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The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
AMENDMENTS AND PROPOSALS.

through groesque and demoralzng po-
experiences doubtful that such another OF fan
crowded single official city ballot as that
Ordinarily when there
parties striving honestly
with denty elected candidates. the best interests OF the city
of Them but when crystal
lied aggregation of bowling sensaona opposed TO
experiments
official ballot the
before them big that which awaits the man
first blooms the Proposed
charter almost numerous as the candidates
Offices forced the
in These amendments
ballot intended to enable the voters to
the legitimate
defeated accepted by merely voting
list of candidates. but each OF these
be marked separately Tor or against s
that fact distinctly mind
would board of water comms-
acquire plant for the city That
indefinite lighting
pickering drawing litigation and big spending
ownership and all at the OF the
burden themselves and their homes
Another proposed intended make the old Popust
initiative and referendum effective Its claim Is
their laws 1t bunco
adoption would the hands of of professional
disturbing when ey
enjoy people make laws Laws conceived by
peoples rights and needs and they
shaped enacted by the peoples trained representatives
The recall is another proposed amendment intended to extend the
titon to remove any call special election
everlasting dissenson and for the
sake of professional howler.
Then proposition Mayor Speer the purchase of
control appointed board 1t has
being attempt negotiate fair deal in such way
as to avoid burdens and litigation
of franchise The Denver Union Water
Company entirely separate the water
question the adoption Immediately Danish all ideas of
boards purchase increased eve water litigation
political turmoil the water question
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
THE PROCRESS|VES

In these days one hears much
about the "lnsurgent" and the
Progressive. These two words
are so often applied to the same
sort of human protest" that we
are liable to the very grave error
of considering them Synonymous.
However, the general acceptance OF
the word insurgent is rebel, and
a progressive as one who is alive to
conditions calculated to benefit
humanity. In the present local
campaign the City of Denver has
little. if any, use for the insurgent.
The insurgent, or reformer, serves
no purpose in any campaign except
as a grotesquely attired scarecrow,
in the political garden. On the 9th
er hand, the progressive is the civic
live wire. From the beginning all
his energy and ability has been
identified with movements for the
city's growth and welfare. The
Colorado Statesman desires to es-
pecially call the attention of all the
colored voters and taxpayers of
Denver to just this sort of condi-
ton confronting the people in the
present local campaign. The men
who have been identified with the
commercial and moral development
of Denver from its infancy are the
ones who are most deeply interest
ed in the proper solution of the wa
ter question at this time. They are
men who have interests in Denver
outside the Water company hold
ing which runs into the millions.
Besides these there are hundreds of
citizens who have large interests
here who are not directly connect
ed with the Water company but
are vitally interested in the future
of a greater Denver. 1t is in the
making of greater and more
beautiful city that attracts and
holds all sane citizens. Our peo-
pie, with their small holdings, can
well afford to consider very care
fully the line of conduct followed
by those who have accumulated
much of this world S goods. 1t will
be found that interests are mutual
What will benefit the man with a
large holding will proportionately
benefit the man with less. Despite
the loud clater of the Rush-Patter-
son-Reform element, the franchise
asked for by the Water company
is simply permit to 90 on expand
ing and extending its service to
meet the needs of a Greater Den
yer. This city has developed so
rapidly during the past few years
that the keeping pace with and be-
ing prepared TO meet the demands
has been a problem far overtaxing
the enegries of the most deeply-in-
terested citizen.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
Rochester, n. j., April IS

Rochester, N. j., April 2S.-Bes-
sic Bristol, pretty eighteen-year.
old white girl, was arrested here
to-day with a forty-year old color.
ed man, Daniel Linsey. with whom
she had eloped from her home in
Brattlebore, Vt. The couple had
been traced here from Buffalo.
The Bristol girls father is one of
the leading merchats of Brattle.
boro. She has been well educated
and abandoned a luxurious home
to flee with the colored man. She
said she and her companion are
married.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14

c. R. Patterson and Sons, the
Negro carriage manufacturers OF
Greenfield, Ohio, have recently is
sued their 1910 supplement.
This supplement shows eight new
styles as nobby and attractive ev-
er came from carriage factory
and like all of the Patterson work,
these new styles are the perfection
of durability and high quality.
For years now G. r. Patterson and
sons have been among the leaders
in their line, and today they show
more styles of distinctive, profess
ional vehicles than probably any
other firm in the country. In ad.
dition to this, this firm has made
original contributions to the car
riage industy. There are about
thirty workn.en equally divided
between the white and colored)
employed in this factory.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
STRENGTH AT VARIOUS AGES
Years In Which It lnereases-When II
Falls Most Rapidly Is After
FIftieth Year.

According to excellent authority the
muscles, in common with all organs
of the human body, have their periods
of development and decline, our phys
ical strength increasing up to GER
tain age and then decreasing. Tests
Of the strength Of several thousand
individuals have been made and the
following figures are given as the
averages derived from such tests:
The lifting power of youth of II
Is $50 pounds; in his twentieth year
this increases to 800 pounds and In
the thirtieth and thirty-first years it
reaches its height, 365 pounds. At the
expiration of the thirty-first year the
strength begins to decline, very grad
ually at first. By the fortieth year 1t
has decreased eight pounds and
diminution continues at slightly in
creasing rate until the fiftieth year is
reached, when the figure is $40
pounds.
Subsequent to this period strength
fails more and more rapidly until the
weakness Of old age is reached. It
b found impossible to obtain trust
worthy statistics of the decline of
strength after the fiftieth year, as the
rate varies greatly in different indi-
viduals.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14

Aberdeen, S. D., May 2.-Cal-
vim Bowdrey, an understood col
ored man. 30 years old, from Bis
mark, N. D., stepped up to map in
the Land Office here this morning
and pnt his finger on spot where
he wished to locate in the Stand
ing Rock and Cheyenne River
Reservations. When w j. Engle
of Butte, Neb., disqualified him.
self by filing on another home
stead before he drew No. l, Bowd-
rey with No. 2 became first. The
opening is proceeding under Fed
eral supervision.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
MASON AND D|XON'S LINE

The historic Mason and Dixon's
Line is a name that was given to
the southern boundry of Pennsyl-
vania about $50 years ago. 1t coin
cides with 80 degrees 43 minutes
and 26 3 seconds north latitude
Except for a distance of % miles
the line was marked out by Charles
Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, Eng
lish engineers. They surveyed it
for a distance of 25S miles west
from the Delaware river, between
November Is, 1853, and Decem-
ber 26, 1867. Each five-mile stone
bears the coat of arms of Maryland
cut on one side and that of Penn
sylvania on the opposite. The
intervening milestones have the
letters "P" cut on one side and
IN" on the opposite.
During the progress of the vio-
lent debate in congress in 1920,
which resulted in the historic
measure known as the Missouri
Compromise, on the question of
excluding slavery from Missouri,
John Randolph made use of the
phrase mason and Dixon's Line
as the dividing liue between slave
and free state. Maryland being a
slave-holding state and Pennsyl-
vania a free state. At that time
the crossing of this line meant
freedom to the fugitive slave.
The application as made by
Randolph drew attention to Mason
and Dixon's Line all over the
country as indicative of a bar TO
freedom.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
THIS PAPER

While not an issue in the cam
paign, the Colorado Statesman has
been issued regularly for many
years. Its management has at all
times and under difficult circum-
stances sought to labor for the ad-
vancement and upbuilding of its
people. We have not sought to
make this petty, personal organ
of the owner, but broad journal
of opinion, reflecting the good of
a growing people. All we have
asked in return has been fair
share of your patronage. We feel
that we are entitled to it. We are
sending you clean sheet, free
from coarse and Objectionable mat
ter. We want every colored man
and women in the West to read and
pay for this paper. We have much
due us from our readers. We need
this money. Just send it in and
help worthy cause.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
FOR A SOLID VOTE.

in
Republicans
bourbon Some
Of like have developed horse
conditions
Citizen
conditions
of
of this
blow struck
Republican
amend
dmoaizng reforms vote
conditions entrusted to hearts and hands not afraid to
ownt the
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14

Bishop w. j. Gaines, of Atlanta,
Ga, who recently held the annual
New Jersey conference of the A
M. E. Church, was arrested a few
days ago, in that city, charged
with having embezzled $l5O'
which was turned over to him for
the superannuated ministers fund.
The warrant was issued at the in
stigation of Rev. j. FL. Morgan, OF
Bordentown, N. j., formerly sec
retary of the conference. The
Bishop gave bond in the sum of
$1,000. His case will be up for
trial in few days.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
| RACE NEWS
oATnEarp FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

In Franklin, Virginia, is located
the Ashburn Bros. Shirt Manu-
featuring Company, Inc 1t was
ablished in March, 1909, incor-
porated September of the same
year. The capital stock is $4,000
Its daily capacity if from fifty to
seventy. five dozen shirts. The
present number operating about
fifteen; the factory building is 45x
IS in one-acre lot.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
REGULATION BEATS REVOLUTION.

careful extension of the license system Denver proper
regulating the liquor traffic incompatible with public
contributes to the bement of moral
metropolitan community where divers customs
allied the idea liberty not to admit of
without bitter and disgust great majority
of alcoholic form with what
purpose Most of them suffer pacu
lar injury therefrom.
of their privilege would drive OF them
habits been the and the moral standard Is
thus lowered rather than improved.
Metropolitan conditions demand tie bar and good moral sense
is best regulated by license system which
temp a revolution
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14

Kingston, Jamica, May 1.-Nord
Alexis, former president of Hayti.
died here this morning of senile
decay. He is said to have been
more than 100 years old. He was
exile here in 1908, but was pardon
ed by President Simon a few
months ago, and was preparing
to return to Hayti. The body will
be sent to Hayti for burial beside
that of his wife. Gen. Alexis is
reputed to have died enormously
rich.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
Limit Of Condemnation.

Gen. Humphrey, retired, former
quartermaster general of the army
was discussing certain army offic
who had long been in the volunteer
service, says the Saturday Evening
Post.
What kind of chap is he?" asked
q friend.
"Oh, nice enough" replied the gen.
eral.
But has he any sense?"
Sense" snorted the general, che
hasn't sense enough to turn around II, 4
revolving chair"
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
New Diseases.

The perfectin' OF common things an
the removal of obstacles seem like 1t
would result in perfect ease an unre-
lieved health, after while; but spi'
cion it'll only mean a shiftin of pivots
an a new class of ailments-an' heah
ers.-Ruth McEnery Stuart. In Gem
tury.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Negro Townsite and
Land Company will be held June Z,
1910, p. m, at the office of the COM
pany, 119 Twenty-third street, Denver,
Colo, for the purpose of electing nine
directors.
o. T. JACKSON, Pres.
The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
PROF. WILL TAYLOR, SPECIALIST

Hard corns.
Soft Corns.
Festered corns.
Nervo-vascular corns.
Vascular corns.
Laminated corns.
Fibrous corns.
Gala sites spota
Bunions.
Chilblain feet.
Ingrowing nails.
Call to see me in regard to your feet.
oil 18th street. Phone Main 74O2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18
PATHETIC


The bachelor sits all alone in his den,
which is tidy as tidy can be
$50 the bachelor thinks, but greatly fear
Twouldn't look so to you or to me);
The daylight fades and he lights his pipe,
And conten he INDUCES his within.
it curls
All the girls who couldn't get him.
The night outside is dismal and dark,
The rain rattles loud on the pane,
But inside the bachelor darneth his socks
His ears are intent on the tempest with
out,
On the rain that comes down with a
vim,
For the raindrops he hears are the inces-
SAINT tears
OF the girls who couldn't get him.
The tempest grows wild and wilder still,
1t sends a great gust down the flue,
But the. comfy bach gives the fire a
good poke
And takes out clinker OF two;
The roar of the tempest is pleasant to
hear
AS he sits in the twilight dim,
For it sounds like the shrieks and the
sobs and the signs
OF the girls who couldn't get him.
The storm is over, the hour is late,
The bachelor sits in his chair;
In his hand something shines, in his
forehead are lines
That one does not always see there;
For that small, shiny thing in his hand is
a ring,
And his dull eyes are solemn and wet
For the times he was spurned and this
ring was returned
By the girls whom he couldn't get.
Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18
Why Not American Pearls?

There has evidently been an immense
crop of pearl necklaces in Europe this
year, and the number of those orna-
ments brought into the United States
by American women returning from
travel abroad has been unusually large.
AT least the customs inspectors say so,
and they are supposed to look after
such things. And thereby hangs a tale
more or less curious. OF course, the
pearls in these incoming necklaces are
all genuine Oriental" pearls; no Amer
lean woman patron of European jewel
ers would think of buying anything so
common as American pearls. Where
fore it would be interesting to know
what has become of the $500 900 worth
of pearls gathered in the Mississippi
and other western rivers of the United
States this year and sold to London
and Paris jewelers. who make a
speciality of catering to American tour
ists.-New York Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18
HYHAWKER JOTS

1t is reported by the Clifton News
that Mr.. Grapevine went to James
town Sunday, where he is going to
husk corn.
1t occurs to the Bison Bee that
there's one redeeming point in cleo
tions anyway. They happen only ev-
cry other year"
1t is no crime to start a street argu-
ment, but it shows that your business
isn't very rushing. says the Jewell
County Republican. ISIS
Something decidedly reasonable in
the way of a weather forecast from
the West Valley correspondent of the
Miami Republican: 1t is getting colder
weather. If it keeps on it will be pref
ty cold by Christmas.
Whenever we see a woman who is
painted and padded, says the Hoxie
Sentinel, it makes US think of a fell
low we used to know, who, although
he hadn't a cent in the bank, always
went about with a check book sticking
out of his hip pocket.
Some advice for young men from
the Louisville Tyre: When a young
man goes out walking with his girl
and wishes to assist her from falling,
he should hold out his arms to catch
her instead of holding out his hands as
though he were going to catch a base
ball.
w. A. McKeever, professor of phil
osophy, has a complaint, possibly
claim for damages. against the Athletic
association, reports the Kansas Indus
trialist. He gave his eldest boy fifty
cents recently to pay admission to one
of the college football games. After
getting in the boy found that owing to
the crowd he was unable to see the
game from the bleachers. Being a re-
sourceful youth he climbed upon the
Tense. The view was good. Every
play was seen and enjoyed. Other
boys were also enjoying the view. Then
unkind fate, in the person of a rninion
of the management, interviewed and
made them all get down outside the
fence. And the professor says his son
didn't get his moneys worth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18

aged to send a note Of its baritone
into the rafting car.
"A fine night for it," suggested
Hume, his heart warming to his task.
Mr.. Boveril nodded, pulled out a fat
gold watch Nearly eleven. That's noe
very late. You might borrow a guitar
from somewhere. I'll listen to you
little bit to see how you perform.
After tonight !et me know when you're
coming around to sing, and I'll stay
away at the club. I'm not much on
music"
Sure" replied Hume easily; "neith-
er am !. I used to sing in my board
ing house until the gentleman below
came up one night and offered to throw
me out You understand, he just took
FANCY to do something for me, just
as you did. I stopped, however, not
wanting to put him to any trouble.
r1 MI. Boverii smiled; I'VE get off at the
The Boveril mansion was located on a
h1llslde In Manayunk over toward Rox-
the soft light on a terraced lawn, up
winch clambered many flights of marble
steps. Hume caught breath of admira-
the owner.
IT'S pretty, isn't it?" he said. land
she's my only child The old fellows
voice shook q little. at wish I could buy
her. her ha at dozen drug clerks until she got
:, AS they walked through the streets of
the suburb Hume visited many of the
despised drug stores until he hit upon
guitar that could be had. Armed with
sion.
When they had climbed the third ter
race, ME- Boyeril took seat on an iron
settee, and looked at the summer moon
while his accomplice stole around to the
designated window for his work
Presently Mr.. Boveril heard a thrum
of chords and then a rather pleasant tenor
voice singing "Cuddle Up a Little Closer"
an air then running in a popular musical
comedy.
What a night murmured Mr.. Boveril.
land hds voice isn't bad, though it seems
to me I've heard it before somewhere
Within heavy window frame a girls
head appeared with the first notes, "Oh,
Cranleigh,'' she whispered, you must go
away, darling. I'm expecting Pop home
any minute
But Cranleigh's arms were about her
shoulders. Hes already here down on
the third terrace. listening to me sing"
What, Cranleigh." she whispered in
establishment. How. did you get away
Cranleigh explained. struck his guitar
again: and once more Mr.. Boveril heard
the lit, "Cuddle up little closer, lovey
This. time it was, in duet and Mr..
Boveril wondered.-(Copyrig 1910 by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18
MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS.

In view of the agitation which has
been started in Topeka and Kansas
for abolishing the present system of
administering the school affairs Of
cities, and putting this important work
in board or a commission with a
small and workable membership, it is
interesting to learn that the National
Municipal league, which recently held
its annual session at Buffalo, is heart
lily in favor Of this plan. For one thing,
it removes the school entirely from the
influence of politics, just as does the
commission form of government for
cities makes politics a negligible
quantity in the administration of mu-
nicipal affairs. This is a great &C
complishment. But greater still would
be the facility by which the school at
fairs could be managed, if their man
agement was placed in the hands of a
few dependable men and women.
This plan has also been tried il
Louisville, KY, and with such success
that the people of that city who have
the interests of their school at heart
would not think of going back to the
old method of running their educa-
tional institutions through the medium
of a large and unwieldly school board
An act was secured by the public
spirited citizens of Louisville from the
Kentucky legislature which abolished
the old school board at Louisville and
provided a new system for the admin
istration of the schools. This new act
and its operation was described recent
ly by Edward J. McDermott, of Louis
Vile, member of the National Munich
pal league, in a report which he made
to Clinton Re- woodruff, the secretary
of the league. Mr.. McDermott's report
follows in part:
THE Louisville board of education
shall consist of five members. elected
for five years, but two of the five
elected this fall will serve only two
years in order that an election of men,
bers may be held every two years.
THE board will choose a superin-
tendent of schools, to have charge of
the teaching force and the course Of
study 1t will elect a business director
to supervise the construction and re-
pair of buildings. Both men will be
elected for one year, after which, If
they prove satisfactory, they will be
reelected for four years, but may be
removed for cause by the board at any
time.
TT is intended to take the public
schools out of politics, and the mem
bers of the board were voted for on a
special ballot. with no party device at
tached. The position of the names If
candidates was determined by lot, and
the order was changed on every hun
bred ballots. This was a sort of edu-
cational qualification for voters.
For the first election. a committee
representing various organizations Sc
lected a a citizens ticket composed of
Republicans and Democrats of a high
! type"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18
Darn the American FLAG

Darn the American flag is the lat
est order of the government. Edward
Everett Hale's hero was sent to sea
for putting it only shade stronger.
The new order. is in line with the gov
ernments policy of retrenchment, ana
the starry banners that fly every day
from the stats of the thousands of
government buildings throughout the
land will be worn to a FRAGILE before
they can be replaced.
Not long ago the government en-
ployes were instructed to exercise
greater economy in the use of lead
pencils and to use both sides of
scratch paper in figuring out memo
randa and in writing the rough drafts
of letters. Now the flag Is to be darn
ed.-Washington special to the New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
lFrom the Chicago News.J

lFrom the Chicago News.J
Many good thinkers are poor takers.
Preferred creditors are those who
never trouble US.
A good foot ru1e-don't wear shoes
that are too small.
Ever notice how easy it is to get
things you don't care for?
And the lighter a mans head is the
higher he is able to carry it.
A hero is a man who does disagree
able things from sense of duty
He is a mean bachelor who advises
a widow to remarry-and then fails to
propose.
Always tell the truth-but it is
sometimes advisable to use a long-dis-
lance phone.
When some people talk we are re-
minded of a dictionary with the definf-
lions missing.
A girl with plain face has lots Of
time to cultivate the beauties Of her
mind.
Revenge may be sweet at first, but
it is sure to acquire a flavor that is
anything but agreeable.
A Kentuckian who speaks from ex-
perience says it Is just as easy to get
hilarious on water as it Is on land.
It is said that all his mean acts are
quickly brought up. before a drowning
man-and the same might be said of
a. candidate for office.