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The Colorado statesman., 1905-02-11

races, nor nations. The best col
leges that few years past closed
their doors against her, have grad
ually put the latch string on the
out side. The education of the
sexes and the attendant results
have displaced the old idea of the
moral and intellectual inferiority
of women. She stands beside her
brother as partner sharing equal
ly with him in the worlds work 70
humanity. We have a great work
to perform in meeting the demands
of the hour, requiring all the ener-
gy possible of braiE unclouded -
pure and unsnllied. The motto of
the Wcman's Home ,and Foreign
Mission is to Lift as we climb" :"
1t is itself an inspiration to great
activity in all moral reforms; and
with spirit of devotion for the
welfare of humanity we embrace
the work of the Wonran's Home
and Foresgn Mission in their mot
to: For God and home, and ma
tive land"
In public affairs. women have
their share. She must speak
through husband, son, father,
brother and lover. Men go from
home into the world to execute
what women have decreed. The
same thing is true in the church.
| shall not dictate what women
should do here, or limit her sphere
of activity, but this L know she
can with propriety in her auxiliary
work to the church become
mighty power. Women's Mission
ary societies, Christian Endeavor
societies, Sunday School work,
National Association society,
Women's Aid society and the
Home and Foreign Mission society.
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Communicated.
To THE NEGRO CITIZENS OF THE
STATE OF COLORADO

To THE NEGRO CITIZENS OF THE
STATE OF COLORADO
[ want to call your attention to
some things that | have pursued
very closely, and in pursuing, 1
can only find where a man gets the
worst of it in the end.
Now, my respective friends,
please allow me to appeal to you
as a brother member and friend of
your race to turn your attention to
something else and lay the union
question on the table indefinitely,
with all due respects to my respec-
tive friend, Mr.. Franklin, for | be-
lieve that the dear young man
means well, but let's use little
consideration.
First. We have had little ex-
perience along that line; 1 can't
just recall the year but it was in
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the 90's that we organized a union
in Chicago and there were fifteen
hundred (1,500) of us turned out
of employment at once in the
same day and white boys taken
our places and the most of those
places are filled with white boys
get.
| am tired of this one mans S
deal when ii comes to the Negro
question. Negroes have been
bought and sold long enough in
this country and they are not fools
any longer. l want to ask you
one thing and that is this: IF ali
of the white union people in the
State of Colorado can't win. how
do you expect for the little dab of
Negroes to win by unionizing?" /
want to call your. attention to
the fact that if you will stop
and consider pertaining to poll
tics) WHO has been your friend for
the past forty years and then think
how you are appreciating them
here in the State of Colorado, you
then could see why you are treat
ed as you are at present.
The Republican party has al
ways been the Negroes friend, and
is yet in all states where the Ne
groes appreciate what they do for
him.
Now | want to call you back to
unionism again. We, the Negro
citizens of the United States are
enfranchised voters; are as much
so as any other race or nationality
in this country, and when we are
accepted as such and are accepted
i'll any organized union without
discrimination then l will give
unions my support, and not until
then. for we are collectively citi-
Zens in this country and not indi-
vidual citizens. consequently we
should unite as a whole and not as
individuals.
Now in conclusion you will al
low me to say that [ favor consoli-
dation as a race, but not as domi-
neering union. With this, 1 re-
main,
Respectfully yours,
O. RAND,
Telluride, Colo
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The Test of a Soul.

The Los Angeles Times of Jan
uary 29th had the following to say
of the treatment accorded Booker
L. Washington on his recent tip
to Kansas:
A few days ago Booker WASH
ington accepted an invitation to
address the Legislature, the Su-
preme Court and the State officers
of Kansas. Upon the day fixed he
walked to the Capitol building in
Topeka, arm in arm with the Gov
ernor, and was received by the dis
tinguished audience that awaited
him with every possible show of
honor and respect. 1t was IA day
of glory for the great leader of the
black race.
Oftentimes. however, as this
world goes, the day of glory is fol-
lowed by the day of. shame. The
world has a way of lifting men up
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The Womans's Part.
''What Role is the Educated Woman to Play in the Up
lifting of Her Race?"-Mrs Jane Arlington,
in Buxton Iowa Gazette.
in Buxton Iowa Gazette.

AS this is unquestionably the
woman's era. the question is time
ly and proper Every race and
nation that is at all progress
sive, has quotto of earnest
women engaged in creating for
themselves higher sphere of
usefulness to the world insisting
upon the necessity of a higher
plane of integrity and worth-and
thus the women of our race should
be an exception in this land of our
birth.
There is no woman, certainly no
woman in the United States, who
has more reason to desire and
more need to aspire for better op-
portunities for her brothers and
herself than the Negro woman in
general and the educated woman
in particular.
Most patient and earnest en-
deavor on the part of our women
"a strong missionary spirit needs
to be exhibited before any results
may be reached. 1t will require
the life work for many years to
rescue even a practical part from
the condition of to-day. How to
begin the work in a systematic
mrnner for the advancement of
our people struggling amidst as
much that is discouraging is puz-
zling to the would-be reformers
within our own ranks. In view of
this thought | cannot see that any
different role should be adopted by
us than by women in general in
this land. Already the mothers
all over the country are uniting
themselves in this one thought
the home. In advancing such a
thought we are confronted with
the fact that the development of
the homes of this land has not
been days, work. and the i'm
provement of the character of the
homes will test the energies of the
women who preside over them.
Through our clubs our women
hope to improve the social atmos-
pher by showing the enormity of
the Double standing of morals
which teaches that we should turn
the cold shoulder upon a fallen sis
ter but greet her destroyer with
open arms and a gracious smile.
In all ages of the world, woman
has been the central figure around
which all JOY and sorrows, all in
spiration, aspiration, and all ac-
complishments have circled. In
all conditions of life, in all climes,
in all Christian epochs, in all coun-
tries, she holds this position indis-
putable among the nations of the
earth. For without her there
would be no hope circle, without
the home circle there would be no
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Suey Pang, IA Chinaman in this
metropolitan and cosmopolitan city
keeps a chop joint on Sixth avenue
Mr.. W. Nathan Walker, an Afro
American real estate broker. went
into the joint for a dish of chop
suey. Pang charged him $3.50 for
the mess, called him "a nigger''
and swiped him on the head with
a club. In the police court Mag
istrate Cornell fined Pang So, and
read the heathen the following riot
act; AS Chinaman, you are
scarcely fit person to set your
self up as a Judge between respect
able colored business men and
white messenger boys. This man
is as good as any other, and shall
find you 50 for striking him. The
law is very plain with regard to
discriminating between white.
black and yellow. You had abso-
lutely no right to charge the COM
plant $3.50 for % cent chop suey
Just because be was colored. -
Palladium.
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F. w. Winter. the new manager
of the Hotel Milton, Eighteenth
and Chestnut streets, st. Louis,
asked Chief of Detectives Des-
mond, for protection, stating that
the hotels former chef and some of
the walters were objecting to being
dismissed. Officers Hayhurst and
O'Brien were sent to the hotel. it
was found that the chef had about
n dozen knives placed in various
places about the kitchen and evi-
IDENTITY was preparing for trouble.
Mr.. Winter had had another chef
whom he wished to install in the
kitchen. The new manager re
Gently decided to substitute white
help for black in the hotel and yes
terday notified the ten colored
walters that girls had leen en-
ployed to take their places. The
colored men objected, but the
changes were made without dis
turbauce. Mr.. Winter said he
had no complaint to make against
the retiring help, but preferred
girl walters to Negroes.-St. Louis
Sentinel,
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to the pedestals for the mere sport
of Knocking them down again.
Mr.. Washington found this to be
the case in his Kansas experience,
for OH the following night, while
in the town of Wichita, neighbor-
ing Topeka, he could not find a
hotel that would harbor him or
give him a morsel to eat. Fresh
from the acclaim and the applause
of the capitol where he was show
cred with honors, he was upon the
very next day forced to walk the
streets of Wichita like an outcast
and pariah He was obliged at
last to seek the shelter of a hum
ble fellow Negroes home in order
to find place to lay his head
All this, of course, brings up
again the eternal Negro question.
Upon that question enough has
been said and it is not the purpose
here to reopen it for argument.
But il is in order that another
point of view of case of this
kind may be referred TO that the
incidents herein related are review
ed. And that point Of view is the
barbarous cruelty with which we
seek to test the human soul. Per-
haps it is well that the soul should
be tested. sometimes, but it is in
human and unnecessary that the
trial should be so severe and so
relentlessly harsh as it was in the
case of Booker Washington. He
is great man with a great soul.
He is doing the noblest work that
man can do-the uplifting of a
race. He is too great. too noble,
and too unsel6sh to be treated like
a dog by any one in any town in
America.
But the real question is how
great must a great soul be to bear
up under such treatment? How
long can it bear the burden and
not break? Under the black skin
of Booker Washington there is a
nature as fine and as sensitive
in its make up as is the nature of
any Caucasian. He feels such
treatment as he received in Wich-
ita as keenly as any white man
could feel 1T. Every day of his
life he is subjected to insult and
ignominy at the hands of people
who are not fit to be mentioned in
the same breath with him as far as
the essential qualities of heart and
mind and character are concerned.
Yet almost every waking hour of
his existence he is subjected to
the whitening scorn AID the un-
disguised contempt of his fellow
man, simply because God sent him
forth with dark skin.
The soul that is so constituted
and that still can bear up; that
can pursue it's way without resent
ment; that can give back smile
for a scowl, and that, when so
deeply wronged. can so freely for
give, must be fortified by a strength
and sweetness truly Christlike.
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RACE NEWS.
Gathered From Our EXCHANGES.

Kansas City, Mo. is to have a
first class hotel for the accomoda
ton of our people. MIR. Powell has
purchased a fine site at Sixth and
Oak streets, and will shortly have
hostelry for the Negro that will
have no superior in this country.
Savannah, GA. Feb. 2.-Prof.
L. l.. Cotton, of the Georgia State
College for Negro Youths, near
this city, died tonight from injur-
les inflicted to-day by Sam Bowen,
aged II, one of the Negro pupils.
Prof Cotton elected Bowen from
the recitation room and the latter
hurled brick at tie professor,
fracturing his krll. Students
threatened to lynch Bowen, but he
boarded a trolley car, where he
was arrested.
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NO. 20.

ago he became too hungry to re-
sist tempting meal offered by
Jailor Achilles Biek, and since
then he has been eating regularly.
A Washington dispatch says:
VIM. HI. Sheppard, whose home
city is Staunton, Va, and who for
the past fourteen years has been
Presbyterian missionary in the
Congo Free State, presented to the
President handsome rug, a COW
erlet of palm fiber linen and ii un-
ique pipe, ali of the articles being
manufactured and used by the ma
tives of Central Africa Mr.. Shep-
pard told the President that since
he went to Africa the natives have
printing presses and
now print the Bible in their native
although prior to four
teen years ago the language had
not been reduced to reading char
acters and the natives never had
heard of a book. Mr.. Sheppard is
in this country on years leave of
absence and expects to return to
Africa at the expiration of his
leave.
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The Cclored Catholic Herald"
is the name of new weekly of
which Augustine j. McNorton is
editor and treasurer; Edward E..
Cooper is secretary and business
manager. tits published at Wash
ington.
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The general committee which is
to have charge of the proposed w.
III. Baldwin memorial fund was
announced in New York a few days
ago as follows: President Roose-
welt. Jacob H. Schiff Alf red T.
White, Oswald Garrison, Fix Ad-
ler. V. Everit Macy, Cleveland
H. Dodge. A. S. Ochs of New Y York !;
President Elliot of Harvard; Ch as.
Francis Adams of Boston; HI. M. .
Atkinson of Atlanta; Grover
Cleveland, H. HI. Hanna, Indiana
polls; j. Stanley Brown, secretary.
New York. The fund is to be an
addition to the endowment of the
Tuskegee Institute, and although
10 fixed sum has been set by the
committee, they hope to make it
as large as possible.
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Lee Harper, colored, II years
old was sentenced to 40 years in
the penitentiary by Judge Holder
at Belleville, Mo, last week, after
he had pleaded guilty to the
charge of murder. Harper at
tempted to rob Paul Kid, proprie-
tor of saloon in North Third
street East st. Louis July 13.
Thomas Mcnamara, bystander,
interferred. and Harper shot and
killed him. He was arrested in
East ST Louis a few hours after
the shooting. Six weeks ago Har-
per feigned insanity In the Belle
vile Jail and refused to eat. For
nearly thirty days he scarcely
tasted food. But about two weeks
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Negro troops from Georgia will
not be allowed to attend the inau-
guaration of President Roosevelt,
March 4. Governor Terrell will not
grant permission to the colored
troops to leave the State. The
Lincoln Guards of Macon have al
ready made arrangements to at,
tend the Inauguration of the Pres
ident, but when formal request for
leave of absence of the company is
made. it is said that it will be de-
MED by the Governor.
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been examined in every way without
any light being thrown upon the mat
ter. The suspicious of the police then
rested upon young Gorot. who, as
you may remember, stayed over time in
the office that night. I!s remaining be-
hind and his French name were really
the only two points which could sug-
gest suspicion; but, az a matter of fact,
| did not tegin work until he had gone.
and his people are Of Huguenot extrac-
tion, but as English IN sympathy and
tradition as you and | are. Nothing was
found 10 implicate him IN any way,
and there the matter dropped. l turn
TO you. Mr. Holmes. as absolutely my
last hope. IF you fail me, then my
honor as we'll as my position are for
ever forfeited. q"
The invalid sank back upon his
cushions, tired out by this long recital,
while his nurse poured him out a glass
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&Ii[10 z q VA IS TER K1X9 9 ! =

hope1essly ruined. I don't know what
| did. I fancy 1 must have made a
scene. I have Il dim recollection of 4
group of officials who crowded round
me. endeavoring to soothe me. One of
them drove down with me TO Waterloo.
and saw me into the woi1ing train. l
believe that he would have come all the
way had 1t not been that DR.. Ferrier.
who lives near me, was going down by
that very train. The doctor most kind
II took charge of me, and it was we'll
he did SO, for I had a fit in the station.
and before we reached home I was
practically a raving maniac.
You can imagine the state of things
here when they were reused from their
beds by the doctors ringing. and found
me in this condition. Poor Annie here
and my mother were broken hearted.
DR.. Ferrier had just heard enough from
| the detective at the station TO be able
to give an idea of what had happened.
and his story did NOT mend matters. It
| was evident to all that I was fl for a
| long illness. so Joseph was bundled out
f, of this CHEEKY bed room, and it was
| turned Into a sick room for me. Here
| have lain, Mr.. Holmes, for over nine
| weeks. unconscious. and raving with
| brain fever. If it had not peen for Miss
iislEFisoH mere ana Tor me aocforS care
I should NOT be speaking to you now.
She has nursed me by day and hired
nurse has looked after me by night,
for in my mad fits I was capable OF
anything. Slowly my reason has clear
ed, but 1t is only during the last three
days that my memory has quite re-
turned. Sometimes l wish that 1t never
had. The first thing that DID was to
wire to Mr. Forbes, who had the case in
hand. He came out, and assures me
that. though everything has been done,
no trace of a clue has been discovered.
The commissionnafre and his wife have
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''T'here is nothing n which deduction
is so necessary as In religien.' said he.
leaning with his back against the shut
ters. "It can be built up as an exact
science by the reasoner. Our highest
assurance of the goodness of Provi-
dence seems to me 70 rest IN the flowers.
All other things, our powers, our de-
sires, our food, are all really necessary
for our existence in the first instance
But this rose is an extra, It's smell and
its color are an establishment of life,
ness which gives extras, and so l say
again that we have much to hope from
the flowers
Percy Phelps and his nurse looked al
Holmes during this demonstration with
surprise and good deal of disappoint-
ment written roon their faces. He had
fallen into a reverie. with the moss-rose
between his fingers It had lasted some
minutes before the young lady broke In
upon it.
DO you see any prospect of solving
this mystery, Mr. Hoimes?' she asked.
with a touch of asperity in her voice.
"Oh, the mystery!" he answered, COM
ing back with a start to the realities OF
life. well, it would be absurd TO deny
that the case is d very abstruse and
complicated one, but can promise you
that I will look into the matter and let
YOU know any points which may strike
me-"
DO you see any elue?'
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mot Miss Harrison here, for exam
pla?''
mo I had not been back to Woking
between getting the order and executing
the commission"
"And none of your people had by
chance been to see your
None"
about in the Officer
"Oh, yes. an of them had been shown
over It.
"stnl, Of course. If you said nothing
to any one about the treaty these In
quiries are irrelevant"
'sI said nothing
"Do you know anything of the COM
missionnaire?"
Nothing except that he is an old
soldier
"What regiment?"
"oh, have neard-Colatream
Guards"
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nj of Manhattan Island, in di-
j Y minutive hovel of his own con
struction, dwelis mysterious
being upon whom has descended the
mantle of Anselm and other famed re-
cluses of the olden time. The tranquil
Hudson sweeps his very dooryard as it
speeds its silent course TO the sea, and
the frowning Palisades, towering in
reek-ribbed majesty on the farther river
side. are not more solitary and aloof
than the alien of whose little world they
form boundary.
Hardly a stones throw from his habi-
tation the teeming populace of a great
city surges to and fro. Upon the pave
ments sounds the tattoo OF myriads of
hurrying feet. Voices, the clangor of
gongs and roar of traffic fill the air. but
all are blended. ere reaching the her
mit's ear. into a deep, musical murmur
which is the sole evidence of the close
proximity Of his detested fellow beings
A passer-by. pausing on the crest of the
high embankment, might gaze down at
the concealing brush and powders be-
low without even suspectIng the pres
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of some stimulating medicine Holmes
sat silently. with his head thrown back
and his eyes closed, in an attitude which
might seem listless to a stranger, but
which I knew betokened the most in
tense self-absprption.
Your statement has peen so explicit, -
said he at last. that you have really
left me very few questions to ask.
There is one OF the very utmost import
anee. however. Did yeu tell any one
that you had this special task to per-
form?''
no one
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Poisoned His Spring.


The hut itself is scarcely larger than
a respectable dog kennel; yet fer an in
determinate number of years it has been
the sole shelter of an adult human be-
ing. Old packing boxes were used in its
construction. Within are a few batter
ed cooking utensils and a rude bench
which serves as bed. with some old
hfe-preservers in lieu of mattress, A
spring, clear and sparkling, supplies
abundant drinking water One winter 1t
was tainted by sewage and the recluse
was forced to auench his thirst with
melted snow. Eventually the health
board ordered the repair of the faulty
sewer without knowing that they were
rendering an inestimahle service to one
whose name did not appear upon the
roll of taxpayers.
Who this mysterious being is-whenee
he came-what crushed ambition.
wrong, or disappointment was the
means of thus embittering his life and
estranging him from his kind, no one
has learned. Probably not more than a
dozen souls know OF his existence. These
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THANK you. I have no doubt can
get details from Forbes. The anthori-
ties are excellent at amassing facts.
though they do not always use them
TO advantage What a lovely thing a
rose Isl,
He walked past the couch TO the open
window. and held up the dropping stalk
OF a noss-rose, looking down at the
dainty blend of crimson and green. It
was new phase of his character 10
me, for 1 had never before, seen him
show any keen interest in natural OBJ
jects.
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are chiefly professional hoboes. toward
whom he preserves an armed neutrality
On the one hand, he is careful not to
antagonize them, out of respect for their
superior numbers. On the other, he re-
fuses to permit them to remain IN the
neighborhood. for fear their presence
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the daily papers. which he is said to
do with unvaryfng regularity. On the
one or two occasions when he has per-
Tnitfed himself to be drawn into con-
versasion by some chance discoverer Of
his retreat, he has displayed an intel
Iigent grasp Of current topics, and de-
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How he lives. where he obtains food,
ana whence comes the money to supply
his simple needs, are mysteries as i'm
penetrabIe as the identity OF the man
himself. NO one has ever seen him com
ing or going, and he makes no conf
denees. HIS only recreation is to read
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may become known to the police and
his downfall be coupled with their own.
So attached has he become to his miser-
able abode that arrest and imprison-
nent on the charge of vagrancy would
seem calamity no greater than the
dread command OF the iaw-'moye on"
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spite the vein Of bitterness and mis-
anthropy eolortng his speech he has
never displayed any anarchistfc or revo-
lutionary tendencies. To be forgottea
is apparently the sole desire OF this iaf-
tel day hermit. and next 10 this IL 70
be let alone.
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Modern Diogenes Leads Life of Solitude
Hardly Stones Throw From the
Teening Populace of
Great Metropolis,

ence of the cleverly disposed dwelling.
which is only visible when approached
from the water front Even then one
may pass and re-pass a dozen times be-
fore It is discovered.
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New York. MAY q.

New York, May "a.
yOT far from the upper extremity
VI of Manhattan Island, in a di-
y minutive hoveI of his own con