaining this end had it been determined to insist against Great Britain on the incontrovertible rights to freedom of the seas. But as matters stand the German people are under the impression that the government of the United States, while demanding that Germany, struggling for existence, shall restrain the use of an effective weapon, and while making compliance with these demands a condition for maintenance of relations with Germany, confines it self to protests against illegal methods adopted by Germany's enemies. Moreover, the German people know to what considerable extent its enemies are supplied with all kinds of war material from the United States. Belittles Plea of Humanity. "It will, therefore, be understood that the appeal made by the government of the United States to sentiments of humanity and principles of international law cannot under the circumstances meet the same hearty response from the German people which such an appeal otherwise is certain to find here. If the German government, nevertheless, is resolved to go to the utmost limit of concessions it has been guided not alone by the friendship connecting the two great nations for over 100 years, but also by the thought of the great doom which threatens the entire civilized world should the cruel and sanguinary war be extended and prolonged." Germany Desirous of Peace. "The German government, conscious of Germany's strength, twice within the last few months announced before the world its readiness to make peace on a basis safeguarding Germany's vital interests, thus indicating that it is not Germany's fault if peace is still withheld from the nations of Europe. "The German government feels all the more justified in declaring that responsibility could not be borne before the forum of mankind and in history if, after 21 months of the war's duration, the submarine question under discussion between the German government and the government of the United States were to take a turn seriously threatening maintenance of peace between the two nations. Anxious to Prevent Clash. Anxious to Prevent Clash. "As far as lies with the German government it wishes to prevent things from taking such a course. The German government, however, is prepared to do its utmost to confine operations of the war for the rest of its duration to the fighting forces of the belligerents, thereby also insuring freedom of the seas, a principle upon which the German government believes, now as before, that it is in agreement with the government of the United States. To Warn Ships and Save Lives. "The German government, guided by this idea, notifies the government of the United States that German naval forces have received the following order: "In accordance with the general principles of visit and search and the destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law, such vessels, both within and without the area declared a naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives unless the ship attempt to escape or offer resistance." "But neutrals cannot expect that Germany, forced to fight for existence, shall for the sake of neutral interests restrict the use of an effective weapon if the enemy is permitted to continue to apply at will methods of warfare violating rules of international law. Such a demand would be incompatible with the character of neutrality, and the German government is convinced that the government of the United States does not think of making a demand, knowing that the government of the United States repeatedly declares that it is determined to restore the principle of freedom of the seas, from whatever quarter it has been violated. Asks for Demand on Britain. "Accordingly the German government is confident that in consequence of the new orders issued to the naval forces the government of the United States will also now consider all impediments removed which may have been in the way of mutual co-operation toward restoration of the freedom of the seas during the war, as suggested in the note of July 23, 1915, and it does not doubt that the government of the United States will now demand and insist that the British government shall forthwith observe the rules of international law universally recognized before the war, as laid down in the notes presented by the government of the United States to the British government December 28, 1914, and November 5, 1915. "Should steps taken by the government of the United States not attain the object it desires, to have the laws of humanity followed by all belligerent nations, the German government would then be facing a new situation, in which it must reserve to itself complete liberty of decision "The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to renew to the American ambassador assurances of highest consideration." VON JAGOW. FINALLY GOT CLOCK RUNNING Not Probable. However, That Mr. Spriggs Will Let Anyone Know How It Was Accomplished. "I've nothing in particular especially to do tonight, so I think I'll fix that clock," decided Ossup Spwiggs "I'll show the people in this house whether I put off fixing it because I didn't know how or merely because I didn't have time before!" And he lifted the handsome eight-day clock off the mantel and, after a half hour's concentration, removed the back. Dusting off the jewel-mounted ditchy spring with the end of his handkerchief and pouring oil on the revolving gadgets and shimp-winders, he screwed the back on again, wound up the clock and shook it. The clock continued in a state of innocuous inactivity. "Humph!" Ossup Spwiggs exclaimed to himself, and this time took the face off and squirted eau de cologne into the left port hole. Then, after breathing a prayer on the hands and rubbing it in well, he returned the clock its face and shook it again. It remained in a condition of noncommittal somnolence. "Heck!" swore Ossup Spwiggs, and hurled the blamed thing forcibly into the stone fireplace. Instantly it began ticking with sensible industriousness. "Leave it to me!" sadi he loftily, and plaged the clock back on the mantel and lit his pipe with the air of somebody who really was somebody.—Louisville Times. Times the Same. "I read the other day that haircutting was once a crime in France." "It still is with some places it is done here." REPLY TO BERLIN NOTE REPLY TO BERLIN NOTE Do You Know That— OBSERVANCE OF NEW ORDERS TO PREVENT SEVERANCE. Germany Told Safety of American Lives Cannot Be Made Conditional on Way England Prosecutes War. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington.—Following is the text of the note cabled by Secretary Lansing to Ambassador Gerard at Berlin with instructions to deliver it to the German minister of foreign affairs; The COLORADO STATESMAN "The note of the imperial German government under date of May 4, 1916, has received careful consideration by the government of the United States. It is especially noted as indicating the purpose of the imperial government as to the defense of the country, prepared to do its utmost to confine the size and condition of the war for the rest of its duration to the fighting forces of the belligerents, and that it is determined to impose upon all its commanders at sea and on all of the recognized rules of international law, upon which the government of the United States has insisted. "Throughout the months which have elapsed since the imperial government enacted on Feb. 4, 1915, its submarine police officer has been the government of the United States has been constantly guided and restrained by motives of friendship in efforts to bring to an amicable settlement of political questions arising from that policy IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF "Accepting the imperial government's declaration of its abandonment of the policy which has so seriously menaced the good relations between the United States and the government of the United States will scrupulous execution henceforth of the now altered policy of the imperial government such as will remove the principal danger to an interruption of the good relations existing between the United States and the government of the United States feels it necessary to state that it takes it for granted that the imperial German government does not intend to imply that the maintenance of any good relations is in any way contingent upon the course of diplomatic negotiations between the government of the United States and any other belligerent government, notwithstanding the fact that certain passages of the imperial government's note of the government's appearance to be susceptible of that construction Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY "In order, however, to avoid any possible misunderstanding, the government of the United States notifies the government of the right not for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by the German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States to the right not for or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other government affecting the rights of neutrals and noncombatants. Respect should be given to the single, not joint; absolute, not relative." Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in the Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. "The greater part of the German answer is devoted to matters which this government cannot discuss with the German government. The only questions with which we can cussed with that government are those arising out of its action or out of our own and in no event those questions which are the subject of diplomatic exchanges between the United States and any other country. The case and any of the answer is that Germany yields to our representations with regard to the rights of merchant ships and noncombatants on the high seas, and engages to observe the recognized rules of international law governing merchant ships and submarines against merchant ships. So long as she lives up to this altered policy we can have no reason to quarrel with her on that score, though the losses resulting from the violation of American rights by German submarine operators in the former policy will have to be settled. "While our differences with Great Britain cannot form a subject of discussion with Germany, it should be stated that in our dealings with the German government we are unquestionably bound to act in view of the explicit treaty engagements with that government we have treaty obligations as to the manner in which matters in dispute between the two governments are to be handled. We Have Supplied Our Office with New Job Press & Type of Up-to-Date Style and Our Work Will Be on a Par with the Very Best. "We offered to assume mutually similar obligations to the man implied. When, however, the subject in dispute is a continuing menace to American life it is removed by the penalty unless the menace is removed during the pendency of the proceedings." 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It is want, more interesting to you than The Right Kind of Reading Matter DAY OR NIGHT Heralding the Outdoor Season THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY For the woman devoted to out-of-doors a sports coat model, like that shown in the picture, is a good choice for early season wear as a street coat. At the end of the season it will owe her nothing, for she will have had it always with her. Coats of this character are shown in great variety and they differ little from regulation sports coats. They are more quiet in color and somewhat more trim as a rule. Not all the models designed for street wear are in quiet colors. The citron shades are much in evidence where smartly dressed women congregate. The checked coat is a favorite for both street and sports wear and is really classed according to the size of its checks—if they are big it General U A suit for the street and general utility is made in a manner that appeals to young women and justifies their judgment It is new in cut and very smart looking and it looks well in any of the fabrics—including the novel weaves—that have been used for this season's suits. The skirt is not a new model, but is cut fuller than usual with deep, inverted plaits that extend to the waist line. These are its only distinguishing features. The coat is a novelty, simply and cleverly cut, with ragian sleeves and very full body. At the front a wide overlap terminates at the bust line. The coat fastens here with a half dozen large white bone butons. Similar rows provide the decorative feature at the front and back and on the sleeves. There is a turnover collar of the material and cuffs similar to it with a plaiting let in at the back of each. As in nearly all other tailored suits an extra collar and cuffs of white organdie, which are detachable, recognize the advent of summertime. White pique, white satin, embroidered batiste and lace appear in collars and cuffs, with the various dark colors --- is of the sports sort, while very small checks are about as conservative as the more trying black. For the young woman the coat pictured is a model that it would be hard to improve upon. It is reinforced at the front with a deep square yoke which improves its lines, giving them a straight direction at the middle front with a generous flare at the sides and back. It buttons to one side and has a collar high enough to be chic and becoming and so constructed that it can be turned back away from the neck when so desired. Big patch pockets are furnished with a plait at the middle fastened with a button. The buttons at the front are set on in groups, and two buttons finish the oddly cut cuffs. utility Suit used just now for street wear. In collars and revers and collars and cuffs there are occasional suits in which white broadcloth courageously faces the chance of losing its creamy whiteness and being thrown into the discard. But washable stuffs are prettier, more delicate, and more popular, and the tailored suit, either in wool or silk, is immensely enhanced by their freshness. Other tailored suits, cut on lines with which we are now familiar, can claim the distinction of originality in certain details of their finishing. One of these has what are known as saddlebag pockets of formidable size set onto the skirt. In their silk-braided decoration, fancy silk lining and finishing, the inspiration of Spanish ideas is evident. The coat is cut with a square opening at the front, has scalloped and braided revers and a little low-cut vestee. The neck is finished with a soft ruffle of lace and a soft chemisette of lace appears above the vestee. --- FRANK S. 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