Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY THE MANFAR- THEST DOWN CHILD LABOR AND SULPHUR MINES. FIFTH ARTICLE BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. VOL. XVII. THE MA THEST CHILD LABOR AND SULPHU BY BOOKER There is one street in Catania, Sicily, which seems to be given over to the trade and industry of the poorer people of the city. It is not mentioned in the guide-books, and there is perhaps no reason why it should be. Nevertheless, there are a great many interesting things to be seen in that street—strange, quaint, homely things—that give a stranger intimate glimpses into the life of the people. For example, on a street corner tucked away in one of those snug spaces in which one sometimes finds a crowded fruit-stand, I discovered, one day, a macaroni factory. Within a space perhaps three feet wide and ten or twelve feet in length one man and a boy conducted the whole business of the sale as well as the manufacture of macaroni from the raw grain to the completed article of trade. The process, as it was carried on in this narrow space, was necessarily a simple one. There was a bag of flour, a box in which to mix paste, and a press by which this paste was forced through holes that converted it into little hollow tubes. Afterwards these hollow tubes were laid out on a cloth frame which, because there was no room inside had been set up in the street. After leaving this cloth frame the macaroni was hung up on little wooden forms for inspection and for sale. One of the most curious and interesting places on the street was an apothecary's shop in which the apothecary manufactured all his own drugs, and acted at the same time as the poor man's physician or medical adviser. This man had never studied pharmacy in a college. His knowledge of drugs consisted entirely of the traditions and trade secrets which had come down to him from his predecessor in the business. His shop was filled with sweet-smelling herbs, gathering for him by the peasants, and from these he brewed his medicines. The skeleton of a fish hung over the counter from which medicines were dispensed, and the shelves behind were filled with many curious and musty bottles. The apothecary himself was a very serious person, with a high pale forehead and the absorbed air of a man who feels the weight of the knowledge he carries around with him. All these things, especially the smell of the herbs, --- were quite awe-inspiring, and undoubtebly contributed something to the effectiveness of the medicine. It is a very busy street in which the apothecary, the macaroni manufacturer, and the others are located. In fact, it seems as if work never stopped there, for it is full of little shops where men sit in their doorways or at the open windows until late at night, working steadily at their various trades, making the thilgs they sell, and stopping only now and then to sell the things they make. The whole region is a hive of industry, for it is the neighborhood where artisans live, those skilled workmen who make everything by hand that in our part of the world, we have long since learned to make by machine. In fact, in this street it is possible to get a very good picture, I suspect, of the way in which trade and industry were carried on in other parts of Europe before the age of steam. About nine o'clock Saturday night—the night upon which I arrived in Catania—I was walking down one of the side streets in this part of the city, when my attention was attracted to a man, sitting in his doorway, working by the light of a little smoky lamp. He was engaged in some delicate sort of iron work, and, as near as I could make out, he seemed to be a tool-maker. What particularly attracted my attention was a little girl, certainly not more than seven years of age, who was busily engaged in polishing and sharpening the stamps he used. I stopped for a moment and watched this man and child, working steadily, silently, at this late hour of the night. I could but marval at the patience and the skill the child showed at her work. It was the first time in my life that I had seen such a very little child at work, although I saw many others in the days that followed. I have often heark it said that people who are born under the soft southern skies are habitually indelent, and never learn to work there, as they do in more northern latitudes. This is certainly not true of Sicily, for, so far as my experience goes, there is no other country in Europe where incessant labor is so largely the lot of the masses of the people. Certainly DENVER. COLORADO, SATURDAY, JULY 22 1911. there no other country where so much of the labor of all kinds, the skilled labor of the artisan as well as the rough labor digging and carrying on the streets and in the mines, is performed by children, especially boys. There is a law against Sunday labor in Catania, but the next morning, as I passed through this same quarter of the city, I found the majority of the people still busily at work. I stopped to watch a man who was making mandolins. This man lived in one room, which was at the same time a workshop, kitchen, and bedroom. There was a great heap of mattresses piled high upon the bed in one corner. A little charcoal brazier, on which the cooking for the family was performed, stood upon the work bench. The ceiling was hung with finished instruments, and the pavement in front of the house was piled with others in various stages of completion. This room was occupied by a family of five, all of whom, with the exception of the wife and mother, were engaged, each in different ways, in the work of manufacturing mandolins. All the skilled work (the setting of the decorations and the polishing of frames) was performed by the boys, but a little girl who was standing near seemed to be making herself handy as a helper in the work of the others. In this treeless county, where there is almost no wood of any kind to be had, the most useful building material after stone and plaster, seems to be tile. Not only the roofs but the floors of most of the buildings are made of this material, and its manufacture is consequently one of the principal minor industries of the country. One day while I was wandering about in the outskirts of Catania, I ran accross a plant where two men and three little boys were at work mixing the clay, forming it into octagonal shapes, and piling it out in the sun to dry. The two men were at work in the shade of a large open shed, but I could not make out what they were doing. As nearly as I could see, almost all of the actual work was performed by the children, who ranged, I should say, from eight to twelve years of age. The work of carrying the heavy clay, and piling it up in the sun after it had been formed into tiles, was done by the younger children. I am certain that if I had not seen them with my own eyes I would never have believed that such very little children could carry such heavy loads, or that they could work so systematically and steadily as they were compelled to do in order to keep pace with the rapid movements of the older boy; who was molding the tiles from the sofclay. The older boy could not have been, as I have said, more than twelve years of age, but he worked with all the skill and the rapidity of an experienced piece-worker driven at the top of his speed. I was so filled with pity and at the same time with admiration for this boy that, as I was unable to speak to him I ventured to offer him a small coin in token of my appreciation of the skill with which he worked. So intent was he on his task, however that he would not stop his work even to pick up the money I proffered him, but simply thanked me and nodded his head for me to place it on the bench beside him. —Outlook. (TO BE CONTINUED.) BEACH COMMISSIONERS DESIED TO PROVIDE NEGROES WITH SUITABLE ACCOMMODATIONL. Singing and Work. A man who sings at his work should remember that he isn't the only one on the job who may be entitled to happiness.— Atchison Globe. RACE NEWS Jacksonville, Fla., July 11.—The newspapers throughout the State are commenting on the recent municipal election in this city wherein the Negroes, who greatly outnumber the whites in some of the wards, were beaten, the Negro candidates receiving a very small vote. Dr. W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, has been invited and has accepted the invitation to make an address at the Universal Race Congress to be held in London the latter part of the month. He and Mrs. Scarborough sailed Wednesday morning on the Carmania. Prof. Scarborough has not fixed a definite subject for his address as yet but he said that it would have to do with the race problem, as it affects the colored man today. C. J. Goff, chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomtive Firemen and Engineers recently gave out the exact terms upon which the Southern Railway and its firemen came to terms, following their dispute over labor questions. Among the terms it was agreed that the number of Negro firemen should be limited to a certain percentage of whites. This means a reduction of Negro firemen. Miss Rella Ritchell, a pronounced brunette, and teacher of English in the Kokomo (Ind.) schools, is a Jewess of Russian nativity. Her fight before a jury at Paris, Ky., won her a verdict for $3,750. July 19, 1910, she was forced from the coach for white persons and compelled to ride from Millersburg to Paris in a car for colored people, on the assertion of the conductor that she was a Negress. The L. & N. Railroad Company was defendant in the suit. COLORED WOMEN TAKEN OFF SLEEPERS IN LOUISIANA Shreveport, La., July 12.—That a Negro woman cannot occupy a birth in a sleeping car where there are white passengers, even as a maid, in this state, was ruled by Judge Blanchard in police court. The Negro women were taken from the berth of an incoming train at the local union depot here Monday night on appeal to the police officers by several white passengers. A vigorous protest was made to the ejection of the women by a white passenger who NO 45 claimed the women were traveling as maids to his daughter. The women were reluctant to leave their berth and were escorted to police headquarters in their night clothes before they could be persauded to don more suitable attire. Judge Blanchard fined them each $25 for violation of the "Jim Crow" law. MARYLAND NEGROES SCORE ANOTHER POINT MARYLAND NEGROES SCORE ANOTHER POINT Baltimore, Md., July 12.—Race disfranchisement got another hard blow in Maryland the other day, when Judge John C. Rose of the United States District Court, handed down a decision in which Judge Thomas J. Morris concurred overruling the demurrers to the inditements filed against two Democratic election officials of Charles County and John M. Dulany, a printer of this city, who are charged with being responsible for the trick ballots used in the congressional election in Charles county in November. The ballots were gotten up in a manner to confuse the illiterate colored voters of that county, while practically making it easy for Democratic illiterates to vote. The inditements were brought under the Federal statutes. In his decision Judge Morris goes at length in defining the various injuries a citizen may be subjected to, and says: The right to vote at a Congressional electian is a right which is not depended upon the race or color of the voter. The motive of the defendants might have been, as was charged in the inditments, to disfranchise Negro voters. If they knowingly conspired to prevent legal and qualified Negro voters from voting they offered against the statute. It would make no difference if in trying to what they wanted to do they also injured other voters. The next annual meeting of the National Independent Political League will be held in Boston for three days beginning on Monday, August 28. Much interest is being manifested in the coming session, as it is possibly the last annual gathering before the next national convention of the two great political parties. From present indications the meeting will be largely attended. LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED # ROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS THAT COVER THE WEEK'S EVENTS. OF MOST INTEREST KEEPING THE READER POSTED ON MOST IMPORTANT CURRNET TOPICS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. The state union of the Western Federation of Miners has gone out of existence in California. The trial of John I. McNamara and his brother, James, has been set for October 1, 1911, at Los Angeles. Los Angeles has been selected by the Mystic Shrine as the meeting place next year for the imperial council. "Chacama," a baboon being exhibited at the Interstate fair at Fargo, N.D., escaped from his cage and caused a panic among the hundreds of persons on the grounds. From 132 counties of Texas, the majority of cotton counties, and considerably more than two-thirds of the state, reports indicate that cotton now is in good condition since the rains recently and prospects are fair for one of the best crops in several years. The grand lodge of Oregon, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, has established a sanitarium at Portland for the treatment of any form of disease—which includes tuberculosis, by converting one of their buildings at the home into such a sanitarium. Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the Kansas Board of Health, has sent out a notice to all county and city health officers to keep a close watch on all immigrants coming into the state on account of the recent arrival at American ports of immigrants afflicted with the cholera. When an embezzler, Jim Antone, escaped from the road gang of convicts near Carson, Nevada W. A. Wilson, serving twenty years for murder; A. B. Nelson, serving eight years for stealing, and James Lyle, serving ten years for manslaughter, headed in posse and captured him in the mountains. GENERAL Hoke Smith of Georgia will go to the United States Senate to fill out the unexpired term of United States Senator A. S. Clay. The teaching of theology by mail has come to fill a longfelt want. Madison, Morris county, New Jersey, is the site of the new correspondence school of theology. In a desperate pistol duel in Minneapolis, Minn., Jerry McCarthy, a notorious criminal, was shot four times and killed by Officer Ollinger, who received six bullets through the body and died twenty minutes later. Eugene G. Scales of New York, a year ago recognized as the brains of the most powerful bull clique which ever operated in the cotton pit, has lost approximately $2,000,000 through the unexpected collapse in "futures," it has been said in cotton circles. An alleged discrepancy of from $15,000 to $25,000 in the accounts has brought about a crisis in the financial affairs of the institution in Cincinnati. As a result the home, which is now conducted as a private philanthropy, may be turned over to the city. The center of population of the United States is four and a half miles south of Unionville, Monroe county, Indiana, according to a Census Bureau announcement. Since 1900, when it was six miles southeast of Columbus, Ind., it has moved thirty-one miles westward and seven-tenths of a mile northward. The entire public health machinery of the government has been put in motion to fight off the cholera invasion from Europe. All consular reports from Europe bearing on cases at any points are being carefully studied by officials and the public health office at Naples has been instructed to cable a report every five days as to developments in Italy. Members of the United States grand jury which returned indictments charging three internal revenue collectors with receiving bribes and twenty-one officers and employees of buttery factories with conspiracy to defraud the government, in Chicago, are facing complications and possibly prosecution as the result of an investigation of a grand jury "leak" which began as soon as the indictments were returned. A per capita tax of 50 cents will be levied on every member of the order of Elks to raise the $250,000 needed for the new national Elks' home at Bedford City, Va., according to action taken by the grand lodge. Ocver 1,200 horses died from the heart in New York city during the recent hot days. One packing concern suffered a loss of $70,000 in horseflesh and another corporation met with a loss of $40,000. Estimating that horses are worth about $250 each, the total loss in horseflesh in the city is set at $300,000. FOREIGN. An indirect result of the massacre of Chinese at Toreon in the revolution means the exclusion from Mexico of Celestials. As a result of cholera at Naples, the coastwide trade is greatly reduced and hampered, and foreign shipping virtually at a standstill. Forty thousand additional farm hands will be required in Manitoba province alone to harvest the bumper wheat crop which is expected there. Removing water surrounding the wreck of the Maine in Havana bay was practically completed when the water in the cofferdam lowered eighteen feet. Between the clergy and Socialists almost a war is going on in Naples. The trouble originated when the priests denounced the sheath gowns worn by women. Several were wounded before the police stopped a row. The former president of Mexico, General Porfirio Diaz, is preparing to leave Germany for Paris, having been advised by a consulting physician not to take the waters on account of his age. His health, however, appears excellent. SPORT WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. P. W. L. Pct. Denver .83 52 31 .622 Lincoln .82 48 34 .585 Pueblo .80 48 34 .575 St. Joseph .84 47 37 .560 Sioux City .82 43 39 .524 Omaha .83 41 42 .494 Topeka .83 33 50 .398 Des Moines .85 21 64 .247 Battling Nelson and Lonnie Austin of the Seattle Athletic Club have been matched for a ten-round bout at Aberdeen July 19. J. C. (Bud) Mars, well known American aviator, probably was fatally injured at Erie, Pa., when he lost control of his machine. Harry Riede, the Aspen Whirlwind, and Benny Chavez, of Trinidad, have been matched for a 15-round bout which will take place the latter part of the month. A boxing contest between Jim Flynn, the fighting fireman, and Carl Morris, the Oklahoma "White Hope" will be staged either in Philadelphia or San Francisco. There will be two Heine Zimmermans with the Chicago Cubs next season. The new Heine halls from the Atlanta club, of the Southern League, plays center field, bats right handed and stole 105 bases last season. Upon the order of Governor Carroll of Iowa, Attorney General Cosson began an investigation into a reported prize fight near Cedar Rapids in which Jeff O'Connell of Chicago, went down for the count in six rounds before Frank Whitney of Cedar Rapids. The Western League pennant race has reached the beginning of the second stage of the journey, and the standing of the teams on this start of the second stage finds Denver holding a slight lead over Lincoln, with Pueblo in third place and St. Joseph fourth. Tom Kennedy of New York, for two years amateur heavyweight champion boxer of America, has signified his intention of turning professional. Kennedy's first match will be with Al Pazer, who is a hard-hitting heavyweight of good class. They will meet at the National Sporting Club on August 4th. WASHINGTON. Postmaster General Hitchcock has designated New York, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis as postal savings depositories, beginning August 1st. Alvah H. Doty, health officer of the port, regards the cholera situation as being well in hand but does not conceal his apprehension that New York is "in the very midst of a threatened invasion of cholera." Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, will not be requested by President Taft to resign but will be reprimanded, according to the consensus of opinion of visitors who talked with Mr. Taft. It is claimed Wickersham, who made the charges, exceeded his authority. Campaign publicity legislation of the most drastic nature ever passed in either branch of Congress has been adopted by the Senate practically without a dissenting vote and is designated to require the publication of expenditures before election, which is not required by the existing publicity law. A fatal epidemic prevails in Mitchell county, North Carolina, which it is said, has heretofore been unknown to medical science and is baffling skilled physicians. The malady manifests itself by small blood spot stains on the tips of the fingers, passing through the arm into the body and resulting in death within a few days. July 22nd the Senate will vote on the Canadian reciprocity bill. On the wool tariff revision bill July 27th. On the free list bill August 1st. Congressional reapportionment bill August 3rd. Statehood bill for Arizona and New Mexico August 7th, and will adjourn, according to general understanding, quickly thereafter. The House bill amending the tariff law to permit the return free of duty of domestic animals temporarily exported, including pet dogs, was favorably reported to the Senate by the committee on finance. Louisiana planters and producers of sugar are making a determined stand on the traffit before the House sugar trust committee, declaring that a reduction of sugar duties would ruin the domestic production of cane sugar and that free sugar would annihilate both the cane and bet sugar industries of the country. STATE NEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL COLORADO PEOPLE Western Newspaper Union News Service. Coming Events in Colorado. Aug. 7-9—State meeting of Red Men—Trinidad. Aug. 7-11—National Convention American Poultry Association—Denver. Aug. 14-21—Second Annual Show, Colorado Electric Club, Denver. Aug. 29—K. of P. Grand Lodge En-campment, Cañon City. Aug. Thirty-second Triennial Conclave Knights Templar—Denver. Aug. State Federation of Labor—Colorado Springs. Sept. 18-21—Annual meeting Masonic Bodies of Colorado—Denver. Sept. 21-22—Annual meeting order of Eastern Star—Glenwood Springs. 3.000 Cars of Cantaloupes. Delta—The Cantaloupe Growers' Association reports about 100 acres in cantaloupes and expect to handle 10,000 crates. The fruit crop is estimated at 3,000 cars. Frogs Are Singing. Keota.—For the first time in a year, frogs are singing in this vicinity. Lakes long dry, water holes and ditches, are running full as a result of heavy rains over eastern Weld county the last few days. Big Exhibit for Colorado. Denver.—It has been determined by the agricultural committee of the Chamber of Commerce that Colorado is to have one of the best land, agricultural and mining exhibits ever sent out of the West as its display at the New York Land Show. Durham of Pueblo, Quits. Pueblo.—For the first time in the history of Western league baesball, in Pueblo, the fans of this city ran a player out of the club by knocking, when Pitcher Jimmy Durham took off his Indian uniform in disgust and told Manager Isbell that he was through. Crowley Citizens to Celebrate. Ordway.-The citizens of the new county of Crowley will celebrate the entrance of their county into the sisterhood of counties of the state. The celebration will take place in this city and there will be a big barbecue, speeches, races, ball games and a general good time. Several oxen have already been promised. Yeggmen Visit Grand Junction. Grand Junction.—An organized band of robbers visited this city and when the managers of the P. A. Rice Lumber Company, the Elite laundry and the Ramsay blacksmith shop opened up they found that yeggmen had entered the offices during the night and opened their three safes. In none of the three places was anything stolen except worthless papers. The Public Drinking Cup. Denver.—The Eighteenth General Assembly passed a law regulating the use of public drinking cups and provided penalties for the violation of the same: Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. It shall be unlawful after August 1, 1911, for any person, Board of Managers or Trustees, Company or Corporation, having charge or control of any hotel, restaurant, theater, store, hall, school house, church, station, railroad train, steam or electric car, or other institution or conveyance frequented by the public, or which may be used for the purpose of a public assembly, or as a place of employment, to furnish any cup, vessel, or other receptacle to be used promiscuously as a common drinking cup, or permit any cup, vessel or other receptacle to remain in any public place to which more than one person may have access, for the common, indiscriminate, or promiscuous use or purpose of drinking therefrom: Provided that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the use of a common drinking vessel, in case proper and adequate provision be furnished for sterilizing the same, and such cup be thoroughly sterilized after use thereof. Section 2. Any person, Board of Managers, or Trustees, Company or Corporation, having charge of or control of any hotel, restaurant, theater, store, hall, school house, church, station, railroad train, steam or electric car, or other institution or conveyance frequented by the public, or which may be used for the purpose of a public assembly, or as a place of employment, who shall violate the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than $200.00. Section 3. Justices of the Peace in their respective jurisdictions, and Police Magistrates in cities and towns, shall have jurisdiction of offenses under this Act. Want Immediate Action. La Junta.—Recently the Arkansas Valley Commercial Association met with a good representation from all towns. Taking up the Kansas-Colorado water suit, the association passed a resolution commending the District Legislation League of Denver for resolving not to invoke the referendum on the law to provide a "defense fund" to contest the demands of Kansas. The resolution recites that putting the law to a vote of the people would delay defense for two years, when action is needed at once. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS. Small Happenings Occurring Over the State Worth While. Western Newspaper Union News Service. The old Curfew law is being enforced in Greeley. Another rural route will be established at Rocky Ford. A postal savings bank has been opened at Fort Morgan. Morgan county has had one of the best rains of the season. Felix Hogberg has been arrested at Loveland on a charge of forgery. The old electric light plant at Buena Vista has been destroyed by fire. G. C. Bruce, for three years postmaster at Fort Lupton, has resigned. A party of forty-one tourists, in automobiles have reached Denver from Philadelphia. Paddy Kerr of Superior, has been arrested for keeping his saloon open after midnight. Dominic Pistone is in jail at Trinidad on a charge of killing Ignazio Distantio, at Aguilar. The Colorado Inter-State fair and exposition, usually held at Denver, has been declared off. The third quarterly conference of the Colorado Commercial Executives was held in Fowler. A thief stole a big pistol from the desk of the night sergeant in the police station in Pueblo. The boys in Logan county between the ages of six and twenty-one exceed, the girls by fifty-seven. Weldon defeated the Merino ball team by a score of 9 to 4, securing 16 hits off Herb Bandemoor. In a fall from a willow tree, Frank Newbury, aged 5 years, of Steamboat Springs, bit his tongue in two. August 15th Millikin will hold an election on the question of issuing water works bonds of $15,000. Over two hundred men and children are engaged in gathering the strawberry crop at Steamboat Springs. The 22-months-old baby of Paul Traverse of Montrose, died from the effects of eating parlor matches. Charles Holcomb was drowned in the Uncompangre river near Delta, while in swimming with a friend. Four crops of alfalfa are to be cut on a number of farms in the Peckham vicinity, while three is the usual harvest. Roy Jamison and Lloyd Holman, two boys of Boulder, were badly injured by the explosion of a .22-calliber cartridge. The Pueblo Traction and Lighting Company plans to spend nearly two million dollars in improvements and extensions. The Tri-State Telephone Company, operating in New Mexico and Arizona, has been merged into the Colorado Telephone Company. A Grand Junction man has invented a machine, by the use of which one man can operate and care for forty acres of smudge pots. Greeley claims to lead all other towns of its size in number of post cards sold within two months, which is 18,000 or 300 per day. El Paso county is to have a dry farming exhibit of its own in connection with the International Congress show at Colorado Springs. There will be no lack of exhibits at the second annual Electric show to be held by the Colorado Electric Club in Denver August 14 to 21. Peanuts are being grown successfully in the country about Greasewood lake, thirty-five miles east of Greeley. The crop is planted on a sandy loam. Denver is to have a new industry, one to manufacture steel castings to supply standard repair parts for locomotives and rolling stock of all kinds. M. H. Aylesworth, a prominent young attorney of Fort Collins, has been appointed county attorney by the county commissioners of Larimer county. Ralph Van Horn, a ranchman, who lived about nineteen miles south of Wray, died from lockjaw, the result of being scratched on the thumb by an old nail. Harry B. Davis of Colorado Springs, the new state golf champion, will be one of the contestants in the annual tournament of the Western Golf Association which meets soon at Detroit. Morris Swain, aged 16, and son of Thomas Swain, an old-time resident of Paradox, in western Montrose county, was killed while stacking hay when the stacker broke and the crane fell upon him. The estate of Frederick D. Wight, pioneer and prominent cattleman, who was found dead in his home about two months ago, in Denver, is worth $2,041,511.03, according to the report of the appraisers. Albert Johnson, an employee of the Dillon Stone Company, which is putting in a sewer from the Evangelical Lutheran sanitarium to Clear creek, at Arvada, was caught in a cave-in and probably fatally injured. When the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias meets in Cañon City August 29th, there will be an encampment of the Uniform Rank of the order. E. B. Taylor, who has been for years state horticultural expert stationed in the Grand valley, has resigned to accept a six-year position with a large orchard company in Kansas. Uncle Jake Cox, a pioneer of the Wray section, and a veteran of the Civil War, is laid up with two broken ribs and several bruises, being thrown from his buggy in a runaway Sunday MC-AU WELLS RLING SILVER-WARE Colorado Products Patronize Home Industry ZANG'S DELICIOUS TABLE BEERS IMBINE, VIENNA AND PILSENER Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. Delivered Daily to All Parts of the City. Ph. Zang Brewing Co. TELEPHONE GALLUP 395. for Colorado You Should Boost for Us WM. EHMKE MANAGER STERLING SILVER-WARE Boost Colorado Products Patronize Home Industry ZANG'S DELICIOUS TABLE BEERS COLUMBINE, VIENNA AND PILSENER Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. Delivered Daily to All Parts of the City. The Ph. Zang Brewing Co. TELEPHONE GALLUP 395. We Boost for Colorado You Should Boost for Us C OZARK CLUB MILLIARDS AND POOL PARLORS THE OZARK CLUB BILLIARDS AND POOL PARLORS STRICTLY MEMBERSHIP CLUB MAS CLINGMAN, Manager 2-34 Welton Street Phone Main 5154 Mamma Neely's Restaurant GOOD HOME COOKING Regular Meals 25c. Sunday Dinner 35c Short Orders at All Hours 1914 Arapahoe St. Denver, Col. THE CAPITOL CLUB A SOCIAL CLUB. THOMAS CLINGMAN, Manager 26-32-34 Welton Street Phone Main 5154 EE, PRESIDENT. THE Douglass Undertaking J. R. CONTEE, PRESIDENT. R. E. HANDY, LICENSED EMBALMER. THE Douglass Undertaking Company 1023 19th Street Incorporated—Bonded to the City. Phone—Main 6123. THE O BILLIA THOMAS 26-32-34 W MACK SMART Manager. 921 20TH. ST. J. R. CONTEE, PRES East Turner Hall 2132-2148 ARAPAHOE ST. Phone 2449. DENVER CLUB COOL CLUB Manager Main 5154 Restaurant COOKING Sunday Dinner 35e All Hours Denver, Col. TOL JB CLUB. Mamma Neely's Restaurant GOOD HOME COOKING Regular Meals 25e. Sunday Dinner 35e Skert Orders at All Hours 1914 Arapahoe St. Denver, Col. PHONE CHAMPA 2540. DENVER, COLO THE Groceries, Meats, Hay, Grain, Etc. FRESH VEGETABLES EVERY DAY Second Avenue and Milwaukee Street Phone York 881 A. BRADSHAW AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE OLD STAND 1443-1447 Stout St. S.P. HECKLER'S CASH GROCERY Fresh Vegetables Every Day. All Kinds of Groceries and Salt Meats 2362 TREMONT PLACE Supply Your Home with the Celebrated Tivoli Beer The Empire Bottling Co. Phone Gallup 245 Don't Worry----But Hurry Sept.4 Monday APicnic AT BLOOMFIELD PARK $5 Worth of Fun for 25c in Money YOU KNOW YOU ALWAYS GET THE BEST OF EVERYTHING WHEN YOU SEE THESE LETTERS From 12 M (day) Until 2 A. M. Next Morning. Transfer on any car. Cars run by special arrangement until 2 a. m. Don't make yourself late. You can get all you want to eat and drink at the Park. ORCHESTRA OF NINE PIECES—BEST IN CITY. BROADWAY AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE OLD STAND 1443-1443 S. P. HECK CASH GRO Fresh Vegetables Every Day Groceries and Salt 362 TREMONT Beer, Wines, Liquors 2605 and 2609 Arapahoe Street Supply Your Home with the Tivoli Beer Corsets Gents' Furnishings Millinery season now here. Everybody knows Bradshaw's can sell you good hats for less money than any place in city. We also have a complete line of Holsery and Underwear, including extra large size. We are in our own building, have not rent to pay. 1447 Stout St. KLER'S OCERY Day. All Kinds of Salt Meats NT PLAC PHONE MAIN 3762 McVicar Bottling Works J. T. TURNER; Prop. Zang's Special Brew Family Trade a Specialty ors and Cigars street DENVER, COLO. with the Celebrated beer NITROGLYCERIN STORED IN DU PONT POWDER PLANT AT LOUVIERS EXPLODES. SEVERAL ARE INJURED DENVER 20 MILES AWAY, 13 SHAKEN BY TERRIFIC CONCUSSION. Denver.—At Louviers, about four miles south of Littleton, three men are known to have been killed and many others injured at the plant of the E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder Company, when two nitroglycerin buildings blew up. The explosion was followed immediately by fire, and the death list may be much larger than was at first reported. The detonation was heard for miles in every direction and was distinctly felt in Denver, elgheen miles from the scene of the accident. The bodies of the three men killed were torn into shreds and no trace of them has yet been found. It was thought by many that the terrific noise, followed by vibrations of the earth's crust, was caused by an earthquake, and a panic ensued in Littleton and other nearby points, many persons leaving their homes in early morning negligee. The men who met their deaths in the explosion are: Augustus Hoppie, William Humple and Hans Lervig. Lervig leaves a wife and six children, while Hoppie and Humple are single. This is the second explosion which the Dupont people have had at this plant. The last one, in which one man was killed, occurred about three years ago. The force of the explosion wrecked some of the smaller buildings near the nitroglycerin building and broke windows in structures for miles around. It was feared at first that the detonation would cause other buildings, stored with powder to blow up also. The greatest danger, after it became apparent that the vibrations had not set off any of the other storage houses or mixing buildings, was from fire. In spite of the danger, employees of the company immediately began to fight the fire in order to keep it from spreading. The main buildings are separated from one another so far that the flames could not spread directly from one to the other, but it was feared that sparks and burning brands would set off more of the explosives scattered around. Cars stored with soda and other combustible materials used in the manufacture of giant powder and nitroglycerin were moved away from the scenes as soon as possible. A. D. Chambers, superintendent of the plant, was at the scene directly after the explosion and superintended operations. He was unable to ascribe a cause for the setting off of the dangerous explosives in the nitroglycerin building, but said it might have been caused from any one of a dozen things. The men killed were the only employees in the building at the time. Because of the always constant danger, only a few men are employed in any of the buildings at any one time, and these men are selected for their work because of their known carefulness. They wear felt shoes, and every precaution is taken to prevent the explosives from being set off by accidental concussion. None of the employees is allowed to carry matches, or smoke within the danger zone. They are paid from $10 to $25 per day. The manager, William C. Howard, whose office is in Denver, is out of the city at present and the offices are in charge of J. E. Havens. The first intimation Mr. Havens had of the accident was when he was notified by phone. Later he received a report from the plant. "The accident is not as serious as it might be," said he, "Of course, an accident in which three men are killed is serious enough, but we are glad that more men did not lose their lives. Every possible precaution is taken to prevent such accidents, "Three men only were killed, according to the report I received. The different buildings of the plant are widely scattered, in order to prevent an accident in one building from spreading to the other buildings in which explosives are manufactured or kept. The storehouses are located in hollows, separated by a hill. I don't know how much glycerin was stored in the building which went up, as the quantity varies at different times." After making an investigation of the ruins, Superintendent Chambers gave out a statement saying that only 6,000 pounds of nitroglycerin were in the building destroyed by the explosion. Coroner Pike of Douglas county received a telephone message to rush to Louviers, where the mixing building was reported to have been destroyed. Although one of the reports is that the mixing building was the one to go up, the report received at the offices of the powder company in Denver is that it was the nitroglycerin storehouse. The coorner's information was that sixv men were killed, but he received no further details of the accident. He left at once for Louviers in an automobile. WICKERSHAM SAYS GOVERNMENT SHOULD REGULATE INDUSTRIES. SHOULD FIX PRICES LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND SHOULD WORK WITHOUT RESTRAINT. Dultuh, Minn.—In his address before the Minnesota Bar Association, Attorney General Wickersham declared that a government commission to regulate great industrial organizations in the same way that the Interstate Commerce Commission regulates railways was desirable and might be necessary. Mr. Wickersham's speech was little short of sensational in many of its features. He declared that it was a matter of serious consideration whether it would be practical to give the proposed Interstate Corporation Commission the power to fix prices. Many of Mr. Wickersham's declarations were the most radical he has made since his entrance into official life. There was nothing in the speech, however, to indicate how far the attorney general reflected the views of President Taft. "That some further regulation over corporations carrying on commerce among the states may be necessary," said Mr. Wickersham, "is coming to be a matter of current comment. It has been openly advocated quite recently by representatives of some of the largest combinations of capital, probably as a means of salvation, and to preserve, under government supervision, great organizations whose continued existence is menaced by the recent interpretation of the Sherman act, the disintegration of which would be necessarily attended with much loss. "But there are other reasons for such regulation. The federal department of justice is not organized or equipped to maintain constant supervision and control over business organizations. It deals only with cases of violation of the law. The activities of an administrative board or commission would be directed to preventing such violations, and in aiding business men to maintain a continued status of harmony with the requirements of law. "Whether such a federal industrial commission should have power to regulate prices is a matter of serious consideration. The interstate commerce law prescribes that prices for transportation by rail or wire or pipe line, shall be reasonable, and that no unjust discrimination shall be made between individuals or localities similarly situated. "We have become accustomed to the regulation of rates of transportation, but the suggestion that prices of commodities be regulated by Congress seems novel and radical. Yet, the principle on which the regulation of transportation rates is based is simply that when property is used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large, it becomes clothed with a public use, and may be controlled by the public for the common good. "The conduct of the great commerce on staple articles among the states is becoming a matter of public consequence, and the courts have upheld legislation regulating it and prescribing some of the conditions under which it may be carried on. To require as one of these conditions that prices must be reasonable, only involves a new application of the same principle. "The anti-trust legislation of the United States and most of the separate states is based on the theory that the natural price of article is that fixed by the operation of the natural law of supply and demand, working without artificial restraint. But the law of supply and demand does not and has not for many years worked in this country in a natural, unrestrained and unfettered manner. Bill to Aid Homesteaders. Washington.—On account of long drouth, Senator Warren has introduced a bill granting persons who have made homestead entries in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Montana and other western states, leave of absence from the date of the approval of the proposed act until April 15, 1912. Bones of Three Recovered. Havana.—Fragments of bones believed to represent three bodies have been recovered from the wreck of the Maine. Train Robbed; Engineer Shot. Grand Forks, N. D.—An east bound train on the Northern Pacific railway, was held up by three masked robbers near Buffalo, N. D. The robbers secured about $500 in cash by going through the treasurers, and shot Engineer S. D. Oleson of Fargo twice because he refused to stop the train. Albany.-The Gittins bill, which will permit the opening of the great race tracks of the state, passed the Senate 26 to 22. WEST Confectionery and Baur's Ice Cream Cafe in conection. We make a Chops and Everything and be All the latest Soda Fountain Dr Also a fine g 2741 W Near F PHONE CHAMPA 2188 10th Ave H. HEUER, RESTING PLACE FO WEST BROS. Confectionery and Ice Cream Parlor Baur's Ice Cream Johnston's Candies Cafe in conection. We make a specialty of Fried Chicken, Steaks, Chops and Everything good to eat. Try a meal and be convinced. 2741 Welton Street Near Five Points PHONE CHAMPA 2188 DENVER, COLORADO MEALS AT ALL HOURS Pool Room in Connection Gorner West 10th and O Denver, N. FE TAI Who pays the hi Is it the t Just guess The C Give us a chance and we tion. Our Spring and S Our prices are moderate. shop. Respe At 10th and Osage, Near Burton Denver, Colorado . FERRY TAILOR Do pays the high up-town r is it the tailor? 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Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned. unless stamps are sent for postage. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. PREVENTING A LYNCHING. THE people of Colorado who wish to depend upon the law may well feel satisfied with the prompt and effective action taken by Governor Shafroth and Sheriff Potter, of La Junta, to prevent the lynching of Bob Harris, colored, of Rocky Ford, who killed Chief of Police J. B. Craig and Jake Kipper at the latter town July 4. After two days' hunt the murderer was found hiding in the vacant parsonage of the colored Baptist Church in the town where the crime was committed, and was first removed to La Junta, and afterward to Pueblo, to get him out of the reach of those who had determined to lynch him. Upon orders from Governor Shafroth several companies of militia were held in readiness to go to the assistance of the sheriff at any time when the orderly course of law should seem to be endangered by the mob sentiment which the desperate double crime had aroused. This is the only reasonable way to deal with mob violence, or the danger of it, which is in itself a crime as vicious and demoralizing as the murder or other act which it seeks to avenge. Sure death awaits the perpetrator of an unjustifiable murder, and the law of Colorado is sufficient to assure everybody that there is small chance for a failure of justice in such a case. A lynching hurts a community and a whole state for more than it punishes its victim, and the extraordinary steps taken to defend a despised wretch who has committed some heinous crime, are really taken to protect the state itself and its people from the disgrace of a criminal and demoralizing assumption of authority to deal with human being as they would deal only with a wild animal. There is no civilization without law, no law without order and justice. There will be no sympathy anywhere for Harris, if his crime is as charged. Vicious criminality among colored people is confined to the low and worthless element, and insistence upon a fair trial for the sake of the triumph of order and the suppression of race discrimination, is the entire motive of those who appeal to the state to insure a decent course in such affairs. A LONG-FELT WANT. NEW YORK CITY, the great American metropolis and the second largest city in the world, with its seven million population, is proudly boasting the appointment of its first colored police officer. The colored population of New York City approaches one half of the entire population of Denver, yet they are just about to realize their long-felt desire for representation on the police force, and they are proud of it. They are about twenty years behind Denver, in this respect, and we wonder what they will do to hold themselves down when they equal our quota of colored policemen and get a top-notch colored fire company, with its own officers, station and equipment. What will poor old New York do when she really gets in touch with the political progress of other American cities? She has a long way to go and a big fight to make to catch up. The very next question she will have to settle is—should a colored policeman arrest a white man, or should a white man submit to such an arrest. The answer is—A colored police officer should arrest anybody, who, in his careful judgment, deserves to be arrested, and refrain from arresting anybody who does not deserve arrest. White law-breakers are not so proud as they pretent to be, when they learn that a dodge behind a convenient race prejudice will not materially help the cause. Colored law-breakers will have no difficulty adapting themselves to the novelty of being arrested by a colored policeman, for whom they can soon learn to have a wholesole respect. Every progressive city has to pass through this embarrassing experience of getting used to respecting the authority of the law when it is represented by a colored official, but it is only a matter of taking a chocolate covered purgative instead of a white pill, and after a while the objection ceases, and they take their medicine just as it happens to be mixed, white or black, and make no faces. It is all in line with the inevitable progress of the science of civic materia medica. When the head physicians adopt the heroic alapathic procedure, there is no sense in the homeopathic patient attempting to kick. Mayor Gaynor, of New York, is responsible for the breaking up of the stagnant police methods in the metropolis. He is a straightforward, fair, broad-minded man. It was he who reprimanded a policeman for ordering the people to "stand back there!" as the mayor came out of city hall to enter his carriage. He told the policeman that it was his duty to be polite to the people, and that any other law-abiding person has as much right to the streets and walks as the mayor has. He is a splendid and unusual example of the simple- open-hearted Democrat who recognizes no necessity for being a foe to any class of the law-abiding population. If the Democratic party, as a whole, respected the same simple principle, the race question in the United States would soon resolve itself into a social question, pure and simple, and find its sane and natural solution in the personal tastes of individuals, without senseless and useless political strife, and the Democratic party would be largely the gainer, even if Gaynor did not become largely the Democratic party. The mayor takes the pains to repudiate all political motives in this departure, and says that all applicants will be treated alike, without discrimination. So the appointment of New York's first colored policeman will carry some lessons with it, worthy of consideration even at the White House. And should a Democrat like Gaynor get into the White House some day, there will be a mighty revolution in national politics due to follow. Highest Ideals of Honesty Received From Mother By ISABELLE HATCH O'NEILL F "women are poets who believe their own poetry"—and few will be inclined to quarrel with that definition—does it not follow that a woman, thoroughly convinced that what she is saying is the truth, even though man by his logic proves it to be false, cannot be called untruthful? I A woman is guided to truth largely by her intuition; a man by his logic. To woman the modern world is a new, strange thing. She grasps neither the meaning nor the necessity of law, business, philosophy, politics, mathematics. To her logic is only a name—a man's way of looking at things. In her own mind woman envelops her acts in a bright and ideal atmosphere, and thus often sees a high motive in what a man would call dishonorable. It has often been asserted that on the witness stand a woman will more lightly commit perjury than a man. This, however, does not prove that she is dishonest. It only shows that a trained lawyer is more clever than she, and that by his art he forces her into false positions. The reason why women do not always tell the literal truth on the witness stand is because they neither fit into nor understand the conditions which surround them; they are out of their sphere; they lose the real meaning of the whole court proceedings. Is a woman's standard of honesty higher or lower than a man's? If it is a question of commercial integrity, of common business honesty, there can be but one answer. And that answer lies in the comparative number of men and women in jails for crimes against property. Women do not deliberately steal. They do not deliberately misrepresent goods. They are not embezzlers or defaulters. There could have been no necessity for a pure food law if women had sole charge of manufacturing foods. If women are not innate lovers of truth, why does religion appeal more forcibly to them than to men? Why do women outnumber the men in the churches? MARY And to whom, from mother Eve to this day, has been intrusted the task of teaching the young? Is it possible that two-thirds of the human race, from the dawn of civilization, could have instilled into children the honor and truth which they themselves did not obey? No matter what may have been said or written about women not telling the truth, the fact still remains that it is at the mother's knee that children learn truth and receive their highest ideals of honesty and of life. I am sick and tired of this modern fad that children should be taught to amuse themselves. To my mind it is just an excuse for selfish mothers to salve their troubled consciences. Teach Child to Amuse Its Own Self By ROSE GUION No, you need not tell of the evil to a child of making it dependent upon others for amusement. Few children have resources of their own and if an older person will not help them out the poor little tots have a stupid times of it in the years when they should be the happiest. There's my Bobby. I play with him every day with never a thought of the misery I am laying up for his wife. His wife should be glad and thankful to amuse him when he is toiling and slaving for her. If she hates to sacrifice herself the more reason that Bob should remember a mother who was never too busy or too tired for a romp with him. The other day a red-hot lecture was read to me by the president of our mother's club when she caught me blowing soap bubbles with my small boy. She assured me that I was spoiling him utterly by not allowing him to contrive plans for living his own life without help from others, and tried in every way to make me feel that I was a back number mother who had not the best interest of her child at heart. If Bobby is not going to be as good or as happy a man because his mother rocked him to sleep occasionally and would play with him whenever he asked her to he will have to run his chances of not turning out well. As for the romps, I enjoy them as much as Bob does. It brushes up my wits and limbers my bones to keep up with my small man. There is a lot of good in modern ideas of bringing children up, but some of the ways in which women carry them to excess make me almost long for the time when we women were just unscientific mothers with only love to guide us in bringing up our little ones. I don't believe either Bob or Bob's wife to be will ever revile his mother for the jolly hours my boy and I have had together. If they should do so I do not care. An unwise son maketh a mad father. No one is too old to set a bad example. Mental laziness leads to intellectual dry rot. "From Under the Flying Chaff" By A. W. MACY Author of "Shortcut Philosophy" Some stage performances are worth going miles to miss. One finger in the pie is worth a whole hand in the soup. To avoid falling into a financial pit, keep your balance at the bank. Unsolicited advice is seldom relished, even though sugar-coated. Nature does not intend a man to be ready for the scrap-heap at fifty. Half the pleasure in life comes from knowing how to enjoy our enjoyments. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” but it is best to look below the top layer. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” but many people do not have the price. Having a sensible thought occasionally does not make one an intellectual are light. Some who would go to a horse race in a shower of pitchforks are kept away from church by a heavy dew. Conductors of Legitimate Sales Only THE BOSTON SALVAGE SALES CO. CLOSING OUT ENTIRE STOCK S & H CARMENT STORE 925-16TH ST. OPP. JOSLIN CLOSING OUT ENTIRE STOCK THE BOSTON SALVAGE COMPANY is under contract to close out the entire season's stock within a limited time, to fulfill their contract. Prices that sell goods quickly are made, the stock arranged to make ready selections and the bargains are so evident that a SAVING OF 60c AND 75c IS MADE ON EVERY DOLLAR YOU SPEND THE SALE STARTS THIS MORNING AT 9 O'CLOCK SILVERSMITH & HILLIER, 925 Sixteenth St. ELITE BARBER SHOP BATHS EAGLE SOCIAL CLUB Call Main 5038. Stand 19th & Market Sts. Special Rates for Parties and Balls. A. E. DAY OR NIGHT. PHONE MAIN 6243 A. M. LAWHORN UNDERTAKERS A first-class Mortuary establishment. First aid to the bereaved in the time of death of their loved ones. Prices below competitors. Polite service. Parlors 1921 Arapahoe St. LICENCED EMBALMER CURTIS M. HARRIS, Funeral Director. REDUCED ROUND-TRIP Summer Tourist Fares to the PACIFIC COAST VIA THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROAD "The Scenic Line of the World" $50.00 From All Main Line Points in Colorado to Pacific Coast Destinations BROAD GORGE DRIVEN AND BREW GRANDE RAILROAD Tickets on sale daily to September 30th, 1911. Final return limit, October 31st, 1911. Standard and Tourist Pullman Sleeping Cars are operated daily through to San Francisco and Los Angeles without change. Through electric-lighted train consisting of steel coach, Pullman and Tourist Sleeping Cars is operated daily Denver to San Francisco via Salt Lake City on TURK WESTBRN PACIFIC RAILWAY without change of cars. For information regarding train service, reservations, etc., --- THE COLORADO STATESMAN Mrs. Henry Threadgill is among our sick. Mrs. Holmes of El Paso, Tex., is spending the week in Denver. Norman Burough of Chicago was a visitor in the city Tuesday. A RECORD BREAKER. The 15th annual picnic of the Colorado Statesman, to be held at Blofield Park August 16th, will be a record breaker, as the many thousand visitors to the National Negro Educational Congress will be here. The crowd that will pass through the gas Miss Mable Andrews is able to be out again after a brief illness. Little Corinne Ogelsby is numbered among the sick this week. Mrs. Russell Bryan of Chicago passed through the city Tuesday en route to Colorado Springs. Mrs. Mary E. Evans is spending the week in Manitou. She will return in a few days. Mr. Samuel Green of Chicago, badly injured his hand and had it treated by one of our local physicians. Mrs. B. Givens, who was operated on a few weeks ago at Mercy hospital, will be able to return to her home today. Mrs. Collins Price, a trained nurse of Ft. Smith, Ark., returned to her home last week after a joyful stay with her old chum, Mrs. M. Bell. Mrs. Carrie White, who is in the city visiting her niece Mrs. E. Rivers, is a prominent church worker in Boley, Oklahoma. She will be in the city all the summer. The different local committees are working hard and making great preparations for the National Negro Educational Congress, which will convene in Denver August 12-15. The picnic given by Zion Baptist Sunday school last Thursday took nine coaches crowed to Dome Rock, and the Welcome Club at Glazier Lake, took five coaches. The Church of the Redeemer postponed their picnic last Tuesday evening on account of the rain. It will be given Tuesday, Aug, 22nd. All tickets that have been sold will be honored on that date, at Bloomfield Park. "Red Letter Day," of the National Negro Educational Congress will be the fifteenth annual picnic of the Colorado Statesman at Bloomfield Park Wednesday, August 16th. Mrs. J. Henry Maddox of 2425 Humboldt street leaves Thursday for a visit with her mother and sisters in Winnemucca, Nevada, and will visit relatives in California before her return. The wives of two prominent Okla homa lawyers will be in the city this week. They hall from Muskogee, Okla., Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Stewart. They will be here until the Educational Congrees adjourns. Miss Polk of Dallas, Tex., and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Trailer of Oklahoma City, Okla., are visiting our city. Mr. Trailer is a business man and property holder of that city and an old acquaintance of Dr. Huff's father. On last Sunday evening Miss Carmillo King celebrated her birthday as hostess to a few friends at West Bros. cafe. A rich, classy menu was spread before the guests, which consisted of Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Huff, Mr. B. Ellis, Miss Lola Pollard and Mr. G. T. Washington. The Wgndnesday Afternoon Study Club held its last meeting on Wednesday last, with Mrs. George A. McCullough, at 2631 Humboldt street. They adjourned for the summer and will hold their picnic, Wednesday, July 26th. Mrs. George A. McCullough, president; Mrs. Eugene Parks, secretary. Mrs. N. Skillern of 1904 29th street, entertained in her usual charming manner, Monday evening the following guests, in honor of Mrs. White, of Chicago, and Mrs. W. A. Green, of Colorado Springs: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Overton, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Contee, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ratley, Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Huff, Mrs. W. B. Townsend, Miss Rosabell, Mrs. Mable Craig, Messrs. Strauthers and Murphy. A RECORD BREAKER. The 15th annual picnic of the Colorado Statesman, to be held at Bloomfield Park August 16th, will be a record breaker, as the many thousand visitors to the National Negro Educational Congress will be here. The crowd that will pass through the gates will be tremendous and we will spare neither pains nor expense to make the occasion a "Red Letter" one. DELEGATES TO GRAND SESSION U. B. F. AND S. M. . T The following delegates attended the Fourth Grand Session of the U. B. F. and S. M. T. and auxiliaries, Colorado and jurisdiction, which convened Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at Dania Hall: Joshua Lodge, Colorado Springs; L. L. Duncan, L. J. McKinney, M. Clay, Western Star Lodge. Denver; A. J. Ftizpatrick, J. J. Jackson, G. D. Hall. Queen of West Temple, Denver: Mary C. Evans, Cecelia Washington, Gertrude Thally. Foster Temple, Colorado Springs: Mary Milligan, Clara Seymore, Marguerite Lamb, Mattie Payne and Wilhenium Hall. Capitola Temple, Denver: C. Lewis, Ellen Savage, Lillie Lewis. Gaines Temple, Trinidad: Claudie Jackson. Webster Temple, Denver: Mary Wade, Inez Rose, Mamie Dean. Victoria Temple, Colorado Springs: Jennie Henderson, A. A. Bratten, Laura Craig. Welch Temple, Pueblo:—Jessie Bedford, Laura Good, Pearl Adkins. Juveniles, Denver: Mrs. E. Lawson, E. McKinsey. Juveniles, Colorado Springs: Mrs. Eva Cammel. Elizabeth Temple, Denver: Eva Kelly, Mettine Kelley. SCOTT M. E. CHURCH. The sermon topics for Sunday are "Faithful unto Death." Acts 7:59, 60; and "Come With Us." Numbers 10:29, 31. The series of sermons taken from the Book of the Acts of the Apostles are creating quite an interest in Sunday morning service. You are invited to hear these discourses. Mr. E. Lewis has been appointed recording steward to serve in Mr. Cornelius Rice's place, who went to Oakland Calff., last week. Mr. Lewis is an active churchman. Do not forget the Live Pigeon contest at Dania hall next Thursday night. A prize of $5.00 will be given to the lucky one catching the pigeon without injury. The Sunday school will give its annual picnic at Washington Park August 24th. It will be an old fashioned basket picnic. We invite you to attend. Games of various kinds will be played. Time is rapidly approaching when the representatives of the Colorado District will leave for the St. Louis convention. We ask all that have subscribed for the Southwestern and those who have subscribed something on the delegates traveling expenses please be ready by the first of August. Services last Sunday, morning and evening were well attended. We cordially invite the visitors to come again. The prayer meetings are growing in interest. Do not miss these if you feel that you need help and encouragement. The official board will hold its monthly meeting on the 31st instead of the first Monday in August in view of the fact that the pastor will leave for St. Louis on the 4th of August. We urge all officials to be present. The rally continues to grow. Many new subscriptions were made last Sabbath. We must roof our church before winter. Rev. H. R. Gipson from the Savannah conference has been appointed pastor of our church at Pueblo, Colorado. Rev. Gipson is a man of sterling qualities. SPECIAL SUNDAY BILL AT WEST BROS. Baked White Fish, Julienne Potatoes .....25 Chicken a la Maryland .....45 Roast Veal, Potatoes, Brown Gravy .....30 Smothered Spring Chicken .....40 Breaded Veal Cutlet, Tomato Sauce .....30 Sphaghetti Italienne .....15 Baked Stuffed Tomato .....15 Potatoes, O'Brien .....15 Chicken Salad .....35 Baked Blackberry Roll, hard Sauce .....15 Baur's Raspberry Ice .....10 The Second Annual Picnic of the Rocky Mountain Athletic association was postponed to Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4, on account of rain. HOMES FOR FARMERS NEAR Few counties offer the chance for Negro farmers who are willing to work to have something, to be somebody and to train their children as Macon county, the county in which Tuskegee Institute is located. The best place to raise the boys and girls is on the farm, especially when you can give them a good education. Here are good chances for families to locate and purchase homes on easy terms, at reasonable prices. Lands in Macon county, Alabama, are productive. From one-fourth bale to two bales of cotton to the acre, owing to the grade of land and to the grade of man, can be produced. Lands are going up everywhere in this section because of the demand for land. I will show this land' to anyone who would like to see it. Come to see me or write at once for further information. CLINTON J. CALLOWAY, Real Estate Dealer, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Nicely furnished room for rent in modern house at 2042 California street. For rent, nicely modern furnished rooms. Apply Mrs. Laura A. Mitchell, 2301 Lawrence street. For Rent.—Nicely furnished rooms at Mrs. A. Singleton, 2443 Tremont Place. Phone Champa 278. Nicely furnished rooms for rent. Apply 2660 Lawrence street. Nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2034 Arapahoe street. Telephone Champa 1338. Brickler's New Barber Shop is located at 2208 Larimer street. Shave, 10c. Hair Cut, 25c; Children, 15c. FOR SALE—Cheap; a large-sized picture of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Enquire at the Colorado Statesman office The Second Annual Picnic of the Rocky Mountain Athletic association was postponed to Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4, on account of rain. The True Reformers have arranged to take the old mothers and fathers of the seven different churches on their second annual excursion at Toland, Thursday, August 17th, absolutely free. The pastors of the various churches will furnish Chief Cash with a list of such worthy persons, and they will be furnished with free transportation. The best of care will be taken of them. BUY GOOD BOOKS CONCERNING THE NEGRO-START A LIBRARY. I have the following books which I sell at reasonable figures. Drop me a card and I will call on you. Souls of Black Folk, Dubois; $1.00. Negro in Business, Washington; $1.00. United Negro, J. W. E. Bowen; I. G. Penn; $1.00. Studies on Slavery, Fletcher; $1.50. Progress of a Race, Nichols; 75c. Africa and the American Flag, 75c. School History of Negro Race, Johnson; 50c. Story of the Jubilee Singers, Marsh; 50c, 75c and $1.00. Negro Troops in the Rebellion, Williams; $1.00. Compiete Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, $1.75, $2.50 and $3.50. The Black Phalanx, Wilson; $1.50. History of Slavery (published in 1863), $2.50. The Underground Railroad, Still; $2.50. Working With the Hands, Washington; $1.00. History of the Colored Race, Allender, $1.50. American Slave Code. Goodell; $1.00. The People, or Ole Demand, The People, or Ole Demand, of Colorado, to the Defendant above named, greet- likes You are hereby required to appear in an action brought against you by the Court of the City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, and answer the complaint therein within thirty days after the service served within this State, or within fifty days after the service hereof if served personally outside the State of Colorado, or within sixty days from the date of the last publication, or trial will be had the same as though you were present. You must obtain a decree of divorce on the ground of extreme and repeated acts of cruelty, and for non-support for more than one year their relief as may seem to the Court just and equitable from the complaint, a copy of which is hereunto attached, and the evidence adduced upon the Court. Witness, Thomas L. Bonfilis, Clerk of the County Court In and for the said City and County of Denver at his office in Denver, this 1st day of May, A. D. 1911, and the seal of said Court here-unto affixed. THOMAS L. BONFILS. Clerk of the County Court. By K. P. MACE. Deputy. M. L. WALKER. CHAS Cars Stand at St. Ja DAY O Special rates to Dancing and Th tion for cars by day or week. DAY OR NIGHT Special rates to Dancing and Theatre Parties Prices on application for cars by day or week. Taxicabs and Touring Cars STATE OF COLORADO, City and County of Denver. Pierce Arrow, Thoma Flyer, Oldsmoble, Studabaker Garford Cars The Next Big Thing THE ELKS' PICNIC THE TISHLER TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT FORD'S HAIR POMADE THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINKY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU,WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES,SMALL SIZED BOTTLE,25*LARGE SIZED BOTTLE,50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST.,DEPT. 30 CHICAGO,ILL. AGENTS WANTED. Cooler Mc CRAY Refrigerators are in use in all the Pure Food Laboratories of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. This fact is of interest to thoughtful people who are considering the purchase of a refrigerator. The officials who determir ed the choice after close study of all makes, decided on the McCray on account of the exclusive sanitary features of the McCray System. Come in and let us show you. REFRIGERATORS — for Residences, Grocers, Florists, Hotels. Display Cases and Counters—COOLERS For Markets and Storage—BUILT-TO- ORDER Work a Specialty. O. L. GAMBREL, Manager. 1528 Court Place, Denver. L. CRONIN. BERT SMITH James Hotel, Curtis St. B Service Co. LEPHONE ampa 1292 atre Parties Prices on applica-Taxicabs and Touring Cars Bloomfield Park AUGUST 4th All Welcome 1031 17TH ST. Room 1, Iron Building Denver, Colo. McCRAY BERT SMITH $ Watch This Space HOWD'Y DO! MEET ME AT THE COLORADO STATE 15TH ANNUAL F BLOOMFIELD TUESDAY, AUG., 16 be the Social Event of the DON'T MISS IT. busy! Get the e-Points. Get together. Pull together. It w ress men and help build up every one's int dy registering at our store Saturday, give having this ad, will be presented a nice e will pay you to get busy and always watch Children's Underwear t busy early. Goods worth 20c won't last WEDNESDAY This will be the S DON'T Get Busy! Of trading at Five-Points. Get t well as the business men and h Points. Every lady registering naming the paper having this ac kerchief. This will pay you to Childre Mothers get busy early. Get Busy! Get the Habit! Of trading at Five-Points. Get together. Pull together. It will benefit you as well as the business men and help build up every one's interest around Five Points. Every lady registering at our store Saturday, giving residence and naming the paper having this ad, will be presented a nice embroidered handkerchief. This will pay you to get busy and always watch for Eddy's Ad. Children's Underwear Mothers get busy early. Goods worth 20c won't last long at 10c. Children's Wash Dresses Lot 1—Worth up to $1.35, clean Lot 2—sold for 65c, clean up for Lot 3—Sold for 35c, clean up for Big line New Fall Dress Gingha Roger Extra Plate and Warranted—com J. A. EDDY, 2 CARSON' Lot 1—Worth up to $1.35, clean up for.....57c Lot 2—sold for 65c, clean up for.....33c Lot 3—Sold for 35c, clean up for.....17c Big line New Fall Dress Ginghams will be run off, per yard.....10c Roger's Silverware Extra Plate and Warranted—come in and get acquainted with this proposition. Warranted—come in and get acquainted with DDY, 2625 Welton SON'S SPEC J. A. EDDY, 2625 Welton Street CARSON'S SPECIALS CARSON'S SPECIALS Matt Green Vase, 12 in Indian Bust, 18 inches China Sugar and Cream Vase, 12 inches high, value $2.00 Sale, 18 inches high, Value $2.00; Sale, and Cream Sets, Value $1.50; Matt Green Vase, 12 inches high, value $2.00; Sale, each $1.00 Indian Bust, 18 inches high, Value $2.00; Sale, each $1.00 China Sugar and Cream Sets, Value $1.50; Sale, per pair 75c Indian Masks, Value $1.00; Sale, each 50c The Carson Crockery Company Denver's Largest Exclusive China Store 732-36 Fifteenth Street Summer Special 50 different styles of fancy Parasols in which embroidered linens and soft taffeta silks in all the new leading suites, new shapes SPECIAL $2.50 EACH. KEYSER SILK GLOVES All prevailing shades in Kyser guaranteed silk gloves, 16 button length THE PAIR $1.25. HOISERY Women's gauze and silk lisle hose, double heel and toe, guter top, black and colors. 25c PAIR. NECKWEAR Complete line of ladies fancy neckwear, newest styles and shapes Our display of Dutch collars is worthy of your inspection. SPECIAL 35c EACH SHOES Our display of Perini Special in Pumps and Oxfords is better han ever. All leathers and fabrics. $3.00 PAIR Umbrellas and Parasols repaired and covered. THE Perini Bros. CO. H DO STATESMAN ANNUAL PICNIC BIFIELD PARK 7, AUG., 16, 191 Special Event of the Season. MISS IT. Get the Habit either. Pull together. It will benefit you build up every one's interest around f our store Saturday, giving residence will be presented a nice embroidered hat at busy and always watch for Eddy's 's Underwear drs worth 20c won't last long at 10c. and get acquainted with this proposition 525 Welton Street S SPECIALS Beautiful Cut Glass Fern Dish, Silver plated lining, value $5.00; Sale, complete $3.50 tes high, value $2.00; Sale, each $1.00 high, Value $2.00; Sale, each $1.00 M. C. COOK FIRST-CLASS Chili and Lunch Parlor Cakes - Pies - Ice Cream 2622 Welton St., Denver, Colo. D. REASE The Great Professional Shoe Shiner of Denver. Located, 1844 Arapahoe. Also Hat Cleaning, Cigars, Tobacco, Candy and Soft Drinks. ERNEST HOWARD Carpenter and Contractor Job and Repair Work a Specialty Res. 353 W. Warren Ave. Phone South 1862 Shop 1021 Twenty-First St. Phone Maln 1144 CALL YORK 4555 For EXPRESS AND MOVING VAN DON REEVES Prompt Attention Given to All Orders Night Call Phone, York 3352, Residence, 1609 Clarkson St. DENVER, COLO. WILLIAMSON HAFFNER CO. ENGRAVERS-PRINTERS CUTS TAULKS DENVER, COLO THE TIVOLI UNION BREWING CO. Fivoli DENVER, COLOR. OUR ADVERTISING COLUMNS are read by the people because it gives them news of absorbing interest. People no longer go looking about for things they want—they go to their newspaper for information as to where such things may be found. This method saves time and trouble. If you want to bring your wares to the attention of this community, our advertising columns Should Contain Your Ad --- 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. Dr. P. E. Spratlin Good Block-1557 Larimer St. Residence 2230 Clarkson St. Denver, Colorado. THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT O. P. BAUR & CO. CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. Phone: 168 H. L. KORTZ Expert Watchmaker, Jeweler and Optician Watches and Jewelry for Sale at Lowest Prices in the City. WALTHAM ONE SIZE All Work Guaranteed for Two Years. 805 Fifteenth Street, Denver, Colo. Between Champa and Stout Phone Main 5371 PHONE MAIN 4843 J. GIBSON SMITH Art Dealer 322 Seventeenth Street DENVER, - - COLORADO P. Chiolero, Pres. and Manager J. C. Chiolero, Vice-President S. Chiolero, Treasurer C. A. Grosso, Secy. The Chiolero Importing Mercantile & Investment Company (BRANCH) NEW YORK CURSORS LA FLOR DE CHIOLERO LA FLOR DE CERES HIGH GRADE CIGARS UNION MADE DELICATESSEN, WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Telephone Champa 1844 1859 ARAPAHOE ST. Denver, Colo. Again We Say Subscribe for THIS PAPER NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS United States to Have Biggest Ships Uncle Sam Planning to Make Millions Washington to Be a "City Beautiful" Going After Crooked Seed Companies A WASHINGTON.—Preparations have been going forward for some time at the Brooklyn navy yard and at Newport News for the construction of the two biggest battleships in the world. The one that will be built at the Brooklyn navy yard will be christened the New York, and the name of the one at Newport News will be the Texas. These ships each will have a displacement of about 28,000 tons and will be equipped with 14-inch guns. They are the greatest terrors that any country ever has planned as yet. They are super-Dreadnoughts, mighty engines of war upon which, perhaps, the destiny of the nation may some day turn. The construction of these two huge battleships was authorized at the regular session of congress last year. They will cost about $11,000,000 each. The new ships, the New York and the Texas, will be nearly 600 feet long. Their speed will be more than 21 knots, they will carry at least 3,000 tons of coal and have a complement of 75 officers and 1,500 men. No armor that is carried by any warship in the world would be able to with- WITH the beginning of the present century Uncle Sam had an awakening, and he began to assume the position of a father to his American children. Already he has become a great creative force, working for the betterment and protection of all the people. He is a real patriarch, devoting himself to the personal welfare of each of his subjects and developing the family estate for all it is worth. These new movements are along a hundred different lines, and they embrace every part of our country. They affect every branch of business, every grade of society, and every man, woman and child. The plans involve an expenditure of hundreds of millions, and will add billions of dollars to our national wealth. There is the idea of making golden crops spring up on the soil of our waste lands, one feature of which was the building of the Roosevelt dam, recently completed. Uncle Sam has $80,000,000 in hand to water the deserts, and his reclamation fund for our arid lands is fast approximating a hundred millions or more. He is tunnelling the mountains, damming the streams and carrying the water in fumes over the canyons. He has more than 1,300 miles of canals already dug. ```markdown ``` THE question of park improvement in Washington is by no means local. The capital will eventually become the most beautiful of cities. It now has more trees planted in its streets than Paris boasts. It will never have the grime of either Paris or London. It has park possibilities unsurpassed by those of any city in the world. With wood and water, hill and valley, its reservations now existing, and its areas that should be reserved, and may be reserved at cost much below their future value, its system of minor and major parks, bridle paths and boulevards, leaves nothing to be desired but a little comparatively economical legislation to link some of its units. The "City of Magnificent Distances" has already become a realized dream. FOLLOWING the instructions of congress in the agricultural appropriation bill, the secretary of agriculture this year continued the purchase of seed in the open market to determine whether and how much adulteration was practiced by seed dealers. These samples were analyzed and the names of the offending seed men have been published. The leaflet with the names of the dealers from whom adulterated samples were purchased shows that when a dealer has once been published it is seldom that he is again caught in the list. When the department has been analyzing a certain line of seed the adulteration in this also stops. In new lines of seed, however, there are more offenders caught. Some of the samples analyzed this year showed the merest trace of seed. The general showing was better, however, than in previous years. stand the impact of one of these projectiles. A mile and a half away a 14-inch shell would go through 18 inches of the hardest armor plate ever made, and do it as easily as an ordinary bullet would pass through a piece of blotting paper. The ten 14-inch guns on either the New York or the Texas will deliver 80 shells in five minutes, or 112,000 pounds of projectiles. A 14-inch shell leaves the muzzle of the gun at the rate of a mile in two seconds and will travel 25 miles. The powder chamber on these gigantic guns is big enough to hold two barrels of sugar end for end. Every time one of these guns is fired 365 pounds of powder is exploded, and the enormous volume of gases suddenly released and expanding is what sends the huge shell rushing through space. Each shot costs $500 and each gun costs $81,000. The projectile is not only a huge bullet, but a powerful explosive agent as well. Within it is a storage chamber containing 100 pounds of the most powerful explosive that ever has been devised. The shell does not explode until the target is penetrated. When these two new ships are completed we shall have the strongest navy in the world in the point of gun power. These ships can deliver the heaviest broadside blow that a warship has ever struck. They will have the courage of their own strength, and will get into the battle to stay. THIS COUNTRY WILL BE A CARDEN SPOT WHEN I GET THROUGH WITH IT. swamps. We have millions of acres of wet lands that can be turned into farms. They are scattered over the Union from California to Maine. They are as rich as Holland, and will feed tens of millions. Another big project includes the water powers, which the experts say are equal to 60,000,000 horses, or twice enough to run every mill, drive every train and light every house in the country. This power can be increased to 200,000,000. Much of it comes from waterfalls controlled by the government. A part of this same scheme is the development of our rivers. We have 295 of them in the United States, with navigable waters long enough to encircle the globe. The Great Lakes are the busiest freight routes upon earth, and boats can go on the Mississippi for 2,000 miles. Already we have built 4,500 miles of canals, and we have schemes which propose the joining of the Great Lakes with the Mississippi, and also with the sea. It is, indeed, something of a boom town, and its real estate dealers are driving stakes and bargains out in the woods far beyond the boundaries Washington knew a dozen years ago. Washington is growing in importance as a city of handsome homes. Even its Faubourg St. Germain, Georgetown, admits that the city proper has acquired a society of its own that is not made up wholly of public magnates and department clerks. The former gaps in its street plan are now worth fabulous sums per front foot, and Pierre L'Entant's estimate of the Washington of the future has been proven none too liberal. To imagine Washington in 1950, it is only necessary to recall it in 1850. The various appropriations made to insure the system of parks in proportion to the growth of the city, have been investments. The perfection of the system of linking the various reservations together may be done more cheaply now than after ten more years have passed, and it will be done sooner or later. I HOPE TH' AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT DOESN'T GET WISE TO ME FAKE SEED CO. DIRT SAND ETC. There were 1,214 samples of seed purchased, some of them in bulk and some by mail order. Of these 204 were found to be adulterated. There was some improvement in the line of orchard grass seed examined. There were 317 samples analyzed and of these twelve were found adulterated, compared with fifty-five adulterated samples the previous year. In the worst samples found there was 37 per cent. of orchard grass seed and 27 per cent. of dirt and chaff, while the remainder was made up of rye grass, meadow fescue and other seed THE BROADHURST CARRIER 823 Sixteenth Street We Are Denver Agents for the Nettleton Shoe FOR MEN $6, $7, and $8, Pair The Prior Furniture Co. 1814 Curtis Street We buy and sell new and second hand Furniture, also repair work. Window shades. Sewing Machines sold and repaired a specialty. 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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 Fur- niture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. ```markdown ``` 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 sample of hair; also comblings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. NAST The Popular Photogragher, Only Caters to First-class Trade. Our Pictures speak for Themselves. Job Printing We are here to serve you with anything in the line of printed stationery for your business and personal use. See Us Before Going Else- where Letter Heads Bill Heads Envelopes Cards Wedding Invitations Posters or Announcements Of All Kinds The best quality of work at prices that are RIGHT --- For the Hostess A Unique Lemon Party. Just as I was trying my best to confuse something new for you this week and wondering what it would be, along comes "Polly," my never failing one, all bubbling over with her "Lemon" party. Sounds refreshing, doesn't it? She cut the invitations out of slightly rough yellow stiff paper, tied with a little bow of lemony satin ribbon. When all the guests arrived they went on to the porch and were given lemon-shaped cards through the top of which a spray of fragrant lemon verbena. On the table there was a pile of lemons; each guest drew one, cut it open with a silver fruit knife and counted the seeds, writing down the number on her lemon card, also writing her name. The lemons were then taken to the pantry and soon reappeared in the shape of lemonade. The seeds were collected and placed in a glass fruit jar, where every one could see them, and guesses were taken as to the total number, the number guessed being also recorded on the card. Then refreshments were served, consisting of lemon aspic salad, sardine sandwiches, lemon sherbet and cakes iced with lemon frosting. Candy boxes in shape of lemons were passed for favors, each one containing perfect little lemon quarters in the shape of candy. Then the prize for the nearest guess on the lemon seeds was awarded. It was a straw garden hat trimmed with lemon colored tarleton and a bunch of artificial lemons. The consolation prize was a half-dozen lemons and a china lemon squeezer. Every one said it was a most enjoyable party and "Polly" added another laurel to her wreath in honor of her clever ability as a hostess. An Orchard Party. We had taken what was practically an abandoned farm for the summer and were mediating how to entertain our city friends in some rather unusual way when "Polly" came to the rescue and said, "Let's have an Orchard" party. So the artist of the family did lovely invitations, with apple trees as the decorative scheme. We had four small tables each with rustic baskets for the centerpiece filled with field wild flowers. The place cards were made from squares of birch bark, and the joke favors were wrapped in yellow tissue paper and tied to the trees, from which they were cut by the guests. Then we sent in town and got fruit-shaped candy boxes, which were strung at intervals on yellow cord after the method of the old but always funny cobweb parties, and stretched these strings over a good part of the orchard. The hunt after the luncheon for the "fruit" added much to the merriment. Sometimes it was necessary to climb up a ladder conveniently placed under a tree to reach the "fruit," which was just out of reach, and sometimes a rail fence had to be climbed. The guests were all told to wear tub suits, and broad brimmed straw hats were provided. A. Porch Watermelon Party. The invitations were melon-shaped bits of green cardboard ornamented with a row of little darkies eating triangular pieces of watermelon, the words "Den O dat Watermelon" done in gilt letters across the top. Jack O'Lanterns made from watermelons hung from the veranda, alternating with Japanese lanterns of various shapes. The table centerpiece was made from a scooped-out half of melon filled with brilliantly colored nasturtiums; the name cards were extremely odd, being squares of melon rinds the names etched down to the pale lining of the rind. A sharp orange wood stick was used for lettering. The place dolles were made from melon seeds, the black coloring showing up beautifully on the pink. The first course was lced watermelon juice with tiny cubes of the pink fruit floating in the green boulillon cups. The next course was watermelon and canteloupe salad served in white lettuce hearts in pink salad cups made from crepe paper, and the third course consisted of salad cups made from pink crepe paper, and the third course consisted of watermelon frappe served in little boats from watermelon rinds neatly cut out with a very sharp knife, each boat having a darky doll to steer it. After this unique repast, a quartet of darkies sang coon songs for an hour; they were concealed by the shrubbery on the lawn and the music was greatly enjoyed by the guests on the porch, the moon came up and it was all lovely and unusual. A "Gent" Contest. As a bit of amusement after a card party the hostess passed cards with a row of men's heads across the top and told us to answer the following questions all ending with "gent." It was very funny. The list is given: 1. A busy gent (diligent); 2. A rebellious gent (insurgent); 3. A selling gent (agent); 4. An acrid gent (pungent); An important gent (urgent); 6. A luminous gent (offent); 7. A needy gent (indi-gent); 8. A neglectful gent (negligent); 9. A gent in pressing necessity (exigent); 10. A gent going in an opposite direction (divergent); 11. A gent approaching a certain point (convergent); 12. A knowing gent (intelligent); 13. A compliant gent (indulgent); 14. An incidental gent (contingent); 15. A forcible gent (cogent). IN VOGUE Many little plisses, jabots and frills show touches of black velvet in the form of tiny buttons. Scarfs of satin or supple, changeable taffeta are used on both afternoon and evening dresses. As a decorative agent in trimming a tailored suit, there is nothing so effective as black and white silk. The "mitten" stocking is a pretty fad. It is black net, and is worn over a silk stocking of a contrasting color. The newest form of watch is that which is placed within a pendant. Still smaller is a dainty watch set in a ring. Skirts of evening dresses are slashed at the side or front, showing ruffles of net or lace on the underdresses. Small black velvet buttons are used in hundreds. Rows of them are used on blouse sleeves and the entire front of the skirt. Shoemakers' heels are used on street shoes and boots, while the Louis XV. heels are reserved for evening shoes. coats only the flounce, as preferred; this extends from the knees and is closely plaited; a band of material heads it; ribbon is threaded through the bottomholed slits, and a bcw and ends hang down at the left side of front. Material required: 2 1/2 yards 40 inches wide. DAINTY AND DELICIOUS SALADS TO TEMPT THE MOST JADED APPETITE. New Served at Beginning of Dinner and Voted a Digestive Second to None—Some Brand-New Recipes. They are serving salads, with a difference. A salad nowadays is very frequently eaten at the beginning of dinner and voted a digestive second to none. Of all the fruits, pineapple is of the greatest value to the dyspeptic and contains the most delicate acid. The following recipe for a pineapple salad will be found an excellent one, and it is, moreover, a very pretty dish to serve at the beginning of luncheon or dinner. Pineapple In Lettuce Nests.—Cut a pineapple into small pieces. Add one cupful of finely chopped celery, one cupful of walnut meats and one cupful of orange pulp. Shred one head of lettuce very finely and form into nests on individual plates. Mix one cupful of mayonnaise and stir it lightly with the pineapple, etc.; add more mayonnaise, if the fruit is not sufficiently moist, and heap into the little lettuce nests. Decorate with chopped walnuts. Salade a La Verzailles.—Bail six artichokes, separate the "fonds" from the leaves, and cut into small pieces. Put in a salad bowl with an equal quantity of asparagus points that have been cooked in salted water. Take a handful of salted almonds, chop them fine, pound them with the juice of two lemons and half a pint of cream, salt and pepper, and pour over the salad. A little mayonnaise may be added to the salad, but it is more delicate in flavor without it. With cold chicken nothing is more excellent than a salad of carrots, cucumbers and hard boiled eggs, all cut in rings and sent to table with this dressing: two tablespoonfuls of olive oil with one of lemon juice, with salt, pepper and a speck of sugar to taste. Mushroom Salad.—Remove the skin and almost all the stalk from some button mushrooms, drop them into boiling salted water, and cook for three minutes. Lay them on a napkin, and when quite cold sprinkle them with pepper and salt and finely chopped parsley. Lay on a dish and pour over two tablespoonfuls of oil to one of Tarragon vinegar. Shrimp Salad a La Bretagne. Shell a quart of boiled shrimps and lay them on young lettuce leaves in a salad bowl. Chill some mayonnaise sauce on ice, pour over the shrimps and serve. Tongue Salad.—Mix together and put in a fine dredger a small quantity each of celery, salt, red pepper and black pepper, white sugar, and allspice. Take some thin slices of Russian tongue, squeeze a little lemon juice over the piece and lightly dredge with the above mixture. Shave up some white onions and celery and put them in the salad bowl with a few white lettuce hearts. Add the tongue next, then pour several spoonfuls of oil over the whole with a dash of vinegar. Serve at once. Good Suggestions. For five cents you can get a brush that will help wash the vegetables for the table, before cooking. Saves wear and tear on the hands. For variety cook some little white onions with the green peas. Fresh peas need no flavor, but their own, but if not perfectly fresh the onions improve them. When putting away your furs and woolens for the summer, brush them thoroughly and air them, then sprinkle them liberally with black pepper to preserve from moths. There is no disagreeable odor and the pepper is usually on hand. Lemonade. Three lemons to a quart of water. Six tablespoonfuls of sugar. Pare the yellow peel from the lemons and, unless you mean to use the shebet immediately, leave it out. It gives a bitter taste to the sugar if left long in it. Slice and squeeze the lemons upon the sugar, add a very little water, and let them stand 15 minutes. Then fill up with water; ice well, stir, and pour out. Orangeade is made in the same manner, substituting oranges for lemons. Recipes for Fish Sauce. One cup of cream, two tablespoons butter, half a saltspoon salt, generous dash of paprika; one small onion, grated; one tablespoon of parsley, measured after mincing very fine. Heat the cream and butter. After it comes to a boll add the other ingredients and thicken with tablespoon of flour, blended smooth with either milk or water. Let this boll to cook the flour and beat in the juice of one lemon after removing it from the blaze. Cherry Shortcake. Pit the cherries, mash slightly and sweeten to taste. Have ready a rich soft biscuit dough, roll out about an inch thick, put in round, well greased pan and bake in a hot oven. When done split, butter both halves, and, having placed the lower half on a large plate, spread thick with the cherries and cover with the upper crust. Spread the remaining cherries on top, sprinkle with sugar and serve at once. SPECIAL ROUND-TRIP EXCURSION FARES TO CALIFORNIA POINTS AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST The Denver & Rio Grande Rail "The Scenic Line of the World" $45.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San D $45.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San D e way via Portland or Seattle. $45.00 to Portland, Ore , Seattle and Tacoma, W Victoria and Vancouver, B. C. Tickets on sale June 10th to 22nd inc., 1911. On Limit September 15th 1911. Through Electric-Lighted Pullman Observation Cars and Electric-Lighted Tourist Sleeping Car Denver and San Francisco via Rio Grande—Western For full particulars, reservations, etc., call on Ri cent, or address The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, "The Scenic Line of the World" $45.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal. $60.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal., one way via Portland or Seattle. $45.00 to Portland, Ore, Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., and Victoria and Vancouver, B. C. Tickets on sale June 10th to 22nd inc., 1911. Final Return Limit September 15th 1911. Through Electric-Lighted Pullman Observation Sleeping Cars and Electric-Lighted Tourist Sleeping Cars between Denver and San Francisco via Rio Grande—Western Pacific. For full particulars, reservations, etc., call on Rio Grande Agent, or address Denver Private Dining Room. The Newport A Cafe and Lunch Richard Frazier and Tom SHORT ORDERS AT AL Arapahoe Street. YOU WILL LIKE OUR Train Servi BETWEEN Denver, Colorado Springs, Cripple C Pueblo and Trinidad Particularly on account of its frequency promptm pleasing accommodations. OCK SIGNALS. BALLASTED TRACK DINING In Connection There Are Also Nicely Furnished Rooms And the Old Reliable Newport Thirst Parlors Private Dining Room. Phone, Main 7413. The Newport Annex Cafe and Lunch Room Richard Frazier and Tom Lewis, Props. SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS. 1841-45 Arapahoe Street. DENVER, COLO. YOU WILL LIKE OUR Train Service The Colorado and Southern Railway. THE MONARCH LIQUOR THE MONARCH LIQUOR COMPANY THE MONARCH LIQUOR CO. TELEPHONE CHAMPA 1231 1516 COURT PLACE IMPORTED & DOMESTIC WINES & LIQUORS D. W. REEVES, Manager. W. P. JONES, Proprietor. FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Five Points Barber Shop 2727 WELTON STREET. PHONE CHAMPA 471. DENVER, COLO. DENVER & RIO GRANDERR SENIO LINE OF THE WORLD In Connection There Are All Nicely Furnished Rooms And the Old Reliable Newport Thin Parlors 1841-45 Arapahoe Denver, Particular BLOCK SIG --- From Main Line Colorado Points on the Rio Grande Railroad, "Line of the World" Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal. Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal., Seattle. Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., and C. h to 22nd inc., 1911. Final Re- 1911. Pullman Observation Sleeping Tourist Sleeping Cars between via Rio Grande—Western Pacific. Invations, etc., call on Rio Grande Frank A. Wadleigh, General Passenger Agent, State Dining Room. Phone, Main 741 The Newport Annex Life and Lunch Room Richard Frazier and Tom Lewis, Props. SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS. DENVER, COL ALL LIKE OUR Service BETWEEN Springs, Cripple Creek, and Trinidad of its frequency promptness and accommodations. ASTED TRACK DINING CARS. BETWEEN THE H LIQUOR Denver, Colorado. COLORADO LAND SOUTHERN THE COLORADO STATESMAN'S FIFTEENTH ANNUAL PICNIC BLOOMFIELD PARK Wednesday, August 16, 1911 ADMISSION TO PARK TWENTY-FIVE CTS. All Street Car Transfers are Good to the Park on Any Line--Five Minute Service COME EARLY AND STAY LATE This picnic will eclipse all other outing events to be offered the people of Denver and Surrouning Country this year. The past is a criterion for the future, for the great popularity of our Annual Holiday is as wide as the state in which we live. The people will take a day off to enjoy themselves with us this year, as they have done in the past, and we will provide for them a better entertainment and a happier time. Bloomfield Park Is Denver's Ideal Picnic Grounds It combines numerous advantages over any other place in the city or in the state. It embraces a large, beautiful lake and a fine, large grove. In this cool and beautiful resort, where enjoyment, recreation are available to all, we will forget for a day the toils and worries of every-day surroundings, renew social acquaintances, recall again the happy privileges of other days, and all will be richly benefitted by the new pleasures which we shall find. The best music obtainable will help to make the day and evening pass like a magic dream. Come yourself and bring your friends and treat them to the beauties of this unequaled place. The Day's Attractions Will Consist of OUTDOOR SPORTS BOATING BOWLING ALLEY And Many Other Recreations PRIVATE BOOTHS FOR SPECIAL PARTIES The COLORADO STATESMAN, its staff, employs and friends will do everything to make the day the most enjoyable one of all the year.