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PATRONIZE MERCHANTS WHO ADV. IN THE PEOPLE'S PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY VOL. XX1. DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. DECEMBER 19 1914 NO 17 Decision Of Supreme Court Generating Hope Washington, D. C., Dec. 9. Sanguine students of the operations of the Supreme Court of the United States are trying to ferret out some hope for the Negro from the decisions recently handed down by the majority of that court in Oklahoma "Jim Crow" case and the Alabama Contract Labor case. It is hoped that the decisions means that in the minds of the majority of the court the time has come to call a halt in legislation against the Negro. In the Jim Crow case, the majority of the court, led by Justice Hughes, held that the proviso of the Oklahoma Jim Crow law to the effect that sleeping, dining and chair cars might be furnished by the railroads to the white race alone, notwithstanding the general requirement of the law for separate coaches for the two races was in conflict with the fourteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution. In the Alabama Contract Labor case, the court following Justice Day held that the practice of planters becoming sureties for Negroes convicted of petty offences and taxed with enormous costs on condition that the Negro contract to reimburse the surety by personal labor for unusually long terms under penalty of arrest for breaking the contract was nothing short of peonage. It was recognized by those who regarded the decisions as little short of epoch-making that the opinion in the Oklahoma case perhaps forever removed all hope of annuling laws providing for separate coaches for the races. Justice Hughes in his opinion stated that the court agreed with the decision of the Eighth United States Circuit Court of Appeals, from which the case came, that previous decisions holding such laws valid if equal accommodations were provided for the two races, were no longer to be questioned. He referred principally to the decision in the Mississippi Jim Crow case. ``` The point of Justice Hughes' opinion is taken as being that the majority of the court believes the limit of constitutionality was reached in these previous decisions and that the court will not permit their scope to be enlarged. The limit in the case before the court, in the majority's opinion, was reached when Oklahoma, after requiring the railroads to furnish separate coaches and waiting rooms for whites and blacks, excused the railroads from furnishing sleeping cars, dining cars and chairs for Negroes. The court had listened to Attorney-General West of Oklahoma, argue that the Negroes must show before the law could be held unconstitutional that their volume of travel was such as to justify the furnishing of the "luxury" facilities in question, and had heard him say that the railroads could not be required to furnish these special accommodations when the market did not demand such. It had heard the attorney for the railroads contend that the members of the Legislature were undoubtedly familiar with the character and extent of travel by Negroes and were of the opinion that there was no substantial demand for these facilities among those of the African race in the interstate traffic of Oklahoma. "It makes constitutional rights depend upon the number of persons who may be discriminated against, whereas the essence of the constitutional right is that it is a personal one," was Justice Hughes reply to that argument. NEEDS OF NEGRO VITAL QUESTION, SAYS PRESIDENT WILSON Washington, Dec. 15.—Outlining his attitude toward the Negro President Wilson told the university commission on Southern race questions, made up of representatives of eleven Southern colleges, that "our object is to know the needs of the Negro and sympathetically help him in every way possible for his good and our good." Dr C. H. Brough of the University of Arkansas, chairman of the commission, told the president the commission was organized to make an impartial study of the race question from the standpoint of the Negroes' economic, hygienic, civil and moral betterment. He said that a very deep investigation of the subject was being made, with the good of the Negro always in mind. "I am very glad to express my State Hist & Nat Hist Biology State House ANTS WHO ADC E JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO sincere interest in this work and sympathy with it," said the president in reply to Dr. Brough. "I think men like yourselves can be trusted to see this great question at an angle. There is not a question, it seems to me, into which more candor needs to be put or more thoro human good feeling than this. I know myself, as a Southern man, how sincerely the heart of the South desires the good of the Negro and the advancement of his race on all sound and sensible lines, and everything that can be done in that direction is of the highest value. It is a matter of common understanding. "There is a charming story told about Charles Lamb. The conversation in his little circle turned upon some men who were not present, and Lamb, who you know, stuttered, said: 'I hate, that fellow.' His friend said: 'Charles, I didn't know you knew him.' Lamb said: 'I don't; I can't hate a fellow I know.' 'I think that is a very profound human fact. You cannot hate a man you know. And our object is to know the needs of the Negro and sympathetically help him in every that is possible for his good and for our good. I can only bid you Godspeed in what is a very necessary and great undertaking." WHITE BRUTE ASSAULTS 5-YEAR OLD GIRL Jersey City, N. J. Dec 9.—All Jersey City is wrought up because of an outrage committed by Joseph A. Smith, 56 years old, a white man living at 5 Reed street, upon little Hilda Dyer, five years old daughter of Mrs. Minnie Dyer, 176 Union street. The crime was committed in the celer of the Dyer home on Monday, November 30, the white brute being employed at that time to do some carpentering work around the house. The child was playing around the front of the house while Mrs. Dyer was busy with her household duties. Smith enticed the child to the cellar and accomplished his brutish design. The mother, by chance coming to the front of the house, overheard Smith talking to the child. Horrified at her discovery, she ran and secured her husband's revolver and made an attempt to kill the white man. The revolver was no good and failed to fire. Smith attempted to escape, but a policeman was secured and he was arrested. ONLY $1,500 BAIL RERUIRED. Arraigned before Police Judge Warren in the First Criminal Court on Tuesday, December 1, he was held in the nominal bail of $1,500 to await the action of the Grand Jury. Considerable criticism and comment has been aroused because of the very small bail required by Judge Warren in a case of so serious a nature. The white papers of the city have given little or no mention to the crime, and what has been said was placed in a remote corner, without giving definite mention as to the nature of the atrocious act. Two physicians have examined the child and both tesitify to the fact that evidence of the crime was discovered. The Grand Jury is expected to take action on the case during this week, and the colored people are awaiting with intense interest the outcome of its investigation. The Dyer family is one of the best known in Jersey City, holding a high place in the community. Mr. Dyer has been employed in the governmental postal service for seventeen years and is at present assistant superintendent of clerks at the Pennsylvania sub-station. COLOLED MURDERER SAVED, STOOD FOUR TRIALS Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 7.—Ervin Pope, a Negro, has entered upon a life term in prison after five convictions of murder in the first degree. The crime was committed in 1900. The victim was J. B. McClurkin a farmer of Calhoun County. On technical errors the Supreme Court reversed four verdicts but confirmed the fifth verdict. Three times the Governor respited the man and finally commuted his sentence to life imprisonment, giving as the chief ground for his action that blood-stained shoes found in Pope's house soon after the murder and used as State's evidence against him did not fit him. Anent that it is remarked that many Negroes in the South wear shoes picked up by gift or otherwise, regardless of fit. At the time of the murder sentiment was so strong against Pope that he was brought to Birmingham for safe-keeping. Thirteen times a date was set for Pope's execution and he watched the building of two of the scaffolds from his prison window. The case made a state-wide reputation for two young lawyers for the defense, one just out of Yale. Polite. 965. Politeness appears to have been invented to enable people who would naturally fall out to live together in peace. Monsters of the Deep. Monsters of the Deep: That there are terrible monsters in the deep there can be no doubt. One of these is the whale. It was only in 1908 that a whale devastated the fish traps off Port Towsend, Wash., because the fishermen had captured one of its young. A whaler recently put in port in Liverpool with the arm of an octopus 38 feet long. The arm had been taken from the mouth of a whale he had killed and had stuck in the huge animal's throat. The octopus is doubtless a more fearful animal than the sea serpent. RACE NEWS Philadelphia, Pa. Dec. 9 — An estate valued at $139,000 was left by John W. Holland, the retired Negro caterer, who died last week Newport, R. I., Dec. 9. — W. H. Jackson, for eight years assistant doorkeeper at the State House of Representatives, was elected without opposition in the city elections last week to the City Council from the second ward by the Republican voters. Mr. Jackson has been on the City Republican Committee for twenty-seven years and is senior member of the committee. He was elected to the Council for two years. He is a deacon of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Columbia, S.C., Dec. 8- Twelve houses, containing between forty-five and fifty women, resorts conducted by Negroes for white men, were visited by Sheriff John C. McCain, accompanied by five deputies, and all of the women ordered to leave Richland County within forty-eight hours. Eight white men found in the houses were ejected. The resorts were ordered closed, the sheriff expressing the opinion that houses of this character are a greater menace to the community than "Blind Tigers." Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9.—Two panels were exhausted before a jury was secured to try Charles Kinlock, a white man, who killed Mrs. Anna Phillips, bookkeeper in a restaurant on Market street. Kinlock was trying to kill Mrs. Ora Griffiths, a colored waitress, with whom he was infatuated. He tried to commit suicide but failed. Mrs. Griffiths was shot, but recovered. J. E. Thompson of Clearview, Okla., which is one of several prosperous Negro settlements, represents the idea of big business among Negroes. Thompson controls 5,000 acres of farm land; To-day, at the age of fifty-five, Thompson actually owns 1,800 acres. He raises mules, horses, hogs and cattle. This is in contrast to his condition in 1871, when he stood on the porch of a renter's hovel and, looking longingly with his sister into a garden full of mustard, sighed: "If we only had some meat, we could cook it in plenty of mustard." Kingston. N. C., Dec. 8.—Messrs. C. D. Sauls, A. E. Best and Harvey Fox are promoters of the Greene County Pig Club, or- ganized in accordance with the plan recently outlined by Dr. Booker T. Washington. Already the colored people of this county are aroused and have caught hold of the idea, determined to raise at least one extra hog this year and thereby do what, they can to relieve the stress of the present financial condition. The Greene County organization is to have a branch in each of the nine townships and workers in each branch will make an earnest, vigorous campaign in the interest of the movement. It is predicted that more than one thousand colored families will raise an extra pig this fall and a conservative estimate places the combined increase in wealth of these families at more than $10,000. (From New York Age) Dr. Felix Adler, in his address at the second public meeting of the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes at Bethel A. M E. Church Friday night, December 4, said that the "deep underlying cause of this war is that all these nations in Europe are contending together to determine which shall have the power to rule the black and yellow races of Asia and Africa." He declared that two attitudes can be assumed toward a weaker race: one is the European attitude of forever maintaining supremacy over the people ruled, and the other is that of establishing a temporary government, with the avowed purpose of extinguishing that government and preparing the nation for self-government. Dr. Adler says he is with the latter, and that at present this is the attitude of this government toward the Philippine Islands. It is nip and tuck, however, said Dr. Adler, as to which way the government would go. If the standpatters return to power in the next election the United States may go over to the European attitude. He made the avowal that what is being fought for in Europe affects vitally the Negro in America, the European idea being that the white man will always maintain his supremacy over the nation he rules Rejoiced in the Prospect. Rejoiced in the Prospect. James, who is not a natural student. one day was observed to seem very happy about something. A sympathetic neighbor inquired the reason for his joy. "Oh," explained James, just entering third grade, "I asked pap this morning if I had to go to college, an' he said if I stayed as stupid as I am now it wouldn't be any use, an' teacher says I naturally stupid, so I only have 12 more years to go to school!" A CHRISTMAS CONSPIRACY How Grandmother's Heart Was Gladdened by Remembrances From the Children. "Grandmother Jessup!" Stella's tone was distinctly accusing; it was evident that grandmother had something to answer for. Grandmother, from her invalid chair, looked across at the girl who stood at her bureau drawer. She had endured years of pain and weakness; but they had not succeeded in quenching the spirit in the frail figure; her voice was as saucy as a girl's. "Not guilty—what is it?" "It's your handkerchiefs. How many dozen have you?" "Seven or eight. You see, I have seven of the dearest grandchildren in the world. It's queer, isn't it, that your nose should be so especially honored when you grow old?" But Stella's gray eyes forgot to laugh back at grandmother's. Something had disconcerted her. She put the handkerchiefs back, made some trivial excuse, and ran up to her own room, where her sister and cousins were holding a Christmas conclave. "I wonder," she burst out, "that grandmother can endure Christmas at all." "What under the sun do you mean?" Corinne and Isabella explained together. "Corinne, what did you give grandmother for Christmas last year?" "A box of handkerchiefs. Why?" "And you, Isabella?" "An embroidered handkerchief with little weeny initials." "Two handkerchiefs," Mollie confessed. "There didn't seem to be anything else—except slumber slippers, and Aunt Maria always knits those." "And Laurie and I gave her handkerchiefs. We always give her handkerchiefs—because she's old, and they're the easiest thing to think off! Girls—she isn't old—she's as young as any of us down in her heart, and she loves pretty things just as much as ever. This year let's give her the biggest surprise of her life—a Christmas that will make her really happy." "But how—what—" Corinne stammered. "What do we like best—each of us?" "Jewels!" "Books!" "Hand embroidery!" "Candy!" "Silk stockings!" The answers came in a laughing shower. "Well, then, why not? Grandma'd love a bit of jewelry from us—chosen just for her. And books—not 'Thoughts of Cheer,' as if she were melancholy, but love stories that end well. And why not embroider her something? And if not silk stockings, then a pair of slippers with tiny velvet bows. As for candy, she'd love to have it to pass round, even if she couldn't eat much herself." "And let Bob and Archie send her their absurd jokes as they do to the rest of us? It doesn't seem—respectful." "But grandma doesn't want to be seemed-respectful-to," Stella declared. "She'd just love to be counted in with the rest of us, little vanities and jokes and all. O girls, try it once and see!" And that was the way the Christmas conspiracy started. Grandmother's eyes on Christmas morning were proof of its success.—Youths' Companion. MOTHER "Some generous person," said little Socrates Buliginbrow, of Boston, "has been kind enough to send me a copy of Mother Goose's lyrics for Christmas. Do you know, the theory that a representative of the bovine genus at one time leaped over the chief luminary of the night leads to some interesting calculations as to the muscular development of the cows of that time. I have ascertained that they must have been endowed with strength proportionate to that of the flea of the present day." THE JOY OF SHOPPING. I love to go and shop for things To send as Christmas gifts to friends. For then my fancy girds on wings, I feel the joy that never ends. O. what a rapture 'tis to stand And be stepped upon, bumped into, jogged, jostled, pushed, squeezed, shoved, frowned at, scowled upon, trampled, bruised, slammed, rushed, hurried, jolted, and finally get up to the counter and discover that you are at the wrong one! LITTLE 'RASTUS ON SANTA CLAUS WILBUR D. NESBIT Mah mamma say dat Sandy Claus come Ter good ill boys, or big red drum I guess I knows what Sandy Claus do— He sec'n han' man! Las' yeah he clomb down ouah stovepipe W'enst I's ersleep. En fotch some oynges—bout half ripe— En th'ee toy sheep. En one dese jomp' jacks—broken, dough— But den, my lan'! Bout dishyere Sandy Claus—I des know He see'n han' man! I as' my mammy of Sandy Claus ain' Done know des how Ter men' dem toys, en' fix dey paint, En she say: 'Now, Don' worry, chile, 'bout de white folks 'cause Hit's de good Lawd's plan." So I guess dat mah Mistah Sandy Claus He sec'n han' man! Puritans of England Made Christmas Illegal and Declared It a Misdemeanor to Be Gay. English Puritans of the seventeenth century guarded against looking upon the rosy side of life. Because Christmas is really a survival of the Celts' Yule, and is not the actual anniversary of the birth of Christ, they refused to countenance Christmas festivities. Not only did they refuse to recognize the day, but they made laws to that effect. The parliament of 1644 passed an act ordering all law abiding citizens to observe December 25 as a solemn fast, to be spent in silent atonement for previous Christmas days that had passed in riotous living and merry-making. Naturally the community did not share in these hard and fast rules, and many a turkey was surreptitiously killed, and many a plum pudding quietly boiled. But woe betide the unfortunate offender against the act were he luckless enough to be discovered. Soldiers were sent to search the houses of those suspected of harboring such delicacies as mince pies, etc., and many were the pitched battles between disagreeing sections of the public. UNDER THE MISTLETOE To ask a girl if you may kiss her before doing it is an insulting way of laying all the responsibility on her. * * * * In a man's opinion a kiss is an end that justifies any means. * * * * You needn't be afraid of a mere kiss. Thousands are exchanged daily by people of the highest reputation. * * * * The kissed girl fears no mistletoe. * * * * A kiss is as good as a smile—and a good deal better, too! * * * * The ideal kiss is the kiss that is never given. * * * * A kiss too soon may be a full stop in the tale of love. The child who doubts about Santa Claus has insomnia. The child who believes has a good night's rest. 25c Christmas Grab Bag Lyman's 1120 16th Street Each bag worth from $1.00 to $3.00 Give Him a Pair of Slippers for Christmas Fine Leather Slippers in all styles for $1.50 to $2.50 a pair. Boys' High Boots New "Short Vale Style in Women's Shoes Are Here rest in style; make women's feet look s wamp shoes do; cloth top, button shoe; C ROADHURST SHOE COMPANY CHAMPA STREET ORTANT NOTICE GO. W. CARD DRUG AT 16th AND CALIFORNIA STS. HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY SCHOLTZ DRUG 1000 Worth Surplus High Gri HOLIDAY GOODS ARE NOW BEING CLOSED OUT AT 33 1/3 OFF The full advantage of this extraordinary CHRISTMAS BUYING target—you will receive SCHOLTZ SER SODA FOUNTAIN. In Progress at 16th & Cali Scholtz Drug ES. I. HANSE facturing Watchmaker and Big, handsome-looking, High-top Boots that will outwear three pairs of ordinary shoes; stand 12 inches high; harness-sewed sole; lace and strap buckles; tan leather; $3.50, $4.00, $4.50 a pair. The New "Short Vamp" Style in Women's Shoes Are Here The latest in style; make women's feet look smaller than the longer vamp shoes do; cloth top, button shoe; Cuban, Louis heel—$4.50. BROADHURST SHOE COMPANY 1616 CHAMPA STREET IMPORTANT NOTICE IMPORTANT NOTICE THE GEO. W. CARD DRUG STORE AT 16th AND CALIFORNIA STS. HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY THE SCHOLTZ DRUG CO. $10,000 Worth Surplus High Grade HOLIDAY GOODS ARE NOW BEING CLOSED OUT AT 33 $1 3 Be sure to take full advantage of this extraordinary opportunity for CHRISTMAS BUYING JES. I. HANSEN WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY 8012 Repairin to the steady increase of our business we h ers and are now in our new location, 428 Six narm and Tremont, with a new stock of less us to give better service at prices that air department is the best-equipped in the to maintain the high standard of workin we have served to our patrons. the time to call and select your Christmas complete in all lines. NTH STREET DENVER Owing to the steady increase of our business we have taken enlarged quarters and are now in our new location, 428 Sixteenth Street, between Glenarm and Tremont, with a new stock of Quality Goods which enables us to give better service at prices that are right. Our repair department is the best-equipped in the city and we will continue to maintain the high standard of workmanship which heretofore we have served to our patrons. Now is the time to call and select your Christmas Gifts—while the stock is complete in all lines. 428 SIXTEENTH STREET DENVER, COLORADO Santa Claus' Headquarters FOR SLEDS, SKATES, WAGONS, JIG SAWS, WHEELBARROWS, TABLE CUTLERY, CARVING SETS, VELOCIPEDES, RAZORS AND SAFETY RAZORS, SHAVING SETS, ETC. COFFEE AND TEA POTS, STOVES, RANGES, AND SPORTING GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Big, handsome, three pairs of ord, sewed sole; lace a $4.50 a pair. The latest in the longer vamp sh heel—$4.50. BROOK SHO 1616 CH IMPORT THE GEO. AT 16t HA THE SO $10,000 HO ARE N 3 sure to take full a CHR d do not forget—y Sale Now in Pr The So JES Manufactu Phone Main 8012 Owing to the st larged quarters and between Glenarm a which enables us to Our repair deps will continue to ma heretofore we have Now is the time the stock is complete 428 SIXTEENTH ST afraid at the glory which shines about them. Clothed in blinding light, the angel speaks; the heavenly host that crowds suddenly about him sing of glory in the highest and peace and good will. The wise man who have seen his star in the East, kneel and spread their gifts of gold and myrrh and frankincense without question. The miracle of 2,000 years ago is still new and glad and lovely, for, lo! in all Christendom bells peal and sweet choirs sing the message given by the blinding angel and the crowding host: "For behold I bring you tidlings of great joy which shall be to all people. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." This is the message of the Christ-mastide, yet the bigger half of Christendom makes the period the pagan festival it once was at the time of the winter solstice. We give gifts, for sake of the gods of custom and merriment, forgetting entirely that they are for sake of the great spiritual joy "which shall be to all people." The gold and myrrh and frankincense of the heart are withheld—we give gifts because we've got to, and keep our hearts as much closed to the Christmas child as was the inn. We have our own selfish ends to gain, the rich patron to cater to, the friend to appease. We heap little children with dazzling toys, and light the starry lamps of their fir trees because it is the fashion, and we do our small Christmas charities because it would seem mean not to do them. We have forgotten the joyous and sublime meaning of Christmas. One does not need to be religious in the orthodox sense to appreciate the finer quality of this great festival, for what is known as Christian feeling has come to be a moral obligation at this time—a point of etiquette, in truth, for the heart and mind. In point of mere etiquette—what the social world thinks on the subject of Christmas gift giving—it is thought bad taste for a person of modest means to give presents of value to others of wealth and influence, for this savors too much like currying to continued favor if the giver is already under obligations. But some knowledge of the helpful friend's existence is necessary, and this may take the form of a pretty Christmas card with an appropriate greeting; or a knot of flowers or winter berries may be sent with a note expressing warm Christmas wishes. That the servant who has given her bodily strength and heart's best interest to the home must not be forgotten, goes without saying; but it is certainly bad form to make the poor servitor's gift an inexpensive trifle when something better can be afforded. Then what a woeful want of taste it shows for us to defer buying a friend's or sister's present until we have found out what she means to give us, and so make the exchange a quid pro quo. The gift that goes to friend or relative is above all one for love, and it is undoubtedly better taste for the recipient of the simpler gift in the exchange to appear as pleased as if she had received something ten times its value. But, then, what matters the nature of the gift after all? The spirit is the thing—and does not this silly picture or cushion, so unbecoming to the parlor, mean that the friend or sister has thought of us? As for the little children, so much are their feelings painfully strained at this time that I would like to write a book on the subject. I beg every mother not to threaten the poor little heart that misbehaves sometimes with the eternal word that "Santa Claus won't come if you do that any more." The dear kiddie who forgets to be good knows better after a year or two of this harrowing threat, which makes you out a story teller. Meanwhile, there is the little heart staying awake at night with its dreadful anxieties; there are the sudden storms of bitter tears, with all the glory of Christmas sunk in the bottomless pit of absolute sureness that Santy—dear, abused, good old fat gentleman—won't come. We remember the poor and drop a few pennies gladly for the blind children. But, why do we do it—why? It is because a wide, sweet star has stopped over a stable in the far East, because the church choirs are singing of peace on earth and good will toward men. So let us never lose sight of that fact with our gifts, whether our hands tender or receive them; for the heart closed to the deeper significance of Christmas may truly be likened to the inn that held no room. Let us send with each gift some of the heart's true gold and frankincense—bind it with the cord of some memory of Bethlehem. Let us receive each and every one of our gifts as things of great joy. Repairing a Specialty less we have taken en- 428 Sixteenth Street, stock of Quality Goods ties that are right, and in the city and we of workmanship which Christmas Gifts—while DENVER, COLORADO ters WHEELBARROWS, EEDES, RAZORS AND COFFEE AND TEA GOODS OF EVERY HARDWARE CO., 1638-54 ARAPAHQE ST. 1022 17th ST. TRUE SPIRIT OF DAY Christmas Giving Should Be Prompted by the Heart. Religion in the Orthodox Sense Not Necessary to Appreciate Finer Qualities of Great Christian Holiday. By PRUDENCE STANDISH. NCE more the Christmastide and its beautiful meaning is with the world. Again the shepherds, watching their flocks by night, are sore O Q A face wreathed in smiles is better than a mansion wreathed in holly. Never look a gift object in the price tag. Santa Claus by any other name would cost as much—and be worth it. Do not be satisfied with wishing people a "Merry Christmas," help make it one. Lots of men put on long white whiskers and think they look like me when they look more like a goat—and perhaps they are. If Willie wants to see what is inside the drum, for goodness sake let him. You are living in God's own country. What more do you want for Christmas. It is a wise Santa who keeps his whiskers away from the candles. Keep up the "Good will to man" part of it right through until next Christmas. It is more blessed to give than to receive, except in the matter of offense. q Fortunately for most of us, we won't get what we deserve on Christmas. q When Christmas giving becomes a necessity it ceases to be a virtue. q There is more joy in heaven over a ton of coal given to the poor than a ton of diamonds given to the rich. --- Song of the ChristmasTree By Gene Morgan I come from northern forest lands Where men would tarry never. The seasons come, the seasons go, But I am green forever. The flowers of spring bloom at my feet, The shadows always spreading. Near by there runs a forest path Where watchful deer are treading. The summer passes all too soon, And autumn will are chilly. Poor flowers, they wither, droop and die Amid the woodland hilly. A girl in a coat and hat holds a Christmas tree. From every branch, sad tears I drip In rainstorm's fierce endeavor. The flowers may come, the flowers may go, But I am green forever. Now hark! the woodman's ax is heard! A sister tree he's felling. What can this cruel destruction mean? The winter wind is telling: "Do not bemoan thy mournful fate, Tho' axmen wield with madness. Bedecked in tinsel, bright and fine, You'll soon bring children gladness. "Thou canst not die, although thy trunk, Harsh hatchet blows may sever. Within the little children's hearts Thou wilt be green forever!" The Christmas tree is supposed by great numbers of people to have originated in Germany, but from a reliable source we learn that the Christmas tree came in the first instance from Egypt, and its origin dates from a period much earlier than the Christian era. The palm tree is known to put forth a branch every month, and a spray of this tree with 12 shoots on it was used in Egypt at the time of the winter solstice as a symbol of the completed year. Now doth the Christmas shopper With happiness elate. Buy something that was forty-nina. Marked up to ninety-eight. The Oriental Cafe The Popular Eating House Game in Season. 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OTHERS' ROOM Corner of Curtis COLORADO VINEGAR A AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Richard Holmes Allen, ninety-nine years old, who was born in Baltimore October 17, 1815, the son of Richard Allen and Jane Wilson, is thought to be the oldest colored man in Boston. He lives at 1 Hope place off North Russell serect, West end. "It was only the other day I made up my mind to tell my life story, for I wanted to wait until I was 100 years old, but everybody that comes to see me said I ought to tell it now," said Mr. Allen, who, in spite of his age, looks well, sleeps well and is without a pain or ache, except once in a great while when he has a slight attack of rheumatism. Mr. Allen told the Globe reporter all about his war record, as well as his early life when he was very cruelly treated on a farm five miles out from the city of Baltimore. His story is as follows: "My grandfather, grandmother and mother's two sisters were stolen from Africa and brought to Baltimore and sold in the Woodfork jail. "A sea captain by the name of George Thompson bought them and set my grandfather and grandmother free. My mother's two sisters were in the service of the captain's wife for 28 years. "After my mother was set free I was born. My mother bound me to her mistress until I was twenty-one years old. Her mistress' name was Elizabeth Southcomb, and her husband's name was John Plummer Southcomb. "In 1824 Captain Southcomb was lost at sea. I was put out with another man named Johnson—a white man, of course—in 1827. "I endured great hardship while with him, for he treated me very creully. I stayed with him until 1835. He often came home drunk and abused me. "Once he came home from the city, and being enraged at something that happened to him, he took revenge out of me. This time he locked me up in a smokehouse for an hour. It was in the month of August, and it was the hottest day that summer. "He made a fire in the smokehouse. He called an old lame man named Stepney and told him I was baking to death in the smokehouse. Then he opened the door and called for me to come out, but I didn't come out fast enough to please him. "He had an idea that Mr. Stepney would highly approve of his cruel action of me, but he didn't. Instead, Mr. Stepney and Johnson got into an argument, Stepney telling him he had no right to treat me in such a cruel manner, Mr. Stepney, as a result of the argument, struck old man Johnson several blows, knocking him down. "I was a small boy when I became free, and started out to make my own living. I have been with all kinds of people in my years, bad and good, with sailors, gamblers, thieves, and have been with the very best people in the world. "In 1863 I came to Boston and enlisted to fill up the quota of Ward six under John S. Damreil. At that time I served in the Fifth cavalry. I am a member of Grand Army Post Robert Bell, whose headquarters are on Joy street. "During the Civil war I served in the Bucktail regiment of Pennsylvania under Captain Taylor. I was with my regiment at the battle of Bull Run, I During the National Negro Business league convention at Muskogee, Okla. it was stated that 2,000,000 Negroes living in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas now have under their control, as owners and renters, about $300,000,000 worth of farm property and own 60,000 farms, containing 6,000,000 acres of land, with farm property, land, live stock and farming implements worth $200,000,000. Eight million of the colored people of the South still live in the country districts, sometimes in the ratio of six or seven to one white man. Steel water mains which have been in constant use at New Bedford, Mass., during the last 17 years, have recently been inspected and show evidence of a life of more than forty-five years before corrosion destroys them. An apple tree owned by S. W. Alexander of Los Angeles, Cal., is exciting interest through the fact that, in the last year, it has had two crops, giving each time a different variety of apple. J. B. Reed of Ithaca asserts he has trained rabbits to dig up and eat all the weeds in his garden without damaging valuable plants. Two girls in Budapest who had decided to fight a duel over a young man with whom both were in love, have settled the matter by becoming engaged to the two men who volunteered to act as their seconds. The Jordan is the world's most crooked river, wandering 213 miles to cover 60. also at another time served with the Fifth Wisconsin regiment." Mr. Allen pointed with pride to his uniform, musket and other war utensils, and said that when he died he will be buried in his full Grand Army uniform. Mr. Allen does no work, living on the pension he receives, and he says it is quite enough, even in these hard times. He has a son and daughter living, Miss Rachel Allen and Jacob Allen. Almost 8,000 young men and women, including 1,200 Indians, have already gone from Hampton institute into the South and West, equipped in body, mind, and heart to help their race get land; build better homes, schools, and churches; and improve social and economic conditions. Many of the Hampton students have literally reconstructed, in many places, the existing community life and have brought prosperity to men and women by helping them increase their earning power, and showing them how to use to the best advantage the resources at their doors. Hampton institute aims to train Negroes and Indians to earn an honest living and serve unfallingly and unselfishly their respective races. The best white people throughout the South and West testify that Hampton has realized its aims and that they are firm believers in the value of the so-called Hampton idea of education. Hampton institute has set the pace for that form of vocational education which fits young people to work with skill and persistence, and also gives them a broad and sympathetic outlook on life. For 45 years under the efficient leadership of Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong and Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, Hampton institute has been training boys and girls for safe and sane leadership in business, in home-building, in improving church, home and social life throughout the South and West. J. E. Thompson of Clearview, Okla., which is one of several prosperous Negro settlements, represents the idea of big business among Negroes. Thompson controls 5,000 acres of farm land; furnishes employment throughout the year for many members of his race; grows crops that are worth selling, and brings the market to his products; employs the methods of scientific farming, and preaches the doctrine of keep a-pushing. The son of a slave woman, he began at the age of thirteen to farm. Today, at the age of fifty-five, Thompson actually owns 1,800 acres. He raises mules, horses, hogs and cattle. This is in contrast to his condition in 1871, when he stood on the porch of a renter's hovel and, looking longingly with his sister into a garden full of mustard, sighed: "If we only had some meat, we could cook it in plenty of mustard." Logan Morgan, who lives within four miles of Muskogee, Okla., finds that no color line is drawn in the market against his 12 and 14-ounce Alberta peaches, which bring $2 a bushel in the orchard. His 21 years of experience in the Southwest have taught him the value of remaining quietly at work and of producing among other crops "peaches that can't be beat." Morgan was married 20 years ago when he had only six bits and an $18 pony. Now they own 1,400 acres of land. A large, rich deposit of phosphate has been discovered in the valley of the Hausco river, about three hundred miles north of Valparaiso. Government engineers are preparing a report thereon, and it is believed to be of much importance, since the use of phosphate on the farm of Chile is increasing rapidly with good results. A New York homeopath, speaking at the recent convention in Atlantic City, said that conserving the eyesight was a phase of health conservation often overlooked. He said that 50 per cent of the blindness in this country was due to conditions that might have been avoided. According to figures published by the Monetary Times of Toronto, the sum total of American investments in Canada was $636,904,000 in 1913, as compared with $417,143,000 in 1911, and $279,075,000 in 1909. Eleven surveying parties will be sent out this year by the United States Geological Survey to investigate the mineral resources of Alaska. The "safety first" idea which has recently come into general practice on most American roads is an old one in Germany and other European countries where the practice extends to every form of industry as well as the railroads. There are 692 pawnbrokers' shops within a radius of ten miles from the Royal Exchange, London. Egypt is adopting modern agricultural machinery after using the most primitive kinds for thousands of years. They're All Crazy About Us! when they find out how easy it is to buy the very latest, most exclusive and distinctive clothing for small, easy, convenient payments. Styles that other stores (even the so-called cash stores) can't duplicate for the price we ask. Quality that can only be sold at these low prices because of the tremendous quantities in which we buy and manufacture for our large chain of stores. The individual store can't begin to offer values like these. YOUR CREDIT brings your choice of the finest clothing, just when you need it. You pay as you get paid—in small, easy amounts you never miss. Men's Latest Cut Suits Men's Latest Cut Suits $15.00 and Up by Easy Steps to $27.50 Ladies' New Fall Suits Christmas Outfit Is the Credit Store. and $1.00 a operations Free. CLANAH um 15 Chinese C arts, Cur Artistic Christmas Chinese Silk Kimonos—W JAPANESE TO instantly appeals to the particularly appealing. reasonable prices. the ladies and gentlemen Christmas goods. It will AN COMP nas Outfit Is Ready at Den- Credit Store. Complete Fam- and $1.00 a Week Pays the rations Free. LANAHAN'S Your Christmas Out ver's Popular Credit !ly Outfitters and $ Bill. All Alterations McCLAN Your Christmas Outfit Is Ready at Denver's Popular Credit Store. Complete Family Outfitters and $1.00 a Week Pays the Bill. All Alterations Free. McCLANAHAN'S inese Goods, Gifts, Curios Artistic Christmas Gifts inese Silk Kimonos—Woven in Japan. PANESE TOYS instantly appeals to the American child. The particularly appealing. 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It occasionally happens that papers sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. 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. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. The Colorado Statesman extends its patrons and friends, both in and out of has been a busy year for all. Proselyt Everybody has had work, received good bills and have a good time. The Coloring the holidays a happy occasion, acco and be happy. Again, Merry Christmas. The holiday or holy day season is it is usual to call it "Merry Christmas joyous occasion in the calendar. Due hearts and minds of busy people have sibilities and care, but at the Christmas, cares are relaxed and the pennil rejoicing. To make the children happy chief delight of all. Big children, Maids, grandmas and everybody ought the Christmas joys. It should be the a significant occasion, "Heaven's best would be few things to make glad the girls, teachers, servants and laborers and crowd into the Christmas tide man Of course, Christmas eve, or the day Christmas joys, as at this time our I get presents for loved ones at home are happy we cannot easily restrain the None are too poor to give something, in which you give it that determines the happy by making others so. LOOKING The greatest, most important and in the world usually have their source insignificant conditions or causes. Little things which, at first, hard wise and alert observers and forecast and assume a degree of such vast impulse overwhelming conviction of supernatural in all their combined might and as no command their own destinies. The I is, the most insignificant of all the fire The Caucasian, or Aryan, is, and long and in his might virtually dominates age. Europe, with her aggregate of ambitious and insuperable array of y soul of the modern world, influencing man's abode. The political balance maintained, against the inherent danger internationally associated strength, bi diplomacy. Yet the most insignificant norance and weakness, embraces the for the altering and transforming of worn conditions. In the uncontrollable indulgence of usurped and taken to himself the phys man's natural and unsurrenderable inhabitable area of the earth. The t unavoidable obligation of enlightening The process involves the nations of titer convictions. Drifting swiftly tow tions refuse to recognize the futility ment of the United States, in recent of long standing, took steps to inform lowed by European governments in a tionally foreshadowed an inevitable rope in the development of world a touched. It is a very small seed, but possibilities. The future is fraught w man conjecture, and we do not assume in the light of past experience and Liberia, poor and insignificant in the wherewith the bulwark of time-weld dered and changed. GO STATESMAN'S CHRISTMAS Statesman extends to its subscrib- tion both in and out of the state, "a year for all. Prosperity has be- work, received good wages and a time. The Colorado Statesman copy occasion, accept our greeting Merry Christmas to you. COLORADO STATESMAN'S CHRISTMAS GREETING. The Colorado Statesman extends to its subscribers, readers, advertisers, patrons and friends, both in and out of the state, "a Merry Christmas." This has been a busy year for all. Prosperity has been general, crops good. Everybody has had work, received good wages and are prepared to pay their bills and have a good time. The Colorado Statesman joins with you in making the holidays a happy occasion, accept our greetings, forget your troubles and be happy. Again, Merry Christmas to you. CHRISTMAS JOYS only day season is the happiest of "Merry Christmas." It mark the calendar. During the preceased busy people have been burdened at the Christmas tide the beaded and the pent-up spirit leapt the children happy ought to be Big children, little children, everybody ought to have the t should be the glad event of it, "Heaven's best gift to earth, to make glad the hearts of the cats and laborers ought to turn Christmas tide many happy hours, or, the days previous, put this time our heads and poor ones at home or abroad. We easily restrain the emotion that gives something. It is not what determines the result. Learns so. The holiday or holy day season is the happiest event of the year. Hence it is usual to call it "Merry Christmas." It marks the highest and most joyous occasion in the calendar. During the preceding twelve months the hearts and minds of busy people have been burdened with business responsibilities and care, but at the Christmas tide the burdened hearts are loosened, cares are relaxed and the pent-up spirit leaps forth into spontaneous rejoicing. To make the children happy ought to be the first concern and chief delight of all. Big children, little children, orphans, bachelors, old maids, grandmas and everybody ought to have the privilege of sharing in the Christmas joys. It should be the glad event of the year, as it represents a significant occasion, "Heaven's best gift to earth." Without which there would be few things to make glad the hearts of the weary. School boys and girls, teachers, servants and laborers ought to turn aside from dull routine and crowd into the Christmas tide many happy hours of mirth and pleasures. Of course, Christmas eve, or the days previous, prepares the way for our Christmas joys, as at this time our heads and pocketbooks are strained to get presents for loved ones at home or abroad. When we know that they are happy we cannot easily restrain the emotion that arises in our own souls. None are too poor to give something. It is not what you give, but the spirit in which you give it that determines the result. Let every one resolve to be happy by making others so. LOOKING FORWARD. Most important and most wonderful have their sources in humble ones or causes. Such, at first, hardly attract the rivers and forecasters of human nature of such vast importance that a nation of supernatural or divine might and as much as they destinies. The Negro for centenant of all the five great brands, Bryan, is, and long has been, actually dominates and controls her aggregate of monarchies, arable array of young republics world, influencing the affairs of political balance of this vast and the inherent dangers of its own strength, by the most most insignificant of men, in its embraces the possibility of transforming of all these paths.able indulgence of his restless himself the physical ownership unsurrenderable heritage, come the earth. The taking of it him of enlightening its teeming the nations of the world in exerting swiftly toward an inevitable the futility of their ambitions, in recent tardy recognition steps to inform itself upon governments in Africa, it very an inevitable future obligation of world affairs which it small seed, but it may contain is fraught with changes and we do not assume the gift of pre-experience and present development significant in the world's eyes mark of time-welded human re The greatest, most important and most wonderful events that transpire in the world usually have their sources in humble, obscure and apparently insignificant conditions or causes. Little things which, at first, hardly attract the serious attention of the wise and alert observers and forecasters of human affairs, suddenly expand and assume a degree of such vast importance that the world is awed by the overwhelming conviction of supernatural or divine direction. Certainly men, in all their combined might and as much as they try, do not plan out and command their own destinies. The Negro for centuries has been, and still is, the most insignificant of all the five great branches of the human family. The Caucasian, or Aryan, is, and long has been, the greatest of them all, and in his might virtually dominates and controls the earth in the present age. Europe, with her aggregate of monarchies, and America, with her ambitious and insuperable array of young republics, form the heart and the soul of the modern world, influencing the affairs of men to the very limits of man's abode. The political balance of this vast and mighty leadership is maintained, against the inherent dangers of its own nationally divided and internationally associated strength, by the most strenuous and enlightened diplomacy. Yet the most insignificant of men, in all of his comparative ignorance and weakness, embraces the possibility of becoming the instrument for the altering and transforming of all these patent, deep-rooted and age-worn conditions. In the uncontrollable indulgence of his restless spirit, the Caucasian has usurped and taken to himself the physical ownership and control of the black man's natural and unsurrenderable heritage, comprising one-sixth of the inhabitable area of the earth. The taking of it has imposed upon him the unavoidable obligation of enlightening its teeming millions of inhabitants. The process involves the nations of the world in experimentations and counter convictions. Drifting swiftly toward an inevitable climax, men and nations refuse to recognize the futility of their ambitions. When the government of the United States, in recent tardy recognition of a moral obligation of long standing, took steps to inform itself upon the military customs followed by European governments in Africa, it very innocently and unintentionally foreshadowed an inevitable future obligation to participate with Europe in the development of world affairs which it has hitherto left untouched. It is a very small seed, but it may contain the germ of wonderful possibilities. The future is fraught with changes almost too mighty for human conjecture, and we do not assume the gift of prophecy, but it is possible, in the light of past experience and present development, to conceive that Liberia, poor and insignificant in the world's eyes, may become the wedge wherewith the bulwark of time-welded human relationships shall be sundered and changed. Our pastor's sermon topic tomorrow will be, "The Messages of the Ages," and the choir will render an anthem, "The Lord is Merciful."—Excell. At the evening hour the choir will give a song recital with the following program: 1. Processional. 2. Doxology. 3. Hymn No. 605. 4. Invocation. 5. Scripture Reading, Psalm 121. 6. Apostles Creed Chanted. 7. Anouncements. 8. Anthem, "Come Unto Me," Mozart—Choir. 9. Lay Sermon, "Land and Land Law for 100 Years," Lawyer A. W. Lewis. 10. Anthem, "Hail Immanuel"—Choir. 11. Anthem, "Like As a Father," L. E. Ahsford—Choir. 12. Offertory. Doxology. Benediction. --- --- to its subscribers, readers, advertisers, in the state, "a Merry Christmas." This superiority has been general, crops good, and wages and are prepared to pay theirado Statesman joins with you in make-up our greetings, forget your troubles to you. AS JOYS. The happiest event of the year. Hènce mas." It marks the highest and most being the preceding twelve months the been burdened with business responsas tide the burdened hearts are loos-up spirit leaps forth into spontaneous joy ought to be the first concern and little children, orphans, bachelors, old it to have the privilege of sharing in glad event of the year, as it represents a gift to earth." Without which there are hearts of the weary. School boys and ought to turn aside from dull routine many happy hours of mirth and pleasure. As previous, prepares the way for our heads and pocketbooks are strained to or abroad. When we know that they are emotion that arises in our own souls. It is not what you give, but the spirit the result. Let every one resolve to be FORWARD. In most wonderful events that transpire lives in humble, obscure and apparently only attract the serious attention of the officers of human affairs, suddenly expand importance that the world is awed by the real or divine direction. Certainly men, much as they try, do not plan out and negro for centuries has been, and still the great branches of the human family, king has been, the greatest of them all, and controls the earth in the present of monarchies, and America, with her young republics, form the heart and the affairs of men to the very limits of of this vast and mighty leadership is officers of its own nationally divided and by the most strenuous and enlightened set of men, in all of his comparative impossibility of becoming the instrument all these patent, deep-rooted and age- of his restless spirit, the Caucasian hasICAL ownership and control of the black heritage, comprising one-sixth of the making of it has imposed upon him the ing its teeming millions of inhabitants. The world in experimentations and counsard an inevitable climax, men and naof their ambitions. When the govern-ward recognition of a moral obligation in itself upon the military customs foll-africa, it very innocently and unintentive obligation to participate with Eufairs which it has hitherto left unit may contain the germ of wonderful changes almost too might for hut the gift of prophecy, but it is possible, present development, to conceive that world's eyes, may become the wedgeed human relationships shall be sun- Mrs. Janie M. Pope, the wife of our pastor, was called to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Crane, of Pensacola, Fla., Saturday. She left over the Burlington at 9 p. m. and with her went the sympathy and well wishes of her many friends. We are delighted to have back in our midst Sister Unity Hall, who has been off on a six months' visit in the interest of her health. While away, she visited relatives in Kansas City, Chicago and Cincinnati, and returned to us much improved in health. Though her return was a sad one, yet the improved condition of her health and the tender sympathies of her friends will strengthen her for the ordeal through which she is passing. --- METHOD OF USING LINENS Housewives Have Different Ideas, But Both of These Are Decidedly Good. What is your plan for using your linens? There are two ways. One is to select a certain proportion of the articles and give them constant use, leaving the others untouched until the first lot wears out, thus rendering it sure that you will always have some perfect articles on hand. When the first supply begins to show signs of hard usage new ones can be taken into service. The other plan is to use your linens evenly, keeping them all in service, and employing them in rotation. In order to do this with the least trouble you may either put the fresh linen which comes from the wash at the bottom of the pile or you may each week take the articles you need from the lowermost layer, placing the clean pieces on the top. This insures even wear for the whole stock. If you take your towels, for instance, from the bottom of the heap, you are sure to get those which were not last used, and each towel has its share of service—Christian Science Monitor. THREE EXTRA GOOD SALADS Considered by Chefs of the Respective Countries to Be Among the Best Possible. Mexican Salad—Cut one alligator pear in half, remove the pit and pare it. Fill it with heavy mayonnaise, to which plenty of chopped walnuts have been added to make it thick. Lay on white lettuce leaves and garnish with segments of grape fruit and heap some mayonnaise in the center. German Salad.—Boll and dice potatoes for salad in the usual way, add two tablespoonfuls of minced onion and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley. Make a boiled salad dressing and, when cool, add the juice of an onion and a small cucumber seeded and chopped fine. Boil hard and cut in slice six eggs. Mix the salad, line the bowl with lettuce leaves, put in salad and garnish the edge with the eggs that have been dipped in some of the dressing. Put an olive ring on each. French Salad.—Stuff stalks of endive with roquefort cheese, let marinate in French dressing 20 minutes, slip a red pepper ring around each stalk and lay on green lettuce leaves. Add a little of the French dressing before serving. USES OF SALT Salt is a splendid cleanser. Freely used in the kitchen, it keeps sinks and vessels clear from grease and smell. The best place in the pantry for an egg is in the salt jar. Salt cleanses and brightens carpets. Sprinkle salt on an ostrich feather before recurring it before the fire with a knife. When a fruit or wine stain is made on the white tablecloth, cover it immediately with salt. Wash wickerwork in salt and water. Stand the stalks of flowers in warm and salted water to revive the blossoms. Put salt on the stove when grease has been spilled and raises a disagreeable smell; on the sink if vegetable water has been poured down. Baked Apple and Rice Pudding Baked Apple and Rice Pudding. Two cupfuls of rice, a pint of milk, lemon, a small piece of cinnamon, butter, brown sugar and three or four apples will be needed. Boil the rice in the milk with the cinnamon and when it is quite soft stir in a small piece of butter and enough sugar to sweeten and remove the cinnamon. Have ready some stewed apples, sweetened and flavored with the lemon rind, butter a pie dish, scatter some sugar over it, and then fill with alternate layers of rice and apple, beginning and ending with the rice. Put a few pieces of butter on top and bake the pudding in a fairly quick oven until it is highly browned. Serve hot or cold. If cold, turn out the pudding and put one-half pint of thick custard around it. To Cook a Meringue Remember that what makes a meringue fall is a sudden draft of cold air. Brown a meringue slowly and do not let it cook until it begins to blacken at the tips and points. Then pull it to the edge of the oven and leave it there, in the open door, for a minute or two. Then remove it to a warm spot in the kitchen and let it cool slowly and thoroughly. It can then be chilled in the refrigerator. Baked Bean Soup Put in saucepan three cupfuls cold baked beans, three pints of water, two slices of onion, and two stalks of celery; bring this to the boiling point and simmer 30 minutes. Rub through a sieve, add one and a half cupfuls of stewed and strained tomatoes, a tablespoonful of Worcester or other sauce, season to taste with salt and pepper, and bind up with two tablespoonfuls flour cooked together. Wash Day Help. When using bottled bluing the common tendency to pour in too much can be overcome by removing the cork and cutting a triangular slit the entire length of the cork. Reinsert cork and the bluing will come out very slowly. This saves pulling the cork each time you have occasion to use the bluing. After You Cook Fish Cleansing with mustard is said to remove the smell of fish from kettles and frying pans. GIFTS FROM Daniels & Fisher's Suit Everybody Best Santa Claus Knows Why. THE Joslin DRY GOODS CO. A Better Christmas Gift for Less Keep off the date of December 29th, Masons annual prize entertainment at the "old reliable, East Turner hall, 22nd and Arapahoe street. Morrison's full orchestra. Nicely furnished rooms for rent with or without board, or rooms for light housekeeping. Apply Mrs. T. H. Johnson, 2048 Arapahoe St. Dr. Westbrook Office 31 Good Block 16th & Larimer sts. Phone Main 1433 Out of Office and at nights Call Residence, 2714 Arapahoe Street Phone Champa 570 The next smoker of the Keystone Social Club will be held at East Turner hall, Dec. 15th, under the management of Mr. Sylvester Stewart, the popular promoter. A special feature will be fifteen rounds of artistic boxing between Jack Withers of Chicago and Jack Thompson, Denver Whirlwind. The usual public satisfaction is guaranteed. Nicely, modern furnished room for rent. Apply Mrs. B. Given, 2515 Curtis street. After conducting a rooming house very successfully at 2443 Lawrence street, for many years, S. Brown has moved to $2226\frac{1}{2}$ Larimer street and opened up the Brown Palace, which is up-to-date and modern in every respect, 20 rooms beautifully furnished. ELITE DRUG STORE We want your prescription trade. Our laboratory is well stocked with fresh standardized drugs, and in charge of competent pharmacists. We will send for and deliver your prescriptions promptly. Phone Main 2701, Elite Drug store, No. 2100 Arapahoe street. THE DE LUXE. Furnished apartments. Two and three rooms, with hot and cold water in each kitchen. Also front room, single, electric lights and gas. Modern throughout. Rates very reasonable, 2352-2358 Odgen street, corner Twenty-fourth avenue. Phone York 6707. Mrs. R. M. Blakey. THE COLORADG\s-7 STATESMAN | ES ee é See = SS _ Part i deg ari Pe =. cE Aa LN BE eS ery gre J ee ee ay ene ee LT ig et Mrs, Bessie Jackson is ill at her Home, located in Pueblo, arrived home with pneumonia. the city Thursday on business. ee reports that although the home is f For the benefit of the laboring class | '¥ Wel! supported, yet it is very mi of people all the stores will keep open | ™ need of assistance. At press every evening until Christmas. there are thirty-four inmates, twer nine children and five adults, am¢ the latter is Grandma Love, mother Cam Reed, a former townsman of] the late Robert Love, a former r Denver, and David Russel, but now | dent of our city. Mrs. Watson was of Manitou, spent several days in the]| guest of Mrs. W. B. Townsend wl city this week, naturally their many] in the city, and left for home Tht friends were glad to see them. day. eh The Colorado Statesman sincer Word has been received in the city | hopes that our people will assist w of the illness of Rey, W. S. Dyett, for-| their mite in helping this worthy mer pastor of Shorter’s, who is now | terprise. located in’ Pasadena, Calif. ae) ene ee ee Miss Charlotte Smith, after an ill- ness of several days, has been able to go to work again, to the delight of her friends, Miss Josephine Grant of Colorado Springs, is stopping at the residence of Mrs. W. B. Townsend, 2816 High street. Mrs. J. W. Taylor, who has been confined to St. John’s hospital at Cheyenne, is now able to be at her home at that place. This will be glad news to her many friends in Denver. ee ‘The Kansas City (Mo.) Herald is the latest sheet to enter the field of journalism. Prof. J. Silas Harris, a prominent educator and politician, is the chief moving spirit, assisted by E. B, Ramsey. , The Western Beef Co., 2048 Larimer street, are remembering their cus- tomers and friends with beautiful 1915 calenders. Don't fail to ask for one when you visit their market. The Pastime Athletic Club at 1835 Arapahoe street will give a grand opening, Thursday night, December 24, A free lunch will be served. The president, Thomas Lewi, has had a ball room eretted for the entertain- ment of his guests. Everybody in- vited, Mr. and Mrs. J, Andrews of 927 Newton street, are having much suc: cess in conducting their hog ranch in Barnum, Last week they sold two hogs weighing more than 400 pounds. Andrews finds that no color line is drawn in the market against his hogs and garden truck. ‘'P, S. Rector, Grand Master of Ma- sons of this part of the world, left the city Wednesday for la Junta, where he established a lodge. Mr. Rector is the grandest Roman of them all. What he doesn’t know of the Masonic ritual isn't worth while. He is a citizen of whom we are justly proud, a father to the fatherless, a counselor to the wid: ows; may his shadow never grow less. ‘The entertainment furnished by the Sunday School of Shorter’s Tuesday evening was unique and highly enjoy: able to the audience, though small, which braved the wintry weather. The stereopticon views were very appro- priate, and the phonographic numbers were of the best selections of music; Miss Maidie Nelson, our young pian- iste, rendered a piano solo very accept: ably. ; ‘The funeral’ of Charles Hall Sr., took place Sunday afternoon trom Shorters’ A. M. E. Church, The ser- mon was delivered by Rey. R. L. Pope was very touching and eulogistic of this worthy and Christian citizen. The following divines assisted Revs. Over, Washington and Reynolds. Music was furnished by the church: choir and by request Mrs. Elliot, the noted evan- gelist, rendered a pathetic solo, Tem: porarily the body of the deceased rests in the vault pending the arrival of the sons of the deceased. ‘The biography of the late Col. Allen Allensworth of the U. S. Army, en- titled “Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth,” has been received by the Statesman. It is compiled by prof, Charles Alexander and published by Sherman, Frencl: & Company, Bos: ton, Mass. It is a very interesting book, narrating the life of a noble man, who rose from the depths of slavery to one of the highest ranks attained in the army. The book con- tains over 400 pages; price, $1.70. Or- ders can be sent to Prof. Charles Alex- ander, 602 Thorpe Building, Los An- geles, Calif. q Mrs. J. P, Watson, superintendent of the Colored Orphanage and Old Folks’ ‘Home, located in Pueblo, arrived in the city Thursday on business. She reports that although the home is fair ly well supported, yet it is very much in need of assistance. At present, there are thirty-four inmates, twenty: nine children and five adults, among the latter is Grandma Love, mother ot the late Robert Love, a former resi. dent of our city. Mrs. Watson was the guest of Mrs. W. B. Townsend while in the city, and left for home Thurs. day, The Colorado Statesman sincerely hopes that our people will assist with their mite in helping this worthy en: terprise, ATLAS DRUG COMPANY STORES. The attention of our many readers is called to the display ad of the Atlas drug stores, 2701 Welton and 256: Welton, in another portion of the pa per. Their stock of Christmas good: is one of the best ever brought to the city, and buyers could not do better than give them a call. On Christmas Day, every twentieth customer will re ceive a one-half pound box of Hayes Bros. “Famous Milk Chocolates.” | Douglas Undertaking Co., Funeral Notices. | Mr, Charles Hall, beloved husband ‘of Mrs. Unity Hall, father of Lloyd and Charles Hall, who died December ‘9th, at their residence, funeral serv: ices were held Sunday at Shorters chapel, 2p. m. The body was placed in vauit at Fairmount Cemetery, await ‘ing the arrival of two sons. Rev. Pope officiated, Mr. William Hayes died December ith. Funeral services will be held ‘Thursday at Campbell Capel, at 2p. m, Interment Riverside cemetery. Rey. Washington will officiate. _ THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. Twenty-fourth and Ogden Streets. / David E. Over, D.D., Minister. | Last Sunday morning Rev. P. J Price of Central Chureh, rendered ac eeptante and pleasing service in Zion’: pulpit; meanwhile the pastor spoke al Central. The exchange seemed help: ful to both congregations and should be arranged more often. On the 29th of this month the Chureh Aid will render a program in the form of a drama, presented by the young people of the congregation. We are expecting something very much worth while. Zion will hold a Christmas morning service at the hour of 5:30. The choi will render appropriate music and the pastor will preach. Tt is well to spenc that hour in worship in which the angel chorus sang over the plains ot Bethlehem. It will help those whc are present. The decorations will be more beautiful than last year. ‘The Sunday school Christmas exer cises will be held at the usual time, or the evening of the 24th. The little folks are to have a program, a Christ mas tree with Santa Claus. ‘The pastor will preach Sunda; morning from the subject, “The Re storation of Peter”. Eyening, “Wha\ Christmas Should Mean to the World.” Everyone welcome. Brickler’s New Barber Shop is lo- cated at 2208 Larimer street. Shave, 10. Hair cut, 25c; children, 15c. _ BEEF CO OUR LEADER Large Bunches of Pascal Celery 10c per bunch. Oysters............20¢ per pint New Mixed Nuts......10c perdb. LARGE FANCY XMAS TREES 250 EACH. lave citer big shipment of fancy pea-fed Turkeys coming in from Longmont farmers for you Christmas dinner: Get our prices on these fancy Turkeys be- fore going elsewhere. Let us also fix up your whole Christmas order so that we can both be thank. falonithat day: OUR STORE IS YOUR STORE WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE FREE DELIVERY ‘We Sell Every Thing a Hog Furnishes Get our pricesbefore yon buy else- where. We also sell our groceries cheaper OUR MOTTO: Our Profits Are Small, | But WEGet Them All. aes Larimer St. Phone Champa 1641 Opposite Three Rules OpenSunday THE ATLAS Drug Co. Stores 2701 WELTON 2563 WELTON PHONE MAIN 875 Every 20th Customer on Dec. 25th (Christmas Day) receives Y2 Pound Hays’ Bros. Famous Milk Chocolates | a | THE GEORGE BELL COMPANY (INCORPORATED) Lapidaries and Manufactur- ing Jewelers THINGS SUBSTANTIALLY MADE | 437 Seventeenth St. Denver Colorado FREE CHECK ROOM CIGARS PHONE CHAMPA 1424 Elite Barber Shop and Bath Rooms LILLIAN SAMPLE, Prop. 1223 19TH Si ‘A DENVER, SCOEO! ° . I. Gibson Smith ART DEALER PHONE MAIN 4843 1638 TREMONT ST., DENVER. COLO. Sam Mayer JEWELER PHONE 2710 Mercantile Building 1033-35 15th Street, Denver, Colorado ELITE DRUG STORE, We want your prescription trade. Our laboratory is well stocked with fresh standardized drugs, and in charge of competent pharmacists. We criptions promptly. Phone Main 2701, Elite Drug store, No. 2100 Arapahoe rc CHAMPA 2077 C, be aU f to = i El FIR i ry LIS Ay a | AY see =n } VIC AM cee 1% ME} Parlors 2807 Welton St e e At Christmastime i the fullness of his heart, Father usual- ly overlooks himself in the pleasure and excitement of providing for others. To-day ~-a day of relaxation--would be an ideal opportunity to provide himself with that much needed suit or over- coat. The most fastidious dresser will be surprised at the : style and intrinsic merit embodied in these suits and over- } coats, which we are distributing in our Semi-Annual Clearance Sale. : > Suits O’coats Literally thousands of Suits and Overcoats, which regularly sel] for $15, $18, $20 and $22, are embodied in one huge assortment at $11. Every garment is made by a recognized leading manufacturer and quality and fit are guaranteed. Remem- ber, also, that every suit and overcoat is an authentic 1914 model. Y Co THE . fe AS SUGGESTIONS At THE SPECIALTY STORE of Denver, ofa where you get the best for the least. SHI. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Cadi SAVE TIME Zi Glove Orders and WORRY. SEG GOOD FOR ANYTHING AT ANY TIME. u i ZS SR ca es a enc Os GLOVES | LEATHER GOODS “He MILANO, made of real Ital- | Latest novelties and hapes in tinh Colors” ene pale." GQ | party boxes on lacks and colts Tate ante GIGVanE tock atrgat sono to Beso Wed, drasg or warmthpiatnar | ‘ravlinie Sots Siso to sto er pale $150) SHOES Men's Gloves, $1.25 to $2.75 | ri. sau xmas itt for Ladies UMBRELLAS | Sictnttana’ duit Teather “Pate cere DEG Hin Tt Hea Raucator Shace fer Childcem. suis Naudlen ee SOF - ART GOODS HOSIERY | Pianehad a eerree hs Senate are eer eae a te NECKWEAR sites, "OMe pale es-cores BOG | Fashions Tater to, mised ley SILK HOSIERY | shconcoreendy: ataen fon oon Phvente Guaganted. site stoners, | Rta ehniore in # pairs inn box ino | EVENING SCARFS HANDKERCHIEFS | PAebe'as abite: pian anacDees® Ladies’ Embroidered Handker- | @e patterns and’ Spanish’ silic chiefs, in fancy boxes, at Jace acarfe. / Men's’ Vial Wandkerenieteeach. | JEWELRY NOVELTIES | eae to ee. Jet Beads Be to $6.50 Men's “inidinioa’"Hanakersntetsr” | Jet Beads, - ioe 0 $8.30 exorare eno noe Barrettes, Braid Pins, Combs TEA APRONS Bane NOvSIHER OF tee to. 8S ence Dainty Fancy ‘Tea Aprons at ase, | "‘Vasity “Caves: ‘Lone’ Chains Que bue tae, Soe, St and Bias en, | Fancy Lavailicres, at ie PHNCE: THEe @ i> oe The Denver Trunk Factory Co. Going out of Business. Entire Stock Trunks, Bags and Suit Cases, 38/3% Off -. 2. -. AR OAT Bs EET RS PRCA EE ADOLPH L. PRICE, Manager 724 15th Street, Commonwealth Building Denver, Colo. DAY OR NIGHT CAMMEL & CO. UNDERT AKERS ——————————————————————— FIRTS.CLASS MORTUARY ESTAB- LISHMENT, AMBULANCE SER- VICE. FIRST AID TO THE BE- REAVED. COURTEOUS TREAT. MENT. LADY ASSISTANT. Denver, Colorado The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO Paper Dollar Bar Corner Nineteenth and Arapahoe Streets, DENVER, COLORADO CHAS. HARRIS, Pres. J. M. JOHNS, Treas. SEIB MILLER, Sec. LUNCH ROOM IN CONNECTION 17281/2 Wazee St. Only one block from Union Depot Phone Main 8416. Denver, Colorado CAPITOL BEER---IT'S CAPITAL Try a case, 2 doz. pints for $1.10, delivered promptly; empties called for Family Liquors, Wines, and Cordials Genuine Goods at Popular Prices A glass of good wine will improve your Sunday dinner, and aid digestion. 2727 Welton Street. Phone Main 6363. 'Phone Champa 1158 Paper D STEVE TODOROFF and R Fine Wines, Lic 1038 NINETEEN Corner Nineteenth and Arapaho CHAS. HARRIS, Pres. J. M. JOE RAILROAD PO LUNCH ROOM Billiards and Pool 1728½ Wazee St. Only o Phone Main 8416. The Central Bottling Agents for CAPITOL BEER Try a case, 2 doz. pints for $1:10, d Family Liquors, W Genuine Goods A glass of good wine will improve y 2727 Welton Street DRINK Tivoli Finest Beer Ever Brewed Made In Colorado; Sold In Colorado; Drank in Colorado ORDER A CASE PHONE MAIN 1350. J. H. BIGGINS Furniture Repairing and Upholstering. All work Cash. PHONE YORK 7837 1417 East 24th Ave Denver THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. Furnished Rooms in Connectio Dollar Bar BY BRONSON, Proprietors Hors and Cigars TH STREET streets, DENVER, COLORADO , Treas. SEIB MILLER, Sec. ARTERS' CLUB CONNECTION Free Check Room block from Union Depot Denver, Colorado & Distributing Co. the famous IT'S CAPITAL ordered promptly; empties called for. ines, and Cordials Popular Prices For Sunday dinner, and aid digestion. Phone Main 6363. 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 combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. The WARD AUCTION COMPANY Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Furniture a Specialty. HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. Laden with a $3,000,000 cargo of food for the relief of Belgium the steamer Maskinonge sailed from New York. Henry Griesidieck, Jr., sixty, retired from active work, one of the foremost brewers of the country, died in St. Louis of apoplexy. Charles B. Reynolds, a lawyer, was shot and almost instantly killed in a revolver battle with a burglar in his home at Atlanta, Ga. Roumania has entered the field for the purchase of American war supplies, according to information reaching Chicago merchants. William David Cantillon, until last May general manager of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, died at Chicago of heart trouble. One out of every ten persons in Chicago receives aid from public charity, according to a report of the retiring president of the board of county commissioners. A telegram from Chicago says that the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company has just placed a contract for $2,000,000 worth of steel rails for spring delivery. Five municipal dances as a sane celebration of New Year eve and as a counter attraction to the usual revel in Chicago's cafes will be held this year, it was announced. Model roads showing the advantages of the various systems of construction were built in sections for delegates attending two national good road conventions in Chicago. James McLay, a sheepman and a livestock authority of international reputation, died at Laramie, Wyo., of apoplexy. McLay came to America from Scotland about twenty years ago. Ocean freight rates on cotton to Europe advanced sharply to the highest on record at Galveston, Tex. On a hundred pounds they are: Bremen, $3; Havre, Genoa and Barcelona, $1.15; Liverpool, $1. Frederick M. Smith, first counselor, was sustained as temporary president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and will assume the work of his father, Joseph Smith, president, who died at Independence, Mo. New materials for women's early spring clothes are decidedly like those of grandmother's day, according to the bulletin of the Fashion Art League of America, issued at Chicago. Frills and furbelows of 1830 are to be worn more and more. WASHINGTON President Wilson nominated Henry A. Meier of Lincoln to be register of the land office at Lincoln, Neb. This year's principal farm crops are worth $4,945,552,000, the Department of Agriculture announced. David A. Gates of Arkansas City, Ark., was appointed deputy commissioner of internal revenue by Secretary McAdoo, succeeding Robert Williams, Jr., who died several days ago. The American merchant marine has been increased by 101 vessels, with a total displacement of 361,078 gross tons, since Sept. 3, according to an announcement by the Department of Commerce. Nearly a quarter billion pounds of domestic refined sugar have been exported from continental United States during the three months ended Oct. 31, 1914, or more than 100,000,000 in excess of the entire exports of 1910, the high record year of the last quarter century. Secretary Daniels told the House naval affairs committee that while all the battleships in reserve were not supplied with shells, every dreadnought and every other battleship in the active line was equipped, but did not, however, have an adequate reserve supply. To push an electric button giving a signal for opening the San Diego, Cal., exposition on the beginning of the New Year, President Wilson will be awakened before 3 o'clock New Year morning. He will push the button at midnight, Pacific coast time, which is 3 a.m. in Washington Further investigation of Postmaster General Burleson's recommendations for government acquisition of the telegraph and telephone systems is proposed in the postoffice appropriation bill. It is said to carry approximately $325,000,000. State highway commissioners and engineers from twenty-seven states were represented when the organization of the American Association of State Highway Officials was perfected. It is expected that all states will be represented in the organization ultimately. In addition to Russia and Turkey, France has refused to accept Pope Benedict's proposal for a truce between the belligerent powers during the Christmas season. Paul Deschanel, speaker of the French chamber of deputies, was injured about the head in an automobile accident at Nogentie-Rotrou, in the French department of Eure-et-Loir. Private messages from Vienna announce the death there of William M. MacGarvey, founder and president of the Austrian Petroleum Company. He died on his seventy-first birthday. The determination of the House of Commons not to sit again until Feb. 2, has excited considerable criticism and the decision of the House of Lords to reconvene on Jan. 6 is praised by the critics. An explosion occurred in a coal mine at Fukuoka, as a result of which 800 laborers are imprisoned in the workings of the mine. Fukuoka is on the seacoast sixty-five miles to the north of Nagasaki. A Berlin dispatch says that Brussels and suburbs have decided to pay the war lien of 45,000,000 marks ($11,250,000) imposed by Germany, by means of special taxes payable up to June 15, 1915. Street car service in Vera Cruz has been suspended by military order, the authorities taking the stand that the lives of the public were endangered by incompetent men employed by the railway company. A Lloyd's dispatch from Oporto says that the Dutch steamer Bogor, from Amsterdam for Buenos Aires, is ashore north of Leixões, on the Portuguese coast, and is a total wreck. It is believed that twenty-five lives were lost. The London official press bureau announced that the sinking of the battleship Bulwark apparently was not due to a hostile act. Investigation has disclosed no evidence of treachery on the part of any persons aboard the vessel or of any act by an enemy. The British battleship Bulwark was destroyed by an explosion on Nov. 26 while lying off Sheerness. About 800 lives were lost. SPORT. Frankie Callahan of Brooklyn and Joe Mandot of New Orleans fought an eight-round draw at Memphis. Mike Gibbons, the "St. Paul Phantom," outfought and outpointed Willie Brennan of Buffalo in a ten-round bout at Buffalo, N. Y. Jack Thompson of St. Joe made big Jack Wethers of Chicago quit in the first round of a fifteen-round bout at East Turner hall in Denver. Jim Flynn, the Pueblo heavyweight, and Battling Levinsky, are to furnish the excitement in a ten-round bout Christmas day at the Broadway Sporting Club of Brooklyn, N. Y. Profits of the University of Pennsylvania Athletic Association from football were $43,000 and from basketball $300 for the season ending Sept. 1, 1914, according to the report of the treasurer. A secret is out—Jack Coffey, new manager of the Grizzlies, is married. Coffey arrived in Denver, but left Mrs. Coffey at home. He did not proclaim his matrimonial state, being a modest man, but some friends told on him. Jack was married a week ago to Miss Jepsen of Scotts Bluff, Neb. GENERAL. Fire at Birmingham, Ala., destroye a five-story building, causing a loss estimated at $400,000. Milam W. Mills, formerly a resident of New York city, and then reputed to be a millionaire, died in the county poor farm at San Angelo, Tex., aged 80 years. At one time he owned much Texas land. Presentation of a gold medal to Dr. Remulu S. Naon, ambassador of the Argentine Republic to the United States, was the feature of the sixteenth annual dinner of the Pennsylvania Society in New York. Miss Hedda Burgemeister, a trained nurse, was indicted, charged with the murder of Otto Koehler, millionaire president of the San Antonio Brewing Association, at San Antonio, Tex., on Nov. 21 last. She claims self-defense Teaching of total abstinence as the most direct way to suppress the liquor traffic was urged at Richmond, Va., by Secretary of State Bryan before the annual meeting of the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America. A Czech resident of Prague, who was raised in Chicago, has been shot for corresponding with a Czech union in Chicago, which, it is alleged, is carrying on a campaign for the establishment of an independent kingdom in Bohemia. Copious draughts of beer and five cigars a day produce long life, according to Moses W. Ohl, who celebrated his one hundredth birthday anniversary in New York. Mr. Ohl believes in dancing as a means of keeping the old ones in trim. An order for $800,000 worth of steel shells, shrapnel cases and other munitions of war has been placed with a Philadelphia manufacturing concern. Positive information that Watkins Lewis, an aged negro, was burned at the stake by 200 white men at Sylvester Station, was received at Shreveport, La. James G. Walker, former business associate of Senator W. A. Clark of Montana and a well known collector of archaeological relics, died at his home in San Francisco, aged seventy-seven. ERNEST HOWARD, Carpenter, Job and Repair Work. Paints, Oils and Glass. Coal, Wood Global, Wood and Express et. Phone the Rest Our Price Best Satisfaction Coal, Wood and Express. You Have Tried the Rest Now Try the Best THE Giant FOR QUALITY CLEANING, PRESSING ING, RELINING AND WORK CALLED FOR 2549 Washington Avenue ING, PRESSING, DYEING, RELINING AND REMODEL ORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERY n Avenue De CLEANING, PRESSING, DYEING, REPAIRING, RELINING AND REMODELING. WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED 2549 Washington Avenue Denver, Colorado JOHN K. Meats, Fancy and 1864 CURTI JOHN K. RETTIGER Fancy and Staple Gro 1864 CURTIS STREET eenth. C. E. Sm 190 Res. Pho Market Com and Retail Staple and Fancy Grocery s. Hotels and Restaurants Our Spe ured Eastern Corn Fed Meat Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Gam hoe Street Den Use Meadow Go Butter The Corbett ce Cream Co. 115 WELTON STREET The Marke Wholesale and Retail Staple a Oysters. Hotels and Re The Market Company Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters. Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Eastern Corn Fruits, Vegetables, 1688-89 Arapahoe Street U Meadow But The Cor Ice Crea 1115 WELTO Eastern Corn Fed Meats Use Meadow Gold Butter THE ICE CREAM That Is Just a Little Better Than the Kind You Thought Was Best C. H. SHIRLEY, Pres. J. C. HAMPSC PAUL J. SHIRLEY, Sec. and Treas. THE ATLAS DRUG Courteous Treatmet. Right Leaders in Prescription That Is Just a Little Better Than the Kind You Thought Was Best LEY, Pres. J. C. HAMPSC PAUL J. SHIRLEY, Sec. and Treas. E ATLAS DRUG ous Treatmet Right That Is Just a Little Better Than the Kind You Thought Was Best C. H. SHIRLEY, Pres. J. C. HAMPSON, Vice Pres. PAUL J. SHIRLEY, Sec. and Treas. THE ATLAS DRUG CO. Courteous Treatmet. Right Prices Leaders in Prescription --- 1021 21st Street. PHONE MAIN 3028 Corner Nineteenth. Phones Main 169,181,189,190 Fresh and Cured Store No. 1. 2701 WELTON ST. Main 885 875 and Express. Our Prices Reasonable Satisfaction Guaranteed CLEANERS AND TAILORS McCAIN & RICHARDS, PROPS Phone Main 7376 ING, DYEING, REPAIR- AND REMODELING. FOR AND DELIVERED Denver, Colorado RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 E. RETTIG and Staple Groceries RETIS STREET Denver, Colo. C. E. Smith, Manager Res. Phone South 1608 et Company e and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Restaurants Our Specialty. rn Fed Meats es, Poultry and Game. Use ow Gold utter orbett ream Co. TON STREET Little Better Than the thought Was Best J. C. HAMPSON, Vice Pres LEY, Sec. and Treas. AS DRUG CO. Hmet. Right Prices on Prescription Store No. 2 25TH AND WELTON Main 4955.4956 Phone Champa 752. Denver. Colorado THE RIBBON STORE NEW YORK RIBBON STORE Every department is now complete and showing the new Christmas things— Everything in Ribbons, also neckwear, veilings, bags, handkerchiefs, jewelry novelties, silk hosiery, etc. LACES AND EMBROIDERIES. The prices always lower than elsewhere. M. B. WALKER. PROP. Corner Sixteenth and GOOD SHOES DON'T JUST HAPPEN AT HENNING'S $2.50 SHOE STORE Years of experience in solving Shoe-Troubles and Quality for a constantly increasing busi- ness, warrants us in believing that we are giv- ing the best val- ues in the West for When shoes come from our store, they are not just shoes—they are shoes of particularly good style and quality—shoes that possess that airy appearance, fitting quality and wearing value that is bound to bring you back to Henning's—and YOU SAVE A DOLLAR HENNING'S $2.50 SHOE STORE 820 AND 822 FIFTEENTH STREET Washburn's OYSTER Phone Champa 2211 Corn Fed T Oysters, Clams, Cr Squabs, Wild Du the Delicacies Season 1506 ARAPAHO Annual Cl Chinawar IS NOW ashburn's Market OYSTERS Phone Champa 2211 rn Fed Turkey's ters, Clams, Crabs, Lobsters, Squabs, Wild Ducks, and all the Delicacies of the Season 96 ARAPAHOE STREET annual Christmas Chinaware Sale IS NOW ON Washburn's Market OYSTERS Phone Champa -2211 Oysters, Clams, Crabs, Lobsters, Squabs, Wild Ducks, and all the Delicacies of the Season 1506 ARAPAHOE STREET Discounts in All Departments from 10% TO 50 We are offering some exceptional Openstock Dinnerware, both Do See Our Fifteenth S for Speci CARSO Denver's Largest China and 732-36 15TH STREET % TO 50% OFF offering some exceptional values in Dinner Sets and stock Dinnerware, both Domestic and Imported. Our Fifteenth Street Windows for Specials CARSONS Denver's Largest China and Glassware Shop. 732-36 15TH STREET (AT STOUT) 10% TO 50% OFF We are offering some exceptional values in Dinner Sets and Openstock Dinnerware, both Domestic and Imported. See Our Fifteenth Street Windows for Specials CARSONS Denver's Largest China and Glassware Shop. 732-36 15TH STREET (AT STOUT) STARK & CO JEWELERS 709 and 711 SIXTENTH STREET --- ```markdown ``` and Arapahoe Sts. 1 Phone Champa 2211 WEEK'S EVENTS IN COLORADO Western Newspaper Union News Service. A building to serve as a permanent home for the Women's Booster Club of Haswell is being advocated. For the first time since its incorporation, in 1908, the town of Nunn is out of debt, with a small surplus in the treasury. Mrs. Martha J. Cowan, who celebrated her eightieth birthday last August, died at the home of her son, H. W. Cowan in Denver. Mrs. Anne Valliant Burnett Johnson, wife of Charles A. Johnson of Denver, who died Dec. 2, left an estate valued at approximately $170,000. The first two white children born in Denver attended the twenty-third annual banquet and ball given by the Pioneer Ladies' Aid Society in Denver. The smallest judgment remembered in Pueblo county has been granted in the suit of C. W. Shaver against Lee Coats, in which Shaver was allowed 40 cents. Governor-elect Carlson will make his home in Denver at 1118 Downing street, formerly the residence of Judge Lewis of the United States District Court. A sneak thief stole $420 from John Covonikes and $13 from his roommate, George Bascos, while they were asleep in their room at 1722 Larimer street in Denver. Prominent Jews of Colorado Springs tendered a reception to Madame Fels, widow of Joseph Fels, the single tax advocate, at the Sons of Israel synagogue. A readjustment of salaries paid Denver city and county employés is to follow an investigation into payrolls begun by the five commissioners and the city auditor. Nicholas Hertopolis, 23, a Greek, is being held in the Pueblo county jail as a suspect in the killing of the mother of a Greek priest in Salt Lake City two weeks ago. J. J. Cogan, formerly a messenger boy for the Cripple Creek Short Line railroad, has been appointed general superintendent, to succeed Jesse H. Waters, late president. George Quinn, slayer of William R. Herbertson, was sentenced to death by Judge Perry of the West Side Court in Denver, after his petition for a new trial had been denied. The body of John Nordstrom, an oiler of the No. 1 boat of the Tonopah Placer Company, who was drowned in the dredge pond, was buried at Breckenridge in Valley Brook cemetery. The condition of William Barth, the Denver multimillionaire over whose fortune a spectacular contest has been waged for months, was serious enough to cause apprehension among his friends. A carload of the best flour was shipped from the La Junta Mill and Elevator and sent to Denver to be forwarded to the suffering Belgians. This flour was the joint donation from the citizens of La Junta and Rocky Ford. The fifth annual convention of the Coiorado Good Roads Association will be held in Denver Jan. 20 and 21, following immediately the meeting of the State Association of County Commissioners, which will be in session Jan. 18 and 19. The committee in charge of the plans for holding an Indian pageant next year says that it has $25,000 at its disposal and that a syndicate is ready to underwrite $50,000 more, provided Denver citizens subscribe an additional $25,000. The first week of the Denver Federated Charities campaign closed with $21,000 added to the treasury. Headquarters will be maintained until the $100,000 needed to run the twenty-one institutions, for which the federation is sponsor, has been raised. Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston visited in Denver with friends with whom he went to college at the University of Kansas. Funston was on his way to the Presidio at San Francisco, where he is hastening in order to see a baby he has never yet held in his arms. Bobbie Thirlaway, the eight-year-old boy, who broke into the Louisville postoffice and stole about $25, may have to go to the industrial school. Nothing can be done with him by the juvenile authorities of the county, for, under the state law, a child under ten years of age cannot commit a crime or a misdemeanor. To avoid that provision of the divorce decree which he secured a few days ago, forbidding him to marry again within a year, Harold H. Shaw, a Boulder teamster, went to Cheyenne with Miss Hazel Briscoe, the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Briscoe, and was married. The mother of the young bride gave her consent to the ceremony and the couple returned to Boulder to make their home. Mrs. William Walter, twenty, a Pueblo bride of one year, killed her three-months-old son and then tried to commit suicide by swallowing poison. The body of the child was found upon a couch when its father, an electrician, returned from work at six o'clock. The mother was unconscious upon the floor. Mrs. Maude E. Jackson of Denver has filed suit for divorce from Isaiah Jackson, former leader of a religious cult, and now sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary on an assault conviction MONTROSE PRIEST SUES SCHOOL MAN FOR SLANDER. Bases His Suit on Statements D. E. Wiedman Is Alleged to Have Made to Students Regarding Girl. Montrose, Colo. - Suit for $50,000 damages in which defamation of character is charged, has been filed in the Montrose District Court by the Rev. Father C. F. O'Farrell, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church against Prof. D. E. Weidman, superintendent of the Montrose city schools. The suit is the outcome of a conversation said to have taken place between Harry Netherton, seventeen, a student, and Prof. Weidman, in which it is alleged the name of Father O'Farrell was linked with that of Emma Hill, seventeen, also a student, to whom Netherton had been paying attention. Prof. Weidman, according to the priest's complaint, advised Netherton to inform his parents of certain visits between the girl and the priest to save himself from disgrace. This is said to have occurred about Nov. 1 Father O'Farrell, upon learning this, it is declared, went to Prof. Weidman and demanded a retraction of remarks passed in the conversation. Prof. Weidman is said to have apologized and declared that the priest was mistaken as to certain allusions made to him in the conversation. When rumors concerning the priest became widely circulated, Weidman sent a written apology to Father O'Farrell in which he declared the numerous statements he had made were mere hearsay, that he did not wish to injure Father O'Farrell's reputation. The apology was printed in a local paper and the suit followed. Founder of Craig Colony Dead. Denver.—When Frank Craig, the heroic founder of Craig colony, died of tuberculosis in the little tent house he called home, his spirit did not depart alone. Two other members of the little colony, brothers in suffering to Frank Craig, died at almost the same hour. Sometimes between midnight and the miracle of dawn, three of the brave souls at Craig colony gave up their fight against their grim enemy and departed together from this life. Edward McConaty, who had been one of "Craig's boys" for more than a year, and James Barrett, who had joined the colony last September, passed over the great divide with their hero leader. All three were found dead in their beds at the colony when the shivering attendants made their rounds in the morning to see how the night had gone with the members of the far-famed "Colony of Brotherly Relief" during the still hours. Fruit Men to Meet Dec. 21-23. Grand Junction.—Upon the advice of Governor Ammons the Chamber of Commerce issued a call for a meeting of the fruit shippers of the Western Slope to be held in this city, Dec. 21, 22 and 23. This meeting will be to recommend to the next Legislature such measures as may be deemed wise for the control of the commission men in Colorado. Governor Ammons has declared that as the commission men's bill was defeated at the last Legislature, it would be wise for the shippers to unite on a fruit bill to put a stop to the activities of dishonest commission men and still protect the cooperative shipping associations. Governor Ammons and Governor-elect Carlson probably will attend, with a number of fruit men from the Eastern Slope and delegates from all the associations on the Western Slope. Perkins Confesses Robbing Aunt. Denver.—A three-day search through every nook and corner of the home of Mrs. Martha A. Speer, 2051 Stout street, for the bulk of her life's savings of $1,000, was rewarded when Detectives found $875 secreted in the rafters of her summer kitchen, after Samuel Perkins, 32-year-old nephew of the aged woman, confessed to Chief of Police O'Neill that he had taken the money. Perkins led the officers to its hiding place. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman III. Denver.—Ptomaine poisoning, contracted in Colorado Springs, subsequently aggravated by a severe cold, has confined Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, New York and Washington society leader, and a member of the Industrial Relations Committee, sitting in Denver, to her bed. Ammons to Visit Wilson Denver.—Governor Ammons, following his reappearance on the stand in the strike investigation, it is believed, will go to Washington to confer with President Wilson regarding the withdrawal of federal troops from the state. nowles Case Put Over Until January Boulder.—The trial of the William Knowles case, the first of those growing out of the Hecla mine assault, was continued by District Judge Robert Strong until Jan. 18. This means that the successor of District Attorney Carlson will try the case. Carlson will assume office as governor on Jan. 12. His resignation as district attorney will have been accepted before that time by the district judges, and a new man selected to take charge of the prosecution of the case. 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PRIVATE DINING ROOMS Rocky Mountain A high class Pool and Billi- sium and infact everytning t CLASS RESORT. 2014 Champa Street PHONES: MAIL STRIKER HOLIDAY SALE OF USE Hundreds of Sensible and Appreciated Other Members ALL FUR PRICE Sets for Women and Children at 25% Women's Fur Sets, $7.95, $9.95 and $12.95 Children's Fur Sets, $1.50, $2.95 and ..... $4.98 SILK WAISTS In all colors, crepe de chine, messa- line, taffeta and lace net; special- ly price. $1.98, $2.50, $2.98 # REDUCTIONS IN New Coats of fancy mixtures at $49.95, $79.95 and ... $9.95 For Couth Coats at $19.95, $12.95 $12.95 and ... $15.95 Beautiful Sealette Coats at $14.95 and ... $18.95 HANDKERCHIEFS IN Children's Handkerchiefs, fancy boxes plain and embroidered 2.50 Three Ladies' Linen Embroidered Handkerchiefs, 3 in box.....5.00 Handkerchiefs, 6 in box.....5.00 Ladies' Linen Embroidered Hand- Combination Sets Silk Handkerchief, Tie, Cuff Links and Pin 50c Silk Handkerchief, Tie, Tie Pin 50c Collar Box, containing Silk Hose, Tie, Handkerchief, Tie Pin and Clasp 81.00 Same with Lille Hose and Linen Handkerchief, Tie, Pocketbook, 10c Tie Rack with Looking Glass, Calendar and Picture in Back, Sox. Tie and Handkerchief to THE FASHION WEEKLY Accepted. "You're a mighty poor talker, especially to the girls. How did you raise the nerve to propose to Miss Sweet?" 'Oh, I didn't say much of anything to her. I handed her a solitaire ring and she slipped it on her left forefinger and said: 'All right; it fits!' " DENVER, COLORADO. PHONE MAIN 7413 $1.50 and $1.98. Neckties. Denver, Colo. An Exception. STATE LINES ERASED IRRIGATION PRIORITIES UPHELD IN U. S. WATER RULING. Nebraska Men Are Sustained in Republican River Case in Federal Court. Denver.—A decision involving all irrigation projects in Colorado and with a wide bearing on similar cases throughout the United States was handed down in the federal District Court when Judge R. E. Lewis decided that state boundaries have no bearings on water rights and that the state has no special claim on the water of the rivers which spring up within its boundaries. The decision was given in the case of the Pioneer Irrigation Company of Nebraska against John E. Field, state engineer, his assistants and all users of water from the Republican river in Colorado. The plaintiffs claim priorities on the river antedating many of those held by Colorado irrigators, who have been taking water from the stream before it passes out of the state. The court decreed that the Colorado users must leave twenty-nine feet of water in the river where it crosses into Nebraska. The case will be carried to the United States Court of Appeals. "Should the Supreme Court of the United States uphold this decision," Attorney General Farrar, who has been active in the case, said, "it will mean a loss of millions of dollars to Colorado and the suspension of more than half of the larger irrigation projects of the state." The Colorado officials and Charles L. Allen, attorney for the water users, contend not only that they had the right to all the water they could take out of the stream in their own state, but that, because of the inevitable seepage and return flow of the water used, the same amount would go farther and could be used over and over again, if it was taken out nearer the head of the stream, than if allowed to run over into Nebraska across the arid territory, where much of it would be lost by evaporation and must be wasted through being unused. The question is specially vital to Colorado, according to Farrar, because all of her streams flow over into adjoining states. On its final settlement will depend the fate of many irrigation enterprises on the Arkansas, the Platte, the Laramie, the Grand, the Rio Grande and the Las Animas rivers. Inheritance Taxes Raise $465.063 Denver.—The state inheritance tax department, according to a report issued by Appraiser Leslie E. Hubbard, has handled and disposed of more estates in the last two years than were disposed of in the ten years from 1902 to 1912, and has collected more money than has been taken in during any previous biennial period. The receipts for 1913 and 1914 total $465,063.02; disbursements, $18,885.80, leaving net for the biennial period, $446,177.22. Estates appraised and in process of settlement total $39,776.24. Taxes collected from estates is $478; waiver fees collected from estates, $1,618; estates assessed and calculated, $50, and estates ready for waiver, $150. The total number of estates handled in the biennial period was 660. Denver People to Pay $6,000,000 Tax. Denver.—The total revenues for government maintenance, including city, county and state, to be paid by Denver people and corporations for 1915, will approximate $6,085,435 in 1915, as compared with $5,785,435 in 1914. These figures include all taxes for all purposes, licenses, fees and miscellaneous collections, including also franchise bonuses paid by the utility corporations. State Boiler Department Has Surplus. State Boiler Department Has Surplus. Denver.—A surplus of $1,854.96 is shown by George V. Cosseboom, state inspector of steam boilers, in his biennial report, which he has submitted to Governor Ammons. There has been no boiler explosions in the state in the last two years. Seventy per cent of the boilers inspected during the period were found defective in some manner. They were all repaired upon the recommendations of his department. School of Mines Submits Report Denver.—The biennial report of the State School of Mines has been submitted by President William George Haldane and the board of trustees. The report shows that the school is in splendid condition financially and has a greater cash balance now than ever before at the end of a fiscal term. The cash on hand Dec. 1 was $65,568, nearly double that of last year, and in many years there have been deficits at this time. Warden Tynan Makes Report: Denver.—The biennial report of Warden Thomas J. Tynan of the state penitentiary has been presented to Governor Ammons. It shows that during the two years ending Nov. 30 the appropriations for the penitentiary were $311,237, and the total earnings were $514,217, giving to the state a net profit of $202,980, which exists in livestock and permanent improvements. The total length of new road built by convict labor was 139 miles, of which fully 100 were in farming communities. THE MALL The Big Denver THE STORE OF THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT There is Something for Everybody Here-Old and Young-Rich and Poor; More than A MILLION THINGS SUITABLE FOR GIVING BUY EARLY BEFORE THE BEST THINGS ARE SOLD THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. 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