Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY A SOUTHERN COMMUNITY TAKE VIGOROUS STEPS AGAINST LYNCHINGS THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA PLEDGES HIS UNSTINTED SUPPORT WITH THE PEOPLE'S CO-OPERATION TO CLEAR HIS STATE OF THE STIGMA PLACED UPON ITS NAME. VOL. XXIII. A SOUTHERN TAKE VIGOR AGAINST THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH C STINTED SUPPORT WITH ATION TO CLEAR HIS PLACED UPO New York, Nov. 22.—Governor Richard I. Manning, of South Carolina, as a result of a recent lynching of Anthony Crawford, at Abbeville, hastaken a stand which promises to clear the name of his State of the stigma which attached to it during the administration of his predecessor, the notorious Cole Blease. Governor Manning in a statement given out to the press on the day before election says: "I was out of the State when the Abbeville lynching occured. As soon as I learned of it I called Solicitor R. A. Cooper and Sheriff R. M. Burts, of Abbeville, to the office and called on Coroner F. W. R. Mance of Abbeville County to comply with the law and furnish me with a copy of the testimony taken at the coroner's inquest. I found that the coroner held an inquest, but took no testimony. "I intend to do everything in my power to uphold the law and let the offenders know that such acts will not be tolerated, and that those guilty of violating the law must suffer for it. I have requested Solicitor Cooper as the State's representative and Sheriff Burts as the highest peace officer in the county, to leave no stone unturned in order to vindicate the law and all the powers of the governor's office are at their disposal in bringing the guilty ones to justice." The lynching referred to occured on October 21 in one of South Carolina's most beautiful and progressive cities. Anthony Crawford, the victim, was fifty-one years old, worth over $20,000. He got into a row with a white storekeeper named Barksdale over the price of cottonseed. It is reported that Mr. Barksdale called him a liar and that Crawford cursed him roundly in return, whereupon a clerk ran out to give Crawford a beating with an ax handle. He was saved from this by a policeman who arrested Crawford took him to the municipal building, but when they let him out on bail a crowd of men took after him again intent on punishing him for daring to curse a white man. "The day a white man hits me is that day I die." Anthony Crawford once said to a friend. When he saw the crowd coming --- after him, he went down in the boiler room of the gin, picked up a four-pound hammer and waited. The first man who came at him, McKinley Cann, received a blow in the head which fractured his skull, some one threw a stone which knocked out crawford before he reached anyone else. While he was down they knifed him in the back and kicked him until they thought they had finished him, when they permitted the sheriff to arrest the unconscious Crawford on condition that he would not take his prisoner out of town until they knew whether Cann would live or die. Cann wasn't hurt as badly as they thought, but nevertheless a mob went back to the jail at 4 o'clock that afternoon, took the keys and guns away from the sheriff and jailor, dragged Crawford through the streets with a rope around his neck, hung his mutilated body to a pine tree at the entrance to the fair grounds, and expended a couple hundred rounds of ammunition at it. On Monday a meeting was called in the Abbeville courthouse at which it was decided to order the sixteen sons and daughters of Crawford and their families to abandon their $20,000 home and get out of the State by Nov. 15. After the meeting this mob proceeded to close up all the colored shops in Abbeville. The Columbia State, in a powerful editorial, pointed out that in view of the exodus of labor from the South to northern industrial fields and the approach of the boil weevil, South Carolina's problem was to keep her colored men instead of serving notice on them that no matter how industrious or successful they might be, their case was absolutely hopeless. It so convinced the business men of Abbeville that they had lynched their own pocket-books, that on Nov. 6, another meeting was held in the court house, at which the following resolutions were unanimously passed: "We, the citizens of the city of Abbeville, in mass meeting assembled, do hereby express in unqualified terms our disapproval of the recent violent acts of certain persons committed in our community, and the spirit of law- State Hist & Nat Hist Society State House THE DENVER CHAMBER ADC THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SAT lessness that seems rife in the country, resulting in continued acts of lawlessness it is, "Resolved, That the sheriff of Abbeville County the Mayor of Abbeville, the Police Force, and every officer of the county and city be urged to use every effort to enforce the law and to protect the citizens of the town and county regardless of condition or color. "Resolved further, That we do hereby pledge ourselves as individuals to give to the officers of the law our physical support in maintaining the law, etc." WORLD'S RICHEST NEGRO YOUTH Tulsa, Okla.—Adam Manuel, Creek freedman, died in Colorado recently, and already there is a race on among some of the residents of Muskogee county to get the appointment of guardian for his children. There are five of the children living, and the elder Manuel inherited the allotments of two who are dead, but the guardianship is sought because of Luther Manuel, a minor son, who is believed to be the richest Negro boy in the world. When the allotments were made for the Manuel family, those of Luther, 13, and Rafield, his youngest brother, were in a locality where the land was worthless for farming purposes. Their father complained that the land was valueless but he was unable to have any change made. It turned out that the allotment of Luther, believed to be worthless, was in the heart of the Cushing oil field. Since that field was developed nearly six years ago his income from it has amounted to from $20,000 to $25,- 000 a month. The allotment of Rafield Manuel is not so valuable. The allotments of the other children are good for agricultural purposes only. Sarah Rector has been considered the most fortunate of all those among the Creek freedmen who took allotments in that section of the country, but her fortune is far less than that of Luther Manuel. For a time, when the Cushing oil was at its best, or for more than two years, her incom was $1000 a day. NEGRO SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK GROWING RAPIDLY The Watchman-Examiner, in dealing with the Negro and Sunday school work, says: "The modern school of methods for Sunday school leadership is developing among the Negroes. The second such educational convention is now meeting at Clark university, Atlanta, Ga. The movement began in September, 1913, at Knoxville college, when forty-seven people were present, representing nineteen institutions. Al- most every person then present has taught a teacher training class every year since. "There are now such classes in 100 Negro colleges in nineteen states. They register 3,060 students. The progress since 1911 is from 150 students in nine institutions five years ago. The gain has been steady each year, this year numbering 1,082 students more than last. Among the nineteen states where the work is carried on North Carolina shows the largest number, 484, and Ohio the smallest, four. Seventeen college presidents teach in these classes, and sixteen classes were organized exclusively for members of the faculties. "The training is now officially approved by the Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian and United Presbyterian bodies. There are 3,000,000 Negroes in the United States under twenty years of age. There are more Negroes in America than Canadians in Canada." NEGRO FARMER MAKES RECORD More than half a bale of cotton to the acre is the record made by an old Negro, Aaron Sims, on Harris county lands. Sims' farm is at Huffman, where he owns 500 acres, part of which is under cultivation, part pasture, and the remainder in a woodland tract. This year Sims planted thirty acres in cotton, from which he has just harvested and marketed nineteen bales. With the average price of cotton this season around 18 cents, his approximate income from this crop alone was more than $1,700, which was exclusive of seed. But he has not farmed in cotton alone. Sims is the proud possessor of eighty head of hogs, which he has raised mainly on sweet potatoes, to say nothing of about eighty chickens. Sims was an interesting visitor Friday at the Chamber of Commerce, where he related his story to Assistant General Manager G. C. Roussel. He brought a giant tuber to show Mr. Roussel, which is pronounced to be the best specimen of potato that has been brought to the Chamber of Commerce this season. The potato weighed $10\frac{1}{4}$ pounds and is perfectly formed. There have been other large potatoes, some weighing eight and nine pounds, but even these were garbled and twisted in a tortuous fashion. With the exception of a few natural eyes and creases the potato is perfectly smooth. From tip to tip it is $9\frac{1}{2}$ inches long and measures 7 inches in diameter. In circumference the long way it is 27 inches, and around the middle it is 22 inches in circumference. Sims said that he raised this year nearly 1,000 bushels of potatoes, but, of course, they were not nearly the size of the giant he brought to the Chamber of Commerce. He says he has fed most of them to his hogs. When asked how he raised them he said, "I don't know, boss; I just planted them and they just growed." In addition to his farm work, Sims and his sons, seven in number, do logging work for several saw mills in the vicinity of their home. Sims owns 27 head of oxen with which he does this work. He says this work alone is sufficient to provide for himself and his family.—Houston Post. RACE NEWS Birmingham, Ala.—An indicated effort to stop the sale of papers published by colored men was been in the action of one of the city detectives, Goldstein, who ordered a colored man, vendor of Negro papers, to go to the office of the chief of police, as he did not want "Negro papers sold on the streets any more." The vendor, however, had taken out a business license, and other than being kept for two hours, cooling his heels in the chief's office, was not interfered with. It is thought that this action indicates that when licenses are due to be renewed on January 1, 1917, colored news agents would be refused, but just how the police officials hope to be able to do this does not appear. lard's formerly played football at Dartmouth and pollard's inclinations were first toward the Hanover, N. H., school. NEGRO LABOR ROW BRINGS A PROTEST BY BRITISH UNIONS London, Nov. 25.—Trades unionism which has been growling informally at the prospect of the introduction of colored labor in Great Britain, has made a formal protest. The National Transport Workers Federation, one of the largest unions has passed a long resolution condemning certain proposals of the government affecting labor. The resolution says, in part: "The federation's executive hopes that the authorities will not be so ill-advised as to attempt the introduction of any class of colored labor on the docks or other waterside places of employment. In the existing crisis to think of employing colored labor Baltimore, Md.—That Charles M. Schwab intends to give colored labor a square deal at his big steel works near the city was asserted by his confidential man, Joseph L. Ray, at a banquet tendered him by representative men of the race here Tuesday evening of last week. Mr. Ray said that Mr. Schwab intended spending $50,000,000 within the next three years in developing his plant here, and would make Baltimore the greatest ship-building center on the Atlantic seaboard. He said that 20,000 men would be employed, and that colored men would be employed, and that colored men would be given a chance at anything they were capable of doing. He said that it spelled good things for the race in the way of industrial opportunity. New York, Dec. 7.—Fred Pollard, the Negro youth who chopped and hacked to pieces every means of defense that could be devised by Yale and Harvard, and who stands today as one of the most remarkable football players of a decade, is working his way thru Brown university. Pollard runs a little shop, and in moments when he isn't humping away at his studies or hammerhering down the field for Brown in football contests, he presses the students' suits. Pollard is only a youngster as a football player in the bigger colleges, but already he has pulled a team to championship classification by his own efforts. He chose Brown merely because it looked better to him than did several other universities, including Dartmouth. A brother of Pol- NO 17. NEWS VARIOUS SOURCES lard's formerly played football at Dartmouth and pollard's inclinations were first toward the Hanover, N. H., school. NEGRO LABOR ROW BRINGS A London, Nov. 25.—Trades unionism which has been growling informally at the prospect of the introduction of colored labor in Great Britain, has made a formal protest. The National Transport Workers Federation, one of the largest unions has passed a long resolution condemning certain proposals of the government affecting labor. The resolution says, in part: "The federation's executive hopes that the authorities will not be so ill-advised as to attempt the introduction of any class of colored labor on the docks or other waterside places of employment. In the existing crisis to think of employing colored labor would mean the recrudescence of all the trouble and discontent experienced by the increased employment of Chinese in the mercantile marine. ADVERTISE BARGAINS FOR WHITE FOLKS ONLY Louisville, Ky., Nov. 25.—Many stores in Louisville discriminate against their colored patrons. Colored women cannot get a glass of water nor use the toilets in certain stores; they cannot fit gloves nor corsets nor hats. But Crutcher & Starks, Men's Clothiers, at Fourth and Jefferson streets, is the first firm to publicly advertise race discrimination. In a large advertisement in last Sundays Herald they say a certain proposition is only for "white parents." To Mr. Lee L. Brown goes the credit of "discovering" the obnoxious feature of the advertisement. He immediately called the attention of other men to it, and they agreed with him that it was not a matter of whether Crutcher & Starks wanted the patronage of our people, but that the principle involved in a public house of this sort advertising race discrimination was a very serious matter. This sort of thing is bound to increase race prejudice; every reader of that "ad" was affected by it one way or another, and it is safe to say in the nature of things that prejudice against our people was given a certain impetus. NEW DARK ATHLETE IS HAWAIIAN SENSATION New York, Dec. 4.—Lorrin Andrews, the delegate from the Hawaiian Athletic Association, who is here to attend the annual meeting of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, stated recently that his association is proudly boasting of another Howard P. Drew. The lad whom he refers to is a huge study in ebony. His name is Gilbert, and he is a member of the Twenty-fifth infantry, stationed at Honolulu. Andrews states that Gilbert is a tall fellow, with a pair of long, strong legs. Gilbert, according to Andrews, has been credited with doing 100 yards in ten seconds consistently, and on two other occasions has run the distance in 9 4-5 seconds. Andrews also says that athletics is booming on the islands. Swimming has more admirers and participants than any other sport. SANTA CLAUS Ask Hotpoint Santa to Your Home for Christmas Do Your Christmas Shopping During America's Electrical Week Dec. 29—and Do It Electrically. 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The migration of Negroes northward in considerable number year by year for the last two or three decades has been quietly going on, although it may not have attracted much attention. The indication of this movement since 1880 is shown by the percentage of increase of the Negro population of the following nine Northern and border cities: Boston, Greater New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, Evansville and Indianapolis, Ind., Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The census figures for these nine cities showed that between 1880 and 1890 it increased about 36.2 per cent; from 1890 to 1900 it increased about 74.4 per cent, and from 1900 to 1910 about 37.4 per cent. In the first decade the increase was more than three times the increase of the total Negro population; in the second period it was more than four times as large and shows the influence of the economic disturbances of the period. In the last period the increase was nearly three times larger than the increase of the total Negro population. The rate of increase in the southern cities has been large, although less than that of the northern cities during the same period, indicating that similar causes were operating to draw Negroes to southern cities, although these causes were weaker than those operating in northern cities. The percentage increase of Negroes in 15 southern cities was, from 1880 to 1890, about 38.7; from 1890 to 1900, about 20.6; from 1900 to 1910 (16 cities with addition of Birmbinham, Ala.), 20.6 per cent. These percentages are based upon census figures for the following cities: Wilmington, Del.; Baltimore, Md.; Washington, D. C.; Norfolk and Richmond, Va.; Charleston, S. C.; Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah, Ga.; oulsville, Ky.; Chattanooga, Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.; Birmingham and Mobile, Ala, and New Orleans, La. It may be added in passing that from 1880 to 1910 the increase of white population in these southern cities has been very similar to that of the Negroes. The causes of this movement during this longer period have been the same as those affecting the Negro population in the last few months. The only difference has been the increase in the volume of the movement because of the increase in its influencing causes. Los Angeles recently appointed a Negress to the office of policewoman in connection with the juvenile bureau. She is Mrs. George A. Robinson and she is the first woman in the United States to hold such an office. She is a most unusual woman. Before taking up her residence in Los Angeles she battled for woman suffrage in Colorado. All her spare time she has devoted to the acquirement of an education. She speaks French fluently and is now mastering Spanish. To do good to her race and to society is the mainspring of all her energies. She has organized various political and civic clubs among the colored people until now she is known as the Booker T. Washington of Los Angeles. "Let us turn from the creative field to that of performance, and see what the future holds out for us there. As the Negro lends his own inflection to any tongue he learns, so his touch on the piano differs from the white man's. Here, too, his natural potentialities must expand," asserts David Mannes in an article written for the New York Evening Post. "Negroes either pick on instruments or play on instruments of percussion; to my knowledge they have never turned to bowed instruments. So it is that the difficulty for the Negro in playing on the violin lies in the bow. In their management of it they may approach the fine and natural legato of their own voices. "If people could hear Miss Richardson, the pupil of Mine, Leginska and now an instructor at the Music School Settlement for Colored People in Harlem, play the 'Toccata' of Debussy and 'To a Wild Rose,' by MacDowell, they would realize that between those pieces lies a varied range of musical dynamics all within the reach of our colored people." Mr. Mannes emphasizes the "intense spiritual feeling" of the Negro race as "Safety first" signs are placed in hemispherical bases, so they right themselves in case they are knocked out of place by passing vehicles. The Philippines assembly has put up a substantial prize for a means of destroying a tobacco insect pest without injuring the tobacco. The reach of the inner surfaces of the teeth as well as the outside is the aim of a double-ended toothbrush invented by a Memphis dentist. In her official position she visits the cafes, dance halls and other places frequented by Negro juveniles. She is so highly regarded by her people that as soon as a colored mother finds on her hands an unmanageable daughter she at once notifies Mrs. Robinson and leaves the matter in her hands. And it is well attended to and usually the girl is brought around to a decorous frame of mind. Mrs. Robinson is aiming to establish an orphanage for colored children in Los Angeles and is meeting with support among the white people. There are 4,000 colored orphans in California, and few places provided for their care. While in Colorado Mrs. Robinson took an active part in politics. She was the first colored woman to attend a convention in that state and later was in the convention which selected delegates to the national convention which nominated Roosevelt for the presidency. It was she who seconded the nomination for mayor of Jesse F. McDonald, an obscure mining man of Leadville at that time. Later he became governor of Colorado. The house of deputies of the Protestant Episcopal general convention, in session at St. Louis, adopted an amendment to the convention authorizing provincial synods to elect suffragan bishops for any diocese in the province to have authority over any particular race. The amendment, if it is adopted by the house of bishops and approved by the next general convention, will be a solution for the present problem of racial Episcopals, which has been urged particularly because of the Nepro parishes in the church. The suffragan bishop would be under the direction of the diocesan bishop. Opposition to the amendment was voiced in the house of deputies on the ground that a Negro never could be "a father in Christ to Negroes." In reply it was urged that as there are now Negro clergymen there was no valid objection to Negro bishops for Negroes. To perpetuate the work of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee institute it is now proposed to raise a fund which will make a permanent foundation for the work carried on at the institute by him and now under the able charge of Robert R. Moton. Tuskegee institute has accomplished a vast deal of good for the Negroes—both for those who have attended the school and for those who, while never within its walls, have nevertheless profited by the principles inculcated there. Tuskegee institute has also been a valued help to the white people of the South in their efforts to assist the Negroes to become a useful and efficient part of humanity. Certainly every Southerner will be glad to see ample funds placed at the disposal of the institution to insure its permanence in a widening scope of labor for the best interests of both the races. Notre Dame university of Wisconsin has a Grand Army post composed entirely of priests. After the war many of the priests who had taken part met at Notre Dame and organized the post. The first commander was the Very Rev. William E. Corby, chaplain of the famous Irish brigade of New York. The annual income in the electrical industries is equal to the total annual expenditures of the United States government. the initial force in its musical inspiration. Upon this basis he builds his belief in the efficacy of music as a factor in a nation's preparedness, and in this theory he is sustained by J. Rosamond Johnson, director of the colored Music School Settlement, and one of the foremost composers that his race has produced. Of this characteristic of the colored people Mr. Mannes says: "Their musical inspiration as a rule has as its initial force an intense spiritual feeling so common in the black race, literate and illiterate. True preparedness means the stimulating of the poetical, musical and dramatic qualities of the child of today so that the may and the woman of tomorrow shall resist the onslaughts of material aggression." Some years ago, when there was danger Fisk university, the school for Negroes at Nashville, Tenn., would have to close for lack of funds a group of students went over the country singing Negro folk songs to obtain money. Again money is badly needed at Fisk, and again the Fisk Jubilee Singers are raising funds. A man in California has fenced in his estate by chains connecting cement posts, made and colored to represent tree stumps. From heretofore waste tomato seeds Italian canners are making an oil with rapid-drying qualities that is useful in varnishes. A memorial erected to the memory of wire'less operators who have been lost with their ships has been dedicated at New York. 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Main 895 875 Orders taken over phone. ```markdown ``` FREE CHECK ROOM DENVER; COLORADO. Store No. 2 26TH AND WELTON Main 4955-4956 IMPROVED METHOD OF CLEAN ING TABLE UTENSILS. Does Away in Large Measure With the Unpleasant Work Which All Housewives Dislike—Saving of Both Temper and Labor. After each meal spoons, knives and forks are gathered, dropped into a pail of clean soapsuds and immediately wiped dry, a simple matter of two or three minutes. The plates and dishes are scraped and set in a tub of soapsuds, hot or cold, as convenient, the cups and saucers into another tub or pan likewise. Then the cooking things are thoroughly cleaned when emptied, and rinsed and wiped and put away immediately, which is much easier and more quickly done than at any other time. One's hands need not be wet during the whole process, and there is nothing unusual in the neat kitchen except three bright pans or tubs of neatly-piled dishes covered with water. When ready to attack them the water is poured off and fresh, hot suds poured over the panful. Then the clean pieces are lifted out into the drainer, set in a large pan to fit, hot water poured over them and the drainer set on the back part of the range or in the sun and air for a few minutes until they are ready to set away. Piled in open order, with hot water poured over them, and set in a current of air, dishes dry of themselves better than anyone can wine them. Pitchers and jars are washed out with a mop, scalded and turned upside down to dry. They dry more thoroughly and with less danger of breakage than in the ordinary way, and why is this method not as good for all china? If you will try drying china in this way you will find that it comes out glossy enough to suit the most exacting housewife—and with a great saving of temper and labor.—Chicago Herald. HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE When boiling a leg of mutton inclose it in a muslin bag. Cooked in this way it will keep a much better shape. To make red tiles a bright color, rub with lemon dipped in fine salt. Leave for a few minutes, then wash with soap and water. A solled photograph mount may be cleansed by rubbing with dry bread-crumbs; the photograph should be wiped with clean cold water. For removing tea and coffee marks from linen glycerine is excellent. Pour it over the stains, rub it well in, and wash in the usual way. Indiarubber gloves are better than leather ones to wear when doing housework; they are more flexible, and in addition are much easier to keep clean. Where oil lamps are used a painful of dry sand should always be kept handy. Nothing is so effective for extinguishing burning oil in case of accident. When making suet dumplings, whether sweet or savory, always prick them well before putting them in the pan. If this is done they will not stick to the bottom. Fried Maryland Chicken Merely split a young chicken in halves, sprinkle over with flour and fry in deep hot butter, allowing 20 minutes for each side, 40 minutes in all. Season well, turning chicken and also pan frequently. Have it covered, for steam of the moist meat and butter aid in cooking it. When thoroughly done, lay on a hot platter and put as much flour into a gravity pan as there is fat remaining, and let brown for an instant. Add nearly a cupful of cold or warm water, gradually, and one heaping teaspoonful of sugar and allow to boil, thus making a delicious brown gravy, thickened, and pour on chicken. Serve at once. Vegetable Roast Take one-half cupful of boiled corn, either canned or cut from the cob; one-half cupful of baked beans, mushed to a pulp; one-half cupful of boiled rice, one-half cupful of strained stewed tomatoes, one-half teaspoonful of minced onion, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one-quarter cupful of sweet milk and salt and pepper to taste. Mix this together and add enough stale breadcrumbs to make a stiff dough, roll and bake in a greased pan. Serve with tomato sauce. Appetizing Breakfast Dish A "ferent" cornmeal mush. Make the mush in the usual way, using about one quart of water well salted (one teaspoonful); stir in one cupful of yellow cornmeal and cook in double boiler about one hour. When done stir in one to one and one-half cupfuls of chopped cold meat (any kind) and season slightly with sage. Pour into pans and when cold slice and fry in bacon drippings or butter. Beet Relish. One quart cooked chopped beets, one quart chopped raw cabbage, one cupful chopped raw onions, one cupful sugar, one tablespoonful salt, one teaspoonful black pepper. Mix well and add to vinegar which has been boiled Good Habit. If you have never formed the habit of washing cereals before cooking, try putting them in a basin and filling it with cold water. You will find much trash and husks rise to the top, and it is better to strain this off. DOMESTIC CROP HARVESTED IN 1915 WAS SATISFACTORY. During Past Year Sugar Beet Seed Was Grown in Several States from Michigan to California. Denver:—Sugar beet seed was grown commercially in this country during the past year in several states from Michigan to California. The crop of seed harvested in 1915 was so satisfactory—according to the report of the chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, at Washington—in each of the areas tested that a largely increased acreage was planted this year. The bureau assisted in an advisory way in growing, selecting, and siloing the roots, planting them in the spring, harvesting and cleaning the seed, and, in general, endeavored to produce the largest amount of commercial seed possible at a minimum cost. Approximately 5,000 acres are in beet seed in this country this year, while we require the product of at least 16,000 acres for a normal planting, not considering the natural expansion of the beet-sugar industry. Each new mill will require an average of 200 acres in seed to meet its planting requirements. Seven new mills are in process of construction for this year. The problem of drying the sugar beets for the purpose of increasing the amount of raw material for the mill and thereby increasing the length of the sugar campaign has been further investigated. The principal difficulty has been in finding or devising a dryer of suitable capacity to handle enough beets per day to be profitable. A satisfactory solution of the problem will be very beneficial in those small valleys in the intermountain states, where the acreage is not sufficient to support a sugar mill, and yet the sugar beet is necessary to the highest results in the farming operations. Rio Grande Tax Valuation Cut. A reduction of more than $1,500,000 was made in the tax commission's valuation of the Denver & Río Grande railroad by the board of equalization. James Correy, tax agent of the road, presented its claims and declared that the railroad had been discriminated against by the tax commission in fixing the assessment valuation on a one-year instead of the five-year basis accorded all other roads. A reduction of $1,573,060 was allowed by the board, and the claim for a five-year average sustained. The tax commission's valuation of the Arkansas Light and Power Company of Pueblo was sustained by the equalization board. A reduction was granted to the Colorado & Southern railroad of $241,043, because an allowable reduction of income taxes had not been made. The valuation of the Western Light and Power Company was fixed at $1,564,330 instead of the $1,636,709 made by the tax commission, and a reduction of $1,007,880 allowed on the valuation of the Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District railway. Woman as Deputy Attorney General. Colorado will have the first woman assistant attorney general in the United States in the person of Clara Ruth Mozzor, young Denver attorney and former newspaper writer. Her appointment as one of his aides was announced by Leslie E. Hubbard, attorney-general-elect, and is a result of a campaign by leading women and women's organizations throughout the state. Miss Mozzor was the youngest woman ever admitted to the bar in Colorado when she passed the legal examinations in 1915. She has lived in Denver since her early childhood and is a graduate of East Denver High School, of the college of liberal arts of Denver University, and of the law department of the University of Colorado. She has been a reporter and feature writer on various Denver newspapers. Will Protect Grade Crossings. Following a conference between officials of the Colorado & Southern Railway Company, the Denver & Interurban Railroad Company and the Western Light and Power Company, the Twelfth and Marine streets and the Twelfth and Water streets grade crossings in Boulder were ordered protected by flagmen from 6 a.m. until 12 o'clock midnight daily, pending a decision of the State Public Utilities Commission as to whether these crossings should be eliminated or protected by gates or other suitable safety devices. Woman Elector Running Farm. Mrs. Gertrude Lee, first woman elector from Colorado and former chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, is running a 1,280-acre farm near Briggsdale, while her husband is serving with the troops on the border. Quarantine on Stock Raised. The Colorado quarantine placed on shipments of cattle, sheep and hogs from Nebraska and Kansas as the result of a report that there had been an outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in the Kansas City stockyards was lifted by the State Board of Stock Inspection. Federal inspectors, after a careful investigation, decided that the cattle in the Kansas City stockyards had stomatitis, or sore mouth, and were not suffering from the epidemic The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO The Champa Pharmacy Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. When You Want The Heads, Feet, Tails, Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings, or any other part of the hog except the squeal, go to HAVE MOVED TO 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT O.P. BAUR & CO. CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168. 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Cole. JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving and Storage COAL AND WOOD 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. TELEPHONE YORK 6668 J. H. Biggins GENERAL FURNITURE REPAIRING AND UPHOLSTERING. 2300-6 Larimer Street Phone Main 1461 ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Phone Main 4896 1848 Arapahoe 乐洋轩 Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonios, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending sample of hair; also combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colorado DO IT NOW Subscribe for THIS PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN LAUGH SHALL BE FREED. LAUGH COUNTRY PARTY JOS. D. D. RIVERS.....Proprietor 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. Phone Main 7417. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year ..... $ 2.03 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .60 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising 50 cents per inch. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. RECOGNIZED BY THE RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF THE DENVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM OF THE FIRST CLASS. CHRISTMAS GIFT. CHRISTMAS GIFT. THIS PAPER AND ITS MANAGEMENT has at all times and under difficult circumstances sought to labor for the advance- ment and upbuilding of its people. We have not sought to make this a petty, personal organ of the owner, but a broad journal of opinion, reflecting the good of a growing people. All we have asked in return has been a fair share of your patronage. We feel that we are entitled to it. We are sending you a first-class paper, free from coarse and objectionable matter. We want every colored man and woman in the West to read and pay for this paper. We have much due us from our readers. We need this money. Just send it in and help a worthy cause as a Christmas gift. DENVER STORES IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE WORDS CAN INADEQUATELY DESCRIBE the holiday attire of the stores of the City of Denver for the season of 1916-17. and therefore everyone who is physically capable of visiting them should seize this opportunity of getting first, direct and definite information as to the merchants' special efforts to present to their customers and the public in general not only charming decorations in the interior of their store premises, but a class of goods unsurpassed by any in the country and at prices to defy competition of the most aggressive and formidable competitor. The adage, "seeing is believing," could be well applied at this instance and be readily entertained as the managers of the various firms who advertise with us appear to act in friendly rivalry for the obtaining of public opinion as to "the best store in town." The decorations serve to remind us of the days of the fairies in fairyland, while the artistic arrangement of the holiday presents offers a east to the eye which results in an uncontrollable magnetism. Taking a particular view o the latest productions of twentieth century manufacturers, as the counters are laden with a variety of articles in every line of merchandise, from men and women's clothing to jewelry, crockery, toys and novelties, the mind seems to thrill, the eyes sparkle, and it appears as if something within dictates that by a touch of a magic wand the pocketbooks will yield to the enchantments which environ you, and you become the recipient of that joy which is only experienced by those who make their periodical visits to such magnificent scenes. Join the throng of spectators and be an eye-witness of the marvelous creations in fashion, etc., which these centers of attraction offer and you cannot help from being doubly pleased with your good fortune of being a resident of Denver—the great Emporium of the West. THE COLORADO STATESMAN positively assures you of the reliability of these firms that appear in its advertising columns, and from years of business experience with them, GUARANTEES the best holiday shopping at very moderate prices. The Right Kind of Reading Matter The home news; the doings of the people in this town; the gossip of our own community, that's the first kind of reading matter you want. It is more important, more interesting to you than that given by the paper or magazine from the outside world. It is the first reading matter you should buy. Each issue of this paper gives to you just what you will consider The Right Kind of Reading Matter --- Public Health Work, Despite Influence of Commercialism, Makes Great Headway Public Health Work, Despite Influence of Commercialism, Makes Great Headway It was but a few years ago that anything relating to public health work, state or local, was regarded by many as of little use, an added burden of taxation to the people and an infringement on personal liberty. Today the work of the public health service in preventing and eradicating contagious and infectious diseases is widely recognized and appreciated. In fact, those best informed, and especially those engaged in the care of disease, the members of the American medical profession, are advocating strongly the establishment of a department of health under the supervision of a member of the president's cabinet. Next to its establishment and the enforcement of its laws nothing is of greater importance to a government than the maintenance of the health of its people. Health has come to be generally recognized as an economic principle. Some countries maintain compulsory working men's laws, protecting the people by state accident indemnity and old-age insurance. England furnishes free medical attendance to the fairly well-to-do as a national economic feature of her government. In this country also various insurance and accident compensation laws have been put into effect. Within but a few years, through the efforts of the public health service and the lecturers sent out by the American Medical association, the people of the United States have become fairly well informed as to the possibilities of preventing disease. People in America naturally tend to commercialism, and in a nation of this kind it is difficult to advance methods which in any way interfere with business. Commercialism, therefore, greatly hampers the work of local public health officers. The state of Minnesota, which finds it easy to raise about nine cents per capita for the care and prevention of disease in hogs and cattle, has an appropriation for health work of but three cents per capita. Even with this small amount, however, Minnesota stands fourth in the public health statistics of the United States. In many states the appropriation varies from a quarter of a cent to a cent per capita. The legal value of a human life is commonly placed at $5,000. There is hardly a community in which an acting health officer, in the course of a year, would not be able to save at least one human life. Accordingly, cities with a population of two thousand and up should have a whole-time health officer whose compensation should be at least the value of one human life. Such an officer should be modern in his views, fully equipped and trained in public health service. The maintenance of the Monroe doctrine in the past has been due not to our own might but wholly to the balance of power in Europe. Some European power would long ago have come in and called our bluff had it not been for the well-grounded fear that some other European power would have started an attack in the rear. Assuming that the European balance will be restored after the present war, our position will no longer be secure, for in the event of war with Japan some European power might render her enough assistance seriously to handicap us, without upsetting the European balance. Russia and Japan, for example, have recently formed an alliance. I have always felt that Japan's alliance with England was a guaranty of peace—for England could not well afford to be drawn into a war with us—but with Russia the case is different. In view of the Japanese shift from England to Russia and to many indications of change, my own conviction is that the old European balance will not be restored as such, but will give place to a world balance, in which we shall have to take our place. Building of the Panama canal, annexation of Porto Rico, possible purchase of the Danish West Indies, and other governmental responsibilities taken over in that section have broadened our foreign policy. I am in theory a pacifist still, and I believe that after this war some plan will be worked out to relieve the world of the enormous burden of armaments and the constant fear and danger of war; but until the elemental passions now aroused subside and reason once more asserts its sway it behooves us to be prepared to measure force with force in any crisis that changes in world politics may compel us to face. Regulation Without Political Animus Needed if Railroads Are to Prosper Industries may meet enlarged expenses by charging higher prices for their products—and thus enlarge their profits more and more as prosperity increases. But the railroad, no matter what the demand for its product, must hold its prices stationary and in seasons of greatest prosperity see its profits crumble before a rising tide of costs. The railroads are doing all the business they can possibly handle. But facilities are woefully inadequate. The disparity between facilities available and traffic presented is becoming greater every day. Fewer miles of railroad were constructed in this country in 1915 than in any year since the Civil war. Railroad managers, eager to go ahead with new work, knowing what ought to be done, telling the public so, and telling commissions so, yet find that the public will not listen and commissions will not heed. The attitude investors have taken is clearly to be gathered from the fact that during the year 1916 not a dollar of new railroad stock has been listed on the New York stock exchange to provide money for new railroad building. The solution of the problem lies in developing without any delay a system of railway regulation which shall not be controlled by political animus or prejudice, and which will rankly recognize this fundamental fact: If we are to obtain the railroad facilities absolutely necessary to move our national trade, we must be willing to pay the bill. That means that we must permit railroads to earn sufficient profits to attract the necessary private capital. Otherwise private capital will put its money elsewhere, and government ownership, with all its inevitable blight upon our national life, with all its red tape, waste and cost to the people, will be the only recourse. Santa Claus Specials Toy and Doll Shop—Basement—Lewis' Both little folks and big folks will be interested in these toys, which come to us right from Santa's hands, and which we are offering at tempting special prices. The little folks will be interested in the dolls and toys themselves, the big folks in the prices, which make it so easy to help Santa bring the kiddies just what they want. Come everybody, visit the Wonderland of Toys. 'Twill give you the real Christmas spirit. Specials for Saturday HAT Brown Teddy Bears, 21 inches long, special price $1.00. Japanese china dishes for dolly, 11-piece sets, special price, 65c. Doll furniture, each set contains a settee, three chairs and a table, special price 35c. Character baby dolls with sleeping eyes and wigs, imported, special price, 50 cents. Big character baby dolls dressed in baby clothes, with cunning caps on their bald heads, special price, $1.00. Sleds for Girls and Boys Whee! how you'll go sailing along on these dandy Lewis' sleds. You'll be first everywhere—nobody can beat you. Be sure to tell Santa to bring you one of the sleds he sent Lewis'. High Grade Skirts--Unusual Sale Prices Saturday, Second Floor Salons It is seldom such an offer comes at such an opportune time. The vogue of long coats calls for separate skirts and dainty fresh blouses—and of course the shopping season means that you'll have use for several. This sale offers unusual opportunities for choosing skirts of quality. You will find just the skirts you've been longing for at prices so greatly reduced that you'll be delightfully surprised. 150 handsome skirts of serge, gabardine, poplin, chiffon broadcloth, chuddah; checks, plaids, stripes and other novelties; skirts suitable for every occasion; light in weight, suitable for wear in the spring; some have large patch pockets, some trimmed with beautiful buttons, others neatly braided and stitched; sizes for women and misses, including extra sizes for stout women; many of the famous "Korrect" styles are included. Sale Price $5 125 wonderful skirts of rich satin, silk poplin, silk chuddahs, taffetas, French serge, cashmere broadcloth, whipcord, twills, velour checks, plaids, stripes and other novelties; handsomely trimmed with buttons and silk embroidery; some of them exclusive models; complete assortment of sizes and extra sizes; colors include Copenhagen, navy, black, brown and green...... Sale Price $10 The AT Lewis & Son DryGoods Co Proper Physical Education. It is more important to know what a man is than the policy he intends to pursue. It is better to have a courageous, high-minded, honest, capable man than one who lugged a hale of policies. In the personality lie the highest possibilities of public duty. Just what a man will do in certain emergencies no one knows by what he says he will do, for he is a creature of circumstances, and the construction of those circumstances belongs to his personality, which is attested by his life. So the ultimate object of all policies should be the man who can rise above a selfish influence and do the right thing at the right time. And all this lies within the sphere of education, from which is evolved the citizen whose whole value is his personality, and not his knowledge or his smartness or oratory.—Ohio State Journal. The purpose of physical education is, of course, not merely to build up the bodies of boys today, but to put into the lives of boys that thing, whatever it is, that will make the boy stay strong and able-bodied when he reaches manhood. Such men—lovers of fresh air, of hiking in the wild, of sleeping out under the sky—men who can both enjoy and endure, are the men who will make up a strong nation and not a nation of weaklings.—Scouting Standard Lights. Such a dissimilarity has been found by the bureau of standards in lifebuoy lights supposed to be of the same power that makers are now required to submit samples of their lights for tests before they can be approved. Some lights show as low as 13 candle power, while others run as high as 180. The minimum requirement is 150, and samples must at least reach that standard to be accepted. Proved He Was Awake. The adjutant was one of the old school, and something of a martinet. He had a large bell erected in front of the quarter guard tent, and his instructions were that the sergeant on duty should ring the bell every half hour through the night, and that thereupon the sentries should challenge all round. One night when the bell was rung sentry No. 1 shouted: "No. 1; all's well!" No. 2 took up the challenge, "No. 2, all's well!" without, however, eliciting an response from No. 3. He tried it a second time, but still No. 3 was silent. The third time the challenge came, "No. 2: All's well!" No. 3's asleep!" To which the reply came in stentorian tones: "No. 3; All's well! No. 2's a liar!" Lobsters Galore "If Nova Scotia was near Broadway it would be the rendezvous for chorus girls," remarked a Pittsburgher in a Broadway dancing cafe, as he paid his check, which included $3 for broiled lobster. "I returned from a trip to Nova Scotia about two weeks ago," continued the Steel City man. "I got lobsters for 45 cents a dozen there. Yes, sir, that was the price. Big, fat lobsters they were, too, much better eating than any you can get in this town, except in places where lobsters are a specialty. It wasn't a chance bargain, but the regular price, and at that you could get the lobsters cooked and served for the same price. Why, the hotels in Yarmouth and Dighy and other Nova Scotia towns give you lobster for breakfast, dinner and supper, cooked any way you like, just for the asking. They're as common as eggs and as cheap. Later in the season they told me, when the Maine supply runs short and New York, Boston and other great centers of lobster consumption insistently call for more, the prices go up and up. Not very much higher for home consumption, of course, but for export. These blue nose fishermen aren't missing any chances and they demand and get New York prices."—New York Correspondence Pittsburgh Dispatch Insidious Malice. Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead nor confess guilt.—Sir Philip Sidney. The Grape Cure. Grapes are advised for the nervous thin, anemic people whose digestion needs attention. One grape a minute should be eaten for one hour at a time and repeat the dose several times a day until a cure is effected. Sleep at least eight hours out of every 24. THE COLORADO STATESMAN CAN ON SHELL BE FAIR FACE COLUMN PARTY Attorney W. B. Townsend is reported to be slightly improving from his attack of acute bronchitis. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huston of We are glad to announce that L. C. Connell who has been very sick is still improving. Furnished rooms and house for rent at 2358 Tremont Place. Inquire at 1824 Curtis street, Room 25. Leavenworth recently arrived in the city and have resolved to permanently reside here. They are at present at 2948 Welton street. Mrs. Annie Hicks left Tuesday last for Chicago, where she will have the pleasurable company of her daughter, Mrs. St. Clair Lenore, who is on a concert tour with the Fisk Singers. Mrs. Emma Davis of Vicksburg, Mississippi, arrived in the city Wednesday to visit with her daughter, Mrs. Claude Harold De Priest of 2415 Humboldt street several months. Mrs. Esther Morris, well known in Denver for many years was awarded first and second prizes by the judges of the millinery exhibits at the Zion Baptist jubilee celebration held recently in this city. The judges were Mrs. Camill of Barnett's Millinery and Haberdashery store and Mrs. Reynolds of A. T. Lewis and Sons Dry Goods Co. We congratulate Mrs. Morris upon this success as she always strives to place on the market the best there is in her millinery work to the satisfaction of all in quality and price. Rev. Bray, father of Rev. Franklin Bray, died at his late residence, 1146 South Cherokee street, Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Cammel & Co. in charge of remains. THE GIANT-BACH BENZ CO. one of the leading tailoring, cleaning and pressing firms of the West, H. L. McCain and K. S. Lankford proprietors, are establishing quite a reputation among all classes of the community. Their business, located at 506 18th St., within a stone's throw of the most commercial portion of the city, is made very attractive by the quality of workmanship and the courteous treatment it offers to customers. Preachers of race pride and persons who delight in the ability of skilled artisans of our race should visit and prove for themselves that they are worthy of patronage, especially from us. The proprietors are pleased with the support they are getting but say there is room for more, and especially from the race to which they belong. The Colorado Statesman wishes them every success. FUNERAL NOTICE. Douglas Undertaking Co. Mrs. Mary Long, age76 years, devoted wife of David Long, 42 Good Block building, departed this life Friday, December 1st. Funeral services to be held Sunday, December 10th, 2 p. m., from Campbell church under auspices of Evergreen Chapter No. 26, O. E. S., Rev. A. M. Ward officiating. Interment, Fairmount cemetery. CARD OF THANKS. Spencer, Charles and Harry Smithea gratefully acknowledge sympathies extended during recent illness and death of their father, James H. Smithea. Respectfully, SMITHEA BROS., 305 Euclid Ave. E., Detroit, Mfch. A USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT. An immediate reference for everything pertaining to the NEGRO RACE of America and other parts of the world. THE NEGRO YEAR BOOK supplies this want with its over a million facts. Call up the Colorado Statesman, Main 7417 and get your copy. Jes I. Hansen, manufacturing watchmaker and jeweler, 428 16th St., offers the best Christmas Present in this line to the public. Prices moderate. Call and see him first. James E. Porter, one of the best known Negro labor leaders of the South, and for years active in affairs involving the organized levee workers, died at his residence, 822 Octavia street, Monday, Nov. 19, 1916. Porter was born in Mississippi 52 years ago, but lived practically all of his life in New Orleans. For thirty years he was financial secretary of the Longshoreman's Protective Union Benevolent Association and served on many committees during the big levee strikes of a decade ago. He was secretary of the executive committee and held similar office in the Dock and Cotton Men's Council, the Central Labor Union and the Longshoremans Realty Association. He was also active in church affairs and uplift work among the people of his race. He was generally well liked and had the confidence of the employers of labor on the river front. He leaves a widow, a son and a number of relatives—New Orleans Picayune. [James E. Porter of Denver, formerly in the postoffice department, is his son.—Editor Statesmen.] PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. E. 28th Ave. and Washington St. Pastor: J. A. Thos-Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon topics, Sunday, Dec. 10: 11 a. m., "The Triumphant Finale." 5 p. m., "The Three-Fold Preparedness." The services at Yule-tide will be as follows: Christmas eve, Sunday 24th, Special Christmas program under the auspices of the Sabbath School. Tokens will be given the scholars, members and friends of the church from the tree at this service, being 5 o'clock p. m. in lieu of the regular evening services. The program will be substantially supported by the choir with appropriate music. Christmas morning at 6 o'clock our annual Xmas devotions will be observed. The communion of the Lord's Supper will be a most solemn feature of the occasion. Xmas offertory of $1 for the adults and 25 cents for the children will be expected at this time. Dec. 31st being the last Sabbath of the month and of the year, the regular services will be engaged in at the regular time, being 11 a. m. and 5 p. m. At 7 p. m. the pastor will entertain in annual fellowship supper the members and friends of his church. At 10 o'clock p. m. Old Year Services will be held lasting until 12:15 New Year's morning, followed by the Week of Prayer for the first week in January. The third of the series of musical engagements will be launched Thursday night, Jan. 25, 1917. The chief participants of the program will be Miss Cleo Hobson and Miss Virgile Cole. This program will assume the nature of a testimonial. Miss Hobson, though young and tender in years, is matured in the art of music. She is under the tuition of one of the very best music teachers in Denver. Her ability as a pianist needs no advertisement. Every church in the city to which she has repeatedly contributed her services gratuitously can testify thereto. Secular organizations are also indebted to her for her free work. Miss Virgile Cole, though not of the musical class of her contemporary, in this demonstration is making wonderful strides as a musician. Miss Beatrice Thrashley, her teacher, seems to be exceedingly painstaking in her imparation of instruction. The admission will be within the reach of all. New Private Dancing School New Private Dancing School Every Monday and Thursday nights. Lessons and Social Lessons 25c. Fern hall. 2711 Welton St. Morrison's Orchestra. R. L. Phynix Mgr Mrs. Z. Hooper, nicely furnished rooms; strictly modern; prices reasonable. Rooms for light housekeeping for man and wife. 2443 Tremont Place, Denver, Colo. THE NEW PRIVATE DANCING SCHOOL. CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR'S ball at Fern hall, under the auspices of the New Private Dancing School. Morrison's Full Orchestra. Admission 25 cents. R. L. PHYNIX, Manager. Mrs. J. J. Brown of 2538 Glenarm Place will serve chitterling every Sat saturday night and Sunday dinner every Sunday from 1 to 2:30 p. m.. Your par- tionage is solicited. Phone Main 3824. December Coat Sale THE COAT. Beautiful New Coats —Hundreds of smart new Coats arrived within the week. Coats of wool velours, Bolivia, broadcloths, plushes, jerseys, cheviots, corduroys and zibelines. —At a great deal less than regular prices—for that is the advantage at which we bought them—and we pass the saving on to you. Wlll you take advantage of it? —There's nearly every kind of coat in the sale. Coats suitable for both street and afternoon wear, for motoring, for general utility, for young and old, for women and misses. A TRULY WONDERFUL COAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU! SALE PRICES: $14.75 $18.75 $25.00 "The Santa Claus Store." THE Joslin DRY GOODS CO. "A Better Christmas Gift for Less." THE CHURCH OF THE LIGHT OF LIFE CAMPBELL CHAPEL AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH, 23RD AND LAW- A. M. Ward, Minister. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m., V. N. Wolfskill, superintendent. Preaching at 11 a. m., by Secretary T. J. Bell of the Y. M. C. A. At 2 p. m., funeral of Mrs. David Long Allen. C. E. League meeting at 6:30 p. m., Miss Carrie Britton, president. Preaching at 7:45 p. m., by pastor... Campbell chapel had a great rally on Sunday after a three weeks' battle between the silver and gold forces lined up under General Fannie Johnson and General Delilah Givens. At the close of Sunday services $409.00 was laid on the table with the gold clock under General Givens, registering $216; the silver clock under General Johnson, registering $193. Captain Etta Blackwell's club took the Second Floor Joslin's of smart new Coats arrived with plushes, jerseys, cheviots, corduroy at deal less than regular prices—for we pass the saving on to you. We early every kind of coat in the sale, motoring, for general utility, for your A TRULY WONDERFUL COAT IT IS WISE T $14.75 Claus THE JOSH ful New is arrived within the week. heviots, corduroys and zibel cular prices—for that is the on to you. Will you take a coat in the sale. Coats suita utility, for young and old, for WERFUL COAT OPPORTUN WISE TO BUY 75 $18 Joslin WA 305 Rev. B. lead with $49. Brother I. H. Harper of that club who brought in $35 took the lead as an individual member. The rally was held to pay for the steam-heating plant installed in the church two weeks ago and on Monday evening the trustees voted every dollar paid. Captain Amelia Brown's club ran close second. Other returns are to be made on Sunday and in the next issue a full report will be given. Ten thousand church goers should have heard the able sermon delivered by Rev. C. A. Williams at 3 p. m., on the subject, "Because the People Had a Mind to Work" The pastor united in holy wedlock Mr. Edward Bailey and Mrs. Lou Doty on Tuesday at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Riley. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are residents of Colorado Springs. The pastor is at home to all who need his services at the parsonage, 1218 23rd Street. Phone Main 5474. --- New Coat on the week. Coats of wool velour boys and zibelines. or that is the advantage at which will you take advantage of it? Coats suitable for both street and long and old, for women and misses. Opportunity for you! O BUY NOW! $18.75 $2 lin DRY GOODS CO. "A Be Gif WARD MISSION. 3054 Larimer St. Rev. B. F. McCully, Pastor Preaching at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 3 oclock. Preaching at 7:30. Prayer metting, Wednesday evening. All are cordially invited. Michaelson's Corner of 15th & Larimer Sts. When you visit Denver, visit Michaelsons; you will not only receive a most cordial greeting, but you will find values such as no other store in Denver can or will furnish. Do your Christmas shopping early, while stocks are more complete. $15 and up for Adlers Men's Collegian Suits and Overcoats, which you will find the world's best values. $7.50 for Men's all -wool Mackinaws. $2.95 for Sweet, Orr & Co. guaranteed Corduroy Trousers. Mens and Boys Sweater Coats, a complete showing most attractively priced. Shoes for the family at a guaranteed saving of 25 per cent at least. Christmas Slippers for every member in the family. The twinkling of the stars is more apparent than real, and is an effect produced in our atmosphere on the waves of light. It is due to currents and strata of air of different densities intermingling and floating past each other through which the light passes to the eye. It is seen more in warm weather than in cold, and near the horizon more than overhead. The same thing may be seen by looking out of a window over a hot radiator or at a cake held on the other side of a hot stove—one must look through a body of highly heated air at the candle flame. The flame will be seen to waver and quiver. The various layers of air are at different densities and in motion. Rapid twinkling of the stars is a sign of a change of weather. --- Twinkling Stars. Great Point in Game of Life. To a certain point in life you are full of the consciousness of your ambition. It seems a thing to be caught like a ball, by some unlearned skill, and you are so engrossed by the sensation of grasping at it that you miss the great point of the game. That is to be concerned entirely with the manner of your play. When you acquire that relaxation, which so often comes disguised as disappointment, you are really just arriving at the full measure of your best abilities. You will then steadily approach the goal without thinking of it. You will be satisfied to know that ambition, fulfilled, is no more than a little improvement in skill each day, a little more experience in the manner of seeking the goal. After this you will be ready for the discovery that the goal never really is reached or the game fully played out, but that it was ambition which kept prodding you to toss the ball. Made His Feet Fat. Tradition tells a story of Titus during the siege of Jerusalem, revealing the belief in the "laugh and grow fat" idea centuries ago. According to the legend Titus was sitting in his tent, pulling on a pair of long war greaves or boots with studded leather protectors over the shins, and had donned one of these when a messenger arrived to tell him that he had been given imperial honors in Rome. He burst into a fit of delighted laughter, and when he tried to put on the other boot his foot had fattened so that he could not get it on. Tiger Superstitions The people of India have some very curious superstitions concerning the tiger. One of these is that the ghost of a man killed by a tiger rides on the head of the beast that slew him to warn him of danger and to guide him to new victims. It is declared that Providence provides for the tiger's daily wants to the amount of one rupee (two shillings) a day; that is to say, if a tiger kills a calf worth six rupees he will not be allowed another victim for five days. Eating the flesh of a tiger is supposed to give one great courage and alertness, but the whiskers must first be singed off the beast, or his spirit will haunt the man who fed off him, and he is likely to be turned into a tiger in the next world. we have conducted an exclusive Jewelry Store in Denver. Square dealing, conservatism and yet progressive merchandizing is our motto. ESTABLISHED 1879 Stark JEWELERS 709 AND 711 SIXTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COL BOLDEN BROS. CA and LUNCH ROOM 924 19th Street, Denver, Colorado BROS. CAFE CH ROOM Denver, Colorado 924 19th Street, Denver, Colorado NNER 30 to 2 p.m. Short Or at All He Short Orders at All Hours Bolden Bros. Barber Sh Baths, Electric Massage FIRST CLASS SERVICE R. B. BOLDEN, Mgr. 926 19th St. D Barber Shop Electric Massage SS SERVICE gr. 926 19th St. Denver Bolden Bros. Barber Shop Baths, Electric Massage FIRST CLASS SERVICE R. B. BOLDEN, Mgr. 926 19th St. Denver Jes I. Hansen Manufacturing Watchmaker and Jeweler PHONE MAIN 3028 RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 JOHN K. RETTIG Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries 1864 CURTIS STREET RETTIG Staple Groceries IS STREET The MARKET COMPANY C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 160 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meal IT COMPANY , Res. Phone South 1608 Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters Grants Our Specialty. and Cured n Fed Meats The MARKET COMPANY C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones Main 4302,4303,4304,4305 622-636 15th Street Denver, Denver, olorado W. F. PLAMBECK EXPERT WATCH MAKER 1715 CHAMPA STREET A full line of Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and Jewelry at lowest prices. Courteous treatment to all Weatherhead Hat TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 ead Hat Co. E MAIN 3203 Weatherhead Hat Co. TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 Established 1876 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW PRACTICAL HATTERS RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINAL Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Descript 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. A Dollar spent at home reacts with unceasing gers. Sent out of town it's kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of benefit. Business men should awake to the importance this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious HAL HATTERS ERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Hats of Every Description St., Denver, Colo. spent at home reacts in its benefits with unceasing general profit. Sent out of town it's life is ended. It is a messenger of continuous awake to the importance of keeping a bid for it by judicious advertising. RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of continuous benefit. Business men should awake to the importance of keeping this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious advertising. ESTABLISHED 1879 Stark JEWELERS DINNER 11:30 to 2 p.m. For Christmas Presents Watches—Diamonds—Jewelry Repairing a Specialty 428 16TH STREET DENVER, COLO. Phone Maln 3012. PHONE MAIN 3028 Corner Nineteenth. Denver, Cola HONEST GOODS HONEST WORK AT HONEST PRICES Expert Repairing WILSON'S MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS Senate and House in Joint Session Hear Address of the President. HE MAKES FEW SUGGESTIONS Further Legislation for Settlement and Regulation of Railway Labor Disputes Held Imperatively Necessary by the chief Magistrate. Washington, Dec. 5.—The senate and house met in joint session today and heard President Wilson's message, which was as follows: Contemplation of the Governors: In fulfilling at this time the duty laid upon me by the Constitution of communicating to you from time to time information of the state of the Union and recommending to your consideration such legislative measures as may be judged necessary and expedient I shall continue the practice, which I hope has been acceptable to you, of leaving to the reports of the several heads of the executive departments the elaboration of the detailed needs of the public service and confine myself to those matters of more general public policy with which it seems necessary and feasible to deal at the present session of the congress. I realize the limitations of time under which you will necessarily act at this session and shall make my suggestions as few as possible; but there were some things left undone at the last session which there will now be time to complete and which it seems necessary in the interest of the public to do at once. In the first place, it seems to me imperatively necessary that the earliest possible consideration and action should be accorded the remaining measures of the program of settlement and regulation which I had occasion to recommend to you at the close of your last session in view of the public langers disclosed by the unaccommodated difficulties which then existed, and which still unhappily continue to exist, between the railroads of the country and their locomotive engineers, conductors, and trainmen. Railway Troubles First. I then recommended: First, immediate provision for the enlargement and administrative reorganization of the interstate commerce commission along the lines embodied in the bill recently passed by the house of representatives and now awaiting action by the senate; in order that the commission may be enabled to deal with the many great and various duties now devolving upon it with a promptness and thoroughness which are, with its present constitution and means of action, practically impossible. Second, the establishment of an eight-hour day as the legal basis alike of work and of wages in the employment of all railway employees who are actually engaged in the work of operating trains in Interstate transportation. Third, the authorization of the appointment by the president of a small body of men to observe the actual results in experience of the adoption of the eight-hour day in railway transportation alike for the men and for the railroads. Fourth, explicit approval by the congress of the consideration by the interstate commerce commission of an increase of freight rates to meet such additional expenditures by the railroads as may have been rendered necessary by the adoption of the eight-hour day and which have not been offset by administrative readjustments and economies, should the facts disclosed justify the increase. Fifth, an amendment of the existing federal statute which provides for the mediation, conciliation, and arbitration of such controversies as the present by adding to it a provision that, in case the methods of accommodation now provided for should fail, a full public investigation of the merits of every such dispute shall be instituted and completed before a strike or lockout may lawfully be attempted. And, sixth, the lodgment in the hands of the executive of the power, in case of military necessity, to take control of such portions and such rolling stock of the railroads of the country as may be required for military use and to operate them for military purposes, with authority to draft into the military service of the United States such train crews and administrative officials as the circumstances require for their safe and efficient use. Renews His Recommendations. The second and third of these recommendations the congress immediately acted on: it established the eighth day as the legal basis of work and wages in train service and it authorized the appointment of a commission to observe and report upon the practical results, deeming these the measures most immediately needed; Unusual Experience. "Man." remarked Sandy, "I did a thing last nicht what I've no dune this twenty year. I went to ma bed pair-rectly sober, but I'm right thankful to say I got up this mornin' none the waur!" Few Beggars in Panama. Although the city of Panama is a host cosmopolitan place, practically very race being represented in its 60-, 00 inhabitants, there are no beggars, except a few blind men but it postponed action upon the other suggestions until an opportunity should be offered for a more deliberate consideration of them. The fourth recommendation I do not deem it necessary to renew. The power of the interstate commerce commission to grant an increase of rates on the ground referred to is indisputably clear and a recommendation by the congress with regard to such a matter might seem to draw in question the scope of the commission's authority or its inclination to do justice when there is no reason to doubt either. The other suggestions—the increase in the interstate commerce commission's membership and in its facilities for performing its manifold duties, the provision for full public investigation and assessment of industrial disputes, and the grant to the executive of the power to control and operate the railways when necessary in time of war or other like public necessity—I now very earnestly renew. The necessity for such legislation is manifest and pressing. Those who have intrusted us with the 'responsibility and duty of serving and safeguarding them in such matters would find it hard. I believe, to excuse a failure to act upon these grave matters or any unnecessary postponement of action upon them. Not only does the interstate commerce commission now find it practically impossible, with its present membership and organization, to perform its great functions promptly and thoroughly, but it is not unlikely that it may presently be found advisable to add to its duties still others equally heavy and exacting. It must first be perfected as an administrative instrument. The country cannot and should not consent to remain any longer exposed to profound industrial disturbances for lack of additional means of arbitration and conciliation which the congress can easily and promptly supply. And all will agree that there must be no doubt as to the power of the executive to make immediate and uninterrupted use of the railroads for the concentration of the military forces of the nation wherever they are needed and whenever they are needed. This is a program of regulation, prevention and administrative efficiency which argues its own case in the mere statement of it. With regard to one of its items, the increase in the efficiency of the interstate commerce commission, the house of representatives has already acted; its action needs only the concurrence of the senate. For Control and Operation. I would hesitate to recommend, and I dare say the congress would hesitate to act upon the suggestion should I make it, that any man in any occupation should be obliged by law to continue in an employment which he desired to leave. To pass a law which forbade or prevented the individual workman to leave his work before receiving the approval of society in doing so would be to adopt a new principle into our jurisprudence which I take it for granted we are not prepared to introduce. But the proposal that the operation of the railways of the country shall not be stopped or interrupted by the concerted action of organized bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been instituted which shall make the whole question at issue plain for the judgment of the opinion of the nation is not to propose any such principle. It is based upon the very different principle that the concerted action of powerful bodies of men shall not be permitted to stop the industrial processes of the nation, at any rate before the nation shall have had an opportunity to acquaint itself with the merits of the case as between employee and employer, time to form its opinion upon an impartial statement of the merits, and opportunity to consider all practicable means of conciliation or arbitration. I can see nothing in that proposition but the justifiable safeguarding by society of the necessary processes of its very life. There is nothing arbitrary or unjust in it unless it be arbitrarily and unjustly done. It can and should be done with a full and scrupulous regard for the interests and liberties of all concerned as well as for the permanent interests of society itself. Other Legislation Urged. Three matters of capital importance await the action of the senate which have already been acted upon by the house of representatives: the bill which seeks to extend greater freedom of combination to those engaged in promoting the foreign commerce of the country than is now thought by some to be legal under the terms of the laws against monopoly; the bill amending the present organic law of Porto Rico; and the bill proposing a more thorough and systematic regulation of the expenditure of money in elections, commonly called the Corrupt Practices Act. I need not labor my advice that these measures be enacted into law. Their urgency lies in the manifest circumstances which render their adoption at this time not only opportune but necessary. Even delay would seriously jeopard the interests of the country and of the government. Most Fishermen Have Done It. "Simple Simon went a-fishing in his mother's pail." "Not so simple, at that," declared the amateur sportsman. "I've spent time and money getting to a place where the likelihood of catching fish was no whit greater." Nothing New. "I see some scientific sharp has discovered a substitute for bread." "He needn't think, he's so much. Our cook has been tu-ning that out for years." ulate the expenditure of money in elections may seem to be less necessary than the immediate enactment of the other measures to which I refer; because at least two years will elapse before another election in which federal offices are to be filled; but it would greatly relieve the public mind if this important matter were dealt with while the circumstances and the dangers to the public morals of the present method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under recent observation and the method of expenditure can be frankly studied in the light of present experience; and a delay would have the further very serious disadvantage of postponing action until another election was at hand and some special object connected with it might be thought to be in the mind of those who urged it. Action can be taken now with facts for guidance and without suspicion of partisan purpose. I shall not argue at length the desirability of giving a freer hand in the matter of combined and concerted effort to those who shall undertake the essential enterprise of building up our export trade. That enterprise will presently, will immediately assume, has indeed already assumed, a magnitude unprecedented in our experience. We have not the necessary instrumentalities for its prosecution; it is deemed to be doubtful whether they could be created upon an adequate scale under our present laws. We should clear away all legal obstacles and create a basis of undoubted law for it which will give freedom without permitting unregulated license. The thing must be done now, because the opportunity is here and may escape us if we hesitate or delay. Porto Rico's Needs. The argument for the proposed amendments of the organic law of Porto Rico is brief and conclusive. The present laws governing the island and regulating the rights and privileges of its people are not just. We have created expectations of extended privilege which we have not satisfied. There is uneasiness among the people of the island and even a suspicious doubt with regard to our intentions concerning them which the adoption of the pending measure would happily remove. We do not doubt what we wish to do in any essential particular. We ought to do it at once. There are other matters already advanced to the stage of conference between the two houses of which it is not necessary that I should speak. Some practicable basis of agreement concerning them will no doubt be found and action taken upon them. Inasmuch as this is, gentlemen, probably the last occasion I shall have to address the Sixty-fourth congress, I hope that you will permit me to say with what genuine pleasure and satisfaction I have co-operated with you in the many measures of constructive policy with which you have enriched the legislative annals of the country. It has been a privilege to labor in such company. I take the liberty of congratulating you upon the completion of a record of rare serviceableness and distinction. Cut Trees by Exploding Dynamite. Instead of an ax and saw to remove the tops of trees that are to be used as masts in logging operations, dynamite is used to shoot off the tops. After the branches have been removed, a rigger climbs, the tree, with a set of irons, to the point where it is necessary to cut off the top. Here the trunk is usually about 12 inches in diameter. The rigger ties a string of dynamite cartridges, fastened end to end like sausages, around the trunk at this point, inserts a blasting cap with about 20 feet of fuse in one of these sticks, lights the end of the fuse, and descends before the explosion takes place. The tree top pumps into the air with the explosion and the trunk is left ready for attaching the rigging for dragging in and loading the logs. —Engineering Record. All He Saw of Battle. The bluejacket had been in the battle off Jutland, and in the railway compartment every one addressed him respectfully. Incidentally he was the recipient of numerous fine cigars. He conducted himself with becoming dignity, and when the foreign-looking gentleman who had kept silent went out at a roadside station the audience settled down to hear the yarn. Nodding his head toward the dark stranger on the platform, the bluejacket remarked with a grin, "I 'E thinks 'e' as lost some think 'e'd like to hear, e' as. But hall HI saw of the bloody battle was coal—nothing but coal. Hi'm a stoker, you see, that's what Hi am."—London Mall. Not to Be Thought Of. "Now, these fashionable dames don't mind talking freely about the efforts they make to reduce weight." "That's true." "But they would feel deeply humiliated if anybody suspected them of trying to reduce expenses." Unsatisfactory Remedy. Heiny—A doctor tells me that if a man works steadily he never worries. Omar—Pshaw! It's working steadily that gets my goat. Remain the Same Progress is observable in most directions, but we have the same cheap, vulgar and disgusting old forms of profanity that the English-speaking peoples always have had.--Houston Post. A Certainty. There is nothing certain in the world, except that when you start in saving money for one thing you are going to spend it for something else—Fort Worth Star-Telegram. BUCHAREST HAS FALLEN GERMANS ALSO SEIZE PLOECHTI, AN IMPORTANT RAILWAY JUNCTION TOWN. LLOYD GEORGE PREMIER WITH AID OF BONAR LAW WILL FORM COALITION CABINET TO SUCCEED ASQUITH. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Berlin, Dec. 7.—Bucharest, capital of Rumania, was captured, it was offi- cially announced. Ploechti, the important railway junction town, thirty-six miles north- west of Bucharest, also has been taken. The capture of Ploechti finds the Teutonic allies in control of about 50, 000 square miles of Rumanian terri- tory—virtually one-half of the king- dom—running from the Transylvanian Alps northwest of the capital to the Danube south of it and a large part of Dobrudia The conquest of this city places in the hands of the invaders the last railroad in the West and gives to them the head of the line running northward to Jassy where the capital of Rumania is now situated. No details have yet come through concerning the climax to the great drive of the armies of Gen. von Falkenhayn and Field Marshal von Mackensen, or whether the Rumanians and Russians escaped successfully behind the Bucharest line. With the fall of Bucharest the central powers are now in possession of four capitals of entente allied states, the others being Brussels, Belgrade, and Cettinje. In the Carpathian region near the Bukowina frontier and along the Moldavia front the Russian offensive apparently is meeting with little success. West of Jablonitza the Russians occupied a height, but later were shelled off the position by the Germans. To the south they penetrated to the second line of the German defenses in the Trotus valley, but here were held from further advance. North of the Oituz pass and southeast of Kedzi Varshely the Austro-Germans took positions from the Russians. Additional fortified heights northeast of Budimirtsa, in Serbia, have been captured by the Serbs from the Bulgarians and Germans, according to Saloniki, while the Bulgarians are reported by Berlin to have expelled the Serbs from positions near Gradeshnitza. A heavy bombardment is in progress north of Monastir. Lloyd-George Succeeds Asquith: London, Dec. 7. — David Lloyd-George has overthrown the Asquith cabinet and will become prime minister himself. The new government will be coalition, like the old one, but probably without the same measure of harmonious support which attended the formation of the first coalition government, because its birth has created additional factional differences. This result has emerged from another day of active and hurried party conference and a day of intense suspense and interest throughout the country. The official announcement that Mr. Lloyd-George had undertaken the task of forming a new cabinet, with the cooperation of Mr. Bonar Law, was a notification that the new government would be coalition. ARMIES BATTLE NEAR FRESNO. U. S. Hears that Gen. Carranza Has Signed Border Protection Protocol. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 7.—Mexicans arriving from Chihuahua on an ore train brought with them a report that fighting was in progress between Carranza and Villa troops near Fresno, a station on the Mexico Northwestern railway about thirteen miles west of Chihuahua. Gens. Ozuna and Cavazos were said to be in command of the government column. It was considered in Chihuahua a rear-guard action so far as Villa was concerned. Washington.—Unofficial information that Alberto J. Pani, who carried to Gen. Carranza the border protection protocol agreed to at Atlantic City, was on his way back to the United States from Mexico, was construed at the State Department as an indication that the first chief had ratified the document. The joint commission that drafted the protocol adjourned Nov. 23 to reassemble Dec. 8, if Carranza's action was favorable. Hundreds Drowned as Ship Sinks. Madrid, Spain.—One hundred members of the crew of the Spanish steamship Plo IX, from New Orleans for Barcelona, were drowned by the sinking of the vessel in a storm, 200 miles off the Canary islands. Twenty-two members of the crew were saved. Thousand Given Wage Increase. Bethlehem, Pa.—One thousand employees of the Lehigh Coke Company are given a 10 per cent increase in wages, effective Dec. 16. CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DISP PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR Russian offensive making little progress in Moldavia, according to Berlin. Petrograd declares the allies promised Constantinople and the Dardanelles to Russia. Serbians report victorious progress on the Cerna front in Macedonia. More Bulgar positions captured. Teutons claim to have taken 2,800 prisoners and many cannon and other booty in their advance on Bucharest. Russian troops have reached Bucharest to aid the Rumanians in their desperate attempt to save their country and its capital. Italian steamer Palermo torpedoed and sunk off coast of Spain. Twenty-five Americans aboard, of whom one is said to have been fatally wounded. To the south and southwest of Bucharest, the forces of Field Marshal von Mackensen have defeated the Rumanians, and captured the town of Gradichtea, twelve miles from the capital. With the capture of Tergovistea and farther south the driving of the Rumanians beyond the railroad junction town of Titu, the central powers' forces hold intact all the railway lines running into Bucharest from the west. According to Sofia, the Bulgarians repulsed heavy Russian attacks. Berlin admits slight progress in the northwest by the Russians north and south of the Trotus. In the Carpathians south of Jablonitz, the Russians captured another height. Armies of central powers driving closer to Bucharest despite efforts of Russo-Rumanians to arrest their progress. Teutonic armies are making rapid progress from the north and northwest, already having cut off the city from the south and southwest. Political crisis in Great Britain culminated with resignation of Premier Asquith and tendering of prime ministership to Andrew Bonar Law, Unionist leader. David Lloyd-George, principal opponent of Asquith, mentioned as an alternative choice should Law decline the post. WESTERN A requisition for $2,528,477 worth of postage stamps, the largest order ever forwarded from Chicago, was sent to Washington. The first organized boycott on the Pacific coast went into effect when Portland women barred eggs from the list of household necessaries. Gov. Hunt appointed Samuel L. Prattee of Tucson, Ariz., judge of the Superior Court for Pima county to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge W. C. Cooper. Governor Morehead issued a proclamation declaring the prohibitory act adopted at the recent election to be a part of the constitution of the state of Nebraska, effective May 1, 1917. At Phoenix, Ariz., Charles Miner was instantly killed when four Mexicans who had looted the Buckeye Valley Bank engaged in a street battle with officials of the bank and citizens. Two masked robbers entered the Park Bank and Trust Company at Memphis, Tenn., covered the cashier with revolvers, and forced him to turn over a sack of money containing $5,000. They walked outside, got into a waiting automobile and escaped. Damages of $7,140 against Chauncey Dewey and ten of his "cowboys" for the killing of Daniel P. Berry in June, 1903, was awarded to Mrs. Harriet Berry by a jury at Goodland, Kan. It had been in the courts eight times and may go to the Supreme Court of Kansas. WASHINGTON The Supreme Court held constitutional ice cream laws of Iowa and Pennsylvania. Congress reconvened for a three months' session, with a calendar overcrowded with general legislation, facing railroad reforms and the high cost of living as new issues, and confronted with unprecedented estimates aggregating $1,654,819,654 to meet expenditures of the government for the fiscal year 1918. The House agreed to Senate amendments to bill to investigate cost of living of wage-earners in District of Columbia and sent bill to President. Senator Shafroth introduced a resolution for constitutional amendment providing abolishment of electoral college and limiting Presidents to one six-year term. The United States government has inquired of the Austrian government concerning facts surrounding the torpedoing of the American steamer Chemung by an Austrian submarine. FOREIGN Dr. Henry Van Dyke, American minister to The Netherlands, has resigned. The new governor of Chihuahua, Gen. Arnulfo Gonzales, was installed Tuesday. The government has granted the demand of the Welsh miners for a 15 per cent increase in wages, says a Cardiff dispatch. A dispatch from Rome chronicles the death of Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti, the Anglicized Italian composer and song writer. Lloyds announces the sinking of the Norwegian steamship Bosi, 1,462 tons gross, and the Draupner, 1,126 tons. German submarines torpedoed them. The passage of the home army bill caused a panic throughout Berlin when it was realized that women would be forced into the factories, according to an Amsterdam dispatch. Capt. J. A. Hughes and eight privates of the Thirty-first company and two privates of the Thirty-second company of United States marines were wounded in the fight Nov. 29 and 30 at Macoris, Dominican republic. A wireless dispatch from Berne quotes Maximillian Harden in the Zukunft as saying that Herr von Jagow left the German foreign office because he disapproved of a submarine policy which offended the United States. Two Belgians who have arrived at Sluiskill, Holland, from Ghent report that there was a revolt in Antwerp on Nov. 30, in which between two and three hundred inhabitants and many German soldiers are said to have been killed. At a secret consistory, which was attended by twenty-eight cardinals, Pope Benedict announced the nomination of ten new cardinals, says a dispatch to the Havas agency from Rome. None of the cardinals are Americans. The Italian steamship Palermo, with twenty-five Americans on board, has been torpedoed off the Spanish coast. One sailor, reported to be an American, was wounded by a shell and died in a hospital at Palafrugell, Spain, where the survivors were landed. Three others were seriously wounded by the torpedo. SPORTING NEWS At Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, the aviator Cattaneo fell while looping the loop and was badly injured. His airplane was destroyed. At Colorado Springs, Thornton Thomas, center of the Colorado College football team was chosen captain of the Colorado College Tigers next year. Though the basketball season in Colorado colleges will not begin until after the Christmas holidays, the carmen of the School of Mines at Golden are already out in practice, and are expecting to build up a pennant-winning team. Frank Galvin, noted speed demon, lost his race at Uniontown, Pa. Death overtook him in the last lap. Saturday Galvin suffered a fractured skull when he catapulted from his car after it had crashed into the press stand. Monday he died. Although prostrated by the shock of her husband's death at Uniontown, Pa., speedway, Mrs. Hughie Hughes, wife of the famous auto racer, at Los Angeles declared she would lend all assistance possible to secure legislation prohibiting auto racing. Three members of the Colorado infantry are in the base hospital at Douglas, Ariz., as a result of a football game which was won by the Eleventh infantry team, 40 to 0. The injured: Private Harmon, broken collar bone; Private Cavane, shoulder dislocated, ligaments torn; Private Ivey, back sprained, possible spinal injury. GENERAL George C. Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria, died at New York. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is seriously ill in New York. She was so ill she was unable to appear at the benefit for the blind soldiers of France. Percival V. Allen, serving a term in the King county, Washington, jail for unlawfully living with Miss Anna Danielson of Iowa, who died in convulsions, July 15, in Allen's apartment in Seattle, escaped with Harry Gardner, said by the police to be nationally known as a pickpocket. A noted figure in the worlds petroleum industry was removed when John Dustin Archbold, capitalist, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and officer or director in various other enterprises, died at his home at Tarrytown, N. Y., after an illness subsequent to an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Carrie McLauren, her son, Carroll McLauren, 16, her nephew, Harry McBride, 21, and a negro, Jim Pollard, were under arrest at Georgetown, Tex., charged with the murder of her former husband, Frank L. McLauren, wealthy farmer, whose charred body was found under his wrecked automobile in a ditch near Taylor, Tex., the night of Nov. 28. Judge Charles F. Greenwald of the Superior Court at Hammond, Ind., was shot in the right arm and side; Louis De Bouw, his bailiff, was fatally wounded, and George Robbins, a juror in a case before the judge, was shot in the head by Michael Innik, said to have harbored a grudge against the court for many years. Information was received in New York from Montreal that the 3,280-ton British oil tank steamship Palacine, under charter to the Standard Oil Company, had been torpedoed in the English channel near Hayre. PRODUCTION PAST YEAR TOTALS OVER 1,000 CARS. Colorado Growers Ship Products to All Parts of the Country During 1916 Season. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—More than 1,000 cars of the succulent Colorado cantaloupe found a ready market. In seventy-nine centers throughout the country in the 1916 season, according to a report made by the federal office of markets and rural organizations. The product was distributed at points ranging geographically from New York in the East, south to San Antonio, Tampa, Fla., and New Orleans, Minneapolis on the North, and a long list of other far and near points. New York led with 203 carloads, Chicago next with 128. Pittsburgh used 120 cars, Boston 74, Philadelphia 67, Cincinnati 50, Cleveland 30, Columbus 24, Kansas City 20, Baltimore 17, Minneapolis 15, Buffalo 14, Newark 10 and Providence 7. Apropos of the consumption of Colorado-grown crops at home, Denver used 12 cars. The total number of cars marketed was 1,009. The report of returns is based on the net price received per crate by the growers. During the first two weeks of September the grower got his best returns from Pittsburg with a maximum of $2.47; New York, $2.19; Chicago, $2.09; Lincoln, $2; Utica, N. Y., $1.63. The height of the season was in the last two weeks in September, the maximum price coming from Boston at $2.85; Pittsburg, $2.35; New York, $2.04; Chicago, $1.55; St. Louis, $1.32; and Washington, D. C., $1.31. During October prices realized to the growers fell to an average of less than $1 a crate. The highest price realized this month came from Tampa, Fla., with $1.26. The report is the first detailed statement ever gotten out concerning the cantaloupe crop in Colorado. Prisons Nurse Crime. Justice Avers. Sterling. — Condemning organized charities and societies for the relief of the poor, as carried on today, as criminal; denouncing the penal institutions of Colorado as places where criminals are made rather than corrected and criticizing Colorado's Legislatures for continually adding more buildings every two years to the state hospital for the insane, when, he declared, there isn't enough room now on the grounds of the institution to afford proper exercise for the inmates, Justice Tully Scott of the Colorado Supreme Court in an address at the Elks' Lodge of Sorrow in this city, declared that an ideal condition was easily possible if true fraternal spirit could be aroused in the state by the fraternal organizations. Denverites to. Get $23,445,000. Denver.—Investors in stocks and bonds in corporations of more or less local connection will receive not less than $23,445,000 in the form of interest and dividends this month. This amount probably will be considerably increased by the declaration of further dividends by various companies which are scheduled to meet within the next three weeks. The largest distribution will be by the Great Western Sugar Company, of an amount approximating $17,000,000. To Preserve Log Cabin Court House. Greeley.—An old log cabin near Fort Lupton, used as a barn, was the first court house of Weld county. At a meeting of the Bar Association here it was decided to procure the building and remove it bodily to Island Grove park in this city, where it can be preserved for all time. The action was suggested by the completion of the handsome new court house of the county, the dedication of which soon is to take place. Miner Assaulted and Robbed. Erie—John Stasoff, an Albanian miner employed on the Puritan mine, is in the hospital at Longmont with a fractured skull which may prove fatal. While he was working underground, he was assaulted and robbed of $785 in currency which he carried in his pocket and had accumulated to send for his family in Albania. Girl Dies in an Auto Upset. Boulder.—Gladys Giles, 9, daughter of Warren Giles, foreman of the Primos mine near Nederland, was instantly killed when the automobile of O. I. Cole, superintendent of the property, skidded and turned over on the Crescent road. Judge Ruby Dies at Alamosa. Alamosa.—Judge A. B. Ruby, for eight years judge of Conejos county, and well known throughout the San Luis valley, died here of heart failure. He was born in Ohio in 1856. Farmers to Get More for Beets. Rocky Ford.—It is stated on authority that the American Beet Sugar Company will meet the advance to be made by the Great Western Company in the northern part of the state, and that farmers will receive at least $1 more for their beet crop in 1917 than this year. Lafayette Mine Fire Costs $30,000. Lafayette.—Fire at the Standard mine, near here, did property damage to the extent of $30,000. Do You Know That- Western Newspaper Union News Services. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Delta will have a community Christmas tree. Fifty-one thousand tourists visited the Rocky Mountain National Park last summer. A total coal tonnage of 1,038,263 was mined in Colorado for the month of October, 1916. The sum of $30,295 will be expended in Colorado Springs during 1917 for park maintenance and improvements. IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF The Denver, Laramie & Northwest-ern railroad will go on the auction block for the seventh time early next year. Former Judge Edward C. Stimson was elected president of the Denver Bar Association to succeed Harry C. Davis. The eighty-first regular meeting of the Colorado branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers, was held at the Denver Athletic Club. The commissioners of Crowley county have purchased the holdings of the Crowley County Agricultural Fair Association for $11,000. Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY An order for 50,000 tons of steel rails to cost more than $1,600,000 has been placed with a Colorado company by the Missouri Pacific railroad. A farmer in Pueblo county who raised twenty acres of beans threshed 18,000 pounds, which brought him $11,000 in cash for his season's work. Miss Cora Cowperthwaite, for more than twenty years a teacher in Denver schools and widely known among Colorado educators, died in Los Angeles. The State Industrial Commission has announced a general increase in the wages of miners in the Leadville district, recently requested on the grounds of the increased cost of living. 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. The jury in the case of W. S. Van Sant, former manager of the Copeland Ore Sampling Company, on trial in the District Court at Cripple Creek for alleged embezzlement, was discharged. Plans for the establishment in Denver of a distributing plant to be operated by the farmers themselves were initiated at a meeting of a committee of the Colorado Milk Producers' Association. The city council of Trinidad has passed ordinances for the widening of Maple street between Main and First. for the covering of the Kansas avenue arroyo and for the purchase of a new fire cart. 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. Denver merchants whose property was damaged by the Cherry creek flood four years ago will not be able to recover damages, according to an announcement from the State Supreme Court. Death claimed W. H. Stridiron of Denver, otherwise known as "Affinity Bill," man of many wives and more affinities, expounder of the matrimonial ad, trifler with hearts and pocketbooks. Another advance in the price of coal was announced on the Denver market. Routt county lump, which sold last summer for $5 a ton, and has since advanced to $6 a ton, now has gone to $6.25, the highest price of the year. Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction Denver high school teachers have requested the school board to grant a raise in salaries, estimated at about $15 a month on an average for each teacher. The request is embodied in a resolution of their association passed unanimously at its last meeting. A movement to have the business men of Denver and northern Colorado join with the government in the proper development of Rocky Mountain National park was inaugurated in Denver as a result of the visit of Stephen T. Mather, assistant secretary of the interior. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver Under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Education, classes for the education of immigrants are being organized at Greeley, Fort Collins, Fort Morgan, Sterling, Walsenburg, Trinidad, Oak Creek, Lafayette, Salida, Gorham, Colorado Springs, Canon City, Rockvale and Leadville. William N. Valle, formerly first lieutenant in Company A, Colorado National Guard infantry, has resigned from the army service and has returned to Denver. It is understood he will be appointed to the vacancy on the District bench caused by the elevation of Judge George W. Allen to the Supreme Court. Exclusive and original jurisdiction in all cases involving rate-making and service of public utilities rests solely with the State Public Utilities Commission, under a decision of the State Supreme Court which denied a rehearing in an important case brought by the Denver & South Platte Railway Company against the city of Englewood. J. E. Gauger of Swink, during the past season, marketed 100 acres of honeydew melons. His net revenue, including returns from 8,000 pounds of teed, was $800 per acre. Xmas Bargains THE NEW YORK TIMES ING JACKETS—These much desired made of high quality Worumbo Cloth, outside surfaces and plaid backs as de- so come in gray, green, brown, maroon, color wanted. All sizes $6.50 ING JACKETS—These splendid house tailored in every detail, having large silk cord edges, plaid back and come in browns, bottle green, oxford and cam- check and stripe combi- $8.50 ING JACKETS—There are plain out- skierseys in the most beautiful combi- ue, tan, maroon, green, gray or brown especially reduced $10.00 MEN'S $8.50 SMOKING JACKET Christmas gifts are made of high having plain, smooth outside surf scribed above. These also come in blue and tan. Specify color wante are offered here at..... MEN'S $12.00 SMOKING JACKET coats are splendidly tailored in double silk frogs and silk cord ed blues, tans, maroons, browns, both bridge gray and tartan check and nations. All sizes at..... MEN'S $13.50 SMOKING JACKET side surface, plaid back kerseys in nations of colors in blue, tan, ma patterns. We have especially red these to.... MEN'S $8.50 SMOKING JACKETS—These much desired Christmas gifts are made of high quality Worumbo Cloth, having plain, smooth outside surfaces and plaid backs as described above. These also come in gray, green, brown, maroon, blue and tan. Specify color wanted. All sizes are offered here at..... $6.50 MEN'S $12.00 SMOKING JACKETS—These splendid house coats are splendidly tailored in every detail, having large double silk frogs and silk cord edges, plaid back and come in blues, tans, maroons, browns, bottle green, oxford and cambridge gray and tartan check and stripe combinations. All sizes at..... $8.50 MEN'S $13.50 SMOKING JACKETS—There are plain outside surface, plaid back kerseys in the most beautiful combinations of colors in blue, tan, maroon, green, gray or brown patterns. We have especially reduced these to..... $10.00 MEN'S $3.50 BATHROBES—The always ideal Christmas gift to any man. Shown in gray, tan, blue and maroon colorings, with silk cord girdles. All cut from full size blankets. All sizes; now priced at only. $2.85 MEN'S BLANKET BATHROBES The first of the Christmas robes are now in; shown in splendid two-toned color combinations, in browns, blues, grays and tans; all have heavy cord girdle; ideal for these cool nights, or for those who have sleeping porches; $5 grades at $3.85 MEN'S SHAWL COLLAR BATH-ROBES—All edged and cuffs bound with silk cords to match gown. Shown in fancy patterns and two-toned effects in tans, browns, grays and maroon. An ideal gift to any man. $6.00 Now. LOVES—Made of genuine English cape, fit for winter wear. Shown in tan or long or short fingers as desired. All need at $1.35 SHIRTS—Shown in high quality madder either soft French cuffs or laundered in newest striped and figured effects; trimmed with Now at. $1.15 SHIRTS—Made of highest grade madrasses for soft cuffs in mercerized crepe cloths vest patterns and colorings. An ideal sizes now, $2.00 MAY CO. SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES. UGGAGE, LEATHER GOODS -MAYER CO. 634 16th St. MEN'S $1.75 CAPE GLOVES—Made being the ideal weight for winter brown shades, and have long or short sizes now specially priced at at. MEN'S $1.50 WINTER SHIRTS—rasses and percales, with either soft cuffs attached; shown in newest size all cut coat style and trimmed with ocean pearl buttons. Now at. MEN'S QUALITY SHIRTS—Made with laundered cuffs, or soft cuffs in all the season's newest pattern gift for any man. All sizes now, at. THE MA THE HOME OF SOCIETY FOR TRUNKS, LUGGAGE VISIT PRICE-MAY MEN'S $1.75 CAPE GLOVES—Made of genuine English cape, being the ideal weight for winter wear. Shown in tan or brown shades, and have long or short fingers as desired. All sizes now specially priced at $1.35 at...... MEN'S $1.50 WINTER SHIRTS—Shown in high quality madrasses and percale, with either soft French cuffs or laundered cuffs attached; shown in newest striped and figured effects; all cut coat style and trimmed with ocean pearl buttons. Now at.....$1.15 MEN'S QUALITY SHIRTS—Made of highest grade madrasses with laundered cuffs, or soft cuffs in mercerized crepe cloths in all the season's newest patterns and colorings. An ideal gift for any man. All sizes now, at.....$2.00 THE MAY CO. THE HOME OF SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES. FOR TRUNKS, LUGGAGE, LEATHER GOODS VISIT PRICE-MAYER CO. 634 16th St. ```markdown ``` --- B On Late Sleeping. I have heard it objected against those thrushes, whose extreme commonness renders them less highly esteemed than they would otherwise be, that they find their voices too early in the morning. But I am not prepared to second the criticism. They are not often at their matins, I think, until the eastern sky begins to flush, and it is not quite certain to my mind that they are wrong in assuming that daylight makes daytime. I have questioned before now whether our own custom of sitting up for five or six hours after sunset, and then lying abed two or three hours after sunrise, may not have come down to us from times when there were still people in the world who loved darkness, rather than light because their deeds were evil and whether, after all, in this as in some other respects, we might not wisely take pattern from the fowls of the air—Bradford Torrey. MEN'S $6.50 SMOKING JACKETS—This is the most appropriate Christmas gift that you can offer to any man. We show them in the most beautiful color combinations in plain outside surfaced cloths with plaid backs, with fancy cuffs and collar. They have double silk frogs and silk cord edges and come in harmonious patterns in grays, greens, brown, maroon, blues and tans. Specify color wanted. Priced at... $4.75 His Intentions. "Young man," said the stern parent, with the accent on the "young," "do you intend to stay here all night holding my daughter's hand and looking into her face like a calf?" "No, str." "What do you intend to do, then?" "Well, I had thought, when you had done us the kindness to retire, that I would put my arm round her waist, and, if she did not object, I might risk giving her a kiss." Simply Impossible. A Chicago woman who had received a legal summons to appear in a certain court at a certain period was much put out thereby. In explaining the matter to a friend, she said: "I have certainly received the citation, but I shall not appear—could not, in fact. Not only am I not socially acquainted with Judge Jones, but the whole tone of his communication is so Impossible that I absolutely refuse to know him." Distinction in Plain Coats The plain coat, like the tailored suit, is in perfect taste when, with the means at hand, it arrives at distinction. Its success depends upon choice of material and color, to begin with, and on beautiful and sensible lines and faultless workmanship. These set off and emphasize such fashions of the hour as are incorporated in the details of its finishing, as, at the present time, the muffler collar or accepted novelties in buttons. There its diversity enough in materials and styles to suit everyone. Velour cloth, zibeline, Bolivia, and other cloakings, velvet, velvetteen, and plushes, prooise a triumph of those who understand adapting fabrics to style. There are colors that would save the plainest coat from tameness, as the burgundy, fieldmouse, and mustard shades, that vie with the browns, blues, and greens of this season. Two models of exceptional excellence in plain coats present themselves in the picture. One is a coat Now That Christmas Is Near CHEESE Just now Christmas fills the horizon and empties the pocketbooks of shoppers, who find a greater number of novelties than ever to tempt them. There is a furore for chick bags of all kinds. Shopping bags, opera bags, and vanity bags for personal use, and bags for holding nearly all their belongings, make it easy to please woman friends. But, not to overdo this particular luxury, there are other dainty receptacles made to be decorative, while they are useful on table or dresser. Here are two pretty gifts which can be made at home or bought in the shops. One of them will serve as a gift to a man, who will find some use for a small basket in a world given to swallowing up collar and cuff buttons, tie clasps and pins. It may be made large enough to hold handkerchiefs. It is a wicker basket in the form of a small hamper with a lid, and it is gilded and decorated with a band and bow of narrow bright green satin ribbon. Although the lid is on, a small impish doll appears to be escaping through it, or else holding it down. The doll is dressed in skating cap and coat of white elderdown and makes a rollick-looking pin cushion. An elegant and utterly feminine belonging appears in the round box, which may serve to hold handkerchiefs or vells or ribbons or others of the many accessories of dress which must be kept within easy reach on the well-ordered dressing table. It is a pasteboard box with a lid and is covered first with rose-colored silk or satin. The top is interlined with cotton batting, and the satin covering and lining are glued to place. After the silk covering is adjusted it is covered with fine knife-plaited valce sewed to the silk. Gold braid is sewed about the side of the lid and just below it on the box. An ornamental braid of tiny green leaves and of striped plush in brown. It hangs straight from shoulder to hem and has a convertible collar. Its wide belt extends only across the front and is finished with a single large button. By way of ornament nothing is allowed except two buttons on each cuff and two on each side of the collar. The other coat, of heavy velour cloth, is long enough to cover the dress and is shaped to define the figure vaguely by a very original and clever management of the belt. Belts that fall to find their way entirely round the figure are a fad of the season. This one starts at each side of the back and fastens with a button at the front. It slips through slashes in the cloth and gathers up the fullness about the waist in this way. All the ends are pointed and fastened down with buttons. Three rows of machine stitching provide the tailored finish of the cape collar, cuffs, and belt, and the cuffs are allowed an adornment of three buttons. ```markdown ``` pink roses is used to form a star or top, with a little bouquet of ribbon flowers at the center. The same braid is placed below the gold braid on the box. Julia Bottomley Inside the Eur- Many women object to the unbecomingness of fur worn close against the face. To counteract this effect one can make very attractive white collars to be worn just inside the fur. Something on the turnover idea is in the mind of the writer. Of course, the collar for this purpose should be somewhat wider than the ordinary turnovers. A very pretty collar might be made with three or four points. By using such a pattern the introduction of white would not be so pronounced as it would be if a solid strip of white fell over the fur collar. The points might be finished with a crocheted edge. Or it might be hemmed and each point ornamented with an embroidery design. Do the work in white, or introduce the suit color on the collar if you wish, but avoid a combination of colors. Substitute for Fur. A curious and effective substitute for fur invented by an American designer is a cloth made of angora yarn crocheted into a fabric such as is often used for babies' caps. In soft gray this makes very effective banding, and the model for which it was first designed, a smoky gray Russian costume of heavy, soft silk, with high collar, cuffs, wide coat band and several narrow skirt bands, is exceedingly good-looking and original. THE DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING COMPANY FRANK S. REED, License Embalmer & Director Lady Assistant Polite Service to All Street Denver, Colorado ni Bros. CO. with the Christmas Spirit smart Things for Women Our Readiness for Christmas THE Perini The Store With the C The Store of Smart T Announcing Our R Chris THE Perini Bros CO. The Store With the Christmas Spirit The Store of Smart Things for Women Christmas 35c to $5. PHONE CHAMPA 2077 CAMMEL AND CO. The Progressive Funeral Directors WE TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THE FACT THAT WE ARE "THE LEAD ING FUNERAL DIRECTORS." WE CAN FURNISH ELEGANT ROLLING STOCK. AUTOS IF E. V. Cammel, PRES. @ MGR PRE You Will Be Delighted With Our S Little Things That Count LADY A CURTIS M. HARRIS Assistant Manager and Funeral Director OFFICE AND PARLORS 2418 PREFERRED. With Our Service As We Look After The LADY ATTENDANT. Auto for Hire Director 2418 WELTON ST. DENVER Open Day and Night. E. V. Cammel, PRES. @ MGR PREFERRED. You Will Be Delighted With Our Service As We Look After The Little Things That Count LADY ATTENDANT. CURTIS M. HARRIS Auto for Hire Assistant Manager and Funeral Director OFFICE AND PARLORS 2418 WELTON ST. DENVER --- --- J. R. CONTEE Pres. and Mgr. Parlors, 2745 Welton Street PERINI'S GLOVES. This is Denver's Glove Store, and although the market conditions as to Gloves have been to many merchants unsatisfactory, yet, we fortunately placed our orders in time to secure a complete stock for the season. In Ladies' Gloves you will find everything for street and dress wear from $1.50 up. In Men's Gloves for street, dress and motoring, a complete assortment of desirable models. If in Doubt Buy Her a Glove Certificate. HOSIERY. Complete stocks of cotton, fiber silk and pure silk thread Hose in a wonderful variety to select from. 35c to $2. JOHN H. HARRIS Phone Onampa 37. FRANK ROGERS 1849 Arapahoe Street. Water Seemingly Flows From Tree. At Mount Lowe, Cal., the thirsty visitor has only to turn on a faucet projecting from a large tree near the hotel and water begins to flow. No water pipes are to be seen, and curiosity is aroused at once. The lower part of the tree is hollow, and the pipes are run underground and up through the hollow part to a knothole, where a faucet is attached. Around the faucet the hole is plugged up with cement which looks like the tree itself. Daily Thought. What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its grief, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.—lan Maclaren. PHONE MAIN 6123—Day or Night INCORPORATED AND BONDED NOTARY PUBLIC K 7992. director. SILK UNDERWEAR. Crepe de chine and Italian Silk Underwear for women in the new- est and latest models. $1.25 to $5. And Purses in all the latest in novations of the season, in all leather and also silk and velvet. $1.25 to $10. A wonderful variety of batiste voile, organdies and Georgette crepe in newest novelties in white and colors. DAY OR NIGHT Frank Rogers Undertaker Carriage or Auto Service, Courtesy and Accommodation a Specialty. We strive to please. Personal supervision of ladies and children, the same kindly care. Lady assistant. FUNERALS AT $75, $60, $50, $40. Denver, Colo. "Fatty, you order me a couple of oysters with that bottle of champagne, won't you?" "But, my dear child, I haven't ordered any wine." "What, you haven't ordered any wine?" Well, look here—do I have to swallow these oysters dry?"—Lustige Blatter (Berlin). Slavery in United States Before the War of Independence slavery existed in every one of the "old thirteen" states. There were fewer slaves in the northern colonies than in the southern, but the institution existed from Massachusetts to Georgia. It was the invention of the cotton gin by a New England schoolteacher, living at the time in Georgia, that caused slavery to shift Southward.