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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 Outlook For Republican Success In 1916 VOL. XX1. Outlook Republi Washington, D. C., Dec. 16. "I believe the next Congress will witness the solidifying of the Republican party," declares Representative elect William B. McKinley, ex-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee and Taft campaign manager. He says the younger members of the Republican party will find next session that "the older members who have been returned to Congress are disposed to give them every opportunity to share actively in the work and committeeships." That any attempt of the Democrats to create insurgency in the Republican ranks will fail is predicted by Mr. McKinley. He asserts the Democrats are on the defensive, and advises the Republican party 'not to use soft gloves" in the next campaign. "Our Democratic friends, like Champ Clark," he said, "when they fight the Republican party, use sledge hammer blows. They don't use a bean shooter. Somehow we have formed the habit of fighting with silk gloves. FARMERS DISGUSTED WITH TARIFF BILL "There is no question that the farmers generally are disgusted with the Underwood tariff bill. There is a growing dissatisfaction among working men. The business men of the country justly admire the splendid personality of President Wilson, but they realize the failure now of the tariff law. Added to their failures are a lot of annoying features incident to the war tax and the banking law. "Business men who during September and October were inclined to think that this business depression existing should be attributed to the war know better now. "The falsity of the Democratic claim is shown by the monthly statement of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, which shows great;increase for the ten months just ended. We are not at war with Australia, Brazil, China, Canada, Cuba or Holland, yet the balance of trade with these countries is against us. Nor has war interfered with our business with Argentina, which is increasing its exports to this country. You cannot bring such large imports into this country without restricting the output of our factories, without laying off men; and with every man you lay off you create at least ```markdown ``` --- - five dissatisfied and complaining voters. DEMOCRATS CHAMPIONING PROTECTION. "When a good Democrat like Norman Mack is quoted as beginning to champion a protective policy as a relief for bad times, and when men like Governor Baldwin of Connecticut urge amendments to the tariff bill, even the Wilson business men begin to admit that the tariff is responsible for the sad condition in this country, and not the war abroad. 'I have discovered a great feeling about the country among the Republicans that they are going to win in 1916. It is genuine. The election has transformed the party into a confident and militant organization. The Republicans have their courage again. Now is the time to begin to prepare for the next campaign." WITHOUT RACE OR FLAG The following article is a clipping from the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. A leading white paper of the South. "At the meeting of the American Public Health Association, at Jacksonville, Dr. William F. Brunner, health officer at Savannah, talked about the one destroyer in this world that has neither race nor flag, but that marches, fights, conquers and slays. It is the disease germ that has this unviable distinction, and Dr. Brunner applied the philosophy specifically to the germ that, as The Constitution has often expressed it, "crosses the race line," in other words, the immemorial problem of trying to build up the health of the white race while neglecting or minimizing the health of the Negro race The consequences are deadly. The Associated Press report covering Dr. Brunner's indictment reads: The greater death rate among Negroes than among members of the white race was emphasized in an address by Dr. W. F.Brunner, health officer of Savannah, Ga. He suggested a commission to inquire into the sociological and sanitary DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 1914 State Hist & Nat Hist Biology State House ANTS WHO ADO E JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO conditions surrounding the Negro in his place of living. The germ is the original pariah. Its hand is against everyone. It acknowledges no race or flag, but it preys on all races and invades the lands of all flags. In the case of the Negro, the principle is tragically illustrated. Right here in Atlanta, the germs of all manner of diseases cross the race line with blithe impartiality. Yet the indifferent person puts up the plea, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Perhaps not, if you want to put it on that ground. But carry it to its logical conclusion and what then? The Negro woman who cooks your meals, or is maid in your house, very probably comes from an infected household. Your butler may have tuberculosis-ridden home, where all precauisons are ignored, for all you know. The clothes you wear are, for all you can prove, washed in a hovel where diseases breeds, or at least where the environment is revoltingly insanitary. The talk of "segregation" as a cure for this condition is pitiful folly. You can not segregate the germ. Its work goes right on. The contradiction is that these murderous fatteners of the disease and death rate can be abolished, and that within a comparatively short time and by a formula arithmetically demonstrable. In Havana, and on the canal zone, Gorgas recognized that the germ had neither race nor flag. In New Orleans, fighting yellow fever or the bubonic plague, the same fact was faced. What was the result? They went after the germ wherever it existed in white or Negro, or "mestizo" quarters, and now these places are far more healthy than the average American municipality. American citizens pay taxes to fight the germ without flag or race in these latitudes and point to the result with pride. Right under their noses are incubators of disease run in defiance of the laws we elsewhere recognize and for the enforcement of which we pay, and why? For one or two reasons: Pluperfect, apathy or pluperfect parsimony. In the hygienic sense, if no other, we are, indeed, "our brother's keeper." We concede that principle or suffer. Until Atlanta, Savannah and every other American city and State recognizes and enforces this formula, the destroyer without race or flag will continue its march unabated." Ruleville, Miss., Dec. 22.—News was brought here today of the lynching of Charles Williams, a Negro, on a plantation several miles in the country. Williams, it is charged, attacked the plantation manager late yesterday, and a few hours later he was seized by a mob. SEGREGATION SEEKS A NEW FIELD. (Indianapolis Ledger.) The segregation pestilence has reached St. Louis. A bill has been introduced in the House of Delegates to divide the city into white and colored blocks. This bill is framed similar to its predecessor in other cities. We are not in the least surprised to learn of this attempt to place the Missouri metropolis in the segregation ranks. The city is essentially southern. The fact that surprises us is that the attempt has been deferred until this late day. The real estate men are watching the outcome of the bill with keen interest. It is up to the colored people of that city to get together and use every means possible to try to defeat the odious bill. In this case, as in sickness, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is much better to make a determined fight on the bill and defeat it before it is made into law than to idly wait until it is enacted and then to try to defeat it in the Supreme Court. Supreme Courts are fickle and no one can tell what they will do. They should profit by the example of the colored people of Louisville, who allowed segregation, with scarcely any opposition on their part, to become a law. After its passage they then got busy, and are now making use of every effort to have the law nullified. If St. Louis succeeds to segregation, every one in his right mind knows that it will be only a brief spell before Kansas City, the other large city of the state, will be inoculated with the determination to have her colored citizens dwell only in prescribed districts. SCORES MINISTER FOR CALLING ON WIVES. Cineinnati, Ohio.—Rev. Frederick Taylor, Indianapolis pastor, told ministers assembled at the interdenominational institute at the Ninth Street Baptist church "the practice of ministers going from house to house making afternoon calls on church women while their husbands are at work causes more trouble for the church than it does good. This calling business may possibly suit some men, but not me," he said with much vigor. "I wish I could meet the man who started it. There is nothing about afternoon calls in the Scriptures. I go down town to see the men in their places of business. You cannot get this sort of fish with a net, you have to use a hook and line—but, when you do land him, you feel that you have done something. The other way is harmful." RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Greenville, S. C., Dec. 22 Fighting between whites and Negroes in Oconee county, near Fair Play, S. C., which resulted in the killing of four Negroes and the wounding of four white men, Sunday, was renewed today. A fifth Negro was reported killed. Of the white men shot Sunday, Magistrate W. C. McClune was said to be in a dying condition. New Orleans, La., Dec. 20.—Sam McVey, the Negro heavyweight won a decision over Harry Wills, the New Orleans Negro, in a twenty-round bout here this afternoon. McVey outfought his opponent from the start, and at no stage of the twenty rounds did the man who fought Sam Langford a hard battle a few weeks ago on the coast have a look-in. McVey weighed 217 and Wills 206 pounds. Washington, Dec. 21.—President Wilson today nominated Gabe E. Parker of Oklahoma to be superintendent of the Five Civilized tribes in Oklahoma. Parker, a Choctaw Indian, is now register of the treasury. Commissioner Sells of the Indian bureau selected him for his knowledge and grasp of Indian affairs. Parker was not a candidate for the place, for which there were twenty applicants. Brunswick, Ga., Dec. 15. William Houston, a Negro, saved the lives of four women who were in an automobile which stopped with a dead engine on the railroad tracts as a freight train approached. The train was only about a hundred yards distant and the engineer could not stop in time to avoid striking the machine. Houston chanced to be near and he rushed to the machine and with almost superhuman exertion pushed it across and off the tracks as the train whizzed by just a few inches away. Two of the woman fainted. Norfolk, Va., December 17.—Liazie Harper a colored woman about 80 years old, was burned to death when her house on Forty-third street near Parker avenue, was consumed early Monday morning. It is supposed she knocked over a lamp which set fire to the place. When the firemen arrived the shack had burned to the ground and the body was nothing but a mass of charred bones. Dr. R. S Kight, city coroner, investigated the accident immediately. NO 18 Shreveport, La., Dec. 21. Tilman Gamblin the parish jailer from whom a mob recently took Watkins Lewis, a Negro, who afterward was burned at the stake was the first witness at the investigation begun today of five recent lynchings in the parish. The investigation is being conducted by R. G. Pleasant, attorney general of the state. Gamblin said he recognized one member of the mob which lynehed Lewis, but having been threatened with assassination he was afraid to give the man's name. Columbus, O., Oct. 8.—What is fame? If G. Washington, father of this country, hero of Valley Forge, etc., etc, were living to day he might make this interrogation. Why? Because a little school fellow of eight summers, when asked the other day who was the first president of the United States, promptly replied, "Booker Washington" Then when asked who it was that could not tell a lie after doing the cherry tree destructive damage, as quickly replied, "Booker Washington." While G. Washington, who entered into everlasting coma at that finished city whose geographical name is Alexandria, might regretfully ask, What is fame? the build-of a great educational institution in the vicinity of "Hungry" Hill, Ala., might reply, "Fame is being known to even kids out in the capitol of the Buckeye State." Birmingham, Ala., December 17.—Through his ability to throw his hip out of joint and become apparently helpless, William Hoke, colored, of this city, has defrauded at least three railroads in the South of money paid him for alleged injuries, according to admissions railroad officers say he made to them to-day. Hoke was placed in jail on a charge of perjury. Hoke brought suit against Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad in Federal Court, for $65,000 damages, for injuries alleged to have been received when he stepped on a banana peeling in one of the company's cars and "injured" his hip. His testimony in the case Tuesday aroused suspicions. Surgeons who completed examination of Hoke today pronounced him a "human freak." Righteous Indignation "The idea of not voting for a man because he goes to another church!" exclaimed Mrs. Twickembury. "I never heard of such bigamy." 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. ABOUT THE WAR. Kaiser Wilhelm left Berlin to return to the battle front over the protests of his physicians. In Belgium and northern France the Germans and the French, British and Belgian allies are contesting the mud- fields foot by foot. After two weeks of fighting in an effort to maintain their hold on the Belgian coast, the Germans are reported to have evacuated Middlekerke, north of Ostend. Fighting continues in Galicia, but here, as along the East Prussian frontier, the Russians seem to have been successful in holding back the Austro-German forces. A London report Tuesday says heavy fighting is taking place on both eastern and western fronts, but without producing any material change in the positions of the opposing armies. The Berlin Neuesten Nachrichten prints a Brussels dispatch estimating the losses of the allies in the Yser campaign at 215,000 up to Dec. 1. This total is made up of 60,000 Belgians, 80,000 English and 75,000 French. The German war office gave out a statement in which it is related that on Dec. 19 German troops were successful at Nieuport, occupied certain Anglo-Indian positions in Belgium and captured artillery and 270 prisoners, and that trenches at Notre Dame de Lorette were taken from the enemy. WESTERN. A nationwide agitation to stop the discharge of old men by the Postoffice Department has been started by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Salazar fiat money for circulation in Mexico was printed at San Antonio and agents of Felix Diaz paid for the printing, it became known at San Antonio. Several score persons were injured, many of them dangerously, more than a score of horses were killed and traffic was demoralized in all sections of St. Louis as the result of the slippery condition of the streets following a sleet storm. The heaviest snowfall recorded in Kansas in any December in the last twenty-eight years is credited to the present month. Up to Wednesday it measured fifteen and one-fourth inches. The present month has also tied with December, 1909, for the distinction of being the coldest December. The state minimum wage commission of Washington established $10 as the weekly minimum wage for women and girls employed in offices in any kind of clerical work, effective Feb. 1. Eight dollars was established as a minimum for office boys and girls over sixteen years, but under eighteen and $6 for both sexes under sixteen. Less than twelve hours after they had shot and killed William M. Alexander, a wealthy retired attorney, formerly of Dallas, Tex., whose home they entered to rob at Los Angeles, and wounded W. M. Alexander, Jr., two men, giving the names of Ethelbert Charles Oxman and Glenn Witt, were in jail charged with the murders. Each made complete confessions, according to the police. WASHINGTON. President Wilson was invited to attend the annual dinner of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in New York next April by Herbert L. Bridgeman of New York. Governor Ammons and Governor elect Carlson of Colorado appeared before the Senate public lands committee to oppose the passage of the pending water power site leasing bill. An attempt led by administration senators to recind the ratification of the London safety at sea convention because of reservations which, it was contended, nullified the treaty, was defeated on a parliamentary technicality. General Carranza and his party, en route from Vera Cruz to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, narrowly escaped death when a wild locomotive was sent crashing into his train by hostile troops, according to private advices received in Washington. The needs of the various reclamation projects during the coming fiscal year are being threshed out before the House committee on irrigation. The Department of the Interior has recommended the following expenditures in Colorado during the fiscal year beginning July 1: High Line project, $702,000; Uncompahgre project, $469,000. Henry Clay Hall of Colorado Springs, who was appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission Jan. 14, 1914, was named to succeed himself for the new six-year term, which begins Jan. 1. FOREIGN A Christmas present of maple sugar has been made by the duchess of Connaught to every Canadian under arms, ashore and afloat. The bishops and archbishops of Germany have ordered that Jan. 10 shall be observed as a day of prayer and repentance in the Kaiser's army. William Waldorf Astor has placed at the disposal of the Duchess of Argyll the sum of $125,000 for the relief of families of British officers killed or wounded at the front. Gen. Blas Orpinel and Cap. Roman Bermudez were shot while leading an expedition from Texas into Piedras Negras, Mex., where it was expected a garrison would join them. King Victor Emmanuel received prince Von Buelow, the new German ambassador to Italy, who presented his credentials and remained for an hour in cordial conversation with the monarch. The Russian press is convinced that the formation of a Scandinavian triple alliance may be announced at any time now as the result of the conference at Malmoe, Sweden, of King Haakon, King Gustav and King Christian. The chamber of deputies met in Paris Tuesday, and there was a remarkable demonstration when the premier declared that France and her allies were determined to carry on the war to the finish, whatever its length and severity. At Barcelona a daughter of Gen. Victoriano Huerta, former president of Mexico, was married to General Quiroz, General Huerta's alde. After the ceremony, which was held in the Bona Nueva church, 125 persons attended the wedding breakfast. Lee McClung, treasurer of the United States during a stormy period during the Taft administration, former treasurer of Yale University and one of the country's greatest football favorites in the 90s, died in London of typhoid fever after an illness of three weeks. The Bulgarian minister announced that an agreement had been reached between Roumania and Bulgaria under which Roumania will restore to Bulgaria the province of Dobrudja and most of the other territory which she acquired from Bulgaria as a result of the second Balkan war. Sam McVey, negro heavyweight, won a decision over Harry Willis, another negro, in a twenty-round bout at New Orleans. Tommy Burns, former heavyweight champion, arrived in Denver for a brief visit. Burns has quit the prize ring and is now a business man in western Canada. Jimmy Clabby of Hammond, Ind, claimant of the middleweight championship, and Mike Gibbons of St. Paul were matched to box ten rounds in Milwaukee on Jan. 21. President James Gilmore of the Federal league paid a hurried visit to Toronto. Before leaving for Chicago he made the statement that Toronto would be a member of the Federal league circuit in 1916. Wild Bill Donovan, whose pitching helped make Detroit champions of the American league several years ago and who recently has been turning out championship teams at Providence in the International league, will manage the New York Americans if the deal for the sale of that clue is consumated. GENERAL. Henry Clay Craft, the oldest journalist in the United States, died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged eighty-two years. Mrs. Robert Goelet was married at her home in New York to Henry Clews, Jr., the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Dr. Patton of Wayne, Pa. Mrs. Antoinette Becker, fifty-eight years old, has confessed, according to the police, that she killed Miss Frances Bomholdt, the aged woman who was found beaten to death at her home in Detroit. Orders were received at Charleston, S. C., for the United States cruiser Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship at the battle of Manila, to be ready to sail Feb. 15 for the Panama Pacific exposition by way of the Panama canal. The Olympia has been at Charleston since 1912. A rapgicker saw an old pair of shoes protruding from a snowdrift in a West side lumber yard in Milwaukee. He discovered that they incased the feet of an aged man, whose body was entirely covered by the snow. The man died in a hospital an hour later from starvation and exposure. A report that the British dreadnought Thunderer was sunk in the North sea on Nov. 7 by coming in contact with a mine or being hit by a torpedo was brought to New York by George Rottweller of Chicago, a passenger on the stewardship St. Louis from Liverpool. Mrs. Louisa Waterman Carpenter, 108 years and 4 months old, died at Worcester, Mass., of old age. She was the oldest member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Officers left for Fair Plains, Oconee county, to investigate a reported race clash there in which three negroes are said to have been killed and four white men wounded. 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The true New Year prophet is a cheerful soul. If he ever has any good news concerning the future, he carefully nibbles at the hard ground with a pickax and buries it. Bad news, calamity, disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, these are the staple groceries in which he prefers to deal. And he has such a clever way of making good, too. The New Year prophet wears crepe to work every morning while he is putting his forecast in order. He also wears a long, sad face and murmurs ever and anon that the worst is yet to come. He does this in order that the world may grow pale and weep and shudder. He just loves to show us a good time. The way the New Year prophet makes good on his predictions is to promise every kind of bad luck there is, from famine to earthquake, and from plague to war. As this globe of ours has been enjoying a steady diet of these things since the year one, the New Year prophet rarely goes wrong, but just waves his printed predictions upside down and warbles, "I told you so." He is a sure-thing player, and rarely takes a chance that is not a sixty-to-one shot. For instance, he is safe in forecasting a typhoon in the Pacific ocean, which will destroy shipping, but he wouldn't dare to predict that James Jones will pay me that ten dollars he owes me before the first of next April. He finds it advisable to foresee a famine in China—any old thing can happen in China—but under no circumstances would he venture the belief that I will surely keep all the good resolutions I made on the evening of December 30. If I thought the pay was steady and the hours not too long for indoor work, I believe I should like to take up the work of making New Year prophecies. For the benefit of enterprising employers, looking for bright young men at this kind of work, I have made up a few sample prophecies for 1915. It makes no difference how I did it, whether by crystal gazing or by scientific methods. However, I accomplished it without the aid of a medical almanac or other weapons. For instance, I predict that: In January the days will be a little longer, and ice will be cheap. On Jan- C. W. 1845 Murmura Ever and Anon That the Worst Is Yet to Come. Murmurs Ever and Anon That the Worst is Yet to Come. uary 21 the coal bin will be empty, and father will chop up a parlor chair. The month of February will take only 29 days to pass a given point. The weather will be extremely unsettled, and when it is not stormy the air will be quite calm. In spite of the cold spell cherry trees will bloom around February 22 in all candy store windows. March will come in like a lamb afraid of waking the baby, and will go out like a leonine monster who has just overheard someone say he is getting fat. Rain checks will be issued in case this condition is reversed. There will be some warm weather, which will cause optimists to throw aside their overcoats and shed their thick, prickly underwear. When the cold spell gets back on the job, fresh, frozen optimist will be one of the delicacies of the season. April will come in with a sore foot, having kicked an opera hat which completely surrounded a brick. April will be a wet month, and early umbrella crops will be reported from many regions. Fido will here begin to shed his fur. Now there's a prophecy which shows what I can do. To confess up, there was nothing difficult about it. For anyone can be a New Year prophet. Yes, without any previous training, or experience in sending spirit messages collect, instead of paying the boy yourself. It's safe to prophecize that in the year 1915, A. D., you are going to keep most of your good resolutions if you made them in an earnest, sincere, tryagain spirit, instead of in the usual, automatic way, like giving a fence its annual whitewash. It's safe to forecast that you'll keep out of debt, that you'll increase your bank account and that you'll get your gilt-edged license for health and happiness—if, instead of growing dreamy-eyed and wondering what the New Year may bring WILLIAMS On January 21 the Coal Bin Will Be Empty. forth, you step out on the right foot, with your eyes to the front. Decide that when old Dame Fortune meets you you'll be plugging along the straight and narrow path, and then she won't have room to side-step you. Be your own prophet and predict a year of hard work and square living for yourself. You should worry while the professional New Year prophet is dusting off his shelf-worn stock of plagues, famines, volcanic eruptions and crop failures in Helgoland. ABE MARTIN ON NEW YEAR Thoughts by a Philosopher About the Man Who Swears Off—Has Hard Time for a While. Sometimes when a feller who kin drink or leave it alone gits t' lookin' back o'er 'er th' year jest closin' an' sums up all th' things he's done or undone, all th' energy an' money he's wasted an' all th' things he's missed or neglected in that regretted time, th' past looms up like a piece o' tar soap. Then he quietly resolves t' bid good-by t' social cup an New Year's day, little dreamin' o' th' colossal struggle jest around th' corner. Th' feller who has long been used to fortify' himself with a stimulant on over' occasion has putty tough sleddin' for a while after he swears off. Ther's th' ordeal o' buyin' a new hat or attendin' a banquet. Th' feller who kid drink or leave it alone allus smells like a Deer Creek distillery after he buys a new hat, an' he'll often train fer weeks when ther's a banquet ahead. Sometimes he'll set clean thro' a banquet, or at least till th' last syllable of an address on "Th' Weddin' o' th' Oceans" has dled away in th' cigarette smoke. But how a feller's whole style o' pitchin' changes when he once gits thoroughly established on th' water wagon an' begins t' talk natural fer th' first time onse' th' first baby come! How his patient wife misses his glowin' account o' th' day's earnin' when he used t' stall thro' th' evenin' meal! How his associates miss his decided views on ever' question that comes up! How th' one-legged newsboy on th' corner misses his lavish generosity! How he kicks on th' grocery bill! How his waistcoat pockets bulge with segars, each one representin' a 15-cent drink that he's muffed while in th' hands o' friends, an' how his little children miss th' peppermint drops that used t' fall from his overcoat as he flung it carelessly across th' planner. Lafe Bud says that gittin' on an off th' water wagon is th' only exercise some fellers ever git.-Abe Martin, in American Magazine. A New Year's Wish. To become an expert at forgetting, just to forget all the unkind acts, the deep wrongs, the mean words, the bitter disappointments—just let them go, forget them—the memory will become quick and alert to remember the things worth remembering, the mind given to beautiful things, worth-while things, and to remember always that I am in the presence of God, this is my desire for the New Year. Good-by. Old Year. Peace to its ashes! Peace to its embers of burnt-out things; fears, anxieties, doubts all gone! I see them now as a thin, blue smoke hanging in the bright heavens of the past year, vanishing away into utter nothingness. Not many hopes deceived, not many illusions scattered, not many anticlpations disappointed, but love fulfilled, the heart comforted, the soul enriched with affections—Longfellow. Help! "Gentleman offers to exchange a Christmas present for something useful!" 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PHONE YORK 7837 1417 East 24th Ave Denver PHONE YORK 7837 THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT O. P. BAUR & CO. CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Cole. --- 'Phone Champa 1156 DRINK Furnished Rooms in Connection Dillar Bar BY BRONSON, Proprietors Uuors and Cigars S, Treas. SEIB MILLER, Sec. RTERS' CLUB CONNECTION Free Check Room block from Union Depot Denver, Colorado & Distributing Co. the famous IT'S CAPITAL ereed promptly; empties called for. ines, and Cordials Popular Prices 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 1875. All Parts of the State Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Jan. 18-15.—Meeting State Assn. of County Commissioners, in Denver. Jan. 20-21.—Colorado Good Roads Association Meeting, in Denver. A Farmers' Union will be organized in the Grand Valley on Jan. 7 at a mass meeting to be held in Grand Junction. The $10,000 clubhouse erected by the Portland Gold Mining Company at Cripple Creek for its employés is now occupied by the miners. Weld county has one automobile to every nine families, or one for every thirty-six residents of the county, according to the report of the county clerk. The Evans Commercial Club and the town board are planning to get the creamery plant that is to be established some place along the Union Pacific railroad. After Timothy Readon, 26 years old, had attempted to wreck his home in Denver his wife tied him to the bed, where she kept him several hours before she called the police. While whittling on a piece of pine board, Edward Cunningham of Milliken allowed the knife to slip and cut off the entire fleshy part of his hand alongside the little finger. Popcorn and peanuts raised by the children in their own garden decorated a Christmas tree that was the center of attraction at a party at the Minnequa kindergarten at Pueblo. The Christmas offering of the Great Western Sugar Company to the farmers of Colorado in the form of payment for beets delivered to the factories of the state, amounted to $2,165,000. Two hundred fathers and their sons attended the "Father-and-Son" banquet given at the Y. M. C. A., at Colorado Springs, a movement being started to get the boys and their fathers better acquainted. A physical examination of the school children of Greeley discloses the fact that 20% of the 1,100 students of the public schools are afflicted with some physical defect that interferes with their studies. New mine legislation will be one of the important topics considered Jan. 11, when delegates from thirty counties of Colorado attend the annual convention of the Colorado Metal Mining Association in Denver. The death of Miss Emma McCallen in Denver, following an attack of pneumonia, is the fourth that has come to the McCallen home within two years. During this time four of the five McCallen sisters have died. Masquerading in men's clothing, pretty eleighteen-year-old Mollie Ullery, formerly a waitress in an Alamosa hotel, was arrested at Trinidad when she arrived with J. W. Trent, formerly clerk at the same hotel. Because he thought that dynamite caps should be thoroughly cleaned of all grease and dirt before being used, A. Bahula, a farmer near Masters, is minus a thumb and index finger and may lose the sight of one eye. A. J. Randall, ninety-two, editor, former professor in the Georgetown high school, and recently an heir to $50,000, and his former wife, eighty-five, from whom he was divorced in 1867, were remarried in Kansas City, Saturday, according to word which reached Georgetown. Col. James C. Bulger, condemned slayer of Lloyd F. Nicodemus, who is awaiting in the county jail in Denver the result of a petition for a new trial now before the Supreme Court, is preparing an application for permission to be removed to the penitentiary at Canon City pending the decision of his case. After lying twenty-four hours with his skull beaten in by a beer bottle and his brain exposed through the wound before medical aid was summoned or the police notified, George Jackson of Eaton died at the County hospital in Greeley without gaining consciousness, two days after the injury was received. A gang of poultry thieves is operating in the Kersey district, using a wagon to carry off their plunder and taking as high as four dozen chickens from one place at a time. Mrs. Hartford lost a dozen turkeys in broad daylight, while she was visiting at the neighbors and several others have lost chickens and turkeys. U. Grant Danford, former city treasurer of Cripple Creek, who fled, June 11, 1913, when a shortage of $28,600 in his accounts was discovered, has been located in Honduras, sixty miles inland on the railroad from Porto Cortez, according to information which has been received by the Denver authorities. The town is a Central American mining camp and is about midway between Porto Cortez and San Salvador. Alleged gamblers and violators of the Sunday saloon closing law fell in groups, in Denver, as the result of another clean-up order, issued by Chief of Police O'Neill. Forty-four men were arrested as principals and witnesses. A judgment for damages to the amount of $1,000 against the Northern Coal and Coke Company was awarded the town of Louisville in the District Court at Boulder. The action was brought because of subsidence of land, due to the mining operations of the defendant. BIG CROP GAIN SHOWN THE RIBBON STORE CORN, WHEAT, OATS AND RYE CROPS INCREASE. Colorado Farmers Raised 4,326,000 More Bushels of Corn Than Year Ago, But Received Lower Prices. Denver.—Colorado's corn, wheat, oats and rye crops and prices received in 1914 show consistent gains, according to the December report of the bureau of crop estimates of the Department of Agriculture. The figures show the underlying cause of much of the prosperity apparent in the agricultural communities and districts of the state, as compared with conditions in 1913. Colorado farmers raised 4,326,000 more bushels of corn than a year ago, but received 9 cents a bushel less for the crop. Nearly 1,700,000 more bushels of wheat were grown, with an increased price of 9 cents a bushel. The oats crop was 2,325,000 bushels greater than a year ago, and the selling price was 1 cent higher. An increase of 5 cents in the price of barley netted a considerable sum to Colorado farmers, who raised 28,000 bushels more than a year ago. The tabulated bulletin of the bureau is as follows. | Crops | Year. | Acreage | Production. | Price Dec. 1 | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Corn | 1914 | 462,000 | 10,626,000 | $ .64 | | Corn | 1914 | 429,000 | 6,300,000 | $ .72 | | Wheat | 1913 | 175,755 | 11,150,000 | $ .87 | | Wheat | 1913 | 460,000 | 9,680,000 | $ .78 | | Oats | 1914 | 325,000 | 13,000,000 | $ .45 | | Oats | 1914 | 305,000 | 10,675,000 | $ .45 | | Barley | 1913 | 103,000 | 7,550,000 | $ .55 | | Barley | 1913 | 103,000 | 3,250,000 | $ .56 | | Rye | 1914 | 21,000 | 368,000 | $ .65 | | Rye | 1914 | 20,000 | 340,000 | $ .60 | | Potatoes | 1913 | 72,000 | 8,800,000 | $ .60 | | Potatoes | 1913 | 970,000 | 9,200,000 | $ .65 | | Hay | 1914 | 970,000 | 2,228,000 | $ .74 | | Hay | 1914 | 890,000 | 1,824,000 | 10.00 | | Sugar beets | 1914 | 132,000 | 1,552,000 | 5.57 | | Sugar beets | 1914 | 130,000 | 1,552,000 | 5.57 | | Quantities of hay and sugar beets are given in tons; other products in bushels. | | | | Grand Junction.-The standardization of pack, the reduction of freight rates and the regulation of commission merchants by a new measure drafted along revolutionary lines, were recommended by the 300 fruit growers and shippers who held their first annual conference in this city. A committee was named to draft the proposed measure, embodying in it certain recommendations agreed upon by the growers. The committee will report to the fruit men by having the measure printed and distributed. Second Rich Strike in Cresson Mine. Cripple Creek.—A second strike, which it is believed will eclipse the richness of ore uncovered recently, was made in the Cresson mine property. Ten thousand dollars to $25,000 a ton is the estimated value of ore contained in the richest portion of the second strike. It lies in a narrow streak through an ore shoot running fifteen to thirty feet wide, the gangue of which assays $60 to $200 a ton, a considerably higher value than that of the first find. The strike was made on the 1,300-foot level. Insurance Policies for Christmas. Colorado Springs.—The Colorado Springs & Interurban Railway Company will play Santa Claus to both the public and its employés this year. A carload of coal will be distributed to the poor by the company. To the employés the company gives a $1,000 life insurance policy, paying the premium from year to year as long as the men are in the employ of the company. There will be $230,000 in insurance this year. Explosion Wrecks Kitchen. Fort Collins.—While Mrs. M. Dinnebeck, seventy, was doing her washing the stove exploded, wrecking the kitchen. The stove was torn into small fragments, parts of which went through the wall. Mrs. Dinnebeck was struck by the top of the boiler and hot water scalded her from the hips to her feet. Water from the boiler put out the fire. It is believed there was powder or dynamite in the coal. Denver Man Named Hawaiian Judge. Denver.—Thomas B. Stuart of this city, twice speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, and later a Denver district judge, has been appointed a circuit judge for the Island of Hawaii by President Wilson. Two Held as Bootleggers. Boulder.—James Webber, a liveryman, and Thomas Sherratt, a miner, both of Lafayette, have been added to the colony of alleged bootleggers in the Boulder jail. The men were arrested by the federal troops. Wagon Crushes Farmer Eaton.—Falling from a heavily loaded wagon that ran over his hip and chest. W. A. Johnson, a farmer near here, is suffering with a fractured hip and physicians fear he is injured internally and may not recover. Ranch Hand Shot in Duel. Longmont.—Joseph Clark, twenty-eight, employed on the William Longan ranch northwest of Longmont, was shot three times by Night Marshal Callaway and Deputy Sheriff B. C. Smith, after he had pulled a gun on the officials while resisting arrest. One shot took effect in the right shoulder, another in the fleshy part of the left leg and the third struck a knife and a dollar in the man's pocket, which killed the force of the bullet, causing only a slight flesh wound. The dollar was bent double. 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. NEW YORK RIBBON STORE M. B. WALKER. PROP. 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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 799 and 711 SIXTEENTH STREET --- ```markdown ``` Phone Champa 2211 and Arapahoe Sts. 10 THE COLORADO STATESMAN CAROL SINGLE FREE THIS COUNTRY PARTY JOS. D. D. RIVERS....Proprietor 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .60 non-class matter at the postoffice. 10 cents per inch. An inch comp ten lines or less, 10 cents per line per line. On less than three months' cont parties unknown to us. Further p opens that papers sent to subscri ive any number when due, inform a duplicate of the missing and be made by Express Money mer or Bank Draft. 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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 Tuesday, 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. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. Publicans of Colorado ought to be Republicans are gaining ground her had a drop of Republican bloc sign of 1916, to recall better t the Grand Old Party can han all concerned than any other is without prejudice to any other The colored Republicans of Colorado ought to be awake to the interest of their party. The Republicans are gaining ground all over the Union, and we believe all who ever had a drop of Republican blood in them will rally to the flag in the campaign of 1916, to recall better times in the Union once more. We know that the Grand Old Party can handle this government for the best interest to all concerned than any other that ever sprang up in America. We say this without prejudice to any other party. THE PRICE OF PROGRESS let the Negro get the pioneer spirit. The greatest progress comes as built upon the daring and the life itself is the result of the risk and anses of war have led the world final and always desired goal of the physician who stakes his life for a devastating scourge, thus which his profession has bestowed the air is now in progress. The frequent tragedies of the aviators toll of death, and the inversions, even to a greater ratio than, but the toll will be paid and knowing knows no limit. The black not merely to follow in the paths lies in the following out of the achieve and to govern. Let him destiny without fear of the toll. AGAIN we say—Let the Negro get the pioneer spirit! The modern Negro is not daring enough. The greatest progress comes as the result of a risk. The great West was built upon the daring and the life sacrifices of her early settlers. America itself is the result of the risk and daring of intrepid explorers. The sacrifices of war have led the world forward in leaps and bounds towards the final and always desired goal of universal peace. The medical investigator, the physician who stakes his life upon the discovery of a scientific antidote for a devastating scourge, thus purchases for humanity the immense benefits which his profession has bestowed upon humanity. The conquering of the air is now in progress. The aviator is stunned but not deterred by the frequent tragedies of the aviation field. Man's triumph of the air calls for its toll of death, and the inversion of natural conditions must continue that toll, even to a greater ratio than the navigation of the mighty ocean's demand, but the toll will be paid and progress will continue. The white man's daring knows no limit. The black man's opportunity is awaiting him. It is not merely to follow in the path beaten and made easy by the white man. It lies in the following out of the honest cravings of his soul—the desire to achieve and to govern. Let him begin to search the world for the harbor of his destiny without fear of the toll of death. to the new year it should require American to recognize the need may be some difficulty experience that he has not fully acquired the. An annual self-insepction, right be more profitable than all entertaining ventures that are I humanity is prone to err and STEPPING off into the new year it should require little argument to prevail upon the colored American to recognize the necessity for putting his best foot forward. There may be some difficulty experienced, however, in attempting to convince him that he has not fully acquired the habit of noticing which foot he starts off with. An annual self-insepction, right at the beginning of the year, would probably be more profitable than all the social functions and other ambitions and entertaining ventures that are usually planned at this time of the year. All humanity is prone to err and colored humanity, with its limited experience in modern effort, is bound to do so; therefore the greater need for inspection and reform. Have our business efforts been laid along correct lines during the past year, or were the failures that we met due to a lack of logical planning and careful direction? It is a mistake to abuse our fellows and the public in general for the disappointments we have been compelled to endure. It is our own fault if we do not comprehend and treat conditions as they exist, for the man who succeeds is the one who comprehends and takes advantage of things as they are, and not the one who merely founds his hopes on things as he thinks they ought to be. For many years past we have been crying the need for racial coooperation and organization, but the colored man does not seem to be built along the ordinary coooperative or organization lines. The truth is that he has not reached that stage, and the more promising course is that of personal endeavor or the small partnership or limited company. The big colored coooperative enterprise that proves successful is either an accident or an isolated exception, and not a logical triumph of high financial perspective. The time for the church revival is at hand. Is the colored man getting more religious or less devout as the years go by? An apparent increase in converts does not answer the question if the population has increased in greater proportion. Does the pulpit realize the necessity for lifting our whole conception of religion to a higher level and of competing intelligently with the many things that lure men and women away from its enduring influence? Does it offer sufficient and needed enlightenment upon the great, living problems of the race, as they affect and influence our moral relations in the community? It is as much the duty of the pulpit as of the press to discuss the affairs of every day life, and the more it does so the larger and more interested the congregations will grow. The leading Negro newspapers of the country show a remarkable tendency to cater to and depend upon the popular lust for sports, theatricals and other forms of idle display, to the disparagement of our more serious public and private needs. In extravagant imitation of departments in the daily press, column after column of inflated professionalism and chipper small talk encroach upon the space which the people do not make more profitable for legitimate news and the serious discussion of burning topics. This reflection upon the dignity of Negro journalism is not indulged in so much by the smaller newspapers, but it discloses a racial weakness that indicates that his best foot is not in advance. This brief review of some of the foibles and weaknesses of the race is intended but to remind the thinking colored man that the future welfare of the people demands that we consider seriously the conditions and-tendencies with which we face the oncoming year. HIGHLY PRAISED Editor Colorado Statesman: No institution in Colorado with which the Negro is blessed at the present time is so beneficial to him and so potential for future good as the Colorado Statesman. It is constantly calling upon and directing all other powers to do the right things. More than anything else, it is warning the people of approaching dangers and urging them from losses and sufferings. The pulpit has its mission, the literary and lecture fields their influences, but, the power of the press, welded always and ever for the general good of the entire race, is an influence of peerless value to a people who are not prepared to view for themselves the horoscope of their doubtful future. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. BEST FOOT FORWARD A SUBSCRIBER. FOR OLD-FASHIONED CAKE Recipe That Has Not Been Improved on Since Our Grandmothers Used to Make It. Fruit for this should be prepared in advance as follows: Six cupfuls of currants, washed, dried and picked. Three cupfuls sultana raisins, three cupfuls of citron cut in fine strips, one half cupful candied lemon peel, two cupfuls of almonds blanched and cut in shreds. In a warm bowl mix four cupfuls of butter and four cupfuls of sugar, granulated or confectioner's, beat these together until very light. Break ten eggs into another bowl, do not beat them. Cover a wafter with a big sheet of paper; sift four pints of flour over this, add the fruit and the following spices: two teaspoonfuls each of nutmeg, mace and cinnamon, one tablespoonful each of cloves and allspice. Mix these together and stand aside ready for use. Have ready in a little pitcher one-half pint best brandy. Select a deep cake tin and grease with butter, line it inside with white paper and on the outside and bottom with four or five thicknesses of very thick wrapping paper which you must tie on. Have your oven hot and the fire banked so it will not burn out quickly. Now beat the butter and sugar once more, add the eggs two at a time, beating the mixture after each addition. When the eggs are all used, turn in the flour and fruit with brandy, mix thoroughly, pour into the prepared cake tin, cover with several thicknesses of brown paper, and bake eight hours, keeping the oven steady and clear. Remove from the oven and allow it to stand on tin sheet until quite cold. Ice with a thin coat of white icing top and sides and stand in a cool oven to dry, then give it a second coat of thick icing and ornament according to fancy. An icing made of white egg, a few drops of cold water and confectioner's sugar is the best for the thick icing. BEFORE THE HEAVY COURSE Some Delicious Appetizers That Are Not at All Hard to Acquire or Prepare. The hors d'oeuvre is not much used by private families in America, but a dish of any of the things used will admirably set off a modest meal. For oysters or clams, cooked or raw, two hours before serving chop two or three shallots very fine and put them in a saucedish with salt, pepper, vinegar and oil. Pass this around with the shellfish, supplying small plates for holding the sauce. Another excellent hors d'oeuvre can be made of one green pepper, several slices of Bermuda onion, and one firm, fresh tomato. Peel the tomato and denude the pepper of seeds. Then cut the last in fine shreds, putting these on top of a slice of onion laid in turn on a slice of tomato. But do this individual arrangement after the vegetables have marinated in a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice or vinegar and salt and pepper. Anchovies, preserved in oil, are famous appetizers, and they are served as they come on a little dish with hard-boiled eggs chopped fine, capers and minced parsley. A Chef Suggests: That small pieces of chicken with the merest bit of its own liver pounded up with some cream and a little coraline pepper make a delicious paste to spread on thin slices of brown bread. Before attempting to seed raisins cover them with hot water and let them stand 15 minutes; then the seeds can be removed easily without any waste. The left-over cooked potatoes should not be piled together, as they will sour quickly; spread them out on a large dish. That a teaspoonful of curry powder added to the cream sauce in which macaroni is baked greatly improves the flavor. Meat Fritters. Cut cold tender cooked meat in fingers or slices and dip into batter or chop and stir into the batter seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs of chopped onion as desired. Plain Fritter Batter.—This batter is used for all fritters as fruit, meat, clams, etc. One cupful flour, one-half teaspoonful baking powder, one-fourth teaspoonful salt, two eggs, one cupful milk. Sift dry ingredients together, add beaten eggs and milk and beat until smooth. Save Worn Table Cloths. Probably you are convinced that you are practicing all the economies known to the up-to-date housekeeper, but have you ever turned inward the outer edges of a half-worn tablecloth? It is done exactly as a wide sheet is rejuvenated, and if a very fine seam is carefully felled down on the wrong side of the damask, the joining will never show. Try it with the tablecloth you have decided to cut up for napkins. Golden Cream Cake. One cupful sugar, three-quarters cupful butter creamed together, one-half cupful sweet milk and the beaten whites of three eggs, one and one-half cupfuls flour, one and one-half level teaspoonfuls baking powder. Bake in layers. For Filling.—Yolks of three eggs, one cupful sugar and two tablespoonfuls thick cream beaten together until very light. Flavor with vanilla. These are very good. GIFTS FROM Daniels & Fisher's Suit Everybody Best Santa Claus Knows Why. THE Joslin DRY GOODS CO. 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 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 $2226_{1/2}$ 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 COLORADO STATESMAN Tom and Jerry is in town and are being greeted by their many friends. Mrs. Bessie Jackson, who has been quite ill with pneumonia, is improving. The holiday festivities have made things quite lively. of silver, the rarest and choicest could be gotten. Mr. and Mrs. Contee are among pioneer residents of Denver and the best wishes of the commu which help to make them popular everybody, so that the large attance at this function gave and proof of the esteem they are held Mr. Geo. Gross of Colorado Springs was in the city this week on business. Mrs. Maeklin, mother of Miss Florence Macklin, is visiting her daughter. Mrs. Annie Batiste, who has been quite sick, is much improved at this writing. J. H. Doniphan is subbing in the carriers department of the postoffice this week. Wm. Crummer, who was taken suddenly ill last Wednesday, is rapidly improving. J. A. Whittaker and Mr. and Mrs. Chatman enjoyed a delightful visit with Mr. and Mrs. McCombs at Fort Logan last Thursday. Mrs. Jennie Walker, mother of Mrs. Mable Fallings, arrived in the city Saturday from Wyoming to visit with her daughter during the holidays. Mrs. B. C. Morris died at 2917 Marion street Sunday, Dec. 20th, the remains were shipped to Duquoin, Ill., her home, Wednesday Cammel & Co. in charge. Mr. Nathan Kitchen of 2648 Lawrence street died Tuesday, December 22, 1914. Funeral services Sunday, December 27th. Campbell Chapel, A. M. E. church, 2 p. m. Cammel & Co., in charge. Mr. F. D. Reed, director and embalmer of Douglas Undertaking Company, was presented a Christmas present by his wife December 21st, 12:15 a. m., consisting of a eight and a half pound baby boy. Mother and babe are doing fine. The residence occupied by the Rev. A. M. Ward, 2351 Odgen street, was burned Dec. 9th, his household goods nearly all destroyed. He had no insurance, hence it was an absolute loss. A special volunteer committee has decided to have open house for his benefit at 2337 Ogden street, on New Year's day, Friday, January 1st, 1915, from 1 p. m. to 8 p. m. You are invited to come and bring a donation, or some useful article for the house. Light refreshments will be served by the committee to all who come. The fourteenth birthday anniversary of Miss Cleo Hobson was celebrated at the home of her parents 2352 Glenarm place, last Saturday afternoon. There were about fourteen of her little friends present, who helped to make the occasion one not soon to be forgotten. Besides best wishes for many happy returns of the event, Miss Hobson was remembered with many tokens. The color schemes were pink, white and green, which were carried out in botany decorations as well as that of a sumptuous menu. Music and games played a conspicuous part on the program. Before the guests departed, each was presented with a beautiful souvenir, which was made by the principal of the occasion. FOR SWEET CHARITY. The Sunshine club will offer a splendid musical program and reception Tuesday evening, January 12, to the public. Admission 15c. Fern hall. Very prominent and popular artists will take part and the Odd Fellows will also give material support to this worthy cause. A crowded house is expected. SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY OF MR. AND MRS. GEORGE S. CONTEE. To put it mildly, Thursday evening, December 17, will live long in the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. S. Contee and their friends over the celebration of the twenty-fifth year of happy, peaceful and harmonious married life of the principals of the occasion. This event was celebrated at their beauti- residence, 2612 Welton street, and not less than one hundred and fifty persons responded to the invitations with their presence, as well as their gifts ```markdown ``` --- of silver, the rarest and choicest that could be gotten. Mr. and Mrs. Contee are among the pioneer residents of Denver and have the best wishes of the community, which help to make them popular with everybody, so that the large attendance at this function gave another proof of the esteem they are held in by all. The guests began to arrive at 8:30 in their limonsines and touring cars, and nature seemed to have lent her indorsement to a gala time as the cold atmosphere of two days previous had given way to a rising temperature, which catered immensely to the comfort of the guests. The decorations of green and white, transformed the interior of the dwelling into a real horticultural fair and for a time one wondered if he or she was in fairy land. In the receiving line were the silver bridal couple, supported by Mesdames Abernathy, Thomas, Skillern, Carey, Overs and Webb. At the punch bowl were Mrs. Morgan Jackson, assisted by Misses Katherine Hubbard and Amy Matthews. Refreshments, which carried out the color scheme, were under the capable management of Mesdames Hamilton, Levell, Robinson, Atkinson and the dining room service, which was of the most excellent order, by Mesdames Carper, Reese and Gist, reminded the guests of Mrs. Contee's ability as one of the best caterers of the West. Mr. Hewetson Watson presided at the piano and in his usual manner discoursed that music which seemed to blend sweet reminiscences with present day happiness in the lives of the two characters of the function. The presents were many and beautiful—all appropriate of the occasion, of latest designs and very elegant, coming from Colorado friends as well as all parts of the country. The Colorado Statesman knowing Mr. and Mrs. Contee for over thirty years, can faithfully subscribe their expression of good will and future happiness for these friends who have borne the heat and burden of the day together, and as George always says, "I owe my success in life to my mother and my wife," we hope that the rest of their days will-be in continuous peace and happiness. Here's a very good example for young folks. HOUSE CLEANING IN COLORADO CAPITAL House cleaning at the capitol is to be carried on next year in a scientific manner—if the leaders of the Republican state organization have their way, and IF the greed of the politicians does not prevent. It will be as farreaching as the hungry office-seekers will permit, and considerably farther than that if the wisdom of the men who elected Carlson and Ramer and Stocker and Lewis is consulted. The Republican members of both branches of the legislature have been called to meet in Denver on Jan. 2—four days before the assembling of the lawmaking body, in order to agree upon a program and determine the apportionment of patronage. Philip B. Stewart, chairman of the Republican state committee, and the only candidate for speaker of the house on his side, has issued the call as part of a plan which, if carried out, will redeem the state from the thrall of the incompetent and over-numerous office-holding class that seems to regard the capitol as its only home, lessen taxes and generally produce a higher efficiency among state employés. Legislature to Adjourn at End of Thirty Days. It will be proposed to the majority members that the people demand relief from excessive taxes, and especially that the men who serve in the numerous places created in the last thirty years, be ousted or compelled to go to work, if necessary work can be found for them to do. That until a thorough study has been made it will be impossible to discover all the drones, and that for that reason it will be advisable to take a recess at the end of the first thirty days—the legal period for the introduction of bills—and to await the results of a "survey" before reassembling to take action on the legislation which will be proposed. It is the intention, if the Republican members are amenable to reason, to have this survey made by experts in efficiency and not by a joint committee which can be dominated by political influences and whose activities might render nugatory the intention of the party leaders for retrenchment. —The Denver Post. An Exception. If he will try often enough a man can succeed in doing almost anything unless he is trying to be original by copying somebody else. WESTERN BEEF CO OUR LEADER Large Bunches of Pascal Celery 10c per bunch. Oysters.....,.....20c per pint New Mixed Nuts.....10c per lb. LARGE FANCY XMAS TREES 250 EACH. We will have a big shipment of fancy pea fed Turkeys coming in from Longmont farmers for you Christmas dinner. Get our prices on these fancy Turkeys before going elsewhere. Let us also fix up your whole Christmas order so that we can both be thankful on that day. OUR STORE IS YOUR STORE WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE FREE DELIVERY We Sell Every Thing a Hog Furnishes Get our prices before you buy elsewhere. We also sell our groceries cheaper Our Profits Are Small, But WE Get Them All. 2048 Larimer St. Phone Champa 1641 Opposite Three Rules Open Sunday Praise Usually Short Lived. How many, lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago.—Marcus Aurelius. PHONE CHAMPA 2077 Parlors 2807 Welton St Sam Mayer JEWELER PHONE 2710 Mercantile Building 1033-35 15th Street, Denver, Colorado ELITE DRUG STORE. We want your prescription trades. 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. Improvement on the Saw The efficiency of the saw has been greatly increased by the recent invention of a Frenchman. The teeth of the new saw are arranged in alternate groups—four pointing forward and then four pointing back. For cutting metal the new saws are almost twice as efficient as saws of the usual pattern. They last six times as long. The blades do not break easily. They cut either wood or metal and are made in a great variety of shapes and styles. Relics of Other Days. Splendid gates remain in many of the lesser cities of the old world, just as far north in Germany as there are remains of aqueducts built by the Romans which are as fine as the Aquia Marcia at the papal capital, remains of the days that are long faded, but the monuments of which can be seen above ground or dug out of the underground like those of Troy, of the alleged Babylon, of the more certain Pompeii. Depends on Agriculture. Portugal is an agricultural and not a manufacturing country, and its prosperity depends to a large extent on the success or failure of the to provide himself with that much needed suit or overcoat. The most fastidious dresser will be surprised at the style and intrinsic merit embodied in these suits and overcoats, which we are distributing in our Semi-Annual Clearance Sale. Suits $11 O'coats Literally thousands of Suits and Overcoats, which regularly sell 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. Remember, also, that every suit and overcoat is an authentic 1914 model. THE MAY CO. CAMMEL & CO. UNDERTAKERS FIRTS:CLASS MORTUARY ESTABLISHMENT. AMBULANCE SERVICE. FIRST AID TO THE BEREAVED. COURTEOUS TREATMENT. LADY ASSISTANT Denver, Colorado G THE G 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 ST., DENVER, COLO. I. Gibson Smith ART DEALER PHONE MAIN 4843 1638 TREMONT ST., DENVER, COLO. Brickler's New Barber Shop is loca- cated at 2208 Larimer street. Shave, 10. Hair cut, 25c; children, 15c. At Christmastime At Christmastime IN the fullness of his heart, Father usually overlooks himself in the pleasure XMAS SUGGESTIONS At THE SPECIALTY STORE of Denver, where you get the best for the least. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Glove Orders SAVE TIME and WORRY. GOOD FOR ANYTHING AT ANY TIME. THE MILANO, made of real Italian kid, in black, white and colors, the pair..... $2 Ladies' fine Gloves for street wear, dress or warmth, plain or with latest embroidery, pair..... $1 50 Men's Gloves, $1.25 to $2.75 UMBRELLAS Men's and Women's pure silk Um- bellas, with gold or sterling silver mounting, detach- able handles ..... $5 HOSIERY THE PERIEN SPECIAL, the hose without a rival, made of silk lisle, in regular and out- sizes. The pair . 350 SILK HOSIERY Phoenix Guaranteed Silk Hosiery, put up in fancy boxes; 2 pairs in a box ..... $8.50 4 pairs in a box ..... 3.00 HANDKERCHIEFS Ladies' Embroidered Handkerchiefs, in fancy boxes, at .50c to $2.00 BOX Men's Flat Handkerchiefs, in fancy boxes, at .12c to 50c Men's Initialed Handkerchiefs, .25c, 50c and 50c TEA APRONS Dainty Fancy Tea Aprons at 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c, 85c, 81 and 81.25 ca. THE Perini 1021 16th Street. The Denver Trunk Going out of Business Stock Trunks, Bags Cases, 331/3 % Off THE Terini B 2021 16th Street. Denver Trunk Factory g out of Business. E k Trunks, Bags and s, 331/3 % Off .. THE Perini Bros CO. 1021 16th Street. The Denver Trunk Factory Co. Going out of Business. Entire Stock Trunks, Bags and Suit Cases, 331/3% Off .. .. .. ADOLPH L. PRICE, Manager 724 15th Street, Commonwealth Building --- GLOVES ```markdown ``` LEATHER GOODS Latest novelties and shapes in Hand Bars from . . . $1 to $15 Party Boxes in black and white $2.50 to $7.50 Traveling Sets. . . $3.50 to $7.50 The ideal Xmas Gift for Ladies. Newest styles, short vamps, patent and dull eaters, Fair, Cairn, and more. Two to Educator, Shares for Children. ART GOODS Finished Pillow Tops, Center Pieces and Scarfs at 1/2 PRICE NECKWEAR Fashion's Latest in wired lace libly collars. Vestes in lace, net and sheer sleeves. Swiss roll collars and sets. Tired sets and French buttonniere. EVENING SCARFS Latest novelties in cotton crepes, crêpe de chine, plain and Dressen patterns and Spanish silk lace scarfs. JEWELRY NOVELTIES Jet Beads ..... 50c to $6.59 Pearl Beads ..... 50c to $3.00 Barrettes, Braid Pins, Combs and Novelties, at 50c to $5 each Beaded and Mesh Bags, Bar Pins, Bar Pins, Fancy Lavailieres, at 4% PRICE Bros. CO. nk Factory Co. business. Entire Bags and Suit Off .. .. --- SHOES Denver, Colo. The Oriental Cafe The Popular Eating House Game in Season. Only Easte the Most Popular Eating and Season. Only Eastern Fed Meats Served. It Popular Eating Place in the City. Quick and Clean Linen. Game in Season. Only Eastern Fed Meats Served. This Café Is the Most Popular Eating Place in the City. Quick Service and Clean Linen. HENRY GARLAND, Prop. When You W Heads, Feet, Tails Snouts, N terlings or any other part of except the squeal go to Cast's Mark ner Street. Phon YSTONE CA N FOR BINESS New Dining Room in Co to Keystone Social Club. like it ever attempted in home cooking. Lowest prices for best eastern corn-fed meats. Your patronage When The Heads, Feet, T or Chiterlings or a except the East's When You Want The Heads, Feet, Tails Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to KEYSTO OPEN FOR BUSINESS Strictly home cooking. food. Eastern corn-fed KEYSTONE CAFE OPEN FOR BUSINESS New Dining Room in Connection to Keystone Social Club. Nothing like it ever attempted in Denver. Strictly home cooking. Lowest prices for best quality of food. Eastern corn-fed meats. Your patronage solicited. FULL DINNER 11:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. Soup, Fish or Meat, Two Vegetables Coffee, Tea or Cocoa Desert 25 CENTS SHORT ORDERS AT ALL HOURS Syl. 1857 Champa St. Phon Syl. Stewart Manage Champa St. Phone Champa 3543 Den 1857 Champa St. Phone Champa 3543 Denver, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Garner Proprietors and Managers The Hotel ROOMS PERMAN The Hotel Abyssin ROOMS PERMANENT AND TRANSIENT STEAM HEAT First Class and Modern in Every Respect Rooms $1.50 Per Week and Up. 2258 LARIMER STREET Second Floor The Cham Twentieth Is the p DRUGS, CHEMICALS WE SERVE Prescription Phone us and we will deliver JAMES E. PHONE THE ZOBE SAMPL 1004 Nineteenth Champa Pharm Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your CHEMICALS AND PATENT MED WE SERVE DRINKS. Descriptions Our Special and we will deliver the goods to all parts of JAMES E. THRALL, PRO PHONE MAIN 2425. THE ZOBEL BROTHER AMPLE ROO 4 Nineteenth Street, Corner of Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. THE ZOBEL BROTHERS' SAMPLE ROOM 1004 Nineteenth Street, Corner of Curtis FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS COORS' CELEBRATED BEER ON TAP ER COL --- 2228 Larimer Street. DENVER Railroad Porters Headquarters Is Served. This Café Is City. Quick Service rop. Want uts, Neckbones part of the hog to rKet CAFE room in Connection social Club. Nothing attempted in Denver. is for best quality of patronage solicited. Soup, Fish or Meat, Two Vegetables Coffee, Tea or Cocoa Desert 25 CENTS Manager. 543 Denver, Colo. PHONE MAIN 5961 yssinia RANSIENT Pharmacy Impa, our PATENT MEDICINES DRINKS. Specialty. to all parts of the city. L, PROPR. 5. OTHERS' ROOM Corner of Curtis --- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z THE GARDEN OF THE GARDEN Denver, Colorado. Phone Main 1461 DENVER, COLO. COLORADO U. S. TROOPS WILL LEAVE COLORADO ARRANGEMENTS MADE DURING CONFERENCE OF WILSON, AMMONS, CARLSON, SHAFROTH. GOVERNOR SEES PEACE BELIEVES TROUBLE WILL END IF LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE PLACED IN CONTROL. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, Dec. 24.—Arrangements for beginning the withdrawal of federal troops from the Colorado strike districts within the next ten days were made at a conference between President Wilson, Governor Ammons, Governor-elect Carlson and Senator Sharroth. After seeing the President, the Colorado officials discussed details with Secretary Garrison. Governor Ammons told the President that if the plan of withdrawing the troops from one district at a time were carried out, he would be able to control the situation with local officials. He said he could use the militia if necessary, but desired to avoid further expense to the state. He declared there was every prospect of peace if the local authorities were given an opportunity to gain control of the situation gradually. He told the President he would leave for Colorado Thursday and was willing that the first troops be withdrawn as soon as he arrived. Trinidad.—Col. S. J. L. Lockett, commander of the federal troops in the southern Colorado strike district, has announced that beginning Jan. 1, upon the expiration of the last proclamation of Governor Ammons, the federal troops will impose no more restrictions on the sale or shipment of liquor in the district. SLAVS MOVE ON CRACOW Emperor Francis Joseph Reported Dying as Czar's Forces Renew Attack on Stronghold in Galicia. London, Dec. 24.—Russian troops to the number of 600,000 are moving toward Cracow, the Galician stronghold, from the north and east. An important battle apparently is developing in southwestern Poland, near Cracow. While the Germans are not relaxing their efforts along the line from Sochacew to Skierniewice, in the movement toward Warsaw, the greatest activity Wednesday was in the vicinity of Miechow and Andrejew, immediately northeast of Cracow. With the news of the Russian advance in Galicia comes the report that Emperor Francis Joseph is near death in Vienna and has received the last rites of the church. The allies in the west, the Germans in Poland and the Russians in East Prussia continue their offensive operations, but the advances have been so slight as to be almost imperceptible. In the long run, however, the ground which is being taken may prove vital and the various armies are fighting with an intensity which has not been exceeded since the war began. In Poland the center of interest has shifted slightly to the south. Finding the direct road to Warsaw blocked by Russian reinforcements, the Germans made an attack from the southwest and have reached Skierniewice, which is some forty miles from the Polish capital. They have thus far failed to pierce the Russian lines, but have forced Grand Duke Nicholas to withdraw some of his forces from before Cracow. In this, one of the chief aims of their offensive against Russia, the Germans have been successful. NO STOCK SHOW IN JANUARY. Horse Exhibition May Be Put on by Old Association. Denver.—Directors of the National Western Stock Show Association voted to abandon the stock show and all its auxiliary exhibitions, scheduled for the week of Jan. 18. The action of the directors was based upon a fear that the foot and mouth disease might be brought into the state and that the destruction of the cattle industry in Colorado would result. Charles MacA. Willcox and other business men interested in stock show features announced at the close of the meeting that the old Denver Horse Show Association, dissolved six years ago when the Western Show Association was organized, would be revived and a horse show would be held under its auspices. Three Drowned in Arizona Floods. Tucson, Ariz.—Floods, the result of a week of practically unbroken rainfall, inflicted severe damage upon nearly the entire area of the state lying between Phoenix and the Mexican border. Three persons, so far as known Thursday, lost their lives; livestock by hundreds of head was drowned; ranch houses and city residences wrecked or washed away by torrents roaring through what usually are dry arroyos, and traffic by rail, highway and wire either has been badly crippled or completely suspended. LARGE WHEAT ACREAGE LARGE WHEAT ACREAGE FORECAST OF 1915 CROPS IS 580, 000,000 BUSHELS. The Department of Agriculture Estimates Low Yield of Crop, Owing to Poor Conditions. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington.—Owing to the poor condition of winter wheat on Dec. 1 the Department of Agriculture's estimate, based on condition figures of production next year, is only 580,000, 000 bushels, although the area sown this fall, 41,263,000 acres, is the greatest ever planted in the United States. The poor condition is due principally to a very dry fall, which caused the growing crop to get a poor start and to the Hessian fly; scattering reports of which have been received from various localities from Maryland to Oklahoma. The bureau of crop estimates, in interpreting the condition reports, issued this statement: "The condition of the winter wheat crop on Dec. 1 is estimated at 88.3 per cent of a normal crop, which compares with 97.2 per cent a year ago. In the past ten years, the condition on Dec. 1 has averaged 90.3 per cent and the outturn of the crops has averaged about 14.4 bushels per acre on the planted area. In the same proportion the condition of 88.3 would forecast a yield of about 14.08 bushels, which, on the estimated acreage planted, amounts to $580,000,000 bushels." "The production in 1914 was estimated at 675,623,000 bushels (by far the largest amount ever produced in one year) and in the preceding five years an average annual production of 441,000,000 bushels. "In forecasting this quantity of 580,000,000 bushels, it should be considered as the amount of which the probability is equal that the outturn will be either above or below it. The crop will be larger or smaller than this amount, according as the changes in conditions from now to harvest are better or worse than average changes." Rye was sown this fall on 2,851,000 acres, an increase of 78,000 acres over the revised estimated area sown last fall. The condition of rye on Dec. 1 was 93.6 per cent of a normal, against 95.3 per cent last year, 93.5 in 1912, and 93 the ten-year average. The acreage and condition on Dec. 1 of winter wheat and rye by principal states follow: AVERAGE OF PRINCIPLE STATES. WINTER WHEAT. STATES Acre. Con. New York 382,000 96 Pennsylvania 1,366,000 85 Illinois 2,800 92 Illinois 2,034 92 Wisconsin 89,000 92 Iowa 536,000 96 Idaho 2,841 92 Nebraska 3,637 90 Kansas 8,779,000 80 Texas 1,367,000 80 Oklahoma 3,082,000 80 North Carolina 683,000 88 Wyoming 54,000 96 Colorado 276,000 92 New Mexico 55,000 95 Jamaica 41,000 91 Utah 253,000 89 Nevada 23,000 89 Idaho 384,000 105 Washington 1,714,000 91 Oregon 686,000 92 California 463,000 98 RYE. Indiana 104,000 93 Wisconsin 444,000 97 Minnesota 296,000 96 Iowa 59,000 97 North Dakota 160,000 94 South Dakota 92,000 94 Nebraska 131,000 93 All other 468,000 93 Keeps Secret of Mrs. Little's Birth. Cincinnati, Ohio.—Mrs. J. Jefferson on advice of counsel declined to talk when asked if she was the mother of Mrs. Alma Little, wife of a Detroit druggist now suing her for divorce on the charge that she is of negro extraction, although she claims to have been born of white parents in Denver, "I will not discuss the case at all," said Mrs. Jefferson. "I will only say I am sorry she met Arthur Little. He is not worthy of her." Asked point-blank if she herself was of negro blood, Mrs. Jefferson refused to answer. She is very dark skinned. NEVER MARRIED WOMAN. Common-Law Wife Given Alimony, and Divorce Suit to Go On. Montrose, Colo.—A new sensation struck the town when Frank Platt, in his answer to his wife's divorce suit, in which she names Julia Lechmere, a niece living with them, declared that he had never married the woman suing him for a divorce. Mrs. Platt admitted it, saying Platt told her a ceremony was unnecessary after her first husband deserted her. District Judge Black ruled that a common-law marriage existed and allowed the suit to continue, giving Mrs. Platt $30 a month temporary alimony and attorneys' fees and court costs. Platt in his answer charges jealousy in respect to the girl for whom he provided a home. He says that he does not possess the $40,000 estate he is supposed to have, but is worth only $2,000. Cottages for Tubercular Mothers. Denver.—Thoughtful for the comforts of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, of which he himself died, Frank Craig has bequeathed three cottages at Craig colony to the Colorado Mothers' Congress. The Mothers' Congress will meet December·28 to consider whether it will be possible for it to assume control of the cottages. If the members decide it will not, the property will probably be turned over to the National Purity Association for the establishment of a refuge for tubercular women. ERNEST HOWARD, Carpenter, Job and Repair Work. Coal, Wood Goal, Wood and Express Street. Phone C And the Rest Our Prices The Best Satisfaction Coal, Wood and Express. You Have Tried the Rest Now Try the Best THE Giant FOR QUALITY. CLEANING, PRESSIN ING, RELINING A WORK CALLED FOR 2549 Washington Avenue ING, PRESSING, DYEING, RELINING AND REMODEL WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERE Boston Avenue Denver CLEANING, PRESSING, DYEING, REPAIRING, RELINING AND REMODELING. WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED 2549 Washington Avenue Denver, Colorado JOHN K. RETTIG Fancy and Staple Grocery 1864 CURTIS' STREET eighteenth. D C. E. Smith 9, 190 Res. Phone Market Comp and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries ers. Hotels and Restaurants Our Speci Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meat JOHN K. Meats, Fancy and 1864 CURT Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries 1864 CURTIS STREET The Market Wholesale and Retail Staple Oysters. Hotels and Re The Market Company Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters. Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Eastern Corr Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Use Meadow Go Butter The Corbett Ice Cream Co. 1115 WELTON STREET 1688-89 Arapahoe Street Meadow Bu The Con Ice Cream 1115 WELT 1115 WELTON STREET THE ICE CREAM That Is Just a Lif Kind You Tho C. H. SHIRLEY, Pres. PAUL J. SHIRL THE ATLA Courteous Treat Leaders in That Is Just a Little Better Than the Kind You Thought Was Best RLEY, Pres. J. C. HAMPSON PAUL J. SHIRLEY, Sec. and Treas. HE ATLAS DRUG C fecous 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 Store No. 1. 2701 WELTON ST. Main 895 875 Store No. 2. 26TH AND WELTON Main 4955-4956 1021 21st Street. PHONE MAIN 3028 Corner Nineteenth. Phones Main 169, 181, 189, 190 Fresh and Cured s. Glazing Done 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 L. RETTIG and Staple Groceries RETIS' STREET C. E. Smith, Manager Res. Phone South 1606 Pet Company e and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Restaurants Our Specialty. Corn Fed Meats 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. Hmtmet. Right Prices in Prescription Store No. 2 26TH AND WELTON Main 4955.4956 Phone Champa 752 Denver, Colo. Denver, Colorado 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 $15.00 and Up by Easy Steps to $27.50 Ladies' New Fall Suits nas Outfit Is Ready at Den- Credit Store. Complete Fam- and $1.00 a Week Pays the rations Free. LANAHAN'S Your Christmas Our ver's Popular Credit S !ly Outfitters and $1 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. Chinese Goods, Gifts, Curios Artistic Christmas Gifts Chinese Silk Kimonos—Woven in Japan. JAPANESE TOYS Instantly appeals to the American child. The particularly appealing. We have a very large reasonable prices. We ladies and gentlemen to come and visit our Christmas goods. It will be worth your while. MAN COMPANY B. KASHINO, Manager. Japanese Goods of All Descriptions. Phone Main 8530. Japanese Arts, C Make Artistic C Beautiful Japanese Silk H JAPANE Any Foreign Toy instantly appl Japanese Toys are particularly a selection at very reasonable price We cordially invite ladies and store before buying Christmas go S. BAN C B. KASHIN Importers of Japanese G Phone M Japanese Goods, Arts, Curios Make Artistic Christmas Gifts Beautiful Japanese Silk Kimonos—Woven in Japan. Any Foreign Toy instantly appeals to the American child. The Japanese Toys are particularly appealing. We have a very large selection at very reasonable prices. We cordially invite ladies and gentlemen to come and visit our store before buying Christmas goods. It will be worth your while. S. BAN COMPANY REPAIRING 1923 EIGHTEENTH ST. Hipped Outfit in the West to Produce the Good 0c 75c, $1.00 50c 65c, 75c 55c, 35c, 50c 50c 15c to 25c 15c to 25c Lether. Resoling from heel to heel, entire new bottom and heel.....$1.50 SHOES MADE TO ORDER. Tailor Made.....$10 WE CAN FIT ANY KIND OF DEFORMED FOOT. SHOE RE 1023 EIGHT We Have the Best Equipped Outfit --- --- A Opposite Orpheum 2009-11 LARIMER STREET $14.98 and Up 1520 WELTON ST. DENVER, COLORADO 1023 Eighteenth St AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS We are permitted to live in a marvelous age. So many wonderful things are happening each day that we scarcely have time to read about them and little opportunity to ponder their significance. We, in the Southland, read the morning paper's report of the progress of the European war—Awful! we exclaim, and then hurry to eagerly search for the latest developments in the cotton situation. We read, we have, faith and so we are encouraged to hope for brighter days in spite of the fact that to the average of us there is little said, that we understand, to illumine the situation. One of the causes contributing to our present misfortune is a hopeless struggle to grasp the meaning of giant problems with our pygmy minds, while all around us lie the simple, essential, elemental conditions that make up life, which are easily understood and practical, and which, if given a little serious thinking, will transform this "vale of tears" into a land of joyous living. There are some people in Texas, though, who do appreciate small beginnings and small things, and who are really making things come to pass. We should be thankful that there are still a few farmers who are not cotton crazy. A few farmers who think of hogs, chickens and eggs to raise a few, who like to eat vegetables enough to raise a garden, who raise enough corn to have some meal ground for the old-fashioned antebellum golden egg-bread, who use the milk and butter from their own dairy cows, and whose wives are just old-fashioned enough to make lye-hominy, can surplus garden stuff and fruits and make quilts to keep them warm in the winter. This class of farmers live at home and whether cotton sells or not they will continue to live, to eat and to enjoy some of the blessings of life. The above is suggested by a meeting I attended in Waco, and about which I want to tell the readers of the Houston Post. It was a meeting of Negro farmers, about five hundred of them, representing some ten thousand others who were at home in the North, South, East and West Texas. The 500 had been sent to Waco to work in the nineteenth annual convention of the Farmers' Improvement society of Texas. Here are some of the things they did. They sang songs of praise and prayed God for his blessing on their humble efforts with a fervor surpassing anything I had ever seen or heard in a church. They then discussed, made demonstrations and produced samples of stuff they raised or made illustrating selected subjects pertaining to the farmers' yearly work. They made intelligent written reports from their various county organizations on the work accomplished during the past year and made plans for another year's work. There was wit and humor and song and laughter interspersed with huge chunks of hard common sense. They were sober-minded men and women bent upon finding the way to the better life for themselves and their children. There was order—there was organization. Wade C. Rollins, in the Houston Post. Prospecting for oil near Calgary has resulted in the discovery of a fine quality of oil at a depth of 2,700 feet in what is called the Dingman well. The oil is of such high grade that it can be used successfully in automobiles after having passed through the filter. An antiquarian society has recently obtained one of the most interesting collections in the country. It consists of the commercial tokens and mock coins issued by tradesmen during the Civil war when small change with the government stamp became a rarity. There are in the collection about one thousand varieties of tokens. A successful peach grower, S. J. T. Bush, in a recent talk at Rochester, N. Y., said that 200,000 bushels of peaches rotted on the trees in one New York county alone in 1912 for lack of cars to transport them to market. The newest battleship building for the United States will be 1,400 tons larger than Japan's largest, 3,400 tons larger than Germany's, 3,900 tons larger than Great Britain's, and 6,500 tons larger than anything France plans. It has been discovered that the leaf of the pineapple can be wrought into a serviceable cloth. Not many years ago Russia was a strong rival of the United States in the production of petroleum. Now the Russian empire yields only about 68 per cent as much oil as California alone, and not much more than Oklahoma. Germany has 173 stock companies in textiles, capitalized for an aggregate of $81,512,000. The average earning of a film of moderate length is said to be nearly $15,000. If these United States of America should become involved in war, what part do you think the Negro of the South would play? If he were asked to take up arms to help protect the peace and prosperity of the southland—and refuse? If he should stand and tell the people of the South. "No, sah; Ise not goin' ter no war; Ise got der rheumatism." If the Negro would say, "We's don' tried to help you once, and you turned us off after we's don' won a battle at San Juan hill." If the loafing Negro and the other sons of rest would refuse to give their services as cooks and other required labor? "My dear readers, the above is an "if." If these United States of America should become involved in the present war, we, the colored people of the South, stand ready to give our services, property and lives for the peace and prosperity of the southland. Nor would we sneak from the battlefield and hang around the cook pot. We are ready to fall in line and advance in pursuit of the enemy. It is true, when the North and South were fighting, our fathers and mothers were left behind to care for the families and farms. And when "master" came back from the battlefield he found everything better than he left it; all the corn had been planted and all the land had been broken up. We want the good white people of the southland to ever remember that the blood of the old reliable, trustworthy "mammy" and "uncle" is still in the South. We realize that those who refuse to give us justice at times are the ones who have forgotten the good deeds of the old Negro "mammy" and "uncle." The same blood that traced the old "mammy" and "uncle" veins traces their sons' and daughters' veins.—C. J. Taylor, in the Houston Post. In the midst of the war situation, it is sincerely to be hoped that the general public will not forget the needs of such institutions as the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, located in Alabama, in the heart of the South. Whatever conditions may arise, it is of the highest importance to continue without interruption to give that training which will insure the prosperity of the South and peaceful relationships between white people and black people. After deducting all sums likely to be received from stated sources, including a sum guaranteed by trustees and friends of the school, there remain to be raised this year by the principal of Tuskegee institute in the form of $50 scholarship, or otherwise, for current expenses, about $125,000. The amount referred to not only includes the direct expenses of the school for the work on the grounds, but the extension work, which influences and reaches a large part of the far South. Even the smallest amount will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged. The work of the institute is now so thoroughly established, and its great value to the Negro people and to the nation so fully demonstrated, that the school should not be allowed to suffer in its need for current expenses. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. The unassailable supremacy of the "Smiths" in London can be estimated from the telephone directory. The honorable family of Jones, for example, occupies not quite four pages. The Robinsons, who have a place with the greatest, do not require two pages. But the Smiths begin on page 732 and end on page 770. The United States forest service has undertaken the reforestation of a large section in northern Idaho destroyed by forest fires in 1910 to determine whether the destruction of trees decreases the flow of streams. Irrigation projects now under way or contemplated by the Union of South Africa call for an expenditure of more than $5,000,000. A new Tennessee law makes provision for fire escapes on workshops and factories two stories and more in height. The bulk of the aluminum ore of the United States is produced in Arkansas. There are said to be nearly or quite one thousand varieties of rice in the Philippine islands. It is probable that some of these will prove nearly duplicates, but the actual number of varieties is very great. In Berlin there has been constructed a skating rink with all the properties of ice, but made of salt, the invention of a German scientist. It is asserted that more children are employed in dangerous occupations now than 30 years ago. IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in the Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. We Have Supplied Our Office with New Job Press & Type of Up-to-Date Style and Our Work Will Be on a Par with the Very Best. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver 1824 CURTIS STREET Room 25 Phone Main Phone Main 7417 The Marian Hotel The Only Colored Hotel in Denver Short Orders at All Hours Chinese Dishes of All Kinds 1835-37-39 ARAPAHOE STREET. Mountain Athletic Club and Billiard room. A supberb Gymna- tning that goes To make up a FISRT Rocky Mountain Athl A high class Pool and Billiard room. A sium and in fact everytning that goes To m CLASS RESORT. BENCHROOM A high class Pool and Billiard room. A supberb Gymnasium and infact everytning that goes To make up a FISRT CLASS RESORT. RICHARD FRAZIER, Manager 2014 Champa Street Denver, Colorado PHONES: MAIN 2274 & 2275 STRIKER'S 1014 - 1016 FIFTEENTH STREET HOLIDAY SALE OF USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS Hundreds of Sensible and Appreciated Articles on Sale. For Him, Her, or Other Members of the Family. ALL FUR PRICES REDUCED. ER'S 1014-1016 FIFTEENTH STREET OF USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS Appreciated Articles on Sale. For Him, Her, or Members of the Family. FUR PRICES REDUCED. STRIKER'S 1014-1016 FIFTEENTH STREET HOLIDAY SALE OF USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS Hundreds of Sensible and Appreciated Articles on Sale. For Him, Her, or Other Members of the Family. ALL FUR PRICES REDUCED. Sets for Women and Children at 25% to 50% less than at 16th Street Stores Women's Fur Sets, $7.95, $9.95 and $12.95 Children's Fur Sets, $1.50, $2.98 and $ 4.98 SILK WAISTS In colors, crepe de chine, messa- line, taffetta and lace net, special- SILK PETTICOATS In all colors, good heavy messa- line, beautifully finished, at— New Coats of fancy mixtures at $4.95, $7.95 and at $9.95 Tie, Cloth Coats at $13.95, $12.95 and $15.95 Beautiful Sealite Coats at $14.95 and $18.95 HANDKERCHIEFS IN FANCY XMAS BOXES Children's Handkerchiefs, fancy box, plush and two for $25.00 Three Ladies' Linen Embroidered Handkerchiefs, 3 in box $50.00 Handkerchiefs, 6 in box $50.00 Ladies' Linen Embroidered Handkerchiefs, 3 in fancy straw box $65.00 JUST WHAT MEN FOLKS WOULD LIKE Combination Sets Silk Handkerchief, Tie, Cuff Links and two for $50.00 Silk Handkerchief, Tie, Tie Pin and Clasp Cloth Belt containing Silk Hose, Tie, Handkerchief, Tie Pin and Clasp $1.00 Same with Lisse Hose and Lineman Belt, Pocketbook and Watch Fob in Imitation Leather Box $1.00 Pencil Drawer Box, Silk Handkerchief, Tie, Sox, Supporters, Tie Pin and Clasp to Silk and Wool Dresses at $4.95, $8.95 Tiltore Suits reduced to $8.95, $10.95 and $14.95 Every Suit, Cont and Dress has been reduced in price for this Holiday Sale. Men's Pure Linen Handkerchiefs, $1.00 Embroidered Handkerchiefs, in cover and mailing envelope $25.00 Ladies' Linen Handkerchiefs, color of embroidered initial, box of $50.00 6 Ladies' Embroidered Linen Handkerchiefs, per box $75.00 Fancy Garters and Sleeve Bands, individual boxes, pair $25.00 Pas Garters and Supporters and Arm Bands, gift box $50.00 Shirley and Columbine Suspenders, fancy gift box $50.00 Neckties. Necktie in fancy gift box and gold plated pencil $50.00 Necktie in large burnt wood box $25.00 Necktie in Christmas box $35.00 Men's Fancy Silk and Knit Muf- Fancy Garters and Sleeve Bands, individual boxes, pair ..... 25c Paris Hose Supporters and Arm Bands, gift box ..... 50c Shirley and Columbine Suspenders, fancy gift box ..... 50c **Neckties.** Necktie in fancy gift box and gold plated pencil ..... 50c Necktie in large burnt wood box ..... 25c Necktie in Christmas box ..... 35c Men's Fancy Silk and Knit Muff- lers, individual box ..... 75c Men's Silk, Fancy and Initial Mufflers, individual box ..... 50c Men's Linen Initial Handkerchiefs, 6 in fancy box, per match for... $11.09 6 Pure Leather. Hard-Embroid ered. in fancy box... $11.59 Same. $ in box... $75e DOLLS. TEDD 3 Embroidered Ladies' Handkerchiefs, in fancy box ..... $25c BEARS, ETC. Doll Heads, Real Hair and Eyelashes, 50c to ..... $1.00 Large Dressed Unbreakable Dolls ..... $59c Large Jointed Dolls at ..... $1.50 Large Character Dolls at ..... $75c HOLIDAY FURS AT 1/3 Off ALL OUR OWN MAKE AND GUARANTEED. Snow's World's Advance. Three hours of human labor were required to produce a bushel of wheat in 1830; now it requires ten minutes. The ants of South America have been known to construct a tunnel three miles in length. Not All at One Time. The goda never give all things at the same time to men—Homer. Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.—George Elliot. allot. --- TOM LEWIS, Prop. The A 133 PRIVATE DINING ROOMS 2014 Champa Street Sets for Women and Children at 25% Women's Fur Sets, $7.95, $9.95 and ..... $12.95 L: 111 colors, crepe de chine, messa- line, taffetta and lace net; special- $1.98. $2.50. $2.98 New Coats of fancy mixtures at $4.95, $7.95 and $9.95 French Coats at $19.95, $12.95 and $15.95 Beautiful Sealette Coats at HANDKERCHIEFS IN Children's Handkerchiefs, fancy boxes paint and embroidered 25c handkerchiefs 15 in box Three Ladies' Linen Embroidered Handkerchiefs, 3 in box.....50c Handkerchiefs, 6 in box.....50c Ladies' Linen Embroidered Hand- kerchiefs 15 in box.....50c match, for.....$1.00 Tie Rack with Looking Glass, Calendar and Picture in Back, Sox, Tie and Handkerchief to Wonderful Teddy Bears, 50c, 75c and up to $2.50 Unbreakable Kid Body Doll, 59c, 75c and up to $2.50 Dressed Dolls, 35c, 50c, 69c, $1.75 and $1.75 Unbreakable Doll Heads, 50c, 75c $1.00 1920 DENVER, COLORADO. PHONE MAIN 7413 SILK PETTICOATS $1.50 and $1.98 Denver, Colo. LAND VALUE INCREASES TAX COMMISSION'S REPORT SHOWS GAIN OF $8,745,121. Advantages of Full Cash System Are Proved by Tax Gains, Says Commissioner. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—A saving of $733,000 annually to taxpayers as the result of new values discovered under the full cash valuation system and because of a heavy decrease in the amount of taxes rebated, is among the good results of the new method of taxation, according to a statement issued by Chairman J. Frank Adams in connection with the annual report of the Colorado Tax Commission. The report places the total assessed valuation of Colorado for 1914 at $1,309,559.205. The report shows that since the full cash value system went into effect in 1912 the value of agricultural land improvements increased from 21.27 per cent of the total to 25.32 per cent in 1914. The valuation of town and city lots in the same period has declined from 40 per cent to 34.89 per cent, and the valuation of corporations has increased from 14.44 per cent to 20.02 per cent. The number of automobiles in Colorado has increased from 9,565 in 1912 to 12,772 in 1914, with a valuation of $5,662,537. The increase in total valuation since 1911, under the new law, is $31,520,625, and the annual gain in taxes, paid on increased valuation, is $437,191.06. The total assessed valuation of the state for 1914 is $1,309,559,205. The increase in taxes from 1906 to 1913 is shown in the report. School taxes increased, in that seven-year period, 73.47 per cent; town taxes increased 47.13 per cent; county taxes increased 46.11 per cent, and state taxes increased 22.2 per cent. The valuation of the different classifications of property and the per cent of the total which each class represents in the valuation for the last two years are shown in the following table: 1913. % Total Agricultural land and improvements.....Miscellaneous mining properties.....Live stock Coal and oil properties Town and lots and investments Corporations assessed by tax commission Manufactures Manufactures Banks and banking Moneys, credits and ac- cruse Miscellaneous Corporations assessed by tax commission Manufactures Banks and banking Moneys, credits and nc- missions Miscellaneous Report on Minimum Wages Denver.—The report of the State Board appointed to investigate minimum wages for women shows that 54 per cent of the 3,254 women in Denver upon whom the board has compiled data earn less than $8 a week, which has been fixed by some eastern states as the lowest wage upon which women workers can live. The report of the board has been submitted to the governor by Mrs. Catherine B. Van Deusen, the secretary. It shows that, of the women employés investigated, 23 per cent receive less than $6 a week and 1,639, or 54 per cent, receive less than $8 a week. Auto Owners Gain 35 Per Cent Denver.—An increase of more than 35 per cent in the number of automobile owners in the state this year is shown in the report of the clerks of Colorado counties filed with the secretary of state. During the first eleven months of 1914, 18,333 persons owned cars in Colorado, as against 13,624 in 1913. The number of automobile dealers in the state jumped from 459 in 1913 to 677 this year. There were 930 more mortocycles in Colorado this year than last, the totals being 3,683 and 2,753. Reports 1,674 Nurses in Colorado. Denver.—There are 1,674 registered nurses in the state of Colorado, according to the report submitted to the governor by Mary B. Eyre, president of the State Board of Nurse Examiners. During the past year the board has examined 238 nurses, and has issued 346 licenses. Colorado Unions Inorease Membership Denver.→The membership of Colorado unions has increased 3,685 in the last two years, according to statistics compiled by R. E. Croskey, state labor statistician. There are 36,537 members in the 401 unions in the state. Advertising Laws Cost State $48,905.76 Denver.—Harry W. Risley, state printing commissioner, has approved bills for $48,905.76, the cost of ad- vertising the constitutional amendments and laws under the initiative and re- ferendum voted on at the November election, sixteen in all. The laws and amendments were advertised twenty- eight times in daily papers in each of three counties at a cost of $3,836.40 for each paper. They were advertised four consecutive times in weekly papers in each of fifty-nine counties at a cost of $633.84 each. THE BAY The Big Denver THE STORE OF THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT This Month The Denver Is a Great Christmas Store, 400 Feet Long With 7 Acres of Christmas Gifts to Select From 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. Your Choice of the House Now THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY, and includes of our best makes of clothing—Stein-Bloch Robinson & Cleaver—the most serviceable fabrics and the best patterns in suits and overcoats every man and for every occasion. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY, and includes of our best makes of clothing—Stein-Bloch Robinson & Cleaver—the most serviceable fabrics and the best patterns in suits and overcoats every man and for every occasion. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY, and includes all of our best makes of clothing—Stein-Bloch and Robinson & Cleaver—the most serviceable fabrics and the best patterns in suits and overcoats for every man and for every occasion. Strell CLOTHING O. 621 SIXTEENTH ST. MACK BLOCK "The Men's Gift Store." ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Phone Main 4896 1848 Arapahoe 乐洋轩 ear Holeproof Hose "Wear Holeproof Hose and End the Mend" RESIDENCE PH Lady As Polite S to House for rent at 2929 Glenarm place; apply Mrs. Cole, 2815 Arapahoe street. --- UNITY, and includes all clothing—Stein-Bloch and most serviceable fabrics suits and overcoats for occasion. $12.50 Now for Moch, Bermuda $17.50 & $20 Suits & THESE ARE not "oods and ends," but ment is new and good in fabric and pa well made to the last stitch. $12.50 Now for Moch, Berman & Co's. $17.50 & $20 Suits & O'coats. THESE ARE not "oods and ends," but every garment is new and good in fabric and pattern, and well made to the last stitch. PROOF HOSE and ENGINEER PHONE M DOUGLAS J. R. CONTEE Pres. and Mgr. IN CORPOR RESIDENCE PHONE YORK 7992. Lady Assistant Polite Service to All Parlors, 1830 Arapahoe Street If it is a house and lot or a ranch you are looking for, see S. A. Bondurant, 6 East Eleventh avenue; telephone Main 3433. A man in a long coat and a bow tie stands in front of a woman in a long coat and a wide-brimmed hat. "The Store Economic." End the Mend PHONÉ MAIN 6123—Day or Night THE UGLASS UNDERTAKING COMPANY INCORPORATED AND BONDED --- PRODUCE AND OPEN HOUSE Holeproof TREC WASH Hosiery Curtis Sims Denver, Colorado 13 CENTS A DAY BUYS A PIANO. WITH MUSIC LESSONS FREE. PIANOS FROM $88 UP. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO., 920-924 15th STREET. CHARLES BUILDING.