Colorado Statesman

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 A CHRONIC KICKER Is pursuing his old methods of fighting such franchises as are clearly for the welfare of the citizens and demanded by the rapid growth, splendid development and assured future greatness of Denver. Three years ago his poisoned shafts were directed against the renewal of the Denver Tramway franchise. He failed ignominiously. This year the Denver Union Water Company's franchise is his target. His discomfiture will be equally complete and conspicuous. Then, as now, his battle-cry was "Municipal Ownership." It is a pleasing slogan. But practical and thoughtful citizens will not be deceived thereby. The following letter speaks for itself: VOL. XVI. A CHRO Is pursuing his old methods clearly for the welfare of the city growth, splendid development and ver. Three years ago his poisoner renewal of the Denver Tramway f. This year the Denver Union Water His discomfiture will be equally con now, his battle-cry was "Municipal slogan. But practical and though thereby. The following letter spea Chicago, Ill., April 9, 1906.—Mr. Thomas H. Phillips, Vice President American Trust and Savings Bank: Dear Sir.—Pursuant to the conversation had with you this day relative to the traction situation in Denver, will say that at present the Denver City Tramway company owns, controls and operates all the street car lines, but that it has made application for a twenty (20) year franchise, which application is to be voted upon by the taxpaying electors at the coming election to be held May 15, 1906. This company has, at present, a patch-work assortment of franchises expiring at different periods for different sections of its lines. It has a capital stock of five million dollars ($5,000,000), and its outstanding bonded indebtedness is understood to be about nine million dollars ($9,000,000), of which a material portion comes due in the next few years. Its gross receipts last year were about $2,500,000, being a large increase over the prior year, on account of the rapid growth of the city and of the further fact that each year Denver secures more and more conventions which add to the traffic receipts. In 1904 this tramway earned a surplus of $508,290.26 above the cost of all operating expenses, interest and taxes. This sum is 10 per cent. upon its capital stock of $5,000,000. Last year the earnings increased very materially, as the net earnings were something over $700,000. The company has one hundred and fifty-six (156) miles of track, and the number of cars in daily use is one hundred and eighty-five (185), with a maximum of two hundred and forty (240). Owing to the fact that Denver has few storms that interfere with traffic the cost of operation is reduced to a minimum, and owing to the fact that Denver has so many sunshiny days and a delightful climate, the people ride more perhaps than in any other city of the United States. In addition to this, Denver is becoming not only a great attraction for tourists, but it has already established itself as one of the principal convention cities of the United States. All this tends to increase the use of street car lines, and as a result tends to increase the profits from their operation, and this increase will undoubtedly grow at a greater rate in the next few years than heretofore. This present tramway company, because it has a monopoly of the business now, has failed to reach many portions of the city, including many of the suburbs, and also indulges in the practice of crowding its cars with "strap hangers." As a result, the people are somewhat dissatisfied. Added to this, the company insists upon controlling the political situation, not only in the city, but in the state, and at the present time dominates both the political machines. This has incensed the people to a degree that threatens with disaster the application of the company for its new franchise to be voted on May 15. In order to supply the city with better service by connecting all the various residences and business districts with an up-to-date system, the Denver Municipal Traction company was incorporated on the 5th day of this month, under the laws of Colorado, and made application for a franchise for a complete new system of street railroads, not only giving the citizens better transportation facilities, but reaching every part of the business district by a much more direct line, and with easier grades than the present existing system. Under the Constitution of Colorado all applications for franchises must be submitted to a vote of the taxpaying electors of the city, and the applicant must pay the cost of such election. This cost was determined by the treasurer to be fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500,00), and that amount was paid by the new company at the time the application was presented. Under the Denver charter, in order to compel the submission of this question at the regular election, a petition of 25 per cent. of the voters was thought necessary, and this petition is now being circulated and signed, to be presented to the council at its meeting tomorrow evening. It will cost about two thousand dollars ($2,000,00), to pay the circulators of these petitions. The printing and other incidental expenses will make about five hundred dollars ($500), more, or a total of about four thousand dollars $4,000), initial expense. In addition, a sum of money ought to be had sufficient to carry on an educational campaign in each election precinct, showing the taxpaying electors the advantage offered by this new traction system. The old company offers to pay for its twenty (20) year franchise one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000), at the rate of five thousand dollars ($5,000) a month, which is to be in lieu of all other licenses and city charges. The new traction company offers to pay 5 per cent. of its gross receipts during the first ten (10) years, eight (8) per cent. during the next five (5) years and ten per cent. during the last five (5) years, with the guarantee that this sum shall average at least seven- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25 1909. State Hist & Nat Hist Society State House ronizing The ADO THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, ty-five thousand ($75,000) a year to the city. Six (6) full fare tickets and ten (10) children's half fare tickets will be sold, respectively, for 25 cents by the conductors. The city is given the right to purchase the system at the end of ten (10), fifteen (15) and twenty (20) years, respectively, for its actual cost plus 10 per cent. bonus. In case the city purchases it shall assume and pay any outstanding bonded indebtedness up to the amount of such purchase price. This makes the bonds run for a definite period, regardless of the purchase by the city, and in case of such purchase gives them the benefit of the added guarantee of the city. The old company offers none of these terms, excepting the $5,000 a month payment above stated. When these matters are presented to the taxpaying electors in the course of the campaign, as a simple business proposition, they will undoubtedly select that which gives them the lowest fare and the greatest payment into the city treasury. The new company will have the backing of the local capitalists in Denver, as well as the support of the more prominent and influential newspapers having the widest circulation. The franchise application of the new company not only covers the new lines referred to above, but also provides that upon the expiration, lapse or forfeiture of any of the franchises now held by the old company or upon the abandonment or nonuse of any of its lines, the new company shall have the immediate right to enter upon all such streets so abonded, or upon which such franchises have expired or hereafter expire. As a result, if this franchise is granted to the new company it will be but a short time when it will come into possession of practically all the streets now occupied by the old company, since some of the franchises of the old company, in the opinion of lawyers, have already expired, and others expire from year to year until 1912, when all will have expired with the exception of two or three fractional lines. The possibilities, therefore, are open for profit by those who back the new company. First—The possibility of building a new line, or a material portion thereof, and the forcing of the old company to sell out its holdings by reason of losing its franchise rights upon the streets through the lapse of the present existing franchises. Second—The possibility of selling at a handsome figure the new franchise to the old company, to be taken over and exercised under the strict terms of the new franchise. This latter phase of the situation is emphasized by the fact that it is currently reported in Wall street that the old company has arranged for floating $25,000,000 of bonds as soon as it can get a new franchise, and as its plant is not worth over $6,000,000, and when fully completed with all the proposed extensions will not be worth over $8,000,000 or $9,000,000, the stake played for by the old company will thus be seen to be so large that it cannot well afford not to make terms, either by sale of its plant to the new company or by purchase of the new company's franchise, in case one shall be obtained. With these two possibilities in view there can be no question of cleaning up from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 in case the new company secures its franchise as applied for. In order to carry on this fight before the people it is necessary to inspire them with confidence that the appli- cation for this franchise is made in good faith, and that whether the new lines are built or not the city and the people will get all the advantage offered by its terms. In order to inspire this confidence it is necessary to interest parties with capital who can either themselves, or through their financial connections, make public announcement and assurance that the bonds of the new company will be taken as soon as the franchise is granted by the vote of the people. This, together with the favorable terms of the application for the franchise, will undoubtedly secure favorable action at the hands of the electors. Were it not for the bond feature Denver capital would not permit any part of the promotion money to be sought outside of that city. However, for the purpose of interesting men and institutions of capital by which this assurance as to the floating of the bonds can be given to the public, Denver parties are willing to give a controlling interest of fifty-one (51) percent to the parties who will advance twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to assist in paying the expenses of this application for a franchise for this new company and for the educational campaign necessary to thoroughly acquaint the people with the advantages offered. The newspaper support will be given without any charge, and owing to the local situation and the intense feeling against the present tramway company this amount, together with what can be raised locally, will undoubtedly gain a favorable vote which will result in the acquisition of a franchise worth 100 times the expenditure. The Denver capitalists interested in this matter are not only in good faith, but are men prominently identified with large undertakings, and with the aid you and your associates can give them, they feel that the undertaking will be made a complete success. I am interested in this matter only as one who desires to secure the best possible proposition for our citizens at this time with a view to ultimate municipal ownership. While I am not financially interested in the matter, I represent those who are, in presenting it to your favorable consideration. And if you accept the same it will be carried out. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) JOHN A. RUSH, Attorney for Denver Municipal Traction Company. ISAAC FISHER AGAIN. Isaac Fisher, a Tuskegee graduate and president of the State Normal School at Little Rock, has just succeeded in winning a second prize of more importance even than the one which he secured some months ago from the Manufacture's Record by writing an essay on the subject of Good Roads. The second prize is $400 and has just been awarded Mr. Fisher by a committee in Chicago for writing the second best essay on German and American Methods of Regulating Trusts. It seems Mr. Fisher was the only person competing who did not have a college degree, but his essay was such a fine one that the committee made an exception in his case and awarded him the second prize, amounting to $400.—New York Age. RACE NEWS Senator Depew has introduced a bill appropriating $250,000 in aid of the American Emancipation Exposition, which it is proposed to hold at Savannah, Ga., in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the emancipation proclamation. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 14.—The State Board of Education is thoroughly overhauling and remodeling the State Normal School for Negroes at this place. In having the work done the State Board, composed of white Democrats, has employed a Negro architect and a Negro landscape gardener. government has taken precautions to safeguard the life and property of Europeans. Disorders are not feared, except possibly at Harrar where great agitation prevails. The influence of the queen is still considerable. News of Menelik's death has not reached the ministers of foreign affairs. Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 14.—Owing to the inability of the Negroes of Muskogee and other towns in the state to secure reasonable loans and terms on real estate securities located in colored communities, a $50,000 corporation, to be known as the Home Building and Loan The Negroes in Knoxville, Tennessee, continue to make progress. They are forging ahead in many directions. They have two members in the city council. Aside from this Knoxville has something that few cities anywhere in America, North or South, have, and that is four policemen who are on regular duty the same as white policemen. Washington, D. C., Dec. 15—A Jim Crow street car system for the District of Columbia has been proposed in Congress again Representative Heflin, of Alabama introduced it. His position on the race question is pronounced. A year ago he shot a colored man on a Pennsylvania avenue car. He was arrested, but the case was dismissed. Mound Bayou, Miss., Dec. 14.—What is regarded as a movement of far-reaching significance and richly laden with possibilities for the future good of the Negro race in Mississippi has been inaugurated by the North Mississippi Annual A. M. E. Conference, under the leadership of Bishop Edward W. Lampton, it being decided at the recent session of the conference, held in this city, that an agricultural and industrial branch of Campbell College be located on the Campbell College land. Rome, Dec. 18.—A dispatch to the Tribuna, from Jubital, says that King Menelik of Abyssinia died a few days ago. The news of his death was withheld until the arrival at Addis Abeda, the capital, of Ledj Jeassu, the heir to the throne, and his father with troops. Menelik claimed to be a lineal descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The NO.15 government has taken precautions to safeguard the life and property of Europeans. Disorders are not feared, except possibly at Harrar where great agitation prevails. The influence of the queen is still considerable. News of Menelik's death has not reached the ministers of foreign affairs. Muskogee, Okla, Dec. 14—Owing to the inability of the Negroes of Muskogee and other towns in the state to secure reasonable loans and terms on real estate securities located in colored communities, a $50,000 corporation, to be known as the Home Building and Loan Association of Muskogee, has been formed. The objects of this organization are: To furnish convenient, safe and profitable method of investing, even the smallest savings of working people and others; to furnish members of the race who wish to borrow money for any purpose whatever, and who prefer to repay in small installments rather than in one bulk sum at a specified time, the means to do so at a reasonable rate of interest; to assist the working classes of our race to become independent by becoming home owners, and to assist them to make saving a habit by helping them to save. THE LAWSOF DIXIE DENOUNCED. Mrs. Tiney Johnson, Jack Johnson's mother is now a resident of the Windy City, Chicago. She left Galveston, Texas, her home, much to her regret, and also to the regret of her many friends, white and black, who lavishly bestowed their affections and best wishes upon her as she and her next of kin were leaving. Among the memorable incidents we are especially pleased at the expressiou of the railroad ticket agent of that city, who was a playmate and a special friend of Jack Johnson and a man with the courage of his convictions. On entering the day coach to say goodbye to Mrs. Johnson and family, with tears in his eyes he said: "Mrs. Johnson, this is one hour in my life when I feel less than a man. I am forced to deny you comforts over this road which by the damnable laws of Texas I am bound or forced to obey. "Tell Jack I am proud of him and am glad he is able to get out of here and where you may enjoy life, liberty and happiness."—Florida Standard. A. J. STARK & CO. 709 & 711 16th St. HOLIDAY Bargain Tables Hundreds of items have been taken from our regular displays and grouped together in bargain tables for the convenience of Holiday shoppers. Every one of these items has been marked much below regular value, some being worth twice and three times present prices. Tables at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00 and up to $5.00. Each table contains items at but a single price and every price reduced substantially. Tables at 10c; 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c—Tables of Bargains, all of them. Holiday Brass Goods Entire New Line just in. Ferneries, Jardiniers, Candlesticks, Vases and Smokers' Requisites. The Carson Crockery Co. Corner Fifteenth and Stout Sts. ```markdown ``` Do You Know Dr. Dameron has reduced his prices for all Dental Work? $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $5.00; $10.00 Sets for $7.00; $15.00 Sets for $10.00; Gold Crowns Only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Fillings, 50c up. Gold and Platina, $1.00 up. Painless Extracting. ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS. Apapahoe Street oppose the Postoffice. DR. DAMERON, Proprietor. Watch Inspector for the Burlington Route and Colo. & Southern Ry. A. M. Wood Watchmaker and Jeweler IS YOUR TIME RIGHT? 913 SEVENTEENTH ST. Phone Purple 1628. DENVER, COLO. ```markdown ``` Main Floor Tables at $1.00, $1.50, $2 $5.00. Each table contains every price reduced substan Basement Tables at 10c; 15c, 25c, 50c all of them. Holiday Bras Entire New Line just in dlesticks, Vases and Smokers The Crock Corner Fifteen Do You Know $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $5.00 for $10.00; Gold Crowns Only. $5.00c up. Gold and Platina, $1.00 up ALBANY DEN Avapahoe Street opposite the Post Office 人 人 人 Watch Inspector for the Burling A. M. Watchmake IS YOUR TIME RIGHT? Phone Purple 1628. THE TIVOLI UNION BREWING CO. Kali DENVER, CO. East Turner Hall 2132-2148 ARAPAHOE ST. Phone 2449. DENVER. Burlington Route and Colo. & Southern Ry. M. Wood maker and Jeweler 913 SEVENTEENTH ST. DENVER, COLO. PLYSTRATORS DESIGNERS HALF-TONE. ZINC-COLOD & COPPER-PATTE ENGRAVED COPPER WOOD THE DENVER ENGRAVING CO. DENVER PHONE 782 1814 CURTIS STREET GOOD WORK ON TIME! CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. WESTERN NEWS. After cutting all telegraph and tele phone wires entering the town of Paoli, Okla., robbers dynamited the State Bank of Paoli, secured $3,800 in cash and escaped. Victor F. Lawson, proprietor of the Chicago News, has given $100,000 to the $1,000,000 anniversary fund being raised by the Chicago branch of the Young Men's Christian Association. Flax went to $2 a bushel on the grain market at Minneapolis on the 18th inst., a record never before attained. According to the government's estimate, Minnesota and the Dakotas raised $25,000,000 bushels of this grain this year. Father Sherman, son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, is in a sanitarium at Santa Barbara, Cal., as the result of an accident which brought him near to death. Standing on the steps of a moving train, he lost his balance and fell, being badly bruised. Governor Curry of New Mexico has called a meeting of district attorneys at Santa Fe on January 6, 1910, to consider and discuss the collection of taxes, and means and measures to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes, of which over a million dollars are already due. Maj. W. H. Heistand, an inmate on the Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, near Santa Monica, Cal., has fallen heir to the title and estate of Baron Karl Freedrick Heistand, who died recently near Karlstadt, Bavaria. The estate is said to be worth $60,000. The baron was an uncle of Major Heistand, who earned his title in the Civil war and was formerly a district judge in Louisiana. Wyoming Wool Growers' Association officers sent letters to the general managers of all railroads in Wyoming, asking that shipments of hay and grain destined to points in the state be rushed through to destination on passenger train time, because of the urgent need of the feed on the ranges where flocks have been snowbound for weeks. The coroner's jury at Winona, Arizona, investigating the Santa Fe collision in which Mrs. Alice Bennett was killed and fifty passengers injured, returned a verdict after a four days' session, that the wreck was caused by criminal carelessness on the part of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, and recommended that it be taken up by the next grand jury. Arguments in the Missouri River rate case, in which George J. Kindel has been active, will be heard before the United States Supreme Court on January 21st. Word to this effect has been received by Mr. Kindel in a letter from Wade H. Ellis, acting attorney-general. The case was instituted in February, 1907, and concerns freight rates from the Missouri river to Denver. 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. Five lions, a leopard and a variety of other wild animals, the gift of former President Roosevelt to the zoo at Washington, arrived at Philadelphia a few days since on the steamer Molt-kefels. Col. Terrence Clark, sixty-nine years old, who was one of five men who planned and made successful the escape of a number of prisoners from Libby prison by a tunnel, died at Paris, Ill., a few days since. Dr. Jose Madriz, former judge of the Central American Court of Justice at Cartago, and Zelaya's candidate, was on Monday elected president of Nicaragua by the unanimous vote of the Nicaraguan Congress. King Leopold of Belgium died December 17th as the result of a sudden collapse at a time when his recovery seemed hopeful. He will be succeeded by Prince Albert, the only son of Leopold's brother, the late Philippe, Count of Flanders. Grand Duke Michael Nicholaievitch, grand uncle of Emperor Nicholas, died at Cannes, France, December 18th. The grand duke was the oldest representative of the imperial house, having been born in 1832, the fourth son of Emperor Nicholas I. He distinguished himself in several great wars, having begun his military career in the Crimea in 1854. 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. John Masterson Burke, who in 1902 gave $4,000,000 for the institution and maintenance of a home for convales cents, recently died of bronchial pneumonia in New York in his ninety eighth year The Cabinet of Chill, formed Sept. 12th, with Ismael Tocoral as premier and minister of the interior, resigned on the 20th inst. A fine of $100 for theatrical managers who permit tardy patrons to be seated during the progress of a play is fixed in an ordinance passed by the City Council of Cleveland. Late arrivals must wait in the foyer until the end of the act. 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 French Academy of Sciences has announced that gold medals for aeronautic achievements will be awarded to Wilbur and Orville Wright, Bleriot, Farman, Count de Lambert, Latham, Santos Dumont, De La Vaulx, Volsin and Count Zeppelin. Along with the prospect of a million dollar reward, Richard Parr, the special treasury agent who unearthed the sugar frauds on the Williamsburg docks of the American Sugar Refining Company, is receiving letters threatening him with death by poison or violence. By an estimate made by the Post Office Department 300,000 pennies each week are dropped into their mail boxes in payment for postage by persons living on free rural mail routes. This is a great annoyance to the mail carriers and the department urges people to stamp their letters. The crapery store of Arding & Hobbs at Clapham, a southwestern quarter of London, was burned on the 20th inst., involving a loss of $2,500,000. The fire started while the store, covering over an acre of ground and having five floors, was densely crowded with customers. Luckily all escaped injury. Arriving from Julesburg, Colo., Mae C. Wood appeared unexpectedly in the Court of General Sessions in New York City on the 15th inst., and announced she was ready to stand trial under the indictment charging her with forgery and perjury in her breach of promise suit against former Senator Thomas C. Platt. The surety company that was on her bond surrendered her, and failing to secure a new bond, she was sent to the Tombs. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Gen. Leonard Wood will be the next chief of staff of the United States army, succeeding Gen. J. Franklin Bell, whose term expires next spring. The civil service commission announces an examination January 19 to fill two positions at Denver of engineer in wood preservation, at salaries of $1,000 and $1,300 per annum. John F. Vivian, chairman of the Republican State Central committee, has been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as surveyor of customs for Colorado, to succeed the late W. S. Boynton. The Indian service of the government is said to be seriously considering abolishing football at all of the government Indian schools. This would retire the celebrated elevens of Carlisle and the Haskell Institute. President Taft on the 20th inst. sent to the Senate the nomination of Joseph E. Morrison for district attorney of Arizona; Creighton M. Foraker to be United States marshal for New Mexico; land office registers, Edward W. Fox at Clayton, N. M.; Manuel L. Otero at Santa Fe, N. M. Delegate Andrews has introduced a bill to create the Eighth judicial district for the Supreme Court of New Mexico. The proposed legislation contemplates an additional associate justice of the New Mexico court, so that the court as constituted will have a chief justice and seven assistant justices. The interstate commerce commission has dismissed the complaint filed by the South Canon Coal Company against the Colorado & Southern and Denver & Rio Grande railroad companies, in which reparation was asked for an alleged discrimination in rates upon coal shipped from the Big Four to Pueblo and reconsigned to Hutchinson, Kan. The commission held that the rate of $3.60 per ton collected for the combination shipment was not excessive. For the first time in many years, in fact, as far back as the present generation is able to remember, the Chinese legation has two young daughters who not only have acquired an excellent English education, but who have permanently adopted American dress. Mme. Chang Yin Tang, wife of the newly appointed minister, has worn American dress several years, and her daughters have adopted the same fashion. America in ten months has used $64,000,000 worth of coffee, or 845,000; 000 pounds. Eight-ninths of it came from South America. Brazil furnished more than 600,000,000 pounds. Coffee is only an indication of the proportions which the trade between the United States and South America has assumed this year. All previous records for South American importation will be passed, according to calculations of the Bureau of Statistics. The total value of all the imports will be more than $260,000,000. Exports will probably reach the high water mark of $86,000,000. The following fourth class postoffices will be made presidential January 1st: La Jara, Marble and Platteville, Colo.; Sundance, Wyo., and Aztec, N. M., each with a salary of $1,100 per annum; Fort Bayard, N. M., at $1,200, and Malgalena at $1,000. Judge Horace H. Lurton was confirmed on the 20th inst. by the Senate as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. No opposition appeared. The Senate also confirmed the nomination of William J. Mills of East Las Vegas, N. M., to be governor of New Mexico. CONDUCTOR WENT TOO FAR Diplomatic Step Was All Right, But He Didn't Know Just When to Stop. A much-bothered conductor on an east-bound car was asked by a chilly lady passenger to close the ventilators. As he had already been importuned to open them by a half dozen other patrons he resorted to diplomacy. "Madam," he said in a confidential tone, "I'd gladly close the ventilators, but unfortunately a health officer is aboard the car and he insists that they must be left open. I'd make myself liable to a lot of trouble if I opposed him." "A health officer?" said the lady. "Yes'm," replied the conductor. And then intoxicated by the success of his scheme he unhappily added—"the one with the brown derby." The lady looked and a change came over her face. "The one with the brown derby?" she repeated. "Yes'm. They say he's quite an expert on germs and things. I believe he's a German gentleman." The lady stared at the conductor. "He's nothing of the kind," she snapped. "The man with the brown derby is my husband!" Whereupon the conductor beat a hasty retreat.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. SORE EYES CURED. Eye-Balls and Lids Became Terribly Inflamed—Was Unable to Go About—All Other Treatments Failed, But Cuticura Proved Successful. "About two years ago my eyes got in such a condition that I was unable to go about. They were terribly inflamed, both the balls and lids. I tried home remedies without relief. Then I decided to go to our family physician, but he didn't help them. Then I tried two more of our most prominent physicians, but my eyes grew continually worse. At this time a friend of mine advised me to try Cuticura Ointment, and after using it about one week my eyes were considerably improved, and in two weeks they were almost well. They have never given me any trouble since and I am now sixty-five years old. I shall always praise Cuticura. G. B. Halsey, Mouth of Wilson, Va., Apr. 4, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston A Remnant of the Dark. A colored man died without medical attendance, and the coroner went to investigate. "Did Samuel Williams live here?" he asked the weeping woman who opened the door. "Yassuh," she replied between sobs. "I want to see the remains." "I is de remains," she answered, proudly.—Everybody's Magazine. Important to Mothers. 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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 for 30c on the dollar and less because the Insurance Company paid up 77% of the total Glasgow Tailors 620 SIXTEENTH STREET GREAT NORTHERN FUEL CO. | . Office 1552 Welton St. Phones M. 742 743 ‘ i COAL, WOOD, CHARCOAL : i Best Kinds, Best Prices, Best ; Treatment. Try UsandSee } WE LEAD IN TAILORING! For Correct Style and Exceptional WorKman- ship See Us. Suits to Your Measure ‘ & AMERICAN TAILORS, oe. e Telephone 2635. Established 1879. MERCHANT TAILOR 327 Sixteenth Street Opp. Court House. ‘Nes DENVER, COLO. Uniforms built to order for every kind of Uniformed Organization. When you Want East’s Market WILMAMION HAFFNER @ ENGRAVERS-PRINTERS Clits SCAU DENVER, COLQ Printer’s Ink When used on good presses and neatly displayed type for your station- I rile rege Cnet taht work, at a minimum price. Joseph H. Stuart LAWYBR sates Practice in all eourts. Examining Abstract of Titles and Draw- * ing up Legal Instru- ments Given Care- ful Attention. 329 Kittredge Building Phone: Ollve 2294 Res.—527 26th street. There’s a Way To defeat the mail order man’s cut throat methods in this community. The way is publicity for your business —it's’ the same way he uses. Oun columns will give your business the publicity you need. 2 Pe 6 oe vf CG Re ~@ CHRISIMA SM CIDINNE Ra ENV ee 4“ RPO ON ASK “hee ye RANCH 1 dy # Fi, . LNG One Ga a NE DECEMBER, while I was out on my ranch, 80 much work had to be done that it was within a week of Christmas before we were able to take any thought for the Christmas dinner. The winter set in late that year, and there had been comparatively little cold weather, but one day the fee on the river had been sufficiently strong to enable us to haul up a wagonload of flour, with enough salt pork to last through the winter, and a very few tins of canned goods, to be used at special feasts. We had some bushels of potatoes, the heroic victors of a struggle for existence in which the rest of our garden vegetables had suc- cumbed to drought, frost and grass- hoppers; and we also had some wild plums a) . dried elk venison. But we had no ffesh meat, and so one day my foreman and I agreed to make a hunt on the morrow. Accordingly one of the cowboys rode out in the frosty afternoon to fetch in the saddleband from the pla- teau thn e miles off, where they were grazing, It was after sunset when he returned It was necessary to get to the hunt: ing grovnds by sunrise, and it still lacked a couple of hours of dawn when the forenan wakened me as I las asleep beneath the buffalo robes. Dressing hurriedly and breakfasting ‘on a@ cup of coffee and some mouth- fuls of bread and jerked elk meat, we slipped out to the barn, threw the saddles un the horses, and were off. ‘The air was bitterly chill; the cold had been severe for two days, so that the river {ce would again bear horses. Beneath the light covering of pow- dery snow we could feel the rough ground like wrinkled iron under the horses’ hoofs. There was no moon, but the stars shone beautifully down through the cold, clear air, and our willing horses galloped swiftly across the long bottom on which the ranch house stood, threading their way deft. ly among the clumps of sagebrush. ‘A mile off we crossed the river, the ice cracking with noises like pistol shots as our horses picked their way gingerly over it. On the opposite side was a dense jungle of bull-berry bushes, and on breaking through this we found ourselves galloping up a long, winding valley, which led back many miles into the hills. The cran- nies and little side ravines were filled with brushwood and groves of stunt: ed ash. By this time there was a faint flush of gray in the east, and as we rode silently along we could make out dimly the tracks made by the wild animals as they had passed and re- passed in the snow. Several times we dismounted to examine them. A \ ao en a ¥ fy } vi is fat PN NUS Li yi) i) a> “Ml i ran t A CEA \ ee nin Ee Up J » VA Re Yi ‘| yy Ade [ Y ! S Si a eo MD AS Wa aN NN [> le Ne) Suc Hie: OR <2 Shen = = =< We 1 => To Sew 2, Jee We Dismounted to Examine Them. couple of coyotes, possibly frightened by our approach, had trotted and loped up the valley ahead of us, leav- ing a trail like that of two dogs; the sharper, more delicate footprints of a fox crossed our path; and outside one long patch of bri:shwood a series of round imprints in the snow betrayed where a bob-cat—as: plainsmen term the small lynx—had been lurking around to try to pick up a rabbit or a prairie fowl. ‘As the dawn reddened, and it be- came light enough to see objects some little way off, we began to sit erect in our saddles and to scan the hill sides sharply for sight of feeding deer. Hitherto we had seen no deer tracks save inside the bullberry bushes by the river, and we knew that the deer that lived in that {impenetrable jun- gle were cunning whitetails which in such a place could be hunted only by afd of a hound. But just before sun- rise we came on three lines of heart- shaped footmarks in the snow, which ‘showed where as many deer had just ‘crossed a little plain ahead of us. ‘They were walking leisurely, and from the lay of the land we believed that “we should find them over the ridge, “where there was a brush coulee. Riding to one side of the trail, we topped the little ridge Just as the sun flamed up, a burning ball of crimson, beyond the snowy waste at our backs. Almost immediately afterwards my companion leaped from his horse and leas ey ape Pct aS I Hees. egg) Linge GBI IS Ts eds NOM By BEY 22 oS ONG Turning to Go Into the Log House. raised his rifle, and as he pulled the trigger I saw through the twigs of a brush patch on ovr left the erect, startled head of young black-tailed doe as she turned to look at us, her great mule-like ears thrown forward. The ball broke her nec, and she turned a complete somersault down- hill, while a sudden smashing of un- derbrush told of the fight of her ter- rified companions. We both laughed and called out “dinner” as we sprang down toward her, and in a few minutes she was dressed and hung up oy the hind legs on a small ash tree. The entrails and viscera we threw off to one side, nfter carefully poisoning them from fa Iittle bottle of strychnine which I had in my pocket. Almost every cat- tleman carries poison and neglects no ehance of leaving out wolf bait, for the wolves are sources of serious loss to the unfenced and unhoused flocks and herds. In this instance we felt particularly revengeful because it was but a few days since we had lost a fine yearling heifer. The tracks on the hillside where the carcass lay when we found it told the story plainly. The wolves, two in number, had crept up close before being dis- covered, and had then raced down on the astounded heifer almost before she could get fairly started. One brute had hamstrung her with a snap of his vise-like jaws, and once down, she was torn open in a twinkling. No sooner was the sun up than a warm west wind began to blow in our faces. The weather had suddenly changed, and within an hour the snow was beginning to thaw and to leave patches of bare ground on the _hill- sides. We left our coats with our horses and struck off on foot for a group of high buttes cut up by the cedar canyons and gorges, in which we knew the old bucks loved to lie. It was noon before we saw anything more. We lunched at a clear spring —not needing much time, for all we had to do was to drink a draught of fey water and munch a strip of dried venison. Shortly afterward, as we were moving along a hillside with sl- lent caution, we came to a sheer can- yon of which the opposite face was broken by little ledges grown up with wind-beaten cedars. As we peeped over the edge, my companion touched my arm and pointed silently to one of the ledges, and instantly I caught the glint of a buck’s horns as he lay half behind an old tree trunk. A slight shift of position gave me a fair shot slanting down between his shoulders, and though he struggled to his feet he did not go 50 yards after receiving the bullet. ‘This was all we could carry. Lead- ing the horses around we packed the buck behind my companion’s saddle, and then rode back for the doe, which I put behind mine. But we were not destined to reach home without a slight adventure. When we got to the river we rode boldly on the ice, heedless of the thaw; and about mid- way there was a sudden, tremendous crash, and men, horses and deer were scrambling together in the water amid slabs of floating ice. However, it was shallow and no worve results followed than some hard work and a chilly bath. But what cared we We were returning triumphant with our Christ- mas dinner. The Allen Drug Store Pure Drugs, Hot and Cold Drinks, Toilet Articles and Cigars, Pre- scriptions carefully compounded by a registered pharmacist. Prompt delivery to any part of the city. The Only Colored Drug Store in the City G. A. 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The establishment of the post of military attache for the government of the United States at the capital of Liberia is an important step in the development of international affairs affecting the welfare of the Negro republic in Africa, and the appointment of a distinguished black soldier to fill the post is significant. If it shall assist the Liberians in the establishment and maintenance of a system of territorial police, of a character similar to those maintained by other governments in Africa, it will increase her influence over the native tribes and help her materially to maintain her international integrity. The departure in itself is a promise of a further and greater interest in Liberia's welfare on the part of the government of the United States. CURBING THE CLUBS scale efforts to improve the moral status recommendable, but it is seldom possible to maintain benefit along this line by any trade, such as are often adopted by our long periods of lethargy and pass liberal or immoral institutions and use the social body. Campaign waged against the so-called culminated in the visit of a minister to board, to endorse the board's action to pose the granting of further license of the clubs, was well enough in its gained thereby is apt to be short-instance before the city authorities permanent remedy for the evil aim with all the equities involved mayptions of moral reform to perpetrate well-meaning persons, and thus be the good that has been accomplished. Aive way to combat evil conditions is by working against their primary esse of a community is established by kinds of a majority of the people by not by periodical revulsions against sense of public morals makes it in institutions which openly and flag clubs or other organizations or instituted by other classes of the people are themselves, and particularly of moral teachers. We do not pay ene of community affairs. Our church of the influences which mould the evil inclinations of the mature, public and private, and fewer on bliss. If we take care of the presure. So let our efforts be to raise the other than to wage spasmodic and inti which we have carelessly permitted. All reasonable efforts to improve the moral status of the people of a community are commendable, but it is seldom possible to accomplish anything of permanent benefit along this line by any sudden uprising or spasmodic crusade, such as are often adopted by our moral leaders and teachers, after long periods of lethargy and passive neglect, under which extremely liberal or immoral institutions and usages have become firmly rooted in the social body. The recent campaign waged against the so-called social clubs in this city, which culminated in the visit of a ministerial delegation to the fire and police board, to endorse the board's action in closing these places and to oppose the granting of further license to the promoters and supporters of the clubs, was well enough in its way, but whatever moral victory was gained thereby is apt to be short-lived if this policy of physical remonstrance before the city authorities is too confidantly relied upon as a permanent remedy for the evil aimed at. Unfamiliarity with all the equities involved may lead some of the over-ardent champions of moral reform to perpetrate actual injustice upon innocent and well-meaning persons, and thus bring on a reaction which will upset the good that has been accomplished and dissipate the moral prestige gained. A more effective way to combat evil conditions is the steady practice of preaching and working against their primary establishment. The moral character of a community is established by what is instilled into the hearts and minds of a majority of the people by insistent preaching and practice, and not by periodical revulsions against insidious evil growths. A high sense of public morals makes it impossible to establish and conduct institutions which openly and flagrantly pervert the law. If colored clubs or other organizations or institutions are worse than those maintained by other classes of the people, it is the fault of the colored people themselves, and particularly of those who are in position to be our moral teachers. We do not pay enough attention to this practical side of community affairs. Our churches have not been jealous enough of the influences which mould the characters of the young and check the evil inclinations of the mature. We need more sermons on morals, public and private, and fewer on the imageries and theories of future bliss. If we take care of the present, the future will be reasonably secure. So let our efforts be to raise the general morals of the people rather than to wage spasmodic and intermittent warfare upon conditions which we have carelessly permitted to grow up into established usages. THE NEW YEAR CAROUSAL hat merry-go-round. Did you ever go one of the great circles of the fly through space, first full of apprehension to exhilation, fascination and the carriages fill as the great wain, comfortable, safe vehicles, as if passengers on a trip which they hoped for the chariots, drawn by prancing by their occupants were going off to wail fierce visages, carrying their rider. The great bear shambled by LIFE is a great merry-go-round. Did you ever think of it? We are just completing one of the great circles of the flying images. It has been a great ride through space, first full of apprehension and fear, and then changing to exhilation, fascination and all the degrees of excitement. We saw the carriages fill as the great wheel was starting. Many took the plain, comfortable, safe vehicles, as if they were content to be ordinary passengers on a trip which they hoped would be uneventful; then came the chariots, drawn by prancing horses with gaudy trappings, as if their occupants were going off to war; then followed the lions, with their fierce visages, carrying their riders on a course of conquest and power. The great bear shambled by with his load of humanity, growling at the fates that increased his hunger and striking terror into the hearts of the timid; some were swimming smoothly through space on the sleek backs of glossy seals and walruses, and some glided along on the backs of timid deer. Perhaps a lumbering elephant and his confident passengers crushed their way over all obstacles and minded not whether their progress caused happiness or suffering, and perhaps a puny gazelle rushed frightened by, as if fearful that each new vision would bring him face to face with his doom. Black horses drew a stately ear, draped and sombre, and those who rode therein were silent and mysterious, and somewhere on the journey they left the flying wheel and never returned. But when all was ready, off we went through space, with the ravishing music of the stars ringing in our ears. And what a journey it has been! What new sights we have seen and sensations realized! Laughter and light hearts ahead of us; fear and despair behind us; fainting and sorrowing across the circle, and a great cavaleade of brave and steady riders making up the flying wheel. We can have but one ride for a single fare, unless we have been lucky or alert enough to snatch a prize ring as we flew by the prize posts. Some have paid for other rounds and some for a continuous ride. A favored few enjoy unpaid privileges, and ride with an air of haughty comfort and arrogant disdain. But those who could afford but a single fare must have labored and sweated and contrived during the journey to pay for the chance of another round of toil. For we all must ride on this carousel of life, or be put off if we are unable to pay the fare. It is well to be prepared and fit for the journey, and it is well to choose our vehicle with care, for courage and strength and pride and hope and patience, honor and determination are needed to carry us on the recurring rounds, before we enter the sombre car, drawn by black horses, whose occupants never return. ```markdown ``` Preparedness THAT IS A BIG WORD, ISN'T IT IT IS CLEARLY EXPRESSIVE HOWEVER, AND FITS THE IDEA COMPLETELY IN WHAT WE WANT TO CONVEY TO YOU, THAT WE ARE PREPARED TO FURNISH YOU WITH ALL KINDS OF CHRISTMAS SLIPPERS For Men & Women AT $1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75,$2 & $2.50 EACH KIND IS A LIVE AND FORCE FUL PATTERN AND STYLE THAT WILL CONVINCE YOU ON SIGHT THAT YOU CAN DEPEND UPON US FOR SATISFACTION IN YOUR SHOE PURCHASES. 1 HENNING'S $2.50 SHOE STORE For Ho GIFT Useful, Durable SUCH AS Men's High Class Suits a chiefs, Socks, Swea Kind L. H. MAYER 820 SIXTEENTH STREET BOE RESTA For Holiday Useful, Durable and Beautiful SUCH AS Men's High Class Suits and Overcoats, Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, Socks, Sweaters, Robes and House Coats 2212 Larimer Street 838 Fifteenth Street, LITTLE-AT-A-TIME-STORE. The Spengel House Furnishing Company is a name that has become a household word to the people of Denver. Situated in a magnificent five-story building, at the corner of Sixteenth and Lawrence streets. This popular well-stocked store has made wonderful strides during the past few years. Starting on Larimer street in a basement room 25 feet front by 125 in depth, the business soon outgrew its cramped quarters and was removed to Arapahoe street, where for a number of years it continued to flourish and expand, until it moved into its present superb home. It is in fact as well as in name "the store for thrifty people." For any one, on easy terms, might have a home nicely furnished by paying little-at-a-time." The rapid growth and wonderful development of this store are mainly due to the masterful genius and far-reaching business of Mr. A. J. Spengel, the president and general manager of the company. Genial, courteous, energetic and broad-minded, he studies the wants of the community and by a careful and conscientious attention to details has made his business the leading one in its line in the city—a business where rich and poor alike may find what suits their individual taste and means, and where all may be assured of courteous treatment and an absolute square deal. Mr. Charles Langbecker, the floor walker, will meet you at the door and with great politeness he will direct you to the particular department you wish, where, with equal courtesy, you are waited upon by the clerks. In buying your Christmas presents, if your money is getting scarce, visit the Spengel House Furnishing Company and pay a small deposit on your purchase and finish paying for them with the money you earn in the future. Already Occupied with Rakes. The wife of a Kansas City saloon keeper asked him why he didn't gather up the leaves which littered his yard and burn them. "The truth is," he replied, "I can't leave the rakes long enough to rake the leaves." Pertinent Equipment. "Pop, auntie read me a story the other day about a flower fairy who rode the horse chestnut." "Yes, son." "Well, when flower fairies ride horse chestnuts, do they use larkspurs?" Equestrian Feat. Just after the outbreak of the Kafir war Sir Harry Smith, carrying the news from Cape Town to Grahamstown, covered 700 miles in six days, riding across a wild and nearly trackless country. Strength Misplaced. "There are some strong features mentioned in Mrs. Fakit's boarding house advertisement." "Then I'll bet she put in the coffee and left out the butter." The Chief Cause of Trouble. Most people fret not because they have so little but because their neighbors have so much. Killing the Rabbit. Victoria, Australia, spends $475,000 per year in the endeavor to extreminate the rabbit. The Lucrative End. "So you don't want to be the manager of my new hotel!" "No," answered the head waiter. "I'd rather go on accepting gratuities in my present mental position." "But you won't have any dignity or authority." "True. But the chances are that I will eventually have a mortgage on the place." Washington Star. Holiday GIFTS THAT ARE ble and Beautiful uits and Overcoats, Neckwear, Handker- Sweaters, Robes and House Coats Kindly give us a call R & BROTHER SYMES BUILDING & JOES AURANT --- Christmas Footw For Everybody SLIPPERS DANCING PUMPS DRESS SHOES FELT SLIPPE RIDING Or We Can Sell You a Shoe S & H GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. — OPP. JOSLINS A Great December Clearance OF Ladies' Coats and S Too many garments on hand; prices cut for a tion of stock, believing it best to take a small loss o when you want the garments. A saving of 25 TO 35 PER GENT Christmas Footwear SLIPPERS DANCING PUMPS DRESS SHOES FELT SLIPPERS RIDING BOOTS Or We Can Sell You a Shoe Certificate 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 GENT to you on coat and suit prices is our offer. Ladies' Suits 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 Suits popular fall and winter colors, cloths, coats 40 and 45 inches ale in 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 $1 $14.50 for Suits that were $20.00 and $2 $18.50 for Suits that were $25.00 and $2 $22.50 for Suits that were $30.00 and $3 were $15.00 and $17.50 were $20.00 and $22.50 were $25.00 and $27.50 were $30.00 and $32.50 $ 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 black broadcloth coats, lined e at following price reductions: ts that were $15.00 ts that were $20.00 ts that were $25.00 ts that were $30.00 ts that were $35.00 ts that were $40.00 Children's Coats Long cloth coats for girls aged 10, 12 and 14 years them that are worth $5.00 to $8.75, will be closed o 2 Special Bargain Lots at $3.95 an $9.00 For choice of 33 Ladies' and Misses' colored all-wo Coats, many of them lined throughout with good half lined, that formerly sold for $15.00, $20.00 an SILVERSMITH & HILLER, 925 Slxt SPLENDID CHRISTMAS BAR AT THE DOWN TOWN MILLINER 10, 12 and 14 years, about 50 of 175, will be closed out in at $3.95 and $4.95 OO lesses' colored all-wool broadeloth throughout with good satin, others for $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00. LER, 925 Sixteenth St. TIMAS BARGAINS THE MILLINERY CO. 1120-1124 SIXTEENTH STREET Daniels & Fisher's opp.— formerly Howland's. 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 broadcloth 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. SPLENDID CHRISTMAS BARGAINS DOWN TOWN MILLINERY CO. Two More Big Shopping Days Odd Fur Pieces will be sold at great reductions—from $2.75 up—black, brown and white. Handsome evening boas, scarfs and veils—a beautiful assortment, on special Holiday Sales. The best Ribbons in the city will be found in our Ribbon Department. Great holiday sales. Our special 25c a yard fancy ribbons are big bargains. Sale of Holiday Hats Trimmed from our Stock Room Materials, worth from $7.90 to $10 —very special this week—$2.25 and $2.75. Tam O'Shanters for the children, worth 75c and $1.00—Holiday Sale at 25c each. --- THE BROADHURST CARTER SHOE CO. AT THE ```markdown ``` Watch the columns of this paper for holiday bargains. Mrs. Fred Ratley was on the sick list last week. The Masons' forty-second entertainment will be given at East Turner hall Monday, Dec. 27, 1909. Miss Kittie Talbot, sister of Mrs. Jo Short of Chicago, Ill. The colors were red and white. The rooms were dored with Xmas bells and vases, red and white carnations. Mrs. Dennis of Oakland, Calif., won first dies' prize. Mrs. Fred Ratley won second prize. Mrs. O. Dishman won third prize. Mr. M. Tompkins won first gentleman's prize. Mr. R. A. B. Thomas Edwards left last Thursday to spend the holidays with his mother and other relations in Virginia. J. C. Bloom & Co., one of the finest jewelry firms on Sixteenth street. Give them a call. Prices reasonable. Before buying your Christmas presents consult the advertising columns of the Colorado Statesman for bargains. Miss Lizzie Kizee who has been the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Morris Campbell for several months, left last week for Chicago. Wade H. Hammond, chief musician of the Ninth cavalry, and Clyde O. Andrews of Fort Russell, Wyo., were guests in the city last week. Dr. J. A. Harper left Wednesday for the East on business. Dr. Harper expects to be home by January 5th and will be glad to see all his patients. 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. Simon Caulsberry died Tuesday, December 14th in Reno, Nevada. Mr. Caulsberry leaves a wife, son and several friends in this city to mourn his loss. Mrs. Louis Jones of 14 West Eighth avenue dropped dead while cooking ner Sunday dinner. Heart trouble is thought to have been the cause of death. The infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Groves died at their home, 3436 Larimer street, Tuesday morning. Interment at Riverside. The Douglass Underpaking Company have charge of the arrangements. The many friends of Mrs. J. George Young of Omaha, Neb., who was the guest of Mrs. Mary E. Travick some months ago, were very much surprised to learn that she gave birth to a handsome daughter last Tuesday. Mrs. A. M. Ward is improving nicely from the operation she underwent. George Williams of Western University arrived in the city this week to spend the holidays with his parents. Mrs. L. E. Mackey will spend the holidays with friends in Chicago and Pittsfield, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. George S. Contee celebrated their twentieth anniversary last Friday evening at their beautiful residence at 2612 Welton street. The house was decorated with palms, cut flowers and Christmas greens. They received many beautiful presents from their hosts of friends. Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P., elected the following officers at their regular meeting, Friday evening, December 17th, for the ensuing term: J. W. Hardy, C. C.; W. T. Kelton, V. C., re-elected; C. W. Young, Prelate, re-elected; C. S. Muse, M. of F., re-elected; J. R. Contee, M. of E., re-elected; W. A. Rice, K. of R. & S., re-elected; D. W. Walker, M. of A.; W. E. Mitchell, Trustee; Representatives, C. A. Franklin, W. H. Penson, W. E. Mitchell and W. A. Rice. Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 2320, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, held their annual election last Thursday evening and elected the following officers: I. G., Geo. A. Derry; Warden, Wm. H. Curd; R. S. to V. G., F. C. Payne; L. S. to V. G., E. Douglas; R. S. to N. G., Joseph Welch; L. S. to N. G., D. B. Faw; Elective Sec'y., Jos. C. Gentry; Vice Grand, J. W. Jackson; Noble Grand, F. T. Bruce; P. N. Grand, Chas. L. Carry; N. F., R. M. Johnson; P. N. F., J. W. Hardy; W. C., J. W. Russell; J. A., Jas. J. Manuel; W. T., P. W. Walker; Per. Secretary, Geo. S. Contee. Saturday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bush, 2322 Arapahoe street, forty-three guests were entertained at cards in honor of --- Miss Kittle Talbot, sister of Mrs. John Short of Chicago, Ill. The colors were red and white. The rooms were decorated with Xmas bells and vases of red and white carnations. Mrs. Dennis of Oakland, Calif., won first ladies' prize. Mrs. Fred Ratley won second prize. Mrs. O. Dishman won third prize. Mr. M. Tompkins won first gentleman's prize. Mr. R. A. Butler won second prize. Mr. Leonard Anderson won third prize. A lunch was served and at a late hour the jolly crowd departed. THE PEOPLE'E PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sermon topics, Sunday, December 26th: 11:00 a. m., "The Pre-eminent One." 6:45 p. m., Y. P. S. C. E. 7:30 p. m., "The Man Who Wouldn't." TUBERCULOSIS PAPER READ BEFORE THE TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT AND THE PEOPLES SUNDAY ALLIANCE. BY DR. J. H. P. WESTBROOK. In the hurried writing of this paper I beg your indulgence in any suggestion it may give as to carelessness in preparation. You will also pardon me if I do not use the words "phthisis" or "tuberculosis," but stick to the common name by which even the most ignorant understand its meaning—consumption. Consumption is the worst enemy of the Negro. A disease that kills almost one-half of the human family with the Negro's percentage rate looming up with such an alarming toll, should be reason sufficiently great for the warfare now being waged against it. The germ of consumption is one of the smallest known, and very simple-looking in its appearance, and attacks any organ of the body, as lungs, throat, the membranes of the brain, the bones, kidneys, bladder, skin, liver, intestines and lymphatic glands. Some organs develop the disease more readily than others, and some races will develop it more quickly than others—the Negro, for instance. Before the Negro was freed, consumption was an exceedingly rare disease; while at the present time it is the scourge of the race, and it is alarming to relate that the percentage is 150% greater with the Negroes than with the whites of this country today. I have, in my office, some statistics from the Health Department of the City of Memphis, my former home, and where the population is about half white and half black. Let me quote to you the record of September, 1907. The death report from the six most dreaded diseases in that city during that month was as follows: Measles, 2; scarlet fever, 10; diphtheria, 13; appendicitis, 19; whooping cough, 35; typhoid fever, 45. Total 124. The deaths from consumption alone, during the same month, were 265—the larger per cent, of which were Negroes. Look at the statistics as presented by the consumption exhibit, showing the death rate of the Negroes to be greater in every instance, conditions which at once look grave and threaten the perpetuity of the race. And these statistics are presented to us by reliable and able searchers after truth and all tend to prove that the death rate of the Negro is from two to seven times that of any other race with the exception of the Irish, whose death rate is about two-thirds that of the colored people. A comparison of the total population emphasizes the seriousness of the condition among our people. While the Negro people are eight and one-half millions, or 11%, of the whole population, only five of the twelve nationalities, England, Hungary, Scandinavia, Poland, Germany, France, Bohemia, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Russia and Italy, in the United States are over a million in number. The Germans number six and one-half millions, but their death rate is only one-third that of the colored race. England, Canada and Scandinavia are each a little less than two millions with a death rate less than one-third that of the Negro. The consumptive problem, together with that of other nationalities, becomes almost insignificant, and the question is, if consumption has made such a physical impression upon the Negro in forty years what is his future hope, unless our own physicians take a stand with other men and make an uncompromising fight. When one class of people live, thrive and are seemingly almost immune from certain maladies, and another class, side by side, becoming rapidly extinct, it becomes the duty of every citizen to seek out the causes which have led to the betterment of the one and the destruction of the other, and apply whatever remedy there seems to be indicated to extirpate the evil. I am deliberately avoiding any discussion of the causes, in order to make clear the prevalence of the disease. The discussion of the cause of the high death rate is profitable so far as it assists us in an effort to stamp it out. This is a statement which should be emphasized, for the reason that there are some who become unreasonable and separate the one class, inclining to ascribe the prevalence entirely to racial characteristics and the other class ascribing it altogether to environments. The extent to which racial element enters into the disease really has not been determined, but in my opinion racial element has little or nothing to do with it. The great question that confronts us here in Denver is, what can we do in the way of preventive treatment? If you have taken time to read the instruction on the walls and listened to the advice from the graphophone, and have had these lessons impressed upon your mind, you have as the laity progressed a long way. Ninety-nine out of every hundred cases which we come in contact with are well developed, unmistakable cases of consumption. And as a rule these people come to Denver with little or no means of support. The institutions that are established for the care of consumptive patients, Agnes Memorial, the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, the Oakes Home, and the other institutions of less prominence, all close their doors to the colored patient. I am not criticising these conditions, but simply mentioning facts. The better class or more well-to-do Negroes do not want to house the consumptive for fear of contamination. And as a result, rather than sleep out of doors, which, by the way would be better, they drift into the hands of some poor washer woman, who is tempted by the price of a week's lodging. And there they commence the beginning of the end. One of the most important and much needed institutions in Denver or some point in the state, is a place to care for Negro consumptives. We as a race ought to push such a project and the white people in this community ought to give us every assistance. How many homes have become infected by contamination of servants—whether it be the cook, wash woman or chauffeur, who have come from homes where consumptive persons have been spreading their millions of bacteria; and this infection is possible because there is no other place to take them except into these private residences. I have had two colored doctors under my treatment who came here from the South suffering with this dreaded disease, which is not only the great white plague, but a death-destroying black plague. These men had ample means to pay their way, but both died, and in my judgment the dingy dark room with the kerosene lamp and the foul air, the absence of sunshine, stood as a stone wall between those men and the hope of recovery. Another thing: it is impossible to get a patient in the County Hospital until after a residence of from six months to one year (and again, let me say, I am not criticising the condition of affairs, but must mention them to show you the exact status of the Negro consumptive in Denver). And when a Negro comes to Colorado with consumption, with a little money, he more or less meets some unscrupulous physician who, under the pretext of a cure extorts considerable of his money. And, after he has paid a few months' board and lodging, he is without means. Having no people to send him anything, he becomes a ward of the city. The Charity organizations and the Colored churches take up collections for him, but there is no place to send him, and as a result he stays in these private residences, spreading the disease and gradually, slowly dying. Ladies and gentlemen, let me say in conclusion, if I have any one thing at heart in this crusade against consumption, if I am led to believe there is any hope or benefit by these exhibitions, to be derived by the Negro, then that most tangible result would be encouragement and assistance toward the necessary steps being taken for the establishment of a place to take care of these people, both for the benefit of the black race and the white race, and it would be the only institution of its kind in the world. LOCAL NOTICES. Hair cut, 15c, 1847 Blake street. S. A. Bondurant, dealer in slightly worn men's clothing. Dress suits for rent. Phone Main 3433, 1077 Broadway. Two nicely furnished rooms for rent for light housekeeping. Apply at 1050 Logan avenue. Nicely furnished front rooms for rent. Inquire at Mrs. Potts, 247 Jason street. Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2041 Stout street. HOLIDAY BOOKS—ORDER NOW. "Following the Color Line," by Ray Stannard Baker, $2.00. 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He bought the porte-cochere of the house in which Danton lived, for the house was pulled down to make room for the Boluevard St. Germain. This doorway was presented in the name of the Sardou family to the Carnavalot museum. M. O'KEEFE & CO. Manufacturing Jewelers and Opticians FINE Watch Repairing RAILROAD WATCHES A SPECIA TY F fifteenth Street, DENVER, COLORADO Phone—Main 6440. Ford's Hair Pomade ```markdown ``` What is more attractive than a beautiful head of hair? It has been the ambition of women in all ages. The use of Ford's Hair Pomade makes stubborn hair, curly hair softer, more flexible and glossy, curly hair more arrange in any style desired consistent with its length, as long as the Pomade remains in the hair. This result may be obtained by one thorough application according to directions. Two to four applications a month will yield satisfactory results, and to four bottles, regular size, are usually sufficient for a year. 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FORD'S HAIR POMADE is made only in Chicago by the above firm. Agents Wanted Everywhere. Johnson-Noel C DRUMMERS' SAMPLES SALE Of Hand-Painted French and Italian China From the famous studios of Avenirs and old abbey of Limoges and Ginoria 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. SALE STARTS FRIDAY. FREE A BEAUTIFUL BOX WITH ALL PLATES. CUT GLASS, 1/2 OFF. NEW YEAR'S BALL GIVEN BY RICE LODGE, NO.39, I. B. P.O.E. OF W. MONDAY NIGHT, JAN. 3rd. ADMISSION 50 CENTS J. C. BLOOM & CO. 730 SIXTEENTH STREET DIAMONDS, WATCHES AND ALL KINDS OF JEWELRY—GOLD, SILVER AND FILLED, FOR THE HOLIDAYS. PRICES GUARANTEED THE LOWEST. GIVE US A CALL AND INSPECT OUR STOCK ```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— Suspenders and Ties to 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 1005 SIXTEENTH STREET. SUMMERS' SAMPL LE Of Hand-Painted and Italian China nous studios of Avenirs and old abbey o y, at 1/2 the prices that the goods are m the most beautiful and artistic fancy Ch ese prices, decorated with inlaid gold de piece is a work of art, the shapes are ne tiful. The quantity is limited and won't ly response. Dinner-Ware at Cost 422 SIXTEENTH STREET. FREE A BEA WITH CUT GLASS, 1/4 OFF. A 1435-37 Sixteenth Street and 1533 Welton Street Thurston H Flor RESIDENCE AND GREENHOUSE urston H. U. Smith Florist E AND GREENHOUSE S, 2961 LAWRENCE STREET. Telephone Main 5386. RESIDENCE AND GREENHOUSE S, 2961 LAWRENCE STREET. 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 THIRTIETH ST. FURS LARGEST ASSORTMENT THE CITY. THE BETTER MONEY. J. NEI 616 SIXTEENTH STREET, MAIL ORDERS A DIAMOND LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF FINE FURS IN CITY. THE BETTER FURS FOR LESS KEY. NEILSON TH STREET, DENVER, COLORADO. MAIL ORDERS A SPECIALTY. AMONDS LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF FINE FURS IN THE CITY. THE BETTER FURS FOR LESS MONEY. 616 SIXTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLORADO. MAIL ORDERS A SPECIALTY. BOHM-AITEN JEWELRYGE DELIVERY COLLE STERLING SIN STEWART & J LAUNDAY SHINING BELLING SILVER-WARE EWART & McREYNOLDS AGENCY SHINING PARLOR FOR STERLING SILVER-WARE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN 1119 SEVENTEENTH STREET Shoes Called for, Shined and Delivered—10 Shoe Laces and Polish for Sale PHONE MAIN 2703 ARE Y "Columbin Sales Called for, Shined and Delivered—10 Cents Shoe Laces and Polish for Sale N 2703 ARE YOU WITH US? Columbine" Shoes Called for, Shined and Delivered—10 Cents Shoe Laces and Polish for Sale DENVER'S LEADING BRAND OF BOTTLED BEER Is guaranteed absolutely pure Tr Sample Case and you will use no other TELEPHONE 1285 Paeonia suffruticosa FURS HE HAS NO DEFENDERS CONSPIRACY ALLEGED UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN PRACTICALLY BRANDS HIM AS AN IMPOSTOR. KNUD RASMUSSEN CALLS COOK'S PAPERS CHILDISH ATTEMPT AT CHEATING. Copenhagen.—The report of the special committee of scientists, which the University of Copenhagen appointed to scrutinize Dr. Frederick A. Cook's claims that he had discovered the North pole, was submitted to the consistory of the university Tuesday morning, endorsed by that body and given to the public. The report shatters completely, almost contemptuously, the American explorer's title to such discovery and fills the officials and people of Denmark with chagrin at the figure Denmark is made to assume in the eyes of the scientific world. The public was prepared for a verdict of "not proven," but did not expect its recent hero to be branded as an impostor. Many still cling to the belief that Cook acted in good faith, but harbored a delusion. Explorers and scientists almost unanimously have lost faith in Cook's honesty, while one of his warmest supporters, Knud Rasmussen, helped to frame the report. The evening papers attack Cook and severely proach him for hiding, which they regard as a sign of a guilty conscience. The rector of the university, Dr Salomonson, when questioned as to the possibility of the university cancelling the degree which it conferred on Dr. Cook, said that no decision had been reached, but he thought that the degree would be withdrawn in the same way, as a government could deprive a person of an order obtained under false pretenses. Commodore Gustav Holm, the Arctic explorer, and a member of the committee, said: "Cook's claim that he made the observation 89 degrees 59 minutes 46 seconds near the pole proved immediately that he was a bad observer, but nothing indicated that he was a swindler. Now his papers convict him of being a swindler. We examined Cook's observations first, and agreed unanimously that they were worthless. Loose's observations were not used in the papers Cook submitted to the university." Professor Olufsen, secretary of the Danish Geographical Society, said: "It is the saddest event of my life. As an explorer there seems to be no doubt that Cook is absolutely unreliable." The National Tidende, while deploring that the university conferred the degree in a moment of enthusiasm, finds consolation in the fact that others honored Cook when he returned to civilization. "The President of his own country and its envoy at Copenhagen," says the paper, "were the guarantors for him. Denmark did not blunder alone. Our country must now leave this sad affair to America and Cook." In an interview Tuesday night Knud Rasmussen said: "The university would not call me at first because I was one of Dr. Cook's strongest supporters. Later, however, I was invited to the investigation and when I saw the observations I realized it was a scandal. "My confidence in Cook had been based on personal impressions, on reports that I had received, and also on the testimony of the Eskimos, when they all said that he had made the trip from Cape Sparbo to Etah, and such a trip during the dark of winter would suffice to make a man famous. But the papers which Cook sent to Copenhagen University are almost impudent. No school boy could make such calculations. It is a most childish attempt at cheating. Cook has killed himself by his own foolish act." Commodore Hovgaard, the explorer, said: "Although it has not been proved that Cook did not reach the pole, I can only regard Cook now as an impostor." Zelaya's Army Defeated. Washington.—Zelaya's troops were routed by the Nicaraguan Revolutionists Tuesday in a fierce battle at Rama lasting several hours. General Estrada, in command of the Revolutionary Army, is reported to have been successful all along the line. The battle is to be renewed, the advises declare, and the Estrada Army will bend all efforts to compel the unconditional surrender of the government forces. There is some doubt of the extent of Estrada's success. From revolutionary sources the word is sent that the victory is "complete." Monument to General Pike. Washington. — Representative Taylor Tuesday introduced a bill providing for the removal of the remains of General Zebulon Montgomary Pike from the military cemetery at Madison Barracks, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., to Pike's Peak, in Colorado, and placing a suitable memorial statue to his memory. Mr. Taylor proposes that the quartermaster general of the United States Army remove the remains of General Pike to some suitable location upon Pike's Peak, with military honors due his rank. ATTACK ON TAFT ADMINISTRATION PRESIDENT ANXIOUS TO THOROUGHLY PROBE BALLINGER-PINCHOT CONTROVERSY. CONCERTED PLAN TO DISCREDIT THE PRESIDENT AND HIS POLICIES. Washington:—Any doubt that the whole force of the Taft administration is to be behind the investigation demanded by both sides of the so-called Ballinger - Pinchot controversy was dispelled by events in and out of Congress Tuesday. There is now no question that President Taft himself is as eager for the merciless probing of the whole matter as hitherto he has been reluctant to admit the necessity for it. A motive much deeper than willingness to do justice to Ballinger is ascribed to President Taft by senators, representatives and others active in politics. Men who are in a position to know the sentiments of Mr. Taft declare that he has at last become convinced of the truth of what his friends have been telling him, for many weeks—of what he has hitherto laughed at—that there lies behind the attack on Mr. Ballinger a more or less definitely organized movement to discredit the Taft administration, especially by spreading the impression that the so-called "Roosevelt policies" are in unfriendly hands; that Mr. Ballinger was made the target only on the theory that he offered the most vulnerable point in the administration. Because he was loth to believe that such a propaganda was under way, Mr. Taft opposed every suggestion from Mr. Ballinger or his friends that attacks upon the land office should be met with a determination to reach and expose those responsible. Though slow to come to a decision, it is known that Mr. Taft is now inclined to believe that the criticisms that have cropped out in many widely-separated localities are a part of a deliberate determination to make trouble, which amounts practically to a conspiracy. The first step in paving the way for a Congressional investigation was taken Tuesday, Senator Flint introduced a resolution, which was adopted, directing the attorney general to send to the Senate all of the papers in his possession that relate to the case. These papers include the report of L. R. Glavis, the dismissed special agent of the general land office, who sought to connect Mr. Ballinger with the Cunningham coal land cases in a manner reflecting upon his integrity. These records are the ones on which the President based his exoneration of his secretary of the interior. Washington. — Senator Guggenheim has been extremely active in calling attention of persons interested in the fact that the committee on military affairs of the Senate should be urged to report favorably on the bill which restores pensions to the surviving members of the Third Colorado cavalry. These troops were used for the purpose of keeping open communication between Colorado and the East and in protecting the inhabitants of Colorado and contiguous territory against attacks from Indians. After the Civil War those of the Third Colorado who survived Indian warfare and its attendant hardships on the frontier and desired pensions were placed on the pension list with their brethren who were actually at the front stopping Confederate minie balls. About a year ago these veterans who drew pensions were stricken from the roll. The reason given for this action was that they had not been actually engaged in the suppression of the rebellion, not having been called upon to engage in battle with armed forces of the Confederacy. Commanders of the G. A. R. in every section of the Union have taken this matter up and will urge on senators and representatives that these deserving veterans did yeoman service in time of need and should not be neglected when their time of age arrives, because of a technicality. Colorado's senior senator has collected all available data on the subject to use before the committee in the Senate. Seoul, Korea.—Premier Yi, the head of the Korean cabinet was snabbed and fatally wounded Tuesday by a Korean, Yie Chaim Yog. Premier Yi was formerly minister of education in the Korean cabinet. He became prime minister in May, 1907, when a reconstruction of the cabinet followed a five-hour audience that Marquis Ita had with the Emperor. Yi was regarded as a firm and competent officer, but his efforts to carry out the policy of the new administration met with continual opposition from his political adversaries. 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 BROS. 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 MENTION 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. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO. J. W. CASEY, Proprietor 13 Wines, Liquors and C NEWPORT SALOON DICK FRAZIER AND TOM LEWIS PROPRIETORS A First-Class Resort For Gentlemen D YOU EVER TRY of Bros.' Beer made right, and tastes right. better made anywhere and a Strictly Colorado Production It's made right, and tastes right. None better made anywhere and This is a Strictly Colorado Production hy Send East THE DENVER BARBER SUPPLY CO. 1008 15th St., Denver, Colo. Cutlery, Toilet Preparations, Manlure Articles, Perfumes, Etc. Grinding of every description. Wholesale and Retail. Five Points Furniture Co. Dealer in NEW AND CARPETS, SECOND RUGS HAND AND FURNITURE, STOVES GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHINGS 2559 Welton Street. LIBERAL COURTESY EXTENDED TO ALL ```markdown ``` Phone Main 7413 THE NE 1845 Arapahoe St. DID Y ALL HAND WORK. Telephone 2132 1735 Lawrence St. BE SURE AN TRY IT. Small Eva saw a man with only one arm. Remembering her experience with one of her dolls, Eva said: "Oh, mamma, look at that poor man! The sawdust has all run out of one of his arms!" "Now, Johnny," said the teacher of the juvenile class to a small pupil, "anonymous means without a name. Can you give an example?" "Yes, ma'am," answered Johnny, promptly. "The baby that arrived at our house yesterday is anonymous." MILLIONS IN LIVE STOCK. Great Show in Denver Will Be Object Lesson for Stockmen and Farmers. It is estimated that the value of the live stock that will be on exhibition at the National Stock Show at Denver during the week of January 8-15, will be in excess of $2,000,000. The show will be the greatest exhibition of live stock ever seen west of Chicago and will be far ahead of any of the previous exhibitions given by the Western Stock Show Association. The railroads have made a low rate of fare from all points in the West and a large attendance is expected. The horse show feature every evening will attract the Denver people in large numbers and it is expected that the attendance at the show for the week will exceed 100,000. The association has determined to make only a nominal charge for admission, 25 cents general admission, with an additional charge of 25 cents for seats at night. This will not result in enough money to pay the cost, but it is the desire to popularize the show. "The show is not intended as a money making affair," said General Manager Skinner. "We expect our profit in the increased knowledge concerning modern methods of growing and feeding live stock. Through this show we can impress upon all the people the importance of the live stock industry to the West and through it we can also distribute among the western breeders some of the choicest blood for breeding. This is the fifth of these annual shows and already we can see great improvement which has resulted from the four shows that have preceded. We want all the farmers and stockmen of the West to attend this show and we feel certain each will secure some exceedingly valuable knowledge by attending." One of the features of show week will be the public sales of pure bred cattle under the auspices of the national breed associations. The Hereford Association will sell on Tuesday, January 11; on Wednesday the Shorthorn Association will sell fifty head, and on Thursday the Aberdeen-Angus Association will sell fifty head. These cattle are all selected by committees from the best herds in the country and each animal is guaranteed by the association and is sold without reserve at the highest bid. It is an opportunity for the breeders of the West to secure the very choicest blood at reasonable prices and it is hoped that the offerings will be distributed widely over the West where they will do the most good. Anticipating the Modes. "This is what others are wearing, madame." "But I don't want to wear what others are wearing. Show me the style after next." DENVER DIRECTORY A $40 Saddle for SADDLE For a short time only we offer this saddle, steel, clothes, wool-lined double skirts, 2½-inch stirrup leather covered stirrups, warranted in every respect, and to addies sold for $49 everywhere. Catalogue free. The Fred Mueller Saddle&HarnessCo. 1413-1419 Larkmer St., Denver, Colo. BON I. LOOK Dealer in all kinds of MERCHANDISE. Mammoth catalog mailed free. Cor. 16th and Blake. Denver. RUGS & LINOLEUM Shipped to at wholesale prices. We pay the freight. Best catalog in Denver mailed free. THE HOLCOMB & HART & NOLEUM Highest prices paid and satisfactory returns. OTZ HOT MOLL OIL Danville, Clover, Crawford, Nebraska, Rapid City, S. D. If you intend to buy a Piano this fall you should consider the Liberal Payment Plan. THE KNIGHT- CAMPBELL MUSIC CO., Denver, the largest music house. Established 1874. ASSAT OFFICE AND LABORATORY Established in Colorado, 1866. Samples by mail or express will receive prompt and careful attention Gold & Silver Bullion Refining. Payments may be payable FOR PURCHASED CONCENTRATION, AMALGAMATION AND CYANIDE TESTS — 100 lbs. to carload lots. Write for terms. 1736-1738 Lawrence St., Denver, Colo. 2 gains, $225 to $250, how on sale THE KNIGHT-LOCKE PIANO CO. 1640-46 California St. HOWARD E. BURTON, ASSAYER & CHEMIST LEA 111, COLORADO polymers, glass; Gold, silver, lead, $1; gold, silver, $7c; gold, $0c; zinc or copper, $1; Mailing envelopes and full price envelopes, applied to work soiled. Reference: Carbonate National Bank AN EXCELLENT REMEDY. Will Break Up a Cold in Twenty-Four Hours and Cure Any Cough That Is Curable. The following mixture is often prescribed and is highly recommended for coughs, colds and other throat and bronchial trouble. Mix two ounces of Glycerine, a half-ounce of Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure, and eight ounces of pure Whisky. These can be bought in any good drug store and easily mixed together in a large bottle. The genuine Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure is prepared only in the laboratories of the Leach Chemical Co., Cincinnati, and put up for dispensing in half-ounce vials. JUST WANTED A SENSATION Tender Passion Not the Only Thing That Prompted Young Man's Question. The girl was very rich and the young man was poor, but honest. She liked him, but that was all, and he knew it. One night he had been a little more tender than usual. "You are very rich," he ventured. "Yes," she replied frankly. "I am worth $1,250,000." "And I am poor." "Yes." "Will you marry me?" "No." "I thought you wouldn't." "Then why did you ask me?" "Oh, just to see how a man feels when he loses $1,250,000."—Illustrated Sunday Magazine. CLIP THIS OUT. This is a renowned doctor's very best prescription for rheumatism. "One ounce compound syrup Sarsaparilla; one ounce Toris compound; half pint high grade whiskey. Mix them and take a tablespoonful before each meal and at bed time. The bottle must be well shaken each time." Any druggist has these ingredients or he will get them from his wholesale house. Good Work Going Forward. Good Work Going Forward. Following a whirlwind campaign against consumption in Charleston, the American tuberculosis exhibition of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis recently opened another exhibition movement in Greenville, S. C. After January 1 the work will be continued in Columbia, S. C., in connection with the session of the state legislature. Efforts will be made to secure an appropriation to fight tuberculosis. Another exhibition of the National association has just closed a campaign in Colorado, and is now touring Oklahoma. A state-wide fight will be waged in this state. Later, this exhibition will go to Arkansas. STATE OF OMIO CITY OF TOLEDO. FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & CO., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State of FORESTS, and that said firm will be the owner of HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D., 1886. [SEAL] A. W. GLEASON, NOTARY PUBLIC Hall's Cataract Cure is taken internally and acts as a barrier to surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Sold by all Drum Take Hale Family Pills for constipation. A Pair of Them. No. 1—"Now mind, Johnny," said the mother of a five-year-old, "there's a ghost in that dark closet guarding the jam." No. 2 (two hours later)—"Oh, mamma!" cried Johnny. "That ghost in the dark closet has eaten nearly half the jam!" A Rare Good Thing. "Am using Allen's Foot-Ease, and can truly say I would not have been without it so long, had I known the relief it would give my aching feet. I think it a rare good job." —Mrs. Matilda Holtwert, Providence, R. I." Sold by all Druggists. 25c. Ask to day. The Strategic Point. "The other side has beaten us to the cable office." After all, the kind of world one carries about within one's self is the important thing, and the world outside takes all its grace, color, and value from that.—Lowell. Some people suffer continually with tired, aching and swollen feet. Little do they know how soothing is Hamlins Wizard Oil. Rub it in at night and have thankful, happy feet in the morning. Of course it was an old bachelor who said that love was hatched in an incubator and raised in an insane asylum. Worth Its Weight in Gold. PETTIT'S EYE SALVE strengthens old eyes, tonic for eye strain, weak, watery eyes. Druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. The man who can maintain a reputation for wisdom in the presence of a youth just out of college is a wonder. DO NOT ACCEPT A SUBSTITUTE when you want Perry Davis' Painkiller, as nothing is as good for rheumatism, neuralgia and similar troubles. 0 years in constant use. 25c, 35c and 50c. A married man can always get a little off his sentence for bad behavior. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to lake in a candy. Did anybody ever ask the weeping willow why it does it? Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, aids pain, cures wind colds. 25c bottle. Don't worry, and you'll have nothing to worry you. --- A YULETIDE REVERIE The following book is a most remarkable compilation of lines from the writings of various authors (woven into a Christmas reverie. The author is said to be Mr. Arundel Everett of London, England, who compiled it many years ago! The theme of each author is given. B. C. OUT OF DARKNESS A passing gleam called Life is o'er us thrown; It glimmers like a meteor and is gone; What do we month by existence gain? AUTHOR Story Rogers Coleridge Yet who knows most, the more the knows to doubt. Nor is a true soul ever born for naught. Yet millions never think a noble thought. Tis not in mortality, command success. And endless toil brings naught but bitterness. To-morrow's sun to thee-may never rise. The flower that smiles to-day to-morrow dies. Daniel Lowen Bailey Addison Bryant Songreve Shelley ```markdown ``` Christmas at Sea By Admiral Bob Evans N Christmas morning," said Admiral Evans (Fighting Bob), "I thank God that he made three times as much water as land. "Every old seadog will join me in this. The sea is his home; he loves it as the farmer loves his broad acres. Apart from it he is restless and dissatisfied, but with a voyage ahead of him he is as happy as a clam at high tide. No true sailor would exchange Christmas at sea for one on shore. It would be like Thanksgiving dinner without the turkey. "Of all the Christmases spent at sea the one that rises before me most vividly is that of 1865, when the federal army and the gunboat fleet were trying to capture Fort Fisher. The only presents we received, and they came fast and furious, were solid shot and shell from the guns of the enemy. But this didn't destroy our sense of humor. The boys would write on each solid shot or shell before placing it in the gun, 'presented by', and add the name of the vessel from which it happened to be fired. Mighty few hurled at the fort that day lacked this Christmas greeting. All the gunners caught the spirit of the grim jest, for the fighting line is no place for serious faces. "Despite the excitement of the fierce combat we managed to have the mastheads of all the ships trimmed with Christmas green, even though the sailors had to risk their lives in going ashore to get them, and you may be assured the sentiment of the day was not wasted. "Last year Santa Claus followed our fleet of 16 vessels. He anticipated our 12,000-mile voyage and furnished us in advance with the pick of his best. On board the supply vessels when we sailed from Hampton roads were thousands of packages containing every imaginable Christmas gift, from a whisky flask to a smoking jacket, each package labeled, 'Don't open until Christmas.' "Along with those gifts he sent thousands of yards of bunting to decorate the mastheads of the battleships. It would be difficult to imagine a more beautiful sight than these ships lined up Christmas morning with the sailors breaking out the Christmas trimming with as much zest as the small boy displays when he lights the candles on his Christmas tree. "Then comes the opening of the Christmas packages. This is always a gala occasion. Not a man on board would dare ignore the instruction any more than he would think of disobeying his superior officer. It has become custom through years of faithful observance. Always a bottle of wine is broken in christening these tokens from the loved ones at home. "If I hadn't been a lieutenant myself I wouldn't dare give away official secrets. "Last year we practically had two Christmasmases. We received our first mail at Trinidad, West Indies, some time Christmas week and delayed Christmas mail reached us at Callao, when the vessels were approaching their own country on the western side. "No nation provides more plentifully for the Christmas cheer of its sailors than does Uncle Sam. Each of the battleship crews has a dinner of roast turkey, plum pudding, pumpkin pie and all the trimmings which go with it. The men are served in messes of 20 at 12 a'clock and each man is allowed one snifter of grog as an appetizer, in celebration of the occasion. "The officers dine at six o'clock, and, as is the custom when spending the holiday at sea, are guests of the commanding officer." Christmas Musings. There are warmer hand-shakings on this night, wrote Alexander Smith, than during the bypast 12 months. Friend lives in the mind of friend. There is more charity at this time than at any other. Poverty and scanty clothing, and fireless grates come home to the bosoms of the rich and they give of their abundance. The very redbreast of the woods enjoys his Christmas feast. Good feeling incarnates itself in plum pudding. The Master's word, "The poor ye have always with you," wear at this time a deep significance. For at least one night on each year over all Christendom there is brotherhood. And good men, sitting amongst their families, or by a solitary fire like me, when they remember the light that shone over the poor clowns huddling on the Bethlehem plains 1,800 years ago, the apparition of shining angels overhead, the song, "Peace on earth and good-will towards men," which for the first time hallowed the midnight air—pray for that strain's fulfilment, that battle and strife may vex the nations no more, that not only on Christmas eve, but the year round men shall be brethren, owning one Father in heaven. 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Standard makes of merchandise known all over the world, shown here at an average of 25% less than you can buy them elsewhere. A New Jewelry Department, selling at half jewelers' prices. 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 fine of Toilet Articles, Etc. DENVER BARBER SUPPLY CO., 1008 15th St. DENVER COLO. THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168. 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. Phone Main 4843. Art Dealer 322 SEVENTEENTH STREET, Denver, Colo. Phone Main 8012. JES I. HANSEN Manufacturing Watch Maker and Jeweler Repairing a Specialty. Dealers in Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and Jewelry. Get your old plumes and boas made into willow plumes. Mrs. Z. Benjamin 1958 Broadway Hats Trimmed and Made to Order. FINEST ASSORTMENT of FALL HATS in the City. She solicits the patronage of her OLD CUSTOMERS. Cottrell Clothing Co. 613-615-617-619 Sixteenth Street Christmas Presents FOR MEN THERE'S wisdom in buying sensible and serviceable gifts—a suit of clothes, or an overcoat, for a member of your family. Or, if this is too costly, a house coat, or a bath robe, or some nice handkerchiefs, or a box of sox, or neckwear. OUR WONDER CLOTHES FOR MEN SUITS OVERCOATS $14.50 RAINCOATS STORMCOATS Quite an addition has been made to our showing of Wonder Clothes. The Convertible Protector Overcoat, and the Auto Stormcoat are conspicuous values. A new line, fresh from the makers. The fabrics are fine, smooth Campbell kersey, in various shades, medium and dark colors. Conservatively speaking, $18.00 would be a fair price. All leathers—velour calf, gun metal, vici kid—all the newest toes and the newest heels. The Griffith Shoe Company of Denver stands back of every pair, and we stand back of the Griffith Shoe Company, though that is not necessary. Burger & Co., 525 Broadway, New York, closed out to us all they had left of Fine Holiday Silks, permitting us to select our own styles, and have them made accordingly. Surely this is a timely offering, worthy of this progressive store. MANUFACTURING CO. AND DEALERS IN CASES & SUIT CASES Welton Street GLOVES action in knowing that you are giving Christmas gifts of gloves. for men, women and children is always prices. les, in tan, grey and black, wing for street, the pair... $1.25 Skin Gloves, in black, tan, every dressy street glove, the ... $1.25 ve, over-seam style, 2 claps, black, colors—a beautiful dress glove $1.50 Glove for dress, the most perfect fitting glove made. All colors, $2.00 English Cape Gloves, splendid the pair... $1.50 les, in grey and tan, the pair... $2.50 the year to seven-year-old, in $1.25 and unlined, $1.25 & $1.50 see the Perini Special, the ings in the world for, the pair $1.50 we are offering lisle thread and cotton are equal to most 50c grades. Ask to see our $2.50 knitted jackets for women and girls—we have them in Our Christmas line of handkerchiefs is better than ever. At 25c we are show- are made. 5.00 Bags are world beaters—large size, real seal, leather covered Don't miss our display of collar pins, belt buckles, combs and bar- air pins, bandeaus, hat pins, etc., all at Stock of umbrellas is the most complete in best. We have everything that is made well to select your Christmas Umbrellas executed with greater care. Glove Order; they are always pleasing TRUNKS, YALISES & SUIT CASES 2253 Welton Street CHRISTMAS GLOVES THERE 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, perfect fitting and good wearing for street, the pair..... $1.25 Women's One-Clasp Pique Lamb Skin Gloves, in black, tan, grey, navy, green, red, etc., a very dressy street glove, the pair..... $1.25 GALLIA A real Kid Glove, over-seam style, 2 claps, black, white and all colors—a beautiful dress glove—the pair..... $1.50 MILANO A fine real Kid Glove for dress, the most perfect fitting and best wearing glove made. All colors, the pair..... $2.00 Men's out-seam spear back English Cape Gloves, splendid wearing and every pair fitted, the pair..... $1.50 Children's Cape Gloves for one year to seven-year-old, in tan and white, the pair ..... $1.25 Boys' and Girls' Gloves, lined and unlined, Mocha Skin or Cape, the pair..... $1.25 & $1.50 HOSIERY Do not fail to see the Perini Special, the best silk stockings in the world for, the pair $1.50 AT $1.00 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 25c we are showing the daintiest patterns that are made. HAND BAGS--OUR $5.00 Bags are world beaters—large size, real seal, leather covered or metal frame. JEWELRY NOVELTIES Don't miss our display of collar pins, belt buckles, combs and barrets in jet and shell; fancy hair pins, bandeaus, hat pins, etc., all at reasonable prices. UMBRELLAS Our stock of umbrellas is the most complete 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 Perinl Glove Order; they are always pleasing gifts for both men and women. --- BIRD LABEL, ARRIVED FOR THE YEAR The First Dieck Woolworths London Ten thousand handsome Ties from which to select in our showing at ..... PHONE—PURPLE 1405 J. OPPOSITE Postoffice MEN GOSSIPS. Every now and then some one suggests a revival of the good old ducking stool. Magistrate Tighe of Brooklyn is the latest advocate. "What we need," he says, "is a ducking plank and a millpond with which to punish the women gossips." Why women gossips only? Do men never gossip maliciously? And if they do, why are they not hailed into court as often as women are and admonished to keep their tongues from wagging defamation of character? Perhaps it is largely because women, high and low, are exempt from the terms of an unwritten code that strikes men dumb, says the Philadelphia Press. A man on the street knows that he must pay instant penalty for unbridled speech, or eat his words. Naturally, if he is wise he is cautious and speaks low. But he gossips all the same. Indeed, are not men in the mass more inveterate gossips than women? Shakespeare's citizens do the real gossiping in his plays, even though he followed tradition in personifying rumor as a dame—"if my gossip report me an honest woman of her word." You will find as much lively and inane chit-chat in any man's clubhouse as in any woman's. The hotel and theater lobbies seethe with the gossiping of men. No village sewing circle or mite society can equal the incessant buzz at the grocery store; and when it comes to downright, earnest, unflagging dissection of reputation and pernicious tittle-tattle there is no body of women in the land that can hold a candle to the foolish adult chatterboxes at any political headquarters. The sobranje of Bulgarla has passed a law imposing a tax of about three dollars on all unmarried men who are 30 years old and older. At Tirnova, the ancient capital, it has been a custom for many years to humiliate unmarried men. On the first Monday in Lent all marriageable men who had not selected life partners in the carnival season were beaten on sight with inflated pigs' bladders. The bachelors always dreaded the day, while the girls looked forward to it with pleasure. Since the tax act has been passed the bachelors of Tirnova have entered a formal protest against the continuance of the practice. They say they will gladly pay the tax, but want the chastisement declared unlawful. A French firm ranking as the most extensive of its kind in the world announces the intention of moving its plant, or a very large part thereof, to Paterson, N. J., where the business of dyeing and manufacturing silks will be continued. It is not so many years ago since the idea of producing good silks in the United States was ridiculed as utterly chimerical. To-day American silks rank well alongside the best imported goods, and now noted silkmakers are bringing their establishments here from other lands. Protection did it, and will do, abundantly for any nation which applies the principle understandingly. The speed maniacs of the age have made one radical mistake. They have aimed for speed before establishing the degree of pressure which present-day mechanism will resist. Consequently, the strain they impose upon the mechanical part of their vehicles is beyond the latter's power of endurance. The fact that the necessities of life have increased in price 56 per cent. in the last 13 years doesn't worry the farmer. The city man may have pleasures that are denied to him, but when it comes to a table groaning with good things the countryman is the real epicure. The football season has now ended with a record of fatalities larger than ever known before in the history of the game. Either the rules of play must be changed or the game put under the ban. Chicago is bragging about possessing the ideal husband. It seems from the fuss being made over him that he is one of the rare curiosities of the times out there. Use their telescopes as they will, astronomers are unable to discern any expeditions near either pole of Mars—a strong proof that the planet is uninhabited. Soon it will be possible to qualify for the ministry by taking a correspondence course. Thus the post office becomes a means of grace. California should arrange to have its earthquakes at the fruit-picking season and then put barrels underneath the trees. A Chicago banker states that there is a considerable demand for money. So he's a married man, too, it appears. Of course, our 1909 naval scores are great, but, aw, shucks! just glance at our football scores! If the monorail train does not hurry the flying machine will get there first. The Grand MARKET CO. AT THE LOOP Our Meats are especially eat well" kind," and when you will wonder how we can do BEEF Our Meats are especially fine this week, "the just well" kind," and when you see the meat and the pr wonder how we can do it. BEEF VEAL Our Meats are especially fine this week, "the just right to eat well" kind," and when you see the meat and the prices you will wonder how we can do it. Cottontails, Fancy Turkeys. ORDER EXTRA EARLY ON SATURDAY. Next Bi THE MAS ENTERT ON SATURDAY. 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