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The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02
NO. 19.

The Coils P. Huntington me-
mortal building at Tuskegee, was
designed by w. Sidney Pitman.
This is the largest and finest build
ing at Tuskegee.
Edward 81. Morris, with a law
practice whose income is $4,000
a year, won his suit between Cook
county and the city of Chicago.
Henry o. Tanner, artist, has
been the subject of numerous en-
comiums for his work. The French
government has on the walls of
the Luxembourg, his painting,
1.-The Rising of Lazarus"
Mary Church Terrill, delegate
to the International Association
for the Advancement of Women,
addressed in three languages NAM
moth audiences last year in Ber-
lin.
Edmonia Wilson. sculptress,
won well-deserved fame for her
bust of Lincoln, now in San Jose,
and also for her groupe, 1.-The
Marriage of Hiawatha."
The work of Booker T. Wash
ington along educational lines is
too well known to require further
elucidation here.
Senator Tillman is everlastingly
right in some things: in this in
stance he is everlasting wrong
Detroit Times.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02
A Summer Day in San Lus Valley.
[BY ALLEY W. LEWIS, DENVER, coLo.l
There's a vale amid the grandeur
OF the Rocky Mountain hue,

There's vale amid the grandeur
OF the Rocky Mountain hue,
Where the snow-caped mountain ranges
Rest their foothills in the blue;
There the mornings crimson glow
Lights Gods creatures as they go,
While you're dreaming in the bosom
OF the old San Luis valley.
AS the morning suns appearing,
How the valley doves do COO;
And the feathery clouds are nearing
To'ard the earth it seems they'd WOO;
Then the mountains tinted morn
Makes you feel the most forlorn,
As from dreamland you must rally,
In the old San Luis valley.
Soon the sunbeams fall in splendor,
And the sun proclaims the day;
Then those peaks, so pyramidal,
Are transformed from blue to grey,
Thus the beauty grows sublime,
Fades away with waning time.
While you're basking in the sunlight
or the old San Luis valley.
While the MONDAY sun doth glitter
On his midday throne to rest,
And the moon has long since sunken
Beyond the mountains in the west,
You behold the brownstone sand
along the winding Rio Grande)
Robe her banks like salmon challis,
In the old San Luis valley.
When the sun is westward resting
On the purple mountains crest,
And the mountain breezes sweeping
From the East unto the West;
Then the warmth-forsaken air,
Like curfew everywhere,
Tells of sunset in the mountains
OF the old San Luis valley.
Now the vale, amid the grandeur
or the Rocky Mountain hue,
Views the black OF night, a creeping
Up the foothills that were blue.
But the glad old moon takes sway,
And the black Of night grows gray,
While the moon bids stars to rally
In the old San Luis valley.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02
Negro Iheater
W. H. A. Moore the Negro Newspaper correspondent of
Chicago, Tells why the Windy City has
Negro Play House.

Tomorrow" a new journal of
advance thought gives an interest
ing account of the only real Negro
play house in the country. The
article is we'll written 10y W. FL. A.
Moore, the Chicago Negro News
paper correspondent and versifier
and is as follows.
1t is not generally known how
Chicago came to have the only full
hedged Negro theatre in the Uni
ted States. Robert Motts ii color
ed prosperous Chicago soloon man,
was in Paris. Nothing in the gay
est capital in Europe impressed
him more than it's well conducted
small amusement houses. He
liked the atmosphere they created
for him. There was nothing like
it in the United States. And why
not?
Then straightway he began to
have visions of a small amusement
house in Chicago sort of Negro
amusement vine and fig tree where
a fellow might go and forget, for a
moment or two, that he was black,
white, yellow or brown. Bob, by
the way, is a big, handsomely pro-
portioned brown n-skinned man with
a definate notion of what is what
and a rather fine appreciation of
the things that make for the CON-
fort of life.
But for the first time in his busy
career he sat in public amusement
places and nothing happened to
remind him of the fact that his
skin was disagreeably gingerhued.
Why couldn't he do the same
thing in America? thought he.
He'd do it, by the living eternals,
if he had to build theatre of his
own. There was nothing of the
spirit of brag in this new found de-
termination of purpose. Speaking
to an American friend one day
about the matter he said: when
1 get back to Chicago 1 am going
to build a theatre for Negroes. By
that 1 do not mean that 1 am 60
ing to give new twist to the col
or-line bugbear, that would be sllli-
ness, pure and simple. But the
more think of the matter the
more 1 am convinced that the Ne
groes of Chicago would be tickled
to death if they had place where
they could go and feel they were
the whole cheese and the white
folks simply lockers on in Paris y
And thus the Negro theatre idea
took shape in his mind. Little by
little he evolved the plan for the
theatre. A scrap of an idea pick
ed up here and another scrap pick
ed up there until he got the whole
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

mental structure together. And
what a splendid scheme of color
the whole affair was. A Negro or
chestra with a Negro conductor
welding a coal black baton; a
group of Negro performers taking
a vosiferous fall out of lines writ
ten by Negro dramatist or sing
ing to a syncopated standstill the
engaging strains of II Loves You,
Nah Honey, Deed I Do" And
then finally, but not leastly by any
manner of means, the audiences.
Here is where Chicago Negrodom
would shine with a luster that
would make the new nickle on a
base burner look like piece of
Chinese money with nine holes in
it. All the white folks could do
would be to sit in openeyed Won
der and be good fellows. Of course
they could visit the place, but that
was all. They might even be
permitted, on "off" nights to
get an occasional best seat.
At these times, however it would
be the grand danes of Dear
born street society circles who
would pull aside their silken skirts
and give an up-curve to the poise
to their diamond bedecked coiff-
ures. Any how the venture was
worth the experiment In the due
course of brief while this new
dreamer of elysian rhapsodies re-
turned to Chicago. In the straight
road of another short period this
Paris dream was taking form in
the erectien of a new playhouse
out in the south side. West of
State street society circles began
to flutter and there was the ecstasy
Of delicious satisfaction in the air
1t is said, on good autority, that
there are some people of color who
can tell, without blinking, the
number of bricks that were used
in the construction of the building
that was to stand for the new or
der of things theatrical in Chicago.
But that cuts a very small piece of
ice in this matter. The Pekin
Theater "went up" and life went
merry as a marriage bell with the
denizens of the 80. called "Black
Belt" district. Bob Motifs knew
his ground when he declared in
Paris that the Negroes of Chicago
would be tickled to death if they
had a place where they could go
and feel that they were the whole
cheese. The tickle was almost
literal so insistent were the mani
festations of delight. The open
ing? Well--say-the opening was
dream! Standing room was at a
double premium. And you talk
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

about being the whole cheese,
Dearborn street was a Wisconsin
creamery dairy that night and pos
sessed of a grin that stretched
from ear to ear. And the program
was a red hot proposition. On it
appeared the name of that dainty,
dark brown replica of Vesta Tilley,
Edmonia Jones, who simply skill
ed it" with II Want to be Rich
Coon's Babe" Sidney Kirkpat-
rick, the barytone, in the language
of a delighted patron, delivered
the goods in a hurry" Hallback
and Parquette went Back, Back
to Baltimore" so many times the
leader of the orchestra struck for
higher wages. And when Carrie
Stithe sauntered down to the foot
lights to the syncopated strains of
Mandy Lou" "there was nothing
to it, that's all" The Collins sis
ter, Allen and Tribble, Sam Lucas,
Lottie Grady and few lesser
lights contributed their share to
the evenings successful opening.
Altogether it was red letter night
on the south side and the inspira-
ton received in a Partisan concert
garden had assumed living, tangi-
BILE proportions in the big, prosy
city at the southern end of Lake
Michigan. Scarcely year rolls
around before there comes IA far
and near cry for bigger place
"a sure enough theater with or
chestra seats and boxes with plush
hangings, etc.. etc." Here was a
dream coming true with a venge-
ance. But the cry is no sooner
heard than the wish is gratified by
the resourceful owner of the Pekin.
Here was a dream coming true
with vengeance. But the cry is
sooner heard than the wish is graf
flied by the resourceful owner of
the Pekin and a new theatre takes
the place of the old so quickly that
the general public has but just
awakened to the fact that Chicago
is giving substantial support to
genuine, handsomely appointed
and we'll equipped Negro theatre.
This statement may excite the
risibles of some, the derision of
others, but it is one of those state
ments, nevertheless, that no
amount of smiling and ridicule can
make the less true and potent
1t is too soon to predict the future
of this radical manifestation of
desire to partake of the larger life
of our great city by its Negro pop
ulation. 1t is too early to attempt
a forecast of the influence it will
exert for good or evil on the i'm
pulse and trend of its artistic life.
Enough for the present that the
manifestation is with us and that
it is playing its part in alife growth
possessing elements of charm and
the impulse of original endeavor.
Robert Motifs thought he saw
need. Time alone will establish
the truth of this belief.
But the nut in the shell is that
Bob thought the people wanted it.
And that is why Chicago has Ne
gro theatre.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

Columbia, S. c., Jan. 23.-A
white man by the name of Turner
was brought to the State peniten-
tiary to night by Sheriff Hunter,
of Bamberg, for safekeeping and
as matter of precaution. He is
accused of criminal assault on
the little daughter of former SEN
ator S. G.. Mayfeld, of Bamberg,
formerly of Greenville. Turner is
related to the family of Senator
Mayfield, and was employeda this
sawmill as sawyer. He was stay
ing in the Mayfeld home, at Den
mark. Yesterday Mr.. Mayfeld
was attracted by the cries of his
little daughter. and discovered her
in the room of Turner. where Tur-
ner had enticed her. Mr.. Mayfeld
seized Turner and beat him unto
insensibility.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

The New York World puts it
thus: sit develops that the Ne.
gro soldier who gave offense to
two ladies on the streets of Ell Re-
no was a Pullman porter, and that
the outrage lay in the fact of his
momentarily touching one of them
with his hands to keep out of the
mud. In view of this explanation
it would appear to be Unnecessary
for an excited populace to shoot
up the barracks or to take any
further action, except, possibly, to
call on the Pullman Company to
disband its Oklahoma employees
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

Hopkinsville, KY, Jan. BE
cause the patrons of rural free de-
livery No. 2, out of Cerulean
Springs, in Trigg County, refused
to allow their mail to be delivered
by the Negro carrier who was ap-
pointed, the route has been dis
continued by the Postal Depart
ment. The route was established
Jan. Is, 1906, but mail was deliv-
ed by white man until April l,
when he resigned. w. L. George,
colored, was then appointed carrier
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

The following clipping is from
one of the leading northern news
papers: New Haven, Jan. 10
James Parker, who was given a
house in Washington, D. G., and a
position as Messenger i'll Congress
for capturing Czolgosz, after he
shot President Mckinley in Buffa-
10, has lost both his house and job
and has just taken a place as wait
er in the Yale dining hall.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 27.-Rep-
resentative Kisor of Albany couu-
ty has introduced a bill in the leg
isleture that is regarded as an anti
tip measure, although the bill does
not state this. The bill provides
that any person who gives, offers
or promises an agent, employe or
servant, any gift or gratuity what
ever, without the knowledge and
consent of the principal, employer
or master Of such agent, employe
or servant. with intent to influence
his action in relation to his princi-
pals employers or masters busi-
ness, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor. The measure is in gener-
al favor and will in all probability
pass both houses. 1t is aimed at
the Pullman companies and others
who employ persons at small wages,
expecting the public to make up
in tips what they fail to pay in sal
ary. If the bill becomes a law it
will be unlawful for porters and
others to accept tips in this state.
The penalty is a heavy fine and
imprisonment.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02
RACE NEWS !
1athe-ed from variou. Sources.

Among some of the active and
Influential members of the race
who visited the capitol and took
interest in the debate concerning
the Brownville, Texas affair we're;
Rev. o. J. w. Scott, Prof. W. T.
Vernon, Hon. Judson Lyons, Prof.
John I. Layton, Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell, Mrs. Anna Murry and DR.
o. M. Atwood.
The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02

and Immediately the patrons of the
route began taking down their mail
boxes, and this continued until the
route has now been discontinued
for lack of patronage. Patrons of
the route never made any threats
or demonstrated againts the carrier,
but preferred to go to the Office for
their mail rather than have it de-
livered by a Negro.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
THE GREAT ENEMY.
HT'
AleohoIism the Special Foe Of the
HIohIy Oruanized.


Alcoholism the Special Foe Of the
Highly Organized.
In an address before the New Eng
land Association, DR.. Meyers suggest
I'd that alcohol may be natures way
Of wedding out the unfit. The Idea
has obtained vogue among other gu.
perhcial scientists. II has been util-
lied in self defense by liquor sellers,
whose journals occasionally announce
that strong drink only kills on the
fools and weaklings of the race, and
thus is a benefit In disguise.
Doubtless alcohol has a peculiarly
destructive effect upon certain
class. But who are they?-those in
whom the nervous organism Is most
highly developed--the highest specl-
mems of the race. Alcohol is espe-
cially deadly to the sons OF genius,
those Of the finest physical texture,
the Poes, the Burnses, the Tom Mar
shalls, the poets, the orators. So far
from the coarse-grained the unde-
veloped or the perverts and degener-
ates being its special victims, the In.
toxicating cup selects as its victims
predominantly, the physical flowers
of humanity.
Intoxicating drinks find their vic
Tins among the topmost sections OF
men, the noblest, the most talented,
the naturally lovable and excellent.
So far from destroying those most
needed to be removed in order to race
development, 1t destroys the flower
of the race.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
Because Drink Mul.IpIIes Sorrow.

God wants men to be glad, says the
Christian Herald. His laws are but
paths TO Joy. The Bible calls wine q
"mocker" because II promises Joy and
brings woe" at last II not at first
At O hearing In congress In behalf OF
a bill to prohibit selling beer to speak.
easies, a foreign woman rose In op-
position and said for the beer drink.
ers, I'VE believe In the JOY OF living"
Her 10y" seemed TO be jeopardized
by an attack on even speak easy beer
Her words keep coming up as we read
the daily troubles into which beer
leads its victims. We thought Of the
words as we read Of man who In
delirium tremens seemed to die, and
was shipped for burial on the train,
where he came back TO life to the
great alarm OF the baggage men. o,
the drinkers 10y Of living" Tho
writer once saw In q saloonkeeper's
front window the picture so often seen
on the walls of the Y. M. G. A.,
Breaking home ties" A country boy
Is Just leaving home for the city. The
wagon Is at the door in which his
big brother will drive him to the
railway station. His father is carry.
ing out his bags. His sister and the
dog are looking on sadly. In the cen.
ter OF the picture his mother is gaz.
ing earnestly into his face and saying
her last words Of advice and warning.
Who that knows anything OF such
scenes can doubt that the chief fear
on her heart and on her lips for her
boy is that he will be caught by the
saloon, the maneater shark of the
city,. half the loads carried by anx.
ious hearts would be lifted off II the
saloon was banished. All the saloons
arc not worth one broken heart The
best gift fathers and sons can give
to wives and mothers is total abstl-
nence.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
Moderate prlnklna.

DR.. Clouston, OF Edinburg asylum,
Scotland, wrotes: IL an safe in say
ing that no man indulges for ten
years continuously even though he
was meyer drunk in all that time,
without being physiologically changed
for the worse. And II the habit goes
on after forty years, the change is
apt to be faster and moro decided
We see II In our friends, and we know
what the end will be. but we can not
lay hold OF anything In particular.
Their fortunes and works suffer, and
yet we dare not say they are are
drunkards, for they are not. II all
depends on the original inherent
strength OF the brain and how long
the downward course takes. Usually
some intercurrent disease OF tissue
Regeneration cuts of the man before
he has a chance Of getting old
have seen such a man simply pass
into senile dementia, before he was
nm old man, from mild, respectable,
alcoholic excess, without any alco-
holism or preliminary outburst at all.
And I am sure I have seen strong
brains In our profession, at the bar,
and in business break down from
chronic alcoholic excess, without their
owners ever having been once drunk"
Health Monthly.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
The Court Of Death.

Death (says an old LEGEND having
occasion TO choose a Prime Minister.
summoned his illustrious courtlers,
Ind allowed them to present their
slaims to the Office. Fever flushed his
checks; Palsy shook his limbs; Drop.
sy inflated his carcass; Gout racked
his joints; Asthma half strangled
himself; Collie pleaded his violence;
Plague his sudden destruction, and
Consumption his certainty. Then
eame War; with stern confidence. al
ludlng TO his many thousands de-
youred at a meal. Last came Intem.
perance, with a face like fire, shout.
ing, Give wayl ye sickly band OF
pretenders! Am ] not your parent!
Does not sagaclty trace your origin TO
NET II my operations cease. whence
will core your power?" Then the
grizzly monarch, Death gave a smile
Of approval and placed Intemperance
at his right hand as his favorite and
Prime Minister
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
New Uses for Paper.

Among the new uses to which pa
per is being put are artificial teeth
and "uppers" or boots and shoes.
The old saying. There. is nothing
like leather" may some Il ,e be
changed to There's nothing like
paper" At this very moment q sub
stantial business Arm In Boston is
considering q proposition TO take up
the work of manufacturing paper
hats. By-and-by . high hat dress
suit and shoes rfvaliins patent
feathers. ali made Of paper. may be
considered quite the correct thing.
The paper ase may astoniA the
world 70 4 greater degree thAe any
that have preqlded
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
Guiding the wayfarer.

A curious old custom is kept up at
the picturesque Wensleycale village
Of cambridge. In Yorkshire. where
every winters night. at nine o'clock,
a large horn is blown on the village
green TO aid any wayfarer who
might chance to be on tho surround
Ing fells to find his way to the vii
lags. The fife horn now In use was
presented to the village some years
ago. and at one time adorned the
head OF q huge African bull.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10

Connection Between Drink and Crime
None who has observed or thought
upon the matter viii question that
drink has been the chief element In
filling the workhouse, not only In
Cleveland, but everywhere.
The connection between drink and
crime is far more than a sentimental
one.
A very large proportion OF the un-
fortunate were plain drunks" Many
have been sent up repeatedly for
drunkenness.
Aside from these Il may be said
that few workhousG offenses are COM
mitted without the aid Of whisky or
beer.
A life OF low crime is all but i'm.
possible except for the 'debaslng and
deadening influence or drink.
The almost unfailing connection be
tween drink and crime is not acci.
dental. II IL not the criminal pro-
pensity that leads TO drink, but 1t is
the drink that creates or develops
the criminal propensity.
Drink leads TO crime because Il an
esthetizes the moral sense. distorts
the spiritual perspective and de-
thrones reason.-Tho Cleveland
Press
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
Chinese Mourning,

II wonder" says resident Of
Tientsin. how many persons have
troubled TO inquire the meaning OF
the red band which invariably runs
down the center OF Chinese envel-
ope7 Curiosity led me TO investigate
the mystery and-'it was simple. Tho
Chinese mourning being white, that
color is regarded as uniucky and the
white envelope is accordingly not
only barred with rcd. but lined with
the same, which Is a color associated
with particularly good fortune. This
may be wrinkle for those who have
correspondence with Chinese not to
use white paper"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
prInklno TO Health In Poison.


The farces in connection with our
favorite poisons are many, but the
most stupendous one Of all is drink.
ipg TO health in poison; and TO think
that in all seriousness and without
sense Of ridicule the so-called wisest
and best of people Join in this ali
surdity! It is a spectacle worthy OF
the keenest satire Of an opera bouffe,
Such a compliment on the part OF
one Psychologist TO another would
touch the border OF an insult
Is there a pure liquid that best pro.
notes health in all integrity Is
there a liquid which OF all therapeut.
ical agents is the most potent for re,
establishing health when lost? II so.
let us drink to the health Of friends
In water.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
A Monster Of a Man.

Gladstone said: Intoxicating
drinks have produced evils more dead.
ly, because more continuous. than all
those caused TO mankind by the great
historic scourges OF war. famine and
pestilence combined" A drunkard
Is the annoyance of modesty; the
trouble of civility; the spoil Of wealth !;
The destruction OF reason. He is the
brewers agent, the tavern and ale
house benefactor. the beggars COM
panion. the constable's trouble. his
glfe's woe. his children's sorrow, his
,eighbor's scof, his own srame. In
short, he is a tub OF swill, a spirit
d unrest. thing below beast. and
monster of a man"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-05-10
Destroyer Of Universal Happiness

Destroyer Of Universal Happiness.
A man is not wise who drinks, be-
cause II destroys his happiness. Hap.
piness is the great end In life. for II
men strive with unceasing ardor. But
happiness can be built only in virtue,
RRd where drunkenness reigns, virtue
is a stranger and God 10 an enemy.
A drinking saloon In community
means rags and misery for some OF
Its people, and sixty thousand saloons
In the nation means rags and misery
multiplied sixty thousand times. Uni.
versal happiness and prosperity can
not exist In the same land with the
saloon, any more than peace and safe
ly can exist in a sheepfold when the
wolf has entered II. A drunkard not
only destroys his own happiness, but
the happiness of all those around him.
Drink destroys homes. makes crimi'
nails out OF children and destroys
eountTy's happiness.