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The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04
A $4,000 COLORED BRIDE

Aubrey, Tex-In the country near
this place there lived a dainty little
brown skinned maiden who dreamed
of a lover constant and true. Per-
haps her dreams even included a lover
of great wealth So when it was learn
ed that the maiden was really to wed
millionaire her relatives and friends
were beside themselves with joy, and
even her jealous friends, who envied
her good luck, wished her a successful
matrimonial voyage though a stipula-
tion in her marriage agreement stated
that she and her husband were not to
live together.
Mysterious? 1t happened this way.
A very smooth young man who knew
that maidens read the colored papers
advertised for a wife, stating that she
must have $1,000 in her own right,
and the lucky girl was to be given $780,
900 more. The young man was sup
posed to be the heir to great fortune
left him on condition that he marry
by certain date, and that the girl
have $1,000 Miss Lula Lougrand, who
lives near here, had the $1,000 and
lOO. Drought lue
two moneyed young people together
and arrangements made for the we'd
ding. Relatives of the girl hired a law
yer, who supposed he had made a care
full investigation and reported every
thing as o. X. McFall, as the young
man was named, signed papers agree
ing to give the girl the $4,000 upon
their marriage and the ceremony was
performed and a few days later the
couple left for Muskogee, Okla.
Now the girl is back and to date
has failed to collect her $4,000, and
everybody asks everybody else why
McFall does not send the money to
his bride. McFall was supposed to
have diamond mine and property
unlimited. People even sympathized
with him because of the conditions of
the will that forced him to wed a
girl he knew not while his heart was
held by another fair maiden. If Nc
Fall was a fake, pure and simple, at
least he was live one, and knew that
advertising paid.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

What has long been called the race
question in the south is at last be-
ginning to be approached In a temper
fairly free from partisan bias. 1t has
been a period of throes through which
the colored race has passed. but his
tory teaches that such have attended
on every people who have had to strug-
gle from lower to higher position.
Civilization has advanced only where
man has had to struggle for existence.
and where the struggle has been the
most intense, the advance has been
the most rapid. The African race in
America has been no exception to this
rule.
While there are occasions and rea-
sons for discomfort among the negro
peoole of the country, because of the
injustice and cruelty to which they are
subjects, l want to issue a note of
cheer to my brethren In black, as a
lifelong friend belonging to the white
race, that there is now reason for
cheer and hopefulness. The clouds
are certainly breaking, and the light
is beginning to stream through.
would not mislead any with false
hope, nor do say that there will not
yet be friction and trouble, but l am
in position to say that the friends OF
the colored man are multiplying, as
am in position to know, and if they
could see the situation as l do. they
would take fresh cheer and press with
vigor on.
The general bearing and behavior
of the colored race through the tur-
moil of all the years has been, for the
most part most commendable, and
still is. This is helping to dissolve
the difficulty and lend practical aid
to every white friend enlisted in the
work for the good of the colored peo-
pie in which work l have been en-
gagged for three years. | am in posi-
tion to know that there is light ahead
We are going to solve this question
and bring joy and light to people in
an era of a second emancipation
Birmingham (Ala.) National Review.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

Our people cannot be too liberal in
race newspapers and magazines. A
prominent educator in Georgia ex-
pressed the view of ye editor that
in his opinion we must in the future
rely largely on our own periodicals to
get our appeals, statements, and con-
tentions before the world.
Newspapers and magazines of the
proper type are educational institu-
tions as much as are colleges and uni
versities. If we contribute to the
help of scohols, why not to aid in the
issuance of educative periodicals? II
money is not given outright to help
in the maintenance of a race publica-
ton, business can be secured for 1t
through the influence of it's friends.
and cash subscriptions can be volun-
tarily solicited therefor and sent in
promptly to the office of publication.
Helping race paper does not mean
helping an individual to wealth, for
colored newspaper on the whole are
earning barely enough with which to
keep going, and not enough to i'm
prove and enlarge as they should.
Pride of race and missionary spir-
it must play some part in contributing
to the support of the colored press.
Workers are needed. Who will get
in the front ranks and help the col
ored publications fight to win?-South-
ern Life Magazine.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04
NEGROES OUGHT TO DRIVE
PLoWS, NOT AUTOS, SAYS
JUDGE.

Macon. Calf Negroes will stick
to their plows instead of learning to
operate autos, they and the south will
be better off" declared Judge w. H
FELTON, of the Bibb superior court in re-
fusing to dismiss a warrant against
George Mcdonald, negro chauffeur.
who was charged with having used
his employers machine without per-
mission. ''It depreciates the general
efficiency of the negro race for some
Of them to be employed as clauffeurs," :"
added the judge.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

In his book Race Ideals" reviewed
in last months issue of this magazine,
ex-Congressman George w. Murray
states that way must be, found to
teach Afro-American youth to be self
respecting and proud of their racial
connections, and also to turn their at
tentions toward commercial pursuits,
for such provisions are not made in
the white mans educational system
which the black man is pursuing.
1T is exactly this need that makes
the Negro school teacher and college
professor an indispensable asset in
training our young. There being pro-
vided no direct textbook instruction
to counteract the pernicious teachings
of nearly three centuries in slavery,
unwritten instructions for this pur-
pose must be given orally to the young
by members of their own race, hold
ing positions in their schools as teach
ers and college professors. Coupled
with like instruction from the pulpit
and press, our people can be brought
gradually to an awakening along these
vital lines. 1t can hardly be expected
that provision will be made for a
great while yet in our courses Of
study for training along the lines
iMy. Murray shows up to be SO sadly
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04
AN AWKWARD BREAK.

you've made mistake in your pa
per-" said the indignant man, enter
ing the editorial sanctum II was
one OF the competitors at the athletic
match yesterday, and you have called
me the weil-known lightweight cham
pion."
We'll, aren't you?" said the editor.
mo, I'm nothing OF the kind, and
it's confoundedly awkward, because
you see I'm coal merchant"
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

Miss Mary Hannah Johnson, city H.
brarian of Nashville, Tenn, in making
her annual report, emphasizes among
other things the need OF library for
negroes. The Nashville Globe says:
THE endorsement of the plan by Miss
Johnson, who is engaged in the work,
and who is in a position to know bet
ter than any one else the good that
libraries do, is worth more than that
of any one else ct this particular
time"
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

While making our rounds in differ
ent parts of the country, we some
times come across the question. why
is it that not few of our men after
running a business of some kind for
ten, fifteen. and even for twenty-five
years, all at once quit, although to an
outsider they seemingly are succeed
ing fairly well?"
Our answer usually has been that.
while we are not advised as to any
definite cause for the action of these
persons in every such instance. yet,
according to an old saying, Every
man knows his own business best
consequently. the intermission is
likely brought about by such knowl-
edge
However, We sometimes surmise
that the most of these "quitters." If
you please, become discouraged; and
30 decide "to throw up the sponge"
and not try any more.
Such persons, as we'll as others,
should bear in mind that life's try.
Success depends upon continual try
ing. One or two failures or even
more, need not prove disastrous, pro-
vided one is willing to try and try
again.
How enthusiastically we enter upon
a new taskl But when it begins to go
hard, the blaze dies down
In many cases, we did not antici-
pate these obstacles and discourage
ments. We run up against strange
feeling of inactivity of Indifference
within ourselves. So we say, Lets
quit this job, or at least stop for a
while, and in the meantime try some
thing that goes little easier
Don't be a gutter" That's not
the way famous artists, musicians,
poets, inventors, discoverers and cap
tains Of industry behaved, when they
were facing what seemed an impass-
able wall.
Had they turned aside when the
road was hard. we should never have
had the paintings, and statuary, the
masterpieces of prose and poetry, the
great achievements in the material
realm and in the domain of commerce
and finance, which have Injured to the
advantage of all mankind, and of
which we avail ourselves today
We too often forget that these sue
cesses are the fruit of some ones pa
tient and persevering industry.
We have plenty of instances of men
now successful in business, who in
former years failed in the commercial
sense of the term, but who were too
plucky to give up the fight.
Trying again, they climb high upon
the ladder of success.
Keep on trying.-Negro Business
League Journal.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04
AFRO-AMER|CAN CU[L|NCS

needed. But Negro teachers and col
lege professors can and do lecture the
youth under their tutelage on these
particular matters with a degree of
effect white teachers can never hope
to attain unto.-Southern Life Maga-
zine.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

BY the census of 1910 the total ne
gro population is placed at 9,S2s,294.
or 1917 per cent of the total population
of all races of 91,972,266. Among ne
groes there were 55,57S more females
than males, or 9S9 males for every
100 females. In 1900 the proportion
was 9S.6 males to every 100 females.
This disparity of males is significant,
and should be investigated.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

One of the philosophers of the
Philadelphia Tribune, Mr.. Just Gone,
talking about money, about which we
all talk great deal and of which
most of us have very little, says:
Money is power. My! what a
wealth of meaning there is in those
few words. thoughtfully studied
Money is power If our folks had
money! mean some more money
they would operate large factories.
open large business places, publish
larger papers, operate big banks and
command such high respect that they
would know for a fact that money is
power. AS a class, we handle lots Of
money. but we don't know how to
make the money we get hold of make
more money"
But the race is learning how to do
so. We must not overlook that fact
but give all the encouragement pos
sible to those who are beginning to
buy and sell and to put the money in
banks of their own, and to read their
own newspapers and advertise in
them the things they have to sell or
want to buy. Here and there we
have a buggy, an axle-factory a cot
ton seed oil and a textile mill, and
the banks and insurance companies
owned by us are growing in number
and strength every year.
Money is power. But money does
not make men; men make money
The Negro people everywhere are
learning this fact and trying to make
good, and should be encouraged with
our trade as well as our talk.-New
York Age.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

There is more talk of negro daily
newspaper to be started at some
strategic point in the upper south. Our
advice would be to run a big 16-page
weekly successfully, change within a
year or two to a semi-weekly and
make a success; later change to a
tri-weekly and make that go; then
swing into a daily and it OUGHT TO
co.
AS further help in establishing ne
gro dailies, get young colored men en-
ployed by white dailies as reporters
of negro happenings, so they can learn
from the whites the intricacies of con-
Quoting successful dailies. Later they
may do service on daily papers for
their own people.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

Atlanta Baptist college has raised in
cash $4,000 from colored friends of
that institution after canvass of IS
months. Gradually our people are
rallying to the aid of those colleges
where negro manhood is being fos-
tered and encouraged and where me-
gro worth is frankly recognized.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

George W. Smith, born a slave in
Tennessee seventy-five years ago. now
deceased, has left property worth
$4,000, according to his will filed for
probate in Champaign, Ill.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

Friends of the Liberian republic are
looking forward to a widened sphere
for that country. Along with Amer
lean money to help straighten out her
financial tangles, and a receiver-gen-
eral for customs collections who is an
American, the further substantial in
terest of the United States is shown
in the appointment of Major Charles
Young, an Afro-A American, as military
attache at the American legation. The
major, with three able young college
graduates from the states as military
assistants, will organize a Liberian
constabulary. The efforts of Bishops
Scott and Hartzell and other friends
of the country have borne fruits in
Liberals behalf.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04

The darker races that have absorbed
the civilization of the whites, are
charged with being INITIATIVE, The
charge stands true. But those who
make the charge are THEMSELVES
initiative or they could not have made
such astonishing progress. New con-
cepts are made up of parts of things
already known. We take little i'm
itation here, a little there, combine
with a new idea and produce what is
wrongly called ORIGINAL. But any
people who can by imitation bring to
pass the great things which the Jap
anese people have accomplished need
not for a moment feel piqued at being
called imitators.-Southe Life Maga-
zine
The Colorado statesman., 1912-05-04
LIGHT AHEAD FOR
AFRO AMERICANS

so SAYS DR.. 3. F. RILEY, WHOSE
VERY LIFE WORK PLACES HIM
IN POSITION TO SEE CONDI-
TIoNS IN A FAR BETTER LIGHT
THAN, PERHAPS, WE OUR
SELVES CAN SEE THEM.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
MEXICO NEED NOT
FEAR INTERVENTION
State Department Issues Circular
Denying "Foolish Stories" of
Interference in Mexico
Respect and Protection.

Washington, Feb. 10. Realizing
and appreciating the danger threat
ening Americans in Mexico from the
circulation of erroneous reports
concerning the proposed interyen-
tion of the United States in Mexican
affairs, the state department today
issued circular letter to diplo-
matte and consular representatives
in Mexico denying all these foolish
stories" regarding the intervention,
and expressing only good will and
the sincerest friendship on the part
of the United States toward Mexico
The American representatives are
instructed TO circulate this note
widely, and to impress upon the
Mexican authorities that all this
government demands is respect and
the protection Of American life and
property.
The Mexican government has
withdrawn its request for permis-
sion to send soldiers through Texas
to FL paso.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
DIRECTORS MUST
BE ON THE JOB
Members Of BOARD VIII BE Required
10 Meet With Bank Examiner
When He Visits and In
spects National Banks

Washington, Feb. i2.-Comptroll-
er of the Currency Murray today
ordered that boards of directors of
national banks hereafter shall meet
the federal bank examiners at ev-
cry examination to discuss the af-
fairs of the institution. especially
their loans and discounts.
In the large cities where the as
sembling of the directors may
cause considerable Inconvenience
the examiners have been authorized
10 use their discretion in enforcine
the new order, unless some condi-
tion is found in the bank deserving
criticism.
CARRYING out the spirit of this
regulation. The comptroller today
advised about 500 banks located in
various parts of the country that
their course in recently electing as
a majority Of their boards directors
who are not residents of the places
where the banks are located, was
objectionable"
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
SUBSTITUTE FOR
PENSION BILL
Sherwood Measure Providing Dol
lar-a-Day for Federal Veterans
Rejected by Senate Committee
and SmOot Bill Is Put In.

Washington, Feb. i2.-The Sher-
wood house dollar a day pension
bill was rejected today by the SEN
ate committee on pensions and an
other measure which would involve
an annua, expenditure OF S24,000,-
900 proposed as a substitute by
Senator Smcot of Utah, was adopt
ed. Senator Brown (Nebraska) and
Curtis (Kansas), gave notice that in
the senate they would press the
Sherwood bin as substitute for
the Smoot bill.
Senator Smoot's estimate of S24,-
100000 as the cost of his plan is
based upon the pension bureaus
complication of age and length of
service Of the veterans. The Sher-
wood bill, according to the pension
bureau, would have cost about S75,-
100000 a year.
The Smoot bill. adopted hy a vote
of ~ to 2 after the Sherwood bill
had been voted down 10 to 4. en-
DoultS pfoNiSlUils W pcuSioil tiNl'
war veterans 62 years old who
served 90 davs or more and anv
Mexican war veterans would To-
ceive $50 a month, The Civil war
veterans would be put on gradu-
~tcd scale from ei3 a month for oo
dav veterans GO years old. to $50 p
month for veterans rs years old
who served three years or more.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
FOLK WITHDRAWS
If II Appears That Clark Can't BE
Nominated May Re-Enter
the Race.

st. Louis, Feb. i0.-Former Gov
ernor Joseph w. Folk withdrew as
an active candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for president to-
day. He Withdrew after he had re-
ceived a telegram from Champ
Clark, in which he agreed to divide
the Missouri delegation to the
Democratic national convention, as
recently suggested by w. J. Bryan
Mr.. Folk not only agreed to divide
the delegation, but asked his
friends to make no further effort
in his behalf. He promised to sup
port Mr.. Clark.
Friends Of Mr.. Folk said he will
have half Of the state delegation
which is to be selected at Joplin
on February 20, but that the Folk
men on the delegation will sup
port Mr.. Clark. II il is seen that
Speaker Clark cannot get the nomi-
nation on rearo~eble number OF
ballots in the Baltimore convention
The former governor will consider
that he has the right to re-enteI
the race for the nomination.
Lon Sanders, Folks manager. j:
authority for the statement that
the former governor has, as San
ders puts it, practically withdrawn
from the race" Sanders today an
|nounced that Folk headquarters
here would be abandoned.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
SebastainV oters Favor
Judge Carter
Straw Vote OF Petit Jurors Shows
That Texarkana Candidate for
Congress Is Likely Winner.

That Judge r. NJ. Carter of Tex
Iarkana will doubtless carry Sebas-
titan county, is the indication from
a straw vote" taken by petit jurors
doing service last week at Green
wood, which happens to be the
home of Candidate McFarIane. one
of Judge Carter's opponents in the
contest for congress.
OF eighteen men who participant
ed in the straw ballot ten favor
Judge ]. M. Carter, and six McFar-
land, Judge Shaver and Senator Otis
Wingo receiving enc vote each.
Reproducing the result of the
voting, the Fort Smith Times-Rec-
ord remarks that straw votes of
this character favorably represent
pretty accurately the sentiment of
the county, as the jurors are drawn
from all over the county, except
Upper township, which is practical
ly Fort Smith and suburbs. ADV.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
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PEAS BRING GOOD MONEY

f. r. Roach Of the Roach Whole
sale Grocery Company reports that
for some time he has been paying
out from 800 to 5000 per day for
field peas, and he believes that It
will pay the Polk county farmers
to raise more peas. as they always
bring in ready cash and the prices
now range from Si00 for mixed
peas to around $500 per bushel for
the pure peas. He stated today that
many were disappointed by not get
ting the top price for the mixed va
rieties.
The most money can be gotten
for the pure whippoorwill peas, and
Mr.. Roach wanted to urge upon the
farmers the Importance Of getting
pure seed.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15

NEW CASHIER AT 1sT NATIONAL
S. II. Morgan of El Dorado Succeeds
l.. C. Acruman.

S. r. Morgan of El Dorado, Ark,
arrived in Mena February 8 and has
taken the position as cashier Of the
First National Bank of Mena.
Mr.. Morgan is a man of high
financial rating, is interested in sew
eral banks over the state, besides
other important business enter
prises. He recently purchased a
large block of the stock of the First
National and decided to move to
Mena to make his home. Following
this he has been elected cashier Of
the bank to succeed l.. C. Acruman.
who becomes vice president, though
more or less inactive.
Mr.. Morgan expects his family to
join him here in a few days.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
DYNAMITE INJURIES FATAL.
". Gubesberg Died From Hurts Re-
ceived February G.

RI. Gubesberg, who was so badly
injured February 6 while dynamit-
ing stumps on the Donovan farm
west of town. died Monday morning
about 4 o'clock. Mr.. Gubesberg was
~ years old and moved to Mena
from TT. Worth, Tex, only short
time ago. He is survived by a wife
and one son, Frank, who is i8 years
old The son was also hurt at the
same time as his father, but is now
up and we'll.
Father Gallagher returned from
0oOueen Tuesday afternoon at 4
o'clock and conducted the burial
services soon afterwards. The bur
ia Twas in White Oak cemetery.
The Mena weekly star., 1912-02-15
MORE THAN 1000 BALES
And Still More Cotton Is Coming
Only 1000 Last Year-Now
Bringing 97s Gents.

Over 5000 bales of cotton have
been brought into Mena during
the present season. With the AZ
bales which came in Saturday,
the total reached 6,022, something
more than 1000 bales in excess of
the receipts last year. Sunday
every bale of cotton in town had
been billed out, but a few came in
Monday, and sold for around 9M
cents per pound.
According to the estimates of the
cotton buyers. there are between
i50 to 200 more bales to be brought
to Mena this year.
The number Of bales bought by