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The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13

under the direction of the white au-
thorities. When on duty this officer
should be armed with the full power
of the law. He should report to the
health office all unsanitary places in
the Negro quarters, should take prop
er precautions against epidemics
there, and should constantly be on
the watch to bring housing conditions
up to a standard under which health
and bodily efficiency could be main
tanned He should enlist the Negroes
of his city in a determined effort to
improve by voluntary measures the
conditions under which they live"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13

of the world does not always come
from an unbiased source.
Sometimes VIC receive praise and
we know il is hattery. Sometimes
we are credited with some charac-
ter that We do not deserve. Repu-
tation is what the world gives a
man, character is what he really is.
You know what you are, if you
but stop to think. Time has en-
proidered into our lives many
things we wish were not there.
But why blur the present, why mar
the future, with the dead past :?
Why live over the scenes of yes
terday? Why loiter over the little
games of the past? Why not ac-
cept these experiences as teachers ?
You are never too young to try,
nor are You ever too old to mend.
What ever has proven IA stumbling
block in the past let this be your
stepping-stone in the future. Sit
down my dear friend and apaiyze
yourself / take this medicine
myself. Find your own faults.
Be critical, be harsh with yourself.
ASK yourself these questions: Am
| lazy? Do / drink to excess =?
Am l extravagant? Have ] an ex-
pensiye, explosive temper? What
in the world is the matter with me
any way?
Now, don't try to gloss over your
faults, but show them up! Be
square with yourself. This self
reliance may make you blush, but
it is better to blush unseen" like
the rose, than to stand in society
tagged "a Successful failure. -
Whatever youlput in ii bank, you
have a right to draw out. Every
ounce of physical strength, mental
resource that you have belongs to
you personally, and you have "a
perfect right to use up this vitality
any way you choose. But if you
over-draw at the bank they will
mark the check Insufficient
Funds" If you try TO take out of
life more than you put in, You will
sooner or later be humiliated by
the transaction. you cannot do the
town nights and do business days.
Banks aud human bodies keep
tabs on you -Colored American
Review
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13

Madam Helena Paderewski. wife
of the famous pianist, has address,
ed letter to DR.. Booker r.. Wash
ington. of the Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial institute, making
an appeal for the Polish victims of
the European War. The letter is
sent to the press with the thought
that there may oe those among
the Negro people who may feel
disposed to respond to MADAM
Paderewski's appeal
An organization known as the
Polish Victims Relief Fund has
been organized, with headquarters
Aeolian Building. 33 West And
Street, New York City. Madam
Paderewski's letter follows:
New York, October 26, 1915
My dear MIR Washington:
| am writing you Il very personal
letter on a subject that is close to
my heart and L know the message
it carries will find response in
your generous sympathy. 1t is
with great pleasure that | recall
our meeting, some years ago, and
/ have. watched the success of your
work among your people with sin
cere satisfaction, for j have al
ways been an advocate of the
principles for which you stand, the
uplift of the coiored race.
1t is because + know you have
ever directed your broad influence
towards the most worthy causes
that | am asking you in the name
of the starving babies and their
helpless mothers, to tell your peo-
pie that we need them in our work
of sending food and medicine to
Poland. We. need, my dear Sir,
even the smallest contribution that
your beloved followers may offer
and / beg of you to make an ap-
peal to your people. Tell them, for
they may not all know as well as
you, yourself that it was a Pole
Kossciusko-who, in addition to
fighting for American liberty, gave
that which he needed himself to
help the colored race. AS you
will recall, after refusing the grant
of land offered him in recognition
of his services in the War of the
Revolution, he returned to Poland,
not wishing to accept IA reward for
doing what he considered a sublime
duty to those in need Later, af-
ter eight years, when he again Wis
tied America, he was given a PEN
sion as General in the American
Army. With the back pay during
his absence, the sum amounted to
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

miles from Marion. The mob
rode up to the Jail at 2 O'Clock in
the morning aud by pretext got
the jailer to open the door. But
when the mob attempted TO force
its way in, Williford thrust his pis-
tol against the leaders side and
forced him outside. Then he lock
ed the door and de6ed the mob,
assuring them that he would de-
fend the jail as long as his ammu-
milton lasted. The members of
the mob were cowed by his bold
stand and left in their automobiles
going in the direction of Earle.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13

% Marion, Ark, Nov. ) 5-The
nerve and courage of Deputy
Sheriff Williford, who always acts
as j,iler, frustrated the plans OF IA
mob of 200 white men, who were
intent on lynohing Gene Judah, a
Negro, confined in the jail under
charge of criminal assault on a
young woman at Earle, eighteen
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13

New York, Nov. A leopard
may not change his spots, but
baby may its color, as Mrs. Ida M.
Truda, 45 years old, truthfully ad-
milted today at her home in Brook
lyn. where she is waiting for her
husband to come aud forgive her
and help turn tragedy into comedy.
The story came out today when
Mrs. Truda placed the baby op the
Lieutenant desk in police sta.
tion. she and her husband had
been married twenty five years
without baby blessing their
home, she said, and last
December he felt so bad about the
matter that he left her. Mrs.
Truda says they became reconciled
aud both became very fond of the
baby. That was in Jrly. Soon
afterward the child's al pearance
began to change" she sa d. I'VE
thought it had jaundice and chang
ed its milk, but the baby kept get.
ting darker aud darker Then We
called doctor" The doctor
looked wise and asked her if it was
her baby Then she confessed to
her hus band that it was not their
baby and she had adopted it to
hold his love.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13

St Louis, Mo. Nov. miss
Wilhelmina TAFT the young colored
woman who was accidently killed
by an automobile recently, left real
and personal property worth sever
al thousand dollars, besides Sl2,-
239 At in cash on deposit in two
banks No will was found, and the
property will be divided among her
mother and four sisters. Mrs.
Callie NJ Edwards is the execu-
trix and she filed an inventory of
the estate with the Probate Court,
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-13

Cleveland, o., Nov. 3.-In the
election yesterday Attorney Thom-
as Il. Fleming was elected to the
Cleveland City Council from the
Eleventh Ward, on a non partisan
ticket Six candidates were in the
race, Mr.. Fleming being the only
Negro. In this ward several
millionaires have their residences,
with about one-fourth of the vote
being cast by Negroes, In 1910
Fleming was councilman-at-large,
being the first Negro elected from
this ward.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15

A LONG and ample cape of black
"A satin, lined with satin in a cons
trasting color, and interlined for addi-
tional warmth, develops a new idea in
treatment of the neck. Here wide
ruff, like the body of the cape, makes
an attractive finish and protection
for the throat at the same time. The
plating for the ruff is graduated in
width, growing narrower from the
sides toward the front. But it Is suffi-
ciently wide to enfold the back of the
head, the ears and the throat when
the cape is fastened In the front.
A long silk-covered cord extends
about the base of the ruff, terminating
In two cabochons (made of the cord)
one at each side. Long ends termi-
mating in heavy silk tassels fall from
the center of each of these silk orna.
ments.
A narrow ruching made of satin like
that in the lining outlines the hem
on the inside Of the cape all around.
1t is a dainty finish. handmade and
elegant.
This is one of the longest of capes
and one of the few intended solely
for evening or other dressy wear.
The cape, which occupied the cen
ter of the stage as the newest and
most chic of wraps at the beginning
of the season, did not capture the
popular fancy, but was admired by a
ia an attractive novelty
There are many jeweled hair bands
discriminating following among those
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15

The fossil forest that was first
brought to scientific attention is on
the northern slope of Amethyst noun
tain, opposite the mouth of Soda Butte
creek, about eight miles southeast oi
Junction Butte. The following ac
count, by DR.. William H. Holmes, the
discoverer of these fossil forests,
,, shows the impression first made by
them:
"As we ride up the trail that mean.
ders the smooth river bottom Uamar
river) we have but to turn our atten.
tion to the cliffs on the right hand tc
discover multitude of the bleached
trunks of the ancient forests. In the
sleeper middle portion of the noun.
tain face, rows of upright trunks
stand out on the ledges like columns
of a ruined temple. On the more gen.
tie slopes farther down, but where it
is still too steep to support vegeta.
ton, save a few pines, the petrified
trunks fairly cover the surface, and
were at first supposed by us to be
| shattered remains of recent forest"
These trunks may easily be seed
from the road along the Lamar river,
about a mile away. They stand up
right-as Holmes has said, like the pill.
lars of some ruined temple-and q
closer view shows that there is a sue
cession of these forests, one above an
other In the foothills and several
hundred feet above the valley there is
a perpendicular wall of volcanic brec-
cia, which in some places attains q
height of nearly one hundred feet.
The fossil trunks may be seen at this
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15

which sent 1t south and east again
toward the lower town. A high bluff
rose at this point, which made the far
ther side of the ravine much more i'm
posing than the one on the near side,
where the slope was gradual.
This path, and even the bridge itself,
were almost wholly unlighted. They
were seldom used at night-seldom
used at any time. But it was by this
route the judge elected to go into
town; not for the pleasure of the walk,
as was very apparent from the ex-
treme depression of his manner, but
from some inward necessity which
drove him on, against his wishes, pos.
sibly against his secret misgivings.
He had met no one in his short walk
down the lane, but for all that he
paused before entering the path just
mentioned, to glance back and see if
he were being watched or followed
When satisfied that he was not he
looked up from the solitary waste
where he stood, to the cheerless heav-
ems and sighed; then forward into the
mass of impenetrable shadow that he
must yet traverse and shuddered as
many another had shuddered ere be-
ginning this walk. For it was near the
end of this path, in full sight of the
bridge he must cross, that his friend,
Algernon Etheridge, had been set upon
and murdered so many years before;
and the shadow of this ancient crime
still fingered over the spot.
Determined not to stop or to cast
one faltering look to right or left, he
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15
"GUARDED" BY A CRAZY MAN
Sane Prisoner Gets Suit Of Clothes
and Doesn't Think He Has
Much Kick Coming.

When Frank Begosek, a Ravensdale
coal miner, was examined by lunacy
commission and found not insane, he
was ordered sent to the county hos
pital to recuperate for a few days. At
the same time another patient from
the jail was found insane and ordered
to Steilacoom.
The deputy sheriff in charge of the
two prisoners misunderstood the Or
ders and reported to the Jail officials
that both men were crazy" and had
been ordered to Steilacoom. So
Begosek was packed off to the asy-
lum Tithout protest. Later Deputy
Sheriff John Cudihee went after him
and tucked him in the county hos
pital.
Begosek was perfectly good humored
about it. They had burned his clothes
at Steilacoom and allotted him a new
suit and a p4ir Of shoes. and he will
60 home fitted out for the winter.
! 1T is a very good place. and the
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15
SUPPLIES FOR THE SOLDIER
Line of Communication Must Remain
Intact In Order to Provide Army
With Supplies.

General Grant said that when he
had re-established railroad communi-
cation at Chattanooga and SO brought
food to his starving army the soldiers
called it the cracker line" It is the
most essential line in war, "Giard"
writes in the Philadelphia Ledger,
The two armies facing each other In
France and belgium contain as many
men as there are people in Philadel-
phia. At peace this city wears out
10000 pairs of shoes every day. What
must the soldiers wear out when con-
stently marching over rough country?
To feed Philadelphia requires daily
many train-loads of provisions coming
in all directions. A soldier, like citi
zen, must be fed. He needs clothes.
blankets. rifles, ammunition. and he
requires them constantly.
The cracker line" is the line that
connects the army with its own stores
to the rear. That's why we hear SO
much about cutting the enemy's Line
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15

fact, section cut down through these
1000 feet Of beds would disclose a
succession of fossil forests. That is
to say, after the first forest grew and
was entombed, there was a time with
out volcanic outburst-a period long
enough to permit second forest to
grow above the first. This In turn
was covered by volcanic material and
preserved, to be followed again by a
period of quiet and these more or less
regular alterations of volcanism and
forest growth continued throughout the
time the beds were in process of for
nation.
The area within which the fossil for
ests are now found was apparently in
the beginning an irregular but relative
ly fiat basin, on the floor of which af-
ter a time there grew the first forest.
Then there came from some of the vol
canoes. probably those to the north,
an outpouring of ashes, mud flows and
other material which entirely buried
the forest, but SO gradually that the
trees were simply submerged by the
incoming material, few of them being
prostrated On. the raised floor of the
basin, after a time, the next forest
came into existence, only to be in turn
engulfed as the first had been, and
so on through the period represented
by the 1000 feet or more of similar
beds. The series of entombed forests
affords a means of making at least a
rough estimate of the time required
for the upbuilding of what is now Spec
linen ridge and it's extensions.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15
NEW ENGLISH GRINDING MILL
Eouinnent That Reduces the Running
Expenses While Materially In
creasIng the Output.

II the faces of millstones are placed
very close together, so as to produce
fine grinding, a deleterious amount OF
heat Is developed in the grain, and at
the same time the force required to
drive the stones must be increased.
In the Jackson grinding mill, COM
paratively recent English invention,
the stones are placed slight distance
apart, with the result that the power
needed is reduced so per cent. and
the heating effect is nearly eliminated
by the flow of air between the stones.
A system of sieves is arranged In
such a way that particles OF the grain
which have not been reduced suffi-
ciently small to pass through are auto
matical1y carried back to the top OF
the mill and fed second time to the
stones. 1t is claimed that with this
mill not only is the expense of run
hing greatly reduced, but the output
10 ncreased-Popular Mechanics.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15

wall in many places, all of them stand
ing upright in the position In which
they grew Some of these trunks,
which are two to four feet in diameter
and twenty to forty feet high, are so
far weathered out of the rock as to ap-
pear just ready to fall; others are only
slightly exposed; inches mark the
places from which others have already
fallen; and the foot of the cliff is piled
high with fragments of various sizes.
Fine Examples on Specimen Ridge.
In many respects the most remark
able of the fossil forests is on the
northwest end Of Specimen ridge,
about a mile southeast of Junction
Butte and about opposite the mouth OF
Slough creek. So far as known, this
forest was first brought to scientific
attention by Mr.. E. c. Anderson of
Bozeman, Mont, and the writer, who
discovered it in August, 1887. 1t Is
found on the higher part OF the ridge
and covers several acres. The trees
are exposed at various heights on the
very steep hillsides, and one remark
able feature of the forest is that most
of them project we'll above the surface.
One of the largest and best-pre-
served trees stands at the very sum-
NIT of the slope. This trunk, which
is that of giant redwood, is 26h feet
in circumference without the bark and
about twelve feet in height. The por-
ton of this huge trunk preserved Is
the base, and it exhibits to consider
able degree the swelling or buttressing
so we'll known in the living redwood.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15

A LII sorts Of fancy shell combs, or
IA namental hairpins. hair bands and
small barettes, bespeak the return to
favor of more elaborate styles in hair
dressing. The combs are shaped in
so many different ways and made in
SO many different sizes that one con-
cludes they are fashioned to be worn
in any position on the head which
suits the fancy.
A great variety in shell combs, pins
and ornaments are set with rhine
stones and sparkling colored stones.
The combs and other ornaments are
shown in tortoise colorings, amber,
black, white, and gray. Besides white
rhinestones there are settings in en-
erald, amethyst, garnet and topaz
colors.
A popular comb. of which an exam
pie is shown in the picture, is made
to wear when the hair Is done in
a French coil. 1t is long and the teeth
are Joined to a band which is some
times narrower at one end than at the
other, and sometimes pointed at the
ends. This comb may be had with
the teeth hinged on SO that it can be
adjusted to the head in different po.
sitions. A single row of stones, or a
row extending all around the edge of
the band. gives a pretty sparkle to
this comb. Often the band is entirely
encrusted with stones. This more
than doubles the price of the comb
without adding much to it's attrac.
ton.
A very popular large she'll pin is
shown in the picture. One or two of
these pins is thrust in the hair at
the sides when it is coiled low. Or
a pair is sometimes seen in long
French coil.
The large Farrar comb Is worn In
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15
Rolled Pique Collars.

Rolled pique collars that are at
tached to vest fronts of the same can
be added to any coat front, or will go
with the one-piece dress that Is al.
ways opened with deep V at the
neck. The pique in all these models
Is neither stiff nor limp; it has to be
wired If it is to stand up about the
neck. All the pique models are not
plain; some of them are in very fancy
weaves or have a little running spray
of white mercerized embroidery along
the edges.
Some pretty sets for dresses or
coats are made of silk in gay baya.
dere stripes. The deep gauntlet cuffs
are held together by cufflike buttons.
The collars are of the same sailor
shapes as the pique or the lawn,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15
CHAPTER Ill.
Across the Bridge.

1t was ten o'clock. not later, when
the Judge re-entered his front door, He
was alone-absolutely alone, as he had
never been since that night of long
ago, when with the inner fence COM
pleted and the gates all locked, he
turned to the great negro at his side
and quietly said:
I'VE are done with the world, Bella.
Are you satisfied to share this solitude
with me?" And Bella had replied
Might and day, your honor. And
when you are not here-when you are
at court, to bear it alone"
And now this faithful friend was
dead, and 1t was he who must bear it
alone-alone! How could he face it,!
He sought for no answer, nor did he
allow himself to dwell for one minute
on the thought. There was something
else he must do flrst-do this very
night, if possible.
Taking down his hat from the rack,
he turned and went out again, this
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15

,
ests which have been discov-
ered-there are others in Egypt, in
California, and in Arizona-because in
the Yellowstone most of the trees were
entombed in their original upright po-
sition and not found recumbent and
scattered about the ground, writes F.
H. Knowlton of the United States geo.
logical survey in American Forestry.
Those fossil forests cover an eX-
tensive area in the northern portion
Of the park, being especially abundant
along the west side of Lamar river for
about twenty miles above it's junction
with the Yellowstone. Here the land
rises rather abruptly to height of ap-
proximately 1000 feet above the valley
floor. 1t is known locally as Specimen
ridge, and forms an approach to
Amethyst mountain. There is also a
small fossil forest containing a num-
Der of standing trunks near Tower
falls, and near the eastern border of
the park along Lamar river in the
vicinity of Cache, Calfee and Miller
creeks, there are many more or less
isolated trunks and stumps of fossil
trees,
One Forest Above Another.
One traversing the valley of the La
mar river may see at many places nu-
merous upright fossil trunks In the
faces of nearly vertical walls. These
trunks are not all at particular level,
but occur at irregular heights; in
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-01-15
Caesar Met Check on User.

Official dispatches to the Belgian
legation at Washington of the German
failure to cross the User, caused lega-
ton officials to recall that Caesar suf-
fered on the same ground
The meadows Of the Yser," said a
the ancient province of Menapie, where
the legions of Caesar were checked
The story is so deep rooted among the
people that legend says tree still
stands there which is said 70 be the
last one to which Caesar tied his
horse, having been unable to travel far
ther"