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The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

In the Ohio State journal of
Columbus, Ohio, a white woman
of that city had the following to
say on race suicide:
Modern women active in society
and clubs are scored for avoiding
motherhood by Olga Louise Cad
ijah,' under which pen names a
Columbus author has written a
phamphlat entitled, Turn on the
Light American women, the
author says, are so engaged with
club and social duties that they
feel they cannot afford to give up
the time that children require.
Contrasting the opposite tendency
in colored women, the writer says:
The white woman is either pro-
hibited by the insane love of So
ciety or the intemperate devotion
to women's S club from becoming Il
mother, or. if she does, the same
agencies restrict the size of her
family.
with race suicide prevalent
among the whites; with early mar
riages and prolific maturity among
Negro woman. one finds the strong
est argument to substantiate the
claim that ultimately America will
be black people country"
The writer says that while the
legitimate birth rate is decreasing,
the illegitimate rate is increasing.
Race suicide, unless checked,
means that our morals will be
blunted to the degree of dumb an
imals.' 1t is stated. at means
that in the next century America
will begin to take her place in his
tory along side of Rome. Minis
te1s should preach early marriages
Early marriages are love matches.
Late marriages, in most cases, are
marriages of conveniences.
'Emanating from race suicide
are all the crimes recorded in
criminology, prostitution. inianti-
eide and murder. What fills our
insane assylums, our jails, our i'm
beetle asylums, and hangman's
scatfolds? If you would seek
the primary cause, 90 study race
suicide, the crime of the Goth CEN
tury, the crime against man, tfe
crime against God.
1T is the minister of the gospel
whom we must look for an awak-
ening of the public to the crime. -
Efforts to learn the identity of
the writer yesterday failed
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

offence and be upheld? Is that
fair to civilization Is it Just and
proper to community that any
man or woman should be vindicat-
ed of an offence of which he or she
is guilty? Colored churches do
not support their own denomina-
tional papers. Societies are like
wise non appreciatiye of their own
journals"
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23
NOn-AppreCiatiVe

Under the above caption there
is strong and sensible editorial
in the Washington Bee of Novem-
Der 25. 1905, from which the fol-
lowing is an extract:
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

Through the instrumentality of
DIR. Bruce Evans, Hon. Henry L.
West. commissioner of the Dis
trict. President Roosevelt has writ
ten to Chairman Shouts, approx
ing the advisability of employing
young colored graduates from the
Armstrong Manual framing school
as Stearm Engineers on the Pana-
ma Canal. Mr.. Roosevelt urges
that consideration be given these
young mems applications. Mr..
Shouts has referred the matter to
Chief Engineer Stevens, who, on
December 18th will take it up
with Messrs Bruce and West.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

The above widely and favoraby known in the
West. AS president unao College, political speaker euc
prominent the public Dr. Vernon
candidate for the position occupied by the honorable uson
W. Lyons States treasury Mr. Lyons has
filled the position credit himself the through
almost three administrations part administrations under Nc
Knley and part President that
forward by
friends Professor
Vernon He representative the West and the West has never
had but national appone with supporting Dr.
Vernon for this creditable position,
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23
RACE SUICIDE

A Caucasian Woman of the Buckeye State Notes
Interesting Facts of the COlOred and White
Women on the Above TOpc--Death of
Negro who performed Heroic Deed
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Dec. 1.-Rev.
Jas. Argo, pastor of the Brighton
Presbyterian church, preached to
a large congregation last evening
from the theme: "Our Brethren in
Black" He said among other
things: The colored men of the
United States are of more worth
to the country than all the million
aires that live.'t When the dis
course was ended about half the
congregation congratulated the
minister. while the other half was
plainly dissatisfied, and today
murmurings of dissent are heard.
The congregation is IL large and
influential one.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23
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v RACE NEWS 4
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Luding Tinker, a white gentle
men instead OF "a black brute is
on trial in Austin. Texas on "A
charge of attempt criminal assault.
The prosecuting witnesses are
three little white girls.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

Joliet, Ill..-Rather than al
low woman's body to be inferred
in the potter's field, where up to
this time only male convicts have
been buried, Warden Murphy of
the State Penitentiary swallowed
his racial prejudice aud purchased
a lot in the Oakwood Cemetary for
Mrs. Mary Terry, the colored wo-
man serving a sentence for muir
der. Mrs. Terry is the woman
who. after her husband proved
faithless and married another, de-
clared that she had confessed the
crime to save MIN from the scatfold
Mr.. Murphy secured the prison
chaplain and had IA Christian SER
vice read over the corpse. None
of the former friends of the dead
woman claimed the body.
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

Chicago, lll.,-Dr. George c.
Hall, the noted Chicago physician
and surgeon, of whom we have fire.
quently spoken in these columns.
has added another feather to his
cap, so to speak. His fame being
national, he was called all the way
to Decatur. Ala, to perform diff
cult operation upon Mrs. John S.
Guthrie-one that had never be-
fore been attempted by the ablest
surgeons of that section of the
The Colorado statesman., 1905-12-23

BLACK HERO.
In recent issue of the Times
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jewelry shops with Aunt Mary. We are
going to shop some, but she is busy now
with some jewelry she wants to have re-
set
"'"You go home to your husband i'm
mediatcly." be said. -and leave your hus-
hands Aunt Mary alone here. will call for
you OF the hotel this afternoon.'
" lie came, and here | am
1.-TWO hours later the Hon Miss Smith
returned. She was mildly reproachful of
her nieoe for running away from Paris,
but said it was all right, as she could get
the gowns she needed in London.
The number of watchers outside the
house was increased 10y one.
As usual, the woman who had lost the
jewels came to the house that afternoon to
express her regret at all the publicity the
whole business had caused We all went
to the opera that night with the exception
OF my aunt, who said she would rather stay
at home and be watched by detective in
the street than sit in a hoX and bc stared
at by an opera house full Of persons.
NJhe next morning | was summoned to
my aunts room at an early hour. She
was already with the Hon. Miss Smith.
I'm the table by the side of my aunt's tea
cup lay chamois bag.
THANK goodness my aunt began
Mrs. Jones's jewels have been found She
Is already on her way here
My maid, who speaks no English the
Hon. Miss Smith chimed in. found the
bag the day we came. Just after Mrs. Jones
had dropped 1t in walking from the street.
She heard nothing of the excite nent over
the loss, and has Just handed it to me out
OF drawer in which she had dropped it
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'Quite the contrary she said. -They
are superstdtous, as people must be who
live face to face with nature in its wrath,
who see about them such awful solitudes
and mysteries unexplored and inexplain.
able.
MANY OF them cannot read; they have no
resources Of pleasure to make them forget
the hardness Of their lot, but notwithstand-
ing all, they are certainly optimistic. They
are all In the condition Of the old woman
who had but two teeth left, but thanked
Heaven every night that they were opposiis
| each other.
my personal experience has been much
like that Of Norman Duncan, whom cannot
help quoting, for he has putin W ords thatw
surely live the sorrows and pathos of these
interesting lives.
He said that he met one old man who
| counted himself favored above most
others because for years he had been able
TO AFFORD the luxury Of cream OF tartar.
Another one Of singularly happy tempera-
| ment believed himself cursed because he
had too merry heart, for, like the Purtans,
the fishermen believe that levity Is
sin.
He also tells in a few words story,
illustrative of the poverty that Is almost
| unbelievable. He was with a skipper, one
cd John Burns, who was sculling from
Duck Island. By and by they came to
wisp Of hay that had fallen from skin
which had passed. 1t was mere handful
floating on the quiet water.
1.-THE wastefulness of that dunderheadl'
exclaimed the skipper.
He took the boat toward the wisp Of
hay, putting his wrath all the while.
Pass the gaff, BY he said.
@Wth the utmost care he hooked the
wisp Of hay, to the last straw, and drew
it over the side.
-"Tis SIM said he, u waste good hay
like that
at is this awful poverty that makes
the outgoing voyage of the Pretoria a
deli ghtful experience for me, for | intend
to take supplies for the Deep Sea Missions.
"Booksf" she shook her head little
disdainfully. "Of course picture books
and ma ga zines are always gratefully re-
oeived. but what space there ia think
can be better filled with clothes and medi-
cines. shoes and hats. blankets. food, in
fact everything, anything can be made
useful there. would not dare look DR..
Grenfell in the face II ! did not succeed
In interesting people not only to 60 there
but to send something as WELL"
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| Mrs. Jones arrived and in delight seizeo
the bag. She seized every separate piece
! and declared that they were all intact.
"What's this" she said, bringing out a
letter that had evidently been stuck hur-
ried y into the bag.
There was no envelope, The paper
was marked with little checks and bore
In very flowing script the name of the firm,
the date of the foundation and the other
facts that the old French business houses
love to call attention to. 1t read:
DEAR MADAME: We are returning you the
jewelry left with us to-day 1t Is quite as
valuable as you said. and there should be no
difficulty, in raising on 1t the amount you
desire. We regret. however. that we cannot
advance the 90, 600 francs you requested.
years, y is altogether out q our traditions to
do anything of the kind. We are an old house
and cannot at this late date introduce into
our ways of business such an innovation,
There are. however many reputable firms in
Paris that would no doubt accommodate you.
"B!oIS EFT Fills.
This then was the object Of the visit
to Paris.
-1've got my iewery back said Mrs.
Jones, as she tore up the letter and threw
1t into the CRATE; and that's all care about.
/ will go straight to Scotland Yard and tell
them to stop the whole business
I1he young American Countess has since
come into Il g fortune that was inevitable.
and the Hon. Miss Smith no Ion ger has srch
need Of money that she would pawn other
PEOPLES jewelry to get it, nor has she the
faintest idea that she was once caught at
the trick"
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lie put in little hand press in the rear
OF his shop and whenever he wanted tickets
he would print few copies of pretended
local paper containing some notices Of the
plays he wanted to sea. copy would ba
sent to the press agent of the show men
toned With the request for couple OF
seats The press agent would forward
the tickets.
The inventor Of this scheme worked it
Tor two years. He was recently brought to
book and threatened with imprisonment
II he did not desist. He has stopped
HE man who is responsible for the organ
ization Of the press agents pretends to be
connected with Il Washington newspaper.
In the latter part of last season he appeared
here and began to beg for tickets
He was long successful, but was finally
exposed.
One press gent was so angry at having
been deceived that he lost no time in writing
to every other press agent in this city tell
ing them to beware of the fellow. Many
of the press agents had already met
the man and been buncoed by him. The
men he had swindled concluded that it
was good time to get together and put
down all OF his kind.
A dozen publications are kept going
simply so that their owners can get free
theater tickets. In invest eating this phase
OF the graft it was found that the expenses
of a college paper were paid by theater
tickets that were sold to scalpers.
The students who were running this
paper frankly admitted that the free
tickets they obtained and then sold kept
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their minds under these circumstances; a
few take their lives.
1She did neither. There .syere young
children dependent upon her. She braced
herself TO the inevitable and raised them
without help but her own efforts. She
told me how she had taught herself to read,
so that she might in turn teach her little
ones, from the scraps OF paper that had
come to her island coast In the summer
time, washed there from some passing
boats.
Another time gave copper cent to
one of the children. 1t was one OF those
big cents that have passed out Of olroula-
ton, but are priced there, where size and
weight count. The boy, lad OF ~ or 10,
maybe, had never had bit OF money In
his hand before; whatever necessaries his
family had procured had been obtained by
barter.
Il shall never forget his face. II he had
been In America and had given him a
million dollars he could not have been more
awed or grateful-the lives Of the children
are so devoid Of that happiness which we
cannot help associate with that period OF
life.
"The traveller will find among the human
objects Of interest several classes Of people;
one / have already spoken of as 'liveyere';
they are the most wretohed and the most
hopeless in their misery Of any. They
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Blacklist for Theater Ticket Grafters

The Press Agents Association has heen
organized and one Of its objects is to Loo;
out for persons who get theater tickets
on false pretenses. Already $50 names
are on It's blacklist and others are added
every week.
Theatrical managers have been wrestling
with the problem for years. but they never
found any effective way of stopping the
ticket grafters. Now the press agents
think their blacklist will do the business.
Many OF the ticket graftcrs make a prao-
tise of selling the tickets. they get to the
theater ticket scalper, who disposes of them
in competition with the box Office. 1t is
these men that the theater managers are
most concerned about.
Every press agent keeps list of out of
town newspapers to which he sends press
notices every week. Whenever the editors
OF these papers como to this city their re-
quests for seats are always honored.
This practise gives the ticket grafters
their chance. One of the most persistent
is a woman who conducts a small weekly
sheet in Tennessee.
The investigating committee Of the press
agents organization took the trouble to
tabulate the number Of free tickets she OBJ
tanned in one month. She had received
$500 worth OF tickets in that time and had
disposed Of all of them to a ticket scalper
Every local playhouse contributed to this
CRATER.
Another notable CRATER was sma Il shop
keeper Of Flushing, L. I. Two years ago
be learned that 1t was easy to get theater
tickets one went about 1t right.
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hind the shrubbery near the street. He
was evidently another watcher.
Pleasant, isn't it?' she observed philo-
sophically. Watched by detectives in the
house one has lived in for forty years.
AWe slept in spite Of the survellance. In
the morning it was announced that the Hon.
Miss Smith. the aunt Of the Englishlnan's
bride, was to go to Paris that very day. Her
niece, who was really no more than pretty
child, was to 60 with her. They said they
wanted to do some shopping.
Want to got out Of this Scotland Yard
atmosphere around my house. my aunt
observed. I don't wonder
SThoy went OF to Paris and the excite
mont over the jewels continued, The
police were on the track Of famous dia-
mond gang. They were going to make
all sorts OF discoveries.
Two days after they had left, Lady
Jack came back alone from Paris. She
had not been announced and she was In
my aunt's room when was called down.
DO send for Jack II you know where he
w. my aunt said. This poor child seems
terribly agitated A man Swallowed her
cab here from the station. She says there
was another on the Channel boat
Yes and in Paris. the young bride
began. I came home on that account.
The same man who followed us on the train
from Boulogne kept always near us in
Paris I was too frightened Of Aunt Mary
to ask about him. But I did 60 to my
cousin there and told him what had hap
pened.'
4'1What have you been doing since you
came over here?" he asked.
Nothing" SAIL "but riding about to
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their paper going. They were frank
enough to say that if the graft was stopped
their college paper would stop too.
One of the most energetic grafters
always wrote his requests for tickets on
the letter paper Of a Brooklyn paper. When
he was investigated it was found that he
was helper at the lunch counter in the
composing room Of the paper. He worked
the graft for more than a year, but now
he is out of a job.
Another diligent seeker after free seats
so that he could sell them to scapers Il
now spending a vacation at Sing Sing.
He was recently convicted of stealing
letters from mail boxes
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Labrador.
=:5umn7er:
Resort ::

|11abradors advantages as summer
s..ort have been brought before the public
+ IN one way or another in the last few years.
Thi, wear an additional attraction is found
IN the fact that the solar eclipse will be
yi.;hls there And in the minds OF some
neople additional interest is given to the
sc,inse BY the fact that an American
xoman, Miss Isabel Edgar, has chartered
steamer and is going to take party to
Labrador to sec it,
Miss Edgar, trim little woman Of Phila-
delnbia antecedents, reticence, executive
ability and repose, told SrN reporter
the other day about her plans and her
experiences in Labrador.
NV first visit to Labrador she said.
.ca me- about by chance when I was invited
TO accompany an exploring party. Used
10 travel as | was, it did not seem to me
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As the Waiter lnderst o OIL.
From Tut Bits.


II might be supposed that English speak
ing people would not venture to travel in a
foreign country without some knowled &c
OF its language, but our countrymen do so
every year.
A lady relates that she was one OF a party
of English tourists that visited Madrid She
was the only one of the number who knew
any Spanish. and her stock was confined
TO yes" and no" and milk" BY means
of gestures they managed to get along the
first afternoon md night.
The next morning at breakfast there was
coffee, but no milk and the party appealed
to the lady 10 get some.
To her dismay she forgot the word for
milk and after striving in vain to recall
IL she seized piece Of paper and pencil and
drcw the picture of a COW.
Thewaiter examined the drawing critically,
went out OF the room and returned promptly
with bundle oil tickets for that days bull
fight
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DOCTOR GREENFIELD.
Prom Photo Lent by Fleming X. Reveil Co.

in which capacity he has waged successful
war against oppression and wrongdoing in
every FORM
According to Miss Edgar the summer
traveller who ventures on a northern trip
will And much to repay him for the de-
parture from the beaten track Of travel.
The weather is delightful. The summer ia
short, but it makes up in warmth and well
como what it lacks in duration. The scenery
IL revelation.
And the population Of Labrador cannot
fail to interest the raveler whatever may
he the reason that has induced him to take
the trip Miss Edgar continued. 'One
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dor he found himself the only physician

dor he found himself the only physician
within 1000 miles.
In these years he has built and main
tanned three hospitals. gathered about him
a staff Of two resident doctors and three
trained nurses and patrolled the coast in
his hospital ahip, the strathcona. He has
also opened cooperative stores. started
industries to furnish employment for those
out Of work. cared for the orphans Of fish,
srnnsn lost at SEA and In many other ways
become the guardian and helper of the
entire population. The Newfoundland
Government has recognized the value of
his work and appointed him magistrate,
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named themselves. 7 livn yere.' IVES tho
answer made to the early pioneers and,
In lieu Of better title. that has chung to
them and gone into the permanent ver-
nacular OF the coast. They arc descendants
Of those who came by chance and remained
through proorastination.
in the fishing season 1t Is estimated
that from twenty to thirty thousand come
from the lower coast, from Newfoundland
and Canada, and few from even further
south. They bring their wives and families,
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Of my own experiences may give you an
idea Of the desolate life therp.
AOnoe voyaging about with no compass
but my own wish, I came to small island
on which existed one Of the 'liveyere' women
bringing UP a small family. She told me
her story in the patient manner of her class.
@She had seen from the apertures in her
turf cottage the loss Of her husband. father
and oldest boy In gale that swamped
their frail fishing boat and took In its re-
sistless fury her all. Many women lose
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for the season may be long and the help Of
the woman kind Ia necessary.
-They are like migratory birds which an
nounce the coming Of the summer. They
work early and late; sometimes they snatch
but single hour Of sleep, sometimes none
at all. when the fish are plenty
In answer to the question whether she
found these people Disconnected hardened
lot, Miss Edgar shook her head In violent
negation.
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such wonderful undertaking as my friends
seemed to ina oine IT,

such wonderful undertaking a. my friends
seemed to ina gine it.
Il came back enthusiastic, and two years
later, in company with my sister, ventured
north again, moved thereto by that Lure
Of the Labrador Wild which Dillon Wal
lace, Hubbard's companion. describes. It
was on that second trip that I mot Mr..
Hubbard, who was then on his way to
the interior, trip from which he never
returned.
Seated on rock on the Labrador coast
saw the steamer which had brought my
sister and myself as far north as it went
disappear into the far distance. 1t was a
wild forsaken coast with the sea birds
flying about our heads and the treacherous
sea, that seems there, more than In any
other part Of the world to have every
drop Of its water instinct with tragedy,
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Talking shout the possibilities Of Leading
an expedition from New York to 500 the
eclipse, DR.. Grenfell urged 1t most per-
sistently, his farsightedness seeing IN It
possibilities Of awakening new interest in
the people among whom he has cast his lot.
1T is fifteen years now since DR.. Grenfell.
an Oxford graduate, began his work in the
servios OF the deep sea fishermen. When
he first landed on the bleak coast OF Labra-
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THE ECLIPSE AN ADDITIONAL
ATTRACTION OF THE PRESENT
SUMMER-A WOMAN TO LEAD
A PARTY OF SCIENTISTS THERE
AID FOR DR.. GREENFIELD IN
HIS WORK AMONG THE DEEP
SEA FISHERMEN. - - - -