Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY W. T. VERNON Register of the United States Treasury Greeted with a Large and Enthusiastic Audience at Shorter A. M. E. Church Monday Night to hear His Address on "The Negro in America. VOL. XIV, W. T. V Register of the United States Tre Enthusiastic Audience at Shou Night to hear His Ad in An Mr. Vernon said in part: No man in this American Republic can afford to lose sight of his duty to others as well as to himself. In proportion as he has prospered and holds a place which entitled him to a hearing should he more carefully weigh his words and consider his acts, because of the influence of the same for good or ill. With enlarging opportunities come duties of greater moment. We can not escape our responsibilities. To insist that there is no problem, and that matters of racial development and social content will care for themselves is to betray the fact that we have no conception of the conditions of today and have profited not at all by the teachings of history. The leaders must have vision or the people will perish. The seriousness of the problem confronting us is apparent to all who keep in touch with conditions in the various sections of our country; but the achievements of the Negro, and his present condition, with the spirit of helpfulness and fairness of the best men of the opposite race all prove that we are to see a better day. The possibilities of the race are encouraging to all those who desire a better era for these people who have proven well that they appreciate to the full all the opportunities which may be opened to them. I submit that a race capable of such achievements, should be guaranteed the fullest rights vouchedsafed in the Constitution. This Government of ours from its incipiency, had for its aim the fullest opportunity to all mankind. It was formed as a protest against discrimination, caste and injustice of centuries. The descendants of men who had been oppressed by tyrants through generations, braved the dangers of unknown seas, contests with wild beasts and aboriginee; transformed forests into great citief; reclaimed deserts; peopled a thousand hills and built a civilization today, the wonder of the world. All the while they professed and wrought for liberty and justice. Slavery forever contradicting their professions, waxed and grew apace with all our national development. The protest against this wrong became a living thing in abolitionists and just men who wrought for universal freedom and purged America of this evil. Through blood and tears and martyrdom—through deeds by heroes wrought, our freedom was accomplished, and we became what America for three centuries had professed and practiced not, the fruition of the hopes of those who throughout the years had hoped for, a Government of liberty, fraternity, equality and law. With our freedom was made the most radical change in the social order. From master and slave we became one as to interests political and material. We could no longer here have a system of vassalage and servitude, such as the aristocracy of slavery had known. Only by a Democracy guaranteeing to each man that which is his due, could the white man be just to the Negro, and could the Negro be just to himself. The passage of the War Amendments were necessary and just. They prohibited peonage, defined citizenship, provided for the penalization of any State which should disfranchise its citizens and provided against this injustice on account of color. Then came the upward struggle of 4,000,000 people, and as a result of such legislation and protection, the race has made achievements unparalleled in the world's history by any race similarly environed. Our increase in population from 1880 to 1900 was 2,259,996, an increase of thirty-four and three tenths per cent., showing that the Negro is an ever increasing element in our American citizenship. With regard to the decrease of illiteracy within the race, his achievements are quite as remarkable. From 1870 to 1900 the illiteracy within the race, his achievements are quite as remarkable. From 1870 to 1900 the illiteracy of the race was dereased 43 per cent. At the close of the Civil War the Negro was without a home. In 1900, 35 years later 372,414 were owners of homes of which 225,156 were free from incumbrance. He has nearly 30,000 school teachers, 500 young Negroes pursuing special courses in the greatest Institutions of learning in this and foreign countries, he is paying taxes on quite $800,000,000 worth of property. DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1908. THE MEMORIAL OF JOHN A. MCKINNEY HON. W. T. VERNON, Register of U. S. Treasury. Unbiased men will admit that such a record deserved encouragement and gives just ground for the belief that he is daily becoming an appreciated, potent factor for good. In a Republic force and bayonets should have no place. The regnancy of an enlightened conscience, the just appreciation of one's duties—the loyalty of Government, resultant of receiving one's rights and fullest opportunity are the chief safeguard of the State. In addition a spirit of helpfulness and interdependance must be preached and practiced by those who see the light. We should class as enemies to one's country, any who seek to array one class against the other. In their efforts to impede the progress of the Negro, his enemies magnify his weaknesses and faults, and seek to hide his better quali HON. W. T. Register of U ties from the world. The purpose of this can be but to widen the breach between the races and prevent forever the homogeneity of purpose which is making America the most potent force for good and progress in the world. In spite of the remarkable achievements of the race, disfranchisement is now being practiced in certain sections of our country. Deprived of the right to vote which means the right of protection and representation in a Government which he is taxed to support, the attendant evils of proscription, "Jim Crow" cars, punishment without trial by jury are making well nigh intolerable conditions for a race of people whose bravery in war, whose loyalty through all the stress and onward march of America can not be controverted. As a result of these injustices, labor, the source of wealth in any community is becoming restless and is migrating to more inviting fields. The South today is struggling industrially with the rest of the world. The building up of this section can not be accomplished without the labor of the Negro. These people, discriminated against, with their schools diminishing are not given an opportunity to do the best within them, and thus give to their country, the splendid efforts which they could otherwise give. Blind indeed to right and justice—blind to the best interests of our country is he who denies to any class of our citizens that which he seeks for himself. V. VERNON, S. Treasury. As a race we must remember that education, sobriety, thrift and energy are the qualities which will give to us success, permanent and lasting While seeking industrial opportunity and progress in the business world, the spiritual side, which has to do with literature, art, science, culture and soul growth should not be neglected. The thousands of Negroes in the professions throughout the country are a benediction to the race, and should be appreciated and supported. Having seen the possibilities of the race in the various sections of this country, I am convinced that the Negro of the Middlewest and West, has opportunities equal to the best. Here in the midst of a growing, developing population, with less racial antagonism and discriminations than are found elsewhere, I believe the race can rise to its highest possibilities. I would advise that we remain here and work out our destiny. We shall thus be a source of inspiration to the race everywhere, and can firmly rivet to us the fair minded friends of the opposite race who will help us stand for the fullest freedom for our people through out America. WASHINGTON SPEAKS AT PHILADELPHIA. WASHINGTON SPEAKS AT PHILADELPHIA. Booker T. Washington spoke in Philadelphia last week and in part he said: Dear friends, I am overwhelmed by your evidence of kindness. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your pastor has given me a text to speak from. I suppose he thinks no matter what the text is the sermon will be the same. It is very hard for a preacher, editor or orator to say anything really new. No matter from what point we state a fundamental fact, it is but a repetition of a fact established since the foundation of the world. This is a consolation to me. I am sometimes asked now can the colored people North help the colored people South. Let us bear in mind whether we live North or South we are one. I feel myself very much at home tonight, because I find myself among so many from the South. I wish you here in the North where you have such splendid opportunities, would widen and broaden your occupations. I scarcely ever get into a Pullman car that some white man does not ask me to make his bed or bring him a glass of water. No insult to me is intended, but our race has clung so long to one line of occupation that we are unconsciously and intimately associated with it. We are just a little too timid. We fish in the shallow water for minnows instead of venturing out on the deep, where the big fish are. Strike out. Don't shun the hard work of learning something. Learn to be thrifty and lay the economic foundation for an educated race and drive out the loafers among you. Learn a lesson from Joe Gans. You remember some time ago he had a fight with Nelson, and his friends asked him about his chance and he answered simply, 'Put every dollar on me.' Some nervous people ran to Gans and asked him if he wasn't afraid of the color line. But to all inquiries he only answered, 'Put every dollar on me.' And he won. He had faith in himself. But if he had only moaned about his downtroden race NO. 19. and gone around with the same old whine, the same old backache, the same old tale of woe and hard luck, would he have won or would he have been supported? One exhibition of accomplishments will do the race more good than all the indignation meetings you can hold from now to doomsday. RACE NEWS Gathered from Various Sources. Washington, D. C.-At Garfield Hospital last Saturday Dr. A. M Curtis, formerly surgeon-in-chief of Freeman's Hospital, performed an operation for appendicitis upon Mrs. Dickerson, wife of Dr. W. P. Dickerson, of Newport News, Va., who came all the way to Washington to avail herself of the services of this eminent specialists. The operation was successful and the patient is in a satisfactory condition. S. Joe Brown, a prominent colored attorney, assisted by the Negro Protective Association, has instigated suit for $1500 damages against J. H. Bell & Co., coffee dealers in Des Moines, Ia., because he and his wife were refused coffee at a pure food show recently held here. Brown and his wife were in a crowd before a booth and asked to be served, but those in charge Brown says, refused. Brown alleges it was because of their color. Ralph W. Tyler, who was appointed auditor for the Navy Department during the Congressional recess, has been confirmed by the Senate, without opposition. He has "made good" as the head of the office, and the recounts of the immense Navy Department were never in better shape, as shown by his recent annual report. Mr. Tyler has been instrumental in securing the appointment, promotion and transfer of a number of deserving colored clerks. Dothan, Ala., Jan. 20.—The Negro, Grover Franklin, who last night was taken from Sheriff Butler and his deputies and hanged to a tree, is again in the hands of the law and stands a chance for recovery. The mob last night was so closely followed by the officers and law-abiding citizens, determined, if possible, to avert the lynching, that they did not have time to get their victim outside the corporate limits, and hurriedly stringing him up to the first tree and thinking they had riddled him with bullets, fled. On the arrival of the officers the Negro was still alive and was immediately cut down and placed in the county jail. It is thought he will recover. FOURTH BODY DISCOVERED LAST OF BOVORI'S SUPPOSED VICTIMS WAS KILLED WITH A STILETTO. TRIAL TO BE HASTENED ITALIANS HAVE LOST ALL SYM PATHY WITH THE PRISONER. Denver.—A Florence special to the Denver Republican says: With five ugly stiletto wounds in his throat, the body of Joseph Minichello, missing since January 6th, and supposed to have been murdered by Antone Bovori, was found this afternoon by Roy Green within a few yards of the place where the bodies of Dominick Minichello, Ercola Buffetti and Mrs. Frank Palmetto were disinterred ten days ago. With the finding of this body, the officers believe they have completed the chain of evidence against the prisoner. All the Italians have deserted Bovori, and it is said he has not a friend in the country. Fearing violence on the part of the prisoner's countrymen, Sheriff Esser has asked Warden Cleghorn to give him a cell in the penitentiary until the May term of court. Because Roy Green noticed that ground he happened to be standing upon while talking to two men this afternoon was softer than that surrounding it, the deep mystery of blood that has racked Fremont county for nearly a month and baffled the officers has been cleared. Green found his first clue last Friday, but met with little success until today. When the ground yielded under his tread, he drove a wooden rod into it and discovered it was "made" ground. Securing a shovel he began to dig and soon revealed the half-frozen corpse, lying face upward eighteen inches below the surface. The body was in a good state of preservation. Coroner Whitmore was notified and at 5 o'clock the corpse was exhumed and taken to the morgue where examination revealed the cause of death and gave the officers a clue to the probable manner in which the murder was committed. The five stiletto wounds in the neck plainly indicated the desperate determination of the murderer to end his victim's life. There was no indication of a blow in the head with an axe, the method used in slaying the other three Italians. It is the theory of the officers that Bovori killed Minichhello after committing the other murders with which he is charged. It is believed he lay in wait for Joseph Minichhello in the lane and as the latter entered the gate struck him with the stiletto. In the fierce fight for life which followed the other four wounds were inflicted. Green advances the theory that Bovori placed a bucket under the dead man's head to eaten the flowing blood, then went for his horse and wagon. Placing the body in the wagon, Green thinks Bovori drove east to the river, doubled back through the water and drove directly to the vicinity of the other graves, disposing of the body less than 100 feet from the others. A battered bucket was found buried with the corpse. Green found the seat of the wagon today. It was covered with blood. The finding of a pair of blood-stained trousers today leads Green to believe that Bovori, on returning to the wagon after burying the body, drove home sitting in the fresh gore of his alleged victim. The finding of this body the officers declare effectually disproves Bovori's story that Joseph Minichiello killed the other Italians and was himself murdered by a jealous Coal Creek miner. What excuse Bovori will have to offer now that the body is found is not known, but the officers say tonight that he is playing a deep game, which if it does not fail, may save him from the gallows. For the last two or three days he has been acting in a mysterious manner in his cell in the county jail and the officers think him planning to make the court believe he is insane. He does not sleep well and his appetite is not as keen as a week ago. Warden Cleghorn has been asked to take the prisoner into the State Penitentiary until the May term of the District Court, as Sheriff Esser is fearful that since the body of Joseph has been found, a mob might form and wreck the county jail, feeling against the prisoner being high here now. So long as the whereabouts of Joseph was unknown the italians of the coal camps figured that Bovori might be telling the truth about Joseph killing the other three, but since his body has been located close to Bovori's other victims, Esser says he fears an outbreak. Since Bovori's arrest all the italians in the camp have deserted him and their sympathy is with the Minichiello family. It is said to be unusual for all Italians of a community to desert one of their nationality, but the prisoner has not a friend in the county. Although it would be a difficult matter for a mob to storm the county jail, the officers are taking all precautions and if Bovori cannot be accommodated at the penitentiary, he may be taken to the jail of Pueblo county. The officers say they are determined that he shall have a fair trial. Longmont Sugar Factory Longmont, Colo.—The Great, Western Sugar Company finished slicing beets at its factory here Wednesday. This has been the most successful run since the factory was started, the dull average being 1,395 tons and the largest single day's record 1,820 tons. December 20, 1907. It was in operation 123 days. There were 12,000 acres of beets raised for this factory, and 13,600 acres have been contracted this year. COLORADO NEWS ITEMS The bootblacks of Denver have decided to charge five cents a shine on Sundays and holidays. A large party of Colorado and Wyoming people left Denver, January 28th, for a month's excursion in Old Mexico. The first vaudeville theater in Greeley opened its doors on the night of January 20th, and another will be established soon. Rural free delivery route No. 3 has been ordered established April 1st, at Hugo, Lincoln county, serving 600 people and 137 families. The University of Colorado has joined the Archaeological Institute of America and the regents appropriated $500 to assist in the research work. Mrs. Mary Downey, a colored woman at Pueblo, recently gave birth to a fifteen-pound boy, which is a record for Pueblo county and is said to approach the world's record. Dr. Ella Mead of Greeley has been appointed register of deaths and births of Weld county by the secretary of the State Board of Health. Dr. Mead is also city physician. Grapes brought all the way from South Africa are in the market at Denver. They are from the Cecil Rhodes country about Cape Town, Presumably only multi-millionaires dare ask the price. The comptroller of the currency has approved the conversion of the First National Bank of Montezuma Valley, at Cortez, into the Montezuma Valley National bank of Cortez, with a capital of $30,000. W. Rolla Wilson and Alfred Lewis will build the Maverick reservoir, forty-two miles east of Eaton, to cost $15,000. It will have a capacity of 35,000 cubic feet and receive its water from Maverick gulch. The state will receive $6,651.70 in inheritance tax with six per cent. interest, dated from October, 1902, from the estate of Frederick J. Keener of Denver, who died over five years ago, leaving a fortune of $332,585.09. John H. Shoepfle, general manager of the Western Sugar and Land Company, at Grand Junction, has tendered his resignation to take effect March 1st. He will be succeeded by Fred G. Holmes, now assistant manager. The high saloon license ordinance, raising the annual license from $600 to $1,000 a year, was passed by the Pueblo City Council Monday night. All but one of the aldermen voted for the measure and it will go into effect July 1st. It is reported that coyotes in some parts of Weld county, which have been unusually numerous and destructive this winter, are being decimated by a disease, supposed to be m mange, contracted from eating carcasses of diseased cattle. Out of the 1,285,349 immigrant allens admitted into the United States during the year ending June 30, 1907, Colorado got 8,582. This was more than any other state west of the Mississippi river received, with the exception of California and Washington. By order of District Judge Sheafor the gambling devices, consisting of faro tables and roulette wheels seized at Cripple Creek in a recent raid, were burned in public on Bennett avenue Saturday. A similar fire took place early in the week. The total value of the devices destroyed in this manner is estimated at $30,000. City Park in Denver, is to have a magnificent electric fountain next summer, according to the plans of the park board. The fountain will be placed in the center of the big lake and will be one of the largest ever constructed in the United States. The tramway will furnish current for lighting and the pumping station at the park will keep the water in play. It will be operated for two hours every night during the season. An eloquent address was given before a large gathering of colored people in Denver by Hon. W. T. Vernon, register of the United States treasury, on, "The Negro, His Opportunities and Problems." In his address he said that the negro has nearly 30,000 school teachers, 500 young negroes pursuing courses in the greatest institutions of learning in this and foreign countries, and he is paying taxes on quite $800,000,000 worth of property. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company has just made a record shipment of wire from its plant at Pueblo. It went to Ottawa, Kas., on a special train of twenty cars, decorated with banners. This is the third large shipment that has been made to Ottawa in the last eighteen months, although this one is the largest and is thought to be the largest wire shipment ever made. It is estimated that there is enough wire in the consignment to reach two-thirds of the way aroun' the world. The body of Peter Sartos, a Greek miner, was found Sunday night in the entry to room 13 of the Victor Fuel and Iron Company mine at Delagua, thirty miles north of Trinidad. The man's clothing was disarranged, and a money belt known to have contained $700 was slashed open and the coin gone. A bullet hole in the man's left temple indicated the manner of his death. A coroner's inquest failed to find a clue to the identity of the murderer. The State Board of Law Examiners has advised the Supreme Court of the number of candidates for legal diplomas who passed the oral and written examinations held December 13th and 14th. Only two out of the class failed to pass. The following are the names of the successful candidates for the Colorado bar: Henry Blickholm, Walsenburg; John C. Delaney, Boulder; Merrick Knight Edwards, Denver; Guy B. Ellermier, Louis P. Hewitt, Denver; William R. Kelly, Boulder; William B. Lyner, Fort Collins; Harry L. McGinnis, Buena Vista; Thomas D. McGovern, Denver; Frank A. Pettibone, Denver; Roy Valentine Reppy, Denver; John Cuthbert, Denver. The University of Denver, of which Gov. Henry A. Buchtel is chancellor, is considering plans for the establishment of a school of engineering at Pueblo as a branch of the university with a four years course, two of which will be in Denver and two in Pueblo. OUR LOSS OF HEIRESSES SARCASTIC COMMENTS OF ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN ON TITLED HUSBANDS. PROPOSES HEAD TAX MOTHERS WHO BUY REMNANTS OF ROYALTY AT BARGAIN Washington.—In the house Tuesday Representative McGaven (Ill.), attacked the custom of American heiresses marrying European noblemen. Mr. McGaven was speaking on the bill to tax dowries and titled husbands. His remarks were made under the license of general debate and at times they provoked laughter and applause. The house, he said, was in committee of the whole on the state of the union, but he wanted to know what the state of the Union was and what it was coming to "in view of these international unions between American heiresses and alleged nobilities from abroad." He wondered what the early pioneers would think and say if from their graves they could look back to see so many of the women of this country "sacrificing their souls and honor upon the altar of snobbery and vice." He expressly stated that he had reference to no particular American girl, nor had he prejudice against all titled men, but he referred "only to those who have a monocle in their eyes and an idiotic look upon their faces—those who have neither the disposition to do good nor the ability to do harm." Mr. McGavin said his curiosity had been roused to know the right committee to which the bill should have gone, but he had found it properly had gone to the committee on ways and means, because it sought to levy a tax. And then he said he was curious to know whether the present tariff schedule included dukes, earls, lords and counts, "and finding that these things were not here mentioned. I thought it might be proper for the customs officials to classify them like frog legs, as poultry, for it is a general opinion among Americans that they are a species of geese." Mr. McGavin said the United States triumphantly had referred to the fact that as between it and other nations the balance of trade was in its favor, "but," he said, "nowhere in the summary can be found a reference to such trade, in which soiled and fragrant nobility is exchanged for a few million American dollars wrung from the lambs of Wall street, with a woman thrown in to boot." Every day, he declared, seemed to be a bargain day in New York city, "whether it be for a yard of ribbon or a pound of flesh; whether it be upon the retail counter of Broadway, or the auction_block of Fifth avenue." In these days, he said, wealthy American girls traveling abroad, when they see some remnant of royalty, enthusiastically exclaim: "Oh, mamma, buy me that." An interpreter then is secured, a bargain is made, the money is produced and the girl is gone, to soon return a sadder but a wiser one." In conclusion Mr. McGayin said: Hanson Mr. McGrawin said: "While I have indulged in some criticism of those particular ones who have made a mockery of the most sacred relations of life—of those not satisfied with any other name but 'Countess Spaghetti' or 'Countess Macaroni', I want to say one word in tribute to those true American women who have spurned the wiles of earls, lords and counts for the love of his majesty—'an American citizen.'" Tariff Revision Urged. Chicago—It was announced Tuesday by the Chicago Association of Commerce that one of the most influential and representative industrial combinations organized in years, will assemble February 2d in Washington for the purpose of urging tariff revision without interference of politics, of the next presidential elections. Besides, the Chicago association, others that will be represented are the National Association of Manufacturers, Millers' National Federation, Chicago Board of Trade, Baltimore Board of Trade, Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, American Meat Packers' Association, National Live Stock Association, Cotton Seed Crushers' Association, and others. The program of the committee includes calls upon the President, Speaker Cannon, the ways and means committee of the House and the finance committee of the Senate. The committee will urge the formation of a non-partisan committee of experts whose duty it shall be to investigate alleged inequitable tariff schedules and report upon them to Congress. It is said that there is no political influence of any kind behind the committee, which includes both Democrats and Republicans. Big Fire in Chicago Chicago.—Fire in the business district Tuesday night caused loss estimated at $1,200,000 in the almost complete destruction of the building at 144 Wabash avenue, occupied by Alfred Peats & Co., dealers in wall paper; the building adjoining it on the south, occupied by John A. Colby & Sons, furniture dealers, and that in the rear, fronting on Michigan avenue, occupied by the millinery firm of Edson Keith & Co. Those to the north and south of the Keith building occupied by Gage Brothers & Co. and Theodore Ascher & Co., millinery firms, were damaged by fire and water. HAD LISTENED TO DADDY. Force of Example Exemplified in Precocious Youngster. There is a certain man living not far from New York whose temper is not of the longest, and when he feels that his rage is justifiable he is very apt to indulge in fluent, versatile and varied profanity. And it is when using the telephone that this talent of his is seen and heard at its maximum of speed and endurance. Central has but to say "Wire busy now," or, "Doesn't answer," to evoke a flood of language. One day he had been having an unusually stormy session, and did not notice that his two-year-old son was sitting in a corner of the room, his face rapt and absorbed. A few hours later the child's mother came in and was horrified beyond words to hear her baby giving voice to a stream of expletives, some of which began with a very large capital D—the rest with a variety of letters quite unmentionable in this connection. She descended upon him in righteous wrath. "Don't you ever let me hear you use such words again," she said in no uncertain tones. "Why, mother," expostulated the baby in an injured voice, "I'm telephoning!" AN ADVERTISING TRICK FOR WESTERN FARMERS. Real Estate "Agents" Go After Men with Land for Sale and Reap Rich Harvest. A smooth scheme for separating farmers from their money has been worked with much success in South Dakota. An olly grafter calls on a farmer and makes a bid for his land. The figures are absurdly low at first, but by degrees are raised as high as $60 an acre, and the farmer consents. Then the visitor explains that he is only an agent, but that he can sell the land at the price named if the owner will agree to pay for advertising at the rate of fifty cents an acre. The "agent" promises orally that the advertising money will not be payable until the land is sold, but this stipulation is not contained in a contract that the farmer signs. In a few days he receives a copy of an ad and not over-courteous demand for money. It is said that twenty-two agriculturists were caught with this bait in Brown County and that one of them gave up $320. Others declare hotly that they will not pay but they will make a fight in the courts. The Ruling Passion Mammy 'Liza has lived with the "famby" long enough to acquire words and expressions, which, used at second hand, are sometimes fatal to the family gravity. Recently a member of the little circle had occasion to call for the horse and surrey from the livery stable. After waiting a long while the order was repeated, with no immediate result. Mammy, having heard the conversation, and knowing the impatience of her mistress, expressed herself thus: "Huh! Dey's jes' no use countin' on dem libery stable folks, dey's so dililitante." Moravian Barley and Speltz two great cereals, makes growing and fattening hogs and cattle possible in Dak. Mont., Ida., Colo., yes, everywhere. and add to above Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass, the 12 ton Hwy wonder Teosite, which produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre. Bimini Winnipeg prodigy, etc., and other rare farm seeds that they use. JUST CUT THIS OUT AND RETURN IT with 10 incs in stamps for packing, etc., to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and get their big catalog and lots of farm seed samples. K. & W. Better Qualifications "Yes," said the political boss, "we'll have to give Crookley this nomination." "But," protested the unsophisticated one, "why not Goodley? He's better able to fill the office." "Perhaps, but Crookley is better able to get it." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarril that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney of Toledo, O. to be a reliable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. 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"The fact is, it's entirely a matter of business with him. I am in a position to know that about a year ago he loaned the pastor $50, which the latter was unable to pay. So there remained nothing for Ketchum but to take it out in pew rent."—Sunday Magazine. ECZEMA INSTANTLY RELIEVED Instant relief for that awful itch! The itch gone the moment the soothing liquid is applied to the skin! That is what oil of wintergreen, mixed with thymol, glycerine and other mild ingredients, will do for any skin sufferer. Try a free sample of this oil as compounded in D. D. D. Prescription. We urge it and recommend it, and surely would not recommend it and offer it to our regular patrons if we did not know what D. D. D. Prescription will do for skin sufferers. Write to the D. D. D. Co., 112 Michigan St., Dept. 97, Chicago, for a free sample of the wonderful soothing liquid, enclosing only 10c to pay for postage and packing. Now don't fall to try this wonderful soothing refreshing liquid. There was a young chap in Des Moines Who ordered a T bone sirinoles. Sir, the water? Not so, Sir, unless you can show A sufficient amount of des coles. HOUSE WORK Thousands of American women in our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they suffer in silence, drifting along from bad to worse, knowing well that they ought to have help to overcome the pains and aches which daily make life a burden. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a boon and a blessing, as it did to Mrs. F. Elsworth, of Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. W. P. Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Pa., who say "I was not able to do my own work, owing to the female trouble from which I suffered. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped me wonderfully, and I am so well that I can do as big a day's work as I ever did. I wish every sick woman wound try it. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indigestion, dizziness, or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Hiram L. Spencer, one of the veteran poets of the country, is spending the sunset of his life in a quiet country home at White Head, New Brunswick. He was born in Vermont in 1829. His best known poem, "A Hundred Years to Come," was written when he was at school. Oranges, pears, grapes, cherries, etc., are now being packed in paper boxes containing nitrogen, and the exclusion of oxygen seems to keep the fruit from decay for an indefinite time. Fish shown in Paris in 1907 had been preserved in nitrogen for seven years. Even the prosaic washing of dishes has been a subject of scientific investigations. In the interests of the microfearing mortal, Christiani and Michelie, Swiss bacteriologists, have tested the effect on germs present of different methods of washing, such as (1) simply wiping glasses with a sterilized cloth, (2) rinsing with cold water and wiping with no particular care, and (3) thoroughly washing and rinsing in fresh water and carefully drying. They find that the partial washing or wiping so common in hotel, restaurant and family kitchens leaves the germs practically untouched. Thoroughly washing, even in cold or lukewarm water, with vigorous wiping, may remove practically all bacteria; and safety is the more absolute the nearer the water is to boiling. Dissolving two per cent. of carbonate of soda in the water makes sterilization still more thorough. Girls in Denmark never experience the pleasure of receiving a diamond engagement ring. They are presented with a plain gold band, which is worn on the third finger of the left hand. On the wedding day the bridegroom changes the ring to the right third finger, which is the marriage finger in that country. How Helen Keller "Sees." Think of one blind and deaf from early childhood who finds the world "alive, ruddy, and satisfying." That is Helen Keller's own expression; and certainly it is a unique and important human document which is promised in her essays on "Sense and Sensibility," the first to appear in the February Century. Here she tells, to the world for the first time, how she "sees" and "hears": "How can the world be shriveled when this most profound, emotional sense, touch, is faithful to its service? I am sure that if a fairy bade me choose between the sense of sight and that of touch, I would not part with the warm, endearing contact of human hands or the wealth of form, the nobility and fullness that press into my palms." Justus Granich, aged fifteen, was recently arrested in Philadelphia for wife desertion. $5.00 in Gold, Free. Send us the names of your friends who want a piano, and if we secure an order as a result we will give you $5 in gold for your trouble. Send all the details you can and write plainly. The Knight-Campbell Music Co., 1625-31 California St., Denver, Colo. The crushers of the Edison cement works, at Stewartstown, N. J., can crush a six-ton stone. RANCH LIFE IN THE WEST. Still Plenty of Chances to Get Rich and Secure Free Homes—Book of 100 A new book has been published describing ranch life in the West. There is an enorm- ly demand for it. The column truly, every- way welcomes it. For Ranchers, it is solutely true. It describes big ranches, tells how farmers and ranchmen are amassing money and shows how new citizens may do likewise. The book gives the government land and mature land for ranchers with a late county map of Colorado. Contains 100 photo-emgravings of farm and newboy life, etc. Editions cost $2,000 to issue. The book is free—do you want it? To in- troduce magazine (established 1903) we will send you the described ranch book and magazine (established 1903) we will send you the described ranch book and magazine (established 1903) we will send you all for only 30c cash or postage stamps. Clubs of 3 and 3 books 70c, 5 for $1. Money magazine prints views of scenery, stories of ad- venture and sketches and tells all about ranch life Magazine, Blk 102, Denver Co. Denver Directory THE FAMOUS J. H. WILSON STOCK SADDLES Ask your dealer for them. Take no other. 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 THE COLORADO SADDLERY CO. Factory 1801-9 Market St., Denver. Harness in every style. Saddles of every description. Ask your dealer for "the Smoostest Line in the West." To secure Homesekers for the Gulf Coast of Texas from Coastal Crops and Agriculture—Big Commission THE KIMBLE AGENCY CO., 909 17th St., Denver, Colo. Seeds, Plants ROSES BULBS, VINES, BUTTERFLY, POTATOES, ORNAMENTAL TREES COLORADO GROWN— Seeds, Plants ROSES BUTTERFLY NETS ORNAMENTAL FRUIT ORNAMENTAL TREES BASKET GROWTH BEST FOR Catalog. Agents Wanted. LOW PRICE. Free Catalog. Agents Wanted. "THE FINAL ANALYTICAL "The Bk Growers." Denver, Colorado. E. BURLINGAME & CO. ASSAY OFFICE AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY Established in Colorado, 1866. Samples by mail or express will receive prompt and careful attention Gold & Silver Bullion Refined, Melted and Assayed OR PURCHASED. Concentration Tests 100 times per bottle. Write for terms. 1736-1738 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. MACHINE Phone 604 1850 Wazee St. DENVER, COLO TELEPHONE MAIN 4271. N. & W. LIQUOR CO. DEALERS IN ed and Domestic Wines and Liquors. FAMILY TRADE OUR SPECIALTY. Imported and Domestic Wines and Liquors. FAMILY TRADE OUR SPECIALTY. Delivered. Denver, Colo. NIGHT PHONE MAIN 8280 COTTRELL'S PHARMACY D. GOODS—WHISKEY, WINES, BEER, ETC., A SPECIALTY. e drugs, hot an cold drinks, toilet articles and ers—Prescriptions carefully compounded by Reg- ered Pharmist. Prompt delivery to any part of city. D. J. COTTRELL. 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. FLOOD'S MARKET Denver great Anti-Trust Meat Market in the West. LESALE AND RETAIL restaurant, Hotel and Boarding House Businees Given Special Attention. Largest Anti-Trust Meat Market in the West. Restaurant, Hotel and Boarding House Businees Given Special Attention. BROADWAY PHARMACY BANTA BROS, Props. THE BROADWAY PHARMACY BANTA BROS, Props. Corner 19th, Welton and Broadway. Drugs, Toilet Articles, Perfumes. Prescriptions a Specialty DWAY BUFFET AND CAFE. BROADWAY BUFFET AND CAFE. Superior Laundry THE RHINE CAFE Phone Main 7039. First-Class Meals Served. Phone Main 7039. First-Class Meals Served. Dinner from 11:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. We please you tell Others. If you don't tell us. St. Denver, Colo Columbine" ZANG'S New Table Beer "Columbine" ZANG'S 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 H. J. HESPER. THE N. 8 Imported and FAMILY All Goods Delivered. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT COTTRE BOTTLED GOODS—W Pure drugs, hot cigars—Prescri- istered Pharmis £100 Arapahoe St. FLOOD Largest Anti- WHOLESA Restaurant, H G Phone Main 3824. THE BRO BAN Drugs, Toilet Article GOODS DELIVERED BROADWAY Importer of and dealer IN WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. PHOME MAIN 5184. A RHI T. I First-C If We please 1129-31 19th St. "Col J. H. WEICHHAW 1118 BROADWAY. Denver, Colo PHONE MAIN 8280 Denver, Colorado 1015 1017 15th St PHONE MAIN 149 JOHN H. REICHERT Prop 1065-1067 Broadway Denver. Colo Bottled Goods for Family Use My Specialty. ALL HAND WORK. J. W. CASEY, Proprietor. Telephone 2132. 1735 Lawrence St. Denver (Under New Management) T. R. HERRON, Prop.ietor. We guarantee Satisfaction. MRS. EDDY MOVES TO BOSTON. Founder of Christian Science Will Live on Beacon Street. Boston.—The following statement was given out Sunday night from the office of Alfred Farlow, head of the Christian Science publicity bureau: "Rev. Mary Baker-Eddy, discoverer and founder of Christian Science, has moved from Concord, N. H., to Brookline, a suburb of Boston. The Lawrence estate, which has been remodeled, has been quietly furnished for Mrs. Eddy and her household, and she occupied it about 4:45 this afternoon. Only a few of Mrs. Eddy's friends knew of her contemplated move. "While there has been much speculation about the Brookline house, no one had guessed aright concerning its future occupant." Mrs. Eddy and her household, including Calvin A. Frye, her secretary, with Archibald McClellan, as a guest, constituted the party. They left Concord at 2 p. m. on a special train, which had been held in the yard at Concord until a few minutes before the time scheduled for leaving. It was then run under the shed of the Boston side of the depot and was quietly boarded by the party, about ten or twelve in number. "The train was transferred to the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad at Lowell, Mass., whence it was run to South Farmingham where it was transferred to the Boston & Albany road, and went to Chestnut Hill station, where carriages awaited the party and carried them to their new home on Beacon and Hammond streets. Here everything was found in full equipment and supper was served at the usual hour. Except for the three hours required to make the trip, there was no break in the usual routine of the family. "This move was not prompted by any sudden decision. It is known to some of Mrs. Eddy's friends that she has for some years been considering the advisability of returning to this city. "Her purpose is to be more convenient to the mother church of the denomination, nearer to its headquarters." "The whole affair, including the preparation of the house, was in keeping with Mrs. Eddy's usual way of doing things. She weighs matters deliberately and carefully, then acts quickly." Bryan's Running Mate. Washington.—W. J. Bryan held an impromptu reception in the rooms of the house committee on ways and means, where a number of Democratic representatives and many outsiders chatted with him. Asked by someone to name his choice for a running mate in the event of his nomination at Denver, Mr. Bryan laughingly replied: "I shan't tell. That is too bold a question." To the newspaper men he said: "You may say that my coming to Washington was not to consult any man or set of men as to whether I ought to be a candidate for the nomination. I have not put that question to any men, nor shall I. The people, not individuals, have the sole right to decide that point. I am not here to solicit support for myself as a possible presidential candidate. I never solicit individual support. I never ask any man to vote for me. In the past when I was before the people as a candidate, my efforts to obtain votes have been confined to statements of my views." Death of Colonel Freelands Denver.—A Philadelphia dispatch Monday night says: Col. Francis T. Freeland, a noted mining and civil engineer, globe trotter and mine owner of Colorado, who formerly lived here, was found dead in his apartment at the Colonnade hotel this afternoon. Death is supposed to have been caused by a stroke of apoplexy. The sudden end of Colonel Freeland is similar in nearly every detail to the deaths of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Freeland, who resided here, each dying suddenly from a stroke of apoplexy. Francis T. Freeland was in charge of the Isabella company's properties at Cripple Creek during the time of the Hagerman administration, from 1895 to early in 1898, when he returned to Aspen to look after the Hagerman properties in that camp. He had been in all of the world's great mining camps. Before his arrival at Cripple Creek he was superintendent of the Iron Silver mine at Leadville. Fort Collins Sugar Season. Denver.—A Fort Collins dispatch says: At 1:50 o'clock Sunday morning the last of the beet crop of 1907, grown in this district for the local sugar factory, was run through the silicers, thus practically ending the sugar making campaign which opened September 19th. A few days will be required to convert the juice on hand into sugar, and when this is done the factory will close until next fall. During the campaign of 130 days the factory sliced more than 180,000 tons of beets, including between 17,000 and 18,000 tons raised in the Loveland and Longmont districts, and not a day was lost during the campaign on any account, or for any reason, and not a serious accident occurred from the time of starting up the machinery until it was ready to close down Sunday. The campaign has been the most successful and the most satisfactory all around in the history of the local factory. Chicago Tramps Feasted. Chicago, Ill.—Two hundred and fifty tramps fed on the bounty of five members of the Chicago Athletic Association Monday. "We have food, but no appetites," said one of the five members, as he attempted to eat the dainty things he had ordered in the club dining room. "Let's get satisfaction by proxy; perhaps we can find someone hungry." It was easily done and in half an hour men from a West Side lodging house had assembled and were taken to three restaurants in lower State street and fed at 30 cents a head, with pie as a dessert. Mitchell Voted Extra Pay. Indianapolis.—The convention of the United Mine Workers of America Tuesday unanimously voted President Mitchell six months' pay, with all expenses, including medical attendance. Propositions sent to the resolutions committee to employ Mr. Mitchell after his retirement as president April 1st, as counsel at a salary of $5,000, to place him at the head of a national educational board to work in connection with the national executive board, and to levy a per capita tax of from 10 cents to 50 cents were reported unfavorably after Mr. Mitchell had been consulted and had refused to accept any of them. Mr. Mitchell has announced that he intends to take a long vacation to endeavor to recover his health. Resolutions presented by the Socialists were promptly voted down. They were similar to those presented to the convention each year. A resolution to give the Western Federation of Miners jurisdiction over all metalliferous mines and the United Mine Workers jurisdiction over all coal miners was favorably commented upon and referred to a commission to be named later to bring the matter before the national convention of the Western Federation. A resolution opposing "government by injunction" was discussed by Secretary Wilson and several Socialist delegates. The convention Tuesday afternoon endorsed the employers' liability act and urged its delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention to advocate a universal label, memorialize congress to create a bureau of mines and mining and instructed the international organizers to go to Washington to appear before the necessary committees. Employers May Bar Unions. Washington.—The constitutionality of the act of Congress of June 1, 1908, prohibiting railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce from discriminating against members of labor organizations in the matter of employment was called into question by the case of William Adair vs. the United States, which was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States Monday favorable to Adair. The opinion was by Justice Harlan and held the law to be repugnant to the constitution. The court held that Adair, as master mechanic of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, had a right to discharge an employee because he was a member of a labor organization just as it was the employee's right to quit such employment because of his membership in such organization. Such a course, the decision added, might be unwise, but, regarded as a mere matter of right, there could be no doubt. Congress could not under the constitution authorize a violation of contracts under the guise of protecting interstate commerce. Justice McKenna delivered a dissenting opinion favorable to the law, in which he said the court's decision is along very narrow lines. Justice Holmes also expressed the opinion that the law should be construed as constitutional. He thought that the right to make contracts had been stretched to the limit by the court's decision in this case. That Congress had a right to so legislate as to encourage labor organizations was another suggestion of Justice Holmes. Packing Plant Burned. Kansas City.—Fire of unknown origin started in the canning department on the second floor of one of the twin main buildings of the $2,000,000 packing plant of Nelson Morris & Co., on the Kaw river in Kansas City, Kan., Tuesday night, threatened destruction of the entire plant and caused loss estimated at $750,000 before it was controlled. All efforts to save the east main building, in which the fire started, and the box factory, were abandoned within an hour after the flames were discovered, and the firemen devoted themselves to the work of saving the other buildings. The building in which the fire started contained the canning department, the coolers, the dressing room, the wholesale department, and killing beds and the contents supplied the fire with fuel which made the flames difficult to combat. The fire had gained great headway before the fire department arrived and the heat was so intense that it was impossible for the firemen to make any progress in checking it except to prevent its spreading. The box factory in the rear of the main building was entirely destroyed. The flames also spread to the cattle chutes, many of which were burned. The other main building contains the general offices and the engine room and much salvage from the burned building was carried into it. The Morris packing plant was the newest in this city, having been completed two years ago. Noted Desperado Captured. Pueblo.—Tom Carr, the ex-convict and desperado, who is wanted here on a serious charge upon the complaint of his stepdaughter, Edith Carr, and who was arrested in El Paso, Tex., about a week ago, reached Pueblo Tuesday in charge of Sheriff McMillan. Soon after his arrival here Carr was taken into justice court and arraigned on a charge of criminal assault. He pleaded not guilty and being unable to furnish bail, was taken to jail to await trial. The story of Carr's sensational escape and subsequent capture sounds like a tale of the old West. On leaving Verde, after escaping from Deputy Sheriff Burrows, he rode a horse which is the property of Chief of Police McCaffery of Pueblo, as far as Alamosa, where he traded it for two bronchos. In crossing the range near Alamosa both his feet were badly frozen, but he kept going until he reached Santa Fe, N. M., where he took a train for El Paso. He immediately crossed over into Old Mexico, but his description from Pueblo had preceded him and by a clever ruse a plain clothes man lured him back to El Paso, when he was immediately arrested. Carr seems to be heartbroken, but stoutly maintains his innocence. M. B. LAWRENCE STEPHEN THIRST HIRST PARLOR THIRST PARLORS. J. L. PENNINGTON, Proprietor. Fine Wines, Liqu Telephone Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Telephone 816 Main. Know DR. DAMERON has prices for all Dental of Teeth for $5.00; $10 Sets for $7.00; $4 Crowns only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00 up; Gold and Platina, $1.00 up. Pa- ALBANY DENTAL B , Opp. the P. O. DR. DAM CAMPBELL BROS Groceries and Fresh Do You Know DR prl $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $5.00; $10; Gold Crowns only. $5.0 Fillings, 50c up; Gold and P tracting. Arapahoe street, Opp. the P. O. CAMPBE Staple Groceries Do You Know DR. DAMERON has reduced his prices for all Dental Work? $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, Arapahoe street, Opp. the P. O. DR. DAMERON, Prop CAMPBELL BROS. 1864 Curtis Srreet, Cor. 19th. in. De you want a fine High Grade Ci Old Nobil When you want High Smoke "Old When you want a fine High Grade Cigar Smoke "Old Nobility" 3 for 25c. 10c and 2 for 25c 10 Sizes The Baxter Cigar Con Denver. Baxter Cigar Con Denver. 48 Ra The Baxter Cigar Company, Denver. [Name] Degrees of Heat and Cold. The greatest heat is never found on the equator, but some ten degrees to the north, while more severe cold has been registered in northern Siberia than has been found near the pole. Lightning Shows Favoritism. A curious fact revealed by statisticians is, says the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, that the number of men killed by lightning in England is nearly four times that of women. Horse Out of Its Place. A frightened horse jumped into an automobile at Greenwich, Conn., a few evenings ago. When will people learn to keep foolish horses off the public highways?—Chicago Record-Herald. --- 1745 Curtis St. Phone 3028 Main. Phone Main 2048 Our Reading Room Comprize all the latest Papers, Books and Magazines. Headquarters for Cooks, Waiters and Railroad Porters. 2149 Curtis Sreet. Phone Main 8232. Denver. Colorado. PARLORS, . DAMERON has reduced his ces for all Dental Work? $10 Sets for $7.00; $15 Sets for 10 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Natina, $1.00 up. Painless Ex- BANY DENTAL PARLORS, DR. DAMERON, Prep. LL BROS. and Fresh Meats. a fine Grade Cigar Nobility" igar Company, ver. "IT'S SO DIFFERENT" THE PASTIME SOCIAL CLUB. The best Equipped Pleasuae Resort in the West. Ping Pong Pool and Billiards. Phone Main 3044 Lunch Served. H. PINN, Prop. 1821 Arapahoe Street. Denver, Colorado 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 commi- mission. ```markdown ``` Denver, Colo Denver, Colorodo Railroad Building THE COLORADO STATESMAN JOS. D. D. RIVERS.....Proprietor S. H. HOBSON .....City Editor 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year .....$2.00 Six Months .....1.00 Three Months ......60 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 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Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. SALUTE! THE visit of Hon. W. T. Vernon, register of the United States Treasury, to the state of Colorado, was a noteworthy event for the colored population. His itinerary took in the three principal cities of the state, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver. In each of them he was generously banqueted and received such an ovation as declared in the most unequivocal manner the hold which he has in the hearts of our people. Both as a man and high public official he has won our love and esteem. The reason is not hard to find. He unites in himself a large measure of those qualities which have always made for popularity and power, because they fascinate the imagination and stir the intellect. The resultant, the ensemble, is what is termed a magnetic personality. This, Mr. Vernon possesses in a large degree. Through untiring energy application and ambition, he has made himself one of the most cultured and capable members of the race, and an orator of unsurpassed brilliance. Withal he is modest, unassuming, sympathetic and easy of approach. This inventory of gifts, natural and acquired, has landed him in the highest appointive political position hitherto awarded the Race, and given him unrivaled leadership in matters political afecting it. Here in Denver he reached the climax of his reception. After delivering at Shorter's A. M. E. Church a grand and instructive lecture in which he gave much practical advice, he was tendered a magnificent banquet, undoubtedly the most splendid ever given by the colored citizens of Denver. It was an occasion for the reunion of the best citizens and of the various college and high school representatives and alumni. Fully 130 persons accepted the honor of this banquet, and a number of speeches were made, notably one by Lawyer J. H. Stuart, who, though not on the program of speakers, when called upon, responded in a happy style which brought much applause. After eulogizing the distinguished and honored guest, he dwelt upon the necessity of union among our people as a condition of any great and substantial recognition. When Mr. Vernon rose at length to reply, he took occasion specially to comment on Mr. Stuart's remarks on unity and heartily indorsed the same. We also wish to commend in the highest terms the eloquent and practical speeches made by Mr. George Gross and Mr. Roy Handy, a brilliant young medical student with a great future before him. Mr. Gross is engaged in sugar beet raising and earnestly advised our people to take up vacant lands in Colorado and do likewise. One particular remark of Register Vernon should be indelibly fixed in our minds. He said we should be watchful and jealous to preserve every right we now possess, while striving for more. And he added that the leader who compromises the rights for a money compensation is a traitor to the Race. In his closing reply at the banquet, he earnestly declared that it was the greatest entertainment he had ever received in his whole life, although he had been the recipient of similar entertainments all over the United States. THE DEMOCRATIC MENAGERIE IT is to be expected that unusual Democratic activity will have its effect upon local conditions in Colorado this year, for it is quite natural for certain classes of demonstrative people to be attracted by a big noise. The fact that a national Democratic convention will be held in Denver in July will inspire to active decision not only a certain line of white mugwumps, but it will have its effect upon that element of colored voters which is ever disposed to express its dissatisfaction with existing conditions by swapping the devil for the witch, without thought or care for the torment that will follow. We have no objection to liberal thought in politics, nor to political progressiveness of any nature, but we are rather glad of the fact that general conditions in Colorado tend to make all classes of people feel free to do as they please in politics, so long as they are honest about it, without experiencing any outrageous pangs of conscience. But in the present case we would respectfully advise colored men who are disposed to follow the Democratic band wagon just because it is connected with the biggest show in town, that the menagerie in the big tent will contain more man-eating animals than are usually found in Democratic collections in the West, and the presence of the Negro under the canvas will have no tendency to silence the roars of beasts that are fed only once in four years. No black animal-tamer under the sun will be able to stick his head into the gaping mouth of Tillman, the one-eyed lion of the Carolinas, and draw it out again uncrushed. No daring Hercules of bronze will ever step into the cage with Vardeman, the yellow panther of the Mississippi bottoms; or with Broward, the man-eating hyena of the Florida swamps, and come out again with his tights on. No adept African will manipulate the rope swings on which Jeff Davis, the ring-tailed monkey of the Arkansaw, will perform. No agile black acrobat will mount the bare back of Carmack, the wild ass of Tennessee, and ride him three times around the ring and return to the dressing room without a broken neck. This Colorado show is to be a big national circus—not a local showings of Democratic pageantry will be on exhibition. The noise and the music may have its allurements, but all the sweet strains of horn and dulce, all the wild crash of brass and cymbal, all the bright glitter of gold and tinsel, will never make it a safe place for a black citizen of the Republic to enter, as a loyal patron and follower, and take a seat, whether that seat be among the reserved cushions on the ground tier, or high on the topmost plank, next to the flapping roof of the spreading canvas. What Science This Year May Bring Forth By JOHN RITCHIE, JR. Of Boston Scientific Society. T would seem as if one of the things that is near at hand is a longer range of forecasting the weather. This is a most important matter for business and for pleasure. Prof. Dolbear has very truly said: "Man is born into a certain environment and accepts it without much argument or consideration." We are to-day in an environment of weather predicting, and we think it to be simply natural, although it would have been wonderful enough to our forefathers. To-morrow's weather we may know with a good deal of certainty. We are about ready now to reach farther into the future and to receive our T would seem as if one of the things that is near at hand is a longer range of forecasting the weather. This is a most important matter for business and for pleasure. Prof. Dolbear has very truly said: "Man is born into a certain environment and accepts it without much argument or consideration." We are to-day in an environment of weather predicting, and we think it to be simply natural, although it would have been wonderful enough to our forefathers. To-morrow's weather we may know with a good deal of certainty. We are about ready now to reach farther into the future and to receive our announcements of coming weather for a much longer time in the future. The investigations of Clayton and the Blue Hill observatory seem to point to some important advance in the near future. Turning to another branch of science, the department of biology, the study of life, one is struck by the way in which the investigators of the protozoa have been able to connect these minute animals with maladies that afflict mankind. These infinitesimal creatures, as small as the point of a needle, perhaps less than one twenty-five hundredth of an inch in their longest dimension, have been closely studied, and many discoveries have been made. These discoveries lead usually to some means of prevention or some method of cure. The causes of yellow fever, malaria, sleeping-sickness and various other diseases of man or beast, that have claimed their victims by the tens of thousands are now known to the microscopist. For some of these the cure has been found. Of all dread diseases cancer is the most terrible. Such is the condition of research to-day that it seems but a short time to a knowledge of the germ of this malady and perhaps a remedy, and no one would be surprised were the discovery to be flashed forth to medical men this year. The strange series of phenomena that cluster about what are called the Herzian waves, is one of the wonders of modern science. Upon these subtle impulses depends the fairly familiar range of disturbances in the ether that result in wireless telegraphy. Wireless telephony, as yet but an experiment, is bound to follow. It may be that the year 1908 may give it to us in some measure of practical perfection. Hardly any practical development of science is to-day of more universal interest than travel through the air. This new year has for us important advances in this direction of knowledge. The aeroplane, also, which so many consider to be the airship of the future, is slowly but surely making its way. At the present there are elements of instability and it has as yet accomplished no important lofty flights. Its progress is slow, but it is gaining. There is a possibility if not a probability of important advances in this form of aerial navigation during the year. Many men and women are indulging tastes they cannot afford and they are finally compelled to steal what belongs to other people. Many a man and woman is riding in an automobile that is not paid for. Dishonesty Is a Sin of the Age By REV. CHARLES BAYARD MITCHELL, D. D., Cleveland. Much dishonesty due to the fact that some men would rather steal than work. This age is characterized by its rush for material wealth. Everybody wants to get rich and get rich quick, to get rich honestly, if possible, but get rich at any cost. The old-fashioned virtue of honesty is discounted in many quarters. In many ways men are tempted to be dishonest. Men, especially young men, are tempted to be dishonest in their appearance. They appear what they are not. They want to appear rich when they are poor. Many a youth dresses far beyond his means because he wants to wear better clothes than he is able to pay for. A man is essentially dishonest who owes his tailor for the clothes he wears. When a suit of clothes can be bought for $5, no man has a right to wear better clothes which are not paid for. Men are tempted to be dishonest in their speech. Many a man lies when he makes an engagement that he does not keep at the appointed time, and in making promises which he never fulfils. There are grosser forms of dishonesty, as shown in lying in business and misrepresenting goods. There are three fruitful sources of dishonesty—laziness, extravagant tastes and extravagant bad habits. Much dishonesty is due directly to the fact that some men would rather steal than work. Many men and women are indulging tastes they can not afford and they are thus finally compelled to steal, directly or indirectly, what belongs to other people. There is nothing in the commercial world to-day at so great a premium and in such demand as an absolutely honest man who can be trusted without fear or suspicion. The highest places of emolument and honor are waiting for men of clean habits and absolute honesty. I know a man at the head of one of the great institutions in America who holds his place because men say of him: "He would lose his right arm rather than be dishonest." The Poetic Drama Is Doomed By HENRY ARTHUR JONES, British Dramatist. The poetic drama seems to have fallen on evil days. Perhaps this indicates a tendency which will everywhere more and more prevail. Already our modern city civilization is something strangely and in many ways essentially different from the civilization of even two generations ago, and different from any civilization the world has ever had. It is certain that the vast majority of playgoers will never be interested in scenes, in manners or in characters remote from their everyday, ordinary life. Therefore, apart from mere amusement and nonsense we expect that most successful plays of coming time will be those that swiftly and realistically snapshot current events, personages and even slang of the passing hour. Does this imply or even allow a great school of national drama? Perhaps not. Yet after all, the keenest, not the greatest or highest, but the keenest pleasure any work of art can give is the taste of real life. WESTERN UNIVERSITY The Leading Educational Institution for Negroes in the West. A Faculty of Eighteen Thoroughly Equipped Teachers from the Leading institutions in America. MAGNIFICENT BUILDINGS, Steom Heated and Electric Lighted. DEPARTMENTS Theological, Classical, Normal, Sub-normal, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Book-binding, Tailoring, Business Course, Dress-making, Millinery, Cooking, Laundrying and Farming. Thorouge Discipline, Christian Influence Fine Military Band and Orchestra. For full information write to PROF. SHELTON FRENCH. Acting President of Western University. Quindaro, Kansas AMBARA Denver Roller Skating Academy EAST TURNER HALL. Open Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Nights from 9:00 to 12:00 O'clock. THE TWO JIM'S SOCIAL CLUB DENVER'S FAVORITE PLEASURE RESORT. Whist, Pool, Chess, Checkers and Other Pastime Games. PHONE 2275 MAIN 1859 Champa St. Denver, Colo. [Name] JAS. F. CLARK. The National League of Colored Baseball clubs is now assured. Its circuit will comprise the cities of Cleveland, Chicago, Indianapolis, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville and Detroit. A schedule will be adopted at a meeting which will be held at Indianapolis on February 16. Experienced baseball men ample capital are behind the new league and they are signing up the best colored players in the country Colored play ers are barred from teams playing under the national agreement and thus some of the greatert players that ever caught or batted a ball have been forced to play for small salaries on country town teams. The new league should furnish some splendid play and will no doubt draw paying patronage if the promoters are wise enough to arrange nonconficting schedules with the major league teams in the same cities. CITY NEWS. Miss Inez Mackey will leave tomorrow for Los Angelas, Calif., to remain. Major Vince of Cripple Creek passed through the city this week enroute to Boulder. Revival services at Zion Baptist church has been a great success with many conversions. Miss Eliza Miller entertained a number of her young lady friends Thursday with a six course dinner. Mrs. Julia F. Lee of 1864 Humboldt street who has been very ill with pneumonia is improving slowly. Mrs. W. A. Watkins of 2350 Curtis St. was called to San Francisco, last Wednesday on account of the serious illness of her sister. L. L. Duacan and wife of Colorado Springs were in attendance at the Veron lecture, they were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Wicks. Invitations are out announcing that Lizzie A. Taylor and Rev. John W. H. Morris both of Salt Lake City will be married February 6, 1908 at 8:30 p. m. The children of the late Mrs. Ball, desire to extend their heartfelt thanks to those who so kindly rendered assistance during the illness and death of their mother. Miss Belle Bradley arrived home last Sunday from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was called on account of the illness of her mother, who is now on the road to recover. Hon. W. T. Vernon accompanied by Geo. W. Gross of Swink, Colo., paid this office a pleasant call last Monday. Register Vernon said he has never witnessed a greater demonstration in his honor as was shown by the citizens of Denver. Master Frank Lightner entertained a few of his little friends Thursday, it being the anniversary of his eighth birthday. He was ably assisted by his aunts the Misses Miller and his mother. Master Frank proved himself to be an ideal Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gross of Swink, Colo., attended the Vernon lecture and banquet held in this city last Monday night. Mr. Gross, is one of Colorado's prosperous farmers, being engaged in raising sugar beets, and the famous Rockyford cantelopes. L. L. McMahan Prescription Pharmacy is the name of the drug store at 19th and Arapahoe strets, which has just been opened with a fresh and elaborate stock of goods by L. L. McMahan, who will be pleased to have his old friend and patrons as well as the general public call and see him. The funeral of Mrs. Wm. Knight was held last Thursday afternoon from Zion Baptist church of which he was a member. Deceased was loved by all who knew her. She leaves a husband, mother and father, two brothers and other relatives besides a host of friends to mourn her loss. The banquet at Shorter church last Monday night has been commeted on in no little degree of publicity, not for the program alone but for the artistic and exact manner in which it was served by Owen Caswell of the Baur Catering establishment. Mr. Caswell is recognized as the finest caterer of the West, in fact his reputation as such reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the great lakes to the Gulf. Mr. Caswell and his corps of waiters are to be congratulated for their most splendid service. Order of services at Zion Baptist church, Sunday Feb. 2nd. Sunday School 9:45 a. m. 11 a. m. covenant meeting. 2:30 p. m. preaching subject "What sayth the Scripture about Baptism? 3 p. m. the ordinance of baptism will be administered. 6:30 p m. B. Y. P. U. Consecration meeting led by Dr. W. A. Jones. 7:30 preaching, subject What saith the scripture about communion? The Lord's supper will be administered at the close of the sermon. The public is invited to come and worship with us. REV. A. E. REYNOLDS, Pastor. When some of the young friends of Miss Theta Von Dickershon planned to give her a surprise party Monday evening that being the anniversary of her eighteenth birthday, they did not dream that they would be treated to a surprise that was not down on the program, but they were. When this popular young lady and rising young vocalist left the family rooftree for a trip down town Monday she neglected to inform the family that she intended doing anything out of the ordinary, but she met her fiancee John Eckter down in the city, they boarded a car and hied themselves to Littleton where they were made man and wife. They returned home and after the shock of the announcement of the marriage had worn away, they received the parental forgiveness. How romantic it all was. The COLORADO STATESMAN extends best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Eckter. No greater demonstration has ever been shown to any public man by the colored citizens of Denver than was shown to Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the U. S. Treasury during his short stay in the city, and especially was this manifested last Monday night at Shorter A. M. E. church, when the honorable gentleman addressed an audience that taxed every available space in the big edifice, which was filled long before the hour arrived for the speaking to begin. When the speaker arrived accompanied by Rev. A. M. Ward, he was received with prolonged applause. After this subsided fourteen of the ex-students of Lincoln Institute of which Dr. Vernon is a graduate, gave the College yell which was followed by a song from them. Rev. Ward in a short address introduced the speaker who was again greeted with applause. Before beginning his address he took occasion to thank the citizens of Denver for their generous hospitality towards him. All Elks are requested to meet at Castle hall at 12 o'clock Sunday to take part in the funeral of Andrew Hudson. The remains of Paris Bramlett who died Tuesday night will be shipped by Undertaker Gilmore to Fort Scott, Kansas for burial, Friday afternoon. The funeral of George Lloyd was held from the Undertaking establishment of Q. J. Gilmore, Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Payne officiated. Interment at Riverside cemetary. The funeral of Andrew Hudson, who died very suddenly at Watkins. Colo., Sunday morning will take place tomorrow afternoon from Zion Baptist church at 2 o'clock under the auspices of the Elks. Interment will be at Riverside cemetary. Undertaker Gilmore will have charge of the funeral. The Self Improvement and Social club elected their delegates for the State Federation which meets at Pueblo some time in June. Delegates are Mrs. L. Stephens, Mrs. T. Rogers'Webb, Mrs. J. R. Abernathy and Mrs. J. C. Cooper; alternates, Mrs. R. T. Anderson, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Thomas Williams and Mrs. M. C. Travick. MRS. LAWRENCE STEPHENS, President. MRS. J. R. ABERNATHY, Secretary. RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE Whereas, The Devine Creator has taken from our midst Ralph Branford, a devoted husband, indulgent father and citizen of sterling worth. Be it Resolved, That we the members of the Self Improvement and Social club extend to Elizabeth Branford and Cora O'Bryant our heartfelt sympathy in this their great bereavement. And be it further Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions be sent to them, also be recorded in the minutes of the S. I. and S. club. They whom we loved on earth Attract us now to heaven. They move with noiseless foot Gravely and sweetly round us. And their soft touch hath cut Full many a chain that bound us Comm: { BESSIE KEELON, M. C. TRAVICK, MILDRED ABERNATHY, Chairman. CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER. Sunday Feby. 2nd will be the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, anciently called Candlemass. The Rt. Rev., the Bishop of Col- orado has invited the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Ottawa, Canada (Dr. Hamilton) who is spending a short time in Denver, to visit the Church of the Redeemer in honor of this Festival. Solemn Choral Eucharist will be celebrated at 11 o'clock. Be present. Be punctual. Be prepared. The members of the COLORADO POLITICAL CLUB, the largest colored political organization in the city, are making great preparations for their social gathering to take place, February 12th at Odd Fellows hall, 1712 Curtis street. Shorter A. M. E. Church. Sunday services, Feb 2nd., Pastor A. M. Ward will preach at 11 a. m. and administer Holy Communion. Sunday School will render a special Missionary program at 1 p. m. J. C. Porter, Supt. Allen C. E. League holds special consecration services at 6:30 p. M. Miss Gertrude Nichols, Pres. Rev. Dr. Randolph will preach at 7:30 p. m. Special cottage prayer meeting will be held throughout the city next week preparatory to Revival services. Eurekra Literary Society, Tuesday evening at 8 oclock. Splendid program. All are welcome Rev. A. M. WARD, Pastor. Hair cut 15 cents, 1847 Blake street The Elk's club. 1855 Arapahoe street. A popular and favorite resort. Thos. Clingman, proprietor. Mrs. G. W. Anderson of 429 24th St. has all kinds of hair goods for sale Pompadours and switches made to order. A. J. Fitzpatrick, carpenter, contractor, general repairing, 2646 California. Two furnished rooms for rent for ladies or gentlemen at 1050 Logan avenue. For Rent, nice front room for gentleman at 1946 Pennsylvania avenue, Phone White 1905. The big Leap Year surprise will be the musical treat given by the Denver Division of U. O. True Reerormfs, East Turner hall, Thursday, February 27th. Watch for our next ad. ALLEN DAVIS, Chairman. Nicely furnished room for gentleman. 2404 Glenarm Place, Phone Main 2781. Ernest Howard, carpenter and all kinds of job work done at reasonable prices. Residence 353 Warren avenue. Phone 2129 Brown. 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. White Swan Laundry. Beginning next Monday morning, William Loesby of the White Swan laundry will give the girls in his employ an eight-hour day. The shorter hours will not be accompanied by any reduction of wages. No hour system will be instituted. The girls will be paid by the week and will be paid the same wages as they have been receiving. This will be as good or better than the wages paid in most of the other plants in the city. The White Swan employs more than forty girls at present. In the summer the number is doubled. The same force of girls will not be expected to get out the work in eight hours that has hitherto been done in ten. Mr. Loesby will increase his force to a number equal to the task of work. JOSEPH H. STUART LAWYER. Practice in all courts. Examining abstract of title and drawing up legal instruments given careful attention. 129 Kittredge Bld. Phone Olive 294 Res. 2562 Lincoln Av. Make Money By Saving It Here are a few examples of how you can save on Men's Wearables. Every one a guaranteed bargain as advertised. Of course early buyers get choice of selection. $15 name careful attention as lies. ests.....1/2 Price r.....1/4 O shirts.....45 wear.....39 d Things Here. d Lines are less. Moel Co PP. TABOR GRAND. NITY BALL '08, d Orphans and e. HALL, Alterations on all Clothing free and same carefull if at Original Prices. $1.50 Shirts.....79c | Odd Fancy Vests..... $1.50 Underwear.....85c | Fine Underwear..... 75c Suspenders.....50c | Black Sateen Shirts..... 50c Silk Ties.....39c | Ribbed Underwear..... These are but a few of the Good Things H Not everything at cost—But Odd Lines are THE Johnson-Noo 1005 16TH ST. OPP. TABOR A GRAND CHARITY TO BE GIVEN FEB. 27, 'C For the benefit of the Colored Orphan Old Folk's Home. BOURNER'S HA Alterations on all Clothing free and same careful attention as if at Original Prices. $1.50 Shirts.....79c | Odd Fancy Vests.....½ Price $1.50 Underwear.....85c | Fine Underwear.....¼ Off 75c Suspenders.....50c | Black Sateen Shirts.....45c 50c Silk Ties.....39c | Ribbed Underwear.....39c These are but a few of the Good Things Here. Not everything at cost—But Odd Lines are less. THE Johnson-Noel Co 1005 16TH ST. OPP TABOR GRAND A GRAND CHARITY BALL TO BE GIVEN FEB. 27, '08, For the benefit of the Colored Orphans and Old Folk's Home. BOURNER'S HALL. Corner of 27th and Arapahoe Sts. ADMISSION 35 CENTS. Dancing from nine till one a. m. Good Music in A COMMITTEE:—Mrs. A. A. Ealy, Ch'm., Mrs. Secy., Mrs. Lilly Lewis, Treas.; Mrs. James Travick, Abernathy, Mrs. James Cooper, Mrs. Edward Miller, N Anderson, Mrs. Lawrence Stephen, Mrs. Laura C Elvira Reynolds. LEAP YEAR SURPRIS Music in Attendance h'm., Mrs. Moral Keelon, James Travick, Mrs. James ard Miller, Mrs. Raymond ss. Laura Gunnell, Mrs. URPRISE Denver Public O. True Reformers. HALL, v. 27, 1908. Your Wife." Oral Club. of the Western Grand be present to give infor- Dancing from nine till one a. m. Good Music in Attendance COMMITTEE:—Mrs. A. A. Ealy, Ch'm., Mrs. Moral Keelon, Secy., Mrs. Lilly Lewis, Treas.; Mrs. James Travick, Mrs. James Abernathy, Mrs. James Cooper, Mrs. Edward Miller, Mrs. Raymond Anderson, Mrs. Lawrence Stephen, Mrs. Laura Gunnell, Mrs. Elvira Reynolds. LEAP YEAR SURPRISE Musical Treat to the Denver B Auspices of the Denver Division of U. O. True EAST TURNER HALI Thursday, February 27, A Two Act Drama, "Tell Your Wife The Azalia Hackley Choral Club. Rev. W. L. Anderson, Deputy General of the W Division of U. O. True Reformers, will be present tation upon the work. A Two Act Drama, "Tell Your Wife." The Azalia Hackley Choral Club. Rev. W. L. Anderson, Deputy General of the Western Grand Division of U. O. True Reformers, will be present to give information upon the work. CURTIN GOES UP AT 8 O'CLOCK. Committee of Arrangements, the Messengers of Fountains. H. B. Brown.....Colo. Enterprise No. 163 Mrs. Irene Fife....."I Will" No. 254 J. R. Contee.....Forward 3rd in Denver No. 263 A. M. Lawhorn.....Ideal No. 275 Mrs. M. Thomas.....Denver No. 279 Allen Davis.....Columbine No. ALLEN DAVIS, Chairman Committee. sengers of Fountains. Colo. Enterprise No. 1621 "I Will" No. 2548 rd 3rd in Denver No. 2656 Ideal No. 2790 Denver No. 2791 Columbine No. — Committee of Arrangements, the Messengers of Fountains. H. B. Brown.....Colo. Enterprise No. 1621 Mrs. Irene Fife....."I Will" No. 2548 J. R. Contee.....Forward 3rd in Denver No. 2656 A. M. Lawhorn.....Ideal No. 2790 Mrs. M. Thomas.....Denver No. 2791 Allen Davis.....Columbine No. — ALLEN DAVIS, Chairman Committee. ren under 12, 15 Cents A. C. CASH, Chief of Division. WHITE SWAN TELEPHONE TELEPHONE 1866 1866 LAUNDRY Not in the Trust. We have Reduced the Prices. OUR PRICE 1 Shirt Walt . . . 3 1 Shirt. . . . 3 1 Apron. . . . 3 1 Dress, Lady's . . . 3 1 Chemise . . . 3 Gorget Cover . . . 3 Pair Drawers . . . 3 Night Dress . . . 3 Union Suit . . . 3 Under Shirt . . . 3 Shirt, Work . . . 3 Night Shirt . . . 3 Total . . . 36 PHONE MAIN 1866 2200 Blake St. ROUGH DRY 12c to 35c per Dozen TRUST PRICE 1 Shirt Walt . . . 5 1 Shirt. . . . 5 1 Apron. . . . 3 1 Dress, Lady's . . . 5 1 Chemise. . . 3 Cornet Cover. . . 3 Pair Drawers. . . 3 Night Dress . . . 4 Union Suit . . . 6 Under Shirt . . . 4 Shirt, Work . . . 4 Night Shirt . . . 3 Total . . . 48 Best collar and cuff work in the city. Send us all your family washing. Automobiles and wagons everywhere. We use soft artesian water. We do no hospital work. One Hundred Suits of "R & W." "Ehrman & Stern" and "Hackett- Carhart makes—$15 to $20 grades. L. Adler Bros.' Rochester Made The World's best Clothing. $20 to $30 Suits and Overcoats. WILL BE THE Odd Lines $3, $4 & $5 HATS $1.95 DOTTED TEARS WON SUIT. Extraordinary Letter by Father of Spurned Girl Read in Court. A thousand dots were in a letter which was read in a breach of promise action at Chester Sheriff's court recently. "These are not kisses, but tears," the letter, which was of an extraordinary character, explained. Last year a Cheadle cab proprietor, named Arthur Morren, met Elizabeth Ann Rhodes, an Asston-under-Lyne mill forewoman, who 20 years old, at a wedding party. He apparently fell in love and wrote her many letters and post cards. In February last they became engaged, and the wedding was to have taken place in September, but the cab proprietor wrote asking the young woman to "let him free," as their "social conditions were not quite equal." The young woman's father in reply wrote the letter, which was read in court: "When you go to church and sing your praise try to think of the lass you have now spurned and left with a broken heart. "When you uplift your voice in prayer, may the heaven be as brass. May God repay thee for what thou hast done." Then followed 1,000 dots and these words: "These are not kisses, but tears from a mother's and daughter's hearts, which before they knew you never had a care. "May you for every tear that falls and every throb in their hearts repent it millions and millions of times over and over again, and every time you look at a lass or hear the church bells chime at night when you go to sleep, and at morn when you awake, may you think of this letter and a lass with a broken heart." The jury awarded £40 damages.—London Express. Some Suggestions As to Lying. There is not so much objection to lying as there is to a lack of art in the telling of a lie. It is no use to tell a lie unless you are going to accomplish your purpose. Lies can do the work whether they are discovered or not. It is all in the manner of telling them. In the first place never tell a lie when the truth will do just as well. This serves to establish your reputation and gives your lies a standing they could not otherwise gain. Never tell a big lie to gain a small object, nor tell a little lie to gain a big object. Let all your lies be big and lusty fellows, and let them have some big business in hand. These two rules are really imperative you expect to become a successful and proficient liar. Little lies for little things are not worth telling. Finally, always have the courage of your lies. Stick to 'em. If you are not brave enough to stand by your own lies, why send them out only to be betrayed? A man is the rankest sort of a coward that refuses to give his lie any support when it crawls back to him from the buffetings, beatings and rough usage of the populace. Brace it up with manufactured corroborative evidence and artificial confirmation and send it out again renewed in spirit and vigor.—Washington Times. Killed 189 Ducks at One Shot. Harry Malcolm, ex-deputy game warden, sends to the Sun a photograph of a remarkable nine-barrel gun with a single trigger, which has the effectiveness of a Gattling gun in slaughtering ducks. A single pull of the trigger fires off all the barrels, and one discharge is said to have killed 189 ducks. Mr. Malcolm, assisted by Messrs. R. H. Cox, W. M. Lyon and Sidney Barber, arrested a party of hunters who were using the gun to the great detriment of the wild duck hunting sport on the Potomac river. Seven men were taken along with the gun, which is of a type forbidden by law. Mr. Malcolm says that ror years they have been unlawfully killing ducks and driving others from the Potomac river and tributary creeks. The capture of the outfit, he says, is a great relief to the owners of lands in the neighborhood. With the gun were captured four sloops, seven big guns, 100 decoys, seven skiffs, 150 pounds of powder and 85 dead ducks. —Baltimore Sun. Arnold's Question Well Answered. There are renewed efforts to paint Benedict Arnold in clean, white colors. They remind a writer of the following anecdote: On one of his raids Arnold captured an American officer in Virginia. After a few days he said: "Captain, what would our countrymen do with me if they caught me?" "Well, sir," replied the captain, "if I must answer the question, I should say that if my countrymen should catch you they would first cut off your lame leg, which was wounded in the cause of freedom and virtue at Quebec, and bury it with the honors of war; then they would hang the remainder of your carcass on a gibbet!" Side Lights on History. Scott was writing the "Lay of the Last Minstrel." "After which," he muttered, with a grim smile, "with your kind permission, ladies and gentlemen, the gifted vocalist, Herr Spuytentuyfel, will sing the pathetic ballad entitled, 'Mamma, Your Little Darling Is Too Full to clat Any More!'" For well he knew that there would be still later minstrels with other lays. Eat Macklem Bread And Save Trouble. At all Grocers. Look for the table "Macklem Bread" on every loaf The Inter-Ocean Investment and Brokerage Co. AND COLLATERAL BANK. 1436 Curtis Street. Loans negotiated, available securities handled, cash advances made on all kinds of collateral securities. Real Estate Loans a special feature. Business Strictly Confidential. 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 211S Arapaho street, or Phone Olive 1984 W. J. ADDIE, Choice old Califorina wines and brandies from the Hermitage vineyard, also bottled beer, Kentucky whisky, cigars and tobacco. J. T. JOHNSON. Minnesota Grain Belt Beer Also Western Agent for D. Carnegie & Co. Swedish Porter, Gothenburg, Sweden. 1644 Larimer St. Denver, Cola J. W. Rummell, WINES, LIQUORS & CIGARS PHONE 3432 MAIN 2257 Welton St. Denver, Colo IF YOU WISH TO Meet the Boys of the Shuffle and Hoe Call at Joe Bergers AT THE OLD CORNER 24th and Larimer Sts. Denver. ILLUSTRATORS DESIGNERS HALF TONE, ZINC WOOD & COPPER PLATE ENGRAVERS CORPO WORK THE DENVER ENGRAVING CO. DENVER PHONE 782 1814-CURTIS STREET 6000 WORK ON TIME THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT CATERERS and CONFECTIONERS PHONE 168. 1512 Curtis St. Denver, Cube Phones, Office Main 5595. Residence, York 123. Hours, 9 to 11 a. m. 1 to 4, 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays, 10 to 11:30 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. Good Block-1557 Larimer St. Residence 2230 Clarkson St. Denver. Colorado. THE Broadhurst and Barnett SHOE CO. 823 SIXTEENTH ST. ALL THE Fall and Winter Shoes Are here. We are show-ing an endless variety at $3.50 and Up 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. Always Staunch And True The Denver Republican has always avoided the fallacies and knaveries of yellow journalism, and its steadily increasing Circulation proves conclusively that its policy of telling the plain Truth without exaggeration or misrepresentation, standing fast for the Right, is heartily approved with growing force by the intelligent Public to which it appeals. To read it is a liberal Education, and the citizen who goes without it does a positive harm to himself, to his family, and to the community. In no other way can the investment of 2 1/2 cents per day for that is all The Republican costs any subscriber—bring such rich results in that Knowledge which is both Power and Pleasure. Information, instruction and entertainment fill its columns and it leaves a good taste in the mouth of the reader. It stands for Law and Order in the State—for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness in the Home. If you are not already enrolled among its splendid list of Patrons send on your subscription and give it a fair trial at 75 cents per month for Daily and Sunday. --- FIXES GRAZING ALLOTMENTS LARGE INCREASE IN NUMBER OF ANIMALS WILL BE PERMITTED. FEES TO REMAIN SAME PERMITS FOR GRAZING WILL BE GRANTED FOR PERIODS OF Cheyenne, Wyo.-Dr. A. F. Potter, assistant forester and chief of grazing of the bureau of forestry, passed through here en route to Washington from Salt Lake City, where he met with foresters and sheepmen and adjusted matters pertaining to grazing live stock in the Utah reserves. Dr. Potter has made up the list of allotments for grazing in the reserves of this and other western states for the current year. The Wyoming allotments are 40,000 cattle and horses and 80,000 sheep and goats, an increase of 90,000 in all. The allotments by states follow: Mr. Potter stated that the increased number of sheep, cattle, horses and goats allowed in the reserves in 1908 over 1907 is due to improved conditions in thirty of the reserves, the increased area of some of the old reserves and the creation of new national forests. The forester figures that the 1,838,000 cattle and 7,743,870 sheep grazing in the reserves a few weeks the coming summer will return to the forest service something like $1,100,000. Last year the forest service obtained from grazing the sum of $860,000. In the main the fees charged for grazing cattle, sheep, horses and goats remain the same this year as last. In Montana a reduction in the fee charged for grazing sheep has been made. Last year eight cents per head was charged and this year seven cents will be charged. In some instances an increase is noted. In Idaho the grazers of sheep will be charged seven cents per head for a four-months season, and six cents per head for a three-months season. The forester says the fees are about the same all around, with a slight reduction on sheep, if any change at all. The present season the forest service will make allotments on the following per head, per month basis: | | Cattle, per head. | Horses, per head. | Sheep, per head. | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Five months or less. . . .21c | 29c | 7o | | Five to 10 months. . . .25c | 25c | 9o | | Year long period. . . .39c | 50c | 15c | A year ago at Salt Lake City, and again recently at Helena, The National Wool Growers' Association called attention through resolutions to the fact that grazers in the forest reserves were given no assurances that when they left the reserves one year that they would be permitted to enter the next. In other words, the regulations of the forest reserve were discouraging, in that a stockman could not anticipate a year ahead, or plan for the future. The forest service has finally granted the appeal of the sheepmen in some sections, and beginning with this season supervisors will approve applications for grazing privileges for a period of five years, in certain reserves, the fees to be paid annually at the regular current rate. That is to say, stockmen will be granted the privilege of grazing in the reserves for a period of five years, but they must pay annually at the rate that may be placed in effect for that year, and the rate granted the stockmen for the first year of his five-year term may and probably will be changed from year The reserves in which this five-year permit will be granted are as follows: The Big Horn and the Yellowstone Teton in Wyoming, Battlement Mesa and Gunnison in Colorado, San Francisco mountains in Arizona, Santa Barbara and Sierre South in California and the Cascade North in Oregon Gore Canon Power Plant. Denver.—Work has now been completed on the plant of the Central Colorado Power Company at the eastern end of Gore canon. This is one of the series of plants which the company is now constructing, with a view to electrifying many mountain railroads in the central portion of the state, and furnishing electric power to mining properties, small towns, irrigation companies, etc., in all parts of the state. The Gore canon plant is similar to one being constructed near Glenwood Springs, both having the same character of diverting dam and tunnels about four miles long. The plants will each deliver from 25,000 to 30,000 horse power. The Gore canon plant will be in operation soon. FIERCE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. Antone Bovori, Charged With Four Murders, Tries to Escape. Canon City, Colo.—A most sensational and dramatic attempt to cheat the prospective gallows, made by Antone Bovori, has just been revealed. It occurred when, accompanied by Sheriff Esser, Undersheriff John Chetelat, Deputy Sheriff San Sabrizzio of Pueblo and one other guard, Bovori was taken by automobile to the scenes of the recent tragedies near Florence, with the hope that he might point out the burial place of Joe Minichiello, the last victim in the quartette of murders charged against Bovori. As the morning was cold, strong leather handcuffs were used instead of the usual steel, but as an extra precaution ropes were tied to his ankles and the ends held securely by the guards. Arriving at the scene he led the searchers over the fields in the vicinity of the crimes and then toward a high embankment covered with willows on the banks of the river. Just before reaching the spot it was necessary to cross a barb wire fence. Sheriff Esser and Undersheriff Chetlat preceded the prisoner, while the two guards followed, holding the ropes. When the sheriff turned to open the way through the fence he was startled by the discovery that the leather handcuffs had been cut, the prisoner's arms were free and in his hand was a knife. At the same instance Bovori made a vicious spring at the sheriff in a mad attempt to strike him down, leap into the river and escape through the thick bushes, or meet death from the bullets of the officers. His attempt was futile, as Sheriff Esser was too quick for him. Striking the weapon from his hand the sheriff seized his infuriated man by the throat in an attempt to overpower him. Bovori fought like a beast using his hands, feet and teeth and all the time snarling and snapping like a mad dog. Not until the officers used their revolvers over his head was he subdued. Steel handcuffs were then placed on him and he was dragged to the car and taken back to jail. His rage knew no bounds. Once he sprang into the willows and seizing a branch nearly an inch in diameter with his teeth, severed it. Again he sprang into the air and came to earth head first among the rocks, in an effort to butt his brains out, and it was only with the greatest difficulty that he was returned to his cell, where he will probably remain until his trial. The weapon used to cut his handcuffs and with which he came so near murdering the sheriff was found to be a slender piece of tin which the prisoner had cut and fashioned with his teeth and whetted on the iron bars of his cell until it was a keen and dangerous weapon. Where he got the tin is a mystery, although it is supposed that it came from the lid of a syrup can used at his meals and which he secreted in the lining of his coat. Liberals Not Radical Enough. London.-Big as is the Liberal program of legislation for the session of Parliament which opened Wednesday, and earnest as the government leaders have shown themselves to be in their endeavor to meet the views of all factions constituting the present radical majority in the House of Commons, there is a well defined feeling of disappointment among the ministerial supporters that the cabinet has not been more definitely radical in its proposals. The speeches of the cabinet representatives since the last session of Parliament have led to the expectation of more definite proposals with regard to the government's Irish policy, old age pensions and educations, to mention only a few subjects, references to which in the King's speech did not satisfy the respective elements especially interested therein. Rumors from Dublin had forecasted another Irish councils bill, but there has been substituted for this a measure which, if it passes, will only deprive the landlords of their grazing lands in certain sections. Similarly, forecasts with regard to educational and old age pensions proposals promised much more than is indicated by the references to these matters in the speech from the throne. There is an inclination believe that the King uses his influence as far as he was able without overstepping the constitutional bounds, to modify the more sweeping proposals with which the cabinet is credited by those usually in their confidences. Fort Lyons Sanatorium. Denver.—Uuncle Sam will have the finest tubercular sanatorium in the world when its plans are carried out at Fort Lyons, near Las Animas, says Dr. W. H. Bucher, supervising surgeon of the United States navy, who has just reached Denver after an inspection of the new government hospital in the Arkansas valley. The government is spending $500,000 there to build a suitable place for patients from the navy. The Fort Lyons site was selected after examination of localities all over the United States, and the conclusion reached that Colorado offered the best natural facilities for combating consumption. At Fort Lyons the government physicians proceed on the theory that the tubercular patient should have no work, and everything is done to furnish the men with outdoor pleasures and drive away care and worry. Fort Lyons is seven miles from Las Animas, and the government is planting 75,000 trees around the town. A power plant, costing $75,000 will be installed. Trinidad Newspaper Fire. Trinidad, Colo.—Fire which started in a pile of waste paper and supposed to have originated from a cigarette, caused $500 damage to the Morning Advertiser building and destroyed the files of the paper from its establishment in 1880. Only the proximity of the fire department prevented destruction of the building. 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FA CLUBBER'S TONSORNE GEM The Denver Barber's Supply C. 1008 FIFTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLO. Heads, Feet, Tails, Snouts, Ears, Neckbones or Chitterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to EAST'S MARKET Main 4885. QUOR CO., IMPORTERS, Medicinal Use Our Specialty. PA STREET. Colorado. Family Trade a Specialty Use Liquor Co. Touors and Cigars R, Manager. PULLMAN PORTERS. WM. EHMKE, MANAGER TURNER HALL. 2132-2148 ARAPAHOE ST. 49. Denver. T MANN, and Ketail Gual and Stone e a Specialty. 1468. Yards: 1st and Larimer St. PHONE MAIN 6123 whorn & Co. Funeral Directors. WHORN ER LOUIS HUBBARD ASSISTANT Denver, Colo. Refreshments N. M. CAMPIGLIA Denver. Colo. The Cause of Many Sudden Deat! Se There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep- eas) WP YA tive. Many sudden Blea [a3 Wop deaths are caused ny =f by it—heart dis- TINNY rape esse, preumonia, Yd \ &4 @heart failure or AIRY t S]] - apoplexy are often ee ai | the restilt of kid- Aly a ney disease, If = kidney trouble i RUIN fy LL Bites, esti Se 1 thekidney-poison- >, eafeacc. ed blood will at- is because so decep- tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by it—heart dis- ease, pneumonia, heart failure or apoplexy are often the result of kid- ney disease, If Kidney trouble is allowed toadvance thekidney-poison- ed blood will at- tack the vital organs, causing catarrh of the bladder, or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles alsiost always result from a derangement of the kidneys and @ care is obtained quickest by a proper treatment of the kidneys, If yon are feel- ing badly you can make no mistake by taking Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It corrects inability to hold urine and scalding pain in passing it, and over- comes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often through the day, and to get up many times during the night, | The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is sold by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-doilar size bottles. You may havea sample bottle of this wonderful new dis- covery and a book that tells all about it, both sent free by mail. Address, Dr, Kil- mer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp- Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. EXPLAINED. =| ie alti ’ Kt l K ! en + ia 3 Luly a ALIN so uy] = i a= YB si J la = ls y | aa VEN = oo = “IT have called,” said the captious critic, “to find out what reason you can give for representing the New Year as a nude small boy.” “That is done,” responded the art editor, “because the year does not get its close until the 31st of December.” ee a “I was telephoning the other night,” said the girl, “and a yoice crossed mine, a whispering voice. I couldn't help wondering what the game was. “What are you whtispering for?’ 1 asked. “ ‘Hush,’ she said, still in the whis- per. ‘I'm trying to talk under my breath. I don’t want my husband to hear. Please get off the wire. Won't you?’ “I got off the wire, but I couldn't sleep very well that night for wonder- ing what it was she didn't want her husband to hear.” Second-Hand Goods. “T don't think it is so nice to have a truthful child,” said she. “Not so truthful a child as my neighbor has across the hall. The other morning I missed my paper that is left at my door. I knocked and asked her if she had seen it. She said no, but her small son, aged five, ran to the table and got it and brought it to me. “ ‘Here,’ he said, ‘mamma took it to read it, but you can have it. She is through with it uow.’” Geared into it. It was announced on the ice. “But how on earth,” said the girl in the white skating suit, “did you get him to propose, dear?” ‘The girl in sables smiled slightly. “Oh, easily enough,” she retorted. “{ told him that you were crazy about him and reminded him that it was leap year.” CUBS’ FOOD They Thrive on Grape-Nuts. Healthy babies don't cry and the wellnourished baby that is fed on Grape-Nuts is never a crying baby. Many babies who cannot take any other food relish the perfect food, Grape-Nuts, and get well. “My little baby was given up by three doctors who said that the con- densed milk on which I fed her had ruined the child’s stomach, One of the doctors told me that the only thing to do would be to try Grape- Nuts, so I got some and prepared it as follows: I soaked 1% tablespoonfuls in one pint of cold water for half an hour, then I stiained off the liquid and mixed 12 teaspoonfuls of this strained Grape-Nuts juice with six teaspoonfuls of rich milk, put in a pinch of salt and a little sugar, warmed it and gave it to baby every two hours. “In this simple, easy way I saved baby’s life and have built her up to a strong healthy child, rosy and laugh- ing. The food must certainly be per- fect to have such a wonderful effect as this. I,can truthfully say I think tt is the best food in the world to raise delicate babies on, and is also a dell. cious healthful food for grown-ups as ‘wo have discovered in our family.” Grape-Nuts is equally valuable to the strong, healthy man or woman, It stands for the true theory of health “There's a Reason. Read “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. DIVORCE SUIT TRAGEDY, Pueblo Broker Kills Himself After Shooting His Wite. Pueblo—Mad with jealousy and love for the woman who had repudiated him, Sherman I. Cammack, a well- known broker, Thursday night enticed jas wife into his office in the Central black, and after a short coaversation "shot her three times, mortaily wound- [ing her, and then blew out his brains, | While the wounded woman lay on the floor beside the body of her hus- 'band she implored those attracted by the sound of the shots to tell her that he was not dead, and repeated over and over: : | “I love him, I love him in spite of his faults. I wish that I could die with him. The bullets were sweet to me, for I knew that he would kill him- self when I was dead.” |, The shooting had been anticipated by Cammack’s friends, to several of ‘whom he had expressed his intention of killing the woman under certain con- ditions, Since his wife filed suit for di- ‘yoree over a week ago Cammack has ‘been very friendly with her and has ‘been taking her to dinners and thea- ‘ters, His friends now realize that he was only trying to get the opportunity to kill her when no one was around. _ Lying on a bed at St. Mary’s hos- pital, pavalyzed from the hips down and with death staring her in the face, Mrs. Cammack tonight made a statement of the events leading up to the shooting. ‘For a mortally wounded woman she was remarkably self-possessed and clear-headed. Mrs. Cammack said: | “Mr. Cammack wanted ¢o see me to- night to arrange about our divorce and ‘the alimony. I saw him and was with him for several hours this afternoon. When we parted early this evening he ‘asked me to go to supper with him, but I told him I would rather not and he then asked me to see him in his office later, | “LT arrived at the office about 7 o'clock ‘but he was not there, and I seated my- ‘self and waited. He'came in in a few minutes and we started to talk over the ‘divorce. ; “I told him I could never live with him again. He pleaded with me, but I told him that we had tried it so long unhappily that it would be useless to try to go on any more. “He pleaded time and again, until I | began to ery and asked him to stop, as it would be useless to talk further and that it was paining me more than I could say to hear him. After I had said this he stood up in front of me and said: | ‘My little girl, I love you and will never be happy without you. I can not be happy without you.’ “When he said this he went over to the desk and took out a revolver. 1 [thought he was going to kill himself, and begged him to stop. He turned toward me and fired the revolver. “T put my hand to my head and turned away, but I was too late. 1 could feel the fire as it shot from the gun and felt the powder as it hit my face. I then fell and did not know clearly what was going on about me.’ Why Troops Are Going West. ‘ Washington—Inquiry at the War Department into the report from Omaha that arrangements are being made for the mobilization of a large part of the army on the Pacific coast about the time Admiral Evans’ fleet arrives there develops the fact that all of the regular troop movements now in contemplation are incident to dispatch of certain regiments to the Philippines to relieve soldiers who have had their full term of service there and are entitled to discharge. Assistant Secretary Oliver has been in correspondence with the governors of many states and territories with a view to the co-operation of the militia with the regular army in an active pro- gram of joint drills and maneuyres. It is known that several of these govern: ors already are in correspondence with rajlroad transportation agencies rela tive to the movement of their militia forces to the sites of the proposed camps and it is believed that this is the foundation for the assumption that | large troop movements toward the Pa ‘cific coast are projected. | Pike’s Peak Kite Experiments. Colorado Springs.—Reports received from Washington are that the govern- ment will conduct aero-electrical ex- periments on an extensive scale on the summit of Pike's Peak next summer,, when the proposed weather bureau sta- tion is established at the top of the fa- mous old mountain. President Sells of the Cog road fs in receipt of a communication from weath- er bureau headquarters at Washington saying thar it is practically certain that the bill providing for a station on the top of the peak will pass Congress and that, in this event, extensive experi- mental work will be conducted next summer with huge aeroplane kites. The kites will fly from the summit in tan- dems of thrée and four, carrying copper plates. The object of the experiments will be to determine the effect of atmosphere electricity on the weather conditions. A complete set of instruments will be installed to which the electricity from the air will be conducted from the kites for analysis and investigation. Mother Gets Her Child. Denver.—In denying an application for a supersedeas in the case of Peter Breene, in error, versus Bernice Breene, in error, the Supreme Court de- cided that a child only three years old is better off with its mother than with its father, although both are perfectly fit persons to have control of it. Breene, fromerly State Treasurer of Colorado, had his baby daughter in New York and was forced to go there and bring it back 10 Colorado by Judge Carleton M. Bliss of the District Court, on a ha- beas corpus proceeding. ‘The defense alleged that the court was without jur- isdiction to take the child from its father when the latter was a fit per- son to have its custody; also that it was without jurisdiction when a habeas corpus applied to a person outside of the state in which it was issued. “Darling, you are the only woman I ever loved!” the manly young fellow avowed in accents of soul-reaching ardor. The fair young girl looked {nto his face with her big child-like eyes over- brimming with trust and confidence. “I guess,” she murmured, dreamily, “that is the way Ananias began when he was courting Saphira,” Many Old People Suffer from Bronchial Affections particularly at this time of year. Brown's Bronchial Troches give immediate relief. It 1s vain to be always looking to- wards the future, and never acting to- ward it—Boyes. Don't worry about your: complexion— take Garfield Tea, the Herb laxative and blood-purifier! An improvement will be seen in a week. However things may seem, no evil thing is success, and no good thing failure-—Samuel Longfellow. . pnt QNEX ONES BROMO QUININE” Bie sleonthna gt wears GROUSE, Used the World overt Cures Cold in Gne Day.” 2c. Show us a man who lives the simple life and we'll show you a cynic. SS. - DODDS D Ze o ¢ KIDNEY ei Mi, PILLS 4% rH Ls, ne Rea , aia Ye S375 “Guarand Sa 'y stand it. | The ‘Y Sower — could hardly stand it. Ur UT U AO IT RS Ueteen luticura Soap and a box FOR SOLDIERS AND HEIRS. cue eee) ntment cured me. Two a || OE i era Ea Good wife dae e y hand: 7 ‘os! acres before Junezs, 1874, are entitled toadditional ometimes vould #0 | GARTERS) tere tiie Pits.” | Parsee eas icant FERRY ' r it itched so badly. I a neyjelan eeueve Dis | Siecnlgs marcas toate a eee ioe | e ressfrom Dyspepsia,In- | Gor busy and make somecasy money, Write HFN yc ana Gt | APU [iecotteces een Witinntortamranan | fl, SEEDS “ t ths Eating. eer eas tho largest in the world rae ome LWER (iets drcerge | | Freee my uncle's baby whose le i ndeioinaue Month, coat | LIVE STOCK AND, irae Rha etal ead Bhoe oer oof sores, and another ‘ssorue euros | ( Mell tARehl8 ELEGTROTYPES eeeerae in the same fix. Be c ee Beit LOREID cen | AUN KELLOGG SEWSPAPEIC CO, 18. Adame St, Coeage 770 Eleventh St., Chat- | They regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetal —— — aa Feb. 16, 1907." SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. | py ce peng 4 waucay,coomen, Print ation, | ———______ — ae | PATENTS ts SES | FARM OPPORT Cheered. RTER Bennie Mist Bear pe ee ~ | goat Salem, Oreo Chery Cty lived in Siberia, i ‘ac-Simile Signature nover sticks | pag to s300 per were net; dairy i Sig a Sie DEFIANGE STARGH ww.isz |Pxaciicsras 32? tw ea few toae | | Bee ie ice figged weld)“ swear must ; Sai aaliaadivan) ; ee eee Sees REFUSE SUBSTITUTES, | ‘‘*" eve s-) Thompson's Eye Water '~ Won. u, DENVER, N missi ith The Standard Oil Ge Commissioner Smith vs. The Standa : Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whese zeal in the cause of economic reform has been in no wise abated by the panic which he and his kind did so much to bring on, is out with an answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oi! Com- party of Indiana, The publication of this an- swer, it is officially given out, was delayed sev- eral weeks, “for business reasons,” because it was not deemed advisable to further excite the public mind, which was profoundly dis- turbed by the crisis, Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commis- sioner rushes again into the fray. Our readers remember that the chief points in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as presented by President Moffett, were (1) that the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with theInterstate Commerce Commission was aclass and not a commodity rate, never being intended to apply to oil, (3) that ofl was shipped in large quantities between Whiting and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East- ern Illinois at 6% cents per hundred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Com- merce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodi- ties becween these points of a similar char- acter, and of greater value, such, for example, as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shippers between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. ‘This defence of the Standard Oil Company ‘was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert- ed a powerful influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has staked the success of its campaign against the “trusts” upon the result of its attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influ- ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com- missioner Smith. ‘We need hardly to point out that his rebut- tal argument is extremely weak, although as * strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant. He answers the points made by Pres!- dent Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company hadatrafficdepartment, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi- cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate Decause it read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as “a village of about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of orisin for this and similar secret rates.” The Commissioner ad- mits in describing this rate that there was a note attached stating that the rate could also be,used from Whiting. ‘The press has quite generally hailed this statement of the Commissioner of Corpora- tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi- dently recognized # the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard. In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as the remainder of his argument. The lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois do not run into WORN OUT WOMEN Will Find Encouragement In Mrs, Mer- ritt's Advice. Mrs. W. L. Merritt, 207 8, First Ave, Anoka, Minn., says: “Last win- ter I began to suf- enlace fer with my kidneys. Seeger Thad pains in my te back and hips and are felt all worn out. b Dizzy spells both- AEA ered me and the o . kidney secretions S were irregular. The ey first box of Doan'’s Te ni) Kidney Pills brought NASA decided relief. I am sleciims fer with my kidneys. Seger I had pains in my seek back and hips and > felt all worn out. ie Dizzy spells both- REA ered me and the o . kidney secretions f were irregular. The ey first box of Doan'’s eS ni) Kidney Pills brought Vaca decided relief, I am sure they would do the same for any other woman suffering as I did.” Sold by all desiers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. WE ceo Masnidce Loe leh cueaca®. A teacher was explaining to her class the varlous ways in which gas is obtained. “Much of the gas we uses ex. tracted from coal,” she said, “and after the gas has been taken out, the coal becomes coke. In some parts of this country gas is obtained by boring deep holes in the ground and such gas is called natural gas.” “Does the natural gas come from the fires down in the bad place?” in- quired a boy eagerly. “If it does, what does Satan do with all the coke he has left?” It is needless to say that the teacher did not answer the question. —Illustrated Magazine. CUTICURA CURED FOUR Southern Woman Suffered with Itch. Ing, Burning Rash—Three Little Babies Had Skin Troubles. “My baby had a running sore on his neck and nothing that I did for it took effect until I used Cuticura. My face was nearly full of tetter or some sim- flar skin disease. It would itch and burn so that I could hardly stand it. ‘Two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment cured me. Two years after it broke out on my hands and wrist. Sometimes I would go nearly crazy for it itched so badly. I went back to my old stand-by, that had never failed me—one set of Cutl- cura Remedies did the work. One set also cured my uncle's baby whose head was a cake of sores, and another ‘baby who was in the same fix. Mrs. Lillie Witcher, 720 Eleventh St, Chat tanooga, Tenn,, Feb. 16, 1907.” Cheered. A maiden who lived in Siberia, ‘Where all Is so frigid and drerta, Felt sad, met a bear And when hugged said: “I swear It does my heart good to be neria.” e Stoulaton Ponte ‘The Original. From the Railway World, January 3, 1908. Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not on the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, which receives its Whiting freight from the Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make them read from a point on the line of the fil ing road, and it was also general to state on the same sheet, that the tariff would apply to other points, e. g., Whiting. The Chicago & Eastern Ilinois followed this practice in filing its rate from Dolton, and making a note on the sheet that is applied to Whiting. This was in 1895 when this method of filing tariffs was in common use. Now let us see in what way the intending shipper of oll could be misled and deceived by the fact that the Chicago & Eastern Ilinois had not filed a rate reading from Whiting. Commissioner Smith contends that “conceal- ment {s the only motive for such a circuitous arrangement,” {, e., that this method of filing the rate was intended to mislead intending competitors of the Standard Oil Company. Suppose such a prospective oil refiner had ap- plied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for the rate from Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed that the only rate filed with the commission by this company was 6% cents from Dolton, and he would have been further informed, if indeed he did not know this already, that this rate applied throughout Chicago territory. So that whether he wished to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere else about Chicago, under an arrangement of long standing, and which applies to all the in- dustrial towns in the neighborhood of Chica- go, he could have his freight delivered over the Belt Line to the Chicago & Eastern Illi- nois at Dolton and transported to East St. Louis at a rate of 6% cents. Where then is the concealment which the Commissioner of Corporations makes so much of? Any rate— from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap- pell on the Alton, or Harvey oa the Illinois Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island, applies throughout Chicago territory to ship- ments from any other point in the district. So far from the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton in: order to deceive the shipper, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who either betrays his gross ignorance of transpor- tation customs in Chicago territory or relies on the public fgnorance of these customs to deceive the public too apt to accept unques- tioningly every statement made by a Govern- ment official as necessarily true, although, as in the present instance, a careful examination shows these statements to be false. The final point made by President Moffett that other commodities of a character similar to ofl were carried at much lower rates than 18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations discusses only with the remark that “the ‘reasonableness’ of this rate is not in question. The question ts whether this rate constituted a discrimination as against other shippers of oil,” and he also makes much of the failure of President Moffett to produce before the grand jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of which the Standard OM! official said that other “OUCH, OH MY BACK” é NEURALGIA, STITCHES, LAMENESS, CRAMP j TWINGES, TWITCHES FROM WETOR DAMP -| ALL BRUISES, SPRAINS, A WRENCH OR TWIST | THISSOVEREIGN REMEDY THEYCAN'TRESIST . Price 25c anv 60c ARAUOUO DN “eS Say § se Oe @ |&/) SHOES AT ALL 3 aie. 3 a Se Mee ver Sees fries oo eae Ve fe BO Ses Bases ON Ne fea, W.L. Douglas $4 and $5 Gilt Edgo Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Any Price Exclenvetes Cee see, a ae a re anor ee agy oa oe eri Hated Catalog free to any address.” WL: DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mins. poDWORTH i & 7) LLECE an (WS Y" OR THANDY co 2 (y poolilegibe! stpetencare tne Bephct Rent tt ees" ANGE nekd tar Suse FOR SOLDIERS AND HEIRS 4 tomers eietecg aa tard whe mrad iva homestead rights which | buy. If soldier isdead, his Bipee a eistuetuaueec mena Gs ploeeietee ai ne lem e enter ae HCCOPE Wasthansenis Qussrroxiee Mea enee _———— oa ‘| eigcstest.st2 ELECTROTYPES | Damien ie aires RITZ ER Waten ¥. Coleman, Patent Atton PATENTS 222s es ee finite: Sinan SFIANPE STARMH rect DEFIANCE STARCH f."xc ifamictea with! Thompson's Eye Water large shippers in the territory had been guilty. Considering the Sact that these shippers in- cluded the packers and elevator men of Chi- cago the action of the grand jury in calling upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a de- mand for an elaboration of the obvious; but the fact that a rate-book containing these freight fates for other shippers was offered in evidence during the trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. Prest- dent Moffett would not, of course, accept the invitation of the grand jury although he might have been pardoned if he had referred them to various official investigations by the Intere state Commerce Commission and other de partments of the Government. We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of the whole matter, which is that the Stand- ard Oil Company of Indiana was fined am amount equal to seven or elght times the val- ue of its entire property, because its trafic department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commod- ity rate on ofl had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no evidence, and none was introduced at the trial, that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfered with by the 18-cent rate nor that the failure of the Alton to file its six- cent rate had resulted in any discrimination against any independent shipper—we must take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is 1t denied even by Mr. Smith that the “inde- pendent” shipper of oil, whom he pictures as being driven out of business by this discrim- ination of the Alton, could have shipped all the oll he desired to ship from Whiting via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago & East- ern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short, Presi- dent Moffett’'s defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. ‘The Standard Oi! Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liber- ties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell’s offensive person- alities, we finally reach the nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the report of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of the United States, the corporation is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings. ‘The whole strength of the Government is di- rected against it, and at last, we are told, the Standard O11 Company Is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally convicted of hav- ing failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by the car, Under the old criminal law, the theft of property worth more than @ shilling was punishable by death. Under the interpretation of the Interstate Commerce law by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw Landis, a technical error of « traffic official is made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of property. me W sower Has No Second Chance Good sense saya zsake te mest ‘ofthe ase SEEDS ness the largeat Tse worlg—nscei tela, Ferry’s Seed Annual for 1908 tellsthnarhole Reed Story- nent FREE, for nabkhag Bourtaoe skedsth soe peek 1. M. FERRY & C0., Den, Mien. ty FARM OPPORTUNITIES GALA tei, Hoge waincenea ee 00 to #0 per acre, net: dairy farms pay $100, Berit eara Se be et aor Cueprenae Forinformatonaddress Hoard ot trade Siigas Box W. N. U., DENVER, NO, 5, 190 THAT The Colorado Statesman Is Now Prepared To Do All Kinds of Job Printing? Commercial, Fraternal. Church, Book and Stationery Jobs a Specialty BALL AND CONCERT PROGRAMS, BILL AND LETTER HEADS, CALLING CARDS, WEDDING CARDS, ENVELOPES AND EVERYTHING IN THE PRINTING LINE TURNED OUT IN NEATEST STYLE PROMPTLY ON SHORT NOTICE. We have supplied our office with job press and type of up-to-date style and our work will be on a par with the Very Best Give Us a Trial and We will Give You Satisfaction PRICES AS REASONABLE AS THOSE OF ANY JOB OFFICE IN DENVER. The Colorado Statesman 1824 CURTIS STREET ROOM 25. --- The MATTER of DRESS How quickly the long, tight sleeve nas leaped into favor? That is at least among the ultra-fashionable. And they (the sleeves) are infinitely becoming to most women. The sleeve in its most approved shape has very little if any fullness at the shoulder, and it molds the arm right down to the wrist, where it curves out gently, thus forming a cup-like frame for the knuckles. It is predicted by one of the most famous of the Paris dressmakers that these sleeves will be immensely popular in the coming spring, worn as they will be with the sleeveless coats, especially with those coats which have wide armholes. Another novelty of which we wish to speak and which we picture in our smaller illustration, is the latest thing in sashes. You will not notice that it was passed around the girl's waist, from the front, and that the ends were brought back and tied at one side, almost in front. On slender figures these sashes are infinitely becoming, and they are an absolute rage at the moment. They are, I think, more becoming to the average woman than the "Fatma" sash, as the latter must be drawn very tightly round the hips and tied—either at the back or front—several inches below waistline. As for the costumes displayed in our large illustration above, the first is of dull red cloth, the long coat being edged with fanciful braid, while the waistcoat and revers are of black Persian lamb. The second costume is of light blue face cloth, cut in princess style in front and trimmed with a little soutache embroidery, and bearing a lace waistcoat outlined with a short ermine stole. There is no doubt that many modish women favor the English rather than the French fashion of gowning for evening at the theater and in dining, even in public restaurants and at the play. A slight decolletage is not only charming when the neck is good, but it is much more comfortable in our overheated theaters and restaurants. But it should be remembered that by far the greater number of people in any audience are those having moderate and in some cases very moderate incomes, and that with such even the semi-decollete gown for such occasions is more or less of an extravagance. It would seem, therefore, that with their varied opportunities covering the opera boxes, innumerable private entertainments, to say nothing of dinners at home—for wearing semi and full decollete gowns—the women of social standing would do better to follow the example of the refined Parisienne and wear high-necked frocks, or, at least, those with Dutch necks of the tiniest possible V, when dining in public or at the play, remembering, always, that their gowns will surely be copied as nearly as possible, in cut at least, by many of their sex who can not afford it. In England it is quite different. There are distinctly different classes, and the quiet middle class is content to dress as do others of the same class. Hereditary titles and blue blood, no matter how illegitimately the blue—so-called blue—blood may have come, are genuinely esteemed, and the fact that money derived from marrying into the vulgarest of families may pay the bills makes little difference. Here there can be no caste. People try to make it, but when the millionaire of to-day springs only a genera- tion or two ago from the humblest of families, and when many who can barely afford a dress suit or a low-neck frock spring from a long line of ancestors, of whom they have every right to feel proud, the matter of caste is a purely artificial one; families unheard of yesterday "arrive" today, and the poor man' of to-day is the father or grandfather of future millionaires. The truth of the matter is that the American woman as a rule, no matter Scholia Paro. Visiting Toilet, Showing the Newest Thing in Sashes. what her position, dresses primarily to please herself. This is not intelligent dressing, and so long as she overlooks the essentials, that is, the fitness of the gown to the occasion, she will never attain the dignity of being truly well dressed, which means appropriately and becomingly robed from the top of her head to the tips of her fingers and toes. Bowed to Senator Hale Senator Hale is the autocrat of the senate on naval matters, a fact which is thoroughly recognized at the navy department. Last summer Secretary Metcalf took a number of senators and representatives, members of the naval affairs committees of the two houses, on an "inspection" jaunt of the West Indies. Mr. Hale went along. One day the Dolphin lay all day at some port while Secretary Metcalf spent the time ashore. The place bored Mr. Hale, and he remained aboard the Dolphin. In the evening Mr. Metcalf returned, and when the captain of the Dolphin asked for sailing orders, Mr. Metcalf told him the ship would remain in port that night. Just at that moment Mr. Hale came on deck. "How much longer will we stay in this hole?" he asked Mr. Metcalf. "I was just giving orders to sail at once," replied Secretary Metcalf. Five minutes later the Dolphin was pulling out as fast as her engines would take her. PARKING THE NEWPORT SALOON DICK FRAZIER AND TOM LEWIS PROPRIETORS A First-Class Resort For Gentlemen Denver, Colo. S & N GARMENT STORE 25-16TH ST. — OPP. JOSLINS A CLEANUP SALE Fering some of the best bargains we have ever had. nts and broken lines go on sale at Half, and some self former regular selling prices. The balance of our S & GARMENT 925-16TH ST. A CLEAN We are offering some of the All odd garments and broken lin Less Than Half former regular s stock of S&N GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. - OPP. JOSLINS A CLEANUP SALE We are offering some of the best bargains we have ever had. All odd garments and broken lines go on sale at Half, and some Less Than Half former regular selling prices. The balance of our stock of Ladies Suits, Cloaks, Waists, Skirts, Petticoats, $1/3 and $1/4 off. SKIRT SPECIAL $8.75 and $10.00 worsted and chiffon Panama skirts, made in full plaited styles, with 2 to 6 folds, now $5.75. SPECIAL We offer free choice of any Caracul Jacket in the house that sold for $22.50 up to $35.00 for $15.00. LADIES CLOAKS They are going fast, but there's more to sell. Some special bargains in fitted and semi-fitted styles. Large ladies can be fitted here. nos now $1.19. $7.50 fancy Jap now $4.95. $12.50 fancy Jap now $7.50. BLACK SILK I SPECIAL 50 only of one of $4.95 styles, fancy ed flouces; as long $3.98. HEATHERBLOOD COATS 50 only genuine Heatherbloom black $12.50 long cloaks now $6.75. $17.50 loose or tight-fitting cloaks $9.75. $22.50 and $25 loose or tight- fitting cloaks $13.75. TAILORED SUITS About 35 left; a good many black ones among them. At these prices they should all be sold at once. $17.50 and $20.00 suits...$10.00 $22.50 and $25.00 suits...$12.50 $30.00 and $32.50 suits...$15.00 $35.00 suits.....$17.50 LONG KIMONOS $2.00 fancy flannelette kimo- Silversmith & H MURRAY AND THE PULLMAN smith & Hiller, 925 16th St. OPP. JOSLIN'S MURRAY AND EDWARDS, PROPS. PULLMAN POOL ROOM Silversmith & Hiller, 925 16th St. OPP. JOSLINS MURRAY AND EDWARDS, PROPS. THE PULLMAN POOL ROOM WILBUR MACY, MANAGER. A Convenient Plac t h The Finest Equipped P of the Mississippi Riv Just around the corne PHONE M 1628 Wazee St. Scholl's H 1841 enient Plac t have Your Mail Directed Finest Equipped Pool and Club Rooms west the Mississippi River. Drop in and see us. around the corner from the Union Depot. PHONE MAIN 6128 A Convenient Plac t have Your Mail Directed The Finest Equipped Pool and Club Rooms west of the Mississippi River. Drop in and see us. Just around the corner from the Union Depot. Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPANOE-PHONE 817 Scholl's Modern Hand Laundry 1841 ARAPAHOE-PHONE 817 Finest hand work in the city. 2317-19 Larimer A curious custom is still in force at Norwich, England, in virtue of which, on three days in the year, anyone can claim a substantial meal for nothing. The only qualification is that the applicant shall repeat aloud in St. Giles' church a prayer for the sovereign's health. Afterward they partake of a meal of broth, beef and bread, finished off with a liberal allowance of beer. --- Phone Main 7413 1845 Arapahoe St. Wines, Liquors and Cigars Denver, Colo nos now $1.19. $7.50 fancy Jap silk kimonos now $4.95. $12.50 fancy Jap silk kimonos now $7.50. BLACK SILK PETTICOAT SPECIAL 50 only of one of our regular $4.95 styles, fancy double shirred flounces; as long as they last $3.98. HEATHERBLOOM PETTICOATS 50 only genuine Hydegrade Heatherbloom black petticoats, fancy double shirred, embroidered edge flounce; the regular $3.50 kind—while they last, only $3.50 CLEANUP WAIST SALE $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 fancy embroidery trimmed lawn waists now 89c. $1.50 white and white and black fancy vesting waists now now 98c. $2.50 brilliantine waists now $1.50. $3.00, $3.50 and $3.95 Nun's veiling waists, plain or fancy styles, now $1.95. Denver, Colorado. 2317-19 Larimer Street GUS JOHNSON'S SALOON. Tale Recited by President Roosevelt Around the Campfire. They were resting around the President's campfire in the Louisiana canebrake. The dogs were asleep with the fatigue of the chase, the guides were lying around feasting their eyes upon the distinguished guest, and the president was enjoying the campfire as a sportsman can. "Boys," he said, "did you ever hear Bob Burdette's bear story?" "Wah Bob Bu'dette a b'ah huntah?" asked Guide Ennolds. "Not exactly," the President answered. "Bob was a much braver man than a bear hunter. He trailed bear in his youth, but when he grew older he became brave enough to follow the lecture platform." The guides didn't know this last-named beast, but they smoked their pipes in confidence of its terrors. "Bob's bear story needs Bob to tell it," the president continued, "but he isn't here, and I'll rattle around his shoes a bit. There were two men going through a field. A large and mean-dispositioned bull waited until they had gained the middle of the field, when he set upon them, bellowing. "The two men ran for their lives, but the bull closed up and began hooking at their coat tails. One of the fugitives made for a tree and shinned into it, while the other took refuge in a hole in the ground. "The bull made for the man in the hole. It flashed over as he dived in. He instantly bobbed out again, the bull made for him, and he bobbed in and out as the bull shot back and forth. They kept this up for a while, and the man in the tree yelled: "Why don't ye stay in that hole, ye dang fool!" "The bull was dashing across the hole with mad roars, and the man was bobbing in and our desperately, but he heard the voice from the tree. "Dang fool yerself,' he retorted breathlessly. 'Thar's a bear in this hole!'" One of the guides threw a log on the fire, an owl hooted off in the timber, and there wasn't a nature faker within 500 miles.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Holland's 1,000,000 Wage Earnets. With 5,500,000 inhabitants Holland has 1,000,000 wage earners. Sickness insurance is voluntary and organized in free associations. In 1890 there were 650 associations, with 600,000 members. Premiums are $1.44 a member; benefits are medical attendance, medicine and sickness payments. Accident insurance is compulsory (law of 1901). Workmen and foremen in manufactories (up to $1.68 daily wages) are insured in a state fund, mutual associations or casualty companies. In 1904 there were 84,046 insured establishments. Premiums are paid by employers according to wages and risk. The receipts of 1904 were $888,000. The benefits are (a) disability, free treatment and daily payments up to 70 per cent. of wages; (b) permanent disability, pensions up to 70 per cent. of wages from seventh week; (c) to dependents of deceased, pensions up to 60 per cent. of wages and a death benefit of thirty times the daily wage. In case of willfulness no indemnity is paid, and in case of drunkenness only half. Six hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars were paid (1904) to 45,902 injured and 226 killed. Settlements are made in case of doubt by councils.—Prof. Henderson in Charities and the Commons. Birds Teach Lazy Man a Lesson. Go to the birds, thou sluggard, for birds can and do work far harder than human beings. A pair of house martins, when nesting, will feed their young ones in 20 seconds—that is, each bird, male and female, makes 90 journeys to and fro an hour, or about 1,000 a day. On each journey the bird has the added work of catching the insects. Even so tiny a bird as the wren has been counted to make 110 trips to and from its nest within 430 minutes; and the prey carried home consisted of larger, heavier and harder to find insects than were caught by the sparrows. Among them were 20 good-sized caterpillars, ten grasshoppers, seven spiders, 11 worms and more than one fat chrysalis. Appreciation. "They say Butterworth is going to erect a monument over the grave of his wife's first husband." "An ordinary man would regard that as a waste of money, wouldn't he? "Perhaps, but you see he left enough life insurance to make it possible for Butterworth to get along without working for the rest of his life, and I suppose he feels that he ought in some way to publicly show his appreciation." Progress of Science. Fair Patient—I suffer greatly from insomnia, doctor. Doctor—You should eat something just before retiring. Fair Patient—But you once told me never to eat anything before going to bed. Doctor—Oh, that was a year ago. Science has made rapid strides since then. Courteous Girl. "I am afraid," replied the beautiful American girl, "that I might not be able to support you in the style to which you have been accustomed."