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The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-20
The Man Far
theSt Down
By Booker T. Washington First of Series of Articles,
Based on Observation Abroad, Comparing the Living
Condition of the European Peasant, Woman Work
er and Miner with those of the American Negro.

of these hopeless and broken men.
/ saw them sitting, on sunshlny
days, not only men but women al
so, crumpled up on benches or
stretched out on the grass of the
parks. | discovered them on rainy
nights, crouching in doorways or
huddled away in dark corners
where an arch or wall protected
them from the cold, L met them
in the early morning hours, before
the city was awake, creeping along
the Strand and digging with their
hands in the garbage boxes; and
again late at night. on the Thames
Embankment, where hundreds of
them sleep-when the night watch
man permission the benches or
stretched out on the stone pave
ments. After time [ learned to
distinguish the same type under
the disguise of those street ven-
ders who stand on street corners
and sell collar-buttons, matches
and other trifes, stretching out
their hands in a pitiful sort of
supplication to passer-by to buy
their wares
Whenever [ found an opportun-
ity to do so, talked with some of
these out. casts. Gradually, part
ly from themselves and partly
from others, | learned something
of their histories. | found that it
was usually drink that had been
the immediate cause of their
downfall. But there were always
other and deeper causes. Most OF
them, it seemed to me, had simply
been borne down by the tempta-
tions and the fierce competition OF
life in a great city. There comes
a time when trade is dull men who
had been accustomed to spend
much mony begin to spend less,
and there is no work to be had.
At these times it is "the least effi-
cient, the less energetic, the less
strong, the less young, the less
regular, the less temperate, or the
less docile" who are crowded out.
In this way these men have lost
their hold and sunk to the bottom.
L remember meeting one OF
these men late at night wandering
along the Thames Embanhment.
In the course of my conversation
with him | asked him, among 9th
er things, if he voted, and if SO, to
what political party he belonged
He looked at me in amazement,
and then he said he had never vot-
ed in his life. 1t was his express
ion rather than his words that i'm
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-20

Philadelphia, Penn, April % -
james Bryce, the British Ambass-
ador to the United States, deliver
ed an address on Charles Darwin
at tonight's session of the Ameri
Can Philosophical society, which
is holding its one hundred and
sixty-sixth annual meeting here.
MIR. Bryce told of DIR. Darwin's ap-
The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-20

Columbus, Ga, May 9.-Con-
centration of all the Negroes of
the south in a section set apart for
themselves is proposed in a meas
ure which will be presented to the
Georgia Legislature at its next ses-
sion by Representative elect James
Slade. of this place. His plan is
to start it here and have it extend
ed throughout the South. Mr..
Slade has written to every men,
Der of Congress, asking for their
views on the subject and request
ing suggestions. One of the pro
visions of the bill is designed to
bar the BLACK man from the ballot.
Baltimore, Md, May 9.-The
third segregation measure has Just
become a law here. The first law
was declared invalid by the courts,
the second was repealed and re-
enacted with several amendments
as the basis for the new law. The
new measure prohibits colored
schools, churches and homes from
being located in exclusive white
blocks and vice versa. Houses to
be built in the future must be
either for white or colDred people,
to be determined according 10 the
agreement reached by the other
property owners in a block. A
penalty of $50 a day is provided
tor any violation of the measure.
New York City, May S.-A
movement is on foot to launch "a
colored hospital in New York TO
be named the McDonough Memoir
lal Hospital in memory OF DIR. ID.
X McDonough, who was the first
colored physician to practice in
New York. The leading colored
physicians, dentists and druggists
of New York have organized the
McDonough Memorial Association
to raise subscriptions for a new
hospital. The medical men have
become thoroughly alive to the
necessity of having a colored hos
pital in New York, where colored
patients will be treated in a fair
manner. Last Friday evening a
committee of the association met
in the Y. M. G. A, building and
discussed plans that would aid IN
raising the needed funds. The
committee stated that S25,UCO was
necessary to begin work on the
new building, which will be raised
in various ways.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

An Extreme Measure.
''Bings' wife is a great fault-fnder.
understand"
Yes; she even made poor Bings
put a knocker on the front door"
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Chapter In Warriors Career

THAT young lieutenant was of on
an hours notice. He made a forced
march TO Coloma and back, within a
few days reporting to Colonel Mason
that gold had certainly been found at
Coloma, and in abundance. Colonel
Mason thereupon summoned a courier
in whom he had every confidence, and
handing him certain dispatches for the
government at Washington, command
ed him to make every effort to reach
Fort Brown (now Brownsville) at the
mouth of the Rio Grande river, as
soon as possible. There the nearest
mail communications with Washing
ton could be reached. These dispatch
es reported to the government authori-
ties at Washington that a lieutenant
in whom Colonel Mason had every con-
fidence had Investigated the reports of
the finding of gold at Coloma and that
what the lieutenant said about this
discovery could be relied upon.
In due time the report reached
Washington and was published. 1t set
the whole country in fever, but the
name OF the young lieutenant who had
vouched for the discovery of a very
great gold field was speedily forgotten.
You would like to know his name. 1t
was William T. Sherman. And, rela-
lively speaking, l think that his quick
journey from Monterey to Coloma was
beset by almost as many difficulties as
was his march from Atlanta to the sea
which made him world famous 16
years later"
Copyright. 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
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The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
When Seward Wept In Public

slave state. But strange as this inti-
macy seemed, II continued unbroken
TO the day OF Rusk's death in 1885,
when he committed suicide in a mo-
ment of temporary mental alteration.
"Of course the customary memorial
services we're held in the senate, and
Seward delivered one OF the eulogies-
In fact his was the chief eulogy, and
/ have always regarded 1t as classic.
But the most remarkable thing in con-
nection with it's deliverance was that.
suddenly, Senator Seward broke
down. He was convulsed with his
grief. He buried his face in his hand
kerchief and sobbed. 1t was SO affect
ing that many OF his colleagues also
were moved to tears.
"A few days later, when / congratu-
lated Seward on his eulogy Of his
friend, suggested that there must
have been something Of an unusual
character to bring two such men as
himself and Rusk together on terms
of intimacy.
Shorty after President Pierce's
administration began. he told me, I
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
How William T. Sherman, When {
Young Lieutenant, Confirmed the
News of the Discovery Of
Gold In California.

81 was one of those who sailed from
New York as soon as the news came
of the discovery of gold in California
and 1 spent several years in Cali
fornia." said Mr.. Dudley E. Jones.
president of one Of the largest OF the
Industrial companies of Arkansas, to
me recently. Mr. Jones was a native
of New York state, and while still
hardly past his majority he was tempt
ed to California and lived in the very
heart of the gold mining excitement
Much has been said and written
about the discovery of gold at SUIT
ter's MILL" continued Mr.. Jones. Il
was there in October, 1S49, and was
there again in 1903, and Suffers
ranch and mill near the Sacramento
river looked in 1903 to me exactly as
they looked in 1849. The only change
that | noticed was that indicating the
approach of the suburbs of Sacramen-
to City to that historic spot 1t has al
ways seemed to me that one OF the
real heroes associated with the dis
covery of gold in California and the
making of that discovery known TO
the people of this generation as he
should be. Perhaps this is because he
gained other fame 15 years later. How
ever, / will tell you the story exact
ly as l had It, authoritatively, not
only from one, but from many persons
back In the old gold days.
"At the time of the outbreak of our
war with Mexico portion of the Amer
lean army was sent to California. A
little garrison was stationed at Monte
rey. and 1t was under the command OF
Colonel Mason
"One day there fioated into the lit
tie garrison rumors that gold had
been discovered near the Sacramento
river, and that 1t promised to be
rich find. Coloney Mason regarded
this as very important news, and felt
that the government at Washington
should receive this news at the earli-
est possible moment. He therefore got
together a few pack mules. He pro-
cured them with some difficulty. be-
cause pack mules at that time were
very valuable asset for the miners
Tim he called one of his young leu
tenants to him and said:
81 want you to go as speedily as
possible up the Sacramento valley to
place called Coloma and learn whether
these stories about the discovery OF
gold up there are correct. II you tnd
them true. return to Monterey as soon
as possible
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
DR.. Burchard Was Substituted for
Or. Thomas Armitage at Clergy
mems Reception and Uttered
the Famous Fatal Words.

Rev. Dr. Thomas Armitage was, in
his lifetime, recognized as the ablest
and most influential Baptist clergy
man in the United States. Although
he was an Englishman by birth, not
coming to the United States until he
was near his majority, nevertheless
there was no native-born American
who ever exceeded him in patriotic
ardor. nor was there any clergyman
who gave service of greater value to
the Union at the time of the Civil
war He was for years the pastor OF
the Fifth Avenue Baptist church In
New York, commonly known as John
D. Rockefeller's church, although dur
ing his pastorate Mr.. Rockefeller was
not a member of the congregation
DR.. Armitage was an intimate per-
sonal friend of the first American car
dinal, Archbishop McCloskey, and he
was at the time of the Civil war in
very intimate relations with Arch
bishop John Hughes. whom President
Lincoln sent to Europe as a special
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Famous Statesman Broke Down and
Sobbed While Delivering the Eu-
logy on His Friend, Thomas
Rusk OF Texas.

General Thomas L. Clingman, who
from 1S43 to 1858. with the exception
OF one term, represented North Caro-
lima in the lower house OF congress
and was a member OF the senate when
the Civil war began, resigning that
office to return to North Carolina and
become Confederate brigadier-gen-
eral. used frequently to revisit Wash
ington in the late seventies and early
eighties. He did not come upon any
political errand, for he eschewed pol
itics at the close of the Civil war. He
was an enthusiastic prophet with re-
spect to the mineral wealth OF his
state; the frs man, in fact. to make
this wealth known. II any one were
willing to chat with him he would sit
by the hour describing the treasures
of platinum and of precious stones.
even diamonds, which he was sure
were within the bowels OF the North
Caroline mountains. Notwithstanding
his snow-white beard and the wrinkles
which time had left on his face, he
seemed to be mentally as active as
ever, and there was no faltering in his
step.
"Of all the great statesmen of the
North that l have known" once said
General Clingman to me, "the one
always recall with the greatest salts
faction, is William H. Seward.
made his acquaintance before l en-
tered the senate, and that acquaint-
ance, in due time. ripened into some
thing like friendship. Did you know
that, in Stewards time, there was no
northern member of the senate who
was on more friendly terms with the
southern members of congress gener-
ally? And that reminds me of the
first and only time l saw Senator
Seward weep in public.
Seward became a member of the
senate in 1S49. Three years before
Texas had sent to the senate as its
first representative in that body Sam
Houston and Thomas j. Rusk, who
had stood second to Houston in the
war which had established the inde-
pendence of TexaA Between Rusk and
Seward there soon sprang up friend
ly relation that gradually ripened into
a real intimacy, and this relation was
a nine days wonder to many, for Sew
ard had then become recognized as
the leading ant-slavery Whig in the
senate, while Rusk represented
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Hurt Spawning. Not voyasinq.

Herodotus told of fishes bruising and
hurting their sides while swimming up
the Nile in spawn 1t is often stated
and nearly always believed that
salmon get hurt in many ways When
en- route to their spawning places. ~
central Idaho an examination of many
salmon shows that at the time the
salmon came to the spawning beds all
were in fine ffx-not a scratch or
bruise to be found. But in a few days
scratches and sores and bruises were
enough and plenty. Most of these in
juries were got from nuzzling and
bellying gravel about for spawn nests,
or else from fighting. which was fierce
and continuous. Soon after the sew
eral days OF spawning both bucks and
roes died invariably. infallibly.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
costs Money TO Live In Brazil.

You can find some tiptop cost OF
living in Bahia, Brazil. Southard P.
Warner. our consul there. says that,
with economy and no entertaining. a
small family OF four can make out
about this way: Rent. SIS; provisions.
$50; servant. $50; fuel for cooking,
$40; lighting. $40; water. So; laundry.
s25-or more than $500 a month for
just those items. And we all know
how the incidentals make the real to-
tai when the first-of-the-month bills
come in.-New York Press.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Lost Invitation Beat Blaine

plenipotentiary, representing the pres
ident, in the winter of 1862. Or.
Armitage was, therefore, very widely
recognized by American Roman Cath
olics as one of the clergymen of the
Protestant denominations who, like
Henry Ward Beecher, maintained in
innate personal and social relations
with the leading prelates of the
Church of Rome in America.
had heard that but for what SEEM
ed to be a slight accident or misun-
derstanding DR.. Armitage, instead of
Rev Dr. Burchard, would have spoken
for 500 clergymen at the reception
given to James G. Blaine in Now York
city near the close of the presidential
campaign in 1854 the reception at
which Dr. Burchard spoke the words
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" >"
which caused Mr.. Blaine to lose the
presidential election. l met DR.. Armi-
tage a year of two before his death,
which occurred in 1896, and asked
him If the reports which l had heard
were accurate.
Yes" he replied THAT strange
and adverse fate which prevented
Blaine-as a like destiny had pre-
vented Henry Clay-from becoming
president was responsible for the ac-
cident which brought about my non
appearance as spokesman for the
clergymen at the reception for Mr..
Blaine
This reception, as you may remem-
Der, was a suddenly arranged affair.
1t was the understanding of those
who planned it that l was to be in
vited to speak before the candidate.
1t SO happened that l was in Philadel-
phia at the time, attending a great
meeting of Baptists called especially
to commemorate the services of Rev.
DR.. Peddie. Therefore when Stephen
B. Elkins. who had arranged for the
reception, sent the invitation to me to
act as spokesman 1t did not reach me.
Haste was necessary, SO 1t was deter
mined to call upon Rev. DR.. Burchard,
who was good man and an earnest
man, but curiously lacking in tact
When | read the dispatch from
New York to the effect that the
clergymen were to attend the Blaine
reception and that DR.. Burchard was
to speak to them, l was instantly
dominated by the conviction that
ought to be in New York to meet DR..
Burchard and find out what he was
going to say. / boarded the earliest
possible train for New York and upon
my arrival was taken by cab to the
Fifth Avenue hotel. l was too late.
The reception was almost over.
But even then. had l been told
what DR.. Burchard had said, | should
have challenged him on the spot
should have made an effort to clear
the atmosphere Immediately, and it
would have been possible for me to
do SO because the.great leaders of the
Roman Catholic church in the United
States knew of the warm personal re-
lations which existed between Car
dinal McCloskey. Archbishop Hughes
and myself.
Unfortunately, 1 did not learn
what DR.. Burchard had said until II
was too late to repair the damage.
AS you know full well, his expression
was instantly caught up and pub
lished widely, and l knew from that
moment that Mr.. Blaine was doomed"
Copyright 1911. by E. ]. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.D
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Always Staunch
l. And True

The Denver Republican has al
ways avoided the fallacies and
knaveries of yellow journalism,
and its steadily increasing Circula-
ton proves conclusively that its
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without exaggeration or misrepre-
sentation, standing fast for the
Right, is heartily approved with
growing force by the intelligent
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Information, instruction and en-
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was informed that personal and very
loyal friend for whom | had secured
appointment in one of the government
departments was in danger OF re-
moval. ! was very anxious that he
should be retained. One day / men
toned my apprehension to Senator
RusK and told him why | was 80
anxious tnat this friend should be
retained in the department He had
been of great service to me in New
York politics. and at considerable per-
sonal sacrifice. I knew. also. that II
he we're removed from this place he
would be in actual want.
"'Senator Rusk begged me to re-
lieve my mind of all apprehension. II
shall make the retention of this friend
of yours the test of my loyalty to
President Pierce's administration" he
said He was as good as his word.
and now you understand why | felt
so keenly the passing OF Thomas
Rusk
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The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
A siah for the Plumber.

Blessings brighten as they take
their flight" said the ready-made phil
osopher.
Yes" replied Mr.. Growcher. I'D
give a good deal to go home now and
have them tell me that the water
pipes are frozen"
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
An Execution.

There is one trade, at least, where
a freeze-out means work for the men
What might that be?"
Cutting ice."
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-14
Redfield College Gets
Endowment Money

Redfield-The local campaign for
an endowment and building fund for
the greater Reedfield college has cul-
minated with total subscription of
$5S,00O by the citizens of Redfield and
Sphinx county. This is a greater a.
mount than has ever been subscribed
by any other South Dakota city. Red
field has population of 1850, and in
proportion to population this subscrip-
ton has never been equaled in the
United States This campaign is a
part of general campaign to provide
an endowment of $3.50, 900 and build
ing fund Of 100000 OF this amount
$4,000 was procured several years
ago. James ]. Hill has promised
$4,000 and the association of German
Congregational churches a like sum.
Andrew Carnegie has promised s15,-
900 for the building fund, and the
Northwestern Railway company has
donated land for new buildings and
campus valued at $4,000.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-14
Mitchell's Thirteenth
Corn Belt Exposition

Mitchell's Thirteenth Annual Corn
Belt Exposition this year is scheduled
for the week commencing September
25th and closing September30th. The
Corn Palace which is the prominent
feature of this Exposition is the only
one of its kind in the world, and SER
yes as a nationwide advertisement
of the states resources. There are
no finer agricultural exhibits to be
found anywhere. The beautiful de-
signs displayed in the decorations
of the building attract the attention
CT all classes from far and near. No
one who has ever had the privilege of
viewing a freshly decorated Corn
Palace, can go away without the i'm
preston that he has seen a real art
exhibit, a picture in natures own
colors. s.
Aside from the decorations, there
is given the most wholesome kind
of entertainment. Those who are
looking for amusement and relaxation
from their daily cares, will find in The
program presented something that
will fully satisfy and which they will
not forget for many day.
Mitchell prides herself upon. the
continued success of these expositions,
and just as long as the Corn Palace is
maintained as Mitchell institution
Just so long can the visitor be as
sured of getting his moneys worth.
and Of a greater Corn Palace each re-
curing year. 2
Work is already under way on the
decorations for the 1911 Corn Palace.
The arrangement Of the different col
CTS OF corn in the makeup of the
designs will be something entirely dit.
ferent from what has been presented
in years past.
The people Of Mitchell have a right
to ask the cooperation of the citizens
OF the state for their Corn Belt Expo-
sition, for, while it is supported in its
entirety by the business men Of that
city. there are few who are not viii.
ing to admit that it Is the strongest
argument attempted in support of our
claims tnat South Dakota Is getting
into the front ranks as corn produc-
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