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The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

Frederick Douglas for two or three
decades was one of the favorites OF
the lyceum, which he abandoned only
after the emancipation of his race.
Douglas was beyond all comparison
the ablest man whom the black race
ever produced in our country, either
among the pure black or the class of
mixed blood.
He himself was a mulatto His
father was pure white of a distin-
guished Maryland family. His mother
was pure black and his fathers slave
that is. his mother was pure black
and his father pure white.
He always gave his mother the
credit of his talents. Douglas was
born a slave. In early manhood he
managed to escape on a ship, and
landed in New Bedford, Mass. There
he soon learned to read, and worked
at such work as he could find. By
and by he attended antislavery meet
ings, and soon became a popular
speaker and the pet of the abolition
lists. His graphic accounts of his
life as slave were very popular.
From giving the story of his life. he
gradually branched out into discus
sions of the political questions of the
day, and, next to Phillips, was prob
ably the ablest orator of the anti
slavery movement. Eventually he
went to Rochester and published, for
many years, weekly antislavery pa
per. Its title was Frederick Douglas
Paper, which, next to Garrison's Lib
orator and the Antislavery Standard.
was recognized as the ablest antislav-
cry paper in America.
Then he became a lecturer and his
fame spread so rapidly that he took
rank in the favor of the lectures going
public with Phillips and the other
leading lights of the lyceum. When
Lincoln came into power, Douglas
moved to Washington, and was ap-
pointed to office in the District of Col
umbia as marshal, a position he held
during the entire period of Lincoln s
administration.
Douglas first wife was plantation
Negress without any education. A few
years ago he married again. His sec
ond wife was white, and a woman of
education and ability. The black race
has developed under freedom many
effective speakers, but Douglas was
the only man among them who de
served to be regarded as real orator.
The Great Divide.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
TO END HALF MILL LEVY
MEASURE ON SPECIAL CALENDAR
FOR EARLY ACTION.
Senate Strikes Out Enactina Clause
OF First of Three Measures to Pay
for Property Destroyed in Riots.
western Newspaper Union News service

western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-Many of the most import-
ant Dills pending before the Twenti.
eth General Assembly are listed on
the special calendar reported out of
the Senate for second reading. Among
these Is Senator w. c. Robinsons bill
TO repeal the law providing a 1a-mill
levy lor the board of Capitol manag.
ers; Senator Vests bill abolishing the
civil service commission; the Fincher
House bill, known as the short ballot
bill, and House bill by Gill and
Best to enlarge the powers of the
STOCK inspection department in deal
ing with epidemics, such as the foot
and mouth disease.
The contest anticipated over the
bills providing for the remuneration
by the state of property losses suf-
fered by coal companies during the
strike in southern Colorado last year
was staged in the Senate Saturday. 1t
was sharp, but decisive, ending in the
defeat of the first of three such relief
measures to be considered by the Leg
islature. The bill, by Senator Knauss
of Denver, carried an appropriation of
s5O,99O for the Empire Coal Company,
whose property near Aguilar was
burned during the strike riots. Debate
on the measure ended when an over
whelming majority voted for Senator
Eiiots motion to strike out the enact
ing clause
The coal company held that the
state was responsible for the loss be-
cause former governor Ammons with
drew the militia from the Aguilar dis
trict after the representatives of the
coal companies had warned him that
destruction of property would be the
consequence.
Senator Peterson of Pueblo, who de-
Tended the Knauss bill, has two simi-
lar measures-one for an appropria-
tion of S26,SS7 for the Southwestern
Fuel Company and another for $4,000
for the Chicosa Coal Company.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

showed how it takes personality plus
money to achieve success here as
elsewhere. At each place arrange
ments were made to seat the visit
ors, most generally in an adjoining
church, and there was much singing
and little talking. At Madison we
found a station named after a pio-
neer colored man, an eX-slaye, whose
daughter is the efficient director of
the school. The party arrived at
Tuskegee early on Sunday evening
in time to listen to the quaint singing
of the great student body in the beau
tiful chapel with a capacity of from
1.s00 to 1000, fully utilized.
Then began three days of inspec-
ton filled with surprises to those who
saw for the first time the wonderful
work being done at Tuskegee. not
only for the colored young men and
women of the South, but for the cause
of education, for Tuskegee is con-
tribution to pedagogy as well as to
the race problem. Educators every
where will have to reckon with Tus-
kegee if they want to bring their the
ories and practice down to date.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Report workmen's Compensation Act.

Denver. - In several important
phases the workmen's compensation
bill reported to the State Senate by
Senators Lewis and Candlish differs
from the compensation features of the
administration compensation-indust
relations bill. which was referred to
them as special committee. The
compensation bill is chiefly the work
of Senator Lewis as the industrial re-
lations bill also reported out is chief
ly The work OF Senator Candlish. The
bill creates state insurance fund fo'
the benefit of injured employees
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

DR.. W. d. Weatherford, athlete, au-
thor, traveller and Christian leader, ad-
dressed general assembly at the uni
versity at Washington on a moral and
social subject applicable to under
graduate life. A Southerner by birth
and education, and in great demand
throughout the South as speaker, he
was forced to cancel engagements
with five universities there in order to
make a tour of northwestern uniyersi-
ties and colleges.
Doctor Weatherford was varsity
baseball and basketball player at his
alma mater, Vanderbilt university, and
was for three years director of the
gymnasium at that institution. For
13 years he has been the Y. M. c. A.
student secretary of the international
committee for all the colleges in the
southern states. He is the author OF
several volumes, including two on the
uplift of the Negro; and is said to have
done more than any other man to en-
list the friendly cooperation of college
men in Negro betterment.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
FLYERS CROSS LINES, ATTACK
HOBOkEN, AND ESCAPE
GUNS OF FOE.
ONE SUBMARINE SUNK
3OMBAROMENT OF DARDANELLES
HALTED, BUT DIxMuDE AND
NEWPORT SHELLED.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
London, March 25.-A British air
leet, flying inland from the coast
above Antwerp, routed two Zeppelins
and five Taubes in "A battle in mid-air
.ollowing an attack on the German
submarine base at Hoboken, in which
one submarine was sunk and another
badly damaged by bombs.
Following this exploit the English
lviators outflew the German aero
aauts and reached their base at Dun
kirk in safety.
According to admiralty reports, the
tleet originally included five aero
planes carrying rapid-fire guns in ad-
iition to bombs.
Two were obliged to turn back be-
cause of bad weather conditions, while
4 third was forced to land in Holland
because of engine trouble. It's pilot
and observer were interned. The sink
ing of the submarine and the scatter
ing of the German aeronauts would
seem, therefore, to have been accom-
plished by but two aviators of the
Royal corps.
In the same region it is reported
that the Germans are preparing for
another supreme effort in Flanders.
Already there has been considerable
fighting along the User, the Germans
having bombarded Nieuport and Dix
nude. while the Belgians have made
progress along both banks of the river
The big battle of the moment, how
ever, is in progress between Dukla
pass and Uzsok pass in the Car
pathians, where, in their official com
munication, the Russians claimed to
have captured number of Austrians
and to have made general advance
Austrian correspondents declare thai
this battle is likely to continue fol
some time. 1t is possible that the
Russians will use part of the troops
released by the fall of Przemysl in an
endeavor to bring the battle to an end
The Austrians have developed &
fresh offensive in Bukowina, to which
they some days ago sent reinforce
ments and have, according to theil
account, driven the Russians bacl
across the frontier and removed th'
immediate menace of CzernowitZ.
On the other extreme wing of the
eastern front, the Germans have re
occupied Memel with the assistance o
their warships, which have since BON
barded the roads by which the Rus
slams were falling back. The Germans
also apparently have checked the Rus
sian advance on Tilsit.
Unfavorable weather is still inter
fering with the operations of the al
lied fleet in the Dardanelles.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
AERO,AMER|CAN CUL[|NCS

Only few days ago we had as Wis
itors TO the Tuskegee institute the gov
ernor Of Alabama, the superintendent
OF education. judges of the supreme
court, and many other state officers,
and, without hesitation, they de-
clared themselves in favor of educa-
ton OF all the people regardless of
race and color, says a dispatch from
Tuskegee.
Progress is being made. Two years
ago, for example. in Louisiana III chill
dren in each thousand between the
ages of ten and fourteen could not
read or write Within two years we
have reduced that number in Louisi-
ana 10 lis in each 1000. South Car
olina, from $50 to So, in Alabama from
81 to 81, in North Carolina, from 167
to 6S, in Georgia from 106 to 5S; in
Arkansas from 113 to At, and in Vir-
ginia from OF to 81.
Including what they pay in the way
of state taxes and in extra taxes in
,prolonging the school terms and
private schools. the Negroes in the
South now contribute SS,000,000 an
nually toward their own education.
Just now in New York, Booker
Washington records, i note that much
attention is being given to the inves-
tigation of the work of the Rockefel-
Ter boards and the Carnegie boards.
This investigation should go further.
The work of these boards should be
fnIlnwah StnfnQ
where the money that they have
given is helping to make new South
and a new civilization. l wish that
those in charge OF these Investigations
could get into the South and trace
the influence of the Rockefeller and
Carnegie money in bringing about bet
ter supervision of the schools by rea-
son of the work of the state super
visors; could trace the influence OF
these boards in the work of the coun-
ty~ supervisors, in the work that the
farm demonstration agents are doing.
in the work OF the canning clubs and
pig clubs. wish the influence of this
money could be followed into the col
leges, the farms and into the homes
of the people. 1t is here that the in
fiuence of the money from these
boards may be felt and seen in the
bringing about of higher civilization
for white and black people.
Through the education of both
races we are getting rid of the crime
of Iynching. twenty-five years ago
there were 225 cases of lynchings,
mainly in the South; in 1914 there
we're only So cases of lynchings, re-
duction of 400 per cent.
Through education the white and
the black races are being taught how
to live together and work together.
There are numerous state and local
organizations that now bring the races
together in friendly and helpful CO
operation. Among these are the Vir-
ginia Organization society. the South
ern Sociological congress, the Busi-
ness league, chambers of commerce
and women's clubs.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Thirty-five Bills Signed by Governor

lhrty-IlVe 6liIS oi9ned ny Governor.
Denver.-Governor Carlson signed
eighteen Senate bills, seventeen
House bills and vetoed one lower
House measure to date He has be-
fore him for his consideration a dozen
bills finally enacted by the Assembly
During the past week he signed the
following measures: House Bill No.
227, known as the gift enterprise
bill, because it is designed to stop the
giving of premiums of any sort as an
inducement to the purchase of mer-
chandise. 1t is especially aimed at
certain tobacco companies giving cou
pons with their goods. House Bill 204
making the changing of an election
ballot a forgery, the same as the al
teration of a draft or check. The chief
executive vetoed ziouse Bill 81 on
economy grounds. 1t provided for an
eight-hour day for prison guards, and
its approval, it is estimated. would
have cost the state about $4,000 a
year in added salaries for prison en-
ployes.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Industrial Bill Reported to Senate.

Denver.-A combination of the Cana
dian voluntary arbitration act, which
is regarded as probably the most ef-
fective law of its kind ever drawn,
and of the provisions of the United
States law creating the United States
commission on industrial relations, is
made in the industrial relations bill
which was reported out to the State
Senate by Senators Lewis and Cand-
iish, who compose the special commit
tee to which the administration com
bination industrial relations-compensa-
tion bill was referred.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Supposed Mail Train Robber Jailed.

Pueblo.-Arthur Burleson, "a, whom
government secret service agents be-
lieve to be Frank Grigware, sentenced
to life Imprisonment at Fort Leaven-
worth for the robbery of a Union Pa
cific mail train at Omaha, May %,
1909. was arrested in Pueblo. Grig-
ware escaped from Fort Leavenworth
last December. Burleson arrived in
Pueblo from Albuquerque Jan. 2, and
few weeks later was married here
to Juanita Benjegerdes, owner of the
rooming house where he lived.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

The buildings of the various insti-
tutes at Tuskegee were shown to a
visiting party as model schoolhouses,
types of the new and better school
system which Alabama is trying to
multiply. We understand that thirty
or more such schoolhouses are slated
for completion the next year, all under
the energetic direction of Professor
Sibley, native born white Alabaman,
who holds an appointment from the
state superintendent of colored rural
schools. The excursion was in his
charge and his energy and enthusiasm
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Inheritance Tax Paid Totals s54, ,6s6

Denver.-Inheritance taxes to the
amount of $54,6S6.OS have been col
lected by the state so far this year,
according to the report of Appraiser
Leslie f. Hubbard Fran March l to
March 13, $11,52S16 was collected, and
from Jan to March /, S43,157.92. The
largest amount collected was s6,S21 SO,
the tax on the estate of S314,795.01
left by Grace Goodyear Potter of Colo
rado Springs.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Many Injured When Church Caves In

Loveland.-Jacob Eisenbach, 10, and
Jacob Amend, %. were seriously in
jured about the back and neck and
twenty other men were bruised and
cut as the result of the caving in OF
the walls of the First German Con
gregational church here. Eisenbach
and Amend are in the Loveland hos
pital, but will recover according to
the physicians. About fifty others be-
sides Eisenbach and Amend were
working on the roof of the structure
when the walls caved in. They fell
forty feet to the ground, where others
were at work. Most of the men were
badly cut and bruised. The building
is being torn down for the purpose
of erecting a new $4,000 edifice, and
the wrecking is being done by the
members themselves.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Board orders Museum Finished.

Denver.-Under fire itself from the
opposition to its continued existence
as state body, the board OF Capitol
managers decided to start something
itself. Through Architect Edbrooke
notice was served upon l.. Scott Two
good that within forty-eight hours he
must resume work on the state mu
scum building, for the purpose OF
bringing about immediate completion
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

William E. Valentine of indianapolis,
widely known as a Negro educator.
was selected by the New Jersey State
Board of Education to succeed James
M. Gregory as principal of the Indus
trial School for Colored Youths at
Bordentown.
He was born at Montclair and was
graduated from Harvard. He is now
a supervising principal of schools in
indianapolis.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Resolution Ends Session April II

Denver-The House of Represents
tiyes passed the Fincher-Taylor joint
resolution providing for an adjourn
n.ent not later than midnight, Satur-
day, April 10. Representative McDev
tits bill, II. B. 53S, for the repeal OF
the direct primary and substitution OF
the old convention system. came UP
on second reading and after long fill
clustering was killed.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Death May Bar Greeley Mans Trial

Greeley.-Rudy Myers, who shot
and killed William Mcdowell at Fred.
erick a few weeks ago, after he
claimed the latter had attacked his
wife and caused her death, may never
be tried for the staying. Death may
interfere.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

And the average man spends nine
tenths of his life trying to accumu
late enough money to enable him to
spend the other tenth in comfort
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

Wine tasters, employed in their pro.
fessional duties, never swallow the
wine they taste. They merely hold a
sip of the beverage in the mouth for a
few moments and breathe through the
noStrils
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

Seville reports a dull olive market,
the producers and purchasers being
deadlocked, waiting for higher or low
er prices, respectively
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

Using a new aeroplane gun, United
States army officers flying at rate of
nearly a mile a minute 600 feet in the
air have made more than 80 per cent of
hits on a small target on the ground.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27
Carlson to Speak in San Francisco.

Denver.-Governor Carlson will be
the guest of honor and the principal
speaker at the celebration of Swedish
day at the Panama Pacific Exposition
in San Francisco June "a.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

In Germany the sofa is invested with
sanctity as of throne. The visitor
must not sit on it unless especially in
vited to do so by the hostess. To take
a seat there unasked is an outrageous
presumption
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

The fur of the cat is full of electri-
city. and before a thunder storm it
win be noticed that cat is always
extremely lively and playful, probably
on account of it's electrical condition.
Before rain is expected cat will as
siduously wash it's face.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

About three minutes after starting
an average man finds that he can go
downhill fast enough without a sled
under him.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

With the exception of lovemaking'
there are many new ways of doing old
things.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

Labor, to some people, is not so
much a problem as horror.-Nash'
vile Banner.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

cheerful idiot has at least his
cheerfulness to commend him to toiera-
ance.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-27

StonewaIl Jackson's Widow, "a, Dead,
Charlotte, n. C.-Mrs. Mary Anna
Jackson, "a, widow of General Stone
wall Jackson, died at her home here.
The state herald., 1915-11-05
The Rev. Irl K. Hicks
1915 Almanac

The Rev. Irl X. Hicks Almanac. now
ready, grows morc popular and useful
with each passing year. II IL n fixed
'ncceasity In homes. shops and CONNER.
cial establishments all over this cont.
ncnt. This famous and valuable year
book on astronomy. storms. weather
and earthquakes should be in every
home and Office. Professor Hicks com
plctcs this best issue OF his great Az.
mnnac Mt the close of his seventeen
year. The Almsnac will be mailed for
55 cents. Tho Rcv. IIl T. Hicks nnc
Magazine, Word and Works, In sent one
year, with n copy Of his almanac, for
only one dollar. Send for them " Word
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Franklin Ave-, 81 Lpns no. You vi
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~ iols.
The state herald., 1915-11-05
Golfers Weekly.

Everybody wants to read Collier /,
Weekly which has recently been reduc
ed in price from s5.5 to $3.50 and W,
have made arrangements by which vi,
can furnish you Golfers Weekly snc
the State Herald for 81 so. the regular
price of Golfers alone. THIS offer d,
good for both old and new subscribers
Come in and see copy of Golfers and
give us your name as subscriber a,
we cannot promise n continuance Of thii
oifer for any length of time.
The state herald., 1915-11-05
When Baby has the Group

When mother is awakened from
sound sliced to find her child who has
gone to bed apparently in the best of
health struggling for breath, she is
naturally alarmed. Yet if she can keep
her presence of mind and give Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy every ten min.
utes until vomiting is produced, quick
relief will follow and the child will drop
to sleep to awaken in the morning as
well as ever. This remedy has been in
use for many years with uniform sue.
cess. Obtainable everywhere
The state herald., 1915-11-05
HOLYOKE AUTOCO.
EEsGSaGSs sEG9RsaE

Call at the Herald office and
get a sample copy of the Or
ange Judd Farmer for exami-
nation, We are satisfied that,
if you do SO, you will be ready
to subscribe for the Herald
and the Farmer fer one year
for SI,5o. You cant beat thi
price for good home paper
and one Of the Oldest and most
reliable weekly farm magazines
published in the United States
The state herald., 1915-11-05

blight Reaction In Killing Lambs-vaI.
ues Steady to = Dime Lowsr-Fssd.
ers Slow Sale and 15e off-suppliss
Little Larger.
Union Stock Yards. South Omaha,
Nov. 3-Cattle receipts yesterday u
tailed about 1000 head. ing approx
lmately 22,5lS head for the two days
Only few loads Of corn fed cattle
showed up in the receipts and the
market presented no new features
Grass beef of all weights and grades
appeared to be In very good demand
and prices were right around dime
better than Monday for most anything
that the dressed beef men wanted.
Cows and heifers suitable for killing
were also In active request and strong
10 dime higher. In stockers and
feeders trade was slow and the trend
of prices downward. Country demand
has been lacking this week and II
takes lower prices to move the liberal
offerings.
Cattle quotations.: Prime beeves.
s9.75G 1000: good 10 choice beeyes.
S9.00d9.50; fair to good beeves, $500
@S.75; common to fair beeves, $6.50G
500: good to choice yearlings. 5000
975: fair to good yearliDgs. $500
900; common to fair yearlings, $3.50
QS.00; prime grass beeves. 5000
SEQ; good to choice grass steers.
$7.50q 500; fair TO good grass steers.
$6.S0Q7.40: common to fair steers,
$5.75G675: good TO choice grass heif.
ers, s6.O0d7.O0: good to choice grass
cows, s5.SOQ6.5O; fair to good cows,
S5.0Oq5.75: Gamers and cutters. $500
q 500; veal calves. $6.00910.00; bulls.
stays. etc, s425@6.35; good to choice
feeders, s7.4OdS.O0; fair to good feed.
ers. s6.S0d74O: common to fair feed.
ers, s5.75G6.75; good to choice stock.
ers, s750aS00; fair to good stockers,
sG,75a750: common to fair stockers,
s5.50@650; stock heifers. s575Q675;
stock cows. $475q 500: stock calves
sG.50dS75.
Continued light supplies OF hogs were
the rule of the day, only about 5000
head putting in an appearance yester.
day. The market opened 56l0c low.
or. but later sales we've stronger, some
nearly steady with Monday. Tops
reached s725. Bulk OF the sales land
ed at s695G7.00.
Sheep and lamb receipts amounted
to 2l 900 head. With broader supplies
at packers disposal the market re
acted slightly. fat lambs selling a,
prices that were anywhere from
steady to about l0c lower than Mon
day Tops reached ISIS. same as
Mondays top. while the bulk sold al
$s65. killing ewes showed about a
10c decline. Most OF the good ones
went at $3.50. The feeder market was
rather slow and prices were about l5c
lower. some feeder lambs reached
ssA5.
Quotations on sheep and lambs:
Lambs. good to choice. ss.6O@S75:
lambs. fair to good, $500 $50; lambs
feeders. s775GS.45: yenrlings. fair tc
choice s6OoG6.50: yearlings. feeders
sG00G7i5. wethers. fair to choice
s55Od5.T5: ewes good to choice. IS 2.
G550; ewes. fair to good. s4.75d525
ewes, feeders, si.50G525.