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The Colorado Statesman Wishes All Subscribers and Friends "A Merry Xmas" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY LETTER FROM DIRECTOR GENERAL OF RAILROADS, WM. G. McADOO VOL. XXV. THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through its secretary, John R. Shillady of New York, makes public a letter from Director General of Railroads William G. McAdoo (and its reply) following the latter's investigation of the recent order of Regional Director of Northwestern Railroads R. H. Ashton, instructing railroad management of his district not to extend the employment of Negroes as firemen, hostlers, switchmen and brakemen beyond the practice heretofore existing, and cautioning them against employing Negroes for this class of service or in any service not heretofore open to them, nor to take the places of white men. In reply to the association's telegram of protest calling this order to Mr. McAdoo's attention, he wired that he would look into the matter. Mr. McAdoo's letter and the association's reply follow: "Washington, D. C., Dec. 7, 1918. "Mr. John R. Shillady, Secretary National Association for Advancement of Colored People, New York City: "Dear Sir—On the 4th instant I sent you the following telegram: "Your telegram of the 29th was received while I was on an inspection trip of the railroads. I was not aware of the order to which you refer, but I am looking into the matter and will advise you later." "I have since looked into the matter and, find that as a result of a letter from one of the regional directors addressed to the director of the division of operation, in which it was shown that an unfortunate agitation was beginning against the employment of Negroes on one of the northern railroad lines where they had not therefore been employed, the director of the division of operation advised the regional directors along the line of the order issued by Regional Director Aishton of Chicago, which you brought to my attention. Of this northern railroad line, while men were advised by their organization not to work alongside of Negro employés. This was about to precipitate a situation which might have caused unfortunate complications with interruption of railroad traffic. "While the order of Regional Director Aishton was issued with the purpose of preventing the development of new agitations against the employment of Negroes in the railroad service, it appears to be misunderstood as an attempt to place new and additional obstacles in the way of the employment of Negroes, which, of course, was not its purpose. I have directed, therefore, that the letter of the director of the division of operation and the order of the regional director be withdrawn. "I am sure you will appreciate the delicacy and difficulty of all the phases of this race problem and that we are always confronted with the serious danger that steps taken in the direct interest of the Negro may sometimes have the very opposite effect by aggravating race prejudice and bringing on race conflicts, which, when they occur, react to the disadvantage and to the prejudice of the colored people. It is very important that these delicate problems be dealt with justly and fairly, and it has been my earnest desire and effort, while the railroads are under federal con- trol, to give the Negroes the benefit of the same working conditions and wages as white men receive for similar work and to improve, as far as possible, the conditions under which Negroes travel on the railroads. Much has already been accomplished in this direction. "Very truly yours, (Signed) "W. G. McADOO." "December 11, 1918. "Hon. William G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads, Interstate Commerce Building, Washington, D. C.: "Dear Sir—I have yours of the 7th. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is much pleased to know that you have directed that the letter of the director of the division of operation and the order of Regional Director Alshton be withdrawn. "I note what you say concerning the delicacy and difficulty of all phases of the race problem and your fear lest steps taken in the direct interest of the Negro may have the effect of aggravating race prejudice. The steps we desired to have taken and which the withdrawal of this order promotes are not steps primarily in the interest of the Negro, as these words may fairly be construed, but are steps against manifest and gross denial of opportunity to the Negro as a man and a citizen. Certainly no step could accentuate race prejudice more than the step that would have denied to Negroes an equal opportunity for employment with white men. We are aware, of course, of the attitude of railroad brotherhoods toward the employment of Negroes, an attitude which we declare to be un-American and indefensible; but this is another question which must be taken up with the unions. We have been glad to note that as Director General of Railroads you have uniformly applied to Negroes the same conditions that have been awarded by various boards of award to white employés, for all of which this Association, and we believe the colored people, are appreciative. "Very truly yours, (Signed) "JOHN R. SHILLADY, "Secretary." THE BALLOT. Dr. DuBois says in the December Crisis: That the number of people who are longer willing to view with understanding minds the present suffrage conditions in the South will diminish and dwindle away is the chief and compelling reason back of the loyalty of the Negro race in the war. Now that war is over, we have but one word and one thought—the Ballot. We want that ballot safeguarded by every reasonable and decent limitation, impartially applied; but it can no longer be limited by race and sex. In the great new day of coming Reconstruction we demand: 1. A vote for every adult American who can read and write. 2. Schools where every American child must learn to read and write. After the record of 350,000 black men in the World war, is there any American, black or white, who can oppose this program? If so, we have but to put to him and Hardwick, in parallel columns, the words of Wood- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1918 State Hist. & Nat Hist Soc. State House Wishes All Su ADC THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SAT row Wilson in defense of Woman's Suffrage and our own paraphrase in defense of Negro Suffrage: The President said: "Are we alone to ask and take the utmost that our women can give—service and sacrifice of every kind—and still say we do not see what title that gives them to stand by our sides in the guidance of the affairs of their nation and ours? We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?" The Crisis says: "Are we alone to ask and take the utmost that our black fellow citizens can give—service and sacrifice of every kind—and still say we do not see what title that gives them to stand by our sides in the guidance of the affairs of their nation and ours? We have made partners of the Negroes in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil, and not to a partnership of privilege and right?" WHITE COM. SLEW COLORED SERGEANT. Nogales, Ariz.—Lieutenant Brandon Finney, white, connected with the 25th United States Infantry here, has confessed that he killed Sergeant William J. White, colored, because the latter saluted him with a cigarette in his mouth. Sergeant White, of Company F, was shot in the back during the early part of November and his body placed near the plant of the Arizona Gas and Electric Co. Mystery at first surrounded his death and it was not until Major Easton, who was with the lieutenant when he committed the cowardly act, informed him that if he did not confess to the crime he (Easton) would tell the whole story to Colonel Carnahan. Here is a version of the unfortunate affair: "The two officers met the colored sergeant near the gas plant, the sergeant saluting, but at the time had a cigarette in his mouth. Lieutenant Finney began a vigorous reprimand and the sergeant walked on. This seems to have still further angered the lieutenant, who pulled his pistol and fired, after which both officers hurried away from the spot, going to camp. "At the time the shot was fired the soldier was on the sidewalk coming toward town, and it is believed that when the bullet struck him he became dazed and wandered into the vacant lot and laid down behind a large box where his dead body was found." When Finney admitted that he committed the crime the civil authorities refused to put him in the local jail, declaring that they did not want it torn down. Later the Heutenant was taken to Douglass for incarceration. He will be given a trial by court-martial. Such happenings as these and others prove conclusively that white men should not serve as officers over colored soldiers, and the War department will act wisely to change its program in this respect. FRENCH CHEER AFRICAN TROOPS With the French Army, Nov. 19. The first entry of the French into liberated Lorraine at Chateau Salins was one of the most moving sights I have ever seen. The troops were the Moroccan division of General Daugan, including the Foreign Legion, which had the position of honor. The inhabitants cheered, laughed and wept. THE BLACK MAN STOOD PAT. The war did more for the Negro American than had been accomplished in several decades of peace. He demonstrated that he could fight, that his willingness and capacity for work were unlimited; that he could easily adapt himself to strange surroundings, and that he understood the purpose of Liberty bonds, which he almost invariably bought until it actually and positively "hurt." One of the most glorious things that happened to the Negro, however, was the revelation of his absolute, unshakable loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. Evidence adduced before the Senate committee now sitting shows that German propagandists failed miserably in their efforts among the blacks. That they operated principally among the plantation Negroes of the South and there made no headway whatever is significant. It is a splendid tribute to the Americanism of the Negro. It might be supposed that among men and women who are not regular readers of the newspapers, who trust to the "grapevine," which makes a wireless station of every cabin, for most of their information, the fairy of the paid German agents would find fertile ground. But the Negro stood pat. "You have no country," was an insidious remark that was dinned into his ears night and day. "You'll never get your Liberty bond money back," was another. "You'll get forty acres of land if the Germans win," they were told. And they were assured that victory for the "humane" Germans meant an edict on all hanging and instant leveling of all social lines in the United States. lies, but those black millions did not North succumbed to sophistries and lies, but those black millionst did not. Their hearts proved pure gold and they stood by Uncle Sam. The secret service needed no special trains for Negro excursions to internment camps, It is the same inborn spirit of loyalty to the government that has prevented among the blacks of the South, no matter how poor they are or how unjust their position economically. The Southern Negro who remained at home to till the fields was proud of his part in the war. He was quick to realize a situation which he expressed thus: "We've sure got to work hard and feed our soldiers and all their friends or they can't fight for us." But the Negro is not unduly proud of the proofs of his loyalty. He knew he was 100 per cent American all the time. He knows, incidentally, a lot of other things that many people don't know he knows. Any intelligent Southerner will tell you that one of the greatest mistakes of Northern theorists in considering the Negro is the belief that he is simple and easily fooled. It is true that he often takes advantage of this supposed simplicity as a convenient camouflage in an argumentative pinch. But watch your step before you pick a plantation darky out for a "boob." Ask the Kaiser.—Chicago Herald Examiner. RACENEWS Gathered From Various Sources New York, Dec. 18.—The first detachment of Negro soldiers to come back from the war zone set foot on home soil again today when the steamship Celtic reached her pier. The big liner arrived in New York late yesterday. She reached quarantine at dusk, but army authorities decided not to dock her at night. The Celtic left Liverpool Dec. 8, bearing the headquarters medical detachment and the Third battalion of the 814th Negro infantry, comprising thirty-six officers and 1,119 men. NEW YORK HOTELS EMPLOY COL ORED MEN. Colored waiters replaced the one hundred strikers at the Hotel Canderbilt last Saturday, and similar action has been taken by some of the other big hotels. The International Federation of Hotel Employés has called out its members and the Hotel Men's Association is refusing the demands of the strikers, which the hotel managers say are beyond reason. Most of the strikers are foreigners it is claimed. The Waldorf, Claridge, Astor and McAlpin hotels are among the big hostelries to be affected. SCHOOLS GIVE $50,000 TO UNITED WAR WORK FUND. Washington, D. C., Dec. 13.—Latest reports from all parts of the nation indicate that students in the schools populated by our race have subscribed to the United War Work fund more than $50,000. Out of approximately 130 secondary and collegiate schools only about 100 have reported. The quota for our schools was $30,000. Dr. Channing H. Tobias, secretary of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A., was national director. Miss Catherine LeAlted represented the women students. Students of Texas gave $4,000, the schools and colleges of the Southern and Central communities comprising 33 institutions gave approximately $10,000. SOLDIER BOY BECOMES RICH ALL AT ONCE. Louisville, Ky.—A captain in command of a colored company was asked by an enlisted man for permission to spend Sunday in a nearby town. The captain said he might if he could show that he had enough money for his expenses and a little over, whereupon he pulled out a roll of bills and counted out $700 before the commanding officer. That astonished individual asked: "Where did you get all that money?" The man replied: "My wife thought I might need a little spending money, so she sent me a thousand dollars." Upon further questioning he NO. 9. said oil had been discovered on his land in Oklahoma, hence his riches. VIRGINIA CURSED WITH LYNCHING BEE. Fredericksburg, Va., Nov. 29.—News has been received here of a lynching in Culpepper county, the first to occur there for forty years. It occurred last Sunday night. Allie Thompson, a Negro, was in jail on the charge of assaulting Mrs. Lelia Sisk, of that county. Two men went to the jail and carried a man bound in ropes. Jailors Tipson and Herndon believed the story that they had a man to be jailed. They opened the jail door and just then fifteen masked men stepped in and overpowered the jailors, took their keys, located Thompson in a cell and quietly carried him off. There was no disturbance, but at sunrise the body of Thompson was found dangling to a tree on the Rixeyville road, three miles from Culpepper. Coroner Chapman summoned a jury and held an inquest, but there was no evidence on which to base the identity of the men composing the lynching party. A NEGROE'S FAITH IN AMERICAN JUSTICE. "I should be happy to have millions of colored soldiers over here fighting to preserve the dearest and highest valued thing on earth, to the nations of the world and to future generations—liberty. I would be more than happy to have them die, if need be, as a tangible expression of their determination that 'the government of the people, by the people, shall not perish from the earth.' "I am not apprehensive of the future of my people in the States, for the free allied nations of the world will not condone America's past treatment of her colored citizens in the future; for shall we not have fought beside the best blood, the best white blood in all the world in the holiest war of all ages? Shall we not have shown that we are willing, nay, eager to pay, and pay dearly, in our blood for the right of the peoples of the earth to share equally in its blessings, to enjoy the same rights, to receive equal justice, to have a voice in their government by our blood contribution? So I go forward certain and sure that my people will share equally with the Armenian and the Serb in the fruits of the triumph of right over might and democracy over autocracy. Death is nothing, for I love my race more than life itself."—Lieut. O. E. McKaine, in the Southern Workman. For Rent—Ten-room furnished house. Apply at 1865 Curtis street, phone Champa 5431. The Housewife and Her Work A woman kneeling in front of a large, ornate kitchen stove, reaching out to touch or adjust the stove's controls. The Last Stage—When Mother Puts It in the Oven. CHRISTMAS CAKE WITHOUT SUGAR Recipe for Sweetening It This Holiday Season by Use of Honey. DRIED FRUITS INEXPENSIVE Always Ready to Serve and Has "Saved the Day" on Many Occasions When Unexpected Company Arrived—How Served. Perhaps you are saying that you cannot afford a Christmas fruit cake this year or that it would be unpatriotic to make one. But think of the many times that the fruit cake has "saved the day" when unexpected company arrived, as is likely to happen in the holiday season. You didn't care if the dessert prepared for the family was not stretchable, but took down the fruit cake and opened a can of fruit to serve with it or steamed a slice around and served it with a sauce as a plum pudding. Remember the many ways you can make use of the fruit cake, and that it can be made without sugar, and you will find yourself deciding that you cannot forego it as a holiday treat. This recipe makes use of honey for sweetening. The dried fruits used are less expensive than the candied fruits so often used in a fruit cake. Honey Fruit Cake. 4 cupfuls flour 3 teaspoonfuls soda 2 cupfuls honey 1 cupful butter 6 eggs 2 teaspoonfuls cinnamon 2 teaspoonfuls ginger 3 teaspoonfuls ground cardamom seeds ½ teaspoonful cloves 3 pounds raisins, seeded 4 ounces citron 1 pound cranberry 1 pound canned 1 pound apple 1 pound dried apricots 1 lb. dried apples To prepare the cranberries, pineapple, apricots, and apples, cut the fruit in small pieces—except the cranberries which are left whole—and cook each in honey until soft. Remove from the fire and dry in a very slow oven. A little water should be added to the honey in which the cranberries cook. To any honey left over from cooking the fruits add enough more to make the two cupfuls used in mixing the cake. Place the fruit in a large dish and sift over it one-half of the flour, mixing thoroughly. Sift the soda with the remaining flour. Bring the honey and the butter to the boiling point and while still hot add the spices. When the mixture is cool add the well-beaten yolks of eggs, then the flour, and finally add the well-beaten whites and the fruit. The cake should be divided into three or four parts and put into buttered dishes covered with buttered paper tied closely over the top. Steam for five hours, remove the paper, and bake in a slow oven for one hour. If you don't get your fruit cake made early you can try the following quick fruit cake, which is very good, also: Quick Fruit Cake. ¾ cupful shortening 1 teaspoonful salt 1 cupful corn sirup 1 teaspoonful cloves or sorghum 1 teaspoonful ginger 2 eggs 1 tablespoonful cinnamon 2-3 cupful milk 1 cupful chopped teaspoonful vavilla 1½ cupful flour ¼ cupful chopped teaspoonful baking powder ¾ cupful chopped citron Mix fat and sirup, add egg yolks and milk. Put chopped fruit and nuts in batter and add dry materials sifted together. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Bake in loaf or muffin tins. This cake keeps well but not so long as the regular fruit cake. Make Use of Nut Supply. Nuts may be bead for the gathering in most parts of the country and nut meats are certainly coming into their own as a food. Many people are just beginning to find out that nuts are a valuable source of food. Most varieties have a high nutritive value, due to their fat and protein content. Chestnuts stand in a class by themselves, being largely carbohydrate in composition. They are good boiled and mashed. Serve as potatoes or use as stuffing for a fowl. Butternuts, black walnuts, English walnuts, filberts, hazel nuts, hickory nuts, pecans and almonds all may be used as fat savers, for they are especially rich in fat. It is certain that if you have on hand a large supply of nuts, you can add attractive and varied dishes to your meals at little expense. The protein and fat are combined in the nut much as they are in meat, which makes it a good substitute for meat. Vegetarians have learned to make many attractive combination dishes from nuts, such as nut loaves, croquettes and souffles, which they serve in place of meat. This walnut roast is very palatable. Almost any nut can be used in place of the walnut if desired. Walnut Roast. 2 cupfuls whole milk $1\frac{1}{2}$ cupfuls toasted bread crumbs 2 eggs 1 cupful walnut meats (ground) 2 teaspoonful onion (grated) 1 teaspoonful salt Mix the ingredients; pack into a greased loaf pan and bake. We all know the place of nuts in salad making. The ground nuts are also very good mixed with cottage cheese. Mold the mixture and slice. Another attractive dish which is delicious served for a Sunday night's supper is tomato, celery and nut sandwich. Slice bread and toast until a delicate brown. Place a slice of tomato on a slice of the toasted bread, sprinkle with salt and cover with finely chopped celery mixed with finely ground nuts. Cover with another slice of the toasted bread. Some people prefer to toast the bread for such sandwiches on one side only, putting the toasted side out. In the pastry and cake recipes which follow, the nuts are used to replace the fat usually used. They also give a desirable flavor as well as richness to the products. Nut Pastry. Take equal weights of nut meats and flour sifted with a small amount of salt. Put the flour and nut meats through a food grinder together until the nuts are finely ground. Mix with just enough cold water to make the mass hold together. Roll thin, cut in rounds or in strips and bake. These may be spread with cream cheese and used as a salad wafer or they may be served as a tart spread with jelly or lemon filling. Nut Cakes. 8 ounces nuts 4 teaspoonfuls baking ½ cupfuls sugar 1 soda 3 cupfuls flour 4 egg whites 1 teaspoonful salt 1½ cupfuls water ¼ teaspoonful soda 1 teaspoonful cinnamon Mix and bake in muffin molds or in a loaf. GOOD WORKING CREED The ideal of the boy and girl club members under the direction of the department of agriculture and the state agricultural colleges is to learn and practice the best way to produce something worth while and then to give the information to some one else, who may also reap the benefits from these better practices. Can Meat in Cold Weather. Cold weather offers advantages for the canning of meat, as bacteria is less active. Put into jars the surplus cockerels and part of the freshly killed pork, rather than serve them until the appetite clogs. The meat ready but for reheating will come mighty handy when unexpected company drops in or on a hot day next summer. Yuletide Festival Once Marked Return of Sun God. Observance of Day Is Habit of More Than Twenty Centuries' Standing— "Yule" Means Sun—Community Christmas Tree. Celebrating the 25th of December is a habit of more than twenty centuries' standing. It is a remnant of that good nature of our early ancestors, which was disappeared to a great extent with the irritating problems of civilization. All the rest of the year, writes Frederic J. Haskin, we fight and grab things away from each other and wear our nerves to a frazzle, but at Christmas we close our commercial exchanges, eat tremendous quantities of food and send presents and postal cards to our friends and relatives bearing our good wishes. At least this is what we are supposed to do. Many people do a great deal more in the way of community Christmas trees, visits to the hospitals and baskets for the poor, and still others regard the whole thing as absurd and consider abstinence from Christmas gifts a sign of strength of character. Long before the birth of Christ our ancestors in northwestern Europe celebrated the 25th of December, which marked the passing of the winter solstice or the return of the sun in the heavens after conquering the powers of darkness. That was the day of the sun worshipers. The problem of the universe was just beginning to puzzle and our ancestors figured it out in a straightforward manner that was not half bad for supposed savages. All plant life, it was observed, depended on the sun for its existence, and all animal life depended on plant life, so that the power of the sun was greatly respected and it was personified in the person of the god Thor. Thor was watched with considerable interest, since there was always some doubt as to whether he would survive the winter solstice. Hence the feasting and merrymaking when he continued to shine clear and strong in the heavens. Meaning of the Word "Yule." Besides Thor there were numerous gods who lived in the branches of trees. Therefore the people' gathered mistletoe boughs and holly branches and put them in conspicuous positions in their houses, where they might easily be seen from the outside, in the hope that some wandering god would take a fancy to them and take up his residence among the red berries. In Germany the early Huns chopped down the evergreens and brought them indoors for the same purpose. The burning of the yule log and the term yuletide are survivals of these early December festivals whose influence is still to be seen today in our own Christmas celebrations. "Yule" means sun. With the dawn of Christianity and the conversion of the sun worshipers, the birth of Christ was substituted as the cause for celebration and the festivities became religious demonstrations. The people still gormandized, trimmed their houses with holly branches and gave presents, but the 25th of December usually saw them comfortably seated in church. So Christmas has come down to us with all these traditions. The German Santa Claus legend has improved it considerably for the children, and it is now known almost entirely as the children's season. Community Christmas Tree. Among the finest Christmas institutions today is the community Christmas tree, which originated in Madison square, New York, five years ago and since then has spread to communities all over the United States. The community "Tree of Light" is usually planted in a central location in the city, trimmed with balls and ornaments and lighted with electricity. Citizens are organized into committees to collect donations for the tree and employ bands of musicians to play Christmas carols and hymns. In Baltimore last year groups of men and boys carrying holly-trimmed lanterns walked through the streets singing and greeting each pedestrian with "Merry Christmas!" While every year there is an increasing number of persons who decide to "be sensible" and send cards in the place of Christmas presents, the average person lacks the courage to face his family empty-handed on Christmas morning. But Christmas is a spirit, which you either have or haven't. If you haven't it, the holidays are only a bore; on the other hand, if you allow yourself to become enthusiastic there is really a lot of fun to be derived from it, even though you're lonely and away from home. Last year a traveling man who was compelled to spend Christmas away from his family in a strange city gathered a number of little tenement waifs together, took them into a large restaurant and treated them all to a Christmas dinner. "I never had so much fun in my life," declared the traveling man. The Christ-Babe. We give the Christ-babe his cradle in our hearts, and afterwards he sets up his cross in our hearts, and in our hearts he plants his throne. A Real Good Fellow. A real good fellow is a man who keeps something of the Christmas spirit all the year round. Duty Brings Vision Tolstol tells a lovely little story of two pilgrims who set out for Jerusalem. Yelesel stopped to help a starving family. He bought food, fetched water, split wood, started the great oven fire, nursed and fed the slick, redeemed the mortgage on the home, and bought back the cow, horse, and scythe with which the living was earned. His money was all gone, and he could not hope to overtake his companion on the road, so he returned home and devoted himself again to daily duty. Yefim would not pause to help anyone. He reached Jerusalem, visited the sacred places, obtained earth from Calvary, water from the Jordan, and blessed amulets of every kind, but because of the throng he could not reach the Holy Sepulchre. Yet, under the lamps themselves where the blessed fire burns before all, he saw a vision of Yelesel, wearing a halo of shining glory about his head. For Yefim had brought his body to the Holy Land, but Christ himself had come to the soul of Yelesel. And he learned that in this world God bids everyone do his duty till death—in love and good deeds. HOLY CITY'S CHRISTMAS TIME Distressing Scenes Witnessed in Church of the Nativity—Guards on Duty Day and Night. Although much has been written upon on the subject of Christmas in Bethlehem, writes Harold J. Shepstone in the Wide World, and we have had glowing accounts of its gorgeous processes and ceremonies, none appears to have been bold enough to tell the world of the distressing scene which may be witnessed in the one spot on earth where man would expect peace to reign at that glad season of the year. Christmas is a long business at Bethlehem. First come the Latin ceremonies, which take place on December 25, followed 13 days later by the Greek services, while 13 days later comes the Armenian Christmas feast. The services are held in the Church of the Nativity, one of the most remarkable edifices in the world. The holy of holies of the church is the grotto or manger It is a small underground chamber, said to be the actual site of the stable where the Savior was born. Just in front of the altar is a silver star, let into the marble floor, said to mark the exact spot of the nativity. In the various ceremonies the bitterest rivalry exists between the various sects, and even during the ordinary services Turkish soldiers have to be on guard day and night in the church to prevent strife. On special occasions, such as Christmas time, an extra force of soldiers is necessary if order is to be maintained. It is during Christmas festivities that the church is cleaned. To prevent quarrels among the river priests the authorities many years ago set down definite rules as to what portions of the walls, pillars, floors, etc., this or that body may clean or sweep. Despite these elaborate precautions, however, trouble often arises. During the Christmas festivities of 1913 a deplorable scene was witnessed in the sacred building. Two sects disputed the rights to clean a certain portion of the church. They went to the governor of Bethlehem and he decided a certain sect possessed the right to do the work. When they started to sweep, however, the rival priests flew at them and soldiers had to hold one sect back while the other did the sweeping. CHRISTMAS IN OTHER LANDS Children of Russia, Spain and Italy Devote Day to Worship in Their Churches. The children of Russia, Italy and Spain spend Christmas day in worship at their churches and receive their presents on January 6. On this same day French children have a great celebration and cut the "king's cake," which is a round cake, usually, with a china image baked in it. Whoever cuts the slice that contains the image is king or queen for the day, and the rest of the children must do everything the king or queen does. In Norway and Sweden they have Christmas services in their churches at four o'clock in the morning and the kind-hearted children scatter wheat for the hungry birds. Germany was the first country to use Christmas trees, and from England we get our idea of hanging the stockings by the chimneys, burning the yule log and hanging up the branches of mistletoe. In Holland on Christmas eve the children fill their stockings with hay and oats for the white horse that they believe Santa Claus rides. In the morning they find the hay and oats zone and instead are presents for good children and a rod or chunk of coal for the bad ones. The young men of the town arise at two o'clock in the morning and sing Christmas hymns, carrying a star on a high pole that is lighted by a candle inside of the star. The singing of Christmas carols is the way we follow the story in the Bible, when the shepherds heard the angels sing when Christ was born: "Peace on earth; good will to men." Another Extraordinary Holiday Sale M 500 Ladies' Chiffon Bags and Flat Purses —25 different styles to select from—in blacks, blues, taupe, browns, gray and green—all the very newest—$5 to $8 values Price-Mayer Trunk Co. 634 SIXTEENTH ST. NEAR CALIFORNIA SCIENTIFIC AND SANITARY SCALP AND HAIR TREATMENT MASSAGING, MANICURING, TOILET ARTICLES Motto—"Efficiency" Mme. Lexie A. Brooks 2220 OGDEN STREET PHONE YORK 5997W John K. MEATS, FANCY ANN 1864 CUR Corner Nineteenth THE CHAMP TWENTIETH Is the place DRUGS, CHEMICALS A WE SERVE PRESCRIPTIONS Phone us and we will deliver to JAMES E. T. PHONE MORRISON'S FAMO John K. Rettig FANCY AND STAPLE GRO MEATS, FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES 1864 CURTIS STREET HAMPA PHARMA TWENTIETH AND CHAMPA, Is the place to get your CHEMICALS AND PATENT MIX WE SERVE DRINKS. ESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY we will deliver the goods to all pars JAMES E. THRALL, Propr. PHONE MAIN. 2425. N'S FAMOUS JAZZ OR 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. MORRISON'S FAMOUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND ENTERTAINERS GEO. MORRISON, MANAGER Music Furnished Phone Main 2707. Res. 2947 Furnished for all Occ 07. Res. 2947 Stout St. DE The artist is always a child in freshness of feeling; in unworldly delight in the things which do not add to one's estate, but which make for inward joy and peace, and that easy possession of the world which brings the sense of freedom, the right to be happy, and the faith that life is greater than its works, and a man more important than his toll. A race, like an individual, must get this consciousness of possession before the work of the day becomes imperative and absorbing.—Hamilton W. Mable. Farmhouses Modernized As farmhouses become adapted to the taste of the women who are, in so many cases, taking over their management, it is found that many of the old institutions of the farmhouse—the parlor, the many small rooms, the dark halls—are disappearing. Partitions are torn, out to make spacious living rooms; porches are added, and everything is arranged for the utmost convenience of the housekeeper who is also tender of the fields.—Exchange. --- PHONE MAIN 3023 RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 Rettig STAPLE GROCERIES STREET Denver, Colo. PHARMACY AND CHAMPA, to get your PATENT MEDICINES DRINKS. OUR SPECIALTY. goods to all parts of the city. ALL, Propr. IN, 2425. S JAZZ ORCHESTRA Michaelson's 15TH & LARIMER STS. Do Your XMAS SHOPPING at the store that undersells whatever you want in the way of Men's, Women's and Children's wearing apparel. We are head-to-foot outfitters for Men, Women and Children. Not on Sixteenth Street, not in the high rent district, but conveniently located near all the market houses. DENVER, COLO. Give Him a SWEATER 10 Per Cent to 25 Per Cent Saving Sweaters of this quality are and over. But we are st prices, because we bought are a good, heavy quality and Our price ..... $12.50 and $15 Extra heavy, luxurious, al and greens. Real $12.50 a REMEMBER! SHE W Cottrell G21 Sixt KILL of this quality are now retailing genera- tion. But we are still maintaining our last because we bought them at last year's price d, heavy quality and come in maroon, navy, 50 and $15 Jumbo Sweat $10 avy, luxurious, all-wool. Maroons, grays, ins. Real $12.50 and $15 values, at..... MEMBER! SHE WANTS HOSE OF LUXE ttrell Clothing 621 Sixteenth St. Sweaters of this quality are now retailing generally at $5 and over. But we are still maintaining our last year's prices, because we bought them at last year's price. They are a good, heavy quality and come in maroon, navy or gray. Our price . $3.50 Extra heavy, luxurious, all-wool. Maroons, grays, browns and greens. Real $12.50 and $15 values, at.....$10 REMEMBER! SHE WANTS HOSE OF LUXITE! Cottrell Clothing Co. 621 Sixteenth St. KILL THE FLU AT THE START—Avoid danger from PNEUMONIA and stop congestion of the lungs. Use DENVI KEEP THE LID OF DENVER MUD THE U.S. CONSUMER FOR HI-RISE EQUITY ENVER MU QUICK AND THICK—The greatest of all plastic dressings. Bolden B olden Barber Sh Bolden Barber Shop Baths, Electric Massages FIRST-CLASS SERVICE R. B. BOLDEN, Proprietor C. E. SMITH, Manage The Mark Wholesale and Retail Staple and Hotels and Restaurants C Eastern Co C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1600 The Market Company and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and s and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 9TH STREET DENVER, C atherhead Hat C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters, Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty, Fresh and Cured Weatherhead Hat Co. NE MAIN 3203 Hed 1876 PIONEER OF THE W MAKE OF NE ADVATORS, BLEACHERS, DYERS AND FINIS of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Descripti 1624 CHAMPA ST., DENVER, COLO. H. M. Noel EN'S FURNISHING GOOD RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS, DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description 1624 CHAMPA ST., DENVER, COLO. W. M. Noel MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS Special Christmas Bargains PHONE MAIN 3535. 831 15TH ST., Bet. Champa & Stout. DENVER, COLO. ding generally at $5 ing our last year's year's price. They earoon, navy or gray. $3.50 oo Sweaters oons, grays, browns s, at.....$10 E OF LUXITE! hing Co. rt. FLU MUD r Shop uric S CE 926 19th St., Denver The South 1608 Company Varieties, Fish and Oysters, Fresh and Cured Meats and Game. 4304, 4305 DENVER, COLORADO Hat Co. PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST. WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW. AND FINISHERS Mery Description MR. COLO. GOODS A Christmas Tree By Charles Dickens I have been looking on this evening at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty French toy, a Christmas tree. The tree was planted on the middle of a great round table and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects. There were rosy-checked dolls hiding behind the green leaves, and there were real watches (with movable hands, at least, and an endless capacity for being wound up) dangling from innumerable twigs. There were French polished tables, chairs, bed-stead, wardrobes, eight-day clocks and various other articles of domestic furniture (wonderfully made in tin at Wolverhampton) perched among the boughs, as if in preparation for some fairy housekeeping. There were jolly, broad-faced little men, much more agreeable in appearance than many real men, and no wonder, for their heads took off and showed them to be full of sugar plums. There were fiddles and drums. There were tambourines, books, workboxes, paint boxes, peep show boxes, sweetmeat boxes and all kinds of boxes. There were trinkets for the older girls, far brighter than any grownup gold and jewels. There were baskets and pincushions in all devices. There were guns, swords and banners, real fruit, made artificially dazzling with gold leaf; imitation apples, pears and walnuts, crammed with surprises. In short, as a pretty child before me delightedly whispered to another pretty child, her bosom friend, "There was everything, and more." Poignant Pangs Come Instead of Peace, as Season Causes Thoughts of the Past. Christmas, singularly enough for a festival that is supposed to celebrate joy, is characterized by sadness. The time of year, which is supposed to be fraught with good cheer, is laden with pain. Instead of peace, there are experienced poignant pangs. Nor is it cynicism which says so; the average man in the street will tell you the same. Neither is crabbed age sponsor for the crotchets of the time; unless, indeed, crabbed age begins in this hurried era when a man passes his majority. Nor is the tragic contrast between the cloud, which now for the fifth Christmas darkens Europe and the world, and the bright star of Bethlehem the reason for the somber tone that sounds beneath the gay notes of the season, as the deep diapason of the organ rolls beneath the rippling melody. No; it is none of these things which imparts to Christmas the somberness which is apparent to everybody who has passed into years of maturity. It's memory that does it. Memory plays tricks with us on these days. Perhaps more than on any other holiday our minds revert to Christmases that used to be. We like to think about it; we like to read the Christmas Carol, because it puts in everlasting words the emotion of gladness which used to dominate that day. No matter how humble the home, memory paints it in wonderful colors on this one day, from the time we jumped from the warm bed long before dawn and scampered across the cold floor to get the stocking which somehow had been stuffed during the night, to the end of the plethora home festival, when, candy-smeared and filled to the point of repletion we were rescued from the wreck of toys and packed wearily off to sleep, more or less troubled with painful suggestions of turkey and mince pie. There is only one thing that can make Christmas real to a grown-up, and that is to do something for somebody who cannot pay it back. That otherism is, we begin to suspect, the thing which dominated the Christmas that used to be and made them so real that they remain warm in memory. Unless you would have memory become a dry specter, you yourself must make real for little children of the now the pictures which memory conjures up for you of the Christmas that used to be.—Saturday Globe. Every year Christmas repeats its message: "Fear God no more. He brings liberty to the enslaved, light to the despairing, purer joy to the glad. He is the Comforter of the sorrowing, the Physician of the sick, the Healer of the sinful, the Friend and Companion of man.—Wilbur D. Nesbit. SANTA CLAUS December O month far famed! For festive days and nights renowned. Joy fraught, with hallowed benedictions crowned; Life's annual clearing house for retrospective thought. Where pensive memory recalls the smiles, the tears. The hopes and joys of youth, the loves of childhood years. And sighs to see the havoc, sad, that Time has wrought. O hoary month! In regions of the north and east. The song of bird and rippling of the world have ceased. And Nature's thousand charms of sum- mer days have fled. There Borcas reigns, fierce god of wind and storms; And winter all of verdure into brown and white transforms And leaves no trace of life and beauty sped. O happy month! When keen anticipation, sweet. Flies swift on wings of ardent love to greet With gifts the friend, the lover or the kindred near. As Winter closer draws his icy fettered chains The heart expands and love unselfish reigns And speeds its largess to the ones most dear. Illustrious months of most illustrious birth! No other birth such mighty portent bore, This earth Peace whom heaven and earth adore. How thrills the heart at thought of Christmas morn! -J. C. Oliver in Los Angeles Times. HIS CHRISTMAS RESOLUTION "□sbose you'll hang yer stockin' up?" Said Jones someoneday in jest "Oh yes", said □, "the grocer And butcher, iceman and flives. The Day of Charity. "Christmas is indeed the season of regenerated feeling—the season for kindling not merely the fires of hospitality in the hall, but the general flame of charity in the heart.—Washington Irving. Then welcome, merry Christmastide, Another hour before we go. The rosy girl close at our side We'll kiss beneath the mistletoe. Deep, mellow bells salute the air With benisons sent far and wide. Good will and joy go every- where Upon the golden Christ- mastide. —Joel Benton. ```markdown ``` "At the Man's Store" Special Sale of Men's and Women's Holiday Slippers Men's brown kid Cavalier Boot Slippers ..... $5.00 Men's brown kid Romeo and Opera Slippers, turn soles, at ..... $3.45 Men's brown kid Everett Slippers, chamois lined, for ..... $2.85 Men's gray felt Comfy with padded soles, wide toe, special at ..... $1.25 Men's $3.00 Opera-cut Slippers, made of brown kid, chamois lined; special $2.85 Men's felt Comfy Slippers, padded wool soles ..... $2.00 Women's felt Juliet Slippers, ribbon and cord trimmed, for ..... $2.15 Women's felt Juliet Slippers, plush trimmed, all colors, for ..... $1.65 Women's felt Comfy Slippers, padded wool soles, colors gray and blue ..... $1.45 Women's quilted satin Boudoir Slippers, low heels, for ..... $2.65 Boys' wine calf House Slippers, turn soles ..... $2.15 Misses' and children's Comfy Slippers, padded soles, for ..... $1.45 THE M THE HOME THE MAY CO. THE HOME OF SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES THE MAY CO. THE HOME OF SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES Taxicab Rates. Depot, 1 or 2 pass...50c Depot, each addi- tional pass ...25c One ralle radius...50c Each addition'1 mle.25c Bean A HEA COLE 8 AND 7 Phone Main 6699 Bean Auto Livery HEATED TAX!CAB. COLE 8 AND 7-PASSENGER 1918 LATE MODEL CARS. HEATED TAX!CAB. COLE 8 AND 7-PASSENGEP 1918 LATE MODEL CARS. STAND: NIGHT AND DAY CAFE 1865-1867 Curtis St. one Champa 5431 Private Booths for Ladies NIGHT AND DAY CAFE AND COLD DRINK PARLOR B. CARRUTH, Proprietor Phone Champa 5431 A Full Line of Fresh Fish in Season Oysters and Lobsters Short Orders At All Hours Best Room for Ladies 1865-1867 CURTIS STREET e urtis The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT 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 9 Y CO. D CLOTHES Motto: "Not slow but sure." Cash only. Rates Per Hour. $1.50 to $2.50. Livery P 1918 LATE CAFE private Booths for Ladies O DAY CAFE DRINK PARLOR H, Proprietor DENVER, COLORADO Phone Main 6699 THE COLORADO STATESMAN CABUN GAMES BE FREE MACK COUNTRY PARTY One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.25 Three Months ..... 75 MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 15 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 10 cents per line. Display advertising 50c per inch. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. A MERRY CHRISTMAS. BEFORE another issue of The Colorado Statesman reaches its many readers they will have had all the joy and blessings of the Christmas-tide. How to make Christmas a joy and pleasure not only to ourselves, but to all, ought to be uppermost in our thoughts. Selfishness will rule out joy; therefore, the first thing to do is to get rid of selfishness—throw it out of your mind, kick it outdoors and let it have no place in your consideration. Second, get rid of vanity and covetousness. This will mar your pleasure. If you are not as happily circumstanced as somebody else, what difference does it make; resolve at least that you won't be a complainer, a knocker or a grumbler. Get happy yourself. You must be cheery before you can make anybody else comfortable. Third, resolve to do something, give something to help somebody else; if it is not much, do it anyhow. It is not the marketable value, but the purpose and spirit that counts most. The Colorado Statesman has not met all of its ideals during the year; we have had our losses and profits, our ups and downs, our successes and failures, but we are happy just the same. Happy to have lived through another year. Happy to see another Christmas. Happy to dispense our cheer to others. Happy to live in the day of great things; and now we extend to our readers, one and all, new and old, saint and sinner, young and aged, a Merry Christmas. Let there be peace on earth and good will to all men. Get the Christmas smile, the Christmas feel and the Christmas action. It is that big, broad, fine, deep, true and expansive feeling. The Christmas spirit is not a myth or illusion, it is just a generous, good-matured, high-toned interest and respect for our fellow beings as brothers in a common family. Sons of Mother Nature make it, sympathize for others who are up against it. Again we wish you a Merry Christmas. THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. FIRST it was WAR! Then on the declaration of the Armistice, the preparation for the Peace Conference, and now the cry is THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. From Washington comes the following: "Nation facing many new problems in reconstruction period; a new era in American finance replete with new and momentous problems demanding no less serious consideration than those of war, is predicted in the December bulletin of the Federal Reserve Board. With the termination of the war, the United States, in common with the rest of the world, is confronted with problems and needs growing out of Reconstruction, but in the opinion of the board, definite limits must be set to the requirements of public financing." In this same period of Reconstruction we see two South American Republics who were not so very friendly for some time entering into closer national relations, and as the result of a visit of a special Chilean embassy to Buenos Aires last month, the countries of Argentina and Chili are cementing more closely the ties of friendship between them, and in the eyes of foreign residents this friendship is becoming more and more one of common opposition to the invasion of foreign interests. It is said that the entire interview was devoted to telling Argentina it should stand on its own feet without foreign aid, and that a closer union between the two republics was discussed with the view of making them economically independent of foreign nations. Follow Japan and her forming of an economic mission in joint corporation with Russian capitalists to exploit the natural resources of Siberia, at the same time obtaining mining and forest concessions from the Russian authorities, giving in turn material assistance to the development of Siberia. This commission is headed by a Japanese. Watch the proceedings of the Pan-Pacific Union in their Congress to be held in Honolulu in 1920, the purport of the organization being to promote friendship and better trade relations between the nations surrounding the Pacific ocean, and to this Congress all the Chambers of Commerce and like associations will be invited to discuss things advantageous to them. Up to the present as far as we are informed, representatives of the various countries where the white race rules are invited, also Japan and China. NO WORD ABOUT ANY OTHER. Can you catch a glimpse of the part we must play in this GREAT RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD, fellow Negro? Do you think it wise to begin now and initiate, formulate and draft plans whereby we will be in this world's progressive step? If so, read again and again. "The Ballot," which we reproduce on another page in this issue, and commit to memory the words of Editor Du Bois of "The Crisis," the same offering inspiration to the young members of our race to start now; to the older heads, that consolidated action, that oneness of purpose, resulting in our compelling a recognition by the demands we will make from our contribution towards the approaching Reconstruction Period of the world, and for which our glorious achievements have not been admired and recorded in vain. Every other race has begun the solution of the new problems that are beginning to dawn. Let us begin right here in Denver, in Colorado, in the United States, to lay the foundation stones for our part which will find its happy result, if not in our time, in the age of our posterity, who will remember us for WHAT WE HAVE DONE. Speakers' Bureau of National Security League Arouses People to Patriotism By MRS. T. J. PRESTON, Formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland The speakers' bureau of the National Security league is not work of my choice, but, in assuming its duties as the successor of my husband, Doctor Preston, who organized it two years ago, I am guided by the principle by which I believe we should all be actuated in taking up work of this character. It seems to be for the moment the thing for me to do. 1 It is with no little trepidation but, owing to its great importance, with great interest and enthusiasm that I undertake this work. I am eager to maintain and carry out the admirable organization which I find here, and to extend, as the exigencies of this crucial time in the propaganda of patriotism demand, the opportunity to reach every possible listener and to increase the numbers of speakers whom we can send out with the guaranty of the National Security league—speakers who, since the bureau has been in existence for a considerable period of time, have been thoroughly tried out, and who are all kept up to the propaganda of the hour in these swiftly changing times. Our speakers form an ever-growing group of overseas soldiers, statesmen, writers and hundreds of other effective speakers not so well known, all selected for ability to arouse audiences to patriotism. We are arranging for local meetings and routing speakers all over the United States as far as the Pacific coast. We are equipped to furnish to every type of meeting, from the large mass meeting to the small group, clubs, banquets, shops, stores, schools, balls, churches, etc., and such open-air meetings as for one reason or another are not covered by the "flying squadron," an organization brought into the National Security league to look after out-of-door meetings, for which it has a corps of especially trained speakers. We are able to supply speakers in twenty different languages. Our meetings number more than ten a day. I shall give painstaking attention to the details of meetings, to the qualifications of our speakers and to fitting the right man or woman to the appropriate audience, and continue to employ the absolutely business methods of routine which I find prevailing. What It Means to America If We Save Instead of Waste Paper of All Kinds By S. A. PENNOCK By S. A. PENNOCK Every time you write a letter you use from one to four sheets of paper—perhaps the average might be placed at two sheets. Two sheets of paper, at today's prices, would average about one cent. If you spoil and destroy one sheet in the writing you destroy one-half cent. In America there are 20,000,000 families—perhaps 10,000,000 of those families send out an average of two letters a week. If each letter writer destroys one sheet of paper for each letter written 20,000,000 sheets of paper are destroyed each week. This means 10,000,000 cents wasted—or $100,000. Some families send out less than two letters a week—some, which include our business men, literary workers, professional men, club women, school children—use scores, hundreds, thousands of sheets of paper every seven days. But if we, as a nation, waste $100,000 a week in waste paper we throw away $5,000,000 a year and more. But we also throw away or burn our newspapers and magazines—and multiply our waste of paper by scores and hundreds of times. We throw away envelopes universally. We destroy our wrapping paper and paper bags. We spoil good sheets of paper with memoranda, figures, sketches, which might just as well be made on the envelopes, on the shreds of wasted sheets, on the wrapping papers. It is no exaggeration to say that we waste $100,000,000 worth of paper every year. Probably we waste much more than that—and think what $100,000,000 would do! But that isn't all—every sheet of paper, after it is used for writing or printing or wrapping, still contains value. It is full of chemicals the government needs. It can be made over into new paper—it can be saved and used again. Figure it yourself on the basis suggested, and see what you and I might save, if we would, by a little forethought—a little employment of odd time, which we would otherwise waste. Then begin—save paper—save every scrap of it that comes your way. Slit your envelopes and use them for memoranda, make your newspapers and magazines into packages and send them to the Red Cross; save wrapping paper and deliver your collections of it to government or other agencies for utilizing it. Yankee Soldiers Have Shown Daily That They Think Ahead of Germans By HENRY JAMES BUXTON Yanks have shown daily that they have a habit of thinking ahead of the Hun, which is an innovation in the big war game. Corporal Hanan of an American infantry regiment, during the height of attack near Soissons saw a Hun abandon his machine gun and run into a cave. Right away Hanan stationed two private soldiers at the mouth of the cave, and gathering a bunch of grenades climbed to the top of a hill just over the entrance to the vault into which the German had disappeared. On the brow of the hill was something that looked like a chimney, and Hanan began tossing his grenades down the shaft. Events progressed quickly. Three German officers, one the colonel of a regiment, and 64 privates came out, shouting "kamerad." Even chaplains have the Yankee fighting spirit which was proven by the action of Chaplain Bingham of Alabama. He lost his way while going from regimental headquarters to a first-aid station, and wandered into the German lines. The Huns kicked and cursed him. They were leading him to a machine gun nest when Bingham decided that it was his duty to strike a blow. So he drove both fists into the face of one of his captors, knocking him flat. He snatched up the rifle of the fallen man, and shot the other Hun. In the meantime the Hun, who had been knocked down was on his feet and made a savage lunge at the American with a knife. Bingham gave the Hun the rifle butt on the head, and the Boche fell as if hit with a piledriver. Bingham didn't tarry any longer. He made a rush for the American lines and arrived in safety. THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. For this holiday season our Basement throughout will be more than ever before A Great Christmas Gift Store It is important to remember that in this Popular Basement Store we not only afford the people of Denver the greatest opportunity for buying Christmas remembrances at a lesser expense, but we also stand squarely behind every article of merchandise purchased here and guarantee it to measure up to your fullest expectations. The Denver's Great Toyworld TOYS This wonderful Fairyland is overflowing with toys and good cheer. Bring the children. Everyone is invited. Thousands of toys will be disposed of in the next few days. By all means select your toys now. Assortments will become depleted before Christmas. SPECIAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL AND UNUSUALLY INTERESTING TOYS Meccano—Toy engineering for will gladly answer any ques- boys, interesting, instructive, tions. Meccano—Toy engineering for boys, interesting, instructive; the Toy that teaches. Wagons..... $1.50 to $8.00 Hand Cars..... $5 to $12 Velocipedes..... $4.25 to $14 Wheelbarrows..... 60c to $1.85 Automobiles..... $7.50 to $65 Doll Go-Carts..... $1 to $22 Sleds..... 75c to $4.50 Tool Chests..... 75c to $2.25 Rocking Horses..... $7 to $15 Kiddie Horses..... $1.25 to $3.50 Billiard Tables..... $8 to $30 Toy Pianos..... 75c to $5.00 Erector—The great construction Toy; just like structural steel. Richter's Stone Blocks—Let our demonstrator explain their value compared with ordinary building blocks. Tinker Toys and Blocks—Wolverine Sand Toys, Simplex Typewriters, Grand Auto Race, Electric and Mechanical Trains, Electric Motors and attachments. Exhibitions of the various Toys are in charge of competent demonstrators, who Basement Basement Store Holiday Suggestions Basement Store Holiday Suggestions Made of the Fine Georgette Crepe and Crepe de Chines $5.00 Waists for.....$2.95 $6.50 Waists for.....$4.95 $8.50 Waists for.....$5.95 Handsome Silk Petticoats In Fine Taffeta and Messaline Silks $5.00 Petticoats for.....$3.45 $7.50 Petticoats for.....$4.95 Fancy White Aprons In beautiful new styles and shapes, lace and embroidery trimmed; excellent values, at. 39c, 69c, 98c Special Sale of La France Silk Hose for Women Three $5.00 Pairs for Taupe Black Medium Gray Pearl Fawn Field Mouse Flesh White Champagne Navy Red, Brown Cordivan You save $1.75 on the purchase, and purchase the best wearing hose woven for women. The color is fast, the sheen exquisite, the shape adorable, and the service all that one may reasonably ask. Mail Orders Solicited. Fifteenth JEFFERAY & Stout TAKE CARS 2 AND 9 AT DEPOT. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Mrs. Thomas Dickerson is numbered among the sick this week. Miss Katie White, who is teaching in Kansas City, Mo., 'arrived home Wednesday to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan White. SCHOLTZ DRUG CO. AND FAMILY OF SEVEN. THE SEVEN DRUG STORES the Scholtz Company can be w termed a family as the same qu ality of goods greets the custom whenever a visit is paid. Special attention is given by t Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pinn, popular residents, are numbered among the sick. We hope a speedy restoration to health. Eli Burrell came in from Dearfield and spent a few days last week in making a few Xmas purchases and seeing old friends. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Raglen. Don't forget the Great Event, "The Crowning of the Queen," New Year's night at Fern Hall. Jackson's orchestra. Clarence Collier, Walter Spates and W. T. Fields came down from Dearfield to prove up their claims to the government holdings. They report progress and great advantages in store for the colonists. Louis Whitsell, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Whitsell, pioneer citizens of Denver, returned to the city last Tuesday, from Cleveland, Ohio, after a few months' absence, looking well and speaking highly of Eastern hospitality. Mr. Whitsell thinks he will make another trip next spring. ROBERT CARRUTH, LOCAL BUSI NESS MAN, JOINS THE GREAT MAJORITY. "Bob," as he is commonly called, late proprietor of the Night and Day Café, possessing interests in oil companies, etc., bade farewell to all things earthly when he crossed over to the Great Beyond last Saturday at high noon, after a few days' illness. Born in Cleburn, Texas, and after being in business for years at Fort Worth, he became imbued with the spirit of the West, arriving in Denver a few years ago and entering the restaurant business, where his ability to please the public gained him a large measure of success. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and other organizations and was very much respected and liked by all who came in contact with him. He leaves a sorrowing wife, other relatives and a host of friends in Denver and Fort Worth to mourn his irreparable loss. Funeral services will be held tomorrow from the Douglass Undertaking parlors, 2745 Welton street, at 2 p. m., under the auspices of K. P. lodges. The Colorado Statesman feels deeply the loss of Mr. Carruth, as he was a bright example of the Negro business man and his accomplishments, and therefore it offers its sympathy to the bereaved relatives in this hour of sadness. BENJAMIN BRIGHT LAID TO REST Benjamin Bright, who was laid to rest in Fairmount cemetery last Thursday, had to his credit forty years' service with the Rock Island railroad and was held in the highest esteem by its officials. He was the founder of the Masonic lodge of his race in Davenport, Iowa, and was its master for a number of years, also Deputy Grand Master of the State. The funeral service at the Douglass parlors was very impressive, as the Rev. C. A. Williams, in his usual manner, commented on the serviceable and Christian life of the deceased. The Masons of Denver paid their last tribute to a worthy brother, and amidst a profusion of floral offerings and sympathetic remarks from the many friends comforting and consoling his bereaved wife, his body was committed to its last resting place. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to his sorrowing widow. There will be a Xmas tree at the Negro Woman's Club Association, Christmas evening, Dec. 25th. The public is invited to bring presents and send things they feel like donating in fruits, etc., also clothing for the children of the Day Nursery. Please send in time to be placed on tree. MRS. AMELIA REEVES, MRS. AMELIA KELD President. MRS. ALBERT WILKINSON, Secretary. NOTICE TO OUR PATRONS. On account of the increased rates charged by the wholesale houses and other dealers, we are compelled to charge for marriage, death and funeral notices from Jan. 1, 1919. We trust our patrons will clearly see and understand the situation. SCHOLTZ DRUG CO. AND ITS FAMILY OF SEVEN. THE SEVEN DRUG STORES of the Scholtz Company can be well termed a family as the same quality of goods greets the customer whenever a visit is paid. Special attention is given by the management to the extraordinary line for Christmas Season, and what with fresh drugs, choice toilet articles and gift boxes, etc., as their advertisement shows, purchasers must avail themselves of the opportunity very quickly, as the rush is on. Famous for their civil attendants as well as the courteous treatment from the heads of the firm, the Scholtz Drug Co. continues the establishment of its prestige, and in wishing its patrons a Merry Xmas, assures them of a furtherance of good trade and honest treatment to its multitude of honest purchasers. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. E. Twenty-third and Washington street. Presbyter, J. A. Thos.-Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon topics, Sunday, Dec. 22, 11 a. m., "The Chimes of Prophecy;" 5 p. m., "Lessons From the First Xmas." On Xmas morning at 5:30 o'clock our annual "special" will be observed in the auditorium of the church. Xmas carols will be sung. The Communion of the Lord's Supper will be celebrated. Communicants are enjoined to partake of this "Supper." Our Xmas Offertory of One Dollar from the adult membership will be expected. On the evening of Xmas day, being 5 o'clock, the Xmas tree will be the feature for the children in the chapel of the church, under the auspices of the Sabbath school. Miss Bessie White and Mrs. Nellie Lander are making great preparations for the children's comfort. The parents are requested to send the children out at that hour, so that they can be home at an early hour. On Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock, the 29th of the month, the choir, assisted by literary numbers and other selections, will render the program of the season. The People's Presbyterian church choir needs no introduction to the public. A number of the vocal selections, including the choruses are entirely new and will appeal to the musical esthetic appetite of our patrons on such occasions. The public cannot afford to miss this musical and literary effort. Everybody is cordially invited to all these services. FUNERAL NOTICES DOUGLASS UN DERTAKING COMPANY. Bright—Benjamin, 65 years, beloved husband of Mrs. Ruth Bright, 2571 Downing St., who departed this life Dec. 11th. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m., Wednesday, Dec. 18th, from Douglass chapel, under auspices of Rocky Mt. Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M. Rev. C. A. Williams officiated. Interment in family plot at Fairmount cemetery. Roy—Lee, 26 years, late of Davenport, Ia., who departed this life Dec. 8th. Remains were interred at Riverside Dec. 16th. Lindsey—Zollie, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Lindsey, 2328 Champa St., departed this life Saturday, Dec. 14th. Interment at Riverside Tuesday, Dec. 17. Graves—George, who departed this life Dec. 5th. Services were held 2 p. m., Tuesday, Dec. 17th, from Douglass chapel, Rev. D. E. Ouer officiating. Interment in family plot at Riverside. CAMMEL & CO.'S FUNERAL AND DEATH NOTICES. Shaw—Master Cleamon Neal Shaw departed this life Dec. 3, at his residence, 2328 Arapahoe St. Services were held Wednesday, 2 p. m., from parlors of Cammel & Co. Rev. T. S. McMorris officiated. Interment at Riverside. THE DUPLEX AUTOMATIC HAIR CUTTER The Greatest Invention of the Age Cut Your Own Hair Easier Than Shaving It Cuts While You Comb. Saves Its Cost Every Month. Guaranteed for Life. WORTH $5.00—COSTS ONLY $2.00. Figure Out How Much You Can Save. Every Home Needs One. For Sale by J. S. Jackson, 21st Arapahoe St. Elite Drug Store. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to express my sincere thanks to the many friends for their kindness during the sickness and death of my beloved husband, Benjamin Bright, and especially for the beautiful floral offerings from individuals and friendly societies. MRS. RUTH BRIGHT. 2571 Downing St. Day and Night Phone Main 2701. DR. C. E. TERRY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 12 to 2 p. m., 6 to 8 p. m. and appointment. 1027 21st St., Denver, Colo. LOVE NOR MONEY WON'T BUY EXTRA BUTTER IN THE DENVER HOTELS LOVE NOR MONEY WON'T BUY EXTRA BUTTER IN THE DENVER HOTELS FARMERS ASKED TO SAVE AS MUCH AS CITY FOLKS ARE COMPELLED TO CON SERVE. "The scarcest food article in the world today is butter. "Five dollars will not buy an extra piece of butter in Denver restaurants. The half-ounce per person per meal serving of butter permitted in the restaurants and hotels of Colorado is the absolute limit. That limit is set by necessity. It may be further reduced. "In the homes, if greater butter and other fat saving is not effected, there will be nothing left for the Food Administration to do but to introduce some restricted rationing system. Mr. Hoover's pledge of 2,600,000 tons of meats and fats for Europe must be met." This is the concise statement of the butter situation in Colorado issued by Robert J. Grant, executive manager of the state food administration. That the food administration is strictly enforcing the existing regulations on butter and cheese, is shown by the records of informal hearings given Denver restaurant men last week who violated these rulings. Even if consumer's butter cards should be issued to curtail the state's consumption of butter, these cards would not effect the use of butter by farmers who produce their own creamery products. The Food Administration therefore will make a special appeal to farmers to save voluntarily on their own abundant tables, just as city people are arbitrarily restricted in the use of butter and cheese. HALF PINTO BEAN CROP BOUGHT BY UNGLE SAM HALF PINTO BEAN CROP BOUGHT BY UNGLE SAM FOURTH ORDER JUST RECEIVED FOR FIFTEEN MILLION POUNDS. Nearly one-half of the pinto bean crop of Colorado has been purchased by the government to fill export or- ders according to information given out today by the bean division of the U. S. Food Administration for Colorado. Out of an estimated total crop of 90,000,000 pounds, orders for 37,694,000 pounds have been confirmed by Washington for exportation to European countries. The latest large order to be hooked by the pinto bean industry of the state is for 15,000,000 pounds of cleaned pintos to be delivered at New Orleans by February 1. For each of the four large government orders received, the price paid has been seven cents F. O. B. Colo rado to the shipper, who must clean and bag the beans, the farmer receiving six cents. Government orders have put $2,638,580 into the pockets of the "bean men" of the state, $2, 271,640 of this going to the farmers FOOD SHIPMENTS MAY BE LIGHTLY LOADED Food Administration regulations governing the minimum carloading for licensed food commodities were withdrawn Dec. 10. Since that date the minimum published in the tariff schedules has governed the loading of cars. A. V. Kipp, head of the transportation division of the Food Administration, states; The heavy carloading ordered by the food board was a war measure only, designed to conserve railroad equipment. Cars may now be loaded from 25 to 100 per cent lighter. PROFITEERING PREVENTION TO BE PROPOSED IN STATE SENATE. Leon M. Hattenbach, head of the retail trade division of the U. S. Food Administration for Colorado and holdover state senator, will introduce in the next legislature a bill providing for a state trade commission for Colorado similar in functions to the federal trade commission. Should the bill go through Colorado will be the first state in the union to attempt by such a measure, state control of illegitimate competition and profiteering. The bill will aim at the elimination of abusive trade practices, such as unfair advertising, combination sales and price cutting, and also the perpetuation of some of the functions of the Food Administration, notably its control of profiteering. HENS AND FARMERS TO COLLABORATE ON MIRACLE. Can you make two eggs grow where only one grew before? The U. S. Food Administration says the patriotic poultryman will have to accomplish this miracle and the food board isn't a nature faker either! According to the Food Administration the storage stocks of eggs are 21 per cent less than a year ago and are rapidly being consumed. Bakers used to depend on Chinese dried eggs for a large proportion of their baking eggs. The importation of this commodity stopped last February and evr since the bakers have had to be supplied out of our national stock of storage eggs. Farmers are urged to meet the egg shortage by an increased output of fresh eggs during the winter months. The food board suggests they consult with the county agent, state agricultural college at Fort Collins, or the U. S. Department of Agriculture for tips on how to increase egg output. THE KITCHEN CABINET When a fellow knows his business, he doesn't have to explain to people that he does. It isn't what a man knows but what he thinks he knows that he brags about. Big talk means little knowledge. HELPFUL HINTS When buying fowl remember that a large one is more economical to buy than a small one, as the proportion of meat to the bone is greater. If the fowl is roasted with stuffing a four-pound fowl will serve five. Then the white meat which is left may be carefully cut to serve as cold meat or in sand- ```markdown ``` wiches. The bones are covered with cold water and simmered on the back part of the stove a day or two after, and with rice or barley make a most nourishing soup for two or three. This soup may be pieced out by adding milk and egg; the flavor will make it most appetizing. There will be small bits of meat that may be put through the meat chopper added to two cupfuls of boiled rice, a slice of onion fried in fat until brown; a big ripe tomato and baked for a hot supper dish. This is a most tasty dish if well and properly seasoned. Cayenne, salt and pepper, should be used quite freely. This surely is enough to expect from one fowl, yet these are but suggestive of a few ways to make meat go as far as possible. When laundering madras curtains instead of putting on a stretcher while still wet, put on the curtain rod and also run a rod in the lower hem. Hang one at a time at an open window and stretch the desired width. This is a method especially good for barred curtains as they are sure to hang even. A windy, bright day is the best to wash and dry blankets and bedding especially down quilts. With a long line, a good sweep of wind and no poles to soil them they will be light, fluffy and full of ozone when dry. A small piece of felt glued into the heel of the shoe where the nails so soon push through will save many a darn for the busy house mother. If shoes wear on the edge where they are stitched, thus making the shoe unsightly and uncomfortable, paste a thin strip of leather over it with glue, before the threads are worn. This may be repeated time after time, thus prolonging the wear of a shoe many months. Use glue and save old shoe tops for patching. ```markdown ``` The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?- Emerson. SOME REMINDERS. When preparing the dinner or using the wood or coal range for a morning's ironing or baking, put on a dish of rice to cook. A spoonful or two may be added to soup, another half-cupful added to a custard makes a most dainty pudding, and the rest baking, put on a dish of rice to cook. A spoonful or two may be added to soup, another half-cupful added to a custard makes a most dalty pudding, and the rest may be mixed with a little chopped ment, seasoned with a tablespoonful or two of onion fried in fat and enough tomato to add moisture; with the seasoning well done and the dish baked, this makes a very good supper dish. Let us realize the value of dainty service. A dish may be well prepared, nicely seasoned, tasty and yet when served in a careless, untidy may, it will not be half appreciated, and often go untouched. Food not well seasoned, however attractive to the eye, will not remain in favor longer than the first taste. Just now when all materials are so much higher in price, renovate the old velvet hats and save buying new ones. Steam velvet by putting a funnel into the spout of the teakettle; this makes more surface for the steam. Hold the wrong side of the velvet over the funnel, and when all is steamed brush tightly with a whisk broom to raise the nap. Have a box of pursley growing in the basement or kitchen window; it will be found a great help for flavoring and garnishing during the winter. A box of good soil should be carried in out of the frost so that in the early spring there will be soil to start the seeds for early planting. When using an egg beater in any mixture which spatters, slip a paper bag over the bowl and beater, making a hole in the bottom of the bag to slip the top of the beater through. This will save spattering yourself or the table. A few faxseed kept in the purse or a candy place when traveling will often save much suffering. A seed moistened and dropped into the eye that has caught a cinder will soon relieve it. The gelatinous covering to the seed catches and holds any foreign body unless it should be imbedded in the eyeball, in which case a skilled hand will be needed to remove it. Kerosene rubbed into any carriage or other oil before washing will help to remove it. 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Show You ATTISON COMPANY DANCE LATE ESTABLISHED 1879 Stark JEWELERS IS TALKING ABOUT Have You Seen the Wonderful FOREIGN Serious trouble is feared in J.isbon as the result of reports that the assis: sination of President Paes was part of an extensive plot to overthrow th. government, A new Bolivian cabinet has been formed to strengthen the government in view of the differences between Chile and Peru over the provinces of Tacna and Arica,” John W. Davis, the new American ambassador at London, made his first official call when he went to the for- vign office to see A, J. Balfour, the foreign secretary, President and Mrs, Wilson made their entey into Paris Saturday morn- ing, grevted by 2,000,000 of the popula tion not only of the city but of the surrounding districts, , Advices received at Winnipeg, Man., tell of the destruction by fire of a tour- ist coach on a Canadian Pagific train for Toronto, and say that thirteen pas- sengers aboard the, coach are missing. Several groups of French women suffrage advocates have joined in is- suing a manivesto demanding that the political rights of women be recog: nized by the government before the next election. Germany made a great blunder in entering the war and should admit that she was wrong, declared the Grand Duchess Anastasie of Mecklen: burg-Schwerin, mother of the former German crown princess, in an inter: view at Geneva, Norwegian leaders in science, poli- tics and business have formed a socl- ety for the purpose of enrolling Nor. Way in a league of nations built upon a democratic base, Prof, F. Nansen, the famous Arctic explorer and scien- tist, has been elected president of the society. The American ambassador at Paris, William G, Sharpe, gave a dinner Tuesday evening in honor of President and Mme, Poincaire and President and Mrs, Wilson. ‘The guests included the ambassadors to France, the presidents of the Senate and Chamber, the minis- ters of marine and. foreign affairs, Marshals Joffre and Foch and the pre- fect of the Seine and their wives, the American delegates to the peace con ference and Generals Pershing, Bliss and Harts, President Wilson, at the conclusion of his address at the Paris eliy hall Monday in reply to the greetings of Adrien Mithouard, the president of the municipal council of Paris, Was presnied with the great gold medal of the city of Paris. “To Mrs, Wilson was. presented a diamond brooch adorned with an enamel dove, ‘The President left Paris in an automobile Tuesday to. visit the principal points along the old fighting front, notably the battlefield on the Marne. SPORT Prof, Frank Clarke, prominent as a boxer under the London prize ring style, died at Cleveland, Ohio, aged 59. He fought with bare knuckles, both in England and this country Thomas J. Hickey, president of the American association, confirmed re- ports that James C, McGill, owner of the Indianapolis club, is negotiating for the sale of the franchise to Indian- apolis business men, Ty Cobb, Detroit's great batter and outfielder, hopes to quit baseball, He so stated on his return from France where he served as a captain in the army. He had no intention at present he said of signing again, although he admitted that baseball still had for him “a terrible fascination.” GENERAL ~ At a monarchist meeting in Vienna which was attended by a number of generals, Archduke Moximilian, bro- ther of Former Emperor Charles, was nominated as the successor to the crown, California business interests, valued at more thn $188,000,000, are menaced by nationwide prohibition, James Bar- ker of Oakland, Cal., president of the California Hotel Men's Association de- claged in New York. Representative Royal C. Johnson of South Dakota, who, without resigning his seat in Congress, enlisted as a pri- vate in the American army a year ago, returned with other troops on the army transport Maui, Government control of steel, copper and other hitherto restricted prices 1s to be discontinued at the end of the year, and the way paved for the nor- mal laws of supply and demand to re- turn to their own. Charles Piez, director general of the emergency flet corporation, denied charges made in the Senate by Sena- tors Vardaman of Mississippi and Johnson of California that graft ex- teted at the Hog Island shipvard. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS DURING THE PAST WEEK Bolsehvist positions along the south- ern coast of the Guif of Finland, Caech forces have occupied Karls- bad, it is reported at Amsterdam, Karlsbad is situated near Prague in Bohemia Approximately’ 40,000 American troops have arrived at Coblenz since the advance guard reached there # week ago, Field Marshul von Mackensen, com- mander of the German forces in Ru- mania, bas been interned by the Hun garian government. ‘The situation in Smyrna is critical, according to dispatches from Mitylene. Young Turk officials have posted armed bands in the town and these have been bombarded by the allied fleets. General Pershing cabled the War Department that practically complete reports of deaths in action among the expeditionary forces should reach the department by Dee. 20 and of severely wounded by Dec. 27. The American dreadnought fleet of ten ships which escorted President Wilson into port at Brest, Friday, suiled Saturday for New York. The fleet is expected te reach its destina- tion before Christmas ‘The’ German armistice has been ex tended until 5 o'clock on the morning of Jan, 17 and the Allies have notified Germany that they reserve the right to occupy the neutral zone east of the Rhine from the Cologne bridgehead to the Dutch frontier, Italy, with a population of only 36, 600,000, and with 6.500,000 men eatled to the colors, suffered approximately 1,500,000 casualties in the war, Gen. Eniilio Gugliemetti, military attache ot the Italian War Mission, announced in an address at a Red Cross rally in New York. Demobilization of the military forces at home is gaining momentum, General March, chief of staff, an nounced in Washington. with approxi mately half of the 1,700,000. men in the home camps on Nov. 11 specifi- cally designated for early discharge. Reports to the War Department, Gen era] March said, indicate a rate of discharge of about 15,000 men a day, WosTBRN ‘The Butte, Mont., board of health re- moved all restrictions that have been ‘on due to the epideutic of influenza. Hundreds of Indians on reservations in Montana have died of influenza and pneumonia, according to reports re- ceived at various agencies, Duluth and Superior elevator re- ceipts of all grains for the 1918 navi- gation season aggregated 85,149,500 bushels, as compared with 27,406,200 bushels during the same period last year, Two thousand Navajo Indians, resid- ing on that part of the reservation in Apache county, Ariz,, under the juris- diction of Fort Defiance, have died from influenza, according to F. Robins, chief clerk of the Navajo agency at Fort Defiance, WASHINGTON Carter Glass of Virginia was sworn in as secretary of the (reasury. Vice President Marshall presided over the regular cabinet meeting again. Gloomy reports of the situation in Russia, particularly at Petrograd, con- tinue to reach the State Department, ‘The fuel administration announced that the oil industry has bee nasked to suspend its plan to stabilize prices of crude oil. . Four, ships have been assigned to the ovérseas cotton trade, and five others to trade routes along the east coast of South America, The danger of relaxing efforts to check the spread of influenza was em- phasized again by Surgeon General Blue of the public health service. Villa bandits raided the ranch of an American, John B, Hibler, at Galena, in northern Mexico, Dec, 9, according to a report to the State Department, ‘The Bulgarians continue to mistreat the Greek and Serbians who were taken to Bulgaria during the war, ac- cording to information reaching the! semi-official Athens news agency, ‘The resignation of E. P. Bass as di- rector of the marine and dock indus- trial relations division of the shipping Dourd has been accepted, effective Jan. 1. A huge winter wheat crop, larger by 80,000,000 bushels than any yield in the history of American agriculture, was forecast by the Department of Ag- riculture. Ali questionnaires which have been Jilled out and returned to local draft boards are to be kept as historical rec- ords in War Department vaults in ‘washington. | Pithy News Notes 1 From All Parts of | Colorado Seay re en. tant amen ea! veterans from the battlefields of Eu- Tope, arrived at the recuperation camp near Aurora An estate appraised at about $47,000 “Was left by Mrs, Florence Loughridge “French, prominent in Denver society, whose death occurred Oct. 30. Over 100,000 persons visited Rocky Mountain National Park in the year ending June 30, 1918, according to ‘Stephen T. Mather, director of the na- “tional park service. ‘The Empson canning plant closed at lGreeley, having made a shorter run ‘than usual, opening as it did on June 25, and closing after 172 days’ run. The total output this year was small, ‘The closing ban which has been in effect in Longmont for nine weeks and three days, as part of the fight the city has been waging against the in- fuenza epidemic, was lifted Saturday. The “bone-dry” bill, initiated by the Anti-Saloon League of Colorado and adopted by a majority of nearly 50,000 votes on Nov. 5, was proclaimed a law by the Governor Monday morning, Dec. 16. ‘The City Council of Greeley agreed to vaccinate the public at large against “flu,” and Dec, 14 more than 1,000 were treated at the city’s expense. The “flu” condition seems to be generally improved. Three Denver boys, names sup- presed, were held at Kimball, Neb., on charges of stealing a car in Denver, stocking it with lquor at Cheyenne, and attempting a roundabout return to this state, B, O. Pittington of Berthoud is in the hospital at Fort Collins with a gaping wound through the kidneys, caused by a shot from a $2 rifle held by his brother-in-law, Ira Ferguson, while on a hunting trip. Six members of the Third regiment, Colorado National guard, accused of desertion, drunkeness, stealing an au tomobile and other similar offenses, were convicted by a court-martial sit- ting at the rifle range near Golden. Union with Great Britain! Union in spirit if not organie union, is ac claimed in Colorado's greeting to the mother country in honor of “Britain Day,” which could not be formaily ce!- ebrated in Denver because of the in: fuenza epidemic. Four remarkable and successful cases of blood transfusion haye been made in Merey hospital’ in Denver within the last two weeks by Denver gurgeons. In each instance, persons afflicted with influenza have beeu treated and in each instance they have recovered. ‘The working forces at the Camp Bird, Atlas and Mountain Top mines have been reduced by the epidemic of influenza, At the Camp Bird but one shift is being worked, there being fif- ty-eight men in a temporary hospital near the mill, The two hospitals in Ouray are filled with patients, Grain totalling 75,000,000 bushels was raised during 1918 by the United States Boys’ Working reserve, for which members received approximate- ly $25,000,000 in wages, there being about 250,000 boys thus employed, ae- cording to a statement made by Charles A. Parcells, associate director of the reserve, who presided at the na- tional conference of field organizers at Denver, An immediate campaign to insure the proposed James peak tunnel for the Moffat road by a $5,000,000 bond issue to be sold in Denver, Salt Lake City, Ogden and some of the rich Colo- rado territory now reached by this railroad, was proposed to the Denver Civie and Commercial Association by W. B. Dunaway. Col, D, C, Dodge, Colorado pioneer and railroad builder, left an estate of only # few thousand less than a mil- lion dollars, according to the semi- monthly report on collections by the state inheritance tax department. His heirs paid the state $28,925.53 Inhert- tance tax. Total collections since Dec. 1, were $33,185.92, ‘The annual meeting of the State Historical and Natural History So- ciety of Colorado was held at the state museum and the following were re-elected to the board for three years: 1. G. Carpenter, A. J. Fynn and E. A. Kenyon, ‘The death of the first Denver avia- tion eee who started home from Eu- rope“After the armistice was declared was that of Lieut. Charles 3, Murray which occurred in Chicago, An official appeal to make Colo- rado's war work record 100 per cent by investing in war savings stamps the remaining $7,000,000 required to complete the state's quota of $20,283,- | 560, was issued bp Gov. Julius C. Gun- Sil USE PREGES SI Mae AE ee tig a CENTENNIAL STATE 1TEMS. these, three were killed in action: Jo- seph Pelleter, Denver; Harry Oreine, Boulder, and Dantel C. Fenton, Pueblo. Wounds received in action have caused the death of William C, Schae- fer, Denver. ‘The wounded severely fn action include Douglas Marlen, Gun- nison; Robert Barnett, Denver; Ken- neth 8, Beeler, White Rock; Kristian 1, Anderson, Fort Logan; Turner Cain, Longmont; Charles BE, Carney, Kersey; George — Riemenschneider, ‘Thurman; Max O'Halle, Walsenburg; Frank Moffitt, Louisyille, and Chesley F. Frye, Englewood. Among the wounded, degree undetermined, are Antonius G, H, W. Seitner and Ralph K, Ellis, Denver; Welfort C, Dial, Pu- eblo; William C. Kasdorf, Boone; Ar- thur McCarty, Lafayette; Jacob J. Brunmeter, Briggsdale; Harry A. Schwab, Kremmling; Capt. Lawrence M. Taylor, Denver; Chester William Dorsey, Cripple Creek; Thomas F. Walsh, Leadville; James 8. Wiley, Colorado Springs, and James F. Ander: son, Windsor, Four slightly wounded are Harry W, Fidler, Ordway; Jesse Kk, Breson, Longmont; Edward Hiltz, Milliken, and David C. Leonard, Clyde. Ernest €. Sexton, Buena Vista, is among the missing in action, With the announcement that the 158th Infantry has been selected as President Wilson's honorary body- guard while in France comes another honor to Denver and Colorado, for many men of the Centennial state are among the soldiers under the com- mand of Col, B. T. Grinstead. This regiment was formerly entirely com- posed of troops of the Arizona Nation- al Guard which, with the National Guard men of Colorado, were sent to Camp Kearny to train, It was auring the training period that many Denver men were transferred to the Arizona unit At the signing of the armistice they were slated for an early return, but these plans were changed when the selection for the President's guard was made, ° A parole breaker in Colorado and a hero in a hospital of France, Warren Hazlett, 23 years old, can rise from his little white bed in that hospital, look the world in the face and say, “Lam an Ameriean citizen,” for Gov. ernor J.@. Gunter granted him an ab: solute pardon and restored him to full citizenship. For eighteen long months of heli and torment Warren Hazlett, who broke his parole as a convict in the state penitentiary at Canon City, faced the shell, the gas and skot of the Hun. Returning to Denyer from a two and one-half months’ absence in Washing- ten, D, C,, where she was called by the Army and Navy Commission on Training Camp Activities, otherwise known as the Fosdick commission, Mrs. Ida L. Gregory, chief clerk of the Juvenile Court, declares that moral conditions among the 70,000 extra girl workers in that city are ex- ceptionally good, Mrs, Nancy E, Lamb, 87, of Denver, has answered the call of the Woman's Council of Defense for rag rugs for the recuperation camp by making and giv- ‘ing five of them. Aside from knitting ‘the rugs, Mrs. Lamb has made six teen pairs of woolen socks for the ‘Red Cross, and assisted in getting do- “nations of clothes for the Belgians. | There is deep mourning among the sick of Steamboat Springs due to the ‘blockade of the Moffat road, For “more than a week no express has been carried by the railroad, necessitating the holding of 800 gallons of liquor for ‘medicinal and mechanical purposes in Denver, Denver men returning from recent ‘trips to Idaho Springs and Central City report a lot of new mining actiy- ity in that district, particularly in Rus- sell gulch, situated about half way be- tween the two camps. ‘ Charges that the Bankers’ Mortgage Company, a newly created company with headquarters in Denver, has been operating @ gigantic fraud upon busl- ness men, farmers and banks of the “state are contained in a suit filed in ‘the District Court by the Monument “State bank of El Paso county. It is “stated that at least twenty Colorado “banks and several hundred individuals “are involved. "After sixty-two years’ separation “Mrs, Aaron Bechtol, of Greeley, and ‘her brother, Fred Merryhew of Mon- tana, are enjoying a pleasant renewal (of thelr relationship at the home of “Mrs, Berchtol’s daughter, Mrs. D. E, Wilkenson of Greeley. Mr. Merryhew. is 72 years old, and Mrs. Bechtol is 66. ‘They were separated by the death of ‘their mother when Mrs, Bechtol was 2. | years old. | | ‘The State Pardon Board refused to. “commute the life sentence of Harold terme eat noes et Recension avn CDeRSEat, IBLE, eee ne ee Sc ’ LACKED a week to eg Christmas, but Ted oa 3% Newton, office boy for 6) Willis & Co. had been Rien In holiday humor since ae the first of the month o ‘ond just now was 22 caught by the full tn- pe QQ tiuence of Yuletide. His eyes sparkled as he lifted various pack- FR a ages from a box that had just arrived by ex- presy Amid his chuckling and gloat- ing smiles there came a check. “What you got there, Ted?” sounded a sudden voice, and Ted turned to be confronted by his “boss.” “If you please, sir,” he stammered, “it's my regular Christmas box from the folks home on the farm.” “Let's see what you've got, Ted,” suggested John Willis, and he fished ™ —, ors s ae | gn | l A RS C a Be TAN RS out a cake of maple sugar, bit off & fragment and smacked his lips. “Genuine stuff, eh?” he laughed Jovially. “You're a lucky lad, Ted,” spoke Me Willis, his voice a trifle husky. ‘Then he went into his private office and for ten minutes sat idly in his swivel chair, a dreamy, far away expression upon his face. “T can taste that maple sugar yet! he sighed finally. “Let me see, it's two years since I've visited the old home town. I'm ashamed of it, for ‘we've run down to Nellie’s folks only twice since we were married. Maybe ‘she’s longing for a sight of the coun try, too. Hello!” He.had picked up his mail and be gan to rifle the slitted envelopes. ‘The first lines of the letter he opened read: “My dear danghter Nellie: We are so hopeful that you may give us a Christmas visit this year, and yeu and Mr. Willis would be so welcome!” “Why, this won't do!” ejaculated John Willis, replacing the letter that had been carelessly opened by the of fice mail clerk. “Dear old people—ané Nellie!” G His heart suddenly smote him. Net lie never murmured at the exaction of business. Faithfully she accom panied him to social fanetions, and afl the time a conception of their hollow superficiality had ended in a dream of the dear old life, where true heart: and quiet, humble pleasures seemed t beckon longingly. “Tm going to take a run down te the country to look after my old home,” John Willis told Nellie thal evening. “The tenant has left and | want to see what can be done with it He returned two days later. “Saw your folks, dear,” he said, and Nellie’s famished soul greeted the tender wort like a cooling draught to a thirsting spirit. “Look here, Tuesday is Christ mas eve. Those snowclad hills al home have made me hungry for 4 sleigh ride. Be ready to take a rego lar old-fashioned frolic.” And there awoke in Nellie the most extravagant soul of hope. : “Bundle up good,” directed her hus band the next evening, as a double team attached to a roomy cutter ar - ae _| = b> x a AY rived in front of the house. “Now, then, snuggie under those robes and let_us see If T have forgotten how te drive. Thirty miles—do you think you can stand it?” “Oh, John!” she almost gasped “That would be our home town. Yor don’t mean—* “That Iam going to take you te your folks? Yes, dear, and stay there with you over the holidays, I say,” bracing and thrilling as they started down 2 clear smooth road full speed “this is like the old times, when I used to steal a kiss from you, and— I take one now!” She was crying for joy. Her trem bling hand stole to his arm and lightly rested there, Her heart was singing amid a newly awakened happiness. “The river, hill and old bridge!” shouted John an hour later, alive with enthusiasm. “Bonfire on the skating batch and—whoa! Nellie, this is my Christmas present to you.” He had halted in front of the old Willis homestead, pretentious in its mansionlike beauty. “I've decided to give up the crowded city. Well, what is it?” She could not tell him at that su- Preme moment. ‘The merry sleigh bells rang out a gay song of renewed youth and con- tentment in a dash for Nellie’s old home. She ran up the steps to greet loving outstretched arms and fond cries of heartsome welcome, “Home at last!” gried John Willis, bursting into the brightly decorated parlor radiant with evergreen and holly. “Why! you look like a girl again, Nellie! Merry Christmas!” And be kissed her under the mistletoe. SOLDIER BODY TO PLACE POWER IN HANDS OF THE EBERT GOVERNMENT. CONFERENCE FROM ALL STATES ON DEC. 29 TO ELECT PRESI- DENT, STOP DISORDERS. Western Newspaper Union News Service Paris, Dec. 20.—The German gov- ernment, headed by Friederich Ebert, has resigned as a result of events of Tuesday, according to a dispatch re- ceived at Zurich from Stuttgart. Friederich Ebert, who was named as minister of the interior in the cab. inet of Prince Maximilian of Baden, Nov. 3, and became imperial chancel- lor on Nov. 8, took command of the situation in Berlin following the revo- lutionary uprising there. On Nov. 18 it was announced that he had become premier and had chosen his cabinet, naming Hugo Haase, Philipp Sckeide- mann, Wilhelm Dittman, Herr Lands- berg and Richard Barth as the secre taries in charge of the departments created by the revolutionary govern- ment. Copenhagen.—The German govern- ment has decided to convoke a con- ference of representatives of all the states of the former empire on Dec. 29 to elect a President of the German republic, according to « Berlin report. This step is said to have been taken in order to avoid fresh outbreaks. Amsterdam—The Spartacus group leaped into power at the congress of soviets in Berlin Wednesday and broke up the session. Extremists and sol- diers stormed the hall where the con- gress was in session, following a speech by Herr Barth in which he de- nounced Chancellor Friederich Ebert for refusing to demobilize the whole German army. Commenting upon the breaking up of Tuesday’s session by the extremists Vorwaerts said Wednesday: “There is danger that the Spartacus group will end the Socialist govern- ment as the result of Tuesday's ac- tion, making the prolongation of the armistice and peace negotiations im- possible and assuring the occupation of‘Germany by the allies.” Three of the principal directors of the Krupp munitions works at Essen, including Dr. Bransenberger, inventor of the “Big Berthas,” have been ar- rested by the revolutionary commit- tee in that city, according to advices recelyed here. The congress of German soldiers and workmen’s councils of Wedntsday adopted a resolution, according to a Berlin telegram, transferring legisla- tive and executive power to the peo- ple’s commissioners (the Ebert gov- ernment) until some other arrange- ment is made by the German national assembly, The congress further appointed a central council of soldiers and work- men to exercise parliamentary super- vision over the German and Prussian cabinets with the right to appoint and depose the people's commissioners of all Germany, and until the final regu- jation of state affairs of Prussia. Joffre Among France's Immortals. Paris.—Marshal Joffre now is for mally numbered among France's forty immortals, ‘The yictor of the Marne was made a member of the French Academy. , TWO BURNED TO DEATH. Victor Electricians Are Thrown on on 600. \Voltace Wire: Rearend ty Bh se aah ee ad Victor, Colo.—W. 8. MacMahon of Goldfield and Gordon Edwards of Vic. tor were burned to death, and John Mancarrow of Victor, it is thought, was fatally burned while working on the 20,000-volt, power line of the Ar kansas Valley Railway, Light and Power Company, near the Vindicator mine on Bull hill, The power line was supposedly dead, but it is thought connection was in some way made with the power line of the electric road’at the nearby crossing. ” Mancarrow fell to the ground, but the others remained suspended upon the wires with their ¢lothes burning until the bodies could be taken down. Both of the deceased are married. MacMahon is the father of two chil- dren. Coroner J. R. Schmalzried took the bodies in charge, Wilson to Be Guest of King, London, Dec. 20.—President Wilson will probably be the guest of the king at Buckingham palace during his visit to England. ‘New Mexico Murderers Escape. Silver City, N. M.—A sensational es- cape from the Grant county jail oe- curred when John Parks and Charles Parks, his brother, convicted of mur- der and sentenced to serve life terms in the penitentiary, bound and gagged the jailer and walked out of the jail. It is believed that the prisoners en- tered a waiting motor car and started for the Mexican border, The Parks brothers shot and killed J. E. Schrim- sher, deputy sheriff, at Hachita in Oc- tober, 1917. Under the Mistletoe RA By RALPH HAMILTON . LACKED a week to Christmas, but ‘Ted Newton, office boy for Willis & Co. had been In holiday humor since the first of the month ‘and = Just’ now was caught by the full tn- fluence of Yuletide. 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Kashino, Manager 2009-11 LARIMER STREET DENVER, COLORADO IMPORTERS OF JAPANESE GOODS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS We also carry a complete line of Electric Sewing Machine Motors to attach to the old machine. The Denver Gas & Electric Light Company Perfect Taste A Genuine Victrola Only $25.90 With four Double- Face Records—8 selections—of your own choice. A LARGE STOCK OF SLIGHTLY USED WHEELS Phone Main 1461 2. CHRISTMAS DAYS island of Madagascar the Only Country Thus Favored. Queen Ranavalona II on Ascending Throne Became First Christian Ruler and Adopted "Glory to God in Highest" Motto. There is only one spot in the whole world where Christmas is celebrated twice each year and that is the Island of Madagascar, off the eastern coast of the southern end of Africa, and which dominates that part of the Indian ocean. Marco Polo, the great traveler, first made this island known to medieval Europe in 1298. It was nearly two hundred years later when a Portuguese traveler obtained the first authentic information about the island, in 1497. From that time on there were attempts by the Portuguese, French and English to settle the island, and they met with defeat at the hands of the wild and savage Hovas, who controlled the island, and many died from Malagasy fever in the lowlands of the coast. On Christmas eve in 1672 all the Frenchmen at Fort Dauphin were murdered by the natives. In 1810 a Hovachief, Radama I, a young man, allowed the Christian missionaries to teach their Bible doctrines in the island, and by 1820 Protestant Christianity was effectively introduced among the Hovas. First Christian Ruler. Radama died in 1828, and one of his wives became Queen Ranavalona I. She was bitter against the Christians and persecuted them in many cruel ways, and she had her warriors from the interior mountains of the island massacre the native Christians, who would not renounce the Christian God and go back to the worship of idols. The cruel queen reigned until her death in 1861—a wicked record of 33 years. Then her son, Radama II, became king, and although he was a great drunkard and led a wild life himself, he allowed the Christian missionaries to come into the island again. He was assassinated in the palace in 1863, and his widow, Rasoherina, was proclaimed queen. Upon her death in 1868, a niece of Ranavalona I ascended the throne as Ranavalona II. When a girl, her gentle charities and sympathies with the Christians during their persecutions had won respect and love, and when she became queen it was understood that Madagascar had the first really Christian ruler on its throne. Between 1830 and 1835 the entire Bible had been printed in the Malagasy language, also an English-Malagasy dictionary. So, on the day of her coronation the idol which had been prominent on similar occasions was banished by Ranavalona II, and a copy of the Malagasy Bible placed near the throne; while on the canopy above, in golden letters, were the words: "Glory to God in the Highest, Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men." With one hand on the Bible, the queen addressed the people, expressing the hope that they would adopt the Christian faith, but added: "In this matter you shall not be compelled." Ordered Idols Destroyed. Ordered Idols Destroyed. She ordered her own household idols and the chief national idol to be burned and gradually her example was followed by the general destruction of household idols among the Hovas. She married the prime minister the following year and made a public profession of her faith, and from that time on the Christian religion has been growing fast in the island. The words over the canopy at her coronation the queen knew to be spoken by the angels in the sky when the shepherds heard the noise of wings at the time the Christ was born in Bettlehem. Christmas is celebrated all over the island now. But the Hovas have a different way of computing time and by their system Christmas falls some time in November, and they celebrate it then. The Christian date of December 25 is also celebrated by the natives along with the missionaries. But it is not a Christmas of snow and sleighbells. It is a tropical country and Christmas day is under a torrid sun, but the sky is brilliant and the magnificent flowering trees of many vivid colors are filled with many peculiar birds of brilliant plumage, while the ground beneath is bespangled with wild blossoms of varied hues. Too Late. It was Christmas eve. Staring at the dying embers of the fire was a beautiful woman. Her face was worried, and she clasped and unclasped her hands in nervous excitement. "Christmas eve," she murmured, "and no money to buy baby a Christmas gift!" Mechanically her eyes wandered around the room until, with a guilty start, they rested on something standing on the mantelpiece. It was baby's money-box. "If I only dared!" she thought; "but what would John say?" For a few moments she stood debating the awful question in her mind, and then reached for the box. "John need never know," she said. With trembling hands she broke open the box and emptied on the table a collection of buttons, nails, and so on. John had been there first! THE CHRISTMAS GARLAND. Cora A. Matson Dolson. Make one wreath more; Yes, one wreath more, To hang outside, above thy door, That all who pass this way may see The Christ-tide spirit is with thee. The Christmas Spirit Christmas peace is God's; and he must give it himself, with his own hand, or we shall never get it. Go then to God himself. Thou art his child, as Christmas day declares; be not afraid to go unto thy father. Pray to him; tell him what thou wantest; say, "Father, I am not moderate, reasonable, for bearing. I fear I cannot keep Christmas aright, for I have not a peaceful Christmas spirit in me; and I know that I shall never get it by thinking, and reading and understanding; for it passes all that, and lies far beyond it, does peace, in the very essence of thine undivided, unmoved, absolute, eternal Godhead, which no change nor decay of this created world, nor sin or folly of men or devils, can ever alter, but which abideth forever what it is, in perfect rest, and perfect power and perfect love.—Kingsley. ```markdown ``` DAY OF DAYS FOR KIDDIES Christmas Outranks All Other Holidays for the Happiness and Merrymaking of the Youngsters. Above all other holidays, Christmas is children's day. If possible, they should be made happy on that day. But they should not be permitted to be selfishly so. In times past there has been a tendency on the part of many of us to give too many gifts, and too expensive ones, to our children. We have been wasteful. We should not love our children less—indeed we would show greater love—by being careful what we give them. Too many toys incline children to be both wasteful and destructive. When the youngsters are left to invent some of their playthings, their imaginations are developed, and they become more capable of doing things for themselves and taking care of themselves. This Christmas would be a good time to begin teaching children unselfishness and the joy of giving. Many a poor mother is struggling to provide food and shelter for her children and has nothing to give them from Santa Claus. The children of such mothers are going to have wide, wistful, tear-stained eyes. They are going to crave the joys of a Christmas day that may not be theirs. While our fathers, brothers and sons are at the front, risking health and life for us, for our country, for good in the world, let us not forget those children who lack a father's care and protection. The good fellows are doing much. But they need our help both in giving and in seeking out the needy. They need our aid in distributing as well as providing. Let us not forget the spirit for which Christmas stands. It is to give freely, to do service to mankind. Let us give love. Let us give sympathetic understanding. Let us give ourselves. He lives most who lives for others. And he who shall have made a child happy on Christmas morning will have done a service in his name. CHRISTMAS AND THE SPIRIT Necessary to Manifest Unselfishness and the Love Christ Brought to the World. Two artists were asked to make a copy of a famous painting. The one made mathematical calculations, and produced a technically correct copy. The other studied the painting, entered into the spirit of the artist, and produced not merely an imitation, but a picture which glowed with warmth and life. We are not, as Christians, simply to copy Christ, but rather to become possessed of his spirit and so reproduce his life in our lives. At this Christmas season let us aim to become possessed of the spirit of Christ, and so reproduce his life. In "Little Women" there is a story told by Louisa Alcott out of the experience of her own early days. The four children who are her heroines, knowing of a neighbor in need, go in a little procession and carry her their breakfast. Another incident may be recalled. It may not have been precisely Christmastide, but it was winter, and the weather was bitterly cold. The stock of wood was low, and night had fallen, when there came a knock at the door. A shivering child stood there, saying that her mother had no wood, that the baby was sick and the father gone on a spree. She begged for a little wood. "Divide our stock with her," said Mr. Alcott, "and we will trust in Providence. The weather will moderate, or wood will come." No wonder that the children trained in the Alcott household grew up heedless of privation and generous to those whose need was great. This is the true Christmas spirit. If our Christmastide is pervaded by real unselfishness, we shall manifest to every one the love that Christ brought to the world. Truthful. But Unpopular. A truthful man is one who says on Christmas morning as he views his gifts: "Just what I didn't want," but he'll never be popular. Blessed Optimism. Blessed Optimism. It is the blessed optimism of Christmas time that buys a sled in a climate where snow is a rarity. The Ideal Christmas Shop For Women's Wardrobe Accessories Kid Gloves Neckwe The biggest stock in Denver; all new foreign and domestic makes; all colors. Leather Goods All kinds of Leather and Velvet Hand Bags, Purses, Cases and new novelties. $1.50 and Up Xmas Slippers Smart Comfy Felt Slippers and handsome Dancing and Evening Pumps and Slippers. 75c to $7.00 Art China Beautiful Hand Decorated China, most beautifully decorated and best quality. $1.50 and Up Blouses, $3.95 to $15 Our Blouses are truly wonderful; may we not carefully at these before making purchases else- A full selection of Gloves for Glove or Merchandise Certi- Buy her a Glove or Merchandise Certificate— and no chance of causing disappointment. JES. I. HAN The most appropriate present to buy for a L Our watches are carefully selected, gui- for a life time. .See us before buyin are truly wonderful; may we not suggest these before making purchases elsewhere? A full selection of Gloves for men Glove or Merchandise Certificates Glove or Merchandise Certificate—it will please of causing disappointment. S. I. 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DENVER, COLORADO The Best Gift for Christmas Is real service Footwear. Try our military heel tan calf Lace Boots, some with buck tops, all with oak tanned soles, Goodyear welt, $ and 9-inch tops, $4.85, $5.45 and up to the best shoes $8.85 made. Ladies' Black Glazed Kid and Gunmetal Calf, either oak or fiber soles, $ and 9-inch tops; these are $5 and $6 $3.85 values. Misses' and Children's Gunmetal and Vici Shoes, sizes 12 to 2, $2.85 values $1.95; growing girls' sizes 2 to 7, regular $2.85 $4 values, for Genuine elk leather, olive, tan and black, $4.50 values. $3.00 Men's Patent Colt Button Shoes, two styles. $4.50 grade, this sale ..... $2.85 Men's Patent Colt B styles, $4.50 grade, t S20 AND S22 FIFTEENTH STREET fe or Daughter For Wife or Wife or Daug For Wife or Daughter A Trimmed Hat Which You Buy Now At 1/4-1/3-1/2 Forme And so with everything else ment—during the holiday sea stores are making their best pro ting prices to cost and to less tha plete clearance of the season's s feathers, ornaments, all at barga 1/3-1/2 Former Price and so with everything else in this estate during the holiday season when we are making their best profits—we are prices to cost and to less than cost for a clearance of the season's stocks. Flo rers, ornaments, all at bargain prices. 2 Former Prices with everything else in this establish- the holiday season when most ing their best profits—we are cut- cost and to less than cost for a com- e of the season's stocks. Flowers, ments, all at bargain prices. And so with everything else in this establishment—during the holiday season when most stores are making their best profits—we are cutting prices to cost and to less than cost for a complete clearance of the season's stocks. Flowers, feathers, ornaments, all at bargain prices. 1629-31 ARAPAHOE STREET. Just Around the Corner From the Tower. --- --- --- Pretty crepe de chine and batiste novelties plain and embroidered, new colors. 65e and Up Hosiery Phoenix and other best brands of Pure Silk Hosiery in black, white and colors. $1.50 and Up Umbrellas We are Denver's Umbrella Store; any style or kind, with a price range of $1.50 and Up Hair Ornaments New Shell Barrettes with settings, new hair novelties in full selection. DENVER, COLORADO 1 We carry a full line of high grade Men's and Ladies' Shoes in latest colors, lasts and patterns, from $7.50 to $0.50, that will save you at least $4 to $6. HENNING'S FAMILY SHOE STORE STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! That the silver-mining industry, on account of the conditions made by the war, at home as well as in foreign countries, will be one of the first of all industries to pay big dividends on their stock? DO YOU KNOW— That silver mining is right now beginning to boom and wilf continue to do so until the mines of the State of Colorado wil produce more ore and pay larger dividends than they have ever done in the history of the State? DO YOU KNOW That where the companies own their is not bonded and leased ahead of the companies that pay more and is and that there are less failures of le of any other industry in the world companies own their own property and leased ahead of the stock issues, that pay more and larger dividends tha are less failures of legitimate mining co dustry in the world? That where the companies own their own property and the property is not bonded and leased ahead of the stock issues, that they are the companies that pay more and larger dividends than any others, and that there are less failures of legitimate mining companies than of any other industry in the world? DO YOU KNOW— That The Roanoke Mining and Mill all of its property, comprising some fifty-three acres, with numerous wo a number of very rich veins of ore, already mined, thousands of tons but what other mining companies w ly, ore assaying from $22.00 to $25.00 and paid for. bake Mining and Milling Company owns company, comprising some thirteen claims, with numerous workings, and that we have rich veins of ore, and that we have owe thousands of tons of what we call bake mining companies would call high-gra- ing from $22.00 to $56.00 per ton. Th That The Roanoke Mining and Milling Company owns in fee simple all of its property, comprising some thirteen claims. In all, about fifty-three acres, with numerous workings, and that we have struck a number of very rich veins of ore, and that we have on the ground, already mined, thousands of tons of what we call low-grade ore, but what other mining companies would call high-grade ore—namely, ore assaying from $22.00 to $56.00 per ton. This ore is mined and paid for. The Company has no debts! The only reason for selling stock is for the purpose of building a mill that will treat the ore at the mine. As soon as this is done the stockholders may expect unusually large dividends. The only reason for selling stock in mill that will treat the ore at the mills. As soon as this is done the stockholder dividends. BECAUSE FIRST—The mine is owned in fee by SECOND—The management will be corporation. THIRD—On account of the large amount FOURTH—Because of the very rich strike in completing our tunnel. DON'T YOU SEE WHY you should least 1,000 shares at 15 cents per share, or as much more as possible. If you want to get in on the ground, pany going and one that will pay you have ever been able to get, fill out and do it now, or, better still, call a W. C. JOHNSTON INVESTMENT 221 Foster Building, Sixteenth and NAME..... STREET NUMBER..... CITY OR TOWN..... STATE..... GEORGE BELL, Pres. A. L. SHELLEY, V.-Pres. The George B BECAUSE:— line is owned in fee simple by its stock management will be all that can be account of the large amount of ore on be house of the very rich veins of ore wi eting our tunnel. BE WHY you should immediately sub ares at 15 cents per share, or $150. such more as possible? get in on the ground floor with the best one that will pay you larger dividends able to get, fill out and mail the atta or better still, call at HOHNSTON & COM INVESTMENT BANKERS Bidding, Sixteenth and Champa Sts., Den ER N H. H. ADDENBR M. P. Bell, Sec'y. George Bell Com (Incorporated) FIRST—The mine is owned in fee simple by its stockholders. SECOND—The management will be all that can be asked of any corporation. THIRD—On account of the large amount of ore on band. FOURTH—Because of the very rich veins of ore we are sure to strike in completing our tunnel. DON'T YOU SEE WHY you should immediately subscribe for at least 1,000 shares at 15 cents per share, or $150.00 for 1,000 shares, or as much more as possible? If you want to get in on the ground floor with the best mining company going and one that will pay you larger dividends than any you have ever been able to get, fill out and mail the attached coupon, and do it now, or, better still, call at W. C. JOHNSTON & COMPANY LAPIDARIES AND MFG. JEWELERS 437 Seventeenth Street D NIGHT AND MERCANTIL RIGHT AND RCANTILE NIGHT AND DAY MERCANTILE CO. 806 15th St. 2 doors from Stout St. PRICES TALK MEATS Bacon Squares, lb. 29½¢ Pork Roast, lb. 27½¢ Short Cut Steaks, ench 15¢ Calf Bruins, dish. 10¢ Liver, sliced, lb. 10¢ Mackerel, reg. 29¢ val, ench 10¢ Treo Butter Substitute, lb 25¢ Fatty Cheese, lb. 50¢ Salt Pork, lb. 25¢ Mince Meat, pkg. 15¢ SPECIAL FOR MONDAY AND FOLLOWING WEEK Sugar Corn, Pens, Stringig Beans, Lima Beans, regular 20c value, 16 cans, per case..... $3.83 --- STRIAL REALTY SALES, RENTALS nd INVESTMENTS venue DENVER. TERN BEEF INDUSTRIAL SALES, RE and INVEST INDUSTRIAL REALTY CO SALES, RENTALS and INVESTMENTS WESTERN Open Daily to 830 p. m. Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. Fresh Oysters, Chitterlings, Pig Tail Bones, Spare Ribs Rec Fresh and Cured Meats of All Kinds WESTERN BEEF CO. WESTERN BEEF CO. ```markdown ``` Chitterlings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Pipes, Spare Ribs Received Fresh Daily. 1 Meats of All Kinds., Fresh Vegetable Fancy Groceries. Prices Are Always the Love Free Delivery to All Parts of the City. Phone Champa 1641. STREET DEN Opposite the Three Rules. Fresh Oysters, Chitterlings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Neck Bones, Spare Ribs Received Fresh Daily. Fresh and Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. Our Prices Are Always the Lowest Telephone York 4561 716 East 26 Avenue Denver, Colorado AND DAY TILE CO. Campbell's Soups, can ... 10c Laundry Soaps, can ... 10c Oilman's best grade, bar 10c ... 25c Prunes, reg, 15c grade, lb ... 25c Large cans milk, reg, 20c can, can at ... 13½c Karo Syrup, gallon cans, can ... 53c Jello, reg, 15c pkg., can ... 11c Benefit Flour, pkg., for ... 5c Naphthin Soap, bar ... 5c Raisins, new stock, pkg ... 11c Macaroni, reg, 5c pkg., pkg ... 5c AND FOLLOWING WEEK Crystal White and Water White Soap, 10c size, bar ... 5c Pumpkin and Tomatoes, can ... 10c Log Cabin Syrup, can ... 29c W. H. PRITCHETTE Mgr. REALTY CO. RENTALS MENTS DENVER, COLORADO BEEF CO. One of the Most Up-to- Date and Sanitary Mark- ets in the City. Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Neck lived Fresh Daily. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and berries. ays the Lowest arts of the City. Phone C. 3018-3673. GROCERIES ```markdown ``` T Blouse Styles From Many Sources THE FASHION WEEKLY The school girl or the college girl whose retrospective mental glance takes in years of middles and skirts, will cast a fond and lingering look on the pretty two-piece frock shown above. It is not so different from the middy, having all its points of advantage in comfort and easy adjustment. But it has a style of its own, and that greatest of all allurements, it is in the mode. This is the two-piece street dress, with straight hanging over-garment, as worn by fashionable women, but so delightfully toned down into girlishness that the "subdeb" or even the flapper may wear it. The foundation of this good and smart model for youthful wearers, is a plain frock of serge or other stalwart wool cloth. The unadorned skirt and underbody are joined at the waist line and the close fitting coat sleeves set in a rather snug armhole. The sleeves are finished with a band cuff, being varied in this particular from Blouse Styles Fr Whether modeled upon the lines of the original tailored shirtwaist, or drawing inspiration from the easy, flowing lines of Chinese coats, or from any other quarter of the globe, our spring blouses are to be made of dalinity and of exquisite materials. The world has grown small and there is not much of it too remote for the inquisitive couriers of merchandising, to call upon; in blouses the styles and materials come from many sources. But women demand sheer and silky fabrics and the taste for fine needle-work grows and grows. The blouse of crepe georgette in a dark color, which is shown in the illustration above, is one of the late models launched upon the sea of styles. It is interesting to study its details and consider the several sources from which they may have sprung. We owe to France the lovely material—georgette crepe—named in honor of Georgette the modiste, whose name it has made a new word in our luggage. But this fabric is a French interpretation of crepe de chine—Chinese crepe. The sleeves are patterned after the kimono sleeve, but modified so that they are more practical for Americans than the original Japanese model. The decoration of beads and silk instantly brings to mind the adornments that American Indians lavished on their garments of --- those worn by older people which are very long and cuffless. The over garment is sleeveless, with a border of silk braid about the bottom instead of the wide band of silk embroidery that enriches the dress for older women. Another modification for the sake of youthfulness is revealed in the substitution of a belt of the material (bound with braid) for the heavy cords and tassels of silk that are too rich for young wearers. The back hangs straight and the round neck is finished with a binding of braid. Plain silk, or satin, might be substituted for this braid. A very pretty finishing touch which delights everyone appears in the small flat bow of satin, with two long, hanging ends, placed at the back of the neck opening. The ends are finished with very short strands of beads. The flat buttons that are set in a row at each side may be of bone or mother-of-pearl and the front of the overdress is provided with slit pockets. om Many Sources wonderfully-dressed skins. The next rows of small buttons at each side of a short peplum lead the attention back to France, where attention to details of finishing does so much to maintain the precedence of the French as designers. The picture portrays this blouse so faithfully that very little description is needed. It is a development of the slip-over style, with plain, square neck, that is made with a light underbodice as a foundation. The blouse fastens with tiny snap fasteners on the shoulders and along the underarm at the left. The sleeves are made in three sections, set together with a piping. This piping, more or less large, is a feature which has proved useful in blouses. Fine pipings finish all the edges in satin shirtwaists and heavier cords are used as a decoration on them. The acid test, which the taste of southern tourists applies to the new models, is about to be met by this interesting bit of apparel. Julia Bottomly A toplest chemise combination of the step-in style is of black mousseline de sole, trimmed with narrow salmon pink ribbon velvet. Needless to say, this is a Paris-made design. 1910 The V. V. Hair Millinery S Hats Made, Trimmed or Remodeled to Order Mrs. G. W. Anderson, Prop. Out of Town Orders Received. 244 N. CENTRAL, CASPER, WYO. The V. V. Hair Goods and Millinery Store Straightening and Drying Comb, Price $1.50. THE NEW WAY SHOE REP SHOE REPAIRING THE NEW WAY SHOE REPAIRING C. C. DENNIS, Prop. HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone Main 3737. 1855 Champa St. Denver, Colo. THE STAR HAIR GROWER 2 A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good Money Made. We want Agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons Sells for 25 cents per box—One 25-cent box will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25-cent box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give TKE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25 cents for a full size box. If you wish to be an agent, send $1 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work at once; also agent's terms. Send all money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr. GREENSBORO, N. C. BOX 812 AS DRUG COMPANY TREATMENT—RIGHT PRICES Laders in Prescription h's Black and White Toilet Articles ET Main 875 THE ATLAS DRUG COURTEOUS TREATMENT— Leaders in Prescri Full Line of Plough's Black and 2701 WELTON STREET Full Line of Plough's Black and White Toilet Articles 2701 WELTON STREET Main 875 MADAM C. J. WALKER. President of the Madam C. J Walker Manufacturing Co. and the Lelia College, 640 North West Street, Indianapolis, Ind. SHORT, BREAKING OFF, THIN OR FALLING OUT? Zema? Does your Scalp Itch? Have you more andruff? AM C. J. WALKER'S WONDERFUL HAIR causes all Scalp Diseases. Stops the Hair from once to growing. These remedies are manu- J. WALKER M'F'G CO. IS YOUR HAIR SHORT, BREAKING FALLING OUT Have you Tetter or Eczema? Does your than a normal amount of Dandruff? If so, write for MADAM C. J. WALKER GROWER, which positively cures all Scalp I Falling Out and starts it at once to growin factured only by THE MME. C. J. WALK IS YOUR HAIR SHORT, BREAKING OFF, THIN OR FALLING OUT? Have you Tetter or Eczema? Does your Scalp Itch? Have you more than a normal amount of Dandruff? If you write for MADAM C. J. WALKER'S WONDERFUL HAIR GROWER, which positively cures all Scalp Diseases, Stops the Hair from Falling Out and starts it at once to growing. These remedies are manufactured only THE MME.C.J.WALKER M'F'GCO. 640 North West Street, Indianapolis, Ind. A SIX WEEKS TRIAL TREATMENT Sent to any address by mail for $1.50. Make all Money Ord. MME. C. J. WALKER. Send stamp for reply. AGENT Write for terms. l for $1.50. Make all Money Orders payable to Send stamp for reply. AGENTS WANTED. Sent to any address by mail for $1.50. Make all Money Orders payable to AGENTS. Send stamp for reply. AGENTS WANTED. Write for terms. Dr. S. A. Huff, Office Phone is York 2313. If not reached at office or Home, York 8374J. Call Atlas Drug Co., Main 875. Phone Main 8036 Res. Phone York 5774W FRANK D. TAGGART Attorney at Law—Notary Public 205-206 Cooper Building Denver, Colorado --- A THE WONDERFUL ART OF HAIR GROWING A Complete Course by Mail or Personal Instruction. The Peerless Walker System, Ready MONEY and the Doorway to Prosperity. A Diploma From Lelia College of Hair Culture is the Magic Key. Nicely modern furnished rooms for rent or rooms for light housekeeping at 2424 Curtis street. For Rent—Neatly furnished rooms, light and airy, all conveniences. On car line. Apply Mrs. Katherine Edwards, 2346 Curtis St. Phone Champa 5665. For Rent—Two small houses. Call York 4809 J. Sunday or evenings after 6 o'clock. ---