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The Washington herald., 1916-05-06
Whit e Dresses and Hats
For Little Tots

A new collection of Dresses and
Hats for summer wear by the little
ones from 2 to E years of age. About
all the pretty summer fashions that
designers of children's garments could
originate will be seen here. and good
many of them will not be seen else
where. They are fine ip quality and
very becoming.
Dresses of white lawn, voile and
dimity, showing the flaring skirts,
hand-embroidery dainty laces, fine
tucks, ribbon-run beading, small
ruffles on the pretty flaring skirts,
ribbon bows, and pink or blue
shocking. There are simple and
elaborately trimmed effects. Made
in empire and long waist styles,
square and round yoke effects,
long and short sleeves. Priced
from $3.50 to $3.50.
White Null Hats; the most re-
fined and becoming little Lingerie
Hats to be had-of fine lawn or
dotted Swiss in mushroom shape,
trimmed with fine lace ruffles and
pink or blue ribbon. bands and
bows Priced from S2.75 to $3.50.
Third hoor-F 81.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-06
MILDLY BLOUSES

are prettier than they have ever
been; white crepes with striped col
lars and cuffs; fancy awning striped
crepeS in various colors-the latest
novelties and the usual good styles,
$I.oo and up.
Third hoor-G st.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-06
Imported Etched
Ice Tea Sets
Special at $500.

An importer had these in his ware
house and did not know il. which &C
counts for their being here at this time
When this small lot is disposed Of. no
more can be obtained.
They are the most beautiful sets for
the money we have ever had-etChed in
thistle pattern; a soft and brilliant
effect that has a delightful frosted ap-
pearsnee and by many considered more
artistic and desirable than cut glass
IL pieces-jug, sugar dish, lemon
tray, lemon fork, and tall tumblers.
The price is $500.
Fifth hoor-G ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

Another, "Bill Peters," has a last stanza
that practically duplicates the closing lines Of
"Enoch Arden:
But he CHANGED one day to run agin
A bullet made O. lead,
Which was harder than he bargained for
And now poor Bill is dead;
And when they brung his body home
barrel of tears shed
OF the true ballad-narrative-t there
are, of course, numerous examples. They are
all too long to quote here in full, but some ex-
tracts from BILLY Venero" will illustrate the
general style Of these songs. And, by the way,
if some motion picture impresario is looking
for the plot of first rate feature film, he would
do we'll to read "Billy Venero" through. The
ballad opens as follows:
Billy Venero heard them say,
In an Arizona town day,
That band of Apache Indians were upon the
trail of death;
Heard them tell of murder done,
Three men killed at Rocky Run,
They're in danger at the cow-ranch," said
Venero, under breath.
Cow-Ranch, forty miles away,
Was little place that lay
In a deep and shady valley Of the mighty will
derness;
Half a score of homes we're there,
And in one maiden fair
Held the heart of Billy Venero, Billy Veneros
little Bess.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
Drawn by VIII Crawford

Billy resolves to ride out to the ranch, to
warn Bess. "Why, man. his comrades tell
him, "you are riding straight to death"
But he answered, "Save your breath;
may never reach the cow-ranch, but I'll do
the best can"
He saddles his little brown pony, Chapo,
and rides away. BY shutdown he reaches Rocky
Run, where the victims of the Apaches had met
death.
$50 shall those go TO warn
Ere the coming of the morn
II we fail-God help my Bessie" and he started
again.
Suddenly shot wakes the echoes, and Billy
sways in the saddle But he struggles on. No
use. He can go no further He halts in the
shadow of hill, takes little book from the
pocket of his CHAPS" and weakly tears a
blank leaf from its pages Bess shall know
that he tried, at least. Dipping a twig in the
blood that flows from a wound over his heart,
he writes: Rouse. Apache warriors lie in
wait. Goodby, Bess. God bless you, darling"
Then he made his message fast,
Loves first message and its last
white with pain.
take this message, IL not me,
Straight to little Bessie Lee;
Then he tied himself to the saddle and be gave
his horse the rein.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

Just at dusk brown horse, dripping with
sweat, stops painting before Bessies door at
the cow-ranch. But his cowboy rider is asleep
"a slumber so profound that little Bess could
never wake him though she tried for ever
more"
You have heard the story told
By the young and by the old,
Away down yonder at the cow-ranch the night
the Apaches came;
OF that sharp and bloody fight,
How the chief fell in the fight
And the panic-sricken warriors when they
heard Veneros name.
And the heavens and earth between
Keep a little flower so green
That little Bess had planted ere they laid her
by his side.
Oddly enough, there is only one drinking
song in the entire collection That one is the
familiar
Drink that rot gut, drink that rot gut,
Drink that red-eye, boys.
By way of rebuttal, there are several of
decidedly religious cast, and two temperance
songs, 1.-The He-Bound Train" and "The
DrInkard's He'll" The latter is pretty trife:
The engine with murderous blood was damp
And was brilliantly lit with a birthstone lamp;
An imp, for fuel, was shovelling bones,
While the furnace rang with thousand grosns,
and so on, working up to the climax
surprisingly large number Of the songs
take the form of a monologue spoken by
convicted criminal or by a condemned muir
derer upon the scaffod The form varies lit
tie. The speaker after introducing himself,
gives brief sketch Of his early ife-as in
Young Companions:
| did not like my freside,
did not like my home;
had in view far rambling,
So far away did roam.
followed by an account of his career and the
crime that ended it:
And landed in Chicago
In the very depth of hell.
courted fair young maiden,
Her name will not tell,
For should ever disgrace her
Since am doomed TO hell.
1t was on one beautiful evening,
The stars we're shining bright,
And with fatal dagger
bid her spirit flight
winding up with a warning to his hearers:
It's now I'm the scafold,
My moments are not long;
You may forget the singer
But don't forget the song.
Only one song, "The Sioux" takes the Ind
ian for its subject, although several of the bal
lads, such as "Billy Venero," are built around
Indian massacres. The Mormons seem to have
been much more inspiring subject for cowboy
bards. having three whole songs to themselves.
Here is the best:
BRIGHAM YOUNG.
Now Brigham Young is Mormon bold,
And leader of the roaring rams,
And a shepherd Of lot of fine tub sheep
And a lot Of pretty little lambs.
Oh. he lives with his five and forty wives
In the city Of the Great Salt Lake,
Where they breed and swarm like hens on farm
And cackle like ducks TO drake.
CHORUS:
oh, Brigham Brigham Young,
It's q miracle how you survive,
With your roaring rams and your pretty little
lambs
And your five and forty wives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

HVERY once in a while you will come
X across a passage in story by Eugene
IL Manlove Rhodes. or Owen Wister or
Harry Leon Wilson wherein the cowboy-hero
is pictured astride his pinto pony, Justify carol
ling a song that begins, 20 bury me not on the
lone prair-ee." The authors, blandy assuming
that. of course, you have known that particular
song from childhood, never give you more than
the one line Of it. It's all very eXasperating
for naturally you don't know the song; and yet
YOU feel that it's just the sort of song cowboy
ought to sing, and you'd give anything If the
author had written down the rest of it.
About six years ago Professor John A.
Lomax of the University of Texas, did write
down and publish the rest Of it, together with
over hundred other cowboy songs and bal
lads, all taken down Just as he had heard them
sung or recited. He has just published new
edition Of the collection" containing forty ad-
dtional songs. With few exceptions, none
of them is traceable TO any one author. They
seem TO have evolved, like most true ballads,
from the common experiences Of the people
who sang them.
The most characteristic of these cowboy
songs have one salient feature In common
gloom. Death is the favorite theme, with last
words as a close second. Evidently there's
nothing a cowboy enjoys so much as a good
cry The 30 bury me not" song for instance.
the full title of which is 1.-THE Dying Cowboy"
opens as follows:
20 bury me not on the lone prairie"
These words came low and mournfully
From the pald lips of youth who lay
On his dying bed at the close Of day.
He had walled in pain till DER his brow
Deaths shadows fast gathering now;
He thought Of his home and his loved ones nigh
As the cowboys gathered to him die.
20 bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the wild cayotes will howl Ger me,
In a narrow grave just six by three,
o bury me not the lone prairie
There is touch of The Coming Tower in
the next stanza:
''In fancy listen to the well known words
OF the free wild winds and the song of the birds
He asks to be buried "in the little church
ward on the green hillside" by his fathers
grave "where my friends can come and weep
Ger me-" But
we took no heed of his dying prayer;
In a narrow grave just six by three
We buried him there on the lone prairie.
The song ends:
And the cowboys now as they roam the plain
For they marked the spot where his bones were
lain
Fling a handful of roses DER his grave,
With prayer TO Him who his soul will save.
80 bury me not on the lone prairie
Where the wolves howl and growl DER me-
Fling handful of roses DER my grave
With prayer TO Him who my soul will save"
Another, almost as famous, IS equally
CHEEKY:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
THE COWBOYS LAMENT.

As walked out in the streets of Laredo,
As ! walked out in Laredo one day,
I spied 4 moor cowboy wrapped up in white linen,
Wrapped Up in white linen cold as the clay
ooh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
Play the Dead March as you carry me along;
Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod
DER me.
For Pm poor cowboy and know I've done
wrong"
81 see by your outfit that you cowboy"
These words he did say as l boldly stepped by;
"Come, sit down beside me and hear my sad story;
was shot in the breast and know must die.
"Let sixteen gamblers handle my coffin,
Let sixteen cowboys come sing me song,
Take me 10 the graveyard and lay the sod DER me,
For I'm a poor cowboy and l know I've done
wrong.
"My friends and relations, they live in the Nation
They know not where their boy has gone.
He first came to Texas and hired TO a ranchman,
Oh, I'm young cowboy and know I've done
wrong
Go write a letter TO my gray haired mother,
And carry the to my sister dear;
But not a WORD OF TINS Shall you menlloh
When crowd gathers round you my story TO
hear
'Then beat your drum slowly and play your FIFE
lowly,
Beat the Dead March as you carry me along;
We all love cowboys young and so hand
some,
We all love our cowboys although they've done
wrong.
go gather around you crowd of young cowboys,
And tell them the story Of this my sad fate;
Tell one and the other before they go further
To stop their wild rowing before tits too late.
oft was once in the saddle used TO go dashing,
II was once in the saddle used TO go gay;
First TO the dram house, then to the card house;
Got shot in the breast am dying to-day
COWBOY SONGS and Other Frontier Ballads.
Collected by John A. Lomax, NJ A.. Octave,
XXVIII+, ala PIP. New York, Sturgis Wal
ton Company 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

Get six jolly cowboys 10 carry my coffin;
Get six pretty maidens 20 carry my pail,
Put punches of roses all my coffin;
Put roses to deaden the clods as they fall.
"Then swing your rope slowly and rattle your
spurs lowly.
And give wild whoop as you carry me along;
And in the grave throw and roll tie sod DER
me-
For Pm a young cowboy and know I've done
wrong.
GO bring me cup, cup of cold water,
To cool my parched lips the cowboy said;
Before I turned. the spirit had left him
And gone TO its Gver-the cowboy dead
We beat the drum slowly, and played the FIFE
lowly,
And bitterly wept as we bore him along;
For We all loved our comrade, so brIve young
and handsome,
We all loved comrade although he'd done
wrong.
Like all men who are genuinely in love with
their work, the cowboy devotes much of his
spare time to saying unkind things about his
job, and warning others away from it. The
"Hurrah for the open road" school of verses
is scantily represented in the collection. What
few there are were written by individuals.
For example, "The Song of the Buffalo Hunt
ers," by Robdeau, opens in this wise:
Hurrah for the buffalo hunters!
Hurrah for the cart brigade
That creak along its winding way,
While dance and sing and play
Hurrah, hurrah for the cart brigade
Contrast that sort of thing with the deeply
felt refrain of the anonymous Greer County,:
Hurrah for Greer County!
The land of the free,
The land of the bed-bug
Grass-hopper, and fea
I'll sing of its praises
And tell of its fame
While starving to death
On my government claim.
or with the peroration of "The Horse
Wrangler":
I've travelled up and I've travelled down,
I've travelled this country round and round,
I've lived in city and I've lived in town,
But I've got this much TO say:
Before you try cowpunching, kiss your wife,
Take q heavy insurance your life,
Then cut your throat with barlow knife
For it's easier done that way.
Some of the best songs in the book are those
that celebrate the deeds of Western notables-
most of them, unfortunately, criminals. The
Jesse James song, reproduced above, with its
immortal reference to that dirty little coward
that shot Mr.. Howard" is one of the best.
Here is another song about celebrity. 1t has
the merits of brevity and directness:
BILLY THE KID.
Billy was bad man
And carried big gun,
He was always after Greasers
And kept 'em the run.
He shot one every morning
For TO make his morning meal;
And let white him,
He was shore TO feel his steel.
He kept folks in hot water,
And he stole from many stage;
And when he full of liquor
He was always in a rage.
But day he met man
Who was a whole lot bladder,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21
The Songs a Cowboy
Sings Are Just the
Kind of Songs He
Ought to Sing.
BY Deems Taylor

Come. all you old eowpunchers, story will tell,
And II you'll all be quiet, sure will sing IL well;
And il you boys don't like it, you sure can go to
he'll.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

II wa, Robert Ford, that dirty Iittle coward
wonder how be does feel
For he ate Jesse, bread and he slept in Jes'es bed
Then laid poor Jesse in his grave
Jesse was o n.sn. q friend to the poor.
Tie never would a suffer pain
And with his brother Frank he robbed the Chicago bank
And stopped the Glendale train
II was hi, brother Frank that robbed the Gaan bank.
And carried The money from the town.
II wa, in this very place that they had little race.
For they shot Captain Sheets to the ground
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-21

The people held their breath when they heard Of Js.e death
And wondered how he came 10 die
IL was one Of the gang called little Robert Ford
He shot poor Jesse on the sly
Jesse won't to his res, with his hand on hi, bresn
The devil will be upon bis knee
He was torn one day in the eourty ~ Clay
And came from solitary
This song was made by Billy Ca,hade.
As soon . the news did arrive
He said there was with the law IN his hand
Who could take Jesse James when .liy.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
CANDIDATE FOR
STATE SENATOR
+. \. Warren Nominated In
Third District, Detroit, Mich
MAN OF DEFINITE IDEAS

Selection Of Well Known and Success
full Attorney For Senatorial Honors
Furnishes Big Surprise In Political
circiss-Ampy Qualified by Eduos-
tion and Ripe Experience For Posi-
tlon Sought.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
Dinner In Aid of Home For AGED.


Preparations are being made by a
committee, headed by Mrs. Thomas H
Lloyd, for the annual dinner in aid of
the Home For Aged and Inirm Color
ed Women at Pittsburgh The func-
ton will take place at the home. on
Lexington avenue. Thursday, Nov. 2.
education, recreation or what not, in
places open to the public for accommo
dalton or resort, as undemocrauc and
un-American. increasing and perpet
uating race prejudice and constituting
essentially a denial of equality OF
rights and destined to make Of eoloretl
Americans social and civic outcasts.
DR.. William A. Sinclair, Pennsylya
MIA Joseph II. Stewart, Washington
Reverdy G. Ransom, New Jersey
Thomas Walker, Washington; Isaac B.
Allen, New York; Rev. ]. Edward
Kent, Maryland; Mrs. Ida B. Wills
Barnett, Illinois, and e. T. Morris
Massachusetts, committee on declara
ton.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
Form Republican Club at Lakeland

The Colored Republican club recent
Iy organized at Lakeland, Md, has for
its object the civic and economic bet
torment of its members, as well as the
political welfare of the colored voters
of the community and state in gen
eral. William H. Richman, president
of the organization, Is well known
agitator for the civil and political
rights Of the colored race. He Is often
referred to as the watchdog for the
race at Lakeland and Its environs
roughs episode. He uses lines from
Douglass before giving the conven-
tons attitude on the matter:
"'Where there is no insult intended
there is no injury done
1.-THE effort by some apparent friends
to make Miss ". II. Burroughs believe
that she has been wronged by the
auditor of the national Baptist con-
vention is doing her and her work a
great injustice.
THE facts are these: Auditor M. M.
Rodgers simply said there is need of a
connecting link between the deed to
the land on which the school is built
and the incorporation, National Train
ing school, and a missing link be.
tween the training school and the wo-
mems convention and recommended
that 1t be 'fixed' during the lifetime
Of Mrs. j. NJ. Layton and Miss N II.
Burroughs. trustees. and for this the
convention voted
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

er school workers. The entering class
numbers over 800 and has representa-.
tives from many states. The Whit
tier school, which is Hampton's com.
munity day school and training school,
under the principalship of Miss Sarah
J. Walter, has also opened with fair
sized enrolment.
Among the new colored teachers and
workers are: Mrs. Ursula S. Colding.
Mrs. Florence p. Herbert, Miss Grace
Stewart, Clarence A. Atkins, William
II. Kettle, Esa #. Roam and Lorenzo c.
White.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

"These colors are yours. Guard
them as a sacred possession. Protect
them, as l know you will should the
necessity arise, even with your lives
God grant that you may never be call
ed upon to make the sacrifice offered
by those who have gone before you
that the freedom and civilization and
enlightenment which the flag embodies
and represents may abide and remain
forever"
The men made splendid impression
upon the governor and the publb who
witnessed the presentation ceremony
and the marching of the men in squad
formation. Headed by band of mu-
sic, ON leaving the Union League club
the regiment marched up Fifth avenue
to the tune of America" Onward.
Christian Soldiers" 1.-THE Star Span
gled Banner" etc. The colored citi-
zens showed their patriotism and per-
sonal interest In the Fifteenth by turn.
ing out by thousands at the Union
League club and along the line of
march, cheering and waving their hats
and handkerchiefs in approval of the
success of the men in thus meeting
the full legal requirements to enter
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

were two prominent white men. The
Detroit Journal gives the following ac-
count of how the vote for the three
candidates stood. The Journal says:
The man State Senator Jim Hanley
will have to beat If he wants to go
back to boss the Job In Lansing has
just discovered that the Democracy of |
the Third senatorial district has COM
missioned him to make the contest. IN |
an idle moment Francis H. Warren, |
busy attorney. dropped into the county |
clerks office, gave up 81 and became a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
ton. Then he forgot It. He even went
out of town, nor did he return till the
primary elections were over and people |
had ceased talking about them.
Lawyer Warren met Judge Hubert,
who said to him:
"I think you've been NOMINATED for !
state senator.
"'Can't be- and Mr.. Warren laughed. !,
Never tried for it. and the other candi- !
dates were mighty good men,
1.-THE tabulation of the returns was
consulted. and this was what 1t showed:
Frank r. Hamburger, secretary of the
Detroit Association of Credit Men, 800:
Francis Rosenthal, attorney. 251; Fran
els H. Warren, 1878.
THE Democratic candidate has at
least a platform, business administra-
ton and economy. He is no mere band
wagon follower. He has ideas, and
one of these is that every old resident
of Michigan should be relieved OF that
nightmare of the common people, the.
fear Of restitution In old age. by means
of q pension. In fact, he has already
begun to give effect to such plan with
an initiatory petition for constitu-
tional amendment to pave the way.
''Then he would relieve business and
labor Of taxation as much as possible
by gradually reducing the imposts ON
the fruits Of industry and making the
unearned increment In land values bear
its Just share of the burdens of govern
ment. The Third district includes the
First. Second, Third, Fourth and Sixth
wards
Francis II. Warren was born at Sar-
mia. Ont, in 1864 At the age of four
his parents became residents of Sagi-
nav, Mich. Young Warren attended
the public school at Saginaw until he
was fourteen, at which time he was
compelled to leave school In order to
assist his parents in earning living
for the family. His first experience In
business was gained at Maekinac Is
land. Mich, in 1887, where he estab-
lished barber shop. restaurant and a
laundry.
In the early nineties Mr.. Warren be-
came involved In several lawsuits on
the island. He did not get what ap-
peared to him to be square deal In
the courts. after adjusting his legal
affairs as best he could Mr.. Warren be-
gan the study of law In 1896, as he
says. for self protection. In 1900 he
entered the Detroit College of Law,
from which he was graduated with the
degree of LII. B. In 1908 and was adj
mitted to the Detroit bar and on March
6, 1872 to the United States supreme
court.
Attorney Warren has been identified
with economic reforms, such as public
ownership of public utilities, old age
pension. taxation of community values,
etc. for a number of years. He Is a
thoroughgolng advocate for a full and
complete application of the American
doctrine OF equal rights to all, IRE
spective of race, creed or color.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
ADVOCATE OF FAIR PLAY.
Father Vernimont Lauds Worlds Edi-
toriaI on Colored Soldiers.

torial on Colored Soldiers.
Father Raymond Vernimont. Ro-
man Catholic priest at Denton, Tex,
in recent article TO the New York
World under the caption Justice to
the Negro" says:
at is refreshing to see the great
change taking place In some leading
papers on the Negro question. Your
eulogy of the Negro soldier is repro
duced in the last issue of the Crisis
page 237. High minded people glor!
In this forward step. The enemies
you make by giving justice to the Ne.
gro are few and unworthy of notice
Continue to use your pages for the de
Tense of that long oppressed race. God
and man viii bless your paper for it."