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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

Get your Sunday chicken dinner at
42o 25th street. Mrs. w. J. Carey,
phone Olive 1911. Price, 25 cents.
Meals also served daily. Hours: Z
to p. n1., ~ to p. M, to p. m.
Between Glenarm and fremont street.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12
DENVER NEWS
COMING EVENTS.

Aug. 17-True Reformers Excursion
over Moffat Road.
Aug. 22-The Church of Redeemer pic
mic at Bloomfield Park.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

Rev. j. z. Ford lectures at Bethle
hem Baptist church Tuesday night
--ug. 3.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

Mrs. Barnett Tracy died Saturday
morning and was buried from the
Douglass undertaking parlors Monday.
Rev. Reynolds officiating. She leaves
two sisters, Jessie Wallace and Lii
liam Holmes.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

II. X. Butler goes to Colorado
Springs tomorrow and will return
home. bringing Mrs. Butler. who is
there Ell route home from Santa Fe.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

Mrs. NJ. d. Scott of Los Angeles,
en- route to Chicago and the South,
stopped n few days visiting Denver
being the house guest of Mrs. d. T..
II. McClain.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

The Redeemer picnic which was
postponed some time ago on account
OF the weather. begins to loom large
on the horizon again. Its date is Aug.
22 and the well known popularity II
enjoys assures good attendance.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

Swandown powder is a toilet spe-
cialty which the Elite Drug Store rec
ommends to users OF good goods. only
l5c. Prescriptions and staple drugs
also at the Elite store. Twenty-frst
and Arapahoe streets. Phone Main
2701.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

A dainty five-course luncheon was
served Monday at 1880 by Mrs. ]. r.
Contee. complimentary to Mrs. Bak-
er. a visitor from Texas and the house
guest of Mrs. Eugene Reeves. The
ladies present were: Mrs. j. d. Bows
er. Mrs. Callie Edwards, Mrs. Eugene
Reeves, Mrs. A. A. Ealy, Mrs. Geo.
Brooks Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Contee.
G. w. Franklin OF Chattanooga,
Tenn, president Of the Negro Ma
tional Funeral Directors Association,
E q guest of j. X. Contee. He Is a
5Hegate to the Negro National Edu-
cation Congress.
Miss l.. Hammond has returned to
tn. city after two months visit in
New York and other eastern cities
MIR. and Mrs. c. b. Hill wish to
thank the friends In their kindness
during the illness and death Of their
mother, and the beautiful flowers;
and especially those OF Lone Star
CHAPTER No. it A. Il. s., and the
Atewardess Board Of Shorter's A. M.
n church Of which she was men,
ber.
In memory of my brother d. L..
Robin, who died August 8. 1908. At
Muskogee, Okla. Gone but not for
gotten.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

Mr.. Ed. Burnside passed through
the city last week en- route to Seattle.
Wash. to remain with his sister, Mrs.
II. j. Henry. Mr.. Burnside is a
brother-in-law of II. L. Lewis.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

The directors OF the Lincoln Doug
lass hospital are rendering to the doc
tors who visit the Congress n recep-
ton Monday night at the hospital.
which is just beyond the end of the
Larimer car line in Jefferson county.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

FOR RENT large rooms down
stairs with use OF kitchen, at 2055
California street Phone Main S05l.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms with
all modern convcniences at 24le
CShampa street.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

FOR RENT-One furnished room
at 1850 Lafayette street.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1911-08-12

FOR RENT-Large front room in a
modern house at 1850 Humboldt st.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
LABOR TROUBLES
MENACE ENGLAND
Railroad Workers Will Or
ganize Protective League.

LONDON. Dec. "a sinister cloud is
still towering over the labor world. and
the discomfort and malice brewing among
the railroad men menaceS the pcaca and
prosperity of the country. Although the
threatened railroad strike about Christ
mas is arertcd tor the time being. TO
on is optimistic enough to assert that
permanent peace has been restored. and
the latest resolution passed 10y Il number
Of enthusiastic workers to the effect that
strikers should he armed. is, to say the
least, very dis,luictinE.
AT crowded meetings Of the members
of the Bradford branches Of the Anal
Eamated Society of Railroad Servants
the resolution. which was enthusiast
tiCally received. was as follows:
THAT this meeting. having every re-
spect for constitutional authority and be
levinE that such authority is competent
TO deal With all aIlo gpd violations of the
law, considers that the formation of 4
volunteer police force. organized and
controlled by tho capitalist classes out
side and ubO& the law of the land, and
openly supported 10y railroad companies,
is a menace to our liberties and must
he seriously met by tive OrGaniZa tiOnS of
the mon in the direction Of taking steps
to put them on an equal footing. and to
that end recommends the formation of Il
trade union physical protection league,
whose objects shall he tho training and
equipment Of selected trade uniunists iu
order that our organizations may 10 IL
position to meet ON equal terms TIN
hullicS of organized capital
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24

takes an hour and half for luncheon,
and probably leaves before :; and he
will have done more business in that
day than his American counterpart in
New York, who is at his office at in
the morning, rushes out and swallows
quick lunch in twenty minutes, and
perhaps does not leave his Office till
6 or in the evening. If the amount
of talk were any criterion of the
amount of business done, or of quick
ness in doing it. then indeed the
American would have the palm. | can
not find that quiCkness is an American
characteristic. What is mistaken for
quickness is a kind of nervous fidgets.
1t was America that invented that
triumph in the achievements of two
opposite things at once-the rocking
chair. So restless and nervous is the
American that even when he is resting
he wants to be moving.
Our Women Hard.
American women are nOtoriOusly
among the most assiduOus and success
full in the pursuit of those feminine arts
by which the person is rendered aIlur-
ing and provocative. This innate vein
of hardness can be traced in the typical
American cOuntenance, even in the
women. The face of a typical beautiful
American woman (and American
women at their best are very lovely)
is often marred by a line of hardness
in the mouth. which may be assumed
to indicate some wonderful virtue Of
character. but indeed does nothing of
the kind; il simply indicates hardness
and a pOtentiality for cruelty which is
at least latent characteristic in most
Americans.
IF we analyze the worst among the
characteristics which l have called
American, we find hypocrisy, sentiment
tality. cruelty. and bOastfulness; and
they are all qualities which in the in
dividual are characteristic of immaturity.
And America is in truth very like
child at the awkward age.
The Americans are childish in every
thing-in their simplicity of heart, in
the Eusto with which they address
themselves to life. in their adherence
to artificial and imposed standards Of
conduct, in their tendency to talk too
much. and too much about themselves:
in their profound and admirable curl
ositv. in their whOle-hearted desire to
initiate or acquire what they admire
in other people. and. at the same time.
in their innate distrust of people who
do not think exactly as they do"
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24

formed into a Greek theater to provide
a worthy setting for Prof. Max Rein
hardts version of SCphocies' tragedy,
'Oedipus Rex"
The level of the floor is to he raised
to within few feet Of the dress circle,
and half this part of the house will be
used for stalls and half for the arena.
one effect Of this alteration will he that
the heads of persons sitting in the stalls
will be in a line with the balcony of the
grand circle. ON the stage. erected as
far fOr ward as circumstances will allow.
will he the black marble front of Oedi-
pug palace. Oedpus and Jocasta and
their attendants will make their entrance
through the door in the center. The
Cna. in which the crowd and chorus
assemble. will he connected with the
stage by a continuation Of the flight of
steps from the palace? As there is no
music. there will be no orchestra to in
tervenC.
As the audience arrives the theater
will he in Semi-darkn"Ss. 1t will
find the black marble palace of Oedipus
already set" upon the stage. There
will be no curtain to hide il from view
When the proper moment arrives. the
scene will be lighted in the way Rein
hardt adopted for the original prOduc
tiOn in Germany.
a great white light. and Illuminating
the arena and giving it an atmosphere
of fatefuIness and fnrebOding will he
two gray lights. The first incident of
the play is the arrival from distance
of crowds OF people pressing toward the
arena. They will enter from the front
of the house through what is now the
gangway of the stalls
The crowd. which has presented a
wonderful picture wherever this great
tragedy has been given on the Cont
nent. will he twice as large as any that
has hitherto been seen on any stage in
London. So great has been the inter-
est in the production in Germany that
university students have been eager to
fill the parts of supernumeraries. The
production is at present only arranged
for two weeks, from January Il to -.
with the option of a third week If there
is sufficient demand for it. Then it Is
to be taken across the Atlantic and
produced in all the large cities of the
United States.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
ALL KAISER'S SONS
ARE NOW IN ARMY
Crown Prince Joins deaths
Head HuSsaPS.'

Berlin. Dec 2G.-Tn a very few years
all the German kaiser's sons will be en-
gagged in the service of their country.
Friedrich Wilhelm. the crown prince
though only a major i'll rank, commands
the First HussarS of the BOdyguard, the
famous Deaths Head HussarS. with
skull and CroSsbOnes as regimental crest.
The next brother. Eitel Friedrich. like
wise major in rank. commands squad
ron of BOdyguard HusSars; but the post
is only temporary, for he is also honorary
Statthalter of PCmerania and will. it is
expected, shortly be appointed to high
civil or military position elsewhere.
Prince August Wilhelm is learning ad-
ministrative work in POtsdam and will
also be appointed governor of a province.
or at least perfect of a district ,LandTaU.
Prince Adalbcrt, who has adopted the
navy as a profession. iS attending kiel
Naval Academy, though he has had com
mand of a torpedo boat for few months.
Prince Oscar is in his second year of
service. as lieutenant at the war aCad-
emy. and Prince Joachim. the Kaiser'S
Youngest son. is sublieutenant in an in
fantry regiment at POtsdam. Prince
Henry, the KaISeT's brother, presides as
grand admiral and inspector general Of
the fleet at Kiel. where one of his sons.
Prince Waldemar. is studying law. prob
ably with view to the diplomatic Serv-
ice. while the other, Prince Sigismund.
is devOting himself to the study of
science.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
IMPRISONED FOR ISLANDER.
! OunG EnEIishman Sentenced fO,
Defaming Queen Victoria.

London, Dec. 23.-For defaming the
late Queen Victoria. John Bonnar
Thompson. twenty-five years old. call
ing himself public speaker. was sem
fenced to a months imprisonment at
Marlborough street police court.
1t was stated that in Hyde Park
Thompson made insulting remarks
about the late Queen Victoria, with the
result that the crowd around him be
came disorderly. Some of the audience
shouted out that he ought to be locked
up, whipped, and shot.
Although the magistrate declared
that free speech was allowed he Sc
verely denounced the vulgar and das-
tardly way the prisoner had spoken
1t was proved that Thompson had used
disgraceful words rejecting on the
character Of the late Queen, and that
he had associated that lady with the
vice of Ein-drinking
The magistrate, in passing sentence
warned him that if he had any regard
for his own skin he should leave SGt
such references in future. as there
might not be police at hand to protect
him.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24

the chum of his student days at Bonn.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-HOllweg, in
favor OF his close friend, Admiral Won
TirpitZ. who was to be promoted from
secretary of the navy to the chancellor
ship. but, although the Kaiser may ulti-
mately have to listen to public Clamor
and select a sCapegOat for the blunder
Of permitting France to acquire Morocco
in return for sOma thousand square miles
uf uninhabitabIe African swamps, it is
at present absolutely useless TO speculate
on what may happen, for the future is
Il closed book.
Everything depends on whether the
government will secure a majority in the
coming Reichstag elections, for slowly
and reluctantly Germany is approaching
modern parliamentarism.
Speaking Of the elections, the new
ReiChstuG will probably include that very
rare thing, namely, a member who has
once been minister. The man in ques-
tinn is Count POsadowsky-Wehn who
was minister of the interior in Prince
BeulOws chancellorship He has lived in
retirement for sCme years. but has now
yielded to the request of no less than
four parties, and will contest Bielefeld
Tor the Conservatives.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
THE LATEST NEWS FROM FOREIGN CAPITALS
GERMANPHOBIA AGAIN RIFE
IN MIDDLE-CLASS ENGLAND
Masses Are Panicky Over Theoretical Invasion of
Britain During YuIetide.

1t is The extreme nervousness Of the
masses, both here and in Germany. due
to the Vaccinations of the politicians
and a certain part of the press, THAI
endanger the friendship of England
and Germany, for the governments of
both countries take a very hopeful
view of the situation, and Sir Edward
Grey was right when he said a few
days ago in a speech:
There are some friends of mine who
are always tapping the barometer
every five minutes to see if it is rising
"a very natural impulse. We have all
felt that impulse when after a period
of Indifferent weather we have long
ing for an Improvement. but what |
believe to be really desirable now Is
that we should have a few weeks Of
diplomatic repose
IF we can devote ourselves during
the next few weeks to our usual Christ
mas enjoyments and our internal pO-
litical questions. and not tap the ba-
rometer too often. | think there is
every hope that when we next begin
is clearing and the barometer is ris-
ing"
Views of Economist.
In the, meantime, the Conserva tives.
who had nothing but praise for the
secretary of foreign affairs at the time
of his speech. are beginning to change
their tune. In a recent political article
Mr.. Philip Snowden writes:
The only possible way Of averting a
great European war is to bring about
a better understanding with Germany.
This is clearly impossible so long As
Sir Edward Grey is at the head or
the foreign office.
His own increasing suspicion of
Germany disQualifies him from under
taking the work of bringing about bet
ter relations between her and ourselves.
No unprejudiced person can read the
narrative of what happened between
Germany and our foreign office in re-
gard to Morocco without being i'm
pressed by the CandOr of the German
government and by the unfOunded
suspicion that fills the mind of Sir Ed
ward Grey and influences all his ac-
tiOns."
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24

London. Dec. 2S.-Almost on the eve
of Christmas the people of England
are ordinarily thinking only of turkeys
and plum pudding, especially when no
general election is in sight. but, al
though we are Outwardly very calm
to-day there are, however, quite few
Of us who are worried and who Will
live in a state of fear until the holi-
days have passed without German
invasion somewhere on our long eX-
posed coast line. The danger is, OF
course. purely imaginary, but ever since
the alleged German spy. Capt. Grant.
was caught at Portsmouth a couple
of weeks ago, and it was revealed in
court that Germany had been anxious
to find out how many men and now
large supplies of coal there would ne
in our naval ports during Christmas
week, any numer of people, scared by
the sensational press, have become
quite convinced that the Kaiser in
tends to pay us an unwelcOme WISH
during the holidays, and the govern
ment is being roundlY denounced be-
cause it has granted furlOughs to a
very large percentage of officers and
men from the various home defense
squadrons scattered along our coasts
KniSer's Royal Relations.
for not only would it be impossible
for Germany to mobilize her army and
navy without the knowledge of Eng
land. which maintains a host of spies
in every German seaport. but from a
very reliable source at the imperial
court in Berlin, ! know that the Kaiser
has been very much upset at the man
ner in which the majority of the Ger
tod d.
ward Grey's speech on AnSlo-German
relations. Personally the Kaiser is eX-
ceedingly anxious to be at peace with
England. not only on humanitarian but
diplomatic grounds.
People forget" he is reported to
have said to an intimate friend on one
occa sion. that my friendship for Eng
land is a personal one. My relation
ship to the British royal family would
alone suffice to make me wish that my
people and the English people should
he friends with one another"
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
MORE STOCK. CRITICISM
OF AMERICA FROM ABROAD
FiSon Young Is PeSsimistic Over His Trans Atlantic
Visit
Visit.

London. Dec. 23.-According to Fill
son Young. who has written an article
in the English Review. Americans are
hypocritical, sentimental, cruel and they
lack the one thing that they think they
have-liberty.
Here are a few of his wise remarks
in that organ OF England's cultured
classes:
The traveller from the Old World
finds that, whatever other good things
may exist in America. whatever fine
institutions may have reared them
selves on her soil, and whatever splen-
did and noble harvests may be ripen-
ing in her widespread fields. the thing
that he knows as liberty does not exist
there.
You hear a great deal about 'cul-
ture' in America. and every America n
who has made money is laudably anN-
ious to acquire culture also, and he
goes out to get it in the same spirit
that he set out to get money-that is,
to get as much Of it as, possible in as
short a time as possible. He treats
it as though it were product. some
thing that could be bought or acquired
rapidly by any one concentrating him
self on the enterprise. Eut, of course,
it eludes him.
American ''CuIture."
THE difference between so-called
American culture and true refinement
or cultivation is the difference between
pine board that has had coat of
Warnish applied to it and piece of
old mahogany that has been rubbed
and polished through years of use and
care until il wears an almost indie
structibIe hrillianCy.
The time Of literature. in America
is not yet There are many American
characteristics that seem to ME likely
to produce a real foundation for Gtera
ture: the chief Of these is probably the
love of ritual. The love of ritual rests
chiefly on the dramatic sense, which is
highly developed in the Americans. al
though their thcatcr is beneath con-
tempt.
Boston. Of which they arc SO proud,
is spoiled by a distressing and priggisn
sclf-COnsCiOusness that makes even,
genuine scholarship repellent The
American is always talking Of speed
and quiCkness. but he will waste five
minutes in telling you that he has so
many things to do that he has not a
minute to spare.
The ordinary English business man
gets to his Office between 3 and 10,
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
BABY BEAR AT zoo.
Tragic Tale of Polar Inhabitamt
Born in English Metropolis.

London, Dec. ga baby polar bear
at the Geological Gardens has had a very
sad record. In the course of three days
it WAS born, forcibly orphaned, adopted,
and died.
On Tuesday Barbara produced two fine
little cubs. 1t was decided, however.
that she could not be trusted to rear
thrm. for her record with her four previ-
~ : families was very bad Individual
I!a:es have been eaten. exposed, neglect
"'. ana trodden upon by their parents,
aud not one lived beyond the first week
SO
y mothrrIy collie undertook to provide
tn" new babies with warmth and food.
and Barbara was lured out of her den
with food. when the cubs were taken and
handed over to the collie. They apparent
Iy Jared cXcellently with her. but on
Thursday night one died. At Yesterdays
inquest death was officially pronounced
to be due to pneumonia
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
PAY STREAK" AT MONTE CARLO
EngIIShman'S Luck Causes High
Excitement at Gambling Resort.

Engl iSh mans Luck causes High
Excitement at Gambling Resort.
Paris. Dec 23.-An Englishman's
lucky high play at the roulette tables
has caused the greatest excitement at
Monte Carlo. The lucky player. who
arrived at the famous gambling center
about a month ago. covers the higher
numbers of the roulette board with
piles of gold, and plays on the system
of even chances followed by Darn
borough. the American. who two sea-
sons ago left Monte Carlo the winner of
over $4,000.
One day the Englishman proceeded
to the Casino shortly after dinner. and.
starting with $1,000 returned a few
hours later, having won over $25, 900.
His success was more striking on the
following day. and on the third day he
is stated to have won more than $4,000,
the greater part of which sum. how
ever. returned to the bank on Sunday.
Owing to the attention attracted by
his success. the Englishman has been
greatly inconvenienced by the crowds
pressing around the tables to watch
him play. and he went SO far as to
shave off his mustache in order to es-
cape from the importunities.o of his ad-
mirerS.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
KEENER PACE IN ARMAMENT.
EngIand's Foreign Policy Causes
Speculation in Germany.

IN
Berlin. Dec 23.-The prediction CT the
Cologne Gazette that England's foreign
policy. as outlined by Sir Edward Grey,
may renew the competition in arma-
mcnts ct still faster pace has caused
the whole German press to indulge in
speculatiOns as to the outlook for changes
in the naval and military programmes.
The fact that the Cologne organs ut
terance followed closely upon Grand Ad-
miraI Won kOester's speech at Frankfort
reiterating the Navy Leagues demand
for the laying down of two large cruisers
annually for the next three yearS-in-
stead of one cruiser for six years-nat-
Urally has not detraCted from its signifi
canoe in the public mind. The govern
ment, of course, has given out no definite
intimatiGn as TO its intentions. but the
resulting flood of rumors would indicate
that a lively agitation of the armament
question in the not distant future is by
no means improbable. Meantime. it is
interesting to note that, according to one
statement. which finds CredenCe in GER
tain circles, the question of the land de-
fenseS is occupying the governments at
tentiOn quite as much as that of naval in
crease.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-24
LAP VILLAGE TO ORDER.
German Tourist Concern shows En-
terpriSe in Promoting Business,

Paris, Dec. 23-An ingenious trick.
played by a German company on too con-
fding tourists, has been revealed to the
Paris Journal by traveller who has Just
returned after spending several months
in Lapland This line advertises trips
to the North Sea with all the usual ac-
compartments of midnight suns. white
bears and arctic life. Occa sionaIly the
steamship approaches the coast of Lap
land and touches at certain points to al
low the tourists to visit a Lap village
II Lap villages existed on the shore this
would be all right enough. but. as a mat
ter of fact. they are always to be found
at the end of day or twO's IaboriouS
journey in the interior.
This difficulty, however. has been sur
mounted by the entsrprising Hamburg
company, who had a neat village built
in orthodox style, and i'm order not TO
disturb the natives. ii imported a group
Italian gondoliers, who. being out of
work Ia winter, Were dressed appropri-
ately and made to figure as Laps for
the benefit of the tourists in search of
local color.