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REGISTER IF YOU WANT TO VOTE THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY IF NOT YOU WILL BE DISFRANCHISED ON NOVEMBER 6TH Higher Educat'n By Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, D. D., of Gammon Theological Seminary, of Atlanta, Georgia. VOL. XIII. Higher I By Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, D. Seminary, of Au It is gratifying to the Negro that the question has shifted from the fact to the content of his education is now beyond question, forced here by the concrete evidences of the day. The discovery of this truth has been along a tedious path contended against at every foot of the way by mossback and mediaeval arguments that deserve the respect due only to extreme antiquity without the adjunct of intelligence. Does the Negro need the higher education? The open suspicion of hostility to this form of education for the descendant of Ham cannot be concealed by its mock sympathy and its superficial disingenuousness. There need be no cavil at this point. First, permit me to file a caveat. The opponents to the higher education of the Negro charge that the advocates of higher education for this recently liberated plow hand believe in and urge the giving of a college education to every field hand on the plantation. This charge is not worth the ink it takes to write it. Not every Negro can master Kant's "Categorical Imperative," but the few who can grasp it should be given the chance to find out what that master German mind meant by that abstruse subject. As with the white race so with the black race the leaders of thought must be broadly learned in the disciplines of higher education. It is notably true that there cannot be carried on the secondary and industrial schools of this race without men and women trained in the colleges and universities as professors and teachers. Take from Tuskegee Institute her college-learned professors and her history becomes a blank and his many industries would cease to exist. The college learned men and women there make that school. But the other suggestion in the question above is one that is repellent to the Negro race, namely, a college education unfits the Negro for his place. The writer rises to a question of privilege and asks two question, "What is the Negro's place? "Who determined his place?" In answer to the first question we say that the Negro's place is where he can best serve his God in the advancement of civilization. That may be between the plow handles for some; with a sledge hammer with others; at the sewing machine with others; in the pulpit with others; on the Judge's bench with others; in the sick room with others, with a telescope with others, and in the United States Senate with others. Open all doors to him from a blacksmith shop to the observatory's skylight. Say to him, "The doors are open. Go in and choose your place, but remember that the fittest survive." In answer to the second we say that the Negro himself is to determine the place he is to fill. This constant placing of the Negro by saying that God meant him to fill such and such a station is a mixture of audacity and antebellum lore. The question of place is foreign to the discussion of the principles of education. 'Tis well for those self-deluding wiseacres to learn that no race can permanently determine the place another shall occupy in the strength of history. Each race in the "parliament of man" will finally choose its place and occupy it. The Negro believes in all kinds of education and he insists that no barriers be placed in his path to think the thoughts of the mighty and to achieve along the lines of life according as "God hath dealt to every man." Give him all the education he can stand and he will do the rest. WASHINGTON LETTER Special Correspondent. Washington, D. C.—President Roosevelt will return to Washington October 2, and by that time the wheels of the government will have begun to go around at a faster gait than for the last several months. Should the Cuban complication grow graver it is possible that the President will return that time, but the schedule now is for him to get back here on the date named. Before the President's return all members of the Cabinet will have resumed their duties here, and the vacations of the principal officers of the government will have been completed. DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1906. The story given out that there is a clash in the office of the Register of the Treasury has no foundation in fact. Register Vernon and Assistant Register Adams are in complete accord. The gentlemen were close friends before going in office and nothing has occurred to cause the least friction. Register Vernon, who is an eloquent speaker, leaves this week to campaign for Congressional candidates in the West, and will be gone several weeks. He said: "The story of friction in my office is false. Mr. Adams and I are working together in perfect harmony. Mr. Adams is a conscientious worker, and I am glad to have his valuable assistance." It is evident that the person who originated the clash story is a descendant of Ananias. There is great turmoil in the public schools just now. At a recent meeting of the school board the superintendent made the following recommendation: "I have the honor to recommend that the following persons be dismissed for the good of the service from of the public schools of the District of Columbia: Mr. J. B. Clark, from the position of supervising principal of the tenth division; Mrs. A. J. Cooper from the position of principal of the M Street High school; Mr. J. L. Love from the position of teacher of the M Street High School." Capt. Oyster moved that the recommendations be approved, and they were, unanimously. The end is not yet, as Mrs. Cooper and others will take the matter to the courts and Congress for settlement. A conference of colored citizens and patrons of the M. Street High School was held at the Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church to consider the turn affairs have taken in the matter of the principalship of that school and to take whatever action might be necessary to safeguard the interest of the school. The meeting was presided over by Rev. S. L. Corothers, who described the situation. Earnest addresses were made by Rev. William D. Jarvis, Rev. James Jasper, Mr. Thomas S. Johnson, G. S. Mabry, James S. Neal, and others. Those present joined in a statement which alleges that Supt. Chancellor has not given the colored people and the patrons of that school a square deal and which denounces the former director of high schools as responsible for the state of affairs. The Washington Conservatory of Music and Expression opens its fourth year today. It has an increased faculty and three new departments will be opened. The conservatory also announces a prize of $200 to be awarded to the student of the Harmony Department who composes the best original symphony. There is great satisfaction among the colored people over the reappointment of Dr. W. Bruce Evans as principal of the Armstrong Manual Training School. A hot fight was put up against him, but he won out on his record. The Department of Justice is working on a number of peonage cases in the South, and many convictions are oooped for. It is the determination of the Roosevelt administration to stamp out peonage entirely. The "Lily White" Republicans of Virginia are preparing to cast out the colored voters. THE NEGRO SOLDIER The New York Evening Mail has this to say of the fighting ability of the Negro soldier: "Picture writings of the ancient Egyptians prove that from the earliest ages of the world the Negro has been a good fighter. The Egyptian kings maintained Negro legions for their wars, and their redoubtable bravery was the theme of many an annalist in that remote time. At intervals ever since the Negro has been employed most successfully as a soldier. In our Civil war he stepped instantly from slavery to the status of a military hero. Port Hudson and Fort Wagner established his reputation for desperate valor in battle, and Las Gussimas, El Caney. San Juan Hill and many well-fought fields have clinched it. But the Negro soldier in peace is a somewhat different proposition. As a regular soldier of the United States he is inclined to be assertive of his equality with any other soldier that lives. When he is stationed in the North or far West, his sense of his soldierly dignity does not collide with anything but in the South it sometimes does. His uniform and his honorable military record do not promote him to any sort of consideration whatever there. When off duty he meets with what he and his officers regard as indignities. And sometimes he retaliates, and there is trouble, as there has been at Brownsville, Texas. There are four Negro regiments in the regular army—the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry. They are commanded by white officers many of whom are Southern men. They are popular corps with the officers. The men show good discipline and excellent general soldierly qualities. There has sometimes been a demand for the abolition of these black regiments, on the pretext that they create race troubles when stationed in the South. But the historic grounds which has been reddened with the blood of the black soldiers would cry out against any such course as that. If the black people of the country were denied the right to serve the nation beneath the flag which has been honored by their devotion and bravery. the status of the race in this country would be servile and miserable indeed. There is a creditable way out of the difficulty created by such collisions as that at Brownsville. Work enough for the Negro soldier, when his tour of duty in the Philippines is done, can be found in the North, the West, or the remote posts in the Southwest where conflicts are unlikely. There is no reason why the Negro troops should be put where they will meet with such indignities as Maj. Penrose has reported at Brownsville, or where their own sense of their military importance, which may sometimes be exaggerated, would lead them to offend Southern standards. They are two good soldiers to lose. Keep them where they are most useful. RACE NEWS Gathered from Various Sources. In many parts of Texas white plantation owners are guarding their cotton pickers with shot guns. This step has been made necessary because certain agents are going from place to place interfering with their help and causing the Negroes to leave one man's service for another. If the men are the salt of the earth women are undoubtedly the sugar, contends the Florence (Kansas) Bulletin. Salt is a necessity, sugar a luxury. Vicious men are saltpetre, stern men are rock salt, nice men are table salt. Old maids are brown sugar, good natured matrons are loaf sugar, and pretty girls are fine, pulverized sugar. Pass the pulverized sugar please. The Nashville Clarion says. "The most diabolical crimes ever committed are being perpetrated upon our people in this country. Yet we are not discouraged; we have labored too hard, gone through too many trials, walked too deep in blood and buried too many loved ones here to turn back and find another country. Our fathers paid a costly price for a place for us: we cannot at this late hour surrender it into the hands of foreigners, nihilist, anarchists, socialists and lynchers who defy all law and order. Cape Girardeau, Mo., Sept. 14.—John Reed, a Negro, who served in Troop I, Tenth Cavalry, during the Spanish-American war, was one of the principal witnesses for the NO. 1. Government in the trial of Smith Bros. on charges of violating the peonage statutes. "I never received a cent for my labor all the time I worked for the Smiths," he said. "I was forced to work under penalty of death. I was lured to Missouri under pretense that I was to work in a flour mill. Fifteen other Negroes came with me. Before we knew it we were all prisoners." The President has appointed Col. Culver C. Sniffen to be paymaster general of the army to succeed Gen. Francis S. Dodge, who retired recently. The retirement of Gen. Dodge caused a number of other promotions namely, Lieut. Col. Wm. H. Comgy's to be colonel; Maj. Elijah W. Halford to be lieutenant colonel and Capt. John R. Lynch, to be Major. Major Lynch is a Negro and was once a member of the house of representatives from Mississippi and was later 4th Auditor of the Treasury. He has been identified with Republican politics in the South for many years. Chattanooga, Tenn., September 7.—Mrs. Mary Prather, an Afro-American woman, commonly known as "Old Aunt" Mary, is dead at Athens, Tenn., at the age of 115 years. She had lived in Athens 62 years and was the mother of ten children, who went as slaves with their mother to that little town. When she was born there were only 459,000 slaves in the United States, but she lived to be one of 4,000,000 slaves. When she was born George Washington was 59 years of age and Thomas Jefferson was 49 years of age. She was a mother when Abraham Lincoln was born. She was originally the property of William Gibson of Kentucky. She was married four times. GRAND JUNCTION. Mrs. W. M. Sheldon is having erected a modern 4-room house. Mrs. Samuel Alexander who has been seriously ill is now out of danger. The fruit exhibit at the fair would be a credit to the St. Louis exhibition. Misses Helen Carr and Clara Bailey of Gunnison, are here to visit the fair. Mr. and Mrs. Carriss of Montrose, are visiting our city the guest of Mr. Hamilton. Mrs. James E. Harris thinks of spending the winter with her father in Fall City, Kansas. Mrs. T. P. Langon and daughter Lottie, are contemplating a visit to Richmond, Va., the former home of Mr. Langon. (Continued to 4th page) F this ad does me some good Come and say so to I.Rude, L. S. MOORE. Wines, Liquor Pabst Milwaukee Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Pabst Milwaukee BeerXonDraught. ```markdown ``` Tel. 2 EVERYTHING PHONE THE ABBOTT H. W. MIL We Appriciate Your Patrona PASTIME S A RESORT FOR LADI EVERYTHING IN DRUGS PHONE MAIN 1184. We Appriciate Your Patronage. 19TH & CURTIS STS. DENVER, COLO. 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To read it is a liberal Education, and the citizen who goes without it does a positive harm to himself, to his family, and to the community. In no other way can the investment of 2% cents per day for that is all The Republican costs any subscriber—bring such rich results in that Knowledge which is both Power and Pleasure. Information, instruction and entertainment fill its columns and it leaves a good taste in the mouth of the reader. It stands for Law and Order in the State—for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness in the Home. If you are not already enrolled among its splendid list of Patrons send on your subscription and give it a fair trial at 75 cents per month for Daily and Sunday. The Little Tailor Cor.15th and Curtis Streets. Res. Phone York 1458 Denver, Colorado Denver Denver, Colorado NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Hemp Gathered from All parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Personal. Reuben Perry has been appointed supervisor of Indian schools. Governor Higgins of New York has declined to become a candidate for re-election. James J. Jeffries, who retired with the title of champion heavyweight of the world, has announced his determination to re-enter the ring. Henry Robinson, a widely known banker of Akron, Ohio, died recently of heart disease. At the time of his death he was engaged in building an electric line between Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. A movement, brought about by the recent birth of his 43d child to one of his five wives, has been inaugurated in Salt Lake to have Joseph E. Smith, president of the Mormon church tried for unlawful cohabitation. William Allen White was the guest at luncheon recently of President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois, chairman of the house committee on foreign relations, died recently at Naragansett pier. He was 72 years old. Henry A. Buchtel, chancellor of the Denver university, has been named to succeed Phillip B. Stewart, resigned, as the republican candidate for governor of Colorado. Gen. Nicolaieff of the Russian artillery, was recently assassinated on the streets of Warsaw. E. S. Conway, of Chicago, has been elected grand-sire of the supreme grand lodge of Odd Fellows. Henry L. Palmer, of Milwaukee, Wis., has been elected sovereign grand commander of northern jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite Masons. Miscellaneous. As a result of recent investigations of the insane asylum at Norfolk, Neb., three former attendants have been arrested charged with assault upon patients. The steamer bringing Paul O. Stensland, the Chicago fugitive bank president from Morocco, has arrived in New York. The collision of a passenger train and switch engine at New Prague, Minn., caused the death of four persons. The new United States battleship Georgia has been placed in commission and may be sent to Cuba. President Roosevelt has sent $100 to Admiral Thomas to be used to help pay the costs of the suit instituted in Newport, R. L., to determine whether a man may be excluded from a place of amusement because he is wearing the uniform of the United States army or navy. The mayor of Jellico, Tenn., has issued an urgent appeal for aid for people who suffered loss through the explosion of a car load of dynamite there which practically ruined the town. The miners' unions have been perpetually enjoined from interfering with the Leiter mines at Zelgler, Ill., after a legal contest extending over two years. The cattle receipts at Kansas City for six days was 61,800 head, nearly as much as Chicago and more than twice as much as Omaha and St. Louis combined. Messrs. Taft and Bacon have practically abandoned hope of settling the trouble in Cuba without direct intervention by the United States and have so notified the president. During a race riot in Atlanta, Ga., at least 15 negroes were killed and an unknown number severely beaten by a mob which completely overran the city, rendering the police force helpless. Twelve deaths, the injuring of scores of other persons and $500,000 damages to property were caused at Jellico, Tenn., recently by the explosion of a car of dynamite standing on the railroad track in the center of the business district. Four bids have been received by the government for furnishing Chinese labor for the Panama canal. The lowest bid was ten cents an hour in gold. No award was made. By an agreement between those interested the legatees of the will of Russell Sage are to receive double the amount of their legacies. The will was admitted to probate without protest. According to the reports of the assors, Kansas has trees of an age to bear fruit as follows: Apples, 6,654.536; peach, 4,621.147; cherry, 652.275. Twelve persons are dead and 17 injured in the wreck of the Scotch express on the Great Northern railroad at Grantham, England. It develops that in the typhoon which recently swept over the harbor at Hongkong, 12 ships were sunk, 24 were damaged and half of the native craft in the harbor were sunk. It is estimated that more than 5,000 Chinese were drowned. The steamship City of Seattle, en route to Alaska went on the rocks near Victoria recently. The passengers were reported safe. By a recent decision of the United States supreme court interest upon government bonds is taxable in the various states. Following the race riots at Atlanta, Ga., which caused the militia to be called out, four mounted policemen were fired upon from ambush by negroes and two of them killed and another injured. Negroes also killed two men in the suburbs. Dr. L. D. Brown, territorial veterinarian, stated that there is an epidemic of glanders at McLoud, Ok., where four horses have died of the disease and four more were killed by Dr. Brown. The latest consultations of medical advisers of the Sultan of Turkey have established that Abul Hamid was suffering from cancer of the kidneys, which does not permit of an operation being performed, and is usually fatal within a year. Fire started from a natural gas explosion in the basement of the theater destroyed the Crawford opera house at Topeka, Kan. An application has been filed in the Kansas supreme court asking a mandamus to compel Acting Mayor Laughlin, of Kansas City, Kan., to call a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mayor Rose. Revised estimates of the dead in consequence of the dynamite explosion of Jellico, Tenn., show only ten fatalities onstead of 12, as at first reported. Samuel Bland Arnold, who confessed that he was a party to a conspiracy to abduct President Lincoln just before the assassination of the president by John Wilkes Booth, died recently at the home of a relative in Waverly, a suburb of Baltimore. He was 72 years old. An edict has been issued at Peking ordering the abolition of the use of opium, both foreign and native, in China, within a decade. The Pennsylvania railroad company has awarded contracts for the construction of 12,400 freight cars, at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. The Missouri state fair board has designated October1 as children's day, when all school children will be admitted to the fair free. The cruiser Des Moines with Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon on board arrived in Havana harbor on time and the officials immediately began the investigation of the causes of the Cuban trouble. H. J. Bone, United States district attorney for Kansas, has announced that five of the 13 cattlemen indicted for fencing government land in the western part of the state will be required to stand trial, as they have not shown that the fences have been removed as ordered by the courts. Attorney General Hadley, of Missouri, has secured from H. Clay Pierce an admission on the witness stand that the majority stock of the Waters-Pierce Oil company is owned by the Standard Oil company. Customs dock No. 4 at Buenos Ayres, Argentine republic, has been destroyed by fire causing a loss of more than $1,000,000. William H. Ritter, of Denver, one of the witnesses whom the state relied upon in the Snyder boodle case in St. Louis has been arrested. He will be held pending an investigation into the charge that he was bribed to stay away. Survivors of the famous "Iron brigade" held a reunion recently on Snodgrass Hill near Chattanooga, Tenn., where they fought in 1863. The normal school at Stanberry, Mo., was destroyed recently by fire causing a loss of $75,000. Incendiarism is suspected. Every department of the army has made arrangements to meet any emergency that may arise should intervention in Cuba become necessary. By a decision of Judge Kohlsaat in the federal court of Chicago members of the four ticket brokers' associations, controlling the greater part of that business throughout the United States have been perpetually enjoined from "scalping." President Roosevelt has extended the eight hour law to apply to all public work under the supervision of any department of the government. The books of the People's bank of Sedan, Kan., which have been examined following the disappearance of Cashier Stollard, show a shortage of $17,700. The National Dental association has elected Dr. A. H. Peck, of Chicago, president, and Dr. D. J. McMillan, of Kansas City, as vice president. The next meeting will be held in Minneapolis, Minn. Gov. McDonald, of Colorado, has called a "dry" farming congress to be held in Denver November 22, 23 and 24 next. The attorney general of Texas has filed suits against the Waters-Pierce Oil company to cancel its license to do business in the state and asks fines and penalties aggregating $5-228,400. At Springfield, Minn., 11 buildings were demolished by a belated torna-do recently. No lives were lost. Eight masked men held the people of White Cloud, Mich., at bay recently while they robbed the banks of $4,000 in currency. The veterans of Wilder's brigade, of the army of the Cumberland, were the guests recently of Confederate veterans at a basket dinner on Chickamauga battlefield. The entire fleet of 600 fishing junks were lost in the recent typhoon at Hongkong, China. This increases the mortality to 10,000 persons. O. B. Stollard, cashier of the Peoples' National bank at Sedan, Kan., has disappeared leaving a note notifying his wife that he is a defaulter. The amount of the deficit is not stated. WORST FORM OF ECZEMA. Black Spotches All Over Face—Affected Parts Now Clear as Ever— "About four years ago I was afflicted with black splotches all over my face and a few covering my body, which produced a severe itching irritation, and which caused me a great deal of annoyance and suffering, to such an extent that I was forced to call in two of the leading physicians of my town. After a thorough examination of the dreaded complaint they announced it to be skin eczema in its worst form. They treated me for the same for the length of one year, but the treatment did me no good. Finally my husband purchased a set of the Cuticura Remedies, and after using the contents of the first bottle of Cuticura Resolvent in connection with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the breaking out entirely stopped. I continued the use of the Cuticura Remedies for six months, and after that every splotch was entirely gone and the affected parts were left as clear as ever. The Cuticura Remedies not only cured me of that dreadful disease, eczema, but other complicated troubles as well. Lizzie E. Sledge, 540 Jones Ave., Selma, Ala., Oct. 28, 1905." COSTLY CLOTHES FOR WOMEN. Enormous Sums of Money Can Be Spent for Finery. "As much as $50 a yard is often paid for gold and silver tissue—cloth of gold, as it is called, though it is not really," said a dressmaker, "cloth of gold at all. For cloth of gold, the real thing, is made of pure gold, drawn into fine wire, and then woven by hand. Such cloth was often used during the middle ages. It is now used only in Sumatra. Its cost is quite $200 a yard. "That seems high, doesn't it? It is nothing, though, beside the cost of lace. A court train of moire antique, decorated with gold thread and pearls, was made in Paris for an American lady last year at a cost of $7,500. "To the empress of Russia not long ago the nobles of the province of Kherson presented an ermine mantle worth $50,000. "There are lace handkerchiefs worth $5,000. Even the thread of which lace is made comes ridiculously high. The fine hand-made thread used in the best Brussels lace is spun from flax grown at Rebecq-Rognon, and fetches, in good seasons, as much as $2,500 a pound."—Philadelphia Bulletin. Serve as Illuminants. The fire-flies of Jamaica emit so brilliant a light that a dozen of them, enclosed within an inverted tumbler, will enable a person to read or write at night without the least difficulty. Indeed, it is an expedient to which many resort. These flies are in size as large as a common hive bee, and perfectly harmless. Their appearance in unusual numbers acts as a barometer to the natives, and is an indication of approaching rain. Floating Exposition. Three hundred British firms have contributed to an exhibit of goods which is displayed on the lower decks of a former military transport, and will be sent from London to different ports of Canada, the West Indies, South America, South Africa, India, China, Japan and Australia. The voyage is expected to last 12 months. Cultivated by the Scholars. It is stated that nearly 8,000 school gardens exist in Austria, not including the sister kingdom of Hungary. They are connected with both private and public schools, and are used for purposes of practical instruction in horticulture and tree-growing, and often contain botanical museums and bee hives. THE WAY OUT. Change of Food Brought Success and Happiness. An ambitious but delicate girl, after failing to go through school on account of nervousness and hysteria, found in Grape-Nuts the only thing that seemed to build her up and furnish her the peace of health. "From infancy," she says, "I have not been strong. Being ambitious to learn at any cost I finally got to the High School, but soon had to abandon my studies on account of nervous prostration and hysteria. "My food did not agree with me, I grew thin and despondent. I could not enjoy the simplest social affair for I suffered constantly from nervousness in spite of all sorts of medicines. "This wretched condition continued until I was twenty-five, when I became interested in the letters of those who had cases like mine and who were being cured by eating Grape-Nuts. "I had little faith, but procured a box and after the first dish I experienced a peculiar satisfied feeling that I had never gained from any ordinary food. I slept and rested better that night and in a few days began to grow stronger. "I had a new feeling of peace and restfuless. In a few weeks, to my great joy, the headaches and nervousness left me and life became bright and hopeful. I resumed my studies and later taught ten months with ease—of course using Grape-Nuts every day. It is now four years since I began to use Grape-Nuts, I am the mistress of a happy home and the old weakness has never returned." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason." Read the little book, "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Burning Off Paint Makes Insurance Void. It seems that considerable danger to property exists in the practice of burning off old paint before re-painting. The question has long been a subject of debate in the technical journals, and now householders and the newspapers have begun to discuss it. Those of us who, with trembling, have watched the painters blow a fiery blast from their lamps against our houses, and have looked sadly at the size of our painting bill because of the time wasted on this preliminary work, are interested in the investigation by the Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette and Courier, which gives considerable space to the reasons for the practice, questions its necessity and suggests ways to prevent the risk of burning down one's house in order to get the old paint off. It says: "There is a good deal of discussion among householders as to the desirability, in painting houses, of burning off the old paint, a practice that has grown very common of late in Greenfield and elsewhere. Insurance men are strongly opposed to this method. It makes void insurance policies for fires caused in this manner. Several houses in Greenfield have gotten afire as the result of this method, and in some places houses have burned as a result. "It is undoubtedly true that when a house has been painted over and over again there comes to be an accumulation of paint in bunches. If new paint is put on top of these accumulations it is almost sure to blister. To burn it off is the quickest and cheapest and perhaps the surest method of getting rid of this old paint." The Gazette and Courier quotes certain old patrons to the effect that accumulations of paint are unnecessary. These old-timers lay the blame partly on the painter who fails to brush his paint in well, partly on the custom of painting in damp weather or not allowing sufficient time for drying between coats, and partly to the use of adulterated paints instead of old-fashioned linseed oil and pure white lead. The paper says: "Many of the old householders say that if care is taken at all these points it is absolutely unnecessary to have paint burned off. They advise that people who have houses painted should buy their own materials, and to have them put on by the day, so as to be sure to get good lead and oil. Of course the burning off of paint greatly increases the cost of the job." The trouble householders everywhere have with paint is pretty well summed up by our contemporary, and the causes are about the same everywhere. By far the most frequent cause of the necessity for the dangerous practice of burning old paint is the use of poor material. The oil should be pure linseed and the white lead should be real white lead. The latter is more often tampered with than the oil. Earthy substances, and pulverized rock and quartz, are frequently used as cheapeners, to the great detriment of the paint. Painters rarely adulterate white lead themselves and they very seldom use ready prepared paints—the most frequent causes of paint trouble. But they do often buy adulterated white lead because the property owner insists on a low price and the painter has to economize somewhere. The suggestion is therefore a good one that the property owner investigate the subject a little, find out the name of some reliable brand of white lead, and see that the keg is marked with that brand. The linseed oil is more difficult to be sure of, as it is usually sold in bulk when the quantity is small; but reliable makers of linseed oil can be learned on inquiry, and, if your dealer is reliable, you will get what you want. Pure white lead and linseed oil are so necessary to good paint that the little trouble necessary to get them well repays the house owner in dollars and cents saved. Plumage of the Bluebird. Of the male bluebird Thoreau said: "He carries the sky on his back." To this John Burroughs added, "and the earth on his breast." The bird's back, wings and tail, chin and throat are a vivid blue, while his breast and flanks are a chestnut brown and his abdomen a dirty white. The female is very much duller in coloring, often having a reddish tone that extends from the middle of the back over the shoulder. The Seminole Indians say that the male bluebird once flew so high that his back rubbed against the sky, which imparted to him its own azure tint. Returning to earth, his wife so admired his new coat that she determined to have a like one for herself and the next morning flew away to get it; but the day proving somewhat cloudy, the color given to her dress was not so brilliant as was that received by her mate. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Life often seems but a shipwreck, whose fragments are friendship, glory and love. The shores of time that we pass during our life are covered with these derelicts.—Mme. de Stael. Every mother pats herself on the back when her daughter marries the man she selected. The Ma e Market Co. 1633-35-37-39 Arapahoe Street. FIRST-CLASS Fresh and Staple and I Fruits and Vegetables, Game J. P. Knopf, Manager] 1633-39 Arapahoe St. fish and Cured Meats ple and Fancy Groceries Vegetables, Fish and Oysters, Poultry and Game in Season. F, Manager] PHONES 190-189. Joe St. Denver, Colorado Fresh and Cured Meats Staple and Fancy Groceries Fruits and Vegetables, Fish and Oysters, Poultry and Game in Season. J. P. Knopf, Manager] PHONES 190-189. 1633-39 Arapahoe St. Denver, Colorado TELEPHONE MAIN 4271. THE N. 8 DEL Imported and Domestic FAMILY TRAN 1118 N. & W. LIQUOR CO. DEALERS IN and Domestic Wines and Liquors. FAMILY TRADE OUR SPECIALTY. THE N. & W. LIQUOR CO. Do You Know Dr. Dameron has reduced his prices for all Dental Work? Teeth for $5.00; $10 Sets for $7.00; $15 Sets for $10; Gold $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Fillings, 50c up; Gold and up. Painless Extracting. ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS, set, opp, the P. O. DR. DAMERON, Prop. ATION RATES d back $39.00 daily—Limit Oct. 31st. and back $50; daily to Sept. 30. Limit Oct. 31. overs. $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $5.00; Crowns only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, Platina, $1.00 up. Painless Extra Arapahoe street, opp. the P. O. VACATION VACATION RATES Chicago and back $39.00 d WEST California and back $50; Liberal stopovers. Gen FLOOD'S M The Largest Anti-Tr WHOLESALI Restaurant, Hou Business given Chicago and back $39.00 daily—Limit Oct. 31st. California and back $50; daily to Sept. 30. Limit Oct. 31. Liberal stopovers. OD'S MARKET Denver, largest Anti-Trust Meat Market in the West. LESALE AND RETAIL restaurant, Hotel and Boarding House business given Special Attention . . . FLOOD'S MARKET Denver, The Largest Anti-Trust Meat Market in the West. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Restaurant, Hotel and Boarding House Business given Special Attention . . . Wano Feed & Fuel C. J. STOTT, Manager. DEALERS IN COAL. Wholesale and Retail. 40 DELGANY ST. OFFICE: 1220-24 21ST ST. 5. Denver, Colorado. Star=Wano F J. ST DEALEE Wholesale YARDS: 2140 DELGANY ST. Phone Red 1955. Star-Wano Feed & Fuel Co. J. STOTT, Manager. DEALERS IN COAL. The Great N 1907 Broad Denver, A. J Coal, Woo Phone, Main 6477. The Great Northern Fuel Co., 1907 Broadway, Cor. Glenarm. Coal, Wood, Hay, Feed. Phone, Main 6477. 621 Eighteenth St. ```markdown ``` H. J. HESPER. All Goods Delivered. EAST TEL. MAIN 3824 PHONE MAIN 742. ALL HAND WORK... J. W CASEY, PROP. TELEPHONE 2132 1735 Lawrence St. J. H. WEICHHAND 1118 BROADWAY. Denver, Colo. Santa Fe J. P. HALL, Gen. Agent A. T. & S. F. Ry., 9o1 17th St. denver. 1015-1017 15TH ST TABLET UNVEILED ON THE SUMMIT OF THE MOUNTAIN. PEAK FORMALLY CHRISTENED Imposing Ceremonies on the Lofty Height Amidst Clouds and Storm —Address by General Irving Hale. Colorado Springs, Colo.—Never-to-be-forgotten features attended the unveiling of the Zebulon Pike memorial tablet on the summit of Pike's Peak and the official christening of the peak itself, under the auspices of Colorado College and the United States troops Wednesday morning. Taken to the summit of the peak on the coog road, the highest railroad in the world, the 200 spectators heard the salute of eleven guns, the first military salute ever fired in the world's history from a point of that altitude. A blinding blizzard raged throughout the ceremonies, and workmen were obliged to clear away the foot-deep snow from the Summit house to the monument, before the exercises could begin. "In honor of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, and in memory of his high character and soldierly fidelity to duty, we here to-day christen this mountain 'Pike's Peak,' and unveil this memorial tablet. With these words, uttered by Geu. Irving Haie, U. S. V., retired, soldiers and civilians stood with bared heads, and the Stars and Stripes unfurled to the breeze as the salute of eleven guns was fired by the Twelfth United States light field artillery, in command of Lieutenant Smart. The exercises were begun promptly at 11:45 o'clock. Mayor E. E. Nichols of Manitou introduced Philip B. Stewart, a trustee of Colorado College, who read the address prepared by President W. F. Slocum of the college, who was unable to attend, his physician having advised against his taking the trip. General Hale also spoke briefly on Pike's career. Especially beautiful was his comparison of the great red of the mountains, the white slopes interspersed and the blue dome of heaven, corresponding to the red, white and blue of the American flag. Dr. Clifford L. Pike of Saco, Maine, the nearest living relative of Pike, was called on to make a speech. Choked with emotion, Dr. Pike was unable to speak for nearly five minutes. Finally, in a low voice, he thanked those present for their courtesy in asking for an expression from him, and in the name of the Pike family thanked the promoters of the Centennial celebration for the honor done his ancestor. Dr. Pike is secretary of the Pike Family Association of America, and is its official representative at the celebration. Nichols Caldwell, the eight-year-old grandson of Mayor E. E. Nichols, of Manitou, performed the unveiling, to the accompaniment of the artillery salute, and the waving of the Stars and Stripes. After the ceremonies were over, and as the party was about to leave, a salute of six shots from a revolver was discharged over #e table by Miss Stella A. Neumad, of Newark, N. J., a great granddaughter of Major David Pike, brother of the explorer. Following is the inscription on the tablet: In Recognition of the Notable Career of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Soldier-Explorer The People of Colorado Have Placed This Tablet on the Summit of the Great Mountain First Seen by Pike November 15, 1806. General Pike was Born at Lamberton, Now Trenton, New Jersey, January 5, 1779. Died April 27, 1813, after a Victorious Attack on York, Later Toronto, Canada. Buried at Madison Barracks, New York. This Tablet Commemorates the One Hundredth Anniversary of Pike's The following message was sent from the summit of the peak to the Associated Press, signed by the members of the committee in charge of the dedication: "Colorado Springs Centennial event on summit of Pike's Peak, 14,147 feet above sea level. This great mountain, for the first time in its history, has been formally named for General Pike. Tribute has just been said that brave soldier by unveiling a bronze tablet on which is recorded the soldier-explorer's life and record. A salute of eleven guns fired by the Twelfth battery of field artillery." Accident to Ruler of Elks. Oakland, Cal.—A large automobile driven by Carlton Wall, the Alameda capitalist, collided with an electric car Wednesday night. In the automobile were Wall, Mrs. G. R. French, State Senator Lukens, Judge Harry A. Melvin, grand exalted ruler of the Elks of the United States; Mrs. Melvin and the chauffeur. The collision was a terrific one. Mrs. Melvin was thrown on a picket fence and probably fatally injured. Judge Melvin was thrown on the cement pavement and painfully injured. State Senator Lukens was also thrown out and badly injured. Wall and the chauffeur escaped with a few scratches. Insurance Company Closed. Denver.—By the action of State Insurance Commissioner E. E. Rittenhouse in ferreting out an alleged fraudulent scheme of the Chicago Life Insurance Company and debarring the company from doing business in Colorado, the stockholders have demanded an accounting of the officers and lately compelled the Chicago Life to retire from every state in the Union. The company has now been absorbed by the Federal Life Insurance Company of Chicago. Mr. Rittenhouse received the news and a congratulatory message just before his departure to Washington, D. C., where he will attend the annual convention of insurance commissioners. ORCHESTRAS OF THE PAST. Leaders Had Many Tricks to Arouse Public Interest. Louis A. Julien was the first conductor who played a large orchestra in New York. One of his pieces was a "Fireman's Quadrille," during the performance of which an alarm of fire was regularly sounded and a bri-gade of firemen appeared in the hall. Theodore Thomas was one of Julien's violinists for a time and this may help to explain why he himself, in 1867, when he gave his Terrace garden concerts in New York, once created a sensation by making the piccolo players climb up into the trees before the piece began. On another occasion in the same place the tuba player had been behind the audience into the shrubbery. When he began to play the police mistook him for a practical joker who was disturbing the music and tried to arrest him. "I shall never forget the comical scene," Thomas writes in his "Autobiography," "as the poor man fled toward the stage, pursued by the irate policeman, and trying to get in a note here and there as he ran." The Wine Cellar's Passing. The Wine Cellar's Passing. Wine cellars are said to have gone out of fashion, says the London Telegraph. Proud fathers no longer lay down pipes of port for the coming age of their infant heirs, and no longer enjoin upon their successors the sacred duty of keeping the family cellar replenished. It is not that people have lost their taste for wines, though fashion has greatly changed in respect of them, and sherry, for example, is growing as rare as Madeira and Madeira as obsolete as sack. Whenever a good cellar comes into the market the competition at auction is as keen as ever to secure the best lots, and fancy prices are often reached. None the less, the day of the private cellar is practically over. What is the cause? A Waiter's Walk. Some interesting particulars are given as to the ground covered by a waiter in dancing attendance upon the guests in a restaurant in Christiana, says the Westminster Gazette. The waiter had provided himself with a pedometer before starting his work. According to his calculations, he took rather under 100,000 steps, covering some thirty-seven miles, between 8 a. m. and 12:30 p. m. Working (and walking) four days a week, he calculated that he covered more than 7,000 miles in a year. Which would seem to show that Swedish waiters take their work very seriously; unless, indeed, the pedometer was "fast." Spider Lives Long on Light. Little Miss Muffet's spider was perhaps not so hungry as he looked. M. J. H. Fabre has studied the spider's powers of fasting. He noticed that the mother spider carries its little ones on its back for seven months, and that during that time the young spiders consume absolutely no food. He concluded from this observation that it is the solar heat and light that for them directly takes the place of nourishment. In other words, the motor heat in these young animals, instead of being released from the food, might be utilized directly as the sun, source of all life, radiates it. L. Rushenberg & Co. 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Style, quality and comfort in full measure are promised with each pair of shoes leaving our store. J. D, CRACO. N. M. CAMPIGLIA. 'Phone Main 4885. C. & C. LIQUOR CO., DIRECT IMPORTERS, Wines and Liquors for Medicinal Use Our Specialty. 2205 CHAMPA STREET. Denver, Colorado. The Brand That's Always Good "BAXTER'S BULLHEAD" 5c CIGAR The Baxter Cigar Co. Ladies' and Gent's Clothing Cleaned a C. HILSMAN Baxter Cigar Co. Denver. Gent's Clothing Cleaned and Repaired HILSMAN, The Baxter Cigar Co. Denver. Ladies' and Gent's Clothing Cleaned and Repaired. C. HILSMAN. ... THE TAILOR ... Has removed from his old sta 1914 Arapahoe street, w see all of his old Cu A fuli Line of New and Mis d from his old stand at 1907 Lawrence street to rapahoe street, where he will be pleased to me all of his old Customers and friends. of New and Misfit Clothing for Sale Chea Has removed from his old stand at 1907 Lawrence street to 1914 Arapahoe street, where he will be pleased to see all of his old Customers and friends. A fuli Line of New and Misfit Clothing for Sale Cheap. COLONIST RATES California and the Northwest rates will be in effect to all Pacific [Coast points from to Springs, Pueblo and all Main Line points, August 27th to October 31st Francisco.....$25.00 Angeles.....25.00 and.....25.00 one.....22.50 of Pullman Tourist cars is operated between Den- Francisco; Denver and Los Angeles; Denver and liberal stopovers on Colonist tickets. Information regarding train service, Pullman Reserva- on California and the Northwest Very low rates will be in effec Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo August 27th to To SanFrancisco..... " Los Angeles..... " Portland..... " Spokane..... " Butte..... A Daily line of Pullman Tour ver and San Francisco; Denver Portland. Liberal stopovers on For full information regarding etc., etc., call on B. W. FIELDS. R. V. N. JOHNSON. Fields' Investment Co. Very low rates will be in effect to all Pacific [Coast points from Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and all Main Line points, August 27th to October 31st To SanFrancisco.....$25.00 “ Los Angeles.....25.00 “ Portland.....25.00 “ Spokane.....22.50 “ Butte.....20.00 A Daily line of Pullman Tourist cars is operated between Denver and San Francisco; Denver and Los Angeles; Denver and Portland. Liberal stopovers on Colonist tickets. We have a number of houses to rent or sell in all parts of the city. Rents from $6.00 to $30.00. Sale prices from $875 to $3,000. A number of choice lots. Come and look over our list, Phones: { 6218 Main. Olive 853. 212 15th St. Half blk. from Court House k. from Court House Denver, - - Colorado DENVER & RIO GRANDERPR SCENIC LINE IN THE WORLD City Ticket Office, 1700 Stout St., Denver, Colo. W. P. HORAN, PIONE 1363. 1527 Cleveland Place. COLORADO STATESMAN. S. H. HOBSON.....City Editor 1824 Curtis St., Room 25. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year .....$2.00 Six Months .....1.00 Three Months ......50 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Can add additional line at the end of line 5. Notes at end. Display advertising rates, 25 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not reuse them, ber when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. Communications to receive attention must be news, upon important subj- bjects only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No man- susseal unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. Entered as a personating nature at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. HAVE YOU REGISTERED YET? If not, find your hat, put on your boots and jump into your coat and make a bee line for the registration place. This is the first and foremost duty. Time for registering is passing rapidly. As soon as your eyes fall on these lines hike out and find if your name has been recorded on the poll books. According to Little Benny's new law, you must now register before each election, even if you did vote at the last election. As the law now stands after each election, the names, the rolls, addresses, of all voters are thrown away or burnt up as the case may be, padded sheets, lists and all and a new list is made. Now if you don't get on the new register right quick, it makes no difference which way you decided to vote, whether for the G. O. P. or the Savages, or T. M. P., or Little Ben, or the Independents or the Prohibs, you are disfranchised and all you can do is to holler, and blow, and say, "I wish I had listened," but the political boss will tell you to "skiddo, 23, git," and Speers blue-coats will tell you to get 300 feet away from the polls or you may feel the big stick and certain astronomical exhibitions in the broad daylight and a ride up Mike Delaney's business department. The entire operation will not take more than fifteen minutes of your time, but you must hurry. The places and time for registration are in the newspapers or are sent to you through the mail and each voter must and ought to take heed. The Negro is always saying there is time enough and usually it turns out that he has been fool enough just to lose his opportunity. You can look after your fences and line up and pulls and rake off and jobs after you are registered but the prime thing for you and your sweetheart or wife or mother-in-law and sister and aunt and cousin and neighbor to do just at this minute is to register. We want the colored vote on the firing line and the Colorado Statesman is doing all in its power to put it there and then talk shop afterward. Now for the second and last call. Register now. OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE CAMPAIGN FUND. Certain individuals of our race have been asked to make a contribution to the campaign fund. This is right. As a people we ought to contribute to the common fund of campaign expenses, as well as other public men. The only objection we have to impose to this duty is that, since the Negro is not called into the council of the parties and given a voice in the distribution of its funds, then he ought not in justice to himself contribute to the fund. Taxation or even contribution without repre- sentation is not fair. It was not fair in 1770 and it is not fair in 1906. Whatever the party pays its colored workers they earn. Whatever space they buy in newspapers they get value received, whatever positions and jobs it gives the race is on the strength of its voting power; but when we are asked to contribute to expenses without representation, then we demur. We do not contend against the principle that we ought to contribute, but we stoutly and strongly contend for the principle that we ought to have a voice in the councils. ATROCIOUS ATLANTA. First cast the beam out of your own eye might be justly hurled in the face of protectorate America, who is sympathizing with the Jews in Russian and commanding peace in Cuba, but permitting innocent blood to flow in prejudice-cursed and riotious Atlanta, Ga. O, America! Consistency, thou art a jewel abroad but a farce at home. The race riots at Atlanta during the past week ought to call for public condemnation from those high up in position as peace preservers and in power, but as yet that word has not been spoken. The Colorado Statesman has no word of complaint against taking the life of criminals by due process of law, but when peace-loving, law-abiding, industrious Negroes, teachers, professional and business men are made to suffer indiscriminately, then the cry ought to be raised over the nation: "Down with the mob." The arrest of that gentlemanly, dignified Christian scholar, Professor J. W. E. Bowen, and forty students of Gammon Seminary shows that the animus of the mob and militia is not against the crime producing elements, as we have all along said, but against the educated, God-fearing, peace-loving, intelligent and progressive Negroes who are trying to fit themselves for exalted citizenship and leaders in business life. It is a plain, open and undefended case of race hatred and nothing else. The authorities simply let the mob satisfy itself for blood before interfering. The newspapers aroused the mob and fanned the fury until fully a half hundred colored men, who had no more to do with crime in Atlanta than the staff of this paper had to do with it, have been killed and nearly a hundred more injured and nearly 500 hundred arrested and lodged in jail. Instead of charging the riots to leaders of the Negro race they can be laid directly to the influence of Pitchfork Tillman, Vardamen, Thomas Dixon, Hoke Smith and Clark Howell, who ought to be hailed into court as causing and assisting in disturbing the peace. It cannot be argued that the Georgia authorities were prompt, because as a matter of fact, the governor could have had troops on the street in a couple of hours. Therefore the naked truth is that one of the meanest things in the world is race prejudice and we cannot say any longer to atrocious Russia: "I am holier than thou." One of Denver's leading papers, the Evening Post of the 24th, has the following which fits the facts exactly. The race riots in Atlanta ought to have a chastened effect upon our quickness to call Russia barbarous when they have race riots ever there. To be sure, the cause of the massacres in Russia and the cause of the rioting in Atlanta are not to be compared; but there were deep popular prejudices and popular demand for reprisal for popularly conceived wrongs behind the massacre of Jews in Russia. So far as our own rioters and massacre-makers are concerned, we can hardly argue that Negroes in general were responsible for crimes of members of their race and we can hardly contend that the indiscriminate killings in Atlanta were different, ethically, from the massacres in Russia. In each case they originated in race hatred and in each case, the authorities let the mobs satisfy their blood-lust before interfering. In Russia the unfortunate Jews are the victims of the charge of vile usury and spoiliation of the Gentile, even as the children of Israel spoiled the Egyptian by unrequited borrowings, together with the charge of sedition against the government. In Atlanta the coineidence of a number of assaults on white women happening in a few days inflamed the mob. In Kishinev the newspapers aroused the mob. The same happened in Atlanta. The rioters in each case were largely youths and roughs. The police, in each case, let the mob have its way. It cannot be said that the Georgia authorities were prompt because, as a matter of fact, the governor could have had the troops on the streets in a couple of hours. Therefore, the lesson is that one of the meanest things in the world is race prejudice; that it will show itself murderously anywhere—in America as well as Russia—and that we can't set up ourselves as "Holier than Thou!" WESTERN PRESS ASSOCIATION. This organization held one of its largest, best and most important meetings in its history at Colorado Springs last week. From the opening session to the parting words everything was bustle, business and important. It was a large delegation, having representatives of newspapers at Muskogee, Guthrie, Fort Scott, Kansas City, Topeka, Wichita, Denver and Colorado Springs. They came for business. They resolved to do something and they did it. They understood the power of the press and determined to make it stand for the good of the race. They freely criticised the political parties. The southern state constitutions. The lethargie leaders. The Jimerow car law, the preachers and themselves. It was an open parliament looking for a sane, sound, logical method of dealing with race issues. It invited outside speakers, judges, lawyers, business men, educators and preachers to give their views. It was inconelastic and tore the mask off of subsidized writers and speakers in the desire to get at facts and the truth. Mayor Hall's welcome address was commented upon as sound and strong. The Hon. Nelson Crews of Kansas City and Nick Chiles, the apostle of push, grit and greenbacks, of Topeka, gave some strong talks; Lawyers Twine of Oklahoma and Townsend of Pueblo gave some startling facts, about the territory and the boasted Fifteenth Amendment, which is not worth the paper it is upon unless made operative by additional legislation. The latter literally tore off the party collar he had worn around his neck for the past thirty years and threw it in the mud of political mugwumpery and declared himself still in the harness, but a free man, nevertheless. The preachers kept the lid on pretty well. Rev. Ford of Denver, John H. Taylor of Atchison, Kans., and Rev. Caldwell of St. Joseph, Mo., delivered timely addresses. The ladies, consisting of Mrs. Emory, Tillman, Butler and Jelts, added grace as well as dignity to the occasion. Prof. John H. Jackson and E. P. Booze and C. S. Muse were prominent in the business arrangement and discussion and President Dunean at his best. The choir and ladies of the church contributed music and a feast of good things for the inner man. The resolutions, address to the country and daily press reports of the papers were commendable and the entertainment on the street cars, parks and places of interest unsurpassed. It all goes to show that this organization can be made one of the most powerful agencies of the Negro in the West and the newspaper men and women ought to see that it accomplishes its ends. Its next meeting will be held in Topeka, Kans., in connection with the National Negro Business League It is predicted that American hardwood forests will last only 35 years longer. GRAND JUNCTION. (Continued from first page.) Grand Junction is in gaily attire, the event being the Mesa County Fruit and Fair association. Visitors are crowding by the hundreds and the attractions bid fair to surpass any of the previous exhibitions. The fruit shipment in quality and quantity surpasses all previous record and it is gratifying to know that our genial friend, John Hines is one of the top notch shippers and his fruit is much sought after by the three shipping associations. Quite a few strangers have come to our city recently. The actions of a few have not been at all creditable but has tended to excite race prejudice and strained the good fellowship that has existed among the two races. The good citizens sorely deplore this state of affairs and it is too bad that the good has to suffer with the bad. Truly the Negro is his worst enemy. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Anna Whitna Coleman to Mr. A. Jones, next Tuesday night at the residence of Mrs. Lottie Scott, 139 Chipita. This is to be one of the most important social functions in the history of Grand Junction, as the prospective groom is one of our most estimable citizens, while the intended bride is one of the most popular young ladies of Clifton. WOMAN'S BIG HAT. A Lesson Given to One Who Needed It in a New York Theater. It in a New York Theater. That some women will not remove their hats in theaters until compelled so to do is a self-evident fact, says the New York Press. An instructive lesson was taught in a popular playhouse a few night ago. A gentleman and his wife occupied a box in the second tier, immediately behind a couple in one of the first tier. He sat behind madame, his wife behind monsieur. Madame's millinery reached to the moon and was all lingerie and a yard wide. After craning his neck till it looked like the skintight cervical vertebrae of a gratorial giant, he said to his wife in a voice that carried six feet: "Are you able to see the stage?" "Oh, yes; I can see quite well. And you?" "See? Not at all! I am hopelessly shut out. Is the curtain up? Is the play going on?" Monsieur turned quickly, fiercely, combatively, eyed the speaker, made a mental estimate of his abilities, then whispered savagely to madame, and off came the skyscraper. The story recalls the first time in New York in recent years when efforts were made to persuade women to remove their hats in playhouses. It occurred in Daly's theater one night that a man in an orchestra chair was shut out by a magnificent Gainsborough. His frequent hems and haws were unnoticed. Finally a brilliant plan forced itself into his mind. Picking up his silk hat from the floor he placed it upon his head and straightened up. Immediately there came from the rear of the house: "Take off that hat!" "Off with that hat!" The wearer of the Gainsborough in a panic hastily compiled, whereupon the man returned his hat to the floor, which action was followed by a chorus of satisfactory "Ahs!" Possibly the woman does not yet know that the silk hat was the object of attack. Precious Stones' Rivals. Talk about a yellow peril! Jewelers face enemies that are green, brown pink and blue, in the form of necklaces of semi-precious stones, which have become so popular they have caused a slump in the sale of diamonds, says the New York Press. Many women who would scorn to wear imitation gems, no matter how attractive they were, are ready to adorn themselves with chains of kunzite, onyz and jade, for those minerals make no pretense of being other than they are and are wonderfully effective. Mrs. George Gould has a necklace of the water stones of Uruguay, which she sometimes wears with white gowns. They are semitransparent and every one holds a drop of water in its center which moves with every motion. With simple attire such ornaments are much more suitable than pearls. Some Good Salaries in Canada COAL HODS—The price of this needed article is rapidly advancing, but by our early and extensive purchases we are enabled to offer these remarkable values Regular prices.....25c 30c 35c 40c 45c 50c 60c Sale price.....18c 20c 25c 28c 33c 35c 45c Size.....6-qt. 8-qt. 10-qt. 12 qt. 14-qt Regular price.....40c 45c 50c 60c 75c Special price.....29c 30c 35c 45c 55c Genuine Agate or Blue and White Preserving Kettles— 6-qt., was 60c, now 40c; 8-qt., was 70c, now 50c; 10qt., was 80c now 60c; 12-qt., was $1.00, now 70c. Nickel Tea Kettles—Sizes 7, 8 and 9; regular price from $1.40 to $1.65; to close, any size, for $1.00. 25c Nickel Tea Pots, for.....10c Galvanized Garbage Cans, with close fitting cover and bail handle; 65c size for 50c; 85c size, 65c. 1.Gal. Galvanized Oil Can, regular price 25c for.....15c Japaned Bread Boxes—50c size, 35c; 65c size, 48c; 75c size, 55c. Japaned Snake Boxes that hold five kinds of spices: regular 35c Japanned Spice Boxes that hold five kinds of spices; regular 35c, for.....25c AGATE, PUDDING PANS WITH HANDLES AGATE PUDDING PANS WITH HANDLES. Sizes.....1-pt. 1-qt. 1½-qt. 2-qt. 3-qt. 4-qt. Were.....25c 28c 30c 35c 40c 45c Now.....17c 20c 22c 25c 28c 30c Bissell Carpet Sweepers, Special, at.....$1.95 Every Go-Cart in stock has been greatly underpriced THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. Barden Moyer Superior in Dress Length CORFIELD 1906 For Men's and young Mens Suits rain coats, bought to sell at $15 a for Men's and young Men's Suits rain Coats bought to sell at $18, $ for Mens and young Men's Suits rain Coats bought to sell at $25, $ THE RHINE CA MRS. E. A. SCOTT, Propriet class Meals. Best in $11.50 for Men's an Rain coats, b $13.75 for Men's an Rain Coats b $18.00 for Mens an Rain Coats b THE R MRS. E. A First-class M PHOTO $11.50 for Men's and young Mens Suits, Overcoats and Rain coats, bought to sell at $15 and $16.50. $13.75 for Men's and young Men's Suits, Overcoats and Rain Coats bought to sell at $18, $20 and $22. $18.00 for Mens and young Men's Suits, Overcoats and Rain Coats bought to sell at $25, $28 and $30. PHOEE 7039 MAIN. to Travel on the Bu to travel on the Burlington because to be satisfied. has the reputation of caring for the little more carefully, just a life and this reputation is admirably will enjoy your trip if you make sure on. a and Chicago: 4:35 p. m., 10:00 p. s City and St. Louis: 2:15 p. m., good and Northwest; 8:30 p. m. "I Like to Trav Yes, people like to travel on treated nicely, like to be satis The Burlington has the reputation upon its trains just a little more ordinary railroad—and this re That’s why you will enjoy you over the Burlington. Daily to Omaha and Chicago Thro' to Kansas City and Trains to Deadwood and No "I Like to Travel on the Burlington" Yes, people like to travel on the Burlington because they like to be treated nicely, like to be satisfied. The Burlington has the reputation of caring for the guests who travel upon its trains just a little more carefully, just a little better than the ordinary railroad—and this reputation is admirably sustained. That's why you will enjoy your trip if you make sure your ticket reads over the Burlington. Daily to Omaha and Chicago: 4:35 p. m., 10:00 p. m. Thro' to Kansas City and St. Louis: 2:15 p. m., 10:00 p. m. Trains to Deadwood and Northwest; 8:30 p. m. Information about any trip anywhere is yours for the asking. --- --- Copyright 1906 1129-1131 19th St Burlington Route A store crowded with all the buyers each floor comfortably holds. Inclement weather proved no obstacle—the people came, they saw, they conquered the greatest values ever offered since Denver was incorporated as a city. The sale is forced upon us by conditions beyond our control. $9.00 For Men's and young Men's Suits, Overcoats and Rain Coats, bought to sell at $12 and $14. young Mens Suits, Overcoats and bought to sell at $15 and $16.50. young Men's Suits, Overcoats and bought to sell at $18, $20 and $22. young Men's Suits, Overcoats and bought to sell at $25, $28 and $30. MACHINE CAFE. SCOTT, Proprietor. als. Best in the City. "bel on the Burlington" in the Burlington because they like to be fried. tion of caring for the guests who travel e carefully, just a little better than the putation is admirably sustained. our trip if you make sure your ticket reads go: 4:35 p. m., 10:00 p. m. St. Louis: 2:15 p. m., 10:00 p. m. Northwest; 8:30 p. m. J. F VALLERY, General Agent, C. B. & Q. Ry., 1030 Seventeenth St., Denve. Denver, Colo. CITY NEWS. GET REGISTERED. Rev. J. W. Sanders of Silverton, Colo., is in the city on business. Mrs. E. A. Scott, proprietor of the Rhine Cafe is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan E. Robinson who spent several days in Denver left Saturday for Glenwood Springs. Mrs. Turner, mother of Mrs. Findley and Townsend died Friday at the home of her daughter 2319 Champa St. Nick Chiles of the Topeka Plaindealer passed through the city this week enroute home. He called to see us Wedday. Wait for the big Autumn Leaf entertainment to be given by Damon Lodge No. 5 K. of P. at East Turner hall Oct. 18th. A grand entertainment will be given at East Turner hall Thursday, Oct 18th by Damon Lodge No. 5. Knights of Pythias. Mrs. T. H. Cox and daughter Pansy arrived in the city Sunday from Wichita Kans. Miss Pansy will spend the winter in Denver. Mrs. Mattie Brown and daughter Frances of Chicago are in the city for the winter, stopping at T. S. Rector's, 2431 Stout St. IF YOU WANT TO VOTE AT THE COMING ELECTION YOU WILL HAVE TO REGISTER. Rev. J. D. Gordon of Los Angeles, Cal. passed through Denver from the Nat'l Baptist convention and stopped off to visit with Rev. J. E. Ford. Misses Georgia Koontz, Fannie Carpenter "Dimple" Chinn, and Eva Cooper left last Sunday for Washington, D. C. to attend Howard University. The Booklovers club will hold their 1st meeting for the year Wednesday Oct. 3rd at 2 p. m. at the home of Mrs. G. A. McCullough 2631 Humboldt St. Lost—A ladies gold watch Sunday the 16th inst. at Zion Baptist church or be tween there and 1532 Emerson St. Finder please return at 1532 Emerson and get reward. No of case 5032.370. Mrs. Samuel Gilbert of Chicago, who has been the guest of Mrs. R. B. Johnson of 131 W. 10th avenue left Wednesday for Lincoln, Neb., where she will visit a few days before returning home. The Jackson Shoe Company has just received another large invoice of shoes for fall and winter. Repairing neatly done, sewed soles 75 cents. Goods called for and delivered. Phone Main 8492. Open Saturday nights. Hon. Nelson C. Crews of Kansas City, Mo., was in the city Sunday and favored the Peoples' Sunday Alliance with an able address. Mr. Crews is clerk of the police court and is one of the best orators of the West. Editor W. N. Miller, of the Wchita, (Kans) Searchlight was a guest in Denver Monday enroute home from the meeting of the Western Negro Press Association. While here he honored this office with a friendly call. The Darling of the Regiment which is to be given at the Alliance Hall, 18th street between Champa and Curtis Sts under the auspices of the Peoples Sunday Alliance, Thursday, Oct. 4th, was written and staged by Mrs. Isabel Howard Stuart. It should be given the hearty support of the public coming as it does from one of our own home talent. Good music will be in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Owens of Los Angeles, Calif., spent two days in our city while enroute to their home from New York City, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus and others Eastern cities. In company with Julius W. Fields and Mrs. M. B. Fields, they paid our office a visit on Thursday morning. Mr. Owens is one of the wealthiest colored men in the country and has just completed an elegant five story hotel in Los Angeles for colored patrons. The funeral services of Mrs. Carrie Howard Gladden occurred from St. John Baptist church, Colorado Springs, Monday at 2:30 Rev. Ford in charge assisted by Revs. Douglas, Johnson, Tillman and Revs. Hardy, Over and Bray of Pueblo, and the choir of the A.M.E. church. --- Resolutions, telegrams and condolences and floral contributions came from Kansas, Colorado, Nevada and many other states. The body was laid to rest in a vault awaiting further instructions from the bereaved husband. Mrs. Gladden was prominent in philanthropic and church work and beloved by all. The biggest crowd that has ever attended any social function in Denver was at East Turner hall Thursday night at the Musical and ball given by Rice Lodge of Elks. Nearly 600 people were present and a more orderly crowd has never assembled. It is indeed gratifying to all concerned to know that the Elks are superior entertainers and that they always put such men on their committee that know how to make everything pleasant. W. A. Rice who has no equal in working for success, was chairman of the following committee who are also noted for their ardent and efficient service: T. H. McGinnis, Harvey King, J. W. Taylor, J. F. Clark, D. W. Lacy, George Duncan, J. W. Carrie, H. J. M. Brown; and J. W. Levell and F. L. King, floor managers. We extend to the committee and the Lodge our heartiest congratulations and many thanks for the liberal use of printers' ink which is quite essential in the success of such entertainments. The Mecca Cafe entertains the people of the city every Monday evening and Thursday evening and on each of these evening we have not standing room for the people. We will after the 1st of the month begin enlarging our hall we will have the entire building under the Cafe after this month and we will make it one of the grandest places in the country for a place of amusement for our people. Except Monday evening and Thursday evening the hall will be used only for private party purposes. Ladies and gentlemen who desire giving private parties to entertain their friends can have the use of the hall and dining room down stairs free of charge and also waiters to look after the entire party. The Mecca has a special orchestra which you can make use of at any time except Monday evenings. See Mr. Lacy and make your own arrangements with him. It is better and cheaper than you can give a party in your own homes. And for wedding socials we have the only place in the city. Our floor cannot be excelled by no other floor in the city. And we have a special stand for the orchestra. The hall is cool with electric fans and palms as decorations. You will find Mr. Lacy to be very pleasant in every manner and thoroughly understands handling the special social parties for you. Phone 3785 Main. A. M. E. Conference Appointments. Denver District. Rev. J. H. Hubbard, P. E. Shorter's Chapel—Rev. W. W. S. Dyett, pastor. Campbell Chapel—Rev. J. S. Payne, pastor. Ward's Chapel—Rev. J. H. Brown, pastor. Cheyenne—Rev. F. P. Greenlee, pastor. Salt Lake—Rev. J. C. Bell, pastor. Butte, Montana—Rev. H. H. Jones, pastor. Helena, Montana—To be supplied. Great Falls, Montana—Rev. W. L. N. Baker, pastor. Billings, Montana—Rev, B. F. Mc Cully, pastor. Anaconda, Montana—Rev. C. H Brown, pastor. pastB. Boulder—Rev. G. W. Tolson, pastor Colorado Springs District. Rev. J. P. Watson, P. E. Colorado Springs—Rev. G. M. Tillman, pastor. Pueblo, St. John's Chapel—Rev. J. C. C. Owens, pastor. Pueblo, St. Paul's Chapel—Rev. Hr. F. Bray, pastor. La Junta—Rev. John Turner, pastor. Trinidad—Rev. A. Wagner, pastor. Las Vegas—Rev. W. Solly, pastor. Leadville—Rev. J. S. Smith, pastor Albuquerque, New Mexico—Rev. G. H. Byas, pastor. Phoenix, Arizona—To be supplied. Tucson, Arizona—To be supplied. Conference meets in Shorter' church, Denver, September, 1907. HELLO! Something like two years ago a second telephone system began operations in Los Angeles, with one main and several branch exchanges. Contrary to the promises of the promoters the rates charged were inadequate to operate an efficient manual system. So eager was the directorate to make good their promises of dividends that they seized upon the only apparent(?) relief from their operating expense by starting to introduce automatic service in some of the exchanges. The public's attitude upon this point is clearly set forth in the statement of some four hundred people who were interviewed as to whether extension of the automatic service to all of the exchanges would be feaseable. Of this four hundred some three hundred had had experience with the automatic service in various portions of the city, and raised protests against the extension of the automatic system to the business territory. An analysis of these interviews shows that 216 of them stated that they found the service so often out of order as to be a great detriment in the conduct of their business; 66 of them stated positively that it was slower than a manually operated system; and 46 went on record as to the claims made for the secrecy of the automatic service not being well founded; the balance of the 400 gave varying replies which it is difficult to classify. a considerable number of them having had no experience with automatic service, and very few express themselves as favorably inclined toward it. These are tremendous percentages considering the number of people interviewed; and mark; no question was raised in these interviews as to the disadvantages of two systems, or of a second telephone system in particular, but merely as to whether or not automatic service was equal to that given by a manual system where operators are employed. Reached no Verdict. In the murder case of Wm. H. Adams who killed Ulysses Hayden on August 16th, the jury failed to reach a verdict and they were dismissed by Judge Johnson and another trial will be had. It took from Monday morning until 1 o'clock Wednesday to finish the case. Witnesses for the state told practically the same story and it was not deemed necessary to examine Mrs. Ella Warren, Mrs. George Ingram and Edward Sanderline, as their statements to the District Attorney co-operated with the other witnesses. Assist- and District Attorney Chiles, who had charge of the case for the state, clearly showed that the killing was felonious. His plea to the jury was indeed a masterpiece of law displayed in logical oratory, for which he is being highly commended as is also Attorney W. J. L. Crank, who assisted him. In the examination of the principle witness, Cora Clark, whom the killing was over, told a different story from that of her signed statement made shortly after the killing. Attorney Chiles, in his argument to the jury branded her as a liar. "If you will notice the case," remarked an individual the other day, "that it is too often the case that when a man loses his life over a women it is some woman who amounts to nothing or who tries to play more than one stunt at a time in love affairs." CITY ED. Notice. CITY ED. Notice. Dr. Westbrook, after the 16th instu will be in his office during the following hours: 11 a. m. to I p. m. and 6 to 8 p. m., and by appointment. New Management Abbott Pharmacy Mr. H. W. Mills, formerly of the Haswell Drug Co., will be pleased to see all of his old friends and meet new ones at his new location. Mr. Mills has had 20 years experience in the drug business and with the large stock which the Abbott Pharmacy carries, can meet all wants. Physicians prescriptions a specialty. Local Notices. Hair cut 15 cents, 1847 Blake street Nicely funnished room for rent. Apply Mrs. N. Dean, 2404 Lincoln avenue Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2515 Curtis street. All modern. Watch for date of Elks Drill team Boost those that boost you. For Sale.--Furniture of a 20 room flat, income two hundred dollars a month, price $1000.00, other business reason for selling 1841 Lawrence St. COPYRIGHT. 1906, BY L. ADLER BROS. & CO. FALL STYLES Now Ready THE TWO JIMS SOCIAL CLUB Denver's Favorite Pleasure Resort. Whist, Pool, Chess, Checker and other pastime games. PHONE 2275 MAIN. 1859 Champa St. . Denver, Colo MECCA C The Leading Co Conducted by Special Sunday Dinner f The Leading Colored Cafe in the West, Conducted by Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Lacy. Special Sunday Dinner from 12:30 to 3, 25 Cents. Meals Served at all Hours. Open Until 2 O'clock a.m. String Music Every Monday and Thursday Evening. 1918 Lawrence Street. Phone Main 3785 MANY Special Values Special Values In the New Fall Goods Are now on display at the Tindell Dry Good The latest styles of long and short Kimonos in FL Outing Flannel. A full line of Gents Furnishing Goods and Notions TINDELL DRY GOODS Are now on display at the Tindell Dry Goods Co. The latest styles of long and short Kimonos in Flanneletts and Outing Flannel. A full line of Gents Furnishing Goods and Notions of all kinds. Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor. Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending a ssmple of hair; also combings made up. CHEAPEST SWITCHES 50 CENTS. 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. JOSEPH H. STUART LAWYER. PRACTICES IN ALL COURTS. Examining Abstracts of Titles and drawing up Legal Instruments given careful attention. Office, 829 Kittredge Bldg. 16th and Residence 2221 Pennsylvania Ave. Phone Olive 294. 2707 Welton St. 1005 16TH ST. OPP. TABOR GRAND. THE BROOKLYN PRESS J. F. CLARK. CAFE Colored Cafe in the West, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Lacy. from 12:30 to 3, 25 Cents. NY Values Fall Goods e Tindell Dry Goods Co. short Kimonos in Flanneletts and Goods and Notions of all kinds. Y GOODS CO. ROSES THRIVE ON MEAT DIET. Gardener of Rome Tells Secret of Cultivation. "I have yet to see a rose equal to those grown in Rome," said the amateur horticulturist. "They bloom in the greatest abundance all through the winter, and they are as large and rich and velvety as our American beauties, living out of doors, clambering like ivy or honeysuckle over the crumbling marble walls of ruined temples, gleaming in crimson and green masses upon ancient columns, giving to the grimmest and saddest of medieval palæzos an air of gayety and youth. "One day on the Via Sistina, as I passed the garden that had once been the garden of Lucullus, I saw an old man tending the superb roses that grow there. He was pouring on their roots a dark, rich-looking fluid. 'Why are the Roman roses so beautiful and abundant?' I said to the old man. 'Because they eat meat,' he answered. 'Eat meat? Nonsense,' said I. 'Well, they drink meat—meat extract, which is the same thing,' said the old man. 'We Roman gardeners have for centuries watered our rose- thrice a week with a strong decoction MANY Phone Main 3785 Denver, Colo LIGHT ON A TRAGEDY SAILORS MAY HAVE STARVED IN NATURAL PRISON. Boat and Raft of Lost Steamer Valencia and Eight Skeletons Found in Cave on Pacific Coast→ Rock Barred Egress. Victoria, B. C.—A dispatch from Carmanah respecting the finding of a lifeboat and a pontoon from the steamer Valencia in caves with eight skeletons has been supplemented by a later message from the lighthouse keeper at Carmanah, which throws further light on the find. He does not indicate where the cave is located or who has made the find, but his description of the situation 'indicates that there is a possibility that the skeletons are those of a band less fortunate even than those who remained on the Valencia and went down to certain death. His information gives rise to the possibility that the eight persons represented by the skeletons now discovered were caught in a trap, surrounded by high stone walls, and there starved to death. The cave in which the boat and the skeletons were found is described as barred at the entrance by a large rock. The passage on either side of this rock is far too narrow to permit of the boat being taken out that way. Apparently the boat got in by being washed over the top of the obstructing rock on the crest of a great wave. Once behind the rock access to the open sea was cut off, even when the water subsided, as it was impossible to get the boat past the barrier. The prisoners were also walled in from freedom on the land side and must there have perished for lack of food. The boat is not damaged except for a small hole in the forward air chamber near the gunwale. To take it out of its place will require a strong force of men. The light keeper says: 'I am too short-handed here to do anything.' The cave is apparently a gathering place of debris, as the lighthouse keeper says that in order to make an attempt at identifying the skeletons it would be neccessary to remove several tons of rubbish which had since accumulated, and with that accomplished something might be found within the cave which would give a clue as to the identity of the unfortunate refugees who perished in the prison. The Indians, it is reported, knew of the presence of the boat and bodies for several months, but kept it secret. In the absence of knowledge of the source of the information it is presumed that it came from the Indians. Capt. Gaudin's personal opinion is that the story will prove a false one. He inclines to the belief that it has originated with the Indians, but will have the matter fully investigated. Capt. Gaudin points out that it is unreasonable to suppose that a boat would be dashed over a rock such as is described as barring the entrance of the cave and sustain practically no injury. This feature of the story, Capt. Gaudin thinks, throws a very strong suspicion on its reliability. He further thinks it unlikely that in the patrol of the coast which took place immediately after the wreck occurred, such a spot as described should escape notice. FOR WAR ON WILD-CAT MINING Convention to Be Held at Denver Will Seek to Kill Frauds. Denver, Col.—Definite action for the protection of investors in mining enterprises will be taken by the American mining congress, which will open in Denver October 16. A bill providing for the punishment of all mining fakirs and promoters of illegitimate mining enterprises will be drafted and the measure will be submitted to the legislatures of the various states interested. The measure will likely be modeled after that of the California law which in broad terms makes it a felony to use wrongful representations about mining properties. By furnishing protection against mining frauds, it is hoped to turn investment into successful channels by which the mineral production may be largely increased and the investor find profit instead of loss. Steps will also be taken to create mine drainage districts and for the establishment of a department of mines and mining as a separate executive department of the national government. EACH MAN HIS OWN MOTOR BOAT French Inventor Devises Plan to Supply Human Body with Power. The French inventor who devised the motor boats has now conceived an adaptation o. the petrol power for supplying the human body with mechanical power for propulsion in the water. Every man may thus become his own motor boat. In order to use the device a person need not be a swimmer, for in addition to its propulsive powers the apparatus is devised to keep the body afloat. A water-tight box containing a little perol engine and a fuel supply is slapped to the user's back. The inventor thinks the chief use of the apparatus will be in life-saving, for in an emergency the operator has only to start the motor by turning a little crank, sling the box on his back and launch himself in the water. . 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W. MARTIN, General Agent. OPEN TILL 2 O'CLOCK A. M. Mrs Carrie Nation has been investigating conditions at Cripple Creek. The students at the University of Denver have formed a cross-country running club. A cabbage exhibited by W. S. Brown at Florence is five feet in circumference and weighs nearly forty-five pounds. The girl students at the State Normal School at Greeley still quite generally keep up the custom, inaugurated some two years ago, of going without hats. L. N. Zalinger, formerly publisher of the Denver Eye, has started a new weekly paper in Denver, the South Denver Sun, which will advocate Republican politics. The application of W. A. Merriell, K. F. Skelley, A. A. Betts, E. J. Dalton and O. D. Betts, to organize the First National Bank of Fruita, with $25,000 capital, has been approved by the comptroller of the currency. Walter L. Barnes, for four years librarian at Albany, New York, has been appointed assistant librarian at the Buckingham library, University of Colo who has tendered her resignation after serving three hears as assistant. The Fremont County Fair closed on the 21st, and was the most successful event in the history of the association, and the directors rejoiced to night over the fact of the large surplus in the treasury after paying all the bills. Mrs. Rebecca Eaton, wife of the late ex-Gov. B. H. Eaton, will give a $3,000 pipe organ to the Park Congregational Church at Greeley, to commemorate the life and character of her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Eaton-Petrikin, who died recently. Supervising Architect Taylor, of the Treasury Department, is expected to arrive in Denver December 1st to examine the sites that have been offered for the new Denver postoffice building. Congress has appropriated $500,000 for the purchase of a site. By the use of a team of forty-eight oxen, Senator Clayton has constructed ditches on marshy land north of Greeley, whereby 180 acres of land has been drained. This land will now be valuable for garden purposes and will be platted in five-acre tracts. Thomas Appleton, recently in charge of the Evanston, Wyoming, public building, has been ordered to Colorado to examine the sites offered for the proposed federal building at Boulder and Trinidal, for which the sum of $60,000 each has been appropriated. Greeley taxpayers voted by a large majority in favor of granting the Greeley Gas & Electric Company a franchise. The company will now issue bonds, enlarge its plant, build a new power house and install a new system of making gas. About $40,000 will be expended. Agents of the General Land Office are waging an energetic campaign against locators of mining claims on forest reservations where there is no evidence of mineral on the land. In a number of instances contest proceedings have been brought in a local land office against holders of such claims. Miss Ethlyn Feger, a graduate of the Greeley high school and of Colorado College and daughter of J. F. Feger at Greeley, passed successfully the state examination for pharmacist in Denver last week and is now entitled to be known as a registered druggist. Miss Feger is twenty-four years old, a fine chemist and will assist her father in the store. The fame of Colorado fruit is to be spread to Boston this month, because Mrs. Martha A. Shute of the State Horticultural Board will leave for a month's trip in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Canada. And she has packed one trunk to the limit with choice specimens of Colorado apples with which to astonish the owners of New England and Canadian orchards. J. C. Lawrence, aged sixty-eight, a wealthy and successful veterinary surgeon, died at Canon City Monday under circumstances that have caused talk of suicide. Lawrence, it is said, became intoxicated during the fair the previous week and remained from that time until his death in a stupor. In his room was found a bottle labeled laudanum and it is believed that he took about four ounces of the drug during the week. Albert Lawrence, living four miles east of Greeley on land near the river, is said to have just harvested the biggest crop of onions on record in the district. Twenty acres planted to wellow globe onions averaged 400 sacks to the acre, making a crop of 8,000 sacks. At the present price of 75 cents per hundred, the crop brings $6,800. It cost just $50 an acre to grow and place the crop on the market, thus leaving the grower $5,800 as net gain. Kemary Ritter, a wealthy stockman, whose family lives at Walsenburg, Colorado, and who owned large interests at Naravista, Colorado, died at the Territorial Insane Asylum here last night, says an East Las Vegas dispatch of September 23d. He was admitted from Union county, this territory, where he had lived for a time. The body has been shipped to Walsenburg for burial. Ritter made his most successful financial deal after his mind was unhinged, just before he was brought to the asylum, eighteen months ago. The "dry farming" congress will be held in Denver on November 23d, 24th and 25th. The date of the congress was decided upon at a meeting of the executive board held yesterday, in the private office of Governor McDonald. Governor McDonald was elected chairman of the committee, W. F. R. Mills, vice chairman, and Arthur Williams, secretary. It is proposed that all states west of the Missouri river shall be represented at the congress, and invitations are to be sent to members of land boards, to state engineers, to chambers of commerce and other institutions that are more or less interested in the subjects to be discussed. The proposition of the economical use of water is one of the important subjects to be discussed. The congress will be of the greatest benefit not only to the dry farmers, but to those who have studded the subject of irrigation. SO STRAIGHTENS KINKY or GURLY HAIR that it can be put up in any style desired consistent with its length. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Street 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Agents wanted everywhere. Clay & Williams, ALL KINDS OF COAL Wood, Grain, Hay, Poultry, Stock Food, Rook Salt. PHONE MAIN 4461 2527 Larimer St. Denver, Colo. ILLUSTRATORS DESIGNERS HALF TONE. ZINC WOOD & COPPER PAINT ENGRAVERS GOOD WORK THE DENVER ENGRAVING CO. DENVER 'PHONE 782 1814 CURTIS STREET GOOD WORK ON TIME' Ward Auction CO 1728-30 Arapahoe St. Private Residence Sales a Specialty Regular Sales Mondays, Wednes- days and Saturdays. TELEPHONE 1675. Furniture and bankrupt Stocks bought for cash or sold on com- mission. Weiner's Saloon, 19th and Arapahoe. We treat the boys right. Dealer in Choice old California wines and brandies from the Hermitage Vineyard, also bottled beer, Kentucky whisky, oligars and tobacco. 228 16th street. Telephone 2677. J. T. JOHNSON. State Agent for Minnesota Grain Belt Beer. Also Western Agent for D. Carnegie & Co. Swedish Porter, Gothenburg, Sweden. 1644 Larimer St. Denver, Cola. Dennis Gibbons Coor's Celebrated Golden Beer On Draught . . 441 W. Colfax Av. Denver, Cola ANNOUNCEMENT TO ANNOUNCE to the mothers of our lured the exclusive sale of the Educator Educator Shoes are more desirable than any they allow the Child's foot to grow natural points, ingrown toe-nails, etc. They can up to the big boy's and girl's sizes. comfortable and wear better than any one $1.35. 5½ to 8—$1.50. 8½ to 11—$1.75. different leathers. For the next thirty days we will give every of Educator Shoes, a jumping rope with s, free. Umbrellas and R Re-covered and R ANNOUNCEMENT WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE to the mothers of Denver that we have secured the exclusive sale of the Educator Shoes for children. The Educator Shoes are more desirable than any others for the little folks—they allow the Child's foot to grow natural and does away with enlarged joints, ingrown toe-nails, etc. They come in all sizes for the baby and up to the big boy's and girl's sizes. The Educators look well, feel comfortable and wear better than any other shoes made. Sizes 2 to 5—$1.35. $5½ to 8—$1.50. $8½ to 11—$1.75. $11½ to 2—$2.25. Made in all the different leathers. FREE! For the next thirty days we will give every child that is fitted with a pair of Educator Shoes, a jumping rope with wooden handle pieces and bells, free. 1021 De Columbine ZANG'S New Table Beer Is a special Brew for Family use T'S LEADING BRAND OF BOTTLE Columbine Beer Is guaranteed absolutely pure by a Sample Case and you will use no o TELEPHONE 1285 e Ph. Zang Brewing Producers ivered Daily to all parts of the city COLORAD AND SOUTHER CIAL EXCURSI "Columbine" ZANG'S New Table Beer Is a special Brew for Family use DENVER'S LEADING BRAND OF BOTTLED BEER Columbine Beer Is guaranteed absolutely pure Try a Sample Case and you will use no other TELEPHONE 1285 The Ph. Zang Brewing Co. Producers Fresh Beer Delivered Daily to all parts of the city SPECIAL EXCURSIONS bth to May 5th,—One fare for round trip. bth to July 7th—One fare plus $2 for round t to 14th—One fare for round trip. LIBERAL LIMITS AND STOPOVER for rate quotations to Mexican, Cuban, T ern points. are descriptive of this territory sent on a T. E. FISE Gen. Pas at the Ha Dollar in Your Po April 25th to May 5th,—One fare for round trip. June 25th to July 7th—One fare plus $2 for round trip. Sept. 3rd to 14th—One fare for round trip. LIBERAL LIMITS AND STOPOVERS. Write for rate quotations to Mexican, Cuban, Texas, Louisiana and other southern points. Literature descriptive of this territory sent on application. T. E. FISHER. "Get the Habit" "Get the Habit" Put a Dollar in Your Pocket. 820 15th Street, y Between Champa and Half way Between Champa and Stout. 1 AN WE WISH TO have secured the dren. The Educator little folks—they all with enlarged joints, for the baby and up look well, feel comfo Sizes 2 to 5—$1.35 Made in all the differ FREE! For the re ted with a pair of Ed pieces and bells, free Educator SHOE DENVER'S L Try a Sam The P Fresh Beer Delivered "THE COLORADO ROAD." Inc COLORADO & SOUTHERN RY.CO SPECIAL T April 25th to M June 25th to J Sept. 3rd to 14 LIBER Write for rate Keep the child's foot as nature intended, as shown at the left. Many children's shoes force the pliable growing bones and muscles into unnatural shapes as shown at the right. Educators are designed to keep the bones and muscles in nature's shape. The Oak leather soles provide lightness, flexibility and wear and upper leathers are of the highest class. To have your child thank you for perfect feet in later life buy EDUCATORS. NOUNCEMENT NOUNCE to the mothers of Denver that we exclusive sale of the Educator Shoes for chil-oes are more desirable than any others for the Child's foot to grow natural and does away brown toe-nails, etc. They come in all sizes, the big boy's and girl's sizes. The Educators use and wear better than any other shoes made. to 8—$1.50. 8½ to 11—$1.75. 11½ to 2—$2.25. leathers. thirty days we will give every child that is fit- tor Shoes, a jumping rope with wooden handle Umbrellas and Parasols Re-covered and Repaired Dividend Vouchers with Every Purchase Ask About Them. Perini Bros. 1021 16th St., Denver. "Humbine" ZANG'S Brew Table Beer special Brew for Family use BROUGH BRAND OF BOTTLED BEER Humbine Beer guaranteed absolutely pure the Case and you will use no other TELEPHONE 1285 Zang Brewing Co. Producers friendly to all parts of the city COLORADO AND SOUTHERN EXCURSIONS To City of Mexico. 5th.—One fare for round trip. 7th.—One fare plus $2 for round trip. One fare for round trip. LIMITS AND STOPOVERS. tations to Mexican, Cuban, Texas, Louisana- tive of this territory sent on application. T. E. FISHER, Gen. Pass. Agent. Denver, Colo. the Habit" lar in Your Pocket. THE STORE THAT SAVES YOU A $ NO MORE 250 NO LESS THE MENNING - EDDY SHOE CO. ween Champa and Stout. J Denver. Vindication. The old farmer was sitting on the fence clapping his freckled hands with glee. "Why are you so happy?" asked the man who paints signs on barns. "Why, by gum, one of them thar pesky automobiles came rushing past here and run over two of my game chickens." "H'm! I'd think you'd be looking sour." "Not me, stranger. Them thar game birds had steel spurs on them and the way they punctured up them tires was worth going a mile to see." City of Electricity. New York City consumes nearly 1, 000,000,000 units of electricity per annum, while London, with nearly double the population, consumes not more than one-fourth of that amount. The consumption per head of population in New York is stated to be 282 units, London. New, quick method; $15 to $25 position guaranteed. Lesson free. Pernin Business College, Denver. She jilted him, but he could not Forget her; no, poor man. The gifts he'd made her he had bought On the installment plan. Will not make you nervous. Ask your dealer or The M. Hyman Cigar Co., $10 17th Street, Denver, Colo. Now some industrious scientist has discovered that the bug bug carries the germs of leprosy. Boil your bed bugs. Write for cloth samples of my $10 Hand Tailored Suits, made by I. Rude, the little tailor, 16th and Curtis St., Denver. While attempting to lift a stove the other day, a man dropped dead, and it is safe to say that every married man who heard about it told his wife. A $40 Saddle for $28 c.o.d. ```markdown ``` For a short time only we offer this saddle, steel hoof, hard rubber, cinches, wool-lined 28-inch, skirts, 2½-inch stirrup, leather, steel leather-covered stirrups, warranted in every respect, and equal to saddles sold for $40 everywhere. Catalogue free. The Fred Mueller Saddle&HarnessCo. 1413-1419 Larimer St., Denver, Colo. STOVE REPAIRS of every known make of stove furnace or range deck. Pullen, 1831 Lawrence, Denver. Phone 725. THE FAMOUS J. H. WILSON STOCK SADDLES Ask your dealer for them. Take no other. BROWN PALACE HOTEL Absolutely Fire-proof European Plan, $1.50 and Unward. WANTED-Men to learn plumbing trade. Colorado School Practical Plumbing, 1045-51 Araphae Street, Denver. Catalogue Tree. AMERICAN HOUSE DENVER. Two blocks from union depot. The best $2 per day hotel in the West. American plan. Oxford Hotel Denver. One block from Union Depot. Fireproof. C. H. MORSE, M.P. DENVER BUSINESS UNIVERSITY. Weekly Business Journal. Newspaper, teachers, individual instruction; fine equipment; complete, practical courses of study in bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, English, etc. Quiet location, rooms and board in University building. Positions secured. Catalog free. CENTRAL Business College 306 Enterprise Block, Denver. 20th year; oldest and newest; book- keeping and business telegraphy. Fall term opens September 4th. Catalogue free. THE McMURTRYMFGCO. HALLACK MIXED PAINT WESTERN VARNISHES FOR DRY CLIMATE USE DENVER E. E. BURLINGAME & CO., ASSAY OFFICE AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY Established in Colorado,1866. Samples by mail or express will receive prompt and careful attention Gold & Silver, Bullion Concentration Tests—100 lbs. or car load lots. Write for terms. 1736-1738 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. THE DENVER TENT & AWNING ALFRED S. PROCTER PRES. PHONE 155 1428 1438 LARIMER MAPS OF COLORADO Guide Map, treatise on natural resources, 25c. Fine large Road Map, folded, $1. Wall Map, $2. Six-foot Sectional Map, $10. Pocket Sectional Maps, very accurate, any part of the state. $1. Send for catalogue. Maps and Enhanced maps in order. 1100 Map 5a, 775 15th Street, Denver, Colorado. PIANOS AND ORGANS Send your name with this ad. for list of fine bargains in pianos and organs. List your prices from $15 to $25 up. Player Pianos, can be played by a pianist or a soldier, more sold on easy terms to suit buyer. Victor talking machines sold at factory prices on easy termites. List your prices on our different instruments. WAS S225 NOW S127 MY MINUTE THE KNIGHT- CAMPBELL MUSIC COMPANY, 1625-31 California St. Denver, Colo. ages 17 to 35, must be able bodied, of good character and American citizens, either native born or naturalized. Apply to Navy Recruiting Office, room 22 Pioneer building, Denver, or room 416 Postoffice building, Pueblo, Colorado. PERUNA PRAISED. MRS. ESTHER M. MILNER. Box 321, DeGraff, Ohio. Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Sir:— I was a terrible sufferer from pelvic weakness and had headache continuously. I was not able to do my housework for myself and husband. I wrote you and described my condition as nearly as possible. You recommended Peruna. I took four bottles of it and was completely cured. I think Peruna a wonderful medicine and have recommended it to my friends with the very best of results. Esther M. Milner. Very few of the great multitude of women who have been relieved of some pelvic disease or weakness by Peruna ever consent to give a testimonial to be read by the public. There are, however, a few courageous, self-sacrificing women who will for the sake of their suffering sisters allow their cures to be published. Mrs. Milner is one of these. In her gratitude for her restoration to health she is willing that the women of the whole world should know it. A chronic invalid brought back to health is no small matter. Words are inadequate to express complete gratitude. Cheapens Cost of Liquid Air. A Dane named Knudson is credited with discovering means of producing liquid air at the cost of no more than one-sixth the usual price, and it is said that his process, which is mechanical rather than chemical, will ultimately put liquid air on the market at not more than about two cents a gallon. The same invention makes it possible to sell oxygen at a cent a cubic foot, which promises to bring it into rather wide industrial use. Proved Effectual. It is 900 years since the failure of a bank in China. On the last occasion when such an event happened, the emperor had the failure investigated, and found it had been due to reckless conduct on the part of the directors. He at once issued an edict that, the next time a bank failed, the heads of its president and directors were to be cut off. This edict, which has never been revoked, has made China's banking institutions the safest in the world. DOCTOR DESPAIRED Anæmic Woman Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Recommends the Pills to All Others Who Suffer. Anæmic is just the doctor's name for bloodlessness. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure anæmic as food cures hunger. They cured Mrs. Thomas J. McGann, of 17 Lincoln Place, Plainfield, N. J., who says: "In the spring of 1903 I did my usual house cleaning and soon afterward I began to have the most terrible headaches. My heart would beat so irregularly that it was painful and there came a morning when I could not get up. My doctor said I had anemia and he was surprised that I had continued to live in the condition I was in. I was confined to my bed for nearly two months, the doctor coming every day for the first few weeks, but I did not improve to amount to anything. Altogether I was sick for nearly two years. I was as weak as a rag, had headaches, irregular heart beats, loss of appetite, cramps in the limbs and was unable to get a good night's sleep. My legs and feet were so swollen that I feared they would burst. "Before very long after I tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I felt a change for the better. I have taken about twelve boxes and although I was as near the grave as could be, I now feel as if I had a new lease of life. I have no more headaches, the heart beats regularly, my cheeks are pink and I feel ten years younger. I feel that I have been cured very cheaply and I have recommended the pills to lots of my friends." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all drummists, or will be sent by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. There is no satisfaction keener than being dry and comfortable when out in the hardest storm YOU ARE SURE OF THIS IF YOU WEAR TOWER'S FISH BRAND WATERPROOF OILED CLOTHING BLACK OR YELLOW On sale everywhere A.J. TOWER CO., BOSTON 10, D.C. 112 CAN MAKE PEACE SECRETARY TAFT WILL FORCE CUBANS TO USE REASON. OUTLOOK NOW FAVORABLE Ultimatum of President Roosevelt Brings Both Parties to Their Senses—Government Will Treat With Rebels. Havana.—The government party has abandoned its basic contention that it is impossible to treat for peace with armed rebels, and proposed to negotiate directly with a committee of its opponents. It agreed to leave all points upon which understanding is not reached to the final arbitration of Secretaries Taft and Bacon. The government first suggested that it would treat with the Liberals if they would lay down their arms, but the American commissioners ruled that this stipulation was unfair, and that Moderate representatives accepted this view. While this phase of the controversy was wholly unexpected, Secretary Taft was greatly pleased therewith, and made the following statement for publication: "My impression is that we are much nearer a solution of the trouble tonight than we were last night." It is beyond question that both parties were brought to a more tractable frame of mind by the verbal ultimatum issued by Taft and Bacon Wednesday in the name of President Roosevelt, that unless they consent to a fair arbitration, the United States must compel the same by a temporary military occupation. Such an occupation, it was declared, would not mean American sovereignty. It would continue only until new elections had been held, the new government firmly established and order restored. Within an hour of the receipt of this ultimatum the Moderate assembly agreed, at the end of a stormy session, to the suggestion of treating with the Liberals. It is understood that President Palma does not intend to withdraw his resignation, but it is predicted that Congress will table it indefinitely. HEARST NOMINATED. Democratic Candidate for Governor of New York. Buffalo, N. Y.—At a session which began at 7:45 o'clock Tuesday night and continued until 2:30 the next morning, the Democratic state convention nominated a state ticket with William Randolph Hearst at the head of it. Mr. Hearst already was in the field as the gubernatorial nominee of the Independence league, which he was instrumental in organizing. The Democrats also took from the Independence League ticket Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler of Duchess county for lieutenant governor and John S. Whalen of Monroe for secretary of state. The other nominees were Martin J. Glynn of Albany for state controller, William Schuyler Jackson of Buffalo for attorney general; for state treasurer, Julius Houser of Suffolk; Frederick W. Skene of Queens for state engineer and surveyor. None of them are on the Independence League ticket. Mr. Hearst was nominated with 300 votes, only 226 being necessary for choice. Congressman William Sulzer received for governor 124 votes, and John A. Dix of Washington county received the complimentary vote of seventeen delegates making 450 in all The nomination of Mr. Hearst was made in the face of the bitterest opposition ever waged in a Democratic convention in this state. The minority, which cast its ballots for Mr. Sulzer, has known for several days that it was beaten. This fact was made sure in the last session, when a test vote on the majority report of the committee on contested seats showed Hearst supporters to be in absolute control. Under the guise of advocating the candidacy of Mr. Sulzer a number of Mr. Hearst's party opponents took the stage, and amid storms of cheering and hissing, denounced and arraigned the man they knew was to be the party's candidate in the most remarkable series of speeches ever hurled at a man to be named for the highest office at the gift of the convention. The advocates of Mr. Hearst answered these attacks, the most effective of the utterances being made in his behalf by Cngressman Bourke Cockran of New York, who declared that Mr. Hearst was not his personal choice, the demand that he be nominated having come from every section of the state, and was not to be denied. HUGHES FOR GOVERNOR. Nominated by Acclamation by New York Republicans. Saratoga, N. Y.—Expedition marked the second and final day of the Republican state convention Wednesday. From early morning, when it became known that Charles E. Hughes of New York would be nominated for governor by acclamation, the other proceedings practically became formal, and were pushed to completion with the utmost speed. Following is the full ticket named, all save Hughes and Lewis being the present incumbents: Governor—Charles E. Hughes. Lieutenant Governor — M. Linn Bruce. Secretary of State—J. F. O'Brien. Treasurer—J. G. Wallenmeir. Comptroller—M. E. Lewis. Engineer—H. A. Van Alstyne. Attorney General—J. M. Mayer The platform praises President Roosevelt and endorses his policies, declares the administration of Governor Higgins one of the greatest in the state's history, favors regulation by law of charges of public utilities, a primary law, the protective tariff, with any needed revisions to be made by Republicans, and urges shipping subsidies. From cover to cover without feeling some of the symptoms. Money refunded for each package of PUNAM FADELESS DYES if unsatisfactory. Ask your druggist. Some one says that the voice of conscience is but an in-voice. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children beating, softens the gums, reduces inflammation always pain, cures wind colic. See a bottle. That things that are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.—George Eliot. 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Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Klittert. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Dispensing with Waiters. Automatic cars have become so successful in Switzerland that a company has been formed to supply the Swiss and their visitors with electric automatic restaurants, where, as if by magic, meals will be served by electricity to all comers. The only thing necessary is to take your seat, glance over the bill of fare, place your money in the right slot, and the machinery does the rest. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Hunters Mauled by Lioness. A fight between two hunters and an infuriated lioness is reported from British East Africa. Messrs. Lucas and Goldfinch left Nairobi on a shooting expedition, and when five miles from the town the lioness was observed. While the men stood at the edge of the thicket the brute pounced on Mr. Goldfinch and threw him to the ground. It bit him on the thigh before Mr. Lucas lodged a bullet in its neck. Maddened by the wound, the animal turned its attention to Mr. Lucas, whose horse it felled and then plumed the rider to the ground, inflicting lacerations on his face and biting his right arm. He was saved by Mr. Goldfinch, who, sitting up, rolled the lioness over with a well-aimed shot. The beast was about to spring on its victim again when another discharge from the same weapon proved fatal. The wounded men were taken back to town, where they received medical aid. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES CURES RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES BACKACHE This product has discontinued the use of our language. The public may return an inmitation, asid only in爽爽 YOU CANNOT CURE all inflamed, ulcerated and catarrhal conditions of the mucous membrane such as nasal catarrh, uterine catarrh caused by feminine litch, sore throat, sore mouth or inflamed eyes by simply dosing the stomach. But you surely can cure these stubborn affections by local treatment with Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic which destroys the disease germs, checks discharges, stops pain, and heals the inflammation and soreness. Paxtine represents the most successful local treatment for feminine lilies ever produced. Thousands of women testify to this fact. 50 cents at druggists. Send for Free Trial Box THE R. PAKTON CO., Boston, Mass. Tired, Nervous Mothers Make Unhappy Homes—Their Condition Irritates Both Husband and Children-How Thousands of Mothers Have Been Saved From Nervous Prostration and Made Strong and Well. Mrs. Chester Curry Mrs. Chas. F. Brown Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Advlce-A Woman Best Understands a Woman's Ills. A nervous, irritable mother, often on the verge of hysterics, is unfit to care for children; it ruins a child's disposition and reacts upon herself. The trouble between children and their mothers too often is due to the fact that the mother has some female weakness, and she is entirely unfit to bear the strain upon her nerves that governing children involves; it is impossible for her to do anything calmly. The lills of women act like a firebrand upon the nerves, consequently nineteenth of the nervous prostration, nervous despondency, "the blues," sleeplessness, and nervous irritability of women arise from some derangement of the female organism. Do you experience fits of depression with restlessness, alternating with extreme irritability? Are your spirits easily affected, so that one minute you laugh, and the next minute you feel like crying? Do you feel something like a ball rising in your throat and threatening to choke you; all the senses perverted, morbidity sensitive to light and sound: pain in the abdominal region, and between the shoulders; bearing-down pains; nervous dyspepsia and almost continually cross and snappy? If so, your nerves are in a shattered condition, and you are threatened with nervous prostration. Proof is monumental that nothing in the world is better for nervous prostration than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; thousands and thousands of women can testify to this fact. This Is What Catches Me! 16oz.—One-Third More Starch. for No premi more sta other bran hot or col equal and w W. L. 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Fast Color Egults used: they will not wear brassy. Write for illustrated Catalog of Fall Styles. W.L. DUOULAS, Dept. 12, Brockton, Mass. Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the Ladies' Symphony Orchestra, 42 Saratoga Street, East Boston, Mass., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham:— "For eight years I was troubled with extreme nervousness and hysteria, brought on by irregularities. I could neither enjoy life nor sleep nights: I was very irritable, nervous and despondent. "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was recommended and provided to be only improved in health until I am now strong and well, and all nervousness has disappeared." Mrs. Charles F. Brown, Vice-President of the Mothers' Club, 21 Cedar Terrace, Hot Springs, Ark., writes: Dear Pinkham: "I dragged through nine years of miserable existence, worn out with pain and nervousness, until it seemed as though I should. I then noticed a statement of a woman troubled as I was, and the wonderful results of my vegetable Compound. I decided to try it. I did so, and at the end of three months I was a different woman. My nervousness was all gone, I was no longer irritable, and my husband fell in love with me all over again." Women should remember that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the medicine that holds the record for the greatest number of actual cures of female illms, and take no substitute. Free Advice to Women. Mrs. Pinkham, daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., invites all sick women to write to her for advice. Mrs. Pinkham's vast experience with female troubles enables her to advise you wisely, and she will charge you nothing for her advice. SIXTEEN OUNces DEFIANCE COLD WATER STARCH HAS NO EQUAL DEFIANCE STARCH 16 OZ. DEFIANCE STARCH CO. ORGANIA, NEW. A. FULL POUND for 10c premiums, but one-third the starch than you get of brands. Try it now, for cold starching it has no and will not stick to the iron. Take The Right Road To Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis From Omaha or Kansas City CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Unequalled Equipment on All Trains For Full Information Write G. P. GUYOT, Traveling Passenger Agent, 609 17th St., Denver, Col. PENSION JOHN W. MORRIS Washington, D. C. Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U. S. Penston Bureau DEFIANCE STARCH — 15 ounces to the package other starches only 12 ounces — same price and "DEFIANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. PATENT ATTORNEYS. PATENTS Trade Marks, Designs, Copyrights and Labels procured. NATHAN BICKFORD, 914 F St. Washington, D. G. W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 39, 1906. THE WOMAN'S CORNER SUIT FOR THE AUTUMN. | VARIED STYLES OF COIFFURE. Something of a Novelty in Shades of Tan and Brown. Materials for the early autumn are being shown, and it is noticeable that a great many plaids and checks are included in the number. Here is an A attractive yet simple little suit that is made of novelty suiting in shades of tan and brown, with collar, cuffs and vest of brown velvet, edged with a handling of palest tan colored broadcloth, this same broadcloth being used as strapping for the coat. JACKETS FOR THE AUTUMN. Attractive Models of Plainer Types Being Shown. Some attractive models of the plainer types of suits show jackets which are made of contrasting material to the skirt, the only thing that connects the two being collars and cuffs of the skirt material added to the coat. With one particularly stunning walking suit even that connection was missing, yet jacket and skirt very evidently belonged together. The skirt was of striped material, so deftly made that it seemed like a plain cloth until you got close to it. And the way it was cut brought the stripes together directly in front into sharp diagonal lines. The jacket was of plain cloth, exactly the same color as the striped stuff, and the velvet collar repeated the color note—only more insistently—of the stripe itself. For such coats the regulation coat sleeve is used almost entirely, usually with some sort of a trim little cuff. In length, most of them are about hip length, and they are fitted closely—either double or single breasted—or are semi-fitting. The loose coat, for such purposes, is very seldom seen, except upon the very young girl. A great many cassimere effects are seen in the new cloths—rich dark Scotch colorings and irregular weaves. Some of these have self-toned raised figures; others are in dull rich colors. DESIGNED TO GIVE DISTINCTION TO FALL GOWNS. Hints by Which the Home Dressmaker May Profit—Some Novelties Among Those Described. The best way for the home dressmaker to give distinction to her fall gowns is by the design of her sleeves. Below will be found four of the best types to choose from. They may also be combined effectively. Fashion will run in two extremes—the tight mousquetaire sleeve, trimmed with buttons and braid, and the very full sleeve, with the material set in box plaits and tied over the elbow with a huge knot of ribbon, says the New York World. The sleeves shown in the illustration are described as follows: 1. Long full sleeve with deep cavailer cuffs, to be worn with morning gowns, house dresses, separate silk waist, or where long sleeves are required. The cuffs can be made of odds and ends of lace carefully joined or of one good piece of embroidery. 2. All over lace undersleeve with cape of the same material as the dress. The sleeve forms one large puff and a smaller one coming well over the elbow. 3. Three-quarter length sleeve for coats and jackets, the fullness at the shoulder and tight-fitting round the lower part of the arm. The sleeve itself is of cloth with stitched band VARIED STYLES OF COIFFURE. Spanish Combs and Aigrettes Are Much in Favor. Of Importance to the feminine world is the cult of the coiffure as taught by leading hairdressers. Not only is the hair structure bigger then ever, with its curls, braids and padded puffs, but Spanish combs and aigrettes from six to eight inches in height must set off the evening head. Then with the high square topped combs the lace mantilla of the Castilian beauty also threatens, coiffeurs showing already the correct method of wearing them, and invariably getting in a word of the new queen of Spain, whose adoption of Spanish customs has revived interest in these charming trifles. The best of the imported combs are enchantingly lovely, filigree silver, chased gold and plain shell forming them. The very much ornamented ones, those with blinding paste gems are spurious imitations, jewelers affirm, but these are shown, too, by the coiffeur. The arrangement of the mantilla, which may be of white or black lace, with the high comb is simple. One end is dropped slightly over the top of the comb, and the rest of the filmy fabric, which is in square shawl form, gracefully yells the shoulders and back of the head. The picturesque becomingness of this headdress is too taking to be entirely ignored, and it will doubtless be adopted by a few women of independent spirit. The ways of putting the Spanish comb into the coiffure are various. With the mantilla it is placed squarely at the top of the head back of the crown, or slightly to one side. With other high coiffures, for a high dressing of the hair is necessary with the tall comb, it may be placed at the back of the coiffure, the square top barely showing at the front. Conservative people will choose those only moderately high, and true Spanish influences are shown in the square tops, which, whether high or low, the majority of the newest combs display. As to the methods by which the modish coiffure of the moment is achieved, they all tend to give the head a very enlarged appearance. Frames made of wire the size of a single hair, covered to suit the wearer's glory, and still further disguised with a covering of hair net, are employed to raise the front pompour, the side face puffs, and sometimes to bank the final chignon. The waved locks which cover these at the front are artificially glossed to dazzling brightness, and wherever there is a vacant space in the back waves the hairdresser tucks in a soft, short curl, which it attached to a brown, blonde or black hairpin. The false pieces used to eke out hair sufficient for these towering structures are without number. Few heads can be dressed without a switch of some degree of thickness for the back, and sometimes the entire front, whose lightly falling puff and side undulations look so divinely natural, are made entirely by one of the wired pieces called transformations. around the cuff and running up the side of the sleeve. The bands are edged with tiny buttons. The cuff is finished with ruffles of finely plaited cambric. 4. A cloth and lace sleeve reaching 1 2 3 4 a little below the elbow; the upper part being of cloth, of a rather novel shape, edged around and joined with black velvet. The under sleeve is of rows of lace thickly ruffled with a cuff of the velvet to match the upper part NEW FALL STOCK OF LADIES SUITS, CLOAKS, WAISTS, SKIRTS AND PETTICOATS Are now ready for your inspection. You will find our prices, as usual, the lowest in the city; quality considered. As in past seasons, we will offer reliable garments at reasonable prices. VERSMITH & HILLER 925 16th Street, Opposite Joslin's Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPANOE-PHONE 817 Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPAHOE-PHONE 817 TRELL'S PHARMACY, DR. W. J. COTTRELL, Prop. ete Line of Drugs and all Kinds of Toilet Articles, Stationery, Ete. SODA FOUNTAIN IN CONNECTION .. ICE CREAM AND ICES SERVED .. COTTRELL'S PHARMACY, DR. W. J. COTTRELL, Prop. A Complete Line of Drugs and all Kinds of Toilet Articles, Stationery, Ete. . . SODA FOUNTAIN IN CONNECTION . . . . ICE CREAM AND ICES SERVED . oe Street. Denver, Colo MILLINERY MILLINERY ANNOUNCEMENT The buyer and manager of this section, who has been with us several seasons and who has made such a success; in fact, caused it to be THE MILLINERY STORE of the West, has returned from his buying trip and the Hats are here. The best that Paris has produced, the noblest that London makes, the choiceest of American styles, together with our own creations; they are all here, and all at the popular prices that have made this section so rapidly increase its business. All meritorious in the highest degree, all the very acme of style and exquisite to the point of elegance. Particular attention is directed to the showing made in the new colors, Tope, Bordeaux, Nut Brown and French Blue, which will be the leading ones this season. We have made preparations for the largest Millinery business in our history and know we will not be disappointed. If you come and see our display you are sure to see just what you want and at just the price you want to pay. The Joslin DRY GOODS CO. COTTRE DR. A Complete Lin Ark .. SODA .. ICE C 2100 Arapahoe Street. Finest hand work in the city. PHONE 3230 MAIN. Denver, Colo WASHINGTONIANS TO MAKE CAPITAL A "CITY BEAUTIFUL." Will Not Be Content Until It Is Second to Nothing in the World—Demand for Enfranchisement. Along with the movement for a "Greater Washington" commercially there has come a revival of interest in plans to make it the "City Beautiful" of the world. If as much is accomplished in the next quarter of a century as has been accomplished in the 25 years just past, the American capital will have distanced all its rivals in the race for beauty. It was only a few years ago that congress gave scantily and grudgingly to the beautification of Washington. It was as hard then to get a few thousand dollars to pave a street as it is now to secure millions for a project of improvement. During the past five years almost as much money has been expended and authorized to be expended as had been done in the previous hundred years of the city's history. Not only is the government building and planning beautiful structures of classic design, but private enterprise is doing its full share. A union railroad station, to cost, with its approaches, about $14,000,000, is only one of numerous projects under way. Throughout the city there is everywhere manifested a disposition to build beautifully and substantially; in fact, Washington seems to have something it has utterly lacked in years gone—civic spirit. With this awakening to a new life, there is heard again the demand of enfranchisement for the inhabitants of the District of Columbia. Washingtonians want a voice in the government, and more especially they want home rule. Next winter there is likely to be a determined effort to secure something of a concession in this line from congress. The demand probably will be for a seat in the house of representatives, and an elective district government. Even Porto Rico is better treated than the national capital, for Porto Rico has a "commissioner" who is entitled to the privileges of the floor of both house and senate. He can not vote, it is true, nor can the territorial delegates, but it is an undeniable advantage to have a representative on the floor. There is a growing disposition to believe that the form of government fastened on the District of Columbia is not a success. The governing body consists of two commissioners from civil life and an army officer detailed from the engineer corps. The appointments are made by the president, and while the law requires that the civilian commissioners shall be bona fide residents of the District, the men appointed are not always in touch with the District people or the District's needs. The commissioners are supposed to represent the District before congress, and during a session they are given frequent hearings on pending measures. But the commissioners do not always possess the confidence of congressmen, and the fact that the commissioners advocate a measure is sometimes sufficient to insure its defeat. With all these matters pending, therefore, Washington did not take on its accustomed summer dullness. The people had something to talk about, and a large number of wealthy men who habitually leave the capital for the summer remained in town agitating for a "Greater Washington." H. F. Dodge, one of the official stenographers of the national house of representatives, says that Colonel Rock wood Hoar, of the Worcester, Mass. district is the "hardest man to take" in the Massachusetts delegation, not only because he speaks rapidly but that he also talks so "strongly Yankee" that it is not always easy to understand him. Mr. Dodge is himself an Indianian. The easiest man in the house to take is Clayton, of Alabama, whose speed of utterance often falls to 65 words a minute, a rate at which he could be taken in long hand. The fastest talker in the house is Walter L. Smith, of Ohio, and also one of its clearest thinkers, the rapidity of his utterance keeping pace with the rapidity of his thought. It is almost impossible to do more than to nake a dot for each of his words. Made Fun of Statesman's Pathos Shortly before congress adjourned Congressman Cushman, of Washington, took the floor at a night session and delivered a capital stump speech. He poked fun at the Democratic party and paid his respects to Mr. Towne, of New York, whom he lampooned in witty fashion. He got along splendidly as long as he stuck to the humorous vein, but met with disaster later when he undertook to be pathetic. With tears in his voice he said: "Mr. Chairman, only a few days ago I stood beside a bier." "One beer?" asked some one. "Stein or glass?" queried another. "A few minutes ago, did you say?" came from a third. "Bottle or keg?" was still another question. By that time the house was in a roar and Cushman's peroration came to a sudden end. George F. Pollock, recently appointed assistant commissioner of the general land office in Washington, did not have even a primary school education until he was over 19 years old. Now while still quite a young fellow, he is receiving $35,000 a year for purely intellectual work. His father was a矿 miner with a large family. DO YOU KNOW THAT The Colorado Statesman Is Now Prepared To Do All Kinds of Job Printing? Commercial, Fraternal. Church, Book and Stationery Jobs a Specialty BALL AND CONCERT PROGRAMS, BILL AND LETTER HEADS, CALLING CARDS, WEDDING CARDS, ENVELOPES AND EVERYTHING IN THE PRINTING LINE TURNED OUT IN NEATEST STYLE PROMPTLY ON SHORT NOTICE. We have supplied our office with job press and type of up-to-date style and our work will be on a par with the Very Best Give Us a Trial and We will Give You Satisfaction PRICES AS REASONABLE AS THOSE OF ANY JOB OFFICE IN DENVER. The Colorado Statesman 1824 CURTIS STREET ROOM 25. ---