Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY WashingtonD.C. The School Term will open on the 23rd with Several Changes in the Faculty. The Cost of the Panama Canal up to December 31,1906,$84,449,000. The National Baptist Convention a Brillant Affair. Over 4,000 Delegates and Visitors were in Attendance. VOL. XIII, Washing The School Term will open on the B Faculty. The Cost of the B ber 31, 1906, $84,449,00 tisi Convention a B 4,000 Delegate were in A Special to COLORADO STATESMAN. The school year of Washington will open on Monday the 23, with a number of changes among the officers and teachers of the force. The most notable of these is the exchange of positions between Dr. Montgomery as Assistant Supt, in charge of the colored schools and Supervisor Roscoe Conklin Bruce. Another important shift of assignment is that by which Miss Lucy Moten, so long in charge of the Colored Normal school becomes Assistant director of primary instruction, while Miss Millie Gibbs, formerly principal or Stevens is placed at the head of the Colored Normal. Miss Moten has given many years of efficient service in the cause of preparing colored girls for the vocation of teachers, but for some time has labored under a great disadvantage through a serious defect of hearing. The transfer to a position less exacting in its scope and duties will, it is hoped give satisfaction to all concerned. Miss Millie Gibbs who goes to the head of the Normal school, is a lady of splendid ability and high culture, who has taught with distinguished success in the higher positions in the Washington schools and will doubtless prove a worthy and capable successor to Miss Moten. The cost of the Panama Canal to the American Government, up to December 31, 1906, was $84,449,000, according to a statement of the audited expenses just published. One item of this expense was the payment of $50,000,000 to the French company and the Panama government for canal property, right of way and franchise. This seems an enormous outlay yet in view of the great future towards which America is reaching with giant strides, this and the many millions yet to be expended must be considered the best of gilt edge investments, and as such must inevitably return its owner a hundred fold in increase of world power, facility for the transfer of its ships from one ocean to the other and the golden vein of commerce which its boundries will afford for enterprise and exploitation. The national Baptist convention opened its sessions in the Metropolitan church, Rev. Dr. M. W. D. Norman, Pastor and chairman of the local committee, at 10 o'clock, Wednesday the 11th inst. Fully 4000 delegates and visiting strangers are in the city in connection with this meeting. Although Washington has few hotels where Negroes may be accommodated, no inconvenience has been occasioned by reason of this, for the homes of the city have been generously thrown open and all are housed and fed to their satisfaction. The greatest material need which has developed through this large gathering is that of a building with audience room sufficiently large to house and care for such mammoth meetings. It was hoped the True Reformers hall would fill this want in some measure but the same is totally inadequate, and the duty is still left for enterprising citizens of Washington to complete. Fully 2000 persons were packed in the Metropolitan church at each session while the street for two blocks either way was often congested with a perspiring throne. Rev. Dr. E. C. Morris of Helena Ark. presided at the session and upon calling the convention to order, among other things said, "The Negro must win his way to civilization as other races have done. I have no faith in any man who would sit around and complain in a world like this, when opportunities are plentiful and waiting for people to take them up. My people must stop complaining and do something and this is what we are trying to do. The National Baptist convention stands for self help among Negroes." Dr. Norman spoke earnestly and eloquently in extending the freedom of the church. When Commissioner H. B. F. McFarland, on behalf of the Board of District Commissioners and the citizens of Washington was introduced he was given an ovation which lasted fully five minutes and before he could begin his re- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907. marks of welcome the immense audience led by Rev. N. H. Pius, D. D. sang America with splendid effect amid much enthusiasm. Rev. George W. Lee, Pastor of the Vermont Ave. Baptist church welcomed the convention in behalf of the Colored Baptist Ministerial Alliance in a speech brimful of wit and common sense. In closing he said "God knew that there would not be so many people who would want to go to Heaven, so he made the way narrow, and the other way is broad. My people are trying to get into the narrow way. We welcome you here for six days only." All of the sessions of the convention have been most interesting and instructive, while at times a great deal of enthusiasm has been injected by the trend of the discussions and speeches. Naturally a great deal bearing upon the political as well as the moral life of the Negro has been in evidence, showing that breath of understanding and wisdom, which very properly wishes to make the spiritual and material welfare of the Negro travel hand in hand. In speaking of the leaders of the Negro, Rev. Dr. W. S. Moses of Virginia said: "The Negro race has never yet produced a leader who could whip into line all of the Negroes towards any one aim. Fred Douglass was a great character but he was not a Negro leader. His genius was most marked by what he could accomplish among the white people. Neither is Booker T. Washington a leader among the Negroes. His ability is best shown in his management of rich whites, getting them to hand down their thousands." Dr. Booker T. Washington, addressed a crowd of several thousand at convention hall, under the auspices of the Baptist convention on the evening of Friday the 13th, and as usual was full of advice along practical lines for the betterment and uplift of the Negro. He suggested several points upon which he thought the Baptist ministry might be improved such as greater care in licensing its ministers and inquiring into the moral and educational qualifications of its candidates more strictly. He also thought the establishment of a great Theological school somewhere in the very heart of the south would be of the very greatest benefit to the church as well as the race. JOHN H. PAYNTER. A colored man who bears the historical name of Jeff Davis, recently carried a watermelon into Muskogee which weighed seventy-five pounds and measured two feet through. THEY PULLED TOGETHER. Bishop A. Grant, who recently visited Seattle, and preached at Lee's chapel, is responsible for the following rather amusing story: "Down in Alabama a couple of white men visited a country town and gave it out that on a certain night they would have a big show there and would show the people something they had never seen before, nor would never see again. The town was billed with flaming billboard signs and the white and colored folk were there for miles and miles in the country. On the day of the show the vendors hired ten stalwart colored men. They erected their tent and placed in the middle of the tent a big post and fastened to it a very heavy rope. At the appointed time the crowds began to assemble and soon the show was opened, and with the ten Negroes in a side tent. As soon as all were ready they called to the colored men to come forth and take hold of the rope and pull like the very devil. The contract was that they were to pay them $1.50 for an hour's hard pulling on that rope. The men began and pulled and pulled and the crowds yelled and cheered at how the men could, for they were husky fellows, but the men soon tired and wanted to stop, but were told they had their money and they had to do their work? At the end of the hour it was announced that the show was over, when the crowd began to hoot and yell and threaten violence to the showmen for faking them. 'Hold on my friends. We promised to show you something that you had never seen before and probably never would see again. We have shown you ten Negroes all pulling together and none of you have seen such a sight before and I am inclined to think you will never see a similar sight again.'"—Seattle Republican. AN ALTERNATIVE. AN ALTERNATIVE. By Prof. Zueolin of the Chicago University, in an address to the school of education: "Intermarriage or segregation are the only possible remedies for the race question. Either give the Negroes the right to rule in the districts where they are most numerous, or break down the barriers of race by intermarriage. "Take Mississippi or South Carolina, for instance. Let the black men rule these states. That does not necessarily mean that all the white men must be driven out, but that the black men, who are in the numerical majority, must be given the power to which their votes entitles them. "By segregation I do not mean the placing of the colored race in a place where no white man can intrude, but I mean to allow the Negro to have a voice in the settlement of affairs. The Negro should have something to say about the government that rules him." RACE NEWS Gathered from Various Sources. The Leland Giants of Chicago, with "Rube" Foster, the black Waddell in the box, recently beat the All-Stars in a series of 4 to 2 for a side bet of $1,500. The Gophers of St. Paul, Minn. are without doubt one of the fastest colored ball teams in the country. In a series 37 games between June 25th and August 10th, the Gophers never lost a game. They have played 81 games this season, winning 75; 22 of which were shut outs, losing five, and tied once. York, Pa.—Mrs. Elizabeth Beyer, wife of a Negro farm hand, has undergone a change in color from an inky black to white. The metamorphosis has been taking place during the last five years. She is the mother of five small children, and all are black. Doctors say she is suffering with a disease, but she insists that she has never been ill in her life. A few days ago Jim Jeffries, the former heavyweight champion of the world, stated, while talking to friends about the recent Gans-Britt fight that Joe Gans was the greatest fighter in the country. "I think Joe Gans the greatest lightweight we ever had. In fact, I consider him a much better man than McGovern, Dixon or Kid Lavinge in their best days." Speaking on the question of rape Rev. R. C. Ransom, pastor of the A. M. E. church, in New York City, recently said: "Inside of six weeks there have been more than 150 alleged assaults upon women and children. It is a fact that the present wave of crime in that city has not, so far as definite information goes, produced a single instance in which a Negro was implicated in any of these alleged attacks. There have been more crimes committed against women and children in the last sixty days than have been charged against the whole 10,000,000 Negroes of the United States in the last six months." "Even if it were true," says the Houston Witness, "that the Negro will be just as likely to be lynched elsewhere as in the South, and if it NO. 52. were true that he will be just as likely to be 'race war' scared away from his property elsewhere as in the South, all of it would not be enough to break the force of the Witness' reasons for why Negroes of character and intelligence should get out of the South. Our general reasons for this view may be tersely condensed into the single presumption that social and moral improvement under Southern conditions will grow more and more difficult with each succeeding years, but without social and moral improvement under Southern conditions will grow more and more difficult with each succeeding year, but without social and moral improvement, Negro life will be altogether as intolerable as that of chattle slavery itself. Suffolk, Va., Sept., 9.—A suit which is said to be without precedent in any court was entered here this afternoon, when Mrs. Rosa Stone, wife of William Stone a farmer of Myrtle, Va., entered suit to recover $1,000 damages from the Norfold & Western Railway company for being forces to ride in a "Jim Crow" car with Negroes. Mrs. Stone, who is a white woman, boarded the train at Myrtle, and naturally seated herself in an apartment reserved for whites. Presently the conductor appeared and required her to move among the Negroes, notwithstanding her protests. A Negro woman, who knew Mrs. Stone remarked: "Miss Rosa, this is no place for you." Whereupon Mrs. Stone sought to return but was restrained. Mrs. Stone remained in the car until it reached Suffolk, where she got off. Mrs. Stone, who is light completed and has a thin skin, was considerably tanned. When the public schools of Gloucester opened Tuesday two bright colored girls, daughters of a well-to-do farmer, near Snow Hill, presented certificates for admission to the High School. They had passed the eighth grade of their home schools, and under the State law, are entitled to enter the high school of the nearest district. The Glouster school was so pressed for room, however, with the new building under construction, that Professor Sullivan, supervising principal, was unable to grant the girls admission, and they turned away disappointed. In all Gloucester their is not a Negro family, nor has there been in many years. The people of the city have made it very plain that they did not care to have colored neighbors, and in a number of instances those who have endeavored to break through this unwritten law have come to grief. Once a few colored men were chased miles away from the city because they endeavored to establish a colored colony there. DENVER GETS ANOTHER ROAD ENTIRE STATE WILL BE GREATLY BENEFITED BY CONSTRUCTION. DENVER TO SEATTLE BRINGS NEW TERRITORY II TOUCH WITH MARKETS OF DENVER. Denver.—A great new railway system which eventually will directly connect Denver and Seattle, cutting a vast region as yet almost entirely undeveloped and not traversed by railroads, is said to be an assured fact. The new road is the Denver, Laramie & Northwestern. Its headquarters is in Denver. The actual work of construction will begin within sixty days. All possible speed will be employed in building the road to Laramie, Wyoming. The major portion of the right of way has been secured. A Denver terminal has been arranged for, and the company owns in fee simple a right of way over the continental divide through Fish Creek canon, where the grade is less than two per cent, and where no difficult engineering feats are presented. The company has also purchased 160 acres of land within the city limits of Denver, where will be located its terminals, shops and yards. located its terminals, shops and yards. The closing of the deal for this land, lying just east of the old Argo smelter, and known as the Higby addition, is the first intimation that Denver people have had of the new project. The men engaged in the work have been proceeding quietly and systematically. They have interested eastern capital in the road and also Denver men. In the last two or three days $50,000 worth of stock in the new road has been subscribed in Denver alone. The men behind the new project were not anxious that news of their Denver purchase should leak out at this time. Several weeks ago Col. W. E. Skinner of the Denver Union Stock Yards Company was approached by men who are financing and promoting the new road, and the scheme for the entrance of the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern was broached to him. Colonel Skinner investigated the matter carefully. He was impressed with the advantages that would accrue to Denver through the building of such a road, found the proposition all that was claimed for it, and set about finding a tract of land that would be suitable for a terminal. The deed by which the new road becomes the owner of the Highy tract has been closed. It is bounded on the east by West Forty-eighth avenue, on the south by the Colorado & Southern and Moffat roads, and on the north by the extension of Broadway. The land lies one-half mile nearer the city than Utah Junction, where the shops of the Moffat road are located. The consideration was $100,000. "Is Worth Millions." "The building of the new Denver, Laramie & Northwestern will be a big stride ahead for Denver and for Colorado," said Colonel Skinner. "This road and the Moffat road, which is rapidly nearing completion, will make Denver a live stock center second to none. Just think of the great expanse of territory that these roads will open up. There are millions of acres in Routt county which the Moffat road will tap; there are millions of acres in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming which the new Laramie road will tap. These acres are the finest grazing lands in the country. The stock is coming to Denver over the rails of the new companies. It will eventually bring millions of dollars annually into the state. "And not alone in the livestock industry, but in mining development that will follow the completion of the Mofat road and the Laramie project, will Denver and Colorado benefit. I am firmly of the belief that a new era in Colorado's progress has been reached and that these roads will supply some of the few—very few—things lacking to make Colorado the greatest state in the whole Union." The survey of the new line agreed upon runs in almost a straight line from Denver to Fort Collins midway between the present lines of the Union Pacific and Colorado & Southern. South of Lander. From Fort Collins the line will run northwest, crossing the continental divide through Fish Creek canon where the grade is easy and the crossing one which presents no difficult engineering feats. The canon is twelve miles long. After leaving the canon the road as planned will tap the territory as yet untraversed by railroads as far north as Laramie. The surveys from this point on to Laramie have been made but the exact route has not been definitely determined upon. The final surveys may throw the line south of Lander with a spur into the city. Yellowstone Park will be brought within a night's ride of Denver by the new road. Being a north and south road, the Laramie line when completed will intercept all of the transcontinental lines north of Denver, the Union Pacific, Northwestern, St. Paul and Hill lines. This will give Denver an outlet and inlet to the great Northwest and connections with great railway systems such as it could not get in any other way. Col. R. H. Dwyer, formerly connected with the Illinois Central and Gould lines, and known from coast to coast as an able railroad man, is the general manager of the new road. C. S. Johnson, who has been connected with a number of large commercial and industrial enterprises, is the president. PRIEST HAD A WIFE. Widow Appears and Asks for Her Share of Estate. Denver.—Evelyn Benns Lepore after fighting for four years has at last been acknowledged to be the wife of Rev. Father Felix Marliano Lepore, the priest in charge of Mt. Carmel Catholic church, who was shot and mortally wounded in his study at the church November 19, 1903, it is believed by Joseph Sorice, who was also mortally wounded by the priest in the affray. Both men died within a few hours. When the estate of Father Lepore was filed for probate by his brother, Felice Lepore, it was stated that the deceased clergyman had no heirs at law except his father, three sisters and a brother. The estate was worth something like $20,000 when first placed in the custody of the courts. This included real estate, money in bank and a number of patent rights held by the deceased at the time of his death. It was not until the estate had been admitted to probate that there appeared a claimant to the property in the person of Evelyn Benns, who claimed that she had been the wife of the priest since July 1, 1896, and that a son was born as the result of that marriage September 15, 1898. Mrs. Benns' claims were ridiculed by Felice Lepore, the administrator of the estate, and since that time until the present the fight against Mrs. Lepore's claims has been most bitterly contested. Yesterday afternoon Judge Grant L. Hudson signed the decree that will give to Mrs. Lepore her rights to her widow's share in the estate. The decree states that the court is convinced from the evidence submitted that the woman's claims are just and that she is in fact the widow of the deceased. That the wedding was solemnized July 1, 1896, and that Victor Mariano Lepore, now nine years of age, is the son of the deceased priest is also asserted in the document. THIRTY-FOUR PERSONS KILLED Texas Trainmen Disregard Orders and Terrible Wreck Follows. El Paso, Texas.—In a collision between the south-bound El Paso express and a north-bound freight on the Mexican Central, at En Carnación de Dios, a few miles from Aguas Calientes, thirty-four were killed and nineteen injured, making the worst wreck on that road in years. Telegraph lines were broken by the wreck and only meager details obtainable. It is impossible to obtain a list of dead or injured. All those killed were in the day coaches. The passenger train was in charge of Conductor Randleman and Engineer Brock. It is believed that four bodies are yet in the wreckage. The dead and wounded were taken to Aguas Calientes. The wrecked passenger train left El Paso Tuesday. There are no prominent persons among the killed or wounded. The disaster is said to have been due to a disregard of train orders. Fined for Trespassing. The fourth important case won by the government upon the question whether it is a crime to violate the regulations of the secretary of agriculture has just been decided in the United States District Court, held at Deadwood, South Dakota, where Robert B. Bale was found guilty of grazing trespass on the Black Hills national forest and fined $100 and costs. Mr. Bale at once paid the fine and was released. The defendant is a stock owner residing south of Rapid City and has been grazing about 150 head of cattle in and adjacent to the Black Hills national forest for some years. When the range in the national forests was put under administration in 1906 and the grazing fee system introduced Mr. Bale refused to secure a grazing permit or to remove his stock from the forest. After repeated efforts on the part of the local forest officers to persuade Mr. Bale to remove the stock, he was finally arrested and in August, 1906, was indicted by the United States jury at Deadwood. The trial of the case was delayed over two terms of court by an effort to have the case tried at Deadwood instead of Sloux Falls and the case was not presented to the jury until September 4th. The court was prompt in overruling the defendant's demurrier attacking the constitutionality of the grazing regulations and in reaching a decision the jury was out only fifteen minutes. Wyoming Man Ends Life. Cheyenne, Wyo.—W. D. Pease, city water commissioner, committed suicide at the municipal filter bed, nine miles north of town. The body was found half an hour after death occurred. Pease had been despondent for some time, realizing that he was growing old and that his health was failing. Nine months ago he was removed as city engineer because of his age and this preyed on his mind. This morning he took two men to the filter and put them to work. He informed them just before noon that he was going down the creek and would soon return. When he did not return they investigated and found his body. He had shot himself in the head, but had failed to inflict a fatal wound. He then fired a bullet through his heart. He was seventy-four years of age, a veteran of the Civil War and had been connected with the city government for twenty-five years. Hand Torn From Wrist. Fort Collins, Colo.—While at work on the engine of the threshing machine owned by Steve Burdee, Lee Hill was caught in the fly-wheel and dangerously and probably fatally injured. He is now in the Fort Collins hospital. The machine was at work on the English ranch, north of here. Hill climbed on the upper part of the engine to oil the bearings, when he struck the belt in some manner and threw it off the wheel. The belt struck him and threw him against the rapidly revolving fly-wheel. Workmen some distance away saw Hill fall, and stopped the engine, but not in time to save him from terrible injuries. His left hand was torn from the wrist, the left collar bone was torn off, and the left ear cut away from the head. His condition is serious, but there is a chance for his recovery. DROWNED LIKE RATS IN CAVE THREE SCHOOL CHILDREN SEEK REFUGE FROM CLOUDBURST AND PERISH. WATER FILLS THE CAVE BODIES ARE ENTOMBED FALLING WALLS AFTER THE FLOOD. Durango, Colo.—Three children of Samuel Cook, Julia, fourteen; Rose, eleven, and Sallie, five years old, were literally trapped and drowned in a horrible fashion Wednesday afternoon. The three children were returning from school and were walking through an arroyo, when above them they saw a wall of water ten feet high coming down from a cloudburst in the foothills. Julia, the eldest, believing that she saw a chance for shelter, made a heroic effort to save her sisters, and, regardless of her own danger, dragged her two sisters up the hill to a cave, where she believed they would be safe from the flood. But the volume of water in the flood was more than she had calculated and in spite of her efforts to find a safe place the water climbed up to where the three little ones had sought safety and they were all drowned. The cave was completely filled with the water and then the cave fell in, burying the bodies. The girls were missed from home shortly after the time they should have returned and a searching party at once sought them out. The hats of the children showed where they had been and the search followed. Mind Lives Long After Body Dies London.—The annual report of the lunacy commissioners, published this week, shows a disquieting increase in the population of Britain's asylums. At the beginning of this year one out of ever 282 persons in England and Wales was reported insane. Ten years ago the proportion of insane persons was only one in ever 314. From 1869 to 1906 the population of England and Wales was increased by $55\frac{1}{2}$ per cent, and the total insane by 133 per cent. The significant fact brought to light by the report is the spread of senile dementia, which alone accounted for over 38 per cent. of last year's fresh lunacy cases. In discussing this phase of the situation at least one medical authority expressed the belief that we live too long for the kind of work most of us do. "The advanced medical knowledge of today," he said, "keeps a multitude of people alive whose minds and life tenure are practically worn out. The present age demands more brain work and strain from every one than was demanded only a few years ago. There is less demand for the people who can only use their hands. "The physical wear and tear has decreased, while brain work and the strain to the nervous system has increased. The result is that the mind dies and the body is kept alive by medical science, and this adds to the growing list of senile dementia cases in our asylums." Democratic—and Dry! Oklahoma City, Okla.—Oklahoma has ratified the enabling act and become a state so far as Oklahoma and Indian Territory are concerned. The new state goes dry, according to yesterday's vote, and it is Democratic. It is now up to President Roosevelt to sign the enabling act. Returns from the largest cities and counties of Oklahoma and Indian Territory indicate that the constitution of the proposed new state has been adopted by a large majority; that the prohibition clause of the constitution has been adopted, and that the Democratic state ticket, headed by C. N. Haskell of Muskogee for governor has been elected over Frank Frantz, the present territorial governor of Oklahoma, who was the Republican nominee. Say He Thurst .Body .of .Victim in Trunk. Victoria, B. C.—Trouble has arisen with regard to the extradition of W. H. Adsell, arrested for murder at Chefoo and taken aboard the United States cruiser Galveston. It is alleged that he killed Gertrude Dayton, an American woman, in a Hong Kong hotel, and crowded the remains in a trunk which he caused to be placed on the steamer Monteagle. The British authorities are endeavoring to secure the extradition of the accused to Hong Kong for trial, but the United States government refuses to give him up and has notified the United States consul general at Chefoo to proceed against him. Slip of Girl Bags Wildcat. Florence, Colo.—Connie Meecham, a thirteen-year-old girl, while picnicking on Castle Rock with Mrs. Fred Willard and Ellen Blunt, shot and killed a large bobcat with a .22 caliber rifle. They were sitting on a rock when they say two large cats below them. They threw a rock at the animals and one of them made its escape, while the other ran under a rock. Mrs. Willard and Miss Blunt were left to watch the cat while the Meecham girl walked two miles to the Willard home and secured the gun. Upon returning, she shot the cat through the head, killing it instantly. Stole Her Babes Cheyenne, Wyo.—Mrs. John McConnell and four children were arrested at Sidney, Nevada, and were brought to Cheyenne. The children were to have been taken to the South Dakota Orphans' Home, but were spirited out of the state. The children are row at the county poor farm, but will be taken to South Dakota. H. H. ROGERS DROPS $40,000,000 Said to Have Invested Heavily in Tides water Railway Project and Lost. New York.—Reports have been current on Wall street for some time that H. H. Rogers of the Standard Oil Company had been heavily interested in the tidewater railway project in Virginia and that he had lost heavily by the investment. The Evening Post says that it can be stated positively that Mr. Rogers incurred a personal obligation in the tidewater project much in excess of $40,000,000. The Post also says the situation has been entirely cleared up. The Evening Post says: "Confirmation was obtained in Wall street of reports to the effect that H. H. Rogers was heavily interested in the tidewater railway project. "According to the stories previously circulated, upwards of forty per cent. of Mr. Rogers' fortune has been involved in the tidewater investment. It was reported today that the personal obligation incurred amounted to $40,000,000. It can be stated positively that the sum is much larger than the amount named, also that the situation has been entirely cleared up. "In order to meet the demands made upon him in connection with the construction of the railroad, Mr. Rogers was forced to dispose of a large amount of investment stock at a sacrifice. All during the recent decline in prices the vice president of the Standard Oil Company sold gilt-edged stocks, such as Standard Oll, Consolidated Gas, Union Pacific and St. Paul. To Simplify Freight Situation. Chicago.—A long step forward In the simplification of the freight situation throughout the United States was taken at a meeting in the Central Freight Association headquarters. The joint committee, composed of representatives from the three classification territories, decided on unification, and within thirty days a new committee will be appointed to undertake the solution of this problem. The difficulties arising from diversified classification have been many and varied. Only recently the Interstate Commerce Commission suggested that since the different classification of freight in different parts of the country had been responsible for a large part of the friction between shipper and carrier, it would be wise to adopt one that would apply generally. The task presented to this new committee will be a difficult one. Roads operating east of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio and Potomac have what is known as the official classification; those south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi, the southern classification, and those north of the Mississippi the western classification. Not the least difficult proposition in this revision is to find a basis that will be equitable to operating under dissimilar circumstances. In the East, where heavy traffic originates, and hauls are comparatively short, a lower rate can be maintained than in the West, where traffic is sparse and the hauls are long. In view of this fact it is probable that a sliding scale will have to be adopted. Built Fire With Oil—Dead! Sugar City, Colo.—The child of George Schwartz was burned to death, Mrs. Catherine Hell was fatally injured and her son, Carl, probably mortally hurt by an explosion which took place in the Heil home, when Mrs. Heil attempted to light a fire with the aid of kerosene. At the time, Mrs. Heil and the Schwartz child, whose home is close by, were in the Heil kitchen and Carl Heil was in an adjoining room asleep. The explosion ignited the clothing of both the child and woman. The son, awakened by the screams of both, rushed to their assistance and in beating out the flames which enfolded his mother was terribly burned. While young Heil was battling with the flames which enfolded his mother, the Schwartz child burned to death. It is stated tonight that Mrs. Heil cannot possibly recover and that her son is in a precarious condition. This is the second accident of a similar nature to have occurred here within the week. Duel to Death on Hay Wagon Sturgis, S. D.—To settle a long stancing feud over their right to certain lands, Lon Ferris, a Virginian, and Jesse Wallace, a Texan, neighboring ranchmen, fought a duel to the death on the range north of here. For fifteen minutes both men battled for supremacy on the top of a hay wagon, first with their fists and then with revolvers. Ferris finally succeeded in killing Wallace with the latter's own gun, and then rode to town, where he gave himself up. He declared that Wallace and a friend named Anderson, a neighbor, who watched the battle from the bushes, and was the only witness of the tragedy, had waylaid him at work, and Wallace challenged him to settle accounts. Ferris is married, while Wallace was single. Cruel Treatment Cause of It. South Bend, Ind.—When dared to show his nerve, Albert E. Peverette of South Bend, who is serving a term for the Richland, Mich., bank robber in Marquette prison, picked up a piece of glass and cut off his left hand. The fact came out in an investigation now being conducted at Marquette for the purpose of learning the truth about alleged cruelties practiced in the prison. According to Peverette, he would no longer stand abuse and when he was told to prepare himself for another beating, he replied that he would cut off one of his hands before he would submit to further ill treatment. Jeered at by the keeper, he promptly carried his threat into exe cution. Trinidad Enjoys a Boom. Trinidad, Colo.—Work has commenced on the erection of a $25,000 apartment house to be located at the corner of Colorado and Arizona avenues. The structure will be of stone and brick. Trinidad is enjoying a building boom and several other costly residences are in the course of construction. The Great American Boss. The average American is blase almost before the English girl is ready to leave her school, says a writer. The English girl never leaves her governess and home before she is eighteen, while at the same age the American girl has seen much of the world. Yet the American girl retains her vivacity and her interest in everything, and it is that one quality, I think, above all others, that wins for her the admiration of the English woman. The American woman never looks to her husband as master, while the English woman is taught to do so from her birth—Tit-Bits. Depends on the Dogs. Asa Goddard of the American Auto-obile association was recounting in Worcester some of his touring adventures. "One summer morning," he said, "the approach of a great flock of sheep obliged me to pull off the narrow country road. I halted my car, and watched with interest the passage of the sheep, the intelligent dogs and the shepherd. "I had a short talk with the shepherd about his odd and difficult trade. "Look here," I said, 'what do you do, driving sheep like this on a narrow road, when you meet another flock coming in the opposite direction?' "Well," said the shepherd, 'ye just drive straight on, both of ye, and the one that has the best dogs gets the most sheep." He Ate the Toothpicks. A well-known sculptor tells the following story: "Whenever I see a toothpick I think of a dinner that was given in Rome in honor of two Turkish noblemen. "I sat beside the younger of the noblemen. He glittered with gold embroidery and great diamonds, but nevertheless I pitted him sincerely, for he was strange to our table manners, and some of his errors were both ludicrous and painful. toothpicks. He waived the plate away, extended to the young man a plate of toothpicks. He waived the plate away, saying in a low and bitter voice: "No, thank you; I have already eaten two of the accursed things, and I want no more." "All In" in Law: In the recent case of State vs. Hennessy, 90 Pac. Rep. 221, the Nevada Supreme Court gives a definition of the "slang phrase "all in." The question came up in connection with the admission in evidence of a dying declaration, the declarant's statement that he was "all in" being relied on to show that he was under a sense of impending death. The court said: "The expression 'I am all in,' is one frequently made use of in this western country, and when used under the circumstances in question may, we think, be taken to have meant that the speaker considered his life practically at an end."—Law Notes. Considerate Bridegroom. A Belleville girl and a young man, both of whom had steady jobs, were married the other day. The day after they were married the girl said to her fond husband: "Oh, George, now that we are married, there is only one thing I regret, and that is that I have to give up my fine position." The fond young husband stroked the silken tresses of the young wifey's hair, and soothingly replied: "Now, darling, don't worry. You needn't give up your position. I'll give up mine."—Kansas City Star. "Habit" and "Vice." The subject of women's smoking has almost ceased to be discussed; it is generally taken for granted that women will smoke, even when dining in public, while a smoking room is found, as a matter of course, at every woman's club. But while society and professional women now smoke without protest, one learns, not without surprise, that the habit in which they indulge is rapidly becoming a vice of the working-class girl—Ladies' Pictorial The Real Roar. It was the morning after their arrival at a seaside resort. "I have often heard of the roar of the ocean," she said, dreamily, "but I never knew it sounded like that." "That's not the roar of the ocean," answered her more experienced husband. "That's the roar of a departing guest who has just been presented with his bill."—Judge True Chivalry. Her (sighing)—Oh, I met such a lovely, polite man today. Him—Where was that? Her—On the street. I must have been carrying my umbrella carelessly, for he bumped his eye into it. And I said, "Pardon me," and he said, "Don't mention it—I have another eye left."—Cleveland Leader. 80 S. 12th Young men from 17 to 35 years of age; wore white shirts; assigned to a U. S. Naval Vessel and Apprentices Seamen to Naval Training Station. Special Training School for Navy Officers. German and Hospital Training Schools for men enlisted in it CRUTTING STATION, ROOM 2, PIONEER BLDG, 15th and Larimer St., Denver, Colorado HOWARD E. BURTON, Assayer Specimen prices: Gold, silver, lead, 11. $1. Cyanide tests. Mailing envelopes and full price list sent on application. Control Colo. Reference, Carbonate National Bank FARM WAGONS, LOW WHEELED FARM TRUCKS, ALL KINDS OF SINGLE AND DOUBLE FAMILY RIGS, NEEDED HOME HONDS, AND other kinds, WINDMILLS, PUMPS, GASOLINE ENGINES, HAY PRESSES, SCRAPERS. All kinds of ODODEN TANKS for stock watering or for storage of water. Also other implements or supplies which you need this fall. We are a Colorado institution, and will do our best to make things interesting for you. The Plattner Implement Co. 1612 15th St., Denver, Colo Content is like your eyes, nose or any other feature—to have it you must be born with it.—Atchison Globe. Until they come most any man will tell you how he would get the upper hand of burglars.—Atchison Globe. Mrs. Harcourt, the wife of "the baby of the cabinet," as the English term Lewis Vernon Harcourt, otherwise and commonly called "Lulu" Harcourt, was Miss Mary Ethel Burns, the only daughter of the late Walter Burns of New York and a niece of J. Pierpont Morgan. ```markdown ``` For a short time only we sold this steel horn double cubes, wool-lined 25-inch sturrup leather, steel sturrup leather, steel leather - covered sturrup leather, uniformity respect, and equal to saddles sold for $40 everywhere. Catalogue free. The Fred Mueller Saddle&Harness Co. 1413-1419 Larmer St., Denver, Colo. BON I. LOOK Dealers in all kinds of mermailed free. Corner 16th and Blake, Denver. THE FAMOUS J. H. WILSON STOCK SADDLES As your dealer for them. Take no other. LAND OFFICE BUSINESS Ellen C. Witter, 7 UNION BLOCK. SEND FOR FREE "SETTELTS" GUIDE." STOVE REPAIRS of every known make of stove, furnace or range. Geo. A. Pullen, 1831 Lawrence, Denver. Phone 725. BROWN PALACE HOTEL Absolutely Fire-proof. AMERICAN HOUSE 2 blocks from Union Depot. Best $2 a day hotel in the West. American plan. FLORIST Floral designs for lodges and federal buildings. Power supplied on shipped on short notice. Thurston H. U. Smith, Telephone Main $386, 2961 Lawrence St. MATCHLESS BALDWIN PIANOS Grand Park, Paris 9500 Grand Prize-St Louis 1904 D. H. BALDWIN & CO., Manufacturers of the World's Greatest Pianos 5 factories; 5 separate makes of pianos. Capital and surplus $7,400,000. Buy from the manufacturer, the dealers do. Address 1620 California St. Dougus PIANOS AND ORGANS Send your name with the name of fine bargaining in your organa. Planos from $75 up. Organs from $100 up. Planos from Planos. can be placed by anyone. $450 up. sold on easy terms. buyer. Victor talking machines sold at fac- tice prices on easy terms. Write for catalog of different in- struments. WAS S225 NOW S127 THE KNIGHT- CAMPAIGN MUSIC COMPANY. 1625-31 California St. Denver, Colo. E. E. BURLINGAME & CO., ASSAY OFFICE AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY Established in Colorado, 1866. Samples by mail or express will receive prompt and careful attention. Refined, Melted and Assayed OR PURCHASED. Concentration Tests 100 lbs. or car load lots. Write for terms. 1736-1738 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. THE COLORADO TENT AND AWNING CO. BLANKETS, COMFORTS Largest canvas goods house in the West. Write for illustrated catalog. ROBOT. S. GUTSHAH. Prest. 1640 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. One-Way Rates J. D. CRACO. N. M. CAMPIGLIA 'Phone Main 4885. C. & C. LIQUOR CO., DIRECT IMPORTERS, Wines and Liquors for Medicinal Use Our Specialty. 2205 CHAMPA STREET. Denver, Colorado FLOOD'S MARKET Denver Largest Anti-Trust Meat Market in the West. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Restaurant, Hotel and Boarding House Businees Given Special Attention. HERBERT MANN er in Coal and Stone Red Flagstone a Specialty. PHONE 1468. Yards: 1st and Larimer St. AMPBELL BROS. Dealer in Coal and Stone Red Flagstone a Specialty. Quarles at PHONE 1468. Yards: Beach Hill, Colo. 1st and Larimer St. CAMPBELL BROS. SUCCESSORS TO JOHN L. LARSON, Staple Groceries and Fresh Meats. Staple Groceries and Fresh Meats. 1864 Curtis Srreet. Cor. 19th. of Teeth for $5.00; $10 Sets for $7.00; $15 Sets for Crowns only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver up; Gold and Platina, $1.00 up. Painless Ex- ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS, Opp. the P. O. DR. DAMERON, Prop THE STIME SOCIAL CLUB SORT FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $5.00; $10 Sets for $7.00; $15 Sets for $10; Gold Crowns only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Fillings, 50c up; Gold and Platina, $1.00 up. Painless Extracting. ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS, rapahoe street, Opp. the P. O. DR. DAMERON, Prep PASTIME SOCIAL CLUB A RESORT FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Use Miller's Favorite Veterinary Liniment for your Horse For flesh wounds, galls of all kinds, sprains, bruises, scratches or grease heels, sweeney, weakness of joints, contraction of the muscles, swellings, tumors, and in the early stage of fistula. SOCIAL CLUB Whist, Pool, Chess, Checkees and Other Pastime Games. 1859 Champa St Denver, Colo. Phone Main 3824. HERB Dealer in Red F Quarles at Beach Hill, Colo. CAMP Staple Groce Phone 3028 Main. Do You Know $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $10; Gold Crowns on Fillings, 50c up; Gold tracting. Arapahoe street, Opp. the PASTIME RESORT FOR NEWLY FURNISHED. 1831 Arapahoe St A T D P 1859 Ch 1015.1017 15th St Wholesale and Retail Denver, Colorodo DR. DAMERON has reduced his prices for all Dental Work? THE PHONE MAIN 8044 DICK FRAZIER, Manager. Denver, Colorado For flesh wounds, galls of all kinds, sprains, bruises, scratches or grease heels, sweeney, weakness of joints, contraction of the muscles, swellings, tumors, and in the early stage of fistula. PREPARED ONLY BY FRANK P. MILLER, Pharmist, 2644 Welton St. Cor. Wash. Av. Phone Main 2306. DENVER, COLORADO. Superior Laundry ALL HAND WORK. J. W. CASEY, Proprietor. Telephone 2132. 1735 Lawrence St. Denver THE TWO JIMS' Denver's Favorite Pleasure Resort. PHONE 2275 MAIN. 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. Dr. W. H. Dalrymple, of Baton Rouge, La., has been elected president of the American Veterinary Medical association. Francis Potter, editor of the Hertington, Kansas, Sun until recently, is dead in San Diego, Cal., where he had gone for the benefit of his health. Col. A. J. Hanscom, of Omaha, a former president of the Nebraska senate, died recently in New York of pneumonia. He was 76 years old. Mrs. Kate E. Jones of New York has been elected national president of the Women's Relief Corps. Edward W. Vanderbilt, an aged, retired merchant of Brooklyn, N. Y., has been declared incapable of managing his affairs because of lunacy. Congressman Longworth and Mrs. Longworth have arrived in San Francisco on their return from a visit to Hawaii. Charles G. Burton of Kansas City was elected commander of the Grand Army of the Republic at the Saratoga encampment. Secretary Taft was given a rousing send-off when he sailed from Seattle for the Orient on the steamer Minnesota. Walter S. Dickey of Kansas City has been elected chairman of the Missouri republican state committee, to succeed Thomas K. Niedringhaus, resigned. Chang Mon Wo, president of the Chinese Six Companies, is dead of the bubonic plague in San Francisco. D. Willis James, senior member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., of New York, is dead. He was distinguished as a philanthropist. Gen. Booth, the aged head of the Salvation Army, has left London to conduct a winter's campaign in the United States and Canada. Archibald Fry Blount, of Orleton, England, has bequeathed $400,000 to Yale University. Otto Stallard the defaulting cashier of the Peoples' National bank of Sedan, Kan., has been given an indeterminate sentence of not less than one nor more than five years in the penitentiary. George Ross, an American was killed by Mexican bandits at Cuanajusto, Mexico, and his wife was also injured. Ex-President Cleveland's health is in a serious condition and his recovery is said to be very doubtful. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, the noted witch of finance has suffered a nervous collapse in the Ohio penitentiary where she is serving a ten-year sentence and her condition is serious. Gen. Godfrey commander at Fort Riley will soon retire from active service in the army after having been in the army 40 years. Testimony given in the Massachusetts supreme court was to the effect that the physical condition of H. H. Rogers is such that he could not appear in court and had transacted no business since July 22. Miscellaneous The Illinois pardon board has denied the application of Paul O. Stensland for pardon. He looted the Milwaukee Avenue Saving bank of Chicago, of which he was president. The French steamer La Provence made the run from Havre, to New York, a distance of 3,140 miles, in 6 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes recently. Another Jewish massacre is reported at Kishineff, Russia, in which it is estimated 80 Jews lost their lives. The office of the Joplin, Mo., News-Herald, a republican daily, was recently entirely wrecked by dynamite placed among the machinery. The plant was practically new, having only been installed recently. The loss is estimated at $25,000. The fight the paper has made against gambling and for law enforcement is believed to have been the reason for the outrage. Walter Wellman, head of the Chicago Record-Herald Arctic expedition has arrived at Tromsoe, Norway, on his way home. He has definitely given up his attempt to reach the north pole by airship for this season. A fast train on the Great Northern railroad was recently held up in Montana by two masked men, who dynamited an empty express safe and then riffled the registered mail pouches. The railroad company has offered $5,000 reward for the bandits. Bandits raided the town of Farney, S. D., terrorized the citizens, wrecked the bank safe and escaped with $2,000. A general strike of boiler makers on the Chicago Great Western, Great Northern and Omaha and Northern Pacific and the Soo railroads has been called. The government is preparing to store 2,400 quarters of fresh beef in the refrigerator plant at Colon for use of canal workers. The reported massacre of Jews at Kishineff is denied by the St. Petersburg authorities. Mexico is arranging to hold a national exposition in the Crystal Palace, London, in 1908. The first snow storm of the season occurred at Fort Wayne, Ind., recently. Additional cases of yellow fever are reported from Cienfuegos, Cuba. Sir Thomas Lipton, through the Royal Irish Yacht club of Dublin, has issued a challenge to the New York Yacht club for another race for the America's cup to take place in 1908. According to the Interstate Commerce commissioner's report, just made public, the railroads of the country during the year ended June 30, 1906, killed 10,618 persons and injured 97,706 others. Nineteen financial editors of British newspapers have arrived in this country to study the financial situation and natural resources of Canada and the United States. A mile race track is to be established at Zion City, near Chicago. Gov. Sheldon of Nebraska has declared himself in favor of an amendment to the constitution taking from the federal courts the right to enjoin state officials from enforcing state laws. The steamer Mont Eagle, from the Orient with hundreds of Japanese, Chinese and Hindus on board, was refused a landing at Vancouver and forced to turn back to Victoria, where the passengers were landed. The car service committee of the American Railway association held a conference recently at Atlantic City, N. J., to discuss measures to avert an impending car shortage on the railroads of the country. The new giant turbine steamer Lusitania made a new record between Queenstown and New York on her maiden voyage. She made the 2,782 miles in five days and 54 minutes. Her average speed was 23.01 knots an hour. The Springfield, O., team won the pennant in the Central baseball league with a total of 87 games won and 45 lost. The Nebraska railway commission has postponed indefinitely further hearings on grain rate reductions until the federal court acts on the application of the railroads for a temporary injunction. The European crop report of the department of agriculture for August suggests a marked decrease in the production of wheat as compared with last year. The forty-first annual parade of the Grand Army of the Republic was recently held in Saratoga, N. Y., during a driving rain storm. Ten thousand veterans were in line. The plant of the Cudahy Packing company in Philadelphia has been destroyed by fire. Up to December 1, 1906, the Panama canal had cost the United States government $84,449,000. While five negroes were engaged in shooting craps on the railroad track near Newburg, W. Va., a fast passenger train struck and killed them all. Forty-two counties in Missouri have voted for local option and have banished the saloon. A general railroad strike is threatened in England as the result of the demand of the Railway Men's union for the recognition of their organization. Representatives of Central American republics have agreed upon Washington as the place in which to hold the conference by which it is hoped to bring peace to Central America. The census bureau announces that the territories of Oklahoma and Indian territory contain a greater population than any state at the time of admission to the union. Two persons were killed and several injured in the collapse of a building at Cincinnati, O. Chester B. Runyan, who confessed to stealing $100,000 from the Windsor Trust company in New York, has been sentenced to seven years in Sing Sing. A monument has been erected at Winchester, Va., to the memory of the Massachusetts soldiers who fell in the Shenandoah valley during the civil war. The explosion of 15,000 pounds of powder at Alton, Il., killed one man and seriously shocked another. The sixteenth annual convention of the Missouri Federation of Labor met in Sedalia with 100 delegates present. The state board of health of Nebraska has adopted a resolution prohibiting any employee or appointee from carrying a pass. The German foreign office has denied the rumors that Ambassador von Sternberg was to be recalled from Washington. The United States navy department has contracted with Welsh firms for 100,000 tons of the best steam coal. Mexico has celebrated the ninety-seventh anniversary of Mexican independence. The body of the late L. H. Perkins of Lawrence, Kan., has been exhumed by order of Judge McPherson to as-certain as to whether he committed suicide or not. The Michigan conference of the M. E. church adopted a resolution asking Michigan senators to introduce in the United States senate an amendment to the constitution to prohibit polygamy. The record price for whisky was reached in Cincinnati when the quotations reached $1.34. Secretary Hester's annual report of the cotton crop places the yield at 13,510,982 bales, an increase of 2,164.994 over last year. Twenty-four excursionists were killed and 30 injured in a head-on collision on the Boston and Maine railroad near Canaan, Vt. In a game at Montreal a baseball player was struck over the heart by a pitched ball and died almost instantly. THE MAY CO. New Fall M Clothes for THE MAN who recognizes the service clothes will be very many features of merit embodied included in this vast army the new shades of brown—also o and broken plaids. We are all coats. All the May Special clothes most modernly equipped, s They are cut according to m are thoroughly conversant wi figures—every part is fashion that look every cent of $25.0 you that much value in we GOLDFIELD INVESTMENT Incorporated Under Capital 50,000 Share Dividends guaranteed or more against loss. Never has an investment been an Investment Company, Stock for in- tection to stockholders. Investors are protected againn reserve fund. With the completion of this furl from depreciating below its value, treasury of the company so as to compiled to sacrifice on their stock The company will loan as free- edge real estate. This company was organized a company, to buy and sell mining p and let leases in the best proven m Facts the Invest Why GOLDFIELD MINES INV bank repossessed and practically as con- First: The stock will pay in your bank will pay you in interest. Second: Your stock is made a Impossible to lose. Third: No doubt this is the fir- kind as safe and as profitable has of large capital always finance a they know the vast profits to be vestor has no chance. As there are 25,000 share advise the purchase of this stock a ent, and exceptionally profitable in Stock is sold in large blocks, a equal monthly payments, these payments is successfully c in this district. Our references are Officers and Directors: Titus N Treasurer; W. C. McFarland, Secret LIBERAL TERMS TO FIRST C Make all remittances payable W. C. McFARL BOX 211 Fall May Spend Times for Men S who recognizes the wide difference clothes will be very favorably impr of merit embodied in our new May this vast army of correctly tailor of brown—also grays in club check aids. We are also showing a splen by Special clothes are made by us in armly equipped, sanitary buildings at according to measure by expert de only conversant with the requirements every part is fashioned by hand. The every cent of $25.00, and will give such value in wear—choice... DFIELD MINES INVESTMENT Corporated Under the Laws of A 50,000 Shares Par Value guaranteed or money refunded. Invest a investment been offered that equals the company. Stock for income, safety of invest e protected again loss by the creation completion of this fund your stock is not below its value, but a market is est company so as to protect the stockhold frice on their stock. will loan as freely on this stock as o ly was organized as a mining stock bro and sell mining property and real estate the best proven mining districts in the The Investor Should DFIELD MINES INVESTMENT STOCK and practically as convenient. stock will pay in assured dividends m pay you in interest. our stock is made safer by the protection subst is the first time that an incis and profitable has been offered to the always finance and control these co vast profits to be derived, consequent finance. subst is the first time that an incis and profitable has been offered to the always finance and control these co vast profits to be derived, consequent finance. in large blocks, at 75 cents a share, to payments. is successfully conducted by the best. Our references are the best mining me Directors: Titus N. Alcander, President McFarland, Secretary; Geo. A. Young, J. ERMS TO FIRST CLASS AGENTS withittances payable to McFARLAND, Gen. New Fall May Special Clothes for Men $15.00 THE MAN who recognizes the wide difference in ready for service clothes will be very favorably impressed with the many features of merit embodied in our new May Special clothes included in this vast army of correctly tailored clothes are the new shades of brown—also grays in club check effects, stripes and broken plaids. We are also showing a splendid line of top coats. All the May Special clothes are made by us in one of the most modernly equipped, sanitary buildings in America. They are cut according to measure by expert designers, who are thoroughly conversant with the requirements of different figures--every part is fashioned by hand. They are clothes that look every cent of $25.00, and will give you that much value in wear—choice..... $15.00 GOLDFIELD MINES INVESTMENT CO. Incorporated Under the Laws of Arizona Capital 50,000 Shares Par Value $1.00 Dividends guaranteed or money refunded. Investment protected against loss. Never has an investment been offered that equals the Goldfield Mines Investment Fund. Stock for income, safety of investment and protection to stockholders. Investors are protected again loss by the creation of a protection reserve fund. With the completion of this fund your stock is not only prevented from depreciating below its value, but a market is established with the treasury company so as to protect the stockholders from being compelled to sacrifice their investment. The company will loan as freely on this stock as on the finest gilt- The company will loan as freely on this stock as on the finest gilt-edge real estate. This company was organized as a mining stock brokerage and trust company. This company mining property and real estate and to secure and lease locations in the best Facts the Investor Should Know Why GOLDFIELD MINES INVESTMENT STOCK is better than a bank loan environment. First: The stock will pay in assured dividends many times what your bank will pay you in interest. Second: The stock is made safer by the protection reserve fund. Impossible to lose. Third: No doubt this is the first time that an incorporation of this kind as safe and as profitable has been offered to the public, the men (they large) say finance and control these companies because they have the vast profits to be derived, consequently the small investor has no chance. As there are only 25,000 shares in this offering, we unhistitatingly advise you to invest at the present price as a safe, permanent, and exceptionally profitable investment. Stock is sold in large blocks, at 75 cents a share, to be made in four equal monthly payments, and successfully conducted by the best men of our race. W. C. McFARLAND, Gen. Mgr. THE B GROCERY A THE BEN HURRY AND MA J. E. MILLIMAN, PROP. Staple and Fano Cornfe Table and Fancy Groceries Cornfed Meats. D. Res. L. S. MOORE, Liquors and Cigars West Milwaukee Beer on Drau HT RELL'S PHARMA DR. W. J. COTTRELL, Physician and Surgeon, Proprietor. ODS—WHISKEY, WINES, BEER, ETC., Liqugs, hot an cold drinks, toilet arti- prescriptions carefully compounded, harmist. Prompt delivery to any par- Asst. D. Staple and Fancy Groceries and Cornfed Meats. L. S. N Wines, Liquor Pabst Milwaukee Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Pabst Milwaukee Beer on Draught. COTTRELL'S DR. W. J. Physician and Su BOTTLED GOODS—WHISKEY, W Pure drugs, hot an cold cigars—Prescriptions care istered Pharmist. Prompt COTTRELL'S PHARMACY BOTTLED GOODS—WHISKEY, WINES, BEER, ETC., A SPECIALTY. Pure drugs, hot an cold drinks, toilet articles and cigars—Prescriptions carefully compounded by Registered Pharmist. Prompt delivery to any part of city. For Fine Missouri Apple Jack and Corn Whiskey OLD RELIABLE 24th and Larimer Sts. Louisville Liquor Joseph Berger, Manager. Phone Main 5818. --- BOX 211 PHONE MAIN 7922. 1901 Champa St. Phone Main 5370. 1763 Curtis St. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 2100 Arapahoe St. COME TO THE May Special Men $15.00 The wide difference in ready for favorably impressed with the in our new May Special clothes of correctly tailored clothes are arrays in club check effects, stripes showing a splendid line of top are made by us in one of the minitary buildings in America. measure by expert designers, who in the requirements of different by hand. They are clothes and will give choice..... $15.00 OLD MINES MENT CO. the Laws of Arizona Par Value $1.00 y refunded. Investment protected offered that equals the Goldfield Mines home, safety of investment and process by the creation of a protection and your stock is not only prevented but a market is established with the protect the stockholders from being on this stock as on the finest gilt-a mining stock brokerage and trust property and real estate and to secure mining districts in the West. For Should Know ESTMENT STOCK is better than a cement. assured dividends many times what offer by the protection reserve fund. it time that an incorporation of this been offered to the public, the men and control these companies because derived, consequently the small in this offering, we unhesitatingly the present price as a safe, permanent. 75 cents a share, to be made in four produced by the best man of our race the best mining men here. Alexander, President; J. H. Maddox,vy; Geo. A. Young, J. L. Derrick. ASS AGENTS WITH REFERENCES. AND, Gen. Mgr. GOLDFIELD, NEVADA FRUITS VEGETABLES ETC EN HUR ND MARKET MAN, PROP. y Groceries and Meats. MOORE, and Cigars. Beer on Draught. PHARMACY COTTRELL, Geon, Proprietor. WINES, BEER, ETC., A SPECIALTY. drinks, toilet articles and fully compounded by Reg- delivery to any part of city. Asst. D. J. COTTRELL. Denver, Colorado J. W. Rummell, WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS PHONE 3432 MAIN. 2257 Welton St. Denver, Colo. hirst Parlors J. L. PENNINGTON, Prop. Fine Wines, Liquors & Cigars TELEPHONE 810 MAIN. 1745 Curtin St. Denver, Omaha ```markdown ``` Denver, Colo. Res. Phone York 1458. Denver, Colorado PHONE MAIN 8290 Denver, Colorado THE COLORADO STATESMAN CARSON MARSHAL FALLS RAZZ COUNTY PARTY JOS. D. D. RIVERS.....Proprietor S. H. HOBSON .....City Editor 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising 50 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. 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. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. WANTED—A BLACK WIFE man in Colorado Springs who adv own opinion of himself. He was a s ed black woman would consider him was helping to solve a great work ing a fool of himself. The kind of a method would probably beat his god, sensible black woman is yearn enation. And yet the chivalrous w his stunt as an affront to the wom him. Miscegenation, under honest est nature, but as a means of regea y of philosophical consideration. THE white man in Colorado Springs who advertised for a black wife had too big an opinion of himself. He was a street fakir, but he thought some good black woman would consider him a prize. He had a notion that he was helping to solve a great world problem, but he was simply making a fool of himself. The kind of a black woman he could get by such a method would probably beat his head off with his telescope. No good, sensible black woman is yearning for any freak disciple of miscegenation. And yet the chivalrous white youth of Colorado Springs took his stunt as an affront to the woman of his own race. They can have him. Miscegenation, under honest circumstances, is not a crime against nature, but as a means of regenerating the white race it is not worthy of philosophical consideration. THE HINDOO AND THE JAP. servers at Bellingham, in the state of thirty-eight miles further north, in an mobbing Hindoo and Japaneseese points. In the latter place a pane Japanese consul were among the victims, given credit for having inspired them on the Orientals. There is talk because the Americans attacked Enattacked Japanese subjects. But they busy smoothing the wrinkles on the authorities to punish the rioters, short, will go a long way toward the offenses usually charged against the barbarians, like the Moors. But they will change the conviction that they had under the spell of his example, the streak of race-hatred in hisrowing it. The whites greatly outnumbered always careful on this point. The news were driving them out of eminent women responsible for it. The men workmen of their own accord. The regulation of the matter into the case involving their respective country the blacks of Africa have a similar go to their country to take the their country of its riches. But these armed forces are sent to compel and agree. There is no international case of extermination of a few and savages. Some are wild and scary end with the immediate terminology are not a strong, pugnacious men an impression of the white man's soil. The Japanese are on settling these small affairs on son Africans are strong and prolific are the places of those killed. But an imminent injustice is being slowly stamped on the earth. In comparison, diplomatic. The black men and the blue earth are slowly awakening, and for justice. And the white man wants for what he has and for what others will begin to fight back. WHITE laborers at Bellingham, in the state of Washington, and at Vancouver, forty-eight miles further north, in the Dominion of Canada, have been mobbing Hindoo and Japanese laborers working in the mills at those points. In the latter place a prominent Japanese official and a Japanese consul were among the victims maltreated. The Americans are given credit for having inspired the Englishmen to make their attack on the Orientals. There is talk of international complications, because the Americans attacked English subjects and the Englishmen attacked Japanese subjects. But the fine hand of diplomacy is already busy smoothing the wrinkles out of the situation. The efforts of the authorities to punish the rioters, which appears to be an earnest effort, will go a long way toward taking these affairs out of the class of offenses usually charged against the heathen, like the Chinese, or the barbarians, like the Moors. But nothing that the authorities can do will change the conviction that the white American laboring man, and under the spell of his example the English laboring man has a vicious streak of race-hatred in his makeup, and a cowardly way of showing it. The whites greatly outnumbered the Orientals. They are always careful on this point. They claimed that the blacks and yellows were driving them out of employment. If this were true, white men were responsible for it. The mill owners secured the dark-skinned workmen of their own accord. But the white men sought to take the regulation of the matter into their own hands, and they succeeded in involving their respective countries in international complications. The blacks of Africa have a similar habit of attacking white men who go to their country to take the bread out of their mouths and rob their country of its riches. But these blacks are counted as heathen and armed forces are sent to compel them to submit to the white man's greed. There is no international complication about that, but merely a case of extermination of a few wild tribes. But there are savages and savages. Some are wild and some are tame. But none of these things end with the immediate termination of hostilities. The people of India are not a strong, pugnacious nation, but they are capable of absorbing an impression of the white man's regard for them on the white man's soil. The Japanese are diplomatic and can see the wisdom of settling these small affairs on some honorable, legal basis. And the Africans are strong and prolific and can grow more heathen to take the places of those killed. But an incredible impression of the white man's injustice is being slowly stamped upon the minds of the people of the earth. In comparison, diplomacy is short-lived and never so effective. The black men and the brown men and the yellow men of the earth are slowly awakening, and all are looking to the white man for justice. And the white man wants the earth for himself. He fights for what he has and for what belongs to others. Some day the others will begin to fight back. SENTIMENT IN POLITICS identident Roosevelt, in one of his e- "the door of hope should not be made use of an expression that was p- do with the business affairs of the set principles upon which pr- y elected to office. Sentiment is aous feeling, or an impulse of the not business. While political party- of principles which it WHEN President Roosevelt, in one of his early White House letters, said that "the door of hope should not be closed to the colored man," he made use of an expression that was purely sentimental. It had nothing to do with the business affairs of the nation, and formed no part of the set principles upon which presidents and other officials are usually elected to office. Sentiment is a moral idea based upon a conscientious feeling, or an impulse of the heart. But speaking strictly it is not business. While political party platforms usually consist of a set of principles which, it is proposed, shall be applied to business conditions, and to commercial and administrative policies, many platforms in various campaigns have contained planks that were purely sentimental in idea and application. Pensions for soldiers, less work for the working man, sympathy for the Irish, the Jews or the Boers, and expressions concerning the rights of colored people all come generally under the head of sentiment. These expressions are designed more for the purpose of winning votes than for the creation of an administrative policy, for after election their realization depends more upon the personal ideas and moral integrity of the chief executive than upon the legislative activity of the party espousing them. Yet under certain conditions sentiment has its place in politics and in political platforms, and especially as a means of openly committing the party and its candidates to certain ideas, if not binding them to legal enactments. Colored voters, as a rule, are led by sentiment more than by actual legislative issues, for the feel that their welfare is better subserved by following candidates committed to certain personal beliefs, and that the continuance of an established assumption of friendliness is of greater importance to them than the economic or industrial issues. With them race interest is the first and vital question, and the interests of the colored people of the United States are indeed affected by changes in the political character of the national administration. This will be true as long as Republicans eling to the traditional sentiments of the party: as long as it can be felt that Republicanism stands for fair play, fair opportunity and a square deal. It is to be regretted that black voters cannot readily take sides upon the industrial issues without thought of the sentimental questions involved. It is extremely unfortunate that a large portion of the white citizenship is not disposed to allow the colored man the same open opportunity that its own individual members enjoy. The determination not to do so is plainly discernable in all sections of the country and the tendency to drop this habitual prejudice is not lessened by the importance of great industrial questions involving the nation's good. But Secretary Taft's voice has been raised in advocacy of a plan to eliminate the Negro question from politics. Evidence has accumulated to show that the President is now squarely with him on this proposition. It is not for the reason that the "door of hope" shall remain open to the colored man, but that the white man shall devote more attention to the industrial issues. If there were any assurance that by dropping the Negro question in the South or elsewhere the door of hope and opportunity would not be cut out of the political structure with it, we would say, "Amen!" But these statesmen, in their anxiety to weld the South to the Republican party, are disposed to leave the Negro's interests to whatever fate may overtake them. Time, they say, will settle the race question. This is the new Republicanism; the kind that holds out the olive branch to Democracy; the school that would eliminate sentiment from politics. Special Discount Sale ```markdown ``` This is an Unsurpassed Purchasing Opportunity for every one. It is held to Reduce our Stock. Dinner Sets. Our Dinner Set Sales have increased by leaps and bounds during this sale. Never before have we shown such a splendid assortment at such attractive prices. 100-piece Dinner Set, high grade semi-porcelain, pink and gold decoration; regular price $14.50; sale price.....$9.50 100-piece Dinner Sets, in quaint old blue decoration; regular price $16.50; sale price.....$12.75 100-piece Dinner Sets, French China in four new decorations and very latest shapes; a regu lar $35.00 value for.....$24.50 Full size, with lamp guaranteed to burn one hour; reduced from $3.50 to ..... $1.35 Limited Quantity. Jardinieres Many styles to select from; some in choice blended colorings; a 60c value for..... 35c Our 10c, 25c, 50c and $1.00 John Carson & B 15th and S Ladies Attention! Mrs. M. A. Holly, who has spent some time in St. Louis perfecting herself in the scalp and hair treatment of Mrs. A. M. Pope, has come. She is now prepared to do the same work as is done in the originator's parlors. She is the sole agent for the famed preparation, "Poro." Address her at 2118 Arapahoe street, or Phone Olive 1984. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Optimism is generated by a good liver. Busy men and ennul are not on speaking terms. Love of popularity has put many a man out of the running. The poor we have always with us in the guise of relations. True love is responsible for many follies and a few crimes. That love which other people bear your coin is the root of much trouble. A small man never forgets to boast of his bravery after the danger is past. When you see a man without enemies you see a man who has but few friends. Some parrots are good talkers, but they are not in it with three women in a box at the opera. The tourist from Cincinnati loiled back his copious girth in the tiny stool of the Toklo tea house, while through the carven latticework the tinkle of a samisen came in alluring cadence over an expanse of stunted pine, wistaria and fairy lakes. "This is all to the Pierre Loti!" he mused. "And yonder comes a daunting geisha girl to take my order. I will speak to her in the poetry of the land. "Ah, O Mimosa San, I swear by the white crest of the mountain Fujiyama that you love, that—" "Oh, fudge!" said the geisha girl in limpid English. "I've just graduated from Barnard college, and I prefer the Pallasades or the Catskills." Then to the kitchen she ordered. "Draw one!" "Ah," said the tourist, in a hurt tone of voice, "I thought you were one of the poetic creatures made famous by Lafcadio Hearn." "Who was he?" asked the Jap malden, with polite interest. "Seems to me I've heard of him, but I'm reading Huxley and Emerson just now." Listening again, the tourist discovered that the tinkle of the samisen was only the sound from the shuttles of a cotton mill. Serious Error Rectified. All the mountains in Switzerland have suddenly been reduced in height by about ten feet. In 1820 the tip of a certain rock in the Lake of Geneva was calculated to be 376.86 metres above ocean level, and on this basis all the summits in the country were calculated. Recently the discovery was made that an error had been made in fixing the height of that rock, and that it is 3.26 metres lower than was marked. Women Should Learn the Art of Fencing ```markdown ``` the more perfect on, when actual tion, which can o it is mentioned t to be devoted, ting to fence; but rect style and p stages that the t interest to the co When all th been mastered w left. All fencing Salute," which is of attack and d point reversed an towards the adve spectators are, th and movements o proceed to a trial ments, and the better this is the more perfect and easier of attainment wil on, when actual foil practice is reached. There tion, which can only be attained by diligent stu it is mentioned that to correctly master the "lu to be devoted, this might at first sight tend to oing to fence; but in reality it is not so, because rect style and position plays such an important stages that the time so given is profitably spent interest to the conscientious student. When all the movements and position with been mastered with the right hand, the same sl left. All fencing displays are preceded by what Salute," which is simply an exhibition of all the of attack and defense respectively by the opp point reversed and directed towards oneself, the towards the adversary and showing that no "e spectators are, therefore, able to realize the be and movements of the art of fencing, after who proceed to a trial of skill between themselves in the more perfect and easier of attainment will be the performance later on, when actual foil practice is reached. There is no short cut to perfection, which can only be attained by diligent study and practice, and when it is mentioned that to correctly master the "lunge" six months may have to be devoted, this might at first sight tend to deter aspirants from learning to fence; but in reality it is not so, because the time devoted to correct style and position plays such an important part in the subsequent stages that the time so given is profitably spent, and returns a four-fold interest to the conscientious student. When all the movements and position with and without the foil have been mastered with the right hand, the same should be practiced with the left. All fencing displays are preceded by what is known as the "Grand Salute," which is simply an exhibition of all the positions and movements of attack and defense respectively by the opponents, but with the foil point reversed and directed towards oneself, this being an act of courtesy towards the adversary and showing that no "evil intent" is meant. The spectators are, therefore, able to realize the beauty of the true positions and movements of the art of fencing, after which the friendly opponents proceed to a trial of skill between themselves in "loose play." The Education of Boys By A. H. GILKES, Headmaster Dulwich College, England. A main point with regard to doing anything intelligently is that the doer should have a right aim. In warfare the aim is not to have smart uniforms or well-fed soldiers, but to beat the en- ing houses, but at one, who mistaken schools, anyone who is what is a means thing, is a danger dangerous he is. does when he take form. The aim wh selves, in default Greek or French, teach them to sw sight into business spondence in what or to speak in put it is not simply t own in every kind gle benefit or any have is different it is beyond them all. Perhaps som think that such a much precision. ness, courage, put all directions, an Unseen Power w gether with a heart be those at the And since there i man beings, the n them should be t We should not, i compliment a con nothing but stime to deal only with urement. We w which will best br will best make hi ing houses, but a useful trade. And just as in the one, who mistakes the means for the end, is like schools, anyone who has not a knowledge of them what is a means and not an end, and exalts the thing, is a dangerous man. The more able and dangerous he is. All his excellence only increases when he takes upon himself a task which he form. The aim which, I believe, schoolmasters selfes, in default of a better, is—not simply to Greek or French, German or Latin, science or not teach them to swim or to play at cricket and for sight into business matters, or to enable them to spondence in what is called English—not simply or to speak in public, or to exercise authority, but it is not simply to shrink from danger and respown in every kind of temptation. The aim is not a noble benefit or any little group of benefits. The man have is different from any of these taken singly, is beyond them all, and superior to them all. Perhaps some people may think that this is think that such a thought is incorrect. The aim much precision. The qualities which make a manness, courage, public spirit, kindness, with an up all directions, and most of all in the direction of Unseen Power which rules us all; these qualities gether with a healthy body, seem to us schoolman be those at the production of which we should. And since there is some difference in the nature man beings, the methods which we employ in practice should be those suited to the nature of ear. We should not, for instance, scold a willing be compliment a conceited boy, nor teach a poetic nothing but stimulate the imagination of one wi to deal only with that which admits of accurate urement. We wish to give to every boy that the which will best bring out his good qualities—that will best make him a real man. ing houses, but a useful trade. And just as in warfare or in business, anyone, who mistakes the means for the end, is likely to fail, so with regard to schools, anyone who has not a knowledge of the right aim, but seizes upon what is a means and not an end, and exalts this as though it were everything, is a dangerous man. The more able and brilliant he is, the more dangerous he is. All his excellence only increases the mischief which he does when he takes upon himself a task which he is not competent to perform. The aim which, I believe, schoolmasters generally set before themselves, in default of a better, is—not simply to give boys a knowledge of Greek or French, German or Latin, science or mathematics—not simply to teach them to swim or to play at cricket and football, to give them an insight into business matters, or to enable them to carry on a business correspondence in what is called English—not simply to use their eyes and ears, or to speak in public, or to exercise authority, or to get their own living; it is not simply to shrink from danger and responsibility, or to hold their own in every kind of temptation. The aim is not to help them to any single benefit or any little group of benefits. The aim which, I believe, we all have is different from any of these taken singly; but it implies them all, it is beyond them all, and superior to them all. Perhaps some people may think that this is too vague an aim; but I think that such a thought is incorrect. The aim may be described with much precision. The qualities which make a man are truthfulness, cleanness, courage, public spirit, kindness, with an understanding quickened in all directions, and most of all in the direction of that Unseen Power which rules us all; these qualities, together with a healthy body, seem to us schoolmasters to be those at the production of which we should aim. And since there is some difference in the nature of human beings, the methods which we employ in producing them should be those suited to the nature of each boy. We should not, for instance, scold a willing boy, nor compliment a conceited boy, nor teach a poetical boy nothing but stimulate the imagination of one who loves to deal only with that which admits of accurate measurement. We wish to give to every boy that teaching which will best bring out his good qualities—that which will best make him a real man. True Mission of the Play By ETHEL BARRYMORE. Actress. song where such a purpose in the dri people of the world who take the theae The follies are tools. When they dan's "Rivals" did mess of his period song where such diversions are offered. But such purpose in the drama, and any big question affe- people of the world should surely prove of great who take the theater seriously. The follies and injustices of the times are the tools. When they are skillfully handled they never dan's "Rivals" did more to suppress the blusteriness of his period than a thousand tracts could be song where such diversions are offered. But surely there is also a great purpose in the drama, and any big question affecting a great class of the people of the world should surely prove of great interest and value to those who take the theater seriously. The follies and injustices of the times are the dramatists' themes and tools. When they are skillfully handled they never miss their aim. Sheridan's "Rivals" did more to suppress the blustering, oath-cracking swaggerness of his period than a thousand tracts could have done By MARY CLIFTON-HADDAN, Expert English Swordwoman. The art of fencing of late years, of ordinary progress, not only amongst the nation," but amongst our own sex. It is not only a particularly hard but one tending largely to beautify an elegant carriage and deportment, moderation, to aid even those of us whilst for such as lead sedentary lives results. It has, moreover, the advantage any companion in its study, as its practices and positions can be acquired professional assistance may be dispensed months until such progress has been stages of fencing are reached, when it become necessary. Now it goes without saying that before one can run, so it is necessary, roughly acquire the preliminary positions, and the better this is done, it and easier of attainment will be the real practice is reached. There is not only be attained by diligent study and but to correctly master the "lunge" skill at first sight tend to deter as in reality it is not so, because the training plays such an important part as so given is profitably spent, and is scientious student. Removements and position with and with the right hand, the same should be displayed are preceded by what is known simply an exhibition of all the positions sense respectively by the opponents, directed towards oneself, this being easy and showing that no "evil intention," able to realize the beauty of the art of fencing, after which the skill between themselves in "loose The art of fencing of late years has made extraor-ordinary progress, not only amongst the "lords of creation," but amongst our own sex. It is not only a particularly healthful recreation, but one tending largely to beautify the form and give an elegant carriage and deportment, and, if taken in moderation, to aid even those of weakly constitution; whilst for such as lead sedentary lives it affords valuable results. It has, moreover, the advantage of not requiring any companion in its study, as all the preliminary practices and positions can be acquired alone, and professional assistance may be dispensed with for some months until such progress has been made that the later stages of fencing are reached, when such assistance will become necessary. Now it goes without saying that as one must walk before one can run, so it is necessary first of all to thoroughly acquire the preliminary positions and movements, and the better this is done, in the first instance, useful trade. And just as in warfare, the means for the end, is likely to fail, so has not a knowledge of the right and not an end, and exalts this as theous man. The more able and brilli. All his excellence only increases the upon himself a task which he is no. such, I believe, schoolmasters generally of a better, is—not simply to give by German or Latin, science or mathema or to play at cricket and football, matters, or to enable them to carry his called English—not simply to use, sic, or to exercise authority, or to get shrink from danger and responsibility of temptation. The aim is not to he little group of benefits. The aim who from any of these taken singly; but it and superior to them all. People may think that this is too vv thought is incorrect. The aim may the qualities which make a man are ecic spirit, kindness, with an understa. most of all in the direction of that which rules us all; these qualities, tohy body, seem to us schoolmasters to production of which we should aim, some difference in the nature of huthods which we employ in producing rose suited to the nature of each boy. or instance, scold a willing boy, nor seited boy, nor teach a poetical boy.ate the imagination of one who loves that which admits of accurate meas. to give to every boy that teaching ing out his good qualities—that which a real man. versions are offered. But surely the ma, and any big question affecting a should surely prove of great interest or seriously. injustices of the times are the dram are skillfully handled they never miss more to suppress the blustering, oath han a thousand tracts could have done A main point with regard to doing anything intelligently is that the doer should have a right aim. In warfare the aim is not to have smart uniforms or well-fed soldiers, but to beat the enemy; and in business not to have smart count- warfare or in business, any-ly to fail, so with regard to right aim, but seizes upon as though it were every-ld brilliant he is, the more causes the mischief which he is not competent to per- generally set before them-give boys a knowledge of mathematics—not simply to football, to give them an in- carry on a business corre- to use their eyes and ears, or to get their own living; consibility, or to hold their not to help them to any sin-aim which, I believe, we all but it implies them all, it is too vague an aim; but I aim may be described with man are truthfulness, clean-understanding quickened in of that A. H. Many people will say that the theater is for recreation and amusement, and the entire dismissal of any mental effort on the part of the audience. It is of course all of that, and there are many Temples of Thespis filled with laughter and music and rarely there is also a great setting a great class of the interest and value to those the dramatists' themes and ever miss their aim. Sheri- ing, oath-cracking swagger- ave done. CITY NEWS. W. A. Holly of Pueblo is in the city. Mrs. E. W. Turner of 2503 Curtis St. is very sick. Edward Lockett and wife ef Silverton, Colo., are in the city. Mrs. S. W. Byrd of Pueblo is the guest of her son James and wife. Mrs. L. Maxwell, the evangelist is attending the A. M. E. conference. Mrs. Wm. Crummer is home from a very lengthy stay in Ogden, Utah. J. W. Levell had a very successful operation performed on his eye, Tuesday. Sunday alliance program: Paper, J. H. Watkins, quartett; speech, Judge, Ross. Mrs. J. W. Taylor visited her mother and daughter in Colorado Springs, this week. Mrs. J. F. Curtis and daughter Mrs. Lizzie Watson of Colorado Springs are in the city. Miss Bertha Larkins will leave today for Washington, D. C., to enter Howard University. Mrs. Leonard Anderson who has recently returned from Chicago is very sick at her home in Montclair. Wait for the grand Mask ball to be given by Damon Lodge No. 5 K. of P. at East Turner hall, Thursday, Oct 3rd. Rev. Wm. Solly of Las Vegas, who is here attending the A. M. E. conference was an interesting caller at this office Tuesday. Rev. C. A. Edwards left last Tuesday night for Clifford, Va., where he will take charge as pastor of a large Baptist church. Rev. J. Frank McDonald, editor of the Western Christian Advocate published in Kansas City, Mo., is attending the conference. Mrs. C. E. Jones of 3763 Franklin St. arrived home last week after a two weeks visit in Salt Lake and other Western cities. Mrs. J. Washington, a prominent society lady of Pueblo, arrived in the city Tuesday and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Travick. Miss Gonzales Porter who has been spending several weeks in Omaha with her father and mother will leave for Lincoln Institute next week. R. G. Holly who is traveling with the Mahara ministrals was in the city a few days last week, his sister, Mrs. Chas. Cosey tendered him a reception Friday evening. Mrs. Julius Avendorf one of Chicago's most prominent young society ladies arrived in the city yesterday on a short visit. She is the guest of Mrs. Bessie Keelan. Miss Irene J. Watson is attending Business college and Miss Mable Watson is attending the Conservatory of Music. They are doing fine work at present. Horace White of Sedalia, Mo., died in this city last Wednesday and the remains were shipped to his old home for burial. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. John R. Contee. G. O. Duncan and wife left last Saturday for a visit to relatives and friends in Southern Kansas. They will journey from there to Kalamazoo, Mich., where they will spend a short time with relatives. They have a host of friends in Denver who wish them an enjoyable trip. The twenty-first session of the Colorado A. M. E. conference convened at Shorter Chapel last Wednesday with Bishop A. Grant presiding. There are many delegates present and the week has been one of much enthusiasm. The assignments will be published in our next issue. The grand opening of the Cosmopolitan Chili parlor at 1922 Lawrence St., last Tuesday night was one of the most enjoyable functions of the week. A large crowd was present and Messrs Shelbun and Carruth saw to it that everybody had a good time. Harris' orchestra furnished music for the occasion. Mrs. Robert Neeley gave a reception Thursday Sept. 12th in honor of Mrs. Stacy Henry of Washington, D. C. The house was beautifully decorated with flowers. The colors used were red and green. The dining room was darkened and many danties were served to about 40 ladies who responded to invitations. Mrs. Neeley was ably assisted by Mrs. A. Colston. Mrs. Ora Marshall had charge of the punch bowl. Mrs. Henry is a charming lady. Her many friends regret her departure for her home at Washington D. C. in the near future. The reception given at Shorter church Wednesday evening to the ministers and visiting friends was a brilliant affair. Bishop Grant presided. Lieut. Gov. E. R. Harper welcomed the ministerial body on behalf of the State of Colorado. Mr. Harper is a pleasing speaker, has a pleasant personality and gave out many thoughts worthy of consideration. The choir rendered some very excellent music. Addresses were made by Rev. Bray of Pueblo, Miss Gertie Nichols, Mrs. Tillman of Colorado Springs, Rev. A. E. Reynolds and Rev. John Turner. Mrs. J. H. P. Westbrook sang a solo, which was well received. The Life Line club served refreshments to the visiting ministers and their wives and the public generally. It is with pleasure that we note the coming of Rev. Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, the discoverer of the "Limitless Life," for which he has succeeded in adding a large following on the Pacific coast since its discovery. Dr. Lucas is expected in Denver this week or the first of next and will hold meetings of his "Limitless Life" faith. He has accomplished much for humanity, in fact we have failed to learn of the man who has done more to make one's life blissful than has Dr. Lucas in his "Philosophy of a Limitless Life." His coming to Denver will be herald with delight and he will be received with a warm welcome. Local Notices. Hair cut 15 cents, 1847 Blake street For Rent—A large front room and rear room. Mrs. R. H. George, 2344 Tremont Place. Phone Olive 1414. Go to Haisner Liquor Co. for fine wines, liquors and cigars, 2202 Larimer street. Headquarters for Pullman porters and waiters. Ernest Howard, carpenter and all kinds of job work done at reasonable prices. Residence 553 Warren avenue. Phone 2129 Brown. The next big event will be the grand Mask ball at East Turner hall given by Damon Lodge No. 5 K. of P., Thursday October. 3rd. The greatest queensware sale ever known in Denver is now going on at the John Carson & Bro. Crockery Oo. 15th and Stout Sts. Everything at a sacrifice. The Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar containing his complete poems and best short stories. J. H. Doniphan, agent, 2836 Stout street. Address him a card and he will call and show you the book. THE Conley Employment & Real Estate & Mines. THE Room 29 Pioneer Bld. 15th @ Larimer. Phone Main 8004. Some fine houses in all parts of the city to sell on easy terms. Employment furnished in all kinds of Avocations. G. T. CONLEY, Prop. NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY. Estate of Margaret Cowell, deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed executor of the estate of Margaret Cowell, late of the city and county of Denver, in the state of Colorado, deceased, hereby gives notice that he will appear before the County Court of said city and county of Denver, at the courthouse in Denver, in said county, on Monday, the 21st day of October, A.D. 1907, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the morning, time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indicted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated at Denver, Colorado, this 19th day of September, 1907. HARRY COWELL. Executor of the estate of Margaret Cowell, deceased. Stetson The name "Stetson" in a hat is an insurance policy for correct style, beauty, quality and wear. The Stetson always performs its whole duty and makes a friend of the man who wears it. NEW FALL STYLES NOW IN AND SHOWING. THEY'RE $3 $4 $5 $6 Every one best at price--Here or her THE Johnson-Noel NEW FALL STYLES NOW IN AND SHOWING. THEY'RE $3 $4 $5 $6 one best at price--Here or hereafter. THE Johnson-Noel Co NEW FALL STYLES NOW IN AND SHOWING. THEY'RE $3 $4 $5 $6 Every one best at price--Here or hereafter. SAY? WHA HONEST? Y? WHAT! LISTEN. HONEST? YES SIR. Damon Lodge No. 5, SAY? WHAT! LISTEN. HONEST? YES SIR. and Mask Ball Grand M Grand Mask Ball OF THE SEASON IN HONOR OF THE International Building L EAST TUR THURS OCT. Music will be furnished by Harris hear "Oh! M Refreshments will be served by Co Come Earl And do you know you don't h ADMISSION And of course you know we'll COMMITTEE:—J. W. T Thomas Douglass, W. H. Penson, BROADWAY BU National Building Labor's Union of America AT ST TURNER HALL, THURSDAY EV. OCT. 3, '07. are furnished by Harris' Superb Orchestra, and you want to hear "Oh! Me! Oh! My." is will be served by Columbine Court of Calanthe No. 279 Come Early--Stay Late you know you don't have to mask if you don't want to ADMISSION 50 CENTS. course you know we'll just bring Miss Maggie down. MITTEE:—J. W. Taylor, Ch'm.; H. W. Hinkle, Secy.; Glass, W. H. Penson, James Kilbert. DWAY BUFFET AND CAFE. International Building Labor's Union of America EAST TURNER HALL, THURSDAY EV. OCT. 3, '07. Music will be furnished by Harris' Superb Orchestra, and you want to hear "Oh! Me! Oh! My." And do you know you don't have to mask if you don't want to ADMISSION 50 CENTS. And of course you know we'll just bring Miss Maggie down. COMMITTEE:—J. W. Taylor, Ch'm.; H. W. Hinkle, Secy.; Thomas Douglass, W. H. Penson, James Kilbert. BROADWAY BUFFET AND CAFE. JOHN H. REICHERT Prop Denver Barber's Supply C. 8 FIFTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLO. The Denver Ba 1008 FIFTEENTH ST The Denver Barber's Supply C. 1008 FIFTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLO. JOSEPH H. STUART LAWYER. Practice in all courts. Examining abstract of title and drawing up legal instruments given careful attention. 329 Kittredge Bld. Phone Olive 294 Res. 2562 Lincoln Av. ```markdown ``` KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAVS. F.C.B. Importer of and dealer IN WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. PHOME MAIN 5184. C OPP. TABOR GRAND. K. of P. WILL GIVE THE FIRST Bottled Goods for Family Use My Specialty. ** POINTED PARAGRAPH6. If a man has but one shirt he never owes a big wash bill. The mantle of charity is soon worn threadbare by a hypocrite. Recklessness of a young fool is only surpassed by an old fool's obstinacy. A good many so-called business pointers turn out to be disappointers THE CUSTOM OF HARAKIRI. Said to Be Practiced Only by Descendants of Old Nobles of Japan. The custom of harakiri is a thing rather confined to the samurai class, and the helmin, the commoners, are quite strangers to it, writes Mr. Hashluchi in the Atlantic, a Japanese magazine published in New York. It thrived in the days of feudalism, when the lives of the camurai were at the disposal of their masters, lords and rulers. The samurai youths were taught to commit harakiri rather than submit to the disgrace of decapitation. Thus harakiri became an inverteate hereditary propensity of the samurai class, from which it was not an easy affair to free them after the advent of the western civilization awakened the benighted land of the Rising Sun. In this enlightened age of Meiji, however, this practice has been going out of fashion. Yet it is amazing to learn that it has again come into use in the war with Russia. Last year Prof. Ukida of Waseda university of Tokio, who is a graduate of Yale, delivered an address in an educational gathering held in Tokio, in which he referred to the practice of harakiri. He said in part: "A soldier may die in the battlefield for the sake of duty, not for the sake of personal honor. He shall not commit harakiri just because he has no means of defense against his enemy. Should he be taken prisoner by the enemy he will do well to console himself with the idea that he is sent to the enemy's country as a student, to be of further service in future to his country." His reasons were right, if his utterances were not judiciously made. Yet he has been denounced as a traitor by Maj. Gen. Sato, who based his arguments upon the sentiment that the Japanese soldiers die in the battlefield not for the sake of honor; that it is for the Russians, not for the Japanese, to die for duty; that by committing harakri rather than surrendering to the Russians have the Japanese been enabled to win the victory; and that Prof. Ukida's address would have a tendency to detract from the patriotic fervor of the Japanese soldiers. All the press of Japan made comments upon the controversy, saying that what Prof. Ukida termed duty was exactly the same as what Maj. Gen. Sato termed honor in the essential points. McKinley's Thoughtfulness. It was a blistering hot day on the sands of Camp Montauk in 1898. Fourteen thousand weak, sick or wounded soldier boys swoltered under their tents. Down at the army depot the Second cavalry had received President McKinley and Secretary of War Alger with a great flourish of trumpets and salute of swords. Cannon were booming the president's salute, and transports in the harbor waving their flags. The president had called these 14,000 men and boys together to defend the nation. He might have been swelled with pride over the honors being paid to him. His carriage moved slowly through the deep and hot sand. The tenderness in his nature came to the surface as he leaned forward and asked Secre tary Alger; "Have the boys plenty of water?" Men Are Gossips "When it comes to discretion, if there is an inequality of the sexes we fancy men have the disadvantage," remarks a London paper, apropos of the exclusion of women secretaries from the higher bureaus at Washington. "If there is a scandal in society, a dark cloud overhanging the ministry, an ominous rumor about a newspaper or a bank, where is it first discussed? Why, in the men's clubs. Thence it reaches the female gossips, and if they in turn mention what 'my husband heard at the club' they are at once set down as scandal mongers, while the originators of the scandal go scot free. In country houses, too, are not the men as ready to tell tales as the women, as eager to bring forward the latest news, political, social or financial? Many women let their tongues run on, it is true, but so do many men." Nature Reclaimed Island. Nature Recclaimed Island. King island, between the coasts of Tasmania and the Australian mainland, has always been an arid waste of sand and other ironable soil. Some years ago, however, a vessel was wrecked off the island and a number of the sailors' mattresses, stuffed with the yellow-flowered clover, a kind of grass, were washed ashore. A certain quantity of seed was contained among the stuffing and in due course these took root and in the space of a few years covered the sandy stretches with rich verdure. Clover and other leguminous plants have the peculiar capacity of fertilizing a waste soil, owing principally to the action of bacteria, thereby enabling the plants to draw nitrogen directly from the atmosphere. King island, previously a waste stretch of sand, is now one of the richest grazing districts in the Australian continent. A Misconception. "Your reputation is gone," the capitol grafter was informed. He brightened up instantly. "Good!" he exclaimed. "Why, do you know, it was my reputation that made me take to tall timber." Whistling merrily, he began to study a time-table. Honey the Least of the Profits from Busy Insects. Honey producing is only one of the missions of the bee. Indeed, for actual profit, the honey is but a minor item. Some years ago I moved to a small place up the Hudson river. I wanted a bee farm and selected for that purpose a spot among apple, cherry and plum trees, some of which had never borne fruit, others none for years past. My landlord told me I might cut down certain trees, as they were worthless, and he intended putting out some fine nursery stock. Being busy I did not cut the trees down. They blossomed freely and of course we paid no further heed to them than to break blooms by the armful when we wanted floral decorations. The cherry trees were, much to the owner's astonishment, loaded with very large, perfect fruit. He could not understand it; such a thing had not happened for years. Early in the autumn while waiting for a swarm of bees to settle I observed a number of fine apples upon one of the smaller condemned trees. When the landlord's attention was called to them he was completely mystified and called in his neighbors to see the wonder. Later we gathered from this tree nearly a barrel of the finest fall pippins ever seen in that vicinity. No argument would convince the man that "them pesky bees" had anything to do with the yield of fruit on the place. He insisted that some sort of fertilizer must have been used. Since that time I have demonstrated by scores of experiments that trees which had for many seasons borne little good fruit, or possibly none at all, have been brought up to a high standard of productiveness by the presence of bees. They carried the pollen, fertilized the blossoms and a bountiful harvest was the result. Regardless of the honey crop, every fruit grower should have a few colonies of bees. If when the bloom season is past there is so little nectar in midseason flowers that the bees must be fed it is a decided economy to feed them, as in cases where a strict account has been kept the cash value of orchard products alone has been doubled by their assistance.—Suburban Life. No Fences in Belgium. If beautiful Belgium there are so fences. Neither are there hedges, as in England. The boundaries of the fields are raised up by fairly high earth banks, and the roads are cut out of them, as it were, so that when you are walking in the country you are down in a sort of valley, with low green banks on either side of you. The things that are chiefly cultivated in Belgium are the beet root, for making the cheaper kind of sugar, you know, and you can see field upon field of their reddy-green leaves stretching on either side of you as you walk along. Flax is also much grown over there, and in summer time the fields are such a pretty sight when the pale blue flax blossoms are out in full bloom. Belgian asparagus is also renowned all over Europe. It has white instead of purple-green tips, like our homegrown asparagus. Women Who Write at Home About one woman in 100 keeps up her music after marriage, although they may have passed years of their own time and spent many dollars belonging to their fathers in study. The number that drops off in art is even greater, but writing has a fascination difficult to resist. A great deal of the writing done by women comes from homes, more or less comfortable and happy. Much of it is the kind not easily duplicated and it would be nonsense to compel such women to forget their talents. Many a son has been fitted for his life work by the ability of his mother to earn money at a steady rate. Holland's Queen Domineering. Holland's queen, Wilhelmina, has exalted notions of her royal authority. She is said to interfere in a most personal way with the conduct of Dutch foreign relations. She looks upon the Dutch colonies as, in some sort, the private appanages of the house of Orange. Her prodigious personal popularity with every class of her subjects saves her from some of the consequences of her unconstitutional tendencies. Mount McKinley's Difficulties. In mountain climbing the world over the climber usually arrives fresh and unfatigued at the base of the peak he wishes to storm, and as a rule begins his ascent at a high altitude. On Mount McKinley, as described by a writer in Outing, it is the opposite. There are 25 miles of rugged foothills and glaciers to be crossed—with heavy packs—before the base of the mountain is reached, and then the climber is confronted by 18,000 feet of rock and ice. Surely Heated. Blobbs—He's a hot-headed individual, isn't he? Slobbs—Hot-headed? Why, that fellow is so hot-headed that he has to wear a stove-pipe hat in midsummer. And Yet, They Make Fun of Them. Mr. Foggy London—What causes the delightfully clear weather you have in New York? Mr. Man Hattan—Skyscrapers, dear boy.--Life ```markdown ``` The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charles Ford Press 153 E. KINZIE ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Agents wanted everywhere. Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor. Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending a ssmple of hair; also combings made up. CHEAPEST SWITCHES 50 CENTS. 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. W. J. ADDIE, Choice old Califorina wines and brandies from the Hermitage vineyard, also bottled beer, Kentucky whisky, cigars and tobacco. 228 16th St. Telephone 2675. Tat Macklem Bread And Save Trouble. At all Grocers. Look for the laitable "Macklem Bread" on every loaf. 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It stands for Law and Order in the State—for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness in the Home. If you are not already enrolled among its splendid list of Patrons send on your subscription and give it a fair trial at 75 cents per month for Daily and Sunday. --- ENGINE BLOWS UP; 2 KILLED PECULIAR ACCIDENT ON ROCK ISLAND ROAD PROVES ENGINE WAS CLIMBING GRADE, WHEN TERRIFIC EXPLOSION FOLLOWED. Ramah, Colo.—With a roar that could be heard for miles, the engine pulling Rock Island passenger train No. 5 exploded five miles west of Ramah at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. Engineer Hartman was killed outright and Fireman Crimberg so badly injured that he cannot recover. The cause of the explosion is not known. The powerful locomotive was lifted from the track as if a piece of paper in a gale and hurled off the right of way entirely. Particles of the engine were picked up hundreds of feet from the scene of the accident. It was completely demolished. Engineer Hartman was blown seventy feet by the force of the steam. When picked up it was found that his neck had been broken. The flesh on his body was also badly cooked. Fireman Chimberg was found nearly fifty feet from the track in an opposite direction. He is horribly scalded and it is believed he sustained several broken bones as well as internal injuries from the force of the fall. The train was west bound and according to the other members of the crew, was barely moving. Whether the slowness was due to any difficulty in the operating of the locomotive or on account of the grade, which is quite steep, has not been determined. When the explosion occurred the train was thrown back several yards and the passengers hurled from their seats. None was injured, however. A physician on the train, aided by Dr. Sullivan of Ramah, administered what temporary aid they could to Fireman Crimberg and he was placed on a special train and rushed to Colorado Springs. One brakeman on the train is said to have slightly injured. Engineer Hartman was forty years of age. His home was at Colorado Springs, where a wife and several children reside. His body was taken there. Crimberg is also said to have a family at Colorado Springs. Grief Pursues Mrs. Currier. Glenwood Springs, Colo. — Harry James, the twelve-year-old son of Mrs. J. Currier, has been missing since Sunday and it is feared that he has been drowned in the Grand river. Mrs. Currier and her children live in a camp in the Grand canon, about a mile above the camp of the Central Colorado Power Company at Shoshone. Her husband was shot and killed a few weeks ago by the oldest son. Sunday evening Harry was sent down to the commissary at the power company's plant to get a leaf of bread. Shortly after he left, the horse which he was riding came running back to camp. About 350 of the workmen started to search for him, but thus far in vain. The only clew found was several splotets of blood on the rocks at the river's edge. It is supposed that the horse threw the child, who fell into the river after striking the rocks where the blood stains were found. Mrs. Currler has been pursued by grief since coming to her present location, a little over two months ago. She left Montrose with her children to get away from a drunken husband. A few weeks ago her husband came over from Montrose and began making threats against her, at one time saying that he would kill her and the family. He appeared at their camp in the canon one evening a few days after and was shot and killed by the son Frank, who was exonerated from the charge by the coroner's jury. Routt County Finally Opened. Denver.—On October 5th Routt county will be for the first time put in railroad communication with Denver. On that day the Moffat road will be finished to Yarmony Siding. Mr. Moffat said: "We got within two miles of Yarmony Siding on our trip last Saturday. But two unfinished bridges intervened. "When we reach this point Routt county will be opened for the first time. Already there are 2,000 carloads of cattle awaiting shipment to Denver and 1,000 more carloads of hay and grain. "I have fifteen engines, and both the Burlington and Rock Island will furnish all their empty freight cars to handle these shipments. You can say that I will handle this business and that I consider it to be a great advantage to Denver." Mr. Moffat in discussing the advantage of the opening of Yarmony Siding considered it as completing his ambitions when he first began the construction of the road. He said the next fifty miles of building was not difficult, only requiring men and teams. In the meantime the Salt Lake men interested with him were already beginning the actual construction of the road to the Utah state line. He said: "It is now absolutely assured that a train will run over my road from Denver to Salt Lake within two years. The only problem we now have is to take care of the enormous freight traffic which the road will open next month." Thirty Jap Peasants are Drowned. Tokio, Japan.—Thirty persons were drowned and 100 houses burned at the Kosaka mine, near Kotaru. A fire started in the mining works and while attempts were being made to save the mine the water reservoir was broken, flooding a portion of the village. Many women and children were among the victims. 823 SIXTEENTH ST. ALL THE Fall and Winter Shoes Are here. We are show- ing an endless variety at $3.50 and Up W. P. HORAN, UNDERTAKER PHONE 1368. 1527 Cleveland Place. Denver, Colorado. L. Rushenenberg & Co. Importers and Jobbars in MUSICAL MERCHANDISE. TELEPHONE OLIVE 923 RES PHONE BLUE 2167 High Class Violin Repairing. 829 FIFTEENTH ST. SUIT 210 UPSTAIRS. J. T. JOHNSON. State Agent for Minnesota Grain Belt Beer Also Western Agent for D. Carnegie & Co. Swedish Porter, Gothenburg, Sweden. 1644 Larimer St. Denver, Cola THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT CATERERS and CONFECTIONERS. PHONE 168. 1512 Curtis St. Denver Denver, Cali. The Inter-Ocean Investment and Brokerage Co. Loans negotiated, available securities handled, cash advances made on all kinds of collateral securities. Real Estate Loans a special feature. Business Strictly Confidential. THE Ward Auction Co The Old and Only. 1728 30 Arapahoe St. Denver. Colorado Private Residence Sales a Specialty Regular Sales every day in the week (except Sunday) TELEPHONE 1675. Furniture and bankrupt Stocks bought for cash or sold on com- mission. TURNS HUMAN BODIES TO STONE Italian Physician Claims to Have Discovered Powerful Chemical. New York.—There is a possibility that the chemist of fiction who discovered a chemical which would turn human organisms into marble, has appeared in flesh and blood in the person of Agostino Gluseppe Grosso, an Italian chemist, who is in this country to demonstrate to scientists that he has a drug which will preserve and harden to the consistency of stone, all kinds of organisms. He arrived here on the steamer Re Italia. If Grosso can do what he claims is possible—and he has some very convincing proofs of his prowess in the shape of specimens—the method of preparing the bodies for medical studies and for use in museums is likely to undergo a great change. Fourteen years ago, while in Peru, Grosso had occasion to send a case of eggs to Ecuador. He had no way of refrigerating the consignment and began experimenting with preservatives. He bored tiny holes in the eggs and tried injecting various chemicals. In trying one powerful drug, he injected a small quantity into several eggs and a few hours later found every one of them as hard as rock. He continued his experiments on beef and vegetables. The result was the same with each trial. The chemist went to Vercelli and before a gathering of doctors gave a series of demonstrations. The body of a dog was petrified in a standing position and the animal was made to look as natural as life. Beetles, frogs, snakes and other things were put through the process, and, after being petrified retained their lifelike appearance. In a big box Grosso has several specimens which he says are nearly three years old. They include a kitten, a chicken, some frogs, lizards, beetles, and the vital organs of other animals. All are hard as if they had been frozen, and in each case the original colors are preserved. The specimens are odorless, and the transparency of certain tissues, when held to the light, is not destroyed. Grosso will shortly demonstrate his discovery before a body of scientists. Lunatic for Sure New York.—Asserting that John D. Rockefeller owed him $10,000,000, Orlando Tolland of Oxford, Alabama, called at the President's home at Oyster Bay yesterday to get aid to collect his bill. He got a letter and is now on his way to the Rockefeller home with "Theodore Roosevelt" at the bottom of a missive that ought to make the oil magnate pay. According to Mr. Tolland he received a contract from Mr. Rockefeller some twenty years ago whereby he was to be paid $10,000,000 for solving a murder mystery in St. Paul. Then he wrote on to Rockefeller for the $10,000,000, but did not get any answer. Neither has he received any answer to any of the 500 other duns that he has sent the magnate since. Two weeks ago it occurred to Tolland that the President was the man to make Rockefeller pay up. Straightway he took a freight train out of Oxford and went to Oyster Bay. He walked the back road to the President's mansion. He told his trifling errand to Detective Adams. "Wait a minute and I'll get the President to write you a letter to Rockefeller that will bring him straight to terms," said Adams, and went inside and scribbled a decoy note himself. "And if that don't get the money," added Adams, "come back and we will get Mr. Cortelyou to write you one. He's even better at making the trust men put up." Tolland was profoundly grateful. The detective led him to the depot, put him aboard a train for New York and then burned up the telegraph wires notifying the New York police to catch him at the station and to put an extra guard around the Rockefeller house. Company Wants State Land. A quarter of a million dollars has been offered to the state land board for 72,000 acres of state school land near Pueblo. The land is wanted by the Orlander Canal & Reservoir Company for a gigantic irrigation enterprise, which, if carried to completion, will water hundreds of thousands of acres of state land in Pueblo county. The application was made to the board at a recent meeting. Owing to the extent of the proposed transaction, the board refused to take any action until the members had had an opportunity to inspect personally the tracts involved. Within the next ten days the board will make a trip to Pueblo to determine for itsse the value of the land, without depending upon an appraiser for this information. Barney McCaffery of Denver is president of the company, which is financed in Chicago and was organized about a year ago. McCaffery was interested in the construction of the water systems constructed in Utah and elsewhere. At the meeting yesterday McCaffery was present; also George A. Snow of Chicago. They offered $3.50 per acre for 72,900 acres. Nurse, Bride, Widow, in a Few Hours. New York.—To have been a nurse, a bride and a widow, all within a few hours, is the unusual experience of Mrs. Alfred Adler of this city. Mr. Adler was a wealthy Broadway glove manufacturer. He was taken with typhoid fever on his way back from a trip through Yellowstone Park with his fiancée, who was Miss Johanna M. D. Hartung of this city, and a party of friends. On his being taken to Mount Sinai Hospital Miss Hartung, to whom he had been engaged eight years, became his nurse. He succumbed to the disease, but before his death he and Miss Hartung were married. The wedding took place at 6:30 o'clock in the morning and he expired at 10 o'clock. For three nights previous to his death Miss Hartung did not leave his bed. THE HORSE WALKING Q. J. GILMORE Undertaker and Embalmer. Carriages furnished for all Occasions. 1921 Arapahoe Street, Denver, Colo. Tel. 2449. J. H. TELEPHONE MAIN 4271. N. & W. LIQUOR DEALERS IN ted and Domestic Wines and Li FAMILY TRADE OUR SPECIALTY. 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Has removed from his old stand at 1907 Lawrence street to 1914 Arapahoe street, where he will be pleased to see all of his old Customers and friends. A full Line of New and Misfit Clothing for Sale Cheap. SUPERIOR SERVICE PRIVATE DINING ROOM 1922 LAWRENCE ST. Denver, The Brand T "BAXT" Brand That's Always Go The Brand That's Always Good "BAXTER'S BULLHEAD" 5 c CIGAR. The Baxter Cigar Co. Denver. "Columbine" ZANG'S New Table Beer Is a special Brew for Family use DENVER'S LEADING BRAND OF BOTTLED BEER Columbine Beer Is guaranteed absolutely pure Try a Sample Case and you will use no other TELEPHONE 1285 The Ph. Zang Brewing Co. Producers Fresh Beer Delivered Daily to all parts of the city Open Day and Night. Phone Main 3725. ```markdown ``` H. J. HESPER. All Goods Delivered. Denver, 2132-2148 ARAPAHOE ST. MAIN 4271. LIQUOR CO. ERS IN Wines and Liquors. OUR SPECIALTY. BADWAY. 1118 BROADWAY. Y PHARMACY ODS, Props. n and Broadway. s. Prescriptions a Specialty PHONE MAIN 142 g Cleaned and Repaired. SMAN, at 1907 Lawrence street to here he will be pleased to comers and friends. Clothing for Sale Cheap. TAN CAFE N, Proprietor. PHONE MAIN 8785. Colorado Tel. 2449. Denver J. H. WEICHMAN Denver, Cola Colorado New In Natural History. Not all English children are well posted on live stock. The following "howlers" are from essays exhibited at a recent show: "The young horses have long legs, so that it might keep up to its mother when wild lions like the lion and tiger are after them to devour them." "The fowl," declares still another, "when alive is used for cock-fighting and when dead for its beautiful feathers." "The pig gets its wool coat off in summer. Then we get the wool of it. The pig is regarded as a bad creature." MEDICAL FAILURES. An Authority Says Three-Fourths 66 Graduates Are Unfitted to Practice. That 3,000 out of the 4,000 graduates turned out by the Medical Colleges each year are wholly unfitted to practice medicine and are menaces to the communities in which they settle was stated by Dr. Chester Mayer, of the State Board of Medical Examiners of Kentucky at a meeting of the American Medical Association's Committee on Medical Education, held in Chicago not long ago. Dr. Mayer said that only 25 to 28 per cent of the graduates are qualified. Fifty-eight per cent of the graduates examined in 28 states were refused licenses. With few exceptions these failures took a second examination in a few weeks and only 50 per cent of them passed. "This does not mean that deficiencies in their training were corrected in those few weeks," Dr. Mayer said. "It probably shows that experience showed them what the test would probably be and they 'crammed' for the examination. Dr. W. T. Gott, Secretary of the Indiana Board said: "The majority of our schools now teach their students how to pass examinations, not how to be good physicians." At the session of the American Medical Association held in Atlantic City in June, Dr. M. Clayton Thrush, a professor in the Medico Chirurgical College in Philadelphia said: "Many doctors turned out of the Medical Schools are so ignorant in matters pertaining to pharmacy that they know nothing about the properties of the drugs they prescribe for their patients!" Dr. Henry Beats, Jr., President of the Pennsylvania State Board of Medical Examiners, after scrutinizing the papers of a class of candidates for licensure said: "About one quarter of the papers show a degree of illiteracy that renders the candidates for licensure incapable of understanding medicine." A great many more physicians and chemists might be quoted in support of the astounding charge that 3,000 incompetents are being dumped onto an unsuspecting public each year. What the damage done amounts to can never be estimated for these incompetents enjoy the privilege of diagnosing, prescribing or dispensing drugs regarding the properties of which they know nothing and then of signing death certificates that are not passed upon by anyone unless the coroner is called in. Probably there is not a grave yard from one end of the country to the other that does not contain the buried evidences of the mistakes or criminal carelessness of incompetent physicians. During the last year there have been perhaps, half a dozen known cases where surgeons, after performing operations have sewed up the incisions without first removing the gauze sponges used to absorb the blood, and in some cases forceps and even surgeon's scissors have been left in the wound. How many of these cases there have been, where the patient died, there is no means of knowing and comparatively few of the cases where the discovery is made in time to save life become generally public. Reports from Sanitariums for the treatment of the Drug Habit show that members of the medical profession are more often treated in these institutions than members of any other profession, and that a majority of the patients, excluding the physicians themselves, can trace their downfall directly to a careless physician. How many criminal operations are performed by physicians is also a matter of conjecture. Operations of this class are, unfortunately, very frequent in large cities. Some graduated and licensed physicians, many of them of supposed respectability, make an exclusive practice of criminal medical and surgical treatment. Dr. Henry G. W. Rheinhart, Coroner's physician of Chicago, estimates the number of criminal operations, annually, in Chicago alone at $3,800. How many resulted fatally are unknown, as when death results, the real cause is disguised in the death certificate, which the physician signs, and which no one but himself and a clerk sees. Probably not one case of malpractice in 1,000 ever becomes the subject of a law suit but in the last year approximately 150 cases wherein the plaintiff has alleged malpractice have been reported in the newspapers, and owing to the social prominence and the favored positions of many physicians not more than half the new suits stated, probably, result in any newspaper publicity, but it would probably not be an exaggeration to state that the total cases of malpractice, not involving criminal operations or criminal medical practice, would amount to 150,000 or more than one case to each physician in the country. This estimate is, of course, more or less conjecture. Untimely deaths and permanent disabilities are frequent, and occur within the knowledge of almost every one, when life could have been saved, or health restored had the physician been skillful, careful and competent. COLORADO NEWS ITEMS COLORADO NEWS ITEMS A Palisade man recently sold 1,011 boxes of pears for $2,564. Barney Levy, a pioneer clothing dealer at Colorado Springs, is dead. Mayor Speer of Denver is out with a sharp stick after the illegal wine rooms. Forty acres of land planted to wheat near Windsor thrashed 1,706 bushels a few days ago. Montrose is to have a new pressed brick plant. About $25,000 will be invested in the enterprise. It is claimed that at least 2,000 carloads of fruit will be shipped from the Western Slope this year. A Berthoud man has fourteen acres of oats that average a little over ninety-nine bushels to the acre. Mathew J. Drury, a Denver hotel keeper, drank poison because his business was a failure. He died. Corn, the ears of which average ten inches in length, and grown without irrigation, are being exhibited in Wind-sor. There is more ore being shipped to the smelter in Durango than ever before in the history of San Juan district. Ten acres of young apple orchard recently sold for $10,000 near Clifton. They come high, but think of the returns. Cimarron is showing oats that stand seven and one-half feet high and potatoes that weigh three and one-half pounds each. Gunnison county, chiefly known for its mineral products, will produce the greatest crop of hay and grain this year ever grown in the county. Grand jury indictments have been coming thick and furious at the Fort Collins during the past week and hardly a druggist remains free from the bar. Mining has taken on a new lease of life in the Wet Mountain valley. The old Bull Domingo mine is being cleared out and put in fine shape for operation. Routt county has never been blessed with such abundant crops as are now being harvested this year. The meadow lands are a forest of hay stacks. Fous and six-horse teams are arriving every day in Gunnison with marble quarried in the county. The marble is said to be equal to any quarried in the world. The bees have been busy around Greeley this summer. One man has taken thirty-four tons of the sweet stuff from 500 hives. The honey is valued at $5,000. Fifteen acres of wheat near Longmont yielded 1,149 bushels of good wheat, according to the report of the thrashers. Can any state in the Union show anything to approach this? The fruit growers of Delta are so prosperous this year that they are going to put some tens of thousands of dollars of their surplus cash into a building from which to market their product next year. A contract has been let by the City Council of Idaho Springs to Thompson & Wilkie for the construction of a reservoir on Chicago creek to cost $20,000. The reservoir will be for the storage of 60,000,000 gallons of water to be taken from the headwaters of Chicago creek. The work is to begin at once, so that the reservoir can be completed in time to catch the spring water. District Judge Harry P Gamble, at Pueblo, this morning granted the petition of the Eastern Colorado Power Company in condemnation proceedings to take immediate possession of the Barker ranch below Nederlands for the construction of a reservoir. The amount of damage will be fixed by a jury. The company offers $25,000, but Mrs. Hanna C. Barker demands $100,000. An all-day temperance meeting was recently held at the First Methodist church in Colorado Springs under the auspices of the State Prohibition League. Secretary A. B. Tayton was one of the speakers, and the Roberts male quartet furnished the music. The Rev. C. B Wilcox made the principal address, and the meeting was the beginning of an active campaign for prohibition in El Paso县. George C. Briggs, ex-mayor of Loveland, is having made at his expense a mammoth sign bearing the inscription "Loveland Grand Canon." It will be placed on the walls of the canon just opposite the entrance. When it is ready a party of Loveland business men will take it to the canon and the occasion will be celebrated with appropriate ceremonies. This is being indorsed by the Loveland Chamber of Commerce. Because, as she alleges, he entered the house late one night without making any noise, and also because his palate, on a specified occasion, failed to respond adequately to the tempting edibles set before him, Mrs. Silas A. Long, of Colorado Springs, wanted a divorce from her husband. These were the woman's chief reasons for accusing husband of being cruel, and they appeared so flimsy to the court that the woman was denied a decree. Former Congressman Franklin E. Brooks at Colorado Springs has received a letter from Secretary William H. Taft, written en route from Yellowstone park to Portland, Oregon, and in which Taft thanks Coloradans for his part in the reception accorded to Republican leaders when they were in Denver a few days ago. Taft says: "I could understand after breathing the atmosphere of Denver where you acquired your energy in pushing things and know now why it was that the Pilko's Peak celebration went through." The largest check ever drawn in Berthoud in payment for a wheat crop was in favor of W. T. Bransom, a farmer living near Berthoud, for $12,622.12, drawn by Lovejoy Bros. and paid by the Berthoud National Bank. Bransom had 400 acres of wheat and harvested 18,000 bushels. In addition to his wheat he has about 300 acres in sugar beets, which promise a heavy tonnage. Should they average twenty tons, which is not unlikely, he will receive $20,000 for his beet crop. This is the largest acreage grown by a single individual in the world. HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR. Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronic Kidney Trouble While in the Service. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely. of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500 East Second street, Newton, Kansas, will interest the thousands of veterans who came back from the Civil War suffering tortures with kidney complaint. Capt. Ely says: "I contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally developed into a will interest the thousands of veterans who came back from the Civil War suffering tortures with kidney complaint. Capt. Ely says: "I contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally developed into a chronic case. At one time I had to use a crutch and cane to get about. My back was lame and weak, and besides the aching, there was a distressing retention of the kidney secretions. I was in a bad way when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills in 1901, but the remedy cured me, and I have been well ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. JOKE ON THE CONGRESSMAN. Walter Drew Wrong Inference from Guest's Attitude. A Georgia congressman gleefully tells of an experience during his last visit to New York. The representative had put up at an American-plan hotel. When, upon sitting down at dinner the first evening of his stay, the waiter obsequiously handed him a bill of fare, the congressman tossed it aside, slipped the waiter a dollar bill, and said, "Bring me a good dinner." The dinner proving satisfactory, the southern member pursued this plan during his entire stay in New York. As the last tip was given, he mentioned that he was about to return to Washington. Whereupon, the waiter, with an expression of great earnestness, said: "Well, sir, when you or any of your friends that can't read come to New York, just ask for Dick."—Harper's Weekly. He Set a Date. A merchant in a Wisconsin town who had a Swedish clerk sent him out to do some collecting. When he returned from an unsuccessful trip he reported: "Yim Yonson say he vill pay ven he sells his hogs. Yim Olesen,_he vill pay ven he sell him wheat, and Bill Pack say he vill pay in Yanuary." "Well," said the boss, "that's the first time Bill ever set a date to pay. Did he really say he would pay in January?" "Vell, aye tank so," said the clerk. "He say dat it ban a dam cold day ven you get that money. I tank that ban in Yanuary."—Harper's Weekly. What the Poet Says. After their honeymoon to Niagara Falls they came back and settled on the old farm. "Gracious, Sile!" said Cynthia. "Why are you in such a bad humor?" "Making butter is blamed hard work," grumbled Sile, removing the beads from his brow. "Oh, cheer up, Sile. Don't the poet say that it is Love that makes the world go round'?" "Yes, but, by gosh, it don't make the churn go round." The Truth. Gobsa Golde descended painfully from his 90-horse power limousine. "I wish to purchase," he said, "an engagement ring." "Yes, sir," said the eager clerk. "We have just imported a superb ring, sir—two ruby hearts surrounded—" "No," said the aged millionaire, in a disillusioned voice; "no, that won't do. There is only one heart concerned in this affair. The girl is marrying me for my money." Dutch at Home and Abroad Holland has a population of only 5,000,000, but there are 40,000,000 of people in the Dutch East and West Indies. The Dutch are not at present much addicted to emigration. In the United States, at the time of the last census, there were only 105,000 persons of Dutch birth. The number of Netherlanders in the Dutch East Indies is barely 12,000. FOUND OUT. A Trained Nurse Made Discovery. No one is in better position to know the value of food and drink than a trained nurse. Speaking of coffee, a nurse of Wilkes Barre, Pa., writes: "I used to drink strong coffee myself, and suffered greatly from headaches and indigestion. While on a visit to my brothers I had a good chance to try Postum Food Coffee, for they drank it altogether in place of ordinary coffee. In two weeks after using Postum I found I was much benefited and finally my headaches disappeared and also the indigestion. "Naturally I have since used Postum among my patients, and have noticed a marked benefit where coffee has been left off and Postum used. "I observed a curious fact about Postum when used among mothers. It greatly helps the flow of milk in cases where coffee is inclined to dry it up, and where tea causes nervousness. "I find trouble in getting servants to make Postum properly. They most always serve it before it has been boiled long enough. It should be boiled 15 to 20 minutes after boiling begins and served with cream, when it is certainly a delicious beverage." Read "The Road to Wellville" in pkgs. "There's a Reason." MR. JOHNSON NOT TO BLAME. Good Old Lady Understood How the Mistake Occurred. There is a good old lady who cannot resist speaking well of all her acquaintances. On Thanksgiving day she told the colored man who did chores about the place that he might go into the barn-yard and help himself to a chicken. The man obeyed with alacrity and was most profuse in his thanks. In the course of a few days the lady's husband informed her that on Thanksgiving day neighbors had seen Mr. Johnson seize two choice hens from the coop. "I did tell him to take one," confessed the lady regretfully, "but, you know, dear, how intensely Mr. Johnson celebrates the holidays. Why, he simply cannot help seeing things double." THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA. Were Treated at Dispensary—Did Not Improve—Suffered Five Months —Perfect Cure by Cuticura. "My three children had eczema for five months. A little sore would appear on the head and seemed very itchy, increasing day after day. The baby had had it about a week when the second boy took the disease and a few sores developed, then the third boy took it. For the first three months I took them to the N— Dispensary, but they did not seem to improve. Then I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and in a few weeks they had improved, and when their heads were well you could see nothing of the sores. Mrs. Kate Keim, 513 West 29th St., New York, N. Y., Nov. 1, 5 and 7, 1906." New to Him. The leading lady of a road company playing in one of the smaller cities in Ohio concluded that she would press some of her lace collars one morning. She accordingly rang the bell, and when the hall boy appeared said: "Bring me up a hot iron." In course of time he returned empty handed, and when the lady answered his knock he said: "I couldn't get it for you, lady." "And why not?" she asked, mystified. "The bartender said he didn't know how to mix it." Starch, like everything else, is being constantly improved, the patent Starches put on the market 25 years ago are very different and inferior to those of the present day. In the latest discovery—Defiance Starch—all injurious chemicals are omitted, while the addition of another ingredient, invented by us, gives to the Starch a strength and smoothness never approached by other brands. No Grace. Four-year-old Anna was invited to take luncheon with the family of one of her little friends. Before they partook of their meal, the head of the house asked a blessing upon the food, during which time Anna chattered constantly. Not wishing to reprove the child, her hostess said, "I suppose you don't have grace at your house." "Oh, no," the little girl replied, "we have Bessie." -Harper's Magazine. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the disceased portion of the ear. There is only one way to tie the ear in place by applying Deatness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this mucous is infused you are a numbing agent and perfect binder for the skin, but it is irritating. Deatness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, the mucous is out of the nose are caused by Catarrh, which is notching. We will give you the mucous surfaces. We will give you the Hundred thousand causes (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulations, free. Sold by Druggyms, 75c. Had Measured It. "How far," asked the first automobilist as they met at a turn in the road, "is it from here to the next town where there's a repair shop?" "Eleven hills, three bad bridges, one long stretch of deep sand, and two arrests," answered the second automobilist. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt-waist 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. Her Idea of a Wooden Leg. Hewitt—Is your wife a woman of practical ideas? Jewett—Well, I could imagine that if I lost a leg she would think that the vacancy could be filled by taking one of the legs out of a pine table that we no longer use."—Judge. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it The great question in life is the suffering we cause; and the utmost ingenuity of metaphysics cannot justify the man who has pierced the heart that loved him.—Benjamin Constant. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children soothing, softens the grim places of inflammation, allays pain, cared wind cools. 220 a bottle. Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.—Shakespeare. CARTER'S ITTLE IVER PILLS. Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Heavy Eating. A perfect remedy for Diziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste and Mouth Cooted Tongue, Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. CARTER'S ITTLE IVER PILLS. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. WINE OF CARDUI PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanse and beautifies the hair. Promotes lustrous growth. Nivea Faille Grey Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases & hair falling. 20c, and glide & Drugsite PATENTS Watson P. Colson, Patient Attorneys, Washington, D. C. Advise free. Terms low. Highest ref. W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 38, 1907. THE REASON W. L. Douglas shoes are worn by more people in all walks of life than any other make, is because of their excellent style, easy-fitting, and superior wearing qualities. The selection of the leatherts and other materials for each part of the shoe, and every detail of the making is looked after by skilled shoemakers, who receive the highest wages paid in the shoe industry, and whose workmanship cannot be excelled. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully I Douglas shoes are made, you would be amazed at the quality and the wear longer and are of greater value than any other make. shoes cannot be equalled at any price glas name and price stamped on bottom. 1....e Douglas shoes. If he cannot supply you, send mail. Catalog free. W.L.Douglas, Brockton, Mass. My $4 Gift Edge and $5 Gold Bond Shoes cannot be equalled at any price! CAUTION! The genuine have W. L. Douglas name and price stamped on bottom. ††† No Substitute. Ask your dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes. If he cannot supply you, send direct to factry. Shoes sent everywhere by mail, Catalog free. W.L.Douglas. Brockson. Mass. Dainty, Crisp, Dressy Summer Skirts are a delight to the refined woman every-where. In order to get this result see that the material is good, that it is cut in the latest fashion and use Defiance Starch in the laundry. All three things are important, but the last is absolutely necessary. No matter how fine the material or how daintily made, bad starch and poor laundry work will spoil the effect and ruin the clothes. DEFIANCE STARCH is pure, will not rot the clothes nor cause them to crack. It sells at 10c a sixteen ounce package everywhere. Other starches, much inferior, sell at 10c for twelve ounce package. Insist on getting DEFIANCE STARCH and be sure of results. Defiance Starch Company, Omaha, Nebraska. SS DYES in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye DE DRUG CO., Quincy, Illinois A good-looking, well-to-do bachelor of Manchester was being teased by some young women of his acquaintance for not being married. He said: "I'll marry the one of you whom on a secret vote you elect to be my wife." There were nine women in the company. Each one went into a corner and used great caution in preparing her ballot and disguised her handwriting. The result was that there were nine votes cast, each receiving one. The man remains a bachelor, the friendship is broken up, and the women, all mortal enemies, united in the one determination that they will not speak to the man again.—The Tatler. Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beauty. Home laundering would be equally satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Cool. "What does that stranger on the beach mean by his signals?" demanded the man at the helm. "Did you ever see the fellow before?" "No," answered the girl in the yacht-ting cap, "but he has just proposed to me by wigwag, and I have accepted him. Our engagement, therefore, is off. Kindly put me ashore." DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES, BACKALME FR 375 "Guaranteed until" Heiskell's The most obstinate care of Eczema can be application of Heseltail's Ointment. It is a moist, thick, thick, thick ointment. Skin, Erysipelas, Tetrion, Ulcers, and all other skin diseases. Before applying the Heseltail's Medicated Sonn. Heseltail's Blood and Liver Pillions tone up the liver and blood. These preparations, Ointment, do a box of these preparations. Ointment, do a book of testimonials and learn what these wonderful remedies have done for others. JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY & CO., If afflicted with { sore eyes, use } Thompson's Eye Water W. L. DOUG $3.00 & $3.50 SHOE SHOEBS FOR EVERY MEMBER THE FAMILY, AT ALL PR $25,000 { Do one who bought a doug or more Men's $3.00 (than any other } THE REASON W. L. Douglas shoes are in all walks of life than any other make, easily worn, style, conditioning, and super- mature. The selection of the leather's and other matters of the shoe, and every detail of the making the most complete organization of superinten- sional skilled shoemakers, who receive the highest quality of factory, whose quality is If I could take you into my large factories and show you how carefully W. L. Douglas would then understand why they hold their wear longer and are of greater value than any my W. L. Edge and & Gold Bond CAUTION! The genuine have W. L. Do- No Substitute. Ask your dealer for W. L. direct to factor. Shoes sent everywhere by y A FADELE other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye skillet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONR Positively cured by these little Pills. 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The first gown is of brown and white check with buff revers, and black velvet collar, and is crowned with a hat of manilla turned up with black, and trimmed with black, and the coat has pipings of buff and buttons of gold, and beneath it should be worn any sort of simple shirt, either of lawn, of tucked white crepe de chine, or of Shantung. The great essential to the success of this costume is its absolute G IRLS find it an easy task to look nice in the summer time. The simplest white dress made of cambric, with a tucked skirt and a bloused bodice, will bear, if the waist be trim and the belt neatly adjusted, under the influence of a good hat and a colored chiffon scarf round the shoulders, an aspect not unworthy of a cos- tune from one of the best artists. Yet again I quote from a personal encounter, and tell of a dress of white linen with the skirt trimmed with three broad crossway bands, the bodice cut with very large armholes over an under-bodice of tucked lawn, and round the shoulders a loosely hanging scarf of light Wedgwood blue, and on the head a Tuscan hat, lined with black, the front one mass of roses shading from red to pink, and round the neck a string of pale pink coral beads. I like colored beads with muslin or linen frocks; and, talking of linen frocks, I am reminded of several other zheap effects. Green and white striped cambric made in the very simplest of styles, with a shirt-bodice, long sleeves, and a turned-down white linen collar tied with a little green bow, belted at the waist with a green patent leather band, and crowned with a green straw hat trimmed merely with a huge green glace bow. The latest news of hatpins I have received relates of closely-jewelled knobs of monster size, while the pear-shaped tortoiseshell pins are still popular, plain and engraved with gold. Feathers are growing wilder and wilder, and their prices higher and higher. Had I to invest large sums in this direction I would advise the ostrich as being the safest bird. The plumes of the ostrich are perennially in fashion, and a really good ostrich feather will in time play many parts; and, by the way, I continue to admire those ostrich feathers which are arranged to fall in fountain fashion, while I persist in my dislike of the skeleton kind which seems but to be endeavoring to emulate the ostrich feather after a good shower of rain, and to lack the least hankering after the beautiful. The elbow-length sleeve is undoubtedly booked to go, and the new sleeves will come to the hands if not to the knuckles. But whether the short sleeve will go is another matter. The creators of fashions have enacted many decrees that have been wilfully disobeyed. One of them was the death of the short skirt; another the disappearance of the shirtwist, or blouse. simplicity. But, by the way, the very simple shirt is not having things all its own way, for few are guiltless of the center double frill. This frill is shown decorating with great success the other dress illustrated. The waist-coat is of patterned cretonne, the coat and skirt of purple cloth, and the hat is also of purple, with a waving plume which extends its influence from front to back. A smart little costume this altogether, with lines of fanciful braid decorating the skirt and coat, and putting in their appearance again on the cuffs. as it was more euphoniously named, and a third was the attempt to introduce crinoline or hoops. All of these, and many other enactments, were null and void. In these days women show more sense than in the past in the matter of gowning, and a sensible and at the J. A. Charming Linen Bolero Skirt. same time comfortable fashion is quite sure of a following at all times by the masses of women, including many of the modish world. These fashions need not always be becoming to insure their life. The short skirt is not nearly so graceful as the long one, but even for the street the skirt escaping the pavement by an inch is seldom seen save on women who no longer pretend to be below middle age. The skirt varying from three inches to five and even six is seen everywhere, and its wearer may be 18 or 48, fat or thin, tall or short. She means to be comfortable, and the men applaud her for it, for, after all, men like sense. The blouse is also with us to stay. It is inseparable from the coat and skirt costume, whether long or short, elaborate or simple. As for the short sleeves, it must be confessed they are very trying to the majority, whose bones are all too prominent, and whose hands seem disproportionately large. But they are cool and comfortable and under trying conditions a lingerie blouse that would be solled in an hour's wear, emerges fresh and spotless as to its sleeves after a day's shopping. In any event, the woman with the dainty hand and rounded arm should never relinquish the elbow sleeves wherever and whenever they may properly be worn. $11,500 of the Frisco Strike COUNTERMANDED SHOES They were made to sell at $3.50, $4 and $5 You Know Our Price For Men $2.50 Over 200 Styles of Wor and 170 Styles of Me We carry more styles and kin West of New Y SAVE A DOLLAR The Henning Shoe Co GARMEN 925-16TH ST. LAST W SUMMER CLE Price cut to close o Wash Suits at once. Ruling price the form Price now is no room for incoming $2.50 NO MORE NO LESS Over 200 Styles of Women's Shoes and Oxford and 170 Styles of Men's Shoes and Oxford by more styles and kinds of $2.50 shoes than a West of New York City and you SAVE A DOLLAR ON EVERY PAIR. Winning Shoe Co 838 15th St S & H GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. OPP. JOSLINS LAST WEEK OF SUMMER CLEARANCE S out to close out all Waists, Wash Suits and Petticoats Ruling price is now about the former price. Now is no object, we wa or incoming fall garments. Over 200 Styles of Women's Shoes and Oxford and 170 Styles of Men's Shoes and Oxford. We carry more styles and kinds of $2.50 shoes than any store West of New York City and you The Henning Shoe Co 838 15th Street, Denver. S&N GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. OPP. JOSLINS Price cut to close out all Waists, Skirts, Wash Suits and Petticoats at once. Ruling price is now about 1-2 of the former price. Price now is no object, we want the room for incoming fall garments. Come as early as possible, as the assortment and quantity is limited. Silver smith & H Scholl's M Han 1841 A smith & Hiller, 925 16 OPP. J Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPAHOE-PHONE 817 Silversmith & Hiller, 925 16th St. OPP. 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Before him flit myrlands of dainty butterfly forms, glistening, iridescent, fibrous wings of insects, revolving vessels on whose highly polished concave surface of mother-of-pearl many strange and vivid hues play. There are elaborate sweetmeats in endless and appealing variety, and living arabesques of gorgeous hues and superhuman design. He may take up a pen for the purpose of making notes, but will find himself unable to use it. A pencil, however, proves easy of manipulation. As he writes his paper is covered with a soft, golden light, and his hands, seen indirectly, appear bronzed, scaled, fantastically pigmented and flushed with red. Tiring of the visions, he may light the gas, which immediately fills the room with a glorious radiance, while wonderfully colored shadows of red, green and violet flit here and there. Generally, it is said, no feeling of depression or physical discomfort follows the dream. A medical experimenter in Kentucky, soon after taking a large dose of haschisch, began to feel very excited; a feeling of finer joyousness possessed him; all fatigue seemed banished forever, and his mind ran riot, one bizarre idea after another rapidly passing through his mind. Later his brain seemed split in two parts, one of which urged him to the performance of comic gestures, while the other as insistently hinted an impending death, and suggested restraint and instant medical advice. While waiting for a doctor he experienced alternate spells of lucidity, and periods when all connections between himself and the outside world seemed to be severed, when a chaos of disjointed ideas and wild reveries obsessed him. The duration of these latter periods was never longer than two minutes, but each seemed an eternity. It appeared a hopeless task to follow the minute hand of his watch during its infinite round; long before the 60 seconds had elapsed he gave up the stupendous task in deep despair. The departure of the doctor synchronized with the return of the feeling of impending death, now most horribly intense. He imagined himself surrounded by grotesque, menacing, cruel-visaged monsters. He felt himself expanding, dilating, dissolving into space, as he ascended steep precipices, covered with Brobdignagian creatures somewhat like lizards, overhanging enormous abysses, the while he was overwhelmed by a horrible, rending, unutterable despair. The Habits of Wolves. The range of a pair of wolves is an area of from six to ten miles square. When the hunter learns that wolves have been seen and heard in a certain locality it may take several days of scouting before the dogs can be got on the trail. The hunter must look sharp for signs in soft or sandy places and along creeks and streams. The old lady wolf will, as a rule, go to the nearest water to drink when leaving the den, or go to get a drink as she returns from the hunt before going to the den, and its locality is often found on account of that habit. A wolf track can be distinguished from that of a dog, because the two front toenails are set further ahead, making the track more pointed. When wolves are running and especially if frightened, these toes spread apart, making a track that at a hasty glance looks very much like the track of a deer.—Fur News. In Shakespeare's Time. The big yellow moon climbed above the trees. "Be careful, Romeo," cautioned the fair Juliet, "if papa hears you there will be trouble." "But what objection has he to me?" said Romeo, somewhat piqued. "Didn't you tell him I move in the best of society?" "Yes, dear, but he insists that you are only a climber." And then and there Romeo decided to cut out the balcony scene and make love out on the lawn. New Answers to Old Questions. 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