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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 RAGE COUNTRY PARTY Negro Theater W. H. A. Moore, the Negro Newspaper correspondent of Chicago, Tells why the Windy City has a Negro Play House. VOL. XIII, Negro W. H. A. Moore, the Negro Chicago, Tells why Negro Pl "To-morrow," a new journal of advance thought gives an interesting account of the only real Negro play house in the country. The article is well written by W. H. A. Moore, the Chicago Negro Newspaper correspondent and versifier and is as follows. It is not generally known how Chicago came to have the only full fledged Negro theatre in the United States. Robert Motts a colored prosperous Chicago soloon man, was in Paris. Nothing in the gayest capital in Europe impressed him more than its well conducted small amusement houses. He liked the atmosphere they created for him. There was nothing like it in the United States. And why not? Then straightway he began to have visions of a small amusement house in Chicago a sort of Negro amusement vine and fig tree where a fellow might go and forget, for a moment or two, that he was black, white, yellow or brown. Bob, by the way, is a big, handsomely proportioned brown-skinned man with a definate notion of what is what and a rather fine appreciation of the things that make for the comfort of life. But for the first time in his busy career he sat in public amusement places and nothing happened to remind him of the fact that his skin was disagreeably gingerhued. Why couldn't he do the same thing in America? thought he. He'd do it, by the living eternals, if he had to build a theatre of his own. There was nothing of the spirit of brag in this new found determination of purpose. Speaking to an American friend one day about the matter he said: "When I get back to Chicago I am going to build a theatre for Negroes. By that I do not mean that I am going to give a new twist to the color-line bugbear, that would be silliness, pure and simple. But the more I think of the matter the more I am convinced that the Negroes of Chicago would be tickled to death if they had a place where they could go and feel they were the whole cheese and the white folks simply lookers in Paris." And thus the Negro theatre idea took shape in his mind. Little by little he evolved the plan for the theatre. A scrap of an idea picked up here and another scrap picked up there until he got the whole ```markdown ``` Society, Denver, Colorado SAVED BY PATROC COLORA Theater Newspaper correspondent of the Windy City has a ay House. mental structure together. And what a splendid scheme of color the whole affair was. A Negro orchestra with a Negro conductor wielding a coal black baton; a group of Negro performers taking a vosiferous fall out of lines written by a Negro dramatist or singing to a syncopated standstill the engaging strains of "I Loves You, Mah Honey, Deed I Do." And then finally, but not leastly by any manner of means, the audiences. Here is where Chicago Negrodom would shine with a luster that would make the new nickle on a base burner look like a piece of Chinese money with nine holes in it. All the white folks could do would be to sit in openeyed wonder and be good fellows. Of course they could visit the place, but that was all. They might even be permitted, on "off" nights to get an occasional best seat. At these times, however it would be the grand dames of Dearborn street society circles who would pull aside their silken skirts and give an up-curve to the poise to their diamond beddecked coiffures. Any how the venture was worth the experiment. In the due course of a brief while this new dreamer of elysian rhapsodies returned to Chicago. In the straight road of another short period this Paris dream was taking form in the erection of a new playhouse out in the south side. West of State street society circles began to flutter and there was the ecstasy of delicious satisfaction in the air. It is said, on good authority, that there are some people of color who can tell, without blinking, the number of bricks that were used in the construction of the building that was to stand for the new order of things theatrical in Chicago. But that cuts a very small piece of ice in this matter. The Pekin Theater "went up" and life went merry as a marriage bell with the denizens of the so-called "Black Belt" district. Bob Motts knew his ground when he declared in Paris that the Negroes of Chicago would be tickled to death if they had a place where they could go and feel that they were the whole cheese. The tickle was almost literal so insistent were the manifestations of delight. The opening? Well—say—the opening was a dream! Standing room was at a double premium. And you talk --- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1907. about being the whole cheese, Dearborn street was a Wisconsin creamery dairy that night and possessed of a grin that stretched from ear to ear. And the program was a red hot proposition. On it appeared the name of that dainty, dark-brown replica of Vesta Tilley, Edmonia Jones, who simply "killed it" with "I Want to be a Rich Coon's Babe." Sidney Kirkpatrick, the barytone, in the language of a delighted patron, "delivered the goods in a hurry." Hallback and Parquette went "Back, Back to Baltimore" so many times the leader of the orchestra struck for higher wages. And when Carrie Stithe sauntered down to the footlights to the syncopated strains of "Mandy Lou," "there was nothing to it, that's all." The Collins sister, Allen and Tribble, Sam Lucas, Lottie Grady and a few lesser lights contributed their share to the evening's successful opening. Altogether it was a red letter night on the south side and the inspiration received in a Parisian concert garden had assumed living, tangible proportions in the big, prosy city at the southern end of Lake Michigan. Scarcely a year rolls around before there comes a far and near cry for a bigger place—"a sure enough theater with orchestra seats and boxes with plush hangings, etc., etc." Here was a dream coming true with a vengeance. But the cry is no sooner heard than the wish is gratified by the resourceful owner of the Pekin. Here was a dream coming true with a vengeance. But the cry is sooner heard than the wish is gratified by the resourceful owner of the Pekin and a new theatre takes the place of the old so quickly that the general public has but just awakened to the fact that Chicago is giving substantial support to a genuine, handsomely appointed and well equipped Negro theatre. This statement may excite the risibles of some, the derision of others, but it is one of those statements, nevertheless, that no amount of smiling and ridicule can make the less true and potent. It is too soon to predict the future of this radical manifestation of a desire to partake of the larger life of our great city by its Negro population. It is too early to attempt a forecast of the influence it will exert for good or evil on the impulse and trend of its artistic life. Enough for the present that the manifestation is with us and that it is playing it's part in alife growth possessing elements of charm and the impulse of original endeavor. Robert Motts thought he saw a need. Time alone will establish the truth of this belief. But the nut in the shell is that Bob thought the people wanted it And that is why Chicago has a Negro theatre. RACE NEWS Gathered from Various Sources. Among some of the active and influential members of the race who visited the capitol and took interest in the debate concerning the Brownville, Texas affair were: Rev. O. J. W. Scott, Prof. W. T. Vernon, Hon. Judson Lyons, Prof. John T. Layton, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Anna Murry and Dr. O. M. Atwood. The following clipping is from one of the leading northern newspapers: New Haven, Jan. 19.—James Parker, who was given a house in Washington, D. C., and a position as Messenger in Congress for capturing Czolgosz, after he shot President McKinley in Buffalo, has lost both his house and job and has just taken a place as waiter in the Yale dining hall. The New York World puts it thus: "It develops that the 'Negro soldier' who gave offense to two ladies on the streets of El Reno was a Pullman porter, and that the 'outrage' lay in the fact of his momentarily touching one of them with his hands to keep out of the mud. In view of this explanation it would appear to be un-necessary for an excited populace to shoot up the barracks or to take any further action, except, possibly, to call on the Pullman Company to disband its Oklahoma emplces Columbia, S. C., Jan. 23.—A white man by the name of Turner was brought to the State penitentiary to night by Sheriff Hunter, of Bamberg, for safekeeping and as a matter of precaution. He is accused of a criminal assault on the little daughter of former Senator S. G. Mayfield, of Bamberg, formerly of Greenville. Turner is related to the family of Senator Mayfield, and was employeda this sawmill as a sawyer. He was staying in the Mayfield home, at Denmark. Yesterday Mr. Mayfield was attracted by the cries of his little daughter, and discovered her in the room of Turner, where Turner had enticed her. Mr. Mayfield seized Turner and beat him unto insensibility. Hopkinsville, Ky., Jan. 1.—Because the patrons of rural free delivery No. 2, out of Cerulean Springs, in Trigg County, refused to allow their mail to be delivered by the Negro carrier who was appointed, the route has been discontinued by the Postal Department. The route was established Jan. 15, 1906, but mail was delivered by a white man until April 1, when he resigned. W. L. George, colored, was then appointed carrier and immediately the patrons of the route began taking down their mail boxes, and this continued until the route has now been discontinued for lack of patronage. Patrons of the route never made any threats or demonstated againts the carrier, but preferred to go to the office for their mail rather than have it delivered by a Negro. Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 27.—Representative Kisor of Albany county has introduced a bill in the legislature that is regarded as an antipit measure, although the bill does not state this. The bill provides that any person who gives, offers or promises an agent, employe or servant, any gift or gratuity whatever, without the knowledge and consent of the principal, employer or master of such agent, employe or servant, with intent to influence his action in relation to his principal's employer's or master's business, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The measure is in general favor and will in all probability pass both houses. It is aimed at the Pullman companies and others who employ persons at small wages, expecting the public to make up in tips what they fail to pay in salary. If the bill becomes a law it will be unlawful for porters and others to accept tips in this state. The penalty is a heavy fine and imprisonment. NEGROES WON FAME IN ARTS AND SCIENCE. NEGROES WON FAME IN ARTS AND SCIENCE. So far as Senator Tillman's arraignment of Negroes as a class is concerned, The Times has no patience. There are Negroes distinguished in various walks of life who have achieved as great fame as their white brethren, and in certain instances, greater. A New York paper has summarized the work of living American Negroes distinguished in their various professious. Among those mentioned the following have been chosen for their prominence outside their own locality. No mention has been made of literature, but if one wished to go into this branch, the list would be interminable. In the realms of agriculture, Alfred Smith, of Oklahoma, won first prize in England for cotton which he raise. He was also given a blue ribbon at the World's Fair. A crop of 75,000 bushels of potatoes is produced every year by Junius C. Groves, of Kansas, which is the world's record. The first surgeon to sew up and heal a wounded human heart was Daniel H. Williams, M. D., of Chicago. There have been 35 devices patented by Granville T. Wood, the Bell Telephone Co. utilizing many of them. NO. 19. The Collis P. Huntington memorial building at Tuskegee, was designed by W. Sidney Pitman. This is the largest and finest building at Tuskegee. Edward H. Morris, with a law practice whose income is $20,000 a year, won his suit between Cook county and the city of Chicago. Henry O. Tanner, artist, has been the subject of numerous encomiums for his work. The French government has on the walls of the Luxembourg, his painting, "The Rising of Lazarus." Mary Church Terrill, a delegate to the International Association for the Advancement of Women, addressed in three languages mammoth audiences last year in Berlin. Edmonia Wilson, sculptress, won well-deserved fame for her bust of Lincoln, now in San Jose, and also for her groupe, "The Marriage of Hiawatha." The work of Booker T. Washington along educational lines is too well known to require further elucidation here. Senator Tillman is everlastingly right in some things: in this instance he is everlasting wrong.—Detroit Times. A Summer Day in San Lus Valley. [BY AILEY W. LEWIS, DENVER, COLO.] There's a vale amid the grandeur Of the Rocky Mountain hue, Where the snow-caped mountain ranges Rest their foot-hills in the blue; There the morning's crimson glow Lights God's creatures as they go, While you're dreaming in the bosom Of the old San Luis valley. As the morning sun's appearing, How the valley doves do coo; And the feathery clouds are nearing To'ard the earth it seems they'd woo; Then the mountains' tinted morn Makes you feel the most forlorn, As from dreamland you must rally, In the old San Luis valley. Soon the sunbeams fall in splendor, And the sun proclaims the day; Then those peaks, so pyramidal, Are transformed from blue to grey, Thus the beauty grows sublime, Fades away with waning time. While you're basking in the sunlight Of the old San Luis valley. While the noonday sun doth glitter On his mid-day throne to rest, And the moon has long since sunken Be'yond the mountains in the west, You behold the brownstone sand (Along the winding Rio Grande) Robe her banks like salmon challis, In the old San Luis valley. When the sun is westward resting On the purple mountains crest, And the mountain breezes sweeping From the East unto the West; Then the warmth-forsaken air, Like a curfew everywhere Now the vale, amid the grandeur Of the Rocky Mountain hue, Views the black of night, a creeping Up the foothills that were blue. But the glad old moon takes sway, And the black of night grows gray. While the moon bids stars to rally In the old San Luis valley. "Columbine" New Table Beer Is a special Brew for Family use DEVER'S LEADING BRAND OF BOTTLE Columbine Beer Is guaranteed absolutely pure Try a Sample Case and you will use no ot TELEPHONE 1285 The Ph. Zang Brewing Producers Fresh Beer Delivered Daily to all parts of the city H. J. HESPER. J. 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If your drug-glass is not in the right place, you can procure it from his jobber or wholesale dealer or send us 50 cts. for one bottle postpaid, or to the other. We are in the express paid. We pay postage and express charges to all points in U.S. A. When order, in the most excellent form of the information this paper. Write your name and address plainly to The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Press 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL. Agents wanted everywhere. M. ROGERS. G. A. ROGERS. L. N. ROGERS. I.N.Rogers & Son, UNDERTAKERS & EMBALMERS 1581 Champa St. 1531 Champa St. Denver, Cola. WHY HE QUIT PLAYING POKER. Lesson Which an Old Gambler Taught Novice at the Game. An old man sat at a late breakfast in a hotel cafe last Saturday, when a young man with haggard face and downcast eyes took a place near him. "Tom," said the newcomer to the attendant, "I must go light, for I played in hard luck last night." The old man had finished and sat studying the other's face as he ate. Shortly he took a roll of bills from his pocket and laid it in front of him. "It's yours," he said. Mechanically and with a trembling hand the young man took the money. "You were in the game?" he said. "Yes, and that is your money, about $300. Quit playing poker. I began it sixty years ago on the Mississippi river and have made a living out of such fools as you. With my coolness it's robbery to play against your recklessness. I see desperation in your face. I am told that you are a teller in a bank, and that you have a wife, to whom you will he about your absence from home last night. Quit poker." He walked out, and the young man, lowering his head to his folded arms, did not move until the attendant roused him.—New York Times. Increase in Exports. In 1840 the total value of American exports was $123,668,000, or $7.25 per capita. For the fiscal year ended June 30, last, the total value was $1,392,231,000 or $17 per capita. The population has increased 470 per cent, and the exports over 1,000 per cent. The average American is a better wealth producer than his father or grandfather. Mascagni Superstitious. Signor Mascagni, the famous Italian composer, is one of the most superstitious of men, and always carries in one of his pockets a remarkable collection of talismans to avert misfortune. Among them may be mentioned tiny figures of St. George in ivory and mother-of-pearl, and small horns of coral. Due to Promotion Committee. In the two years since California's promotion committee was formed its immigration has equaled that of the ten previous years. Love Makes Spring. Do I pray the wintry skies. Do the springtime sweet arise; Let these weary wastes of snow Rake them in the snow; Nay, birds sing and sweet bells ring. And forever Love makes spring! Whiter hath no thrall—no art; Hither hath no form—no sweet heart! Shall the bleak wounds do them wrong? Blooms of Love, dear—flowers of song! Ever more the sweet bells ring. And where Love is, life is spring! —Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu Perfection. "Practice makes perfect, you know" said the young woman who was playing scales on the piano. "Yes," answered her father, who does not love music; "perfect misery." —Washington Star. Force of Habit Gunner—That man must be used to trading in horses. Guyer—Why so? Gunner—When he asked how old the automobile was he looked inside for its teeth. NEWS OF THE WEEK Most Important Happenings of the Past Seven Days. Interesting Items Gathered from All parts of the World Condensed Into Small Space for the Benefit of Our Readers. Personal Col. R. W. Blue, prominent for many years in Kansas politics died of heart disease at his home in Bartlesville, I. T. W. F. Martin, Jr., was convicted at Muskogee, I. T., of stealing a Creek Indian roll and sentenced to serve one year in the federal prison and pay a fine of $10,000. The department of commerce and labor has began an investigation of the harvester trust. Lee McGill for a number of years past, the associate editor and owner of the Independent at Oswego, Kan., has been declared of unsound mind by a jury in the probate court. Mrs. John Ade died at Kentland, Ind., of heart failure. Six children survive her, one of whom is George Ade, the writer and playwright. Rev. Dr. Henry N. Field, last of the famous Field brothers, Cyrus W. Stephen J., and David Dudley, died in Stockbridge, Mass. E. A. Sterling, formerly assistant forester in the department of agriculture, has been appointed forester for the Pennsylvania Railroad company. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, the last of the children of Rev. Lyman Beecher, died recently in Hartford, Conn. Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian Canal commission was the guest of honor at the January dinner of the Kansas City Knife and Fork club. The legislature of South Carolina has elected Benjamin R. Tillman as United States senator. Robert L. Taylor has been elected United States senator from Tennessee. Charles D. Wolcott, director of the geological survey, has been elected secretary of the Smithsonian Institute. Chief Justice Fitzpatrick, of the supreme court of Canada, and Mrs. Fitzpatrick were among the guests at a White house dinner given in honor of the United States supreme court. United States Senator Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, died suddenly of heart disease recently at his residence in Washington. Both houses of congress adjourned for the day as a mark of respect. Congressional. The president has sent a message to congress urging the desirability of legislation to help American shipping by encouraging the building and running of lines of steamers to South America and the Orient. A bill has been introduced in the house providing for the election of United States supreme court judges by direct vote of the people. By a vote of 53 to 21 the senate has agreed to the house proposition to increase the salaries of senators and representatives to $7,500 a year. Under the new law the vice president, speaker of the house and cabinet members will receive $12,000 annually. An appropriation of $95,000,000 is provided for in the naval appropriation bill recently agreed upon by the house. A report of the investigation of the oil industry sent to congress states that a distinct part of the policy of the Standard Oil company has been the ruin of its competitors. The joint postal commission, anorized at the last session of congress to investigate and report on the effect of existing laws relating to second class postal rates has submitted its report. The house has adopted an amendment to the pension bill abolishing all pension agencies in the United states save one and fixing that one at Washington. Testimony concerning the Brownsville, Texas, affray will be taken by the full senate committee on military affairs at Washington beginning February 4. William Whitely, founder of the first big department store in London was recently assassinated in the building by a young man who afterwards attempted to commit suicide. King Peter of Servia, denies that he has any intention of resigning or permanently leaving the country. Attorney General Young, of Minnesota, has instituted proceedings in the supreme court of the state to forfeit the charter of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad company, the parent of the Great Northern. The first report of the Interstate Commerce commission on railroad discrimination to congress says that many of the eastern roads own controlling interests in coal lands. The report recommends that the roads be forbidden to mine coal except for their own use. The Japanese government has made an appropriation of $300,000 to cover the expense of representatives of the army and navy who will participate in the exposition at Jamestown, Va. The losses of cattle and sheep in the northwest owing to the extreme cold and heavy snows will exceed $1,000,000. Four men were killed and 16 others seriously injured by the explosion of an ice machine in the packing plant of Armour & Co., in Chicago. A terrific squall broke over Hong Kong and in the space of ten minutes sank over 50 Chinese craft in the harbor, more than 100 natives being drowned. The plant of the Phelps Publishing company at Springfield, Mass., publishers of several prominent agricultural periodicals has burned causing a loss of $1,000,000. Fire damp explosion in a mine near Saarbruck, Prussia, in which 600 miners were working caused the death the death of at least 200 of the men. Eighty-four inmates of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., were released in one day, being the largest number ever freed at one time. Following a conference at the White house it was stated that W. D. Oliver, who with A. M. Bangs was the lowest bidder for the completion of the Panama canal, would be given ten days in which to associate with him self one or more responsible contractors, when he would be awarded the contract at the price named in his bid. The Southwestern deserts and the forest reserves of that region are to be restocked with antelope, to be brought from Africa. A letter from the Metal Dealers' association to Attorney General Bonaparte in relation to the alleged copper combine asserts that more than 30,200 tons of copper are being secretly held to create a fictious scarcity and increased price. Several cargoes of coal from the Orient will soon be received on Puget sound to relieve the fuel famine at Tacoma and Seattle. This is the first time coal has ever imported from the Orient there. George C. Hale, former chief of the Kansas City, Mo., fire department has received a contract to furnish the city of Panama with modern fire protection equipment An investigation of public land frauds has begun at Pueblo, Col., at which sensational disclosures are expected to be made. The inquiry will probably last for two months. Twenty miners were recently entombed in a coal mine at Primero, Col., as the result of an explosion caused by a windy blast. After an extended conference at the White house it was decided to reject the bid of Oliver and Baugs for the construction of the Panama canal, insofar as A. M. Baugs, of New York, is concerned. If Mr. Oliver can get a new partner he will be given the contract. The next annual convention of the National Educational association will be held in Los Angeles, Cal., during the first week in July. The Spanish cabinet has again resigned. Officials of the Southern Express company at Mobile, Ala., have been arrested on a charge of accepting for transportation prize lists and tickets of the Honduras Lottery company. A smallpox epidemic has broken out in the jail at Guthrie which is situated in the basement of the building where the Oklahoma constitutional convention is being held. The damage to shipping in Buffalo harbor alone is $1,500,000. Five great lake steamers aground tell that part of the story. Thirteen others making brave attempts to ride out the storm may add to it. The government won a decisive victory in the recent general election for members of the new German Reichstag. Judge Oscar Hallam, in the district court at St. Paul has issued an order enjoining the officials of the Great Northern Railway company from making the proposed increase of $60,000,000 in the capital stock of the company during the pending litigation. The trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White has begun in New York. The entire first day was consumed in securing two jurymen. The National Farmers Union, in session at Atlanta, Ga., has adopted resolutions indorsing the president's action in discharging the colored troops for complicity in the Brownsville, Tex., affair. The British government has received a report from Gov. Swettenham, of Jamaica, regarding the Davis incident but refuses to make it public at the present time. Announcement has been made in Washington that the offices of chairman and chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal commission will be consolidated and that John F. Stevens will be given the appointment. The Wood Hagenbarth ranch in Mexico containing 4,000 square miles with 25,000 cattle has been sold to John D. Ryan and W. C. Greene for more than $1,000,000. King Alfonso has issued a decree suspending the sessions of the Spanish parliament and it is expected the issue between church and state will be submitted to the people at an election. Mr. Shontis the retiring president of the canal commission is authority for the statement that the canal zone is as healthy as any part of the United States. The Human Side of Immigration. "The Human Side of Immigration," an altogether timely discussion of a pressing problem, is treated in the February Century by John Graham Brooks. From the point of view of race education, Mr. Brooks argues, the human or world side of this problem should have not only increasing attention, but the utmost practical weight consistent with safeguarding interests within national bounds. The article is one of the most valuable of recent contributions to sociological discussion. Prefers Tea for the Army. Tea will replace coffee in the army subsi-tence, if the recommendation of Col. Valery Havard, assistant surgeon general, be adopted. This is the result of his observations while with the Russian army in Manchuria. It is the practice of English, Russian and Japanese armies. Colonel Havard found tea superior to coffee because it is easier to transport, preserve and prepare, and can be drunk without any disagreeable after effects. Restricting Child Labor. The campaign against child labor is at last making itself felt among the cotton mills of South Carolina. More than two-thirds of the spindles of the state have agreed to reduce the working hours of employees from sixty-six to sixty-four hours a week, and to sixty-two hours in 1908 and sixty hours in 1910—wages to remain as now. Lipton Wants Real Yachts. "Give us real yachts, not playthings," is about the substance of an article on the great sea sport by Sir Thomas Lipton in "Yachting." "Under the uniform rule adopted in 1905, it was hoped that a more wholesome type of boat would appear," says Sir Thomas, "and the results of last season's racing in the United States have entirely justified the hope. It is what has been needed both here and abroad, a good, wholesome boat—a boat that cannot only go fast, but can give a good account of herself in winter weather; a boat that can cross the ocean with no fears that it will succumb to wind and waves on the way over. I am satisfied the trend of American yachting will be towards the production of this sort of boat." A corner in grain is not apt to be on the square. Denver Directory $22 C. O.D. You take no chance when buying a hair salon. The new set warrants to be warranted to be. This double team hair complete set and brochings. Concord dress. 2-inch. $2.99. $2.99. Sold everywhere for $27.00. Send for our free catalog prices in the U. S. The Fred Mueller Saddle & Hardness Co., 1413-19 Larimer St., Denver, Colo. THE FAMOUS J. H. WILSON STOCK SADDLES Ask your dealer for them. Take no other. AMERICAN HOUSE DENVER. Two blocks from Union Depot. The best $2 per day hotel in the West. American plan. 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Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author on the manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. A big step in the right direction and Labor Assembly took action to ber of Commerce. The applicatic labor and capital are coming toget understanding of the whole subject business men have expressed a des they employ and the labor assembly Labor leaders are learning the obsolete method and that arbitration only practical ways of bettering the to be a thing of the past, intimida days of progress, lock-outs and elc liberty and common sense. In this the future be called upon to become as a martyr and target to pull some We are more than glad to see the p the right direction was taken when they took action to apply for membership. The application was promptly are coming together. This is a big whole subject that has vexed the labor assembly has met them hare learning that the strike system that arbitration, affiliation and is of betterting their condition. The past, intimidation is out of theock-outs and closed shops must go on sense. In this new system they had upon to become a strike breaker target to pull somebody else's chest glad to see the passing of the great A big step in the right direction was taken when the Denver Trades and Labor Assembly took action to apply for membership in the Chamber of Commerce. The application was promptly granted and now labor and capital are coming together. This is a big step for a better understanding of the whole subject that has vexed both sides. The business men have expressed a desire to get in touch with those whom they employ and the labor assembly has met them half way. Labor leaders are learning that the strike system is becoming an obsolete method and that arbitration, affiliation and compromise are the only practical ways of bettering their condition. The boycott is soon to be a thing of the past, intimidation is out of the question in these days of progress, lock-outs and closed shops must give way to reason, liberty and common sense. In this new system the Negro will not in the future be called upon to become a strike breaker and offer himself as a martyr and target to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire. We are more than glad to see the passing of the great labor riots. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS If you are interested in business as it has reference to those who are ness standpoint. Negro patronage of houses, there is a cause for it, every business as in nature. Loans have benefits withheld and property deni- ness in paying their bills. Often it we say, "Let them wait." This man bookkeeping, and no end of confi- business concern wants to stand it. We cannot respect a man who promised obligation. Every busi- scribed system and when the system pieces. So be careful about youn with the people from whom you ex- article we intend to give some facts, trade among our people on the groe the courtesy due from customer to or at the firms, because they have ethics and will not depart from it rather than destroy their method. IMPORTANCE OF In the line-up of the two new our editorial some months ago ther whether to follow the philosophy oi- ing our rights or to accept the dir- rights. In further investigating ther of the world on the side of Mr. W speare makes one of his characters ceas than merely to have success." been teaching the race for the pass the so-called leaders have taken issi Miller, our foremost thinker and de also sides with Mr. Washington. Twentieth Century Negro," in the 1906, he begins with these words: "The salvation of any oversha we are rather than what we do; u upon endurance rather than ende Miller in this article is well worth o fully read by every inspiring color advocates on the side of Mr. Wash- leaders hang up the picture of a their premises a little closer and see best of the argument in the things zenship. It takes more than one s one battle to make a soldier and m leaders. Booker T. Washington ha he has won more praise and cent thousands of ways than our local more noble acts than simply stopp put their faces in the frame that Washington. Our Philadelphia lea cannot yet attain to the place and it will be necessary for them to wait while no doubt having a place and efforts only temporary, while the w manent, but eternal. It is the di statesman that characterizes these ship. The politician aims for presen for permanent peace and prosperity interested in business read this article to those who are trying to make great Negro patronage is now not wanted because for it, every effect has a cause. Loans have been refused color and property denied them because of our bills. Often it is not a lack of wait." This means an account less no end of confusion. This is not wants to stand it very long. Expect a man who habitually refuses to work. Every business house works at when the system is broken things useful about your business standing from whom you expect business factions give some facts of business house people on the ground that the race from customer to buyer. Don't get because they have established a lot depart from it. They prefer by their method. MORTANCE OF BEING AND DURING of the two new schools of race left months ago the question hinges on the philosophy of Booker T. Washington to accept the dictum of DuBois investigating the subject we find the side of Mr. Washington in this if his characters to say, "It is better to have success." This is what Race for the past quarter of a century has taken issue with this argument thinker and defendant at the bar. Mr. Washington. In his article, "Negro," in the Voice of the North these words: In of any overshadowed race will do what we do; upon character more rather than endeavor." The lesson is well worth careful study and a very inspiring colored man. This picture of Mr. Washington, and before the picture of a new Moses they have closer and see if Booker T. Washington in the things that make for more than one swallow to make a soldier and more than one vice. Washington has been successful, praise and confidence and respect than our local leaders have dreamed and simply stopping the play of "the frame that contains the prince Philadelphia leaders, strong and firm to the place and power of Booker T. for them to wait a little longer. Having a place and a duty to perform, while the work of Washington. It is the difference between characterizes these two schools of the man aims for present gain but the success and prosperity,' which do you If you are interested in business read this article, if not pass it up as it has reference to those who are trying to make good from the business standpoint. Negro patronage is now not wanted by many business houses, there is a cause for it, every effect has a cause, it is the same in business as in nature. Loans have been refused colored people, indorsements withheld and property denied them because of a lack of promptness in paying their bills. Often it is not a lack of ability to pay, but we say, "Let them wait." This means an account left open, additional bookkeeping, and no end of confusion. This is not business and no business concern wants to stand it very long. We cannot respect a man who habitually refuses to make good on a promised obligation. Every business house works according to a prescribed system and when the system is broken things are likely to go to pieces. So be careful about your business standing and promptness with the people from whom you expect business favors. In our next article we intend to give some facts of business houses that have cut out trade among our people on the ground that the race does not recognize the courtesy due from customer to buyer. Don't get angry at the facts or at the firms, because they have established a system of business ethics and will not depart from it. They prefer to lose a customer rather than destroy their method. IMPORTANCE OF BEING AND DOING In the line-up of the two new schools of race leaders referred to in our editorial some months ago the question hinged on the point, whether to follow the philosophy of Booker T. Washington in deserving our rights or to accept the dictum of DuBois in demanding our rights. In further investigating the subject we find the best thinkers of the world on the side of Mr. Washington in this argument. Sakespeare makes one of his characters to say, "It is better to deserve success than merely to have success." This is what Mr. Washington has been teaching the race for the past quarter of a century, but many of the so-called leaders have taken issue with this argument. Prof. Kelley Miller, our foremost thinker and defendant at the bar of public opinion, also sides with Mr. Washington. In his article, "A Word to the Twentieth Century Negro," in the Voice of the Negro for January, 1906, he begins with these words: "The salvation of any overshadowed race will depend upon what we are rather than what we do; upon character more than enterprise; upon endurance rather than endeavor." The lesson given by Prof. Miller in this article is well worth careful study and should be thoughtfully read by every inspiring colored man. This puts two more strong advocates on the side of Mr. Washington, and before the Philadelphia leaders hang up the picture of a new Moses they had better examine their premises a little closer and see if Booker T. Washington has not the best of the argument in the things that make for true leaders and citizenship. It takes more than one swallow to make a spring; more than one battle to make a soldier and more than one victory to make tried leaders. Booker T. Washington has been successful in many contests, he has won more praise and confidence and respect for the race in thousands of ways than our local leaders have dreamed. It will take more noble acts than simply stopping the play of "the Clansman" to put their faces in the frame that contains the profile of Booker T. Washington. Our Philadelphia leaders, strong and fearless as they are, cannot yet attain to the place and power of Booker T. Washington, so it will be necessary for them to wait a little longer. The DuBois crowd while no doubt having a place and a duty to perform, will find their efforts only temporary, while the work of Washington is not only permanent, but eternal. It is the difference between the politician and statesman that characterizes these two schools of thought and leadership. The politician aims for present gain but the statesman looks only for permanent peace and prosperity, which do you prefer? Overstepping the Limit. When Meredith P. Gentry was defeated for the governorship of Tennessee by Andrew Johnson, afterward president, he was much chagrined, principally, he said, because he "had been run over by that great calf," as he contemptuously designated Johnson. Gentry's melancholy over the result of the election increased as time passed and he went into a decline. So some of his friends visited him in order to cheer him up and, as was the custom in those days, emptied several demijohns of whiskey during the evening. It was very late before they thought of retiring and then Gentry announced that, as there was a clergyman present (Parson Brownlow), he would request him to offer up a prayer before the company went to bed. Brother Brownlow, whose specialty was exhortation, began to pray. He included everything in his petition and at last said: "and O Lord, if in thy infinite mercy it be possible, have mercy also upon Andrew Johnson." Gentry was on his feet in an instant. "Stop, Mr. Brownlow, stop!" he exclaimed. "You will exhaust the fount of infinite mess." ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` It was taken when the Denver Trades supply for membership in the Chammon was promptly granted and now her. This is a big step for a better fit that has vexed both sides. The fire to get in touch with those whom it has met them half way. But the strike system is becoming an affiliation and compromise are the their condition. The boycott is soonotion is out of the question in these used shops must give way to reason, in a new system the Negro will not in use a strike breaker and offer himself body else's chestnuts out of the fire. Missing of the great labor riots. is read this article, if not pass it up trying to make good from the busi- siness now not wanted by many business effect has a cause, it is the same in been refused colored people, indorse- d them because of a lack of prompt- is not a lack of ability to pay, but ans an account left open, additional vision. This is not business and no very long. habitually refuses to make good on a less house works according to a pre- is broken things are likely to go to business standing and promptness expect business favors. In our next of business houses that have cut out and that the race does not recognize buyer. Don't get angry at the facts we established a system of business. They prefer to lose a customer BEING AND DOING. schools of race leaders referred to in the question hinged on the point, F. Booker T. Washington in deserv- tum of DuBois in demanding our subject we find the best thinkers washington in this argument. Saketo say, "It is better to deserve suc- cess." This is what Mr. Washington has a quarter of a century, but many of these with this argument. Prof. Kelley dendant at the bar of public opinion, In his article, "A Word to the Voice of the Negro for January, allowed race will depend upon what son character more than enterprise; favor." The lesson given by Prof. careful study and should be thought- ed man. This puts two more strong ington, and before the Philadelphia new Moses they had better examine if Booker T. Washington has not the that make for true leaders and citi- allow to make a spring; more than more than one victory to make tried is been successful in many contests, adence and respect for the race in leaders have dreamed. It will take the play of "the Clansman" to contains the profile of Booker T. tenders, strong and fearless as they are, power of Booker T. Washington, so a little longer. The DuBois crowd a duty to perform, will find their work of Washington is not only per- ference between the politician and two schools of thought and leader- ant gain but the statesman looks only which do you prefer? NEW ROPE WAS COMING. Judges Must Have Thought Hard During That Trip. Senator Hoar told an incident of his legal practice in connection with his remarks about the dangerous condition of the old government printing office. "I am reminded," said he, "of something that happened in the supreme court of our state some years ago. They held court at Northampton and went over to Mount Holyoke, where there is an elevator which takes travelers up the side of a steep rock a hundred or two hundred feet to avoid the difficulty of climbing. "The judges, as judges are apt to be, were nearly all of them rather corpulent men. Six or seven got into the elevator at once. They saw that the rope that held the car in which they went was very much frayed, and they asked the manager if he did not think it was a little unsafe. "Yes,' the manager said, 'it is wholly unsafe and likely to break every minute, but we are going to have a new one next Monday.'"—Washington Post. American Women Can Have Suffrage When They Want It MRS. DORA LYON. legislation! Men like feminine women, and are very jealous the rights which custom and the laws have accorded; they will not passively accept any infringement those rights. The slow but certain advance of women pre-empted by men is recognized and acknowledges paratively small number of women has been a future. They are the advance guard, the pioneer out of a universal suffrage is clear, but they are earnest and faithful to the cause, must needs man and dignity. They realize that they must first educate thefrage before they begin the education of men, and fragetttes they are working quietly but continue that when woman herself is converted to suffrage battle. The pure food bill, child labor laws and prove the extent of woman's power when she is more merits of equal suffrage, can there be any doubt only wonder is that man the just, man the logical offer the suffrage, at least upon women who are mighty maker of laws, is content to accept monetizing the state, county and city without give equally taxed feminine taxpayer a voice in the shall administer the vast sums which she contri- legislation! Men like fern the rights which they will not pass those rights. The pre-empted by me paratively small in future. They are out of a universal earnest and faithi and dignity. They realize frage before they fragettes they are that when woman battle. The pure prove the extent o merits of equal su only wonder is tha fer the suffrage, mighty maker of taining the state, equally taxed fem shall administer t Men like feminine women, and are very jealous and grow more so of the rights which custom and the laws have accorded them in the past, and they will not passively accept any infringement by the weaker sex upon those rights. The slow but certain advance of woman in every field hitherto pre-empted by men is recognized and acknowledged. But to only a comparatively small number of women has been given the insight into the future. They are the advance guard, the pioneers. To them the working out of a universal suffrage is clear, but they are only a few, and although earnest and faithful to the cause, must needs make haste slowly with quiet and dignity. They realize that they must first educate the women to want the suffrage before they begin the education of men, and unlike the English suffragettes they are working quietly but continually. Possibly they realize that when woman herself is converted to suffrage that will be the end of the battle. The pure food bill, child labor laws and other great movements prove the extent of woman's power when she is really interested. As to the merits of equal suffrage, can there be any doubt upon the question? The only wonder is that man the just, man the logical, does not voluntarily confer the suffrage, at least upon women who are tax payers; that he, the mighty maker of laws, is content to accept money for the purpose of maintaining the state, county and city without giving the unrecognized but equally taxed feminine taxpayer a voice in the selection of the officials who shall administer the vast sums which she contributes! Italian's View of Love in America By IL CONTE OTTAVIO. ara is harnessed de confess that they when they are fr that they are yet willingly marry is reached some stat among men is the Then, the A is to say, loyally, not about the two that given year a nomical and finan He is willing friend or two, for of the American protracted distrac an Italian, with impossible as a fible, at any rate te Even when i her bow, under the opportune moment strongest man, et Love must be by it, for chai it should be disp time. What met the post, an appo—above all many ara is harnessed to produce motive power. Some confess that they think of their sweethearts or when they are free from business, after three that they are yet too poor to think of love, that willingly marry in three, four or five years, when reached some stated figure, not a cent more, not among men is therefore most chaste, out of delicat. Then, the American gravely believes his law is to say, loyally exact in waxing enthusiastic not about the two and three-quarters; able to that given year and that given month in which nomical and financial calculations, has decided to. He is willing that in the interval she shall friend or two, for he is so thoroughly convinced of the American over every other man in the protracted distraction on the part of his fiancée, an Italian, with a Spaniard or with an Austri- impossible as a flirtation on his own part with a able, at any rate temporary and harmless. Even when in America, the American wor- her bow, under the inoffensive name of "flirts, opportune moment and after suitable experience strongest man, etc. The others are cast aside. Love must be treated in a business-like way ing by it, for chasers of dowries are rare in Am- it should be dispatched rapidly and should not a time. What method is swifter than advertising the post, an appointment, a few calls, an engage—above all many presents. ara is harnessed to produce motive power. Some young men in America confess that they think of their sweethearts only on Sunday afternoons, when they are free from business, after three o'clock, while others assert that they are yet too poor to think of love, that they will fall in love and willingly marry in three, four or five years, when their capital shall have reached some stated figure, not a cent more, not a cent less. Conversation among men is therefore most chaste, out of deliberate prudence. Then, the American gravely believes his lady, to be like himself, that is to say, loyally exact in waxing enthusiastic about the three years, and not about the two and three-quarters; able to await without impatience that given year and that given month in which he, according to his astronomical and financial calculations, has decided to wed her. He is willing that in the interval she shall travel in Europe with a friend or two, for he is so thoroughly convinced of the absolute superiority of the American over every other man in the world that a more or less protracted distraction on the part of his fiancee with a Frenchman or with an Italian, with a Spaniard or with an Austrian, seems to him just as impossible as a flirtation on his own part with a negress, and even if possible, at any rate temporary and harmless. Even when in America, the American woman keeps many strings to her bow, under the inoffensive name of "flirts," waiting to choose at the opportune moment and after suitable experience, the richest man, the strongest man, etc. The others are cast aside. Love must be treated in a business-like way, not in the sense of profiting by it, for chasers of dowries are rare in America, but in the sense that it should be dispatched rapidly and should not cause the loss of too much time. What method is swifter than advertising? A letter dropped into the post, an appointment, a few calls, an engagement, presents, marriage—above all many presents. The Toy-Land of the World By FERDINAND STRAUSS. The cosmopoe the world, not al- tured. For inst Santa Claus; the Paladin, and the and Judy. The native in its toys. Me worth of such to Christmas is child with toys. ordinary playthin The cosmopolitan make-up of America has the world, not alone in the number but in the tured. For instance, every German-born child Santa Claus; the Italian-born child demands a Paladin, and the English-born child is not cute and Judy. The native American child, however, impin in its toys. Mechanical toys are in greatest worth of such toys have been manufactured in Christmas is the hardest time in all the year child with toys. On any other anniversary he ordinary plaything, but when Christmas comes entirely new and surprising. He cares nothing The cosmopolitan make-up of America has made it the toy-land of the world, not alone in the number but in the variety of toys manufactured. For instance, every German-born child must have a miniature Santa Claus; the Italian-born child demands a doll dressed as some brave Paladin, and the English-born child is not content without its Punch and Judy. The native American child, however, imperatively demands novelty in its toys. Mechanical toys are in greatest demand, and $5,000,000 worth of such toys have been manufactured in America this year. Christmas is the hardest time in all the year to supply the American child with toys. On any other anniversary he is willing to accept an ordinary plaything, but when Christmas comes he demands something entirely new and surprising. He cares nothing for lay figures; his dolls must move or show some kind of action. One little chap in one store exclaimed on looking at some pretty but rather old-fashioned toys: "Santa Claus didn't finish them; he forgot to put the walk in." And so it is. Children in America who have arrived at the age of five or even four have been so pampered in their toys that they demand that old Canta Claus put the "walk" in, and it keeps the old gentleman busy indeed inventing new and catchy playthings. By MR5. DORE LYON. When the American woman get it. Of that there has no minds of either men or women, self invincible on so many of a really vital interest in one procuring of equal suffrage in but the day seems not to have hear of a determined effected women to influence leavet at the same time of a strong themselves equally advance women, and are very jealous men and the laws have accorded to accept any infringement of certain advance of women recognized and acknowledged of women has been given advance guard, the pioneers' age is clear, but they are on the cause, must needs make they must first educate them, the education of men, and being quietly but continually if is converted to suffrage the bill, child labor laws and man's power when she is real, can there be any doubt u the just, man the logical, must upon women who are to its content to accept money city and city without giving taxpayer a voice in the selec sums which she contribute When the American woman wants the suffrage she will get it. Of that there has never been any doubt in the minds of either men or women. She has not proved herself invincible on so many points in which she has felt a really vital interest in order to acknowledge that the procuring of equal suffrage is an impossible task! But the day seems not to have arrived! Now and then we hear of a determined effort on the part of a few advanced women to influence legislation in this regard, and at the same time of a strong attempt of women who think themselves equally advanced to prevent any such reduce motive power. Some kind of their sweethearts only from business, after three o'clock to think of love, that they, four or five years, when mature, not a cent more, not a most chaste, out of deliberation, believes his lady in waxing enthusiastic about three-quarters; able to attend given month in which his calculations, has decided to attend in the interval she shall also thoroughly convinced of every other man in the war in the part of his fiancee with amiard or with an Austrian man on his own part with a military and harmless. America, the American woman affensive name of "flirts," and after suitable experience the others are cast aside. Used in a business-like way, not dowries are rare in America; rapidly and should not care swifter than advertising? Not, a few calls, an engagernts. make-up of America has at the number but in the ve every German-born child n-born child demands a do- lish-born child is not com- can child, however, imperial toys are in greatest dace have been manufactured in A ardest time in all the year, any other anniversary he at when Christmas comes rising. He cares nothing f Concerning love, the American has the most extravagant theories that have ever been conceived by the brain of man. First of all, he believes he can with impunity do without love, or at least that its impulses can be regulated, just as Niag- one young men in America only on Sunday afternoons, 9 o'clock, while others assert that they will fall in love and then their capital shall have a cent less. Conversation operate prudence. ly, to be like himself, that about the three years, and await without impatience he, according to his astro-o wed her. I travel in Europe with a of the absolute superiority world that a more or less with a Frenchman or withian, seems to him just as negress, and even if possi-man keeps many strings to waiting to choose at the face, the richest man, the not in the sense of profit-rica, but in the sense that cause the loss of too much g? A letter dropped into cement, presents, marriage The notion that there is less Christmas sentiment among children than there used to be is disproved by the fact that 20 per cent. more toys have been sold this year in the United States than were sold in 1905. is made it the toy-land of variety of toys manufactured must have a miniature doll dressed as some brave content without its Punch eratively demands novelty Will now buy any Childs, Misses or Ladies Cloak in the house. About 100 pieces of Ladies and Misses fancy Fur Neck pieces and Short and Long Scarfs to close out at $ \frac{1}{2} $ and less than half former regular prices. If you want a bargain call and look our Stock Over. SILVERSMITH & HILLER, 925 16th St. STATEMENT OF The Commonwealth Life Association (Consolidation of American Life and Commonwealth Life.) ASSETS. Cash in bank and guarantee Fund.....$15,100.24 Premiums in course of collection.....1,200.10 Agents' Debit Balance.. 340.25 Furniture, fixtures, safes, &c.....985.00 Bills Receivable—Premium Notes.....6,145.00 $22,770.59 LIABILITIES. Claims due and unpaid.. NONE Claims adjusted and not due..... NONE Probable claims about.. $125.00 Surplus as Regards Policy Holders.....$23,645.59 $23,770.59 Commonwealth Life Association IRA G. HARRIS, President. Home Offices Southeast Corner Sixteenth and California Sts. Denver, - - - Colorado Pennsylvania Spinners Side with Miss Goggin and Form Societies. The spinsters of Adams county, Pa. believe with Miss Catherine Goggin or Chicago that a woman should propose marriage to the man she loves. To promote this belief they have organized old-maid societies, and bachelors will be compelled to attend their meetings. At Gardner's Station the Old Maids union held a left-hand social recently at which all the old-maid societies of the county were represented. The social was held at the home of the Rev. Mr. Rhoades, and Miss Ida Rhoades was assisted in receiving by Miss Aggie Zeigler and Miss Rebecca Myers. The guests were required to receive the refreshments with the left hand, the right hand of each guest being tied behind her. These resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Whereas, The need of a good husband has long been felt as a pressing necessity, and repeated efforts have been made to induce the legislature of Pennsylvania to enact a law that would compel all bachelors throughout the commonwealth to marry; therefore, be it "Resolved, by the Old Maid society of Gardner's Station, That we do hereby most earnestly request (not our present representatives of Adams county to use their best efforts and cast their vote for the enactment of a law that will compel all bachelors to marry, but) all men between ages of 28 and 45, who are in hunt of good companions, address the secretary, Old Maid society, Gardner's Station, Pa. THEY ILLUSTRATED THE TEXT. New England Minister "Got Back" at Impolite Congregation. George Horace Lorimer, the editor of the Saturday Evening Post and the author of the "Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son," is the son himself of a clergyman, and Mr. Lorimer told the other day a clerical story that was, he said, his father's favorite. A country minister, according to this story, arose one Sunday morning to preach upon the text, "Thou art welghed and found wanting." It was a good text. It inspired the minister. He preached for an hour, and there was still much for him to say. But his congregation did not relish so long a sermon. The males, one by one, began to get out quietly, and the women, as they departed, regarded one another with scandalized eyes. But the minister droned on, coming back again and again to his text, "Thou are weighed and found wanting," paying no heed to his impolite flock. Finally, though, four men arose together and started on tiptoe down the aisle. This was a little more than the good minister could stand. "That's right, gentlemen," he shouted after the four, "that's right. As fast as you are weighed pass out." PREACHER WAS ALL RIGHT. Sertainly Proved That He Needed No "Edification." A prominent Texas lawyer whose almy days were spent on the Northwestern frontier gives this passage from a sermon delivered by Rev. ——, who once administered spiritual food to the cowboy of the plains; Rev. G. —— was no advocate of an educated ministry, and in one of his sermons delivered his views on that subject in this wise: "My friends, edification is no objection on itself, but it is a rank and smoking sin for servants of the Lord so waste years to get an edification when every day and every minit the devil needs roping and currying. As your minister and God's servant it is my duty to tell you the truth in its working jeans, and I find that to do that edification is not needed in my business. If you must have book edification, why pick it up while bashing and raking in the Lord's vineyard, but don't steal the Lord's time to get it. No, in the minister edification is not needed at all to do the Lord's work, or He will put the right words into your mouth at the right time, and then you can spit out blazing truth easier and faster than a hungry trout can swallow minnows. Why, my friends, time and again when I got warmed up in the pulpit I have used words that I never heard of before, and as soon as meetin' was over men, and some of them edificated, too, would walk up and ask me: 'Brother, where did you get them words?' The next morning as the lawyer who preserved and stored in his memory that section of Preacher G——'s sermon approached the court house he saw this notice signed by a stockman sticking to the door: "I have 200 steer yearlings which say Brother G—— can outprach my man west of the Brazos."—Welner, Texas, Mercury. SIMPLE CURE FOR NEURALGIA. If on Left Side of Face Put Right Hand in Hot Water and Vice Versa. A simple method of curing facial neuralgia is given in the Indian Review. If the neuralgia is in the right side of the face the left hand should be placed in a basin of water as hot as can be borne. Or if neuralgia is on the left side of the face then the right hand should be placed in the hot water. It is asserted that in this way relief may be obtained in less than five minutes. The explanation is that the two nerves which have the greatest number of tactile nerve endings are the fifth and the median nerve. As the fibres of these two nerves cross, any impulse conveyed to the left hand will affect the right side of the face, or if applied to the right hand will affect the left side of the face. This is on account of the crossing of the cords. CITY NEWS. Al Lee is learning to read Latin fluently. Mrs. Viola Thompson is numbered with the sick. Frank Payne has sold his property on Clark street. The Reese Bros. arrived in the city last week and will probably be here for a month. Col. A L. Rice and W. R. Herndon were pleasant callers at this office, Thursday afternoon. We have mailed notices to our delinquent subscribers and trust that they will respond without further notice. Among those of our citizens who have recectly purchased homes are, A. G. Campbell, Ed Banks and Dr. W. A. Jones. A popular minister of this city wants the music of "Cheer up Mary" set to church words. It should prove a rousing song. The funeral of Mrs. Emma Lavender, who died last Wednesday, will be held to-morrow from the Church of the Redeemer. Mrs. H. Troutman returned from Goldfield, Nevada last week. She will remain in the city several weeks before returning to the Northwest. The many friends of C. F. Wilson will regret to learn that he will leave in the near future for Kansas City, where he will make his permanent headquarters Rev, Father Turner who has been in the city for the past two weeks for the treatment of la gripp and hjccoughs has recovered sufficiently as to be able to return to his post of duty in La Junta Colo., for which place he left to-day. If you are lonesome or have the blues just take a stole up to Hose House No. 3, and listen to a few lines from Al Froman. He can make you feel like Mary after she has "cheered up." He can talk to a dozen at once with a different subject for each. Mrs. Sarah A. Byrd and children do hereby extend their heartfelt thanks to the Masons, Odd Fellows, ministers and friends of this and other cities who so kindly assisted them in their sad hour of bereavement over the loss by death of a husband and father, the late Rev. S. W. Byrd. Mrs. Thomas Vaughn of Springfield, Mo., who came out here several months ago for the benefit of her health was operated on at St. Anthony's hospital last Tuesday and died Thursday. The body was taken back to her old home Friday accompanied by the bereaved husband and Mrs. Edna Hall. C. F. Henderson formerly of Kansas City, is among the recent arrivals in the city and expects to make Denver his permanent location. Mr. Henderson is a young man possessed of every qualification of a gentleman. He is a writer of great repute, and as a conversationalist he is interesting and well versed on all subjects. A prominent white individual who belives Wm. Crummer the best colored checker player in Denver has a whole pasle of long green to place on him. Will has drawn the line on three individuals who trot in his class and so declares the fact to his white friend. Now who wants to choose him? The colored base ball fans have already began to talk of the possibility of one or more good teams for Denver for the approaching season. Why not? Denver has plenty of material for two teams. In fact there should be an Atheletic club or association organized to promote all kinds of gymnastic exercise. Work it up. Damon Lodge No. 5. Knights of Pythias had a great time in the way of a smoker after its meeting Friday night of last week. George A. Logan was toastmaster of the evening and he did not fail to have every member to respond in giving a toast. It was a jolly crowd which means everybody had a good time. The exercises at the Eureka Literary society last Tuesday evening were very interesting. Miss Clare Gilmore, a rising young pianist rendered an instrumental solo, Roy Handy gave two excellently delivered pieces, Willie Burns sang a solo; Mrs. Maud Savage and Miss Ger- Say! You!! Wait for the GRAND VALENTINE -BALL- GIVEN BY ELKS DRILL TEAM —AT— EAST TURNER HALL, Thursday, Feb. 14, '07. A Good Time For All. Admission 50 Cents. Harris' Full Orchestra. Waite's Moving Pictures are the Most Reliable Pictures ever shown in Denver. They are new and startling. Don't miss seeing them. Come early. They will be Exhibited. Capt. George Pash, Adj. W. H. Lee, Lieut. A. R. Butler, Lieut. C. Hyman, Lieut. A. Cooley, Lieut. S. C. Herndon, Lieut. I. M. Ledbetter, Thos. Waite. Don't forget the Date, Thursday, Feb. 7th. trude Nichols read excellent pieces. The critic Miss N. Howard was in a fine frame of mind and as usual she received many favorable comments on her just criticisms. We wish to thank the many friends who so kindly rendered assistance during the illness and death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Delphia Gibson who died January 21, 1907. NORA FAIRBANKS, LAURA FINLEY, ADA GIBSON, WM. GIBSON, CHAS. GIBSON. Local Notices. Hair cut 15 cents, 1847 Blake street Two unfurnished rooms for rent. Inquire at this office. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms for rent at 2344 Logan avenue. Keep off the date of Feb. 14th, Rice Lodge Drill Team will give a St. Valentine dance at East Turner hall. FANCY VESTS 1/2 OFF Follow the crowd next Thursday night to East Turner hall and witness the moving pictures after which enjoy yourself at dancing. See Ad. elsewhere in this paper. Admission 35 cents. Keep off of date of April 1st. Easter ball. The Elks. FIVE FRANCS PER MOURNER Frenchman Left Instructions That Each Should Be Paid. At Etampes, near Versailles, strange scenes were witnessed at a funeral recently, says a Paris correspondent to the London Telegraph. A rich bachelor of the locality recently died, leaving a large fortune to the parish and disinheriting his relatives. In his will there was inserted instructions to the effect that each person attending his funeral should receive 5 francs. This was bruited abroad and as the funeral was on the point of starting a crowd of the most indigent creatures of the whole district appeared in sight. It was arranged by the mayor and the municipal councilors that all these wretched people should receive some money and that as many of them as could be accommodated in cabs and vans should attend the funeral. The more able bodied mendicants, not quite satisfied with the decision, boldly took possession not only of the cabs and vans but also of six landaus intended for the mayor, the town councilors and the sub-prefect. The beggars were threatened and then implored to leave the landaus, but they only laughed at the mayor and his friends, who decided not to attend the funeral. This moved off followed only by the mendicants, who fairly enjoyed themselves in the vehicles which they had carried by assault. The mayor and the councilors are now debating as to the advisability of distributing the 5 franc pieces bequeathed by the rich bachelor only to the most deserving among the indigent inhabitants of Etampes. LOCATING AN ABSENT WITNESS Simple Explanation Put End to All Controversy. Years ago, when I was reporting in the Maine courts, there was a case tried in York county in which pitted against each other were two able lawyers, as unlike in appearance and methods as humanity can show. For the plaintiff appeared the Hon. Increase Kimball, father of the present head of the life-saving service, and the opposing counsel was the Hon. Ira T Drew, then of Alford, afterward of Boston. It was the second trial of the case, the first trial resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff, which the law court had set aside. The counsel for the defendant overstepped the ordinary procedure, and referred to the testimony at the former trial, and laid unusual stress upon the absence of one of the plaintiff's witnesses who had testified at the former trial, stating that but for that witness the plaintiff would not have gained a verdict. Again and again he would ask: "Why isn't that witness here?" The plaintiff's attorney, when his time came to reply, sprang to his feet and delivered his exordium something like this: "Why ain't he here?" has been asked again and again, and this matter may as well be settled here and now. Gentlemen of the jury, I will tell you and the court and the learned counsel why that witness ain't here. He's gone to a higher court than this; his mouth's forever shut."—Boston Herald. There is a plot for a summer novel in this advertisement which recently appeared in the Lucknow (India) Dally Telegraph. "Will any gentleman, educated, European, marry (immediately) a young lady to save her from a hateful marriage?" A man soldom cares if his hair does keep on getting gray—just so it keeps on. The man who marries a wealthy grass widow makes hay while the sun shines. $3 to $4 Small Size Trousers.....$1.95 $6 to $8 All Sizes Paragon Pants.....$5.00 $3 to $5 Stetson made Odd hats.....$1.95 $1.25 to $2 Odd size, Best Shirts.....95c 35c and 50c Broken Lines Neckwear.....25c $15 to $18.50 Uncommon Sack Suits.....$11.00 $20 to $25 America's Best Suits.....$14.00 Say! You!! Wait for the BRAND NTINE LL- S DRILL TEAM NER HALL, eb. 14, '07. Admission 50 Cents. Orchestra. COMBINATION NG PICTURES SPICES OF THE ANK K. OF P. ner Hall 7, '07. The Most Reliable Pictures ever and startling. Don't miss see- ll be Exhibited. SERIES of Christ, His teach- accles performed. tion of Christ. ese contest. 6—Gans and McG rounds. 7—The great desti: Francisco; the i ings and other in 6—Gans and McGovern fight by rounds. 7—The great destruction of San Francisco; the falling of buildings and other incidents. 8—Landing of passengers, automobiles, carriages and the great throng of people rushing to and froe at the Oakland Pier and other pictures too numerous to mention. ey's Orchestra. 35 Cents. at 10 O'clock. TREE ... Adj. W. H. Lee, Lieut. C. Hyman, Lieut. S. C. Herndon, Thos. Waite ODD UND'W'R 1/3 OFF LEFT EVIL LEGACY MISFORTUNE BANS TREE PLANTED BY BAD MAN. Superstitious Mexicans Believe Implicitly in Story of Misspent Life and Its Punishment—Tragic Deaths Have Been Many. The tree of Tula and the tree of Sad Night are known throughout the world but there is a tree in Mexico which has acquired a local reputation some-what shady. El Arbol Maldito is said to have been planted by a gentleman who had the misfortune to be swallowed up by Mother Earth on account of his crimes. He was known throughout the country as unhombre muy malo. He never went to mass, never confessed his sins, nor did he have the image of a saint in his house, wear a rosary around his neck or make the sign of the cross as a respectable man should. He never gave a beggar even a centavito, and when he met a padrecito on the street he did not deign to remove his hat. Now it was rumored, says Modern Mexico, that this gentleman was responsible for many murders and atrocious crimes of every description, but he was never confined in jail because it was known that he had a compact with the devil, so that whenever he invoked his Majesty he was rendered invisible to the human eye, or at least so small that he could easily escape. He was shunned by all, and he had neither friends nor relatives. But a peculiar thing about this man was that he loved the trees, the birds and all the animals. He planted a great many trees and fed a flock of birds every morning. It was many years ago that the event of his departure took place, but is still remembered by the ancient inhabitants of the neighborhood. Everybody on the Hacendita ranch had attended the religious services of the morning, and they were returning home when a terrific noise was heard. They rushed to the street where it came from, and there they saw how the earth had opened up under the feet of that hombre muy malo. He was enveloped by thick flames and smoke and quickly disappeared beneath the surface of the earth. This was considered a just punishment in view of the situation, and every one was exceedingly pleased. While the faithful had been attending the services of the church the cursed one had nothing else to do but place a burning cigarette between the lips of an image on a big crucifix, carried by an altar on the street. It was then that the convenient cavity opened up and he was engulfed by the earth. That very day all the trees which he had planted, except El Arbol Maldito, dried up and died—and so did the birds which he had fed from his own hand. An attempt was made to cut down the tree that did not dry up, but the foolish man who made the attempt dropped dead on stepping under the shadow of the foliage. As no one had the temerity to approach and remove it the man's body had to be left there to be eaten by the crows. Since that day many have met a tragic death under the tree. A pedestrain who went under it for shade on a summer day was bitten by a snake and died in tow hours. Three men on different occasions sought shelter from rain under its branches and were struck by lightning. A woman hanging some clothes to dry from the trunk of the tree was attacked by a goat that came from nobody knows where and was never seen again. Three years ago a little boy, riding a burro, led his animal to the tree. He was thrown off and kicked to death. The last victim of this fatal tree was a man by the name of Melquiades Arevalo, who ran under it for shelter during a rainstorm a year ago, and, like his predecessors, he was struck by lightning. The antipathy that the peons have for this tree is such that they refuse to work in the fields for half a mile around it. Some time ago Prospero Garcia, proprietor of the ranch where El Arbol Maldito grows, resolved to have it blown up with dynamite, but no doubt he has been unable to find a ban brave enough to venture near a tree which shows such symptoms of a haunted life. Chess as a Mind Drill. When the Romans placed over the door of the temple of Janus "Ex Oriente Lux et Ludum Scacchorum" (out of the East came light and the game of chess) they spoke of the two greatest behests that the storied East had ever made to the young and aggressive West—the light of religion and the greatest mental achievement of man since he came through Eden's frowning portals. In the middle ages when the monks and abbots watched from afar the brutal soldiery of Christendom swooping down like a pestilence on the sunny plains of the South they chanted "A furore Normanorum libera nos, O Dominie" (from the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O God) and returned to chess—all that was left a noble soul in a vain and turbulent world. Chess is the finest mental drillmaster the world has ever known. As a mind trainer it ranks above Greek and dialectics. But above all is the science of battle, it is war without bloodshed, it is strife on equal terms, which all the race loves and to which from the cradle to the grave all mortality is subject. Question of Rights Involved in Nuptial Relations. That Russian in a Pennsylvania town who killed his wife and justified it in this sentence, "I have a right to kill my wife; it's nobody's business but my own," carried to an extreme length a still surviving and by no means uncommon theory of the marriage relation. The Ten Commandments place in the same category "thy neighbor's wife" and "his ox," "his ass," "anything that is thy neighbor's." A good many well-meaning people look upon their own wife as in the same category with their domestic animals in the respect that she, too, is their personal property. Has not title passed in the marriage contract? 73 she not "my" wife? This idea of one's wife as his chattel is not inconsistent with the reality of an indulgent and affectionate nature in the man in the case. But it is inconsistent with the rights of the woman in the case—an adult, responsible human being and a free moral agent. It is the basis of the so-called "unwritten law"—the assumption by a man that a woman is not the proper or competent guardian of her own honor, and that he has a right, on proof or upon suspicion, to slay her and somebody else, as he would slay an ailing sheep of his flock and a sheep-killing dog. Not all men and women are yet able to realize that the so-called possessive pronoun "my" sometimes denotes relation instead of possession. The phrase "my country," for instance, means a different thing when uttered by an American citizen than when uttered by the Bourbon who held that he was the state. "My wife" is a phrase like "my friend." The pronoun implies obligation and privilege, not the "right" to kill—or even to nag—N. Y. Mail. A Dinner Dilemma. It was an awkward dilemma in which a minister found himself a day or so ago. He had accepted an invitation to dine with a member of his church, and rack his brain as he might he could not fix the identity of the prospective hostess. At last, after much mental exercise, he concluded that the most likely person was Mrs. A—, and at the proper hour he touched the bell button at her door, was admitted, and hung up his hat, not daring to ask if that was the house to which he had been invited. Dinner was announced in due time and was heartily enjoyed by the minister, who, after a couple of hours spent in conversation, departed for his home, chuckling over his success in so happily solving the dinner problem. The next afternoon the minister chanced to meet Mrs. A— and Mrs. B—, another of his parishioners, while taking a stroll. "What happened to you last evening?" inquired Mrs. B—. "We kept the dinner waiting for you an hour beyond the usual time, but you did not appear." Then and there the light broke in upon the minister. He had been invited by Mrs. B—, but had dined with Mrs. A. He made a complete confession, then an apology, and promised that hereafter he will make every dinner invitation a matter of record. The Sleeping Baby "Smile." It is interesting to see how old is the maternal delusion about the smiling of babies in their sleep. All children, asleep, are taken with a catching of the corners of the mouth, which is as unlike as possible to the real smile—the humorous and delightful little silent sketch of a laugh, appearing first at any age between a fortnight and a month. Yet human sentimentality has insisted on calling the sleeping grimace (due to flatulence) a smile, and even a smile caused by dreams of angels. And Saint Monica must have been as unintelligible on this point as any other matron, for Saint Augustine, reviewing in his "Confessions" the growth of his own mind, mentions that he had been told of the coming of infantine smiles, "having appeared previously to sleep." Thackeray echoes St. Molina, for he shows us Amelia sitting by her child, "who was smiling in his sleep." No baby ever smiled in his sleep yet, or is ever likely to do so. Careful! Bookkeeping. "You may talk about prompt and careful bookkeeping all you want to" said a Boston man to the writer, "but a case came under my observation a Sunday or two ago which I think is without a parallel. I was attending service at the Mount Vernon church on Beacon street. "When the contribution box was passed the worshiper sitting next to me put in a coin, and immediately took from his pockets a notebook and a pencil and made a memorandum of the amount, which I could not help seeing without turning my head around, as it was done right under my eyes. His cash account will foot up all right." Ancient Comic Dramatist A highly interesting discovery is announced from Egypt. M. Lefevre, one of the inspectors in the service of the Egyptian department of antiquities, has been fortunate enough to disinter a large number of leaves of a papyrus codex of Menader, containing upwards of 1,200 lines. The publication of this most welcome discovery should enable modern scholars for the first time to form an independent judgment on the style and genius of the famous comic dramatist. MAYOR OF SUNBURY Says Pe-ru-na Is a Good Medicine. Hon. C. C. Brooks, Mayor of Sunbury, Ohio; also Attorney for Farmers' Bank and Sunbury Building and Loan Co., writes: "I have the utmost confidence in the virtue of Peruna. It is a great medicine. I have used it and I have known many of my friends who have obtained beneficial results from its use. I cannot praise Peruna too highly." HON. C. O. BROOKS. THERE are a host of petty alliments which are the direct result of the weather. This is more true of the excessive heat of summer and the intense cold of winter, but is partly true of all seasons of the year. Whether it be a cold or a cough, catarrh of the head or bowl complaint, whether the liver be affected or the kidneys, the cause is very liable to be the same. The weather slightly deranges the mucous membranes of the organs and the result is some functional disease. Peruna has become a standby in thousands of homes for minor ailments of this sort. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. Expert Ocean Mail Sorters. Expert Ocean Mail Sorters. One of the most interesting performances of modern times is the handling of the mails in great ocean steamships. Some of the men become so expert at sorting that they work almost automatically, many of them being able to put their finger on any particular town marked on the rack blindfolded. On an ordinary western trip they carry on an average about 250,000 letters and some 10,000 registered packets. The latter have all to be written up in detail in their books during the voyage, and this takes more time than the actual sorting. The officials do not always manage to finish the work by the time they reach port, and when such is the case they accompany what is left to the general post office and complete the job there. Monarch Uses the Press. In the course of the recent sojourn of King George of Greece, in Paris, a long article was published in a newspaper in that city dealing with the conditions in the island of Crete. The article bore the signature of one of the editors, but it has been learned since that the signature was fictitious and that its true author was the king. King George is not the first monarch to avail himself of an opportunity to publish his views on a pending question of the day. Japs Get British Contract. A Japanese shoe manufacturing concern has secured a contract for shoes for the British army in India. It is one of the largest shoe contracts ever placed. HEALTH AND SPIRITS Are Restored by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in Cases of Debility and Despondency. General debility is caused by mental or physical overwork with imperfect assimilation of nourishment, or by some acute disease from which the vital forces have been prostrated and the entire organism weakened so as not to easily rally. To restore health it is necessary that the blood should be purified and made new. The case of Mrs. E. M. Spears, of 92 Mt. Pleasant street, Athol, Mass., is a common one and is given here in order that others may be benefited by her experience. She says: "I had been sick for a year from indigestion and general debility brought on by work and worry. I had tried many remedies, but found no relief. I suffered from swelling of the limbs, loss of appetite and dizzy spells, which became so severe towards night, that I sometimes fainted away. I was billed and my hands and arms would go to sleep for an hour or two at a time. I was so sleepy all the time that I could hardly keep awake. I had frequent cramps in my limbs and severe pains at the base of my head and in my back. My blood was impoverished. I was afraid to give up and go to bed fearing that I would never get well. "About this time Dr. Williams' Pink Pills were recommended to me by a friend in South Vernon, Vt. I felt better soon after beginning the treatment and continued until I was entirely cured. I consider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a grand medicine for weak women." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or sent, postpaid, on receipt of price 50 cents per box, six boxes $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenected, N. Y. OWNED BY STATE R-PORT ON COLORADO STATE IN STITUTIONS. REQUIRED IMPROVEMENTS Nearly All Need New Buildings, Which the Committee Recommends—Report Highly Compliments the Various Boards of Trustees. Denver.—It is apparent that the present Legislature will not slight any of the state institutions in dealing with their various needs. The Senate committee, consisting of Senators Barela, Anfenger, Lewis, Taylor and Oayton, appointed by the last Assembly to investigate the needs of all state institutions, made a report Monday covering fully the situation. Both majority and minority members of the body are apparently harmonized on the subject and the institutions will undoubtedly be well taken care of. Following are some of the principal statements of the report, which is lengthy and goes into painstaking details: "The State Normal School at Greeley needs sufficient appropriation for the payment of the present deficiency of said institution and a sufficient appropriation to enable the board of trustees to finish the new library building now in course of construction. The large attendance of the institution and the estimated growth in the future makes it necessary for said institution to have a new assembly hall as soon as possible. "The State Agricultural College at Fort Collins is in urgent need of new barns and corrals for experimental purposes concerning live stock, and also an additional tract of ground in the vicinity of the college for farm experimental purposes. "The State University at Boulder is in need of many new buildings, the cost of which would be sufficient to consume all available funds in the state treasury, and which we know is impossible to grant to any one state institution. The most urgent need seems to be a building for the anatomy class of the medical department. Also a building for the law department of the university. "Your committee, after an investigation of the matter, are of the opinion that it would be of great benefit to the university and to the state to have the branch of the medical department located in the city of Denver, as outlined in Senate Bill No. 67. "The State School of Mines at Golden is in need of an appropriation to pay the present deficiency, also an appropriation for a building for a gymnasium. "Your committee desires to compliment the various boards of trustees in control of the educational institutions or the state for the splendid manner in which said institutions appear to be conducted. The committee, however, in its investigation could not help but note the duplication of various departments and courses of study in said educational institutions. "Unless some better plan could be devised, we favor the passage of Senate Bill No. 70, by Senator Sapp, providing for the appointment of a commissioner or commissioners to outline the courses of study for the various institutions in conjunction with the officers of said educational institutions. "The industrial school for girls near Morrison, appears to have been neglected by the state, and this institution has many needs the appropriations for which should be made if any good work is to be expected from this institution. Your committee firmly believes that an industrial school for girls is a necessity and should be maintained as a separate institution. The troubles of recent years in this institution and the wholesale resignation of members of the board of control have been caused by the fact that the members of the board of control of said institution were absolutely without funds or credit or any other means to enable them to carry on the work expected. "The institution is now dependent upon the various counties of the state to may a per capita amount for inmates sent to said institution from the various counties. This is wholly inadequate for the maintenance of said institution, and we earnestly recommend that proper legislation be enacted to place this institution on the same basis of financial support as the industrial school for boys and other reformatory institutions of the state. "The present needs of the institution require an appropriation for the deficiency amounting to about $9,000 and also an appropriation for the erection of an isolated discipline building. Also an appropriation for general repairs of the present buildings and improvement of the grounds with sidewalks, etc. "The State Home for Neglected and Dependent Children is greatly in need of additional buildings for the proper care and sheltering of the children. At the present time the children are housed in buildings which are adequate to properly shelter not more than one-third of the present number now forced to occupy them. The condition is almost pitiful, and your committee sincerely requests and urges that an appropriation be made for the erection of three additional cottages and the furnishings therefor, so that the children may be cared for properly and without danger to their health and morals. "The State Institute for Deaf and Blind Children at Colorado Springs appears to need less than any of the other state institutions. Appropriation should be made for a new laundry and bakery, and also to install a plant for the electric lighting of said institution "The State Insane Asylum at Pueblo is crowded to its capacity. We are informed that nearly 200 patients who have been committed to the asylum are in the various hospitals throughout the state awaiting admission into the asylum. The question of the care of the insane is a perplexing one, and as there appears to be no place or space for the erection of additional buildings on the present site, your committee recommends leriation and ap- propriation for the purpose of purchasing land in some portion of the state where proper buildings could be erected, and the curable patients taken from the present asylum where they might be kept away from the violent and incurable patients. The present buildings are in need of general improvements, especially painting and kalsomining, and also improvements to the heating plant. "The State Penitentiary at Canon City needs appropriations for the construction of a hospital and insane ward. Also for a new bakery oven, cold storage and ice plant, and general improvements and repairs. "The State Reformatory at Buena Vista is in need of appropriations for the completion of the new building now in course of construction. Also for the construction of sheds and corrals for cattle and poultry. "The State Industrial School for Boys at Golden appears to be in splendid condition, and is doing excellent work. Like the other institutions, however, it is overcrowded and its greatest needs at present are at least two additional cottages for living purposes and a new school building, and an addition to the standpipe is also a great necessity. An appropriation should also be made for a cylinder press for the printing department. "The State Home for Old Soldiers and Sailors at Monte Vista needs little beyond the appropriation for general maintenance, and appropriations should be made for a new laundry, and for general improvements and repairs to the present buildings and grounds." NEWSPAPER MEN. Annual Meeting of the Colorado State Editorial Association. Denver.—The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Colorado State Editorial Association was held in this city Monday, and was a purely business gathering. There was a good attendance from nearly every portion of the state. At night those members who remained in the city were guests at an informal reception at the rooms of the Denyer Press Club. Resolutions were adopted expressing the regret of the association on account of the death of Gen. George West, the honored historian of the organization and pioneer editor of the Golden Transcript; expressing approval of the bill pending in Congress emanding the railroad bill so that advertising contracts may be made payable in advertising; protesting against the passage by the Colorado General Assembly of House bill No. 52, relating to libel; protesting against an advance in postage on second-class matter; objecting to the restriction of small publications to the sending of not more than ten per cent. of their paid circulation in sample copies, as recommended by the joint congressional committee; opposing the proposal by the same committee to restrict advertisements to fifty per cent. of the space; supporting House bill No. 150, in the Colorado Legislature, providing for the exclusion from newspapers of certain objectionable advertising; expressing a willingness to pay for all transportation used in cash or its equivalent, and promising support to the enactment of a strict primary election law. The following-named officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Charles E. Adams, Montrose Press. First vice president, Guy, U. Hardy, Canon City Record. Second vice president, D. W. Barkley, Rocky Ford Enterprise. Secretary-treasurer, J. T. Lawless, Lamar Sparks (re-elected). Historian, George M. Kimball, Golden Transcript. National committeeman, H J. Holmes, Glenwood Springs Avalanche. Legislative committee, Guy U. Hardy, George B. Lang, H. J. Holmes, W. S. Tarbell, J. W. Kelley. Executive committee, O. H. Wangell, Frank A. Moore, J. M. Minor. Delegates to the National Editorial Association convention to be held at Jamestown, Virginia, next June; C. E. Adams, Montrose Press; J. M. Minor, Holly Chieftain; G. E. Hosmer, Fort Morgan Herald; T. T. Wilson, Greeley Sun; O. H. Wangell, Boulder Herald; J. J. Barkhausen, Denver Democrat; E. O. Blair, Trinidad Advertiser; A. S. Rudd, Louisville World; S. S. Case, Castle Rock Journal; C. L. Will, Wray Rattler; J. W. Kelley, Denver; W. S. Taxbell, Colorado Springs Mining Investor; Frank A. Moore, Florence Ex Parte; Roy Ray, Windsor Poudre Valley; D. W. Barkley, Rocky Ford Enterprise; Miss Elsle Harris, Maniton Journal; C. L. Stanley, Erie News; Mrs. Catherine B. Bell, Canon City Cannon. West Virginia Mine Horror. Charleston, W. Va.—With a detention heard for miles, and hurling debris hundreds of feet in the air, dust in the Stuart mine near Fayetteville exploded Tuesday afternoon, bringing a terrible death to eighty or more men who were at work 600 feet below the surface. There is no chance that any will be taken out alive, for it is thought that the terrific force of the explosion snuffed out their lives instantly. The disaster is perhaps the worst in the number of killed, in the history of this state. Most of the men were Americans and many of them had families. Pension Bill Favored. Washington.—By unanimous vote of the House committees on pensions and invalid pensions, acting as one committee, the McCumber service pension bill was favorably reported to the House Tuesday. The bill provides that all veterans of the Mexican War or the War of 1861 who are sixty-two years years of age, may have a pension of $12 a month. Veterans seventy years of age are to have $15 a month, and $20 a month is to be granted veterans over seventy-five years of age. German Coal Mine Explosion. Saarbrueck, Rhenish Prussia.—A fire damp explosion occurred Monday morning in the Reden coal mine at St. Joann-on-Saar, opposite Saarbrueck, and caused the loss of from 150 to 200 lives. The mine is owned by the Prussian government. HITS HITCHCOCK SECRETARY OF .THE INTERIOR SHARPLY CRITICISED. HOMESEEKERS ILL TREATED Senator Carter of Montana Defends Western Land Seekers—Calls Secretary's Orders Harsh and Oppressive. Washington.—Severe criticism of Secretary Hitchcock was made in the Senate Wednesday by Senator Carter of Montana. The criticism was based on the order of the secretary of last December, which prohibits the issuance of a patent to land under any of the land laws until after examination on the ground by a special agent. Senator Carter some time ago presented a resolution which denies the right of any executive officer to prevent the granting of a patent when the law under which it is claimed has been carried out. Mr. Carter began by asserting that the order referred to expressed the final estimate of the secretary as to the truth and veracity, the honor and integrity and the good faith of all setters on the public domain of the United States. "It likewise arraigns," he added, "all other persons seeking title to public land under existing laws. "The order is without precedent in the history of the government. It is without parallel in the history of any government save as applied to provinces, classes or individuals suspected of treasonable designs. It is the culmination of a policy unwarranted in fact and founded only on baseless suspicion. The public record demonstrated that the order is not needless, but harsh, cruel and oppressive." said Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter continued: "For the last six years sensational reports of evil doings in the public lands stated have been emanating from the Interior Department from day to day, so sweeping in their scope as to create the impression in other sections that the entire western population is and has been engaged in a veritable saturnalia of criminal conspiracy, fraud and perjury, over the whole broad surface of the public domain. Since 1901 insidious interviews and boisterous proclamations have passed from the Interior Department to the public press, reflecting on all those seeking title to public lands. The words 'grafters,' 'land grabbers,' 'conspirators,' 'looters of the public domain,' and like terms have become a part of the vernacular of the secretary's office in referring to public land entrymen of all kinds. The routine work of the land service has been pillaged in quest of items for publication reflecting on individuals and communities. The slightest irregularity savoring of scandal or possible sensation has been diligently exploited before, during and after investigation. Everyone was indicted, and no acquittals were ever recorded in these scandalous reports. The exploitation of evil reports has been a conspicuous feature of the present secretary's administration. "If frauds were being perpetrated in the acquisition of public lands, the settlers of every locality in the West desired them stopped and the perpetrators punished. As to their several neighborhoods, residents generally kneed the charges were wrong, whereas all the people outside of the public land states believed the charges were well founded, and, so believing, applauded the secretary as engaged in a righteous crusade against crime. "It remains to be shown by records that the secretary has been less efficient during his term in challenging erroneous, improper or fraudulent land entries than were his four immediate predecessors. Even the abuses under the so-called timber and stone law, which the secretary might have stopped any day, are shown by the records to have been shamefully exaggerated. "I realize that even the President of the United States has been deceived and alarmed by the secretary's oft repeated and uncontradicted reports." CLIFF DWELLER RELICS. Large Collection Secured by Colorado Agricultural College. Fort Collins-From the time of its organization, professors and friends of the Agricultural college have been collecting for it specimens of interest in anthropology, geology and allied sciences. Recently this collection has been given a permanent home in the entire ground floor of the building devoted to zoology and entomology. Since that time the exhibits have been much increased. Prof. C. P. Gillett, who is at the head of the museum, has just received a collection of cliff-dweller relies from Montezuma county which was purchased for the college by the State Board of Agriculture at a cost of $240 and valued by individual prices is estimated to be worth twice its cost. The collection consists of 125 pieces, comprising a dozen skulls in various states of preservation, cups, large and small bowls, jars, and other curious shapes and forms, the uses of which cannot be told, but all well-preserved and wonderful evidence of the skill and ingenuity of the early inhabitants of Colorado. The collection was found and dug by A. P. and George Edmondson, who formerly lived near the cliff-dweller ruins in southwestern Montezuma county. Chlorination Mill Burned. Victor.—The chlorination mill of the Economic Gold Extraction Company, capacity 325 tons daily, with the office and warehouse buildings, was totally destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. It cost $596,000 originally and has been added to from time to time. The direct cause of the fire, which originated in the barrel house, has not been determined, but it is believed to have been incendiar. The big building was first discovered on fire about 6 o'clock this morning by a miner at Elkton, the watchman being at breakfast. Assistance was sent from this city, but in the absence of water, no effective work could be done to stop the fire. "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. 338 Fifteenth Street and Gent's Clothing Cleaned and 838 Fifteenth Street. Ladies' and Gent's Clothing Cleaned and Repaired. C. HILSMAN, Lawrence street to be pleased to all friends, ing for Sale Cheap. removed from his old stand at 1907 Lawrence St. 1914 Arapahoe street, where he will be pleased see all of his old Customers and friends. One of New and Misfit Clothing for S. 5370. Res. Phone L. S. MOORE, Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Pabst Milwaukee Beer×on Draught. St. Denver D NIGHT PHONE COTTRELL'S PHARMA DR. W. J. COTTRELL, Physician and Surgeon, Proprietor. ED GOODS—WHISKEY, WINES, BEER, ETC., A SPECIAL drugs, hot an cold drinks, toilet articles drugs—Prescriptions carefully compounded by H. Prescription Pharmist. Prompt delivery to any part of o. ANTEY, Pharmist. Asst. D. J. Co. Oe St. Denver NO. N. M. CA 'Phone Main 4885. C. & C. LIQUOR CO. 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Henry Augustus Buchtel, who stands forth, from his profession of preacher and educator, as well as from his place as chief executive of the state, as the embodiment of the newer, greater and well-satisfied Colorado, celebrated this era of "Smile and Push" with a "good fellowship dinner" at the Savoy hotel Thursday night, given by him to the Legislature, the heads of departments and state institutions, and the representatives of the varied interests of this commonwealth. It was all that the embracing term implied. Parties and partisanship were forgotten, and, as in the good old days of Rome, all were for the state. Mine host, the governor, radiated good fellowship and sunshine; the banquet hall resounded for four hours with laughter and merriment. He was the soul of the entertainment, and it was a brilliant one in many ways. Brief speeches, bubbling with fun, were made. The cares of the day were forgotten, and when it ended with the singing of "America," all felt that they had taken part in a notable feast that will prove of inestimable value to the state. The program and menu were compiled largely by the governor himself, and he used phonetic spelling quite freely. It was quite elaborate, comprising the names of all the members of the House and Senate, judges of the Supreme Court, nearly every official and many employees of the state government, with a long list of names of the prominent citizens of the state beginning with Alva Adams, headed "Available list from which all appointments must be made," the inference being that appointments for toasts and not political situations were meant. Judge Robert W. Steele of the Supreme Court, David M. Campbell, senator from Pueblo; O. E. Collins, representative from El Paso county; W. W. Booth, senator from Denver county, and B. J. O'Connell, representative from Clear Creek county, were the principal speakers of the evening. Walter Juan Davis, Father William O'Ryan and others made brief extemporaneous speeches. All of the talks were without malice aforethought and furnished diversion over the cigars and coffee. That the governor meant the dinner to be the dawn of an era of good fellowship throughout the whole state during his administration was given solidity by the introductory to the menu which contained his advisory staff of leading citizens of the state, who are to serve not only as advisers, but as a military staff in case of need. These gentlemen are never to appear in uniform, though the title of each one is colonel and aide-de-camp. The governor then quotes Shakespeare to this effect: "Let our Alliance be combined, Our best friends made, and our best means stretched out; And let us presently go sit in council, How covert matters may be best disclosed. closed, And open perils surest answered." The staff members are Franklin E. Avery, Fort Collins; James H. Baker, Boulder; Frank G. Bloom, Trinidad; William H. Buchtel, Denver; Walter S. Cheesman, Denver; Richard W. Corwin, Pueblo; William G. Evans, Denver; Edward B. Field, Denver; John E. Godding, Rocky Ford; James B. Grant, Denver; Frank J. Hearne, Denver; Alfred R. King, Delta; William Lennox, Colorado Springs; Jesse F. McDonald, Leadville; David H. Moffat, Denver; John K. Mullen, Denver; Alexis D. Parker, Denver; James H. Peabody, Canon City; Albert E. Reynolds, Denver; Charles H. Schlaacks, Denver; Edgar E. Shumway, Denver; William F. Slocum, Colorado Springs; John B. Stephen, Colorado City; William W. Aravell, Victor; John M. Waldron, Denver; Bulkeley Wells, Telluride. Torn Trousers Furnish Clue. Denver—A Salida dismatch says: George Burton is under arrest on suspicion of having burglarized the store of the Noble Mercantile Company at Texas creek last Monday. Mr. Noble arrived to-day with a small piece of goods found adhering to a nail on a window through which the burglar made his hasty exit. The cloth seems to be a piece of the prisoner's trousers, exactly fits a rent therein and also matches the goods. After helping himself to what he wanted the burglar attempted to fire the building, but the blaze was discovered and extinguished. Chief Herzinger believes that Burton is one of the men who has been passing Confederate $10 bills in various parts of the state, and is also wanted in Pueblo. Burton was taken to Canon City as Texas creek is in Fremont county. Colorado's Jubilee. Denver.—At a representative meeting of business and commercial men held Thursday in the rooms of the Traffic club it was decided that Denver shall celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the admittance of Colorado into the Union in 1908. While it had been the desire to have the celebration either a state or an inter-state affair, this idea was given up on account of lack of time. The celebration will be in the nature of a festival and elaborate arrangements will be made for entertainments of varied nature, and several thousand dollars will be raised to carry on the celebration. Guggenheim at Washington. Washington.—Senator Guggenheim reached here Thursday evening and will remain several days, going hence to Florida for a short visit. Numerous newspaper reporters, who had heard of Senator Guggenheim's expected arrival, were at his hotel to meet him, but he declined to be interviewed. EFFECTIVE REMEDY SIMPLE FORMULA WILL BREAK A COLD OVER NIGHT. Prescribed by Well-Known Specialist in the Cure of Consumption—Can Be Prepared by Anyone. Here is a simple and effective remedy for coughs and colds.: Mix a half ounce of the Virgin Oll of Pine (Pure) with two ounces of glycerine and a half pint of good whisky. Shake well and take in teaspoon doses every four hours. This formula is said to be very effective, being the prescription of an eminent authority. It will break up a cold in 24 hours, and cure any cough that is curable. The ingredients for this prescription can be found at any good drug store, but care should be taken that only the pure Virgin Oll of Pine should be used. This is put up only in half-ounce vials for dispensing, securely sealed in a round wooden case with engraved wrapper, having the name—Virgin Oll of Pine (Pure), prepared only by Leach Cherical Co., Cincinnati, O.—plainly printed thereon. The cheaper oils and those sold in bulk only create nausea and have no effect whatever upon the bronchial tubes. PETS FOR LITTLE PARISIANS: All Kinds of Animals as Playmates for the Children. Children play a great role in French society, as all those who have read Gyp's inimitable "Pit Bob" will readily admit, and now the small Parisienne insists on receiving on her fete day and at the New Year a live pet, instead of a costly doll or a mechanical toy. The demand has been creating a supply, and a lively trade is being done, not only in puppies and kittens, in tiny monkeys and in lambs, but also in tigers and leopards. Up to a certain age, these small felines are quite harmless, and, of course, as soon as they begin, so to speak, to show their teeth and sharpen their claws, they are sent off to one of the two magnificent "Zoos" with which the Gay City is provided. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually necessary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wearing quality of the goods. This trouble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its greater strength than other makes. Marriage at a Discount. All the conditions of modern life are such as to discourage men and women from marrying, and if they do so to make them discontented. Divorce has rushed from the extreme of being considered a disgrace which never should be mentioned to that of being regarded as a standard joke in the comic papers, a fit subject to be worked up In stage comedy and hilariously received by large audiences.—N. Y. Independent. Changes in Dismal Swamp. Investigations of the scientists at Washington have recently developed the fact that at present the area of the Dismal swamp is slowly sinking, and Lake Drummond, in its center, is growing larger. Similar changes have occurred in the past, periods of elevation and subsidence gradually succeeding one another. The average elevation above sea level is so slight that natural drainage is insufficient to remove the rainfall. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Sweep's Curious Find. An Atherington (Eng.) sweep, named Joshua Folland, was sweeping the chimney of a house which had been unoccupied for some little time at High Beckington, when, to his great surprise, he swept down seven full-grown, live wild rabbits, which he bagged. 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The area of the world devoted to apple raising in the northern hemisphere extends from Scandinavia on the north to the mountain regions of North Carolina and Tennessee on the south. In the southern hemisphere apples are raised in New Zealand and Tasmania, but little success has been obtained in Australia, Africa or South America. North America is the great apple-producing region of the world and New York leads all the other states in the quantity grown, although there are many choice varieties produced in other states, particularly Missouri, Oregon and Washington. The soil and climate conditions must combine to produce the finest fruit. The annual aggregate product of the world is estimated at 100,000,000 barrels, but not all of this is gathered, for in seasons when the production is plentiful large quantities are fed to cattle or allowed to rot on the ground, and every season millions of bushels of the less choice varieties and the poorer fruit from the best trees are turned into cider, which is used as a beverage and for making vinegar and apple brandy. TWO SISTERS HAD ECZEMA. Cuticura Cured Scalp Troubles of Two Illinois Girls—Another Sister Took Cuticura Pills. "I must give much praise to all the Cuticura Remedies. I used but one cake of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment, as that was all that was required to cure my disease. I was very much troubled with eczema of the head, and a friend of mine told me to use the Cuticura Remedies, which I did, and am glad to say that they cured my eczema entirely. Since then we have always kept the soap on hand at all times. My sister was also cured of eczema of the head by using the Cuticura Remedies. Another sister has used Cuticura Resolvent and Pills and thinks they are a splendid tonic. I cannot say exactly how long I suffered, but I think about six months. Miss Edith Hammer, R. F. D. No. 6, Morrison, Ill., Oct. 3, 1906." Real Moroccans. Moor and Morocco are words unknown to the people of that troubled land. These people know themselves as Arabs and descendants of those valiant upholders of the prophet's green standard who swept like a flood across North Africa at the time of the hegira. The Morocco of the present day they found possessed by a sturdy race who claimed descent from the people who were cast out of Canaan by Joshua, the son of Nun. Their country, so far as its plains were concerned, was taken from them by the Arabs, and their fighting strength was made to serve the Arab cause in the conquest of Spain. They themselves gradually took to the mountains, to the great Atlas. Here they have remained ever since, speaking their own language, maintaining their own customs and racial attributes, and obstinately refusing to be absorbed by the Arab dwellers on the plains. These people are the Berbers; their tongue is called Shilhah. Literature they have none, in the ordinary sense of the word. But they have a rich store of oral tradition, myth, legend and folklore. Clover & Grass Seeds. Everybody loves lots and lots of Clover Grasses for hogs, cows, sheep and swine. We are known as the largest growers of Grasses, Clovers, Oats, Barley, Corn, Potatoes and Farm Seeds in America. Operate over 5,000 acres. FREE Our mammoth 148-page catalog is mailed free to all intending buyers; or send 80 IN STAMPS and receive sample of "perfect balance ration grass seed," together with Fodder Plants, Clover, etc., etc., and big Plant and Seed Catalog free. John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box W, La Crosse, Wis. Sweet Amenities. "I hope you won't be disappointed, dear, for I know everybody thought George was paying attention to you. But as a matter of fact, he asked me last night to marry him." "He has then carried out his threat, poor fellow!" "What threat?" "He declared to me the last time I refused him that he would take some desperate step." With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt-walst just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the iron. Hath any wronged thee? Be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work's begun; forgive it, and 'tis finished. He is below himself that is not above an injury.—Quarles. Garfield Tea (Guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drug Law) regulates a sluggish liver, overcomes constipation, purifies the blood and eradicates disease. It is made of Herbs. If all a man's real wants are gratified he has no excuse for being unhappy. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMOQINE Tablets. Drugs give refund money if I fail to cure. E. W. GEOVE'S signature is on each box. B. Men who make the most money get others to make it for them. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is an honest, tried and true remedy of unquestionable therapeutic value. During its record of more than thirty years, its long cures of those serious ills peculiar to women, entitles L. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to the words and confidence of every fair minded woman. person and every thinking woman. When women are troubled with irregular or painful functions, weakness, displacements, ulceration or inflammation, backache, flatulency, general debility, indigestion or nervous prostration, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 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Revolt Against Trading Stamps "No more trading stamps," is the slogan of a campaign which English grocerymen are carrying on. One of them, whose shop is in East London, says: "There is not a small grocery in England who earns 15 per cent on his capital. Ten per cent is average profit and the cost of trading stamps leaves him only about $6\frac{1}{4}$ per cent. The extraordinary popularity of fine white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great importance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffener makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. Health of New York City. Statistics of the board of health show that the general death rate in New York city is decreasing in all diseases excepting the four groups of acute respiratory troubles, cancer, diseases of the heart and diseases of the kidneys. Now an Elephanf Farm The latest addition to the list of "freak farms" is an elephant farm, which, it is claimed, will be established near Pasadena, Cal. The plans are for maintaining a herd of 300 animals. Defiance Starch is the latest invention in that line and an improvement on all other makes; it is more economical, does better work, takes less time. Get it from any grocer. It takes a hair tonic manufacturer to pull the wool over the eyes of a bald-headed man. Fate is a female who gives men the laugh for believing her. NATURE PROVIDES FOR SICK WOMEN a more potent remedy in the roots and herbs of the field than was ever produced from drugs. In the good old-fashioned days of our grandmothers few drugs were used in medicines and Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., in her study of roots and herbs and their power over disease discovered and gave to the women of the world a remedy for their peculiar ill more potent and efficacious than any combination of drugs. It can be drawn from the pocket and fired with great rapidity because the hammer is sunk in the frame and CANNOT CATCH ON THE CLOTH- it is not accidentally discharged, yet can be readily cooked or deliberately not discharged, but can be carefully not cooked or revolvers of other shells. Makes are automatically ejected — making it easy to reload. Made of the best materials, finely finished, and with proper care will 'last a lifetime. The price is right, too. It costs you $5.00. HARRINGTON & RICHARDSON ARMS CO., 401 Park Ave, Worcester, Mass. Makers of the celebrated H & R Single Guns More Converts Every Year Every day in every year that comes, more housewives are giving up their exhorbitant priced Baking Powders and turning to K C, the honest and reliable, which has stood so well the test of years. They are find- ing out that K C BAKING POWDER costs one-third the price of powder anywhere near K C quality, and makes better, purer, more healthful baking. 25 ounces for 25c. JAQUES MFG. CO. Chicago, Ill. Every noble activity makes room for itself.—Emerson. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, are fast to light and washing and color more goods than others. 10c per package. It's just as easy to be pleasant as otherwise—and it pays better. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the grims, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. The man who is on pleasure bent is apt to find himself broke in due time. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Material for Citizens. On an average 298 alien children under 14 years old arrive in New York city each day. Defiance Starch—Never sticks to the iron—no blotches—no blisters, makes ironing easy and does not injure the goods. Record of Forty Years. Rev. Edward Everett Hale has been attending White House receptions since 1862. On the latest occasion he presented one of his grandchildren. . Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the disease portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. The ear is a mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases but an inflamed condition of the mucous surface, but an inflamed condition of the mucous surface. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarcture. Send for circuitrats, free of charge. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, Tallahassee. Take Hall's Family, Fills for constation To Explore Greenland Coast. The duke of Orleans has announced to his friends at Copenhagen that he intends to start a new expedition next spring in the ship Belgica to penetrate as far as possible along the northeast coast of Greenland. The purpose is to join the Danish expedition, under Mylius Erichsen, which left last June to explore the same coast. More Every KC 25 OUNCES FOR 25 BAKING POWDER MANUFACTURED INLY BY JAQUES MANFO CO. CHICAGO, NEW YORK, KANSAS, CITY EVERY CAN GUARANTEE Even that co are giv priced turning reliable the test ing out KC costs o powder quality, and makes healthful baking. JAQUES Chic LYDIA E. PINKHAM Vegetable Compound of unquestionable therapeutic value. thirty years, its long list of actual women, entitles Lydia E. Pinkham's and confidence of every fair minded with irregular or painful functions, ion or inflammation, backache, position or nervous prostration, they and true remedy, Lydia E. Pink- try has such a record of cures of residing in every part of the United the wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pink- that it has done for them. men to write her for advice. She has never seen her been advising Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dizziness from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS. Genuino Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature Great Wood REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. FERRY'S SEEDS have stood the test for over 50 years, and are still in the lead. Their absolute certainty of growth, their uncommonly large yields of delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers, make them the most reliable and the most popular every- where. Sold by all dealers. 1907 Seed Annual free on request. D. M. FERRY & CO. Detroit, Mich. READERS of this paper de- fends the thing advertised in its columns should insist upon having its substitutes or imitations. LIVE STOCK AND MISCELLANEOUS ELECTROTYPES In great variety for sale at the lowest prices by A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO., 12 W. Adams St., Chicago PATENTS Watson E. Coleman, Patent Attorney, Washington, D. C. Advise free. Terms low. Highest res. -W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 5, 1907. Converts my Year every day in every year times, more housewives giving up their exhorbitant Baking Powders and to K C, the honest and which has stood so well of years. They are find- that BAKING POWDER one-third the price of anywhere near K C better, purer, more 25 ounces for 25c. MFG. CO. ago, III. SECRET suffering is endured by many modest women, who object to talking about all their symptoms with a doctor. To such women, a pure medicine, with specific power over woman's diseases, like WINE OF CARDUI is very welcome. By means of this wonderfully successful medicine, over a million suffering women have been benefited during the past 50 years. It relieves periodical pains, regulates irregular functions, and cures the diseases peculiar to women. Try it. At all Druggists C 23 WRITE for Free Advice, stating age and describing your symptoms, to Ladies Advisory Dept., Chattanooga Medicine Co. Chattanooga, Tenn. Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries. Fresh and Salt Meats, Oysters, Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables SPECIALTIES: COFFEE AND TEAS. Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPAHOE-PHONE 817 KYZN Special Purchase Sale Commences Monday, Feb. 4th VALUES GREATER THAN EVER SEE THE PICTURES WE ARE GIVING AWAY The Joslin DRY GOODS CO. STANDARD PATTERNS, NEW STYLES JUST IN Onyx Brand Sample Hose THE ANNUAL SALE OF ONYX BRAND HOSIERY SAMPLES WILL ATTRACT A HOST OF CUSTOMERS. MORE CARE IS USED IN MAKING SAMPLES, SO YOU REALLY RECEIVE A MUCH BETTER ARTICLE. Ladies' Onyx Brand Sample Hose in cotton, lisle thread and mercerized. Black, embroidered, plain and lace openwork, in regu- ular and extra wide, 75c and 50c qualities, for.....29c Ladies' Onyx Brand Sample Hose, in fine lisle thread. Hand embroidered and lace openwork and plain black fine cashmere wool. Have $1.50 and $1.00 qualities, for.....59c Men's Onyx Brand Sample Socks. Fine cotton, lisle thread and silk lisle, fancy colors and blacks; 75c and 50c qualities, at.....29c WE PURCHASED FROM TWO OF THE BEST MANUFACTURERS THEIR SAMPLE LINE OF MEN'S VESTS. There are in the lot Fancy Scotch Flannels, Double Breasted White Pique, White and Fancy Wash Vests; the regular selling price would be $4.00, $3.50 and $2.50. The entire lot will be marked for a quick sale (Sizes 33 to 48).....$1.48 1327-1329 Broadway. Scholl's Mo Hand 1841 ARA Finest hand work in the city. 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 Open Day and Night. Phone Main 3725. Q. J. GILMORE Undertaker and Embalmer. Carriages furnished for all Occasions. 1921 Arapahoe Street, Denver, Colo. Special Purse Commences Mo VALUES GREAT SEE THE PICTURES W the JOSH STANDARD PATTERNS, Onyx Brand A THE ANNUAL SALE OF ONYX ATTRACT A HOST OF CUSTOMERS. SAMPLES, SO YOU REALLY RECEI Ladies' Onyx Brand Sample Hose cerized, Black, embroidered, plain ular and extra wide, 75c and 50c q Ladies' Onyx Brand Sample Hose, ered and lace openwork and plain Have $1.50 and $1.00 qualities, for Men's Onyx Brand Sample Socks, silk lisle, fancy colors and blacks; WE PURCHASED FROM TWO O THEIR SAMPLE LINE There are in the lot Fancy Scotch Pique, White and Fancy Wash Vest $4.00, $3.50 and $2.50. The entire quick sale (Sizes 33 to 48). Guy Parker, a cowboy who has never been outside the state of Colorado, is an artist of marked ability. Painters and connoisseurs agree that he has caught the indefinable something which many have vainly striven to reach. Next year he will devote to work in an eastern art school. Parker is able to ride anything with four legs and in exhibitions of reckless riding takes front rank. There are only a few certainties in the world. One of them is the mother; you can always depend on her. After a man passes 70, living must be a good deal like waiting to go to a dentist to have a tooth pulled. --- Denver, Colorado Modern Laundry PAHOE-PHONE 817 2317-19 Larimer Street A. B. J. F. CLARK Purchase Sale Monday, Feb. 4th MER THAN EVER WE ARE GIVING AWAY DRY GOODS CO. NEW STYLES JUST IN Sample Hose BRAND HOSIERY SAMPLES WILL MORE CARE IS USED IN MAKING E A MUCH BETTER ARTICLE. in cotton, lisle thread and mer- and lace openwork, in reg- ualities, for.....29c in fine lisle thread. Hand embroid- black fine cashmere wool......59c Fine cotton, lisle thread and 5c and 50c qualities, at.....29c OF THE BEST MANUFACTURERS OF MEN'S VESTS. Flannels, Double Breasted White; the regular selling price would be not will be marked for a.....$1.48 For Fine Missouri Apple Jack and Corn Whiskey COME TO THE 24th and Larimer Sts. Louisville Liquor COMPANY. Joseph Burger, Manager. Phone Main 5318. STYLES for the MAIDEN O FANCY BALL ROOM COSTUMES The styles offered for maiden wear are remarkable for taste. To be sure the season requires elegance, but this is obtainable by such restraining measures that the resultant effect is eminently desirable. In fact so generally superior are misses' things in point of reasonableness that many women of small stature buy their ready-made garments at the young people's shops. The fancy bodices there shown are built with an eye to the human frame, and with their smallish sleeves, modest garnishings and dainty models, the dressier ones make excellent odd waists for undersized shoppers. It is the same with gowns and coats, those supplied for 16 years quite adequately suitting many a slim mamma. sacque or short eton. The sacque models are more gofered, the skirts with the which are often entirely wiming, showing a close skin and narrow plain apron. Many a coat fits the bea shade of fullness at the as the effect of these with and rather narrow skirts, huge fur sets give the loness required. Vast flat muffs hanging tails will be carried by girls as 16, and to give the hare prominence, a soft leather kurchief only will sometime about the neck inside. Walking gowns along streets give many ideas for The trousseau of a girl smartly placed in life, however, is by no means a small item in family expenses. A Everything must be of good material, well made and express the changes which show eternally in fashion's calendar. A long coat must be faultless in line, and since fur is so fashionable it must either be fur trimmed or set off with a smart set. A number of the three-quarter coats, the best models of which hang with a sack looseness, show deep collars and cuffs in skins of a fairly inexpensive nature. Beaver is one of these, such a skin showing perhaps upon a shaggy wool, while a long-haired fur, like fox, skunk or lynx, will be used upon a smooth cloth. The velvet and braid-trimmed coats are usually in more fitted styles, for frequently the fur-trimmed coat is fur lined, a doubling of lock-squirrel, which is quite inexpensive, going with any skin outside. Some very smart paletots were of English tweed in broad checks, grays, blues, browns and dull reds showing in these, with bold barrings of black and color. The velvet trimmings may match the background of cloth or the check line, and the buttons used are of bone and very large. On plain cloth coats, cloth-covered buttons are sometimes set in a rim of gun metal. As to the separate coat it is decidedly an extra in the malden wardrobe, for everything is subservient to a complete suit for street wear. The short skirt of this takes on many styles of plaiting, and the coat may be a belted blouse, a hip length sacque or short eton. The half-fitting sacque models are more generally preferred, the skirts with these suits, which are often entirely without trimming, showing a close side plaiting and narrow plain apron. Many a coat fits the body without a shade of fullness at the back, and as the effect of these with their short and rather narrow skirts is skimpy, huge fur sets give the look of richness required. Vast flat muffs hanging with soft tails will be carried by girls as young as 16, and to give the hand warmer due prominence, a soft liberty handkerchief only will sometimes be folded about the neck inside the coat Walking gowns along fashionable streets give many ideas for the buyer of ready-mades, as the wearers generally display the best things in fashendom. A charming frock worn by a slim maid of 18 or perhaps less was a heavy English cloth in blue and green Scotch plaids. With this went a big fur set of Japanese fox, whose iron gray set off the gown most handsomely. The hat was of gray-white felt with a sprawling bow covering the crown of pale blue satin ribbon, and a fancy blue feather cutting over at the back. Red is par excellence a maiden color this season, and some charming walking frocks are seen in it. One in a deep copper tone showed collar and cuffs of black astrakhan, a white hat with white plumes going with this. Most often the maiden gown in cloth has only stitching for ornament, if one may exclude the elaborate plattings of the skirt and the dainty laces, embroideries and wide belts which begay the bodice. But sometimes there are bias bands put on in ornamental ways, or bands of velvet*or silk, and with a fur-trimmed skirt may go a little jacket all in the same pelt. With gowns in white, pale blue, gray and old rose,ermine or white astrakhan or saracal will be used effectively. Soutache braids in the gown color may likewise edge the fur trimmings and ornament the jacket somewhat, but there is no more lovely combination even for the younger girl than white and black. As regards evening dress, the maidenly frock is generally designed with an eye to practicability, for, of course, there is rarely more than one strictly evening frock. Such soft or girlish textures as respond to shirring, tucks and frills are much used; liberty silk, messaline, silk muslin and chiffon are prominent among these, the gowns being in white or the faintest tints, and showing no fussiness whatever. Some degree of decolletage is used for the bodice, and puff sleeves vary in length till the elbow is reached. Skirts never train, even when a girl has reached the age of 20, but fall short of slipper tops or else barely touch the floor. A round sweep, which is sometimes facilitated by a light featherbone wire at the skirt hem, effects the look desired. In our larger illustration we show two very handsome costumes for the fancy dress ball, which will prove suggestive to young women who want to have something in original design for such occasion. One of specially unique and beautiful design represents a basket of roses. The effect is carried out in pink chiffon with silver braid plaited to imitate basket work for the corsage and real roses are used for trimming. The other is a costume representing winter. It is of white net spotted with swan's down for snowflakes, and is adorned with holly and mistletoe which are peculiarly suggestive of the winter season. The costume is completed by ermine berthe, muff and cap. The Greatest Clothing Sale in the History of Our Store This 36th Semi-Annual Clearance Sale of Men's high grade Suits and Overcoats surpasses all previous offers in point of variety and value-giving. There are hundreds of garments to choose from; many below cost. Regular $15, $18, $20 and $22.50 VALUE NOW ONLY $11 Broadhurst and Barnett SHOE CO. 823 Sixteenth St. Our Regular FEBRUARY Clearance Sale of Men's, Women's and Children's SHOES now in full blast Shoe Bargains for Everyone. JOSEPH H. STUART Practice in all courts. Examining abstract of title and drawing up legal instruments given careful attention. 329 Kittredge Bld. Phone Olive 29p RICHES OF JUNCLESAM TOTAL WEALTH REACHES STUPENDOUS FIGURES. More Than Half a Dozen Americans Worth More Than All the Rulers of the World Together—All Records Broken. Washington.—"The United States is the wealthiest nation in the world," said a close friend of President Roosevelt's the other day, who had just gone over a remarkable official report, which is soon to be made public. He added: "In a brief span of young life this infant nation has broken all records relating to the accumulation of riches. We are beginning to think in billions, instead of millions. Take it any way you like, our affluence outstrips anything ever known before. "Our country has more actual money, more gold, a larger volume of exports, greater banking facilities, richer farms, more productive mines, more railroads, more internal commerce, more millionaires, more farmers, more highly paid laborers, and a greater distribution of luxuries than any other has enjoyed since time began." To prove all this some facts are gleaned at random from the reports gathered by the statistical department of the treasury. One day last October Uncle Sam had gathered into his money storehouse in Washington the greatest amount of gold ever collected in one place in the history of the world—gold representing $871,893,899. This was indeed the high water mark. There was in one little room more gold than was in circulation in Great Britain. The largest receipt ever given and the greatest money trust ever undertaken was when the present treasurer of the United States, Charles H. Treat, went into office. He receipted to Ellis H. Roberts, retiring treasurer, for all money and securities in the vaults of the treasury, a total of $1,259,598,278. It required from July 1 to Sept. 5 to count the money and at the completion of the task the accounts balanced to a fraction. The costliest governmental establishment in the world is the British navy, upon which $1,500,000,000 has been expended within the last ten years. Yet three individual Americans — Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Clark—could have paid the whole bill and have pocket money left. The United States is spending about $100,000,000 a year on its navy, and the country is new at this kind of expenditure. That it is not investing more than it can afford is shown by the fact that the display loving women of the United States spent $100,000,000 for diamonds purchased in foreign lands during the last two years. In fact, we are so rich the sales of produce and manufactured articles we are sending abroad each year are equal to a sum sufficient to support all the navies in the world. When it comes to individual wealth we have dozens of citizens who are worth more than all the kings and rulers of the world, taken collectively or severally. The czar is reputed to have a greater income than any other living man, but his private fortune is so mixed up with government revenues that it is impossible to separate them. If distinction could be made John D. Rockefeller undoubtedly could make comparison with Nicholas and show the biggest revenue. The Russian monarch's wealth is the accumulation of an empire centuries old in making, while the Ohio oil magnate can remember when he had nothing Leopold, king of the Belgians, is the richest monarch in Europe after the czar. Although his income from the state is but $1,700,000 a year, his business interests are so large and the income from the Congo Free state so great, it is estimated he gathers $5,000,000 annually. Senator Clark has an income that is at least three times as great. Alphonso XIII. has $1,400,000 a year to provide a style that should surround a king, but John Jacob Astor could easily outstrip this youthful monarch if he felt disposed. The kaiser receives a small annual allowance only $650,000, so that either William K. Vanderbilt or August Belmont has more ready money at his disposal than Germany's emperor. HEADS LIST IN BUCKEYE STATE Columbus Man Says He Was First to Enlist in Ohio at Call of Lincoln. Columbus—it now develops that Major Henry M. Nell of this city was the first man to be enlisted in Ohio under the call for troops by President Lincoln for the civil war. Major Nell has never spoken of his distinction until now. The Major says that when the message came from Lincoln for the quota he was in Governor William Dennison's office. The governor, who was his brother-in-law, related the contents of the telegraph, and Major Nell followed by saying that he could be counted on and desired to be the first man enrolled. When Lieutenant "Bob" Williams arrived from Washington that night to recruit soldiers he swore Major Nell in as a private. Nell served in the short service and was mustered out in 1864, after commanding a battery he had raised. This honor of being the first Ohloan to enlist has always been credited to Lorin Andrews of Ashland, who died in September, 1861.