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The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03

BE A MAN.

With chisel in hand, and a hard piece of
stone,
Set to work with all your might;
Don't spoil your work. but strive alone,
And depend on yourself in Life's great
fight.
Be a man!
Let your work be fine; each stroke you
make
With mallet and chisel, be true and firm,
And remember that all in life have a stake
And must work to win and with patience
learn
Be man!
By working hard in Life's great fight,
And having purpose firm and true,
Though downcast at morning, you're up at
night
'Tis the only way this world to get through:
Be man!
As you travel through life, you often get
snubbed,
Rubbed and cut and blocked on your way,
But all precious jewels must be cut and
rubbed,
Before their value will show worth the pay,
Be man!
So whistle and sing as you journey along,
Smile and make happy, all, through each
day,
With kind words while working, a joke
and song,
In meeting, in passing in going away
Be a man!
W. q. S.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03

Howdy, Honey, Howdy.
BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR.

Do a-stan'in' jar, fah a-shinin, thoo,
OF folks drowsin' 'roun' de place, wide
awake is Lou,
Wen l tap, she answah an L see huh
'mence to grin,
"Howdy, honey, howdy, won't you step
right IMP"
Den l step erpon de log layin at de do,
Bless de Lawd, huh nanny an huh pap's
done 'menced to sno'.
Nows de time eff evah, eff rs gwine to try
an win,
'Howdy, honey, howdy, won't you step
right iu?"
No use playin' on de aidge, trimblin' on
de brink,
Wen body love gal, tell huh whut he
tink;
Wen huh heat is open fu' de love you
gwine to gin,
Pull yose'f togethah, sub, an step right in.
Sweetes' imbitation dat body evah
hyeahed,
Sweetah den de music of a love-sick mock
in bird,
Comm f'om de gal you loves bettah den
'Howdy. honey, howdy, won't you step
right imp
At de gate O. heaven wen de sto'm o life
is pas,
Spec I'll be a-stan'in', 'twell de Mastah
say at las,
''Hyeah he stan all weary, but he winned
his fight wild sin
Howdy, honey, howdy, won't you step
right in?''
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03
A Close Study
Of the Habits and Customs of Our People. The Social
and Domestic Relations of the Colored People,
Peculiarly Among Themselves.

A close study of the habits and
customs of our people with the Ian
gnage and institutions from which
the conclusion may be drawn as to
the status Of our civilization is in
deed a great question. First OF
all there are many lines of differ
ences among us, and the reasons
for such differences are obvious.
Many of our better classes
have been driven to them
! selves by the criminal prose-
Scution of others along the
line of gossip criminal arraign-
ment and unfounded charges,
which tend to scandalize and
weaken their influences in the
community in which they live.
We say for this reason, many OF
the people have been driven so to
speak, to themselves. The min
listers in all the pulpits should take
stand against the cheap gush
which is so prevalent among our
people by showing the inconsis-
tency of such people with the
christianity they profess to have,
that going from house to house on
their wicked mission of gossip is
not only unchristian, but is crimi-
nal, and is great drawback to
the progress of our people. Some
of them seem to take great delight
in being the origintors OF some
thing new, even though it may be
a lie of their own make, they seem
to glory in telling it, and If
brought to account they stand
convicted of the most heinous
crime that can be committed in
the civilized land. The remedy
for such habits is that every family
should carefully study the charac-
ter of those whom they would adj
NIT as their associates, or invite
into their company. False friends
are our worse enemies they in
sleeps clothing enter our conf
dence. and like wolves destroy us
if trusted. This is a condition
that is APPALLING among us. 1t is
found to exist in our best churches
and is a menace to the progress of
our social and domestic life. We
. very often rush to secular papers
with damaging charges against
ourselves and our own interests,
which tend to varify the opinion
of others about us, and helps lower
the general public to understand
that we are in any way defending
crime doers among us, but that
those who feel called upon to go to
the secular presses should name
their man or men, and not make
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03
La Junta Notes.
NO. %.

Mr.. Clemons is seriously i'll, he
has the communities best wishes.
Mrs. M. Green has returned from
Pueblo and reports a delightful
trip.
The program at the literary last
Thursday night was grand espec-
tally the Bee.
Mrs. III. Moore is able to be
down stairs to-day after several
days illness.
Mrs. Fowler served the supper
after the literary, Thursday night
which proved a grand success.
Mrs. Robert Worthy is still on
the sick list but some what better
to-day, with earnestness her sister
is yet by her bed side.
Rev. Solly is still in Denver Wis
iting and his flock is trying to go
on with the good work, though
our shepherd is much missed.
John Lawson, r. j. Parkers chef
on the Santa Fe is in the La Junta
private hospital under treatment.
He no doubt will go through a
slight operation.
The Bachelors den is much
grieved over the loss of their faith
er and it is much feared by the
community that the Oldest son
will leave for the ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gross
of Rocky Ford were agreeably sur
prised by Mesdames Scott, Bad
gett, Marshall, johnson and Davis
who took their lunch and spent
the day. Mesdames Scott and
Badgett were so enthused over
the little city until they have de-
cided to invest in property there,
they will leave for that city next
week.
Cardonzo Collins of La Junta,
left for Pueblo Tuesday morning
where he will start in business of
his own. He is 73 years of age
and a more generous, kindhearted
old gentleman, one could not wish
to find. When Mr. Collins left
this city we feel as though we
have lost our purest gem, for he
has not only been a father to us
all but he has lived a constant
christian and was for peace, hap
piness and prosperity which is an
exemplary life that all should fol-
low. He has been the life of what
ever he mingled in. AS a singer,
his melodious voice was always
admired The people of La Junta
wish him JOY and success in his
new location.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03

sweeping charges against the en-
tire race. We believe that any
man or woman who is guilty of
crime should be apprehended and
punished, but we believe that we
should learn to see good in others
and believe them to be gentlemen
and ladies until they are proven
guilty of some crime by their peers
Just IN proportion as we respect
ourselves, we are apt to respect
others.
The rule is: "Do unto others
as you would have them do to
you"
The Church has lost its power,
it seems. If it has, it can be
largely traced to the habit of gos-
sip. The man or woman who
scours the town with infamed
tongues, firing every home and
every person against the other
home and the other person, and
then stand up in love feast or in
general class, telling the church
that they are christians and that
they are doing the bidding of their
Master in heaven, destroys the
confidence of the outside world in
the religion of Christ, and hence
the church looses its power as a
moral institution. The truth is,
that christians are dis gusted with
such practices and many of them
sit in wonder with their mouths
closed while these gossipers are
ranting and shouting the praise of
themselves; for certainly they are
not praising God, but are astound-
ing many of the humble Christians
who are trying to live upright
lives. The churches about Nash
vile, many of them, have grown
cold, lost as it were their first love,
and hence are drags-a struggle
for existence, while others through
the efforts of their pastors, hard
preaching. house to house canvass,
are forging forward, but the work
is tedious and is beset with great
danger. 1t is not that the grace
of God in instruments of clay has
lost its power, but the grace is not
in them, and hence the instru-
ment has no power and is ineffec-
tive. God himself is powerless
with unbelievers and liars, and
hence, there is nothing to work
through. Let us therefore lay
aside every weight and the sins
which doth so easily beset us and
run the race with patience which
set before us, looking unto Jesus
who is the author and finisher of
our Sunday School Moni-
tor.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03

DR.. Booker T. Washington took
lunch last week with Earl Grey,
Governor General of Canada, in
Ottawa, and on his return to New
York City was the guest of Mrs. j.
Pierpont Morgan, the wife of the
ulti-millionaire, at tea.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03

RACE NEWS !
, Gathered from Various Sources. ,

Stephen Bates. an Afro -Ameri-
can, has been chief of police and
sheriff of Vergennes, Vermont
for twenty-six consecutive years.
He is Virginiar by birth and is
sixty-four years of age.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03

William Harden of Quincy, Fla.
is the only colored man in the
South who owns and operates an
electric and ice plant for lighting
the town and supplying ice.
The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-03

The italian Brotherhood of
Newport, r. 1. at their annual
meeting elected as their physi-
clan for the year 1906 DR.. Marcus
F. Wheatland, colored man, who
won so much fame some months
ago through a delicate operation
performed upon Miss Walsh,
daughter of the multi millionaire.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03
MICHIGAN FOR BRYAN.
Resolution Calling for Investigation
of Tdggart Defeated.

Detroit, Aug. 2.-The Endorsement of Bryan
for President in 1905 the defeat of a resolution
calling on the National Democratic Committee
10 investigate the charges made against Ma
tional Chairman Taggart and TO demand his
resignation If they proven, and the NOM
ination OF Charles III. Kimmerle OF Cassopolis,
for Governor. over Stanley E. Parkhill Of
owosso the only other candidate. after spir-
tied ballot, were the features Of the Democratic
State Convention held here to-day. About $50
delegates attended the convention.
The resolution asking for the investigation of
Taggart was presented TO the convention by
Chairman Fowler. of the resolutions committee
after the platform had been adopted E. o.
Wood, of Flint former chairman of the State
Central Committee, his feet soon as
the resolution had been read with motion
that II be laid on the table lie said that there
was nothing to prevent the unproven charges
being made against any man. and that it was
improper and wrong for the convention 70 take
any cognizance of such charges.
The resolutions say:
Evils under the form of combinations and
trusts, which have shocked the moral con-
science of the nation in the last few years. are
a direct outcome Of class legislation by the
Republican party, comforting privileges upon
corporations az the expense of the common
people. A continuance of such legislation Is now
threatened by the many bills of like character,
as, for instance. the Ship Subsidy bill. and in
adequate remedial laws. enacted by the recent
Congress, showing that there is no honest pur-
pose on the part of the Republican party 20
relieve the people from the evils thus cast upon
them by this unjust legislation Their affilia-
tiOns with the classes thus favored make IL abb
solutely impossible to obtain relief from Re-
publican sources.
The platform then cites the rejection of the
proposition of Senator La Toilette with regard
to railroad legislation proof of these asser-
tiOns. The Endorsement Of William J. Bryan is
as follows:
Fully believing in the honesty, integrity and
wisdom of William Jennings Bryan. and that
under his leadership the people would receive
relief from the many ills above referred to- we
commend him 70 the people of the United States
as candidate for President in 1908.
The resolutions further favor the nomination
of all candidates by direct vote; nomination
and election of United States Senators by direct
vote; passenger rate of not more than two
cents mile in the lower peninsula of this state
and three cents in the upper peninsula: the
elimination of the of the cross at the head
of ballots and the of a cross before each
candidate voted for. and enactment of laws
making II criminal offence for members of the
Legislature TO accept railroad passes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03

The tangled tale OF the marital troubles Of Mr.
and Mrs. Halsey Corwin took another twist yes
terday. when it learned that Mrs. Halsey Cor
win has had a guardian appointed to sue her hus-
band for absolute divorce. Russell n LAndale.
who is connected with the firm OF Battle & Mar
shall, of No. 40 Broadway was appointed guardian
at the request of Battle & Marshall. Mrs Corwin.
in her petition for the appointment Of guardian.
says she was born on December 4, 1885, and will
not be Of age until December OF this year. The
petition was granted by Justice Blanchard. Of the
Supreme Court
Mrs Corwin's petition says she will ask for a
divorce on the ground OF her husbands misconduct
with certain women whom she does not name
The order for a guardian granted four days
after the suit brought by Corwin against his wife
had been discontinued. This was on July Is. three
days after Mrs. COrwin's jewels were stolen while
she was sleeping after farewell supper given IN
her honor by some Tenderloin friends.
Accompanied by a maid and a pet dog. Mrs.
Corwin sailed for Europe yesterday the Ham
burg liner Amerika. Her father, NJ. c. Mengis.
went to the pier with her. On her way TO che pier
her automobile ran into an, express wagon at 9Th
avenue and Lincoln Place. Brooklyn. No one was
hurt and no attention was paid 70 the frantic de-
mands Of the driver OF the wagon that some one be
arrested.
Battle & Marshall would say nothing Of the
case yesterday. Mr.. Battle out OF town, and
Mr.. Landale was also away. Mr.. Cabel, TO whom
inquirers were referred, pleaded ignorance OF the
SdSS' NILlCu SO iGr COulG De Offices
of the firm has received no attention since Mr..
Battle left town, in the middle of last month
Philip WOhlstetter, COrwin's lawyer, refused 20
say anything about his clients affairs He said
he knew nothing Of Mrs. COrwin's suit or the one
dropped by COrwin.
II was learned that while the police and the
PinkertOns were busy trying to find evidence
against Mrs McVitty, Mrs. COrwin's hostess on
the night that the latter lost jewels. they al
lowed Negro maid in Mrs. McVitty's house to get
away from them. IL is thought she knew where
the Jewels went. This maid in the room
by Mrs. Corwin. Mrs. McVitty secuted the idea
that the maid could have taken the Jewels when
asked about It yesterday. but finally admitted that
a Negro maid had left the house suddenly after
the robbery. and that her whereabouts were un-
known now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03

c c, campaign in Tompkins County when
11,aeIneiahd was elected the second time. Mr.
aat'l''naN mas been importnned by the Hearst
=, 10 take seat on the band wagon before it
- zoo late. Mr.. Halliday says that he Is not
iielhs on band wagons these days.
- Snarles e. fireman. personal friend Of David
10 tiAi, Is chairman of the Democratic city com-
nlttee. lie is opposed 20 Hearst. John Bull
one OF the leading creamery men OF this part
OF the state, Supervisor of the town OF Caroline
a democrat, who has a large personal following
among Republican farmers here, is opposed TO
tne nomination of Hearst. II is reported that
the Following independent Democrats will openly
oppose Hearst If he should be the Democratic
candidate for Governor: Albert H. Platts.
wealthy cigar manufacturer; Charles J. Rum
sey, hardware dealer. formerly Democratic can
didate for the Assembly and John C. Gauntlet
With these Democrats opposed to Hearst in this
county il is safe to predict that Hearsts vote
here will be insignificant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03
HEARST IN ITHACA.
His 4ctirities There Make Repub-
ican Leaders Happv.

From Special Correspondent Of The Tribune
ithaca. \. Y Aug. 1.-The Hearst men have
st Up shop in Ithaca, and the Republican lead
ss Of Tompkins County are happy The old
Ane Democrats are Disguised with the drift, and
are telling their Republican friends that sooner
uan vote for Hearst for Governor they will
vote the Republican ticket straight.
Murray Z. Poole has been chosen as the leader
q the Hearst movement in Tompkins County
Exactly seven Democrats attended the meeting
Nst week when the Independence League was
organized. Poole as a leader Of anything is a
JOKE with the politicians. He has no personal
U political following He never was elected
70 any Office in Tompkins County, but was re-
eafoed as a perpetual candidate by both the
republican and Democratic leaders Poole's
partner in the Hearst boom is De Witt c. Bough-
"n. Nj Boughton has at different times been
4Med with both parties in TompEins County.
he financial prospects Of the Tompkins Inde-
p7noence League were not particularly promis-
Ae' Mr. Boughton figured IL out that a check
nom the Gusey House made payable to Murray
l. Foo-e as the head of the league would suffer
e attack Of heart failure before It reached his,
oOaghton's Office. Hearing that good money was
= circulation at the Hearst HEADQUARTERS in
D-,,s1a4o, ne moved TO Buffalo and attached him
- - . the Hearst staff there His friends re-
-. 80 word from him last week that there did
80 eSein 10 be any cOnsecutiVeness or regularity
SE5osnpslgn disbursements in the EliicOtt Square
Sa-alng' and that he could be expected back
-Tne almost any day
duncan Campbell Lee, Editor OF THE Ithaca
-SSHg news the official Democratic paper here,
So was the chairman Of the last Democratic
~ u Convention, is opposed to the nomination
~ Hearst by the Democratic State Convention,
-, says 50 in his paper. James d. Lynch,
S--1tnan OF the Democratic State Committee,
~. uecllhec 70 attend the Hearst conferences.
bot one q the prominent Democrats OF ithaca
~ yoined the Hearst organization. Perhaps
H. 4eeong Democrat here is Samuel d. Halli-
49,, chairman Of the board OF trustees Of Cor
-. university He WAS in charge Of the Demo-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03
WELL KNOWN BoTANIsT ARRIVES.
DR.. Augustine Henry, of England, Comes to
Study Trees of Western States

DR. Augustine Henry, whose name and work are
especially familiar boanists arrived in this city
Yesterday from England the White Star liner
Majestic.
For several years DR.. Henry travelled in Central
China studying the fora and enduring many hard
sbps in the interest of science. He is now devot-
ing his attention especially forestry The forests
~ the world he said. being depleted by the
inroads Of lumbermen and the useless destruction
of valuable trees DIR. Henry said to Tribune re-
porter:
There are vast tracts of waste land in Ireland
for farm products hut which can be transformed,
| am certain. into valuable timber lands Tree me,
Climatic conditions and the soil OF the State of
WasbinetOn Idaho and certain parts or British
of land i'm Scotland and Ireland Many trees which
flourish IN Washington Idaho and British Columbia,
forestry has demonstrated, vii! thrive IN the non
table soil of Scotland ana ireland
A movement is well under way make the now
berreD ground OF Ireland and Scotland furnish for
the lumber markets OF the world wood that build
ers need II is similar 10 the movement which has
converted much land in France that, up TO few
wears ago was uncultvated and wild. into many
acres If what gives promise Of bong some day
axcAlien1 cumberland. A friend OF DR.. Henry SAID
Stud, the growth of certain trees in the L nlteO
states but also discover 2 species IN the West
yet unknown 10 forestry which will be useIui IN
Dr. Henry spent the years 1894 and 1895 In For
mosa and collected about a thousand specleS- OF
plants most OF which were ater crow. az new
Sormosa plants may also be seen In the Gray Her
barium and Arnold ArDoretum OF Harvard CniNer-
Gitv Tr Henry Is fellow OF the l.innsean society
and member of the Pharmaceutical society u
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03
PERKINS STILL SORE.
Comments AdUersely on Cummins s
Nomination By Io5Ca Contention.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Sioux City. Iowa, Aug 2.-George D. PerlSins's
newspaper comments to-day Governor A. b.
Cummins's denomination in a manner scarcely less
hostile than that used toward Cummins before the
convention. In the same issue with the story OF
the convention appears on the first page a cartoon
showing elephant representing Iowa G. o. Pr
sitting its launches gashed. bleeding and BAN
daged BY its side stands Cummins thrusting an
animal trainers book deep into the elephants
flesh that blood gushes out. In Cummins's mouth
put the words Aren't you glad was here to
protect your interests?'
EditoriaIly and in the news columns 1t is said
that Cummns by high handed methods. and
then drew up a platform inconsistent with his own
campaign. In an interview in his paper this
afternoon Mr. Perkins says:
received every vote TO which I had a claim,
meaning every vote to which / had a claim after
the counties had been taken bodily that were
rightfuly mine but taken as fOragers might empty
the yards of farmers a military necessity. II
happened directly by interference of certain mem
bers of the Iowa delegation in Congress, sup
a nervous pitch behalf of themselves. 1t was
known ! would head a bolt. 1t better
understood that my chief opponent would. At
least there end of threatening based on
wild assumption of intended larceny Timidity
up and said there must be avoidance of
double ticket. the certain way to avoid the mis-
fortune to give the proceeds of the case to
Cummns for himself and to share might seem
to him eXpedent with the captains OF the camp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03
EAST SIDE POLITICIAN DROPS DEAD
Frank Bosky, Friend of Alderman Sullivan,
Dies ON Ferryboat.

Frank BOsky, intimate friend and adviser OF
Alderman Timothy P. Sullivan. and we'll known
East Side politician and real dealer. living
at the Occidental Hotel. BroOme street and the
Bowery dropped dead last evening the HObOEea
ferrybOat Orange it was nearing the slip at
the foot of Christopher street
Mr.. BOsky was prominent in the FlOrrie sullivan
Association and Alderman Sullivan. who IS at
jamaica was informed of his death
Frank BOsky was fOrty-twO years old He was an
East Side boy. and was educated in the public
schools. Earlier in life he was a bOOknaker. but
afterward entered politics and became a real
estate dealer. He was married, and his wife now
lives IN Brooklyn
At the time OF the Allen street fire. about year
ago. Bosky took prominent part in helping the
fire sufferers and assisted in getting up the benefit
which was held in Miners BOwery Theatre Dur
ing the recent election BoSky worked 50 cd
that he forced TO sail for Bermuda soon after
the election TO recUpeTate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03
PLAN FIGHT ON CUMMINS.
Democrats Seek to Make Capital Out Of His
Tariff Views.
TBy Telegraph to The tribune. ]

Des Nfoines Iowa, Aug. Iowa Democratic
leaders had a conference in Des Moines to-day and
practically outlined the tariff platform on which
they hope to defeat Albert B. Cummins, who was
nominated for Governor by the Republicans yes
terday Their tariff plank will be one demanding
tariff for revenue only. and. in addition, will de-
mand immediate revision Of the tariff schedules on
steel lumber and other products controlled by
monopolies This is the policy on which Governor
Cummins has made his fight and gained his repu-
tation. The Democrats hope to obtain throughout
the state any followers OF Cummns who think the
Republican platform should have demanded 'imme-
date revision cf the tariff.
Among those who attended the conference were
John B. Dennison. of Dubuque. candidate for the
ooroinafion for Governor; Claude Porter. Of Cen
trevile also mentioned for Governor. and eX-
CONGRESSMAN Butler. in charge of the Democratic
state headquarters here