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The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat re-
CARDS as foolish the talk, now rife
among Oklahoma negroes, about emf
grating to Liberia. Race troubles
are taking place in some parts of Okla
homa," it says, "as they have taken
place in many other states, some OF
of them in the north. But the rem
edy is not deportation, voluntary or
forcible. The black man is an Ameri-
can. His forefathers were brought
here without their consent, and this
is their country now, just as 1t is the
country of the white men who are
here" 1t is refreshing and reassur-
ing to read from such a source that
this is the negro's country. That
other sentiment, this is the white
mans country" has been swelling in
volume and popularity of late, how
ever we always had a sneaking opin-
ion that 1t belonged to the men who
can use the opportunities offered I'm
the strenuous art of getting the most
out of life. The Globe-Democrat
thinks the negro problem, once grave,
is becoming less and less serious
partly by reason of the dispersion OF
negroes throughout the north and
west and because of decrease in ne
gro population relatively to that OF
the whites. The negroes suffer from
q higher death rate than do the
whites, and there are no black immi-
grants. Speaking of the strong race
prejudice north as well as south, as
evidenced by lynchings and burnings
in one section as in the other, our
contemporary says:
yet the turning point must come
soon. Taking the country as a whole
the turning point has already come
The relations between the races, If
we take the country in general. are
much less hostile than they were
shortly after the Civil war. Fewer
massacres take place in the south
now than then. Public sentiment is
beginning to reach out after lynchers. /.
Moreover the south realizes that it
needs the negroes in its industrial |
scheme. For good or Ill the Amert- /
can negro's place is in America, and |
probably as the years pass his lot |
here will become less unpleasant than |
it has been hitherto"
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21

We noted some of our prominent
farmers, said to be worth between
two and five thousand apiece, steal
ing In the back of the Jim crow res
taurants and eating houses operated
by people who did not care for their
trade, where he had to eat in the
kitchen among greasy cans, slop and
all manner of refuse. Next door was
nicely equipped colOred eating
house. which gave first-class accom-
mediation for their color only. They
practice non-support, not only in this
business, but in most every available
business operated by colored men.
The grocery store. the supply store,
etc. But there is one good thing that
some of the men of the other race
are gradually driving him back to
his people The white barber would
not dare shave him or cut his hair.
He has quit doctoring him and pull
ing his teeth. He has refused to
bury him, and some of the grocery
men have refused to accept his trade.
Are you waiting on the white man
to drive you to your race? "a good
idea, it isl Can you not see that
your people need your support? The
time is at hand that your people need
your help. For instance, take our
farming element who spend thousands
of dollars yearly in supplying their
wants, and suppose they would spend
this money with their own colored
merchants, then we would be finan-
cialy strong to help or support any
movement of benefit to the race.
Don't wait to be driven to the line,
but be men and line up for a stronger
race by giving your own people your
support. - Palestine (Tex) Plain
dealer
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21

A well-known revivalist whose work
has been principally among the ne
groes of a certain section of the south
remembers one service conducted by
him that was not entirely successful.
He had had very poor attendance.
and spent much time in questioning
the darkies as to their reason for not
attending.
"Why were you not at our revival?"
he asked one old man, whom he en-
countered on the road.
"Oh, l dunno" said the backward
one.
Don't you ever pray?" demanded
the preacher The old man shook his
head. NO" said he; 81 carries a
rabbits foot"
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21

Some preachers seem to think that
they were predestined from all eter-
nifty to indulge in sfng-song preach
ing, and that a sermon cannot reach
the hearts of their hearers except
through this method. In this way the
people have been led to ignore sense
for sound. 1t matters dttle now
whether a preacher talks sense to his
audience since he has the ability to
moan as his anxious hearers
gratefully call it,
II seems never to enter into the
back side of his head that he is max
ing the weak weaker, and that his
followers are giving themselves over
to the belief that it is all in sound.
1t is painful to know how easily most
of our people are carried away by
mere sound. The sermons which we
are forced sometimes to listen to
have made the impression upon us
that the condition of our people in
some cases is hopeless. What are we
to hope for when our best men-our
young men who ought to be strong"
because they are fresh from the col
leges and seminaries and placed un-
der the gospel yoke, SO trained as to
rightly" divide ''the word Of
truth"-will persist in this kind of
sing-song preaching? They ought not
to do 1t unless they can imagine the
Lord Jesus and his apostles resort
ing to that kind of thing; and If they
can SO imagine then we pity their
imagination.
The white preachers of the old day
preached in this style, but their later
preachers rose above It, and now 1t
cannot be heard anywhere among the
people of the white race. Why can
not negro preachers take the same
consideration and put down this
"whang-doodling
"Ephraim is Joined to his idols" !"
but we are determined not to "let him
alone" until we can put in motion
some influence that will prove a STUN
bling block to this preaching with
sound without sense. - Southern
Ploughman.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21
AFRO-AMER|CAN CCLL|NCS

When the roll is called on the final
day of accounting with mankind,
those who have served their Master
through aiding his less fortunate chill
dren will probably occupy high
place, says n writer in Golfers Week
ly. And those who know old Nancy
Hill of Jackson, Miss, firmly believe
that she will sit in a reserved seat
on that day. Since 1875 this old ne
gro woman has absolutely unaided
and In the face of defeats, obstacles
and dlsappointments enough to have
crushed any one but a person sustain
ed by a divine faith, raised to man
hood and womanhood 10S orphan
waifs-white and black! She has n
queer, hotchpotch collection of shan
ties, built by herself and some of the
boys she has raised, adding a room
at a time as her family grew. She
used scrap plank, bits of goods boxes,
old corrugated iron, tin cans with the
solder melted out and fiattened. The
rooms are crowded close together
down back of the power plant at
Jackson, on land owned by railroad,
and she is allowed to retain 1t at
purely nominal rent Shading the
house. or houses, are two immense
weeping willow trees. With her own
hands she planted, in 1872, the switch
es from which they grew.
Don't the negroes help you any?"
asked the reporter. You are helping
the race by taking these little waits
and making good citizens of them"
Nav, sub, niggers is got no use fer
me, 'cep' to push some po' Ill chile
off on me dey doan' want. | ain
fancy ernuff fer niggers; hits dis yer
fashy business dat catches 'em. l
raises desc yere chillens ter wuck an
be homes an 'spectful ter dey betters,
an ter be some count. Now, If |
raised 'em ter sit eroun' wild red
dresses on an pink ribbins in dey
hair, an do muffin, maybe some er
desc hyar niger preachers d come
Ground an have er kline wud fer me
but no money. Nav, l doan' 'spect
no help, an speshly frum my color
I'll fight dis out twell | die, an do
de bes' l kin, an de good Lord won
eXpec' no more of me dan | kin do.
wen I'm doin' mer level bes, 'cordin'
ter whut is an has, will he?'
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21

Our people spend as much or more
money in riding around over the rail-
roads than any people in this coun-
try. Much of this spending is un-
necessary. They lope across the
country to some big convention where
they have no voice and are not need
ed. The big church conventions are
the ones attended most. The preach.
ers or proposed representatives work
and saw" on their struggling mem
bers until they receive bountiful pile
from them to bear their expenses,
and live in ease on their distant jour
ney and they don't do a "nickle's"
worth of good for the struggling
slaves he left behind. Oh, men be
considerate, be humane and let your
under man live. Because he was not
born or drifted in your position do
not trample him, let him live If he
must be your tool deal moderately
with him and let him have show
ing.-Palestine Plaindealer
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21

Call off there. and stop your knock
ing. Learn the law of your fraternity
and be governed by it. Learn the law
of your church and keep the law.
Don't insist on being the great l AM
In everything and everywhere; re-
member the world got on first rate be-
fore you came and has some chance of
running a day or two after you are
sone.-Baltimore Afro-American
The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-21

The negroes of Nashville and Ten
nessee. we are proud to say, are get
ting out of the habit OF allowing some
one to pay their poll tax. In the
coming city election that will be held
on the 18th of October, every negro
man in Nashville ought to vote, and
vote intelligently. He should not ask
anybody to enable him to be a voter.
but he should go down in his pocket
and take his money and buy the privi-
lege for himself. then he can exercise
It as to his best judgment.-Nashville
Globe.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
How to Reduce High Prices.

~ --LE
Des Moines, Iowa, July 26.-How
to reduce the high cost of living was
solved by over three thousand con-
sumers who today established here a
permanent market place.
Following a campaign of several
weeks, the city officials turned the
city hall lawn over to the vegetable
and farm produce vendors; Nearly q
half hundred hucksters were hned up
on the plot. The rush of consumers
began at 6 o'clock. Two hours later
the hucksters had sold out.
New potatoes were bought for 20
cents a peck, or $1.75 a busheL,
where foremrly the price had been
SO to 81 per bushel. Apples which
had been selling at rs cents a peck
were sold for 10 and IL cents. Gu
cumbers found ready buyers at three
for ten cents, against the price OF
10 cents each, which had been pre-
vailing. For nearly four hours the
people, men, women and children
swarmed in from every direction n
jammed the street in front of the
city hall in an effort to get to the
wagons The services of a squad
of police we're necessary during the
rush, although the crowd was or
Derby.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
Sells Brain for $4,000.

Athens, Ca, August Miss Gel
este Parrish, who has for years been
head of the department of pedagogy
at the state normal school, dlrect9t
of the MuscoEee elementary prac,
school, and much sought writer Tor
the educational and psychological
journals, has sold her own brain to
a northern institution of medical re-
search for purposes of examination
and analysis after her death.
Miss Parrish has been noted for her
remarkable powers of mind and
scientists have remarked also upon
the unusual size of her brain. Miss
! Parrish sold her brain to the medica,
| and scientific institution, it is said, for
SAC, 600.
Miss Mary Mashburn, a teacher in
the Hall county school; this summer
in charge of the Mountain View school
in that county, heard Miss Parrish
tell of the trade some time ago and
this week was reached by the news
paper correspondent and by phone re-
lterated the story and supplemented
her substantiation of her statements
by further informing the newspaper
men that Miss Parrish has been us.
Ing part Oh Lie AOAOJ WAANh 0AO ANA
! already received and given her con
tract for, in the education Of thi
adopted children of her brother WHIT
died some time ago and left two child
rem orphans.
So remarkable have the psycholo
gical powers of this women been re
cognized that the institutions hav'
sought to contract with her for he
brain. Her memory is developed t
a degree not possessed by n in
million. She can read q chapter O
ordinary length from a volume Sin
has never seen and after the one care
: full reading can repeat the chapte
By memory.
| Miss Parrish is a prominent woma
! in the state and national councils @
the Mothers congresses. She ha
i had in mind also a model s9ttiemer
for some time and planned with w!
cliffe Rose, of Atlanta, a communit
for young women where the daugf
ters of the rich could be trained
: ives of ra.drai scivice with rha caI
ditions c. the poor 50 far as simDi
city is concerned. She says that til
young women of the wealthy famil1e
will not learn how to live till som
u such manner of training is afforde
them.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10

BuncOmbe FarIueP Raises a Pair
weighing 500 Pounds Which Sell
for $250-Blue Ridge Berkshire,
Farm EndeaVors to Stimulate the
Industry.
Asheville, Aug. 1.-Two Berkshire.
pigs, less than II months old,
brought into Asheville today from
the Blue Ridge Berkshire farm of
Mr.. VIM. +. Cooke, in Reems Creek
.ownship, attracted no little atten-
ton. The pigs were brought here
FOR shipment to New York State.
The pair weighed approximately
800 pounds and were sold for $3.50.
Mr.. Cooke has n of the most mo-
dern farms in the South and is doing
much to improve the breed of hogs
in this county and section. His
manager is J. B. Morgan, an exper-
fenced nan in ~hog-raising and seve-
al hunG.ed pigs are raised annually
on the farm. In an effort to further
Increase and encourage swine-rai-
sing in Buncombe the Blue Ridge
Berkshire farm has made an offer to
farmers to take a pair of pigs and
raise them under certain conditions
the pigs weighing the most at II
months old to win a cash prize OF
5 25; second prize $15 and third
prize $40. Two thoroughbred lBerk-
shire pigs are to be let out to re-
sponsible farmers to raise and to
compete for the prizes. The farm
reserves the right to reject any ap-
2l~ications,, however. The pigs are
to be placed en- the scales in Ashe-.
vile at IL months old and the hea-
West pigs will win a prize of 20, the
second heaviest SIS and the third
$40. Next year the management OF
the farm expects to make the first
prize $50. Under the conditions of
the contest the farm is to receive
n cf the pigs back and the raiser
to retain the other.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
SIXTY-EFGE BOYS MISSING
"WIy.D WEST" LURE
CARRIED in { 10Y Suits, Armed With
Rev IS Leave Home.

Chicago =. T. During the last
two wea2s Jhoagn boys have dis
appeared fro their homes, accord
ing to tie : ords of the missing"
department a the detective bureau.
Parents O: 2 majority of the num-
Der b2ame two diseases prevalent
amclg youngsters throughout the
city. These are termed "wildwesitis"
and "'armytheria."
The parents have told the police
that in both diseases the symptoms
are the same. They are character
lied by a fondness for trying to throw
a clotheslines over the neck of the
family cat, a liking for revolvers and
sombreros and a fascination for tom
ahawing" the garbage cans in the
neighborhood.
With a large number of the miss
ing boys it has resulted in their
leaving home to "be a cowboy" or a
central" It is this part which is
causing the parents sleepless nights
of worry while awaiting some mes
sage from their loved ones.
Out of the 68 only two are report
ed as having been found and re
turned to their homes. 1t is proba-
able, however, that a number have
returned and that the police have not
received notification.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
Prof. Wins Goes to south Carolina.

-
The many warm friends Of Prof
and Mrs. WINS will be both glad and
sorry to hear Of Prof. WINS appoint
ment as Superintendent of public
schools 1t Carney, S. G.
Prof. WINS has, during the past ten
years. been superintendent Of the
Hendersonville City Schools which, by
unusual ability and Conscientious
work, he has raised from a poorly
equipped school of no rank to a first
class graded and high school-the pn-
pills ranking with the first in the state.
We congratulate the people of Gaff-
ney upon the acquisition of two snon
cultured and efficient workcrs-for
Mrs. WINS is a woman of charming
nersonalitv and possessed OF high
musical ability-making her indeed
an acquisition to any community.
p.r less to be irreparable
and the gain to Gaffney, both educa-
| tionally and socially, beyond words
The change is, for Prof. and Mrs
| WINS. an advantageous one-for CAN
rey is a progressive town in uppe'
: South Carolina, having three vel
equipped schools, a corps of abou
twenty-five teachers and some eigh
hundred pupils.
Our best wishes for Prof. and Mrs
WINS are that the successes Of It
Taet nay b rnrecto@. and they gai'
as many warm friends in their nev
fnI9 C !ahc- as they HaTe IN 9c2d2r
sonville. :
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10


The Southern station was the seems
of q freight wreck Of rather snalj
proportions last Wednesday. There
were several freight cars on the TRACK
near the station and in some way :
Of them got loose and started on z
mad career down the track. Forum
ately, before they had gone very far
they were stopped. but pot until s2inf
little damake had been done. One OF
the cars was derailed and another
~teleseoped.
The wreck created a great deal OF
excitement for quite awhile and spec
ulation was rife as tc the amount CT
damage done. All of the debris has
not yet been cleared away but a few
hours work will bring order out OF
chaos and Agent Bailey, along witt
his co-workers, can again pursue the
even tenor of their way
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
WIFE OF PRISONER rs
A S10,OOO,OOO HEIRESS.
Man Convicted in Russia Of killing
victims With Cholera Germs.

New York, Aug. 2.-The Russian
secret notice are securing America
in search of the Countess o'Brien de
Lacy. wife of the Russian nobleman
who was sentenced to a Siberian
nrison for life at the conclusion OF
the most remarkable trial in the his
tory of the Russian. Empire. Inc
wife of the convict prisoner has fal-
len heir to SO, 100000 left by her
aunt. Nine. LIE Lazard, who died re-
Gently in Paris, and, who for some
unaccountable reason, failed TO
hange her will subsequent to the
horrifying revelations of b De-
Lacy trial.
The convicted count who planned,
wholesale murder for a fortune pal
try by comparison with the great
wealth Of Nine. De Lazzard, is the
sole heir OF his wife under the Rus
sian law, and in case of her death
will have the distinction of being the
richest life prisoner in the world.
Immediately after Count DeLacy
was sentenced to penal serv1tude IN
Siberia for life his wife was report
On TO have lost her reason. q
had been forbidden to return 70 Cne
home Of her father. General Botur-
lin whose death her husband sought
SO that she could inherit n gene
rails millions.
DaIacy's fellow-conspirator, Dr.
Pantchenko, confessed that he nao
brought about the death of h coun-
Tess brother Count Vassilli Boturlln'
nv inoculating him with cholera a
feria. The life of Nine. De Lamart
Also was attempted, and it was
blamed to remove all of the our
tess relatives so that there woul1
be n3 contest Of the will, leaving al
of the De Lazari millions 10 ing
Countess De Lacy.
The old general persisted in the
belief that his daughter had assisted
in the plot, though she was not 9l-
rectly accused at the trial. After the
conviction her father spurned ner'
Practically penniless, disoWned by
har formc~ intimate friends, the
beautifrl ! ! talented young woman
was ted to have gone out CT ner
mind.
Her father ordered an inquiry INTO
her sanity and made provision lot
her removal to a private sanltorlum
hut when his agents began a search
for her they were unable tc nhu
any trace of her.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
W. J. BRYAN is DENOUNCED BIZ
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER.
Underwood Declares, in Speech in
House, That Charge That He
Blocked Efforts to Revise Iron and
StenI Schedule is False.

Underwood Declares, in Speech In
HOuse. That Charge That He
Blocked Efforts to Revise Iron and
Steel Schedule is False.
Washington, Aug. 2.-Democratlc
Leader Oscar Underwood this after
noon denounced as absolutely false
William Jennings Bryan's charge
that he blocked the efforts OF Speak
er Clark and others to revise the1 iron
and steel schedules.
The democratic leader, mid up
roarous democratic applause, spoke
in the house in defence CT his posi-
ton and that of the democratic
Mr.. Underwood had read the pub
lished Bryan statement, and speak
ing very deliberately he said-Mr,
Speaker: The statements contained
in that paper are absolutely false. Ii
the reflections the article contains
rests on myself, / would not take the
time of this house to anSwer them
but these statements reflect not ONLY
upon myself but upon democracy II
control On this side CT the capitol anC
as leader on this floor 1 would b'
untrue to my fellow democrats here
md to myself if l did not reply tt
his attack"
Underwood said the tariff on irol
md steel needed further revision an
would get it; that when the way
and means committee organized h
told the committee that as everythin
he had was invested in the iron in
dustry it would relieve him of EN-
barrassment if it undertook the iro
and steel revision first. THAT inter
view" continued Underwood, REFER
ing to Bryan, Charges that here is
difference betveen the speaker of thi
house and Il self as to legislation i
this house. 7het statement is ais
absolutelv f Sc. We have been tt
.gether we { e-nov together, and
predict that We will be together t
the end"
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
Ten Miles of Roads.

Six horses and a modern road me-
chine have greatly improved the ten
miles of beautiful drives in Laurel
Park. A force of men have been
busy, with the horses and machine,
for some time past improving the
drives, which are now in superb con
dition.
Of the ten miles of roads in Laurel
Park. five miles are excellent for mo-
tor cars-an increasing number Of
which ma be seen every day there
now. AS is generally known, there
drives are densely shaded by heavy
growth of virgin woods, penetrate
thickets of laurel and rhododendron
cross many streams and a-e altogeth-
er most delightful
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
Coffee Cream Cake.

One and one-half cups sugar, two
Of -four, two eggs, 2 IL teaspoonfuls
baking powder, pinch of salt, about
threazfourtbs of a teaspoonful lemon
one-fourth cup butter n tablespoon
ful cocoanut. Melt butter, break in
eggs without beating, pour in one-
third Gun of milk half cup cold coffee;
make in three layers.
Cream for flling-One pint milk in
double boiler. one-half cup of -four,
two eggs beaten, salt essence, one
cup sugar; boil ingredients.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-08-10
S0MANIA Inn.

Mr.. Roger Cough, Mr.. Roy Hart, Mr..
S. w. Hart, Boonsville, Ind; Mr.. and
Mrs. Rice, Denmark, S. c.; Mr.. and
Brown, Spartanburg, s. c.;
Misses Elenor and Sarah Brown, Spar
tanburg, S.. c.; Miss Blakeley Miss
Boyle, Miss Guste. New Orleans; Mrs.
D. M. Burroughs, Lillian and Donald
Burroughs, Conway, S. C.; Mr.. Hodges,
Brownsville, S. c.; Mr.. and Mrs. ChaG.
R. Scruggs, Spartanburg, S. c.; Mr..
and Mrs. Ormsby, Augusta. Ca; Mr.
w. S. Foxworth, Marion, S. c.; Mrs.
Gale Cough, Lawrensville, Ill; Miss
Elizabeth Demsey, Miss Dorothy Doer,
Miss E. F. Kinchley, Augusta, Ga; Mr.,
Joseph Kinchley. Augusta, Ga.