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The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24


nounced the appointment of the fol
lowing committee
10 investigate Ito conduct a gen.
Meat Situation. eral inquiry into
the various fac
tors which have brought about the
present unsatisfactory conditions with
respect to meat production in the Uni
ted States, especially in reference to
beef with a view to suggesting possi
BILE methods for improvement:
DIR. b. T. Galloway, assistant secre
tary OF agriculture, chairman.
DR.. II. ]. Waters, president Kansas
State Agricultural college.
Prof. C. F. Curtiss, dean and direc-
tor Iowa State college.
Prof. H. W. Mumford, professor of
animal husbandry, University OF Illi-
nois.
DR.. A. d. Melvin, chief, bureau Of an
imal industry, U. S. department of ag-
riculture
DR.. T. N. Carver, director. rural or
ganization service, U. S. department of
agriculture
The work of the committee will be
centered largely on the study of eco
nomic questions involved in the pro-
duction, transportation, slaughter and
marketing of meat. AS the first step
the committee will investigate careful
ly the changes within the last two or
three decades which have increased
cost OF production, and the centraliz-
ing of the meat industry. Among the
ip,portopt considerations to ha poue
into will be the taking up of the pub
lie lands. the effect of the capacity of
the range, especially on the remaining
public lands and forest reserves, with
a view to suggesting changes in the
laws to make the public lands of
greater use in cattle raising The
committee also will give special atten-
tion to the economic changes in meat
production and distribution brought
about through the centraliztng of
slaughtering and meat preparations in
large packing establishments. and the
changes in transportation and similar
matters which have resulted from this
Capitalization and other causes, the
economic possibility of communal and
community effort in cattle raising and
the advantages of establishing local OF
municipal abattoirs will also be in
vestigated.
The committee will not deal spe-
officially with questions of animal hus-
bandry which has to do with the ac-
tual breeding of cattle. as this work
will be left to the specialists in the de-
partment and state agricultural col
leges in this field. The appointment of
a committee will not interfere in any
way with Investigations now under
way in any of the state agricultural
colleges or experiment stations. The
letter of appointment announces that
the chairman within a short time viii
supply details regarding the scope or
the investigation anG the lines or
work which the committee might take
up.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

Colored babies are often regarded
as "cuter," If anything, than white ba-
bies. A newspaper for negroes. The
Crisis, notes the fact'that at recent
baby show held in Fall River, the first
prize was won by a one-year-old col,
ored baby, the only colored entrant in
the contest.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

Designed for feminine use is new
hand mirror fitted with an electric
light at one end, current being sup
Piled by storage battery contained
in the handle.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

There are in the southern states
100000 negroes, writes Booker T.
Washington. There are 100000 negro
children of school age. Fifty-three per
cent, or more than half, never go to
school. Many of these negro children.
particularly in the country district, are
in school only from three to four
months in the year. l am trying to get
the white people to see that, both from
an economic point of view and as a
matter of justice and fair play, these
conditions must be changed. l am try
ing to get the white people to see that
sending ignorant negroes to jails and
penitentiaries, putting them in the
chain gang, hanging and lynching them
does not civiliZe, but on the contrary.
though it brutalizes the negro, it at the
same time blunts and dulls the con-
science of the white man.
L want the white people to see that
it is unfair to expect black man who
goes to school only three months in
the year to produce as much on the
farm as a white man who has been in
school eight or nine months in the
year; that it is unjust to let the negro
remaie ignorant. with nothing between
him and the temptation to fill his body
with whisky and cocaine, and then ex-
pect him, in his ignorance, to be able
to know the law and be able to exer-
else that degree of self-control which
shall enable him to keep it.
am trying to get the white people
to realize that since no color line is
drawn in the punishment for crime, no
color line should be drawn in the
preparation of life, in the kind of edu-
cation, in other words. that makes for
useful, clean living.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

During 1912 about 157, 100000 people
rode in the omnibus lines of Berlin
about one-third Of this number. in the
mower buses.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The estimated production of rice for
japan is 16,662,0O0 pounds, an in.
crease of 81 per cent. over the croI
of last year.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

So far as the south is concerned
the problem is in process Of whole
some an certain solution. The future
of the negro has never seemed SO
promising and bright. AS a laborer.
citizen and a man the negro, under
this bright and beneficent policy. has
advanced and is advancing day by
day.
There are no greater people in the
history of nations than the people of
the south. And in view of the history
of the Civil war and of the recon
struction period that followed, the
southern people have never been
greater and wiser than in their pres
ent splendid attitude toward their for
mer slaves.-Chicago American.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

Fuel oil consumption by the United
States navy this year is estimated at
| 80 900, 900 gallons.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The 300 striking nego students of
Shaw university at Raleigh. N. c., for
warded a memorial to the trustees Of
the institution in New York asking
that DR.. Charles Meserve, president of
the institution. be removed and a ne
gro be put in his place.
President Meserve, backed by south
ern white members of the faculty. Is
sued an ultimatum ordering all rebel
lious students to resume their places
at once. under penalty Of expulsion.
During the holiday student mar
ried, against the college rules. and
was dismissed. The boys asked to be
heard through a committee. DR..
Meserve refused to receive the COM
mittee, but agreed to hear any indi-
vidual. The strike resulted.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

In Glasgow in 1912 there were erect
eG II warehouses and shops, 1O4 fac
tories and stores and IL new churches
and halls.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The material taken from the Pana-
ma canal would make a pile higher
than the Woolworth building in New
York and 1850 feet square at the
base.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

Although Belgium has reduced the
working day of it's coal miners to nine
hours. the enforcement of the law has
not apparently affected the production.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The foreign commerce of the United
States in the calendar year 1913 ap-
proximated sL-
EorpiOn Com 10000, 900 of i'm
merCe of u. S. po ports IS ana s1'oUV, OUts
The imports of the IL months ended
with November were Sl.609 100000,
and should the December imports
eoual those of November, the total for
the full year would be S1.756 .0OG,oOO.
The exports of the II months ended
with November we're S2,251 .OOO.OoU'
and should the December exports equal
those of November, the total would be
s2. AIS. .OO0. 900. This estimate would
make the excess of exports over i'm
ports approximately $74O.0Oo,OOO.
The figures of exports and of excess
of exports over imports will exceed
those of any earlier year. The largest
export of any preceding calendar year
was that of 1912, which showed to-
tai of s2,399, ,217.993; and as the IL
months ended with November are
s1O2 OOO. 600 in excess of the CORE
spending period of the preceding year
the estimate of approximately $2,oOo''
600 600 fer 1913 seems to be justi1ed.
The excess of exports over imports IN
the IL months ended with November
was s642 O0O, ,OOG, and for the single
month of November s97,OoO,O00, thus
apparently justifying the estimate o.
s74O, 900, 900 excess of exports for the
full year.
In imports, the total for 1913 viii
be less than that of 1912 but larger
than that of any year preceding lslz
This decline in imports in 1913 is due
in part to reduction in prices OF Ger
tain articles imported While the
quantity of sugar imported in the tel
months ended with October exceeded
that of the corresponding period o.
1912 by 96s,OO0 900 pounds, the value
of this larger quantity imported dur
ing the 1918 period was s22,ooo'oo'
| less than that of the corresponding pc
| riod Of 1912.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

Golf enthusiasts in Massachusetts
yearly spend about 100000 on the
game.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

A Wyandotte hen belonging to Fran
els Baines, a well-known wiltshire
(England) poultry expert, has laid
5sS eggs in the three years it has
lived.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The most exhaustive of tests have
shown that it takes only one-seventh
of a second for wireless signal to
pass across the continent from Wash
ington to San Francisco.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

For the first time since 1905. a col
ored boy is among the senior officers
at Harvard. Alexander Louis Jackson
of Englewood, N. j., was chosen class
orator at the 1914 election few days
ago, and will write and deliver the
oration, which is one OF the principal
parts of the exercises In Sanders thea
ter on the morning of class day.
jackson has been a member of the
varsity track teams for two seasons.
He Is one of the best hurdlers now in
the eastern colleges, particularly good
over the high hurdles, but fast in both
events, and has won many points for
the Crimson teams in various meets.
He has not been particularly prom
inent in other ways during his college
course. He has won good grades,
though he is not in the honor class.
At Andover he won several prizes in
public speaking, but at Harvard he has
been so much occupied with other
affairs that he has not tried for the
prizes In speaking, though he has
taken some of the courses offered. He
is preparing for a teaching position in
some one of the negro schools of the
south.
1t is not the first time that negro
has been honored by election to such
office at Harvard. The last time was
with the class of 1905, when William
Clarence Matthews, clever baseball
player, was chosen a member of the
class day committee.
In the years before that, the election
of negro orators was quite frequent
with the college classes. William H.
Lewis, who has since served as assist
ant attorney general of the United
States, was a commencement speaker
on his graduation from the law school
in 1895. He was not a graduate of
Harvard college, but had his college
education at Amherst, where he was
graduated in 1892.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The men who don't go to Jail art
either too good, or too rich.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The secretary of agriculture has an
nounced the appointment of the fol
The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-24

The foreign commerce of the United
States in the calendar year 1913 ap-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
WOODLAWN

The Epworth League win hold business
and social in Hopewell Hall this Friday eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Marshall and Master
Robert visited Baltimore friends from Friday
to Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. holland Campbell were in Bal
timore last week.
Mr.. @. K. Abranams, of Baltimore was an
over-Sunday guest Of his father.
The Epworth League will hold an oyster
supper in the hall February 10. Proceeds for
the hall fund.
Messrs. s. Abrahams and r. G.. Terry
spent Friday in Wilmington.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference of this
charge was held in Hopewell M. E. Church on
Monday afternoon and the pastor, Rev. G. N.
Jones, was invited to return.
Mrs. w. B. Claggett, of Prince Georges
county, has been recent guest Of Mrs. G. w.
Poist
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
Matches To Be Safe.

Both the manufacture and sale of
matches containing white PHOSPHORUS
will be brought to an end in this country
on July Ist, 1915, when the law recently
passed by Congress, imposing prohibi-
tive tax on matches in which this sub
stances is used. will go into effect.
Under the new law only two kinds OF
matches will be used--the so called
safety" match, which ignite when
scratched on special prepared surface on
the side of the box, and the birds eye''
match. which can be ignited on any sur
face after the manner of the white phos-
pherous match. A temperature of about
5000 F. is required for igniting these
matches. They cannot be gnited through
being stepped on, they do not spark or
fly, and are not explosive. They are
therefore much safer than the so-called
safety" match.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
POETRY TRULY GREAT.
Matthew ArncId's Rule by Which e
May Be Tested.

Matthew ArnoId's Rule by Which e
May Be Tested.
There can be no more useful help for
discovering what poetry belongs to the
class Of the truly excellent and can
therefore do us most good than to have
always in ones mind lines and express
gions Of the great masters and to apply
them as t0uchstone to other poetry.
OF course we are not to require this
ether poetry to resemble them. 1t may
Be very dissimilar. But If we have
any tact we shall find them when we
have lodged them well in our minds an
infallible touchstone for detecting the
presence or absence of high poetic
quality and also the degree of this
quality in all other poetry which we
may place beside them. Short pas
sages, even single lines. will serve our
turn quite sufficiently.
Take Of Shakespeare line or two Of
Henry w 3 expostulation with sleep:
wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship boys eyes and rock his
brains
In cradle OF the rude imperious surge7
And take as well Hamlet's dying re-
quest to Horatio:
# thou didst ever hold me in thy heart.
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath
In pain
To tell my story. $3.50
Take of Milton that Miltonic pas
sage:
Darken'd so, yet shone
Above them all the archangel, but his face
Deep scars Of thunder had intrenched, and
care
Sat on his faded cheek. sss
Add two such lines as:
And courage never to submit OF yield
And what is else not to beovercome. .
And finish with the exquisite close to
the loss Of Proserpine, the loss
- which cost Ceres all that pain
To seek her through the world.
These few lines, IL we have tact and
can use them, are enough even Of them
selves to keep clear and sound our
judgments about poetry, to save us
from fallacious estimates of it, to con-
duct us to real estimate.-Matthew
Arnold. 'srhe Study of Poetry"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
Smallest OIL Painting.

After an absence of nearly half a CEN
fury the smallest oil painting in the world
has returned to the artist who created it.
He Is Samuel T. Shultz, of Wilmington,
Del. The unique and perfect work of art.
on grain of corn, has been in Europe
since Mr.. Schultz. then a youth of 10.
painted il, in 1868.
Even the grain of corn has history.
for 1t was grown at Wheatland. the home
of James Buchanan. fifteenth president of
the United States. at Lancaster. When
Mr.. Buchanan died at Wheatland, in
1868. Mr.. Schultz was student of an
artist, Charles E. Wise He went to
Whestland TO view the body of the ex-
president. and as memento picked up
an ear of corn on the estate.
His preceptor suggested that he paint a
miniature in oil on one of the grains. and
after year Of patient work, he was sue
cessful. Artist Wise declared 1t to be a
masterpiece of miniature painting, and
sent 1t to Europe. There was a r quest
on the frame that the painting be sent
back 10 Mr.. Schultz at Lancaster Several
weeks ago he was located through an ad.
vertisement and the grain of corn was
sent to him from Berlin.-Ex.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
CALVERT.

Mr. Edmund Crothers, of Wilmington, was
J. e. Crothers.
Miss Helen Peoples. Colora. has been the
recent guest of Mrs Rachel Foster.
Miss AIDA Thompson was Philadelphia
shopper last week.
Mr. Cecil Love, Lester, Ohio, has been the
guest Of Mr.. John Adams and family.
Mrs. Rachel Foster entertained Friday at
progressive finch Mrs. Emily Morris, Mrs
Mary e. johnson, Miss Helen Peoples, Miss
Eugenia M. Hawke, Mr. and Mrs. Green, Cecil
Love, Maynard Foster.
Several from this vicinity attended the Port
Deposit minstrels in Rising Sun hall on Fri
day evening.
Miss Ruth Crothers, who is substituting at
Franklin school, Pennington, was the Friday
Monday guest of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mckinney were given a
surprise kitchen shower on Wednesday eve
ming, when they received number of useful
gifts.
Mr.. William Mars is lying seriously i'll of
pneumonia at his home, his wife having died
last week.
Mrs. Margaret Hawke has returned home
after visit with James Mearns and family
Miss Rachel Astle and Arthur Astle were
guests of Charles johnson and family on
Thursday.
Mr. Mooney visited his daughter, Mrs, VIM.
McClintock. on Sunday.
Mr. John Whitaker has been suffering with
the grippe.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
sTAGELAND IN NEW YORK.
One Spot on Broadway the Mecca Of
All the Actor Folks.


New York to an actor means Broad
way and Forty-second street always.
There is no place In America like it
perhaps not in the world. Set in the
midst Of city, the theatrical district
is city in itself, with denizens, Gus
toms and even language peculiarly
its own. Its frontiers shift, to be
sure, and they are invisible, but they
are as real and definite as stone walls
could make them. A block too far in
any direction and you are in the realms
Of business, society or boarding houses.
but across the unseen boundary line
and presto! you are in actor land.
Crowds of carefully dressed people
saunter up and down, stopping half a
dozen times In each block to gossip or
exchange enthusiastic greetings. The
men are clean shaven, with hard,
sharp cut faces. which somehow look
unfinished without makeup. The wo-
men are consciously striking, whether
they are pretty or not, and their
clothes show absolute genius for ac-
centing every prettiness they have.
All Of them emphasize their individu-
atty. They have constant air of
feeling themselves observed and wish
ing to leave a lasting impression. An
outsider-or ''nonprofessional" looks
oddly neutral and Ineffective beside
them, like man In ordinary street
attire on stage.
After all, it is more of village than
city. Everybody knows everybody
else. personally, by reputation or
through mutual friends. 1t is close
knit fraternity. this order Of grease
paint, and beneath all the rivalry and
envy and insincerity there is a warm
and vital bond Of comradeship. From
"Anne. Actress" by Juliet G. Sager.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
WEST NOTTINGHAM.

Scarlet fever has broken out again in and
about Colora. Carroll Cameron is one of the
sufferers. His wife. who went to her brothers.,
Fl. j. Maxwell, to escape the disease, has also
contracted It.
A son of Frank Reynolds. at Huntsville,
took it on Saturday. No other cases have
been reported this week.
Two men passed through this section on the
10th inst. They were partners but did not go
together. One carried suit case and they
had a recommendation purporting to be signed
by Mr. Ragen, of Conowingo. On the strength
of this one of them secured his dinner and a
dollar from Perry Gibson. Vim. T. Jenness
was paid visit, but Mr.. Jenness called up
Mr.. sRagen and ascertained that he had
neither seen the men nor signed any paper. It
Is clear case of fraud. The same day Mrs.
Sill lost two fine chickens. Shots were heard
near the house that day and the supposition is
her chickens were killed and carried off in the
suit case.
Mr.. 8. D. Mccullough is lying very i'll at his
home near here.
Miss Helen Aiken is on the sick list
Lewis Martindale spent Saturday and Sun
day with his brother, Pennell Martindale. Ok
ford. who is i'll.
Miss Virginia Maxwell substituted for Miss
Margaret Holt at Monroe school Friday.
West Nottingham Academy was closed for
a few days two weeks ago, on account of the
illness of Prof. Pfeiffer.
Mrs. Maxwell entertained the ladies of the
Home and Foreign Missionary society on
Thursday afternoon, Jan. Is.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
Marriage License

John B. Ward, of Stanton, Del,
and Annie G. Jones, of North East.
Clifford Ransom Barrett and
Kathleen Moore Ferguson, both of
Rising Sun.
Abbie E. Jackson and Eva May
Reynolds, both of Principle Fur
mace.
William Walton Reynolds, of
Woodlawn, and Gertrude May
Evans, of Bay View.
Otis CLARK, of Wilmington, and
Bessie R. Clements, of Elkton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
Fire Tax Notice.

AS Secretary and Treasurer of the Farmers
& Mechanics Mutual Insurance Association Of
Cecil County Md, 1 hereby give notice that
under date of January 10 1914, an assessment
of 20 cents on the 500. on a per cent. basis,
all higher rates in proportion, was ordered by
the Board of Directors of the said Association
to meet losses of Mrs. A. M. NJ. Reynolds,
Samuel Haines T. M. Owens, F. g. L. Burns,
f. w. Millburn and other small fires and ex-
penses thereof. to be finally due and payable
on or before March 10. 1914
Furthmore take notice that Fire Tax must
be sent direct to the Treasurer by check, post
office money order, registered letter. or sum
of fifth cents or less may be sent in two cent
stamps; the receivers having been dispensed
with, no one is authorized to receive or re-
ceipt for the same except the Treasurer
If any person shall refuse or neglect to pay
his or her tax before that date, his or her pro-
perty shall not be protected by this Associa-
z. d. CARHART,
16ian4t Secretary & Treasurer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
property transfers.

Ralph 81. Rea and wife ia
Thomas A. Rees, property on Bo
hemia avenue in Chesapeake City,
% and other considerations.
Arthur v. Vanneman, Lee I.
Hecht and Philip Fl. Close, Trus-
tees, to James s. Patterson. Paul
Patterson, Lille M Patterson and
Ellen Patterson, 2 acre property in
Seventh district, $500.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30

Richard B. Merritt and wife to
Charles III. Brown, lot of land in
First district, $3.50.
William l.. Meisel and wife to
w Arthur Mitchell, properties on
Bridge street, Elkion, $40 and
other considerations.
James L. Crouch to James G..
kirkpatrick, property in Fifth dis
trict, @l4OO.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
When YOU Have

Acquired the habit your saving will be regular
You will gradually build substantial capital from your earnings
put yourself in position to add capital when necessary
through credit because with money reputation indus
try and thrift will be entitled the confidence coopefaon
of financial hackers This will the door the success
if you have the other qualities that make for
Hyou have account with you add steadily; If YOU
have not the time to begin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
l6jan4t
20 Head Virginia Horses.

E. A. Brown & Son have just arrived q
home with q car load of choice Virginia LIZ
Horses. Anybody needing good horse ~
can see them at our stables near Hope-a
20 E. a. BROWN & CAMERON BROWN.
2sj2t r.. d. Port Deposit, Md.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-01-30
Just Like the Automobile.

Sportsman Ito enthusiastic motorist
whom he had mounted for fox hunt
and who is unhorsed)-Hello! What's
wrong? Friend-C Couldn't throttle her
down. steering gear wouldn't work.
missed one of the pedals. and then
fell out.-London Punch.