Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY Problem Of The Solid South VOL. XXIII. Problem Soli (The Rocky Mountain News, Dec. 23.) The spirit of revenge rather than the wisdom of statesmanship is evident in the proposals now being discussed among Republicans at Washington for solving the problem of the solid South. The sting of defeat still rankles in the breast of the old guard, and a pencil and a pad of paper are its only requisites for complete demonstration that the old, reliable southern vote was the foundation of Democratic victory. Eliminating the southern tier of states, Hughes had an electoral college majority of 118 and a popular plurality of 239,000. So they figure it, and, having figured it thus, they proceed to plans for eliminating the southern tier, so far as it can be done lawfully. Of course, the ground for action lies in the prior fact that the South in large measure eliminates the Negro vote. Upon this fact is based the proposal to reduce southern representation in Congress and the electoral college in proportion to the number of votes deprived of the ballot. It is estimated that should this be done the South would lose from $f i^{*} y$ to eighty members of Congress and a like number of votes in the electoral college. Now, it must be admitted that there is some justice in the proposal and that it finds support in the constitution. But, having said so much, we have said all there is to say in its behalf. And there is more to be said against it. The proposal has this conspicuously objectionable feature: It is designed primarily, as a measure of aid to the Republican party rather than as a means of ending a condition which is detrimental to the South and contrary to the interests of the whole country. However important it may be in the thought of some of our politicians that the Republican party should be insured a majority, we conceive it to be of greater importance that the South should be converted to a national viewpoint and delivered from the narrowing and retarding influence of sectionalism. A remedy that ignores the causes of the disease and proposes merely to make the sufferer less annoying by knocking him over the head is not a remedy that men of genuinely patriotic spirit can approve. A punitive reduction of southern representation will not tend to decrease southern prejudice; it will not encourage the intelligent white vote of the South to think in national rather than in sectional terms; it will, on the contrary, intensify every devisive feeling and tendency, strengthen sectionalism and postpone indefinitely the happier solution of the problem which we may hope to see gradually reached by the fading out of painful memories, the allaying of suspicion and the multiplying of commercial, social and cultural ties between North and South. Statistically, the comparison of votes cast with representatives elected in southern and northern states discloses an amazing disparity. But the problem is not one to be dealt with on a basis of detached statistics. We may easily be misled into a grave injustice to the South if we confine ourselves to the mere figures. The present generation is not responsible for the conditions that burden it with a vast number of illiterate colored citizens. The enlightened white population of the South is generously and vigorously moving to meet this situation. Its work has not been made easier by the manner in which the Republican party has exploited the illiterate colored vote in the past. If the Republican party now uses the disfranchised colored vote as a means for reducing the South to political ineffectiveness nationally, it will make the solid South permanent and it will make it discontented and rebellious. We hope the Progressive-Republican element of the party will not be persuaded to follow this mischievous leadership. In it, we trust, will be found a clearer apprehension of the problem. It is for it to labor so that there may be created a second national party which can command the respect and confidence of southern intelligence. There must be an end of using the Negro as a party asset. There must be a broad and worthy appeal to the Americanism of the South. Thus only, slowly and yet surely, will prejudice be overcome and the solid South be merged into the nation. WANTS BIRTH RECORDS CAREFULLY RECORDED Louisville, Ly.—W. L. Heiser, state register of vital statistics for Kentucky, is afraid that many whites will marry persons who have Negro blood in their veins unless the registry of births is made more carefully. He spoke before a gathering of city and county health officers here a few days ago, and said that numbers of quadroons cannot be distinguished from white persons, which constitutes a real peril to Kentucky. For the protection of future white generations he said the local registrars should observe the greatest care in accurately fixing the racial status of children when registered. Said he, "Our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be marrying persons having Negro blood in their veins unless Negro births are registered with greater care." GOTHAM INSTALLS NEGRO "OF FICE MEN." New York.—A practically new occupation has been opened here for Colored men who have passed what has usually been termed the age of use- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30 1916 State Hist & Nat Hist Society State Hours THE DENVER CHAMBER ADO E JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SATU fulness. Unable to get youngsters to act as office boys as formerly many, of whom have dropped out of the offices and gone back to school, many firms, especially in the large office buildings, have turned to Colored and white men who have been practically thrown into the discard. Representatives of the concerns declare that they would not return to former conditions if the market was crowded with office boys seeking work. Said one: "I find that colored men are more polite, willing and serious than are the majority of younger boys today," declared one employer. "The Colored men realize that they are occupying minor positions and stay in their places. Yes, I have to pay them more, but the results prove that the extra expenditure is well worth while. Visitors have commented on the able manner in which their wants have been looked after by my colored help." An employer who has several aged men working for him said he was satisfied with their services. No longer bothered with boys who do not take to business seriously; by lads who shirk their work, by youngsters who are not reliable. This man had six office boys whom he paid $7 a week each. He has now three men, each getting $12 per week, who accomplish the same amount of work in less time. AFRO-AMERICAN IS NUMEROUS IN LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, Nov.—Liverpool is becoming conscious of a remarkable growth in its black population. The colored people are coming from the west coast of Africa and from America. A striking feature of the invasion is that the blacks so numerous on the city streets generally are arrayed in garments of the latest cuts and hues. The color schemes usually are rather loud, those from Africa vieing with those from the United States in a riot of checks, stripes, vivid neckties, lurid hose and bright yellow shoes. At first this invasion puzzled the authorities here, but a little investigation tended to solve at least a part of the mystery. The bulk of the race, it seems, have been recruited on the west coast to work as firemen on steamers whose white crews presumably have become reduced through the war. They are not all seafarers, however, for many appear to have signed for one trip only and have obtained employment here in the short-handed factories at lucrative wages. This is particularly true of the American colored men, many of whom have come over as muleteers or other workers on ships in the American trade. The West Africans speak English, of course, but not very fluently. The American Negroes being quite gibb of tongue are more interesting to the Liverpool street crowds. The American blacks do not go to all the extremes of dress affected by the Africans, who in their new-found wealth and European surroundings have proved profitable customers to the cheaper class tailor. COLORED POLITICIANS OF ILLI NOIS WELL CARED FOR. In Illinois the great Negro vote is not only adequately recognized, but is fully appreciated. In the state, county and civil service branches of government they are holding 1,144 ap pointments, drawing a total of $1,151. 850 annually, and yet with all of this fine showing Governor-elect Frank O. Lowden has promised the race 100 additional appointments the first of the year. The following is a list of the Negro appointments and elective offices in Illinois, with the salary paid: Major R. R. Jackson, elected state representative, $3,500; Benj. H. Lucas, elected state representative, $3,500; Edward H. Wright, appointed assistant corporation counsel, $5,000; Louis B. Anderson, appointed assistant corporation counsel, $3,000; Rev. A. Carey, appointed chief law clerk, $2,400; James Tipper, appointed law investigator, $1,200; Oscar DePriest, elected alderman Second ward, $3,000; Edward D. Green, appointed law investigator, $1,500; James M. Brumfield, appointed assistant city attorney, $2,400; Adelbert E. Roberts, appointed court clerk, $1,800; seventy-five colored policemen civil service, each $1,200; nine colored police sergeants civil service, each $1,500; ten colored sanitary inspectors, civil service, each $1,500; one civil engineer appointed, $1,800; four colored nurses appointed, each $1,200; 600 colored clerks and carriers, postoffice, average $1,200; fifteen colored firemen, civil service, average $1,400; 300 colored laborers, appointed, average per day, $2.50; fifteen colored appointees in Legislature, per day, $3; 105 colored clerks in city, state and county offices, per month, $90.—The Indianapolis Recorder. THIRTY-FIVE NEGROES ON CARS NADIAN CARS. Toronto, Can.—The fact that there are some thirty-five colored men employed as street car conductors in Toronto is due largely to the work and influence of J. R. B. Whitney, founder and editor of The Canadian Observer, who came here from the United States seven years ago, after working his way through high school and the Ohio State University. In an interview given to Hilda Ridley, a staff writer on the Toronto Star Weekly, and published conspicuously in that paper, Mr. Whitney tells how he overcame the prejudice against the hiring of colored men by the street car officials. "Colored men had been successful as porters and waiters on the railroads," he said, "and I thought they would be just as efficient on the street cars. You know there are different shades of color in our race—some are much lighter skinned than others. "Well, I knew a young fellow who was very light and who was anxious to get into the street car service. I took him to Mr. Fleming, and he bad the general superintendent hire him. Had Hired a Colored Man. "About a month later I went again to Mr. Fleming about another fellow, and this time he asked if he was a colored man. I told him he was, and he said, 'I have never hired any colored men as motormen or conductors.' 'I said, 'but you hired one a month ago.' I explained to him the circumstances and he laughed and said, "Well, Mr. Whitney, I would rather give your man a job than refuse him." There are now thirty-five colored men on the street cars, serving as well in that capacity as on the railroads. The white men in the service have taken them into the union, and RACE NEWS Wichita Falls, Kan., Dec. 9. A movement has been started in the city council to provice separate sections for white residents. Boston, Mass.,—That the present European war is the result of the selfish desire of the fighting nations to gobble up the whole of Africa was asserted by W. E. Burghardt DuBois, in an address on "The World Problem of the Color Line" at the Newton South Forum Sunday, Nov. 26th. "The rights of the blacks throughout the world must be recognized," he declared, "and if they are not, such conflicts will go on because of arrogance and selfishness of the world powers in their desires to gain the laid of the black man's home in Africa." The present war the speaker said, was the result of a desire to control the African veldt a desire to exploit the African race and but for the eagerness of European rulers to secure control of the land in the Dark Continent there would have been no war. Judge Francis D. Winston, of North Carolina, offered a resolution which would place the congress on record as believing that "the complete industrial, intellectual and social development of the Southern states can be secure only when the Negro race becomes a part of the citizenship of our sister states, and that we will encourage all movements tending to an equitable distribution of our Negro population among the other states of the Union." Judge Winston said evince a broad-minded spirit in their cealings with them. In the same article, Miss Ridley tells of Mr. Whitney's struggles in establishing The Canadian Observer as an organ for the people of his race in Canada. He launched this paper on December 13, 1914, and was at once editor, proprietor, general manager and office boy, devoting to it only his spare moments. Mrs. Whitney assisted and did most of the typing of the material. At the celebration of the first anniversary on December 13, 1915, a celebration was had, and Mr. Whitney had as special guests on that occasion prominent men like Sir Edmund Wolker, W. H. Moore, secretary of the Canadian Northern Railway, ex-Controller Hubbard, and Dr. C. C. James of the Dominion Department of Agriculture. Each of these men delivered strong addresses to the people who had assembled in honor of the paper's anniversary. NO 20. the resolution was in answer to Senator Penrose's "force bill" amendment to the Owen corrupt practice bill in Congress which would have the effect of extending the vote to a greater number of Negroes in the South. Referring to the retirement of Sergt. Dalbert P. Green, 25th U. S. Infantry, after 25 years' service, the last of which was at Honolulu, the Star-Bulletin of that place says: Sergeant Green has been the best known and most liked man in the 25th for years. He has well earned his rotirement, and can proceed to his home feeling that he has given the active years of his life to his country and has a splendid record behind him of duty well performed. "The oldtimers of the regiment are gradually going out, and their loss has been severely felt. To them the regiment is indebted for its splendid reputation and a loyalty that has been characteristic of the 25th Infantry. One of the last to go is Sergeant Green, and he leaves a vacancy that will be very hard to fill. He was given character 'Excellent' on the eight discharges he has received from the Army and was recommended to receive a certificate of merit for meritorious service rendered near Bamba, Luzon, P. I., Nov. 26, 1899." "Sergeant Green is still a young man, and any community that gets him as a citizen is fortunate."—Army and Navy Journal. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The holidays are affording the boys a chance to get their fill of "pool." Some interesting combinations have been played by them during the week, and there are more to follow. Theodore Morris, Dave Mayo, Bobby Scott and Robert Jefferson seem to be the champions up to this time. Under the management of William E. Parks a Christmas day program was rendered last Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Those taking part were Mrs. Florence Smith, who rendered very effectively "The Death of Cleopatra." Miss Thrashley accompanied her on the piano. A solo by Mr. Gatewood also was much enjoyed. He was accompanied by Mr. V. Sprattlin. Master Atwell Rose, to the enjoyment of those present, bravely sang a Christmas hymn. Brief talks were made by Dr. De Frantz and Secretary Bell. Christmas day was spent in games and songs and in eating apples and candy. The closing year union meeting of the Y. M. and the Y. W. C. A. will be held next Sunday afternoon at Shorter church at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. David Utter, pastor of the First Unitarian church, will speak on the subject, "If I Were a Negro." It is hoped that a very large attendance will be secured to hear this notable speaker and to take part in the services. The boys will meet with them, and special selections will be rendered by the boys' band. Everybody will be welcome. 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1917 PHOTO BY GEO. ALNOR Better to Make Many and Break Some Than to Have Made None at All. It's very much the fashion to joke about making New Year's resolutions; but as a matter of fact there is advantage in making resolutions, if they are good ones, and there is no other date except one's birthday anniversary so appropriate for the practice. That individual must be totally devoid of sentiment who has no sentiment on the subject of New Year. Jokers whose topic is New Year's resolutions lay stress on the fact that many of them are broken. A fact it is—there is no denying it. But not all of them are broken. A man who makes ten New Year's resolutions, every one of them good, and breaks nine, is better off to the extent of the virtue involved in keeping the one to which he adheres than if he made none at all. For the sake of argument, however, perhaps it may be conceded that making numerous good resolutions at once is open to criticism on the ground that it is harder to attain perfection in many things than in a few things, and that failures cause discouragement, and that concentration is helpful to success. From this point of view the wise thing for New Year's resolution-makers to do is to survey their failings and frame a few resolutions hitting the high spots. SAME OLD BLUFF. The old year was backing up, preparatory to his departure. "Have you anything to say before you leave?" he was asked. "I don't know that I have. No, I guess not. Unless—" "If I had my life over again I would do a whole lot different. I wish I had known then what I know now, I should have—" "That's what they all say. It's old stuff. Good-by." Look Forward. Another milestone in life's journey Disappears from human sight. Another year is fleeting onward Swiftly slipping in its flight. But what gone is gone for always And so let us shed no tear Just let us hope that 1917 Will ever be a Happy Year Good New Year resolution. Don't be a pessimist. ```markdown ``` Lucky thought to put New Year's so close to Christmas. If Bill's folks send us a Christmas card, reminding us that we should have sent them one, it's easy enough to retort with a New Year's greeting. Good resolutions abandoned are about as beautiful as snowflakes that have fallen 'uto a mud puddle. "New Year's gifts are generally bad business investments." "Because they always go into the hands of receivers." NEW YEAR MEMORIES Oh! for an old-fashioned New Year day, With enjoyments keen and pure. When fun and frolic reigned supreme, Good fellowship the lure. As we journeyed to the parties Afoot, perchance by sleigh. The atmosphere seemed laden with Best wishes of the day. With good old hearty handshakes We knew were welcome grips, Instead of the present method of Just touching the fingertips. How we merrily danced the lancers, Danced it with a zeal, Also the polka and minuet, And jolly Virginia reel. How the young and old enjoyed it Each in his separate way. Youth thinking of the present, Age of the bygone day. While times and vogues may change, alas, And nature's will obeys, I'll still retain sweet memories of The good old-fashioned ways. Forget the Past. The New Year is the best of all times to take mental inventory, and everyone of us should do so. We should forget the past entirely. All the regrets, all the sighs, all the tears that ever were, or ever will be, combined, cannot recall one single moment that has passed. Then why waste good time and vitality? Meet the New Year's day with a brave, smiling face. The world stops to take notice of the fighter, and gives him 99 chances out of 100, whereas the whimperer is passed by without a glance. Then let us resolve that the first day of 1917 will see us starting all over again, standing fearlessly in our places; and let us further resolve that during the coming days we will, occasionally, reach out a helping band to someone who needs it. This is a great resolution to make—a gilt-edged investment that pays the highest discount on record. Rather Plain-Spoken "How about the New Year's resolutions?" "I never make any," answered the busy man. "You don't mean to say you are entirely free from bad habits?" "No, indeed, but making New Year resolutions I don't intend to keep is not one of them." Happy New Year. With joy we'll tumble out of bed To see the New Year dawn: For now we are lots better fed. The turkey hash is gone. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR-EIGN COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR El Arish, an Egyptian town on the frontier of Palestine, has been captured by the British after a siege of two years. Since Dec. 22, says Berlin, more than 8,900 prisoners and twenty-seven machine guns have been captured in Rumania. Germany is ready to grant greatly modified terms, according to information obtained in official circles at Washington. In Mesopotamia the British forces are in still in quest of Kut-el-Amara, in which sector they have made further advances on the right bank of the Tigris. Gen. Carranza, first chief of the defacto government, has ordered Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican ambassador-designate, to withdraw from the United States. A message confirming the report of the capture of Torreon by Villa forces was received at San Antonio, Tex., by Gen. Funston from Brig. Gen. George Bell, commanding American forces at El Paso. Artillery duels, sapping operations and attacks by small patrol parties continue to feature the fighting on the front in France. The usual bombardment is in progress in the AustroItalian war theater. In Macedonia comparative quiet prevails. The Teutonic allies have captured Rimnik-Sarat, thirty miles southwest of Braila, Rumania's oil and grain center on the Danube. The guns of the Dobrudra army are hammering on the bridgehead of Matchin, on the east bank of the Danube opposite Braila. Previous to the fall of Rimnik-Sarat the Teutonic allies defeated the Russians on a front of ten and a half miles southwest of the town. Rumania continues the theater of the greatest activities. In northern Wallachia, along the southern Moldavia border, and in Dobrudja, the Teutonic allies continue to make gains over the Russians and Rumanians. Thirty miles southwest of Braila the invaders have captured Filipechti and west of Rlmnk-Sarat are on the offensive. In this latter region during the past few days 5,500 Russians have been made prisoner. WESTERN More than twelve inches of snow fell in Utah within twenty-four hours, breaking all previous storm records. Police, in raiding blind tiger joints at Memphis, Tenn., found most bottles of liquor bore Red Cross stamps. At Chicago seven railroads were fined $3,700 by Federal Judge Carpenter for working employés more than eight hours. At San Francisco, Edward von Wahlden, who robbed a Mission bank of $8,000 in gold recently and fled in an automobile, was sentenced to serve ten years in Folsom prison. One man is dead and two others and two boys are wounded as a result of a shooting that occurred during a Christmas tree entertainment at Harris Creek, Casey county, Ky. Increased rates on flour, wheat, oats, rye and other grains from certain points in Colorado and Wyoming to Galveston, Tex., and other gulf points, established by the Colorado & Southern and Rock Island railroads several months ago, have been declared justifiable by the interstate Commerce Commission. They will become effective Jan. 13. WASHINGTON The new silver half dollar coins will be placed in circulation Jan. 2. Exports for November were the largest on record, exceeding those for September by $3,000,000. Heavy damage to the equipment of Major General Pershing's command in Mexico was reported in dispatches to the War Department, telling of the storm which swept his lines Christmas day. Admiral George Dewey, victor over the Spanish fleet at the battle of Manila bay, who so long as he lives will be on the active list as ranking officer of the American navy, celebrated his 79th birthday. / A large number of cablegrams from people and organizations in Holland, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries were received at the White House, indorsing President Wilson's recent note to the belligerent nations. The federal farm loan board announced the following cities in which farm loan banks will be located: Springfield, Mass.; Baltimore, Md.; Columbia, S. C.; Louisville, Ky.; New Orleans, La.; St. Louis, Mo.; St. Paul, Minn.; Omaha, Neb.; Wichita, Kan.; Houston, Tex.; Berkeley, Cal., and Spokane, Wash. FOREIGN The Spanish steamship Marques de Urquijo has been sunk by a German submarine. Fear of a bread famine increased at Buenos Aires when there were additions to the ranks of striking bakers. The keynote of the comment in the Vienna press on President Wilson's note to the belligerents is that the idea of peace thus brought forward will not easily be dissipated. The London foreign office has received advices that the Greek government is carrying out its promise to demobilize the Greek army. The work is proceeding satisfactorily, the advices indicate. Four Austro-Hungarian destroyers made a successful raid in the Straits of Otranto, sank two patrol boats and, on the way back, routed six enemy destroyers of a superior type and speed, a Vienna official statement declared. Gov. Gen. Von Beseler has signed an order creating the Polish State Credit bank, which shortly will issue new paper currency in Polish marks of a value equivalent to German marks, and guaranteed by the German government. A dispatch from The Hague to the London Exchange Telegraph Company says German agents have arrived at The Hague to make preliminary arrangements for the German delegates to the peace conference suggested in the German reply to President Wilson's note. Germany and her allies—Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey—Dec. 26 replied to the note of President Wilson, in which he asked that the belligerent nations state the alms for which they were fighting. The proposal is made by the central powers that a conference of the delegates of all the belligerents be held immediately in a neutral city. Four Greek steamships — the Omitres, Aristides, Isaropina and Contandris—have arrived at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, two of them bound from America with cargoes of wheat and corn, after having been stopped by a German submarine. They were permitted to enter Las Palmas only on condition that they should discharge their cargoes at that port. Mme de Thebes, the most famous clairvoyant in the world, who prophesied the great war, the death of Queen Victoria, the assassination of President Carnot of France, the San Francisco earthquake and other events of moment in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is dead at her home at Meungsur-Loire, France. Her real name was Anne de Savigny. She was 78 years old. Christmas sent a throb of good cheer to all the British armies in the battle-fines of France, and wherever a British soldier ate his Christmas dinner, whether in the front fire trenches or in the secluded security of the reserve camps, enthusiastic toasts were offered to king and empire and to the coming New Year which Britons confidently believe will bring victory to the entente allied cause. SPORTING NEWS Billy Miske of St. Paul and Jack Dillon of Indianapolis, middleweights, have signed for a twenty-round fight at New Orleans, La., on Feb. 2. A New Orleans fight promoter telegraphed to Les Darcy, the Australian middleweight now in New York, an offer to fight Mike Gibbons at New Orleans, La., for a purse of $15,000. Earl Cooper won the fifty-mile match race at the Ascot speedway at Los Angeles, covering the distance in 44:41, an average of 67.13 miles an hour. Eddie Pullen finished one second behind Cooper. At Philadelphia Stanley Yoakum, Denver "iron man," took a beating from Terry McGovern, Philadelphia lightweight. Eddie O'Keefe, Philadelphia, and Artie Root, Cleveland bantamweight, went six rounds to a draw. California is tired of the quiet, amateur sporting life, and wants something more of the big events of the turf and ring. And that feeling is going to result in some fight to reinstate the sports, which the lawmakers of the state and the people have prohibited. GENERAL Nine negroes are in jail at Minden, La., in connection with the murder of John Reeves, his wife and two children Christmas night. Willie Smith, golf professional at the Mexican Country Club and formerly national open golf champion of America, died at Mexico City of pneumonia. Frank J. Marshall, American chess champion, holds a new record. Marshall played 129 opponents simultaneously, breaking his own record of 105 contests played at one time. The presence on this side of the Atlantic of a formidable fleet of allied warships was indicated definitely at Boston. The vessels are known officially as commerce protectors. They are heavily armed and disguised. News of the death of Edward Trickett, the noted Australian sculler, at Uralla, N. S. W., reached New York. Trickett, who was born at Sydney, N. S. W., was the first man to deprive England of the professional sculling championship in 1876. Complete official returns on the presidential election show that Mr. Wilson received 9,116,296 votes and Mr. Hughes 8,547,474, a plurality of 568,822 for Mr. Wilson. 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A bronze goblet secured in a copper vessel, which contained some copper coins bearing certain inscriptions which are indecipherable, was recently found by two Indian agriculturists. The coins bear the impress of an image on one side and, being of archeological interest, have been forwarded to the curator of the Government museum, Madras. They are believed to have been in use during the reign of Tamerlane. Hardship Better Than Poverty. The merchant, dreading the south-west wind wrestling with the Icarian waves, praises retirement and the rural life of his native town, but soon he retires to his shattered bark, incapable of being taught to endure poverty. -Horace. Life's Never-Ending Vortex. Life is a ceaseless vortex, a perpetual whirlpool, from the beginning to the ending, and from the ending to the beginning. Every death is a new birth, every grave a cradle—Macmillan. Folly of Passionate Men. The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.—Plato. --- --- EVANSTON, ILL. GREENSBORO, N.C. NOTE.—Persons living in the South can get their goods from the North, but their THE STAR HAIR GROWER MFR, P. O. BOX 812, GREENSBORO, N.C. R. L. PHYN1X, Manager. Nobility of Labor It is the mission of the United States to ennoble toll and honor the toiler. In other lands to labor has been considered the lot of serfs and peasants; to gather the fruits and consume them in luxury and war, the business of the great. Since the medieval times European society has been organized on the basis of a nobility and a people. . . Thus has been set on human industry and stigma of perpetual disgrace. Something of this has been transmitted to the new civilization in the West—a certain disposition to renew the old order of lord and laborer. Let the odious distinction perish; the true lord is the laborer and the true laborer the lord—John Clark Ridpath. Firm in His Principles "What would happen if an irresistible force should meet an immovable body?" "It is not necessary for anything to happen. I maintain that arbitration is always feasible."—Louisville Courier-Journal. Firm in His Principles "What would happen if an irresistible force should meet an immovable body?" "It is not necessary for anything to happen. I maintain that arbitration is always feasible."—Louisville Courrier-Journal. PHONE OLIVE 286 DENVER, COLO NEW YEAR'S DAY IN JAPAN 12.4.1940 New Year's day has come to rank as one of the most popular of the Flowery Kingdom's holidays. As in America it is a day of feasting and good cheer, though oddly tempered by religious observances. The above picture shows three Japanese belles on their way to the temple for prayers before starting on a round of New Year's calls. Here you see; a parade of Tokyo firemen on New Year's day on their way to the drill grounds for the annual inspection, one of the big features in the way of celebrating the first day of the year in every Japanese city of any size. Fire engines and equipment pass in review before the city officials, after which fir THE CITY OF NEW YORK hose nozzle, but as a ram with which to knock down buildings too far gone to save and so prevent the spread of the conflagration. The Japanese firemen are wonderful acrobats and perform truly remarkable feats on the tall ladders, scaling them with the agility of monkeys. Men, women and children turn out to watch the exhibitions. Note the odd costumes of this brigade from Tokyo. drills are performed and the firemen take part in contests of various kinds. The fire engine has only recently been introduced into the Island Kingdom and the modern autotruck is not yet known there. In the lower picture are shown the firemen with their bamboo scaling ladders which are used not only for life-saving and as an elevation from which to direct the water from the hose nozzle, but as a rain with which to knock down buildings too far gone to save and so prevent the spread of the confagration. The Japanese firemen are wonderful acrobats and perform truly remarkable feats on the tall ladders, scaling them with the agility of monkeys. Men, women and children turn out to watch the exhibitions. Note the odd costumes of this brigade from Tokyo. NEW YEAR SUPERSTITIONS When the master enters the house for the first time in the new year he must take something in which he did not take out. A piece of money placed on the doorstep on New Year's eve and brought in the moment the clock strikes will inure plenty throughout the year. Never go out on New Year's day until someone has come in. Throw out all peacock's feathers before New Year's day or you will have bad luck. When the clock strikes 12 on New Year's eve open both the front and back door of the house, so that all evil spirits may pass out and the good ones pass in. But be sure to close the door as soon as the clock has finished striking, so that the good spirits may not escape. On New Year's eve take a little money, bread, salt, wood and coal, tie them in a bundle and lay them on the doorstep. If the first person who comes to the door possesses a name whose initials are made up of straight lines, allow him to pick up the bundle and bring it in. Give him a gift, and let him pass out through the back door. Then you will have good luck for an other year. In a home where every penny must be carefully spent, the wise little mother washes the apples to be fed to her growing children, pares and cores them and puts the peelings and cores in a glass jar well sealed until she has enough to boil up and make a glass or two of jelly. Where one is able to buy apples by the barrel they should be carefully watched and a few cans of them put up occasionally so that there need be no waste. The peelings and cores may be cooked, strained and put into the vinegar keg, making a fine clean vinegar which you know is wholesome. Apples should be served baked, in sauce, in puddings of various kinds, as relish for roast pork, as salads, fried with onions as a vegetable; in fact, there are numberless ways of saving every apple; nothing, not even the skin, need be wasted. Surgeons' piaster to mend rubbers is not new, but is a most effective remedy. It also makes a fine marker for the rubbers, as the name may be written on it in ink, and if a small spring clothespain is furnished to the child she will be able to keep the rubbers together. Use raffia for tying up holiday gifts; it can be bought in colors or you can color a bunch easily. It is strong, cheap and adds a festive touch to the package which is lacking in string. One mother finds that making buttonholes in ravelly goods is remedied by cutting the buttonhole, then running a knife dipped in hot wax through it. The wax holds the threads and the buttonhole is firm and easily worked. Cold corned beef and green peppers, finely chopped. Canton preserved ginger, chopped fine. Dutch cheese and watercress. Sour apples, celery, finely chopped, mixed with salad dressing. in the oven. Finely-chopped cabbage with onion and salad dressing. Thinly-sliced bananas with salad dressing and chopped nuts. Bananas crushed with fruit juice, sugar and cream. When using boughs of fir or pine for decoration, dip the ends of the twigs in paraffin and avoid the pitch spots which are so annoying. A bag of pine cones for a shu- lin who has a grate will be a gift which she will bless you for as long as it lasts. Save pretty boxes and cover with wall paper, using the color appo- riate for the gift sent. Each home has an individuality that is strongly its own, and expresses to the world the ideals and standards of life of those within. This is the time when the chafing dish may be enjoyed, with leisure to perform all sorts of experiments. Salad Sandwich.—A salad, a sandwich, hot or otherwise, a hot drink, or an iced one, depending upon the temperature, with fruit, fresh or preserved, and a small cake and one need not turn away a guest because of lack of provender. Ox Tongue With Tomato Sauce. Cut a boiled tongue in slices, then in disks with a biscuit cutter. Have ready mashed potatoes, well-seasoned with butter and cream and covered with the white of an egg and piled on a platter in a long mound. Make a tomato sauce or use a can of tomato soup, lay in the tongue, and when thoroughly hot arrange around the mound, overlapping and standing on edge, pour the sauce around. Chestnuts in Coffee Sauce.—Have one quart of the large chestnuts boiled, shelled and blanched; this may be done the day before. Cook them in salted water until they are nearly tender. Just before using, put them with a very little water and a tablespoonful of sugar into a pan and cook them until they are soft, but whole. Put into a blazer of the chafing dish one cupful of clear hot coffee, two tablespoonfuls each of sugar and caramel and when boiling a tablespoonful of cornstarch mixed with cold water or milk, cook this five minutes; pour part of the sauce on two beaten egg yolks, return this 'o the blaze and cook but a moment to set the eggs. Let cool for a moment, then add half a cupful of cream and pour the sauce over the chestnuts. Serve with sponge cake. Apple Soume With Vanilla Cream.—Cook together six sliced apples, with a fourth of a cupful of water and three-fourths of a cupful of sugar, add the grated peel of two lemons, a speck of salt and a bit of bay leaf. When soft add a half ounce of softened gelatin and press through a sieve. Add three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, one tablespoonful of butter, color a pale green, and when cold add a half cupful of whipped cream and the whites of two eggs, well blended. Pile on a mound of sponge cake and serve with vanilla ice cream. Nellie Maxwell COLORADO LIQUOR TAX COLORADO LIQUOR TAX BRINGS STATE$ 28,915 ON 231,323 SHIPMENTS. Figures Compiled for First Eleven Months of Prohibition in Secretary of State's Office. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Colorado's thirsty population imbibed so much liquor during the first eleven months of 1916, in spite of the prohibition law that 231, 323 shipments of "booze" were brought into the state by legitimate carriers. The state derived a total revenue of $28,915.37 from Jan. 1 to Dec. 1, on liquor shipments. A report for the first eleven months of prohibition, which has been compiled by W. B. Slife, flat tax clerk of the secretary of state's department, shows that Denver headed the list for heavy shipments, seconded by Pueblo, Weld, Las Animas, El Paso and Boulder counties. Most of the big counties reached their high-water mark in November when Denver reported 9,228 shipments, as compared with 7,954 the month before; Pueblo, 2,943; Weld, 1,541, a slight decrease over the 1,642 received in October; El Paso 1,321, and Boulder, 1,151. Christmas drinkables swelled the lists of the carriers and brought the total shipments for November to 22,177. Owing to a falling off in the shipments received by the smaller counties, however, the total was lower than for any month since last May. The report shows that the shipments by months have been as follows: January ..... 3,507 February ..... 8,891 March ..... 14,608 April ..... 18,170 May ..... 19,927 June ..... 24,004 July ..... 26,866 August ..... 26,728 September ..... 27,848 October ..... 29,347 November ..... 22,177 Big Increase in Coal Production. Coal production for the year 1916 in Colorado amounted to more than 10,350,000 tons, according to figures which have been compiled by Mrs. Ada Tibbits, clerk in the office of the State Coal Mine Inspection Bureau. Reports from the coal companies show that their production up to Nov. 30 amounted to 7,687,933 tons. The production for the month of December, according to Mrs. Tibbits, will be unusually big and will bring the total for the year over the 10,000,000 mark. The production last year amounted to 8,715,397 tons, so that the increase for 1916 will approximate 1,634,603 tons. The biggest increases for the year were reported from Las Animas county, where the production increase over last year's production for eleven months totaled 1,105,873 tons. Huerfano had an increase for the same period of 194,362 tons; Fremont, 91,033 tons; Routt county, 79,261 tons; Boulder, 62,752 tons, and Gunnison, 57,590 tons. The average number of men worked during the year was 12,236 with 168.8 as the number of days. December Warrants Total $217,285. A total of $217,285 in cash warrants was issued by the state auditor's office from Dec. 1 to 20, according to State Auditor H. E. Mulnix. The payments during the twenty days have been heavier than usual for the month, the average running between $150,000 to $200,000. In road warrants alone over $108,000 was issued. The department is attempting to pay off all indebtedness which has been incurred during the past year. The surplus which will be left in the treasury will amount to more than $400,000. Mint Making New Half Dollars. The new design half dollar is now being coined at the Denver mint. The government money maker is now turning out 160,000 pieces daily and will continue the output at this rate for an indefinite period. The Denver mint is the only mint in the country coining half dollars. The Philadelphia mint is coining dimes, and San Francisco is turning out new quarters. More than 350,000 new dimes have been put in circulation in Denver from the local mint in the last few weeks. Over $540,000 Paid Out to Injured Denver.—Working people of Colorado received more than $540,000 from Aug. 1, 1915, to Aug. 1, 1916, under the workmen's compensation act, according to statistics which have been compiled by Wayne C. Williams, member of the State Industrial Commission. Mining Men Meet Jan. 9-11. Mining men from all parts of the country will attend the annual convention of the Colorado Metal Mining Association in Denver, Jan. 9, 10, 11. Bank Deposits Show Increase. During the sixty-six days between the two last calls of the state bank commissioner's department, from Sept. 12 to Nov. 17 of this year, deposits in Colorado banks controlled by state laws increased $2,583,556.88 according to the report of State Bank Commissioner Grant McFerson. On Sept. 12 the individual deposits in these banks and trust companies aggregated $26,248,860.14, and on Nov. 17 individual deposits had increased to $30,832,417.02. THE KITCHEN CABINET We shape ourselves, the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made. And fill our future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. LITTLE ECONOMIES. mother washes the apples to be fed to her growing children, pares and cores them and puts the peelings and cores in a glass jar well sealed until she has enough to boil up and make a glass or two of jelly. Where one is able to buy apples by the barrel they should be carefully watched and a SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPERS. 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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 accom- pany 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, J rT WAS A GREAT YEAR. i Vale °16; we are much obliged. Welcome ‘17; let us get better acquainted. The best resolution to enter the new year is: ‘I will not knock —my hammer is buried; I will do the best I can, every time I ean, in every way I can, whether the other fellow does me good or not.’ HE COLORADO STATESMAN wishes its many subscribers I and well-wishers a Happy New Year. Those owing for the paper should begin the New Year by paying what they owe. HEY SAY that the Negro is making progress. Whenever we I get time to stop to look over conditions, it really looks that way. Sometimes we don’t see things moving at a gait we think they ought to move at, but from where we started to where we are at the beginning of 1917 is a good long jump. We don’t buy homes as fast as we ought to buy them; we don’t buckle down to business quite as hard as we might; we don’t keep the children in school long enough to pay as much attention to the trades or oceu- pations we want them to follow as we should; but we are gradually, learning by dear experience what we ought to do, and we are begin- ning to do it. We surely are not going back. HOW TO BE GOOD. IF YOU DO NOT make a good resolution on New Year's day, I that fact need not necessarily restrain you from making one on any of the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year. We go wrong in too many ways to hope to correct ourselves by a single resolution. It is a good idea to look yourself over on the first day of every week and map out a course to follow for seven days. The man who does this resolutely will have no néed to swear off on New Year’s day. The man who fails to do so might as well carve his New Year resolutions on an ice tablet and wait for it to thaw. IF YOU DO NOT make a good resolution on New Year's day, I that fact need not necessarily restrain you from making one on any of the other three hundred and sixty-four days of the year. We go wrong in too many ways to hope to correct ourselves by a single resolution. It is a good idea to look yourself over on the first day of every week and map out a course io follow for seven days. The man who does this resolutely will have no néed to swear off on New Year’s day. The man who fails to do so might as well carve his New Year resolutions on an ice tablet and wait for it to thaw. NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS. HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our readers. Another 365 days A has rolled by and 1917 is here. As we look back over the past year may we not eatch a few lessons from the passing days and months. Haye we lived our best, have we bowed our will Ege nari Baia 2 a oes an tac pean We NTT ae oe ew RI 2 TSU aN ig Ais ary HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our readers. Another 365 days A has rolled by and 1917 is here. As we look back over the past year may we not eatch a few lessons from the passing days and months. Have we lived our best, have we bowed our will to His authority; have we followed the straightest paths to peace, happiness and success? Paths which are paved by obedience, chas- tity, preseverence, loyalty, charity and good will. If so, our year has been well spent. If not, in this holy season, make sure that this year shall not witness our mistakes renewed. "This is the time for taking stock in business. Why should it not also be the time for taking moral stock, spiritual stock, good-fellowship stock? THE COLORADO STATESMAN wants to be a helper to your JOYS, to your SUCCESS, to your BUSINESS and to your future. Accept from us a New Year greeting. Make us your companion for 1917. Let us come into your home, into your shop or store or office. We want to do you good. We want to give you new ideas, tell you what the world is doing, bring you the latest and the best race news, inform yon of the movements of progress and give you a di- gest of the world’s best thinkers, actors, writers, speakers on race subjects. THE COLORADO STATESMAN, like good wine, grows better with age. We are full of good cheer, full of hope, full of ambition to make our paper better and inerease our circulation. In laying out your new plans be sure to take this PAPER into AC- COUNT. HE ONE THING that has done more than anything else to re- I tard our suceess and hinder progress in this community is a lack of downright truthfulness: Carelessness in handling the truth has destroyed confidence and interest in each other’s purpose and welfare, and left each one of us to mistrust the other. Many of the enemies we have made is the result of our having deceived. them. A man prefers that we be honest with him, even if we are against him and have a preference for another. There is no use in lying. It is a malicious habit and the facts are certain in due time to come to the surface and make against us in the end. We need every man’s respect and friendship, and we only have and retain it on the basis of truthfulness. When people understand that we will not lie to or for them they are willing to converse freely but when they are skeptical about our reliability they will withhold much that is important. Truthfulness is dual in its nature. A man that won’t lie himself, first, will not lie on others; and, second, will not believe or use lies told to him. Thus if a man will resolve te take the right understanding of facts and clear the atmosphere of intrigue and dishonesty. Denver needs a reviva! of old-time truth fulness. It will do more in re-establishing confidence and rehabilitate th: race w'sh hope and courage and purpose than anything that could possibly come to us now. THE NEW YEAR. MAKE GOOD! TRUTH. Capital and Labor Must Cooperate to Meet Conditions Growing Out of Wer By EUGENE H. OUTERBRIDGE President New York Chamber of Commerce if capital and labor, which inevitably must be joined in all forms of endeavor, could deal with perfect mutual understanding and confi- dence, results could be achieved far beyond anything heretofore accom- plished. In the world conditions now prevailing the people of the belugerent nations have, under the stress of a compelling necessity, developed a degree of co-operation and efficiency in production of which they never before knew themselves capable, and which has never been approached anywhere else in the world. ‘The war has produced many unprecedented conditions. 'T} is is only one of them. After it is over there will be many we shall have to meet and many changes to which we shall haye to adapt ourselves; some cannut be foretold or foreseen, but it appears to me inevitable that the conscious- ness of efficiency and productive power that has been developed in the Enropean peoples will lead them not to return to previous methods or lives of indolence or ease, but that they will turn their newly developed powers to production in peaceful pursuits, and that we then shall have to meet in foreign fields and perhaps in domestic trade the force of a competitive production organized upon a degree of efficiency which we have never before had to combat. If I am right, under the conditions that will then prevail, the rela- tions between capital and labor in this country will become of still greater moment to us than ever before. I think there is no single element in industry before this country today of such vast importance as the matter of bringing these two constituents into mutual confidence and under- standing in a real spirit of co-operation. The peaceful progress of industry, free from strikes or lockouts. is essential to economic results. In all great public services where the public interest exceeds that of employers and employees, some method must be found preventive of interruptions of service, which are wasteful and costly often beyond computation; methods which will enable the public to be currently, adequately and correctly informed in order that public opinion, usually the determining force, may be well founded. No greater service could at this time be rendered than to find some system by which industrial disputes may be avoided or adjusted before they reach the crisis of a struggle which dislocates industry, causes em- ployers and employees untold loss, and injures the public’s welfare. Minister Must Have Right to Express His Cpinions Upon Political Matters By REV. CHARLES A. EATON Pastor Madison Aveaue Baptist Church, New York I believe that God is interested in human life in its entirety. I believe that every man must be spiritual and moral, and that it will do him no harm if occasionally he exhibits a gleam of intelligence, not only in his church but in all other relations. For this reason I am not willing because I am a preacher to surrender one iota of my duties or my rights as a citizen and a man. As man and citizen, then, I claim the right to speak to my fellow citizens and fellow men. As a minister I would defend my right to express opinions on political and moral questions from the pulpit. I point to the precedent established by spiritual leaders throughout the ges. Martin Luther was a great statesman who laid the foundations of 1 nation, expounded great political principles, and created a language for a people. John Knox had his part in the building of Scotland ; Cromwell was soldier, statesman and preacher; the influence of the minister of the Gospel is shown in the entire political and social fabric of our civilization. Should the voice of Roger Williams, founder and builder of Rhode Island, have been silenced for uttering the principles of American politi- cal and spiritual liberty? Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather were not dumb when they felt that what they might utter from their pulpits would be a guide to their fellow men. Should John Witherspoon, Pres- byterien minister and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, have held his peace in the days which tried men’s souls? As long, then, as I believe that the spirit of God is in the world I shall hold that the pulpit should speak fearlessly on all great questions which touch the lives of men and affect the ideals of a nation. Histories Used in the Schools Have Covered Up Many Disagreeable Facts By JAMES E. CLARK ————E—————————E Our histories, especially the school histories, have misled and x ected public thought. ‘They have ignored or covered up disagree ts because it was thought to be unpatriotic to tell these facts. In keeping the child (and in consequence the adult) in ignors the proper means and requirements for protection from the dange1 ional aggression or invasion, the educational system of the nation n badly at fault. ‘Therefore, just as the school prepares the pupil n his bread, it is held that the school should also show him how tect his bread and his means of livelihood and do it at least cost. As armies go, we have always been a nation without an army considerable size, excepting when war came. It is contended { Our histories, especially the school histories, have misled and mis- directed publie thought. They have ignored or covered up disagreeable facts because it was thought to be unpatriotic to tell these facts. In keeping the child (and in consequence the adult) in ignorance of the proper means and requirements for protection from the danger of national aggression or invasion, the educational system of the nation has been badly at fault. Therefore, just as the school prepares the pupil to earn his bread, it is held that the school should also show him how to protect his bread and his means of livelihood and do it at least cost. As armies go, we have always been a nation without an army of any considerable size, excepting when war came. It is contended that the public-school pupil should know by the incorruptible facts of history whether this has been the best policy—whether it has prevented war or brought war; whether it has saved lives or wasted lives; whether it has saved money or wasted money. . It is well within the province of schools to give the pupil the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, on the history of his country, cepecially as the lack of that knowledge may easily lead to a national disaster. It is not, however, to be supposed that public-school pupils will be taught the technicalities of military policies—instead they may properly be shown the fundamental reasons for many great eyents—such, for instances, as why the United States was compelled to employ 627,654 soldiers during the war of 1812, while the greatest force the British had during any one year of that war was only 16,500; and why, despite this superiority of numbers, the small British army repeatedly defeated our troops with little effort. The Old Order Changeth By DeLYSLE FERKEE CASS IFTEEN minutes of twelve! A brief quarter of an hour later and all the town bells would be madly ringing; the factory whis- tles would be tooting; horns would shrill raucously; the restless crowds surging aimlessly through the streets would raise voices in the hysterical pandemonium that customarily wakes the dying year into extinction. “Then,” said Myrtle the telephone girl to herself, ‘then my busy time commences. Every lunatic in town will begin trying to get his or her friends on the wire to yell ‘Happy New Year!'—everybody will be want- ing their numbers at once and all sore because the telephone company hasn't put in 5,000 extra wires for their es- pecial convenience tonight.” ‘The metal loop with the receiver at her ear had grown irksome and heavy on Myrtle's head. Her hand raised to adjust it more comfortably just as one of the little white lights flashed on before her. “Number please” (plugging the hole) ++.Grand 4854... What did you say .. Yes, I know I ‘have a sweet voice, but my name don’t happen to be ‘Kiddo’. . . ‘There you are.” Just then another light flashed in Myrtle’s section. “Number please . . . Riverview 4197 ++. Thank you... What?... Oh, I beg your pardon . . . 4111.” “Why don’t you listen as you're pald to do?” growled back a man's voice over the wire. His articulation was thick, hoarse. Evidently he was labor- ing under some tremendous strain. However it is not for the mere tele- phone operator to resent, whatever her provocation. “4111, thank you,” said Myrtle in the same pleasantly modulated tone as before and made the proper connec- tion. But not even then being certain WE L lee | Lu ge a vt oy 4 No 1 ie \ = ae i PAR eg e-———— 7 RRA S 2 WWesag Oster ae \ ((& The Ugly Revolver in His Hand. that she had correctly understood the man’s thick directions, she cut in on the line to listen for a moment and so forestall further complaints from him. With the receiver clamped tight to her ear she could hear the ‘phone bell buzzing faintly across the city—in a house, Myrtle Judged, because the Riv- ervidw exchange lay in the aristocratic residential section. Buzz—Buzz-2z—z! Then came a woman's voice—soft, sweet and low. “Hello... Oh, is that you, Jim? 1 had gotten quite anxious about you. I expected you home to dinner tonight. You promised, you know.... And ‘Snookums’ was so disappointed when Thad to tuck him in bed without kiss- Ing his papa good night. He was so excited by all the noise on the streets and kept asking me if his bad daddy wouldn't come home early to him on New Year's eve. I really think you might have, Jim, because—” “Oh, I know! I know!” interrupted the man’s voice impatieptly, although he evidently was making a strong ef- fort to conceal his distraught condition from her. “Business detained me at the office later than I anticipated, Ed- na, and afterwards . . . afterwards Harry Forbes dropped in and we went out for a bite to eat together.” “But you'll be home right away now, won't you, dear?” pleaded the woman's voice coaxingly. “Please don't stay uny later. I've promised ‘Snookums’ that you'll be home to wish him a Hap- py New Year while the whistles are still blowing.” : “I can't possibly make it now... there's a big deal we're talking over." “Jim"—reproachfully — “I thought you assured me you never would dab- ble in the market again after that last time when you risked all we had in the world simply on the chance of making a few dollars without really earning it” “Edna, I—I—” “Jim, your very voice sounds queer- ly. Nothing has gone wrong at the of. fice there today, has there, dear?” “No... No, nothing,” ¢ame the man’s yuice wearlly, soothingly. “Don't EEF Ee 0 OO eee ae ol eee alot eae cuse me if I spoke sharply, Uttle girl. I'm tired out—that’s all... Yes, yes + +. Good-by, dearest one.” ‘The receiver clicked sharply and the listening Myrtle experienced a sense of physical relief, the exact reason for which she would have been at a loss to explain, How strangely the man had intoned his good-bye—almost as if he never expected to be able to say it again to the wife he loved. It was as if— “Yes, number please . . . Oh—” 4t was the voice of the same man speaking crossly over the wire. “Get me Grant 6212—quick!" he growled. “I'm in a hurry.” She plugged the proper hole con- necting him and listened for a mo- ment. “Hello! Grant 62122 the Morgue? Well, this is James P. Thornton talk- ing. Yes, J-A-M-E-S Thornton of J. P, Thornton, Inc. I'm about to com- mit suicide in my office at 1478 Stock Exchange building. If you'll send your men over here within 15 minutes they'll find my body here . . . Door's unlocked, ready for you. Statement for the newspapers will be found on desk. I've just completed it... Was smashed in collapse ot market on the board floor this afternoon .. . No, that's—and then, ironically — all.» Happy New Year!” "His receiver clicked down on the ‘hook, severing the connection in the midst of horrified abjurations from the other end of the wire. Simultaneously Myrtle, the telephone girl, jerked the ‘metal loop from her head and sprang down the aisle, disregarding the sur- prised exclamations of her fellows and the imperative call of the supervisor. She grabbed her hat and shabby little jacket from their peg on the locker- room wall as she fled. A suicide? . . . he was about to die by his own hand... And with that sweet-voiced wife walting for him there at home with the dear little kid- die tucked up in bed and erying for his daddy's good-night kiss! It was wrong —all wrong! ...'To stop him! Ah, if only she could get there in time! ‘There was a chance—a slim chance, for it happened that the Stock Ex- change was directly next door to the big gray telephone building. Fortunately the night elevator mon had his car waiting there on the main floor, while he leaned against the side of the cage gossiping with one of the scrub women. Myrtle bounded in, stax ‘tling both nearly out of their wits. “Quick !” she panted, seizing his arm ‘with tense fingers, “The fourteenth floor... Not an instant to spare!” “But it’s against rules to let you go up there at this unholy time of night unless you've got a permit,” expostu- Inted the bewildered elevator man. “You can't—” Myrtle drove the motive lever home herself and the iron cage shot swiftly upwards before the man could stop her. It was a sickening breathless rise ... Ah! the fourteenth floor at last! Precious moments wasted fumbling with the mechanism of the elevator door... Then through it andout . . . the staccato clatter of little high heels racing down the long dim, empty cor- ridor to where a blotch of light showed through the transom of Suite 1478. For a brief second Myrtle's heart suspended its pulsation and she hesi- tated with her trembling hand out- ‘stretched to turn the knob. What if she should find—should find him al- ready the victim of his own mad act— jying there on the richly-carpeted floor of the sumptuously furnished offices with a pool of blood slowly coagulating around the bullet hole in his temple. If— But Myrtle, the telephone girl, wait- ed to conjecture no longer. She threw her weight against the unlocked door. It gave suddenly and precipitated her inwards coincidently with her frenzied cry of: “STOP” - ‘The man sitting at the long mahog- any desk with the ugly revolver al- rendy in his hand half started to his feet, his face ashen; stared at this most unexpected intruder, bulge-eyed. He seemed unable to collect his thoughts; only passed his hand over his mouth two or three times, mutter- Ing in a half-witted way: “Who... who... what...” ‘Then he toppled suddenly and fell flat on his face to the floor. “Dead!” groaned Myrtle, horror- stricken, dropping to her knees beside the inaminate form, “Naw!” grunted the elevator man, who just then joined her, “He's fainted —that’s all, kid. Better go git me a wet rag to sop his face with. That'll bring him ‘round in a Jiffy.” But Myrtle was already seated at THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HATE OF SHOULD BE FREE HATE COMMON PARTY ```markdown ``` Miss Esther Raglan, sister of Lewis Raglan, left for California for a three months' visit. Mrs. Albert J. Dorsey and son, Joseph, left for Kansas City last Thursday to spend the Christmas holidays. Mrs. Davis, the mother of Mrs. Claude DePriest, is suffering with la grippe. The Masons' ball at East Turner hall last Thursday night drew a tremendous crowd and proved a decided success. Miss Gertrude Lewis of Pueblo is in the city the guest of her sister, Miss Dortha Lewis of 2840 Glenarm place. Frank Wylie of Los Angeles returned to Denver recently and has taken up his former position with the Denver Music Company. Mrs. Blanche Baker of 2549 Clarkson street is gradually improving from a serious illness. We wish her a speedy recovery. Mrs. Thomas, the mother of Mrs. F. C. Payne, is seriously ill. She was taken to St. Anthony's hospital Wednesday. Mrs. T. W. Yeiser of Cañon City passed through the city Friday, en route east to visit relatives and friends for two months. Mr. and Mrs. F. Dickerson, son-in-law and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Walker arrived last Tuesday from St. Louis for an indefinite stay in this city. Mrs. John R. Thompson of Chicago arrived in the city Monday to join her husband. She is the house guest of Mrs. Violet Thompson, 1402 East Twenty-fourth avenue. Mrs. Mary E. Boone, well known in Denver, arrived last week from Casper, Wyo., to attend her daughter, Mrs. Blanche Baker, during her illness. Major Vince of Butte, Mont., was in the city a few days this week visiting relatives and friends. He also visited Boulder, Colo., and Cheyenne, and reports his trip one of much pleasure. B. C. Curtis, chef at the Shirley hotel, left last Thursday night for Omaha, where he will spend a few days before going to Oklahoma and Florida. His many friends in Denver wish him a pleasant sojourn on his vacation. Mrs. Laura Parker of 1030 Twenty-ninth street received the sad news of the death of her mother, Mrs. Mary Walker, at Pueblo last Saturday. The remains arrived in Denver last Wednesday in charge of Cammel and Company, undertakers. The deceased leaves to mourn her loss a number of children and grandchildren, sisters and other relatives. Funeral arrangements not completed. The Night and Day Cafe, with "Bob" Carruth as proprietor, will have its grand opening today at 919 Nineteenth street. Mr. Carruth needs no introduction to the public, as the very excellent meals he serves has made him quite popular. His new place of business is up to the minute and will be a Mecca for good things to eat. Don't fail to attend the grand opening today. Mr. and Mrs. William Greenwood of 225 West Eleventh avenue entertained at a midnight supper Sunday evenings. Christmas decorations were used profuely in the dining room. The invited guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Wright, Miss Florence Macklin and Mr. William White. All spent a very enjoyable evening. The petite and winsome Mrs. S. E. Cook, a former resident of our city, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Porter, her sister, for several weeks, left the city Thursday for Oakland, Cal., her present place of abode. During her short stay here she was the recipient of much social attention. Last Sunday she was entertained at dinner by Mrs. Cora Fisher, whose skill as a culinary artist is not excelled, and on Wednesday Mrs. Charles Lightner gave a handsomely appointed dinner in her honor. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gibson of 3230 Gilpin street were host and hostess of a dinner of fine appointments on Christmas day. The house was profusely and beautifully decorated with Christmas decorations, and ample justice was given to the specially prepared meal so heartily enjoyed by their invited guests. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson are known to be among the best of our social entertainers, and those who had the good fortune to be present deem it a privilege to participate in such a function. After exchange of courtesies the diners departed, acclaiming their genial host and hostess worthy of the name of SPECIAL ENTERTAINERS. W. T. Fletcher and wife were specially remembered at Christmas, being the recipients of very handsome and valuable presents from their employers, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Humphreys, 1019 Logan street. Mr. Humphreys is head of the Creede Mines and Milling Company, with offices in the Colorado building, and, as is generally known, never fails to appreciate the services of his employés in their respective capacities. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher are popular citizens, being known to us for a number of years as faithful in whatever services they are engaged, and we are glad to announce another case of recognition of our people by the substantial awards given them at such appropriate times and seasons of the year. Good services and ability for performance of duty will always find expression in such tangible forms. Victor Walker has received the appointment of messenger in the secretary of state's office and will take up his position in January, when the new administration goes in. Mr. Walker, who is an able supporter of the party in power, is well fitted for the position, having filled positions of the state in Nebraska, where he was on the attorney general's staff. O. T. Jackson's appointment as messenger to the governor was published by us some time ago. The Colorado Statesman wishes these popular citizens every success in their respective spheres, feeling sure they will give every satisfaction to their employers and the public. The Margaret Washington Social Club, named after the wife of the illustrious Booker T. Washington, is doing quite a serviceable turn in our city. Help has been given to a number of indigent persons in the provision of fuel, etc., for winter, and homes and hearts are made happy by the assistance rendered through the members. The committee in this particular feature of the club consists of Mesdames E. V. Cammel, D. Mallard, A. E. McPherson and Herbert Witt, who are very zealous in this undertaking, and in conjunction with the other members deserve the commendation of the public for their kind and thoughtful subscription to the needy. A successful career is the wish of The Colorado Statesman. Our esteemed and popular townman William Sprague, employé of the Stearns-Rogers Manufacturing Co. was remembered in the usual manner on Christmas and in addition received an increase in salary. Mr. Sprague has been in the company's service for over twenty-five years and now fills the position of shipping clerk. These rewards are given him for faithful service as well as the special interest he takes in the duties devolved on him. Knowing him for a number of years not only as one of our subscribers and ardent supporters, but a citizen who is highly respected in the community, we congratulate Mr. Sprague on his well-earned and merited success which affords us an example worthy of emulation. Deserving members of our race will sooner or later receive their just rewards. CAMPBELI. CHAPEL, AFRICAN M E. CHURCH. Twenty-third and Lawrence streets. A. M. Ward, minister. Phone Main 5474. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. V. N. Wolfskill, superintendent. Preaching at 11 a. m. by the pastor. Allen Christian Endeavor meeting 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 7:30 p. m. by the pastor. Watch-night services will follow the evening service. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. Class meeting Friday 8 p. m. The public is invited to worship with us at all services. Interesting services were held in Campbell chapel last Sunday. Evangelist Lewis S. Sheafe of California delivered an able sermon upon the subject "Woman's Opportunity" at the morning service, and with his wife rendered to the satisfaction of all stirring gospel songs. The pastor preached on "Prayer" in the evening. A large gathering assembled at the 5:30 a.m. service Christmas morning and enjoyed a glorious meeting. The pastor preached on the first Christmas carol as sung by the angels. The two choirs, under the direction of Mrs. Clark Craig, rendered excellent music. The offering was $10.50. The Christmas tree and entertainment by the Sunday School on Christmas night was an enjoyable affair for the splendid crowd as well as the children. Santa Claus played his role well and all were happy. The pastor and wife desires, through the columns of this paper, to thank the members and congregation for the Christmas offering and other varied and useful tokens. CHRISTMAS IN LOS ANGELES. The writer, together with J. H. Dickson of St. Louis spent the Yuletide in Los Angeles. We arrived on Sunday, and had planned to attend the morning religious services, but on account of the lateness of the train, we were cheated out of that part of the program. We went out for a little stroll and met an old friend and former Denverite, Al Corporal, who insisted that we take dinner with him. We declined with thanks, but he insisted until we accepted his genial hospitality, and that we did ample justice to the sumptuous repast prepared by his estimable wife, goes without saying. After the usual after-dinner chat we bid the host and hostess adieu and went immediately to the elaborate apartments of Mrs. Birde Glvins, which is headquarters for many of the railroad boys. Here we met many of our friends and spent the afternoon in discussing topics of the day and telling funny stories. Later in the evening we responded to a phone call from W. H. Penson, also formerly of Denver, who invited us to the Bachelors' Castle. A taxi was called and a quartette of us were there in a "jiffy" and after being introduced to the inmates and friends of this beautifully furnished and decorated castle, and exchanging the season's greetings we were invited to partake of the good things that makes Christmas merry. Leaving here we motored to the famous Cadilac café, where the climax of the day's enjoyment was reached. The spacious and exquisitely decorated dining room was longened with merrymakers and the proprietor and manager, M. I. Watts, and Mr. N. B. Murry, together with their corps of assistants, made it a pleasure to see that all were well entertained. A high Christmas tree decorated the center of the room and the soft glow of lights seemed to blend with the admirable decorations. The program consisted of vocal and instrumental music, and only the closing hour of this popular café, which is a Mecca for pleasure, brought a halt to an evening of bliss. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East Twenty-third avenue and Washington street. Pastor—J. A. Thos.-Hazell. S.T.B. Sermon Topics Sunday, December 31. 11 a. m.—"The Christianizing of Christianity." 5 p. m.—Great musical program. The services of Christmas eve and Christmas day were of an exceptionally high standard. The choruses were very effectively rendered. The solo work participated in by Mr. C. A. Clark and Mrs. Lulu Madison was above the standard. As a soloist Mrs. Madison appeared for the first time in this church under such auspices as last Sabbath. Mrs. M. E. Morrison, Messrs. V. Spratlin, the organist and Wilfred Bricklin, the clarianetist, played well their part. Prof. Cedal Norris, having identified himself with the choir, proved himself a most invaluable asset to the bassos. Messrs. Woolridge and W. Martin made themselves felt in the production of the lower tones in bass score. Miss Susie Rollins and Miss Jennie Harris were very pronounced in the conduct of the first soprano parts. The cradle sermon, though an innovation to the services, was quite unique in its presentation. The Sabbath school, under the superintendency of Mrs. Mattie Wilson, most creditably discharged their quota of the program. The church was tastefully decorated. The gifts from the tree were many and varied. The program of last Sabbath will be repeated tomorrow at 5 o'clock p.m., with some accessions, Dr. Mont Travis, ex-mayor of the town of Westminster and one of the leading Presbyterians of the Presbytery of Denver, will be the principal speaker. Prof. C. Norris, in addition to his work in the choir, will contribute a piano solo. Professor George Morrison will be at his best with the violin. Mme. Lula Madison will favor the audience with another of her select pieces. The community is urged to witness the rendition of the last musical program in this church for the year 1916. Watch night services will take place at 10 o'clock Sunday night. The Hobson-Cole piano-song recital takes place January 25, 1917. Miss Belle d'Autremont, one of the most proficient music teachers, apart from Miss Hobson's natural ability as a pianist, is preparing this young lady with great pains. Miss Beatrice Thrashley, a most devoted tutor of her race, is responsible for Miss V. Cole's preparation. We Wish You a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. THE DOUGLAS UNDERTAK ING CO.. 2745 Welton Street. Furnished rooms and house for rent at 2358 Tremont Place. Inquire at 1824 Curtis street, Room 25. DENVER MUD KEEP THE LID ON DENVER MUD THE GE COMPANY FOR SALF GISTS GRA OPEN OF NIGHT AND 919 19TH SATURDAY, DEC Come and bring to be one of the mo the city, and the se with it. Don't miss Regular Me Short Orders Remember the P "BOB" CARRU "DO YOUNE We make loans on Watches, Diam and Hand Bags and CHAS. BOMASH 1755 CURTIS ST. FOR TRUNKS, LUGGAGE VISIT PRICE-M Japanese Goods Make Artistic Beautiful Japanese Silk GRAND OPEN OF THE GRAND DAY 1919 19TH STREET DECEMBER d bring your fr the most up-to the service w n't miss this gr lar Meals S Orders at all the Place CARRUTH, UNEED M Watches, Diamonds, Jewelr d Bags and Clothing of S. BOMASH LOAN OR (Next do S, LUGGAGE, LEA CE-MAYER Goods, Art the Artistic Christmas Japanese Silk Klimonas Wool GRAND OPENING! NIGHT AND DAY CAFE 919 19TH STREET Come and bring your friends. This is to be one of the most up-to-date Cafes in the city, and the service will be on par with it. Don't miss this grand treat. Regular Meals Served Short Orders at all Hours Remember the Place 919 19th St. "BOB" CARRUTH, Proprietor. "DO YOUNEED MONEY?" We make loans on Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Trunks, Suit Cases and Hand Bags and Clothing of all kinds. CHAS. BOMASH LOAN OFFICE, 1755 CURTIS ST. (Next door to Paris Theater.) FOR TRUNKS,LUGGAGE,LEATHER GOODS VISIT PRICE-MAYER CO. 634 16th St Japanese Goods, Arts, Curios JAPANESE TOYS Any Foreign Toy instantly app Japanese Toys are particularly app lection at very reasonable prices. We cordially invite ladies and store before buying Christmas good Phone Main 8530 S. BAN C 2009-11 Larimer St. IMPORTERS OF JAPANESE G GEORGE BELL, Pres. A. L. SHELLEY, Vice-Pres. instantly appeals to the particularly appealing. We stable prices. the ladies and gentlemen to Christmas goods. It will be BAN COMPANY JAPANESE GOODS OF AUSTRIA H. H. ADD. Pres. M. P. BEL Any Foreign Toy instantly appeals to the American Child. The Japanese Toys are particularly appealing. We have a very large selection at very reasonable prices. We cordially invite ladies and gentlemen to come and visit our store before buying Christmas goods. It will be worth your while. GEORGE BELL, Pres. H. H. ADDENBROOKE, Treas. A. L. SHELLEY, Vice-Pres. M. P. BELL, Secy. THE GEORGE BELL COMPANY (Incorporated) LAPIDARIES AND MANUFACTURING JEWELERS 437 SEVENTEENTH STREET DENVER, COLORADO Giant Bach-Benz Cleaners and Tailors Lankford and McCain, Proprietors STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS WORK Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Remodelling JOIN OUR MONTHLY PRESSING CLUB-$1.50 506 Eighteenth Street Phone Main 7376 Thousands of housewives depend upon DENVER MUD for relief from Pneumonia, Chest Colds, Tonsilitis, Bronchitis, Grippe, Sore Throat and Croup. It removes the inflammation, reduces the swelling, starts a healthy circulation of the blood, and allows Nature to complete the cure. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and the Cammel Undertaking Company for their sympathy and flowers during our recent bereavement in the loss of our loved one, Robert Rogers, who died December 14. 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 Ladies free; gentlemen, 25 cents. R. L. PHYNIX, Manager. For Rent—A modern 5-room brick house at 1750 Humboldt street. Mrs. Z. Hooper, nicely furnished rooms; strictly modern; prices reasonable. Rooms for light housekeeping for man and wife. 2443 Tremont Place, Denver, Colo. Mrs. J. J. Brown of 2538 Glenarm Place will serve chitterling every Saturday night and Sunday dinner every Sunday from 1 to 2:30 p. m., Your patronage is solicited. Phone Main 3824. BUY GOOD BOOKS Negro Year Book, just off the press. A compendium of useful knowledge of the Negro race. Life of Booker T. Washington with free picture, $1.25. Paul Lawrence Dunbars complete poems, cloth bound, $1.75. Postage 10c extra on each book. For sale by The Colorado Statesman, 1824 Curtis st., Room 25. Or J. H. Doniphan 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 Splendid Quality of Mercifulness. Mercifulness manifests itself in two ways: First, in patience and forbearance toward those who do wrong, lenency toward those who fail; and second, in ministrations of kindness and love to those who are in need. The first of these manifestations is negative. The other phase of the quality is active and positive.—Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. As to Brzin Food. The more brains a man has the more he is in need of brain food, though not necessarily the kind he would take in through his mouth. That is, the best kind of food for the brain is the kind we put into the brain instead of the stomach. There isn't much use to take food for the brain we haven't got, anyway. Boss—"I wanted to speak to you, Mr. Lovum, about your attention to Miss Sweetthynge during office hours. I hired you as billing clerk only—no cooing mentioned. That will be all for the present."—Paterson Press-Guardian. Great Men and Great Occasions. Great occasions are the necessities only for which great men are the supplies. Great men even make great occasions.—Mathews. For Insomnia. A heaping bowl of bread and milk seasoned with salt and taken just before retiring is recommended by a famous English physician as a sure cure for the worst case of insomnia. Uncle Eben. "If it had took as long," said Uncle Eben, "to create de world as it has took to find a way to run it, Adam an' Eve wouldn' hab no garden of Eden ready foh 'em yet" ```markdown ``` THE COLORADO STATESMAN DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Jan. 1-6 - Poultry Show at Denver. Jan. 6-11 - Ninth Annual Poultry Show at Brush. Jan. 11-13 - Poultry Show at Cafon City. Jan. 20 - Athletic Club boxing contests at Denver. Jan. 20-27 - Annual Western Stock Show at Denver. Feb. 2-4 - Y. M. C. A. Annual Convention at Colorado Springs. The organization of an associated charities is under consideration at Montrose. The city of Trinidad now has two combination motor fire trucks in operation. Daniel Mahoney, 68, a veteran mail carrier, died at his home in Denver of pneumonia. The rural delivery route has been established between Greenwood and the Rye district. The Elks lodge of Fort Morgan has purchased property, upon which to erect a club house. The laboratory of the Empire Zino Company, located southwest of Cañon City, was destroyed by fire. The first electrically driven alfalfa mill in Pueblo county is located on the Broadacres farm near Wilson. The postoffice at Greeley will enter the first class. The total receipts will run over $40,000 for the year. Surveyors are at work on surveys of the new state road through Golden Gate canon to Black Hawk. Holiday spirits of the liquid kind led thirty-nine men into Police Court in Denver on charges of drunkenness. Earl Langley, 18, of Pueblo, was shot and seriously injured following a quarrel with an Italian in a skating rink. Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Grant enjoy the distinction of being parents of the only Christmas baby in Denver in 1916. Four generations were represented at the Christmas dinner given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Sutton in Denver. The town trustees of Palisade are considering the purchase of twenty-seven lots on Main street to be used for park purposes. The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. The total disbursements of the Grand Junction sugar factory to beet growers for the 1916 season will be approximately $440,000. The Holly Sugar Company is to construct a new factory to cost $1,500,000 at Delta, and to purchase another factory at Grand Junction. THE COLORADO STATESMAN The city commissioners of Pueblo have announced that Colorado material will be used for the construction of the new city hall and auditorium. Word was received at Brush of the arrest in Kansas City of Chester Northfleet and Henry Ernst in connection with the recent holdup of the Stockman's Bank. The carpenters' union at Durango has filed notice with the State Industrial Commission of a demand for an increase in wages from 50 cents an hour to $62½ cents per hour. One hundred miners employed at the Fox mine at Marshall walked out on strike because of the refusal of Manager F. A. Snyder to discharge two alleged non-union men. Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. Highway construction by convict labo made a saving of $465,000 to the taxpayers of the state during the last two years, according to Warden Thomas Tynan of the state penitentiary. More than 1,000 persons were turned away from the doors of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception when the first solemn midnight Christmas mass in the history of Denver was celebrated. The four reels of federal forest service movies, recently put on tour in the interests of education and fire prevention by the government, will be shown in Colorado beginning shortly after the first of the year. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. A Christmas present from the Grand Junction Fruit Growers' Association was mailed out to the growers when Secretary Harry B. Jones sent the members of the association checks totaling $108,000. This pro rate covers all pears shipped out through the association this year and all apples up to Nov. 1. Failing in their plan to steal $3,000 collected in the Christmas offering at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, burglars ransacked the lower floor of the home of Father Hugh L. McMenamin in Denver, tampered with a safe containing $500 and escaped after obtaining a sacred vessel worth $500, and all the Christmas gifts which had been given the four priests of the parish. TWODOLLARSAYEAR All automobile owners who wish to retain the same numbers in 1917 that they have had during the past year have been notified by the automobile license bureau of the secretary of state's department that they must file applications for their numbers before Jan. 1. The $4,000,000 mark as the value of buildings constructed during the year now passing was one of Denver's Christmas presents. According to the permits issued at the city hall, the value of such construction was $4,010,990. SANTA HANDS OUT JOBS THREE STATE OFFICERS-ELECT SELECT ASSISTANTS. Clarence P. Dodge Announces Candidacy for U. S. Senate to Succeed Senator Shafroth in 1918. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.-The night before Christmas brought out unusual activity in political circles. Three Democratic state officers-elect handed out little Yuletide presents in the shape of jobs and Clarence P. Dodge of Colorado Springs put a prospective senatorship in his own sock. Dodge, former Progressive, announced his candidacy to succeed John F. Shafroth, Democrat, whose term expires in 1918. His statement announces a determination to unite the Republican party in Colorado. James R. Noland, secretary of state elect, made these appointments: Floyd Fairhurst, chief deputy; William L. Morrissey, newspaper reporter, labor commissioner; Alice Carey, member of the Garment Workers' union, clerkship. Mrs. Mary E. Nickels, Democratic state vice chairman, and Dudley Humphrey will be appointed to positions later. Victor Walker was named messenger. Arthur Hull has been retained as chief bookkeeper and Samuel Kirkland and Mrs. Anna Miller were named to clerical positions. Charles H. Leckenby, auditor-elect, announced the appointments of William McNichols as chief deputy, and Willard D. Peck, public examiner. Peck named three deputies, Charles W. Smith, Boulder county; W. L. Krier, Huerfano county, and H. J. Leddy, El Paso county. Other appointments were: James L. Noonan, Gilpin county, head bookkeeper; Roy D. Paul, Denver, assistant bookkeeper; May Enright, Alamosa county; Gertrude Burnett, Mesa county, stenographers; Mrs. Pauline Greiner and Alice Lee of Denver, clerks. Robert H. Higgins, treasurer-elect, stated his brother, Henry B. Higgins of Denver, probably will be his chief deputy. He named Alice Corbett of Ouray and Edward P. Osborn and David Frazier to clerkships. Governor-elect Gunter some days ago announced Wendell Stephens as his private secretary; Mrs. Bettie D. Green, chief clerk; Mrs. Anna L. Ames, private stenographer; O. T. Jackson, messenger. The big plums will not be shaken from the patron-age tree by Governor-elect Gunter before he assumes office on Jan. 9, it was unofficially announced. Two Children Buried to Death Aspen. Two children, 10 and 12 years old, were burned to death in a residence near the center of town. The origin of the fire is not known and the building was afire almost from ground to roof when it was discovered, and was destroyed in an hour. Three feet of snow was on the ground, preventing the fire department from going to the rescue. The cold was intense, the thermometer registering almost zero. Mrs. Boscello, mother of the two boys, was visiting with friends, and the father is out of town. Born, Wedded, Died, on Christmas. Pueblo.—The 25th of December—Christmas Day—has been the birthday, wedding day and dying day of one Pueblo man. The Rev. Frank W. Imboden, pastor of the Northern Avenue Methodist church, died after a week's illness, with double pneumonia. The day was his fifty-ninth birthday and the thirty-seventh anniversary of his marriage. A celebration of the wedding anniversary had been planned but was prevented by his illness. Boulder.—With the aid of the long-distance telephone, John C. Humiston, 20, of this city, and Elsie M. Clibon, 17, of Cheyenne, were married in the latter city. As both the parties were under age the consent of the groom's parents was telephoned to relatives in Cheyenne, while a sister, Mrs. Sadie Evans of Cheyenne, acted for the bride. Rotge Divorce Granted in Sixth Trial. Colorado Springs.—A divorce case that has engrossed the attention of Denver and Colorado Springs society for the last two years came to a close when a jury brought in a verdict in favor of Mrs. Grace F. Rotge in her suit against John P. Rotge, wealthy capitalist of Houston, Tex. This was the sixth trial, five juries having disagreed. Murder of Mexican Follows Dance. Montrose, Colo.—Juan Rodirequez shot and killed Jose Contraros at the latter's home here. There had been a dance at the house the night before, and quite a bit of liquor consumed. Mystery Shrouds Young Bride's Death Longmont.—Addie Satterfield, 19 years old, wife of Dennis Satterfield, expressman, 19 years old, the bride of a year, was found dead in a closet between two rooms of her home here. The husband had been moving goods for a family in the morning and was late to dinner. He discovered the body, lying upon two comforts, that had evidently been taken from a shelf above. Her head was on a box. The woman had been dead an hour or more, it is said. 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 The WARD AUCTION COMPANY Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Furniture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES 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. 1513 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. Phone Main 6544. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. TELEPHONE YORK 6668. J. H. Biggins GENERAL FURNITURE REPAIRING AND UPHOLSTERING. WORK GUARANTEED. 1417 East 24th Avenue, Denver, Colo. 2300-6 Larimer Street Phone Main 1461 Phone Main 4896 1848 Arapahoe 乐绎轩 Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending sample of hair; also combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. DO IT NOW Subscribe for THIS PAPER Special Christmas Announcement As a special inducement for our customers to buy Fancy China as Christmas Gifts we have arranged our immense stock on tables on the balcony at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $3.00 for your choice of any article or set. Basement Department In this department we have tiful Imported China at 10c, 15c values are wonderful. On the main floor we have we have displayed specials in to miss. CAR this department we have tables loaded down with imported China at 10c, 15c, 25c, 50c and 75c each, are wonderful. the main floor we have arranged small tables or we displayed specials in Cut Glass that you cannot CARSONS In this department we have tables loaded down with beautiful Imported China at 10c, 15c, 25c, 50c and 75c each, and the values are wonderful. On the main floor we have arranged small tables on which we have displayed specials in Cut Glass that you cannot afford to miss. CARSONS DENVER'S IDEAL GIFT STORE 734-36 Fifteenth Street (at Stout). Perfumes fo Scholtz's fine quality imported ing the subtle odors of fresh-cu with the Christmas sentiment. you should fumes for Christr z's fine quality imported and domestic perfumes, subtle odors of fresh-cut flowers, are closely a Christmas sentiment. Of course, you want the old ```markdown ``` Perfumes for Christmas Scholtz's fine quality imported and domestic perfumes, embodying the subtle odors of fresh-cut flowers, are closely associated with the Christmas sentiment. Of course, you want the best, so you should GET IT AT SCHOLTZ Where strict insistent on superior quality is your safeguard against the ordinary. FIANCEE—The newest and most attractive of all perfumes—hand-somely boxed, for... $1.50-$2.50 Toilet Water ... $2.50 FIANCEE SACHET—Per oz... $1.50 LADY JANE—Perfume at ... $1.25-$2.50 LADY JANE—Toilet Water at $1 MAVIS—Perfume ... $1.00 MAVIS—Toilet Water ... $75c DJER KISS—Charmingly suggests your refinement through its fragrance. DJER KISS—Perfume for ... $1.50-$2.00-$2.50 DJER KISS—Toilet Water for ... $1.50-$2.25 DJER KISS—Sachet ... $75 Combinations of Vegetal and Talcum ... $1.2 Perfume and Face Powder at ... $4.9 Perfume, Face Powder and Sachet ... $2.7 Also Houbigants, Pivers, Roger Gallet, Rigauds, Arly, Palmer Colgate, Hudnut, etc., from 25c to $6.15. Parisian Ivory Toilet Sets A gift to gladden the hearts of all women, and they will appreciate them the more coming from Scholtz's. Parisian Ivory Toilet Sets the gladden the hearts of all women, and they will add more coming from Scholtz's. Parisian Ivory Toilet Sets A gift to gladden the hearts of all women, and they will appreciate them the more coming from Scholtz's. Hair Brushes, assorted shapes and styles.....$1.50 to $6.00 Cloth Brushes.....$1.25 to $3.00 Hat Brushes.....$1.00 to $2.50 Military Brushes, pr. $4.25 to $6.00 Mirrors, all beveled French plate glass, bonnet and ring handle, priced at.....$3.00 to $5.50 Trays.....$50 to $2.50 Hair Receivers and Puff Boxes to match.....$1.75 to $2.50 Combs, all styles.....$50c to $1.25 Buffers.....$75c to $1.25 Jewel Cases.....$1.00 to $3.00 Manicure Implements, Card Case Glove Boxes, Picture Frame Glove Stretchers, Electric Candle etc., at.....$25c to $3.50 We allow 10 per cent of purchases price for engraving. ON SALE AT ALL Schotlz Drug Stores ON SALE AT ALL hotlz Drug Sto Schotlz Drug Stores No Money Down SENSIBLE PRESENTS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE ENTIRE FAMILY AT McCLANAHAN'S Every department of our store is teeming over with the many new creations from the fashion centers of the world. Men's Suits - $15.00 to $27.50 Men's O'Coats $15.00 to $27.50 Ladies' Suits - $16.50 to $37.50 Silk Dresses - $15.00 to $30.00 Ladies' Coats $15.00 to $30.00 Beautiful Silk Waists, $1.98 to $3.98 See our windows at this modern store. You can select your gifts now and pay for them after Christmas. $1 A WEEK IS ALL WE ASK tables loaded down with beau- 25c, 50c and 75c each, and the arranged small tables on which but Glass that you cannot afford SONS r Christmas and domestic perfumes, embody flowers, are closely associate of course, you want the best, so Combs, all styles.....50e to $1.25 Buffers.....75e to $1.25 Jewel Cases.....$1.00 to $3.00 Manicure Implements, Card Cases, Glove Boxes, Picture Frames, Glove Stretchers, Electric Candles, etc., at.....25e to $3.50 We allow 10 per cent of purchase We allow 10 per cent of purchase price for engraving. AT ALL rug Stores AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The migration of the Negro from the South to the North, East and West continues, reports a Chattanooga, Tenn., correspondent of the New York World. It is estimated now that more than 125,000 have gone to New York, Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Illinois and Massachusetts. At the present rate, if the movement continues for six months, the South will have lost in a year 250,000 Negroes—half as many as migrated from the southern states in any two previous decades. The census returns for 1910 show that the Negro migration from the old slave-owning section has kept up a steady stream to the North, but in no one year did the total number transferring their residences amount to more than a few hundred annually. Of the 9,109,153 Negroes native to the South in 1910, 8,668,619 were still living there, while 440,534, or 4.8 per cent, were living outside of the South, 415,533 having migrated to the North and 25,000 to the West. The figures show that the present migration, which amounts to an exodus, has resulted in transferring to the North, East and West more than one-fourth as many as had gone to those sections in the entire time before. The Negro population of Florida in 1910 was 308,663, or 41 per cent of the total population of the state. In Georgia it was 1,176,987, or 45.1 per cent of the total population; in Alabama, 908,282, or 42.5 per cent; Tennessee, 473,088, or 21.7 per cent, and North Carolina, 697,843, or 31.6 per cent. In Ohio in 1910 there were 111,452 Negroes, or 2.3 per cent of the entire population; in West Virginia, 64,173, or 5.3 per cent; Pennsylvania, 193,916, or 2.5 per cent; New York, 134,191, or 1.5 per cent; Michigan, 17,115, or 0.6 per cent, and Connecticut, 15,174, or 1.4 per cent. In the present movement 4 per cent of the colored population of Florida, 1 per cent of Georgia, 7 per cent of Alabama, 5 per cent of North Carolina have migrated. Resolutions on vital questions facing the Negro race in the South were passed by the Negro Missionary and Educational convention at Houston, Texas. Following are the resolutions: "Whereas, there is much restlessness in the part of the colored people throughout the South that is resulting in an exodus of them to other regions for certain reasons, therefore "Resolved, that we are pronounced in our views that the Negroes want to remain in the South. We love the South as our native section and want to encourage our people to remain here. We furnish honest labor in the fields, in the shops, in the homes of the white people whom we love and believe in, but we cannot control our people, we fear, unless we are protected from undue impositions and violence. The courts are in the hands of our white friends and to them we are ready to defer in all matters. "Resolved, That we pledge ourselves as a convention to use every means to suppress vice and crime among our people and to help in bringing all law violators to justice. "Resolved, That we respectfully ask that the law with regard to public travel which provides for facilities of travel be complied with, as it is now on many roads of the country the law is not complied with. We call the attention of the public to this important fact. We do not protest against the separation of the races, but do respect. Philadelphia is doing something even better for the Negro than giving him the right to vote as he pleases—it is giving him a new and model home; Girard writes in the Philadelphia Ledger. As there are about 90,000 Negroes in Philadelphia, the Negro home is a vital thing. Down in Dickinson street the other day were opened the first of fourteen model dwellings for one of the oldest of our hyphenates, the Afro-American. The Whittier center acts before it preaches. Its method of helping the Negro is not to read beautiful essays to him about his destiny, but to teach him how to eat and sleep, how to rear his child in health, how to make a real home. Hence the Whittier center has built this first block of apartments exclusively for the Negro. It is not a charity, because an apartment of three rooms with a bath costs $3.25 a week. This is only the beginning, the egg from which, it is hoped, there will be hatched a great brood of similar groups of model homes. You may try to forget the ugly fact. There are no distilleries, breweries, or public houses in Persia, and the only intoxicating beverage used is homemade wine. Many London (England) schoolgirls spent their summer holidays helping it the mills and sewing sacks of flour for the army. A rubber cover to gelose completely a watch to keep it from slipping out of the pocket and to prevent it being electrified has been patented fully ask that equal accommodation be given us. "Resolved. That we are eager to place ourselves in position to aid in bringing to justice every violator of the law, but when mobs take the law in their own hands consternation is produced in our ranks and no man or woman feels secure. "Resolved. That we invite the co-operation of the best white people, of whom there is a majority, in aiding us to procure the things asked above, as the question of the exodus of our people is a material one and we want to aid in the settlement of the confusion as far as we possibly can. "Resolved. That we respectfully ask that a meeting of the representative men of both races be called at an early date and take steps looking to the settlement of the causes that are forcing so many thousands of our people to leave the South." A report of the annual meeting of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, held at Roanoke, shows what is accomplished today, under conditions, in old slave states. Accounts of community improvement were brought from many parts of Virginia. The report adds: "Everywhere that white people and the Negro neighbors have worked together to improve race relations there has come the twofold blessing, racial good will and community progress." This is what would be expected. "The New York Evening Post notes that as a "curious but undeniable fact" the American Negro is profiting by the war. The Post says: "As a result of the demand for labor in the North and the consequent heavy emigration from the South, there have been some remarkable appeals in the South for better treatment of the colored people, so that they will not be tempted to move away." The fact that the American Federation of Labor decided to send agents into the South to organize the Negro laborers is a social fact worthy of attention. To anyone acquainted with the history of the Negro this is an astonishing proof of a change in his status. The colored branch of the Y. W. C. A. at Indianapolis observed Thanksgiving Sunday with a special program at the building. The increased membership of the organization from 200 to 850 women and girls was emphasized as a special reason for thanksgiving a this time. Due to the excellent work of the colored provisional branch, the Central association decided to form a permanent branch for the colored people. The first step was taken in this direction a few days ago, when the provisional committee of management was asked to select from their number six of the twelve members who will constitute the permanent committee of management. The persons chosen are Mrs. Minnie Whittaker, Mrs. J. T. V. Hill, Mrs. Frances B. Coston, Mrs. Emma Duvalle, Miss Pauline Batties and Miss Alice Kelley. The other six members will be chosen by the Central association. Under the new arrangement all business of the colored branch will be transacted at the Central association offices, with Mrs. John Hendricks of the Central association as chairman of the committee of management. Philadelphia has 200,000 schoolchildren. but it is a fact just the same, that poor housing and hygienic conditions in the crowded Negro quarters of Philadelphia exact a larger toll of human life than Germany's food restrictions levy upon the conquered Belgians. The Whittier center's motto puts it this way: "A white man's chance for the Negro. More than that, the Negro has no right to ask; less than that the republic has no right to offer." Porous lead, filled with microscopic cavities, has been invented by a Danish scientist to diminish the weight and increase the surface of storage batteries. In Russia there are enough people to populate Great Britain, Germany and France, with a considerable number left over. The working force of the British navy, afloat and ashore, includes more than 1,000,000 men. It has been estimated that every square mile of the ocean is inhabited by 120,000,000 living beings. According to English scientists, electricity passed through timber when freshly cut makes it more resistant against decay and fungus growth. The intense heat developed by high-power incandescent lamps has led to the invention of a socket which is said to be proof against any temperature. Woman cabdrivers are stated to be a success in Glasgow, Scotland. One firm has about 40 women driving cabs. NOTHING DOWN AND 17 CTS. A DAY BUYS A PIANO. SALE NOW ON. THE PIANO EXCHANGE H. A. TRIGGS, Manager 211 Charles Block. Cor. 15th and Curtis Streets. Phone Champa 3742. --- A. Bradshaw 1443-1447 STOUT Yarns, Woolen Underwear, and All Woolen Goods at Reduced Prices STRIKER Our Decer RIKERS 1014 Fifteen December ```markdown ``` STRIKERS 1014-1016 Fifteenth St. Our December Sale GARMENTS AND HOLIDAY GOODS On Sale at Prices That Tempt You Smart Plush and Velour Coats, $14.95. $18.95 and $24.95. Smart New Coats and $14 Fine fur-trimmed plushes, plush velours and wool velours, in the very latest models, and specially priced. Coats of smart mixture, checks, plain, cheviots, kerses and meltons, belted and flare effects. Wool Velour, $12.95 and $16.95. Hundreds of stylish, serviceable coats, all nicely tailored and finished. Child's Coats, $2.98 to $7.95. At least fifty styles to select from— in all sizes and cloths. Silk and Serge Dresses Dresses of taffeta and serge in all and evening wear, specially priced. Beautiful Dress Skirts in serge, po $3.98, $4.98 ilk and Serge Dresses, $6.95, $9.35 and $12. taffeta and serge in all the latest models, for st ear, specially priced. Dress Skirts in serge, poplin and taffeta silk at $3.98, $4.98 and $5.98. Dresses of taffetta and serge in all the latest models, for street, afternoon and evening wear, specially priced. Receive a complimentary polin and taffetta silk at BUY CHRISTMAS FURS HERE Silk knits Scarfs, 75c to $2.50. Leather Bags ..... $1 and $2 Teddy Bears ..... 50c and $1.00 START YOUR By Fitting the Henning's Fitting S START YOUR CHILDREN'S F TO GROW RI By Fitting them with Henning's Perfect Fitting Shoes START YOUR CHILDREN'S FEET TO GROW RIGHT By Fitting them with Henning's Perfect Fitting Shoes They Wear Longer, Feel Better, And Look Better And Cost No More. And You Save A Dollar. HENNING'S SHOE STORE 820 & 822 15TH ST., DENVER W. C. Campton, Pres. W. M. Brewster, Treas. J. W. Minter, Sec. RAILROAD PORTERS' CLUB LUNCH ROOM IN CONNECTION BILLIARDS AND POOL FREE CHECK ROOM 1728½ Wazee St. Only one block from Union Depot. J. B. MINTER, Barber. PHONE MAIN 8416. DENVER, COLORADO. RS 1014-1016 Fifteenth St. mber Sale Smart New Coats, $9.95, $11.95 and $14.95. Wool velours, fancy mixtures and matalamb, with the high convertible colors, plain or trimmed, in all the newest styles. $30.00 Suits, $14.95. Fine broadcloth, serge and poplin Suits; smart styles, fur trimmed, and in all the new colors. Handsome models; crepe de chine, georgette and silk Waists, in plain and dressy styles. $6.95, $9.35 and $12.95. the latest models, for street, afternoon plin and taffeta silk at and $5.98. AS FURS HERE Skating Sets—Cap and Scarf. 75c to $2.00. 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STEIN-BLOCH SWART CLOTHES: Mack Block 621-627 Sixteenth St. 9 A Man’s Store for a 9 . Man’s Gift Buy Your Men’s Gifts Here Bath Robes House Coats Neckwear Hosiery Pajamas Gloves HOLEPROOF HOSIERY Guaranteed Men’s Cotton, ‘Women’s Cotton, $1.50 and $2, box of 6. 35c and 50c pair. Men’s Silk, 50c. pair. Women’s Silk, $1.00 pair, ALL IDEAL XMAS GIFTS The Smart Thing in Blouses If you ask the world-famous style designers how it happens that a cer- tain new idea {s launched by several establishments at one and the same time, you may depend upon a definite answer. They will tell you that that particular style idea “is in the air.” This is as near to an explanation as anyone can get of the evolution of styles. ‘Chis evolution brings along incidental revolutions, which are also “in the alr” und we are left to ponder once more the everchanging fashions. A new blouse made its unheralded and unobstructive entry on fashion's stage. By way of adding a little something new to the familiar role of the blouse, a short skirt was attached to its belt—and discovered itself wel- comed with a glad acclaim, This skirt " Gr. Give Something for ET e Christmas Worth e ae While SHOES for all of the family including the baby. Slippers for Dances or House Wear A Christmas Certificate Will Do It Nicely Without Trouble for Yor Broadhurst Shoe Company 1616 Champa Street ° oY I. Gibson Smith ART DEALER and Manufacturer of Artistic SCREENS, DRESSING-TABLES, MIRRORS AND NOVELTIES 1638 Tremont Street PHONE MAIN 4843 DENVER, COLORADO When Spring and Winter Meet ‘The wearer of the springtime hat and bag shown in the picture intends to go south very soon. She has been there before and believes in prepared- ness; hence the warm coat. This one has a summery look, but is equal to fortifying its wearer against a cold spell in regions where the inhabitants never recall anything like it in the past. ‘The coat is a famillar type of gray and white striped chinchilla. It has a big adjustable collar and flap pockets that will keep the hands warm, and it has, besides these very practical prop- Bties, much style and becomingness. rhere are coats in colors of the same materials made for the same sort of wear. ‘The springtime turban is of gray tsert braid and a printed Japanese silk having a gray background. The silk forms the crown and borders the 605 SIXTEENTH STREET, CORNER WELTON Formerly 1033 Fifteenth Street. FINEST STOCK DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CUT GLASS AT Low PRICES THE HIGHEST AND FINEST GOODS HANDLED. WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING IN OUR STORE —lengthened and featured—s meeting with a single-hearted feminine :pprov- al and therefore the peplum blouse, in numberless variations, 1s here and is the smart thing in blouses. It is the business of new blouses to be original and they are fastened here, there and everywhere, or not at all. Some of them slip over the head and are drawn up with tles about the neck, In the blouse pictured, of georgette crepe, the sleeves provide the original touch with’ shirrings that shape them over the shoulder in the fashion of the raglan sleeve. ‘The round neck 1s bordered with fur, the seams outlined with fancy needlework. Hand embroldery, in self-color, is used for decoration and the peplum falls to the thigh. It has all the earmarks of the smart thing in blouses. brim and paves the way into the accl- dent for the most ortental of tassels. It is of beads and silk and dangles over the right ear. It is the feature that makes the hat important. It is the correct thing to have a bag to match the hat. This turban divides honors with a bag of plain gray and figured silk, cut In an approved shape and fastened with a silk strap. It is exquisitely made and its chief glory lies in its finish—for thereby hangs another glorious tassel. On New Blouses. Bead faggoting 1s seen on some of the new handkerchief or chiffon blouses. ‘The faggoting takes the place of the seam, as, for instance, in a ki- mono sleeve, and two or three small colored beads are strung every place over the threads connecting the pieces, om" THE Ake. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING id COMPANY 4 fr af INCORPORATED AND BONDED sid tl NOTARY PUBLIC RESIDENCE PHONE YORK 7992, ve FRANK S. REED, fae thant, License Embalmer & Director. 44 UGA ETT peak | Potite Service SUFI ° tid : Parlors, 2745 Welton Street Denver, Colorado THEe eo | | co. | The Store With the Christmas Spirit The Store of Smart Things for Women Announcing Our Readiness for : 7 Chrictmac | PHONE CHAMPA 2077 DAY OR NIGHT |. eases 1 CAMMEL AND Co. + | men The Progressive fare 3 | k c| Funeral Directors See: Sy: ae) WE TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THE i Ms : Mal FACT THAT WE ARE “THELEAD Were ING FUNERAL DIRECTORS.” \ WE CAN FURNISH ELEGANT Sie MMA) ROLLING STOCK. AUTOS IF E. V. Cammel, PRES. @MGR PREFERRED. You Will Be Delighted With Our Service As We Look After The Little Things That Count. LADY AT’SENDANT. CURTIS M. HARRIS Auto for Hire Assistant Manager and Funeral Director OFFICEAND PARLORS 2418 WELTONST. | DENVER i Established 1872. r ‘ THE 1 O.P.B aN ° ; aur 5. . «| Confectionery Co. aX SY ATT REE ENON VE LD x CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS SX The Oldest and Best Firm in the West. aN - W4| 1512 CURTIS STREET. PHONES 397, 398 A DENVER, COLORADO a Buy Your Christmas Candies Today. High-grade Bon- 44] bons and Chocolates. (ae ate Dates Pow! Ord. VK OE Oe es tee hee We ee ee A PERINI'S GLOVES. This is Denver's Glove Store, ‘and although the market condi- tions as to Gloves have been to ‘many merchants unsatisfactory, yet, we fortunately placed our or- ders 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 com- plete 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. 35¢ to $2. SILK UNDERWEAR. Crepe de chine and Italian Silk Underwear for women in the new- est and latest models, $1.25 to $5. LEATHER BAGS. And Purses in all the latest in- novations of the season, in all- leather and also silk and velvet. $1.25 to $10. NECKWEAR, A wonderful variety of batiste, voile, organdies and Georgette crepe in newest novelties in white and colors, 35¢ to $5,