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 ACRUSADE LAUNCHED Throughout the Nation Against the Extreme High Prices of Foods, etc. A Remedy for the Elemination of Much of the Depression of Hard Times. Paying Debts an Essential Part of the Remedy. VOL. XVI. A CRUSA LAU Throughout the Nation Against Foods, etc. A Remedy Much of the Depression ing Debts an Essential HARD TIMES. Just now, when the rigors of winter are rendering it impossible for the laboring man to work, and the high price of foodstuffs nakes eating for the masses a problem, the poor Negro can find much time for thought. From all parts of the country comes the cry of hard times. The winter has been unusually severe. The prices of fuel and feed almost prohibitive. We hear much about the organization of anti-meat clubs, and demands on the state and federal government for redress. The Colorado Statesman is very much interested in the general welfare of our people. We realize that our people suffer along with the rest. But the remedy for their conditions do not lie entirely in the government. Much of it can be obviated by our own efforts and forethought. For more than a quarter of a century we have listened to the gospel of "take no thought of the morrow" and "take all this world but give me Jesus," until the policy of not providing for the morrow and the needs of the world has become a habit. When the sun shines on both sides of the street and we are gathering the reward of our labors much that should be laid aside for winter and old age is wasted in riotous living, excursions and picnics. In the good old summer time each day has its picnic, and we forgetting tomorrow and next winter, go out to waste and to enjoy. It's a delightful pastime. A happy, joyous season while it lasts, but then "the paying of the fiddler" is done with sighs, groans and curses. And no one to blame but ourselves. Let us think of winter and consequent hard times, when we are earning something. Then, too, another reason comes for trials and suffering among our people. We crowd into the cities, to eke out a miserable existence, battling with high rent and poor environment. Today much of the suffering and hard times among us could be alleviated if more of us went to the farms and became producers. Pile the markets full of potatoes, corn, beef, hogs, chickens, butter and milk and the price of living for all will come down. It is a great misfortune that a rise in wages has not . followed the rise in necessities of life. The country today needs more producers. We need something to do. Let us go out into the country and become producers, as well as consumers. Put off the picnic and the good time until the banks of the country are glutted with the money of the Negroes. PAYING DEBTS. This reliable family paper has had much to say along this line. We are just a plain ordinary business institution conducted for the benefit of the general public. We endeavor to select and present to our people each week the cream of the doings of the race. We measure our business by that of other institutions. It costs money to keep the wheels turning. Circulating as we do over several states, we have much due for subscriptions. Along about now we need the money. We need it very much. Paying just debts is part of a man's duty. And this is something our people grow careless about. Many merchants and business men extend credit to people of our race and we are often more than slow pay. It is needless to hide behind the fact that scores of white people are classed as deadbeats. Races, like individuals, must rise or fall on their own acts. Let us add something to the rate of our rising by establishing a good credit. And the best way is to pay for the papers. NO SPECIALS. Some time ago this paper pointed out that the tendency of the so-called reform movement was simply to increase taxes. This is just exactly what our people least desire. With the large number of purchases of homes during the past few years, and the tremendous strain under which we are all striving for a foothold, and increase in the present tax rate would be burdensome, if not confiscatory. Just now the city is flooded with a host of petition peddlers asking for several different special elections. There are four or five rival reform camps, all claiming to have a panacea for the present ills of the fair city of Denver. This city has worried along all these years with the present system and the DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 1910. State Hist & Nat Hist Society State House ronizing Th RADO THE JOURNAL DENVER. COLORADO, short time before the regular election will now allow many more crimes. The charter amendment, which seems to have several "special committees," representing different views of the water commission, and the "wet zone" schemes are not of such an urgent nature that they cannot remain before the people until May. Let our people watch carefully this humbug of reform. It costs a great deal to conduct a special election; as much as a general election. There is enough doing in Denver at present to keep the people busy without the farces of special election, and the consequent litigation which would necessarily follow. GETS $30,000 ESTATE. Court Decides That James Edward Johnson is Entitled to Property Left by the Late Bridget Torpey. James Edward Johnson, a Negro, has been declared the legal heir of Bridget Torpey, a cook who died several months ago, over seventy years of age, leaving an estate valued at $30,000. In handing down a decision in favor of Johnson Surrogate Thomas said: "There was unquestionably an understanding between her and Johnson that if he would care for her during her lifetime he should inherit the estate, says the surrogate. I do not think it surprising that the decedent chose to reside with Johnson. She had worked with Johnson and other Negroes for a quarter of a century, and was accustomed to them. She only went to live with Johnson after she had diligently sought a place elsewhere." The decision in the Torpey will contest was of general interest, in which two brothers and a sister sought to have the Torpey will annulled, and Margaret M. Bennett, a trained nurse, introduced a will purporting to have been drawn up after the document which named Johnson as heir and best friend of the testatrix. Surrogate Thomas threw out the will presented by Miss Bennett, and further decided that Johnson was the proper person to receive the estate. Bridget Torpey came to this country when she was eleven years old, and for over twenty-five years she worked in the kitchen of Mrs. N. B. Taft's boarding house, at 446 West Twenty-fifth street. During this time she accumulated $30,000, of which $16,500 was in cash in banks.—New York Age. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 18.—According to statistics recently given out, Mobile boasts of thirty-two Negro letter carriers—James T. Paterson. JOHNSON SPEAKS ON MANLINESS New York, Jan. 23.—Jack Johnson, the champion pugilist, delivered a lecture on manliness at the colored Y. M. C. A. today. Sobriety, application and again sobriety, he said, are cardinal requisites for success in life, with devotion to one's aged mother a close fourth. Johnson told of his early struggles and obscurity Then he launched into the pith of his discourse. "To approach intelligently the psychology of pugilism," he said, "it is assential to grasp the distinction between the venal side and that makes for the upbuilding of manliness. Depth of lung, although of assistance, is not essential. Sobriety, application, sobriety—write those down in your notebook. Sullivan subsists by vaudeville; Corbett is no longer a serious factor in pugilism; Sharkey has passed from the domain and Jeffries will pass. I do not animadvert, but sobriety is the touchstone of success. "Learn to use your hands and not to fall over your feet, and your social success will follow." NEGRO APPOINTMENT TO WEST POINT IS DEFENDED BY SENATOR CLARK. Washington, Jan. 24.—Senator Clark of Wyoming, in discussing the appointment of Nolle R. Smith of Cheyenne, a Negro boy, as alternate to Robert Dillman of Cheyenne, in an examination for West Point, today said that comment concerning the appointment of a Negro was premature inasmuch as Smith yet had to prove himself ahead of Dillman in his final examination. The examination papers have been forwarded to West Point from Fort Logan without names. There they will be marked and the highest man chosen regardless of whether he is the principal or the alternate. Southern senators have been inclined to criticise Senator Clark for admitting a Negro to the West Point examination, but they have been met with the explanation that the selection has been competitive throughout and that if Smith wins the appointment he will have done so through merit. Idleness. It is no more possible for an idle man to keep together a certain stock of knowledge than it is possible to keep together a stock of ice exposed to the meridian sun. Every day destroys a fact, a relation, or an influence; and the only method of preserving the bulk and value of the pile is by constantly adding to it.-Sidney Smith. RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES J. H. Wheeler, aged 65, Editor of St. Louis Palladium, dropped dead, Saturday night, January 22nd, on the doorsteps of Dr. Stafford's residence. Mr. Wheeler was one of the best known Negro editors in the West. He was also a staunch Republican. Austin, Texas., Jan. 17.—The state board of health has prepared a new sanitary code for railroads, hotels, and public building. One provision prohibits Pullman porters from sleeping in the berths for the white people and from using sleeping car linen for their own needs. Milledgeville, Ga.,—White citizens acted as pallbearers at the funeral of a colored woman, who died here recently. She was an ex-slave, and had spent her life in the service of the white families here. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 19.—The Board of State and Charities has recommended to the Legislature that $44,000 be appropriated to various Negro eleemosynary institutions during the next two years. This includes $3,000 to Provident Hospital and $20,000 to the Colored House of Reformation. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 18.—Seven men have been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury as a result of the charges that Wash ardener, a Negro of Butler County was held in peonage. All of the indicted men have been held on a bond of $2,000 each and will be called for trial January 24. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 18.—Representative Holland has introduced in the Legislature a bill to prevent the establishment of the Negro school, known as "Lincoln Institute." near Shelbyville, Ky., for which an endowment of a half million dollars was raised. Andrew Carnegie and Mrs Russel Sage were among the largest contributors. The college is an off-shoot of Beaea. Holland says the people in his district do not want a Negro school in their section. Another Negro bank has flung open its doors for business. It is the Safety Banking and Realty Company of Mobile, Ala. The first day's deposits (January 8.) amounted to $1,890.91. The band has an authorized capital of $50,000, with $26,045 paid in. Its president is Henry N. Newsome; NO. 20 cashier, James R. Knox; manager of the real estate department, Wm. J. Robinson; stenographer, Miss Sarah J. Duncan. The bank will do business in its own quarters, a three story brick building, 256 St. Michael street which the directors recently purchased. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 19.—Having become disgusted at the manner in which all the prominent heavyweight and middleweights have refused to fight him, San Langford, the colored cyclone of Boston, has decided to go to California, where he has been guaranteed three fights. His first fight will be with Jim Flynn, the heavyweight, of Pueble, Colo., who has fought all the big fellows. They will meet for ten rounds before the Pacific A. C. of Los Angeles, Feb. 8. After that Langford will sign up with Jack Burns and "Gunboat Smith," the California heavyweights. Washington, D. C., January, 13 A delegation of Virginia colored men today asked President Taft to refuse appointments of white men to Virginia offices whose chief qualification is their antagonism to the colored man under nearly all circumstances. "What we want is cordiality between the races in Virginia" said James I. Mitchell, spokesman of the delegation. "We cannot have this cordiality and complete understanding if white men who are agitators of race antagonism are named to federal positions." The President seemed to be impressed with the argument of the visitors. Baltimore, Md., January 19, 1910.—William Marbury, a prominent Democratic lawyer of this city, is out with a proposition for the legislature to pass a law specifically disfranchising the colored voters of Maryland. He says that there is some doubt in his mind as to whether the fifteenth amendment was ever legally adopted, and that the question of the validity of the amendment has never come squarely before the highest tribunal in the land. The Supreme Court, however, has recognized the validity of the fifteenth amendment. The most notable instance of the Supreme Court reversing its devision, as far as the rece is concerned, is the complete turnabout from the dictum of Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott case that a Negro had no rights which a white man was bound to respect. Always Staunch And True The Denver Republican has always avoided the fallacies and naveries of yellow journalism, and its steadily increasing Circulation proves conclusively that its policy of telling the plain Truth without exaggeration or misrepresentation, standing fast for the Right, is heartily approved with growing force by the intelligent Public to which it appeals. To read it is a liberal Education, and the citizen who goes without it does a positive harm to himself, to his family, and to the community. In no other way can the investment of 2 1/2 cents per day for that is all The Republican costs any subscriber—bring such rich results in that Knowledge which is both Power and Pleasure. Information, instruction and entertainment fill its columns and it leaves a good taste in the mouth of the reader. It stands for Law and Order in the State—for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness in the Home. If you are not already enrolled among its splendid list of Patrons send on your subscription and give it a fair trial at 75 cents per month for Daily and Sunday. The WARD AUCTION COMPANY Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Furniture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. NAST The Popular Photograher. Only Caters to First-class Trade. Our Pictures speak for Themselves. Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor. Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending a sample of hair; also combings made up. CHEAPEST SWITCHES 50 CENTS. 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. H. L. KORTZ, Expert Watchmake,. Jeweler and Optician. Watches and Jewelery for Sale at Lowest Prices in the City. All Work Guaranteed for Two Years Phone Main 5371. 805 FIFTEENTH STREET, Denver, Colorado. Joseph H. Stuart LAWYER Practice in all courts. Examining Abstract of Titles and Drawing up Legal Instruments Given Careful Attention. 329 Kittredge Building Phone: Olive 2294 Res.—527 26th street. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. WESTERN NEWS. Many who have seen the plans of the Cage helicopter, now being constructed in Denver, believe that it will prove to be the coming airship. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is said to be planning to enter St. Louis, either by the acquisition of an existing line or the construction of a new road. Glenn H. Curtiss has gone from Los Angeles to Hammondsport, N. Y., where he will begin at once the construction of a new and heavier aeroplane than the one he used at the meet here. W. I. Swain, a livestock raiser of Dwight, Kas., has issued 10,000 circular letters to prominent farmers in Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, calling for delegates to hold a meeting in Kansas City, to retaliate against the unions that have instigated a meat boycott in that city. Sidney Flower, recently the publisher of a magazine in Goldfield, Nev., has been arrested at Chicago by federal authorities on instructions that he had been indicted in Neveda charged with fraudulent use of the malls. He is said to have been known as Parmeter Kent in Goldfield. Missouri's Supreme Court has reversed the remarkable decision it gave last March, holding that employers' liability insurance it against public policy because it tended to encourage negligence on the part of employers, and that a policy of such insurance was null and void. Mrs. Josie Pettis, owning a farm near Dalhart, Tex., says that a bolt of lightning struck the ground on the mountain side near her home recently and uncovered a spring of crude oil, which is now producing 200 barrels daily. It is claimed that she has been offered $10,000 for the small tract of land. The Senate of Illinois has passed the direct plurality primary bill which carries the Gibson amendment providing for the blanket ballot. The Gibson amendment provides that the voter need not state his party affiliation and may secretly vote any primary party ticket he chooses, but must confine himself to only one party column. Mrs. Juana Corona, said to be the oldest person in Arizona, died at Patagonia, Ariz., a few days since at the age of 116 years. Her youngest surviving child is sixty years old. Mrs. Corona was born in Sonora, Mex., Oct. 20, 1794. She had been married three times. From her tenth birthday until her death she was a constant user of cigarettes. Nine business men of Des Moines, Ia., headed by Postmaster J. I. Myerly, Col. H. B. Hedge, vice president of the Central State bank, and County Treasurer George L. Dobson, have made up a fund with which they will establish a co-operative meat market and sell meat at a profit of only six per cent above the wholesale price to the poor people of the city for one year. At San Diego Charles K. Hamilton flew in his Curtiss biplane across the border line of the United States and Mexico and over the ancient Mexican city of Tia Juana, surprising the inhabitants of that sleepy little place into unusual life and then flew back to the polo field of the San Diego Country club on Coronado island, without a stop, going thirty-four miles in forty minutes. GENERAL NEWS It is reported that Mark Twain, who is spending the winter in Bermuda, is rapidly improving in health. It is reported from Paris that Sarah Bernhardt is planning to return to the United States for another theatrical tour. A large meteorite fell in the garden of Joseph Cable at Broad River, Conn. on the afternoon of January 25th. It burned to dust after making a hole a foot in diameter and several feet deep. A six-foot Philadelphia policeman told a girl shirtwaist striker who was doing picket duty to "move on," and she surprised him by slapping him in the face. This started a disturbance and before it was over six girl strikers were on their way to a police station, charged with creating disorder. Miss Mary McMutrie, a society woman, furnished bail for two of the girls, and the other four were discharged. Charles K. Hamilton, in an exhibition flight with a Curtiss bi-plane at San Diego had a narrow escape from falling into the ocean with his machine. Although he won in his race with the surf, he met with an accident on land, striking a barbed wire fence while making an enforced landing, and damaging his machine. The aviator was not hurt. The National Education Association will hold its forty-eighth annual convention at Boston, July 2nd to 8th, 1910. Joseph Woods, an American engineer, has been discharged from the penitentiary at Monterey, Mex., where he had been confined for three months without trial on a charge growing out of the disposition of the estate of Marco Chuchovich, a brother of Vaso Chuchovich of Denver. An attempt will be made to secure the early release of John R. Walsh from the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth through securing the signatures of thousands of Chicago business men and citizens generally on a petition to President Taft, urging him to exercise executive clemency in behalf of the agreed banker. The Turkish palace of Cheragan, where Parliament sits, was practically destroyed by fire on the 19th inst. It was built by Sultan Abdul Aziz and was the finest of the palaces on the Bosphorus. It was constructed of marble and the interior was remarkable for the beauty of the sculptured ornaments in marble and wood. It cost $16,000,000. The National Conservation Association to the presidency of which Mr. Gifford dinchot has just been elected upon the request and suggestion of former President Eliot of Harvard is an organization designed to promote adoption of the principles of conservation approved at the meeting of governors called during the administration of President Roosevelt. Thomas Taggart, Democratic national committeeman for Indiana and chairman of the Democratic national committee in 1904, was accidentally shot while hunting with his private secretary, Harry Horton, near Fayette, Jefferson county, Miss., a few days since. Forty-two birdshot stunts Mr. Taggart in the face, right shoulder and chest, and it is feared that the sight of one eye will be destroyed. NEV/S FROM WASHINGTON. "The beef trust," so-called, is to be prosecuted by the national government. The department of justice evidently believes that its existence is a leading factor in maintaining the present high prices of fresh meats. In view of the fact that the examination held last fall did not furnish a sufficient number of eligibles to fill the required clerical positions in the coming census work, an additional examination will be held by the civil service commission in February to supply the deficiency. Senator Warren has introduced a bill appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Cody, Wyo. Also a bill to increase the pay of army nurses to $50 monthly for the first three years' service, $55 for second three years' and $60 for third three years' and $65 for subsequent service, with $10 per month extra for service outside of the United States. Delegate Andrews has introduced a bill providing for the establishment of an additional land district in New Mexico to be known as the Clovis land district, with Clovis as the site of the land office. The new district to be made up of parts of the Santa Fe and Roswell districts; also a bill authorizing Gallup county to issue $20,000 in water bonds. The House has passed a bill to create a bureau of mines in the department of the interior. The measure will not go into effect before July 1, 1910. It directs the secretary of the interior "to foster, promote and develop the mining industries of the United states and to investigate methods of mining and possible improvements for carrying on mining operations." The fact that the United States and Canada are engaged in a co-operative scheme for the establishment of an international park of about 5,000 square miles in extent along the backbone of the continent in the two countries, has developed in the senate. It came to the surface in connection with the consideration of a bill looking to the erection of the "Glacier national park" in northern Montana. James Wickersham, the Alaskan delegate to Congress, has demanded of Secretary Dickinson of the war department that he order out of Washington, back to Alaska or to military duty, Major W. P. Richardson, chairman of the Alaskan road commission. Wickersham charges Richardson with exerting too much influence upon Congressional committees, and with using threats of personal violence. In event of the failure of the attempt to obtain a decision from the Supreme Court of the United States as to the constitutionality of the corporation tax provisions of the Payne tariff act before March 1, the date by which the return of income of corporations must be filed, Congress may be asked to extend the date for the law becoming operative. Comptroller of the Treasury Tracewell has declared that there is nothing in the law or appropriation for the forest service giving the secretary of agriculture power to send forest rangers to college at government expense and to pay their traveling expenses. Under Gifford Pinchot there were about two hundred of these forest rangers attending universities and colleges in the West for short courses in forestry, costing the government between $15,000 and $20,000 per month. President Taft, addressing the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, held out no hope for the enactment of a Federal law to govern the companies and advised the insurance men to bend their efforts to secure uniform legislation in the states. The house committee on naval affairs voted unanimously to report a bill abolishing the bureau of equipment of the navy. This is the first step by Congress in the inauguration of Secretary Meyers' plan for the reorganization of the navy department. AWFUL FLOOD DELUGES PARIS PRICELESS ART TREASURES OF THE LOUVRE IN GREAT DANGER. CITY FIGHTS FOR LIFE FLOODS REACH UNDERGROUND LABYRINTHS AND STREETS RAPIDLY COLLAPSING. Paris, Jan. 26.—The snowstorm has ceased and the weather is moderating, but the Seine is still rising, and Paris, like a doomed city, is holding its breath in terror. At 1 o'clock this morning the water was rising rapidly, and had reached to within a few inches of the parapet of the quay at the Louvre. The flood threatened momentarily to inundate the sculpture gallery, where are kept the Venus de Milo and other priceless art treasures. The danger to the Louvre is increased by the presence at this point of a big sewer, which it is feared will burst. A gang of masons are working in the glare of flaring gas lamps, building up a concrete wall to keep out the water. The subway station at Bercy collapsed with a terrific roar early this morning nearly carrying to ruin a nearby police station, in which a number of flood refugees had gathered. The yellow waters boiled through the chasm and swept all before it. Forty houses in the vicinity had to be evacuated. As the gas mains burst when the station collapsed, darkness added to the terror of the people. Halft the city is in darkness. In the gloom galloping orderlies are bearing instructions that can no longer be sent by telephone. The army of police, firemen and soldiers give the appearance of a city fighting for its life. Every minute brings graver dangers. New areas are being inundated, quays are collapsing, yawning chasms appear in the streets. The water of the Seine has invaded the entire labyrinth of underground Paris. It threatens ruin and destruction everywhere. What new disaster will come to the waterlogged city before the Seine begins to fall no one can predict. Already the damage is officially estimated at $200,000,000 and every hour adds millions more. The catastrophe promises to become international. The death roll is growing at a frightful rate, and when the epidemic, which now appears inevitable, breaks out it will run into thousands. Already scarlet fever has appeared among the refugees at Ivry. The superstitious talk of the destruction of Paris as a result of the approach of Halley's comet. Jury Clears Keitel and Fay. Denver. — Frederick W. Keitel of Denver and Franklin P. Fay of St. Louis, who have been on trial in the Federal Court for nearly two weeks on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of coal lands in Routt county, were found not guilty by the jury Wednesday afternoon after less than an hour's deliberation. They were the only two of the eight defendants indicted who were held for trial on the charge of having entered into a conspiracy about six years ago to obtain, for the use of a coal company afterward to be formed, about 5,200 acres of coal lands in Routt county. The defense was based chiefly upon the contention that it had not been shown conclusively that the two remaining defendants had formed any unlawful plan for obtaining the lands though evidence was brought to prove that all the lands in question were taken up by entrymen personally solicited by Keitel and Fay or their agents; that the lands were later transferred to Keitel; that the entrymen paid none of the expenses attending the entry, and that the Yampa Anthracite Coal Company was formed by the defendants and others for the purpose of promoting the coal properties thus obtained. Some of the entrymen testified they made entry of the land for their own use and benefit, while none of them would testify directly to having entered into a contract with the defendants to turn it over to them after final proof was made. Ballinger-Pinchot Inquiry. Washington.—The Ballinger-Pinchot Congressional inquiry began its public sessions Wednesday with Louis R. Glavis, the chief accuser of Secretary Ballinger, on the witness stand. As a result of many interruptions and the final decision of the committee to insist that Glavis' counsel make an opening statement of the specific charges against Mr. Ballinger, the witness did not get very far along in committee will be held every Friday his narrative. The sessions of the and Saturday. Coalition Has Bare Majority. London.—The combined strength of the Liberal, Labor and Nationalist coalition has reached 345, or more than a majority of the House of Commons. A Unionist government, therefore, is out of the question, and the only point still undecided is the exact strength of the coalition majority. But, if an independent Liberal majority is equally out of the question, only a short life can be predicted for the incoming government. In fact both the Liberal and Unionist parties are looking away from the present struggle to another conflict at the polling booths. Yes! 'Tis True!! It's Honest All Through!!! Our $25 Suit CLEMENTS 1435-37 Sixteenth Street and 1533 Welton Street Tailor Thurston H. U. Smith DIAMONDS Rich Jewelry BOYM-AJEN JEWELRY 69 WATCHES "Columbine" Is guaranteed absolutely pure Sample Case and you will use no other TELEPHONE 1285 GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHINGS 2559 Welton Street. P 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 THIRTIET ST. Office 1552 Welton St. Phones M. 742 743 When you Want The Heads, Feet, Tails, Snouts, Ears, Neckbones or Chitterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to East's Market TACINOLI UNION BREWING CO. Truiti DENVER, CO. The Allen Pure Drugs, Hot and Cold Drink scriptions carefully compounded by deliver to any part of the city. The Only Colored D G. A. ALLE 2100 Arapahoe Street Allen Drug Store Hot and Cold Drinks, Toilet Articles and Cigars. Pre- fully compounded by a registered pharmacist. Prompt part of the city. the Only Colored Drug Store in the City G. A. ALLEN, Proprietor The Allen Drug Store PHARMACY STORES 2101 CHAMPA ST Main 1663 DENVER'S LEAD PRESCRIPTIONS We Sell Good Go BERLAND BROS. CREDIT ? YES PHONE MAIN 6316 T. H. Wearne Furniture CHAMPA STREET 2704 WEST COLFAX Main 1663 Main 5354 R'S LEADING DRUGGISTS DESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY We Sell Good Goods at Low Prices. 2101 CHAMPA STREET 2704 WEST COLFAX Main 1663 Main 5354 PHONE MAIN 6316 THE GERMAN AMERICAN TRUST COMPANY CARPETS, STOVES AND WINDOW SHADES 1449-55 Welton Street PHONE—MAIN 5067 (Nickel refunded with all phone orders.) R. E. NORRIS Steamship Agency. Ice Cream, Ices, Candies Denver. Colorado. --- 2300-6 Larimer Street. PHONE MAIN 6316 First Class Repairing and Upholstering Phone 1461 Main. WILLIAMSON HAFFNER CO. ENGRAVERS-PRINTERS CUTS TAULKE DENVER, COLO Phone'—Main 3230 Proprietors Seventeenth and Lawrence Sts. DENVER, COLORADO Capital $300,000.00 Surplus $50,000.00 General Banking Savings Department, 4% Interest Paid, open Saturday Evenings from 6 to 8. Safe Deposit Vaults, the Strongest and Best in the West. Collection of Foreign Estates. Real Estate Loans. Phones, Office Main 5595. Residence, York 123. Hours, 9 to 11 a. m. 1 to 4 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays, 10 to 11:30 a. m. 2 to 4 p. m. Good Block-1557 Larimer St. Residence 2220 Clarkson St LABOR UNIONS BOYCOTT MEAT LABOR UNIONS BOYCOTT MEAT PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY COLO RADO STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR. TO LAST THIRTY DAYS APPEAL IS MADE TO LABORING MASSES OF COLORADO TO AID PROTEST. Denver.—In a proclamation issued Tuesday the Colorado State Federation of Labor, the principal central labor body in the state, urges organized labor to join at once in the boycott on the food trust by abstaining from the use of meat "as much as possible" during the next thirty days. The proclamation says: "To the Laboring Masses of the State of Colorado—In order that the boycott now declared against the meat trust in nearly every section of the country shall be more complete and effective, we, the officers of the Colorado State Federation of Labor, request the laboring masses of this state to abstain as much as possible from using meat for the next thirty days, believing this to be the most effective method of lowering the high cost of living, which has increased from ten to 150 per cent in the last few years, and is working untold hardship on the working class of this nation. "Legislative enactments having proven ineffectual in curbing the greed of the trust magnates, we should now seize this opportunity to demonstrate the force of this emphatic protest of the people. "THE COLORADO STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR. "JOHN McLENNAN, President. "W. T. HICKEY, Secretary-Treasurer." The proclamation was issued by President McLennan and Secretary Hickey, after consultation with the directors of the federation. It is directed not only to the great number of unions affiliated with the organization, but to the "laboring masses of the state," which means 'that it will appeal directly to not less than 100,000 men and women and their families. It is estimated that at least 200,000 people will join in the movement. The announcement of the action of the federation was sent to every city and town in the state, with the request that it should made public as rapidly as possible through the press and at all union meetings. In the meantime copies of the proclamation have been sent to central organizations all over the state, to the Western Federation of Miners and to the railroad organizations and other large labor unions now affiliated with the federation. It is expected that the local unions all over the state will take up the matter as rapidly as the news of the action of the federation reaches them, and before the end of the week the union forces throughout the state will be thoroughly organized in the fight against the food trust. The machinists' union, one of the largest locals in Denver, having a membership of 600, has already voted to abstain from the use of meat for sixty days. This is considered one of the most progressive unions in the city. W. A. Alger president of the Trades and Labor Assembly, being one of its members. Anti-Tuberculosis Fund The Colorado Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis reports that the holiday sale of Red Cross stamps in this state amounts to $2,604.18. The work of distributing them and collecting the money from the sales cost $455.96, leaving a net profit of $2,148.22 to be distributed. Of the net profits from the sale, the Red Cross society gets $510.95 and this will be placed in what is known as the "national emergency fund," to be used in case of sudden disasters with which local authorities are unable to cope. The Colorado Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis will get $1,637.29, which will be divided as follows: $365.27 ti the day camp at Colorado Springs, $11.37 to the education work of the local branch in that town: $9.87 to the relief fund of the state Trained Nurses' Association, and $1,250.76 to the state association for tuberculosis classes, special relief and educational work. The coroner's jury at Central City in the case of the recent wreck on the Moffat road, when three men were killed, rendered a verdict exonerating the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railroad from all responsibility, being satisfied that it was an unavoidable accident. Prior to his departure from Denver, James J. Jeffries announced that after the coming fight with Johnson, it is his intention to go to Africa, in company with a coterie of notables in the sporting world, on a big hunting trip, starting as soon after July 4th as arrangements can be made. Miss Arizona Owens, who has walked from Shoshone, Wyo., to Denver, has planned to walk to Kansas City. The distance from Denver to Kansas City is 751 miles, and Miss Owens expects to make it in twenty-five days. The Denver Motor Club will hold its second automobile show in the Auditorium February 23rd to 26th. Alex. J. Strachen, postmaster at Colorado Springs, has been appointed custodian of the public building. The Colorado Bankers' Association will holds its next annual meeting at Grand Junction some time in September. Walter A. Peterson has been appointed Swedish vice consul at Denver to succeed H. R. Salgaard, resigned. By a majority of just thirty votes, the people of Pueblo decided against holding a charter convention. The result may be contested. The new comet in the west is moving northward and eastward. For several days yet it will be a fine sight between six and seven o'clock p. m. Services were held in St. John's chapter house in Denver January 21st in commemoration of the founding of the Episcopal church in Colorado fifty years ago. A. F. Wuensch, a prominent Colorado mining engineer of Denver, died suddenly of heart disease in the lobby of the Alvarado hotel at Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 22nd. State Auditor Roady Kenehan has appointed Norvell H. Cobb to the position of deputy state examiner in his office. Mr. Cobb was previously in the employ of the Adams Express Company. At one o'clock on the morning of January 25th a fire broke out in the basement of the office of the StarJournal at Pueblo and was only extinguished after inflicting about $1,500 damage. The poultry show at Denver was highly successful and plans are already on foot for a larger exhibit next year. An appropriation of $2,000 will be raised to further the poultry industry of the state and an attempt will be made to secure the Auditorium for the 1911 exhibition. The Palmer estate has filed a plat in El Paso county for the "Randall" reservoir, to be built at some future time, at an estimated cost of $449,000. The reservoir, which will have a capacity of 1,000,000 gallons, will draw its water supply from Jimmy Camp creek, near the Palmer home at Glen Eyrie. The Otero irrigation district has let a contract for widening its ditch. Cement headgates will be constructed and it is intended to make the capacity 500 cubic feet per second, which will supply 22,000 acres. The farmers recently voted for a bond issue of $150,000 with which, to enlarge the canal and build a storage reservoir. At a meeting held in the Pueblo Chieftain office at which eleven cities were represented, the Colorado State Baseball league was launched with the election of A. D. Runyon of Denver as president, and O. F. Nelson of Pueblo as secretary-treasurer. The new league will be composed of eight towns, which are Denver, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, La Junta, Trinidad, Fort Collins, Cheyenne and Cripple Creek. A new irrigation system to be known as West Nile irrigation district has been started in the vicinity of Hoyt, thirty-five miles southwest of Fort Morgan. The reservoir will have a capacity of 150,000,000 cubic feet and gets its water from Routt, Bijou and Antelope creeks. It will bring under irrigation about 8,000 acres of level land in the extreme southwestern part of Morgan county. Two trainmen were killed and three others badly injured when extra freight train locomotive No. 921 on the Rio Grande exploded near La Veta at 1:15 o'clock on the morning of January 25th. The dead are: William Stiles, brakeman, Pueblo; C. E. Koehler, fireman, Pueblo. Seriously injured: J. C. Howard, engineer, Pueblo; C. W. Barker, brakeman, Pueblo; C. Faulks, conductor, Pueblo. Figures compiled in the office of the state superintendent of public instruction show that the school land sales of the past year have swelled to such an extent that there will be an increase of $87,252.92 in the school apportionment for the first year of the present administration over the apportionment for the last year of the administration preceding it. The apportionment for 1908 amounted to $221,267.98. That for 1909 amounts to $308,520.90. T. J. Holland, the game and fish commissioner has received a letter from W. M. Poteet of Nepesta, asking permission to kill some beaver who are undermining the banks of the Arkansas river where it skirts his farm. One banks keep caving in, he says, carrying with them the willow trees along the river and breaking down his fences. It takes him all his time to keep his fences repaired and all because the law won't let him kill beaver without a permit. R. F. Pace of Crawford also wants a permit to kill some of the pests. They are flooding his fields where he doesn't want them flooded and are a nuisance generally. One of the biggest combinations of coal producers in Colorado is being formed by the National Fuel Company, which is increasing its capitalization from $150,000 to $2,000,000 for the purpose of absorbing some of the largest producers in both the northern and southern coal fields of Colorado. Several persons convicted of spitting in the street cars of Denver have been fined $5 apiece and costs. At first the fines were remitted, leaving only the costs to pay; but now the police judge is exacting the full penalty and threatens to enlarge it. A Telephone 1785 Lawrence St. 13 Wines, Liqu NEWPORT SALE Phone Main 7413 THE NE DICK FRAZIER AND TOM LEWIS PROPRIETORS A First-Class Resort For Gentlemen D YOU EVER TH ef Bros.' Be made right, and tastes re be better made anywhere is a Strictly Colorado Pro DID YOU Neef I It’s made None better This is a S BL Why for Po When you THE DENVER 100 Cutlery, Toilet Prep Grit Do You K $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $10.00; Gold Crowns 50c up. Gold and Platinum ALE Arapahoe Street opposite It's made right, and tastes right. None better made anywhere and This is a Strictly Colorado Production Why Send Ex- for Pomade for the Hair When you can get it here in Denver at DENVER BARBER SUPPLIE 1008 15th St., Denver, Colo. toilet Preparations, Manicure Articles, Perf Grinding of every description. Wholesale and Retail. You Know Dr. Dameron his prices for all D s of Teeth for $5.00; $10.00 Sets for $7.00 Gold Crowns Only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; S and Piatina, $1.00 up. Painless Extracting. ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS. Get opposite the Postoffice. DR. DAMERON WM. EHN MANAGER Cutlery, Toilet Preparations, Manicure Articles, Perfumes, Etc. Grinding of every description. Wholesale and Retail. $7.00 Sets of Teeth for $5.00; $10.00 Sets for $7.00; $15.00 Sets for $10.00; $5.00 Crowns Only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Fillings, 50c up. Gold and Piatina, $1.00 up. Painless Extracting. ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS. Apapahoe Street opposite the Postoffice. DR. DAMERON, Proprietor. CHATEAU DE MONTMARTRE 2132-2148 ARAPAH Phone 2449. ly exclusive wholes Crockery House in The only ex retail Croch The only exclusive wholesale and retail Crockery House in Denver THE CARSON CROCKERY CO. Prices always right. Remember the place, Fifteenth and Stout JONES' RESTAURANT 2236 Larimer St. Denver, Colorado 1845 Arapahoe St. ALL HAND WORK. J. W. CASEY, Proprietor. Telephone 2132 1735 Lawrence St. Denver. Wines, Liquors and Cigars PORT SALOON YOU EVER TRY Bros.' Beer? le right, and tastes right. better made anywhere and Strictly Colorado Production BE SURE AN TRY IT. Send East made for the Hair can get it here in Denver at BARBER SUPPLY CO. 15th St., Denver, Colo. Miscions, Manicure Articles, Perfumes, Etc. ing of every description. Wholesale and Retail. HOW Dr. Dameron has reduced his prices for all Dental Work? for $5.00; $10.00 Sets for $7.00; $15.00 Sets only. $5.00 Gold Teeth, $4.00; Silver Fillings, $1.00 up. Painless Extracting. DENTAL PARLORS. e Postoffice. DR. DAMERON, Proprietor. WM. EHMKE MANAGER East Turner Hall 2132-2148 ARAPAHOE ST. Phone 2449. DENVER. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising 50 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. ON SAFARI he hear from Colonel Roosevelt he be a great relief to a watchful and trety and jealous of the honor of he get on Sahara as soon as possible. neat will not win him from his lo EVERY time we hear from Colonel Roosevelt here of late he is "on safari." It would be a great relief to a watchful and impatient nation, mindful of the safety and jealous of the honor of her sons, if he would get off safari and get on Sahara as soon as possible. We hope that his lust for African meat will not win him from his love for his Western idols. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING game of blind man's buff was ever just now by the politicians in the causes for the increased cost to the Senate. Urged on by the insistent members of congress have introduced investigation of this interest, Senate and the House of Represeps to bring the matter to a point of Congress is affected largely and the personal, advance ideas of they might be expected to do over the tariff. The needle in the woodpile aspect of the inquiry, nature of Ohio has undertaken an in recommendation of the Democratic that certain laws passed by Congress conditions, but to this effort has been representatives of the national aid a agriculture has taken steps to help complicate the situation thus show. When other states have followings burdened with partisan convictions its inevitable gigantic political needly return to the people as a muddlesome intricacies of a care statesman already alleges that need to this country, but is world on the situation is furnished by manufacturers, which body, in reel resolutions recommending a unify approximately fifty cents a pair for duty on hides has been removed degeing that the price of raw materials are not eating as much meat as not butchering as many beees as much as the trimming of automobile stock association, on the other if meats with the statement that the demand greater than the supply correctly entertains the idea over the prices of its products, esp raw materials and farm products or productions than formerly. Somes for the control of prices come stand for it all, but the unsophistic against the argued denials of able acts are the fathers of the condition for that one party, more than and miracles by which he is bound, gags No GREATER game of blind man's buff was ever carried on than that being played just now by the politicians in their alleged endeavor to ascertain the causes for the increased cost to the consumer of the necessaries of life. Urged on by the insistent demands of their constituents, various members of congress have introduced resolutions calling for a government investigation of this interesting and vital question, and both the Senate and the House of Representatives have taken the preliminary steps to bring the matter to a point of legislative agreement. But the action of Congress is affected largely by the fear of political results, and the personal, advance ideas of statesmen seem to differ as much as they might be expected to do over the more intricate question of finance and the tariff. The needle in the haystack or the Senegambian in the woodpile aspect of the inquiry is increased by the fact that the legislature of Ohio has undertaken an independent investigation upon the recommendation of the Democratic governor of that state, who suggests that certain laws passed by Congress may be responsible for existing conditions, but to this effort has been added the voluntary assistance of representatives of the national administration, while the department of agriculture has taken steps to hold a national conference to further complicate the situation thus shown to be so much in need of elucidation. When other states have followed Ohio with independent investigations burdened with partisan convictions, the question will have assumed its inevitable gigantic political proportions, and it then will undoubtedly return to the people as a national campaign issue, with all the muddlesome intricacies of a carefully nourished political plot. One statesman already alleges that the question of high prices is not confined to this country, but is world wide in its application. A sidelight on the situation is furnished by the National Association of Shoe Manufacturers, which body, in recent session in New York city, adopted resolutions recommending a uniform advance in the price of shoes, approximately fifty cents a pair for shoes of all grades. The fact that the duty on hides has been removed did not deter the association from alleging that the price of raw materials has advanced, because the people are not eating as much meat as they formerly ate, the stockmen are not butchering as many beeves and leather is being put to new uses, such as the trimming of automobiles, thus causing a scarcity. The live stock association, on the other hand, justifies its raise in the price of meats with the statement that the people are eating more meat, making the demand greater than the supply. Each of these associations probably correctly entertains the idea that it possesses some power of control over the prices of its products, especially as the original producer of raw materials and farm products does not seem to get any more for his productions than formerly. Somehow the question of trade combinations for the control of prices comes home to the consumer, who must stand for it all, but the unsophisticated layman hardly dares to assume, against the argued denials of able and respected statesmen, that the trusts are the fathers of the conditions that make their pillaging possible, or that one party, more than another, is responsible for the trade conspiracies by which he is bound, gagged and fleeced. THE REAL ISSUE les have settled many great quests in the United States; and the great right, because the judgment of the land and thorough information, has stories and intricate and problem and has followed closely the rr available experience. Every greeds and improvements has its debts such opportunities for experim MUNICIPALITIES have settled many great questions affecting the welfare of cities in the United States; and the great majority of them have been settled right, because the judgment of the people, based upon honestly acquired and thorough information, has invariably rejected the speculative theories and intricate and problematical proposals of frenzied agitators and has followed closely the reliable channels of common sense and available experience. Every great question regarding municipal needs and improvements has its debatable sides, but it also usually presents such opportunities for experimental logic that the shrewd political agitator fairly revels in painted prospects and imaginary revelations, to the great natural demoralization of the situation and the uncertainty of those best prepared to comprehend and develop it. But the people can be relied upon to take best care of their own interests when all the facts affecting those interests on the matter at issue are laid fairly before them, despite the demoralizing efforts of designing men seeking to consummate their own personal profit through the unwary sanction of the people. No large and important municipality in the United States has ever undertaken to establish and install an independent water plant of its own when there was already a thorough and perfect system in operation in such municipality, supplying the present needs of its population and offering every necessary opportunity for possible future improvements. The proposition to do so has invariably been pronounced a scheme of wasteful madness, for the universal fundamental law provides the means for every municipal corporation to acquire such existing private holdings as may be needed by the most economical process possible. The law of eminent domain, permitting the process of legal condemnation of private property for necessary public use, is the municipality's undeniable resort, and the legal compensation following its exercise is wholly within the judgment and authority of the people's own tribunals, the courts. In all gigantic enterprises, such as face every large municipality when other negotiations are considered unsatisfactory, all other courses have been rightfully deemed experimental and unjustifiable by the people who have been called upon to adjust these matters by a deciding ballot. The only legitimate issue in the election which the city of Denver expects to hold upon this matter of water supply is, therefore, whether the city shall purchase the existing plant or grant a new franchise to the Denver Union Water Company. The thorough information which the company and a reliable press has furnished the people on all phases of the question and its conditions, is an honest and safe source of knowledge, subject to wide comparison and verification, upon which the judgment of the people cannot fail to be logical and true. Public Service By JOSIAH QUINCY OSITIONS in public service have their advantages and advantages commonly dwelt in tainty of tenure where the physical sphere, the absence of and the fact that the natives are such as to disqualify employment. But it must be reminding advantages, such of a business or professional life, abscissa which can be reasonably counted upon is within the scope of the civil service. The attractiveness of a position depends chiefly upon the personal equitable for a man of energy, ambition and able for a man who does not possess to upon a competitive basis. Outside the public service, there independent work, to found a business own professional career. There are often employed or directed by other men often makes a mistake to select office, these qualities often does better for employment than in trying to make his The law of compensation runs the vital elements about office holding to tages there would not be such keen on the lowest to the highest. The lower grades of public service rather disqualify the incumbent for private and the temptation to settle down spirit is very strong. There is no great certain promotion in sight to be won results. In very many cases there is be got through and the fixed pay to be My own opinion is, if a general public service as a whole, as it now eson holding a public office or employment in private life there are at least five is easy for the public employee to imagine done if he had chosen some other c the public service, like the advantages and their demandly dwelt upon areas where the office is in the absence of good opinion that the nature and cost to disqualify a man from must be remembered to advantages, such as freedom, personal life, absence of work accounted upon for life, civil service rules. If a position in the public personal equation is ambition and self-conscious not possess the qualities of service, there are some, and a business of their. There are others who lived by other men. A man select office holding is better for himself to make his fortune; action runs through life; holding to offset its such keen competition. The public service, protected ambent for private work, settle down to their there is no great incentive to be won by proved uses there is merely the fixed pay to be regularly. If a generalization is as it now exists in the employment who wi at least five who are employe to imagine how some other career. It OSITIONS in public service, like those in private employment, have their advantages and their disadvantages. The disadvantages commonly dwelt upon are those arising from uncertainty of tenure where the office is in any way within the political sphere, the absence of good opportunities for promotion and the fact that the nature and conditions of public service are such as to disqualify a man for subsequent private employment. But it must be remembered that there are some corresponding advantages, such as freedom from the uncertainties of a business or professional life, absence of worry and a definite career, which can be reasonably counted upon for life, at least where the office is within the scope of the civil service rules. The attractiveness of a position in the public service as a career depends chiefly upon the personal equation. A position which undesirable for a man of energy, ambition and self-confidence may be very desirable for a man who does not possess the qualities necessary to win success upon a competitive basis. Outside the public service, there are some men who are fitted to do independent work, to found a business of their own, or carve out their own professional career. There are others who can do much better work when employed or directed by other men. A man of force and enterprise often makes a mistake to select office holding as a career; a man without these qualities often does better for himself in some branch of public employment than in trying to make his fortune in the outside world. The law of compensation runs through life; if there were not attractive elements about office holding to offset its limitations and disadvantages there would not be such keen competition for every vacancy, from the lowest to the highest. The lower grades of public service, protected by the civil service laws, rather disqualify the incumbent for private work; his duties are subordinate and the temptation to settle down to their performance in a routine spirit is very strong. There is no great incentive for extra exertion, no certain promotion in sight to be won by proved efficiency, no payment by results. In very many cases there is merely the fixed routine of work to be got through and the fixed pay to be regularly received. My own opinion is, if a generalization is wanted, that taking the public service as a whole, as it now exists in this country, for every person holding a public office or employment who would probably be better off in private life there are at least five who are better off as they are. It is easy for the public employee to imagine how much better he could have done if he had chosen some other career. It is difficult in most cases for the impartial observer to be satisfied that the opportunities thus lost would otherwise have been realized. Have we forgotten the incident to pel Mexico to open up the doors of American who had been held for over 50 of Mexican penitentiaries? Do we read to-day and forget to our notice by the reproduction in by the citizens of a little town in Tn informing him that an American is months in a Guadalajara prison with I have visited old Mexico several taken note of Mexican law and justice I have been informed by civil and from 20 to 30 years in that republic They say that the imprisoned one left to rot and die in underground cell the incident that caused the doors of a Montecillo field for over two years to a? and forget to-morrow production in the daily town in Texas to a American is held and a prison without the s mexico several times in law and justice as applied by civil and mining that republic that such imprisoned ones are sold underground cells far rem Have we forgotten the incident that caused our government to compel Mexico to open up the doors of a Monterey prison and liberate an American who had been held for over two years without trial in the worst of Mexican penitentiaries? Do we read to-day and forget to-morrow the case that was brought to our notice by the reproduction in the daily papers of a telegram sent by the citizens of a little town in Texas to Secretary of State Knox informing him that an American is held and has been held for nine months in a Guadalajara prison without the semblance of a trial? I have visited old Mexico several times in the last few years and have taken note of Mexican law and justice as applied to Americans. I have been informed by civil and mining engineers who have spent from 20 to 30 years in that republic that such cases are numerous. They say that the imprisoned ones are seldom granted a trial, but are left to rot and die in underground cells far removed from the light of day. This a meal and the waiter has his hand cashier has her handbag ready for an Even the newsboy on the street may receive for a paper on Christmas This business man then turns to his shoes shined and the bootblack dress customer and regular patron unless with the annual expectancy. He then goes to the office build a cheery "Merry Christmas" with the tial reminder of Christmas. No matter where this man wane the hand out for the Christmas offer has his hand out for me ready for anything tha n the street is ready on Christmas eve and then turns toward his bootblack drives his da tron unless he "puts ey. office building, and has" with the expectat as. is man wanders durin Christmas offering. a meal and the waiter has his hand out for a Christmas gift and the cashier has her handbag ready for anything that may come her way. Even the newsboy on the street is ready to appropriate any coin he may receive for a paper on Christmas eve and Christmas morning. This business man then turns toward his office and drops in to have his shoes shined and the bootblack drives his dark eyes through this genial customer and regular patron unless he "puts up" a coin commensurate with the annual expectancy. He then goes to the office building, and the elevator man bids him a cheery "Merry Christmas" with the expectation of receiving a substantial reminder of Christmas. No matter where this man wanders during the day, there is always the hand out for the Christmas offering. P Law and Justice in Mexico By W. R. PARKER Christmas Brings Many Tortures By B. MARTIN ROHEN Career Depends on Personal Equation public service, like those in private employment,ages and their disadvantages. The disaday dwelt upon are those arising from uncer-where the office is in any way within the politi-osence of good opportunities for promotion of the nature and conditions of public service equalify a man for subsequent private em- be remembered that there are some corre-ces, such as freedom from the uncertainties life, absence of worry and a definite career, cited upon for life, at least where the office and service rules. A position in the public service as a career personal equation. A position which undesir-ition and self-confidence may be very desir-possess the qualities necessary to win success there are some men who are fitted to do a business of their own, or carve out their there are others who can do much better work or other men. A man of force and enterprise set office holding as a career; a man without better for himself in some branch of public make his fortune in the outside world. runs through life; if there were not attracting to offset its limitations and disadvan-keen competition for every vacancy, from public service, protected by the civil service laws, not for private work; his duties are subordi-ttle down to their performance in a routine is no great incentive for extra exertion, no be won by proved efficiency, no payment by there is merely the fixed routine of work to pay to be regularly received. a generalization is wanted, that taking the fit now exists in this country, for every per-empployment who would probably be better off at least five who are better off as they are. It is to imagine how much better he could have other career. It is difficult in most cases Joseph Duinney Is it strange that Mexico, through its representative, Senor Creel, should offer to mediate between the United States and Nicaragua during the present difficulty? The murdering of Cannon and Groce is more or less similar to the policy of the Mexican government toward some American citizens. To suffer imprisonment on trumped-up charges, without trial for months and in many cases years, in water-soaked, fever-laden dungeons, having one's miserable life sustained with the vilest of food, is far worse than a speedy death by execution. incident that caused our government to com- oors of a Monterey prison and liberate an- for over two years without trial in the worst Forget to-morrow the case that was brought in the daily papers of a telegram sent in Texas to Secretary of State Knox American is held and has been held for nine son without the semblance of a trial? Several times in the last few years and have had justice as applied to Americans. Civil and mining engineers who have spent republic that such cases are numerous. Owed ones are seldom granted a trial, but are bound cells far removed from the light of day. Although Christmas to many may bring pleasure and happiness in profusion, yet to many others it is made a day of torture and melancholy by the actions and expectations of mendicants who ought to have more manhood and more appreciation of the rights of others. A man enters the barber shop Christmas eve to get shaved and not only does the porter expect a Christmas offering, but the barber, who has been receiving a regular weekly stipend from his customer, expects an extra good tip for Christmas. This same man goes to a restaurant for his hand out for a Christmas gift and the day for anything that may come her way. The street is ready to appropriate any coin he Christmas eve and Christmas morning. It turns toward his office and drops in to have black drives his dark eyes through this genial unless he "puts up" a coin commensurate with building, and the elevator man bids him with the expectation of receiving a substan- man wanders during the day, there is always as offering. BOE & JOES RÉSTAURANT 2212 Larimer Street CUT THIS OUT This ad. is worth 50c in trade on our special Brand of Monogram Club. Why this is just to get you to try it. Regular price, $1.50. "Watch Us Grow." A. BERKOWITZ & CO. (Our Name Our Guarantee) DEALERS IN FINE WINES and LIQUORS Telephone—Champa 1231 1518 COURT PLACE PEOPLE'S SUNDAY ALLIANCE. Report of the Special Committee on Finance. The special finance committee, working under the board of directors of the People's Sunday Alliance for prosecuting the civil rights suits now pending in the courts, wish to make the following report: First, we wish to report the individual contributors to this fund as follows: C. W. Buford, $5.00; Attorney George G. Ross, $1.75; W. A. Jones, $1.75; William Hill, $1.50; B. P. Johnson, $1.00; Henry Banks, $1.00; A. C. Jackson, $1.00; Ed Fountain, $1.00; A. J. Bradford, $1.00; I. H. Harper, $1.00; Wm. Obryan, $1.00; F. T. Bruce, $1.00; C. H. Clark, $1.00; A. G. Fallings, $1.00; L. H. Walton, $1.00; C. M. Hughes, $1.00; Amanda King, $1.00; J. J. Manuel, 25 cents, and W. S. Evans 50 cents, and 70 cents in small contributions. Of this money collected to date, Mr. Buford was not only the most liberal contributor himself, but solicited eight dollars ($8.00) of the other contributions. W. A. Jones solicited three dollars and seventy-five cents ($3.75), Mr. Ross two dollars ($2.00), and the balance was given in open meetings at the Alliance meetings. The statement of the receipts and expenditures of the committee is as follows: Cash Not Handled by Treasurer. To cash donated by Geo G Ross. $ 1.75 To cash donated by W. A. Jones 1.75 To cash collected and paid out, Cash balance in treasury.....$ 2.70 (Signed) W. A. JONES, M. D., Treasurer. In connection with this financial statement the committee wish to announce that plans are under consideration for the calling of a public meeting to lay the facts of the case fully before the people. We are informed by the attorneys who have the case in charge, Messrs. Ross & Townsend, that about three hundred ($300.00) dollars will be needed to carry the two pending suits through the Supreme Court and get a decision on them. We, the Negro, are ones who are immediately concerned in this matter and if we have men who are willing to give their professional services for a very scant consideration, we should see that no lack of means are wanting for court fees. In fact, we should do more. The committee are of the opinion that means will be forthcoming as soon as the people are made fully acquainted with cases and their importance is made clear. On account of the special meetings that are now in progress in BOE RÉSTA 2212 Lari our churches, no effort at setting a definite time will be attempted now, but announcements will be made as soon as it is opportune. When the call is made we expect YOU to be present with your friends and your mite. HOWARD TROUTMAN, W. S. EVANS, J. M. MASON, C. W. BUFORD, W. A. JONES, Committee: LOCAL NOTICES. Hair cut, 15c, 1847 Blake street. Two nicely furnished rooms for rent. Apply at 1919 Welton street. For Rent—5-room brick, 1889 Marion St. Inquire 1722 Clarkson St. For Rent—A nicely furnished room; all modern improvements. Apply 2515 Curtis street. PROF. WILL TAYLOR, SPECIALIST ON Hard corns. Soft Corns. Festered corns. Nervo-vascular corns. Vascular corns. Laminated corns. Fibrous corns. Calla sities spots. Bunions. Chilblain feet. Ingrowing nails. Call to see me in regard to your feet. 911 18th street. Phone Main 7402. THE COLORED AMERICAN LOAN & REALTY CO. 913 21st St. A. A. WALLER, Mgr. and Notary Public We will insure, rent, and care for your property. Ita Ford's Hair Pomade Fifty years of success have proved the merits of this preparation. 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, harsh, kinky or curly hair softer, more pliable and glossy. easier to comb and arrange, in many 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 keep the hair in satisfactory condition, and two so four bottles, regular size, are usually sufficient for a year. Directions with every bottle. Ford's Hair Pomade & JOES AURANT mer Street Mrs. C. C. Clark was on the sick list this week. P. J. Jackson, who has been ill several weeks, is able to be out again. Little Georgia Hall, of 4265 Acoma St., has been suffering with a severe cold. NOTICE, K. OF P'S. A beautiful silk flag given free with orders for K. of P. and Calanthean badges. Write for particulars to THE S. W. STARKS CO., Charleston, W. Va. SCOTT'S CHAPEL NOTES. H. J. Foster and Walter Pritchett returned home last Friday, week, from a trip to Chicago. Born, Thursday, January 20th, 1910, to Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Davis, a son. Mother and son doing nicely. Mrs. W. C. Bradfield received the sad news of the death of her mother-in-law in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Tuesday night. Mrs. Jessie Dennis, the guest of Mrs. T. E. McClain, 2910 Glenarm Place, is visiting her aunt in Leadville, she will be absent from the city a month. The Misses Irene and Vitula Watson were guests at dinner with their sister and niece, Mrs. Evelin McWilliam and daughter Elsie, Sunday Jan. 23, 1910. A surprise dinner was tendered Master Theodore Von Dickersohn on Sunday, the occasion being his 18th birthday. Those present were Masters Guy Nelson, Virgil, and Wayman Ward, John and Roy Brown, Royer Smith, Messrs N. and F. Von Dickersohn and C. Willer. The youngsters were served by Mrs. S. Von Dickersohn assisted by Miss Elsie Von Dickersohn, Mrs. C. Von Dickersohn and Mrs. T. Ector. W. H. Rogers and B. C. Curtis were royally entertained Tuesday evening at the residence of Hon. and Mrs. W. B. Townsend, 2418 California street, Messrs. Rogers and Curtis have been friends for many years and last Tuesday evening was the first time they have met in eight years. Mr. Rogers has been a resident of Pueblo for the past seventeen years and held some very responsible political positions in that city. One of the most notable and elaborate functions of the season was that of the annual dinner given Thursday night of last week by the Bon Vi Vant Club at Dama hall, 27th and Arapahoe streets. The table, which groaned under a menu that was of the best, was beautifully decorated with varieties of flowers and ferns, while the hall was adorned with the club colors —blue and white. After the repast the members and their guests, numbering forty, enjoyed themselves at the light fantastic until the wee hours of the morning. Tuesday night was very stormy out there gathered a large crowd at Mrs. La Belle Johnson's 1412 27th St., and at nine o'clock left for the surprise party given by Miss Irene Josephine Watson on her brother, Mr. Frank Watson, and her sister-in-law Mrs. Ethel Wafson. Those present were the Misses Vitula Watson, Irene Watson, Alpha Griggsby, Albert A. Fields, Ruby Watson, Hazel Johnson, Dora Thomas Mrs. Blanche Franklin, Mrs. La Belle Johnson; Messrs Walter Porter, James Tivis, William Singleton, Albert Lynch, Le Roy Wilson, Lewis Davis Dumond White, Earl Thayers, Olive Grigsby, Herman Field, Albert Franklin Frank Hightower, Arthur Johnson, Hulee Mills. Reprehensions were served, games were played until the wee small hours and all departed declaring they had a merry time. None but the initiated know the accuracy required in a printing office. The average reader who detects a mispelled word or letter upside down feels that his mission on earth is not accomplished until he has called the attention of the overworked editor to the glaring defect. He does not notice the thousands and tens of thousands of letters that are in place, or the multitude of words correctly spelled, but his eagle eye is glued on the one that is out of place. So it is with our deeds. Man does a thousand good deeds and no attention is paid to them, but if he makes one mistake it is flashed all over the world. A lifetime may be spent in building up a reputation that may be wrecked in a moment. The world is a harsh critic, exacting to a fault.—South Denver Eye. W. B. Townsend, attorney and counsellor at law, room 209 Kittredge building, Denver, Colo. Phone Main 6782. NOTICE, K. OF P'S. A beautiful silk flag given free with orders for K. of P. and Calanthean badges. Write for particulars to THE S. W. STARKS CO., SCOTT'S CHAPEL NOTES. Dr. Crostwait addressed the Epworth League to the delight of all who were privileged to hear him. Mr. F. D. McPherson is the leader of the Spiritual Department. Two stood up for prayer. The president, Mrs. W. A. Bobo is putting new life in the League. There will be a Handkerchief Bazaar and George Washington Birthday party at Scott's February 22nd. Cards are being sent out soliciting handkerchiefs for the bazaar. Mrs. Wilma Stafford and Mrs. Celia Gaines are the originators of this unique entertainment. The Junior League was well attended last Sunday afternoon. There were several new faces in the audience. The League has grown so rapidly that two new teachers have been added to the teaching force. Parents are invited to send their children to these services. The instruction is wholesome and special care is given to the little tots. Mr. W. S. Evans, president of the department of World Wide Evangelism will lead the Epworth League Sunday evening. The topic for discussion will be "The New Acts of the Apostles," Matt. 28:20; Acts 18:10: This will be a study of Missions. You are cordially invited to attend. The pastor preached about the "Parable of the Unjust Steward" last Sunday. The subject for next Sunday morning will be "The Rich Man and Lazarus." Sunday evening "Daniel in the Lions' Den." Mrs Mary E. Evans served the Ladies Aid Society to the delicacies of the season last Thursday afternoon. This society will give an Age Guessing contest tonight at the residence of Mrs. Mary Clinkscale 2508 Tremont Place. Chili and other refreshments will be served. You are invited to attend. THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. At 11 a. m. tomorrow Dr. Azel A. Fish, assistant pastor of Central Presbyterian church, will preach. 7:30 p. m., the pastor, Rev. J. A. Thos. Hazell, S. T. B., will occupy the pulpit. Subject, "Come." Y. P. S. C. E. 6:45 p. m. "The Forum," a literary society, has been reorganized under the presidency of Mr. O. A. Williams and a competent corps of officers. The object of the organization is to socially entertain, literally benefit and morally inspire the young people of the congregation every Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Qualified persons will contribute to a healthy program from time to time. Refreshments will be served. The public is cordially invited to attend the services Sunday, the Forum Thursday night, as well as the Bible Institute Friday night. We make no fake declaration of our accomplishment, but in a modest way we are glad to state that there is a manifest success in every department of our church work. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PEO- January 30th. Instrumental music, selected. Vocal selection. Address, "What a Well Regulated Sanitarium or Health Farm Would Do to Lessen the Death Rate from Tuberculosis"—G. W. Holden, M. D., Medical Director 'Agnes Memorial Sanitarium, Denver. All of the papers will be open to questions and for discussion. A cordial invitation is extended to all. NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY. Estate of Frank Wilson, Deceased. The undersigned having been appointed the estate of Frank Wilson, late of the City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, deceased, hereby gives notice that she will appear in Court County of Denver, the Court House in Denver, in said County, on Monday, the 28th day of February, A. D. 1910, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock a. m. of said estate, this time all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment against said estate notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment against said estate Denver, Colorado, this 26th day of January, A. D. 1910. BERTHA E. WILSON. Administratrix of the Estate of Frank Wilson, Deceased. In lieu of an attorney. The Earnings of Water Plants. Denver, Colorado, January 28th, 1910. TO THE CITIZENS AND TAXPAYERS OF DENVER: The following table, compiled from the latest bulletin of municipal statistics issued by the United States Bureau of Census, furnishes valuable information concerning the extent, equipment, valuation and earnings of municipally owned water plants in all of the cities in the country having a population of 100,000 or more in 1906. The statistics show that the annual earnings of the water plants in all the large cities of the country represent an income upon the property devoted to public water supply nearly fifty per cent. greater than the income of The Denver Union Water Company upon its property for the same use. $425,999,120 $46,535,842 DENVER .....220 Yes 12.24 63 5-6 36 1-6 $14,400,000 $1,067,388.22 7.41 The general table covers thirty-four cities and the report of earnings only thirty three. thirty-three. They are the same cities with which we compared the valuation of water plants, mills for mile of mains and component for component in our letter of November 26, 1909, except that there is no report of the earnings of the newly constructed New Orleans plant, which was not then supplying water. The total value of the thirty-three plants as shown by the bulletin is $495,120. $425,389,120 The gross earnings of the thirty-three plants as shown by the bulletin total $46,535,842. The earnings represent an income upon the value of the plants of 10 92/100 per cent. per annum. 10 92/100 per cent, per hour The valuation fixed by the board of appraisers upon the property of The Denver Union Oil Company at the close of 1908 was $14,400,000. The gross earnings of the company for that year as shown by our letter of December 17, 1909, were $1,067,388.22. of December 17, 1909, were $1,067,388.82. The earnings represent a gross income upon the appraised valuation of the property of only 10 percent, or 3 51/100 per cent, less upon the valuation than the average income of the thirty-three municipal plants. One company plainly speaking the property devoted to public water supplies in all of the largest cities in the country that owned their own water systems when the report was made produced an income upon the valuation of that property 47 37/100 per cent, greater per annum than the income upon the valuation of the property of The Denver Union Water Company. Still more plainly speaking, the people in those thirty-three cities are required to pay nearly half again as much to the support and operation of each dollar in value represented by the water plants in those cities as the people of Denver are required to pay. This same report of the Bureau of Census discussed in our letter of November 26, 1909, shows that the average valuation per mile of mains in the cities covered by the report was $24,361.38. criteria to the valuation of the plant of The Denver Union Water Company as shown by the report of the board of appraisers was $21,960.19 per mile of main, or $2,401.19 less per mile of mains than the valuation of the plants in the other sites. We showed in that letter that there was no more extensive or completely equipped water plant in the United States than the plant of The Denver Union Water Company. We showed not only that the average valuation of water plants in the United States per mile of mains was higher than the valuation fixed upon the Denver plant by the board of appraisers, but also by comparison with the equipment and facilities of the plants of lower value that the valuation per mile of mains in Denver was less for the same equipment and facilities than the valuation given by the Census Bureau upon any of the plants. We call attention to these facts again to forestall the claim that the low income of The Denver Union Water Company as shown by the percentages is due to a high valuation Careful consideration of the fact that the prices of materials entering into the construction of water plants are standard over the country will show that the law of averages as regards cost and valuation can be applied more accurately to a water system than perhaps any other class of business. Therefore the comparison shows that the valuation of the Denver plant is not excessive. The foregoing table shows that the average consumption of water in the thirtrafour cities is 112.32 gallons daily per capita. The consumption in Denver for more than ten years has averaged 220 gallons per canita, nearly twice as much as the other cities. gations per capita, nearly twice as much as the other cities contain only 19 89/100 per cent, of pipe of 12 inches or larger diameter. The pipe system of The Denver Union Water Company contains 36 1/6 per cent, of pipe of 12 inches or larger diameter, nearly twice as much as the other cities. the other cities. The table shows that for each inhabitant of the other cities the pipe systems contain 6 63/100 feet of pipe. The system of The Denver Union Water Company contains for each inhabitant of Denver 12 24/100 feet of pipe, nearly twice as much as the other cities. The table shows that only eight of the thirty-four water plants in the other cities furnish filtered water now. At the time the report was made only four of those cities had completed filter plants in operation. The table shows that none of the cities obtain their water supplies as far from the point of delivery as The Denver Union Water Company obtains its supply. None of the cities except New York owns on artificial storage system that can in any sense be compared with the storage system of The Denver Union Water Company. In our letter of November 26, 1909, we showed that taking into consideration the demand for water in the various cities and the extent of the systems that the Denver plant is obliged to pump more water than most of the cities. That it must first bear the heavy expense of bringing water a long distance, then add to the gravity cost the expense of pumping a large portion of the supply. Thus the expense of distributing much of the water is doubled because of the hilly location of the city. Yet the plants in the other cities, less expensive, less complete and less expensive to operate, produce an income nearly fifty per cent, per annum greater upon the valuation of those properties than is produced by the Denver plant. On the basis of the income produced by the other plants, the conditions surrounding the furnishing of water in Denver would justify an income to The Denver Union Water Company upon its property fifty per cent, higher than the average of the other cities, instead of fifty per cent. lower. These facts show conclusively why The Denver Union Water Company and the other companies that have operated in Denver have been obliged to put into the water plant many millions of dollars more than the total earnings of the property have produced in order that the city might have the extensions and betterments required by its growth and the demand for water. The foregoing table shows nominally that three of the thirty-three cities derive a lower percentage income on the value of their properties than The Denver Union Water Company. As a matter of fact, neither of the three plants is entirely dependent upon the revenue derived from the plant for the support of the property and the actual expenditures are far above the revenue shown. Philadelphia, Pa., which shows an income of 2/100 of one per cent. less than the Denver plant, and Allegheny, Pa., which shows an income of 35/100 of one per cent. less, turn the revenues of the water department into the general fund, and the expenses of the department in excess of the revenues are met by appropriations out of the moneys produced by general taxes. This condition applies to practically every municipal water plant in the country. When the direct revenues are insufficient the general funds are always at the command of the water department to make good any deficit. A private water plant has no such means of swelling its income and must live on the direct revenue, whether sufficient or insufficient. No citizen in any city owning its own water plant can tell what his actual payments for service amount to from year to year because of the ease with which expenses are transferred from one fund to another. The plant in Washington, D. C., which shows the lowest percentage income in the list, devotes the revenues of the department solely to the operation of the distributing system and the collection of water rents. The War Department, independent of the city, operates the storage and filtration systems, and the expenses of these branches of the service are met by direct appropriations from the United States Treasury. If the Washington computation was based on total outlay instead of only the revenue from the sale of water, the percentages would be higher than the average, if not one of the highest in the country. Our next letter will show the revenue derived by the various plants in the United States per million gallons of water furnished consumers. THE DENVER UNION WATER COMPANY, By W. P. ROBINSON, General Manager. S & N GARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. — OPP JOSLINS Our Annual January Clearance Sale OF LADIES COATS, SUITS, SKIRTS, WAISTS, DRESSES, PETTI- COATS, KIMONOS AND CHILDREN'S COATS Commences Monday, January 3rd 1-3 and 1-2 and on many garments more than one-half of the former regular price is taken off. We want to sell every winter garment during the month. To do so we are making the prices so low that you can hardly resist buying when you see the garments. The coats we are offering for $5.00, $7.00 and $10.00 are bargains. Every woman who can use a coat now should see. The suits at $7.50, $10.00 and $12.50 are regular $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00 garments, but half price buys any suit in the house. DON'T MISS THIS SALE No store in Denver will offer as good bargains during the month of January. Silversmith & Hiller, 925 16th Street 25% Discount CLOTHING SALE On Monday morning we will begin our Semi-Annual sale of Men's Suits and Overcoats. Only twice each year can you buy "Alder-Rochester Clothes" at reduced prices and this is an occasion looked forward to by hundreds of men who appreciate exceptional values. $20.00 SUITS AND O'COATS FOR $15.00 $22.50 SUITS AND O'COATS FOR $16.90 $25.00 SUITS AND O'COATS FOR $18.75 $30.00 SUITS AND O'COATS FOR $22.50 These Three Things We Do Not Do I We never mark up goods in anticipation of these sales. II We never buy "jobs" or "seconds" to "mix in" during these sales. The goods on exhibition represent our regular stock of "Alder-Rochester Clothes." III We never go through and withdraw the best values. Everything goes without reserve. THE Johnson-Noel Co 1005 SIXTEENTH STREET. SCHOOL FOR CHAUFFEURS Instructions in driving, repairing and the proper care of automobiles. . . . Men thoroughly prepared to take and fill good paying positions. . . . FOR TERMS AND HOURS SEE GANNAWAY,2804 California ```markdown ``` RURAL ROUTES ARE QUITE SAFE Postoffice Department Has No Thought of Cutting Them, Despite the Deficit. WORTH THE COST INVOLVED Ballinger-Pinchot Row Stirs Up Much Blitterness in Washington—Public Hearings Are Likely to Be Lively. Washington.—Congress is making every effort that it can to find a way to cut down the expenses of government. In former years there has been the appearance of a striving after saving rather than a real saving itself, but this year results are being accomplished. It can be said, however, that while there will be paring of expenses in practically all the appropriation bills there will be no attempt to curtail expenditures which will cripple the rural mail deliveries of the country. Postmaster General Hitchcock was the last of the cabinet chiefs to hand in his annual report. He had a hard problem to solve. The demands made by the people on the postoffice department are greater year by year, and there is always resentment of any recommendation that an increased price should be added to any service rendered by the department to the people. Perhaps the country will have one-cent first-class postage some time in the near future, for while the cost of maintaining the department is increasing it is hoped that means will be found to make the revenues greater and yet to allow a decrease in the cost of letter postage. The postmaster general is a firm believer in the rural route system. The delivery of letters through the country districts costs the government several millions of dollars a year more than the returns, but the immense convenience to the people who live outside of the great centers more than overbalances, in the eyes of the department chiefs, the extra money needed to continue the service. Ambitious Plans on Foot. Demands will be made during the next year to find some place in which the jostoffice department expenses may be cut materially, and some means by which the income may be increased without affecting the purses of the great body of the people. If the present postmaster general can put his department on a paying basis he will count it a victory sufficient to make his administration stand in a bright light. There seems to be little chance, however, that affairs can be arranged that the pages of the ledger of the postoffice department will balance themselves at the end of the next year. One thing can be taken for granted, the rural route service of the country will be strengthened year by year, even though it be necessary to weaken some of the other branches of the service. Satisfied with Anti-Trust Law. President Taft seems to have found to his own satisfaction, as shown by his recent message, that the Sherman anti-trust law is equal to every demand that the country makes of it. This is the president's legal opinion, and until some greater lawyer or lawyers or group of judges find to the contrary it probably will have to stand. The fact that the interests that have attacked the Sherman law have been so diametrically opposed to one another seems to have convinced the president that the law must be a pretty good one. At any rate he has advised that it remain unchanged on the statute books. There are several celebrated cases upon which the supreme court of the United States has yet to pass judgment, cases which came into the courts as a result of the entering of government prosecution under the Sherman law. The case of the Standard Oil Company, which was decided adversely to the great corporation, will come before the high court within a short time. The lower court, which sat in the city of St. Louis, declared the Standard Oil Company to be a corporation in restraint of trade. This was a Sherman law case and it is expected that within a few weeks the supreme court will decide it. Bitterness in Pinchot Row. When the members of the committee on investigation into the Ballinger-Dinchot controversy get into the real heart of their work the case unquestionably will prove to be one of the most interesting which has ever been heard in the capital. It would be hard for anyone at a distance to realize the intensity of feeling that there is in this city over the matter, which congress has finally taken into its own hands at the request of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Indications are that the congressional investigation which the secretary has demanded, will take on much the form of an actual trial, a stout defense and well-defined prosecution. Several of the land cases which have had or are yet to have their day in court, probably will figure prominently in the proceedings before they are ended. There are several cases which were tried in different parts of the country when Mr. Ballinger was commissioner of the land office under the Boosevelt administration, and it is said that some of the opinions that he expressed as to the results of one or two of the cases will be used by his opponents to show that he is not in sympathy with the cause of saving the natural resources of the country from private ownership. On the other hand it is said that since the secretary of the interior came into office in the Taft cabinet he has stood like a rock against propositions made to him to compromise some of the land cases which have been tried in the lower courts and which are now on the way to the supreme court. Secretary Ballinger's Position. No one has intimated that Secretary Ballinger did anything excepting to express an opinion that the lower court which decided adversely to the government in one case had based its decision on good law. This would do nothing more than to show that Mr. Ballinger believed that under the laws as they stood, the men who got possession of some coal lands in a certain way, acted within their legal rights. The point is, however, that the supreme court overturned the decision of the lower court so that if Mr. Ballinger agreed with the lower court the supreme court also overturned him. Now that Chief Forester Pinchot is out of the service, it is understood that he will be the chief figure in what may be called the prosecution of Secretary Ballinger. Of course the investigation is not a trial; although it may have the form of one, and the lines are drawn with the Pinchot interests on one side and the Ballinger interests on the other, and there is to be an exceedingly hard-fought contest before the thing finally is decided. It is known that to his friends the former forester of the government has expressed his determination to see that the officials who were discharged with him, and one who was discharged some time previously, have their cases presented to congress in the most forcible way in which it is possible to set them forth. Pinchot is a fighter. He is a tall, slender man who looks more or less like the popular conception of a poet. He is a bundle of nervous energy, however, and his courage is of the highest order. Secretary Ballinger is a short man with a well-knit figure, and with a force of determination that has shown itself on many occasions. Between him and the chief forester there is little to choose in the matter of pertinacity of purpose. They are champions, well worthy of trying each other's metal. Hearings to Be Public. The public will be allowed to attend the hearings before the committee of investigation. The proceedings will take the widest kind of range and will go way back of any matters pertaining to the immediate controversy in hand. It is understood that the Pinchot forces, if they may be so called, will attempt to show that the whole trend of the secretary of the interior's life was toward the corporation interests, that is, that he believed that it was far better that in some cases there should be private ownership of mines and water sites and that the people should get their benefit, not from leasing the sites and the mines to the corporations, but from the service which the corporation by introducing economy measures could give to them. The secretary of the interior has plenty of ammunition, it is said, to use in retaliation. There are all kinds of charges which it is understood will be hurled at the former chiefs of the forestry bureau. Conservation to Go On. With the president, the former chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, and the Democrat and Republican parties all committed to it the cause of conservation ought to go marching on. The president has said that he wants to save the trees, the streams, the soil and the wealth of the mines. Mr. Pinchot who is now in private life but still as enthusiastic as ever, says the same thing. The Republican party in its platform declared for conservation, and the Democratic party says that it is the father of conservation—and there you are. As things stand at present two great organizations are leaders in the resource-saving plan. One of them is known as the National Conservation association and the other as the Joint Committee on Conservation. Of the former Charles W. Elliott, formerly the head of Harvard college, is the president, Walter L. Fisher of Chicago vice-president, and Thomas R. Shipp of Washington secretary. Of the latter Gifford Pinchot, who recently was dismissed from his office of chief forester by President Taft, is the chairman and James C. Gipe of Indianapolis, who is now living in Washington, is the secretary. Pinchot Will Continue Active. Gifford Pinchot has let his friends know privately that notwithstanding the fact he has been ousted from his place as chief forester he is going ahead with the cause of conservation just as strongly and just as enthusiastically as ever he did. It is probable that because he is no longer hampered by department rules and regulations Mr. Pinchot may feel that he can go more directly at his work of saving the nation's resources than was possible under old conditions It is probable that in about a year there will be a "world conservation conference." President Roosevelt planned such a conference, and nearly every civilized nation has agreed to send delegates to the meeting which will be held at The Hague some time in the future. It is now absolutely assured that all the great powers and a majority of the minor powers will be represented at the meeting which is to report, on means for saving the natural resources, not of one country, but of all countries. GEORGE CLINTON. BEGINNING THE DAY APPETIZING DISHES FOR THE BREAKFAST TABLE. Should Be No Real Difficulty In Making Cakes Light and Digestible Some Recipes Valuable to the Housewife. All breakfast cakes should be served piping hot on heated plates. They are best if made after the family is at table, for the least standing produces the leathery quality which makes them so indigestible. A hot cake, lightly made and deftly cooked, is as digestible as any breakfast food to the average stomach. When cooked, a thick iron griddle must be used, and a good way to grease this is to smear it with a rag lightly touched with fresh butter. If grease of any sort is lavishly used, the cakes will be fried, of tough consistency, and without the delicate taste required. Maple sirup, strained honey, and brown sugar are proper sweeteners for any cake, but these must be put on only after the delicacy has been buttered. Never turn the cake over until one side has browned. One turn is enough. Buckwheat Cakes.—Take one-half cup of fine bread crumbs, two cups of scalded milk, one-half teaspoon of salt, one-quarter yeast cake, one-half cup of lukewarm water, one and three-quarter cups of buckwheat flour, and one tablespoon of molasses. Pour milk over the crumbs and soak half an hour; add salt, yeast cake dissolved in lukewarm water, and then buckwheat sufficient to make a thin batter. Let this rise over night; in the morning stir well, and put in molasses and one-quarter teaspoon of soda, dissolved in the quantity of lukewarm water given, and cook as griddle cakes. Eat with maple sirup. Southern Waffles.—Take one and three-quarter cups of flour, three teaspoons of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of salt, one cup of milk, the yolks of two eggs, the whites of two eggs, and one tablespoon of melted butter. Mix and sift the dry ingredients; gradually add the milk, yolks of eggs well beaten, butter and whites of eggs whipped stiff, then cook in a round or square waffle iron. Strained honey is delicious with these. Potato Soup. Pare three potatoes of medium size, cut in quarters, drop them into enough salted water to cover, and cook quickly. While they are bolling, place one plint of milk in a double boiler with one whole onion, and have the milk well heated by the time the potatoes are done. Drain the latter when cooked, mash them fine, and slowly add the hot milk, from which the onion has been removed. Season with celery salt, salt and white pepper of paprika, and add one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour dissolved in a little milk. Cook the soup for five minutes, pour it through a soup strainer, return to the fire to heat, but not to boil, and serve. This soup may be made very rich by first placing two thoroughly beaten eggs in the tureen and pouring the hot liquid over them, stirring very rapidly meanwhile. The pouring must be done very slowly or the egg will cook in strings. Homemade Yeast or Sponge Homemade Yeast or Sponge. Pare two medium sized potatoes and cook in boiling water. Drain and mash with one-quarter cup each of sugar and flour and a level teaspoon of salt. Pour on two cups of the water in which the potatoes are cooked, and which should be hot. Mix well, add two cups of cold water and one yeast cake soaked one hour. Cover and let stand over night. Allow one-half of this sponge to an equal measure of milk, scalded and cooled; then follow the usual method of bread making. The other half of the sponge will keep in the ice chest or in a temperature above freezing for two or three days. The whole amount of sponge is sufficient for four quarts of flour. Chicken Goulash. Cut two raw young chickens into six or eight pieces of three-inch slices each. Chop two small onions into tiny bits. Stew them slightly, sprinkling them well with paprika. Do not stew the onions long enough to let them get brown. Add the slices of chicken, also the livers. Stir them well and cover the pot tightly. Let them stew for a quarter of an hour. Add a cupful of sour cream, a spoonful at a time, and add also a little water and bouillon. Let the meat continue to stew for another quarter of an hour. Rolled Apple Dumplings Make a rich baking powder biscuit dough, roll out in a thin sheet, cover thickly with chopped apples, roll up compactly, then cut into slices about two inches thick. Place in well greased baking pan, not too close together, and pour over the following: Mix one tablespoonful of flour with one cupful of sugar, add one cupful of boiling water, stirring till it boils and thickens smoothly. Flavor with nutmeg or cinnamon. Bake and serve with cream and sugar. Dried Peas Soak one cup of peas over night. In the morning wash in cold water, cover with boiling water and let simmer until soft. While cooking add a tiny pinch of soda and a tablespoonful of sugar. Season with salt and pepper and just before serving add a piece of butter and a little milk. WHY PEOPLE SUFFER. Too often the kidneys are the cause and the sufferer is not aware of it. Sick kidneys bring backache and side ains, lameness and stiffness, dizziness, headaches, tired feeling, urinary tired, keen, and troubles. Donan's Kid- gy Pills cure the cause. Mrs. N. E Graves, Villisca, says, "I suffered from kidney trouble for years. The secretions were disordered, there troubles. Doan's Kidney Pills cure the cause. Mrs. N. E. Graves, Villisca, Iowa, says: "I suffered from kidney trouble for years. The secretions were disordered, there were pains in my back and swellings of the ankles. Often I had smothering spells. I had to be helped about. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me five years ago and I have been well since. They saved my life." Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR HARRY Lucky Bridegroom Had So Many of His Wife Relatives to "Run in" at Any Time. "It isn't as if the dear child was going away off in some remote place far from all her relatives and friends," said the bride's mother to the caller who had run in the day after the wedding to have a second look at the presents. "You see, she is going to live right here, so near us that I can run in every day, and her sister, May, will live just across the street and will be running in every day, and her grandmother lives just around the corner, so she can run in every day, and her Aunt Maria lives only four blocks up the street, so she can run in every day, and her Aunt Harriet lives so near that she will probably be running in every day, and she has half a dozen other aunts and cousins right here in town who will be running in at any time; but of course it will be a little hard on poor Harry, for all of his people live miles and miles from here, and the dear boy hasn't a relative to run in, yet with so many of May's relatives to run in the boy can't be very lonesome—dear, good boy!" EPIDEMIC OF ITCH IN WELSH VILLAGE "In Dowlais, South Wales, about fifteen years ago, families were stricken wholesale by a disease known as the itch. Believe me, it is the most terrible disease of its kind that I know of, as it itches all through your body and makes your life an inferno. Sleep is out of the question and you feel as if a million mosquitoes were attacking you at the same time. I knew a dozen families that were so affected. "The doctors did their best, but their remedies were of no avail whatever. Then the families tried a druggist who was noted far and wide for his remarkable cures. People came to him from all parts of the country for treatment, but his medicine made matters still worse, as a last resort they were advised by a friend to use the Cuticura Remedies. I am glad to tell you that after a few days' treatment with Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent, the effect was wonderful and the result was a perfect cure in all cases. "I may add that my three brothers, three sisters, myself and all our families have been users of the Cuticura Remedies for fifteen years. Thomas Hugh, 1650 West Huron St., Chicago, Ill., June 29, 1909." A. Modest Doctor. While on his vacation, a city doctor attended the Sunday morning service at a little country church. When the congregation was dismissed several of the members shook hands with him, and one, wishing to learn if he were a Methodist, inquired: "Are you a professor, brother?" "Oh, no, indeed," answered the physician, modestly; "just an ordinary doctor."—Lippincott's. $100 Reward, $100. A Change at Least. A change of tenors had been made in the church choir. Eight-year-old Jessie, returning from the morning service, was anxious to tell the news "Oh, mother," she exclaimed, "we have a new terror in the choir."—Woman's Home Companion. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles H. Hatcher. In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. Occasionally a girl discovers that the young man after her own heart isn't after it at all. FOR DEEP-SEATED COLDS and combs, Alerts Lang Balmum cures when all other remedies fail. This old reliable medicine has been sold for over 40 years. 25c, 50c, $1.00 bottles. All dealers. Occasionally the human race is run over the course of true love. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles is to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Men who have advice to give are never stingy with it A Natural Sequence. Bell—I felt Jack perusing my countenance. Bell—Well, what then? Belle—Then I felt my face getting red. DODD'S KIDNEY PILLS FOR ALL KIDNEY DISEASES FOR RHEUMATISM BRIGHT'S DISEASE DIABETES, BACKACHE MADE IN U.S.A. 375 "Guaranteed Bad Breath "For months I had great trouble with my stomach and used all kinds of medicines. My tongue has been actually as green as grass, my breath having a bad odor. Two weeksafter a friend recommended Cascarets and after using them I can willingly and cheerfully say that they have entirely cured me. I therefore let you know that I shall recommend them to any one suffering from such troubles."—Chas. H. Halpern, 114 E. 7th St., New York, N. Y. CUT THIS OUT, mail it with your address to Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago, Illinois, and receive a handsome souvenir gold Bon Bon FREE. 928 DEFIANCE STARCH 16 ounces to the package—other starches only 12 ounces—same price and "DEFIANCE" IS SUPERIOR QUALITY. Strong Healthy Women If a woman is strong and healthy in a womanly way, motherhood means to her but little suffering. The trouble lies in the fact that the many women suffer from weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organism and are unfitted for motherhood. This can be remedied. Strong Healthy Women Strong Healthy Women If a woman is strong and healthy in a womanly way, motherhood means to her but little suffering. The trouble lies in the fact that the many women suffer from weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organism and are unfitted for motherhood. This can be remedied. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Cures the weaknesses and disorders of women. It acts directly on the delicate and important organs concerned in motherhood, making them healthy, strong, vigorous, virile and elastic. "Favorite Prescription" banishes the indispositions of the period of expectancy and makes baby's advent easy and almost painless. It quickens and vitalizes the feminine organs, and insures a healthy and robust baby. Thousands of testified to its marvelous merits. It Makes Weak Women Strong. It Makes Sick Women Honest druggists do not offer substitutes, and urge them upon as good." Accept no secret nostrum in place of this non-secret contains not a drop of alcohol and not a grain of habit-forming drugs. Is a pure glyceric extract of healing, native American root. Stops Neural Pains The shooting, tearing pains of neuralgia are by excitement of the nerves. Sciatica is also pain. Sloan's Liniment, a soothing external app stops neuralgia pains at once, quiets the nerves, that feeling of numbness which is often a war paralysis, and by its tonic effect on the nerve muscular tissues, gives permanent as well as ate relief. "Favorite Prescription" banishes the indispositions of the period of expectancy and makes baby's advent easy and almost painless. It quickens and vitalizes the feminine It Makes Sick Women Well. Itates, and urge them upon you as "just in place of this non-secret remedy. It a grain of habit-forming or injurious ling, native American roots. Stops Neuralgia Pains Pains of neuralgia are caused. Sciatica is also a nerve Nothing external application, like, quiets the nerves, relieves which is often a warning of effect on the nervous and permanent as well as immedi- lmost pains and insures a healthy and robust baby. Thousands of women have testified to its marvelous merits. It Makes Weak Women Strong. It Makes Sick Women Well. Honest druggists do not offer substitutes, and urge them upon you as "just as good." Accept no secret nostrum in place of this non-secret remedy. It contains not a drop of alcohol and not a grain of habit-forming or injurious drugs. Is a pure glyceric extract of healing, native American roots. Stops Neuralgia Pains The shooting, tearing pains of neuralgia are caused by excitement of the nerves. Sciatica is also a nerve pain. Sloan's Liniment, a soothing external application, stops neuralgia pains at once, quiets the nerves, relieves that feeling of numbness which is often a warning of paralysis, and by its tonic effect on the nervous and muscular tissues, gives permanent as well as immediate relief. One Application Relieved the Pain. Mr. J. C. LEE, of 1100 Ninth St., S. E., Washington, D. C. "I advised a lady who was a great sufferer from neuralgia to try S ment. After one application the pain left her and she has not be with it since." Sloan's Liniment is the best remedy for Rheumatism, Stiff S. E., Washington, D. C., writes: — erer from neuralgia to try Sloan's Lin- left her and she has not been troubled n's ment SLOAN'S LINIMENT heumatism, Stiff Mr. J. C. LEE, of 1100 Ninth St., S. E., Washington, D. C., writes: — "I advised a lady who was a great sufferer from neuralgia to try Sloan's Linkment. After one application the pain left her and she has not been troubled with it since." Sloan's Liniment A CERTAIN CURE FOR SORE,WEAK & INFLAMED EYES. MITCHELL'S SALVE MAKES THE USE OF DRUGS UNNECESSARY. Price,25 Cents Druggists. If ever you wished for a home in California send for free information about the greatest irrigation, colonizing and home-making enterprise ever undertaken. In addition to their great success in irrigating 400,000 acres in the Twin Falls Country, Idaho, the Kuhnas are irrigating 250,000 acres in the Sacramento Valley. Send names of friends. Easy terms to settlers. We want you. Send 10c for 48. H. L. Hollister, Dept. K, 205 LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. Free to Our Readers. Write Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago, for 48-page illustrated Eye Book Free. Write all about Your Eye Trouble and they will advise as to the proper Application of the Murine Eye Remedial In Your Special Case. Your Dermatologist will tell you that Murine Relieves Sore Eyes, Soothes Weak Eyes, Doesn't Smart, Soothes Eye Pain, and sells for $6.00. Try It in Your Eyes and in Baby's Eyes for Scaly Eyelids and Granulation. How It Struck Him. "Behold the wondrous beauties of yon sunset sky," exclaimed the poet. "How prodigal nature is with its resplendent glories." "Yes," answered the busy publisher, in an absent-minded tone, "it is going some to throw in a colored supplement every day." The Usual Way. Smith—Did the lawyer get anything out of your uncle's estate? Jones—Get anything? He got it all. We are not to blame because you suffer from Rheumatism or Neuralgia, but you are if you do not try Hamkins Wizard Oil. It quickly soothes and allays all pain, soreness and inflammation. The world delights in sunny people. The old are hungering for love more than for bread—Drummond. DAVIS' PAINKILLER One fisherman ought to believe the stories of another, but he seldom does. TO CURE A COLD EN ONE DAY Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quimine Tablets Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E.W GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c. Extremes meet when the hairdresser is introduced to the chiropodist. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teeth, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, curbs wind colic. 25c a bottle. Low shoes and high heels may be fashionable extremes. A TO CURE RHEUMATISM Prescription that Cured Hundreds Since Published Here. “One ounce syrup of Sarsapariila compound; one ounce Toris com pound; Add these to a half pint of good whiskey: Take a tablespoonful be- fore each meal and at bed time; Shake the bottle well each time.” Any druggist has these ingredients in stock or will quickly get them from his wholesale house. Good results are felt from this treatment after the first few doses but it should be continued until cured. This also acts as a system builder, eventually restoring strength and vitality. Slight Error. “Nevertheless,” said the young Roman, “he is an ambitious poet. He would serve the muses all his life.” “But,” replied his elder, “he makes the mistake of supposing that Bac- chus is one of the muses.”—Catholic Standard and Times. Sjightly Altered. “AM the world’s a stage.” “And most of the men and women merely supers."—Cleveland Leader. omits iaemnth ver and bowls: Heugutouted, grate Ramee. Ty io eke De noterpe. A poor excuse is better than none— if it works. ———$—<$—$—$—$_——_——_—— ‘Added to the Long List due to This Famous Remedy. Oronogo, Mo.—“I was mapas ner- ‘yous wreck. I could not walk across. the floor without av my heart fluttering HA land I could not even a 3 receive a letter. Sy ‘Every month I had such a bearing down cat sensation, as if the = lower parts would 2D * {fall out. ayes E. ae ms |Pinkham's Vegeta- REZ cs \ble Compound has f Gt e done, ay perres a “663. 74% great deal of goo ee Foe Oe asalsorelieved es my heart fluttering | fand I could not even a MM, [receive a letter. ay ‘Every month I had | such 4 bearing down cat sensation, as if the T _ [lower parts would A, fialiout Tadia &. > |Pinkham's Vegeta- (ORC \ole Compound. has “¢, BECO Sig gone! my ape e “Gs 4,2 |great deal of goo 25 SCE Vndhasalsorelieved fe bearing down. T recommended i to some friends and two of them have been greatly benefited by it.” — Mrs, Maz Mckstarr, Oronogo, Mo. Another Grateful Woman. st. Louis, Mo,— ‘I was bothered rribiy with a femalo weakness and iid bavkache, bearing down pains and ins in. lower parts. I began. taking dia i Pinkham’s Verotable Com. Bota sépularly and used the Sanative Wash and now | have no more troubles that way.”— Mrs. At. HERzoG, 6722 Prescott Ave., St. Louis, Mo. ‘Becavse your case is a difficult one, doctors having done you 0. good, do not continue to suffer without giving Ledia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable ‘ompourd a trial. It surely has cured many cases of female ills, such as in- flammation, ulceration, displacements, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pene backache, that bearing-down cling, indigestion, dizziness, and ner- yous prostration. It costs but a trifle to try it, and the result is worth mil- Ne Lene a marinas WOREIe Your Liver is Clogged up - That’s Why You're Tired—Out of Sorts—Have No Appetite., = CARTER’S LI Y EVER pi ZEo: CARTERS| they de mit TLe era I. ER Cure PILLS. Censtipa- \\ tiea, Bil- ee entuess, Indigestion, and Sick Headache. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE SEEDS 222 Faw Perry ere sity yet attained, For sale FERRY’S 1910 Seed Annual DL M, FERRY &CO., Ss Wondertul Cures explained 1 a pracy tical way. Different methods de scribed and compared. Our FREE BOOKLET otf heipful facts, tells about the Healing Reading Course. Answer Dan’: Don’t Cough!—Use ) ‘THE BEST WEDICNE TOR Gucnsm Gos, | Will instantly relieve your aching | throat. There is nothing like itfor Asthma, Bronchitis and lung troubles. Contains 10 opiates. Very pleasant to take. All Druggists, 25 cents ‘Swe DATOVGERCAPEREL era PPAR YS— Yee “ANA TN Uncle Sam Gets After the Loafers Mince Pie Story Interests Dr. Wiley Prosperity Shown in Diamond Imports Woman Makes Bugs for the Government \ es CR 7 = Capa = aden =) Se ES ge ) Pa Y. |) Braet gained — The comprehen- sive economies in the executive departments of the government which the administration is seeking to ap- ply, will penetrate to the remotest sections of the country. Not only fs the work of the departments in Washington betng analyzed, but every public office in every state will receive the same treatment. This will include every mint, especially the big mint at Philadelphia, every custom house, ev- ery internal revenue office, every post- office and all other offices where the public money {8 expended. The prom- {se was made by Senator Aldrich, dur- ing the tariff debates, that a saving of from 25 to 40 per cent. 1s possible and the administration 1s aiming to reach those figures. ‘This means that preparations are being made to make many consolida- tions where work heretofore has been duplicated. In fact, some of these consolidations are accomplished al: ready. Also it means that the bust ness of each borough and office 1s be- ing scanned, all with a view of in- creasing their efficiency and at the same time reducing the cost. The ad- ministration has gone far enough to know that this can be done. The work of investigation is under es 54 Fs ial BOA ee pe WILEY, govern- ment chemist, was greatly inter- ested in the story which has reached Washington, of a Polish coal miner in Ohio, who, biting onto a slab of Pitts burg mince ple, ‘struck a rivet and broke off seven teeth; but, being. ex- tremely hungry and having no money to buy actual food, kept at his grim task, A minute later he struck a stick of dynamite in the core of the same pie and was buried from his late res idence the next day, leaving a wife in Poland and another in Ohio. ‘Thus lives are wiped out and homes are made desolate by the ordinary mince ple of commerce—a dubious and sinister victual, in whose dark depths a million dangers lurk. ‘The average mince ple manufactur- er, we have no doubt whatever, starts out in business with high {deals and a real love for his art. It is his firm intent to devise only the best and purest. pits and to use in them ‘noth. ing but genuine fruit, honest soup meat, choice brands of fourth-rate flour, clean bacon rinds and chemical. ly pure glucose, magnesia and anitine dyes. But as he goes on and the mad Pros, S \\ly, ee PER NW Sd a eee Cie \ & Gres Va Pe has returned, accord- ing to import and export records for 1909, published recently by the bu- reau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. The surest in- dication of ready money, officials de- clare, {s the diamond market, and dur- ing the first 11 months of 1909 this has boomed, the importation of cut diamonds amounting to $25,214,541, three times as much as during the cor- responding period last year, and near- ly $6,500,000 more than during that time in 1907. Imports of cut diamonds this year, with December omitted, amounted to more than $1,000,000 above those in the 12 months of 1907, this banner year in the importation of cut gems. On these diamonds the government TGOVERNMENT KENT Aaa gucoLocy enisTOR EN) - WES Aes) > PS) Aa I! C2 Sm 1 ye a a Ma models of bugs for Uncle Sam's use in teaching agricultur- {sts and “bugology” students how to distinguish between insects that are harmful and those that are useful is the novel occupation of Mrs. Otto Hel- demenn, well known as a sculptor in Washington. It ‘is no easy task that Mrs. Heide- mann has. All the skill of the sculp- for is necessary in the dexterous fashioning of tho queer looking mod- tls, for although they are made on a charge of Charles D. Norton, assist ant secretary of tho treasury, wha handles the annual estimates for all departments, and he has not yet ox- amined a single public office without finding faults to be cured and the ex- pense to be cut off. The trouble les largely in an unnecessary number of employes and a consequent system of loafing and shirking that would not be tolerated tn any private business. Much of the investigation so far made has been the personal work of Mr, Norton. Thus in an office under the treasurer of the United States he found the work far behind and an ap- plication for more employes on file. Mr. Norton went to this office at nine in the morning, when business is sup- posed to begin, and found it empty. Presently a few of the clerks arrived, but it was ten o'clock before all of them were there and at work. At 11:30 some of them went out to lunch, and it was 1:30 before all of them were again at their desks. Shortly after four they begin to leave the place, although the day's work is not supposed to be over until 4:30. At that hour not a soul remained in the office. ' After satisfying himself ‘this was the daily routine in the office Mr. Norton sent for Charles H. Treat, then treas- urer, and exploded his bomb. He or- dered that instead of increasing the force in that office it was to be re duced. This was done and the office has so increased In effictency that {t ts doing more work than it ever did be fore, and is fast catching up on its back business. tairst’tfor opulence seizes Aim m* temptation to sophisticate his product becomes irresistible. His first false step may seem harmless—it may be nothing worge, indeed, than the addt- tion of some sterilized wood pulp to his ple filling—but that first false step fs fatal. Ere long he {s launched upon a dizzy career of chicanery and sub- terfuge. Abandoning apples and peaches entirely, he begins to fill his ples with carrots and turnips. Instead of flour, he tries plaster of paris; in- stead of soup meat, cat meat; instead of sugar, New Orleans molasses; {n- stead of magnesia, manganese. Final- ly, instead of baking his ples, he mere- ly varnishes them with shellac. No wonder the ordinary mince ple of our hostelries and eating houses, our public banquets and our cook stands bears an evil name. No wonder it 1s avoided as a pestilence, even by shoe drummers. And yet mince pie, per se, 1s not nefarious. Made at home, and without too great a depend. ence upon left-overs and other cullin- ary debris, it may be both nourishing and palatable—a sound and even de- lightful viand, with something of lob- ster salad’s hearty solidarity and something of the wiener schnitzel's haunting mystery. Made upon the east ern shore of Maryland, where pleology 1s an art as noble as plano playing or therapeutics, it may rise even high- er than that, becoming a true victual of the first-class and ranking with Smithfield ham salad and fried a ak this year collected $2,500,000 in duties. Belgium and the Netherlands are the countries selling most of the stones to the United States. More than $40,000 9 worth of dla monds and other precious stones were imported the first 11 months of 1909. ‘These are the correct figures and reps resent an increase of $28,000,000 over the total of 1908 and more than 8,000,000 over 1907, this country’s record year for imports of jewels. During the calendar year the for- eign commerce of the United States exceeded in value that of any earlier year with the exception of 1907. Im- ports were larger than in any previous 42 months, but exports will fall some- what below those of 1906 and 1907. ‘A subject of interest in the report fs the statement that exportation of food- stuffs, both raw and manufactured, has fallen lower than any other time for a decade. This gives rise to ap- prehension, especially as 1t 1s accom- panied by the statement that, while other countries are selling to the Unit- ed States, this nation’s trade with oth- er Jands has suffered. gigantic scale in comparison to the life size insects, a close microscopic study of the subject and the ability to shape the different parts on iden- tical lines are details of Mrs, Heide- mann’s work that must be followed each time she molds a reproduction. Mrs. Heidemann as a sculptor has produced busts of some of the celeb- ritles of the day, but she says her art has never been more severely taxed than it is through her employment for the bureau of entomology of the de- partment of agriculture. The .sodels of insects cover virtually every knowi form of life in the world of bugs. ‘The models are a true reproduction, fantastic in some cases and hideous in others, and they furnish exceptional means for persons interested in agri culture to study both the insects that destroy crops and the others that pre serve agricultural products. HAS NEW IRONING WRINKLE One Woman's Method of Preparing the Cuffs for Her Immaculate Shirt Waists. She was carefully covering a rolling pin with two thicknesses of flannel, when a friend joined her, Instantly the newcomer expressed surprise at the tnusual operation. “I don't wonder you smile,” sald the housewife, as she plied her needle, taking care that not a wrinkle de- stroyed the surface of the tight-fitting coverings of flannel. “Guess why I am doing this; manifestly the rolling pin is to serve some other purpose than the one for which it was origin- ally Intended. “Now, you see, I am slipping this cover of cotton cloth in place, and ty- ing it at either end. As I am sure you cannot guess the reason for all this, Tl enlighten you, I am getting ready to fron the cuffs on my shirtwaists without having them creased. “I know some people can iron them beautifully without resorting to any such contrivance, but, for my part, I find it so much simpler to use a pad- ded rolling pin that I always do It. Those who have followed my example say that they find it of the utmost con- venience, too, so I think there must be some virtue {n ft,” she concluded, as she tled the outer covering into place. VEGETABLES IN A RAGOUT Tasty Dish That May Be Evolved from Anything That the Mar- ket Can Afford. For this stmple-but most tasty dish s0ok separately until tender equal por- tions of diced white turnips, carrots and potatoes; also shelled green peas or beans. For one quart of the mixed vegetables melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan and in it cook slowly three tablespoonfuls of chopped onion until pale brown; stir in two tablespoonfuls of flour and when well colored add gradually one pint of either weak stock or boiling water, stirring until smoothly thickened; add salt, pepper to season well, a tiny pinch of mace, one teaspoonful of to mato catsup; then stir in the drained vegetables, and simmer well alto gether for 20 minutes. In serving dish, sprinkle with finely-chopped parsley. This can be made with the cold vegetables and is a very nice way to use the left-over vegetables or canned ones, not cooking so long; a few parsnips can be added if handy. Hat \Grten> Bune: Put three cupfuls of sifted flour into a bow! and rub into it two tablespoon. fuls of butter, one-half cupful of gran: ulated sugar and a quarter of a tea spoonful of salt, then add a cupful of lukewarm milk in which has been disgolved a cake of compressed yeast Set aside to rise and when twice its original bulk, place on a well-floure¢ board, roll out and shape into roun¢ biscuits with the hands. Place ir pans so that they do not touch anc let rise again in a warm place. Wher light and just before placing In the oven, with a sharp knife, cut a cross on the top of each bun. Brush the top with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon mixed to gether. Bake in a hot oven from fif teen to twenty minutes. This should make about two dozen. titshen Bouauet, Put half a cupful of granulated su gar in a saucepan and place on stove, stirring occasionally as it melts, It Is not done until it smokes and is a dark brown color. When it reaches this stage pour on‘a half cup of boiling water—hot coffee may also be used with good results—and set back where it will sinmer until dissolved and about the consistency of thin sirup. Place in bottle or Jelly glass, cover, and set away for use. It makes a splendid flavoring for cakes, cara. mel ice cream, custards, and may be used to color gravies or sauces, as it imparts a beautiful golden brown tint. ‘The same thing exactly is sold at the grocery as kitchen bouquet and at a fancy price. Sweet Potato Pineapple. Cook five medium-sized sweet pota- toes in boiling water, peel and mash fine; season with a rounding table- spoonful of sugar, a level teaspoonful of salt and a pinch of grated nutmeg; mold into pineapple shape and make indentations with the handle of a tea- spoon, Put a bit of butter into each indentation and brown quickly in the oven. If preferred one small pineap- ple may be made for each person to be served. trate rhs | Bib. Nake your crust first. Beat up the yolks of two eggs, one pint of sweet milk, two-thirds of a cup of sugar, a teaspoonful of cornstarch. Cook this on top of stove and pour into the crust. Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth and add a little sugar ané lemon. Spread on top of pie an. Set In oven to brown. Tomato Sauce. Can be cheaply made either from the fresh fruit or canned. Squeeze as ‘much as you require through a sieve, simmer slowly for a time in three or four tablespoonfuls of beef gravy, sea- son with pepper and salt. Very nice for chops and cutlets or roast beef. Baked Canned Cern. ‘Take a can of corn, divide it in iwo layers, putting cracker crumbs and) bits of butter between the layers. OSver the corn with a pint of milk ‘and bake half an hour. HER WEIGHT INCREASED FROM 106 TO 140 POUNDS. Wonderful Praise Accorded Perunathe Household Remedy Mrs. Maria Goertz, Orienta, Okla- homa, writes: “My husband, children and myself haye used your medicines, and we al- ways keep them in th house in case of necessity. I wus restored to health by this medicine, and Dr. Hartman’s ia- valuable advice and books. People ask about me from different places, and are surprised that I can do all of my house- work alone, and that I was cured by the doctor of chronic catarrh, My husband was cured of asthina,my daughter of earache and catarrh of the stomach, and my son of catarrh of the throat. When Twas sick I weighed 100 pounds; now I weigh 140. “T have regained my health again, and I cannot thank you enough for your advice. May God give you # long life ‘and bless your work.” A PROPOSAL. | < » Cry GAS ; —S—— 2 Zr PIS i Ly ie | i I D Ay I ne eS) Housewife—You always seem to en- Joy eating my food, but my husband is never suited with it! Beggar—Say, get a divorce and marry me! Why does Great Britain buy Its oatmeal of us? Certainly it seems like carrying coals to Newcastle to speak of export- ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every year the Quaker Oats Company sends hundreds of thousands of cases of Quaker Oats to Great Britain and Europe. The reason 1s simple; while the English and Scotch have for centuries eaten oatmeal in quantities and with a regularity that has made thei the most rugged physically, and active mentally of all people, the American has been eating oatmeal and trying all the time to improve the methods of manufacture so that he might get that desirable foreign trade. How well he has succeeded would be seen at a glance at the export re- ports of Quaker Oats. This brand is recognized as without a rival in clean- liness and delicious favor. 61 President Taft on Discontent. President Taft, in one of his ad dresses to the farmers of Florence, N. C., told a story about discontent. “No man,” he said, “can really un- derstand chronic discontent after hav: ing eaten one of those famous pine stews of North Carolina. Chronic dis: content does, however, exist. Now and then we find a cise or two among farmers when the weather goes wrong, “ah, yes, Joseph, you have cause to complain,’ a lawyer said to a farm- er. “The harvest has been very bad, no doubt of that. But you should re member that Providence cares for all, and even the birds of the air are pro vided for.’ “ Yes,’ said the discontented farm: er, so they are—oft my potatoes.’ ”— Washington Post. Childish laference. Little Julia was taking her after noon walk with her mother. Her at: tention was attracted for the first time to a large church edifice on one of the street corners. “Oh, mother!” she exclaimed, “whose nice big house is that?” “That, Julia, {s God's house,” ex: plained the mother. “Some time later it happened that the child was again taken by the church, this time on Sunday evening when services were in progress. Julia, noticing the brilliantly lighted windows, drew her own conclusions. “Oh, look, mother,” she called out, “God must be having a party.” INSOMNIA Leads to Madness, if not Remedied In Time. “Experiments satisfied me, some 5 years ago,” writes a Topeka woman, “that coffee was the direct cause of the insomnia from which I suffered ter- ribly, as well as the extreme neryous- ness and acute dyspepsia which made life a most painful thing for me. “IT had been a coffee drinker .since childhood, and did not like to think that the beverage was doing me all this harm. But it was, and the time came when I had to face the fact, and pro- tect myself. I therefore gave up coffee abruptly and absolutely, and adopted Postum as my hot drink at meals. “T began to note improvement in my condition yery soon after I took on Postum. The change proceeded grad- ually, but surely, and it was a matter of only a few weoks before I found my- self entirely relleyed—the nervousness passed away, my digestive apparatus ‘was restored to normal efficiency, and I began to sleep, restfully and peace- fully “These happy conditions have con- tinued during all of the 5 years, and I am safe in saying that I owe them en- tirely to Postum, for when I began to drink {t I ceased to use medicine.” Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A sew one appears from time to time. ‘They are genuine, truc, and full of humas Latest In Simplified Spetting. A coal miner in southern Ohio, who couldn't read nor write, recently re ceived his pay envelope at the new mine. All that was written on it was “No. 16." The miner looked at the writing for a long time, then exclaimed, “That's new way to spell George Primrose, 1 reckon.""—Judge. Lacrosse is to be substituted for baseball at Carlisle Indian school. We bolleve lacrosse Is the game in which the players, instead of the umpires, are killed.—Denver Republican. Two stockmen came In from the plains to buy some steers and when shown a rough bunch, one sald: “Them ain't nuthin’ but horns and tails.” ‘The second man drawled outs “Yes, and somebody has went, and cut the horns off.” But that is another tale. Josh Billings says: “I love a room ter for tew things—one is the krow that is in him, and the other ts the spurs that are on him to back up his krow with.” He: Your husband couldn't scare me out of this lawsuit any more thar he could fly. ‘She: Sir, my husband has just bought a new Wright machine. In the next century: “How Insul ferably vain Topham is.” “Yes, Iie grandfather saw the first aeroplane.” ‘The charity of some men consists of ‘a willingness to pass the hat. Just think what a boon the airship will be to eloping couples! Even a woman’s club isn’t expected to hit what it aims at. Among the resolutions adopted by the Retall Grocers’ Association a& Fort Collins was one indorsing a state Sunday closing law; urging corpora tions to accept assignment of wages of employes; barring wholesalers from selling to consumers; urging the United States government to investk gate the increased cost of living; calling upon the representatives im Congress to defeat the parcels posts pledging assistance to railroads and express companies to prevent pilfer- ing of goods in transit; indorsing the administration of Pure Food Commie sioner Cannon; favoring home indus tries in the buying and using of home pre“icts, and putting food and prov visions for the sick in the first olalma on estates. Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson of Casper, who a year ago was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary for grand larceny, but gave an appeal bond and has since been at liberty, has been granted a new trial by the state Su- preme Court, which reversed the find ing of the lower court on technical ities, Mrs. Robinson was convicted of the theft of a sealskin coat from ath other woman. ‘The Senate passed with minor ‘amendments the bill which had passed the House providing for extension of time in establishing residence on homestead entries in Colorgdo, Wyom- ing, New Mexico, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Idaho and Montana. ‘The bill provides that when the period ir. which residence is to be established expired December Ist, au extension shall be granted until May 15, 1910. ‘At the January meeting of the Colo rado State Ophthalmological Society, in Colorado Springs, a movement, waa started to pring about the systematio inspection of the eyes of school chik dren in this state by expert oculists. ‘The members regard as superficial the new state law requiring Inspection of schoo} children’s eyes, since no pro- fessional inspection is required by the hexane: | ‘There's nothing as cheap as a chesy man : | DENVER DIRECTORY | BON 1, LOOK Gaeasiovait tt, otyexims RUGS & LINOLEUM “pn i9 Sead Malate Prise et alieh free ee THE HOLGOMB& HART X'Nuutoor RAW FURS {082m Feus ASS NYS ee PAOD dein alte aed BEL RUESL WUs. Shae earths, SW is: ROOES LZ ihe ia sae g Nea i ef ERE you doaier dons no! E. E. BURLINGAME & CO., ASSAY OFFICE «1 Pconatory earache encarta nto) ald & Silver Bulla Belles MctiedanaAney CONCENTRATION, AMALGAMATION AND CYANIDE TESTS — 10 Jbs, f9 eatload lote 1726-1738 Lawrence’St-, Beavers Coley WRITE FOR inTRoDUCTORY OFFER TODAY i you intent torBEY a: rlano) theta Kot thls oer em Sete Ae KNIGHTS Le ere erigio Con Deven En Weeesidest und largest music Reuse, West's oldest anc Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs a Specialty Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the PrintingLine Turned Out in Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. We have supplied our office with job press and type of up-to-date style and our work will be on a par with the Very Best Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction PRICES AS REASONABLE AS THOSE OF ANY JOB OFFICE IN DENVER. THE Colorado Will Furnish Model for Schools in Liberia and Natiaes Will be Benefitted, Thinks Lyon. Baltimore, Jan. 19.—Dr. Ernest Lyon, who returned from Tuskegee Institute a few days ago, where he had a conference with Dr. Booker T. Washington and Bishop I. B. Scott, regarding Liberian educational conditions, stated that an Industrial and Normal school modeled on Tuskegee lines will be established in Liberia. "The establishment of such a school," says Dr. Lyons, "under the guidance of Tuskegee institute will be an inestimable benefit to the Liberians and I am sure the Liberians will be pleased with the wrospective school." Dr. Lyon, who is in this country on a furlough, is now awaiting instructions from the State Department regarding the attitude of the country toward Liberia. Michaelson's COR. 15TH AND LARIMER STS. Sale of Ladies' Tailor-Made SUITS $.9.50 Values up as high as $20.00. Fancy Worsteds, French Serges and Broadcloths; the best values offered this season for a complete clearance of the fall lines. Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook Residence and Office 1023 Twenty-First St. Over Allen's Drug Store. Phone Main 1144. OFFICE HOURS: 2 to 5 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. Sundays and Other Times by Appointment. JES I. HANSEN Manufacturing Watch Maker and Jeweler Repairing a Specialty. Dealers in Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and Jewelry. THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168. 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. New York Hospitality. Hospitality in New York is the easiest thing in the world to buy if you have the price.—Washington Post. Hints For Hostess TIMELY SUGGESTIONS for Those Planning Seasonable Entertainments This was a rainbow and wonder ball party combined and it was a most delightful affair. There were seven guests, all people who know how to knit, and in this age with the revival of many of the lost arts (knitting among them) many young maids and matrons know how to wield the needles in an expert manner. The hostess produced balls, one of each of the rainbow colors, the guests taking one from the pretty basket passed by the little daughter of the house. The object to be started was optional—a pair of mittens for a small child, a scarf, a wee sweater, a pair of knee pads; all these were commenced. As the knitting progressed, little favors were unwound. The first one was awarded a lovely box of homemade candy, the one who found her treasures the last had a home-made cake, beautifully iced. This party was given for friends who did not play cards and cost no more than the average card party. The refreshment table was especially pretty; at each cover there was a tripod made of steel knitting needles from which was suspended a wee brass kettle (doll size) filled with salted almonds. A chafing dish was used for creamed chicken and mushrooms and there was coffee and choco-served in tall glasses with small cakes. With a dinner invitation went the request that each guest come prepared to tell a good story or an anecdote. In this way the hostess insured herself against that dreadful calm which all hostesses so dread. I heard a clever woman say once that she felt that each guest owed it to himself or herself, as the case might be, to make it a bounded duty to be as brilliant as possible at any social function. Story telling may be cultivated, as with everything else practice makes perfect. Keep a book with bright sayings in it and consult it while dressing. Tit-Bits for a Musicale Luncheon. As musicale luncheons and teas seem to be the correct thing just now, the following quotations are appropriate for menu cards or programs: There's music in all things, if men had ears. Here we will sit and let the sounds of music break on our ears. Thus pass our joyous hours away. With flowers, and music, books and friends. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Some to the church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. Music exalts each joy, allays each grief. And softly the delicate vell was heard; Like the murmur of love or the notes of a bird. Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into tune and time. "A Recipe for Happiness." The following came to the department, and as this is the season when rules and suggestions for "happiness" are in order we print it. The recipe may be accompanied by water color or pen and ink sketches. Here is the "recipe:" Take a hall dimly lit, A pair of stairs where two may sit, Of music soft a bar or so; Embroidery Embro 43 HERE is a pretty design in embroidery for ornamenting the corner of a handkerchief, satin-stitch with small dots for filling some of the leaves is worked with fine cotton a la croix; the panels are two lines of satin-stitch, and in this initials are to be worked. --- --- ```markdown ``` A Wonder-Ball Party An Anecdote Party. Two pairs of—just pairs, you know; Of little love pats, one or two, Or one squeezed hand will do. A waist the size to be embrued. And if the lips are soft and sweet, You'll find your happiness complete Toast to a Bride. This is a charming sentiment to send to a bride on her wedding day, or may be given as a toast if the right opportunity offers. There have been numerous requests for a verse of this kind, and after careful searching I think is the best of all the ones I have looked over lately: TO A BRIDE. All earthly good I wish thee. All good for thee and thine; And still not only earthly But all that is divine. May earth and heaven mingle. May earth and heaven be one. All through your earthly journey. Till sets your earthly sun. The heart that you have given. The heart that's given to you. May both be linked together. May both be good and true. In sunshine and in shadow, In sighing and in song, May heaven bless your union, Throughout your whole life long. A January Luncheon. This was given for a bride-elect whose birthday happened to be on the date selected for the luncheon at which the guests were to be the maids and matrons of the bridal party. So the hostess used this as a keynote for the decorations, and the girls "chipped" in and bought an exquisite veil or bar pin of garnets accompanied by the following versefelt: By her who in this month is born, No gem save garnet should be worn They will insure her constancy. True friendship and fidelity. The box was done up in red paper and all the table decorations were red, including candles which were in glass holders. The flowers were red carnations, with a lovely bunch tied with red tulle on the back of the guest's of honor's chair. The favors were quiet heart-shaped boxes covered with deep red satin, the monogram of bride and bridegroom worked out in red beads. MADAME MERRI. FANCIES OF FASHION. The large rolling-brim hats of the Gainsborough type hold first place for afternoon and evening wear. Small boys are wearing tam-o'-shanter hats in cloth, bearskin and corduroy, the ear flaps silk lined. Fine gold wire is entwined through curls, while immense cabochons of dull coloring appear in the hair. Mandarin is the name given to a yellowish tan, while Corinth is an extremely faded shade of old rose. Two rich materials, tapestry and fur, are to be found on some lovely little turbans, and the effect is beautiful. The new scarfs this year are wide, perfectly flat and very long, many reaching to below the knees in front. While the short coat has little vogue for the winter, it is predicted that it will be the leader in the spring styles. As trimming on daytime dresses and evening robes, beads are used with great success. They are seen in all colors. To transfer design to handkerchief make a clear tracing of it, rub a soft black-lead pencil over the back, place tracing black side down on handkerchief, then go over the design with a hard pencil, a clear outline will be left on handkerchief. The design is not hard to complete. 3.85 Is the week for MEN'S MEN'S High C in our January Sale. $3.85 Is the price for the coming week for MEN'S and WOMEN'S High Grade Shoes in our January Clearance Sale. CHEAP MEATS There is a lot of talk lately ala are a LITTLE higher but NOT A C RIGHT PLACE TO BUY. We buy some of our supplies direct from the farmer in carload UNLESS THE PACKER makes from the farmer it is needless to ness. This is the reason you can any other city in the United state how we buy and sell so cheap. a lot of talk lately about high prices on me higher but NOT A GREAT DEAL IF YOU E TO BUY. some of our supplies from the packers, but the farmer in carload lots. THE PACKER makes his prices as low as mer it is needless to say the packer don't is the reason you can buy meats from us ch y in the United States. We use so much and sell so cheap. There is a lot of talk lately about high prices on meats and they are a LITTLE higher but NOT A GREAT DEAL IF YOU GO TO THE RIGHT PLACE TO BUY. We buy some of our supplies from the packers, but we also buy We buy some of our supplies from the packers, but we also buy direct from the farmer in carload lots. UNLESS THE PACKER makes his prices as low as those we get from the farmer it is needless to say the packer don't get our business. This is the reason you can buy meats from us cheaper than in other cities in the states. We use so much good meat is how we buy and sell so cheap. A FEW SAMPLE PRICES Beef Pot Roasts (The most good meat for the Rolled Roasts, extra good Plate Boiling Beef Legs of Beef Legs of Beef, bone out Sirloin Steak Hamburger (fresh every hour) Veal Lam (The most good meat for the least money.) Rolled Roasts, extra good ..... 15c, 17½ Plate Boiling Beef ..... 7c Legs of Beef ..... 7c Legs of Beef, bone out ..... 10c, 12½c Sirloin Steak ..... 12½c, 15c Hamburger (fresh every hour) ..... 12½c Shoulder Mutton 10e Legs Mutton . . . 15e Mutton Steak . . . 12½c Mutton Stew . . . 6c Mutton Stew . . . 6c 12½ to 17½ Mutton Steak Veal Steak ... 12½¢ Mutton Steak Loin Veal Steak ... 15¢ Shoulders Veal Chops ... 17½¢ Veal Cutlets ... 20¢ Lamb Steak Veal Stew ... 8¢ Fancy Poultry, Oysters, Pigment The Grand Mark We use so Much Good Meat Is THE COLORED ORPHANAG Located at 873 Zuni street, Denver and get off at West Eighth avenue, g ight blocks. This institution provides and aged women and men of the race. ents are in service and can't keep the formation can be had by writing a telephoning Main 7326. Grand Market Co. ON THE 15th and Much Good Meat is how we buy and sell 3 Zuni street, Denver, Colo.; take Lawrenz West Eighth avenue, go due west through this institution provides a home for homeless and men of the race. We also care for chickens and can't keep them, at a very small cost had by writing a letter or postal to 87326 THE FIRST DANCE OF THE YEAR THE COLORED ORPHANAGE AND OLD FOLK'S HOME Located at 873 Zuni street, Denver, Colo.; take Lawrence street car west, and get off at West Eighth avenue, go due west through the Barnum shops' eight blocks. This institution provides a home for homeless colored children and aged women and men of the race. We also care for children whose parents are in service and can't keep them, at a very small pitance. Any information can be had by writing a letter or postal to 873 Zuni street, or telephoning Main 7326 J. B. H. --- --- Leg Roasts Veal 10e Shoulder Roasts Veal ... 8e to 12½c Loin Roasts Veal 823 Sixteenth St. Is the price for the com- MEN'S and High Grade January Clear- at high prices on meats and they MEAT DEAL IF YOU GO TO THE from the packers, but we also buy its its prices as low as those we get the packer don't get our busi- ly meats from us cheaper than in We use so much good meat is LE PRICES 5c, 6c, 8c, 10c last money.) 15c, 17½ 7c 7c 10c, 12½c 12½c, 15c 12½c D and FISH Cooked Meats, Sliced Bacon It Co. ON THE CORNER 15th and Arapahoe we buy and sell so cheap. AND OLD FOLK'S HOME Colo.; take Lawrence street car w blue west through the Barnum sh home for homeless colored child We also care for children whose e n, at a very small pitance. Any ter or postal to 873 Zuni street J. R. CONTEE, PRESIDENT. R. E. HANDY, LICENSED EMBALMER. THE Douglass Undertaking Company incorporated—Bonded to the City Phone—Main 6123. Dish is one of the cheapest and most nourishing of meats. THE GRAND MARKET CO. has the largest and best stock in Fresh Fish. Smoked Fish, Salt Fish. Fresh Fish, lb. 15e up Mackerel, each 15e up Bloaters, each 5e up Codfish . . . 10e up