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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Purely Washingtonian.


Calls of "Noyesr' "Noyesv' finally
brought Mr.. Theodore Noyes to his feet.
He said he particularly enjoyed being
present at the meetink-o the association,
whose work had contained so much of
interest and attraction for him.
This organization is purely Washing
toflian," he added. Its basic requirement
is such that membership may be attained
only by residence here, which makes 1t
an association of the people. 1t develops
a special enthusiasm and a local loyalty.
A member of the association must have
attained at least the half-century mark.
Many of them have passed the allotted
span, and one at least has rounded out
complete century,.
Referring to Washington as the greatest
field of history making In the country.
Mr.. Noyes said: What wonderful prog
ress have members of this association
witnessed. The passing years have seen
the development of the citizens themselves
that spirit Of getting together which
means progress, until the watchword OF
residents of the District of Columbia
might we'll be All Washingtonians should
stand together.
Mr.. Noyes salu before the next annual
meeting of the association rolls around
he will be eligible for ,ull membership in
it's ranks, and the cheers with which this
announcement was SIeelS0 lclI IOOll
for doubt of his election.
Names Of Members and Guests.
Members Of the association at the BAN
quet were: Maj George A. Armes.
Charles Allen, George Behrens, Sebastian
Bauer, William F. Brown, A. G. Brust,
Joseph c. Burger, Harrison Bennett. ].
D. Castell. w. w. Chambers. ]. Cross
field, Patrick Cleary, E. +. Droop. L.
A. Oellwig. DR.. Francis Donahue
W. G. Duckett, w. H. Dennis. ]. j.
Georges. G. W. Harvey, ]. G. Heffner.
NJ Hayden. j. I. Keefer Edward Kern,
S. w. Kelly, B. +. Klopfer, E. T. Nc
Nerhany, S. J. Suter, J. B. Mccarthy.
]. P. Morse. s. N. Meyer. w. H. Martin.
Allison Nailor. jr., J. T. Powell. Isaac
Pearson. A. H. Raglan. B. w. Reiss. L. p.
Seibold, f. G.. Sauter, DR.. w. NJ. Starr,
Gilbert Fowles. ]. P. Tolman. Thomas
Williams. N. Watkins. ]. n. Walker. H.
A. Willark and H. X. Willard.
Guests of the association were: Rabbi
Louis Stern. Commissioner H. B. F. Mac
farand, Theodore Moves. F. w. kahlert,
president of the Veteran Firemen's AS
ISOLATION: John ]. Peabody, secretary of
the Veteran Firemen's Association, and
James l.. Hartley.
The diners dispersed after Singing "Auld
Lang Syne."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
THORNTONS TWO RELIABLE SHOE STORES sz esE 1EH NV
PHONE MAIN zl20

the airship in flight without the aid Of
any outside agency. 1t is quite practi-
cable to construct a motor suited to the
conditions of aerial navigation and capa-
BILE of furnishing the necessary power.
and it will be only a matter OF time when
the Cygnet or an improved machine of
her type, soaring on high in absolute
control. will occasion no more comment
to watchers from below than an automo-
bile does today threading It's course
through a business thoroughfare."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

PITTSBURG. December 7.-E. 4. Ford,
passenger traffic manager OF the Penn
sylyana lines. issued a statement today
denying reoprts that the eighteen-hour
Pennsylvania special train between Chi
cage and New York is to be discontinued
The statement says the train will con-
tinue to run over the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn until further notice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
TO DIMINISH MURDER CASES.
Estimated 10 Per Cent Of italian
Population Killed or Injured.


Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROME, December 1.-The government
is making half-hearted attempt to di
minish cases Of murder and injury by
stabbing. It has been estimated that the
total number killed and injured by knife
stabs has been almost 10 per cent of the
entire population, and 1t is therefore pro-
posed to enact a special law putting COM
mon knives, razors and such articles
which are usually carried in the pocket
in the same category with daggers and
firearms. Any one found to possess such
weapons is liable to four months i'm
prisonment for the first offense and
longer sentences for subsequent Of
fenses.
The issue of permits to carry arms will
be greatly restricted and the punishment
for crimes of blood greatly increased.
The bill may be passed, but there is little
chance that the law will become ef-
fective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
MRS. TAPT Is DEAD
MOTHER OF SECRETARY OF
WAR PASSES AWAY.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILLBURY, Mass, December s.-Mrs.
Louise Taft, mother of Secretary Taft,
died at 1920 o'clock this morning. She
had been slowly sinking for several days.
Mrs. Louise NJ. Taft was the daughter of
Samuel D. TORY of Millbury, Mass. She
was born in Boston, eighty years ago last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Judge Baldwin Dead.

APPLETON. Wis. December Judge
George Baldwin, one of the wealthiest
land owners in Wisconsin, died tonight,
aged sixtynine years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

complimentary way of Commissioner Mac
farland and Commissioner West, and Of
their fathers with whom, as newspaper
men, Mr.. Mccarthy said he had worked.
Mr.. Mccarthy gave credit to Mr.. c. S.
Noyes and to Mr.. Theodore w. Noyes for
accomplishing many things of great value
to the Capital city.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
TREAT COLORED PEOPLE
AS AMERICANS.

In an article to the Tribune of
Providence, r l., Rev. Samuel
Barret says in part:
"And lastly, sympathy is need
ed in our treatment of the Afro
American. The strongest way we
can sympathize with them it is put
ourselves in their position. AS
Americans we should look at life
from broad, humanitarian stand
point, and not from the narrow
viewpoint of race and color. When
we come to recognize in each hui
man being something of divinity
we will be going long way in
overcoming our early training and
prejudices as to the superiority
and inferiority of races.
"There should go out all ovel
this country, wherever the Afro.
American people are gathered to.
gether, broad, deep and helpful
sympathy in order that these peo
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
AND KNOWLEDGE

Religion and learning go hand
in hand through all the sunlit
paths of science. Foot to foot,
they tread the Zodiac, and togeth-
er they survey all the works OF
Gods creation, and when the gen.
ius of learning like an imprisoned
eagle shakes from his wings the
dust Of the earth and sores upward
to the skies and sweeps with stairy
wings the very domain of knowl-
edge exclaiming as he floats
through the limitless wilderness of
words, great and wonderful art thy
works, oh, God.
Then the genius of religion
should be there to add and in
goodness and in mercy hath thou
made them all. But there is a
point beyond which the genius
of knowledge may not dare to
tread and there religion, bowling to
her learned companion and fixing
her eyes upon the jewel built
chambers of heaven. mounts upon
winged sereph of immortality,
outspeeding in his flight the CON-
cts glowing wheel passing the sun
and the suns system and every
system from which the sun system
is visible, and until she enters in
at the gates of pearl and the rising
wondering, welcome, first born ol
the skies.
Yours truly,
WM.RoBINsoN.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
WHAT FOOLS We NOR.
TAILS Be.

Two white women working on
stools side by side with Oriental
workers was a scene too humiliat-
ing for a representative of Seattle
unions to see without comment.
Man should be woman's protector,
not her competitor. If she has to
work see that she does not have to
work where you would not.-Un-
ion Record.
The above sheet seems to have
no greater mission for existence
than the arraying of races against
each other. An Oriental is as
much a human being as the Euro
pean, and "the white wowan" who
has to work for her living because
perhaps, her drunken husband
spends his whole time at labor
union gatherings, agitating and
guzzling beer, in order to keep
the wolf from the door, is NO more
humiliated by working beside of
an Oriental than by the side of a
white man," and not nearly as
much, if the white man is one of
those miserable guzzlers that
work eight hours, sleep eight hours
and raise hell the other eight. If
you want to do the right thing ele-
vate all classes of laoor, white,
black, yellow, red and all others.
Seattle Republican.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
A ST|NG|NG REBUKE.

Rev Satterlee. who disgraces
the high Office of bishop in the
Methodist denomination, and who
is constructed on the order of Till
man, Vardaman and others of their
ilk, said in a sermon a short time
ago, that the colored mans great
est ambition and hope was for So
cial equality, and for which and
other like silly expressions, the
New York Independent hands the
clergyman the following roast;
Let us say to Bishop Satterlee
that he is as ignorant of the Ne
groes as he confesses he was, until
lately, of the Methodists. The
colored people of America are not
concerned about social recognition,
only about their equal personal
rights. They do not admit that
they are intellectually or physical
ly inferior to any other race; they
are only little later getting start
ed. They have an ambition, a
reasonable one, which we will do
our best to support, that in intelli-
gence, culture, wealth and genius
they may prove themselves equal
to the test the world has yet pro-
duced. We expect to see men of
that blood occupying the highest
positions in this country, all con-
ceited and arrogant Caucasian or
Anglo-Saxon assumption to the
contrary Notwithstanding. We
want to see it; it is decently Chris
tian to desire it.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14

pie may not be discouraged hope
lessly, il, their struggle to rise.
"No section of this country
should pride themselves on their
race, to the confusion and embar-
rassment of the Afro American but
should feel that the same God who
made the white man made the
black man also. We should give
the Afro American an opportunity
to vote as we do other American
citizens.
"We should give to him his civil
and political rights guaranteed to
him by the 18th, 18th and 18th
Amendments to the Constitution.
We should be more sympathetic
than TO allow ourselves to Jim
Crow him however gentlemanly
he may act.
''In a word we should treat him
as an American. A race whe can
produce Joseph Charles Price, a
Douglass, Torssaint La Overture,
an Allen LIE Roy Locke, "a Dubois
and Booker Washington with
nothing behind it in the way of
requirements except two centuries
and forty two years of slavery, in
less than half century, is worthy
of helpful sympathy and encour-
agement in its efforts to rise"
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14

will certainly attract a large share
of public attention.
The quadrennial season, when,
as is generally conceded the Ne
gro really does amount to some
thing has already cast its shadow
on the canvas of events and every
Negro should see to it, as far as in
him lies, that the substance stands
for his very highest development
and greatest good.
JOHN H. PAINTER.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14

reaves him of the rights of a citi-
zen, provides also for their be-
stowal, and all in good time, when
prepared and equipped through
education and the absorption of
those ameneties which adorn our
civilization, he must surely come
into his own.
Meanwhile, his brothers in the
North, East and West, endowed
with larger privileges and greater
consideration, should be ever
watchful against the encroach-
ments of an illiberal sentiment,
which seems to be increasingly in
evidence in many sections.
Individual alertness is the most
effectual foil to the petty mean
nesses of prejudice and oppression.
The growth of manly character in
the individual will compel respect
and win the regard of the intelli-
gent and reasonable. Loyalty, in
tegrity and industry are the espec-
ial virtues of good citizens and
cannot fail to win the approval of
those of like repute. The jeer and
hooting and disparagements of the
evil minded should not disturb,
for they must inevitably recoil up
on themselves to their own con.
fusion.
To be we'll balanced citizen
the Negro should, as all men, have
a political as we'll as a moral ideal
and work faithfully towards the
one as the other. He must learn
to weigh men, events and measures
in the scale of common sense and
honor. appraise and support the
same according as their influence
may be considered factor in the
advancement of his fortunes and
the safeguarding of each manhood
right.
Any other appraisement sub
jects him to ridicule and cannot
secure for him the consideration
and influence which his strength
should demand
Organization is the most effect
nal means of political power and
the evidence is cumulative, that
Negroes generally in the sections
last referred to are already active
in the organization and further
ance of political clubs for work
in the coming campaign.
Ohio, New York, Indiana, Hi.
nois and Pennsylvania with large
contingent of Negro citizens, who
are thoroughly awake to the is
sues will be from now on, watched
with the anxious eyes of politicians
of both partys.
Colorado and Wyoming with
men clubs and women clubs too.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14

New London, Conn, Sept. l.
james [. Beckham of Germantown,
Pa, waiter at Atlanta City, n. j.,
came to this city and this morning
walked into the California Hotel
and shot his brother-in-law, VIM.
M. Petty, the Negro proprietor.
Beckham fired five shots, three of
which took effect. Petty died
within a few minutes. Beckham
did not attempt to escape and is
now locked up at police headquar-
ters. Tee murder is said to have
been caused by family troubles.
Beckham, it is said, believed his
wife was being harbored in this
city by Petty at the California Ho-
tel.
Worcester, Mass, Sept. 2-Major
Taylor, the crack cyclist, accom-
panied by his family, has arrived
unexpectedly in Worcester from
France where he closed a wonder
fully successful racing career.
When he went there last spring
he was unable to show anything
like mis- old-time lightning form,
owing to lack of condition. but he
soon struck his winning gait, and
won victory after victory over all
the crack riders of Europe, with
the exception of Jacquelin, who
beat him when he first arrived
there, Taylor refused take Cd a
return race, as Jacquelin had gone
off form and been beaten by sec
ond and third rate riders. Taylor
defeated Penyon, the English
champion; Poulain, French cham
pion last year; Ellegard, the Dan
ish champion; Van den Born, the
Belgian champion; Verri, the
Italian champion. and Friol, the
French champion and winner Of
the Grand Prix. Taylor announc-
ed he has permanently retired.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
Yours truly,
VIM ROBINSON.

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 1O.-W. HI.
Rogers, the only colored member
of the Georgia legislatures, today
resigned his seat. He gave nc
reason, but it is believed that the
passage of the Negro disfranchise-
ment bill influenced him.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14

Special to COLORADO STATESMAN.
Notwithstanding the advice
loudly and persistently given the
Negro, that he should concern
himself less about matters of poll
tics and government and strive
more earnestly for such benefits as
are freely conceded by a sentiment
adverse to his progress along the
first named lines, it becomes more
and more apparent that the great
intelligent body of citizens, distri-
buted widely in centers where their
influence is felt, are not only op-
posed to such self placement, but
are also deeply agrieved and in a
measure resentful.
The Negro is not willing to re-
trace the thorny path over which
he has trod to the liberties he now
enjoys, but rather feels imbued
with that spirit of loyalty and de-
votion to principle which urges
him to accept any hardship, how
ever unfair, any discrimination,
however unjust, rather than lay
down without protest the proud
privileges secured to him under
tho Constitution
To do less than exhibit such a
spirit would stamp him as un-
worthy Of the smallest considera-
tion and undeserving of the many
glorious sacrifices made by white
men and black men, in order that
he might come into his birth-right.
1t is true, the solid South has
DISTINGUISHED the Negro, has pre-
served to it and to himself, only
the right to labor and with no sort
of adequate return, to continue as
the greatest factor in its industries
and the largest contributor to its
fast growing wealth.
The intelligence of the entire
country understands and appreci-
ates to the full the false issues and
vicious sophistries conceived in
prejudice and hatred, which are
responsible for the local legisla-
ton which accomplished the re-
suit.
The conscience of the South
may be calmed and consoled by
what it wishes to regard as its jus.
tification, but it is fully mindful of
the fact, as we'll as callous thereto,
that the laws of its courts and the
enactments of its legislatures are
designed and operated entirely to
the disadvantage of the Negro.
Under this incubus the Negro
is destined to suffer for many years
still, he need not be without hope
of his final and complete enfran-
chisement, for it happens that the
same instrument which now be.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
Gathered from Various Sourcas

SHa oafh.~ed from Various >ourcas. SE E
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Five hundred new houses in the
City of Richmond. Va, are being
erected by colored merchants,
There is a Negro in Kentucky
who is earning the pay of two men
because he does two mems work
and receives credit for it. He is a
hod carrier but disdains to use a
hod to carry brick in. He piles
so brick on plank, balances the
load on his.he and climbs any
ladder as if he we're bearing no
burden.
Prof. VIM. III Smeaton, who was
was sent to Accra, Gold Coast,
West Africa, on March 30, 1907,
by Lawyer Alfred g. Cowen of
New York City, to examine and re-
port on some gold mines, rubber,
COCO and cotton plantations return
ed August IA, 1907, on board the
steamship Campania. Professor
Smeaton says, that he found gold,
rubber, cotton and cocoa upon all
the property and that the property
and that the proposition is mon-
ey making undertaking.
Phoenix, Ariz Sept. TO- John
Rhodes, colored bootblack, who
came here. four days ago from
northern Arizona, was arrested by
the sheriff today, suspected of be-
ing Charles Jesse Coe, alias Cole,
wanted in Indianapolis for the
murder of Policeman Charles Rus
sell September 30, 1896, on identi-
fication by a circular and picture.
The prisoner denies having CON-
mitted any crime in indianapolis,
though he admits having been
there nine years ago.
Woodbury., N. j. Sept. 2.-Ap-
parently without any provocation
whatever, Alexander Gaines, col
ored, shot and severely wounded
Mrs. James Roe, the colored wife
of a white man, at the corner of
Broad and Carpenter streets this
afternoon. According to City
Water Superintendent Sam Will
mer, who was standing across the
street and saw the shooting, Gains
walked down the street towards
Mrs, Roe, calmly drew revolver,
aimed it at the woman and fired.
The ball took effect in her hip.
In the including installment of
his articles on the color line in the
American Magazine, Ray Standard
Baker gives an explanation why
the Negroes of the South are drift
ing so rapidly to the cities, that
they feel the lack of schooling for
their children in the country and
the lack of police protection. He
also states that the difficulty of
keeping a supply of good labor
is causing the owners of the big
plantations to sell off small farms
to the more thrifty colored farm
ers.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
WashingtonD.C.

Negro Politics and will Remain His Advisers to the Con-
trary Notwithstanding The Anxious Eyes of Politici
Already Turned toward the North.
East and West
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-11-28
One Of tie
Essentials

ct the happy homes Of to-day is . vast
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One Of the products of that class, of
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mended by the Wel-1nformed of the
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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-11-28
Child Life In France.

Modern France is the stronghold Of
the family system. See a French
family 1t dinner In . restaurant, or
for that matter at home. You will
never see a gayer. livelier function.
There is such q frank and unassumed
sense Of community about the whole
thing. The boys adore their mother,
the girls their father, the parents take
such whole hearted delight in their
children and the children are so happy
and respectful. It is a sight of which
every Frenchman may be proud Of.
Then, again, French parents love to
play the part of a lesser Providence to
their children. Nowhere in the world
are SO many or such varied toys for
children made and sold as in Paris.
The stranger is often astonished at
the fact that no child ever crosses his
path who does not bear something
novel, something ingenious in the
shape Of plaything.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-11-28
Of girls. may 1 introduce my most in.
innate friend, Sir Reginald Beau

of girls. may I introduce my most in.
innate friend, Sir Reginald Beau.
champ"
Dorothy glanced up quickly, to ind
pair of handsome gray eyes fixed
upon her in such evident admiration
that she blushed wildly, wondering II
all British lions were as alluring to
the eye as this Saxon-haired baronet.
Half pleased, half angry, she saw that
he was boldly placing his initials be.
fore five waltzes on the white and gold
engagement card for which he had
asked, modestly enough.
Il have always heard" she cried, re.
covering her self-posscssion, that
Englishmen are very aggressive-and
conquer by invasion. Don't you think
saucily, that three waltzes would be
fair share for one partner"
Give would be more according to
my views" returned the young man
laughing, too, but offering his arm
with Chesterfieldian grace.
Dorothy, pouting a little, took it.
and losing herself in the maze Of
whirling figures, forgot everything in
the charm of the ever seductive waltz
AS the first streaks of gray dawn
peered in through the window blinds
Dorothy, still flushed by happy excite
ment, bade adieu to Sir Reginald be
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-11-28
Goinu Some.

Monday Aaker's Business college
sent Miss G. johnson into position
as stenographer in the Office of Attor-
ney Lasell, LaMoure; today, Tuesday,
Gudrun Lund goes into similar po-
sition in the Office of President Bog
stad, Moorhead. Six A. B. G. students
have gone into positions the last few
days. The department of telegraphy is
also proving great success, and it
should; it is the best equipped and
has the only experienced teacher of
telegraphy in the state. For catalogue
address the school at Grand Forks or
Fargo.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-11-28
A Marrow Escape.

There is at least one man who
learned lesson without losing any
money during the recent financial up,
heaval. 1t is probable, however, that
he lost some sleep. He was curb
broker, and he had a "hunch" that
the bank in which he kept his money
was about to follow in the wake OF
the Knickerbocker Trust company. So
he withdrew his account and put it
into the Trust Company Of America,
and the next day came the run on that
bank. There are fewer details to be
had from the broker than if his
"hunch" had turned out otherwise"