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State Hist & Nat Hist Society State House THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY BUSINESS LEAGUE The Negro Business League of District of Columbia, holds Its Annual Banquet. Register Vernon Makes Eloquent Speech. The Need of Business Men—Men who can Express Their Opinion without fear of being Reduced to Want from a Political Standpoint. VOL. XV, BUSINES The Negro Business League of Dis al Banquet. Register Vern The Need of Business Me Their Opinion without Want from a Po On the evening of January 4th the Negro Business League of the District of, Cumbia gave its annual banquet. Mr W. Sydney Pittman, the president of the local league acted as the toast-master of the occasion. There was a large attendance of members, and a number of speeches were made. Hon. W. T. Vernon, register of the treasury, who is a life member of the organization, made a very eloquent speech, which was roundly applauded by the assembled gentlemen. In part the register spoke as follows: "I congratulate myself upon having been present at this, your annual banquet, and heard the splendid report of work done by your local organization. It is a source of gratification to me, as it must be to every one who wishes well for his people, to observe the material progress of the people of this community. "You but demonstrate the capacity of the race to acquire and hold, and this demonstration is but a type of that which I understand is going on wherever the Business league is known. "Aside from a racial interest in the work of the organization—as a life member, I feel an especial interest in its growth and development. Though occupying a position of a political character, I have had some opportunity to observe the certainty of business success, and its guarantee for the future, when weighed against any other success, so liable to fluctuation because of external agencies. "The man who builds well along business lines gains confidence in himself, confidence of his community, and has an assured footing for the future. "I have been much impressed with the statistics given of the growth of the race along business lines during the past forty years. Especially has this phase of our racial development taken on concrete form and been made more apparent since the bringing together of the business men of the race through the medium of the Business league. "A most inestimable service has been rendered the Negro and the country at large, since his material development is but a part of his country's prosperity; and, for that reason, every encouragement given this movement but lends added strength to the race and contributes to the betterment of our national life. "You are especially to be congratulated upon having organized the business men of the District of Colorado. This is a city which brings together thousands from all over the world, who, with diversified interests, political and otherwise, would naturally, in some measure lack that cohesiveness so necessary in the building up of a permanent, towering business. "For that reason this gathering tonight, and the work of the promoters of the local league speak volumes and indicate a greater amount of energy, tact, patience and determination than is required in the average community made up by a population less liable to change. "Where the patrons come and go, you must of necessity depend upon a transient trade to insure success—this it would seem would always create an element of uncertainty for the business men so environed, and in some measure prevent the launching out into greater ventures in the prosecution of his business. Thus, you have entailed conservatism, bordering on timidity, which would most likely prevent that amount of success possible under different circumstances. "Wise indeed must be those men among you, who are sufficiently conservative to not overreach in the matter of investment, and at the same time sufficiently progressive to keep pace with the demands of these intensely commercial times. "My observation would lead me to believe that in no city of this country is competition more rife than here. Entitled to our respect and approval then, are those men who here succeed in a legitimate business. Every encouragement should be given you as an organization and as individuals for the success with which you are meeting. "Every man who strives for leadership does well when he extends a helping hand to your efforts. He can in no more practical way show his fealty to his race and demonstrate his belief in the possibility of the race than when he approves your efforts by his words and by his acts. "The race has need of its business men. Any people whose sole accomplishment is based upon the hazard of political fortune, or who depend entirely upon their professional men to make a place for the race, will find themselves on a sandy foundation, and when the storms come and the winds beat upon this race, its house will fall. "No man is so politically independent as that man who has an assured income and who can express his opinion untrammeled, without fear of being reduced to want or bringing distress to his loved ones. In the various communities of this country, the Negro business men are more and more becoming factors in the political life of DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1909. the race. To these men the temptation to be venal does not come. They are above want, and can put the temptation behind them. "I would not have you understand me to say that the possession of property or money can take the place of an upright character, because venality in politics is not necessarily limited to the poor—however, removing the necessity for yielding to temptation is a step forward toward the purification of politics. "The successful Negro business man can stand out for all the rights of the race and uncompromisingly demand that justice be done his people. "This attitude, when known by the mass of the people, but tends to popularize him, and his leadership eventuates as a consequence. "The next step is natural—that is, the demand of his community or state for consideration. These demands accorded and his place as a leader, suggests his selection as the logical sequence. "There are instances when these successful business men, by reason of their diversified interests, have found it necessary to decline positions of trust and honor. In each case these declinations have done the race no harm, but have brought to the notice of the country the preeminent success with which the individual, a type of the race, has met. "It has followed almost invariably that such men have been enabled to shape policies for the betterment of the race and in some cases to suggest who should represent the race in such positions. This all demonstrates the power possible for the Negro business man all over the country. "We should emphasize this work. We have long since learned that racial development must proceed along every line exemplified in the career of the white race. The man of means who touches elbows with his kind, regardless of race, will respect the display of business acumen, financial integrity and real worth of his associate. "I am prepared to unhesitatingly and uncompromisingly commend your work, and wish for you the support and endorsement of this community. If this business league has for its purpose the building up of your present enterprises, and the formation of new ones; if it shall have for its aim the accumulation of realty holdings, and the financial independence of those whom it seeks to benefit, then no man can reasonably oppose it, and every man should encourage it." Chaplin W. W. E. Gladden of the Twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry, has been the guest of Register Vernon for several days. While here, he took in all the sights of the city and met the prominent representatives of the race. He left the city yesterday for Madison Barracks, New York, where his regiment is stationed. Register Vernon is preparing to make an extended lecture tour of the West. He has been compelled to decline many invitations to speak in various sections of the country on account of his itinerary having been made up for the season. WILL BET $100,000 ON JOHNSON. Chicago, Jan. 12.—If Champion Jack Johnson does battle with Jim Jeffries or any other white fighter colored enthusiasts of Chicago are willing to back the conqueror of Burns with a fund of $100,000. A week ago Bert Williams, the colored comedian, and some of his friends, were asked to subscribe to a fund that was expected to reach $50,000. Enough money has been pledged now, however, to insurr a pool of $100,000 should Johnson be matched with any white fighter. Chicago's "black belt" has been talking of nothing but Johnson's victory ever since the Australian battle. "The only thing I am hoping for is that John's next fight will be in this country," said Bert Williams, who is playing an engagement at the Great Northern. "If it is held outside the United States the colored population will migrate for a while to see it, but if it is held here it will bring together the largest single collection of Negroes ever assembled. J. is reported that Williams and his partner, George Walker, have promised to contribute $5,000 to the fund. It is proposed to pool the money and let a syndicate place it. WHITE CHRISTIANS STILL BARBAROUS WHITE CHRISTIANS STILL BARBAROUS Chicago, Ill., Dec. 22.—The lynching record for 1908 shows that the practice of taking summary vengeance on persons guilty of certain forms of crime is increasing rather than diminishing. The figures for the twelve months beginning January 1, 1908, are larger than for several years past. Though the most of the lynchings occurred in the South, they were not confined to that section by any means. Springfield, Ill., was the scene of the greatest race riot of the year, resulting in the lynching of two colored men and the killing and wounding of a number of citizens who participated in the riots that lasted several days. Of the other northern States, one lynching is recorded for Indiana, while California furnished the only lynching in the far West. Mississippi, Georgia and Texas in the order named, furnished the greatest number. A quadruple lynching in Kentucky increased the figures in that State over those of previous years. The record for Texas for 1908 was six fold greater than in 1907. In Arkansas, Alabama and Louisiana there were fewer lynchings than in 1907. Oklahoma shows a clean slate and so does Maryland, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, in all of which States lynchings occurred in 1907. The lynchings for 1908 total eighty-nine. This number is exclusive of several who met death while being pursued by posses or resisting arrest. Of the victims, eighty-five were colored and four were white men. Manila, Jan. 11.—The annual military athletic tournament of the division of the Philippines, United States army, opened here today with all the crack organizations of the several arms of the service represented by their best riders and athletes. Many thousands of spectators, both soldiers and civilians, attended the formal opening of the games at Pasay field. In the preliminary contests the Tenth cavalry team won the polo cup with First cavalry players in second place. Richmond, Va., Jan. 10—In the most fashionable district of this city, today, Miss Marie Louise Stumpf, 19 years old, daughter of E. A. Stumpf, a business man, was attacked by Charles Gillespie, a Negro. Her assailant was arrested and will be given a hearing as soon as Miss Stumpf is able to appear before a special grand jury. When the crime became known their was considerable excitement which was soon dispelled by the prompt action of Judge Witte, who appeared at the police station and announced that the Negro would be given a speedy trail. Washington, Jan. 5.—Three Congressional election contests from South Carolina were practically decided today when Election Committee No.1 reported to the House in favor of the permanent seating of Representative Jas. O. Patterson, Democrat, of the Second district, over Isaac Myers, Republican; Representative Asbury F. Lever, Democrat, of the Seventh over Alexander Dantzler, Republican; and Representative George S. Legare, Democrat of the First district, over A. P. Prioleau, Republican. All the defeated candidates are Negroes. The victors are now sitting in the House. Chicago, Jan. 4.—Details of the murder of Mrs. Elijah Rafty, colored, whose bones were found in the furnace of a South Side apartment building last week, were given by Rafty to the police today, when Rafty completed his partial confession made last Saturday. "She was too 'thick' with a porter working for the Burlington Road." said Rafty. "I heard them talking about a good time they had had and it made me crazy. I met my wife in the basement. First we quarreled, and then I choked her. "I didn't intend to kill her, but when I unclasped my hands she was dead. I didn't know what else to do with the body, so I chucked it into the furnace, heaped coal on it to make it a good job, and then cleared out." NO.17 Muskogee, Okla., Jan. 6.—In the United States District Court here today Judge R. E. Campbell held that the alleged sales by Ezekiel Moore, a Creek freedman, disposing of 120 acres of land in the Glenn Pool district are invalid except one lease for 15 years given to R. S. Litchfield. Litchfield is supposed to represent the Standard Oil Company. The land is worth $500,000 and by the decision Moore will receive 10 per cent loyalty on all oil taken from the land under the Litchfield lease. This will make him the richest Negro in Oklahoma. The evidence showed that Moore was a minor and a prisoner in the United States Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., when induced to sign several leases, and that he was ignorant of the value of the land, which was an allotment made to him by the Federal Government. CONTROLLING FORCE A press dispatch from Washington, D. C., by Henry Lewis says: Washington, Jan. 8.—The cold unsympathetic snow is coming whitely, softly down. It has already achieved a chill depth of four inches. Save in that one matter of depth, it is in no wise accepted as typifying present relations between congress and White house, which are hard, hot and dark. Briefly an explanation—a vehement individual via the United States mails, demands an explanation of my story yesterday wherein I said the had been rendered doubly important in politics by the action of the South itself. What I sought to say—and I think, too, I succeeded measurably in saying it—is that—the Negro fearer of the South collect themselves to the last man jack about the Democratic standard. The Republican party machinery in the South is thereby left in the hands of the Negroes. In this way, where two or more candidates come seeking presidential nominations, the Negroes can become the controlling force in Republican conventions. It may be taken as true that any man who can compact and wield the Negro elements as a whole can name the tickets and frame the platforms for every national Republican convention that is held. And the Rebublicans constitute the dominate party. Also they will continue to be the dominate party so long as a Solid South remains. Mr. McKinley was nominated and elected by black votes. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft could not have been nominated and elected without them. Even Mr. Hanna was choosen senator by a single vote and that a "colored" one. AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD. FROM ALL SOURCES SAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND. WESTERN NEWS. It is estimated that more than 200 motor cars are in use for renting out in San Francisco. The Idaho Legislature has reelected Weldon B. Heyburn to the United States Senate. The appraiser has placed the value of the estate left by the late Marshall Field of Chicago at $83,459,032. George C. Perkins was reelected to the United States Senate by the California Legislature on the 12th inst. One hundred automobiles have been purchased by farmers of La Salle county, Ill., during the past year. All records for cold weather at Great Falls, Mont., were broken on the 10th inst., when the temperature fell to 44 degrees below zero. It is reported at Winnipeg that the Canadian Pacific railway will, this year, spend $30,000,000 in construction work on its Western lines. Of twenty-eight workmen in the coal mine owned by Joseph Leiter at Ziegler, Ill., twenty-six were killed by the explosion on the 10th inst. The California railroad commission has fined the Santa Fe railroad $5,000 for illegal discrimination in the rates. The Southern Pacific was found guilty but was not fined. Suit for nearly $1,000,000 has been filed against street car companies on behalf of the city of St. Louis. The claim is based upon the non-payment of a tax of one mill a passenger. Traffic representatives of transcontinental railroads have consented to meet western shippers at Chicago January 28th to hear complaints against increased freight rates. Nearly every shipping organization on the Pacific coast will send a representative. The Wyoming Wool Growers' Association at its meeting in Rawlins raised a fund of $10,000 to defray expenses of a campaign against the revision of the tariff on wool, to fight the Pinchot system of forest reservation, etc. Samuel Filler Fulton, great grandson of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, died at Denver on the 12th inst., at the Mercy hospital. Fulton was twenty-five years old, and the son of John G. Fulton of Grottoes, Virginia, one of the wealthiest mill owners in the South. Lorin Farr, pioneer of Utah, among the first converts to Mormonism, fist mayor of Ogden, husband of seven wives and father of 300 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and one of the best known men in the West, was drowned at Utah Hot Springs, eleven miles north of Ogden on the 12th inst. Edmund Burke, who posed as a British nobleman, was sentenced to three years in Leavenworth, Kan., penitentiary and fined $1,000 by a jury in the United States District Court at Chicago on a charge of impersonating a United States officer. A Decatur, Ill., girl, who married him in Denver, obtained a divorce upon his arrest in St. Louis. The Rev. John H. Carmichael, who killed Glideon Browning, the village carpenter at Battle Run, Mich., a few days since, committed suicide at Carthage, Ill., on the 11th inst., by cutting his throat with a pocket knife. In a letter found in his suit case he says that Browning had him under hypnotic influence. Browning attacked him with a knife and he defended himself with a hatchet. Three of the men lost on the desert in Death valley have made their way to Ballarat. One remains unaccounted for and hope of his being alive has been abandoned. The missing man is B. V. A. Williams, a mining man of Randsburg. The three who arrived at Ballard were demented, having wandered for nine days, most of the time without water. GENERAL NEWS. The Atlantic fleet reached Naples on the 11th inst. Several persons were taken alive out of the earthquake ruins at Messina, Sicily, after having been buried under the debris for ten days. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany has plunged into motoring with his usual enthusiasm for sport, according to a dispatch from Berlin, and will reduce the imperial stud one-half owing to the increase in his motoring equipment. The Ohio Legislature on the 12th inst. elected Theodore E. Burton to the United States Senate. Judge Thomas G. Jones of the United States Court for the Middle District in an elaborate opinion holds the Carmichael prohibition act, under which the state of Alabama is operating, constitutional. It is reported at Boston that the official summer residence of the President of the United States will be at Cohasset, on the south shore, if present negotiations for the lease of the Dr. John Bryant estate matures. Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas, who has just returned from Panama, predicts the completion of the canal by 1915 and is satisfied that the Gatun dam is properly located. The sale of Denver & Rio Grande first and refunding 5 per cent bonds in New York was an unqualified success. The total subscriptions already exceed the amount of the issue. John Conness, former United States senator from California and the last survivor of the pallbearers of President Lincoln, died at Boston on the 10th inst. at the age of eighty-eight. Important changes in the operation of the Michigan Central railroad have been decided upon, involving the electrification of all the road's terminals at Detroit and of the main line as far west as Ypsilantl. More than 200,000 visitors are expected to be in New Orleans during Mardi Gras week, February 20th, 21st and 22d, insuring a large attendance for the motor racing carnival to be held by the New Orleans Automobile club. Nearly 1,000,000 voters of Pennsylvania have signed petitions asking the State Legislature to start the movement, which in 1913 will give a bond issue of $50,000,000 for building good roads. The sum of $5,000,000 will be asked for to begin immediate work. Charles K. Smith of the Charles K. Smith Oil Company of Philadelphia, testified in the government suit at New York, to dissolve the Standard Oil Company, that the Standard has offered a reduction in the price of oil to his customers, while it charged its regular customers the regular rate. At Union City, Tennessee, Judge Jones Saturday imposed the death penalty on Garret Johnson, Tid Burton, Bob Ransom, Fred Pincon, Arthur Cloar and Sam Applewhite, the night riders who were found guilty of the murder of Capt. Quentin Ranken; and sentenced Bud Morris and Bud Huffman, two other defendants, to twenty years' imprisonment. The appraiser's report shows that Charles T. Barney, who was president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, New York, during the panic of 1907, and who died from a bullet wound in the abdomen, presumably self inflicted, left property amounting to $2,000,000 more than his liabilities, all of which will go to his widow, who was expected to get nothing. The New York Life has been caught for many heavy suicide claims during the first year of insurance, there having been at least two for $100,000 each during the past year, both due to panic. The company now announces that after February 1st it will no longer issue these policies and will use the usual "incontestible - after - one - year" clause. The proposed uniform motor vehicle law, which has been drawn for submission to the state legislators of Massachusetts and other New England states, is favored by a majority of New England motorists, the proposal to fix the speed limit at twenty-five miles an hour in the open country is thought to be high enough to suit the drivers and low enough to please other users of the roads. The 200-mile two-day inaugural endurance run of the Woman's Motoring Club of New York, from that city to Philadelphia and return, came to an end with four of the contestants so nearly on even terms that the matter of the award of the winner's cup will have to be decided by a special committee. The four thus grouped for honors are Mrs. J. M. Cuneo, Mrs. A.W. Seaman, Mrs. E. M. Beckman and Mrs. Alice H. Ramsey. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Senator Guggenheim has recommended appointment of Colorado land office officers as follows: Lon E. Foote, register, Hugo; Daniel L. Sheets, receiver, Durango. Secretary Root and Ambassador Brice of Great Britain on the 11th inst., signed a treaty for the settlement of international differences between the United States and Canada. Representative Englebright of California has introduced a bill to restrain the secretary of the interior from making examination of or starting work on any new irrigation project under the reclamation act without first receiving the sanction of Congress. In connection with the Yellowstone irrigation project, 53,760 acres of public land have been withdrawn from settlement in the Lander, Wyo., district, 147,200 acres in the Buffalo district and 345,000 acres in the Bozeman and Billings, Mont., districts. In connection with the Colorado river storage project, 75,400 acres have been withdrawn from entry in Santa Fe, N. M., district. Senator Teller offered an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill appropriating $42,400 for the support of the Grand Junction Indian school for the coming fiscal year. Senator Teller says the action of the Indian commissioner in failing to make an estimate for carrying on this school was entirely unwarranted and he will make a determined effort to secure the appropriation proposed by his amendment. President Roosevelt on the 13th inst., made a horseback ride of ninety-eight miles in seventeen hours to show that his physical test of a thirty-mile ride for army and navy officers is not excessive. Because of the receipt of numerous threatening letters by Judge Wright, growing out of his recent decision in the labor contempt cases, Chief of Police Sylvester has instructed the captain of the precinct in which the justices resides "to take such precautions as ordinarily would be taken to protect a citizen from the possible work of cranks." WOOL GROWERS SCORE PINCHOT IN MEETING OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AT POCATELLO, IMMENSE GATHERING PRESIDENT GOODING SAYS REDUCTION OF TARIFF WOULD RUIN THE INDUSTRY. Pocatello, Idaho. — One thousand sheepmen attended the opening session of the National Wool Growers' Association convention in this city Thursday and listened attentively to a bitter arraignment of the federal forestry bureau by President Fred W. Gooding of Shoshone. Gov. J. H. Brady in an address of welcome in behalf of the state provoked laughter when he said he would like to invite the wool men to the cooling shade of trees in Idaho's forest reserves were it not for the fact that the reserves are bare of trees. From nearly every western state delegates are present. The biggest single delegation arrived from Boise. It included Governor Brady and a number of state officials, also about half the members of both houses of the Legislature. The forenoon session of the convention was devoted entirely to the Midwinter Sheep Show. Over 600 sheep are entered. The welcome of the state was by Governor Brady and in behalf of the city Mayor Loux welcomed the delegates. Col. E. J. Ball of Laramie, in responding, sounded the keynote of the convention, when he said: "Gifford Pinchot has had control of something like 160,000,000 acres of land, and he failed to get control of 500,000,000 acres, which was fortunate for the western people. Where I live we are afraid to own land and tried to get rid of what we possessed. "One man there who owned a vast tract was held up to the public as a bad citizen, and dangerous. Last year he divided his holdings and sold the property to 500 farmers of the East, representing about 2,000 persons. This we have ascertained is more than the forestry bureau has done for the people in more than five years, with 160,000,000 acres at their command." President Fred W. Gooding in his annual address said: "A reduction in the tariff schedules on wool at this time would produce the same result as the placing of wool on the free list under the Wilson bill. It would undoubtedly ruin one of the most important industries of the United States. "Inhumane, as well as costly to the shipper, is the law which forbids railroads to carry stock for more than twenty-eight hours without feeding and watering," according to President Gooding. "The railroads," he said, "should be forced by law to consider live stock trains as second class trains and at least give them right-of-way over all other classes of freight at a minimum speed of not less than sixteen miles per hour." Mr. Gooding disputed the statement that sheep are detrimental to forest growth and said they were a benefit in removing the undergrowth which spreads a fire. He denounced the forestry and reclamation bureauas academic and tyrannical. "I would suggest," he said, "that Congress be induced to ask the governor of each of these western states wherein the national forests lie to appoint a committee of good, reliable business men, familiar with western conditions, to make a thorough investigation and report on these national forest and reclamation projects." He compared private and government irrigation enterprises to the disadvantage of the government and argued for state control of forests and reclamation. Homestead Bill Postponed Washington.—A meeting of conferees on the Mondell 320-acre homestead bill was held Thursday, but no agreement was reached and the matter goes over indefinitely. The point of disagreement is upon Senator Smoot's provision that residence upon the land is not requisite to the issuance of patent to the entryman which the House conferees declare cannot be passed. Earthquake Panic Rome.—A slight earthquake shock was experienced at an early hour Wednesday morning throughout Lombardy, Venetia and Tuscany. No damage was done and no one was injured, but owing to the general uneasiness resulting from the recent visitations in Calabria and Sicily, the people for a moment were thrown into a condition bordering on panic. Labor Leaders Pressing Appeal Washington.—The appeal from the recent decision of Judge Wright of the District of Columbia Supreme Court in sentencing Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison to jail for contempt will be vigorously pressed and a call for funds for that purpose will shortly be issued by the American Federation of Labor. This action was decided upon at a conference here Wednesday between the executive council of the federation now in session here, and former Judge Alton B. Parker. COLORADO NEWS A new postoffice has been established at Goodrich, twenty miles west of Fort Morgan. The "red light" district of Colorado City was practically wiped out by a fire that occurred on the 9th inst. The loss is estimated at from $35,000 to $40,000. The Cassell Woman's Christian Temperance Union has opened a free reading room at 1851 Stout street in Denver and it is proposed to establish several others. The regents of the State University have provided for the establishment of a summer laboratory in the mountains near Boulder, to be conducted by the department of biology. There will be thirty pieces in the newly organized brass band of the State University at Boulder. The uniform of the members will be gray, adorned with gold braid. J. F. Burris, a veteran of the Civil War, died at Golden on the 12th inst. at the age of eighty. He served as second lieutenant in the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Ohio volunteers. He had lived the life of a recluse at Golden for twenty years. It is thought he left a wife in Clarksburg, Ohio. On the night of the 12th inst. a passenger train on the Burlington ran into a bunch of antelope two miles from Wiggins in Morgan county and killed five. This makes about twelve killed from this same band within two weeks. There are about 350 in the band, which ranges in the fields nine miles west of Fort Morgan. Of the 10,000 taxpayers in Weld county, Bruce G. Eaton is said to pay the most taxes, being assessed for nearly $7,000 taxes on his lands in Weld county alone, valued conservatively at nearly $700,000, comprising 50,000 acres. The greater part of this land is that which was taken up thirty years ago by Eaton's father, Ex-Governor B. H. Eaton. Miss Lila Rogers, a nurse from New York, has arrived at Pueblo and taken up a new work in the South Side schools. Miss Rogers, who originated the idea in New York City, is looking after the health of the 5,000 school children in district 20. She makes regular rounds of the different schools, examining every child for infectious and contagious diseases. An extensive military parade is being planned at Denver for the Centennial celebration of Lincoln's birthday on February 12th. A great meeting will be held in the Auditorium, at which Mayor Speer will preside, the principal speakers being Gov. John F. Shafroth, Joseph F. Tuttle, Jr., Harper Orahood and Sarah Platt-Decker. Stores will be closed from 1:30 to 4:00 p. m. The $50,000 project of Dr. F. P. Lonergan of Evans, Courtney Washington of Greeley and Hanley A. Calvert of Denver to reclaim 10,000 acres of desert land lying forty miles east of Greeley, in the neighborhood of Keota, has taken definite form. All reports, surveys, etc., were approved by the government and a company has been incorporated under the name of the Pawnee Irrigation Land Company to carry out the enterprise. A petition has been largely signed addressed to the railroad corporations operating in the Cripple Creek district, asking a reduction in freight rates to valley points on low grade ore. It is shown by the petition that the tonnage from the district has been materially increased by the maintenance of low treatment rates by the reduction companies, and the railroads are asked to make a rate of 50 cents a ton on ores running $5 a ton or under and 75 cents a ton on ores graded from $8 to $15 per ton. Samuel Patterson Gutshall, who died in Denver on the 12th inst., was one of the pioneers of Denver. Gutshall came to Colorado in 1866, driving an ox team from Leavenworth, Kan., and has been since actively identified with the business life of the state. He had lumber yards in Colorado Springs, Leadville, Grand Junction, Delta and Pueblo, and had lived in Denver for a number of years. Mr. Patterson was a member of the Byron L. Carr post of the G. A. R. of Denver and was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and a Knight Templar. The electoral vote of Colorado was cast at Denver on the 11th inst. for William J. Bryan and John W. Kern, as Democratic candidates for President and vice president of the United States. The formality was observed in the secretary of state's office, those participating being the electors and Chief Justice R. W. Steele, who administered to them their oaths of office. The electors were Charles S. Thomas, Samuel F. Wheeler, Thomas J. Ehrhart, Dexter T. Sapp and Charles B. Ward. The last named was chosen to fill the place of B. L. Jefferson, who is absent from the state and who was elected last fall. Chairman Sapp will carry the returns to the president of the Senate at Washington. The Manitou Mineral Springs Bathing Company, which was recently incorporated for $250,000 to take over the property of the Manitou Bathing Company in Manitou Springs, will build an up-to-date $40,000 bath house. The incorporators are S. H. Kinsley, Martin M. Burns and J. K. Vanatta, all of Colorado Springs. E. E. Prettyman, one of the best known detectives in the country, has been appointed superintendent of the Denver branch of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, to succeed H. Frank Cary, who retired from the service last month. Many Women Think They Are Doomed to Backache. It is not right for women to be always ailing with backache, urinary ills, headache and other symptoms of kidney disease. There is a way to end these troubles quickly. Mrs. John H. Wrght, 606 East First St., Mitchell, S. D., says: "I suffered ten years with kidney com- Ills, headache and other symptoms of kidney disease. There is a way to end these troubles quickly. Mrs. John H. Wrght, 606 East First St., Mitchell, S. D., says: "I suffered ten years with kidney complaint and a doctor told me I would never get more than temporary relief. A dragging pain and lameness in my back almost disabled me. Dizzy spells came and went and the kidney secretions were irregular. Doan's Kidney Pills rid me of these troubles and I feel better than for years past." Sold by all dealers. 50c a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. DOMESTIC REPARTEE. Mr. Knagg—Before you met me you said you wouldn't marry the best man in the world. Mrs. Knagg—And you are the only one who thinks that I broke my word. DREADFUL DANDRUFF. Girl's Head Encrusted—Feared Loss of All Hair Hair -Baby Had Milk-Crust—Missionary's Wife Made Two Perfect Cures by Cuticura. "For several years my husband was a missionary in the Southwest. Every one in that high and dry atmosphere has more or less trouble with dandruff and my daughter's scalp became so encrusted with it that I was alarmed for fear she would lose all her hair. After trying various remedies, in desperation I bought a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. They left the scalp beautifully clean and free from dandruff, and I am happy to say that the Cuticura Remedies were a complete success. I have also used successfully the Cuticura Remedies for so-called 'milk-crust' on baby's head. Cuticura is a blessing. Mrs. J. A. Darling, 310 Fifth St., Carthage, Ohio, Jan. 20, 1908." EASY FOR THE PAINTER. Worthy Individual Had All the Details in His Mind. A Chicago artist relates how a wealthy individual from Kansas City, with his wife and three sons and four daughters, once called upon him. "Here we are!" exclaimed the head of the family. "Nearly a dozen of us, Mr. Painter. How much for a painting of the whole of us, discount for cash?" "That will depend," answered the artist, hiding a smile with his hand, "upon the dimensions, style, etc." "Oh, that's all fixed," responded the other breezily, with the air of a man who knows exactly what he wants. "We are to be dashed off in one piece as large as life, sitting on the lawn of my place just outside of little old K. C., singing 'Hail Columbia!'"—Harper's Weekly. She Was a Real Orator. Senator Beveridge during a recent visit to Portland talked about oratory. "The campaign," he said, "has given us oratory more remarkable for quantity than quality. True oratory is that which brings results, is that which converts an audience of supporters. Such oratory is rare. "I have a friend whose wife, a 'suffragette,' is a great orator. Her speeches from the platform are wonderful, and her husband the other day gave me an illustration of the efficiency of her private speeches. "'An agent called on my wife this afternoon,' he said, 'and tried to sell her a new wrinkle eradicator. "'And how did the man make out?' said I. "'He left in half an hour,' was the answer, 'with a gross of bottles of wrinkle eradicator of my wife's own manufacture, that he had purchased from her.'" ROSY AND PLUMP "It's not a new food to me," remarked a Va. man, in speaking of Grape-Nuts. "About twelve months ago my wife was in very bad health, could not keep anything on her stomach. The Doctor recommended milk half water but it was not sufficiently nourishing. "A friend of mine told me one day to try Grape-Nuts and cream. The result was really marvelous. My wife soon regained her usual strength and to-day is as rosy and plump as when a girl of sixteen. "These are plain facts and nothing I could say in praise of Grape-Nuts would exaggerate in the least the value of this great food." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They now examine, true, and full of human interest. Just the Other Way. Adonis—There's one thing I couldn't stand, and that's a wife who would be eternally putting her hair up in curl-papers. Matronly Friend—Have no fear, Mr. Adonis, Girls don't go to any such trouble after they get married.—New York Weekly. Clara had been sent to the neighbor's for a little cistern water, and failed in her errand. When questioned as to what she asked for, she replied: "I asked for a little 'brother water.'" Objects of Charity. "Madam," said a benevolent looking man, as he raised his hat to a lady who had opened the door at which he had knocked, "I am soliciting subscriptions for a Home for Needy Children. We have hundreds of poor, ragged, semi-civilized children, like those at your gate, and our object is—" "Sir, those are my own children!" And the front door was slammed violently. A black man holds the boxing championship, and a red man is the champion Marathon runner—but a white man is to be the champion money-getter as long as Mr. Rockefeller lives. —Denver Republican. "We are learning one of Mr. Long- fellow's poems in school," said Clara. "It's about a spreading chestnut tree, and it isn't half as pretty as 'In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree.'"—Los Angeles Times. When a woman meets a man after her own heart, the chances are that he isn't. No Feeding There. Bacon—I suppose it costs you more to keep your chickens in winter than in summer? Egbert—Why, of course! There's nothing growing over in your yard in winter you know.—Yonkers Statesman. Denver Stock Show Rates. The National Stock Show and Horse Fair at Denver, January 18th-23rd, will be one of the big events of the year. It will be held in the new National Amphitheater, just completed, and will continue every day and evening during the week. The new amphitheater is steam-heated, lighted and has seats for 6,000 people. The evening exhibitions in the large arena will be a most novel and attractive sight. The Colorado and Southern will make a rate of one fare for the round trip, good on all trains on January 17th, 18th, 20th and 21st; final limit, January 25th. Laid to the Automobile "What's making this scarcity of eggs?" asked the city man. "Oh, I reckon the automobiles is killin' off all the chickens!" repelled the farmer.-Yonkers Statesman. DENVER DIRECTORY BROWN PALACE HOTEL Absolutely Fire-proof European Plan, $1.50 and Upward. TREES Fruit and Ornamental, Shrubs, Roses, Sakura, Tree catalogue, INTERNATIONAL NURSERIES, Tree, Colorado. BON I. LOOK Dealer in all kinds of MER- CHIANDEL Mammals and logged mail. Cor. 181 and Blake, Denver. 708 FIFTEENTH ST. DENVER, COLO. Rugs by Fifteenth St. Linoleums by the carloads. We buy and sell for cash only. FURS Hides and Pelts. Write to day for our complete price list. It's Free. No commission charged as we are Hides and Pelts. Chas. A. Lotz & Co. 1230 Wewatta St. Denver. The Leading Western Raw Fur House. HIDES AND PELTS Ship to the LA. Waco kins Mdse. 1525- 31 Wacee St. Denver, Colo. We pay the highest cash prices. Write for price lists and tags. Established in 1873. Special Bargains and New O. W. 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Chas.D.Griffith Shoe Co. SHOE MANUFACTURERS DENVER COLO. GRIFFITH'S QUEEN CITY SHOE GRIFFITH SHOE Buy Griffith's Colorado-Made Shoes They are the Look. --- DIET AND HEALTH Author of "Eating for a Purpose." "The New Gospel of Health." Etc. INFANT FEEDING. The effects of wrong feeding in adult life, including those of alcoholism and other forms of intemperance, are undoubtedly hereditary whether the habits of alcoholism, tobacco and unnatural eating are transmissible or not. We know that the vitality of the infant is determined by the vitality of the parents—though not altogether by the average vitality—and the powers of nutrition are the fundamental powers transmitted to offspring. --- We may not always be able to trace family history in eyes and lungs, but we can always find it in stomach and liver and intestines. The food of the young dog, horse, cow, ape and human, in common with all other mammalia, is milk. The natural food of the mature dog is flesh; that of the others is vegetable. The digestive systems of the ape and man resemble, slightly, that of the dog; not, I think, as some argue, because their natural food is largely flesh, but because nuts closely resemble flesh, chemically. The gorilla has "canine" teeth, but it is a strict vegetarian. The boar's "canine" teeth are his means of defense. Albumen, the chief constituent of flesh, is digested chiefly in the stomach by the action of the gastric fluid. Accordingly, the intestine of the dog is short in proportion, the stomach being 60 per cent. of the entire digestive tract. The cow's stomach is very complicated; she has, in fact, four stomachs. This is because her natural food requires much dilution with saliva and rumination before it can be passed on to the intestine, not that proteid is the chief element of the cow's food, as in the dog. Now the stomach of the cow plays a much more important part, relatively to the intestinal digestion, than in man. Cow's milk is, chemically and mechanically, adapted to this physiological difference. It does not as soon break up into small curds, and is, therefore, retained longer in the calf's stomach. This peculiarity partly explains the difficulty of digesting cow's milk and should be considered in anyempt to modify cow's milk so as toopt it to infant feeding. We know that the health of the infant, its nervous moods, its physical health and temper in general, are influenced by those of the mother, through the food. This alone would indicate the impossibility of perfect adaptation of cow's milk to infant feeding. At best it is unnatural, but as it is in many cases necessary, partly or entirely, we must make the most of it. An imperfectly nourished child is more liable to diseases of childhood and survives with greater difficulty. Food is not, of course, the only requirement for health, but it is fundamental. In cases in which cow's milk must be used, care should be taken to see that the cow is healthy, unless herd milk is used, that no preservative is used, that the bottles and other vessels with which it comes in contact are washed well with boiling water, never with river or cistern water, that it is not unnecessarily exposed to dust or barnyard contamination, for milk absorbs bacteria as a sponge absorbs water and they develop very rapidly. The feeding bottle should be thoroughly washed in boiling water after and before using. It is best to have two, the one not in use kept immersed in a solution of common baking soda. Cow's milk can not be made identical with the infant's natural food; but it can be approximated to it. The chief difficulty to be overcome is to modify the large curds of cow's milk that tend to remain in the stomach longer than they should, as the development of the calf's stomach requires that its food shall have a much heavier curd than that required by the infant, in which intestinal digestion is more important. The use of lactic tablets, as explained in my last article, entirely obviates this difficulty besides overcoming other objections to the use of cow's milk. To reduce the proportion of the elements in cow's milk to approximately the standard of human milk, pour off about half of the fat that settles to the top of the bottle; add as much water as the whole amount of milk and a tablespoonful of sugar. Milk sugar is to be preferred to cane sugar, always objectionable. The addition of a little lime water is, in many cases, beneficial. As a rule infants, like adults, are overfed. No doubt one of the reasons for the greater endurance and freedom from disease of wild animals is the fact that the young are less likely to be overfed, as every naturalist knows. An infant probably would starve in one-tenth the time that an adult can subsist without food, but eating too often and too much becomes a habit with the infant as with the adult. An infant may cry for food when it is food drunk; what it may need is water. And children cry for other reasons than because they are hungry. Stopping an infant's cry continually with food is easy but unwise. Nature provides an extremely light diet for the first few days of infancy. Let us not supersede her method till we know better. Once every two hours is often enough for the first month and every third hour thereafter. If there is a real demand between the periods, sweetened water should be given (distilled or boiled water and milk sugar). Constant overfeeding causes an abnormal appetite, as in the adult, that is never satisfied. No definite rule can be laid down as to the amount required. The best that has been suggested is, an ounce for each month, beginning with two ounces, increasing to eight ounces at eight months, after which full milk will be used. Moderate, judicious exercise now becomes important. A child needs exercise before it can walk. The freer its opportunities for movement the better. The infant digestive system is not adapted to cereal food, always a cause of more or less digestive difficulty and expenditure of vitality, even in the adult. Under no circumstances should white bread, moistened with tea, coffee, milk or gravy be given to an infant. There are many infant foods on the market, composed of cereals or of cereals with milk, malted. In cases of milk poisoning, or of serious digestive disorder resulting from unbalanced feeding, due to the inadaptability of cow's milk, something must be substituted for the milk, but it does not follow that because a child improves on the substitution of one of these prepared cereals it is better as a permanent diet. It is also well to keep in mind that a child is not healthy merely because it is fat. It may be failing to develop the digestive system normally. It may become so "flabby" that it will fall a prey to disease when the fatty degeneration has reached its limit and the conditions are favorable for disease. The common practice, when cow's milk disagrees, is to adapt the milk by mixing it with oatmeal or barley water. This cereal tends to break up the coarse curd of cow's milk, but it is in itself unsuitable, though the remedy is better than the disease; the prepared foods are better as the cereal in them is malted. Cereal foods are digested with difficulty by the adult and should not be given freely to children. Coarse bread, never less than two days old, is preferable to fine white bread which a child should never be given fresh. At the age of one year a very small quantity of pulverized fresh peanut may be taken, at noon, in water, forming a peanut cream, and the amount very gradually increased till at two it forms half the diet. A small piece of zwiebach may now be added to the evening meal and very gradually increased till it becomes one-half, by weight, of the evening meal, when both should be continued. At three, the regular diet of childhood should be fully established. At seven in the morning a drink of water with lemon juice and only enough sugar to make it acceptable; at eight, apple, cantaloupe, ripe banana or other fruit; nothing else, unless water is called for. At ten as much artificial buttermilk as can be taken; at noon a slice or more of whole wheat or combination cereal bread with pulverized peanut. If the child is really hungry and healthy he will eat this. At three give the modified milk. At six zwiebach with honey or, if preferred, prunes only. Give water as often as called for between meals, but nothing else. Let the solicitous parent be fully assured that this diet will develop the highest qualities of body and mind and that sickness will be avoided, if the child is properly aired, watered, exercised and amused and protected from stagnated, foul air, bad water and sudden changes of temperature or too much clothing in warm weather. The goat is the healthiest of all animals, always free from tuberculosis. Its milk is in every respect superior to cow's as a substitute in infant feeding, and it ought to be adopted for general use, there being no reasonable objection but lack of knowledge of the facts. It is a poor goat that will not give from one to four quarts of milk a day, and it costs no more to feed than a dog, where there is a fair-sized back yard. Tests show that goat's milk approximates to the natural infant's food more closely than does cow's milk. Digestive tests indicate it to be three times more digestible, the curds being much finer and the fat far more soluble. Absolute cleanliness and freedom from disease is, however, the chief recommendation of goat's milk. "Go to the hills and drink goat's milk," was the prescription of Hippocrates, the father of medicine, for tuberculosis. We are making the search for a cure for "the great white plague" a serious matter, as it should be, but the true cure is at least fully suggested in the method of the Greek physician. Dr. Koch, the eminent discoverer of the tuberculosis germ, says the bovine and the human germ are not the same. However this may be, milk from a tuberculous animal is unwholesome; it may furnish a medium for the culture of tuberculosis. A case is on record in which a farmer, prohibited from selling the milk of an infected herd, fed it to his hogs and they were infected. Now comparative anatomy and physiology and evolution attest that the nutritive system of the pig closely resembles man's. It is chiefly because of the superior healthfulness in general, of the goat, and its immunity from tuberculosis in particular, that I have advocated the substitution of goat's for cow's milk in infant feeding. ROUND THE CAPITAL Information and Gossip Picked Up Here and There in Washington. Who Is Father of the American Navy? Who Is Father of the American Navy? Next Social Secretary of White House Next Social Secretary of White House WASHINGTON. — William Howard Taft is to have greater military pomp and circumstance attending his inauguration than had Theodore Roosevelt. The governor of every state in the union has been asked by the inaugural committee to send a brigade of troops to take part in the great procession up the avenue, and it is intimated that what Washington wants in the way of state troops is quality rather than quantity. Crack organizations only need apply. An enthusiastic member of the inaugural promotion body says that there will be present in Washington on March 4 next, 10,000 more regular troops than appeared when Mr. Roosevelt rode to the capitol four years ago. He insists that Washington will be a great camp of regulars and guardsmen" in the early spring, a greater camp than it has been since the residents entertained THE location in this city of statues of John Paul Jones and Commodore John Barry, both heralded as the "father of the American navy" by their respective admirers, will prove a difficult task for the special commission charged with that duty. This commission consists of the secretary of war, the secretary of the navy and the chairmen of the senate and house committees on the library. For each statue congress appropriated $50,000, but no action has been taken to decide the controverted question relating to the navy's pedigree. It is for this reason that the location of the effigies is regarded as important, as the prominence given each of the heroes in the question of location is expected to give some indication as DRAIL SECRETARY KNOX TAKES MRS ROOSEVELT DRIVING BEHIND HIGHBALL AND SIPHON SENATOR PHILANDER CHASE KNOX, slated for secretary of state, is one of the most delightful men socially to be found anywhere. Golf, automobiling and driving are his outdoor recreations. Billiards and readning furnish indoor amusement. When Mr. Knox came to Washington as attorney general his reputation as a corporation lawyer caused it to be assumed that he was one of the gruff, brusque kind. Instead of a grumpy curmudgeon, he was revealed as a polite, dapper little man who offered his callers fine cigars and started conversation as if he intended telling his inmost thoughts and furnishing diagrams of all he contemplated doing and how he would do each thing. "Of course," he said, when the conversation got around to the point where real interesting things were coming out, "I am talking to you gentlemen personally, not in your journalistic capacity." The standard Washington story about Knox concerns the pair of roadsters he brought here after he be- MRS. ELEANOR RELYEA, a $1,000 clerk in the signal office of the war department, will be the next social secretary of the White House, and Miss Isabelle Hagner, who now dictates the social lists of the president's wife, will step from that coveted position back into the ranks of government clerks by executive order, and will be given a minor position. Mrs. Relyea is prominently identified with the social set in Washington, though in a semi-official sense. She has gained a certain amount of distinction through her ability as a bridge player, and has taught many prominent society women of this city the game. Sheridan's marching hosts in the spring of 1865. The United States troops are to begin the homeward sailing from Cuba soon. The soldiers will return regiment by regiment, and it is believed that several of the organizations will reach this country so close to the time of the inaugural ceremonies that they probably may be ordered to the capital. Some of the picturesqueness of the Roosevelt inaugural will be missing. It is understood that there will be no rough riders present. Four years ago they not only added much to the parade as a parade, but they added a great deal of joy to the inhabitants. Some of them were new to the ways of the capital city civilization and broke the conventionalities in a wholehearted and perfectly inoffensive way. The "Flying Ninth," the black troopers of Col. Guy Henry's old command, the men who followed him on the trail of the Sioux and recked nothing of hard riding, semi-starvation and wounds and death, are not to lend color and their personally proper pride to the pageant. There will be gallant cavalry regiments present, however, regiments that have fought in Cuba, in the Philippines and on the western plains. to their respective merits in the competition for the honor of being the "father of the navy." Some time ago it was proposed to place these statues face to face on a single site, but that was opposed by the adherents of the heroes. Many sites have been suggested, but up to the present time there has been no action looking to a settlement of the question. The statue of John Paul Jones is now under way and a competition will soon be entered upon to decide who will be the favored sculptor for the making of the statue of Barry. Work is now in progress for a statue of Gen. Grant to be erected west of the capitol grounds, but this will not be completed before two years. Next spring statues of John Witherspoon, a signer of the declaration of independence, and of Longfellow, the poet, will be presented to the government by memorial associations, and they will be erected in this city. Other statues which have been provided for by congress and will be erected here in the near future are those of Von Steuben, Pulaski and Kosciusko. Secretary of State came attorney general. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to ride behind them and as Mr. Knox was driving away from the White House the group of newspaper men fell to speculating as to why one of them had not had his wits about him enough to ask the names of the horses. One of the party said their names were Highball and Siphon. A serious minded chap thereupon wrote a story about it and sent it to his paper. When it appeared Knox was very angry and the upshot of it was a retraction by the newspaper. Another story that angered Knox was to the effect that he had told the late Senator Hoar that of course he had quit the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company before accepting President McKinley's offer of the attorney general'ship. He regarded it as an insult to McKinley to imply that he would appoint a man who would consider it necessary to give assurance that he had observed the ethics of the profession. Senator Knox bought his magnificent home in Washington from Mrs. G. W. Childs. It is one of the finest houses in Washington and is well adapted for receiving the diplomatic corps on New Year's day, according to custom. Mrs. Knox is considered one of the most charming women in official life. Her entertainments are among the most elaborate in Washington. One of her prominent pupils was Mrs. John R. McLean, and it is understood that Mrs. McLean was instrumental in obtaining for Mrs. Relyea the position at the White House for which a hundred social secretaries in Washington have yearned. Mrs. Relyea was appointed to the war department from Connecticut on July 9, 1907. She is a woman of culture and has a wide acquaintance among the social colony, not only in Washington, but in New York and Newport. She is the widow of Albert Relyea, formerly a chief of a division in the treasury department, who committed suicide several years ago. Never before in the social history had the position of social secretary at the White House been so important. The privileges of the office increased and the only one which has not been accorded Miss Hagner up to date, for the reason that it has been against all social and official precedent, is that of assisting Mrs. Roosevelt in the blue room in receiving her guests on formal occasions. 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THERE is no greater influence at work for the enlightenment and betterment of the Colored people than that of the diligent, reliable and progressive newspaper, which gathers and distributes the news of happenings everywhere which affect us, and which publishes thoughtful opinions and arguments thereon to make and to maintain for us an honorable position among all the people; THEREFORE, I hereby resolve to pay my subscription for 1909 in advance or before it expires, and to give the publisher my earnest support in every way possible. MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. ITALY'S appalling earthquake horror has saddened the closing days of the old and the opening days of the new year, and the entire civilized world feels the shock of this dire event. Periodical afflictions of one character or another, and of almost world-wide effect, mark the entire history of humanity, and it is probable that many similar events, entirely unrecorded in present world annals, have visited those portions of the world's scattered inhabitants whose lives and affairs have passed into unrecorded experience before men reached their present advanced stage of communicative relationships. It is reasonable to suppose that before the flood of Biblical history, and since, great unrecorded seismic or elemental disturbances have afflicted the earth and her inhabitants, for certain scars remain to indicate calamitous happenings of which humanity has no account. What effect these visitation may have had upon the destinies of men cannot be calculated; they can only be conjectured. But it is possible that old continents may thus have passed away and new ones been formed; that races of men, as a whole or in part, may thus have perished, or been strangely transposed. The earth's crust holds evidence that the climates and natures, the flora and fauna, of various portions of the world, were once the opposite of what they are now. And men have changed as the inhabitable world has changed, and nations have been slowly transformed by influences entirely beyond their knowing. But, as we have intimated, modern events do not disclose such vast influences. They do, however, make greater happenings and greater results again seem possible. Some men assume to read the will and the purposes of Providence in these latter day visitations and flippantly tell their fellows that God is thus punishing some sin committed; but these simple and presumptive interpretations are worse than silly. To all men the ways of Providence are and must always remain inscrutable. Infinitely vaster than the aggregate wisdom of the world and of the universe is the will that shapes the course of created life. But men may know that the earth is not theirs for absolute exploitation and disposal and that life thereon may be better spent than in striving for the selfish glories and vanities of nations or individuals, for all this may be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and all this must change, in the lapse of years. To this destiny all nations and all people are bound, and out of realization of this springs the world-wide sympathy which flows to those who are stricken by calamity, whose coming is as mysterious and unescapable as it is appalling. CHRISTIAN FOL DE ROL WHEN a great moral champion speaks for the Negro in one breath and against him in another, the paradox is so striking that we are not inclined to let it pass. To advocate a great moral principle in part and deny it in part, is, however, of such common practice among Christian men as to bring reproach upon the religious character of the American people. It is difficult to believe that men subscribe to the doctrine, "God made all men of one blood to dwell together upon the face of the earth," when they set out to hedge in that doctrine with limitations. These remarks are occasioned by the expressions of The Westminster, a prominent Eastern protestant church publication, upon the growth and possibilities of the Y. M. C. A. among Negroes. It is led by this subject, and by the remarks of President Roosevelt at the laying of a corner stone of a Negro Y. M. C. A. building, to strenuously advocate the higher rights of the black man. "It is the right of the black man that is not respected," declares The Westminster; "and it is amazing and sad to see how the prejudice of the Northern white against the black man increases from year to year." Then after severally condemning this increase, it sums up its arguments as follows: "We look for the day, distant perhaps, but sure to come, when the brown man and the white man will speak of the things that concern their common interests in the Republic without the thought crossing the mind of any that either is different in race or color from the other. We do not expect to see race intermarriage, which seems to be the bogey that the South forever fears. Against that we should stand like a rock, if such a social wave should ever sweep in against us. It can never be. The African does not wish it, nor does the caucasian. But we do look for the day when absolute fairness of man to man, under the flag that we all love, shall be the law in this nation." But Negro Y. M. C. A.'s, do not tend toward that day, nor does any other religious or moral separation of the races. It is a physical impossibility for men to remember color and race distinctions in one half of their relations and forget them in the other half. The African who loves his race revolts against the thought of intermarriage because it involves the sacrifice of his race, in America, at least. The white man's feeling is more than that; it is a feeling of race degradation. This class of social feeling, made emphatic and bitter by the immediate contact of the races, never can square with Christian ideals, however, and needs other solution than the stand pat policies of the religionists of America. Either somebody's religion or somebody's relations will have to undergo a change to make the future of the races as rosy as our consciences tell us it ought to be. INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GOV. JOHN H. SHAFROTH SALIENT FEATURES OF THE INAUGURAL. The first requisites of good government are honesty and economy. The Democratic platform declared for a direct primary election law. Such a law should be passed. An act should be passed asking Congress to call a constitutional convention in order that an amendment may be framed enabling states to elect United States senators by a direct vote of the people. The state election law should be amended so as to require an elector to vote for each candidate individually instead of voting for all under a party name. A law should be passed more securely guarding the secrecy of the ballot, thus preventing espionage by corporations. Alleged conditions in Huerfano and Las Animas counties are cited to show the necessity of such a law. State authority should be exercised to provide against violations of the election law by county commissioners in not giving each party its lawful proportion of election judges and to allow candidates to appoint watchers. Amount of campaign expenses should be restricted by law and the state should bear a portion of the legitimate expenses of each party to the extent of 25 cents for each vote cast. No candidate to be permitted to expend more than 25 per cent, of his first year's salary. Museums should be removed from the capitol building in order to give more room for state officers and boards. A fund should be established, after the precedent set by Oklahoma, to guarantee deposits in the banks of the state. An amendment to the constitution should be submitted authorizing the payment of outstanding and discredited state warrants, most of which are held by the state in its school fund. A uniform system of accounting should be provided for in case of state and county officials. An immigration bureau should be established to attract new settlers who may help to develop the immense resources of the state, now unutilized because of its sparse population. A law should be passed to prevent railroad companies from issuing passes to any but employees. Recommends that an amendment to the constitution be submitted permitting the initiative and referendum as to legislation directly by the people. The present law in relation to the National Guard should be amended to bring it in accordance with the rules of the regular army, so as to continue the federal allowance of $30,000 per annum, which will otherwise lapse in 1910. A state board of control, to consist of three members, should be created to have charge of all the penal and charitable institutions of the state, in order to insure equal consideration for all of them and in the interest of efficiency and economy, the members of such board to receive adequate salaries. Recommends the submission of an amendment providing that the State Land Board shall consist of three members. The right of appeal from the District Courts to the Supreme Court should be limited to cases involving more than $1,000, except those involving a freehold or franchise. Legislation should be framed to accomplish the complete consolidation of the city and county of Denver, thereby obviating the duplication of officials within the same territory, which has proven to be expensive and unsatisfactory. The forest reserve policy of the government inflicts many hardships upon the people of Colorado and seriously hampers the development of the state. It is claimed that the management of the reserves is inimical to the interests of prospectors and homesteaders and the intention of the government in forest reserves to tax the people for grazing privileges, and for the utilization of the streams for power purposes, and to make rights of may revocable at will, is bound to disastrously affect enterprises and retard the development of the state. The attorney general of the state should be authorized to bring or appear in such actions as he may deem proper to test the constitutionality of the acts authorizing such reserves and such administration of the same. OPENING PARAGRAPHS. Following are the opening and closing paragraphs of the address: Members of the Seventeenth General Assembly: The people of Colorado, at the recent election, placed us, as the representatives of the Democratic party, in power in this state, because of the promises and pledges contained in our platform. They will continue to intrust us with that power so long as we give an honest, economical administration and enact into laws the reforms which we advocated. The citizens of Colorado are politically the most independent of any in the Union, and if we fail to fulfill our pledges, they will, with the same large majority given us, consign us to oblivion. These pledges constitute a contract between the people and us, and should be faithfully fulfilled. The first great requisite of good government is honest administration. Graft and dishonest methods are prevalent in many of the states of this Republic, and accusations of that character have been made as to some of the employees of our own state government. Whether or not they be true, the newly elected state officials should select for employees only those who are known to be honest, and let each understand that questionable methods will not be tolerated, and that graft will bring not only certain discharge, but also criminal prosecution. No employee should in any manner become interested, directly or indirectly, in any purchase or lease of state lands, or in any contracts with the state. Conduct of that character brings disgrace upon the employee, and scandalizes not only the officers appointing such employee, but also the administration of which they form a part. We have declared against extravagance in the administration of the affairs of the state, and we should see to it that we are not guilty of unnecessary expenditure of the public moneys. Each employee should be required to devote his entire time to the service of the state. Let no office be created, or continued, because it gives a remunerative position to some friend or party worker, but let its claim to existence rest upon its requirement of the public service. Let us remember that while in the campaign we represented the party, we now represent the people. It is easy to spend other people's money. We should exercise more care in the expenditure of the moneys of the state than in the expenditure of our own. CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS The boards and officers of the state institutions of Colorado have made recommendations for appropriations for new buildings, improvements and new departments, the cost of which in the aggregate will be many times the estimated revenue which will be available for those purposes. Fortunately the Thirteenth General Assembly enacted certain measures, such as the inheritance tax, the corporation flat tax, the increase of the insurance tax, and the increase of the tax of incorporating, which are now yielding to the state about $500,000 during each administration. This revenue will enable the General Assembly to supply the most pressing needs of these institutions. I am not sufficiently informed as to the necessities of these institutions for new buildings, improvements and new departments to intelligently recommend specific appropriations for each, but I feel that they should be treated as liberally as the revenues will permit. We are justly proud of the high rank which our institutions of learning have taken, and bespeak for them an ever increasing usefulness, development and influence. The platform of our party declares in favor of the passage of an act submitting to the people a constitutional amendment which will permit the regents of the State University to establish a department in the city of Denver for the completion of the study in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. The people of this state in numerous ways have declared in favor of higher and technical education in our public institutions. They should at least be given the opportunity of voting upon such a constitutional amendment. I therefore recommend the passage of an act submitting to the vote of the people such an amendment to the constitution. Great Composer Now Part of History Only By WALTER DAMROSCH, Famous Orchestra Leader. [Image of a man in a suit with a tie and a serious expression. The background is a simple black and white pattern. The man's face is centered in the image, and he is looking slightly to the right. The suit is dark, and the tie is light-colored. The background is plain black. There are no other discernible elements in the image. Wagner was a theorist. Of course I never attempted to belittle his greatness, for I have devoted many years of my life, many hours of study and some of my best efforts to bring the American people to a realization and an intimate understanding of his genius. But primarily it was Wagner's purpose to materialize his idea of the union of the arts and the result of this exemplification is a series of art works that is put before the world as an expression of thought in drama, music, sculpture and painting. The Wagner music dramas are so far as form is concerned the last word, but after all my years of labor as a musician I can not deny my whole-hearted devotion to absolute music. If I were not so devoted to music as an identical art, and to me the supreme art, I should not be a musician. I have sought to give to my public that information, both musical and literary, which should bring the fullest enjoyment of their purely musical quality and also of their significance in the realm of intellect. Each great composer speaks in his own tongue and his ideas are molded in a different fashion. The personalities of these men are, of course, tinged with their philosophic conceptions of life and the art forms in which they speak are largely governed by their material circumstances. Many a man, no doubt, that has wished with all his heart to write a symphony, has been turned into the opera house by the force of conditions he could not control. Who shall say that Wagner might not have been a great symphonist had he not had a sort of divine rage against the operatic theatricalism of his time and been obsessed by his passion to show to the world a composite art form which he conceived he had invented? Wagner has his deep effect upon absolute music as well as upon opera, but it is in the theater that his largest influence has been felt. All the opera composers that have come after Wagner have benefited by his example, notably the new Italian composers. So much can not be said of the writers of orchestral music, for they have generally kept aloof. It is upon the general musical mind that Wagner has cast his spell. His place is fixed. He has become a part of history. But history moves. Music is coming into its own again and we shall some day know that it is capable of expressing our highest thoughts and aspirations, unassisted by any sister art. We could not know this from Beethoven or from Brahms or from Tschaikowsky, because there was yet an obscurity to be cleared up. This was Wagner's work. Beyond a competence for old age, which need not be great and may be very small, wealth lessens rather than increases human happiness. Millionaires who laugh are rare. The deplorable family quarrels which so often afflict the rich generally have their rise in sordid differences about money. The most miserable of men as old age approaches are those who have made money-making their god; like flies on the wheel, these unfortunates fondly believed they were really driving it, only to find when tired and craving rest that it is impossible for them to get off, and they are lost Money and Human Happiness By ANDREW CARNEGIE. Beyond a competence for old age, which need not be great and may be very small, wealth lessens rather than increases human happiness. Millionaires who laugh are rare. The deplorable family quarrels which so often afflict the rich generally have their rise in sordid differences about money. The most miserable of men as old age approaches are those who have made money-making their god; like flies on the wheel, these unfortunates fondly believed they were really driving it, only to find when tired and craving rest that it is impossible for them to get off, and they are lost—plenty to retire upon but nothing to retire to, and so they end as they began, striving to add to their useless hoards, passing into nothingness, leaving their money behind for heirs to quarrel over. Great fortunes are few. The aggregate of wealth embraced in these is small compared with the amount in very moderate fortunes. Gigantic fortunes, in the nature of things, must be fewer and harder to build up in the future than in the past. Most great enterprises are now in the corporate form. The writer knows but one man now in active business who is likely to have an exceptionally large estate, and the foundation of that was laid more than half a century ago by the purchase of timber lands which have increased enormously in value. Meanwhile, our immediate duty is to distribute surplus wealth to the best of our abilities in such forms as we believe best calculated to improve existing conditions, and to secure its more equitable distribution hereafter by heavy progressive death duties and by assessing the people in proportion to their ability to support the government. JOHN H. BURKE We must all learn the great truth that only competence is desirable, almost necessary, wealth non-essential, and when it does come it is only a sacred trust to be administered only for the general good. Goodness and Sin Alike Growing By PROF. EDWARD A. ROSS. There is every indication that men are growing better. The moral scandals of our time signify not that men are worse, but that they have not yet learned to resist. The older types of sin are invasive wrong, betrayal of personal confidence, oppression of the weak individual. In resisting these there has been great improvement. The newer types of sin grow out of the interdependence of our time. Men come into new relations, and the abuse of a new relation constitutes a new form of sin. This explains why the characteristic forms of wrongdoing of to-day are the abuse of the commercial relation, the abuse of the professional relation and the abuse of the fiduciary relation. But goodness is developing as well as sin. The earlier goodness took the form of personal ministration. But the Good Samaritan is no longer the pattern. As our relations become various and complex the upholder of laws and moral standards becomes more precious. Again, as the state becomes the organ of the general welfare, the civic champion who fights dishonesty and stupidity in government counts for more than Father Damien or Sister Dora. The latter-day saint is not the one who feels the hungry and visits the sick, but the assailant of iniquity, whose success lessens the number of to-morrow's hungry or sick. Cleo Hobson is numbered with the sick. Mrs. B. Richardson of 2540 Corkson street is very ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Lina Hayden of 608 Twenty-eight street has been ill for a week. Mrs. J. C. Porter is among those who are on the sick list. L. L. McMahan's pharmacy is now located at 1129 Nineteenth street. C. A. Franklin arrived home Sunday from a two weeks' vacation in Omaha, Lincoln and Kansas City. H. G. Mason and Miss Alice Nelson were among those who occupied prominent seats at the Broadway last week. R. B. Anderson of Leadville arrived in the city Tuesday on a visit to his family as well as on some business matters. Mrs. J. C. Harris underwent a surgical operation last Tuesday at Mercy hospital and at this writing we are informed she is very low. Rev. T. L. Griffith of Des Moines, Iowa, will be in the city tomorrow and will assume charge as pastor of Zion Baptist church. Mrs. Louisa Tucker, who visited her sister, Mrs. H. J. M. Brown in this city last summer, died at her home last Tuesday in Newport, R. I. Despite reports to the contrary, Mrs. Lina Hayden is very grateful for the assistance rendered by friends and clubs during her distress last week. MRS. LINA HAYDEN. Frank Bass, who was sent to the penitentiary from Denver about seven years ago for killing his sweetheart, was pardoned this week by Governor Buchtel. The opening of the skating rink by "Dude" Morris is eagerly looked for by those who enjoy pleasure on wheels. "Dude" has a host of friends and the success of the new enterprise will be assured. Watch for date later. Mrs. Elvira McCracken died on Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Watkins, 2956 Champa street. She has suffered much with a severe attack of dropsy. The funeral ceremonies were held on Thursday afternoon. The article in our last week's issue entitled, "Colored Waiters," by W. H. Hall, the popular headwaiter of the Colorado Traffic Club, has caused no little amount of praise by those who understand and know the duty of a "genuine waiter." Miss Belle d'Antremond and her immediate class of pupils gave a recital last night at the residence of Mrs. Mable Fallings, 1919 Clarkson street. The very excellent musical selections and the manner in which they were rendered demonstrated the efficiency of Miss d'Antremond as 'a musical teacher. Miss Lizzie Cowen returned home last Saturday from Des Moines, Iowa, where she spent the holidays with her mother and other relatives, whom on Christmas Day joined in a family reunion dinner. As it had been a quarter of a century since such an event, it was marked with a jubilee that words are too inadequate to describe. Besides Miss Cowen there were three other children present. Part of the menu comprised watermelon, string beans and rosten ears, which brought back the remembrance of "the good old summer time." On Wednesday evening, January 6th, the following officers were installed into Pythias Lodge No. 11, K. of P.: Geo. W. Davis, C. C., 1348 South Twelfth street; John Lewis, V. C., 520 Josephine street; John W. Bush, prelate, 63 Logan avenue; Geo. C. Sample, M. of E., 1223 Nineteenth street; S. C. Herndon, M. of F., 18 Alaska street; J. M. Martenia, K. of R. and S., 1223 Nineteenth street; J. M. Pinchback, M. of A., Littleton, Colo.; C. F. Grant, I. G., 2953 Larimer street; N. J. Skillern, O. G., 1904 East Twenty-ninth avenue; G. C. Sample, Harry Jones, grand representatives. O. T. Jackson of Boulder, Colo., received the appointment as messenger to the governor and entered upon his duties last Tuesday. Mr. Jackson justly merits the place and has a host of friends throughout the state who will be glad to learn of his success. The Tuesday Evening Whist Club was royally entertained last Tuesday night by H. J. Foster at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jos, D. D. Rivers, 225 West Eleventh avenue. It was an ideal party. Naturally it could not have been otherwise with H. J. steering the wheel of mirth. The menu was one that was highly relished by everybody who spoke of the generous hospitality of Mr. Foster in terms most flattering. ANNUAL DINNER The Bon-Vi Vants gave their annual dinner on Thursday night, January 14th. The Bon Vi Vants always give an annual dinner. But the one this year was exceptionally fine. Dania hall was the scene of the unusually brilliant social affair. The hall in itself is beautiful, but adding to it the magnificently beautiful color scheme of cut flowers and palms, etc., the hall was a thing of beauty. Covers were laid for forty-four. The gastronomic productions would tickle the gustatory nerve of the most exquisite epicure. During the evening music was furnished by an excellent orchestra. Dr. W. H. Stell, as toastmaster, covered himself with glory. The officers of the club are: B. C. Curtis, president; Robt. Stewart, vice president; Wm. Russ, treasurer; Geo. S. Contee, secretary; C. F. Holmes, chairman executive committee. KEEP IN THE PARTY! Just now Negro politicians and jobholders are greatly perturbed. The Republicans are out and the Democrats have possession. So far the Democrats have been very chary in the plums handed to their Negro co-laborer. The Negro Republican's lights have been put out with ease and facility. The number of Negro Democrats securing places under the new regime is surprisingly small, considering the large number so ready last fall to thrust themselves upon the party of Bryan and Kern. The Colorado Statesman has no complaint to make. This is a true blue Republican paper. We have been expecting this wholesale letting out of Negro Republican employees by Democratic successors. The employees expected as much. This paper urges upon the Negroes who have held offices to take their medicine like men and go out and find something to do, and be on hand to help win the next great political fight in Colorado! Do not waste valuable time trying to keep some poor Negro Democrat (?) out, but get busy trying to line up every available force for the next time. Colorado is a Republican state. The present success of Democracy is one of the accidents of a political campaign, due to strife within the party. Its duration will be as the Free Silver and Populistic waves, known now only as a lurid recollection. Keep in the party. Keep in the party that has done more for the Negro than any other political organization. Let the vociferous few who have joined the Democratic party remain wedded to their idols. There is plenty of work for every Republican in Colorado, regardless of color, if the party wins two years hence. So let us get together prepared to fight, not sulk. Keep our political records clean and unspotted from the world. This is the secret of political success as well as commercial or social. The Self-Educated Woman. One of the first things she must learn is not to attempt to do too much herself. Every business man knows that the higher he rises the greater must be the number of his assistants, says a writer in Harper's Bazar. The private soldier attends to his own affairs himself, but the captain employs an orderly, and the general has an entire staff to do his bidding. Many women have not learned this lesson. They are so anxious to do their duty in all respects that they try to perform the tasks of general and private soldier at the same time—a thing manifestly impossible. An Improved Variety. The traveler exhibited a peculiar nervousness on seeing the long-legged, slim, fierce looking hogs that roamed at will over the country. At length he asked a native sitting on a fence by the roadside: "Aren't these razorback hogs rather dangerous?" "I never heard of none of them doing any harm," remarked the native. "I think they must be safety razorbacks." One Guess Only. "What did he ever see in her?" asked one. "What did she ever see in him?" asked the other. Which of these two was the woman and which the man?—Kansas City Times. 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MATTER FOR THE T WALL A NOVELTY. MATTER FOR THE THIS CEMENT WALL A NOVELTY. Action of Nature Has Given It a Distinct Artistic Value. There is a wall of cement in Los Angeles which shores up one side of a building lot that has an artistic value never intended by the builder. He had moved his bags of cement on to the ground to be ready for work and was then called away on some other job for a day or two. In the meantime one of the very infrequent rains came on and each sack turned into stone under the action of the water and the fabric of the sacks themselves were absorbed into the cement so that it was impossible to remove it. Consequently each sack was wrought into the wall as if it had been a boulder on the line of an old stone wall. MATTER FOR THE SCIENTISTS. Theory as to Whether We Live Inside or Outside Earth. There are a number of believers in the theory that we are living inside the earth instead of outside. These unpleasant people want us to admit that we are surrounded by a shell like a huge nut. Just what good it will do us to admit this isn't clear. About the only benefit to be derived from the information, as far as we can see at present is the possibility that the balloonists may prepare themselves for a hard bump against the inner side of the shell if they ever go up too high. We are also told that the acceptation of this kernel in the nut theory will explain many things—none of They were then chinked and bound together with worked cement and after a time the weather disposed of the gunny sacking, but left the blocks marked with the impress of the weave. The result is a highly ornamental cement wall, resembling at a little distance a wall of some woven material. Letter Writing. Writing interesting letters doesn't come natural to me, and there are a good many people with whom I must keep in touch through letters, if at all. So I have got into the way of keeping a notebook and jotting down in it brief notes to remind me of little bits of news that will specially interest my different correspondents. I even jot down a little joke sometimes, says Home Chat. Then, when spare time comes to write my letters my notes are ready to kand, and the interesting scraps of news don't go flying away directly I put my pen to paper, as they used to do. Everybody tells me my letters are much more interesting than they used to be. If so, that is the secret. --- --- erland NER HALL, 20, '09 PYTHIAS. No. 5, K. of P. PLE 20 Greatest Performers. It's a Treat. er Orchestra. 50c ars, 25c Dancing after Show. TRADE AT BELL'S nd MARKET Goods are Right. 's Bread MATTER FOR THE SCIENTISTS. Theory as to Whether We Live Inside or Outside Earth. There are a number of believers in the theory that we are living inside the earth instead of outside. These unpleasant people want us to admit that we are surrounded by a shell like a huge nut. Just what good it will do us to admit this isn't clear. About the only benefit to be derived from the information, as far as we can see at present is the possibility that the balloonists may prepare themselves for a hard bump against the inner side of the shell if they ever go up too high. We are also told that the acceptance of this kernel in the nut theory will explain many things—none of which we remember. It will also upset a great many things with which we are familiar and which, on the whole, we like pretty well. This leads us to remark that we prefer to believe we are outs. At the same time if the inside facts are convincing we are open to conviction.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Doing Chores. To dig one's own potatoes, to shock one's own corn, to pick one's own apples, to ple one's own squashes at one's own barn! It is like filling one's system with an antitoxin before going into a fever-plagued country. 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The proclamation follows: "Whereas, The development of the natural resources of Colorado has demonstrated the wonderful possibilities existing in this state in the production of livestock of commerce, and "Whereas, It now seems probable that in the near future the states of the great West will be called upon to produce the bulk of the meat food supply for the nation, our millions of acres of pasture, supplemented by our fertile agricultural land, making it possible for our citizens to produce domestic animals more profitably and cheaper than they can be produced in any other section of our country; and "Whereas, A number of our prominent citizens, together with citizens of other western states, have organized for the purpose of holding annual exhibitions of livestock, together with the grain, forage and other foods produced in our state with which such animals are grown and fed, the object being not for pecuniary profit, but to encourage the development of livestock, agriculture and to educate our citizens in the art and manner of breeding, growing and feeding such animals in the most profitable manner; and "Whereas, It is important that such effort to promote and build up the agricultural industry of our state should receive the fullest encouragement of every citizen, to the end that this development should be as energetic and extensive as possible, thus adding to the population and commerce of our state and enabling us to still further provide for the material welfare of the nation. "Now, Therefore, I, John F. Shafroth, governor of Colorado, do hereby make proclamation that during the week of January 18-23, 1909, the fourth annual exhibition of the National Western Stock Show Association will be held in the city of Denver, the citizens of this and adjoining states are urged to extend to this exhibition every encouragement, to the end that it may have the maximum of success in accomplishing the objects desired. "Given under my land and the great seal of the state of Colorado this 13th day of January, 1909. "JOHN F. SHAFROTH, "Governor of Colorado." Denver.—A Greeley dispatch says: The Denver, Laramie & Northwestern railway has just completed grading two miles in the vicinity of Platteville, where a large force of men and teams have been at work. The contract is soon to be let for grading twenty-five miles more. It is said by contractors that the Union Pacific will soon let its contract for the branch to run from the Hillsboro country to the northwest of Fort Collins, and that it will put on a large construction force. President Reaser of the Interurban Construction Company is expected home this week from Ohio, where he has been conferring with heavy stockholders. He says the Burlington Interurban Railway Company will as soon as the frost is out of the ground begin grading its road from Hardin to Greeley. The school board of Boulder has instructed Superintendent C. B. Dyke to arrange the details for a course in manual training at the preparatory school, to be ready for the September term. The first year term will be given in three branches, with work for boys and domestic science for girls. Samples of potatoes to be tested for starch, a sample of Greeley water, one of ditch water used for irrigation, and two samples of coal, have been sent to Washington for analysis to determine the exact cost of manufacturing denatured alcohol in case the government should consent to bringing its experimental plant to Greeley. Announcement is made that J. O. Brinkerhoff, superintendent of the Kansas division of the Union Pacific railway, will shortly retire because he has reached the age limit, and will be placed on the company's pension roll. It is expected that A. F. Vick Roy, superintendent of the Colorado division, will be offered Mr. Brinkerhoff's place. The Colorado Whist League will hold its third annual tournament in the rooms of the Greylee Whist Club Friday and Saturday, January 22nd and 23rd, when clubs from all over the state will compete for the state championship. THE BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER. German Druggist's Successful Experiment with Pigeon Camera. New York.—The pigeon is the first bird to become a photographer. Dr. Jules Neubronner of Germany, a druggist, has invented a camera of light weight which can be carried by a pigeon and exposures made automatically by a unique form of rubber bulb. So successful has this camera proved that it has a value for military purposes. Among the photographs taken by a pigeon have been views of portions of the park of the imperial palace at Friedrichshof not open to the O public. This demonstrated the value of the bird photographer for obtaining military data. The inventor of the pigeon camera first became interested in carrier pigeons through his father's experiments with them. His father was also a druggist. As early as 1840 he made use of pigeons to deliver medicines, which were carefully attached to the neck of the bird. This method of distribution was of great value in cases in which the medicine was needed urgently. Before attaching a camera to the pigeon the inventor made a number of preliminary experiments in taking pictures from express trains while traveling at high speed in order to determine the speed of shutter required for taking pictures while the camera was in swift motion. He then attached his invention to a bird. The results were surprisingly satisfactory, it is said, although the pictures were only one square centimeter in size. A new camera, by means of which pictures four square centimeters in area could be taken, was made. The camera was fitted to the breast of the pigeon by means of elastic braces passed across the back underneath the wings. Eight consecutive snapshots were made at regular intervals by the automatic exposing device. As it has been established that the pigeon is able to carry a burden of more than two and one-half ounces for a distance of 150 kilometers, Dr. Neubronner intends to enlarge the capacity of his camera from eight to thirty films. 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Hoard of Wisconsin, from 30 neres Tint ytOS a Botiae Srna Oats: Weatherly ees Stihl Ue s20i' dentine ada'n snap BENE, veity neved toon betore iy you SALZER SEED CO., Box W, LaCrosse, Wis. National Guard Bill. Requirements of the University. Mr. Strickland, in the House, has| The Colorado State University put in an amended copy of the bill| Boulder would like the modest 1 presented two years ago to compel the | Sum of $1,000,000 to add buildings | organization of the state militia to| departments to the university, acct conform to the regulations of the|ing to President James H. Baker, ¥ United States army. This bill was de-| appeared before the Senate and Ho feated in the Sixteenth General As-! committee on state institutions — sembly on the plea that it was pre-| buildings at the state house yester« sented for the purpose of legislating | Says the Denver Republican. out of office certain of the officers of] When asked whether he expects the guard, and the plea gained] get $1,000,000 President Baker si strength as it was found the national| “Well, there are other state ins! army is not now organized on the|tions, but we need every dollar of “brigade formation,” of which army] President Baker told Chairman J men speak. Had the proposed law been | Burger and his committee that the enacted, it was stated, the office of |penses of the university will be $26 brigadier general would have been|a year more for the next two ye abolished. Mr. Strickland has avoided | than they were for the last two ye this objection by providing that all|He asked that an appropriation present officers of the guard shall hold | made for the rental of buildings for their offices for two years, or until] establishment of a medical school January of 1910. Denver, and other costs of operatins —— It is proposed also to establish a si Sirenucue “Antiirtuet, Bill: hygienie laboratory in Denver. Ap! Representative Howell of Denver has offered a bill against the trusts, that is modeled after the ‘Texas law on that subject, in the main, though it includes many stringent provisions from the laws of other states. It is designed by its author to make trust. making a losing venture. ‘The bill de: clares that all trusts and combinations are illegal, and that anyone found guilty of forming one or becoming a member of one shall be fined from $500 to $50,000. In addition, upon complaint to the courts, the right to operate in the state shall be declared forfeited. Another section provides that any one who buys goods from a trust need not pay for the same, and that proof of the violation of the act shall be evidence sufficient to “call off” the debt. Bill for Drainage Districts. An important addition to the trriga- tion laws of Colorado is embodied in the bill introduced by Senator Jones, providing for the creation of drainage districts. It is provided that a drain- age district in an agricultural country may be created to carry off water from swamps or an overflow. The county assessment rolls form sufficient evidence of title to land ac- cording to the bill, when the petition for the district is being shaped. No one but owners of land in the district may sign, and anyone acquiring title to land for the purpose of signing such a petition, shall be violating the law, and their names will not be counted, although the petition will not be inyal- idated if it contains a majority of names in the district. The petition shall be presented to the Board of County Commissioners-of the district, who shall submit the question at ar election. Elastin iaul> Rasslution. In conformity with one of the rec- ommendations of Gov. John F. Sha- froth in his inaugural address, Sen. Tully Scott offered a resolution call- ing for an investigation of the alleged election frauds in Huerfano and Las Animas counties. Senator Scott made his resolution sweeping in its character, and applied to the political connections of indus: trial corporations in these counties, meaning, as Governor Shafroth indi- cated, the alleged frauds in the coal camps of the counties. While it per- mits investigations of the books of the corporations there, {t is not intended to be an investigation along any other lines, as Senator Scott stated after its introduction. Water Commission Bill. ‘The water commissioner ill _ pre sented by Mr, Lehrritter in the House provides that commissioners, bein.<ap. pointed by the governor, shall be paid by the state. County officers have complained that they had to pay these officers without the least authority over them, The bill is one that was approved by the convention of county commissioners held early in the year. Another convention is to be held by the same officers within a short time, when resolutions will be passed to in- dicate to the Legislature why the law is asked. tidda 4a Bo Apoolnted: Governor John F. Shafroth’s first of- ficial act after being sworn to perform the duties of chief executive of Colo- rado was to receive the resignation of Morton S. Bailey as judge of the Elev- enth Colorado judicial district, having been sworn in as a Supreme Court justice at the auditorium a short time before. Governor Shafroth announced that he had not decided upon anyone to fill Judge Bailey’s place, and had made no appointments as yet. University Medical School. Senator Casaday has presented a proposed amendment to section —, ar ticle 8, of the constitution, providing for the establishment of a medical, dental and pharmaceutical school in Denver as part of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and allowing the university to hold educational lectures in any part of the state at any time. State Road Bill, Mr. Rell has Introduced a bill in the House to construct a road from Colo- rado Springs to Canon City, with a branen running into Florence. ‘The peo- ple of those cities favor the road, which would be an immense saying of distance between them. itl aon ku DE nGsS APaory: In order to give the National Guard in Denver a home, Senator Bardwell has introduced a bill calling for the erection of an armory building to cost $250,000. Me gE Ee ae MEETS EN Sg tan 0 OE RE Te | The Colorado State University at Boulder would like the modest little ‘sum of $1,000,000 to add buildings and ‘departments to the university, accord: ing to President James H. Baker, who appeared before the Senate and House committee on state institutions and buildings at the state house yesterday, says the Denver Republican. When asked whether he expects to get $1,000,000 President Baker says, “Well, there are other state institu tions, but we need every dollar of it.” President Baker told Chairman J. C. Burger and his committee that the ex penses of the university will be $25,000 a year more for the next two years than they were for the last two years He asked that an appropriation be made for the rental of buildings for the satablishment of a medical school in Denver, and other costs of operating ft It is proposed also to establish a state hygienic laboratory in Denver. Appro priations for graduate school and re search work in liberal arts, engineer ing, taxation, industrial problems, local history, educational problems, sanitary science, economic botany, zoology 0 Colorado, chemical analysis, preventive medicine, concrete construction and other subjects are needed. manda nnloves, Following are the appointments for employes of the Senate: Chaplain of the Senate, Rev. P. T. Ramsey, Denver; secretary of Senate, Dwight A. Ryland, Denver; assistant secretary, Adolphus Addourel, Boul der; sergeant-atarms, William L. Ellt ott, Golden; assistant sergeants-at arms, Robert M. Stetson, Pueblo; Howard Stark, Colorado Springs; chief enrolling clerk, Blsie Vandergrift Montrose; assistant enrolling clerk, Mrs, Rowena Rothwell, Montrose; chief printing clerk, Daniel Sheehan, Ouray; assistant printing clerk, Dan Ward; clerk of finance committee, E F. Campbell; clerk —_ agricultural committee, Robert Beach; assign: able clerks, Mrs. Angie M. Crooks, ©. A. Woodward, Grand Junction, and Cyril C. Croke, Denver; messen: gers, Willie O'Connell, Georgetown, and Paul Caley; doorkeepers, Frank Gomez and James Lewis; janitor of the cloak room, R. E. Norvell; night watchman, Frank Mancini, and pages Irwin Bruce, John Spaulding, Stanles Monahan and Edward F. Gray; clerk of corporations, Christopher Lunny; telephone messenger, Blmore Finn; clerks of revision, Gus Tillery anc George T, Haubrick; janitor of cham hers, P. J. Chambers; bill clerk, Neti Brown; assignable clerk, Grace Kei ser; reading clerk, Sam Mays, Denver Stringent Anti-Saloon Bill. An anti-saloon bill introduced by Senator Skinner on request of the An- tiSaloon League prescribes that rail way companies must leave open to the public all shipments of liquor into the state, and the possession of an internal revenue license in “dry” territory will be considered as violation of the law Druggists shall keep a public record of ail prescriptions filled upon a physi cian’s order for liquor, and those vio- lating the law shall be disbarred from selling liquor for two years, prescrip: tion o> no prescription. A second of- fense ineans forfeiture of their drug I cense. Revenue Commission Proposed, A bill introduced by Sen. Tully Scott provides for the creation of a revenu# commission to revise the rev- enue laws of Colorado relative to tax- ation. The commission is to consist of three persons, who will serve two years at a salary of $4,000 each a year, expenses and cierical help. Its duties will be to investigate the state revenue laws of the various states of the Union and cul) from them the best for Colo- rado. Raiveik eininunank: Senator Stephen has introduced 8 bill restricting the employment of fe males in laundries, stores, restaurants, hotels, mines or factories, for more than cight hours a day, and calling for seats for those so employed. The bill is modeled upon the Oregon law, found constitv'tional by the Supreme Court of the United States, and is designed to take the place of one decided uncon: stitutional by the state Supreme Court last year, State Treasurer's Appointments. William J. Galligan of Loveland, the new state treasurer, announced the fol lowing appointments: Deputy, John EB, Davidson of Fort Collins; chiet clerk, Julius Clark, who has held the office for many years; registry clerk, Leon La Coste of Denver; license in- spector in southern part of che state, J. U, Vigil of Las Animas. School District Bonds. Mr. Rubin's House bill enables school districts to issue bonds to the value of five per cent. of the assessed valuation of the property in the dis trict. The present law prohibits issu. ing higher than 3% per cent, of the valuation, which has, Mr. Rubin as: serts, worked to the disadvantage of some districts. tceraan AAintna GC lalines Mr. Blakey’s House bill provides that lede mining claims in this state may haye a width of 600 feet, instead of 300 feet, as at present. Perpetual Closed Season. Senator Irby has introduced a bill to establish a closed season forever on antelope, mountain sheep, deer, elk and doves. Daily Newspaper Defined, Senator DeLong has introduced a bill defining a daily newspaper as one published on six consecutive days in the week, The measure is to safe- guard legal notices. 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Mr, Crimsonbeak—Seems to me it would be more valuable if it only gave an alarm when a bill was deposited in thetor A Toast. ‘The latest thing in toasts comes from “up-state,” and was responded to by the father of 12 daughters, who claims that he ought to know. “To the Ladies—to their sweetness we give love; to their beauty admira- tion, and to their hats, the whole side- walk.—New York Times. Tion. Emil Kiang, Vienna, Aus., one of the world’s greatest horsemen, has’ written to the manufacturers: “SPOHN'S DIS: TEMPER COMPOUND has become the standard remedy for distempers and throat tisensea im. the. best. stables of Europe. ‘This medicine relieves Horses of great suf fering and saves inuch money for the own- er.” 50c and $1 a bottle. “All druggists. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Goshen, Ind. A Rare Change. A Boston woman says she can't live with her husband because he is too good. And the wicked bromide user will probably suggest that he is too good to be true.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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Know what thou canst work at and do it like a Hercules—Carlsle. ‘Aiten's Foot-Fase, a Powder Forsnollamemeauing feats Uivesinat ele Tho SrgISel powder for the Yoets Zoe at all Drogaiste Better one discreet enemy than two indisereet friends. # fy oD ee) \ GN oe Op ds Be ae NG Kee d ’ i A aia? Le | Y aE io & 375 “Guarani His CA; Z.? When shown positive and reliable proof that a certain remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wouldn’t any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble ? Here are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, Red Banks, Miss. —“ Words are inadequate to express what Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me. I suffered from a female disease and weakness which the doc- tors said was caused by a fibroid tumor, and I commenced to think there was no help for me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound made me a well woman after all other means had failed. My friends are all asking what has helped me so much, and I gladly recommend Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound.”—Mrs. Willie Edwards. Hampstead, Maryland.—* Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I was weak and nervous, and could not be on my feet half a day without suffering. ‘The doctors told me I never would be well without an operation, but Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done more for me thay all the doctors, and f hope this valuable medicine may come into the hands of many more suffering women.” — Mrs. Joseph H. Dandy. We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful —or that either of these women were paid in any way for their testimonials, or that the letters are published without their permission, or that the original letter from each did not come to us entirely unsolicited. * What more proof can any one ask? For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable se aie Compound has been the standard remedy for. ) FEES \\ female ills. No sick woman does justice to eat herself who will not try this famous medicine. d 3 Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and Z ? has thousands of cures to its credit. = Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women oe to write her for advice. She has \) Ka guided thousands to health free of charge. @)8 Zyr4) Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. ‘NIK © FINnNAT Yon All shoes are made in much $ the same way. oa Ow Here’s the difference. Eh & p oat White House Shoes. fit. ==} Not the ordinary binding fit. Not Shy the fit that takes three weeks to Za ocr in. Regury gectelt ft that i Boia CED snug the first time. stays Lae Be snug and graceful ali times. WHITE HOUSE SHOES FOR MEN $3.50, 84 00, 85.00 and $6.00 FOR WOMEN 83.50, 84.00 and $5.00 BUSTER BROWN uithis SHOES (2h dtik—"*wictwae gen rertptsat fet enter pawenes rer mall to theay ecnding ¢cotideate propery Uf tour Votunses of the “MHEN HOLSPMISTORT.*. OPwill sond for20e, without certdcutee THE BROWN SHOE CO. 23k 52 St. Louis, Mo. A es — pL ¢ | ea l| E LPS WN) ‘l fe ya 2 Ge & Ris i : } ag é Martha Washington f R= Comfort Shoes i) = Ne You will never know what genuine y y “Y foot comfort is until you wear Martha f j E:] Washington Comfort Shoes. They re- ' % - fay lieve tired and aching feet and make walk- \ fy a 4 inga pleasure. They fit like a glove and “4 ¥* feel as easy a8 a stocking. No bother about buttons or laces—they just slip on and off at will. ‘The elastic at | the sides ‘zives” with every movement of the foot, insuring free | 4 =] action and a perfect fit. Absolute comfort guaranteed. ; F Beware of imitations, Only the genuine have the name Martha J 4 E J Washington and Mayer Trade Mark stamped on thesole. Refuse J ¥ fs substitutes. Your dealer will supply you; if not, write to us. J) 4 > Ba 4 FREER you will send vs the name of adealee who ff > GBA to. oe handie Suciha Washington Comiort Sige, we eer Ra “Will send you free, postpaid,a beautiful picture of Seo : We also make Honorbitt Shoes, Leading L 4 RSE BARA shove Vecrm Cushion Shove wad Spocul Ment” 4 = as By School Shues, , Ba) , 2 AD) LEE eae, Ga F. MayerBoot &ShoeCo. foo E Ne th MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 1 " Se ey Weanky Le aa) a assaeaaai thor dye. One 10e package colors all fibers. They dve in cold wean Hot-How tobve Deachund Ma telat, MONROE DRUG OO. Gainey, ltinore PATENTS ese Societe: Cat relercncee: est renulin W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 3, 1909. RBISO2SE AN UNSURPASSED ff | A | REMEDY! | PY esis ior coc calls reac POH | Free aa doeat aed A LEY lung affections, It goes direct to Bh the: one ‘ eae and ios o PRY on Gee thes chives Phos Coe pa Key sihicicicstiacticnie FQ BAG Femcos for hal'eceatury. Bam F At all druggists’, 25 cts. be BM A favoring that fs nsed the same as lemon or Saul, hy dissing eranulated soar tn wa H muideand a ayrup beter tian maple, Mapieie HB and recipe book. Crescent Mig. Co., Seaitle. cra OS By ine. Tote wrnsexpert “ Cialis in producing the tet Hower PM and vecetavio sedi. In bs yeast wo Save wacotas experts, (Gow Fates B) Reeds nnd reap tha results of our care For sala everrwhere, Heat our 1209 Ba] cxtalocuonnd proft by onrexpertenca By Sone treo on request. “Aduiress 0. M. FERRY &CO., BevRor, Micn, B Crem Sia See LIVE STOCK AND Hisezuuaneous ELEGTROTYPES Ingront vartoty forsale at the lowest prigea BY DO YOU KNOW THAT The Colorado Statesman Is Now Prepared To Do All Kinds of Job Printing? Commercial, Fraternal. Church, Book and Stationery Jobs a Specialty BALL AND CONCERT PROGRAMS, BILL AND LETTER HEADS, OALLING CARDS, WEDDING CARDS, ENVELOPES AND EVERYTHING IN THE PRINTING LINE TURNED OUT IN NEATEST STYLE PROMPTLY ON SHORT NOTIOE. 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. --- Blouse for Girl from 14 to 16 Years. Cloth Jacket. A Simple Blouse. Blouse for Girl from 14 to 16 Years.—Cream wincey is employed for this blouse; two tucks are made from shoulder to bust each side; the trimming consists of bands of embroidered galloon, round collar, down center front, and round arviholes and sleeve; the tight under-sleeves are buttoned nearly to the elbow. Materials required: Two and a half yards 30 inches wide, two and three-quarter yards trimming. A Simple Blouse.—A firm kind of washing silk is admirable for a blouse such as this; two inch-wide tucks are made from shoulder to bust, and about six small ones between; the box-plait down center is covered with lace or embroidery, a band of the same being taken down outside of sleeve. The deep cuffs are of finely tucked silk. Materials required: Four yards 22 inches wide, one and one-half yards trimming. Cloth Jacket.—Here is a practical, easily made jacket, in Amazon cloth, to match the skirt. It is fitted by a seam taken over the shoulder from edge of basque, back and front. The front slightly wraps over below bust, and is fastened by invisible hooks and eyes, and ornamented with buttons and cord loops. Embroidered galloon outlines the neck. Felt hat trimmed with a buckle and quills. Materials required for jacket: Two and a half yards 46 inches wide, one yard galloon, three buttons, four yards silk. In Russet-Brown Velveteen and Fine Face Cloth. Here is a very elegant combination of russet-brown velveteen and fine face cloth. The plain trained skirt is of velveteen, so are the tight-fitting un- der-sleeves. The overskirt and pinafore bodice of the cloth are trimmed with a Greek key pattern, worked with gold and brown narrow braid; velvet covered buttons form a further trimming. The yoke is of piece lace. Hat in velvet of the color of the skirt, lined with soft, pink satin, and trimmed with a rosette of satin and a long brown feather. Materials required: For the dress, nine yards velveteen, four yards cloth 48 inches wide, several dozen yards of narrow braid, three dozen buttons, one-half yard piece lace. Frills on Muffs. A pretty fashion is that of adding a brill of soft satin or closely plaited chiffon to the lower edge of fur muffs. Brown is used with all brown furs, black with black and white with such furs as ermine and white fox. When furs are scant this addition is a decided improvement. The immense round muffs that are forcing their way to the fore have the cosiest-looking arrangement of quilled and primarily looped ribbon at the ends where the hands are received. High Boots of Tan. As the winter weather advances there is wider popularity for the smart tan boot that laces or buttons six and eight inches above the ankle. The extra heavy soles are not used as much as they were for city streets. They are kept for county roads. The fashionable shoe has a sole of ordinary thickness, is well arched, has a slightly rounded toe, and a high, straight Spanish heel. Especially for Bedrooms That Have a Chilly Aspect. For lasiade curtains heavy linen, either natural linen color, in white or colors, is very popular. They are selected, of course, in accordance with the fittings of the room and are trimmed either with appliqué of linen in contrasting colors, with braid or embroidery in heavy linen thread. Chintz hangings are also very popular and chintz and cretonne are now shown in a more remarkable variety of colors and designs than ever before. There is quite a fad at the moment for the blue and white or the red and white chintz hangings for use, of course, in rooms suitably decorated. The wall of a room, for instance, may be in pale gray or white and gray when blue and white or red and white chintz will be used for hangings and upholstery. These chintzes are not quite so striking as they sound, the red chintz, in fact, being quite mild in effect. The color is a light and rather dull red and the patterns show a great deal of white. For some bedrooms, such, for instance, as have a rather chilly aspect, these chintzes are admirable. They seem more suitable for men's rooms than the flowered chintzes in pink and green, lavender and yellow which are so charming. The Pierrot Buff. A Pierrot ruff, but having a huge bow at the side in which little Pierrot would not have known himself, is one of the pretty little gifts to pass from friend to friend. Choose marquiseette, crisp chiffon, net or point desprit in one of the catawba or wistaria shades. Ruffs of these exclusive colors may be found in some of the shops, or the materials may be bought and carefully doubled and quilled into shape. The very full quillings are then fastened on to a soft fold of silk of the same shade, measured to fit the neck. The bow of satin ribbon is, again, the identical color, and be sure the match is perfect. While it is very lovely to say "tile on with a big soft bow," it is far wiser to caution the giver to have the bow tied permanently, and to fasten Pierrot's ruff with a hook and eye. Plans for Bedrooms Instead of a double bed take two single bedsteads, remove the upper part of the footboard, put the two ends together in one corner of the room, make a bed on each. Then you have the center and the sides of the room for other things. It is also nice for a larger room that is to be occupied by two individuals or elderly people, for they can each have their own bed and can often wait on and be company for each other many times when otherwise they would have to be alone. And it is a good way to fix the little girl's or boy's room, so that when they have chums come to see them and stay over night they will have a nice spare bed for them in their own room. Rosebud Hatpins. The latest novelty in hatpins is the natural rosebud or half-grown flower which, by some wonderful process, is transformed in all its perfect beauty of form and color into an imperishable substance. Nestling in the fur or foliage of a smart hat, they add the newest touch of elegance OUR ANNUAL JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE OF Ladies' Suits, Coats, Jackets, Skirts, Waists, Furs, Petticoats, Kimonos and Muslin Underwear Thousands of dollars' worth of reliable ready-to-wear Garments will be offered at about $1/2 FORMER REGULAR PRICES in order to make a clean sweep of the balance of our fall and winter stock. Never before have we made such a sacrifice; never before have we had such a large assortment to choose from. It must be sold, regardless of cost, as spring garments will soon be crowding us. S&H GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. — OPP. JOSLINS The A.M. Lawhorn & Co. Undertakers and Funeral Directors CARRIAGES FURNISHED FOR ALL OCCASIONS UP-TO-DATE SHIPPERS. Go and see Brink for Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry. Repairing of Fine Watches and Jewelry a Specialty Long Coats In black and all the fall colors, including some dark, mannish mixtures, all at 1-2 Price $ 7.50 Coat, now..... $ 3.75 $10.00 Coat, now..... $ 5.00 $12.50 Coat, now..... $ 6.25 $15.00 Coat, now..... $ 7.50 $20.00 Coat, now..... $10.00 $25.00 Coat, now..... $12.50 Tailored Suits In 24, 30 and 36 inch jacket length models, with the popular flaring gored skirts—some Misses' Suits among them—all at prices averaging about half regular value. $8.50 for Suits that were $15.00 and $18.00. $12.50 for Suits that were $20.00 and $22.50. S & GARMEN 925-16TH ST. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. The A. M. Law Undertakers and R. E. HANDY, Licensed Embalmer. CARRIAGES FURNISHED UP-TO-DATE 1110 Eighteenth Street CHARLES JEWEL Go and see Brink for D Jewelry. Repairing o Jewelry a Specialty Formerly with The Boyd Park Jewelry Co. Watch Inspector for the Burlington A. M. V Watchmaker IS YOUR TIME RIGHT? Phone Purple 1028 Straighten Your Hair DEAR SIRS:—I have used only one bottle of your pomade and now I would not be without it, for it makes my hair soft and straight and easy to comb and also starts a new growth. MRS. W. F. WALKER, Sta. 1—Harriman, Tenn. Ford's Hair Pomade (Formerly known as Ozonized Ox Marrow) Fifty years of success has proved its merits. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade makes stubborn hair straight, soft and glossy and easy to comb and wash in any style desired consistent with its length. Removes and prevents dandruff, invigorates the scalp, stops the hair from falling out or breaking, and makes it new life and vigor. It also harms hairlines and prolonged results even on the youngest children. Delicately perfumed, its use is a pleasure, as ladies of refinement everywhere declare. Ford's Hair Pomade has imitators. Don't be surprised if you want the best results, buy the best Pomade—it will pay you. Look for this name Charles Ford Press $15.00 for Suits that were $25.00 and $30.00. $17.50 for Suits that were $32.50 and $35.00. During this sale a small charge for alterations on skirts, jackets and coats will be made. Separate Skirts Our large and varied stock of Ladies' Skirts, consisting of volles, worsted and chiffon pamas, broadcloths and serges, will be offered at prices that are fully one-third below 'regular selling prices. Our regular $ 5.00 Skirts.....$2.95 Our regular $ 6.95 Skirts.....$3.95 Our regular $ 7.95 Skirts.....$4.95 Our regular $ 9.95 Skirts.....$6.50 Our regular $12.50 Skirts.....$7.50 Our regular $15.00 Skirts.....$9.95 $1.95 for one lot of Skirts, in black and colors; former prices were NT STORE OPP JOSLINS PHONE MAIN 6123 Lawhorn & Co. Funeral Directors A. M. LAWHORN, Manager. ED FOR ALL OCCASIONS E SHIPPERS. Denver, Colorado. H. BRINK ELER Diamonds, Watches and of Fine Watches and 404 16th St. aton Route and Colo. @ Southern Ry. WOOD er and Jeweler 913 SEVENTEENTH ST. DENVER, COLORADO. DR. J. H. P. WESTBROOK RESIDENCE 1505 E. 16TH AVE PHONE YORK 4014. OFFICE 917 21ST STREET PHONE MAIN 1144. OFFICE HOURS—2 to 5 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. Sundays and other times by appointment. W. J. Addie —Dedley in— Choice old California Wines and Brandles from the Hermit- tage Vineyard; also Bottled Beer, Kentucky Whisky, Cigars and Tobacco :: :: :: :: 228 Sixteenth Street Telephone: 2675 The life and works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar containing his complete poems and best short stories. The book is sold only by subscription at the following prices: Morocco, $3.50; Half Morocco, $2.50; Cloth, $1.75. J. H. Doniphan, agent, 2836 Stout street. Address him a card and he will call and show you the book. Hair cut, 15c, 1847 Blake street. Two unfurnished rooms for rent. Apply 1258 Champa street. Just received several copies of Dunbar's complete works. Send in your holiday orders. J. H. Doniphan, agent, 2836 Stout street. FOR RENT—Two modern furnished rooms at 1122 Cherry Creek Boulevard. C. C. Clark. Anyone wishing to purchase a beautiful home cheap, call at 1923 Clarkson street. Easy terms. For Rent—Nicely furnished room for gentleman at 2515 Curtis street. Public Stenographer. All kinds of stenographic work. Mrs. Dora Holmes Payne. Don't forget the time of your life at East Turner hall, January 20th; Rice and Harris presents "A Night in Wonderland," a two-act comedy, for benefit of Damon Lodge, K. of P. HARMON HOME FOR SALE. Lot 30x125 feet, 4-room frame partly furnished; price, $600; near two car lines; only cash offer considered. For particulars see J. H. Domiphan, 2836 Stout street. POTATOES—TO KEEP One year, no rot, flavor improves; cost, 50c per ton. Secret, $1.00 by mail. J. J. Frazee, 333 Avery St., Los Angeles, Cal. Michaelson's 1508 - 1514 Larimer St. $5.00 SALE MEN'S SUITS Is One of the Features of Our January Clearance Five dollars for a suit—a neat suit—good suit—a suit that should bring $8.50 and $10.00 and $12.59. One hundred and eighty suits selected for the sacrifice. Sizes 35, 36, 37, 38, chiefly, and a sprinkling of 40, 42, 44. M. O'KEEFE & CO. Manufacturing Jewelers and Opticians Fine Watch Repairing Railroad Watches a Specialty 827 15th St. Denver, Colo. Phone—Main 6440. DEW PONDS OF THE ANCIENTS Description of Prehistoric Method of Obtaining Water Supply. One of the prehistoric methods used in securing a water supply in sections where it was impossible to secure it from natural sources, or where it became necessary to live on elevated territory for defense was by the construction of dew ponds. These dew ponds were made by hollowing out the earth for a space far in excess of the apparent requirements of such a pond, then thickly covering the whole of the hollow with a coating of straw. The straw in its turn was covered by a layer of well chosen, finely puddled clay, and the upper surface of the clay closely strewn with stones. Such a pond will gradually become filled with water, the more rapidly the larger it is, even though no rain may fall. During the warmth of a summer day the earth will store a considerable amount of heat, while the pond, protected from the heat by the nonconductivity of the straw, is at the same time chilled by the process of evaporation from the puddled clay. The consequence is that during the night the moisture of the comparatively warm air is condensed on the surface of the cold clay. As the condensation during the nights is in excess of the evaporation during the day, the pond becomes, night by night, gradually filled.—Popular Mechanics. ---