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Money Saved by Patronizing Those Who Advertise in This Paper. THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY TAFT'S MESSAGE NO REFERENCE TO THE NEGRO. A VIGOROUS FOREIGN POLICY. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEES. SEVERAL VACANCIES. BROWNSVILLE AGAIN. VOL. XVI. TAFT'S NO REFERENCE TO THE N EIGN POLICY. PRESI SEVERAL VACANCIES. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The President's message to Congress was a most remarkable state paper. Remarkable not only for what it said, but likewise remarkable for what was left unsaid. It is noticeable, the large space given to foreign relations. This country is no longer the isolated land of a few million people to whom Washington addressed the meramable admonition to avoid entangling alliances. Reaching now from coast to coast and away off to the isles of the sea, its influences reach from the thrones of Europe to the fast awakening Orient. The present conditions in Central America growing out of the peculiar position this nation occupies because of the famous Monroe Doctrine, our foreign relations deserve more than a passing glance. Other questions of grave importance occupy the pages of the message. They are questions of state demanding settlement. It is remarkable that no reference to the Negro, except possibly the few lines referring to the late Librarian Commission, is made. This is perhaps an oversight. Since no president, from the days of Lincoln, has felt his message complete without some reference to the sons of Ham. This oversight may indicate that the Negro is taking his place as an American citizen and needs no special mention. Such an oversight is not altogether bad. The late lamented Mr. Douglass only asked "that the Negro be left alone." Let him alone and allow him to work out his destiny along with the other racial elements. The old time Negro is passing away and the new Negro must make his sphere in life. The new Negro must put himself in harmony with the age. He must become a producer. When Mr. Taft announced the policy of his administration toward Negro appointments, the howl was loud and long. But the result will eventually result in more colored farmers and mechanics. This class of Negroes will find their interest in public questions as they affect them. The message is a great paper, touching the interests of all classes. ```markdown ``` NEGRO APPOINTEES. President Taft announced that Negroes would not be appointed where their appointment would cause friction. There seems to be a few places in the nation where his presence does not cause nausea. There are a number of very desirable places now held by Negroes whose terms of office expire soon. Ralph W. Tyler of Ohio, Auditor in the Navy Department; William Tecumseh Vernon of Kansas, Register of the Treasury; John C. Daney, Recorder of Deeds, District of Columbia, and Robert H. Terrell, Municipal Judge of the District of Columbia. These are a few of the big plums and just what President Taft will do is a matter of speculation. Of course, all the incumbents are perfectly willing to stay, while the number of applicants is daily increasing. The Colorado Statesman can hold out but small hope for a Colorado man. We might suggest a suitable successor to some of these men, should Mr. Taft decide to make a change. Out here we have a number of good strong men capable of filling any position within the gift of the president. The record of the colored men in office has been highly gratifying. They are showing splendid ability and a ready grasp of the details of their position, that reflects great credit on the race. With his knowledge of the race, its aims and ambitions, the President can be trusted to select men who will be representatives of our people. How don't all be candidates. BROWNSVILLE AGAIN. Just as the people begin to feel that disgrace of Brownsville, Texas, was a matter of history, here it comes again like the ghost of Banquo to haunt the nation. A special commission has been carefully looking into the circumstances of the "shooting up" of the town by the Negro soldiers. They have conclusive evidence that the Negro soldiers did the shooting from the inside of the fort. This straw has been threshed over so many times that one is greatly surprised to find new facts concerning ancient history. So much has been found that the leading fire eaters among Southern congressmen announce that they will introduce a measure looking to the abolishing of the DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 1909. State Hist & Nat Hist Society State Houses onizing The ADC THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, four black regiments as provided in the law creating them. This need not cause any great disturbance. So often we hear the scare head announcements. The whistling of the gang to keep up courage. The Negro soldier is a fact. He is a part of the military arm of the nation. His valor and faithfulness has been proven on many fields and he will continue a defender of the nation so long as the nation lasts. Why disturb the acrid Southerner in his dream of Negro destruction. We want and must have Negroes in the Naval Department. If we cannot have a black admiral, let us labor for black sailors and seamen. Negro officers in the army are coming as sure as the sun shines. The same will be true in the navy. Let the Negro leaders be something beside mear officeholders and the mouthpiece of a political machine during campaigns. Let them spend some time prying open the door of opportunities, for the race should be of more concern than the spasmodic talk of Southern congressmen. TELEPHONE MANAGER WHIPPED. Dawson, Ga., Nov. 30.—H. C. Gilchrist of Detroit, Mich., superintendent of the telephone exchange here, was whipped Saturday by a number of citizens on account of an attempt by him to force girls employed in the exchange to accept a Negro porter as escort. One of the girls was detained rather late Friday night and was afraid to go home alone. Gilchrist told the girl a Negro could escort her. She refused indignately and told her companions. All the girls in the exchange struck and Gilchrist resigned at noon, stating that the people of Dawson were too sensitive about the Negro question. Meauwhile a mob was gathering and Gilchrist tried to escape in an automobile. His car was halted, however, by the mob and he was taken out and whipped until the blood flowed. He was also forced to sign an abject apology to the telephone girls and then allowed to go. BAR NEGROES FROM JURY AND I'LL STAND TRIAL, SAYS JUDGE. Roanoke, Va., Dec. 13.—If assurance is given him that he will have a fair trial and that Negroes will not be drawn on the jury, Judge Samuel W: Williams, attor ney general elect of Virginia, will return to Welch, W. Va., to answer to a charge of felonious assault on former Judge Sanders of the supreme court of West Virginia. Judge Williams struck his fellow jurist with an ink well during a quarrel in a courtroom at Welch several months ago. He has been indicted. After a conference with his counsel, Judge Williams returned to his home at Wytheville, determined, it is said, not to resist extradition unless the report that he would suffer bodily injury at the hands of the people of Welch if he returned there, is confirmed. CARNEGIE THINKS HOME MISSIONS ARE NEGLECTED New York, Dec. 2.—Foreign missionary work is creditable but the first duty of the American people is to help those whom God has placed among them; particularly the Negroes, who are in need of assistance." Andrew Carnegie made this assertion at the annual meeting of the Armstrong association, which supplies money for the maintenance of the Hampton institute, a college for Negroes at Hampton, Va. Mr. Carnegie spoke of his "impressions" of the institute, which he visited several weeks ago. His remarks were applauded by a large number of New Yorkers interested in Negro uplift work, who had gathered at the meeting, which was held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Gay Schiffenlein. "The lowest colored people of the South," said Mr. Carnegie, "are more advanced than were my ancesters in Scotland two centuries ago. No race has ever made so much progress in forty years as the Negroes in our country. "Recently I gathered statistics of the Negroes which show that they control 745,000 farms in this county and that they own 245,000 outright. I think that is a pretty good record. I also learned that in forty years the Negroes expended $26,000,000 in building churches. "I was agreeably surprised when I visited the Hampton institute a few weeks ago. I think the students there compare favorably with the students at Harvard and other high class colleges. A RICH COLORED MAN. W. T Escoe, of Lawrence, Kan. who built a beautiful home at the corner of Maine and Warren streets last year, is probably one of the richest colored men in Kansas, as is evidenced by the fact that his taxes for 1909 are $1,300. In appearance Mr. Escoe would pass readily for a white man and when it comes to business judgment it is hard to find his equal. He has large holdings in Oklahoma as well as in Kansas. RACE NEWS The government of Mexico has notified the Pullman company that it must get rid of all colored porters and conductors as soon as possible. Where is the colored man to go, and what is he to do to appease the prejudice of the mean whites? Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 7.—A petition signed by fully 5,000 persons, has been forwarded to Secretary of War Dickinson to be presented to President Taft, asking pardon for contempt of the United States Court for permitting the lynching of a Negro prisoner. Miss Gleen is said to be well fitted for her work and will have charge of 107 colored girls. She was graduated from the Marysville High School and Wilberforce University. S. D. Webb made the appointment. The colored lodges of Elks and K. of P's in Georgia are expected to wind up their affairs in that state by January 1, 1910. The time is rather short, but arrangements have been entered into by the Grand Chancellor of the State by which the name of the Knights of Pythians of that State will be Scanton, Pa., Dec. 4. Mr. and Mrs. John Duffy, at Carbondale, have just welcomed the twety-fourth child, a daughter, into their family circle and are proud of the fact. The family comprises nine girls and fifteen boys. There are no twins or triplets. Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 5 — Angered because his wife admitted she had too much affection for Charles Sweeney, colored, Harry Stuart white shot him through the heart. The tragedy occurred at Simontown, near Gap, last night at the home of Daniel Gates. The latter and his wife, Harry Stuart and Mrs. Stuart were also arrested. San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 7.—Rev Nat Shelton, aged 86 years, and one of the oldest Negro ministers in the State of Texas, and for a half of a century a preacher in the colored Baptist churches of San Antonio, died yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, at his home, 213 Utah street, following an illness of two days. Chicago, ill., Dec. 7.—It is rumored that commencing the first of the year the following rules will be inaugurated by the Pullman management with reference to the duties of Pullman porters. No grip that will not go under a seat or is in any wise in the way will be allowed on Pullmans. Such luggage must be checked in the baggage car. Porters cannot carry grips or bags to the vestibule of a car for passengers who are about to get off. Columbus, Ohio., Dec. 6.For the first time in the history of the Girls' Industrial Home at Delaware a colored woman, Miss Bessie Glenn, of Marysville, has been appointed teacher at the school. NO.14 Miss Gleen is said to be well fitted for her work and will have charge of 107 colored girls. She was graduated from the Marysville High School and Wilberforce University. S. D. Webb made the appointment. The colored lodges of Elks and K. of P's in Georgia are expected to wind up their affairs in that state by January 1, 1910. The time is rather short, but arrangements have been entered into by the Grand Chancellor of the State by which the name of the Knights of Pythians of that State will be changed by that time. There are only a few lodges of Elks in the State; while they are also affected by the order, the inconvenience is but little as compared with that resulting to the Knights of Pythias, who number in the tens of thousands. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 7.—Quite a number of Chicago people have visited Cairo and made a careful personal investigation of the facts with reference to the tragedy in that city. Among the visitors have been F. L. Barnett, Franklin Dennison, Robert L. Taylor and Ida B. Wells Barnett. It appears from the reports that come from these personal investigations that the black man so brutally lynched was absolutely innocent of the crime alleged to have been committed by him. A committee is still at work sifting the evidence and will in due time reveal to the world the fact that Matthews, who was lynched, was not the man who committed the horrible crime. Madam E. Azalia Hackley, sopranc, in song recital last Thursday night, December 2, at Tabernacle Baptist Church, eclipsed anything that was ever given in St. Louis. We would say that she is the wonder of the age. She came here a stranger to all, and in less than six weeks she has gotten into the hearts of our good St. Louis people, and last Thursday night showed her, as she comingled with us, that we fully appreciate her work. She has not an equal upon the stage at this date. Over 300 citizens assured her that they will support her in her great work in behalf of the race. We clip from many white papers that speak in the highest terms of Mrs. Hackley. The Tabernacle Church was crowded, and all were made to feel that she is a God sent woman.—St. Louis Palladium. 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The only exclusi retail Crockery u exclusive wholesale a rockery House in Den The only exclusive wholesale and retail Crockery House in Denver Prices always ber the place, Fifteenth always right. 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The highest price ever paid for hogs at the South Omaha market is $8.40 per hundred, which was paid for a carload received December 9th from Western Iowa. They averaged 275 pounds each. Mrs. Allen F. Read, convicted at Denver of threatening Mrs. Phipps with dynamite in order to extort money, has been sentenced to from one year to eighteen months in the state penitentiary. The Associated Chambers of Commerce of the Pacific coast will visit China next February on invitation from the Chinese Chambers of Commerce. This includes the chambers of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Spokane. With the reply filed in the case of Dunsmuir vs. Dunsmuir, arrangements are now being made at Victoria, B. C., for the trial which will involve a fight between the heirs of the late Mrs Joan Dunsmuir and the retiring lieutenant governor, James Dunsmuir, for recovery of an estate valued at between $15,000,000 and $18,000,000. The Santa Fe is receiving in installments the several million dollars worth of equipment recently built for it in the East, and designed to facilitate operations on its western division west of La Junta. New equipment includes thirty-seven new engines, 100 passenger, baggage and mail cars, several hundred refrigerator cars and about 2,000 freight cars. Upon Pike's Peak there has just been established by the United States an experiment station of forestry, the first of its kind in Colorado and the second in the country. The station will serve the same interests in the forestry division of the government as the agricultural experiment stations in the agricultural department. At Pasadena, Cal., on the 14th inst., Miss Agnes Claypool, eighteen years old, daughter of a wealthy resident, was instantly killed and Harvey Bissell, aged twenty-four, son of a Grand Rapids, Mich., millionaire manufacturer, was perhaps fatally injured, when the racing automobile in which they were riding went over the grade of the Eagle Rock Valley road and fell 100 feet down the steep incline. It is said they were engaged. William G. Smith formerly lieutenant-governor and speaker of the House of Representatives of Colorado, now tax agent for the Denver City Tramway Company, has filed suit in the District Court at Denver, asking $50,000 damages from Harvey J. O'Higgins and Judge Ben B. Lindsey for an article relating to his career as speaker of the House in the Twelfth General Assembly, which appeared in the October number of Everybody's Magazine, and which, he claims, is libelous, false and defamatory. GENERAL NEWS. The publisher of Tolstoy's book, "The Kingdom of God With Us," has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment in a fortress. The appellate division of the Supreme Court of New York has upheld the section of the Armstrong law, limiting the new business of life insurance companies in any year to $150,000,000. Official statistics for the first six months of 1909 show a continued decline in the population of France. The marriages decreased 6,201 as compared with 1908, divorces increased by 543, births decreased 12,692 and deaths increased by 25,019. The committee on fraternal insurance of the Insurance Commissioners' convention at Chicago, after a prolonged conference with representatives of the various fraternals, has decided that legislation is necessary to secure adequate rates and proper supervision. A uniform bill will be prepared to be introduced in all the legislatures. In a semi-official statement the government of Russia makes positive denial of the rumor of a pending Russo-Japanese conflict. The Yale Corporation has received a gift of $50,000 from Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, to be used to complete the fund for the Morris K. Jesup chair of timber culture in the forest school. William L Seaton, former warden of the state prison at Jackson, Mian, and credited with being the originator of the system of giving convicts credit for "good time," died at Jackson a few days since, aged 88. The famous old Sioux Indian chief, Red Cloud, died at the Pine Ridge agency a few days since. Red Cloud was eighty-eight years old and for the last twenty-five years had lived at the Pine Ridge agency. The south wing of the Cleveland House of Correction was burned on the night of the 14th inst., with a loss of $60,000. The inmates of the women's prison were panic stricken and howled for help, but none was injured. Brant Lee Hall, a dormitory for boys at Lincoln Memorial university at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., burned on the 14th inst. Lincoln Memorial university was founded about fourteen years ago by the late General Howard. Twenty-six Moslems were executed at Adana, Asiatic Turkey, in connection with the April massacres Great crowds witnessed the executions, and the relatives of the condemned men, together with thousands of others, joined in the manifestations of grief. Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, widow of the sugar man, has sold to the United States government a plot of land in the borough of Greenwich, Conn., for a postoffice site and turned over the purchase price, $20,000, together with $7,000 additional, as a fund to maintain and improve the $100,000 Havemeyer school. In the United States Circuit Court at New York City Judge Noyes granted a stay of ten days to Charles W. Morse, the convicted banker, facing a term of fifteen years in the federal prison at Atlanta, on conviction of misappropriation of national bank funds, and referred counsel's motion for a new trial to Judge Hough, who originally tried the case. Governor Wilson of Kentucky granted a pardon to Adjt. Gen. P. P. Johnston, who was indicted for striking Editor Denny B. Goode of a Louisville weekly newspaper, for criticizing Johnston. The governor says that Johnston must pay the fine of $100 and court costs. In the article objected to, Goode referred to Johnston as a "peacock." As the result of exposures made in Judge Cannon's report on convict conditions in Montreal, it is announced that steps will be taken at once to bring to trial the fourteen officials and others, including eight aldermen, charged with malfeasance. According to Judge Cannon's report on the city's income for the last six years, $7,200,000 has been feloniously used by the aldermen. At his trial in New York, Capt. Thomas Franklin, U. S. A., twice commended by General Chaffee and General Otis for distinguished service in China and Manila, pleaded guilty to a long series of petty embezzlements from the mess fund of the West Point cadets. He was sentenced by Judge Hand in the United States Circuit Court to two years and six months in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. Gen. J. S. Casement, railroad constructor and philanthropist, died at Palnesville, O., on the 13th inst. General Casement, a veteran of the Civil war, laid the original rails of the Big Four and the Lake Shore roads, built the Union Pacific railroad as far as Cheyenne, constructed the Nickel Plate from Cleveland to Buffalo and built a railroad line in Costa Rica for the government a few years ago. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Senator J. C. S. Blackburn has resigned as a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and his resignation has been accepted by the President. At a caucus of Democratic senators Senator H. D. Money of Mississippi was chosen as minority leader in the Senate to succeed Senator Culberson of Texas, who resigned. Representative Martin has introduced a bill to appropriate $50,000 to aid the city of Pueblo in entertaining the next meeting of the National Irrigation Congress. A precedent was established last year, when Albuquerque received $30,000 for a similar purpose. A bill has been introduced by Representative Martin authorizing the secretary of the treasury to accept a proposal made by J. J. Woodruff to donate to the United States a site for a federal building at Pueblo, Colo., and to accept $5,000 to alter the present postoffice pending the construction of a new building. Representative Taylor of Colorado proposes introducing a bill to provide funds for making surveys of lands within forest reserves to facilitate homestead entries which now cannot be made because the lands are generally unsurveyed in reserves. The navy year book for 1909 shows the race for second place among the navies of the world to be still very close as between the United States and Germany. The United States has a greater tonnage of battleships and armored cruisers, but Germany has a larger number of small vessels. Taking a square hit at the annual Roosevelt physical tests for army officers, Surgeon General Torney in his annual report says that the present test not only fails in the object it sought to attain—"a physical condition which would enable them to be always fit for active field service"—but may result in serious damage to elderly officers. Senator Warren has introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to furnish surplus water from government irrigation projects to corporations or associations operating under the Carey desert land act for delivery to the individual water users. The President has nominated Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee for associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Lurton was appointed judge of the Sixth circuit by President Cleveland, March 27, 1893. He was a Democrat in politics at that time I MAY GOT! I DON'T WANT TO BE A MUSE! Dat's a swell horse youse got, Jim- mie! What is he, a charger, or—?" "Aw, by de way he is always kickin', I guess he's just a plain mule!" AGONIZING ITCHING. Eczema for a Year—Got No Relief Even at Skin Hospital—In Despair "I was troubled with a severe itching and dry, scrufy skin on my ankles, feet, arms and scalp. Scratching made it worse. Thousands of small red pimples formed and these caused intense itching. I was advised to go to the hospital for diseases of the skin. I did so, the chief surgeon saying: "I never saw such a bad case of eczema." But I got little or no relief. Then I tried many so-called remedies, but I became so bad that I almost gave up in despair. After suffering agonies for twelve months, I was relieved of the almost unbearable itching after two or three applications of Cuticura Ointment. I continued its use, combined with Cuticura Soap and Pills, and I was completely cured. Henry Searle, Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 8 and 10, 1907." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston The Vacant Chair. What sad memories linger around the old vacant chair. Sitting in the middle of the floor, with a plaintive look about its frayed and seemingly weary back, it brings back a tumultuous riot of sad recollections that time can ever efface. Volumes of bitter anguish come to me when I arrive home in time to catch the milkman swiping the loose furniture around the place, and take off my shoes to avoid publicity, and strike my best toe against the rocker of the old vacant chair. Then, forgetting for the moment my unclad feet, I kick the chair on the other rocker. That is when the sadness and suffering that lingers around the old chair comes out with an extra edition and great chunks of gloom settle over me like a herd of ill-natured files.—Oregon Journal. His Retort. Newzance—Do you know, young man, that five out of six people who suffer from heart trouble have brought it upon themselves through the filthy habit of smoking? Karmley—Really! And possibly you are aware that nine out of ten people who suffer from black eyes can trace the complaint to a habit of not minding their own business.—Pearson's Weekly. Every Little Bit Helps. the lecturer raised his voice with emphatic confidence. "I venture to assert," he said, "that there isn't a man in this audience who has ever done anything to prevent the destruction of our forests." A modest-looking man in the back of the hall stood up. "I—er—I've shot woodpeckers," he said.—Everybody's Magazine. HABIT'S CHAIN Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed and Hard to Break. An ingenious philosopher estimates that the amount of will power necessary to break a life-long habit would, if it could be transformed, lift a weight of many tons. It sometimes requires a higher degree of heroism to break the chains of a pernicious habit than to lead a forlorn hope in a bloody battle. A lady writes from an Indiana town: "From my earliest childhood I was a lover of coffee. Before I was out of my teens I was a miserable dyspeptic, suffering terribly at times with my stomach. "I was convinced that it was coffee that was causing the trouble and yet I could not deny myself a cup for breakfast. At the age of 36 I was in very poor health, indeed. My sister told me I was in danger of becoming a coffee drunkard. "But I never could give up drinking coffee for breakfast, although it kept me constantly ill, until I tried Postum. I learned to make it properly according to directions, and now we can hardly do without Postum for breakfast, and care nothing for coffee. 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Wearne Furniture CARPETS, STOVES AND WINDOW SHADES First Class Repairing and Upholstering 1449-55 Welton Street annnnnnnaaannannenenseaed PHONE—MAIN 5067 3 (Nickel refunded with all phone 3 orders.) ; —— : Dealer In all kinds ‘ 3 = y COAL @ WOOD Puritan . .........-$4.00 per ton Monarch Coal .....84.25 perton Gas Coke delivered .$5.00 perton + — 2475 Arapahoe Street E ; Store, 1120 25th Street 5 Fic als ti NONE te a ore bib etelt ttt ett et et Pt r+ : We sell New and f Second-Hand i FURNITURE | + for cash cheaper than any one in the city, and pay cash when you want to i sell. ; LINDENMEIER : mRih?3501 1856 Welton St. Fo pce ph tngutebeh-delepeeeb4b4sbdei-ode HERBERT'S 1519 CURTIS STREET Ice Cream, Ices, Candies WILMAMSON HAFFNER @ ENGRAVERS-PRINTERS OnU he. CUTS SCAG DENVER, COLO your seus FORMER COLONEL OF ROUGH RID ERS WILL BE CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF. SUCCEEDING GEN. BELL WoOOD's RISE FROM ASSISTANT SURGEON HAS BEEN SPECTACULAR. Washington.—Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, now in command of the Depart: ment of the East, will be the next chief of Staff of the army. Secretary Dickinson made this announcement Wednesday. General Wood will sue: ceed Gen. J. Franklin Bell, whose term at the head of the general staff will expire next spring. General Wood's rise in the army has been one vf the most spectacular in its history. Entering the medical corps as an assistant surgeon in 1886, he has been promoted by leaps amd bounds 80 that next April when he assumes his new duties at the War Department he will be at the head of the army. He is only 49 years old. Attention was called to Wood be- fore he had been in the army six months, While serving as assistant surgeon he voluntarily carried dis: patches through a region infested with hostile Indians, making a journey of seventy miles in one night and walking thirty miles the next day. In the same campaign he took command of a detachment of infantry without an officer when an encounter was hourly expected with Geronimo. For this action in this campaign he was awarded a medal of honor in 1898. During the Spanish-American war, he was colonel of Rough Riders. For his services at Las Guanimas and San Juan hill he was made a_ brigadier general. Later he was promoted to be major general and was made governor general of Cuba. ‘After the withdrawal of the Ameri. can forces from Cuba General Wood was sent to the Philippines, where he finally became commander of the Phil- ippine department. George Gould in Train Wreck. Greensboro, N. C.—A local train on the Southern raliway was wrecked Wednesday morning at 6:32 o'clock at Reedy Fork trestle and this evening twelve dead bodies had been re moved from the wreckage. George J. Gould, who, with his son, Jay, was in one of the Pullmans, when the train jumped the track, and who was re: ported dead, escaped uninjured. He, with his son, Jay, and a friend, R. H. Russell of New York, former editor of the Metropolitan Magazine, had ust got out of their berths when the wreck occurred. Mr, Russell was badly hurt. From Tramp to Mayor. Salem, Mass.—A. P. Howard came to Salem fourteen months ago from New York, unknown, unheralded, and, as he himself says, “dead broke.” A few months ago he was occupant of a cell in the Essex county jail on the charge of criminally libelling a Salem alderman. Today he is mayor-elect, having de- feated four rivals at the polls, among them the famous mayor with the equally famous plug hat, John N. Hur- ley, Mr. Howard was at one time head of the great jewelry house of Arthur Howard, London, but it is said he lost a fortune in speculation. A. O. U. W. Combination. Kansas City.—Representatives of the Missouri, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, Colorado and Mas: sachusetts Grand Lodges of the An- cient Order of United Workmen, de- cided at a meeting here Wednesday to form a new order under the name of the National Ancient Order of United Workmen. A plan of organiza- tion will be submitted to the various lodges for their approval by a commit- tee of which L. M. Penwell of To- peka, Kan., is chairman and W. J. Howell of St. Louis secretary-treas- ‘urer: Death of General Dudley. Washington.—Gen, W. W. Dudley of Indiana, formerly commissioner of pensions, died Wednesday. Through: out the Civil war General Dudley served in the Union army with great distinction, He lost a leg at Gettys: burg. He was commissioner of pen sions from 1881 to 1885. In 1888 he became treasurer of the National Re- publican committee, a position that he occupied for several years. Geographers Honor Peary. Washington—The National Geo- graphic Society Wednesday night pub- licly acclaimed Commander Robert si. Peary the discoverer of the north pole, and in recognition therefor presented to him a gold medal. In presenting the trophy Professor Willis L. Moore, president of the society, who acted as toastmaser, phrased his sentences to refer to Commander Peary as the “man” who had won the prize. There was no reference to the claims of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, and only a slight cone to the polar controversy. WRECKED! ———LK———_————— Was the train bringing our regular Fall shipment of high grade ready made Suits and Overcoats to Denver DELAYED WERE THE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED CLOTHES SLASHED ARE THE PRICES FOR 15 DAYS ONLY Everything goes tor 30c on the dollar and less because the Insurance Company paid up 77% Of the total e Glasgow Tailors 620 SIXTEENTH STREET COLORADO ITEMS A carload of furniture for the new $210,000 postoffice at Colorado Springs arrived a few days since. The build- ing will be ready for occupancy about March ist, ‘The new $200,000 theater which James T. Burns is about to erect at Colorado Springs will produce the Shubert bookings under contract for the next five years. It now seems almost centain that Denver will secure the International Aviation Congress next fall. This will bring with it spectacular flying ma- chine contests and attract many thou- sands of visitors. Following his recent confession of guilt in the District Court at Canon City, L. E. Dawson, late deputy coun- ty treasurer of Fremont county and former city clerk, was sentenced to ‘one to two years in the penitentiary for embezzlement and altering public records. ‘The Negros-Philippine Lumber Com- pany, which is controlled almost n- tirely by Denver men, has recently se- cured an important hardwood conces- sion in the Philippines and expect to build a logging railroad and a mill which will have a capacity of 100,000 feet a day. Colorado Springs supporters of the Colorado College Tigers are boosting for a new gymnasium at the college. The present old building is entire.y inadequate, and the plans are to erect a first class structure, fully equipped with an up-to-date apparatus, swim- ming pool, etc. At the annual meeting of the Colo: rado Springs Chamber of Commerce resolutions were unanimously passed that a committee of five be appointed within two weeks to confer with the Merchants’ association, Real Estate exchange and Good Roads association to consider consolidation of the four civic bodies. After three years of work, in which several miners have taken their lives in their hands, a shot fired at 5 o'clock p. m. on the Sth inst., in the breast of the Burleigh tunnel, made an opening which is draining the famous Seven- Thirty shaft on the Dives-Pelican and Seven-Thirty mining property in up- per Clear Creek, and virgin property ‘on the Seven-Thirty 300 feet deep and more than a mile long above the tun- nel can now be worked. With a record-breaking output this year of 160,000 bags of sugar, the fac: tory at Grand Junction, built ten years ago by Colorado Springs capital, and controlled by J. R, McKinnie, R. P Davies and E. C. Sharer, all of Colo rado Springs, will produce $800,00 worth of sugar, net value. In orde! to increase the output next year, the company expects to expend nearly $100,000 in improvements and enlarge ment. N. L. Drew, general agent for the Colorado Midland at Colorado Springs has made an estimate of the number of tourists who visited Coloradc Springs the past season. His figures are 125,000, based on the fact that for ty-four trains arrived daily during th¢ tourist season and that each trait brought fifteen tourists during thé month of June, thirty in July and Au gust, and ten in September, with ar additional 10,000 tourists for the inonth of October. ‘The recent appraisement of the properties of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company has developed the fact that the company’s assets amount to $100, 556,476, a sum vastly in excess of the most sanguine estimate of the man: agement before the appraisement was made. The last total appraisement, made in 1880, showed a valuation of properties $19,08,327.40 less than the figure at which the assets are now put. The company’s iron ore, coal, limestone and other lands are now valued at $58,335,250, being the largest item in the assets. Equipment at the steel plant, coal mines and coke ovens is worth $34,620,318.15, being the sec: ond most valuable item. The rail: roads owned by the company suffered something of a loss by the revalua. tion, and are now appraised at $5,791, 682.84. Josiah Work, one of the most prominent and wealthy men of Mor- gan county, died at his home in Fort Morgan on the 12th inst. at the age of seventy-four years. He is survived by a widow and eleven children, who are: C. T. Work, head of the indus: trial school for girls at Denton, Tex.; Josephine Work, teacher at Berkeley, Cal; Mrs. Hogg, who was a mission- ary to Egypt, but now resides at Man- chester, England; Ruth Work, a mis: sionary at Assuit, Egypt; Robert Work, an attorney of Fort Morgan; Mrs. Dr. Shawkey, Charlestown, W. Va.; John James and Thomas Work, farmers near Fort Morgan; McClain SOT ce tcc te eo ee [GREAT NORTHERN FUEL CO. {COAL, WOOD, CHARCOAL ; Best Kinds, Best Prices, Best : z Treatment. Try Usand See fe gee, Void ings Spt ig 219i cee ae ee WE LEAD IN TAILORING! | For Correct Style and Exceptional WorKman- ship See Us. ‘ Suits to Your Measure ‘ $14, $16 @ $18 | AMERICAN TAILORS, 820 FIFTEENTH STREET Bcc 5 Age gpa el ee oo Telephone 2635. Established 1879. MERCHANT TAILOR 327 Sixteenth Street ‘Opp. Court House. DENVER, COLO. Uniforms built to order for every kind of Uniformed Organization. The Heads, Feet, Tails, Snouts, Ears,.Neckbones or Chitterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to East’s Market 2300-6 Larimer Street. Phone 1461 Main. ORI an trad ana GD Oh DRE Na tantra MNS ; CUT THIS OUT. ; This ad is worth 50 cents in trade on our special Brand of Mono- ; gram Club. Why this Is just to get you to try It. Regular price, 31.50. ee ia : “WATCH US GROW.” > : -A. BERKOWITZ & CO. ; ° ; : (Our Name Our Guarantee.) ; Dealers in ; > : FINE WINES AND LIQUORS $ Telephone Champa 1231. 1518 COURT PLACE. e , Se 8 a ee The readers of The Colorado Statesman largely belong to this class. It will answer that question by referring to some of those stores where prices, values and treatment all harmonize and meet the varying wants of the customers. This is the great pioneer dry goods store of the West. Its brilliant history is the history of Denver and the State of Colorado. To speak of Denver without mentioning this grand mercantile emporium would be to produce the Play of Hamlet and leave out the Melancholy Dane. It would be like a description of France with Paris left out. To tell of its origin, early struggles, its rapid growth and triumphant success would read like a page from the Arabian Nights' entertainment. This is not our purpose. We merely wish to note where the best things may be obtained at the most reasonable prices and with the most courteous service. The interior of this store is in itself a dream. It is a magnificent creation of art, unsurpassed by any similar establishment in this entire country. The whole is under the able management and direction of Mr. Charles MacA. Wilcox, Mr. E. M. Cooke and Mrs. E. C. Davies. This store employs several hundred persons, and among them a large number of colored people. We urge all of our subscribers before purchasing Christmas presents elsewhere to visit the great Daniels & Fisher Stores Co. THE COLORADO STATESMAN FOR EVERY VEHICLE THE VEHICLE LAUGH WILL BE FREE BACK CONFIDENCE PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .60 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. be withheld from the columns. It occasionally happens that subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not notice any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will closely forward a duplicate of the missing number. Communications to receive attention must be neway, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising 50 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. A POEM IN PROSE THE cheer of the year is drawing near, the joys and the noise and the hustle; the scene and the sheen and the evergreen, the rush and the push and the bustle. Our dignity bends as the old years ends, and we banish our care and our yearning; we give Fancy rein, in the past live again, and the fires of youth are set burning. A life full of strife all around us is rife, but its hardships and trials diminish, when the anchor of Youth brings us back to the Truth, and the years turn to joy at the finish. For Peace and Good Will are the stay of life still, and unto men solace are giving; they measure the bounds of the life that surrounds and allure us, all righteousness giving. Our lives, as a whole, they restrain and that's why the cheer of old Christmas is here, and all the world happy is feeling. BIRTHDAYS Most youthful persons are ardent observers of the anniversaries of their advent into this world of wonder and pleasure and excitement. Each year adds to their knowledge and interest and increases their satisfaction with their widening experience, and with pretty little private parties and receptions and floods of post card congratulations, they set up the natal milestones of their existence. But when the glamour of youth begins to wane and they find themselves struggling with the more settled and more serious problems of life, and realizing the incessant and unremitting obligations under which they are passing through a world of momentous and mysterious experience, they count their anniversary days with lessening ardor and increasing solicitation until old age again brings to them a buoyant pride, mixed with a fateful concern, over their extended and unusual numbers. Only kings and queens and potentates enjoy the honor of seeing their birthdays made the event of public celebration and rejoicing, and only the world's greatest men and women, whose lives have left some enduring mark of benefit upon humanity, are commemorated and revered after death by public recognition by their countrymen upon the annual recurrence of the days of their birth, and then only when the propriety of the celebration has been ordered and agreed upon by public statute. But there is one birthday almost world-wide in its observance, whose functions are limited to no country, race or clime, whose celebration is dependable upon no human law and whose enjoyments and honor stir the hearts of all humanity to which a knowledge of its immortal, infinite and redeeming import has come, regardless of race or nationality or age or social degree. And that birth was one of the humblest known to men; but it gave to the world a life than which there has never been and can never be a greater gift or benefit. We call the day Christmas, for its original, formal religious observance was an established mass to Jesus Christ. It no longer is confined within the boundaries of its sacred conception. It is the signal now for universal rejoicing, giving and thanksgiving, combining every human desire for peace, good will, fellowship, honor, adoration, love and humility that passeth all understanding. COST OF NEW WATER PLANT. THAT Denver could install a new water plant for less money than the price set by specially advised and experienced appraisers upon the present system, is the argument of the theoretical political leaders who are endeavoring to persuade the voters of this city to kick out every proposition presented on the water question and settle matters in their way. They have no definite or practical proof to offer to support their contention, but depend upon imagination and undemonstrated theories to lead the people into an undertaking, the effects of which would be felt for a lifetime. No city was ever known to execute a great work of the magnitude of that required to install a new water plant for Denver, for as little money as private capitalists, seeking legitimate investments and reasonable profits, would pay for the same project. Official neglect and wastefulness, political interest and graft, are entirely absent in the case of private enterprise, and care and economy are absolute and vital requirements; but public works are never executed under such ideal conditions. That the Denver Union Water Company has been as economical of expense as possible in the establishment of its present system, and has provided a service unsurpassed by that of any city in the United States, is easily deduced, and is proven by its last public letter on the valuation of water plants in thirty-four large cities. The figures are based upon the reports of United States government statisticians, and are therefore absolutely reliable. They show that none of these other cities has been able to produce a water system, mile for mile of mains, as economically as has the Denver Union Water Company at the valuation fixed by the board of appraisers. Analysis of these reports shows further that no more complete water plant exists in any large city of the United States than that owned by the Denver Union Water Company. But no less complete or less efficient plant would be acceptable to the citizens of Denver, and a poorer service at an equal or additional cost would be a folly for which the citizens would never forgive themselves. The work of expert engineers in other large cities furnish indisputable proof that this would be the result in Denver, if the people should attempt to follow the advice of Messrs. Patterson, Rush, George, et al., who know as much about con- structing water plants as they know about the construction of the canals of Mars. The equipments that go to make up a water plant are standard commodities and command a standard price. Labor commands a better price in Denver than it does in most cities in the country. Yet if the average cost of building water plants in thirty-four large cities could be duplicated in Denver, the expense for the actual physical property of the new plant would be $11,322,014, against the appraisers' valuation of $10,179,205 for the Denver plant, or $1,142,809 more. To this expense would have to be added the cost of water rights that must be purchased, and the expense of disconnecting the consumer's service pipes from the mains of the present system and connecting them with the mains of the new system. This latter expense of disconnecting and reconnecting mains would be more than one million dollars. If the voters of Denver can be induced to hazard the attempt to install a new water plant upon the belief that figures lie, they will exhibit a wonderful confidence in the blind theories of men who obstruct better than they construct. DANIELS & FISHER STORES CO. As the year draws to a close and the Holidays with their hallowed influences and broad and quickening human sympathies will soon he at our doors, it behooves us to pause for a moment and give some thought to those things which the conventionalities of life by long usage demand. This season of peace and good will to all humanity gives fresh impulse to the ties of friendship and the love of dear ones. It is the season of good cheer and good deeds for others, kindly and unselfishly done. It manifests its presence in a variety of ways. We find it the time to trust ourselves to the long-promised new suit or the new dress, or perhaps merely a hat or a pair of shoes—some article ornamental or useful, or, what is better, both. And it suddenly occurs to us how nice it would be to gladden the heart of some friend by some token of love or fond remembrance. A beautiful sentiment is this emotion. But the question naturally arising in the purchaser's mind is—where can I get just what is most suitable to meet the exigencies of my case? The price and the value of these are considerations the buyer of limited means must ever wrestle with. DANIELS BURKE THE DANIELS & FISHER STORES CO. With this end in view, we produce in this issue the above cut of the great department store known as The Daniels & Fisher Stores Co. ```markdown ``` Time Moves Swiftly The season is at hand when all the world goes a-shopping, for we still hold reverent the old custom of presenting gifts to loved ones and friends at the Yule time. We have anticipated your wants along this line and our store is now literally filled with goods suitable for the Holiday season—we quote a few items below— Match ..... $1.25 Playing Cards in Leather Cases. Smoking Jackets ..... $5.00 Up Bath Robes ..... $3.50 Up Lounging Robes ..... $5.00 Up Sweater Coats ..... $2.00 Up Neckwear ..... 50c to $2.50 Shirts ..... $1.00 to $3.50 Cuff Links and Pins.....50c Up "Silk Spun" Scarfs for the Ladies $1.50 to $4.00 THE Johnson-Noel Co THE BROADHURST CARTER SHOE CO. 823 Sixteenth Street Christmas Footwear For Everybody SLIPPERS DANCING PUMPS DRESS SHOES FELT SLIPPERS RIDING BOOTS Or We Can Sell You a Shoe Certificate S & N GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. — OPP. JOSLINS A Great December Clearance Sale Ladies' Coats and Suits Too many garments on hand; prices cut for a quick reduction of stock, believing it best to take a small loss of profit now, when you want the garments. A saving of 25 TO 35 PER CENT to you on coat and suit prices is our offer. About 120 of them, in black and popular fall and winter colors, made of plain and fancy woven cloths, coats 40 and 45 inches long, perfectly tailored, are on sale in 4 Bargain Lots $ 9.50 for Suits that were $15.00 and $17.50 $14.50 for Suits that were $20.00 and $22.50 $18.50 for Suits that were $25.00 and $27.50 $22.50 for Suits that were $30.00 and $32.50 Ladies' Coats Children's Coats Long cloth coats for girls aged 10, 12 and 14 years, about 50 of them that are worth $5.00 to $8.75, will be closed out in 2 Special Bargain Lots at $3.95 and $4.95 $9.00 For choice of 33 Ladies' and Misses' colored all-wool broadeloth Coats, many of them lined throughout with good satin, others half lined, that formerly sold for $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00. SILVERSMITH & HILLER, 925 Sixteenth St. $5.00 Hat Bargains $5.00 Are worth watching every week. We have special sales at the week ends that are proving popular with Denver women. This week it's our pattern Hats. Just the thing for your party hat. Only $5.00. Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week we make these special prices, while they last. We have some beautiful hats at $2.55. THE DOWN TOWN MILLINERY CO. O. W. Lyman, President 1120-1124 16th St. Formerly Howland's THE COLORADO STATESMAN Watch the columns of this paper for holiday bargains. Jonas Hall is on the sick list this week. A. L. Ford of Fort Collins is in the city. his worthy people of Shorter's shiped with us. Dr. Randolph was a one of our distinguished guests. The presence of these Christian people was an inspiration to our services. At your convenience come again. We are hereby reminding the purpose of the organization of a Bible institute in connection with our church we C. F. Hall of 1017 Bannock street was on the sick list last week. Miss Louise Smith is at the county hospital with pneumonia. Miss Mary Black is at the county hospital with a bad case of pneumonia. Mrs. Dollie Hamilton of 29th and Welton street is very sick with pneumonia. Dr. Justina Ford arrived home last week from a very pleasant visit with her husband in Jacksonville, Florida. J. P. Wilson, one of the prosperous farmers of Boulder county, was in the city Monday on a business trip. Before buying your Christmas presents consult the advertising columns of the Colorado Statesman for bargains. J. C. Bloom & Co., one of the finest jewelry firms on Sixteenth street. Give them a call. Prices reasonable. The pupils of Miss B. d'Autremont will give a recital at Shorter A. M. E. church Thursday evening, December 23rd. Glasgow Tailors, 620 16th street. Everything goes for 30 cents on the dollar and less. Slashed are the prices for fifteen days only. Call on them. M. J. Harris, publisher of the Mirror of Kansas City, Mo., made the Colorado Statesman a pleasant call Tuesday. Mr. Harris was called West on private business concerning the death of his father, Preston Harris, who died in Pueblo. J. W. Wilson of 2246 Glenarm Place left Tuesday evening for Kansas City, accompanied by his little niece, Ethel Fields. After visiting a few days in Kansas City with relatives he will visit his father and sister in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Watch the display ad. of the Merchant's Publishing Company, 1609 Arapahoe street. All Christmas novelties for special Saturday sale only. H. A. Morgan and M. J. Barry are the special representatives who are making business for the firm. Judge W. B. Townsend, since he has removed to Denver from Pueblo, has had many cases before the courts and is giving good satisfaction to his clients. Mr. Townsend has been employed to defend Mrs. Jelbett for murder, and Wednesday he was sent for to Golden to defend J. M. Wilson, who shot and killed Arthur Tabb. We are pleased to see our people appreciate ability in our professional men, like Lawyer Townsend and others, who stand high in the profession of law. A match between a white and colored pugilist is always a good drawing card as well as much comment as to the possible success as to which will get the big end of the gate receipts. It is all the talk in Ogden and Salt Lake City of the coming bout on January 7th at Ogden between Arthur Collins (better known as "Birdslegs") and Pete Sullivan. Collins' manager, Joe T. Burns, formerly of Denver, is confident that Collins will deliver the punch that will bring home the broad side of a smoked hog—the bacon. Bob Watkins is training Collins for the go, and it is said from good authority that Birdslegs was never in better condition in his fighting career. The fight fans of Denver extend wishes of success to Mr. Burns and his fighting machine. NOTES OF THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The pastor, Rev. J. A. Thos. Hazell, S T. B., will preach tomorrow from the following themes: 11 a. m., "Weariness in well-doing." 7:30 p. m., "Prospect." The protracted effort closed last Tuesday night. The results of the meetings have been fruitful in all respects. Last Sabbath evening Rev. Ward and A. T. LEWIS & SONS DRY GOODS CO The Colorado Statesman in a previous issue promised its readers and patrons to direct their attention to the great stores of Denver, where such purchases as they might wish to make during the holidays, may be most satisfactorily made. In this issue it presents here for special notice the great department store of the A. T. Lewis & Son Dry Goods Co., which for its small beginnings, phenomenal growth and present remarkable and high position in the commercial life of the city, stands as a fitting and enduring monument to the keen business foresight and enterprising genius of its founders. The above cut is a good picture of the present palatial home of this great and ever increasing business. Here you find a store that would be distinguished in any city, elegant in all of its appointments and filled on all its five floors with every object of merchandise that may tempt the heart of man, woman or child. You enter it, and have not to wait, for at once the keen eye of the ubiquitous floorwalker sees you. With great politeness he directs you to the particular department you wish, where with equal courtesy and attention you are waited upon by the clerks. You are bewildered by the richness, abundance and variety of the beautiful things you see, while you are charmed by the artistic and tasteful arrangement which sets them off to the best advantage. And now you decide to buy, for it is here the price, the quality and the polite service all meet and woo you into dropping a dollar where it could not be spent anywhere else to better advantage. The growth and success of this store has been regarded as a marvel, in view of its small beginning. It is doubtful whether in the entire Great West THE A.T. LEWIS & SON BR. 5000 COMPANY there can be cited an instance of greater progress in so short a time. The cause of it all, however, is not hard to tell. The men who formed this great company believed and believe in themselves. And with self-reliance the battle of life is already half-won. Then, they studied the local market and the wants of the community. To this they brought those sterling qualities which ultimately underlie the foundation of all business success—watchfulness, untiring energy, scrupulous integrity, unfaltering reliability, and over all that undefined and subtle faculty we call tact. We cannot close this sketch without mentioning the name of a man, whose particular line of work in this great business is absolutely necessary to its success. After all is said, advertising is the great engine to bring an enterprise before the people and enlist their interest to make it win. No standard business can live and progress without judicious advertising. In this sort of work, Mr. John L. Hunter, the able, affable, cultured, hustling advertising manager of this store, is a veritable past master. Mr. Hunter is ably assisted by Mr. Allen Russell. This store, conducted by progressive and wide-awake young men, is employing a large number of OUR young people along with its hundreds of other employees. The Colorado Statesman believes that this is an additional reason why the race should remember and patronize The A. T. Lewis & Son Dry Goods Co. BOE & JOES RESTAURANT 2212 Larimer Street his worthy people of Shorter's worshiped with us. Dr. Randolph was also one of our distinguished guests. The presence of these Christian people was an inspiration to our services. At your convenience come again. We are hereby reminding the public of the organization of a Bible institute in connection with our church work. Ali seekers of the truth who are not members of similar classes in the city are cordially invited to enroll with us. "A WORD OF ADVICE." Denver, Colo., Dec. 14, 1909. Tc The Colorado Statesman. The world is busy, at this time of the year—every one seems to be enthused over the coming festival. There isn't a soul on earth that doesn't look forward to Xmas as an awakening. Even the little street urchin, the orphan child, the helpless old woman or man has a heart that is light and gay, owing to the fact that they know they are to be remembered, in some way, by a small Xmas gift. While these less fortunate creatures can feel so happy, so cheerful, over a small gift, we, too, should appreciate a small gift. In all of my life I have noticed one characteristic of the Negro race, and that is "overdoing" a thing. Don't, above all things, embarrass your friends by presenting them with costly presents; it is both vulgar and uncalled for. Xmas time is a time of giving, and your friends will esteem you just as highly by you simply giving them a memento, at a trivial cost, as they would if you should pay an extortionate price for a gift. Why I say, don't embarrass them is, probably your friends are not in a position to retaliate, so consequently it naturally would place them in an embarrassing position. While some of us have a host of friends and we would like to remember all of them, we could safely do it if we use a little discretion, by not "overdoing" it on our costly present. It is such a sad mistake in us, even if we give a social function, women especially, always try to out-do the previous hostess. We are that way in wedding gifts; we try to buy the most costly presents; we even go beyond our means. We do the same way when it comes to buying clothes; we try to "out-do" the other fellow to such an extent that it causes one to wonder if we haven't received "an inheritance from Rockefeller." My advice is, don't be "penny wise and a dollar foolish." Stay within the bounds of reason by using discretion in regards to your Xmas shopping and Xmas giving. Respectfully, CARRIE P. DOUGLASS. Tonnage and Displacement. At the present time, when naval matters are a source of great interest to the general public, one continually finds the terms "displacement" and tonnage" improperly used, both in the daily pices and in common speech. The confusion between the terms would not occur if, their meaning were understood, says the Engineering News. Displacement" refers to the quantity of liquid displaced by the immersed full of the ship and "tonnage" to the weight carrying capacity of the ship, determined by certain rules of measurement. The displacement of a vessel is the entire weight of the hull with all its contents according to the well-known law of hydrostatics that a floating body displaces a weight of fluid just equal to its own weight. 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Merchants Publishing Co. 1609-15 Arapahoe Street SATURDAY ONLY DRUMMERS' SAMPLES SALE Of Hand-Painted French and Italian China From the famous studios of Avenirs and old abbey of Limoges and Ginoris of Italy, at $ \frac{1}{2} $ the prices that the goods are marked. Some of the most beautiful and artistic fancy China pieces ever offered at these prices, decorated with inlaid gold designs and rich colors. Every piece is a work of art, the shapes are new and the colors most beautiful. The quantity is limited and won't last long, so we advise early response. The Popular Price China Co. NEW YEAR'S BALL GIVEN BY RICE LODGE, NO.39, I. B. P.O.E. OF W. MONDAY NIGHT, JAN. 3rd. ADMISSION 50 CENTS 730 SIXTEENTH STREET DIAMONDS, WATCHES AND ALL KINDS OF JEW- ELRY—GOLD, SILVER AND FILLED, FOR THE HOLIDAYS. PRICES GUARANTEED THE LOW- EST. GIVE US A CALL AND INSPECT OUR STOCK SALE STARTS FRIDAY. Dinner-Ware at Cost 422 SIXTEENTH STREET. FREE A BEAUTY WITH CUT GLASS, 1/4 OFF. URN OUT W HE ELK W YEAR'S B Yes! 'Tis True!! It's Honest All Through!!! Our $25 Suit CLEMENTS 1435-37 Sixteenth Street and 1533 Welton Street Tailor Thurston H. U. Smith LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF FINE FURS IN THE CITY. THE BETTER FURS FOR LESS MONEY. 616 SIXTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLORADO. MAIL ORDERS A SPECIALTY. DIAMONDS Rich Jewelry BOHM-AUTEN JEWELRY WATCHES STERLING SILVER-WARE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 1119 SEVENTEENTH STREET Shoes Called for, Shined and Delivered—10 Cents Shoe Laces and Polish for Sale I guarantee absolutely pure To Sample Case and you will use no other TELEPHONE 1285 The Ph. Zang Brewing Co. Producers Fresh Beer Delivered Daily to all parts of the city. Paeonia suffruticosa I use brains, tact and deliberation in the executing of wedding, party, dinner and reception decorations and in floral design and floral arrangements for funerals having had 18 years of experience in florist business. Why don't you favor me with a trial order or a call. THURSTON H. U. SMITH. Specialties—Artistic Floral Designs for Lodges and Funerals; Cut Flowers for a token of your esteem to a sick friend; Palm Plants. LARIMER CAR ONLY TO THRIETIH ST. AS I LAY MAY BE BY W.D. NEY BIT Are wholly illegal. Do you understand? The laws we've enacted must all be obeyed. And you can't go on till the duty is paid. Don't try to evade it, or soon, truth to tell. A smuggler you'll be in a gloomy old cell. A Vision at Christmas By CLINTON DANGERFIELD IN THE early days of men the Lord sent two powers on earth to have dominion over them. One of these was Death—the other Life. The stern front of Life showed what he really was: unmerciful, exacting, swift to demand obedience to a thousand laws, swift to punish with the keen sword of pain when those laws were broken. His eyes were the eyes of a warlord; his hand as cold as iron—and as strong. The tasks he set were many. Few of these were to the liking of the children of men, though some thinkers perceived that out of these heavy tasks came strength, also that if one wrestled with them stoutly one might even master Life himself and compel him to graciousness. Now the other power—Death—was a woman. Tall she was, but so perfectly formed that her height was no blemish. Sleepy-eyed she was, but her slow, sweet smile was so infinitely tender and lovely that in the midst of their tasks men stopped to gaze on her as she passed. At last one of the young men followed her. She spoke to him—her voice being that unspeakable music which not even a violin can outsing—and the young man returned into the fields of Life no more. Then a little child, weary of flowers-gathering, pulled at her garment's hem, and all the workers held their breath, waiting to see what Death would do; for Life had painted her in very evil colors. But Death lifted the child and laid her on her own deep bosom and sang to her. As she sang the child slept, and an exquisite smile lingered on its lips, as though its visions were very fair. Then Death held out the child that the workers might see, and cried: "Oh, ye who labor, beset with unending toil, see ye how I have blessed the child? Never more shall the heat of summer vex her, nor the cold of winter! I have made her deaf to sorrow and unmoved by the vibrations ye call joy. Forever shall her brow go unwrinkled, and because she hath chosen me I will give her the key to Heaven's immortal gates." And a worker cried: "Ye have blessed the child because she was your chosen one?" The cry was a question. Said Death dreamily: "As I gave the child peace, so would I give it to all who come to me—trusting me wholly!" Looking out across the blazing fields she stretched her rounded arms and cried: "Ye are all mine! Lover of souls am I!" And with one accord they threw down their tools and followed her into a far land, beyond the domain of Life. Now Life was vexed exceedingly by Now Life was vexed exceedingly by the unfinished task. He went straight- way to the Lord and complained how Death had led away part of his workers. And the Lord sent a great white angel unto the remalnder and forbade them, through the angel, to hearken unto Death until they could serve Life no longer. For the Lord knew that the stern dominion of Life must be, for the sake of the men he hoped to complete. But only a few, a very few, of the children of men obeyed the angel. Let Death but pass the toilers, and her beauty was so great they continued to desert their posts and follow after her. Then Life cried unto the Lord with a great voice: "Death seduces my servants!" And the Lord said: "Deal with Death as thou wilt." Dear with Death is told with Therefore Life seized on Death and cut away her perfumed locks, and put on her a painted mask, most hideous to behold. And he sealed the lips of Death, saying, "Be thou dumb, and be thou no longer known as a woman." With this he cast over Death's wonderful form a black mantle, like a pall, and on it Life painted: "This is the King of Terrors." Then he sent Death forth, and thereafter whenever she came near the workers they fled from her and cried aloud unto Life: "Matters not how hard thy tasks, oh dear Life, if thou wilt but save us from this frightful Death!" And Life said unto the Lord: "Have I not done well?" And he answered in exceeding sorrow: "Needs must thy work on Death stand. And this because of the weakness of men who were seduced by her beauty and who heeded not my angel's voice. Yet very differently had I planned for my people. For in the beginning I set the loveliness of Death plainly before them, that they might endure their tasks happily, knowing how sweet the end would be. But they have defeated my wisdom. On their own heads be it!" And Life went his way, satisfied. Thereafter, when a child or man became useless to him he cast it into the arms of Death, because its task was finished. And the soul of Death sang to the soul of the mortal given her, though her lips were dumb, and she blessed it with an infinite blessing and bore it away. But the toilers mourned greatly that Death should have dominion over one of their number, and they turned the more desperately to Life, who smiled sternly and was content. O Christ, upon whose natal morn Rejoicing angels sang, When o'er the blue Judean hills Their heavenly anthems rang! O Christ, to whom with gifts from far Came shepherd, sage and king. Our choicest gifts on this glad morn, Our hearts, we humbly bring! Grant us to follow Thee in love, Nor from Thy path to stray, Thy blessed feet have gone before And glorified the way. We join the angel choirs that sing This happy morn again, "Glory to God, the Lord Most High, Good-will and peace to men!" —Martha C. Howe. Piano Sale And Six Month's Free Music Lessons with Each Piano Purchased this Week ONE UPRIGHT PIANO FOR.....$ 50.00 ANOTHER ONE FOR.....$ 85.00 A STEINWAY FOR.....$ 150.00 A $600 DECKER BRCS. FOR.....$ 195.00 A $300 SPAULDING, LESS THAN 10 MONTHS OLD, FOR.....$ 198.00 A $350 PIANO, PRACTICALLY AS GOOD AS NEW, FOR.....$ 215.00 A $400 PIANO, SLIGHTLY USED, FOR.....$ 235.00 A $450 PIANO, LESS THAN 1 YEAR OLD, FOR.....$ 265.00 A $500 PIANO, USED SOME (EXTRA GOOD DEAL) FOR.....$ 335.00 AND MANY OTHER BARGAINS TOO NUMEROUS TO MEN- TION IN STEGER, CHICKERING, BUSH & GERTS, KRELL, JACOB DOLL, STODART, LESTER AND STEINHAUSER PIANOS. So that everyone may have an opportunity to buy a Piano at this Sale, we will sell you a Piano for $2.50 down and $1 per week payments, with— Six Month's Free Music Lessons We Guarantee to Sell Pianos at this Sale Cheaper than Any Other Dealer in the City Come in at once and avail yourself of a choice of these Bargains and easy terms with the FREE MUSIC LESSONS. ```markdown ``` Telephone 1735 Lawrence St. DICK FRAZIER AND TOM LEWIS PROPRIETORS A First-Class Resort For Gentlemen D YOU EVER TH f Bros.' Be made right, and tastes r e better made anywhere s a Strictly Colorado Pro DID Y It's made right, and tastes right. None better made anywhere and This is a Strictly Colorado Production hy Send E Why Send East for Pomade for the Hair Cutlery, Toilet Preparations, Manicure Articles, Perfumes, Etc. Grinding of every description. Wholesale and Retail. GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHINGS 2559 Welton Street. Phone Main 7413 1845 Arapahoe St. Superior Laundry ALL HAND WORK. J. W. CASEY, Proprietor. Telephone 2182. 1785 Lawrence St. Denver. Wines, Liquors and Cigars EVER TRY s.' Beer? and tastes right. de anywhere and Colorado Production BE SURE AN TRY IT. nd East "It's the unexpected that always happens." "The unexpected happens very seldom, seems to me. Somebody always claims to have predicted it, whatever it is." The War Play Today. "This is a very exciting scene. That orderly with dispatches has just dropped from a war balloon." "What is that fleecy stuff he's brushing off?" Practical Politics A political office in a small town in Iowa was vacant. The office paid $250 a year, and there was keen competition for it. The Democratic candidate, Ezekiel Hicks, was a shrewd old fellow, and a neat campaign fund was turned over to him. To the astonishment of all, however, he was defeated. "I can't account for it," said one of the Democratic leaders gloomily. "With that money, we should have won. How did you lay 'it out, Ezekiel? "Well," said Ezekiel, slowly pulling his whiskers, "yer see that office only pays $250 a year salary, an' I didn't see no sense in payin' $00 out to get the office, so I bought me a little truck farm instead."—Lippincott's. THE NATIONAL STOCK SHOW. Prospects for the Greatest Show Ever Held in the West. Entries for the National Stock Show at Denver close this week on everything but carloads and entries already indicate the greatest show ever held in the West. There will be horses from Canada, from Ohio, from Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and most of the western states. Among the prominent herds of cattle coming are the Shorthorn herds of Carpenter & Ross of Mansfield, Ohio; Thomas Johnson & Son of Columbus, Ohio; C. E. Clark of Minnesota; Frank Harding of Wisconsin; The Elmendorf Farm of Kentucky; W. J. Miller of Iowa; A. C. Binnie of Iowa; J. E. Bales & Son of Iowa, and many others, all the beef breeds being represented by the best in the country. There will be sheep from all over the United States and Canada, all of the breeds being represented. It is expected that the car load exhibit of feeder cattle will be the greatest ever held and big feeder buyers are coming from all parts of the country to purchase the prize winners. The business end of the Denver show always attracts considerable attention. The stockmen from the west bring their choice cattle and sheep to the show and sell them at fancy prices and the big breeders of the east bring their cattle, sheep and horses here and sell the best of them to the western men. This is where the show is doing a great work. It is placing within the reach of the western breeders the best the country has in live stock and within a very new years the western men will be winning the premiums and the eastern man will be pretty well out of it. The railroads are making very reasonable rates through the West for the week of the show. In Colorado a half rate will prevail while in New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana, the rate will be a fare plus $2 for the round trip. This will bring in a great number of stockmen and with the stock show and conventions, Denver will be a busy place during the week of January 8-15. With the new buildings being erected and the magnificent big pavilion completed last year, the show will be in shape to take care of the crowds comfortably no matter what the weather may be, but there is usually good weather at that time of the year. BON I. LOOK Dealer in all kinds of MERCHANDISE. Mammoth catalog mailed free. Cor. 16th and Blake. Denver. RUGS & LINOLEUM Shipped to anybody at wholesale prices. We pay the freight. Best catalog in Denver mailed free. THE HOLGOMB & HART LINOLEUM & RUGS CO. RAW FURS HIDES AND PELTS Write for our complete price list and tags. Highest prices paid and satisfactory returns. LOTZ HIDES & WOOL CO. Denver, Colo. Crawford, Neb. Rapid City, S. B. TYPEWRITERS Hoover Press. The Colorado Typewriter Exchange Co., 1627-29 Champa Street. All makes sold, repaired and rented. Supplies and parts. Agents Standard Folding and Royal Viable. Address Department H. AWNINGS, TENTS THE COLORADO TENT & AWNING CO. The largest Duck Goods house in the West. 1642 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. Robt. S. Gutshall, Pres. ASSAYS RELIABLE : PROMPT Gold, 75c; Gold and Silver and Copper, $1.50. Gold and Silver refined and bought. Write for free mailing sacks. OGDEN ASSAY CO., 1536 Court Place, Denver, Colo. Makes perfect ROOFS THE WESTERN ELATERITE ROOFING CO. 41 Equitable Bldg. If your dealer does not handle, write us direct. PIANOS WRITE FOR INTRODUCTORY OFFER TODAY If you intend to buy a Piano this fall get this offer now. Save $100 to $150. Liberal Payment Plan. THE KNIGHT CAMPBELL MUSIC CO., Denver, the West's oldest and largest music house. Established 1874. LINCOLN TANNERY Fur Coats, Robes, Rags, Etc. Custom work our specialty, Highest prices paid. for hides. Send for prices and lags. HENRY HOLM, 134 South Ninth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. E. E. BURLINGAME & CO., ASSAY OFFICE AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY Established in Colorado, 1868. Samples by mail or express will receive prompt and careful attention Gold & Silver Bullion Refined, Melted and Assayed CONCENTRATION, AMALGAMATION AND CYANIDE TESTS — 100 lbs. to carload lots. Write for terms. 1736-1738 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. The Littlest Boy and Santa Claus By Edwin L. Sabin (Copyright.) THE GREAT hall clock, stationed opposite the foot of the stairs, struck two. From his bed the Littlest Boy listened with a sense of awe. Never before had he heard it strike so late an hour. Once, indeed, he had heard it strike ten, but usually it had struck eight—and when next he was awake it was striking six and morning had come. The Littlest Boy lay and listened. The house was impressively still. The only sounds audible were the stately ticking of the monitor clock below, and the regular breathing of the Biggest Boy and the Biggest Girl in the room adiolining. The Littlest Boy's eyes were wide open and gazing into the velvet blackness close above his face. When he had gone to bed it had been Christmas eve. He was not fully certain as to the line of demarkation, but it occurred to him that now it was Christmas day! Then he began to blink and think. He wondered if Santa Claus had come yet. Before the grate-fire, down in the library, were ranged three chairs; a rocking-chair for the Biggest Girl, a straight-backed, ordinary chair for the Biggest Boy, and a huge, roomy arm-chair for himself. In addition, he had hung up his stockings to the mantel. He tried to picture to himself how, if Santa Claus had been and gone, that chair and those stockings must "Hello!" Said Santa Claus. look. At intervals, as some particularly alluring fancy stood out before him, he gave an ecstatic wriggle and a few blinks extra. Oh, the red wagon! And the silver napkin-ring! Supposing he got them both! It did not seem to him possible that he could exist without either, and yet—and yet—he mustn't exact too much. If he might take one peep into the library—just one tiny peep—to find out whether or not Santa Claus had been. He felt that he ought not to yield to this temptation; and he sighed hard and twisted. But even in the midst of his struggle he did yield, for first his disobedient right foot stole from beneath the blue coverlet, and next his disobedient left foot; and in a moment all of him, enveloped in his long, pink-flannel night-gown, was moving resolutely towards the doorway. At the landing the stairs turned sharply. The Littlest Boy also turned with them to continue his journey. Now there ahead of him was the monitor clock, staring him in the face, and ticking loud reproval. From the library, off the hall, came the reminiscent glow of the grate-fire with which the Christmas eve had been celebrated. Down sped the Littlest Boy, boldly ignoring the astonished clock, down the remaining flight, and across the square hall, whose rugs were soft and comforting. On the threshold of the library he stopped short, frightened at what he had done. He had caught Santa Claus! Aye, those was Santa Claus, bending over the big chair, which, the Littlest Boy glimpsed, was overflowing with packages and things. I do not know but that the Littlest Boy would have beat courteous retreat (although, of course, his farther curiosity was simply tremendous) had not Santa Claus suddenly glanced up and described him—a small, pink figure, made still pinker by the glowing coals, framed, wide-eyed, in the library door-case. "Hello!" said Santa Claus, not moving. "Hello!" responded the Littlest Boy. "I didn't know you were here." "Didn't you?" remarked Santa Claus, straightening up and slowly stepping backward. "No," assured the Littlest Boy. "Did you get in through the chimley?" During his whole life—that is, ever since he could talk—the Littlest Boy had been trying to say "chimney," but somehow, that "I," being so silm and hatchet-faced, always nimbly slipped in and elbowed out the "n." "Did I get in through the chimbley!" repeated Santa Claus; and then he opened his mouth in a silent laugh. "Yes, I clumb down the chimbley," he said. "You say 'chimbley' and I say 'chimley'; but my father says—says ch—ch—chimneley is right," informed the Littlest Boy. "You don't mean it!" returned Santa Claus, who, having backed to the window looking upon the side porch, now, with his hand behind him, was deftly sliding it up. "Please don't go, Santa Claus," besought the Littlest Boy. "We'll talk real low, so nobody'll hear. That is, if you're not in too big a hurry to stay," he added, politely. "Sure," responded Santa Claus. "It's almost empty, isn't it!" asserted the Littlest Boy. "But I s'pose you've lots more up in the balloon. Had you got all through with me? My chair is the middle one there, and these are my stockings in front of it." "Well, I was kinder foolin' around when you come in," confessed Santa Claus; "but I reckon I'm through. Them other chairs are your ma's an' pa's, I take it?" And it was!—a beautiful, shiny, silver napkin ring. "Oooooo-eee!" gurgled the Littlest Boy, unwrapping it. "I bet it's the very solides' kind!" "Lemme see," demanded Santa Claus. "That's what I intended it to be, anyhow, an' I hope I ain't made no mistake." "Yes, it's solid, all right enough," he said, weighing it in his hand, while the Littlest Boy watched him, anxiously. "But don't you think that that there wagon an' this here ring, both together, are too much for a kid like you?" "I don't know," responded the Littlest Boy, abashed. "I've tried to be awful good. I've picked up kindlin' and went on errands and brushed my teeth—and and gone down cellar after dark, and—and and I've hardly ever cried when I got hurt!" "Still, seems to me," persisted Santa Claus, gazing at the shiny ring in his fingers, "that a wagon alone is good enough for one kid, besides all them other things you've got in yon chair and socks. I dunno but what I'll take this an' give it som'ers else." "Well," agreed the Littlest Boy, gravely, "if—if you can find some little boy who ought to have it more'n me, then you can—can take it; and p'raps next Christmas—" "God!" roared the Biggest Boy, like an angry lion, leaping through the library doorway. With a slam up sped the window; with an oath, out whirled Santa Claus. "You've scared Santa Claus! You've scared Santa Claus!" wailed the Littlest Boy, in despair. "I have, have it!" exclaimed the Biggest Boy, gathering the waller into his arms. "And he took my ring," farther lamented the Littlest Boy. "He did, did he!" repeated the lion—that is, the Biggest Boy—in a commiserating growl. "Never mind; we'll get another." "But I told him he might, if there's some other little boy who'd ought to have it more," explained the Littlest Boy, truthfully. "Maybe he'll bring me one next Christmas." Here the Biggest Boy shut the treacherous window; and with the Biggest Girl, who by this time had arrived and was hugging and kissing the Littlest Boy's two rosy feet, as they hung down inside the Biggest Boy's arms, close accompanying, carried him upstairs to bed. What do you think? Evidently Santa Claus repented, or else he had only been joking, or else he could find no other little boy who was more worthy; for, after all, at daylight there was discovered, lying on the mat before the side-door, that very same ring—wrapped, it is true, not in fine tissue paper, but in coarse brown paper. However, upon the paper was scrawled, in ragged but unmistakable lines: Effect of Self-Satisfaction. 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Hall's Catarrh Cure is a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous membranes of the eye, the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and adding to it the necessary blood and mucous foundation so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. Address B. all by Soldiers, 75c. Soldiers, 75c. Tabbed and Filed. Mrs. Crawford—You must love your husband very dearly if you save all the letters he sends you while you're in the country. Mrs. Crabshaw—I'm keeping them for comparison, my dear. I'm sure to catch him in a lie.—Judge. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it The Kind You Have Always Bought. Limits the Size. "Marry me," pleaded the mere man, "and your slightest wish shall be granted." "But," queried the wise woman, "how about the large ones?" Rheumatism and Neuralgia never could get along with Hamlins Wizard Oil. Wizard Oil always drives them away from the premises in short order. Our idea of heaven is a place big enough to make it possible for people to be without neighbors. IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANYTHING better for sideline, backaches or stitches than Perry Davis' Painkiller. Get the large size, it is the cheapest. At all druggists, 25c, 35c and 50c bottles. It's one thing to run into debt and another to crawl out. Constipation causes and seriously aggrivates many diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pallet. Tiny sugar-coated granules. Better a poor man at large than a rich man in jail. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES. BACKACHE 1875 "Guaranteed." "I have suffered with piles for thirty-six years. One year ago last April I began taking Cascarets for constipation. In the course of a week I noticed the piles began to disappear and at the end of six weeks they did not trouble me at all. Cascarets have done wonders for me. I am entirely cured and feel like a new man." George Kryder, Napoleon, O. Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. Do 25c, Sick, Never sold in bulk. The routine tablet stamped C.O.G. Guaranteed to cure or your money back. FOR HEADACHE, NEURALGIA and GRIPPE, Use 10c DR. DAVIS' ANTI-HEADACHE 250 Druggists - or FRED C. KEELING, Chicago, Ill. PATENTS Watson E. Coleman, Wash- ington, D.C. Booklet, High reference. Best results. PISO'S CURE THE BEST MEDICINE FOR COUGHS AND COLDs Is fine for children and adults, very pleasant to take and free from opiates. It soothes and heals the aching throat and assures restful nights to both mother and child. All Druggists, 25 cents. The Fountain Head of Life Is The Stomach A man who has a weak and impaired stomach and who does not properly digest his food will soon find that his blood has become weak and impoverished, and that his whole body is improperly and insufficiently nourished. Dr. PIERCE'S GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY makes the stomach strong, promotes the flow of digestive juices, restores the lost appetite, makes assimilation perfect, invigorates the liver and parliples and enriches the blood. It is the great blood-maker, flesh-builder and restorative nerve tonic. It makes men strong in body, active in mind and cool in judgement. This "Discovery" is a pure, glyceric extract of American medical roots, absolutely free from alcohol and all injurious, habit-forming drugs. All its ingredients are printed on its wrappers. It has no relationship with secret nostrums. Its every ingredient is endorsed by the leaders in all the schools of medicine. Don't accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this time-proven remedy of KNOWN COMPOSITION. Ask YOUR NEIGHBORS. They must know of many cures made by it during past 40 years, right in your own neighborhood. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Dr. R.V. Pierce, Pres., Buffalo, N.Y. A CERTAIN CURE FOR SORE, WEAK & INFLAMED EYES MITCHELL'S SALVE MAKES THE USE OF DRUGS UNNECESSARY. Price, 25 Cents. Druggists. Cures the sick and acts as a preventive for others. Liquid given on the tongue. Safe for brood mares and all others. Best kidney remedy; 50 cents and $1.00 a bottle; $5.00 and $10.00 the dozen. Sold by all druggists and horse goods houses, or sent express paid, by the manufacturer. SPOHN MEDICAL CO., Chemists, GOSHEN, INDIANA W·L·DOUGLAS $3.00 $3.50 & $4.00 SHOES THE LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF MEN'S FINE SHOES IN THE WORLD Wear W. L. Douglas comfortable, easy-walking shoes. They are made upon honor, of the best leather, by the most skilled workmen, in all the latest fashions. Shoes in every style and shape to suit men in all walks of life. If I could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass., and show you how carefully W. L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer and are of greater value than any other make. CAUTION.—See that W. L. Douglas name and the retail price is a amped on the bottom. Take No Substitute. BOY'S SHOES $2.00 & $2.50 Wherever you live, W. L. Douglas shoes are within your reach. If your dealer cannot fit you, write for Mail Order Catalog. W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass. When Cold Winds Blow Solid brass font holds 4 quarts of oil—sufficient to give out a glowing heat for 9 hours—solid brass wick carriers—damper top—cool handle—oil indicator. Heater beautifully finished in nickel or Japan in a variety of styles. ```markdown ``` SUFFERED TERRIBLY. How Relief from Distressing Kidney Trouble Was Found. Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf, 388 W. Morgan St., Tipton, Mo., says: "Inflammation of the bladder reached its climax last spring and I suffered terribly. My back ached and pained so I could hardly get around and the secretions were scanty, frequent of passage and painful. I was or the brave who reached its climax last spring and I suffered terribly. My back ached and pained so I could hardly get around and the secretions were scanty, frequent of passage and painful. I was tired all the time and very nervous. I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, and after taking a few boxes was cured and have been well ever since." Remember the name—Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Coming to Terms. Possible Boarder—Ah, that was a ripping dinner, and if that was a fair sample of your meals, I should like to come to terms. Scotch Farmer—Before we gang any further, was that a fair sample o' yer appetite? ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM is the old reliable cough remedy. Found in every drug store and in practically every home. For sale by all druggists, 25c, 50c and $1.00 bottles. The first step toward keeping your mouth shut is to close it. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cures wind colloid 25c a bottle. Everyone can do his best thing easiest.—Emerson. The Fountain Head Is The A man who has a weak and impaired stone properly digest his food will soon find that weak and impoverished, and that his whole insufficiency nourished. Dr. PIERCE'S GOLDEN MEDICINE makes the stomach strong, promotes digestive juices, restores the lost assimilation perfect, invigorates purifies and enriches the blood. It flesh-builder and restorative new strong in body, active in mind. This "Discovery" is a pure, glyceric ex absolutely free from alcohol and all injurious ingredients are printed on its wrappers. It nostrums. Its every ingredient is endorsed medicine. Don't accept a secret nostrum or remedy or KNOWN COMPOSITION. Ask YOUR many cures made by it during past 40 years World's Dispensary Medical Association, Dr. A CERTAIN CURE FOR SORE, W. MITCHELL'S MAKES THE USE OF DRUGS UNNECESS SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE W·L·DOU $3,00 $3,50 & $ THE LARGEST MANUFACT MEN'S FINE SHOES IN THE Wear W. L. Douglas co. easy-walking shoes, made upon honor, of the ers, by the most skilled In all the latest fashions and style and shape t in all walks of life. If I could take you into factories at Brockton, show you how carefully y las shoes are made, then understand why their shape fit better, w and are of greater value other make. CAUTION.—See that W name and the retail price is the bottom. Take No Suit Wherever you live, W. L. Do your reach. If your dealer o Mail Order Catalog. W. L. Do When Cold W When cold winds blow, biting frost is in the air, and back-draughts down the chimney deaden the fires, then the PERFECTION Oil Heater (Equipped with Smokeless Device) shows its sure heating power by steadily supplying just the heat that is needed for comfort. The Perfection Oil Heater is unaffected by weather conditions. It never fails. No smoke—no smell—just a genial, satisfying heat. The new Automatic Smokeless Device prevents the wick being turned too high. Removed in an instant. Solid brass font holds 4 quarts of oil—s for 9 hours—solid brass wick carriers—dam Heater beautifully finished in nickel or J Every Dealer Everywhere. If Not At You to the Nearest Age CONTINENTAL OIL (Incorporate) FADELES Cleanses the System Effectually; Dispels colds and Headaches due to Constipation; Acts naturally, acts truly as a Laxative. Best for Men, Women and Child- ren—Young and Old. To get its beneficial effects, always buy the Genuine, manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SOLD BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS one size only. regular price 50¢ per bottle. The Truth ABOUT Life Insurance Five booklets—"But," "Be Just," "How to Figure It Out," and opinions of Gov. Hughes of N.Y. and of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage will save you many dollars—Sent prepaid upon receipt of 14c in stamps or coll. CHAS. H. BROWNELL, 176 Federal Street, Boston, Mass. W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 51-1909. End of Life The Stomach The stomach and who does not that his blood has become whole body is improperly and MEDICAL DISCOVERY promotes the flow of most appetite, makes tates the liver and It is the great blood-maker, nerve tonic. It makes men mind and cool in judgement. The extract of American medical roots, juprious, habit-forming drugs. All its It has no relationship with secret used by the leaders in all the schools of um as a substitute for this time-proven OUR NEIGHBORS. They must know of years, right in your own neighborhood. Dr. R.V. Pierce, Pres., Buffalo, N. Y. WEAK & INFLAMED EYES SALVE ESSARY. Price, 25 Cents. Dragolists. A DISTEMPER CATARRHAL FEVER AND ALL NOSE AND THROAT DISEASES acts as a preventive for others. Liquid given on mares and all others. Best kidney remedy; $5 $5.00 and $10.00 the dozen. Sold by all druggists, or sent express paid, by the manufacturers. CO., Chemists, GOSHEN, INDIANA BUGLAS $4.00 SHOES BUFFACTURER OF IN THE WORLD has comfortable, shoes. They are of the best leather- lilled workmen, colons. Shoes in shape to suit men You into my large- ton, Mass., and fully W. L. Doug- de, you would why they hold kicker, wear longer value than any BOY'S SHOES $2.00 & $2.50 Just W. L. Douglas shoe is aamped on to Substitute. Douglas shoes are within or cannot fit you, write for Douglas, Brockton, Mass. Winds Blow C oil—sufficient to give out a glowing heat dampper top—cool handle—oil indicator, or Japan in a variety of styles. Yours, Write for Descriptive Circular Agency of the OIL COMPANY (orated) SS DYES cold water better than any other dye. You can do DRUG 00 , Quinoy, Illinois. Phone 2710 Mercantile Bidg. | 2 ———————— Jeweler and Optician 1033-1035 15th St. Ve \iior Denver, Colo. | | Byes Tested Free | Very Fine Watch Repairs | oo PRR, 9, 1 The Big Store, COR. 15TH AND LARIMER STS A GREAT SALE IN THE DEE I e Women’s Suits, Coats & Furs High grade goods at a fraction of actual worth Getting ready for the sale now. Watch future announcements, or come without delay. In Regard to Christmas Presents We have a nice assortment of Xmas presents, Silverware, Cutlery, Carving Sets, Perfumes, Traveling Sets, Shaving Sets, full line of Manicuring Supplies, Razor Strops, Brushes of all kinds, Combs, a large line of Tollet Articles, Be + a DENVER BARBER SUPPLY CO. 1008 15th St. DENVER COLO. ttttteseseteaeeeretttesees $ THE BEST ICE CREAM AND t z CANDIES AT ; 3 + + } 0. P. BAUR @CO. ; + + x CATERERS AND 3 < CONFECTIONERS a ¢ 3 t Phone: 168. 4 if 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. 3 es pe ee Lee ee RN Re a ee I ra : Phone Main 4843. ‘ J Sibson Smith : § Sibson Smith: : Art Dealer ‘ $22 SEVENTEENTH STREET, : é Denver, Colo. ; ; 4 bate ste alte ate alte alte ale sie ae albe olf alte alle afi alle sie ole ste ole offe she aha se ates Manufacturing Watch Maker and Jeweler ee fe See pos 3, 8 NF Cay RIVA Gs. Get your old plumes and boas made into willow plumes. Mrs. Z. Benjamin 1958 Broadway ee First-Class Milliner ee eee Hats Trimmed and Made to Order. FINEST ASSORTMENT of FALL HATS in the City. She solicits the patronage of | her OLD ‘CUSTOMERS. : veut ABROAD, NU Fea waa = TELEPHONE MAIN 4555. 4 C us | |AT | ceorce s A |. DUNBAUGH, = . = Wels |THE President. | G E. J. WILLIS, re Are CO Treasurer and. Manager. = | <a ier ci er = = Our Meats are especially fine this week, “the just right to 1 eat well” kind,” and when you see the meat and the prices you 4 will wonder how we can do it. a - Sa ie es eee Re = BEEF VEAL 2 Loin Steak --100, 12440, 18e Veal Roasts . ..8¢, 10¢; 12/c Sirloin Noasts . .......12/4e re ms Porterhouse Roasts ; 12lec wi al ae eee mare ae Mm Pot Roasts, ..8e, 10c, 12/40 Veal Steak . ..........12¥6 ™ Boiling Beef. ........6¢, 7¢ Loin Roasts, Veal 12/40, 15¢ = Corned Beef oes eeees ss 7O Leg Roasts, Veal. ...... 10¢ = Fenny eee aeerniee niviee Rumps, Veal. .........12¥ee = y = PORK MUTTON AND LAMB Bea Pork Shoulders . ......12¥ee MP Pork Roast . ....---+-+,15€ Legs Lamb, Fancy ......20¢ me «Pork Steak . oo... ss0.0. +180. Legs Mutton, Fancy .....15¢ = POULTRY Mutton Steak . ........12¥e BA Fancy Springs . .......+.206 Shoulder Mutton . .......10¢ me Fancy Hens. ...........206 Shoulder Lamb . ......12Yge a Ducks, Squabs, Mutton Stew. ...........5¢ 3% —Cottontails, Fancy Turkeys. Lamb Stew . ........+-+-.8¢ = ORDER EXTRA EARLY ORDER EXTRA EARLY = ON SATURDAY. ON SATURDAY. = Py) POSOSORESPSSRSSOSORSSOSPESSPASRSARSORSSOARARRALLY Cottrell Clothing Co. 613-615-617-619 Sixteenth Street ee: “Gee ricimae Prosontenes Christmas Presents men / HERE'S wisdom in buying sens q ible and serviceable gitts—a Ss suit of clothes, or an overcoat rh for a member of your family. Or, 1 17) EX this is too costly, @ house coat, or « }\ _bath robe, or some nice handker i WA || chiefs, or a box of sox, or neckwear, iN y Yi / OUR LI | | | || WONDER CLOTHES SS PTI | re FOR MEN De, | IES Ye, //))/ PRY surts W ij, 7 OVERCOATS < we, «tN RAINCOATS Y iif STORMCOATS V ft Quite an addition has been made to { AY Jeeps our showing of Wonder Clothes. The Jig 4! YYA\\Ffiwtt.5 {| Convertible Protector Overcoat, and fie 1 oli the Auto Stormcoat are conspicuous Hl Vf / iit 7 values. A new line, fresh from the if VG //Np VV $ Kf} \ makers. The fabrics are fine, smooth pl Campbell Kersey, in various shades, it medium and dark colors. Conserva- é ( tively speaking, $18.00 would be a fair ey price. Men’s $4 Denver Made Shoes $3.45 AY ¢ All leathers—velour calf, gun metal, vici kid— y all the newest toes and the newest heels. The // ¥ Griffith Shoe Company of Denver stands back ya of every pair, and we stand back of the Griffith sae Shoe Company, though that is not necessary. 4 She... ee Neck Wy eckwear Wise ‘Ten thousand handsome Ties 6 LYE from which to select in our 7) showing at .....0.cceceee+ v) Burger & Co., 525 Broadway, New York, WV), closed out to us all they had left of Fine Holt Ys Y) day Silks, permitting us to select our own Wy) styles, and have them made accordingly. Sure- QW ly this is a timely offering, worthy of this pro: We gressive store. “a ‘The people of the United States ‘ay view with placidity thelr finan- ‘al debt to Europe, even though that ‘obligation is estimated at present at the prodigious total of $400,000,000. ‘There is nothing novel or startling ‘about this condition. It is not abnor- mal, says the Washington Herald, It is possible to view with complacency the estimate that an additional $100,- 000,000 1s carried out of this country ‘every year by tourists and expended abroad, This is true, even in face of the fact that for months the trade bal- ‘ance has shown an Increase of {m- ‘ports, both luxuries and necessities, ‘which may be regarded as a symptom ‘of increased domestic trade. It must be observed that the gold production et the United States equals its cur- rency demand, This is true of no ‘European country, Moreover, there ts ‘a surplus of silver output. ‘Thus this ‘country 4s slightly ahead in the source of the precious metals. It 1s not neces- sary for the United States to buy gold to pay its debts. This remains a fact, despite the interest payments upon our securities in the hands of foreign investors and the premiums upon for- eign insurance policies. It is the American farmer who most contrib- utes to the squaring of this account. Europe demands all the cotton, corn and wheat that this country can spare from its own cansumers, and this year the prices of those staples are high. ‘Thus in international balances, it 1s always necessary to reckon with those primary sources of wealth, the farm ‘and the mine. A § : ox | e e j : Next Big Thing | THE MASON’S 42nd , ENTERTAINMENT . BIGGER THAN EVER ; Monday, December 27, 09 ! jf j East Turner Hall f BEST OF MUSIC ; Ba a Hazing, like the hereditary family feud in certain sections of this coun: try, is a continuing evil, because it 1s handed down from one college genera- tion to the next, and each man who has in his time and turn run the gauntlet wants to pay off the score and secure revenge vicariously upon ‘the person of the trembling freshman who falls into his clutches, says the Boston Advertiser. ‘The class that de- cides to proscribe hazing has been punished and now finds itself deprived 0. the chance of inflicting punishment. And so the evil tradition persists, merely because no class can make up its mind to forego the precious _priv- ilege of meting out to others the same harsh and cruel treatment that was their own portion. - THE WELTON TRUNK MANUFACTURING CO. MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN - TRUNKS, VALISES & SUIT CASES : 2253 Welton Street - PHONE—PURPLE 1405 The United States is not the only country in which persons gratify their curiosity or morbid taste by crowding into courtrooms when sensational cases are in progress. Even France, ‘where good taste is presumed to be strongly in evidence if not predomi. nant, has a fair share of those who show similar inclinations, the opening of the Steinheil murder trial in Paris being an illustration. When 25,000 persons apply for admission to a courtroom and when $200 is offered for a place in line “the limit” would seem to have been reached. HERE is a certain satisfaction in knowing that you are giving good gloves when making Christmas gifts of gloves. Our stock of gloves for men, women and children is always the best at most reasonable prices. Women's English Cape Gloves, in tan, grey and black, $I 25 | perfect fitting and good wearing for street, the pair.... . | Women’s One-Clasp Pique Lamb Skin Gloves, in black, tan, grey, navy, green, red, etc., a very dressy street glove, the $ | 05 : A real Kid Glove, over-seam style, 2 claps, black, GALLIA | white and all colore—a beautitul dress glove? | 5) | othe PAP. wee cece e cece ence eee renctereeeensesasseseseeeee . MILANO A fine real Kid Glove for dress, the most perfect fitting “and best wearing glove made. All colors, $2 00 Men’s out-seam spear back English Cape Gloves, splendid $1 50 | wearing and every pair fitted, the pair.......sseeeeeereeee . | Men's genuine Reindeer Gloves, In grey and tan, the pair.. $2.50 Children’s Cape Gloves for one year to seven-year-old, in $I 25 tan and white, the pair .......-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenreneeeee . Boys! and Girls’ Gloves, lined and unlined, $ Mocha Skin or Cape, the pair........-++++ 1.25 & 1.50 HOSIERY-22.7, 72, 23,02 88 Perinl special the © 1 BO) best silk stockings In the world for, the pair DE. AT { 0 0 for three pair we are offering lisle thread and cotton $ . stocking that are equal to most 50c grades. SWEATER COATS Ask to see our $2.50 knitted jackets for =“ women and girls—we have them in white, grey, navy and red. ‘ HANDKERCHIEFS Our Christmas line of handkerchiefs is *- better than ever. At 25¢ we are show- Ing the daintiest patterns that are made. HAND BAGS OUR $5 00 Bags are world beaters—iarge rat . size, real seal, leather covered or metal frame. JEWELRY NOVELTIES--22% 7%, ou" cisplay, of cotar “pins, belt buckles, combs and bar- rets in jet and shell; fancy hair pins, bandeaus, hat pins, etc., all at reasonable prices. UMBRELLAS -— 2u" st2%* of umbretias tz the most compete in “" the West. We have everything that is made for men and women. It Is well to select your Christmas Umbrellas early, as all engraving can be executed with greater care. If in doubt secure a Perini Glove Order; they are always pleasing gifts for both men and women. =l6th= Lip, L pcos. OPPOSITE eo f ; STREET SP ~ Postoffice Go to the hhi ¢ Monarch Liquor Go. pt a 1763 Larimer Street, Corner Eighteenth Street— Phone Main 3134, FOR YOUR HOLIDAY GOODS a We Carry the Finest Stock in the City at the Lowest Prices. Free Delivery to any Part of the City. Formerly of 1369 Broadway The corn-growing record has been broken, not on the fertile plains of the west but in a southern state. J. F. Butts, who has a farm near Raleigh, N. C., has been awarded the prize for having raised 227 bushels of corn on a single acre. This output is set down as unsurpassed in the United States. It seems to be fairly certain that a general parliamentary election is at hand in England. In all probability the contest will come at the beginning of the year, and chances favor an ex. ceedingly active campaign. A man under arrest in New York ad- mits having killed three wives, but seems to think himself entitled to con- sideration because he had several more wives he might have killed. Parisian dealers in poultry were sufficiently acquainted with the spirit of Thanksgiving day to run up the price of turkeys and make visiting ‘Americans feel at home. ALBERT KOPPER PHONE 1149 MAIN Proprietor. KOPPER’S HOTBL EUROPEAN PLAN 1215-1219 TWENTIETH STREET Between Larimer and Lawrence. First-Class Furnished Rooms By the Day, Week or Month. DENVER, COLORADO While people worry about disappear- ing coal deposits enough wind wastes itself blowing dust into people’s eyes to energize all the dynarios in Chris- tendom. ‘Trunks with false bottoms have been used by importers to smuggle in goods. Everybody who feels like it plays horse with innocent Uncle Sam. 7 J. R. CONTEE, PRESIDENT. e e R. E. HANDY, LICENSED EM- - eel BALMER. ic . THE re) Douglass Re as : ee oe Undertaking a Company A @ Incorporated—Bonded to the City. hes Phone—Main 6123, Ss 1023 19th Street It’s a mighty small town that isn’t palpitating with male enthusiasm and maternal anxiety over the prowess of the local football team. ‘That young man who married on eight dollars a week had confidence large enough for William the Con- queror. Some Koreans evidently lack the cultivated taste required to appreciate Japan's brand of benevolent assimila- ‘tion. Prof. Lowell can’t quite see whether they have got the snow cleared off the ‘sidewalks yet on Mars. | Persons addicted to the divorce hab- ‘It should be sure they are right before ee aa