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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 RAGE COUNTRY PARTY Booker T. Washington Protests Against Ga. Lynching VOL. XX1. Booker T ington Again New York City, Jan. 18.—The New York World of yesterday, January 17, contains the following telegraphic response to an inquiry from the New York World for an expression of opinion regarding the Monticello, Georgia, lynching from Booker T. Washington, the Tuskegee educator and leader. Editor, New York World, New York City. As an American citizen proud of his country and its history, I am shocked beyond measure to learn from your telegram of the lynching of two colored men and two colored women for whipping a policeman at Monticello, Georgia. You ask me for an expression of opinion. I can only say that I feel that such acts of lawlessness are in the highest degree unfortunate and hurtful. They cast a blot upon our civilization I feel there can be no excuse for such an outrageous and unlawful act. The community of state that permits such lawlessness is bond to suffer before the public opinion of the world, and it is useless to invite and encourage immigration into any section of our country when such lawlessness is permitted Every such lynching keeps away hundreds if not thousands of good people who otherwise might be induced to settle in such states or communities. In my opinion there is needed in every communities and in every state brave law abiding men who will fearlessly stand for law and order. This necessity in the interest of white people and black people. Even as outrageous as the Monticello lynchings are, I cannot feel that the Negro is the one most injured, but instead those guilty of perpetrating such outrages against law and order. I always condemn, as I do now, lawlessness on the part of my people, but I have never felt that breaking the law on the part of one person justified other persons also in breaking the law. We have gone a long ways from lynching for rape to lynching women for whipping a man, and I cannot but believe that the courts would have punished these people after regular and proper trials. The conscience of the American ```markdown ``` --- people, North and South, will be stirred by such offenses as the one here referred to and I am glad to say that there are brave and liberal men in all parts of the South such as Governor Emmett O'Neal of Alabama and others as well who represent a growing disposition to condemn and prevent the lynching of human beings. (Signed) BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. WAR AND EARTHOUAKE (From Washington Sun, Jan. 22) Everything, in all quarters of the earth, goes to show that The Spirit of vengeance is lashing mankind to fury, pitting them one against the other, with gigantic war machines on the earth, in the air and in the waters of the earth, dealing death and destruction night and day, making widows and orphans by thousands every hour, and slaves for centuries to the money lenders who are financing the foolish conflict. How strange it is that mankind cannot see and understand the matter from this viewpoint and settle their differences without violence! The police courts, like the battlefields, are crowded every day with angry disputants, glaring at each other and ready to draw blood to settle their differences by fines in blood money or imprisonment in loss of liberty. Rome was shaken in all its seven hills, and all Italy trembled, January 13th, by an earthquake shock that lasted but a few minutes, killing some thirty thousand persons, while the damage to historic places and destruction of property are be yond computation in the general panic and horror of great horrors The sufferings of the survivors, the great loss of loved ones and property, with starvation for the present and destitution for the immediate future, fronting them, appeal to the sympathy and charity of mankind. But where are the sympathy and charity to be found outside of the United States? War, or a state of war, exists everywhere else where DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. JANUARY 30 1915 State Hist & Nat Hist Books State House ANTS WHO ADC E JOURNAL DENVER COLORADO SA charity can be turned into cash and sympathy into giving, while people of the United States are suffering a constriction of hard times that tax their resources to the utmost. And are they not giving with open hands to the Red Cross Society to succor the afflicted of the armies of all nations at war, and feeding desolated, hungry Belgium, whom Europe's War Lord has crucified between France and Russia? It is so. And yet, the cry for help from stricken Italy must be answered, and will be, as far as the people can afford to give "Is Christianity a failure?" The Christian Record asked some time ago. No; not a bit of it; but the men of this generation are a failure, in that they have made war in the place of peace that was given them, and have denied their own brotherhood the love and protection as they were advised by Him who spoke as never man spoke before. Surely the poet was a prophet who declared, "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless millions mourn." NEGRO INVENTION TO SAVE Henry Mock, a colored man of Mingo Junction, O., has invented what he calls a "mine destroyer," which will not only prevent a ship from being blown up by a submarine mine, but will set off the mine without harm to the vessel which is equipped with his device. He also claims that his invention will locate icebergs and prevent vessels from running into such "terrors of the sea," and that it is a safe device for rescuing passengers from sinking or burning ships. Mock says he has not secured patients on his invention, but has applied for them in this and other counties. He also says he has correspondence with governments regarding his invention, with gratifying encouragement of their adopting it as an equipment of their navies. "I have made a number of experiments with my invention," said Mock the other day "and everyone of them has been an unqualified success. I have experimented on an Ohio river steamer several times with dynamite bombs, and the steamer was as safe from harm when equipped with my invention as though there was no dynamite within a mile of it. The locating of other dangerous substances in the river in the path of the steamer also was tried a number of times with great success "I hope soon to secure patents on my invention. When I do I will be glad to have the secret of it made public. It can be used on any sort of steamer or sailing vessel and I am sure it will be the means of saving thousands of lives at sea every year, as well as locating and destroying submarine mines and finding icebergs in time to prevent the destruction of Ledger. Notes On Racial Progress FUSNISHED BY THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. It is reported that more than 500 colored people including many newsboys have joined the 1915 Christmas Club of the Wage Earners' Bank at Savannah, Georgia, of which Walter S. Scott, graduate of Tuskegee, is Cashier. The Colored Waiters and Cooks' Association of California has been organized with headquarters at Los Angeles. Greater efficiency, protection and advertising their services to hotel proprietors of the state are some of the objects. The Montgomery Local Negro Business League presented resolutions of respect to Hon. Emmett O'Neal the retiring Governor of their State, endorsing his administration as one of justice to the race. While Governor, Mr. O'Neal set up a standard in the matter of lynching, which all State executives would do well to follow. During the last three months of the year 1914, the Mutual Aid Department of the United Brothers of Friendship, Jurisdiction of Texas, received from its members, $32, 916.29. The O. P. Baur Company of Denver, Colorado, one of the oldest and largest catering establishments in the West, has several colored people holding responsible positions. Owen Caswell has under his care all of the linen and silver and chinaware. The "Negroes' Creed" is a "Confession of Faith" in Negro business enterprises written as an advertisement by Charles H. Anderson of the well known banking firm of Anderson and Company of Jacksonville, Florida. It is a splendid example of "reason-why" advertising, and is printed on an attractive card. Mr Anderson is treasurer of the National Negro Business League. The African Union Company, an organization of Negroes, incorporated under the laws of New York for $500,000.00, recently shipped from its African office to its New York office 5,820 pounds of cocoa beans and two hundred, ninety three and four fifths tons of mahogany. The European war has made shipping hazardous, but the company has continued storing logs in Africa and is awaiting opportunity to ship more of them. Mr. Jos. L. Jones, Secretary, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mr. John T. Birch, Treasurer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., are busy finding markets for many kinds of African produce to be forwarded to New York. RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Quitman, Ga., Jan. 19.—The assessed value of colored people's property in Brooks County, Ga., is $556,977. In the Dixie district of this country an industrial school under Miss Lillie Gaines and the Simon Hill Baptist Church, under the Rev. W F. Tarver, have done much to develop habits of thrift and economy among the colored people. This year they have six corn and tomato clubs and have put up 3,900 jars and cans of these products. New York City.—Bob Scanlon, a colored American lightweight, has been made a second lieutenant in one of the Algerian regiments at the front. Scanlon hails from this city. His promotion is a record for "spectacular and cour ageous service" while attached to the Legation Vonturs of Paris, a regiment composed of adventurists of nearly all nationalities. Scanlon left these shores seven years ago and repeatedly made good across the pond. Because there are a number of mills and elevators in Wichita that refuse to employ colored men in some capacity, the colored women are becoming very much perplexed and many refuse to use any flour made in Wichita. The housewives believe that a city having a population of nearly seven thousand colored people, that in a year's time the consumption of flour reaches up in the thousands of dollars mark, and to have these same mills refuse to give their husbands and sons a chance to earn a livelihood is unbearable.—Wichita Broad-Axe. Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 20.—A band of native Africans are camped at the foot of Communpaw avenue. It is alleged that they were brought to this country to be taken to the Panama Exposition, and the white man who brought them over is reported to have deserted them. The colored citizens are trying to help them but they refuse to wear anything save their native costumes which are hardly sufficient for this climate. One has died since reaching Jersey City. Some of them attended service at the Monumental Baptist Church, Lafayette St., the Rev. W. S. Smith, pastor, and as they were in their native costumes considerable attention was attracted to them. It is said that the band is in pretty bad shape, though they board all the clothing and money which is given them. NO 23 It may interest the Negro people generally to know that the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway Company, with headquarters at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, operates its own Sleeping Cars and Dining Cars with colored help entirely. Mr. George H. Campbell, superintendent of the Dining and Sleeping Car Department writes regarding the Sleeping Car Conductors who are employed by this railroad the following: "The sleeping car conductors are: Ex-Sargeant A. Ray, Charles M. Blackburn and M. F. Mason. Mr. Ray entered the service as sleeping car porter, October 10, 1903, and was promoted to sleeping car conductor June, 1907. Mr. Mason entered the service as sleeping car conductor July 11, 1909. I am pleased to inform you that these men have worked from the bottom to efficient service at the top. I do not feel the least timidity, as their superintendent, in offering to them deserved praise." NEGRO FIREMEND DISPLACED BY WHITE Chicago, Jan. 27.—Statisticts designed to show error in the contention of enginemen, whose demands for higher wages from Western railroads are being arbitrated here, that increased tonnage hauled has reduced the mileage on which their pay is based, were presented today. Recently alleged decreased earnings were emphasized by J. H. Keefe, assistant general manager of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad, who continued on the witness stand, under questioning by James M. Sheean, attorney for the railroads. Sheean made the charge that W S. Carter of Counsel for the men, in seeking to include the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad Negro firemen in the demands, was in effect making a demand which would result in the placing of white firemen in the places of the Negroes. At the same rate of pay, be asserted, the more competent white men were sure to be employed. Carter disclaimed any such intention. Negroes are not eligible to membership in the brotherhoods of engineemen, but the brotherhoods claim to be acting in the arbitration for union and non-union men alike. Carter stated they believed in the "open snop." 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 Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR. A dispatch received at Berlin from Cracow, Galicia, says that Austro-German forces have occupied Kielce, Russian Poland. More than a thousand German lawyers had been killed in battle up to Dec. 28. The number officially given in the reports is 1,071. How German pontoon bridges across the Meuse at St. Mihiel were blown to pieces by French shells was told in official dispatches from Paris. The capture of Zacatlan and Cholu-la, state of Puebla, by Carranzistas, was announced officially at Vera Cruz. The Villistas evacuated the town following a sharp engagement which cost them 200 in killed and wounded. "We must maintain under the colors our entire army, for at any moment incidents are possible which may render it necessary for us to make an appeal to arms," said P. W. A. Van Der Linden, premier of The Netherlands. It was officially announced in London that a Zeppelin dirigible balloon on Monday dropped bombs on the Russian port of Libau in the Baltic sea, was destroyed and that the members of its crew were taken prisoners. It was officially announced Tuesday evening that the British battle cruiser Lion and the British torpedo boat destroyer Meteor were disabled in Sunday's naval battle in the North sea and were towed into port. All the British ships engaged in the combat, the official statement says, returned safely to port. WESTERN. Jerome is out as assistant attorney general of New York. Suffrage bills have been introduced in the Iowa General Assembly. Fire destroyed the plant of the Crescent Macaroni & Cracker Company at Davenport, Ia., causing a loss of $250,000. Insurance was $150,000. Governor Hays of Arkansas sent a message to the State Senate urging it to pass a state-wide prohibition bill, which should not be submitted to the people. California, the country's principal producer of raisin grapes, had a crop of 180,000,000 pounds in 1914, an unprecedented yearly increase of 51,000,000 pounds. New high points for the year and many years back were reached in all grains and for all active futures on the Chicago grain market just before one o'clock Tuesday. At 1 p. m. May wheat was at $1.46%. The British steamer Washington, chartered by the American commission for relief in Belgium, sailed from Seattle for Rotterdam with a food cargo of food valued at $512,000 for Belgian war sufferers. The 200 men and women who are working in Turkey for the American Board of Commissioners for foreign Missions are safe and well, according to a bulletin from W. W. Peet, treasurer of the board for its work in Turkey. The missionaries are stationed at forty different places and out-stations in Turkey and the Balkans. WASHINGTON. President Wilson opened a membership campaign for the Washington Y. M. C. A. President Wilson signed the bill creating the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, with approximately 200,000 acres of public lands. Senator Stone, chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations, arranged to incorporate in the records of the Senate a long reply which he received from Secretary Bryan defending the Washington government's interpretation of its rights and duties as a neutral in the present war. A promise of complete independence for the Philippines when, "in the judgment of the United States, the people of the islands shall be fitted therefor," is contained in a revision of the preamble to the pending bill to enlarge the self-government of the Filipinos, adopted by the Senate committee. Thanks to the United States from the German Red Cross was expressed in a statement given out by Count Bernstorff, the German ambassador. The German Imperial marine authorities have forbidden the use of wireless apparatus in German waters by merchant ships except in case of distress. Congressmen will distribute free seeds as usual this year. By a vote of 66 to 29 the House killed an amendment to the agricultural bill intended to end the practice. The bill carries an item of $200,000 for seeds. FOREIGN. Alexander Elder, founder of the Elder-Dempster steamship line, died at Southport, England. At the wool sales at Sydney, Australia, the auctioneer refused a German buyers bid for a certain lot of the material. Anti-war riots approaching a revolution have occurred in Agram, capital of Austrian Croatia, according to mail advices from Vienna. The Paris prefect of police, in order to satisfy public opinion, has ordered that the carnival and mid-Lent festivities this year be suspended. A German military newspaper announces that a new naval gun of 11% caliber and with a range of twenty-five miles has been created. Three short, sharp earthquakes shook the Isthmus of Panama in three days, the third one occurring Tuesday. None of the shocks did any damage. The British raid on the town of Essen resulted in the destruction of 400 war automobiles, according to a correspondent of the Amsterdam Handelsblad. Dr. Phillip Newton, one of the American Red Cross surgeons in charge of the Kiev hospital, married the Princess Helene Schahofskaya in Petrograd. Imperial ukases issued at Petrograd fixed Jan. 30 as the date for the reopening of the session of the Council of State and Feb. 9 as the day when the sittings of the Duma shall be resumed. Certain political and territorial demands which Japan has made upon China following the Japanese occupation of Kia-Chow have become known in Peking, and their extent is disquieting, to Chinese officials. SPORT. The Buffalo Feds will train at Athens, Ga., this spring. Members of the Chicago American League Club will leave for Paso Robles, Calif., for spring training, on Feb. 18. The St. Joseph Western League Club sold George Watson, outfielder, to the Oakland Club of the Pacific Coast League. Tom McCarty of Lewiston, Mont., defeated Terry Kellar, the California light heavyweight, in a ten-round bout in Brooklyn, N. Y. Manager Bresnahan announced in Chicago that Alex Klutch, who caught for the Chicago semi-pro champions, would go to Florida with the Cubs. An army is fighting for Jack Johnson. A town is being besieged that the big black may enter Mexico unmolested for his fight with Jess Willard al Juarez. In the first intercollegiate basketball game of the season, the team of the University of Colorado defeated the quintet from the State Agricultural College at Boulder by a score of 30 to 26. GENERAL. The lower house of the Idaho Legislature passed the anti-alien land-ownership bill. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was granted a divorce in the Supreme Court of Boston from a grandson of the famous New York divine of half a century ago. When John Anderson, a laborer, leaped from the third floor of a Superior, Wis., hospital, recently, he was a lunatic. When he got up, carefully brushed the snow from his clothes and sauntered back into the hospital, uninjured, he was sane. Stories of friction between the British and Japanese who captured Kiao-Chow, the German possession in China, and charges of brutality by British soldiers toward non-combatants there contained in a statement published at New Orleans, La., and attributed to Sister Helene of the German Red Cross. "If it were not for the bulwark of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution I do not know what might happen to such states as Arizona, California and others which seem faddridden!" former President Taft told the New York Bar Association at Buffalo in the course of an address on "State Constitutions." The best possible solution of the unemployment question lies in government encouragement or cooperation in the restoration of railroad construction and the opening of new lands, said Benjamin F. Yoakum, chairman of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, in a speech in New York before the Republican Club. "Bald Jack" Rose, erstwhile gambler and star witness in the trial of Police Leutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Herman Rosenthal in New York, appeared in the role of character witness for James M. Sullivan, American minister to the Dominican Republic. Sullivan's fitness to hold office is under investigation by Senator-elect Phelan of California in behalf of the State Department. Private mail boxes in hotels, apartment houses, offices, residences and everywhere else have been placed under federal jurisdiction by order of Postmaster General Burleson with the result that all communications, bills, advertisements, invitations, parcels or other articles not bearing the government seal or stamp are excluded from them. Announcement was made at Calasauqua, Pa., by a local firm of the receipt of an order from the Russian government for 1,000,000 horseshoes. The plant is running day and night Western Newspaper Union News Service. The Fort Lupton Commerce Club has been reorganized. William Gentry was declared the chapmion baby at the Denver show. The postoffice at Stone City, Pueblo county, will be discontinued February 15. The industrial commission bill was introduced by Senator William R. Eaton of Denver. Civil service and cigarettes will be abolished in Colorado if two bill introduced in the House of Representatives are passed. Elias Kessler, sixty-four, a farmer of Morrison, died of ptomaine poisoning after he had eaten cove oysters in Denver. The Senate confirmed these Colorado postmasters: Grand Valley, James Brennan; Aspen, Mary Farrell; Carbondale, D. W. Shores. Frank LaLone and wife and four of their children are dead as the result of a mysterious tragedy at the family ranch near Karvel, thirty miles from Hugo. Aaron B. Page, 84 years old, died at the county hospital in Denver, the result of being struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. E. A. Harding. He was a former mining man. A mass meeting of the citizens of Stone City, in the northwestern corner of Pueblo county, was held for the purpose of protesting against the closing of the postoffice there. The first sign of insurgency in the General Assembly was evidenced when a bill was introduced practically repealing civil service as affecting the employés of the Legislature. Frank L. Bellan, 76, pioneer Leadville mining man and Denver bond dealer, who had been a resident of Colorado since 1880, died at the Mayo brothers' hospital at Rochester, Minn. A deal completed by George W. Skinner, Jr., president of the Skinner and Tabor ranch in Pueblo county, will add 320 to that property, which already contains 60,000 acres. Mrs. Grace Schmidtler, 38, wife of August Schmidtler, a foreman of a saddle company, living at Pueblo, committed suicide by taking chloroform. She leaves two daughters, aged two and twelve. The shaft house and all the surface buildings belonging to the Big Four Mining Company on Breece hill, at Leadville, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $5,000, partially covered by insurance. In the division of the 1915 state school fund of $167,736, Denver received $39,151 as her pro rata of the full amount; Pueblo received $12,792; El Paso $9,157; Las Animas $8,061; Weld $9,334, and Boulder $6,385. The first legal entanglement of Governor Carlson's administration is promised in an injunction suit to be instituted by holdover employes under the previous Democratic administration who claim civil service rights. As the result of an injunction issued by District Judge Harry C. Class of Brighton, work is suspended on a sleeping porch in process of construction on Sands house, a sanatorium located in Englewood. The Sands House Association is also restrained from moving patients into the building. Through several members of the Colorado Retail Merchants' Association now in the State Legislature the association expressed its intention of the opening session of the fifteenth annual convention in Denver of introducing bills in the Legislature for the protection and benefit of the grocers of the state. Denver's city government is one of the largest, if not the largest, employers of labor within the corporate limits of the city, according to the completed reports of the civil service commission. On Jan. 1, 1,511 men and women were on the city's payrolls, the report states. This number does not include employes of the Juvenile, County and District Courts. On Feb. 10 the Monte Vista Hog Growers' Association is going to hold its second annual pig roast and banquet. Pig roast day at Monte Vista thus creeps into the calendar with melon day at Rocky Ford, potato day at Greeley, strawberry day at Glenwood Springs and a half score of other days each telling of some specialty in agriculture or stock raising which has made some sections of Colorado. C. D. Jones, postmaster at Rodley, Baca county, has resigned and the appointment of George N. Ballou is announced. The following Colorado postoffice appointments also were made: Carr, Weld county, Ernest E. Martin; Cherrelyn, Arapahoe county, Ann Dunn; Loretto, Arapahoe county, Catherine Noonning; Nunn, Weld county, Sylvester E. Hobart; Pikeview, El Paso county, Andrew J. Kelly. State Senator Robert E. Winborn of Greeley, and Representative F. D. Thompson of Denver, framers of bills now before the Legislature to insure pure advertising, addressed the Advertising Club at the weekly club luncheon in Denver. Mrs. Harold F. Henwood, wife of the Brown Palace hotel slayer, now under sentence of life imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Canon City, will make application for divorce either in the courts of Colorado or New York, according to word received in Denver. DRY FARM PROGRESS DETAILED IN REPORT MADE BY W. H. LAUCK. County Agriculturist Tells Much interesting Work Accomplished During Past Year. Colorado Springs, Colo.-The work of County Agriculturist W. H. Lauck for the year, as detailed in a report made to the commissioners, shows interesting features in the development of the dry farming section east of here. The report goes into detail of the work. During the year Lauck traveled 13, 323 miles, of which more than 10,000 miles were covered by automobile. More than 1,000 farms were visited, seventy-five meetings for the promotion of farm activity were held and the attendance of farmers and their wives at these gatherings totals 6,000. The organization of eighteen boys and girls' clubs was accomplished and the value of this work was exemplified in the exhibits at the recent farm product and poultry show. One boy, living in the Monument district, made a remarkable showing in potato culture by overcoming obstacles that were considered a drawback to the cultivation of the product in that particular area. Cripple Mine Output Over $3,000,000. Cripple Creek.—With the news that the Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Company had in 1944 the most prosperous year in its history, and that the new strike in the Cresson mine had brought the value of the recent strikes there at the time the report was prepared up to $3,000,000. Cripple Creek miners were exultant in the revival of activities in the district. The annual report of the Vindicator company, just made public, shows that the company's production for the year had been 29,981 tons of an assay value of $1,036,067.07. The gross proceeds from the ore were $802,279.80, the largest in sixteen years. The company paid out $270,000 in dividends during the year and had a cash balance of $208,269 Jan. 1. The report that the second rich strike in the Cresson would raise the output of the two strikes in the mine to $3,300,000 came apparently from authentic sources. County Judges Recommend Reforms. Denver. The appointment of conservators for aged and feeble persons, though they are not impaired in mind; lunacy commissions in each county to conduct insanity cases, thereby eliminating costs and simplifying procedure; changes in the probate laws that would eliminate costs by doing away with the publication of superfluous notices, and an appropriation sufficient to properly equip and maintain the state insane asylum so that all insane persons in the state may be cared for, are among the new laws advocated by the County Judges' Association at its Denver meeting. Pomeroy New Assistant Prosecutor. Boulder.—District Attorney Russell W. Fleming, recently appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the election of George A. Carlson to the governorship, announced the appointment of Attorney George Pomeroy of this city as deputy district attorney for Boulder county. Pomeroy will succeed Harold P. Martin, who has held the place for the last four years. The latter has been retained as special prosecutor, and will devote all of his attention to the strike cases, which will come up for trial in February. Dairy Cattlemen Elect Officers. Fort Collins.—The following officers were elected by the Colorado Dairy Cattlemen's Association at its annual meeting held here: President, B. G. D. Bishopp, Virginia Dale; vice president, W. A. Groom, Boulder; secretary, George T. Sinton, Colorado Springs; treasurer, H. D. Parker, Greeley. The above officers, with C. R. Sherrod of Timnath, constitute the executive committee. Stone Named U. S. Commissioner. Denver.—Wilbur F. Stone, former justice of the Supreme Court, one of Colorado's best known lawyers, a pioneer, an editor and a historian, was appointed United States commissioner to succeed Sanford C. Hinsdale, who died after being in office twenty-four years. Judge Stone was named by Federal Judge R. E. Lewis. Bounty on Wolves Is $25. Grand Junction.—The county commissioners have placed a bounty of $25 on full-grown wolves, $10 for puppies, $2.50 for coyotes and $1 for pups. The county board will receive the cooperation of the Mesa County Stockmen's Association in paying the awards. Two Jitney Busses Busy in Pueblo. Pueblo.—The jitney bus has made its appearance in Pueblo. Two of the nickel-a-ride automobiles began operations along the Bessemer-Pueblo tramway line and did a thriving business. Kenehan's Son Resigns Place. Denver.—Thonas B. Kenehan and J. L. Hunter have resigned their places in the state auditor's office. The former is the son of former Auditor Kenehan. 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ORTERS' CLUB IN CONNECTION Free Check Room by one block from Union Depot Denver, Colorado orbett ream Co. TON STREET CE CREAM J. C. HAMPSON, Vice Pres LEY, Sec. and Treas. AS DRUG CO. Hmet. Right Prices on Prescription Store No. 2. 26TH AND WELTON Main 4955-4956 --- Phone Champa 752. # Denver, Cola AFRU-AMERICAN CULLINGS One hundred years ago the first col- ored troops who ever served in the army ef the United States won the commendation of General Jackson in the battles in and around New Or- leans. It was there that a small part of the regular army, the militia of sev- eral of the southwestern states, and two detachments of colored troops won the final engagement which drove the invaders from the shores of that portion of the country. January 21 General Jackson read an address to each of the commands which had taken part in the battles, reviewing the campaign, and saying of the engagement of January 8 that the loss of the enemy was more than 3,000 while the American loss was but 13—“a wonderful interposition of heay- en! An unexampled event in the his- tory of war!” General Jackson charac- terizes the event. In his general orders of January 21, prior to breaking camp, General Jack- son complimented the various regi- ments and commands, saying of the two bodies of colored volunteers: “They have not disappointed the hopes that were formed of their courage and perseverance in the performance of their duty. Majors Lacoste and Da- quin, who commanded them, have de- served well of their country.” Yet, although these colored troops were commended for their coolness and bravery under fire, especially in the memorable engagement of Decem- ber 23 when they were attached to Coffee's brigade, which opened the se- ries of battles, recognition for their services, by way of pension and bounty, was withheld for several years after their discharge from the serv- ice and then was granted only after an opinion had been given by William Wirt, attorney genéral of the United States at that time, that they might legally be so recompensed. When the colored troops enlisted the act of congress of December 24, 1811, provided a bounty of $16, with three months’ pay, and a grant of 160 acres of land to those who had served five years, the same amount of land to the heirs of those killed in battle, and the same amount of land to the heirs of those who had died in the service after having served five years. The act of January 11, 1812, carried like provi- sions, and the act of December 10, 1814, again carried the provisions, except that the amount of land granted was doubled. After the colored troops were mus- tered out, application was made in their behalf for recognition under these acts, especially for the bounty of 320 acres of land, but it was not until 1823 that their claims were rec- ognized.—James Croggon in tha Wash- ington Star. It is reported in the newspapers of Transbaikal that new, exceedingly rich gold fields were discovered on lands belonging to the czar in the re- gion of Station Zilovo, of the Trans- baikal railroad on the Bolshoi Urium river system, Upton, near Peterboro, one of the smallest parishes in England, pos- sesses a mysterious tombstone of black marble which emits a damp ooze in patches whenever rain is about to fall. The stone is regarded in the village as an infallible barometer. It is estimated that there are 4,258,- 900,000 tons of iron ore unmined in the United States. “Few people realize to what an ex- tent the nation is indebted to the edu- «ated colored man for the mainte. nance of peace between the races. While many race wars have been pre- dicted, no serious and prolonged ra- cial conflict has taken place in re- cent years in the South. It has been in a very large degree the influence of the educated Negro who has coun- seled patience, forbearance and sym- pathetic co-operation between the two races that has prevented disgraceful outbreaks and has resulted in secur- ing and maintaining a large degree of peace and harmony between the races. The people of this nation should remember that the Negro is not a beggar so far as his personal needs are concerned. He supports himself in clothes and shelter, and has done so for 45 years. The only call that he has made upon the public has beea for aid in the direction of education, moral and religious training.’"—B. 'T. Washington. Of about 1,400,000 pounds of caviar obtained each year by the Astrakhan fisheries, approximately 75 per cent is exported. The classification of the stellar spec- tra as being carried on by Harvard university, is a vast one, entailing the investigation and recording of 200, 00° stares New factory laws in Switzerland have established the 59-hour-week— that is, ten hours daily for five days and nine hours on Saturday, as the maximum working time The American Bible society last year circulated 5,251,176 Bibles, breaking all records, Spellman seminary has trained many competent women for domestic service, the majority of them going back to the country from which they came, and marrying, while those who go into service in Atlanta are satis- factory. The Fort Valley school for the industrial uplift ofthe Negro has had little monetary assistance in Georgia. The domestic science school, established by that capable Negro of Athens, Samuel Harris, through vari- ous agencies, has most of its support from outsiders, and Linton Ingraham, that faithful ex-slave, who was born on Alexander Stephens’ plantation, is struggling to raise $1,500 to build, as a memorial to Mr. Stephens, an indus: trial school at Sparta, Ga. where domestic science is one of the pur- poses. He has the highest indorse- ment from the white men of that vi- cinity, the governor of the state in- dorses his work, and the men of thought who have seen it and appre- ciate the good purpose of it, but In- graham is begging enough money now to go North and get the necessary $1,500 for the completion of the build: ing. Individually, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Heard of Rose Hill farm, have estab: lished a school for domestic science for the Negro employees on their plantation, but in no city or town in the state where the cry for domestic service is loudest, is any step be ing taken to train for domestic sci. ence. _ To meet this condition, an ideal sys tem has been devised in the work be ing done for the Negro at Hampton institute, Virginia, where Negro boys and girls are being trained to meet and work out the conditions now threatening the progress of the race Hampton institute is an undenom- inational scheol for the training of teachers and leaders in agriculture, the trades and community work, Its aim, as expressed in 1859 by General Armstrong, has not changed: “To train selected youth who shall go out and teach and lead their people, first by example by getting land and homes; to give them not a dollar they can earn for themselves; to teach re- spect for labor; to replace stupid drudgery with skilled hands; and to these ends to build up an industrial system, for the sake not only of self- support and intelligent labor, but also for the sake of character.” Hampton has recently published a pamphlet, “Education for Life,” which contains General Armstrong's leading ideas on education—a working philos- ophy of Christian living. “Education for Life” contains sections on edu- cation of hand, education of the mind, education of the character. ‘Those who are interested in educa- tion which spells service and progress, will wish to read “Education for Life” and then compare their impressions with these words of endorsement, is- sued by the United States bureau of education: “It is felt that General Armstrong's theory and demonstra. tion of practical education have proved to be right, not merely for the races for which they were immediate. ly intended, but for boys and girls everywhere, since they represent a successful attempt to work out one of the most momentous tasks of our time—that of creating an education that shall be an effective force for training productive, efficient members of society.” In December work began on the bridge over the Juan Diaz river about nine miles from Panama. It is a re: enforced conerete arch of something over one hundred-foot span, which will be the longest span arch on the isth- ‘mus. A number of re-enforced con- crete culverts with spans ranging from six to thirty feet have also been constructed throughout the country. One of the few funds, if not the only one, left for charity by a president of the United States, is used in Lancas- ter, Pa., for buying coal for the poor at Christmas and for other good uses ‘The fund was left by President Bu chanan, who was a resident of Lan: caster, and the income now amounts to about $3,000 a year. The wealth of the United Kingdom in 1814 was computed at about $12,- 500,000,000, while a conservative esti mate would place it now at cbont $85,- 000,000,000, an increase of 850 per cent, while population has grown 130 per cent. The income of the British people in this period has increased 700 per cent—form §1,500,000,000 to $12,000,000,000. There are in the 21 university towns of Germany 3,436 enrolled women stu- dents and 1,037 not enrolled. ‘The fac- ulty of medicine attracts most wavawal In 1855 it took 274 minutes of labor to care for and raise a bushel of corn. In the year 1894 the average time re- quired had been brought down to about 41 minutes, Georgia has 2,324 Baptist churches, with a total membership of 287,079 and property valued at $6,127,167, BILL OUTLINED IN DETAIL AND PENALTIES EXPLAINED. Prison Term Imposed Only on Second Offense and $10,000 Fund Pro- vides for Full Enforcement. duced by Senator Peterson, yrovides: Section 1—Manufacture, importa- tion or keeping of intoxicating liquors in Colorado tor sale or gift prohibited, Section 2—it shall be unlawful for members of clubs, societies, associa- tions, proprietors or employés of ho- tels, rooming houses, ete., to keep or abet keeping of intoxicating liquors in their places. Section 3—Advertising of intoxicat ing liquors for sale or gift in any man- ner prohibited. Section 4—It shall be unlawful to solicit orders for liquor. Section 5.—Bootlegging strictly for- bidden. Section 6—Buildings where intoxi- cants are manufactured, stored, etc., declared nuisances; may be closed for six months. Section 7—Common carriers pro- hibited from bringing liquor into the state. If deliveries ‘are made, county ofticials must be notified of all par- ticulars. Section 8—Delivery of liquor to a fictitious name or person forbidden unless consignee pays 25 cents and signs affidavit as to true name. Section 9—Opening of packages containing intoxicating liquor made an unlawful act. Section 10—Search and seizure pro- vision provided. Section 11—Officers instructed to seize liquors, vessels, implements and furniture in places where intoxicants are kept; replevin action inoperative in such cases; liquor poured out to avoid consequences of raid prima facie evidence of guilt; private resi- dences exempted from search and seizure. Section 12—Police officers may search premises for intoxicants with- out a warrant and seize liquors found. Section 13—Any citizen or associa- tion may employ a special attorney to assist the district attorney in prose- cutions and his services must be ac- cepted by the latter. Section 14—One-year permits issued by secretary of state for sale of liquor for medicinal or sacramental pur- poses. Section 15—Liquor purchased for above purposes must be done so on requisition blanks from secretary of state. Section 16—Provides for quarterly reports on liquor imported for medic inal and sacramental purposes. Section 17—Pharmacists may sell upon written prescriptions of licensed physicians only. Section 18—Any intoxicated person causing injury to any person, wife or child shall be subject to civil liability. Section 19—No property rights in Hquors or implements used for viola- tions or prohibitory law. Section 20—Possession of liquor, ex- cept when found in a private resi- dence; possession of a receipt or stamp showing payment of government Nquor tax, ete. shall be prima facie evidence of violation of the law. Section 21—Penalties, Misdemean- or to violate any provisions, punish- able by fine, $100 to $300; imprison- ment, thirty days to six months in jail. Successive offenses committed within five years shall be deemed felonies, carrying imprisonment in the penitentiary for one to three years at hard labor. Section 22—Governor given supreme power to epforce the law with law enforcement appropriation of $10,009 annually. Section 23—Attorney general shall tile ouster proceedings’ against any law officer failing to do' his duty in enforcement of the law. Section 24—Justices of peace and County Courts given jurisdiction over misdemeanor offenses, and District Courts over civil offenses, Section 25—No law officer shall be Mable civilly or criminally for any act performed in connection herewith Plea of good faith sufficient to ex empt him. Section 26—Municipalities may en act ordinances in conformity with this law. Section 27—Law made operative on Jan. 1, 1916. Section 28—Unconstitutional _ sec: tlons of this act shall not effect valid ity of any other sections. Section 29—Liberal construction directed. Intoxicants include every beverage containing any percentage of alcohol, no matter what it is called or what other ingredients may be in them. Section 30—Safety clause attached preventing a referendum upon the law. Offer $50 for Each Wolf. Rifle—At a meeting of the Grand Rifle—At a meeting of the Grand River stockmen held here it was voted to supplement the bounty of $25 ou wolves offered by the commissioners of Garfield county by the payment ot an additional $25, making a total of $50 for each wolf killed. In addition to the above the county wil! also pay $2.50 for each cayote killed and 3! Zor bobcats, so that a good source of revenue is opened up to hunters and trappers in this section during the re- mainder of 1915. AUSTRIAN RULER MAY QUIT THRONE BONFERENGE IN BERLIN Geneva, Switzerland, Jan, 28,—Ac- cording to reports received here from Innsbruck in the Austrian Crownland of ‘Tyrol, Emperor Francis Joseph is arranging to abdicate, it being said he is unable to agree with the views of Emperor William on military af. fairs, and ulso because of the German Emperor's attitude regarding peace. The Austrian Emperor adopted thia course, the advices from Innsbruck say, as the result of the recent visit to Berlin of Archduke Charles Fran: cis, the Austrian heir-apparent, and of Baron von Burian, the Austro-Hun: garian minister of foreign affairs. ‘The Austrian Emperor, it is added, desires to leave his successor with a free hand. London —The advance guard of the Turkish army, which is undertaking an invasion of Egypt, has reached the British outposts to the east of the Suez canal, where the first skirmish of the war in this region took place. ‘The fight, according to the official report, apparently was a small affair, only one British officer being wound: ed, but dispatches from Cairo say the invaders suffered severely from the machine guns of the British troops. Nothing has been heard of the mili- tary venture which it was reported the Germans were preparing for Em- peror William's birthday, unless their attacks on the French at Ypres and on the British at La Bassee were intended as such, These attacks were very severe, but beyond this there is nothing in common between the accounts of the allies and the Germans concerning the fighting. ‘The French communication repeats the statement that the German: were repuplsed with heavy losses, while the Germans say the British were unable to recapture their former positions. Similar contradic: tory statements are made regarding the severe fighting which is taking place near Craonne and Perthes in the Argonne and in the vicinity of St. Mihiel. In all these cases both sides claim the battles resulted in their favor. Two German and British Ships Sunk. An official statement says: “The German cruiser Kolburg is reported to have been sunk in Sunday's battle in the North Sea.” Contrary to British reports that ne British ships were lost and that pur suit of the German ships fically was abandoned on account of German mines and submarines, the following statement was received, from the German government: “In the three hours” fight, whick cost us the armored cruiser Bluecher one {British battle cruiser and twe Britt destroyers were sunk. Finally the British fleet withdrew from the German squadron and beyond the reach of their guns. There was n¢ question of pursuit of the German cruisers.” President Congratulates Kaiser. Washington.—President Wilson sen a message to Emperor William of Ger many, congratulating him on his fifty cixth birthday. TAKES WIFE'S LIFE WITH RAZOR Then Slashes Own Throat After Driv ing Children From House. Denver,—Poverty, hunger and sick ness crept into the squalid, scantily furnished home of Jose Pablo Tru jillo. Then a mysterious visitor camé nightly to his dwelling during the las! two weeks, knocking at his door and haunting his sleep. These things drove him insane and, realizing the plight of his six children for whom he could not provide, Trujillo slashed his wife’s throat with a razor and then killed himself with the same weapon In the room of their home, 194€ West Fourteenth avenue, the bodies of Trujillo and his wife, Juanito, were found. Five children, made orphans by the deed of their father, cried for “mamma” and for food in an adjoining room, While a 6 months old babe cooed on @ bed beneath which lay the dead bodies of its parents, Woman Saves $3,000 From Burglar. Denver.—Clad in her nightgown and armed only with a nail file, Mrs. Rose A. Mann, 24, of 2825 Josephine street, fought in the dark with a burglar who entered her home and prevented him from carrying off jewels and silver val- ued at $3,000. When her husband came home he found her unconscious face down and her hands spread over the tablecloth in which the thief had placed his loot. A rear window in the house was wide open and screentess, indicating the way her assailant es caped. eG he ie \ Ae Ee Oe oe ry a, “ eas St Wee \ ey Curtis La SOS et CE Park £ ay a Floral an. C GRE ompany d Ae ig FLORAL DESIGNS $27.2 y= “| GHOIGE PLANTS AND GUT FLOWERS Sevszaxx's “Qt GREENHOUSES: Thirty Fourth and Curtis Streets | X\ When You Want The Heads, Feet, Tails Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to 9 East's Market 2300-6 Larimer Street. Phone Main 1461, The @hampa Pharmacy Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to got your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WH SERVH — DRINES. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, Proper. PHONE MAIN 2426. THE ZOBEL BROTHERS’ 1004 Nineteenth Street, Corner of Curtis FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS COORS' CELEBRATED BEER ON TAP DENVER COLORADO eh a RY eee + She } z 3 $ 3 t 3 ¢ ; $ 3 : ; $ 3 + 3 £ ; + + 3 $ Sales Dally at 2 p.m. Office Fur > 3 niture a Specialty. 3 5 == 3 r + + PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES + 3 + 2 ; . 3 ¢ HAVE MoveD To— 3 $ 9m-1725.39 GLENARM sT.-wa } t PHONE MAIN 1675. $ 3 Lett tetesessesssssssseeees StTHSTH SEH OeH Herter tees ne + THE BEST ICH CREAM AND + + CANDIES AT 3 + 3 + 3 + 0.P.BAUR @ CO. 3 ¥ 3 $ 3 ¢ CATERERS AND 3 t Beene 3 t CORRECTIONERS Ca 3 3 > Phone: 168 } + $ 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. 3 3 Peat tt ttt t+ 44+t-4o+e+t+o4ee né J. H. BIGGINS Furniture Repairing and Up- holstering, All work Cash. PHONE YORK 7837 1417 East 24th Ave Denver SES i WT ead Lae ech omens , nae | Miss M. Cowden: | Hair Dressing Parlor : —- : Shampoo, cutting and curling. § : Scalp treatment, halr tonics, { hair straightening, manicuring. | Stage wigs for rent; theatrical ; Goods delivered out of the ! city. All shades of hair matched : | by sending sample of hair; ‘also | combings made up. : sss Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, cn THE COLORADO STATESMAN In our issue of February 13th, will appear an article, subject, "Denver Society for 1915." Next week be sure to read our article on "Social Evils and Society," by R. O. Miss Alice White of 619 West Seventh avenue has been ill since Monday. merited services which were particularly given during the last campaign by Mr. Gross. We hope the other state officials will also remember us with any other positions that come under their control. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends. Robert M. Johnson of 2860 Lawrence street, is confined to his home, suffering with an injured foot. Mrs. A. W. Stradwick of 2337 Glen-arm place, who has been ill, is much improved. The Five Hundred Club met Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Clara Smith, Thirtieth and Lafayette. Mr. Wm. Turner of Chicago has been visiting in the city several days, the guest of Miss Florence Macklin. Mr. Turner is very much impressed with our city and several social affairs have been given in his honor. There wiwill be a Chitterling supper and musical entertainment given by the Queen of the West Temple No. 1, S. M. T., Tuesday evening, February 9th, at the residence of Mrs. Evelyn Andrews, 1336 Broadway. A cordial invitation extended to all. Mrs. M. M. Reid, graduate of the Hampton Normal Institute, Va., was a pleasant caller at our office this week. She is a professional nurse, registered in the city, and by her advertisement, which appears in this paper, is ready to give first aid to the sick. 'Call phone South 3820. Residence 250 South Pearl. INSTALLED The following officers of Queen of West Temple No. 1 were installed January 5: Worthy Princess, Sister Nannie J. Welch; worthy vice princess, Sister Nancy Tyler; worthy secretary, Sister Alice L. Mason; worthy assistant secretary, Sister Arcora Smith; worthy treasurer, Sister Oreline Andrews; worthy chaplain, Sister Iadonia Rice; worthy trustees, Sisters Andrews, Riley, Howard; worthy pilot, Sister Alice Jones; zilla, Sister Georgia Stacker; Joshua, Brother James Brown; senior marshall, Sister Mima Lamb; junior marshall, Sister Missomi Baker; inside door keeper, Annie Murry; chief of sick committee, Sister Vestina Ma- HIGH COMPLIMENT The following letter from Mr. W. W. Wilson, one of Caspers most highly esteemed colored citizen, who is proprietor of the Subway barber shop, which is the finest in the city. He is also an extensive property owner, and wields a great influence in his community: Casper, (the oil city) Wyo., Jan. 15, 1915. Mr. Jos. D. D. Rivers, Proprietor Colorado Statesman. Dear Sir:—It is with no little degree of gratification to receive the Colorado Statesman each week, and I want to stamp my approval of it as being second to none. Its high class editorials, as well as the news in general throughout the country, affords much pleasure and gives much food for thought. It is a welcome companion to my home and is eagerly looked for each week. Please find enclosed $2.00 for my subscription. Mrs. Wilson joins me in extending hearty congratulation and best wishes for a prosperous new year. That the standard of this great Negro journal will be maintained is the wish of, Yours very truly, W. W. WILSON, Casper, Wyo. WELL-MERITED APPOINTMENT. George W. Gross of Colorado Springs succeeded J. J. Manuel as messenger to the secretary of state, Hon. John E. Ramer. The appointment was made on Monday afternoon and the Colorado Statesman extends its congratulations to Mr. Gross, feeling that he is deserving of the position, being a faithful Republican who for more than twenty years maintained the reputation of a very active political campaign. Our thanks are also given to the secretary of state for his recognition of well- merited services which were particularly given during the last campaign by Mr. Gross. We hope the other state officials will also remember us with any other positions that come under their control. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for the beautiful floral offerings and kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our son and brother, William Orlando Jackson J, W. JACKSON, RUTH JACKSON, CHAS. JACKSON THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT CLUB The annual dance of the Self-Improvement club took place on Thursday evening, 28th inst., at Fern hall and in short all that gaiety, grandeur and magnificent display could afford was exhibited. Artistically designed and jewelled gowns after the latest American and Parisian fashions of the ladies, with the conventional evening dress of the gentlemen lent an aspect to Fern hall that could not be surpassed by a New York's Pre-lenten Fair or a Boston's Midwinter. The decorations were in the colors of the club, white and blue, while the floor was specially prepared for the occasion. This event being looked upon by the specially invited guests as the highest and best social of the year is the result of the determination of the club to set a standard for others so that Denver's society may be proud of her well-merited name. Morrison's orchestra having gotten inspiration from this grand spectacle swayed the dancers with hesitation waltzes, etc., which appeared at times to have transported them to some eternal realms of music. Being quite a privilege to get an invitation to this event the fortunate ones can emphatically assert that the satisfaction they received from this rare enjoyment gives the club a position second to none. A few out of town guests were present, who entered so heartily into the entertainment that they could not help expressing themselves in praise of the management who carried out every detail successfully. Well done for the club, and as our witty writer put it, your Bons may be there and your Commo circle alright, but oh! you SELF-IMPROVEMENT— THE DESTINY OF THE WICKED. What is the destiny of the wicked? This question is worthy of careful and candid study; Thoughtful men have asked throughout the centuries, "What is this mysterious doom of death which overshadows all?" Men scarcely arrives at his maturity before his strength wanes, and he is compelled to submit to the inexorable power of death. With millions of others of his fellow creatures, he lies down in the dust, and the portals of the tomb close about him. All who live are but a handful to those who sleep. Unaided by divine revelation, man stands dumb before the question of what lies in the future. From beyond the curtain which divides the present from the future, through the millenniums of sin since Adam lost Eden, none have ever returned with tidings of what lies hidden there. Our question concerns the unnumbered host of the lost. Through all the centuries since the fall of man, millions have spurned the offers of mercy, refused life, rejected its Author, and died in their sins. What doom awaits all these? What will it mean to be lost? What will be the end of sin and sinners? Will sin be destroyed, or will the curse forever remain? Will the sinner exist eternally, or finally be destroyed? These queries have to do with the eternal destiny of the greater part of the human family. For "broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereal," while the way to eternal life is said to be "narrow" and "few there be that find it." Matt. 1:13, 14. Before each of us is a destiny; we cannot escape it; eternity stretches before us. Righteousness has its reward; so has sin. What awaits the lost in the great beyond? This interesting and stupendous question cannot be solved by human speculation. Grouping in the uncertain twilight of scientific conjecture, men have reached some very strange and erroneous conclusions. During all the centuries some have arisen to tell us that there is no future life beyond the tomb; that death is an eternal sleep. Others have taught that sin has its own punishment in this life, and in the future all will be saved; that the Scriptures promise universal salvation; that all men, whether, believing or unbelieving, will finally enjoy the felicity of endless happiness. The modern orthodox belief, based on the unscriptural assumption that man possesses inherent immortality, teaches that the wicked will never die; that through endless ages they will live and be tortured in the perpetual IMPORTANT JANUARY SALES THE NEW YORK MALL Womens', Misses' and Girls' Outergarments—Great Annual Clearing Sale of All Winter Garments. All Through January. $ \frac{1}{4} $ OFF Clearanec of Men's and Boys' Clotinhg.—All through January. The Greatest Linen Sale in Our History. Linens, Domestics, Bedding—January 4, Continuing to January 23. A glass of good wine will improve y 2727 Welton Street Revs. Over and Pope not only demonstrated remarkable power of adaptability, but preached effective sermons. Not only so, but both of them received calls pending the expiration of the term of the present incumbents. The exchange of pulpits was most gratifying and can but result in a closer fellowship between the two churches. After a month's absence, we are glad to welcome back into our midst and into the choir, Mrs. U. G. Brown, who returned last week from Wichita, Kan., accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Fountain. Our ministerial fraternity was entertained at a turkey dinner at the parsonage last Tuesday. Those present were: Revs. A. M. Ward, D. E. Over, J. A. Thos. Hazel, H. B. Brown, A. E. Reynolds, Jas. Washington and P. J. Price. Our pastor is greatly obligated to Sisters Unity Hall, Fannie Brown, Mattie P. King and Mr. Lloyd Hall for the charming service rendered on this occasion. Cupid has it that Rev. A. M. Ward is going East next week and that something is going to happen. For Rent a strickly modern six- room house at 956 Emerson street, apply at O. K. Barber shop, 1834 Arapahoe street. For rent four-room house, 322 24th street. Apply at 1824 Curtis street, room 25. For rent furnished room, man and wife preferred, in modern house. Mrs C. Anderson, 1539 E. 30th avenue. PHONE SOUTH 3820 --- fire of God's vengeance, preserved by his power to suffer unspeakable misery in the avenging flames of his indignation. The horrors of this orthodox belief have been expressed by the poet in the following language: "Infinite years in torment shall I Spend. And never, never, never have an end. Ah! must I live in torturing despair As many years as atoms in the air? When these are past, as many millions more As grains of sand that bound the ebbing shore? When these run out, as many more behind As leaf of forest shaken by the wind? When these are spent, as many more to flow As blades of grass on hill and dales that grow? When these run out, as many on the march When these are gone, as many millions more As every moment in the age before? When all these doleful years are spent in pain, And multiplied by myriads yet again, I must in that fierce gulf in misery lie. And madly writhe in all eternity." A year for every mote that dances in the sunbeam, a year for every grain of sand, a year for every leaf of the forest and for every blade of grass, a year for every star in the firmament, a year for every thick of the watch since time began its flight, then this infinite multiplicand multiplied by a myriad! Then when all these years of torture are past, an eternity of unspeakable suffering still stretches before lost souls in which to curse and blaspheme God! Talk about a gloomy doctrine! Behold it here! While the quotation above is only poetry, these words of the poet are true provided man by nature has an immortal, indestructible soul, and the lost are conscious in death, and enter on their reward in the lake of fire when this life ends. Such teaching clothes the God of love and tender compassion with the most awful attributes, and distorts and misrepresents the teachings of his Word. J. W. OWENS. (To be continued.) SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES. Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D., Pastor. Tomorrow will be Quarterly meeting day at Shorter Chapel, and there will doubtless be great outpouring of our congregation at all three of the services. Presiding Elder Ward will preach at the morning hour and Rev David R. Jones of Cheyenne, Wyo. will preach afternoon and evening. Brother Jones takes front rank as a gospel preacher and you will do well to hear him. The choir of Campbell and the pastors and congregations of Campbell and Scott M. E., are invited to join us at the quartely communion service. Presiding Elder F. L. Donohoo of Phoenix, Ariz., was expected to arrive in the city this week to be a guest at our parsonage. Our Sewing Circle will hold its regular meeting at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hick, 548 Columbine St., Thursday next, at 2 p. m. Take 6th Avenue car to Columbine. It is difficult to determine who were the greater beneficiaries from the morning services at Zion and Shorter last Sunday, the pastors, or the congregations. It is reported that Our Annual Sale of Muslin Undergarments Monday, January 11 to Saturday, January 16. Annual January Shoe Sale—Every Shoe in Stock Is Included.—Now in Progress. Our Annual January Sale of White Goods, Wash Laces and Embroideries—Monday, January 18, to Saturday, January 30. Try a case, 2 doz. pints for $1.10, delivered promptly; empties called for. Family Liquors, Wines, and Cordials Genuine Goods at Popular Prices Shorter welcomed into her communion last Sunday evening Mrs Myrtle Hill, 1418 E. 24th avenue, Mrs Mary Giles, 1625 E. 30th; Mrs. Mildred Coats, 805 Washington, and Mrs. Collie Campbell, 1398 South Clarkson. Our sick list this week is unusually large, let us not neglect the sick room. Brother H. F. Smith, 1873 Marion; Miss Ruth Fife, 2178 Marion, and Hattie Elliott, 1910 Pennsylvania. Sisters Mary E. Dyer, 2552 Welton; Mamie E. Cole, 2558 Welton; E. A. Holley, 2922 Glenarm; Georgia Letcher, 2031 Marion; M. V. Johnson, 2630 Marion, and Bettie Jones, 815 Gaylord. For Rent—Furnished rooms, modern. 2917 Welton st. Phone Blue 1681 Three furnished or unfurnished rooms for rent at 2929 Glenarm place. 250 South Pearl Denver. M. M. REID Brickler's New Barber Shop is located at 2208 Larimer street. Shave, 10. Hair cut, 25c; children, 15c. 13 CENTS A DAY BUYS A PIANO. WITH MUSIC LESSONS FREE. PIANOS FROM $88 UP. CASSEL BROS. MUSIC CO., MAJESTIC BUILDING, BROADWAY AND 16th STREETS. T. Ernest McClain, A. B. D. D. S. Sundays and Nights by Appointment. Office Hours:—8 a. m. to 12 m. 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. Phone Main 4896 1848 Arapahoe 乐泽轩 ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Dr. Westbrook Office 31 Good Block 16th & Larimer sts. Phone Main 1433 Out of Office and at nights Call Residence, 2714 Arapahoe Street Phone Champa 570 MAKING THE MOST OF LAMB Housekeeper Will Find This Arrangement a Help to the Cutting of Her Bills. Every housekeeper is on the look-out to save in these days of high cost of living, especially in meats. Here is one way to save mutton or lamb. If, on Saturday, a forequarter of mutton or lamb is purchased, weighing from seven to ten pounds, it should be divided as follows: Shoulder, neck, breast, French chops, bones and trimmings. The shoulder is boned, pocket cut for filling, that makes the roast; stuffed shoulder of lamb or mutton for Sunday dinner and cut cold for Monday luncheon or supper. Then the neck is boiled with the shoulder bone and trimmings, making two quarts of lamb broth, to be used for soup for Monday's dinner. The meat is trimmed from the neck bones for lamb croquettes, meat salad or loaf. The breast is stewed, or curried with rice. The choicest part is left, that is, one dozen frenched lamb chops. Of course, you must be able to tell your butcher just how you want it cut and trimmed. The chops are frenched, chine removed, but the chops are not cut apart. That is left for the housekeeper to do, cutting just as needed. The trimmings from the chops are boiled with the neck and bones, strained, and when cold all fat is removed and clarified for drippings. From this forequarter you have the following dishes, always for four persons: Roast stuffed shoulder, hot for Sunday dinner. Roast stuffed shoulder, cold for Monday, with soup (two quarts for soup stock). Lamb croquettes or meat loaf for Tuesday. Stewed or curried lamb for Wednesday. Lamb chops which can be kept for Thursday. POLISH FOR COFFEE BOILER By the Use of Oxalic Acid the Utensil May Be Kept in the Best of Condition. A shining copper hot-water boiler adds much to the appearance of a kitchen, as all housekeepers know. The boiler may be kept in a state of brilliancy by the use of a solution of oxalic acid and water. Five cents worth of the acid dissolved in a quart of warm water will last through many cleaning days. Best results are obtained by applying the solution to a warm boiler. After one application of the solution the boiler should be gone over with a cloth wrung out in warm water and then polished with a dry cloth. The best part of the process is that no "elbow grease" is required. In a few minutes a dull, dingy boiler be comes bright and shining with but little effort. All copper articles not having a lacquered surface may be cleaned with this solution, and it also serves as a brass polish. Keep in a safe place, as oxalic acid is poison. Cocoanut Candy. Remove the shell from a half a coconut and shred or shave it with a silver knife. Spread it on dishes in the open door of an oven until it is soft and elastic. Dessicated coconut can be used instead, but the fresh sort is better. Then boil a cupful of molasses and a cupful of sugar, brown or white, a teaspoonful of vinegar and a tablespoonful of butter. When this is cooked enough so that it is brittle when dropped in cold water add the warmed coconut and pour into buttered dishes. Mark into squares when it is thick but before it is cold. Soft Ginger Cookies. Cheap and good. One cupful of molasses, two-thirds cupful of lard, two-thirds cupful sugar, two-thirds cupful hot water, one teaspoonful ginger, two dessert spoonfuls of soda and one dessert spoonful cream of tartar. Put the molasses in mixing bowl first, then add cream of tartar and soda. Add also a pinch of salt and flour to roll. Cut out and bake. Do not roll too thin. Crust for Chicken Pie The ingredients are three cupfuls of sifted bread flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt, one-half cupful of lard and butter, one cupful of milk. Sift all dry ingredients together. Rub in the shortening with finger tips, then stir in the milk, using a fork and handling it lightly. As soon as combined place on floured board and with a rolling pin pat into the required size. Deviled Ham Rolls Make light, rather rich pastry, roll thin and cut into squares of about four inches. Spread upon each square a small quantity of deviled ham, leaving about half inch around the edge uncovered. Moisten the edges with cold water and roll each sheet of ham and pastry compactly, pressing the ends together, and bake. Beet Relish. Cook beets the same as for the table, one quart of beets chopped fine, one quart of raw cabbage chopped fine, one cupful grated horseradish as prepared for the table, one cupful granulated sugar, one tablespoonful of salt, one teaspoonful black pepper, Vinegar enough to my well. Fundamental Principles of Health By ALBERT S. GRAY, M.D. The more we investigate the causes which have made each individual what he is today the more we become convinced that every being has affiliations which link him with the whole past; that there is a continuity of germ plasm and also of protoplasm which goes back to the very beginning of life on this globe; and that if we could only know all the factors which are concerned in producing any single organism, however simple it might be, in all its relations and proportions, we could explain the universe from top to bottom and evolve an infallible remedy for all our ills. Consequently the study of the beginning of life in any organism is impressively interesting and illuminating to such of us as are not egotists, and do not insist on learning in the most expensive of all schools—that of personal experience. Hence, the open minded the study of the manufacture of malt should be most suggestive and instructive. ```markdown ``` Any live seed or grain can be malted; and barley, oats, rice, wheat, rye and maize are used, but because of its flavor and other important qualities barley is the prime favorite for this purpose. The average time required to malt barley is 12 days. The operation is started by "steeping" or soaking the barley corns in tanks of water for about forty-eight to seventy hours. After the barley is removed from the steeping tanks it is made up into rectangular heaps sixteen to twenty inches deep known as position No. 1, or the "couch," the object of this being to enable it to gather heat and start active germinating. It usually remains in couch twelve to twenty-four hours, or until the interior of the heap registers a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. At this point the barley is moved to position No. 2, or "young floor," and there thinly and evenly spread in order that it may be controlled. When germination begins enzymes are secreted and these act on the reserve material, starch and proteins of the endosperm, converting them into simpler compounds, capable of diffusing to various parts of the growing germ. When germination is allowed to proceed, as it does when the grain is planted in the soil, the whole of the contents is rendered soluble by degrees and in turn are simulated by the growing plantlet. But the limited germination which constitutes the malting process retains all the soluble compounds in the finished malt. Starch and the proteins are reformed, the former being deposited in the tissues of the germ and the cells of the scutellum which previously were almost free from starch; the protein matter deposited in the batter disappears to a considerable extent and the protoplasmic content of the cells constituting the root which protrudes from the base of the grain. It is at this stage that the barley is said by malsters to "chit." The first sign of "chitting" may take place either while the grain is on the couch or on the young floor. The grain is thickened or thinned, turned over and ever sprinkled with water, according to the maltster's judgment and skill in regulating the evaporation and the rise of temperature, the object being to aerate and stimulate the development of the germ. After the first rootlet has broken through the encas of the sheath it is followed by others until there are perhaps five or more. The cotyledonary sheath, or seed leaf, begins to elongate on the third or fourth day of germination and ruptures the true covering of the grain; it then grows upward between this and the husk and forms the acrospire or "spire" of the maltet. About the eighth day the grain is moved to position No. 3, known as "old floor," where it is spread thinly and slowly allowed to dry for the purpose of withering its roots. At this stage the acrospire should be about three-fourths the distance up the corn. The treatment now requires thickening the piece up to about ten inches. The rootlets now having withered and died off, the temperature increase resulting from thickening the grain pile is accompanied by little if any increase in the growth of the acrospire, the action being confined chiefly to the mellowing of the grain fly the enzymes. Under normal conditions the temperature in "old piece" is allowed to rise as high as about seventy degrees during the six hours previous to loading it into the kiln. At this stage the moisture content is about forty per cent and it is easily possible to break down the corn between the thumb and finger; the grain is soft, mealy and soluble; it is mostly digested. The next stage consists in loading the malt into the kiln and there thoroughly drying it to stop all further digestion, then roasting it for the desired flavor. Animal life is but a continuation of plant life, a part of a cycle but a cycle in which the animal is depend- ent on the plant, not the plant on the animal Animal life cannot exist without plants. Therefore, in consuming deficient plant food, we are cutting our life chain. In this fact will be found the reason for the effectiveness of malt conics in low states of vitality. Containing practically all these vital elements, malt supplies in part what our food has been deficient in, and is exceedingly valuable as an emergency food. but it has been found that these concentrated malt sirups, if taken for any material period, as they must be to secure results, soon pall on the appetite and produce unpleasant feelings in the digestive tract. Highly concentrated foods are not normal food, and we are not adjusted to assimilate such matter. Good health is simply a period of growth or development that continues so long as the environment is normal. Complete natural food is the most important factor in our environment, and such food is only to be found in natural combinations in the plants and in the organisms normally developed therefrom. HORMONES Taken from the Greek language and meaning to arouse or excite, the word "hormones" is intended to designate a series of chemical bodies manufactured within the cells of one organ and entering the circulation to excite or stimulate distant organs into activity. It has generally been supposed that the digestive functions were carried on solely under reflex nerve control. But Edkins in 1906 carried out a series of experiments to determine whether a chemical mechanism may not also account for the secretion of gastric juice, which is excited by the introduction of substances into the stomach. In a series of carefully controlled observations it was proved that the mere introduction of a neutral solution into the stomach caused no secretion of gastric juice and that there was no absorption of the solution, the fluid removed at the end of an hour having the same bulk and the same neutral reaction as the solution originally introduced. The injection of peptone, of acid, of broth, or of dextrin into the blood stream produced no secretion of gastric juice, but if in the course of the hour during which the fluid was allowed to remain in the stomach a solution made by boiling mucous membrane from the pyloric end of a stomach with water, or with acid, or with peptone, was injected into the blood stream at intervals of about ten minutes, then the fluid withdrawn from the stomach at the end of the hour was found to be distinctly acid and to have protein digestive powers—that is to say, it now contained hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Similar solutions made from the cardiac end of the stomach will not produce any secretion of acid and pepsin, and this is held to prove that the pyloric end of the stomach produces a substance which is absorbed into the blood stream and carried to all the glands of the stomach, where it acts as a specific excitant of their secretory activity. This substance has been called the gastric "secretin"—it is what Starling named a "hormone." Normal gastric secretion appears to be due to two co-operating factors. The first and most important is the secretion arising from nerve impulses produced through the pneumogastric nerve and originating in the idea of food in the higher parts of the brain. from the sight of food and by the stimulating of the mucous membranes of the mouth. The second factor provides for the continued secretion of gastric juice long after the mental effects have disappeared. This is chemical and depends on the production in the cells at the pyloric end of the stomach of a specific stimulant or hormone, which being absorbed into the blood is carried to all parts of the body, where it excites the glands concerned in the digestive act. The researches of Pawlow and others seem to indicate that the quantity and the properties of the secretions vary with the character of the food eaten. The quantity of the secretion varies also, other conditions being the same, with the amount of food to be digested. On a given diet the secretion assumes certain characteristics and Pawlow is convinced that further work will disclose that the secretion of the stomach is not caused normally by general stimuli affecting it all alike but by specific stimuli contained either in the food or produced during digestion from the food contents the action of which is of such a kind as to arouse reflexly the secretion best adapted to the particular food ingested. Undoubtedly this is due to the hormones in the circulation. Another significant hint of this action is furnished by the experiments of Starling and Lane-Claypon on the mammary glands. These investigators found that the extracts made from the body of the fetus when injected repeatedly into the blood stream of a virgin rabbit caused a genuine development of the mammary glands, closely simulating the growth that normally occurs during pregnancy. Similar extracts made from ovaries, placental and uterine tissues had no such effect; hence, they conclude that a specific chemical substance, a normone, is produced in the fetus itself which being absorbed into the maternal blood acts upon the mammary gland, stimulating it to growth. There is indisputable evidence of the existence of similar bodies which determine the secretory activity both of the liver as well as of the intestinal gland. NO. 6, SECOND TIER By RALPH F. HOLMES. (Copyright.) The big gong at the farther end of the room clanged sonorously, and for the first time in the long six months No. 6, second tier, untied his apron and formed in line with the others. No. 11, behind him, inquired in a whisper what was up—was No. 6 all in, or was he ready to retire on his fortune? There was a ring of satisfaction in No. 6's muttered reply that No. 11 noted, and the truth dawned. "Your last day, eh? Well, good luck to you. Hope they don't get you again." That night, in his cell, No. 6 thought it all over. It was the last night he would ever spend in a cell, he said—the last. After twelve o'clock tomorrow he would no longer be No. 6, second tier. Men would call him Cummings, as they had before—Tom Cummings, perhaps, and some day Mr. Cummings. Yes, some day they would call him Mr. Cummings. The warden shook hands with him at noon the next day, and told him to brace up and be a man. "I know you can do it, Cummings. You've worked hard here and behaved yourself, and it's in you." A strong May sun warmed Cummings' heart when he went out, and the soul within him quivered with delight and expectancy, like a seed pushing its first sprout above the loam. At the railway station the ticket to the city cost one dollar, and on the train he planned the spending of the rest. His clothes had been returned to him, as wrinkled as when he had stepped out of them half a year before, and he needed new ones. That would take eight or nine dollars. His supper and a cheap, clean bed for the night would take most of another, and then he would start to look for work. But, better than his expectations, an upholsterer gave him a job that very afternoon, and put him to work repairing a couch. True to the principles of his new life, he made no secret of his past, and, with a child's trust in human nature, he told of his plans for the future, the new life he was to lead to win back the place in the world he had fallen from. And his confidence was not misplaced. The next morning Cummings went to work with a step whose telltale, measured tread sucked a quickening springiness from the cool air. He was Cummings now, and he was working and justifying his existence—the first step in his upward climb had been made. Life, with its myriad possibilities, loomed large before him as never before. The world was giving him his chance now, and he was taking it. The blood pumped through his veins joyously. The prison pallor would be gone in a week. Turning a corner, he brought up in front of the police station. He shuddered involuntarily, and then smiled. The last time he had entered it irons had bitten into his wrists, and a crowd of newsboys had laughed at his heels. Passersby had looked at him with curiosity and pity. None of them did that now, and he felt the difference with a glow of satisfaction. But why not go into it again—for once a free man? Why not stand again before those men inside—this time without trembling, with a mind not searching for a plausible lie? Why not make the antithesis complete? An undeniable desire was on him to face them again unafraid. He walked round the block once, trying to find a plausible excuse for presenting himself. They would not know him—he did not want them to. Hundreds such as he passed through their hands, and they had seen him but once. He felt of a skeleton key that he had designed one evening in his cell, and, with special permission, had fashioned. He knew something of the locksmith's trade, and he knew his key was different from any he had ever seen. Might it not be of use to the police? He hardly hoped to convince them of that, but it was the excuse he needed. The sergeant at the desk directed him to the inspector on the second floor. The inspector eyed him closely, but bade him he seated, and listened to half the suggestion before he said anything more. Then he asked bluntly: "When did you get out?" There was that in his tone that brought back to Cummings vivid recollections of a night six months before, when the same voice had told him he lied—that he had taken the money, and did know where it was. Its sound was unpleasant now, but it had no terror for him. He was Thomas Cummings now, upholsterer, and he answered unashamed. "Yesterday noon. I didn't think you'd remember me. I figured this key out one night, and the jailer let me file it out the next day. It's different from any of the old kinds, because it—" "Never mind about the key. We don't want it," the inspector interrupted, and with the next words his tone took something of humor into it. "And we don't want you round here, either. You know too much about skeleton keys. You get out of town tonight. If we find you round here to- morrow, we'll pick you up as a vag. Do you hear?" The man with the key heard the words, but he doubted whether he understood their meaning. Get out of town! What for? He was working now. He was doing no wrong. And he had no other place to go to, nor money to go with. "But, inspector, I've found work, and you needn't expect any more trouble from me. I—" The inspector wheeled round from the desk to which he had turned. "Now, don't sit there arguing with me. You heard what I said, and you know what I mean. You don't belong here. You're an undesirable. Now, get out, and remember what I said." In the street again everyone seemed to be watching him. His step lost its spring. A man brushed against him, and said: "I beg your pardon." It sounded like a mockery. He was an undesirable—ordered to leave town or go to jail. The old fear of the prison came on him, and he shuddered. "I will never sleep in a prison cell again." It droned through his mind persistently. Must it be retracted? Yes, unless he could leave town. How could he leave town, and where could he go? He found himself at the upholstering shop, and a sudden hope burned within him. His employer had trusted him, and he would appeal to him—his word might have some weight with the inspector. But the girl behind the cashier's window said his employer would not be back again that afternoon. Cummings—undesirable—wandered out into the shop. A comfortable looking man was examining the couch he had fixed a few hours before. His hands, inspired then by the vision of a new purpose, had worked as never before, and the handsome piece stood there now, a monument to his skill. "Is that for sale?" the man asked. is that for sale: the man asked. Cummings hesitated a moment—only a moment—just long enough to remember he was an undesirable and must leave town. "Yes," he answered. "It's a beauty, too." "What's the price?" Cummings thought again—thought as he had one night six months before, when the inspector told him he lied. "Well, a party left it here with us to sell, and told us to get what we could cash. We'll let you have it for fifty dollars. That's a bargain, too, because it's solid mahogany and trimmed with real Spanish leather." A moment later he excused himself to make out the bill, and he stepped out of the front door with enough money in his pocket to take him very far away from town. He was a thief now, and he started when the cashier called after him: "Will you be back again—Mr. Cummings?" He mumbled assent, and hurried down the street. He felt of the money—$50 in bills—and thought where he should go. Chicago was nearest, but they'd look for him there first. No, Northwest Canada was better than that. "Yes, I'll be back—Mr. Cummings," he muttered, and his lips curled in a sinister smile. Then they closed. Mr. Cummings! "Some day people will call me Mr. Cummings, and there will be deference in the address." He turned the sentence over in his mind. It had been a determination—not a threat. It was to have been his slogan. Some day he would command the world's respect, and would be known as Mr. Cummings. That's what he had meant. Someone had called him Mr. Cummings—but why? In ignorance of his past, for conventionality, or out of respect? The cashier had heard him tell of his past. It was not in ignorance of that. There had been no one else present when she spoke to him. She need not have used his name even for conventionality. Two of three reasons failed to hold. The third remained. He entered a drug store and bought paper and envelopes. A few doors farther on his last three dollars went for a cheap pistol and some cartridges. For the next hour he wrote steadily in the writing room of a big hotel. When he finished, two letters lay before him, and he read them over. Crude, unscholarly they were, but they proved satisfactory to him. To the longer of the two, pregnant with the scorn of a brave man for cowardice, despairing as the last growls of a bayed wolf, he signed "Undesirable." The other was tender and grateful, and he signed it "Mr. Cummings." Then he took the pistol from his pocket and pressed it over his heart. The next morning a queer, sickly smile spread over the inspector's face as he read a letter signed "Undesirable," but there was nothing of humor in the smile, and he tore the letter into fine pieces. Then he called his subordinates. "Needn't mind looking for that Cummings today. He shot himself yesterday." Fifty dollars in bills dropped from a letter that the cashier opened that same morning. A tear splashed on it when she finished. Then she took it to a man sitting at a big roll-top desk. a big toon-top desk. "It's from Mr. Cummings." she said. NEWS and GOSSIP of WASHINGTON Uncle Sam Now Is Publisher of Daily Newspaper WASHINGTON.—To promote the foreign commerce of the United States, the government has gone into the newspaper business, and the Daily Commercial Report is now being issued regularly by the department of com- Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The new publication takes the place of the daily consular report which has been issued for some time, and hereafter the long mail reports from American consuls reviewing business conditions and opportunities in their respective sections will be published as supplements to the Daily Commercial Report. Wonderful Collections of the Dead Letter Mail WONDERFUL beyond belief is the collection of articles which the post office can make within a year from the mail that can't be delivered because of bad addresses. Through the benevolent agency of the parcels post Old Washington Cafe Landmark Forced to Move SHOOMAKER'S has moved. The quaint old restaurant landmark, which has stood in Newspaper Row since Washington was a village and Pennsylvania avenue was a continuous mudhole, has been snowed under by the march of drawer, chipped and scarred with the ring of quarters and half-dollars, stood midway between the bar and the front door. The bartender never used a cash register; he would have used loud tones sooner. When the libation was received he pushed across a check with it. If you were honest you paid the check as you went out the door. If you were not honest you went out without paying—but only once. The wall behind the bar was a museum. It was hung and clustered and overlaid with mementos of a Washington long past. There is told the story of a newspaper correspondent in the old days who inclined mightily toward Shoomaker's. He had planned to write a story about some art work that had been done at the capitol, but he got his dates (or his drinks) mixed and filed a 2,000-word story on the decorations behind Shoomaker's bar. Tradition says that national history has been made in the back room of Shoomaker's. The stockroom crowded in close against the bar. In the middle of the bar stockroom was an old-fashioned coal stove with the sawdust box beneath it. In the cold winter days the old stove would blush around its base, and over in the corners, behind the tiers of wine cases, members of congress would gather over their Tom-and-Jerries and their eggnogs, to discuss the state of the nation or tell yarns. Black Box That Ticks Stirs President's Guard FIVE minutes of feverish anxiety ended in a laugh at the White House and the joke seemed to be on "Jimmy" Murphy, head of the White House secret service. Someone telephoned to the "cave of the winds," by which the news- Finally, the mysterious man appeared with the "black box" and, sure enough, it "ticked." He was nalled immediately by Mr. Murphy personally. It took but a minute, however, to explain that the box contained an alarm clock which Lee O. Duncan of La Salle, Ill., brought to the president to assist him in opening the San Diego exposition to start which the president had agreed to press the button at three o'clock New Year morning—midnight San Diego time. A big smile went all around the executive offices when the truth was discovered, and no one smiled more broadly than the president himself, who seemed to think he had a good joke on the men who guard him so zealously. When it was all over, Mr. Murphy wiped large beads of sweat from his brow and acknowledged that he had had a bad five minutes. DAILY COMMERCIAL REPORT PAPERS !!! Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of the bureau of new publication takes the place of the issued for some time, and hereafter consuls reviewing business conditions sections will be published as supplemente Wonderful Collections of WONDERFUL beyond belief is the office can make within a year fro cause of bad addresses. Through the department last year exceeded all records, and upon the shelves of the historic dead letter office are packages containing everything from Bibles to bassoons. All of these articles were sent to the wrong address. Their original packages were stamped and restamped until the paper was worn out. For the sake of convenience, the officials of the dead letter office have lumped certain articles together in large packages. Thus one passes a package of handkerchiefs and runs into a bright Or, turning from a particularly melancholy into a collection of toys that might ha Claus. There is a single package that assorted garments which the gay y consider obsolete. Then there are 176. Even the most pessimistic suffer goes by the handkerchief department single bundle of 1,149 initialed and u him, which is about the number that hour day. Sixty-six aviators in the United St ion caps are that they were told about ceived. The caps are in the dead letter And the dead letter office must rise of many fishermen. It has received 1 lackle. The only thing the dead letter A few other little side lines in the shotguns, horse blankets and picture 70,000. Old Washington Cafe La SHOOMAKER'S has moved. The qua stood in Newpaper Row since Was avenue was a continuous mudhole, ha A man in a hat and coat is handing a glass to another man in a suit and hat. They are standing in front of a wooden barrel. drawer, chipped and scarred with the midway between the bar and the front register; he would have used loud toneceived he pushed across a check with check as you went out the door. If you paying—but only once. The wall behind the bar was a mu overlaid with mementos of a Washington. There is told the story of a new who inclined mightily toward Shoomaker about some art work that had been de (or his drinks) mixed and filed a 2,000 Shoomaker's bar. Tradition says that national histor Shoomaker's. The stockroom crowds middle of the bar stockroom was an dust box beneath it. In the cold w around its base, and over in the com members of congress would gather ove nogs, to discuss the state of the nation. Black Box That Ticks FIVE minutes of feverish anxiety end the joke seemed to be on "Jimmy" M service. Someone telephoned to the "paper room at the White House is known, that a man was on his way to the executive offices bearing a "black box that ticked." The news was instantly communicated to "Jimmy" Murphy, who stationed three of his best men at intervals in the executive offices with orders to intercept the "ticking box." Visions of infernal machines and bombs with clock attachments arose in the minds of the president's protectors. Finally, the mysterious man ap- peared with the "black box" and, sure mediately by Mr. Murphy personally, plain that the box contained an alarm Ill., brought to the president to assist tion to start which the president had o'clock New Year morning—midnight. A big smile went all around the ex covered, and no one smiled more bro seemed to think he had a good joke on When it was all over, Mr. Murphy brow and acknowledged that he had had merce. In it are carried all important commercial cablegrams received from the attaches at the various embassies abroad and from consuls throughout the world. It also contains brief abstracts of the findings of investigators of the department in many lines of American enterprise, and presents to the business world each day the gist of the business of the department for the preceding day. The plan for a live, up-to-the-hour commercial daily was worked out by of foreign and domestic commerce. The the daily consular report which has been the long mail reports from American and opportunities in their respective ents to the Daily Commercial Report. the Dead Letter Mail collection of articles which the post from the mail that can't be delivered be- benevolent agency of the parcels post DEAD LETTER MAIL young assortment of brass castings. holy collection of books, he runs smack have come right out of the bag of Santa contains 241 women's aprons, with 51 young flappers of these parous times pairs of hose bundled together. ar from hay fever cheers up when he of the dead letter office. There is a initialized handkerchiefs reposing near a hay fever patient uses during a 24- states are wondering where those aviati in a letter, but which they never re- office with some automobile hoods. ag at night with the disappointed cries 642 fishhooks and 505 pieces of fishing office hasn't got is the fisherman's alibi. dead letter office are awls, bicycle tires, postal cards to the number of about Landmark Forced to Move aint old restaurant landmark, which has hington was a village and Pennsylvania has been snowed under by the march of progress. The place where statesmen, diplomats, journalists and financiers have sipped their juleps among the cobwebs has gone to a new location. Shoomaker's was a "gentleman's bar." If you were not a gentleman you were not supposed to frequent Shoomaker's. The bartenders never wore aprons; they were simply business men, clad in conventional sack suits, without even the cuffs of the coats turned back. The cashier's desk, with its antiquated wooden cash ring of quarters and half-dollars, stood door. The bartender never used a cash less sooner. When the bation was re- it. If you were honest you paid the a were not honest you went out without museum. It was hung and clustered and soon long past. newspaper correspondent in the old days er's. He had planned to write a story one at the capitol, but he got his dates o-word story on the decorations behind story has been made in the back room of bed in close against the bar. In the old-fashioned coal stove with the saw-winter days the old stove would blush owners, behind the tiers of wine cases, er their Tom-and-Jerries and their egg- or tell yarns. Stirs President's Guard ed in a laugh at the White House and Murphy, head of the White House secret cave of the winds," by which the news- enough, it "ticked." He was nalled im- It took but a minute, however, to ex-clock which Lee O. Duncan of La Salle, him in opening the San Diego exposi- agreed to press the button at three San Diego time. executive offices when the truth was dis-ably than the president himself, who in the men who guard him so zealously. w wiped large beads of sweat from his and a bad five minutes. COMPLETE CIRCUIT FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO. FIRST MESSAGE BY INVENTOR Line Officially Opened Jan. 25, 1915 3,400 Miles in Length. Transmission Clear and Distinct. New York.—From the fifteenth floor of a New York skyscraper, in the office of Theodore N. Vall, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, Alexander Graham Bell Monday afternoon telephoned to Thomas A. Watson in San Francisco, sending the first message ever telephoned across the continent. Although engineers and scientists have worked for nearly forty years perfecting transmitters, receivers, lines, cables, switchboards and various telephone apparatus that all combined made transcontinental telephoning possible, John J. Carty, chief engineer of the Bell Telephone System, insisted that the inventor of the telephone should have the honor of sending the first ocean to ocean message, and thus it was that Dr. Bell and Mr. Watson were at either end of the line Monday afternoon. In a little workshop in Boston, June 2, 1875, it was Alexander Graham Bell who spoke and Thomas A. Watson who heard the first message ever sent by telephone. "Come here Watson, I want you," were the first words ever conveyed over a wire. That wire was only sixty feet in length. The line used Monday is 3,400 miles long. A bit of sentiment that entered into the celebration of the opening of the transcontinental line was that the sixty feet of wire used in the first 1910 talk in Boston was spliced into the line Monday, thirty feet of it at New York and thirty feet at San Francisco. Ever since the telephone was discovered, America, the land of its birth, has kept the lead, using more telephones than all the rest of the world. More than twenty-one million miles of wire in this country now unite nine million telephones in 70,000 cities, towns and villages. All the rest of the world has less than five million telephones. In 1876 the longest telephone line in the world was from Boston to Cambridge, two miles; in 1884 it was extended to New York, 235 miles. Chicago and New York were connected in 1895, and in 1911 New York could say "Hello" to Denver. In the forty years since the telephone was invented nearly a hundred types of transmitters, and numerous repeating instruments and other devices have been used and discarded for something better, but it is asserted that no single new discovery has been responsible for this latest and greatest achievement in the telephone art. In the two circuits of the transcontinental line there are approximately six million pounds of copper wire, or about two hundred carloads. This wire is stretched on 130,000 poles, which if they were loaded on railroad cars would make twenty trains of thirty cars each. The route of the transcontinental telephone line is from New York to Pittsburgh, thence to Chicago, Davenport, Des Moines, Omaha, Lincoln, Denver, Salt Lake City and to San Francisco. It is understood that the rate will be about $21.00 for a three-minute talk from New York to San Francisco. Stationed along this great stretch of telephone line the day it was opened were repairmen every few miles, in the big centers, in the little towns, on the prairies, in the mountains, and out on the desert, ready to splice the wires in case they were torn down by sleet or wind, to soldier a break or replace an insulator broken by a storm or a mischievous boy. Like soldiers on picket duty, these repairmen will be kept on constant vigil, night and day, in good weather and in bad, for it is advertised that this line is soon to be opened to the public for constant use. ```markdown ``` GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE TO SAVE TAXPAYERS $14,634. All Department Heads Aid Executive in Making Reductions.—Short Appropriation Bill Passed. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—A conference held between Governor Carlson and the heads of different state departments saved Colorado $14,633. "I am more than pleased with the ready response the state officers and department heads gave to my request for a general cut in expenses," said Governor Carlson. "I hope they may be given full credit for the manner in which they have met the situation. And I especially wish to give credit to W. B. Fraser, fish and game commissioner, who has materially aided us in our effort to reduce expenses to the minimum." Senators Alter Workmen's Act. Denver.—Important and far-reaching alterations in the proposed industrial commission act to be presented to the Twentieth General Assembly and originally drafted by a committee of attorneys working under direct instructions from Gov. Geo. A. Carlson have been made in a redraft of the measure by the Senate industrial committee, of which Senator William R. Eaton of Denver is chairman. The redraft was made after the Senate committee had considered the administration measure from all angles; had considered communications and criticisms submitted by employers and employés, and had made a careful study of possibly conflicting constitutional provisions and statutes and similar laws in force in other states of the Union. These changes modify the measure to a considerable extent. To Punish Fake Advertisers. Denver.—Punishment for fraudulent advertising is provided in a bill introduced in the State Senate by Senator Robert E. Winbourn. The measure, according to its sponsor, was designed to put an end to fake medicine and other advertising and compel merchants to tell the truth in appealing to the public to purchase their wares. To Improve Inspection of Meat. Denver.—A bill requiring that the state meat inspector shall be a graduate veterinarian is being prepared by the attorney general at the request of Dr. W. W. Yard, state veterinarian, and will be introduced in the Legislature. Governor Probing Two State Boards. Denver.—Investigations which have been carried on by Governor Carlson into the affairs of the State Board of Health and the State Board of Capitol Managers may result in the resignation of several members of these boards. Glenn Named Assistant Examiner. Denver.—M. W. Glenn of Pueblo was appointed assistant state examiner by State Auditor Mulnix. This is the third appointment which has been made by the auditor since he took office. Denver.—Governor Carlson granted an extradition for the return to Arkansas of Herbert T. French, who is charged with embezzlement in that state. Aylesworth at Gateway Hearing. Denver.-M. H. Aylesworth, the new member and attorney of the Colorado public utilities commission, will go to Washington to represent the commission before the Interstate Commerce Commission at a hearing regarding the proposed closing of the Ogden gateway to Denver and to attend a preliminary conference for the establishment of a national electrical safety code. An appropriation for the expenses of the commissioner's trip was included in the short appropriation bill signed by Governor Carlson. THE SCENERY SPECIAL THE SCENERY SPECIAL By AUGUST WITTFELD. (Copyright.) "These stories of holdups and train robberies," said Monk, "always remind me of an actress who has been robbed of her glittering glassware. You never heard of anyone doing much on the proceeds of historic highwaying, and the man who attempts to hold up a modern express train may get away with the goods, but eventually the sheriff puts him on his visiting list." "Right you are," replied the pugnosed brakeman. "It takes nerve to hold up a train, but it takes more than nerve to pull the trick off successfully and retire on the proceeds. The men who possess all the qualifications requisite for such jobs generally land a sinecure behind the frosted-glass partition." "Now you're talking classical English," commented Monk, "and expressing clarified thought in capsule form. I never knew but one man to pull off a holdup successfully, and then obliterate himself from the surroundings. "It happened down South, where at one time the railroads were noted for their lack of speed, and where it was impossible to miss a train. All you had to do, if your train had left the station, was to follow it on foot, and you couldn't miss it unless you overlooked it or mistook its creeping for the inertia of a side-tracked section." "Yes," commented the pug-nosed brakeman, "I knew of a man down there who brought suit against the S. L. O. road to recover for damages sustained in bumping into the rear end of the moonlight limited while walking along the track. "The company tried to non-suit him by bringing a counter-charge of trespass; but his lawyer threatened to attack the validity of their charter on the ground that they could not prove that they were running trains, and they withdrew their charge. "The plaintiff won his suit, and the company was ordered to upholster the rear end of their trains to prevent a repetition of such accidents." "Well, to get back to the holdup," said Monk, "I was touring the South, some years back, and at this particular time my objective point was Boonville. As I had lots of leisure, I decided to make the trip by rail. "I caught up to a freight bound for that point, and, sauntering up to it, I swung myself aboard the caboose and proceeded to accord myself with a cordial welcome. I took possession of the lower bunk without waiting for the porter to appear, and was soon in the land of dreams. "I was awakened by the crew, who had come back to see if the rear end was all right. He asked me what the Stonewall Jackson I meant by intruding, and volunteered to punch my ticket or my head without fear or favor. "I hypnotized him by making a few occult passes, and he extended me the cordial entente. It was pretty good stuff, even though it was tax free and did not bear the pure-food guaranty." "If you will pardon the interruption," said the pug-nosed brakeman, "I want to pay tribute to the railroads of the South. The southern spirit of hospitality is not dead, and the Cheslerfields of the rail will give you the glad welcome or the G. B. with all the grace born of heredity and long practice. They will fire you from a train in such courtly manner that you feel like apologizing for giving them the trouble." "Your prognostication coincides with my observation," commented Monk. "This Chesterfield of the caboose told me we were approaching Hog mountain, a moonshiners' stronghold, noted for its reluctance to contribute to the revenues of the government and for the weirdness and grandeur of its scenery. "He said he had to go back to the engine and tend to his fire, and he advised me to take a seat in the observatory of the caboose and enjoy the phantasorama. "I took his advice, and found that we were traveling up into the mountain, and that the scenery was all that he claimed for it. I was taking in the scape, when I noticed a tall mountaineer making his way down a rugged path toward us. "He carried a long rifle, and was accompanied by a lean, lanky coon dog. He reached the railroad track just as we passed, and, spying me looking out the observatory window like a blooming Juliet scouring the horizon for a dilatory Romeo, he pointed his rifle at me and commanded: "You-all throw up your hands!" "I looked at him in amazement, but lost no time in doing the upward Del-sarte movement. "Say you moth-eaten mountaineer," I shouted, "what's the answer to the riddle you're propounding? Have I unconsciously butted into a Hatfield-McCoy combination, or do you imagine this is a treasure train? "You-all stop that train, or I blow your darned head off!" he replied. "How the heck do you expect me to stop the train?" I shouted back. 'Run along, Reuben, and file your request with the engineer. He's running this seeing-the-scenery special from the front end.' "For a moment he looked as if he doubted my statement; then, lowering his gun, he sprinted for the forward end, while I climbed down from my perch and started out to investigate. "As I stepped from the train, it came to a stop, and when I reached the engine the mountaineer had the engineer and his man-of-all-work lined up with their hands as far from earth as possible. He caught sight of me, and in a wink he had me doing the high reach alongside the others. Do You Know That— "Say," growled the engineer, 'what you want to do? Steal this outfit? There isn't anything on board you can take, unless it's the coal in the tender.' "Don't you-all give me no sass,' cautioned the tall man of the mountains. I'm going to borrow this train, and you-uns'll have to run it for me.' "Well, he made us all climb aboard, packing us into the cab, and ordered the engineer to start up. The COLORADO STATESMAN "Say,' queried the engineer, with his hand on the throttle, 'aren't you going to ride?" "No,' replied the mountaineer, 'I hain't never been on one of those pesky things, an' I ain't going to take no chances. I guess I can hoof it and keep up to you; but don't you-all try to run away from me, or I'll plug you full of lead!" "The engineer started up, and the highland holdup man had no trouble keeping up with us. The queer procession proceeded for several miles, then we came to a place where a track branched off from the main line into the heart of the wilderness. Here he brought the engine to a stop by pointing his gun at the engineer and shouting, 'Whoa!' IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING 'Now, you-all git down and move the track over so we can go up this 'ere way,' he commanded, addressing the man-of-all-work. "That worthy lost no time in climbing down and throwing the switch, and we moved along the old unused track. "What the nation does that elongated outlaw want to run us up this old lumber line for?" growled the engineer. 'There hasn't been a train along here since the road stopped taking out timber.' Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY "Say, you train robber!' shouted the man-of-all-work, addressing the patriarchal pirate in his most courtly manner, 'will you kindly inform us whither we are going and why, and what is our doom.' "You-all 'll find out soon enough,' he answered. 'Shut up!' "We proceeded for about three miles, and then the grizzled guerrilla commanded the engineer to stop. He told the fireman to fix his fires so they would last for a couple of hours. When everything was ready he lined us up in single file, with the lanky coog dog in the lead, and made us precede him along a path in the wilderness. In about fifteen minutes we came to a cabin in a clearing. In answer to a whistle from our captor, a woman appeared at the door. 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. "Mandy," he said, 'I've brought company for dinner. Rustle around lively. These gents is in a hurry.' "In short time the meal was ready, and we all sat down. It knocked the wind out of me to hear that venerable villain ask a divine blessing on the repast, but it didn't spoil my appetite. "After we had finished and the table had been cleared, our host procured writing materials and placed them on the table. "I want one of you-uns to write a letter," he said. 'Guess you-all had better do it,' he continued, addressing me. 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. "I expressed my willingness to accommodate him, and prepared to stenograph his dictation. "This here letter," he said, "is to be wrote to the president of the United States." "I indited the superscription and waited for him to commence dictation. "Mr. President," he started, and then continued: This here section of the country has been pestered by a lot of no-account revenue men huntin' for moonshiners. They made it onpleasant for us honest natives and we-all has had to feed them pretty darn often. To prove to you that these revenue men you send down here are no-account critters. I am sending you by railroad a keg of first-class moonshine whiskey which I made in my cabin while your varmints was there eating my grub. I guess you-all will find it all right, but there is no use you sending any more of them critters down here to get me, for I am going away. Please excuse the writing, as it was done by me in the railroad man. Your truth. Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction [his] JAKE X. TOLLIVER. [mark] "Quite an expressive epistle," commented the pug-nosed brakeman. "Yes," replied Monk. "That mountaineer had the art of letter writing down fine. After I had finished my stenographic duties, that moonshiner produced a five-gallon keg and made us lug it down to the train. He told the engineer to see that it was delivered to the president along with the letter. Then he bade us adieu and told us to clear out. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver "We backed out of that wilderness, and eventually reached our destination." "And was the liquor sent to the president?" asked the pug-nosed brake-man. "Not in a thousand years!" exclaimed Monk. "Somehow or other that keg sprung a leak, an' before we reached our destination every drop of the liquor was gone. If the train hadn't run so slow, we might have saved some of it." Potash in United States A discovery of a deposit of potash within the United States was made some time ago, though little has been done in the way of its development. The department of the interior has expressed the hope that this supply would for some time at least make the farmers of this country independent of foreign sources. It lies, however, still undeveloped. Germany, up to now, has had a world monopoly of potash. IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING 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. Give Us a Trial and and We Will Give You Satisfaction Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver Phone Main 7417 The Latest Fancy in Veils THE SCOUTS THE latest fad which has seized upon the feminine fancy and is about to run its course is the wearing of a full, straight-hanging veil. It is usually of net bordered with narrow ribbon, but, before long, veils of chantilly and other laces may outnumber those of figured net. In spite of the popularity of figured lace in the smaller face veils the fact remains that they are less becoming than plain or dotted nets. The smartest of the new veils are shaped to flare and ripple about the bottom, after the manner of the new skirts. Those in taupe color, twine color and black hold first place and look especially well with the new demi- Hats for Southe If these fortunate ones who escape winter by journeying South are worried by misgivings as to what they shall wear, they may set their minds at rest. Gowns for southern tourists, as enchanting as those in seasons past, and millinery as exquisite as has ever been worn, are all at hand. Whether or not they are inspirations from creators of styles in Paris or in America is not the important matter. They are here and they are lovely, and those who wear them or those who go to see them are not to be disappointed. In hats for southern wear the panama is playing the leading role. There are many shapes to choose from in this beautiful weave. Among them moderately large hats on the sailor order, with either straight or rolling brims, and others that droop back and front contrive to be becoming to almost every wearer. Many people must confine their traveling to America this year, and a greater throng than ever will see and be seen in the fashion parade grounds of the South. What is worn there will be worn later in the North. Styles that survive and for which a demand is created will become our fashions for the summer season. It is pleasant to contemplate, therefore, the survival of such attractive headwear as the two hats shown here. A dressy panama, in shepherdess style, is edged with a narrow border of lace and trimmed with a band and hanging loops and ends of velvet ribbon. A flower motif with foliage is applied flat to crown and brim without any attempt at regularity. This is a wonderfully chic and elegant hat. The second hat has been christened with several names, each with reference to the straw of which it is made. One hears it called "the lemon straw," "the barnyard" and "the rustic." This last best expresses it. It is woven of large lustrous straws and shown in season hats which are early in the field as harbingers of the coming of spring. A new design in veils of figured net is shown in the picture, having pendant fern leaves as a pattern on a net ground. It is interesting as a novelty, but the more irregular floral designs are more attractive. An illustration of the two most popular nets is given also, showing one with a square and one with a hexagonal mesh. Vells of this kind are bordered with velvet dots, some of them square and others round, and in size varying from a sixteenth to a half inch in diameter. ern Journeyings many colors. It looks best in the straight-brimmed shapes, of which an example is given here. Polinsettias, simulated in ribbon, or other flowers posed flat against the crown, make a most effective trimming against so brilliant a background. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Bits About Blouses. It is fashion's decree that fussy blouses have had their day—for a time at least—and so we must give our attention to much simpler designs. They are extremely smart and very becoming to most women. This season we have a number of new blouse materials, most important among which are the pussy willow silks and a lovely new chiffon crepe, known as georgette crepe. Unlike chiffon, the georgette crepe needs no net foundation, for, while it is quite thin, it is more opaque and washes beautifully. The pussy willow silks come in a heavier quality than crepe de chine, and are a sort of cross between that and messaline, with a fine subdued juster to them. Either of the two fabrics just mentioned will work up nicely in a blouse in white, palest pink or yellow, mauve, navy, pea green or rust color. These are the smartest blouse colorings just now. Velvet for Dusting. A piece of velvet is a fine cleaner for the brass and for polishing silverware it is better than chamois. It quickly removes the dust from woodwork, and if used to rub the stove after it has been blackened it will produce a high polish. There is nothing better to dust a felt hat, and silk dresses and other silk articles should always be dusted with it, for it cleans perfectly without cutting or otherwise injuring the silk. J. R. CONTEE Pres. and Mgr. INCOR RESIDENCE PHONE YORK 7992. Lady Assistant Polite Service to All Parlors, 1830 Arapahoe Street KEYSTON OPEN FOR BUSINESS New D to Key like it Strictly home cooking. Lowe food. Eastern corn-fed meats YSTONE CAFE N FOR BENESS New Dining Room in Connection to Keystone Social Club. Nothing like it ever attempted in Denver. 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