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MONEY SAVED BY PATRONIZING MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY The Tragedy At Atlanta, From the Point of View of the Negroes by W. E. Burghart Du Bois, in "The World To-Day." VOL. XIII, The T At Atlanta, From the Point W. E. Burghart Du Bois, On Saturday, Sept. 22, a mob of boys and young men from twelve to twenty-two, together with a few older persons, took possession of the streets of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, and killed, beat, mained and otherwise maltreated such Negroes as they could at. Afterward Negroes began to retaliate and for a time things looked like an armed vendetta. On Tuesday one hardware firm alone sold $16,000 worth of arms to white people, while ev ery effort was made to disarm Negroes. The net result of the riot was the killing and wounding of at least one hundred persons, most of whom were Negroes, although a very large porpoison of both the dead and maimed were white, the exact number on either side being unknown; the looting of three or four white stores and a few Negro; the smashing of plate glass, the partial wrecking of twenty street cars and spoiling of Pullman cars, the suspension of church services for a part of Sunday and a stagnation in business shown by a falling off of more than a quarter of a million of dollars in clearing-house receipts. To quote the results as summed up by the Atlanta Constitution: "Thousands of Negroes, the best class of the race, the law-abiding class, collecting their property and their savings and leaving Atlanta! Business in almost total stagnation for three days, but now, fortunately, fully resumed with the return of confidence. Factories shut down. Long trains of freight cars standing unloaded for lack of labor to switch them. The loss running into a sum that can not be computed for many weeks." The alleged cause of this riot was the raping of white women by Negroes culminating in four cases on the day of the riot. The afternoon papers announced "four rapes attempted in swift succession within the hour, two of which had been successful." What were the facts? John Temple Graves' own paper announced September 24 that of these alleged crimes of Saturday, "None was a real case of criminal assault." The real story of these assaults acknowledged by Graves' paper was as follows: 1. At 2 p.m. a Negro loafing in a back yard was ordered away and shot at. 2. At 7 o'clock a woman was knocked down by a man as she State Historical and N H Society, Denver, Colo SAVED BY PATRO COLORA THE ragedy of View of the Negroes by in "The World To-Day." stepped out out of her back door. He immediately ran away. 3. At 7:30 o'clock a similar occurance in another part of the city. 4. An old lady living alone saw a black face looking through the window and was greatly frightened. Two cases of fright and two cases of intentional or accidental violence is all that occurred Saturday. Before that there had been one case of brutal violence and one case of probably attempted rape and another alleged, but as there was nothing but newspaper report on these cases it is difficult to be sure. The real cause of the riot was two years of vituperation and traduction of the Negro race by the most prominent candidates for the governorship, together with a bad police system and a system of punishing crime which is a disgrace to any civilized state. Mr. Hoke Smith in his campaign for office has deliberately stirred up in every part of the state the deepest hatred of the Negro, fear of his aspirations, and determination to keep him down. Mr. Clark Howell has been but a shade better. Only one candidate, Colonel Estill treated the Negro with ordinary courtesy. The colored people, even many of the best and most law-abiding, regard the Atlanta police as their oppressors. In the riot, when the civilization of a city went to pieces blood ran and drunkenness and fury prevailed. It was, as the Atlanta Constitution naively remarks "a remarkable fact" that out of 160 policemen, as many as New Orleans with her 270 policemen and twice the Negro population, three times as many as Savannah, where a majority of the inhabitants are Negroes, and three times as many as Savannah, where a majority of the inhabitants are Negroes, and three times as many as in a northern industrial center like Lowell, Massachusetts, a city of the same size. Most of the Atlanta arrests are of colored people and are largely for trivial charges. Then, too, the whole criminal policy of Georgia is to make money out of crime. The system has been improved lately, but as a recent report says: "It still makes the income from crime rather than the reformation of the criminal of paramount im- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1906. portance. Special stress is laid in each report of the prison commission on this income; the system is extolled as self-sustaining and nets the state large sums of mone annually." At present the income is $225,000, which the last prison commission report refers to as a "magnificent increase." In the last resort democratic governments have to depend on the self-defense of law-abiding citizens against the lawless. This is true of the Southern whites to almost too great a degree. But it is the unwritten law of the South that the Negro must not defend himself against white aggression. That the mob was composed of the lawless element of whites is certain. the Constitution said: "Are we working for the protection of the womanhood of our race when immature boys—many of them in knee trousers, many of them led by indiscreet and unthinking leaders; many of them viewing the thing simply as a picnic—drag innocent, pleading human beings from street cars, from alleys where they hud taken refuge, from the sides of their employers and hack and stab and shoot and stomp them?" As soon as the dazed Negroes realized the situation they naturally began to arm and fight. Again and again the whites started toward "Darktown." one of the slums but hesitated. The Negroes gained in courage. They shot out all the electric lights and, it is reported, telephoned the governor: "Don't send the police to us, send the mob!" The situation began to look very grave; twenty or thirty white rioters were arrested, but the great mass were still free, and then the authorities made the strange mistake of attempting to disarm all Negroes, peaceful and vicious alike, while the whites were buying arms by the thousands. In a Negro suburb the county police, having sworn in a large number of white deputies, started to disarm the blacks and were ambushed, had their leader killed and a slaughter ensued. The state militia now was called, the work of arming the whites and disarming the Negroes proceeded, and peace at last settled on the distracted city after three days of orgy. The lessons of this riot are clear. 1. It is a criminal procedure to stir up race hatred for political perferment. 2. There is crime among Negroes—serious crime, and there is crime among whites. The way to stop it is by just courts, a decent, honest police force, and a system of punishment the object of which is to stop crime and reform criminals and not to make money. 3. No community can hope to be peaceful if it makes a third or a half of its population helpless, defenseless and ignorant, and leaves it naked to the worst ele- ments of the city who form its industrial rivals. 4. The Negro must have the ballot. Only in this way can he peacefully defend his life and property, help the best class of whites defend theirs and put down the criminals of both races. 5. There is considerable evidence to show that the Atlanta riot was deliberately planned weeks before, and it has been openly charged that many of the attempted assaults were not made blacks at all. However this may be, it is certain that action and radical action is necessary to prevent further outbreaks. These should take the form of forcing real republican governments in the South by reducing the representation of disfranchising states, and by government aid to the southern public school system to reduce illiteracy and barbarism. No Race Problem in Church. A striking illustration of the practical solution of the "race problem" was given at the funeral of the late Thomas Hardy at St. Peters Claver's church, St. Paul, a few days ago. Amid the large colored congregation was a plentiful sprinkling of German, Irish and native American whites from both the higher and the lower walks of life. In the sanctuary of the beautifully frescoed church little colored boys clad in surplice cassock walked or knelt side by side with white acolytes. In the ceoir rich Negro voices rang out in full chorus chanting the Gregorian Requiem and ancient Latin prayers that have come to us through the centuries hallowed by the use of countless generations of our forefathers in the faith. Besides Father Printon, the pastor, Monsignor Majer and other clergymen in the church was Archbishop Ireland in his pontifical vestments emphasizing the fact that in the Catholic Church there was "no race problem," and referring to the inanimate Negro lying before him in the casket as a "close personal friend" of a lifetime. As Christianity is the only power that lifted the civilized nations of the earth from barbarism so it is the only power that can lift the Negro race from the degrading influence of slavery and solve the present race problem. The ceremonies of the Church at the funeral of this poor Negro were as elaborate and impressive as if he had been the most prominent of her white children in the northwest.—Denver Catholic Register. Hannah Elias Wins Suits Again Albany, N. Y., Nov. 21. The court of appeals today affirmed the decision, with costs, of the appellate division of the supreme court of the case of Hannah Elias By the decision, the negress is permitted to keep the fortune given her by Platt. It was a striking tragedy that the machinery was set in motion which finally brought about the disclosuse of the double life of the aged millionaire, Platt, and the negress. In May, 1904, Andrew H. Green the "father of Greater New York," was shot and killed as he was leaving his home at 91 Park avenue, by Cornelius H. Williams, a Negro, who was crazed with jealously and declared his wife had been won from him by Green, whom he mistook for Platt. The tragedy unmasked the Elias affair, and urged on by his family, Platt began suit to recover $684, 829. 25, alleged black-mail. The district attorney took a hand in the case, and to serve a warrant on the woman for blackmail he smashed in the door of the mansion at No. 236 Central Park West, given her by Platt. At her trial Platt affected loss of memory and nothing could be wrung from him that could cause Magistrate Ommen to hold her. After her discharge the civil action was resumed. Platt said that twenty years befor he had met the woman, then a girl of 16. Eleven years later, he said, he answered an advertisement for massage. He found the advertiser was the Elias woman. After this second meeting, he said, they had seen each other often. He gave her money to start a boarding house, bought property for her, gave her the house at Central Park West, and contributed large sums to her bank account. He said she had threatened to expose him, and was aided by a lawyer and other persons in mulcting him. He reckonad the entire sum at close to a million. Birminham, Ala., Nov. 12. The body of Annie Shirley, a Negro woman, was found at Pratt City this morning with indications that she had been criminally assaulted, after which she had been murdered. D. W. Sparrow, a guard at the state convict prison, and L. G. Stovall, a former guard, both white men, have been held for investigation. It is said that cards and money alleged to belong to these men, were found near the scene of the murder. Plans have been completed for the erection of a colored school at Fort Worth, Texas, known as the Mechanical and Industrial College; $20,000 have already been subscrib- NO. 9. ed, and J. Ogden Armour, of Chicago, has promised further financial aid. The Baptist Education and Missionary Society of Texas is back of the movement. The intention is to model the college after the Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute. Several hundred students, male and female, will enroll on the start. All Saints Episcopal Church, in St. Louis, is claimed to be the finest and one of the largest in the country. It is a comparatively new structure and very large, and erected by a Unitarian congregation at a cost of $100,000. It was purchased for less than half that sum and in the sale was an $18,000 organ. Rev, ("fatber") Cassius Mason started the original church without a penny, and by two purchases and as many sales, has secured his present church. They also have a fine rectory, and have $3000 in bank, the nucleus of an indowment fund. It is well situated and has a large membership and does a great deal of charitable work. Almost at the very hour when at Atlanta and elsewhere savage Saxons were committing all sorts of crimes in the name of white supremacy over black people, a little 12 year old colored girl, Hazel Handy, in Chicago, won a notable prize against a host of white competitors. The Chicago American has been carrying on a spelling contest among the school children of the city. When it came to award the prizes to the winners, it was discovered that the first prize belonged to a little colored girl. The American promptly awarded her the prize in the form of a check for $72. The little prize winner is the daughter of humble folks, and in a contest where mental brightness counts would scarcely have been thought of as coming within the range of a contestant. JOBS FOR SOLDIERS. New York, Nov. 22.—The three companies of negro troops discharged from the United States army by order of President Roosevelt will be taken to Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, according to a plan announced here today. They will be clothed and cared for by committees, and employment for them eventually found. The negro pastors and other leaders of their race here have determined to hold a mass meeting in Cooper Union on December 1st, at which distinguished white and colored men are to speak, and sentiment is to be created favorable to Congress making a full investigation of the matter. A large delegation of ministers, with lawyers, who have been retained on behalf of the negro soldiers, is to visit President Roosevelt on Monday at Washington and urge him to reopen the same. Gilchrist Stewart, acting on behalf of the Constitutional League, left yesterday for Reno, Oklahoma, where the soldiers are being discharged, for the purpose of securing evidence from hem which is to be used in efforts to have the President reopen the case. COLORADO STATESMAN SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 5.00 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter, or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received by the Postmaster for the regional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising rates, 25 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. No discounts allowed on these lines a month's contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. 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It shows that the Negro himself is alive to his own interest and that he has many friends yet among the whites who will not stand idly by and see him outraged at least without a protest. While perhaps none of these requests, petitions or resolutions will do any good, yet it will show President Roosevelt that the country and the Negro especially do not approve of his unjust, severe, harsh and hasty measures, and that it is at least unfortunate that the Negro is chosen to establish a precedent in army regulations. We repeat what this paper said last week—that this action is not up to what we had reason to expect from the President's declared policy of "a square deal." It looks very much like the flimflam given the race many times in the past by the G. O. P., and that the President instead of being the Moses of righteousness is not even a decent Joshua. One thing we can be truly thankful for and that is that the country has been heard from on the subject and it has spoken, in no uncertain sound. THANKSGIVING. Thanksgiving returns with usual accompaniment of good crops, full barns and prosperity. The President names Thursday, November 29th, as the day of special thanksgiving for blessings, guidance and prosperity vouchsafed to the Nation, and in accordance with the proclamation issued by the head of the National Governor Jesse F. McDonald, chief executive of the state of Colorado, also proclaims November 29th as a day of prayer and thanksgiving to the people of the state. Both the United States and the people of Colorado have special reason to give thanks to the Ruler of Nations, who holds the destiny of the worlds in his hands for the blessings granted to the people of our republic during the past year. The colored church-going people of Denver will gather in a union service at Zion church and be addressed by one of their own pastors. The Negro will have many things to meditate upon. The Atlanta riot, the recent order of the President dishonorably discharging three whole companies of colored troops; mobs, disfranchisement and Jim Crowism, but the Negro is not discouraged. He is determined to win his fight. He has come through many hard trials, and is still going onward and upward. His faith is undaunted, his courage unabated and the cry of his soul is to trust God and succeed. A people preserving a faith under such stress of opposition are sure to win in the end. Such seasons as a national Thanksgiving ought to afford opportunity to reconnoiter our forces, garner our experience, husband our strength and marshal our talent and faith for the conflict. Nothing gives more vivid lessons and greater inspiration than the words of Holy Writ and the examples of saints. The old Book has been the storehouse of strength for many discouraged souls, and it affords an arsenal and fortress for the Negro at this time. The Colorado Statesman requests you to go to church Thanksgiving day—a good sermon, good music, etc., will put you in a reminiscent mood, good spirits and nerve you for the conflict. Let us thank God for past favors and take courage for another struggle forward. There is a growing estrangement in the Negro ranks over the method of procedure in attainment of civic and constitution privilege and assertion of manhood rights. This paper, which has endeavored all along to be unbiased, now proposes to set both sides before the public and let them choose. One side is championed by that indefatigable toiler and builder, Booker T. Washington, who advises education, industry, saving and quiet constructive methods of working the race into active participation into affairs of citizenship and business, and equal opportunities before the law. The other side is lead by the fearless, progressive, logical thinker, DeBois, who advises fight, knocks, force, vigilence, indignation and self-assertion in order to maintain and secure recognition for the race in every walk of life. Both of these eminent leaders have a host of followers, and the thing for each Negro to do is to study the spirit and method laid down by each of these champions and live up on one side or the other. Philadelphia is now pointed to as the seat of the new movement. It was there that the colored people rose in a mass, preceded by a few leading citizens, and compelled the city authorities to put a stop to the performance of the "Clansman." It is now proposed to hang the names of these new leaders in letters of gold and frames of silver in every Negro home, schoolroom, lodge and church of this country as an example of brave, patriotic, race-loving men who took liberty and life into their own hands, lead a mass of intelligent, outraged people to the door of a theatre and to the mayor's office and in the name of decency and their citizenship demanded that Dixon and his troupe of vulgar performers be driven from the city, and it was done. These men went not as bergars or sycophants, not as pleaders, parasites or flatterers, but as earnest, high-toned, loyal American citizens, whose sense of decency and justice was being outraged, and demanded that the abuse of manhood, rights and honor be prohibited, and it was done. This is an exhibition of the determination and courage of the Anglo-Saxon and the spirit of '76 and found ready redress in constituted authority. It is a fine example of the zeal that ought to be practiced by colored people everywhere. In these days of Negro flunkyism and cowardly submission to wrongs and indignities it is a forceful lesson. It forcibly brings us to the point to consider that it is not always wise to be simply patient and deserving, but sometimes it is necessary to show bull-dog grit and a spirit of determination to secure our rights by all honorable and patriotic means. Between these two methods the Negro must take his stand. Both are laudable and have an element of common sense and the Negro will gain by employing both in the struggle for equality before the lew. A GOVERNMENTAL PROBLEM. Are the American people in governmental affairs a unit, a dual or a multiplication? This must soon be settled. Japan has brought a case against our country for violation of treaty agreement in separating Japanese children in the public schools of San Francisco. President Roosevelt dispatched Secretary Metcalfe to California to examine the situation. The secretary has made his report that the treaty was violated and declares that the Federal courts must find California's laws separating the children of Asiatics from native children unconstitutional. This decision will involve the whole question of separate schools, and the Negroes' rights will get a new hearing. America is making a jumble and jungle in attempting to make common law square with race issues. It is evident that the nation can know no permanent peace until the "ghost of state rights" is forever settled by an unequivocal decision from the United States Supreme Court that the nation outranks the state in all questions touching the fundamental principles set forth in the Federal constitution. Whatever may have been the purpose of the constitution framers in providing for dual government—national and state—there has been a clash of sovereignty between the two from the days of Thomas Jefferson down to the present time. It was this clash that caused the Civil War and that is causing the bitterness, unrest, mobs and disfranchisement at the present, and the contention is bound to grow more acute at home and abroad with the passing years. During the past election we were told by public speakers that certain so-called state rights were shot to pieces at Gettysburg. Yet they seem to be much alive and together at the present, and must be legally separated and destroyed again by a sweeping and permanent decision from the United States Supreme Court. Modern idea of government is leaning more and more towards centralization, and the United States, now a world power, must very soon recognize its unity as sovereign and its states as subordinate in order to free itself to make and keep treaty agreements. The whole must necessarily be greater than any of its parts, and when any one of the parts interferes with the autonomy of the whole, then the part must give away. The inability of the National government to protect an American citizen or a foreigner guaranteed by treaty agreement, in Georgia or California, or to cause to be given fair and equal accommodations on interstate carriers—is to forfeit our claim to legal power as well as to common sense. The right of any subordinate political division, as a state, to interfere by legislation or otherwise with the treaty agreements of the United States or a whole, or of a lesser part of the Nation to take steps that interfere with the Nation as a whole would involve the United States in all kinds of trouble. We see the handwriting on the wall. Japan by her insistence may yet be the undoing of some of our tangled legal skeins, and by this open an effectual door for the Negro at home to get the full protection of the Federal statutes. Mrs. W. C. Fortie, won the first prize on embroidery at the fifth annual competitive exhibition at the Wanamaker store last week. The piece was Mount-mellock work of Japanese wistaria, done on white satin damask. This piece is now on exhibition at Wanamaker's. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Land Office at Denver, Colorado. November 5, 1906. Notice is hereby given by W. Griswold of Bennett, Colorado, has filed notice of his intention to make final commutation proof in support of his claim. viz. Homestead entry No. 23205, 23206, 23207, the N. E. 4 section 12, township 4 south, range 64 west, and that said proof will be made before register or receiver at Denver, Colorado, on January 24, 1907. He imposes the following conditions to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, the land. viz.: Mary Ann O'Reilly of Watkins, Colorado; John M. Haddican of Watkins, Colorado; George C. Mack of Bennett, Colorado; Arthur C. Sherwood of Bennett, Colorado. C. D. FORD. Register. Ellen C. Witter, 7 and 8 Union Block, Denver, Colorado, Attorney for Griswold. Mary Ann O'Reilly of Watkins, Colorado; John M. Haddican of Watkins, Colorado; George C. Mack of Bennett, Colorado; Arthur C. Sherwood of Bennett, Colorado. C. D. FORD, Register. Ellen C. Witter, 7 and 8 Union Block, Denver, Colorado, Attorney for Griswold. October 15, 1906 Notice is hereby given, by Koehler of Watkins, Colorado, has filed notice of his intention to make final notice in support of his claim, viz.: Homesome Energy, July 2, 1900, for the NW 4 section 32, township 3 south, range 64 west, and before the register or receiver at Denver, Colorado, on December 28, 1906. Register. Ellen C. Witter 7 and 8 U.S. Denver, Colorado, attorney for Koehler JOSEPH H. STUART LAWYER. 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. INDIAN OCEAN IS UNKNOWN. Suez Canal and Steamers Leave Untraversed Wastes in This Sea. Perchance of no area of our great oceans do we at the present day know less than of the Indian ocean within the tropics, says the Geographical Journal. Fifty years ago, in the days before the great China and Indian clippers it was, save for a small area to the north of Madagascar, alive with white wings anxious to take advantage of every slant of wind or the smallest current. Its minutest characteristics were then the subject of anxious study, whereas now its greater part is to most navigators an unknown goe. Vigilators an unknown sea. With the opening of the Suez canal there was a profound alteration of trade, and the most important routes now start not from Mauritius or the cape but from the Red sea. Hundreds of steamers, laughing at winds and currents, pass annually from Aden to Bombay and Colombo on the one hand and to East African ports, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles on the other. From Colombo, again, there are regular lines to Calcutta, Singapore, West Australia, Mauritius and South Africa. But except on the lines from the Red sea to Colombo and from the latter to the far east and to Australia there is a relative absence of competition, a want of that necessity for accurate knowledge of the winds, currents and topography which is only called forth by a keen desire for saving time or mileage. The routes across her surface are also wide apart and her islands are commercially unimportant. Great areas are seldom or never crossed by ships; in our six months' cruise on his majesty's ship Sealark we never saw except in port a single steamer, and only one solitary brig, a small trader from Mauritius to the Chagos. His Enemy Fights Fair. According to officials of the Carnegie hero fund, the most remarkable case that has been investigated by the commission was that of Rufus K. Combs of Midway, Ky., who was granted a silver medal and $1,500 in cash by the commission recently. Combs saved the life of his bitter enemy and political rival, Richard Godson, a lawyer and inventor. Godson had entered a vault to test a gas making apparatus and was overcome by the fumes. Friends and relatives were afraid to enter the vault. When he declared his intention of going in Combs was pulled back and told that Godson was dead, and that he would surely lose his own life if he attempted to recover the body. "There may be some life in him," declared Combs as he pulled away and entered the vault. He carried his enemy to the door of the vault and then fell unconscious. Both men recovered and are now the stanchest of friends. Asked why he had risked his life for his most bitter enemy, Combs replied: "Because I love a fighter who fights fair, and Godson always did that."—Exchange. Bees Imitated by Wasps. The average countryman would laugh at you if you were to tell him that you had seen the wasps this summer playing the part of the exemplary bee and gathering honey from the flowers in the garden. But the countryman would be wrong and you would be right, for of late, for some mysterious reason, the wasps have been busy among the tall flaming spikes of the red hot pokers (Tritoma uvaria). What the bees think of it one cannot say, but they are not to be seen mingling with the wasps. The latter, when they feel inclined toward honey, usually make an attack upon the nearest beehive, and very often come off second best, unless they attack in force. But now that the wasp has shown an inclination to gather honey first hand from flowers, surely the scientist can step in and teach it to store it for the needs of man in the comb, which it can already make as perfectly as the bee, although of a different material. The chief difficulty, perhaps, would be to prevent the wasp, like the child in the strawberry bed, from eating all he gathers on the spot—Pall Mall Gazette. Baby Snake Wins Battle. A baby rattler which was hungry and a mouse which had no desire to be a victim fought it out yesterday in a cage in the window of a fish store at 1265 Fulton street, Brooklyn, says the New York World. Mother Snake and eight little brothers and sisters watched the baby fight its first battle for a meal. Fifty men and women crowded about the window during the 15 minutes that the mouse held out. The baby rattler chased him from one corner of the box to another, striking, coiling and uncoiling, while Mother Snake looked on with pride. Mr. Mouse had several bad falls in trying to get out of the box, and finally fell and lay still. Baby Rattler surveyed its victim, and prepared for a meal. But Mother Snake, being frugal, took the meal away from her son, deposited it in a corner and kept all the family tantilized for an hour. Then they fed. Slighted Wisdom "Candidates are rarely consistent," remarked the voter. "What's the trouble?" 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S. and Embroidered and Scalloped Edges 15c Pure Linen Cross Bars and Hand-embroidered Corners 20c PERINI BROS. BOTTLED GOODS—WHISKEY, WINES, BEER, ETC., A SPECIALTY. Pure drugs, hot an cold drinks, toilet articles and cigars—Prescriptions carefully compounded by Registered Pharmist. Prompt delivery to any part of city. B. R. RANDOLPH, Proprietor. WATCH INSPECTOR FOR THE BURLINGTON ROUTE AND COLORADO & SOUTHERN RY A. M. WOOD, WA IS YOUR TIME RIGHT? PHONE QUICK BA ELGIN WATCHES CLOKS. JEWELRY & SILVERWARE Perin 16TH STREET For the next ten days we will This is a new department with us a new—no old moth-eaten stock to be prices with others: Brown Coney Searfs Long Gray Squirrel Stoles Fox Muffs Isabella Fox, set All other furs at the same great HANDKERC We will also make great redu next ten days. Ladies' Pure Linen H. S. Handker Ladies' Pure Linen H. S. and En Ladies' Pure Linen Hand-embroid Pure Linen H. S. and Embroider Pure Linen Cross Bars and Hand OPEN DAY AND NIGHT COTTRELL'S DR. W. J. Physician and Su BOTTLED GOODS—WHISKEY, W Pure drugs, hot an cold cigars—Prescriptions care istered Pharmist. Prompt E. L. CANTEY, Pharmist. 2100 Arapahoe St. The Inter-Ocean Investment and Brokerage Co. AND COLLATERAL BANK. 1436 Curtis Street Loans negotiated, available securities handled, cash advances made on all kinds of collateral securities. Real Estate Loans a special feature. ALBERT KOPPER PROPRIETOR Kopper's Hotel. European Plan. First-class furnished rooms by the day, week or month. 1215-1219 TWENTIETH STREET, BETWEEN LARIMER AND LAWRENCE PHONE 1149 MAIN. Denver, Colorado My War Log. It is a small log but the saw is about as active as a strip of band iron. By asing the ax to start me hopefully, I am exercising in keeping at it and when I go near the log I work that saw till I think it is tired out. In a week or so the log is to be in two pieces. Hotel Canadian, HEADQUARTERS FOR RAILROAD MEN 80 FINELY FURNISHED ROOMS Office, Dining Rooms and Grill. Billiard and Pool Room On First Floor. $1 PER DAY AND UP. Convenient to all Depots. Baths Free. Special Rates to Regular Boarders. 790 Stephenson Avenue and 405-407-409-411 Hewitt St. LOS ANGELES, CAL. N. W. GORDON, Manager. WOOD BUTCHMAKER AND JEWELER 913 SEVENTEENTH ST E MAIN 538 DENVER, COLO. MEAL STEEL RANGES ME WELL LOOK WELL LAST WELL All Kinds of Heaters from [$3.00 Up. We also Guarantee Everything we sell. THE OWL HARDWARE CO 1516 Curtis St. Phone Red 2568. W. J. Connation & Co Diamond Importers, Jewelers and Opticians. EYE GLASSES A SPECIALTY. Special bargains in Holiday goods TEL. MAIN 4463. 1125 17th St. Denver, Colo. Bros. OPPOSITE POST-OFFICE I sell all furs at a great reduction. and every piece of fur is absolutely worked off on you. Compare these $ 2.50 6.95 6.00 15.00 ently reduced prices. HIEF SALE. actions in handkerchiefs during the urchiefs. 5c embroidery. 7c endered Initials. 10c ed and Scalloped Edges. 15c -embroidered Corners. 20c PERINI BROS. PHONE MAIN 3230 PHARMACY COTTRELL, largeon, Proprietor. INES, BEER, ETC., A SPECIALTY. drinks, toilet articles and fully compounded by Reg- delivery to any part of city. Asst. D. J. COTTRELL. Denver, Colorado THE Denver Barber Supply COMPANY Ii the best place for good Razors, Shears, Pocket knives Combs, Brushes, pomades and all toilet articles at 1008 15th St. Telephone 842 Black Denver, Colo. IIi the best place for good Razors, Shears, Pocket knives Combs, Brushes, pomades and all toilet articles at 1008 15th St. Telephone 842 Black Denver, Colo. L. Rushenberg & Co Importers and Jobbers in MUSICAL MERCHANDISE. TELEPHONE OLIVE 923 RES PHONE BLUE 2157 High Class Violin Repairing. 929 FIFTEENTH ST. SUIT 210 UPSTAIRS. Denver, - - Colorado, “ ° Vi ; SMAN A.LID § % z ISESSSeSsee M.C. Cook left to-day to visit his brother in Texas, who is ill. Quarterly’ meeting services will be hela tomorrow .at Ward's A. M. E. church. The Peoples Sunday Alliance will ld their meeting Sunday Nov. 25th at Zion church. Mr.and Mrs. J. Finley Wilson left Wednesday night for a months’ stay in Salt Lake City. Mrs. R. D. Hobson arrived home last Saturday from a 10 days sojourn in Salt Lake City. For bargains in holiday goods patron- ize those merchants whose ads appear in this paper. Dont miss the band concert at the Elk’s ball next Tuesday night, at East ‘Turner hall. The talk of the Town is the Popular ball at East Turner hall, Thursday even- ing, December 6th. Chas Strain and wife of Calorado Springs were guestsin Denver a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. D. D. Rivers and daughter left Friday nfght for Canon City. They will return home Sunday. Inconnection with the ‘Thanksgiving dinner at Shorter A, M. B. church the Sewing circle will have aprons for sale. Wait for the Soda Dispensers grand ball, January 8th "07 at Hast ‘Turner hall. Everything free, Harris orches- tra. ‘The drama at Shorter church Nov. 29 will be a great treat, from the fact that Mrs. Esther Morris is to have charge of the affair. Mrs. E.P. Graves of Lincoln, Neb. arrived in the city Sunday morning for afew days visit with Mr. and Mrs, ‘Rease 1834 Curtis streat. Keep off the date of January Ist. Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 2320G. U. 9. of 0.1, will give a grand entertain- ment at East Turner hall. ‘The Thanksgiving ball will be the Wlending feature on the social calender for Thanksgiving week. Remember the dato November 27th, Bast Turner hall. St.Benedicts colored Catholic mis- sionary society will have their monthly mass Sunday Nov. 25th. It will also be the general communion for all of its mombers. All must be at the church by 7:40 a, m. Last Tuesday night Vivian Rivers was surprised be ten of her school mates who called to remind ber of her 12th birthday anniversary. Refreshments wero served and the evening was very ee ee rare Prof, Wm. R, Carter, Presdent of Tokeka Industrial Institute is in the city soliciting for the erection of a new dormitory on the grounds of Western Puskegee. Rev. Carter will preach at Zion church on Nov. 25th. Union Thanksgiving services next "Thursday morning will be held at Zion church beginning at 10:30. Rey. J. BE. Williams of Scott M, E. church will preach the sermon. Music will be fur- nished by the choirs of all the churches. Rey. Ford will preside. Attend the rally at Shorter church tomorrow, Rev. Wm. R. Carter of the ‘Topeka Industrial school will preach at l1a.m. Platform meeting at3 p.m. by city ministers and Rev. Carter, while at night asacred concert will be held by the Christian Endeavor society. A number of Iadies have organized a club known as the Self Improvement and Social club, the name explains their object and with Mrs. J. R. Contee, Pres.; Mrs. M. M. Beatty, Vice Pres.; Mrs, ‘Abernathy, secretary; Mrs. O'Brien, assistant Sec.; Mrs. Fallings, ‘Treas.; » and a membership consisting of some of our oldest and best citizens, it cai not help be a success. The club meets weekly. * Zion Baptist church closed its forteith anniversary last Sunday with appropri- ateand interesting services lasting through the day. The total amount collected during the services amounted to $776, which on account of the unfay- orable weather fell short of the amount anticipated. This amount will be in- creased to $800 before the week closes. ‘The official board of Zion church de- sires to thank the public who attended or contributed to any of the anniver- sary efforts, Church of the Redeemer. 22ND. AVE AND HUMBOLDT. Holy Communion at 11 o'clock on Sunday the 25th with special intention for all souls. Being the last Sunday of the Christian year all communicants should make an earnest effort to be present. Popular Entertainment. The Popular ball under the aus- pices of the Progessive Checker club at East Turner hall, Thursday Dec. 6th isan attraction that has awakened a new era in social cir- cles. At this entertainment will be decided by coupon votes at 5cts the most popular man and woman in Denver the popular lady will receive a $5.00 pair of fine shoes from the Jackson Shoe co. anda fine John B. Stetson hat will be awarded to the gentleman, Among those named by some of our business men as possible win- ners are, Mrs, Cora Keith, Misses Arlena Burns, Leona Troutman, Blanch Morrison, Carrie carper, Gertrude Butler, Mabel Fore. Messrs, Owen caswell, Jas. cart- wright, D. W. Lacy, W. R. Euper, J. B. Moore, J. F. clark and J. W. Jackson. Don’t forget the date. Dee. 6th. Admission 35 cents. THE MAY CO0’S. BIG STORE Last Monday morning the May Shoe & Clothing Company opened its doors to the public in their new four story $1,000,000 building at 16th and Champa streets. ‘he building is of the most modern structure and equipped with every improvement. It is installed with an escalator, or moving stairway which runs to the second floor. The safe and speedy elevator is also a constructure of excellent convenience with a capacity of of fifty possengers. The formal opening of the big store will take place as soon as the building is entirely complete This opening will be one of the grandest ever witnessed in Denver. The ice plant and the artesian well are also items worthy of men- tion in connection with the store. The tremendeous stock of cloth- ing, shoes and furnishings carried by this firm is of the best grade at prices to suit the times, in fact their goods are a good endorse. ment for the phenomenal growth and success the store has enjoyed, and if goes without saying that with its present stock of choice goods the big, store will con- tinue to be thronged with bargain seekers as it has been since its op- ening. THE MECCA GAFE, On last Monday evening, November 19th, Rev. Douglass delivered one of the grandest speeches of his history, of the new annex department of the Mecce, Cafe. His subject was of the rece pride, and how we should live and respect one another along all business lines. He said in his speech when a ceclored man commits a very bad crime of any kind and it is placed before the eyes of the white race, then the aver- age of the whites puts us all on the same basis that this one bad fellow is put on. So it is looked at in the same light when one of our race is trying to build himself up in this world and is making a good headway in all business lives; then the whites look at him and the entire race differently and with more respect that this race must be more respected than we thought for; and he said it has been among our peo: ple one of the greatest setbacks in all business lines; that is, when one is try- ing to build himself up in the world you will find a thousand trying to pull them down. The most trouble among some of our people, when it comes to talking evil of another, they are at home along those lines, but when it comes to other business of im- portance they are just gone, has not anything to say or do. Now the people in all business lines to-day who are making any success at all are people that are binding themselves together and are trying to help one another. You will only find that class of people who really can demand anything. There is nothing in knocking, but try and help those that are doing something—that is a benefit to your race. Reverend Ford could not be present on account of the funeral at Colorado Springs the following morning. Rev: erend Dyett sent his regrets on account of lodge meeting. Dr. Westbrook could not be present on account of his wife being sick. Mr. J. W. Jack- son telephoned his regrets, Reverend Payne said he was afraid to come out at all, thinking some one would hurt him. “A man who has been truly born of the spirit of Gou snould not fear, because all men and women who are truly born of the spirit of God have no fear, so you must be born again. Mr. and Mrs. Lacy are kept busy showing inspectors over the beautiful place which has cost them so much money, for the benefit of themselves and thetr race. It already excels all other cafes, not only in this city, but all other cities abroad as well.’ We hope that as many as possible will be out on next Monday evening. Good music for all. Don’t forget the Thanks- giving night. Lacy’s place will be the only place where you can really enjoy yourself, The full orchestra will take the stand on that date. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Lacy, Proprietors. Local Notices. Hair cut 15 cents, 1817 Blake street Keep off the date of December 12th. Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2045 Stout street. Don’t forget the big mask ball to be given by the Elks at Hast Turner hall, November 27th. ‘The Popular ball at East Turner hall, ‘Thursday evening, December 6th, will furnish a great treat for the people of Denver. Wait for it, Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2515 Curtis street. All modern, ‘The Pekin Chili parlor 2535 Washing- ton, ave. Mrs, Dora Martin proprietor. Mrs. E. ©. Barber of 3333 Williams St. is prepared to room and board children; girls preferred. Prices reasonable. Get your christmas wines and liquors of Bd. Lewin, 1645 Lawrence street, one of the largest wholesale liquor houses in the city. A full stock of the best brands, Phone 1396, Best dinner in the city Thanksgiving day at Zion Baptist church. In the ev- ening asplendid musical and literary program given by local and outside talent. ‘Duesday, November 27th is the date of the big Thanksgiving Ball to be given at East Turner hall by the Elks Drill ‘Team. You all know that you will have “one mo’ time.” LADIES OR GENTLEMEN WANT- ED, everywhere; 83.00 a day selling our ‘toilet goods. Write at once. Send 5 cents for catalogue. C. H. Brown Toilet Company, 5711 Wabash Ave., Chicago, mu. Visit San Antonio. Write for illustra- ted booklet descriptive of this superb Winter Resort. Very low rates via Col- orado Southern Ry. T. B. Hisuer, General Passenger Agent, Denver. Prevent acold by getting a pair of of hair insoles, 10c at the Ideal Drug Store, 19th and Arapahoe streets. Say, don’t forget the date of the pop- ular ball to be given by the Progres- sive Checker Club at East Turner hall, ‘Thursday evenirg, December 6th. Keep off of date of April Ist. Easter ball. The Elks, Old Mexico “The Egypt of the New World.” ‘The Colorado & Southern has some splendid illustrated literature telling of the sister Republic, also. spec. ial round trip rates. Write, T. B Fisuer, General Passenger Agent, Denver. ‘Phe Henry Hanson Chemical Research Co,, chemists and assayers. We are the only firm in existence that gives fifteen aesays or analysis for 83.00. Silver, gold, lead, copper, iron, zine, silica, caleum or manganse, Write for particulars. ‘The Henry Hanson Chemical Research Co. Analytical and Consulting Chemists, 54 Railroad Building, Denver Colo. U.S. A. New Management Abbott Pharmacy. Mr. H. W. Mills, formerly of the Has- well 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 Ab- bott Pharmacy carries, can meet all wants, Physicians prescriptions a speci- alty. Peruvian Minerals. Peru is one of the richest countries of the world in minerals of all kinds —gold, silver, copper, mercury, iron, lead, sulphur, coal, salt, petroleum, etc., boing found in great abundance— and it only requires the action of capi- tal and labor to make the republic as renowned for its wealth as California, Australia or South Africa, says the United States consul at Callao, | vaio ae a oh aa "hl aeetfom As se v) (LC Ryoree- ‘ om PT Nie Ge Pci Wh oN A i \ ua iy ey ae ee ay : ee a; i a? tp | A a oO ‘ ‘La j ‘i y VAcw x are a THANKSGIVING CLOTHES Rightly Styled for You at Reasonable Prices. 1005 16th THE Opposite Tabor sie QANSON LOR) @ oreo WAIT FOR THE POPULAR BALL Progressive a. Club Thursday, Dec. 6 EAST TURNER HALL. Prizes will be ae te Rye most Popular Admission 35 Cents. St. Benedicts Mission Society WILL GIVE A —AT.- Carpenter’s Hall, 1947 Stout St. Wednesday Evening, Dec. 12th Harris Orchestra. Admission 35 Cents. COMMITTEE:—Mrs. Wm. B, Fisher, Chairman; Mrs, Lulu Lewis, Miss Gertrude Generals, Mrs. R. W, Washington; Mr. Charles Steward, Why pay big prices for watch cleaning ~ when you can get it done for fim 50c and $1.50 at Sa Ss H. L. KORTZ, = EXPERT Vy Watchmaker, Jeweler and Optician / ‘ Watches and Jewelry for sale at Lowes Hf 72MM (pte ante create Geld | 9——-e” 3h Watch far $10—This month only. \\ 8 Py) ALL WORK GUARANTEED FOR TWO YEARS, N 7) 54 905 FIFTEENTH STREET, \ 4 Between Champa and Stout. 7 Denver, - - Colorado 4 the aa eT oe MR Reo Sil ae ik ele Asa oe ee ae tg tk Semaine: So toe iS gM eae RO ESTABLISHED 1887. Full Line of Jewelry Dia- monds and Watches for sale at the Lowest Prices in the City. J. ZALL, PROPRIETOR The Min:ral Palace Jewelry Store 900 1STHST. _ DENVER, coLo For Watches, Clocks and Jew- elry Repairing. All work guar- anteed for two years, |. "ES SpECTAL, FOR THE ‘ Holiday Trade For Fine Missouri Apple Jack and Special Thanksgiving Turkey Lunch, Free to al) Patrons; Corn Whiskey come to the OLD RELIABLE 24TH AND LARIMER STS. Louisville Liquor COMPANY, Joseph Bulger, Manager. THE The Old and Only. 1728 30 Arapaboe St. Denver, - - Colorado. Private Residence Sales a Spgcialty Regular Sales every day in the week (except Sunday) TELEPHONE 1675. Furniture and bankrupt Stocks bought for cash or sold on com- mission. SEE_~ W. D. Lenholm FOR Fine Wines and Liquors for the Holidays. PHONE BROWN 1062 408 15th St. Denver, Colo. 1 ThE HOWLAND FUR SALE as i oe \ o ae Wl i a, > an ee WG fi ‘ i «) ¥3 A) Oe 8 a) a. i 4 ww \a Nai SANE Ww \ = hal Hal Sa ny The Oldest and Bartent For and Milliner Store in Denver. You are never disappointed when yon buy here. The Howland Millinery Co. 16th St. Opp _ Daniels & Fisher USE Miller’s Favorite ma jae 3 ila eee 5 4 x 4 Fe Vi if a aes Veterinary Liniment FOR YOUR HORSE, For flesh wounds, galls of all kinds, sprains, bruises, scratches or grease heels, sweeney, weak- ness of jo:nis, contraction of the muscles, swellings, tu- mors, and in the early stage of fistula, PREPARED ONLY BY FRANK P. MILLER, Pharmist. 2644 Welton St. Cor. Wash. Av. Denver, - : Colorado The Market Co. 1633-35-37-39 Arapahoe Street. FIRST-CLASS Fresh and Cured Me Staple and Fancy Groce Fruits and Vegetables, Fish and Oysters, Game in Season. sh and Cured Me ple and Fancy Groce Vegetables, Fish and Oysters, Game in Season. Cured Meats Fancy Groceries Fish and Oysters, Poultry and time in Season. 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 PHONES 190----189. Denver, Colorado BEST BUY GEORGE BRANDENBURG, Trunks, Suit Cases and Leather Goods. Holiday Goods, Trunks, Bags and Suit Cases. Full line of Ladies Pocket Books. Repairing and Key Fitting. Old Trunks taken in Exchange. 2253 WELTON. PHONE 1655 RBD. The Royd Park JEWELRY CO. EST. 1862 CURTIS AND SIXTEENTH ST. DIAMOND MERCHANTS AND SILVERSMITHS 1000 SIXTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLO. Visitors Home V ome Visito Home Visitors Excursion Rates Via The Rock Island DATES—Oct. 23rd, Nov. 13th and 27th. LIMIT—30 Days. RATE—Fare and one-third for the round trip. Oct. 23rd, Nov. 13th and 27th. 30 Days. are and one-third for the round trip. 13th and 27th. rd for the round trip. DATES—Oct. 23rd, Nov. 13th and 27th. LIMIT—30 Days. RATE—Fare and one-third for the round trip. To Kansas City, Mo., $21.55 Council Bluff, Ia., $21.55 St. Joseph, Mo., $21.55 St. Louis, Mo., $31.55 Chicago, Ill., $38 20 Des Moines, Ia., $27.20 Rock Island, Ill., $31.40 Davenport, Ia., $31 40 Kirksville, Mo., $27.20 Mexico, Mo., $28.10 Burlington, Ia., $29.80 Cedar Rapids, Ia., $30.10 Keokuk, Ia., $29.80 St. Paul, Minn., $34.75 Minneapolis, Minn., $34.75 And hundreds of other points in Minnesota, North and South Dale Michigan. dreds of other points in Missouri, Iowa, Iowa, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin. points in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, South Dakota, and Wisconsin and And hundreds of other points in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin and Michigan. Full details from G. W. MARTIN. General Agent Rock Island Lines, 800 Seventeenth St., Denver. Rock Island There is no other Dirt quite so good as the Burlington' have said so and you will agree w tried it. is no other Dining Car good as the Burlington's, Experienced and you will agree with them after Eater Dining Car Service Burlington's, Experienced Travelers agree with them after you have go: 4:35 p. m., 10;00 p. m. St. Louis: 2:15 p. m., 10:00 p. m. Northwest; 8:30 p. m. There is no other Dining Car Service quite so good as the Burlington's, Experienced Travelers have said so and you will agree with them after you have tried it. Handsome dining cars in 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. Iaha and Chicago: 4:35 p. m., 10;00 p. m. Nasas City and St. Louis: 2:15 p. m., 10:00 Adwood and Northwest; 8:30 p. m. 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. Let me tell you more about our service. Burlington Route J. F VALLERY, General Agent C. B. & Q. Ry., 1030 Seventeenth St., Denver J. F VALLERY, General Agent, C. B. & Q. Ry., 1030 Seventeenth St., Denve. Brand That's Always Good AXTER'S BULLHEAD hat's Always Good ER'S LHEAD" The Brand That's "BAXTER BULL 5c CIG The Brand That's Always Good "BAXTER'S BULLHEAD" 5 c CIGAR. The Baxter Cigar Co. Denver. A Thanksgiving THANKS be to Thee, O God Not that Thou set the Of countless stars, for But that some soul who s Sees one star through the And, by that gleam of hope Thanks be to Thee, O God For throbbing music which But most for melody which The bird in deepest wood- A child to sleep, far from Of Fame's great chorus, c Thanks be to Thee, O God For wondrous beauty which But most for loveliness in A green spot in the parch Of some pure, saintly life In haunts of wickedness w Thanks be to Thee, O God For Autumn harvest men For love, for home, for lau But most of all for seeds Of Winter, wait for sun a Holding potential growth THANKS be to Thee, O God! Not that Thou set the darken'd sky with light Of countless stars, framed in solemnity— But that some soul who suffers in the night Sees one star through the window's little pane And, by that gleam of hope, first prays to Thee. Thanks be to Thee, O God! For throbbing music which the world's voice thrills; But most for melody which sings, alone— The bird in deepest wood—or song that stills A child to sleep, far from the grand refrain Of Fame's great chorus, chanting tunes well known. Thanks be to Thee, O God! For wondrous beauty which Thou gave the earth, But most for loveliness in barren sod; A green spot in the parch'd grass—the birth Of some pure, saintly life not lived in vain In haunts of wickedness which know not God. Thanks be to Thee, O God! For Autumn harvest men have toiled to reap; For love, for home, for laughter through our tears, But most of all for seeds which, in the sleep Of Winter, wait for sun and Spring-time rain, Holding potential growth for coming years. C In the busy rush of living very few people find time to be thankful for or realize the everyday and vital blessings that are ouring in upon them. The Puritans must have recognized this even in their day, when they inaugurated a custom that has become as firmly fixed as the constitution of the United States. While the adherents of the Pilgrim church, which was exiled from England in 1608 and sent a colony over to New England in the Mayflower in 1620, are unquestionably to be credited with our national Thanksgiving day, which appeals so deeply to the heart of the patriotic American, the custom of Thanksgiving was undoubtedly suggested by the Hebrew "Feast of the Tabernacles" or "Feast of Ingathering" at the end of the year. Occasional thanksgiving was not unusual in Europe. After the first harvest of the colonists at Plymouth in 1621 Gov. Bradford sent four men out fowling that they might rejoice and celebrate in feasting together. In July, 1623, a day of fasting and prayer was appointed on account of the drought. Rain came while the people were praying and the governor appointed a day for thanksgiving which was observed with religious service. There was a similar change of fast-day into Thanksgiving in 1631, when supplies came from Ireland. All of these earlier appointments, however, were made at various seasons of the year and for special purposes—usually for the timely arrival of ships with supplies—but in later years on account of the harvests. This substantiated a fixed Thanksgiving day late in the fall after the harvest time was over, and also the celebration of the day by first a religious service and then a feast. When the revolutionary war began Thanksgiving had become a national holiday and was annually recommended by congress. However, after the general thanksgiving for peace in 1784 there was no national appointment until 1789, when President Washington by a request of congress, recommended setting aside a day of thanks for the adoption of the constitution. In later years, during the civil war, Lincoln issued a proclamation recommending a special thanksgiving for victory in 1862 and 1863. Since then proclamations have been made by the president and governors of the various states, and custom has fixed the date on the last Thursday in November. It is 284 years since that first Thanksgiving dinner in New England was eaten, but to many of us the aroma of the turkey as we gather around the table, surrounded by family and friends to offer up thanks for the abundance of worldly goods with which our households have been supplied, will recall the legends of the old New England days and review the customs of that Thanksgiving in Plymouth in 1621. With a little stretch of the imagination one can almost discern that throng of sober-looking bearded men, clad in dark colored garments and wearing steeple-crowned hats, with here and there among them the women with quantily shaped hoods and devoid of ribbons, jewelry and ornaments. It was such a gathering as this that Hester Prynne faced when condemned to wear the scarlet letter. Stern and unrelenting—themselves ex- ```markdown ``` A ship sails on the sea under a snowy sky. A man stands on the shore, looking out at the ship. 215 God! the darken'd sky with light named in solemnity— offers in the night window's little pane e, first prays to Thee. the world's voice thrills; sings, alone— or song that stills the grand refrain anting tunes well known. Thou gave the earth, barren sod; grass—the birth not lived in vain which know not God. have toiled to reap; fighter through our tears, which, in the sleep Spring-time rain, or coming years. Edith Livingston Smith. ksgiving iled from the mother country on account of their religious tenets, they brooked no breach in those fundamental laws that formed the basis of their theological system. The laws of New England must be obeyed and justice, cruel, swift and certain, fell upon the evil-doer. The genius of a Hawthorne has painted in our minds this picture of the Puritans. The green-clad mountains and the waving trees are brought before us. We sigh for poor Hester and pity the young minister's struggles between manhood and self, while the witch antics of Mistress Hibbins recall vividly those dark days of superstition at Salem. Then has another master hand conjured up for us those scenes—In the old colony days in Plymouth, the land of the Pilgrims. We have followed the courtship of Miles Standish and have heard the message of love borne by John Alden for another. The struggle of the fair-haired youth has been as our own. We have heard him plead the cause of his friend before the "Puritan flower." Priscilla, while his own heart was breaking for the love he would not tell. We have smelled the sweetness of the Plymouth woods; we have heard the brawling of the brook over pebble and shallow at the Ford. We have seen the bloom of the May flowers and we have caught the sacred anthem sung by the sweet-voiced maiden. Our hearts have gone out to John Alden and we fain would have spoken for him. Then we have laughed, too, when amid her spinning— Archly the maiden smiled, and with cyes overrunning with laughter. Said, in a tremulous voice: "Why don't you speak for your name, John?" you speak for yourself, John?" Thus has the immortal poet led us through the paths of love in that quiet New England village. But it was not always the songs of peace that he sang for he tells us how Paul Revere says to his friend: * * * If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night the same aloft on the belfry arch Of the North church tower as a signal light- light- Ons if by land and two if by sea; And on the opposite shore will be Ready in the morning from Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folks to be up and to arm. In like manner have the songs of Whittier depicted those early days in the land of the Pilgrim fathers. By the magic of his pen he brings clearly to our view the every-day life of that sturdy race. We see the old homes and the farms. In our fancy: Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Arround the town grow. And blackberry vines are running. And then it is an easy step in our reveries to join Ik Marvel, that prince of bachelors, in his reveries over the wood fire in his quiet farmhouse in New England. One almost can see that broad bachelor bedstead now, with the soft warm feathers upon it, and hear the crackling of the oak and hickory on the hearth, between the whistling of the wind through the broken panes of glass. Thus are we led through sweet dream memories to a better understanding and a dearer appreciation of that rugged stock which has been the bone and sinew of this great, strong, progressive American people, and we teach with pride our children and our children's children the homage due to our sturdy ancestors on this great national Thanksgiving day. ```markdown ``` Dealer in Coal and Stone Red Flagstone a Specialty. TH MR First-cla THE RHINE CAFE. MRS. E. A. SCOTT, Proprietor. First-class Meals. Best in the City. PHOEE 7039 MAIN. 1129-1131 19th St. Denver, Colo. THE COLORADO ROAD. The Colorado & Southern Ry. Co. SPECIAL T April 25th to 1 June 25th to 2 Sept. 3rd to 14 LIBEE Write for rates and other southern p Literature des Ladies' and Ge C. Has removed from 1914 Arapa see all A full Line of No To City of Mexico. 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, Gen. Pass. Agent. Denver, Colo. Ladies' and Gent's Clothing Cleaned and Repaired. removed from his old stand at 1907 Lawren 1914 Arapahoe street, where he will be please see all of his old Customers and friends line of New and Misfit Clothing for 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 full Line of New and Misfit Clothing for Sale Cheap. The Message From Home Is more apt to strike other. That's prob and your thoughts east," and there is familiar places. In a serious malady, b for particulars of o ber 23 and Novemb apt to strike a responsive chord at this season. That's probably because you've had a prose or thoughts are with your folks and former friends and there is a yearning to visit them and again places. If you've an attack of "homesickness is malady, but it ought to be humored)—writings of our Home Visitors' Excursions to and November 13 and 27. one-third fare for round trip. On sale October 13 and 27. Thirty days' limit. Is more apt to strike a responsive chord at this season than at any other. That's probably because you've had a prosperous season and your thoughts are with your folks and former friends "back east," and there is a yearning to visit them and again see the old familiar places. If you've an attack of "homesickness"—('tis not a serious malady, but it ought to be humored)—write me at once for particulars of our Home Visitors' Excursions to be run October 23 and November 13 and 27. One and one-third fare for round trip. On sale October 23 and November 13 and 27. Thirty days' limit. ECCA CAFE The Leading Colored Cafe in the Conducted by Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Lae [Sunday Dinner from 12:30 to 3 Special Sunday Dinner from 12:30 to 3, 25 Cents. String Music Every Monday and Thursday Even ence Street. Ph CO. N. M. String Music Every Monday and Thursday Evening. PASTIME SOCIAL CLUB A RESORT FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Quaries at Beach Hill, Colo. COLORADO AND SOUTHERN EXCURSIONS City of Mexico. Both—One fare for round trip. Both—One fare plus $2 for round trip. One fare for round trip. LIMITS AND STOPOVERS. Nations to Mexican, Cuban, Texas, Louisiana. Save of this territory sent on application. T. E. FISHER, Gen. Pass. Agent. Denver, Colo. Clothing Cleaned and Repaired. ILSMAN, THE TAILOR... from his old stand at 1907 Lawrence street to hoe street, where he will be pleased to of his old Customers and friends. w and Misfit Clothing for Sale Cheap. responsive chord at this season than at any because you've had a prosperous season with your folks and former friends "back turning to visit them and again see the old we an attack of "homesickness"—('tis not sought to be humored)—write me at once time Visitors' Excursions to be run Octo- and 27. for round trip. On sale October 23 and 'thirty days' limit. J. P. HALL, Gen. Agent, The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Ry.. 901-17th St., Denver. CA CAFE The Leading Colored Cafe in the West, Conducted by Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Laey. Day Dinner from 12:30 to 3, 25 Cents. Meals Served at all Hours. Open Until 2 O'clock a. m. ry Monday and Thursday Evening. Phone Main 3785 N. M. CAMPIGLIA. Phone Main 4885. LIQUOR CO., ECT IMPORTERS, Denver, Colo. VIA THE Rio Grande System COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO—Leave Denver 8:40 a.m., 7:00, 8:00 and 9:40 p. m. FLORENCE AND CANON CITY—Leave Denver 8:30 a.m., 8:00 and 9:40 p. m. SO SALIDA, BUENA VISTA AND LEADVILLE—Leave Denver 8:30 a.m., 8:00 and 9:40 p. m. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, UTAH AND PACIFIC COASTA 9:00 and 9:30 a. m. and 9:40 p. m. ASPEN—Leave Denver 8:00 p. m. GRAND JUNCTION—Leave Denver 8:30 and 9:30 a. m. (wood Springs) and 9:40 p. m. (via Marshall Pass). GUNNISON, MONTROSE, DELTA, PAONIA, OURAY AND RICO—Leave Denver 9:40 p. m. ALAMOSA, WAGON WHEEL GAP, CREEDE, SANPRIKS, DURANGO, FARMINGTON AND SILVER River 7:00 p. m. TRINIDAD, EL MORO, WALSENBURG AND LA VETA 9:00 p. m. VICTOR AND CRIPPLE CREEK—Leave Denver 4:00 KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS—Leave Denver 9:30 a. m. Fullman Standard and Tourist Sleepers and Modern Day Carservation Cars between Denver and Cripple Creek. Complete and satisfactory Colorado and Utah service even DENVER TO COLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO—Leave Denver 8:30, 9:30 o. m. 1:30 4:00 7:00 8:00 and 9:40 o. m. a. m., 1:30. DENVER TO FLORENCE AND CANON CITY—Leave Denver 8:30 and 9:30 a. m., 1:30, 8:00 and 9:40 p. m. DENVER TO SALIDA, BUENA VISTA AND LEADVILLE—Leave Denver 8:30 and 9:30 a. m., 8:00 and 9:40 p. m. DENVER TO GLENWOOD SPRINGS, UTAH AND PACIFIC COAST—Leave Denver 5:30 and 9:30 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. DENVER TO ASPEN—Leave Denver 8:00 p. m. DENVER TO GRAND JUNCTION—Leave Denver 8:30 and 9:30 a. m., 8:00 (via Glenwood Springs) and 9:40 p. m. (via Marshall Pass). DENVER TO GUNNISON, MONTROSE, DELTA, PAONIA, OURAY, TEL- LURIDE AND RICO—Leave Denver 9:40 p. m. DENVER TO ALAMOSA, WAGON WHEEL GAP, CREEDE, SANTA FE, PAGOSA SPRINGS, DURANGO, FARMINGTON AND SILVERTON— Leave Denver 7:00 p. m. DENVER TO TRINIDAD, EL MORO, WALSENBURG AND LA VETA—Leave Denver 7:00 p. m. DENVER 7:00 p. m. DENVER TO VICTOR AND CRIPPLE CREEK—Leave Denver 4:00 p. m. DENVER TO KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS—Leave Denver 9:30 a. m. and 4:00 p. m. Dining Cars, Pullman Standard and Tourist Sleepers and Modern Day Coaches. Open End Observation Cars between Denver and Cripple Creek. The most complete and satisfactory Colorado and Utah service ever established. CITY TICKET OFFICE, SEVENTEENTH AND STOUT STREETS, DENVER, COLORADO. GRAND MASTER THANKSGIVING BALL AT EAST TURNER HALL The Lodge Drill Team No. 39, I. B. P. O. E. of W MOTTO:--Boost and the World w With you, Knock and you knock alon We are going to Chicago, you go along? The pleasure is all y vely no unmasking. Grand prizes to best mask. The penny will it cost you to check your wraps, hats, coats. We want to do something for you, so we them free. This is your only chance for a Grand giving Ball at East Turner Hall. CHRIS' FULL ORCHESTER Session 50 Cents. Children 25 Cents DAY, NOVEMBER 27, 19 5370. Res. Phone York L. S. MOORE, wines, Liquors and Cigars. Pabst Milwaukee Beer on Draught. St. Denver, Co M-A WELP GRAND MASK THANKSGIVING BALL Rice Lodge Drill Team No. 39, I. B. P. O. E. of W OUR MOTTO:--Boost and the World will boost With you, Knock and you knock alone We are going to Chicago, Won't you go along? The pleasure is all yours Positively no unmasking. Grand prizes to best mask. Not one penny will it cost you to check your wraps, hats or overcoats. We want to do something for you, so we check them free. This is your only chance for a Grand Thanksgiving Ball at East Turner Hall. HARRIS' FULL ORCHESTRA Admission 50 Cents. Children 25 Cents. JOHN W. VIEIRA (Established 16 Years) ers in Staple and Fancy Groceries. Salt Meats, Oysters, Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables. SPECIALTIES: COFFEE AND TEAS. Broadway. Denver, Colo. OD'S MARKET Denver Largest Anti-Trust Meat Market in the West LESALE AND RETAIL Restaurant, Hotel and Boarding House Business given Special Attention . . . Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries. Fresh and Salt Meats, Oysters, Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables SPECIALTIES: COFFEE AND TEAS. 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 . . . --- CENTER & RIO GRANDIFAR Empresa Lunes Prensa DENVER TO COLORA a. m., 1:30, 4:00, 7:00 DENVER TO FLOREN a. m., 1:30, 8:00 and DENVER TO SALIN 8:30 and 9:30 a. m. DENVER TO GLENWO Denver 5:30 and 9:30 DENVER TO ASPEN- DENVER TO GRAND (via Glenwood Spring DENVER TO GUNNIS LURIDE AND RICO DENVER TO ALAMO PAGOSA SPRINGS Leave Denver 7:00 DENVER TO TRINIDA Denver 7:00 p. m. DENVER TO VICTOR DENVER TO KANSAS 4:00 p. m. Dining Cars, Pullman St. Open End Observation The most complete and lised. THAN GIVEN AT Rice Lo I. OUR MOT boost With y We are Won'tyou go Positively no Not one penny or overcoats. check them free Thanksgiving HARRIS' Admission 50 TUESDAY, Phone Main 5370. L Wines, Pabst 1763 Curtis St. Dealers in Fresh and Salt Me SPECIAL 1327-1329 Broadway. FLOOD'S The Largest WHOLE Restaurant Business TEL. MAIN 3824. Local and Through Train Service System. —Leave Denver 8:30, 9:30 Leave Denver 8:30 and 9:30 ADVILLE—Leave Denver PACIFIC COAST—Leave 8:30 and 9:30 a. m., 8:00 (hall Pass). PAONIA, OURAY, TEL. CREEDE, SANTA FE N AND SILVERTON— G AND LA VETA—Leave Leave Denver 4:00 p. m. Leave Denver 9:30 a. m. and and Modern Day Coaches, Apple Creek. Utah service ever establ Rio Grande System. Rio Grande System. END MASK BALL NER HALL No. 39, W The World will knock alone Chicago, sure is all yours to best mask. your wraps, hats for you, so we ance for a Grand CHESTRA children 25 Cents. 27, 1906 Res. Phone York 1458 E, Cigars. straught. Denver, Colorado. Groceries. fruits and Vegetables. TEAS. Denver, Colorado Denver, set in the West. RETAIL ing House tion ..... 1015-1017 15TH ST. --- VIA THE SEES PORTO RICO PRESIDENT'S AUTOMOBILE RIDE ACROSS THE ISLAND. ENTHUSIASTiC RECEPTION Makes a Speech and Promises the People Citizenship—Thousands of People Throng the Roads—Mrs. Roosevelt Showered With Flowers. San Juan, P. R.—President Roosevelt Wednesday journeyed in an automobile over the famous military road from Ponce to San Juan, and was accorded an ovation by the people of Porto Rico. The eighty-mile trip was made in six hours and thirty minutes, counting the time taken up at the principal towns along the route, where the President made short speeches to the people. The President in all his speeches dwelt on the affection he held for the people of Porto Rico, and assured them that he would use every effort to secure citizenship for them—that his efforts would be unceasing to help them along the path of true self-government. President Roosevelt arrived at Ponce Wednesday morning from Colon on the battleship Louisiana. He was visited on the vessel by Governor Winthrop, who extended a welcome to the island. The President at once went ashore and was greeted at the pier by Mayor Oppenheimer of Ponce and a delegation of prominent officials and citizens. The town, which was profusely decorated in the President's honor, was crowded with people from the surrounding country eager to greet Mr. Roosevelt. At the entrance to the plaza a huge arch had been erected, from which little girls threw flowers to both President and Mrs. Roosevelt as they passed. At the city hall an address of welcome was read to the President. He delivered his reply from the balcony of the building, addressing the largest crowd that had ever assembled in Ponce. The President said in part: "I shall continue to use every effort to secure citizenship for Porto Rico. I am confident this will come in the end, and all that I can personally do to hasten that day I will do. My efforts will be unceasing to help you along the path of true self-government, which must have for its basis a union of order, liberty, justice and honor." In conclusion the President said: "I salute you from my heart as fellow citizens." The reference to the citizenship brought out enthusiastic applause from the people. Before leaving Ponce the President was driven to the Roosevelt high school. Here several hundred school children had been assembled and sang "America" as the President drove up. The cornerstone of this school was laid in April, 1903, by the President's daughter, now Mrs. Longworth. The President was greatly pleased with his reception at the school and made a short address. The presidential party left Ponce at half past 10, the time set by the schedule for the run to San Juan over the famous military road. Eleven automobiles conveyed the party. Stops of three minutes each were made at Juana Diaz, Coamo and Albonito. At each place the President was welcomed by the mayor and spoke from his automobile. President Roosevelt received a remarkable reception at Caguaes, the most important town on the military road. Here he spoke at length, reiterating his views on Porto Rico citizenship. Passing through Caguaes and the Cayee tobacco district, where American capital has worked a wonderful development, the President was greatly impressed with the fertility and flourishing conditions of the plantations. At Caguaas Mrs. Roosevelt was showered with flowers and received many presents. Between towns along the military road scattering crowds eagerly awaited the chance of a fleeting glimpse of the President. People from the outlying plantations, some on foot from the mountain districts, miles away; peons, women, children, beggars and cripples, all came to pay tribute. Arriving at the original entrance to the city of San Juan, where formerly stood the old city hall and gate, a huge arch had been erected by the city, and here Mayor Todd and the city officials extended their welcome to the President. He responded in a brief speech and was then escorted by the Porto Rican provisional regiment to the governor's palace. The city was elaborately decorated, every American flag available being used to the best advantage. PROMINENT MINER DEAD. George Davis, Manager of the Creede United Mines. Denver.—George Davis, a prominent mining man, died November 19th at Mercy Hospital in this city, at the age of fifty-eight years. For years past the name of George Davis has been one to conjure with in the list of progressive mining men. He has been of late years general manager of the Creede United mines, and was identified with that camp when the first active work was begun. Mr. Davis came to Colorado from Charleston, W. Va., where he lived for many years. He was born in Ohio in 1847, his death occurring in his fifty-ninth year. In Charleston he was perhaps the most prominent member of the Masonic order, having been at its head for almost twenty years. He afterward became grand master of West Virginia and was greatly revered by members of the order. He was also prominent in the Masonic order after coming to Denver. He was connected with the old Balti- more mine at Creede in 1892, and afterward manager of the Big Kanawha. Then, when the consolidation of the great mining interests came, he was made general manager of the United mines. Mrs. S. A. Danes, aged seventy-four years, dropped dead in front of her home in Durango a few days ago. David James, postmaster at Loveland, died November 19th after an illness of several months from Bright's disease. The two-year-old son of John Hanna of Durango fell and struck on his head so hard as to cause his death a day or two later. The new 1,000-ton sugar beet factory at Swink was opened November 20th, the formal celebration and barbecue being set for Thanksgiving day. The Santa Fe Railroad Company will spend $60,000 on the yards of the company in Trinidad. The freight depot will be moved up near the passenger depot and enlarged. A sugar beet recently brought to the Greeley factory by Gordie McMillan of La Salle weighed twenty-one pounds when trimmed and ready for grinding. A reduction of twenty-five per cent on telephone charges will become effective at Florence December 1st, and the rate on Canon City conversations will be reduced. The Grand Junction sugar factory recently turned out 1,529 bags of sugar in one day and the season's production is expected to exceed 100,000 bags, as against 80,000 last year. Paymaster U. G. Amman, retired, United States navy, has been ordered to duty as pay officer, purchasing pay officer and general storekeeper at the naval hospital at New Fort Lyon Colorado. Six thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven books have been added to the library of the University of Colorado during the last year. Two wings are to be added to the present library building. Chancellor Buchtel, governor-elect, made the principal address at the dedication of the new Methodist church at Greeley on Sunday, the 18th inst. The building is a fine one and will seat a thousand people. The Denver Fire and Police Board has passed a resolution that there shall be no increase of the number of saloons in the city. New licenses will be granted only as old ones are relinquished or revoked. Dr. Duren J. Ward, anthropologist in the State University of Iowa, will move to Boulder next winter, to continue his investigations of the American Indian. He will be affiliated with the Unitarian movement near Boulder. The Durango alleged horse and cattle thieves, Red Satriano and Edward Duggan, who were trailed by the Durango sheriff into New Mexico, went to Gallup. The sheriff at Gallup captured the horses and camping outfit, but the men got away. Most of the apparatus for the new Trojan powder works at Overton, eight miles north of Pueblo, has arrived. The buildings are almost completed and it is thought the manufacture of powder will be started before December 1st. David Mathias, of the freshman class of the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, lost all the fingers of his left hand at the second joint on the 14th inst., while at work with a buzz-saw in the college shops. Mathias is from Monte Vista. The applications of B. N. Freeman of Durango, W. C. Chapman, Frank Eldredge, E. M Hampton, B. G Hampton and A. T. Sullenberger to organize the First National Bank of Pagosa Springs, with a capital of $25,000, has been approved by the comptroller of the currency. Charles Irvine, sixty years old and an employee of the Greeley sugar factory, who had been arrested on the charge of assaulting an eight-year-old girl, committed suicide on the 15th inst. by shooting himself through the head a few minutes before the preliminary hearing was to have begun. Governor McDonald has appointed Hon. H. C. Stimson on the board of control of the State Industrial School for Girls, to succeed Attorney Frederick S. Titsworth, resigned. Mr. Titsworth was a Democratic appointee, and his successor, Judge Stimson, was candidate for governor on the Democratic ticket several years ago. The funeral of the late Gen. George West was held in the Methodist church at Golden on the 18th inst., and was largely attended, not only by the people of Golden, but by pioneers, Civil War veterans, members of the National Guard and newspaper men from other towns. A peculiar accident occurred on the 18th inst., ten miles north of Central City. The fourteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tregay, while out hunting rabbits, leaned his shotgun against a stump and his dog knocked it down, causing its discharge. The shot struck the boy's right arm above the wrist inflicting a very bad wound. There seems to be no room for doubt that Judge James M. Ellis of Denver was burned to death in the recent hotel fire at Goldfield, Nevada. Judge Ellis came to Denver in 1886 as receiver of the land office and afterward served as city attorney and as police magistrate. He was born in Mississippi and served in the Confederate army during the civil war. For many years, in fact, ever since the town was started, there have been in Denver a number of tents occupied by consumptives, summer and winter, and there has always been some complaint by persons afraid of infection. Now the Fire and Police Board has ordered that all tents must be removed from within the city.limits by December 1st, which will be a serious hardship to many people. John Cleghorn, warden of the state penitentiary at Canon City, reports a considerable decrease in the number of inmates'. In August there were 730 convicts and now there are 603. Not all of them have been pardoned. Some have been let out on parole and others were released because their terms expired. The apparent decrease in crime is attributed to good times and an abundance of work. PIANO SALE Blizzard Stops Big Suipment of Pianos at Denver and Sacrifice Sale Ordered. An Eastern manufacturer and dealer had a big shipment of pianos enroute West, which arrived in Denver during the recent continuous blizzard, and in order to save them from damage they were delivered to the Columbine Music Co. to be sold at a big reduction. There is a great variety of high grade makes that mustbe disposed of at this sale, such as the Lester, Bush & Gerts, Steger, Krell and many other makes too numerous to mention. Some of the bargains in stock are as follows: One upright for..... $ 65 One upright for..... 85 And one upright for..... 155 A $300 piano, practically as good as new for..... 198 A $300 piano less than six months old for..... 228 A $400 piano, slightly used for 262 A $450 piano less than eleven months old, for..... 265 A $500 piano, practically new for..... 370 An upright Chickering at a bargain A good square piano for..... 50 A good organ for..... 25 We take all kinds of trade, Every piano in our stock reduced and so that everyone may have an opportunity to take advantage of this saving and select their instruments for Christmas now, we will sell them on as low payments as $6 down and $1 per week, with six months free music lessons from a choice of six of the best music teachers in the city. The opportunity only lasts while this ad appears, and while the present stock is on hand, so come in at once and have your choice and buy or rent one of them now. We will either deliver your piano now, or set it aside, without charge, until Christmas. Columbine Music © MAKE IT Colorado and Cal AKE IT MIDLAND Colorado, Utah and California 920.34 15th St. Charles Bldg. Cor. 15th and Curtis, Denver, Colo MAKE IT MIDLAND Colorado, Utah and California "There and Back" Finest Daylight Trains. Three Observation Cars. Best Dining "MEALS ON WHEELS "Serves you right" Daylight Trains. Throngh Pullmanation Cars. Best Dining Car Servi "MEALS ON WHEELS" "Serves you right" Finest Daylight Trains. Throngh Pullman Observation Cars. Best Dining Car Service "MEALS ON WHEELS" "Serves you right" C. H. SPEERS, G. P. A. Seventeenth and California Streets DENVER. STARK & CO. JEWELERS 709 and 711 16th St Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPAHDE-PHONE 817 STARK JEWELERS 709 and 71 Scholl's Mo Hang 1841 ARAP JEWELERS 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPAHOE-PHONE 817 Finest hand work in the city. Home Seekers EXCURSION EAST d one-third fare for the round trip—limit 30 days in which Home Seekers EXCURSION EAST One and one-third fare for the ro to return. One and one-third fare for the round trip—limit 30 days in which to return. November 13th and 27th VIA UNION PACIFIC To Chicago, Sioux City, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph, St. Louis, Peoria, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Iowa, northern peninsula of Michigan and Wisconsin, many points in Illinois, Missouri, North and South Dakota. For full particulars call or write J. C. FERGUSON, General Agent. Ticket Office 941 Seventeenth Street, DENVER, COLO. --- COLORADO MIDLAND Midland Route RAILWAY UNION PACIFIC THE OVERLAND ROUGE AND Curtis, Denver, CALIFORNIA Utah Vernia "k'" Whrongh Pullman Driving Car Service "ELS" CO. JEWELERS 6th St Barn Laundry PHONE 817 e city. Seekers ON EAST —limit 30 days in which city, St. Joseph, St. Louis, peninsula of Michigan souri. North and South J. C. FERGUSON, General Agent HO! FOR XMAS BANJO EVERYTHING MUSICAL.. There is nothing like a musical gift to a musical friend. Banjos, Guitars from.....$5.00 to $50.00 Mandolins, Violins from.....$3.50 to $75.00 Music Boxes all kinds, all prices. Victor and Edison Talking Machines from $10.00 up. Sheet Music, Music Rolls, Pianolas, Pianola-Pianos The Largest General Music House in Colo. 1538-1540-1542-1544-1546 Stout Street. et the Habit" a Dollar in Your Pocket. "Get the Put a Dollar in "Get the Habit" Put a Dollar in Your Pocket. THE STORE THAT SAVES YOU A $ NO MORE 250 NO LESS THE HENNING - EDDY SHOE CO. Special MANY Special Values 838 Fifteenth Street. MANY Special Values FOR THE HOLIDAYS. Are now on display at the Tindell Dry Goods The latest styles of long and short Kimonos in Flan Outing Flannel. A full line of Gents Furnishing Goods and Notions of TINDELL DRY GOODS are now on display at the Tindell Dry Goods Co. best styles of long and short Kimonos in Flanneletts and channel. Use of Gents Furnishing Goods and Notions of all kinds. TINDELL DRY GOODS CO. in St. Denver, Colo IDEAL DRUG STORE, 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. TINDELL DRY GOODS CO. THE IDEAL D THE IDEAL DRUG STORE 1863 ARAPAHOE STREET. We have just received a full line of Colg fumeries and toilet articles and am prepare them at the lowest prices. Also an up-toot Riegers perfumeries fresh from the f California. We give free souvenir postal each purchase. The season has opened for hot drinks of We hope to please you in the future as in We solicit your patronage. We have just received a full line of Colgates per- meries and toilet articles and am prepared to sell am at the lowest prices. Also an up-to-date line Riegers perfumeries fresh from the flowers of california. We give free souvenir postal card with h purchase. The season has opened for hot drinks of all kinds. hope to please you in the future as in the past. solicit your patronage. Des Denver. & 463. Colorado. We have just received a full line of Colgates perfumeries and toilet articles and am prepared to sell them at the lowest prices. Also an up-to-date line of Riegers perfumeries fresh from the flowers of California. We give free souvenir postal card with each purchase. The season has opened for hot drinks of all kinds. We hope to please you in the future as in the past. We solicit your patronage. 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 --- --- 2707 Welton St. Telephones Main 4956 & 463. PIANOS FRON $250 UPWARDS Easy Terms. Denver, Colo Denver Colorado. THE BOSTON EDITOR J. F. CLARK The Season's Modes Of the above pictures, one is a novel idea for a tea gown. That fashionable material, chiffon velvet, builds this indoor robe, the bodice and sleeves being all draped in one piece. It is in silver-gray, with a chou of gold tissue at the bust. After repeated warnings, the revival of the Empire and Princess dress is a recognized pleasure of our social existence. I write "pleasure," though, of course, I am quite conscious that should the all-in-one dress be chosen by the young woman, there is scant chance of much pleasure ensuing when we come across the two in close union. However, that is a detail I will not contemplate, but with my usual optimism rampant I will assume that it is only the woman who should, who does wear the straight, tight frock. And there are many ingenious methods of suiting this to the > dale Geneva 1906 With Orange and Brown Embroideries on Corsage, Through Which a Black Satin Ribbon Is Laced. figure, the all-oneness of the cloth being assumed, and not entirely genuine. The nature of cloth or velvet renders it possible to insert a seam at the waist or below it along the front, on the hips, and shaped to the becoming outline at the back, stitching the bodice on to the skirt in the least obtrusive manner; and thus may be attained the advantages of the Princess dress without its sterner disadvantages. On the other hand, the Empire dress is becoming to most people; so that the stays be modified to a straight squareness and a disregard of any obvious waist, the moderately stout woman will look almost as well as her slim sister. The newest form of Empire dress which is extremely pretty, has the short belt idealized into a bodice, which crosses over at the back, the shaped ends returning to tie in the front with small pendant tassels. This draped bodice seems to be cut in one with sleeves which slope over the shoulders, and although it cannot be justly written down as entirely typical of the Josephine gown, yet it is undoubtedly a modification making exclusively for elegance, and as such will be welcomed with enthusiasm. Amongst the popular colors for evening wear is gray, light silver gray, and I have seen this under its most extravagant aspect in one of the new chiffon velvets, made into the Princess style, with a bertha of white lace, traced with a design of diamonds and jet. But such a costume might One of the charming hats is a white felt with "cochier" crown, trimmed with brown birds head and plumes, and brown tull at the side. The other is a Havana brown velvet shape, with an ermine laid round one side, and white ostrich plumes on the other side. well be cneapened and the style secured for a very moderate outlay in one of the new chiffon velveteens with a silver or gold embroidered lace bertha taking the place of the jet and diamonds. For the evening gowns it is noticeable that chiffon is dismissed from favor, and soft satin, velvet, and velveteen have it all their own way. Leather belts have yielded some measure of their popularity to belts of silk elastic, which buckle at the back and buckle at the front, and obtain in every conceivable tone. The variety of blouses does not abate, and a new and attractive one made of lace has bretelles of soft silk, edged with tiny kilted frills. The plainest of the shirt blouses has broad tucks on either side of the center box plait, edged with a little frill, and it is made of nun's veiling and oriental satin, while the more prodigal choose it of the double width, best quality, white crepe de chine. It lacks novelty, perhaps, under any circumstances, but it is extremely comfortable and useful to wear beneath the tailor-made coat of our daily delight. The stout woman would do well to have her shirt-blouse made to fasten down the back, while the slender may fasten it in the front, but it is more possible under the former conditions to regulate its lines to conceal the too exuberant curve. Talking of exuberant curves reminds me of one of the latest styles in hats; these are tightly covered with black satin, with scrolls doing duty as a brim cut into four equal sections. It is entirely picturesque, if somewhat too peculiar for my personal taste, which inclines rather to the small folded toque or beaver, with a glace crown and a bunch of cock's feathers at on eside; but the most attractive thing in feathers is the outspread ostrich feather, this being extremely broad with a waving tail, an article of luxury and considerable grace. But to return for a moment to the trifles of costume, and to chronicle some elaborations in veils. The latest show triple rows of tiny silk fringes, while others of fine Russian net are bordered with chiffon traced with a design in fine chenille, and the spotted blonde with the kilted border still floats its attractive length from many of the most modern crumpled up to queues. ELLEN OSMONDE. Forgot His Incog. Chancellor James R. Day, of Syracuse university, was discussing at a dinner his edict against the theater-going and the use of tobacco by students holding scholarships. "Scholarships," said Chancellor Day, "are for poor students, and he who smokes and visits the theaters may be poor, but he is not living up to the part. "We should all live up to our parts. To disguise ourselves, to travel incognito, is never wise. To travel incognito is too often associated with something disgraceful. Witness the story of the tramp, who, at the magistrate's early morning hearing, did not answer to his name, sitting absently in his seat as the name was shouted four or five times. When matters finally righted themselves, the magistrate said, angrily: "Why didn't you answer to your name? "Beg pardon, yer honor, but I forgot wot name I guv last night,' replied the tramp. "What?' thundered the magistrate 'Didn't you give your right name? "No, yer honor,' said the tramp 'Tra travelin' incog.'" PHONE MAIN 8492. 1865 CURTIS STREET. THE JACKSON SHOE COMPANY. Repairing of all kinds neatly done. Sewed Soles 75 Cents. A Full Line of Men, Women and Childrens Shoes. 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