Denver Star

AMONG THE CHURCHES AMONG T The Episcopal church had a very good service and attendance Sunday morning and many new resolutions were formed to be more Christianlike, punctual and regular in the church work by the various communicants. The singing was especially good. At Central Baptist church there was a day of good things. In the morning the pastor preached such a peculiarly strong sermon that appealed to everyone present. There was a certain strange force and effect not attendant to his other sermons that made the people more reeactive and yearn to start out the new year correctly. An indescribable scene of joy and spiritual blessing was witnessed by all those at her anniversary Sunday afternoon and the crowded church was alive with 'Amens" and praises for the Master, while Rev. A. E. Douglas was preaching. At Bethlehem Baptist church Rev. Reynolds had a fair-sized crowd which came looking for a blessing and who returned overflowing with spiritual life. Although small in capacity and numbers, yet what they lacked n numbers they made up in earnestness. A glorious day was spent. Precious things are done up in small packages which make them hard to find, is one of the apt mottoes which come nearest expressing our sentiment of Rev. Contee's sermon Sunday morning. "Salt," yet only four letters, was so thoroughly and intelligently discussed by that profound and eloquent gentleman that nothing could be added. He is a deep scholar whose wide experience has enabled him to hold the world in his hand and momentarily pick out its shortcomings. "Ye are the salt" of the earth certainly made the audience reflect and personally take an inventory of their virtues and see if they had really lost their flavor. So practical was he that even the smallest child could and did understand his sayings and applica- --- tions. Rev. Contee, who is a stenographer, gentleman and learned student, will leave Denver soon after the 15th inst. Denver regrets his departure because she needs just such men to dwell in this community. Zion was blessed with an excellent sermon at night-"If I Am, Why?"-and the singing was simply grand. The excellent and strong sermon preached by Presiding Elder Sunday night was a gem of thoughtful advice and experience. His text being the "Suspension of Judgment" was treated in such a broad-minded and convincing way that many new church members, as well as some sinners, silently but resolutely decided to enter into the joyful straight and narrow path of rectitude. Rev. J. C. C. Owens is a powerful and persuasive personality, winning souls in his pathetic and fatherly pleas. The Sunday at Campbell Chapel, A. M. E. church, being the first one of the new year, was largely attended and an enthusiastic meeting was the consequence. Rev. W. C. Williams witnessed many old and young people take the stand for Jesus, which tickled him very much. The service Sunday morning was unusually good. Presiding Elder Owens preached. CHORAL CLUB HAS JOLLIEST TIME EVER HAD—NEW GAMES INITIATED AND PLAYED. As truly as expected did that big jolly time come off at Mrs. E. L. Faulkner's residence when everybody in the house so thoroughly enjoyed themselves. It was known to the club members that a prize would be given for the person arriving the earliest at this social event. This being the case the crowd was later than ever in gathering and one young lady won the prize. But soon the house was alive with merriment and real fun, different games were started and both antiquated and modern amusement was pressed into service when Dr. J. A. Harper explained the new game "Fruit Fudge," the house was brim- eHT and pleasure, and to cap in came Chas. S. Muse with some smile and caused nearly fun. After that everything, even the dry old games,ater Bucket," "The Endless "Peanut Doodle," besides was interspersed with comic witty sayings. Mrs. Faulkes Nichols and Montgomery Dishman have the honor of serving and exhibiting that elicacy which clothed them dant praises for their grace and knowledge of social enter- The club outrivaled all of his efforts and the wee hours turning found the merry reveling their way homeward. ful of joy the climax his gladse a panic o was funn "In the W Ring" an the event jokes and ner. Miss and Mrs. preparing tasteful o with abun and skillle tainment. its previo of the mo ers windi CURRENCY RECOVERED. spending nearly 48 hours in confusion of being a thief, Muse, bank messenger, has a honesty and integrity, not as the law is concerned, eyes of the public as well. He arrived at the bank Saturday he was $1,000 short mount of $3,500 with which started from the Central Savannah bank. He could explain age only in one way—that he only lost two rolls of bills.ief investigation the authored to take him into custody Saturday night and Sunday. Monday morning Muse his liberty, the story of the money having been fully ed. Early Monday, A. D. D. Western Live Stock Company, one of the bank's brought into the bank ails amounting to $500. He picked it up at the end of yards street car line Saturig and when he read in the Muse's arrest and learned the money belonged he returned the money. A dewas also given of another had picked up the second 0. Hastening to repair the one to Muse, Vice-President Butcher at once ordered his was overjoyed to find thatence in the bank messensty had not been misplaced. possible was done to rerong done to Muse. It was at the two bank note rolls through the messenger's ovet.—Times. Chas. S. proven hi only as f but in the When Mu urday aft of the ar he had stings Nation the shorta accidental After a b ities decie and he sp day in j was given loss of the corroboral Ford of the mission o customers roll of b said he h the stock day event papers of to whom promptly a scriptior man who roll of $5 damage d C. K. Bo release. H his confederer's hon Everything pair the w learned t dropped orcoat po State Historian & Natural History Society FIVE CENTS A COPY Mr. and Mrs. Muse when interviewed by The Statesman reporter desired to thank the many friends, black and white, who voluntarily offered their assistance to them in the seemingly hour of trouble and especially to those persons who headed a list and raised some few hundred dollars to be applied in repaying the lost money. His many outside friends sent letters of sympathy and offers to assist in replenishing the amount. Mr. Muse takes the affair in a conservative manner, but has insisted only that the "Denver Republican" retract their libellous article about him being seen in company with lewd women before the accident. Mr. Muse is again at his work and everything has passed as if nothing had happened. PENDENNIS CLUB ENTERTAINS The social event of the holiday season was the dance given by the Pendennis Club New Year's eve, at Dania hall. The hall was beautifully decorated with the colors of the club. The club needs no introduction to Denver's society and their reception last summer to the many strangers that were visiting the city is still one of the most talked-of events that has ever occurred in Denver. Several visitors came to the city to attend the dance. Mr. and Mrs. John Baker of Cheyenne, Wyo.; Miss Eva B. Hopkins of Cheyenne, Wyo.; the Miss Earls of Colorado Springs, Miss Newnum and Miss Price of Grand Junction, Colo.; Mr. Fred Roberts and Mr. Lee of Colorado Springs and Mr. Gaskins of Cheyenne, Wyo. After the dance, which continued until the hour of 2 a. m., and the young men had taken the young ladies to their homes, a stag party was given by the members of the club to a few of their gentlemen friends at their elegantly furnished club rooms at 2439 Welton street. It is needless to say that those who attended the stag party had the time of their lives. At the hour of 7 a. m. the members with their guests sang that favorite old song entitled "The Pendennis Boys Should Never Be Forgotten." At the request of the guests and the members of the club, Q. J. Gilmore, the president of the club, sang the solo entitled "That the Pendennis Club Boys Are Afraid To Go Home In the Dark." Traffic on the Canals of Holland. Next to the windmills, Holland is best known for its canals, for the entire country is a network of these waterways. Almost everywhere one looks is to be seen a canal threading its way through the meadows and fields and towns, and at frequent intervals canal boats, drawn by horses or men, or else propelled by sails or a gasoline engine—for this latter modern means of propulsion is now installed on many of the boats—may be seen passing, and if one has the leisure to make a canal boat trip through Holland it offers an interesting and unique means of transport. This cheap form of transportation is a godsend to the Dutch people. By means of the slow but capacious canal boats their garden and field products are carried to the markets of the cities, and if there ever were a necessity for the regulation of railway rates in that country, canal boat transportation would solve the problem. The Anti-Tuberculosis Fight. Educating the people to combat the spread of tuberculosis is a movement which it would be superfluous to praise. Miniature model tenements and graphic reproductions of the opposite sort will do very little positive good, however, unless the people who see them think to some purpose. While in our cities we have a system of taxation which penalizes with a heavy tax the builder of model tenement and rewards with a low tax the owner of a filthy rookery, model tenements will continue to be few and filthy rookeries will continue to be many. Education is a great force in the fight against consumption, and some day people will learn that there are more deadly wholesale ways of spreading and perpetuating tuberculosis than by expectorating in a car or ferryboat.—Puck. Composite Beauty. The classical face, which is the model in art, is, according to the analysis of a recent writer, an ideal conception combining the largest number of good proportions. It is a composite of perfect individual features. Uzeuxis' "Helen of Argos" is a depiction of personal beauty in which are combined the charms of five beautiful virgins of that time. Cornova's "Venus" unites the beauty of 60 different women. Annie Wolf in her work, "The Truth About Beauty," says: The best recipe I have ever seen for complete bodily splendor is to study Greek models for the head, English for the complexion, Irish for the hands, American for the finger nails, Hindostanee for the feet, and Spanish for the gait." Now, the same composite principle obtains in the classical face. Origin of Names of Breeds. Spaniels were so called because the original breed of this type came from Spain. The Blenheim spaniel got his name from Blenheim palace, where this dog first gained popularity in the time of the great duke of Marlborough. In the same way the King Charles spaniel owes its name to the merry monarch. Fox terriers did not gain their names from a likeness to the fox, but from the fact that formerly they were used in hunting foxes. Many years ago they were sent by their masters down the fox's burrow to draw and kill their quarry. It was in those days a saying that a good fox terrier never came out of a burrow without the fox. He either brought out his prey dead or never came out alive himself. THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. Germany's Great Growth. Germany's Great Growth. The question of race suicide does not trouble Germany, though there is a steady drain upon her population through emigration. Last year nearly 400,000 left her, and there are now about 3,000,000 Germans in the United States; between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 in Russia, and a large Teutonic representation in Australia and Brazil. Notwithstanding this, the population has almost doubled in 50 years. In the last 18 it has increased from 49,400,000 to over 61,177,000, and the surplus of births over deaths has risen from 11.7 per cent. in 1890 to 14.5 per cent. in 1904. The deposits of these people in the savings banks guaranteed by their various municipalities amount to nearly $3,250,000,000. Charm of the Apron. Nowadays, when woman wishes to subdue man or win him to her whims, she puts on her finest frock and wooes him. Foolish girl so to trouble herself! She could do it twice as easily and many times as cheaply if she were to top off an old gown with any pattern of apron. Every kind is an arrow in her quiver. At least the Cleveland Leader says so. When she wears one of the kitchen brand that runs from collar to hem of skirt, bares her white arms and mixes up a batch of flap-jacks, she fascinates man with her domesticity. When she dons the parlor or gold thimble pattern, resplendent with the lace, coquettish of pocket, and so trim and provocative about the waist that a man has to grind his teeth and grip hard at the arms of his chair, he is perfectly willing to abase his head and let her put her Cuban heels on his neck. Not So Very Precious. A New York hotel is going to have enough gold dishes to serve a dinner of seven courses to 75 persons. Of course, this suggests moralizing on prodigal luxury and allusions to Lucullus and Apicius and also to Belshazzar. But there was a time when even kings dined from trenchers. The introduction of pewter was probably denounced by the philosophers of the day as prodigality, and while silver is not commonly used for dishes from which persons eat, it is in such general use for the larger pieces and for spoons, forks and drinking vessels that the use of silver must represent, as compared with the previous customs, about as great an increase of expenditure as the use of a gold dining service does now. The precious metals are not so precious as they were once.—Philadelphia Record. The "Moving Picture Eve." The oculist as well as others have discovered a new disease which they have named the moving picture eye. It is an affection of the eyes which comes from too great familiarity with the five-cent theaters, where the entertainment is largely by means of moving pictures. Individually I have experienced the trouble, but so seldom as to mean nothing. But others have told me that a half hour's stay in a moving picture theater always gave them a headache and that headache must have come through the instrumentality of the eye. It is well known that specialists often associate headaches and kindred troubles to defective vision. It looks to me as if the matter rested upon pretty fair foundations. —Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. HAD NOT IDENTIFIED COLONEL Soldier's Explanation, However, Was Hardly Flattering. Eugene Walter, the young playwright, discussed in his apartment the failure of "Paid in Full" in London. "The London critics," said Mr. Walter, "praised my drama without a dissenting voice. From Mr. Walkley of the Times down, they deluged me with praise. But the public would not come to the Aldwych theater. The public was unflattering as the African sentinel. "A French sentinel in Algeria, you know," Mr. Walter explained, "had for colonel a very tall, lanky, round-shouldered man. This round-shouldered colonel one night was making a quiet inspection. Passing the sentinel, he found, to his rage and indignation, that he was not challenged. So he returned to the man and roared: "You didn't challenge me!" "N-no, sir,' faltered the sentinel, saluting. "Well, why didn't you?' the colonel demanded. "Excuse me, sir,' said the sentinel, "but I thought—I beg your pardon, sir—I thought you was a camel." work of Steam Shovels. Steam shovel records on the Panama canal were recently broken by a 95-ton machine, which took out 55,419 cubic yards of soft rock at Gorgona in 25 working days. About the same time a 75-ton shovel took out 22,028 yards of earth and 20,333 yards of rock in 26 days, according to the Canal Record. The former shovel has a five-yard dipper and the latter a $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ -yard dipper. All shovels are kept under steam for eight hours a day, but are not actually worked during this period steadily, owing to the necessity of moving them forward, blasting large stones and bringing up cars. Hold Husband Responsible. When a married woman beats a man, even with an ax, in the presence of her husband, she can not be held legally responsible, for the act must be presumed to have been committed by the husband's direction and under coercion from him. At least that is what a Pennsylvania court has ruled in the case of a woman who violently assaulted an objectionable visitor after her husband had refused to obey her command to throw the visitor out. The opinion of Mr. Bumble as to what the law is is frequently corroborated. Burying Cables in River Bed. It seems odd that telegraph and telephone companies should be forced to bury their cables in the bed of a large river, yet this became necessary in places along the Ohio during the recent drought. The river was so low that boys could and did play ball in the very channel bed, and the exposure left the telephone cables entirely unprotected. To avoid a repetition of the incident, therefore, the companies have dug trenches in the river bed, in which the cables have been securely covered.—Marine Journal. Let the Cows Out. Let the cows out for an airing every pleasant day and see how they enjoy it. They do not like to breathe stable air all the time, any more than we do. The kind of air they breathe makes a great difference in the quality of the cows' milk. PAGE. 10. Sad Extremes That Prevail in the World's Richest City. The London county council, according to yearly custom, has just published some suggestive statistics. In them the British capital is put down as probably the wealthiest city in the world. Its property is insured against fire for about six billions of dollars. It takes about 419,037 tons of killed meat and 58,735 live cattle, 375,950 sheep, 174,332 tons of fish and 80,826. 330 gallons of milk to feed the population, which uses 82,152,249,000 gallons of water for drinking and other purposes. But besides being the "wealthiest," London is also, to use a word made famous by Bernard Shaw, the "illthiest." Of the 4,795,789 human beings that live on its 74,816 acres of land and water, 1,453,266, or one in every 33, are paupers. But more appalling still is the fact that 20 persons in every 100 die in an almshouse or almshouse infirmary. No wonder the city is obliged to distribute through its charities more than $50,000,000 annually. Year Without a Summer. The year 1816 has a remarkable cold weather record and is known as "the year without a summer." In that year there was a sharp frost in every month, and the people all over the world began to believe that some great and definite change in the earth was taking place. The farmers used to refer to it as "eighteen-hundred-and-starve-to-death." Frost, ice and snow were common in June. Almost every green thing was killed and the fruit was nearly all destroyed. During the month snow fell to the depth of three inches in New York and Massachusetts and ten inches in Maine. There were frost and ice in July in New York, New England and Pennsylvania and corn was nearly all destroyed in certain sections. Ice half an inch thick formed in August. A cold north wind prevailed all summer. Men the Umbrella Losera. "If the umbrella is for a gentleman I suggest that it be cheap," the clerk said. "For a lady, the costlier the umbrella the better. "Ladles, you know, never lose umbrellas, never leave them in cars or shops, never carelessly allow them to be swiped. Why, there are gold and silver handled umbrellas, the property of ladles, that have been coming back to us for repairs for 40 years. "But men—dear me! Men are liable to lose an umbrella the first day they take it out. "For a man, you say, sir? Then I recommend this strong and serviceable article at 74 cents, reduced from 98." Tall Lofting. Many remarkable but yet properly vouched for feats of skill are recorded of professional golfers. Thus on one occasion when in his prime the late Tom Morris, Sr., undertook to demonstrate his ability in lofting a ball. For this purpose he stood in a quarry underneath the familiar Ballochingle bridge and sent a number of "guttles" in succession up to the footpath at the top, a height of nearly 150 yards. Probably without knowing it in doing so he was emulating an earlier performance of an Edinburgh player who once drove half a dozen balls over the spire of St. Giles' cathedral from the level of the street. Artificial sapphires, such as those just made in France, remind me, by an inevitable association of ideas, of Sapphira. Here is a striking instance of the manner in which a name can be killed once for all by one evil possessor thereof. Cain, Judas, Ananias and Sapphira and intrinsically just as attractive as other Biblical names that have survived; but nobody bears them, although Sapphira might, but for the wife of Ananias, have been as popular a Christian name as Pearl or Ruby. If Dorcas and Sapphira had exchanged names, "Sapphira societies" would have been the title of many charitable sewing circles to-day and Dorcas would have been anathema. Westchester Legend. There is a curious story of mingled quaintness and superstition told about the building of the mill dam across the Pocantico near to Philipse castle, at Tarrytown. Lord Philipse postponed the erection of the church of the hollow in order to complete the dam, but the dam burst each time be tried to build it. In his distress he was approached by Harry, his old slave. Harry told his master that in a dream the Lord of heaven had been revealed to him, when the Lord said the church must be built first if the dam was to remain when constructed. Philipse followed old Harry's advice.—Westchester County Magazine. Large Orange Crop. Consul R. E. Holaday of Santiago de Cuba reports that the orange crop of Cuba this year will be the largest in the history of the island and will reach 500,000 boxes. Until the last three years large quantities of oranges were annually imported into Cuba from Florida and California, and while the scientific cultivation of the fruit is yet in its infancy, its development has been so rapid and generally profitable that it is believed that in another year the industry will have progressed sufficiently to supply the local demand for the fruit. The business of orange culture in Cuba is almost entirely in the hands of Americans. Chinese Coffins In China they bury at their leisure and the most elaborate coffins, thick and solid, as they had need be under the circumstances, are prepared by every Chinese during his lifetime. They are carefully stored in readiness for the time of dissolution and exhibited as part of the household furniture. Imperial personages erect mausoleums in readiness to receive their dust. The empress had more than one, but the special favorite, which she was constantly repairing and beautifying, is situated in "The Happy Region of a Myriad Years," upon the Western hills, near Peking. Rare Fulgurites on Exhibition. An interesting and valuable collection of fulgurites has recently been mounted and placed on exhibition in the Geological museum in Nassau hall. It comprises four specimens of the rare glassy tubes produced by lightning striking in sand or other loose material which fuses along the path of the current to form a natural glass. The tubes are frequently quite irregular in their course and often branch downward. Outside they are rough, more or less ridged and studded with adhering sand grains, while the inside is quite smooth and glassy from the perfect melting of the sand. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. More than half of the several hundred people taking the course at Lowell institute under Harvard professors, says a Boston paper, are women, and these courses require an attendance three times a week. And wherever one goes the same thing is true, only as a general thing the proportion of women in such classes would be greater than one-half. This does not look as though women were wasting all their energies in the "debauch of whist." Many women play whist and bridge, but it is generally those who want mental occupation that entails little solid brain work. The majority of bridge players prefer men partners, so that one sex spends as much time as the other over cards. A Fairy Story of To-Day. They were going to the theater. He had reached home at 6:30 o'clock, and an hour later was ready to start. There was just time to reach the playhouse by eight. She had had nothing to do all afternoon except to dress, yet it was 8:1 when she came from her room with her hat and coat on. "I am afraid we shall be late," she said. "You look so lovely," he replied, kissing her, "that it would have been worth waiting another hour for you." No. they were not bride and bridegroom. They had been married ten years. But what is the use of telling you any more? As you can see by this sample, you wouldn't believe it, anyway. Wisdom of Dancing Masters. The dancing masters should be proud of themselves, and no envious arrow of disdain, such the provincial belief that they have no brains, can ever reach them now. They said: If the skirts are so tight that ladies cannot take long steps, let them take short ones. And thereupon it was decreed that waltzes, polkas, two-steps, Mendelssohn spring songs, Salome slides, jigs, rigadoons, liebspiels and all such should be danced with shorter steps until such time as fashion shall permit ladies to recover the free use of their ——, but why go further? The dancing masters have established their reputation by their sapientissimic judgment. Woman Lawyer Triumphs. Mdlle. Helene Miropolsky, the woman lawyer of Paris, has scored another triumph in securing the acquittal of a Breton girl, named Marie Thepault, who, in a moment of anger, plunged a carving knife into the breast of a faithless lover named Maurice Dubousset. The persuasive eloquence of Mdlle. Miropolsky moved the jury to tears. Members of the jury stopped the advocate, and said they did not wish to hear her further, as their minds were made up. For mere form's sake they retired to consider their decision. Five minutes later they were back with the verdict of not guilty, which the foreman blurted out in the intervals of drying his eyes. EXPERT With Prescription Lenses Office and College 1863 Curtis DENVER, CALO. Western University THE LEADING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR NEGROES IN THE WEST. Theological, Classical, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, em bracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Bookbinding, Tailoring, Business Course, Dressmaking, Millinery, Cooking, Laundrying and Farming. FOR FULL INFORMATION WRITE TO PROF. SHELTON FRENCH, ACTING PRESIDENT OF WESTERN UNIVERSITY, QUINDARO, KANS Peace and Prosperity Residence Phone No. 15. 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Only Equipped Teachers from the Leading Lions in America. RENT BUILDINGS. Hard and Electric Lighted. DEPARTMENTS: Sub-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, amature, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, tailoring, Business Course, Dress-ing, Laundrying and Farming. CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE, CAREFUL SERVISION. BAND AND ORCHESTRA. WRITE TO PROF. SHELTON FRENCH, ERN UNIVERSITY, QUINDARO, KANS Miss M. COWDER Hair Dressing PARLORS. Shampooing, cutting and curling. All hair work made to order. Hair tonics, scalp treatments, manicuring, stage wigs for rent for theatrical use or mask balls. Cheapest switches, 50 cents. Goods delivered out of the city 1219 21st street. Denver, Colo Phone 797 Olive. THE WILLIAMSON HAFFNER CO. ENGRAVERS OUR PRINTERS CUTS TALK DENVER, COLO. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS PAGE.12 MAGIC SHAMPOO DRIER. Ladies! You need no longer dread washing the hair. For the use of the magic shampoo drier makes the task a pleasure. Every particular woman should add one to her toilet table. A trial will convince you. For full particulars call Mrs. M. B. Lee, 3333 Williams St., 'phone Olive 1188. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT HEIRS AT LAW. State of Colorado, ss. City and County of Denver. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Zora A. Day, deceased. Day, deceased. The People of the State of Colorado send greeting to unknown heirs living within or without the State of Colorado., non-resident heirs at law of the said Zora A. Day, deceased: You, the said heirs, are hereby notified that a paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Zora A. Day, deceased, who resided in the City and County of Denver, and State of Colorado, and departed this life on or about the 18th day of November, A. D. 1907, was this 10th day of December, A. D. 1908, presented to the County Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, for probate and record as the true last will and testament of the said Zora A. Day, deceased, by John L. Hilton, John J. Berkley having declined to act, nominated and appointed by said instrument. That it is shown by satisfactory proof that the said Zora A. Day died possessed of real property consisting chiefly of three town lots in Valverde, in this County, and personal property in this County, all of said real estate supposed to be worth $75; and personal property to the value of $15; that said instrument bears date of Nov. 19th, A. D. 1907, and is signed by Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Howard as subscribing witnesses to the due execution thereof by the said Zora A. Day that said Zora A. Day in and by said instrument devises unto Elizabeth Lee that the said..... of the City and County of Denver, and State of Colorado, is nominated and appointed in and by said instrument as the thereof. You, the said heirs, are therefore notified to be and appear before the County Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, at the Court House in the City of Denver, on Monday, the 11th day of January, A. D. 1909, at 10 o'clock a. m., which time and place have been fixed by the Court for the hearing on the application for the probate of said instrument, to attend the probate thereof and show cause, if you can or may have, why said instrument should not be admitted to probate and record as the true last will and testament of the said deceased, and letters testamentary or of administration issue there on accordingly. Witness, THOMAS L. BONFILS, Clerk of the County Court within and for the City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, and the seal thereof of said Court at Denver, in said County and State, this day of ..... A. D. 190.... THOMAS L. BONFILS, Clerk. By K. P. Mace, Deputy. THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. Miss S. C. Jackson, one of our most respected citizens, left our midst for her old home, Jackson, Miss. Mr. Henry Hurley is expecting to leave the city on a business trip to Colorado Springs and Denver. Rev. J. H. D. Hill spent a few days in Durango looking after the interests of the church in that city. The Christmas dinner was quite a success. All who patronized it were well pleased with the dinner and service. The amount cleared on the dinner was $76.00. There are several mines expecting to start work on the New Year. That will make good times for the Silverton people. On the second Sunday of the new year there is to be a rally. We are hoping to raise enough money to build a parsonage on to the church. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hall gave an eight-course dinner Sunday. The color scheme was yellow and white. The table was elaborately decorated and arranged as never seen in Silverton. The guests invited were: Mrs. Buchanan, Miss May and Tanzie Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bryant, Mr. Joe Williams. GRAND JUNCTION, COLO., NEWS. On Christmas eve, at Handy Chapel, A. M. E., church, a splendid Christmas program was rendered, after which a beautiful decorated snow house was shown and with the appearance of Santa Claus the presents were numerous. Santa Claus was indeed good to the Sunday school pupils, also Rev. and Mrs. Smith. They express their highest appreciation to Santa Claus. On Christmas day Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Smith entertained at their home at a nine-course dinner in honor of their friends. The guests numbered 18 persons and each one seemed to have enjoyed the sumptuous feast, after which the evening was spent in telling ancient fables. On Christmas night Mr. and Mrs. N. Colston entertained at their home at a Whist party. Refreshments were served. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. J. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. A. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. N. Pierson, Mr. Mrs. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. H. Norman, Misses Oreta Hines, Jessie Brantley, Mary Harris, Minnie Colquitt, Messrs. F. Butler, Wm. Sims, O'Connor, C. Curtis, T. Fields. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pierson are among Grand Junction's pleasing entertainers. They gave a comical social at their home Dec. 27th. Plano solos were rendered by Mesdames A. Jones, H. Norman and J. Brantley. Mr. A. Alexander, Mr. S. Reed and Wm. Sims made excellent comedians. Mrs. Harry Pierson played well her part Automobile for Hire J. H. GANNAWAY Phone Main 776 Phone Main 3728. Licensed Embalmer No. 234. Q. J. GILMORE Undertaker and Embalmer Carriages Furnished for all Occasions Open Day and Night 1921 Arapahoe St Denver's Leading Undertaker as Morman Jane. Mr. Arthur Jones played Drowsy Bill, heroic. At a late hour a delicious luncheon was served and everyone departed much pleased. Last Tuesday evening, at the cosy cottage of Mr. and Mrs. H. Norman, of 119 Colorado avenue, a delightful party was given in honor of their many friends, which numbered 18. Games were the principal features of the evening aside from the graceful dancing. The gentlemen, Messrs. N. Colston, Wm. Austin and F. Butler, won the prizes. The host and hostess deserve much credit for such infrequent affair. At a late hour a well-prepared luncheon was served and the guests merrily departed. Wednesday evening, Dec. 30th, the Masonic lodge gave an entertainment at the Odd Fellows' hall which, proved quite a success. The entertainment was well attended. The ladies of the valley were indeed dressed in their magnificent evening gowns, in Persian Princess and sheath gowns. The hall being brilliantly lighted added much beauty to the effeminacy. The gentlemen were dressed like lords of great wealth. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Austin entertained at their beautiful home, No. 109 Colorado avenue, Thursday evening, Dec. 31st, at a farewell leap year party. The home was artistically arranged, their lights throwing worth rays of golden and green lustre. There were 18 guests present. It being a leap year party there was quite an interest taken by the young ladies. Mrs. J. B. stated the life of a merry widow is sweet. As the clock was striking 12 Miss O. H. uttered: "I'd rather wait four more years than leap this year. Luncheon was served in the new year. Friday night, Jan. 1st, the Misses Tolad Mason, Ethel McNair, Enda Hodge, Messrs. Hewey Pitts of Montrose, Chester Jones and Marcus Hines were royally entertained at Miss Edna Price's, 226 Gunnison avenue. Cards being the principal feature of the evening, aside from the vocal solo by Miss Edna Price; vocal solo, Miss Lola Mason; vocal solo, Miss Ethel McNair. Thursday night watchmeeting was held at Handy Chapel, A. M. E. church. Good resolutions were offered for the new year. The choir of Handy Chapel, A. M. E. church, was organized Friday night with seven members. Sunday, Dec. 27th, Rev. J. H. Smith preached the most effective sermon of the year. The effect caused two to be prayed for. The first week will be a week of prayer at Handy Chapel. Presiding Elden J. C. C. Owens of the Denver district held his second quarterly conference, beginning Thursday. HAVRE, MONT., NEWS. Christmas Dinner Given by Miss Viola Spaulding. Seated in the beautiful dining room of the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Barnes, the following partook of the most choice luxuries of a Christmas season: Miss Viola, as hostess of the occasion. To know her is to know one whose charms of attraction are pristine as well as characteristic of a natural entertainer. To her left was seated Elder Bailey, the pastor; to his left was seated Miss Bedelia, the amiable daughter of Sergeant Daniel Johnson. To the opposite sat Mr. W. H. Barnes, who can furnish laughter for a thousand, to whose right was Mr. A. W. Brown, the brother of Mrs. Barnes, survivors of the late Sergeant Jim Brown. Mr. Arthur Pope, the railway mail clerk, was present and used the carving knife to a finish—a turkey. Rev. Wm. 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Anderson COAL AND KINDLING ALL KINDS, ALL QUANTITIES 2100 Arapehee St. Denver, Colo Carpentry and Job Work Job Work & Specialty. 1021 Twenty-First Street Phone Main 3230 Residence 353 W. Warren Ave. Phone Brown 2129. TROUTMAN & SONS Carpenters and Builders General Jobbing Promptly Attended To Business Address 3131 HUMBOLDT STREET wath en whe Bah ncioe Report Must Have Made Timorous Individual Fee! Small. Says the Allahabad (India) Pioneer: “A gentleman of Madras recent!y re ceived in his morning ‘dak’ a very mysterious looking ‘parcel. Suspect: ing’a bomb, he handed it over to the police unopened. An officer, told off td to Investigate, made this report: ‘I have received, the suspicious parcel and on careful examination find it consists of two metal cylinders. wrapped in pink paper bearing some English printed matter and purport- ing to come from Hunsur. On careful- ly opening one tin it was found to contain a brown powdery substance with a very aromatic smell and pun- gent to the taste. This on being placed in water was sligtly soluble. Some of the powder was placed on an anvil and struck with a hammer, but appar- ently with no ill effects. A portion was then placed in the fire, but no ex- plosion occurred. On further examina- tion by an expert in these matters {it was ascertained that the powder was a substance well known through- out India and in fact in most civilized countries and in common use in most households. Its usual common name is coffee powder. The approximate value of the sample is two rupees (64 cents). I propose to keep it for myself.” Surgeon Chiropodist ’ Scientific Body Massage MADAM WALKER Manicuring and be a ee 2038 Welten St. Denver, Cole. T will give Lessons at the above ad- dress in all branches of the work, in- one hese Swedish Movements Cli GAR STORE FULL LINE OF STATIONERY, a Periodicals, Cigars, Tobacco, Ciga~ ‘ ettes, The only store of its kind conducted by a colored man in Colorado. We carry the Ladies’ Home Journal, magazines of all descriptions, morning | and evening papers. Soft drinks of | all kinds sold. Call and see me. If / what you want is not in the store, we i will get it for you. ko BRANCH LAUNDRY OFFICE. PHONE MAIN 7650. Full line of cigars. eee 1119 Eighteenth Street. J. M JOHNSON, PROPRIETOR. Between Arapahoe and Lawrence Sts. VIRGI IIA CITY BUT A MEMORY. The G Id Seekers Have Gone and the Town Is Dilapidated. Virg nia City is indeed a strange town— 1 living skeleton. In the height of its opulence it boasted a popula- tion of 30,000. To-day there are less than c1etenth that many. Dilapida- tion ar d ruin are seen on every hand. The chief streets terrace along a great ifllside. Further up the slope are wistes of sagebrush growing in stunte clumps that half hide the earth ith their gray twigs and foli- age. jtown below is a valley where the mi ies have dumped vast heaps of waste. The ntire region is a wild upheaval of hill and around the horizon are seen ringes of snowy topped moun- tains. The only tres are an occa- sional gnarled scrub pine or dwarf cedar . few feet high. The town streets are rough an¢ dirty a id as I walked about I was con- stantly encountering old tin cans and getting my feet tangled up in wires from tl e baled hay. Buildings in good repair ire rarities. There are totter- ing fences and ragged walls and bro- ken rcofs and smashed glass and many \ indows and doors are boarded up. The earch for gold has resulted in tearing the country all to pieces. Every® here the hills are dotted with prospec ‘ors’ holes. From any height you c#1 see\ dozens—perhaps hun- dreds. They suggest the burrowing of woo chucks or prairie dogs. The region along the Comstock lode abound too in deserted shaft —Out- ing. He Dierovered Why Mr. (ldboy—Why do you bring so much ¥ iter, Tommy? I merely asked for a ¢ ‘ink. Tomr y—I thought you'd need more than a ;lassful, ‘cause sister sald you was th: dryest old stick she ever knew. POEOH FOHOPOPOHOHOTOTOVONG Port :1’s Shining Parlor Strict y first-class. A nice place for ladies t) have their shoes dressed or wait wiile you have your dressed. We cary a full line of shoe laces, all styles. [f you are wearing tan shoes and wis) to change them to black call on us. We guarantee all work. We eall for shoes that are within a rea- sonable distance. Open 7:30 to 9 p. m. Phere Main 5€39. WILL TAYLOR, Prop. 911 EIGHTEENTH STREET CALUMET CLUB | 2 2149 Curtis Street | Headquarters for Porters Waiters, and Railroad Men. Phone Main 8232 Henry Pinn, Manager Established More than a Quarter of a Century. Transactions Confidential Phone Main 8252 The Original “No Name” Clothing House Ladies’ and Gent’s Clothing 417 Fifteenth St. RRR ARI, MRS, M. A. HOLLEY Graduate of Mrs. M. A. Pope in Scalp & Hair Treatment She ts now prepared to do the same work as is done in the originator’s parlors. She is the sole agent for the famed preparation, “Foro.” Aé dress her at 21183 Arapahor street, : phone Olive iss. MRS. L. G. TRAVERS —————————— - Home Cooked Meals 1023 Twenty-First Street UP STAIRS Meals - 35 Cents PAGE.14. M. W. C. LODGE, A. F. & A. M. For Colorado and jurisdiction, meets in Salt Lake, Utah, in August, 1908. E. C. TUMLIN, G. M. WILLIAM SPRAGUE, Grand Secretary, P. O. Box 1545. Denver, Colorado. SOCKY MOUNTAIN LODGE NO.1. A. F. & A. M. Meets the first and third Monday nights in the month at 1712 Curtis St. C. A. FRANKLIN, W. M. WM. SPRAGUE, Secretary. P. O. Box 1545. CENTENNIAL LODGE NO. 4 A F. & A M Meets the second and fourth Monday nights in the month at 1712 Curtis Street. All Masons in good standing are invited to attend. WM. RUSS, W. M. ERNEST HOWARD, Secretary. 353 West Warren street. PYTHAGORAS LODGE. Pythagoras Lodge, A. F. & A. M. beadville, meets the first and third days in each month. T. S. STEWART, Sct. 217 N. 4th st. EUREKA LODGE NO. 13, Albuquerque, N. M., meets afar oui mird Tuesdays in the month. All sons in good standing invited. H. BRAMLETT W. M. H. BRAMLETT, W. M. UMPSON REST LODGE. SIMPSON REST Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., Trinidad, meets the first and third Tuesday nights in the month. Members in good standing are welcome J. W. BOOKER, W. M. W. A. JORDAN, Sec.. 117 N. Walnut. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. FRATERNITIES PINION MESA LODGE No 20, A. F. & A. M., Grand Junction, meets the first and third Wednesdays in the month. J. E. HARRIS, W. M. T. P. LANGDON, Sec., 139 Chipeta KEYSTONE LODGE. Keystone Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Hana sa, Wyo., meets the first and third Tuesdays in the month. All members in good standing are invited. HENRY ANDERSON. HIRAM COMMANDERY NO. 20. A. F. & A. M. Hiram Commandery Knights Templar meets the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. B. HILL. E. C. T. W. RICHMOND, Recorder, 2350 Curtis St. FAR WEST CHAPTER NO. 6. R. A. M.. Meets the second Wednesday. W. H. FINLEY, H. P. WM. SPRAGUE, Secretary, P. O. Box 1545 Lone Star Chapter No. 15, O. E..S., meets the first and third Friday in each month at 2:30 p. m., at 1712 Curtis street. CORA O'BRYANT, W. M. SUSIE CLINGMAN, Sec'y. 1124 So. 13th St. ARAPAHOE LODGE NO. 924, G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets the first and third Monday nights in the month at Odd Fellows Hall. 1832 Arapahoe Street. GEO. D. HALL, P. S., P. O. box 895. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LODGE NO. 4320 G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets every Thursday in the month at 1712 Curtis Street. GEO. S. CONTEE, P. S., 2612 Welton Street. THE WASH STREET Nights of Meeting DENVER PATRIARCHY, NO. 67. month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1832 \rapahoe street. C. A. BURTON, W. P. R. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 367, G. U. O. of O. F. Meets the first and third Tuesdays in each month at Odd Fellows Hall, 183- Arapahoe street. Mrs Olarence Holmes 2139 Curtis St Worthy Recorder PAST GRAND MASTERS' COUNCIL NO. 128, G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets the second Friday in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1832 Arapahoe street. WALTER SCOTT, G. B Western Star Lodge No. 128, U. B. of F., meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. H. B. BROWN, W M. R. GRIGSEY. Sec. CAPTOLIA TEMPLE NO. 183, S. M. T. nesdays in each month at 1832 Arapahoe Street. Members in good standing are invited to attend. MATTIE HOLLY, W. P. JENNIE JONES. Secretary. Webster Temple No. 5, S. M. T., meets the second and fourth Wednesafternoon in each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. Mrs. E. A. Carter, W. P., Mrs. Callie V. Campbell, Sec. PHYTHIAS LODGE NO. 11. Meets the first and third Wednesday nights, 1832 Arapahoe Street. HARRY JONES, C. C., 1022 19th Street. J. M. MARTENIA, K. of R. & S. Montclair P. O. DAMON LODGE NO. 5. K. of P. meets at 1712 Curtis street the first and third Friday of each month. D. H. WILLIAMS, C. C. W. A. Rice, K. of R. & S.; ABTNA CAMP NO. —. U. R. K. OF P Meets at 1712 Curtis street the second and fourth Friday nights in the month G. B. PASH, Captain. A. J. LYLES, Recorder. EURENA COMPANY NO. 4 Meets the first and fourth Tuesdays R. BUTLER Captain F. L. VOOREE, Recorder. 1222 19th Street COLUMBINE COURT NO. z79. Meets the second and fourth Tues day evenings at 1712 Curtis Street. All visiting members are invited to attend. LIZZIE WILLIAMS, W. C. ELIZA BETH SCOTT, R. D. Rocky Mountain Court No. 3, I. O. O. C., meets the second and fourth Friday afternoons at 1712 Curtis street. All visiting members are cordially welcomed. MRS. W. A. JONES, W. C., MRS CASEY, Secretary, 2557 Clarkston St. ROYAL TEMPLE NO. 23, I. B. P. O. E. of W. meets second and fourth Wednesdays in each month at 1712 Curtis street. LIZZIE COOK, D. R. MRS. NETTIE M. KELLY, Sec'y. 2222 Arapahoe Street. GAINES TEMPLE, No. 4, S. M. T. Of Trinidad, meets the first and third Monday afternoons at 3 o'clock at Marble hall, 111 First street A. E. SUTTON, W. P. M. B. WILSON, Sec. QUEEN OF THE WEST NO.1. Meets first and third Thurdays in each month. 1834 Arapahoe Street MRS. HENRIETTE WRIGHT, V. P. MRS. FLORENCA 162 Filmore St. RICE LODGE NO. 39. I. B. O. E. of W. meets first and third Wednesday night in each month at 1712 Curtis street. All visiting HI are welcome. CARL WILSON, Exalted Ruler. L. J. MANLEY, Sec'y, 2051 Lawrence street. TABERNACLE NO. 529. Tabernacle No. 529 meet the first and third Thursday in the monta a. 1712 Curtis street. All members in good standing are invited. LAUF . CARSON, H. P. NANNIE WELLS, Recorder. TRUE REFORMER. True Reformers No. 1621 Colorado Enterprise Fountain, meet first and third Monday at 1832 Arapahoe street. C. M. Hughes Master. Mrs. M. M Riley, Secretary, Cooper building. C. H. CLARK, Master. C. M. HUGHES, Secretary. LAUGHTERS OF TABERNACLE. Pride of Denver No. 521 meets at 1712 Curtis every first and third Thursday. SARAH THREET, H. P. ESTELLA J. JONES, C. R. GOLDEN GATE JUVENILES. Meets the second and fourth Saturday afternoon at 2:30, at 1832 Arapahoe St. All members in good standing are invited. OGLESVILLE LAWSON, Y. S. WILLA MAY, M. P. 1861 Hazel Court VICTORIA TEMPLE, NO. 6, S. M. T. of Colorado Springs, meets the second and fourth Friday night in the month. MRS. JENNIE HENDERSON, W. Princess. MRS. COLLINS, Secretary. Solomon Temple No. 419, K. T.. meets the second and fourth Thursday at 1712 Curtis street. All Knights in good standing are invited. C. P. M'KENZIE, C. P. 2740 Arapahoe street Silver Star Council No. 70, Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, meets the second and fourth Monday in the month at 1712 Curtis street. ALICE JONES, Queen. KATE LEVELLA, Sec. Denver Military Club-Mc. Very Sunday at 8:30 p.m. at 2524 Walnut street. Peyton Peterson, president: John Clifton, vice-president and general manager; Herbert White, secretary, 1958 Arapahoe street. Junior Lights meets at 5:30 p. m., Junior Lights meets at 5:30 p. m., led by Mrs. Kelley. Sunday services at Zion Baptist Church begins at 10:45 a.m. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. At 6:30 p.m. the B. Y. P. U. meets for praise and devotional service, meeting lasting one hour. Evening service begins at 7:30 sharp. A special invitation is extended to the sinner and backslider. Sunday services of Bethlehem Baptist Church: Sunday school. 10:30 a. m.; preaching at 3 p. m.; night service. Everybody is cordially invited to the church. 2912 Walnut street. REV. A. E. REYNOLDS. People's Presbyterian Church. Twenty-third and Washington avenues—Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 9:30 p. m. Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m. Praise meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. Covenant meeting Friday at 8 p. m. Welcome to all PAYNE CHAPEL NOTES Sunday school 3 p. m. Women's Mite Missionary society at 4 p. m Do not fail to be present and enjoy the program and assist in this good work. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner of Twentyfourth and California street. Sunday Services. On the first Sunday of each month, Covenant meeting at 11 a. m., at 7:30 p. m. preaching and communion service. On each of the other Sundays, preaching at 11 a. m., Sunday school at 12:30. Mrs. Minnie Williams, superintendent B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m., Mr. Colem,an president. Preaching at 7:30 p. m. Mid-Week Services. Deaconist Board meets Monday before the first Sunday of each month at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Stone, chairman. The Deacon Board meets on Tuesday before the first Sunday at 7:30 p. m. Bro. J. Little, chairman. Trustee Board meets on Monday before the first Sunday at 7:30. Brother B. F. Hill, chairman. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Circle meets each Friday at 3 p. m.. Mrs. M. Ja- --- THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO cobs, president. The Young Men's Christian Progressive club meets each Monday at 7:30 p. m. E. J. Edwards, president. Regular business meeting of the church on Wednesday before the first Sunday unless otherwise ordered. Prayer meeting on Wednesday of each week at 7:30 p. m. Members of the church are expected to be present at these services. The public generally are invited and strangers especially will be made welcome. REV. J. B. BECKHAM, Pastor. 2414 California Street. SHORTER CHAPEL AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH. Corner Twenty-third and Washington streets. Sunday and mid-week meetings, from October, 1908, to April, 1909. Sunday Services. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Mrs. Effie Waldron, superintendent. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. m. Monthly communion the first Sunday at 12 m. Classes one and six meet at 12:45 p. m. Allen C. E. League at 6:30 p. m. Miss Gertrude Nichols, president. A sacr deconcert the first Sunday evening of each month under the direction of the League at 7 p. m. Sermon omitted. The trustees meet the first Tuesday at 8 p. m. Official board meets the second and fourth Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. Eureka Literary Society every Tuesday night at 8 p. m. Raymond Clark, president. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 8 p. m. The Sewing Circle meets the first and third Thursday afternoons at 2:30. Mrs. Ella Leniza, president. The W. M. M. S. meets the second and fourth Thursday afternoons at 2:30. Mrs. E. N. Ward, president. The Stewardess' board meets the first and third Friday afternoon at 2:30. Mrs. Unity Hall, president. Teachers meet every Friday at 7:00 p. m. Class meeting every Friday at 8:00 p. m. A cordial welcome is extended to all who enter our doors. A. MILTON WARD, Pastor. Residence 119 23rd St. SCOTT'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sunday Service. 11:00 a. m.—Preaching. 12:30 m.—Sunday school. 8:00 p. m.—Preaching. Mid-week Wednesday. 8:00 p. m.—Class and prayer meet- ing. First Monday 8:00 p. m.—Official Board. C. W. HOLMES, Pastor. Not Rugged. The Doctor—Your son is too delicate to attend college. The Father—Don't you think his studies might be regulated so that he wouldn't have to work too hard? The Doctor—Oh, his studies won't hurt him. But he couldn't live through a fraternity initiation. Might Be Called a Hint. Harold—What did she say when you turned out the gas and kissed her? Rupert—Said she felt as if she never wanted to see my face again.—Stray Stories. WHEN YOU GO TO LEADVILLE You can get first-class rooms with Mrs. S. J. Motley at 206 West Sixth street. First-class table board also. Write or call. 10-02 --- PIANOS $100.00 AND UPWARD Anyone may have a Plano delivered at their home for $2.00 per week payments. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO. Ground Floor Charles Building ONLY COMPLETE OF ACCURATE POCKET REFERENCE OF DENVER THEBROWNELL INDEX "Green Book with Red Edge—They're Everywhere." Issued Quarterly—Always Up-to-Date. Contains: City, County, State and Automobile Maps. 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You will learn everything and get much valu- ation by simply writing us a postal. Biker Appoint in every town and can offer an opportunity ey to suitable young men who apply at once. CTURE-PROOF TIRES ONLY $4.80 MERCER THERM RECORD sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating used upon or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than stating qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially "Holding Back" sensation commonly felt when riding on asphalt patent "Basket Weave" tread which prevents all air from being PAGE. 15. Notice the thick rubber trous "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D," also rim strip "H" to prevent rim cutting. This tire will outlast any other make—SOFT, ELASTIC and EASY RIDING. PAGE.16 Asheville, N. C., Nov. 9, 1908. Mrs. T. D. Perkins, Denver, Colo.: Dear Madam—Having heard through my father, Geo. H. White of Philadelphia, of the success that you have in treating people's hair and scalps, and needing something to improve my little girl's hair, I decided to write you concerning it. I would like to know what your treatment consists of and what your prices are. My little girl's hair is stubborn and does not grow as I would like it to. Please let me hear from you soon. (MRS.) DELLA M. GARRETT, 165 College St. NOTICE Mrs. R. Simpson of 1050 Logan avenue, is agent for the Eureka comb, which can be had for $1.50. You do not have to go East to learn hairdressing in all its branches. Enquire terms of the Moler System of Colleges, 1229 17th street, Denver, Colo. A Woman's Enterprise. under the management of MRS. LAURA HILL 2456 Glenarm Pl PHONE PURPLE 1890. Ladies' and Children's Ready-Made Underwear. Children's Clothes a Specialty. Hairdressing, Manicuring, Shampoo- ing and Massage. MISS GERALDINE TROUTMAN, Public Stenographer. All kinds of Stenographic Work. MRS. DORA HOLMES PAYNE. Nine-Pound Potato. Greeley, Colo., claims the largest potato raised in the Centennial State this year. The tuber for which the championship is claimed weighs nine pounds and was sent to the exposition at St. Louis. Roy Smith of Montrose, Colo., has five potatoes whose combined weight is twenty-two pounds. THE SICK MADE WELL WITH MAGNETIC HEALING. A Magnetic Healer has arrived in the city, and invites the sick and afflicted to make no delay in calling to see him. Precious Life and Health can be Saved by this that would be Hopeless Under the Old Methods. The Nature of The Disease makes no Difference. It is no longer necessary to suffer the pangs of pain and disease, or die prematurely. The time is now at hand when it is as easy to get well as it is to get sick. Those who are suffering with Stomach Troubles, bad cases of Rheumatism, or any other Lingering Disease, take one treatment of Magnetic healing from the Healer and you shall be convinced that your disease and pains will be turned into health and joy. All this is simply the operation of natural law, and it is not half as wonderful as the fact that you can send your voice along a little wire for thousands of miles, yet no one doubts the telephone, or is astonished at what it accomplishes. Is it strange, then, that a new discovery should be made in the line of physical science as applied to the healing art. PROF. H. G. H. BUTLER, 1123 Welton Street. Phone Main 8752. ```markdown ``` THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. Call at 2441 Lawrence street, or phone Main 5663, to have your sewing done. Carrie Clay. After spending three and a half months with Daniels & Fisher, Miss Elva Carter has opened a dressmaking shop at home, 2111 Arapahoe street, 'phone Main 8625. Fashionable dressmaking, designing. Mrs. I. M. McGuire, 2516 Curtis st. SPECIAL LOCALS FOR SALE or exchange—For Denver property, the Perkins home, 418 East Cucharras. Lee Lawyer Ross, 207 Kittredge. FOR RENT—Large front room and side bedroom at 1735 Logan avenue. FOR RENT—Furnished house of two rooms. Call at 1435 31st st. FOR RENT—One room at 1050 Logan avenue. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house. 2421 Ogden street, FOR RENT—Furnished room for man and wife. 2512 Clarkson street. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms at 2117 Welton street. Mrs. Mayes. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2424 Glenarm Place. FOR RENT--Nicely furnished rooms with or without board, 2450 Tremont Place. Mrs. Franklin. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2419 Emerson street. Mrs. E. J. Lampkins. FOR RENT-Furnished rooms at 2248 Clarkson. Call for information at 1761 Pearl street. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2431 Arapahoe street, for man and wife or man only. FOR RENT—Furnished room in modern house. 2539 Glenarm place. Phone Main 6931. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2515 Curtis street, in a modern house. 'Phone Olive 1472. WANTED—A woman to do night housekeeping. Enquire of 1530 Glenarm Place. FOR RENT—Room in modern house, with use of kitchen, 2449 Glenarm Place. FOR RENT—Furnished room for gentleman; close in. Phone Olive 1453. FOR RENT--Two unfurnished rooms at 1258 Champa Street FOR RENT-One nice front room, will rent cheap to right party. 1630 Pennsylvania. FOR RENT-Furnished room with or without board. 2615 Welton street. Mrs. C. C. Smith. There is a Real Estate Company in your midst that wants the Negro's patronage, will appreciate it and also give him a SQUARE DEAL, that is THE COLORED AMERICAN LOAN & REALTY CO. And is composed of the following known Gentlemen: DR. W. A. JONES, - - President H. J. M. BROWN, - - Treasurer A. A. WALLER, Secretary and Manager With Notary Public in Office at all times And is composed of the following known Gentlemen: DR. W. A. JONES, - - President H. J. M. BROWN, - - Treasurer A. A. WALLER, Secretary and Manager With Notary Public in Office at all times ROOMS TO RENT--To gentlemen, at 2319 Champa street. Mrs. E. A. Scott. Everything modern and rates reasonable. Phone Main 8034. 8004. FOR RENT—First class rooms with all conveniences and comfort at 2428 Emerson st. Mrs. I C. McKenzie. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms at 2812 Lawrence street, $1.50 and $2 per week. Gentlemen preferred. Phone Purple 1607. Mrs. Oastry. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2121 Arapahoe street. Phone Olive 1755. Mrs. L. P. Holmes. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house. Bath and gas. Mrs. H. W. Wade, 222, Lincoln avenue. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house. 8437 Gilpin street. Gentlemen preferred. Reasonable rates. FOR RENT-A nicely furnished rooom. A quiet man and wife preferred. Can have use of house. 921 27th st. Phone Purple 1452. FOR RENT CHEAP-A three-room house with the use of two iron beds and a cooking stove, all for $7.50 per month to the right person. See Lawyer Ross, 207 Kittredge bldg. SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS in rooms, gentlemen preferred. Rates reasonable. Phone Purple 23. 2810 Arapahoe street. Mrs. R. Lindsay. BEE HIVE NOOMING HOUSE At 1929-1931 Lawrence street, with 18 neatly furnished rooms. Kitchen special for roomers who want to cook. Bath prepared at any time. Call and see the proprietor, Mrs. Anna Bobo. Phone Main 2869. Transient rooms for BE SURP TO ROOM with Mrs. S. J. Bunker when you go to Manitou, Culo. Modern house, very convenient. R. E. HANDY, Licensed Embalmer. AWHORN CO. Funeral Directors Packing and Shipping d for all Occasions. THE A. M. LAWHO Undertakers and Funer Up-to-Date Undertaking and Carriage Furnished for all Oc 1110 18th STREET Phone Main 6128 DENVER. --- 913 21st St. FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms at 2027 Stout street. Mrs. Fort. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms in a modern house at 1235 Weltoa street. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house. 2851 Welton street. Furnace heat, no children. For Rent—Neatly furnished rooms at 2214 Arapahoe street. Phone Main FOR RENT—Furnished room in modern house at 2955 Glenarm Place. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms for ladies at 2215 Humboldt street. Mrs. Whizard. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, one front and one back, at 2248 Lawrence street. Mrs. C. D. Hagood. FOR RENT—Furnished or unfurnished rooms at 2421 Welton street. For Rent.—Furnished rooms in modern house. 2918 Welton street. Mrs. Mamie Cole. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house at 629 22nd street. Phone Main 6851. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 1839 Lawrence street for gentlemen. Miss Emle Jackson. FOR RENT—Furnished bed rooms at 629 22nd street. Phone Main 6851. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms for rent in a strictly modern house, 2255 Arapahoe street. Mrs. R. M. Blakey. FOR RENT OR FOR SALE—A furnished house. Cheap, a good bargain. Call Main 3192. FOR RENT—Several nicely furnished rooms in modern house in walking distance. Mrs. Howard, 2301 Lawrence street. A. M. LAWHORN, Manager. Cowboy on a Donkey PAGE 2 Glass Jars Expected to Take Place of Old Receptacle. "I don't believe it will be long before the cedar wood cigar box is a thing of the past," said the clerk as he knocked the nails out of a box and scratched off the internal revenue stamp. "Several big cigar manufacturing concerns have been experimenting recently with glass jars as a substitute, and they are proving a great success. Of course, they are heavier than the wooden box and there is a slight percentage of breakage, but in the end they are cheaper, for the price of the wooden boxes is going up all the time. The package is attractive, and the cigars packed in the jars will not dry out so rapidly. "Fifty cigars are packed in the jars, which have a light, nickeled screw top. The best part of the glass jar idea is that the smokers' wives can put them to good use after the cigars are all gone. They can be used around the house for a thousand different things. But a wooden cigar box wasn't much use for anything after it had served its first purpose. You could break, shatter or do most anything with it, but the scent of the tobacco stuck to it." Calamity Forced Laundry Company to Rescind Its Boast. It was the boast of the "Incomparable Laundry Company" that it employed no Chinamen, that it did better work than Chinese laundries did, and did not wear out the clothes so quickly in washing. One unlucky day, however, the company's building caught fire and was partially destroyed. By great exertion nearly all the contents were saved, but in a highly mixed and tangled-up condition. Drivers of the company's wagons were sent round to the various customers to assure them that they would lose nothing; that their shirts, collars and cuffs were all safe, and would be delivered to them, properly laundered, with a delay of only a few days. "Wasn't everything piled in a heap when you got things out of the building?" asked one of the customers. "Yes," said the driver to whom the question was addressed. "Well, how are you ever going to separate them?" "Oh, we've got a-er-Chinaman sorting them out," answered the driver with some reluctance.—Youth's Companion. Not So Very Precious. A New York hotel is going to have enough gold dishes to serve a dinner of seven courses to 75 persons. Of course, this suggests moralizing on prodigal luxury and allusions to Lucullus and Apicius and also to Belshazzar. But there was a time when even kings dined from trenchers. The introduction of pewter was probably denounced by the philosophers of the day as prodigality, and while silver is not commonly used for dishes from which persons eat, it is in such general use for the larger pieces and for spoons, forks and drinking vessels that the use of silver must represent, as compared with the previous customs, about as great an increase of expenditure as the use of a gold dining service does now. The precious metals are not so precious as they were once.—Philadelphia Record. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORAD His Impression. "Yes," said the fair young thing; "that punch you just tasted is made from a recipe that has been treasured in the family for centuries. The earliest authentic record we have of it was in the lifetime of my great-great-everso-great-grandfather, whose suit of armor stands in the hall." "If he drank much of that punch," observes the young man, who has had two glasses of it, "he must have wished he was wearing that armor on his inside instead of his outside."—Judge. Her Excuse. "Mrs. Skandell was telling me a story to-day about that odious Mrs. Gailey," began Mrs. Jigsley. "See here!" interrupted her husband. "I thought you hated gossip." "Why—er-so I do, but, of course, I can't hate it thoroughly until I know just exactly what it is." Absorbing. "There is one subject on which it is difficult to keep up interest." "What particular subject is that on which it is difficult to keep up interest?" "The mortgage of my house."—Stray Stories. An Old-Fashioned Woman. This is the tale of an old-fashioned woman. Her husband, who had accumulated wealth as the years went by and had begun to take life easy, worried because his wife worked as hard as ever. He hired a cook, and within two weeks found his wife waiting on the cook. Then he hired a maid to wait on the cook, and a short time afterward found his wife waiting on the maid. At one time he had hired four persons, a man, a cook, the maid and a scrub woman and found that his wife worked as hard as ever. (This is an explanation of why a certain man sits on the front porch and reads and smokes while his wife, who has earned equal right to rest, is scrubbing in the kitchen: She is enjoying herself in her way just as much as he is in his.)—Atchison Globe. A Busy Little Chap. It has been ascertained that the mouse, when he is free to range about, sleeps only two hours in the 24, or less than any other animal known. During the rest of the time he is on the hustle and probably covers five miles in his running. The honey bee sleeps from dark to dawn, and that old saying: "as busy as a bee," should be changed to "as busy as a mouse." In four days and nights a mouse will either eat or convey away a pound of cheese. He has always got his appetite with him. Imparting Knowledge. "What do you do in the college, Mr. Smitts?" inquired the child of the hostess of the learned guest at dinner: "I'm a professor in the college," returned the guest, magnanimously. "I impart my knowledge to my students!" "Then, if you keep on imparting it," declared the child, "pretty soon you won't know anything, will you?" The Provinces. "Why does that man have such utter contempt for everything west of the Alleghenies?" "He has lived in New York for nearly 11 months." PHONE 1461 2300-2306 Larimer St. WALTER EAT Groceries, Vegetables, OUR SPECIALTIES FO OUR SPECIALTIES FOR THE COMING WEEK VEGETABLES A Fresh line of Vegetables received daily: Radishes, Potatoes, Lettuce, Onions, Cabbage, Turnips, Spinach, Tomatoes etc. Also Canned Goods FRUITS We handle nothing but the best Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, etc. Also Canned Goods DELICA In this Department everything Chitterlings, Chine Bonés, Snoots, P thing about a he DELICATESSBN In this Department everything is complete, up-to-date and fresh Chitterlings, Chine Bonés, Snoots, Pig Feet, Ears, Tails, Hocks Everything about a hog but the squeal. WALTER EAST Phone 1461 GOLF TRACED TO MOSES' DAY. --- Scotchman Tells of Famous Game at the Red Sea Crossing. That the game of golf is of more ancient origin than generally supposed was made clear recently to the members of the Arsdale Golf club, who assembled in English's hall, East Orange, N. J., for their annual dinner, says the New York World. President Angus Sinclair, whose name is evidence enough that he came from the land where golf is next to religion in the hearts of the people, was the man to lay the history of the game before his hearers. "A few days after the Israellites finished their toilsome tramp over the rocky bed of the Red sea," said Mr. Sinclair, "Moses and Aaron went out for a friendly game of golf on the sand bunkers along the seashore. "A fisherman's house happened to obtrude itself between Moses and the first green. The great law giver was not rattled, however. He grasped his mashle with a firm hold, sending the ball over the house directly into the hole. Then Aaron turned in wrath and exclaimed: 'Look here, Moses, gowf is gowf, and I didna coom out tae sae mair o' your miracles. Caddle, coom awa' halm; we canna stand that kind o' ply.' "That historical incident proves that Aaron doubted the skill of his famous brother, a sentiment that finds no place among the members of the Arsdale Golf club respecting the skill of their fellow members." Statesman's Discretion. If discretion is a virtue on the part of the average man it is a positive necessity with emperors and statesmen. This truth was realized by Gladstone at the outset of his political career. Shortly after his marriage he said to his wife: "Shall I tell you nothing, and you can say everything? Or shall I tell you everything, and you say nothing?" She chose the latter alternative, like a woman, and like a wise woman rigidly adhered to her part of the bargain. ```markdown ``` ruits, Meats, Delicatessen R THE COMING WEEK MEATS In this Department there is nothing lacking: Beef, Mutton and Pork Try our Roasts and Steaks Also Canned Meats Here you can get Flour, Crackers Meal, Salted Meats, Sugar, Coffees Teas, Spices and anything needed for the Kitchen Also Bakery Goods TESSEN is complete, up-to-date and fresh g Feet, Ears, Tails, Hocks Every- g but the squeal. 2300-6 Larimer St. South African Millionaires. Harry Barnato, who has just died in the prime of life, is the latest addition to the list of South African millionaires whose lives have closed prematurely and often tragically. Cecil Rhodes, it will be remembered, did not live to see his forty-ninth birthday, although he had qualified as a millionaire at least 20 years earlier, and Barney Barnato was only 46 when he came to his tragic end on the high seas, but he had lived long enough to leave nearly £1,000,000 behind him. Woolf Joel, Barnato's nephew, was much younger when at 34 a bullet put an end to his life at Johannesburg ten years or so ago, and yet he was able to leave an estate valued at £1,226,000; Herbert Matthew Davies accumulated £734,000 before he died at the age of 43, and Mr. Belt had made and left his millions before he had long completed half a century of years. Prophecies of Big Ben. Big Ben has been stopped three times by snow freezing on the hands and jamming them. A curious episode in its history took place in December, 1861, just before the prince consort died, when, owing to the failure of an experimental piece of apparatus, the clock struck a hundred or more strokes without stopping. People who were unaware of the cause saw in the occurrence an omen of the great loss which shortly afterward befell the nation. Another sensational prank was played by the clock on April 9, 1886, when it stopped while Mr. Gladstone was making his famous speech in favor of home rule for Ireland. This was taken by some as an augury that the bill would not pass, and as regards the event the prophets were justified. —From the Captain. That's True. Too. "Clothes aren't everything. The clothing-store wax figure is long on dress, but short on brains, you know." "Short on brains, maybe, but at least it doesn't say such silly things as some of the 'rah-rahs who dress like '." MEATS ROVISIONS ```markdown ``` Rooms-31-2 Good Block. Office Phone Main 5595. Hours: 9 to 11 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. 7 to 8 p. m. DR. P. E. SPRATLIN Residence, 2230 Clarkson Street. Telephone York 123. Office hours: 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. and by appointment. Phone Main 7416. Dr. T. Ernest McClain DENTAL SURGEON, Plate, Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty 2139 Curtis St., DENVER, COLO. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 am. m. 3 to 5 p. m. 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by appointment. DR. W. A. JONES 911 TWENTY-FIRST STREET. Office Phone Main 5554. Res. 2205 Marion St. Phone York 4370. Phone Main 8625 After hours 3230 DR. JUSTINA L. FORD 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., to 8 p. OFFICE ANL RESIDENCE. 2111 Araphoe Street, Denver. FRANKLIN H. BRYANT Attorney-at-Law Corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets Suite 48 Good Block DENVER. COLO JOS. H. STUART LAWYER PRACTICES IN ALL COURTS. Office 329 Kittredge Bldg., Cor. 16th and Glenarm. Residence 2562 Lincoln avenue. Phone Olive 2294. Examining abstracts of title, and drawing up legal documents given careful attention. GEORGE G. ROSS ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT- Abstracts of title, wills, deeds and all legal matters pertaining to real and personal property carefully looked after. Room 207 Kittredge Building. Residence, 2344 Tremont Place. After 6:00 Phone Olive 1414. Dr. Westbrook. Dr. Harper. 8 to 12 m. 2 to 5 p. m. 1 to 5 p. m. 7 to 8 p. m. All Other Hours and Sunday by Appointment. 'Phone Main 1144. DR. WESTBROOK Residence 1505 East 16th Avenue Phone York 4014 Physician and Surgeon. DR. HARPER Dentist. 015-917 Twenty-First Street THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. TOO MUCH FOR THE GRIZZLY. Guide Might Have Tried to Make Him Swallow a Yarn Like That. The hunter was recalling some of his early experiences for the benefit of the tenderfeet. "Yes, sir," he said, "it was my first grizzly, and I don't deny I was proud of having killed him in a hand-to-hand struggle. We began fighting about sunrise, and when he finally rolled over, done for, I'll be blamed if the sun wasn't going down." We paused. No one said anything, and so he added slowly, "for the second time." "Do you mean that it took you two days to kill a grizzly?" asked the English tourist. "Two whole days and one night," replied the guide, reaching for a brand to light his pipe. "He died mighty hard." "Choked to death?" asked the tourist. "Yes, sir," the guide said, calmly. "Weil, well! What did you try to get him to swallow?" Sixty Different Kinds of Bananas. To most persons in the temperate zones a banana is a banana. But the truth is that there are over 60 known varieties of the fruit, with as great, or greater variation in character as in the different kinds of apples. Hawaii is said to have something over 40 distinct varieties of the fruit, most of which have been introduced by the whites. Some of these are of extremely delicate and delicious flavor, while other kinds are used, if at all, only when cooked in various ways. There is scarcely a city house lot, or country "kuleana" or homestead which does not have a clump or two of bananas, which grow with practically no care, new plants, or suckers, shooting up to replace the ones which have fruited and been removed. A Child of Nature. It was a primitive home in the Tennessee mountains where the kitchen range is still a thing of a vague and distant future. Cindy the capable, buxom and barefooted, performed her duties on the hearth of the yawning fireplace, and deftly raked the coals around the baker where the corndodgers were browning. A glowing ember, unseen by all save old Rudd, rolled out on the hearth as Cindy stepped forward with the pothooks, and he sounded the warning: "Sa-ay, Cindy—" "Whut, pa?" "You done sot yer fut on a coal o' fire." "Say I did, pa? Which fut?"—Success Magazine. Grow Tall in the Country. According to the investigations of Dr. Deniker, well-known for his anthropologic studies, the influences of city life tend toward a decrease of human stature. It is away from the large cities that the beneficent effects of the general amelioration of social conditions and improvements in hygiene of modern times most clearly manifest themselves by distinct increase of stature. This increase has been marked among several of the European races during the last half-century. Where the people are subjected to urban influences the gain is less notable.—Youth's Companion. The best equipped Pleasure resort in the West. Ping Pong Pool and Billiards are occurring in the districts of the angement of our mailing galleys. If you rday, notify us at once. Do not delzy. notification. No paper should be as late as L. McMAHAN prescription Pharm OF TOILET ARTI-CLES, PERFUMES drugs, courteous treatment. Remember best drugs in our prescriptions. In fact — PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT as any in the city. Prices right. — PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. free. Phone Main 4956. Cor. 19th and GIVE ME A CALL. Many changes are occurring in the districts of the Denver postoffice, requiring new arrangement of our mailing galleys. If your paper does not reach you on Saturday, notify us at once. Do not delzy. The fault can only be corrected by notification. No paper should be as late as Monday in reaching the subscriber. FINE LINE OF TOILET ARTI-CLES, PERFUMES, CIGARS, ETC. Fresh, pure drugs, courteous treatment. Remember we always use the freshest and purest drugs in our prescriptions. In fact our — PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT - is as complete as any in the city.Prices right. — PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. Goods delivered free. Phone Main 4956. Cor. 19th and Arapahoe Sts. GIVE ME A CALL. L. L. McMAHAN 19th St. Short Orders, Chilli, Chop Suey, Noodles All American Dishes Phone Main 6835 1855 Araj ahoe St. HELP US BE PROMPT. PAGE. 3. MANAGER "So Different" Club resort in the Billiards Denver Colo. of the Denver postoffice If your paper does not delzy. The fault can only late as Monday in reach AN'S armacy... FRFUMES, CIGARS, ETC. member we always use the in fact our MENT SPECIALTY. 9th and Arapahoe Sts. AN Denver, Colo GO TO THE NG RANT... et ney, Noodles es n Day and Night BLE ngman arlors Phone Main 5154 PAGE.4 Rooming house for sale at your own price. 2233 Champa street. Jake Lilly died last Saturday of pneumonia. Mrs. Dora Ogburn of 2214 Arapahoe street is ill. G. H. Pash has moved to 2601 Welton street. Mrs. Holmes of 2121 Arapahoe street will leave for Montana soon. Mr. Sam Lankford returned to Colorado Springs this week. Scott M. E. church is having revivals, as is Campbell and Zion. Attorney Townsend of Pueblo was in the city during the week. Mrs. Anna Hawkins, mother of Mrs. Lillian Jones, still continues ill. Mrs. Lottie Holley, wife of Prof. R. G. Holley, is indisposed. J. A. Baker of Cheyenne was in the city during the past week. Mrs. E. M. Jones has moved into her new home at 229 West Eleventh avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilson, formerly of Boulder, are wintering in California. Miss Eunice Eubanks, who spent the holidays in Chicago visiting friends and relatives, has returned. FOR SALE—Furniture of eight rooms. See O. Gloves, 2233 Champa street. The Taka Art Club will meet next Wednesday with Mrs. M. Turner, 1218 Twentieth street. There was a Union Degree meeting of the True Reformers Wednesday night. While Attorney J. H. Stuart was out of his office someone sneaked into his office and stole his typewriter. The Misses Earl left for Colorado Springs Tuesday night after having spent a very pleasant visit. Miss Smith, cousin of Miss Margaret Willis, is visiting her during the winter months. She hails from Missouri. Mrs. Laura Hill has received an appointment as matron of the women's gallery in the State Legislature and S. H. Tarbet assistant doorkeeper. THE S.ATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. City News G. w. Blackwell, who has been stopping with his sister, Mrs. J. C. McKenzie, has returned to his home in Chicago. Miss Carson of Memphis is a pleasant visitor of Mrs. E. L. Faulkner. She is thoroughly enjoying herself during the holiday season. Mr. Faulkner, brother to our prominent physician, has come from Chicago and will permanently locate here. We welcome him into our midst. Mrs. Walter Smith, who came to Denver from Colorado Springs to spend the winter, made a flying trip Thursday, returning Friday morning. Mrs. America Ophelia has taken another house under her supervision, it being the large residence located at Twenty-second and Arapahoe streets. Chas. Jackson, one of Colorado's best football players, is able to be out again. He thoroughly enjoyed the practice game between the Libyan Browns and the "Life-Savers" Sunday. Mrs. Grace Tompkins of 2555 Clarkson street returned from Lawrence, Kans., after an enjoyable trip visiting her relatives and numerous friends. Miss Idella Gatewood, who spent a portion of the holidays in Eastonville, returned to Denver to stay indefinitely. Miss Gatewood was the "center of attraction" in a round table discussion of the "leading problems" recently. Mrs. Pazetta Campbell, who left some time ago to visit her mother and friends in Louisiana, returned after a months' visit of the Mardi Gras. Her health bespeaks her pleasant trip. Mrs. Ella Starks of Topeka, the mother of Mrs. Will James, was here visiting them during the holidays. Mrs. Stark is also well known in Tsinidad. The committee having in charge the Masonic entertainment expresses its thanks to the public for the liberal patronage given. J. R. Contee, chair man. WANTED-A nice lady and gentleman would like room in private family where there are no other roomers. 'Phone White 1905. Miss Ernie Cousins of Leadville, who spent the holidays with Miss Lucretia Burns, has returned home after a very pleasant visit. ```markdown ``` Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rivers of 1646 Pennsylvania avenue entertained at a Christmas dinner Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Burns and daughter, Grace. Capitolia Temple No. 133 will meet at their hall, 1832 Arapahoe street, next Wednesday evening. All members are requested to be present as installation will be the business of the evening. The many friends of Mrs. Sarah Jones, wife of Frank Jones, who is a devoted and conscientious worker of Zion Baptist church, will be glad to hear of her convalescence after a serious operation two weeks ago. Mrs. Jones has returned to her home from Park Avenue hospital and will be glad to see her friends at the Hill Cove Apartments, 1240 Pennsylvania avenue, of which she has charge. Mrs. Allen Gullion entertained New Year's afternoon the Art club from 2 to 5 o'clock. Miss Cathrine DeNeal presided at the piano during the luncheon hours. In the evening the Capitol Hill club partook of her hospitality. The color scheme of red and white was artistically carried out. In the receiving line were Misses Robinson and Booker. Dancing was the feature of the evening's amusement. The Building Laborers held their annual election Dec. 28, when the following officers were elected: R. M. Grigsby, president; S. Harrington, vice-president; R. Fulbright, financial secretary; E. Trower, recording secretary; D. Letcher, treasurer; Henry Williams, sergeant-at-arms; O. Williams, C. Gentry, J. Little, trustees; Wm. Quick, E. L. Lawson, Jesse Van Pelt, board of directors. Remember the young men of the Y. M. C. B. at Shorter Chapel Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, when they will endeavor to raise $500 for the work. Rev. Countee will preach. The open house on New Year's day was largely attended, about 400 having called during the receiving hours. Much credit is due the young men who so well nanaged the reception. The lecture room was beautifully decorated with the season's color and light refreshments were served. Each guest received a souvenir card as a reminder of the occasion. The following officers were elected for Zion Baptist Sunday School: J. W. Jackson, superintendent; P. J. Porter, first assistant superintendent; Samuel Grimes, second assistant superintendent; J. R. Jackson, treasurer; Mrs. Lillian Jones, secretary; Miss R. C. Banion, assistant secretary; Mrs. H. C. Bruce, librarian; Miss Beatrice Lewis, organist; Miss Lela Webster, pianist; Miss Helen Thrashley, violinist; C. A. Clarke, chorister; A. C. Jackson, assistant chorister. The Eureka Literary Society was somewhat crippled by the cold weather and dance last Tuesday night. The program was fine and many new and valuable suggestions were made by the president and others. The program committee will have a surprise for the public in two weeks after the revival services at Campbell Chapel are finished. The literary adjourned for two weeks because of the revivals. Miss Ethel Jones, who was an active member of the literary, has been chosen secretary of the Alliance. Mr. Turner was also given an office in that body. Both were members of the literary. Greater interest and enthusiasm is being manifested and it is only a question of time until the Program committee will produce their surprise. Jan. 26 will be that memorable night. vimal 2017 1918 Mrs. Jane Jackson died Thursday morning at her home, 2027 Welton St. The deceased has been a resident of Denver for the past forty-five years. The funeral will be held Sunday at 1 o'clock from Zion Baptist Church of which he is a member. She leaves one son, Homer. FOR RENT-One large front room and rear room in modern house, 2344 Tremont Place, Olive 1414. WARD-FROMAN-CASEY RECEPTION WARD-FROMAN-CASEY RECEPTION That their many friends might be all entertained in the proper Christmas style, Mrs. A. Froman, Mrs. C. L. Casey and Mrs. A. Ward had one of the unique social events which closed last year. The decorations were odd in that the gathering was unusual. The refreshments were not of the ordinary kind and the ladies were gowned in some dress fashioned after their own notions. But fun and merriment, joy and laughter at old jokes, old Missouri stories, were so much in prominence in the event that it registered one good, jolly time. The crowd was congenial and even now echoes of that pleasant time are heard. They have a peculiar remedy for blues with their social surprises. IN MEMORIAM. In loving remebrance of our dear husband and father who fell asleep Jan. 10, 1908: Asleep in Jesus; peaceful rest, Whose waking is supremely blest. No fear, no woe shall dim that hour That manifests the Savior's power. M. ELIZABETH BRANFORD. CORINNE E. O'BRYANT. BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH. 2716 Larimer Street. CRIPPLE CREEK, COLO., NEWS. Mrs. C. A. Pilgrim is at home from a short stay in Victor. Mrs. Minnie Goesman will go to the hospital on the 20th inst. for an operation. Mr. G. W. Robertson, who had an operation at the hospital, is at home doing nicely. Mrs. Omsted of Colorado Springs, in company with Mrs. Kerl of Manitou, visited this city last week and was the guests of Rev. Brown. The second quarterly meeting will be held at Handy Chapel on the 31st day of January. Rev. J. C. C. Owens is looked for with much joy and high anticipation. Mrs. Millen, one of the leading barbers in this city, received a letter from her daughter, Miss Edith Millen, stating that she arrived in Kansas City, Kans., and spent her vacation with Prof. Yeates and family. She was maid of honor at Miss Yates' debut. Miss Edith Millen is a teacher in Marshall, Mo. Watch meeting night was observed in due form at Handy Chapel on Thursday night. There was a large crowd in attendance. Rev. J. H. Brown is fast winning his way into the hearts of the people. He is highly spoken of by everybody and has accepted a membership in the Ministers' Union of this city. Rev. Brown is a live, especially active man, much the kind needed in this city. Rev. Brown was the invited guest at the home of Mrs. L. B. Choteau Sunday at 3 p. m., for dinner, also at Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Pilgrims, Tuesdays, 5 p. m. Signs or Life. "Metchnikoff will perhaps increase man's life to 200 years by feeding him on curdled milk, and Doyen, with his old age serum, may add another 50 years to that. The signs of long life and short life, though will still hold good, and the delicate-skinned man will be prematurely cut off at 120 or 130, while the man with the rough, coarse hide will round out a generous 260 or 265." The speaker, a physician, and himself coarse-hided, resumed thoughtfully: "The signs of a short life—and my medical experience has shown these signs to be true—are quick growth, a small head, white and frail teeth slightly separated, a very fair and soft and beautiful skin, early corpulence, a small mouth and fine, soft hair. "The signs of a long life are a coarse, rough skin, strong, yellowish teeth, coarse hair, a deeply furrowed brow, wide nostrils and a large mouth." New "Marianne Islands." Heretofore the official address of the naval station has been "Guam, Ladrone islands." It is now, by official order, "Guam, Marianne islands." "Ladrone" is Spanish for robber, and the inhabitants felt that such a suggestive name did them an injustice. THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. Cateman Had Woven Romance Where Romance Was Not. A charming young girl in a delightful spring costume presented herself at the platform gate of a railway station and proceeded to plead with the man in charge. "Will you please let me through?" she said, appealingly. "Can't do it, miss; it's against the rules." "But I want to meet him when he arrives. He will be so upset if I am not on the platform to meet him." The man hesitated. "Please," she insisted, gazing at him with tear-dimmed eyes. "Well, I'll risk it," said the gateman, and he let her through. "I daresay she's only been married a little while, and her husband's coming back for the first time," he reflected. "Or, maybe, it's her lover she's expecting, for she looks too young and childish to be married." Meanwhile the radiant young creature stood tapping her foot impatiently, waiting for the train to arrive. Presently it steamed in. The girl ran alongside and a porter handed out a miserable little specimen of a pug dog, which she took in her arms and covered with kisses. As she passed out of the gate, with the animal in her fond embrace, she gave the gateman a bewitching smile. "Well, there!" he soliloquized. "And I was fool enough to weave romances about her. I oughtn't to be here. My proper place is the lunatic asylum." KEEPING TIME WITH HIS JAWS. How Nick Altrock Developed Into Champion Gum Chewer. When Nick Altrock, the White Sox pitcher, is on the ball field he always has a big wad of gum in his mouth. His jaws work so rapidly that one would think that they might become dislocated. This has been the cause of much comment among American league ball players, so when the St. Louis club went to Chicago, Emmet Heidrick, who had been out of the game for several years, and who did not know Altrock, stood regarding Nick with wonder as his jaws opened and closed in so rapid a manner. Finally Emmet turned to Harry White and said: "Say, Doc, what makes that fellow go after that gum in that hurried fashion?" "Wait until I ask him," replied Harry; and then raising his voice the clever pitcher cried out: "Nick, how did you come to develop that swift jaw manipulation?" "When I was in Toronto," merrily cried Nick, "I used to eat my meals at a joint where they had a bang-up orchestra that didn't play anything but quick two-step music, and the first thing I knew I was keeping time to it while I was eating, and I ain't been able to break myself of the habit yet." Britons Read Solid Books. The borrowing of novels is declining all over England, being not more than 15 per cent. of the work done by public libraries. In the public libraries of the United Kingdom there are 4,000,000 reference and 8,000,000 lending books; 11,000,000 reference books are consulted every year, according to the records, and at least an equal number are taken from the shelves and consulted without being recorded. Every year 60,000,000 books are lent for home reading. Giving further detail ates that "The taste by and travel is on are all for science new books on soin demand."—Prog- the investigator st or history, biogra the wane; readers and sociology, an cialism are always ress. Rembrandt Memorial o A pleasant bit of Holland. Accordin Globe, through the gentleman of Amst which Rembrandt 1658 has been acquisition, which propos building and bring more approaching was occupied by the posed to turn museum, in which drawings by Rembrandtographs of the m contain a library p and work. news comes from going to the London liberality of a rich erdam, the house in lived from 1689 to fired by a commiss to restore the it to a condition the time when it the painter. It is prone house into a will be shown etchdocuments and auster. It will also pertaining to his life Country vs. City. In 1800, one-twenty-fifth of the population of the country lived in six cities of 8,000 or over; in 1810 one-twentieth lived in 13 such cities; in 1830, one-sixteenth in 26 cities; in 1840, one-twelfth in 44 cities; in 1850, one-eighth in 85 cities; in 1860, one-sixth in 141 cities; in 1870, one-fifth in 226 cities; in 1880, one-oorth in 286 cities. Since 1880 the tide has been steadily flowing cityward, and by this time the urban population is probably one-third of the total. Marriageable Women Scarce. The remarkable earth of marriageable young women in some of the most populous industrial districts of Alsace-Lorraine is causing the authorities some anxiety. Throughout these provinces there are, on an average, three men to every woman, and in the small town of Kneuthingen 1,500 single women have 5,000 men from whom to choose their husbands. Setting the Date. "Have you any idea marriage to Miss place?" a when the duke's dichgirl will take "Well, some time three months. He pay which falls due New Method of Vaccination. The head and front of ordinary vaccination that it introduces germ into the blood patient. It is not a method of preparing disease by gradual which robs it of all ous prowers and co curative or protectiv t of the offending on lies in the fact living disease and tissues of the dead germ or a the virus of anyed attenuation, its vitally danger-inverts them into powers. During the last expox in London hun paths were "internal this way. In the sta United States of Am vaccination is practiced as valid by school ities.-Saturday Rev idemic of smallreds of homeoy vaccinated" in ie of Iowa in the rica this form of ed and is accept- and state author-ew. 'Coon Blew Out H. B. Tuthill, ofer 'coons recenta tree which it mb. They fired lodging him, soid lantern to the the ground and res. James Myers and Chester, were out af- ly, and located one it was impossible to cl 25 shots without dis they fastened a light tree six feet from went for more cartrid On their return the coon had descended antern light, and (N. Y.) dispatch to y found that the blown out the scaped.—Goshen new York World. Triumphant Ugly Women. Successful women were not always of irreproachable beauty or modeling. Thus, the Princess d'Evoli of Louis XV.'s time was one-eyed, the slit of Montespan's mouth reached her ears, Mme. de Maintenon was thin, meager and yellowish—Hindustan Review. A SIGN OF TROUBLE FOR HIM. Sound That Meant Big Doctor's Bills and Much Worrying. The group of men round the post office stove had been exchanging confidences, brought out by the remark of Abel Willet. "I hate to hear the wind whining the way it does to-night," he said, drawing closer to the stove. "Sounds kind o' unearthly." "Screech-owls are the only critters that can make me feel uneasy," said Gid Hamlin. "There was a family of 'em in a hollow apple-tree back o' my house one year. I used to dread the moonlight nights when they tuned up!" "Whippoorwills are plenty solemn for me," said Hiram Goodyear. "Let 'em keep it up for an hour or so across our valley, and I get chilled clear through." "There's nothing I bate to hear so bad as a dog howling," said William Hobbs. "When that hound o' the Greens' gets at it good an' steady, I come near wishing that I was stone-deef." "Ain't there any sound that kind o' turns your blood cold, Pete?" inquired Abel Willet of Peter Hanson, a small, meek faced man who was blessed with an Amazonian wife and ten children, and whose many home duties made an evening at the postoffice a rare outing. "Yes, there is," and Mr. Hanson looked apprehensive as he spoke. "The sound of a cough with a kind of a whoop to it, that's what means a bad time ahead for me, I can tell you! There's four of 'em haven't had it yet!"—Youth's Companion. MIGHT GRANT HIM THAT FAVOR. Singer's Request Not Unreasonable Under the Circumstances. Mme. Sembrich, at one of the dinners in New York that the unwelcome news of her approaching retirement elicited, vivaciously related stories of the stage. "I know," said Mme. Sembrich, "that you have in America a tragedia, who plays Hamlet behind a screen selling to grocers, after each perform ance, the fruit and vegetables that have missed their mark. "This tragedian must be amusing. I regret that I've never seen him. I have, though, in Texas, seen Callino Callino sings in falsetto the tenor role of Puccini's 'Tosca.' "The public, especially in the 'star song, make a target of poor Callino and the afternoon I heard him sing the daft creature was pretty badb bruised. "In the midst of his 'star' song, some one hit him with a turnip. His nose began to bleed, and he held up his hand for silence. When the music stopped, Callino said: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the last act your missiles were chiefly eggs. Eggs are messy things, they make one's costume so stiff and sticky, and it's awfully odd, but I was just about to remark, when that turnip struck me, that I preferred turnips to eggs—only would it be asking too much of you to boll them first?" PAGE. 6. An illustration of how far "our farflung battle line" is being extended and strengthened is furnished by the announcement that formal approval has been given by the navy department for the building of the largest drydock in the world. This dock, 1,100 feet long and 110 feet wide, will be located at Pearl harbor. Hawaii, where the great naval base for the ships of our Pacific fleet is to be constructed and fortified. Its reported dimensions will make this dock large enough to accommodate two of the largest battleships of the North Dakota class at the same time, or three of the older battleships, or nearly a whole fleet of smaller vessels. Hoodoo Dinner in New York. A dinner to celebrate the thirteenth wedding anniversary of a New York couple took place Friday, November 13. In order to emphasize the disbelief in hard-luck superstition, the guests had to walk under a ladder to reach their places at the table; they found the salt cellars all overturned, the prongs of the forks pointing the wrong way, and many other things which come under the head of "unlucky." At each plate, however, there was placed, as an antidote, a fourleaf clover, and and the undoubted happiness the celebrants seemed to remove any fears as to the many hoodoos. The New Man. In Trondjhem, in Norway, in a boys' school the boys were taught cooking, and the experiment was so successful that other boys' schools are going to adopt the plan, and thus the war is boldly carried into the enemy's camp. Women must look to their laurels. Ousted by men cooks in the highest professional walks of cookery, the ubiquitous "maid of all work" will presently have to make room for the "man of all work." Helps to Open Up Turkey. Active road building in Turkey and the opening of a new field for the sale of American automobiles are expected to result from the imperial irade that permitted motoring in the Ottoman empire. American automobilists and motorcyclists are already showing a desire to tour by automobile through European and Asiatic Turkey. On the Asiatic side of the Bosporus are long stretches of good roads. Busy Year for Snake Killer. Leon Casse, the official viper killer in the forest of Fontainebleau, France, is now resting after an arduous season, in which he has killed nearly 700 snakes. His average is 800 a year and he has been bitten so often that he has become immune to the poison of the snake's bite. He is known as the "father of the vipers," and he sleeps on a mattress made of vipers' skins. Other Capitals Far Behind New York city has grown more in the use of telephones during the last three years than London and Paris combined. Appreciation. "You don't object to these investigations of the affairs of your great monopoly?" "No," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "They're a great deal of help in enabling me to catch up with details of my business that might have escaped my attention." THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. THE NEEDMORE CLUB CALEB ALLEN, Prop. & Mgr. Cigars and Pool A Pleasant Place for Pleasant People. 2343 Larimer St. Phone Main 8146. The Leader We are now pleased to announce to the public that we are now locating at 2057½ Larimer street with all kinds of hair goods and ornamental goods of all kinds, and we also announce we have a full line of millinery in the latest Parisian style in hats and bon net of all kinds. Miss Genevieve Hallowell, prop. Mrs. J. R. Hallowell, Mgr. Attention. Attention is the first requisite for making any progress in the acquirement of knowledge; it may be given in various degrees, and it rewards according to the proportion in which it is given. A divided attention is, however, more hurtful than otherwise; it retards the progress of the learner, while it injures his mind by improper exercise.—George Crabbe. Try It. Well seasoned with salt, and with bran and corn meal added to it, clover hay cut fine, cooked and steeped in boiling water is excellent for brood sows, milch cows and young stock of all kinds. Dog Rides on Horse's Back. There are many dogs that have an early time in New York, many that are pampered, but few of them attract public attention more than does a bull terrier that is the property of a downtown truck driver. First of all, the driver's pet is always clad in a flaring red blanket, and so wherever he goes he is sure to be seen. The blanket is a thing apart, however. Always when the truck is being hauled through the streets the dog may be seen perched on the back of the horse, with his front feet just abaft the horse's shoulders. There he balances himself whether the horse be walking or trotting and barks in glee. New Deity in Africa. MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO. MRS. L. L. ROBERTS. Ekokombi, calling himself a deity, has appeared among the Congolese of the Mongo and Ngombe and created great excitement. He has issued a command that all charms and fetishes be destroyed or otherwise got rid of, and if in his course any are found still in possession of these they will be tortured or killed by some of his messengers. This has taken such a hold on the minds of the people all over the interior that strong as is their belief in the potency of their charms, they have in most cases destroyed them. The Original Hair Growers We Grew Our Hair Now Let Us Grow Yours with "PORO" TRADE MARK (Registered) Bow to the Conventional. It has been said of Edward Fitzgerald, the translator of Omar Khayyam, that he ran away from his wife because he objected to being compelled to wear a dress suit. There are writers still who object to the conventional in dress, particularly in the matter of collars, but most of them have found it easier to follow than to resist conventions. Even Bernard Shaw has renounced his red tie for evening wear and has succumbed to the inevitable. It is only the people who haven't anything else to do that can afford to be eccentric in dress. When we first began our wonderful work of growing all kinds, all qualities, all lengths, and all conditions of hair, even to the growing of hair on bald places of the head, many persons scorned the idea that such a thing was possible; but we have grown the hair for hundreds, rapidly achieving success. The proof of the value of our work is that we are being imitated and largely by persons whose own hair we have actually grown and the further fact that they have very frequently mentioned us when trying to sell their goods (saying that "theirs is the same" or "just as good") or referred to "PORO." We advise you to use only "PORO" Hair Grower, (the oldest and best of its kind). See that the name "PORO" is on every box, not genuine without it. Prepared only by MRS. A M. POPE. Prizes for Large Families. The first prize offered by the North-East Hants (Eng.) Agricultural association to the laborers who have maintained the largest families respectably has this year been won by Harry White of Bentley, who has 12 children. Three tied for second prize, with ten children each. Permanent Exposition Buildings. The Alaska-Yukon-Portland exposition will be held on the grounds of the Washington university, which will fall heir to the buildings and power plant. Three of the buildings will be of reinforced brick and will be made use of permanently by the university after the exposition. Would Have Been Considerably More Remarkable If It Had Not. Bradley Martin, Jr., who has married Miss Phipps of Pittsburg, has a dry humor that has been likened to Mark Twain's. On his last visit to America the young man went to Niagara for the first time. He was accompanied on his tour by a Harvard instructor who admires nature profoundly. The instructor hoped to see Mr. Martin impressed, almost overcome, by Niagara's grandeur. The young man, for a joke, was determined to disappoint his friend. Their first view of the falls was by moonlight. The great water was beautiful under the pale light of the moon, and the air was filled with deep, sweet music. Mr. Martin really was moved, but he yawned, lighted a cigarette, and said: "Let's be going." His poor friend was thunderstruck at such indifference. "Why," he cried, "where are your eyes? Aren't you amazed? Aren't you impressed? Aren't you transported?" "Of course not," said Mr. Martin. "What is there here to make such a fuss about?" "Look," cried the Harvard man, "look how that mighty river pours over into that deep abyss." "Well," said Mr. Martin, "what is there to prevent it?" His Saturday Night. The pretty, broad-faced, blue-eyed woman was telling how it happened that her husband came home so late of a Saturday night. "When he goes to get shaved for Sunday," she said, "he waits so long for the line that gets there before him that he goes to sleep in the chair while he is being shaved. Then the barber, who is a friend of his, lets him sleep as long as he likes after he has finished with him. But I don't see how he can fall asleep with a dangerous razor scraping all over his face. I couldn't. Could you?" "It isn't the most plausible excuse I ever heard," said one to whom the question was put, "but it ought to pass on account of its originality." The Flitting. 'Neath the street lamp's flicker she stood and wept softly. A gentleman approached her. "My good woman," he said; "perhaps I can help you if you are in trouble." "Trouble," said the good woman, between her sobs; "it isn't the word. Everything—everything's against us—even the moon." "I am afraid, my dear woman, that you have absorbed some foolish superstition." "No, I ain't sir, but it's true. Here's me at work all day packing up, and now I've heard that there's going to be an eclipse." Australian Barmaids. It is telegraphed from Sydney that the American sailors were "much attracted by the novelty of pretty barmaids." The barmaids of Sydney and Melbourne are the prettiest in the world. They are mostly recruited from Tasmania, the insular state of the commonwealth, which has been christened the "Circassia of the Colonies," on account of the surpassing loveliness of its daughters, several of whom have found their way into the select pages of Dod and Debrett THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. Algeria and Tunis have this year suffered from an extraordinary invasion of locusts. The locusts arrive from the direction of the deserts in swarms so thick as to hide the sun. They cover the ground as with a yellow carpet, and sometimes render the railways so slippery that the trains can hardly run. At this stage they are not voracious, being engaged principally in laying their eggs. But 40 days later the young locusts, not yet winged, begin to run about devouring every green thing, including not only leaves, but even the bark and tender shoots of trees. The hordes, advancing in a body, sometimes cover an area of several square miles. Barricades of cloth, surrounded with wax strips, erected in the line of march, arrest the progress of the insects, which are unable to crawl up the smooth surface. Passing along the line of the barricades, they fall into ditches dug for the purpose, where they are killed with corrosive liquids. Another method is to smooth descending paths, ending in poisoned ditches. The insects follow the descents, and thus go to their deaths.—Youth's Companion. LONDON NOW HAS HOBBY CLUB 1859 All Hobby Lovers, Including Spook Hunters, to Be Eligible. Viscount Molesworth and the Hon. George Scott have hit upon a novel idea for a club which will be called the Hobby club, the New York Times' London correspondent says. Men will be admitted as members and women as associates on condition that they have hobbies, are amateurs so far as the club is concerned, and possess the ordinary requisite comprised in the term clubable. The club will cater for a wide variety of hobbies, from gardening to curio collecting, and even psychical research, which at this last hour seems to have received its proper classification. An extensive library will be formed and intellectual salons will be held, at which men and women of similar tastes may confer. Experts have been engaged to give lectures and advices on various topics. The club has already an influential committee and is receiving hearty support, from among others Lord Avebury, who is a keen advocate of hobbies. Endurance of a Guide. An Alpine guide, Philippe Allamand, of Bex, has gained publicity in the Swiss papers by a marvelous pedestrian achievement. He started on a Monday from Taesch and ascended to the Weisshorn hut, whence he returned to the valley to fetch a member of his party who had been left behind. There was time for only three hours' sleep after that, and then the Weisshorn had to be climbed. It was in bad condition, and the ascent took nearly 11 hours. No sooner had he reached the top than Allamand hastened down and proceeded to Zermatt to join another party who had engaged him for the Matterhorn. He overtook them in the hut at four o'clock on Tuesday morning, went up the Matterhorn at once, and did not get back until 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, having been 44 hours without sleep, walking and climbing all the time. 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"A Firstclass Resort for Gentlemen" PAG... JA& F. CLARK. The Statesman Published Every Saturday at Denver, Colorado. 1026 19th Street C. A. FRANKLIN, Editor. Entered at the postoffice at Denver, Colorado, as second class mailmatter. PHONE MAIN 7905. it has come at last. Honesty of purpose in and out of employment, conscientious working, whether under the of employer or not, and careful saving has told the story of success or failure, as the case may be, of certain young men of our city. The industrious, progressive, wide-awake and enterprising person looks with contempt on the sluggard or dodger of honest labor. If in any community there is a man who will not work, who cares little for the comforts and care of his family, who adds nothing to the welfare of that community, except for mere existence, that community in return has only proportionately interests in that individual and reciprocates its comforts proportionately. There is a certain border land in which we must live sometimes, yet this country and state being not one for a compromise but for a reality we must both give and take to make an honest livelihood. We are sorry to announce the fact that the Albany hotel was compelled to supplant the negro bell boys with white ones. We care not to discuss the reasons for the dismissal, but we only wish to call attention to the hundreds of dollars taken out of the negroes' hands and placed elsewhere in the community. It is harder for us to hold a job now than 10 years ago, because there are all kinds of nationalities after our job and for that reason it behooves all of our race to begin to seriously study and consider and scheme, if necessary, how to hold our jobs. We must be polite and self-sacrificing and yet we must draw the line at sycophancy and lick-spittleness. We must win at all hazards and the burning question should be to every thoughtful negro. How can I increase my citizenship or accelerate my progress? This argument might be extended to our race in connection with the discrimination they received by corporations and individuals in communities where they constitute a considerable element of its population. The Jim Crow, the hotel, the restaurant and now the discriminations at the theater, etc., are not, as we believe, the outgrowth of prejudice to color, as much as they are the results of that contemptuous scorn, beginnig with the individual in the community, gradually and surely extended to the race against the race in state and section. In reality, color or facial appearance has little to do with it. The world is clamoring for results and if the black man's color and his race's reputation were not a symbol of sloth, vice, unreliability in business, many of the difficulties confronting him would soon fade. Take the darker races coming to this country. Many are darker than the swarthiest of mulattoes, yet their contributions to the business interests of PAGE.8 THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. their communities and the general thrift of the times, are of such commanding importance that no question is raised as to their color. Had all of these negroes made themselves so indispensable to the Albany hotel that the guests would desire their service, we venture to say they would have been there yet. In fact the American white man with whom they move is more cautious never to raise the question, caring not whether negro, Indian, Chinese or any other blood courses his veins since he is a benefactor of the thrift the individual possesses. A banker would protect a bootblack on the streets whose business brings to that bank deposits of $50 daily, quicker than any well-dressed man who had no business at all. The race must fully realize this now, believing that its progress depends on the untiring and consistent endeavoring to accomplish real possibilities materially, and at the same time never losing sight of the ideal, and that progress does not come from circulating subscriptions for aid or petitions for assistance, but in the true awakening of the real thrift, spirit, zeal and desire for possessions, whether they come through the bell boy route or the barber route, as will in the end commend the race to a busy world which appreciates a man for what he does and not so much how he looks. This is more and more true of Denver as each day files and we must hold on to what we got some way, somehow and yet always eager to get and retain more. At Zion Baptist church New Year's night there was an excellent program rendered to a very appreciative house. Rev. Countee, that able divine of Zion Baptist church, proved his profound depth of knowledge, which has so seasonably ripened by experience on that occasion. His keen insight into the slavery period and the reconstruction of the rebel states, and his acute knowledge of the underlying reasons and causes for the passage of the unjust laws in the South. His ideas of the present for the negroes should be vitally considered by all thoughtful negroes. His frankness and the logical deductions from his statistics should inspire the young person of today. His future of the negro, when Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hand to the East must be considered now in order that the proper foundation must be laid. The Jew is coming into his own, the Jap and Chinaman are now emerging into a brighter civilization while the dusky human being everywhere and on all sides were making their efforts felt. Emancipation day only reminded the American regro what he will have to contend with 50 years hence. We silently ask now, How many are preparing for that keen, close, complex competition not only of individuals but of races. Competition has developed to the racial superiority now. "Prepare ye now" was Rev. Countee's slogan for the bitter contest. W. O. SIMONDS QUALITY CLOTHES SHOP 1015 16TH STREET OPPOSITE TABOR GRAND .....GOOD CLOTHES AT MODERATE PRICES.... EASTMAN HOTEL 2207 1/2 FIRST AVE., SEATTLE, WASH FOUR BLOCKS FROM FROM SECOND AND PIKE STREETS CENTER OF THE RETAIL DISTRICT B. R. OREY, Proprietor PHONE also Pres. Queen City Social Club, 211 Wash. Place A 2770 50 Rooms, Reception Room and Restaurant in Connection The only First-Class Hotel in the City for accommodation of Colored People and Trade Rates 50 Cents per Night $2.60 Up per Week A. Y. P. Your Headquarters 1909 DENVER ITEMS --- A Skating rink and hall will be opened about the 20th at 1942 Curtis Street. Everything in connection will be firstclass. Dude Morris is proprietor and manager. Henry Hurley of Durango is in the city. J. James entertained about 40 of his friends at a bachelor's stag Thursday evening, at his home, 1253 Downing avenue. Whist was the amusement of the evening and the guests vied with each other for the coveted prizes. At midnight the host served his guests with a delicious repast. THE PEOPLE'S SUNDAY ALLIANGE HAS ELECTION OF OFFICERS GRAND TIME HAD. After Mr. MacVey had made his report on the "Berean College Decision" by the United States Supreme court, and a somewhat mild discussion ensued, the Alliance, after also reporting the current events of the day, plunged into the election of officers, which resulted as follows: President, Attorney Geo. G. Ross; vice-president, S. F. Short; secretary, Miss Ethel Jones; assistant secretary, R. J. Von Dickershon; treasurer, A. G. Fallings; sergeant-at-arms, Messrs. Chas, Banks and Jerry Turner. Board of directors: Dr. W. A. Jones, chairman; A. J. Fitzpatrick, S. H. Tarbet, Capt. Thomas Campbell, Mr. Mackey, J. M. Mason and C. W. Buford. The Alliance through the board of directors will celebrate its usual Lincoln-Douglas Memorial on the 14th of February, in honor of the lives of those great and grand men. Special effort is being made to eclipse all other previous attempts. The following program was announced for this month: January, 10th—Paper, Miss Clara McLamore, subject, "Needs Today of Children." January 17th—Address, "Literature of the Race" by J. H. Childress, formerly of Topeka, Kans. January, 24th—Vocal solo, Mrs. Marla Gaskins; piano selection, Miss Elsie Von Dickershon; vocal solo, Miss Thelia Tucker; address, Chas. S. Muse. Jan. 31st—Vocal selection, Miss Frankie Buchanan; literary selection, Mrs. L. V. Douglas; vocal solo, Miss Eva Carter; address, "Humanity," Rev. Rabbi Friedman. The president of the Alliance is making his appeal to young ladies and gentlemen who do not attend any organization on Sunday afternoons. The Alliance stands to day as she has always stood, not in opposition to any other organization, because there is enough work for both organizations THE STATESMAN. DENVER. and which needs to be done and for that reason it will be constantly appealing for the support of the younger set. The following have promised for next month's program: Miss Ida Cox, Mrs. E. L. Faulkner, Mrs. J. B. Beckham, Mr. Carsey Morris, Mrs. Esther Morris and Miss Margaret Willis. The Current Literature committee is composed of Mesdames R. L. Sloan, Ida Evans and Miss Lula Williams. Kept. But Not Used. George Kayes, clerk at the Fairmont, who is English, but is ambitious to outgrow it, was discussing the endurance contest in Judge Lawlor's court, says the San Francisco Chronicle. "Of course, I know you got your jury system from England," he said, "and so I suppose I ought not to criticise it. But this is a country of progress, and you ought to try to make some improvement." "Suggest one," interposed Attorney General Lauck, who was passing. "Well, you might allow more leeway in the matter of having opinions. Now, if I were a talesman I should not consider it a bar to jury service if I had an opinion. I could lay it aside while the trial was on." "And what would you do with the opinion where it was laid aside?" "I would keep it."—San Francisco Chronicle. German Student Insurance. The University of Breslau has made a contract with an accident insurance company in Frankfort to insure its students on the following plan: All students of mathematics, astronomy, psychics, chemistry or pharmacy, botany, zoology, mineralogy and geology must pay a fee of 36 cents each semester and be insured against accident occurring in the line of duty. Firemen and machinists and employees of the clinics are also included, the first two paying $1.19 and the last 71 cents premium. The policy lapses as soon as the holder's connection with the university is severed. The company pays $714 in case of death, $3,570, payable in annuities, for total disability, corresponding smaller amounts for partial disability, and 71 cents a day (not exceeding one year) if cured. This insurance is optional with students of the other branches. Sleeping an Opera Through. "I sat next to three people at the opera the other night," said the woman, "who interested me very much. They were husband, wife and son. The wife and the son seemed to enjoy the opera very much, indeed, but the husband and father slept straight through it. Yes. From start to finish. I couldn't help wondering as I watched him why he didn't take a room at a hotel to sleep. He could have got a nice room and bath at the Waldorf or anywhere for the price he was paying for that chair that was so uncomfortable to sit up and sleep in. Hotels Keep Clean Money for Change. "Giving out fresh, clean currency in change is not a new custom in the hotels here, but it is a pleasing one to travelers from the west and the south, where a dollar bill is made to do long, hard service for its country," said Mr. Fred Sterry, managing director of the Plaza. "A well-bred woman never feels more hurt than when soiled bank notes are given to her in exchange for a draft. This is perhaps necessary in the stores, but every first-class hotel keeps new money on hand for its customers, and sends the old to the bank or deposit."—New York Herald. only could." . Diet in Illness. In acute disease simplicity should be the rule. There can be no reasonable objection, so long as the patient is seriously ill, to a uniformity of diet of which a healthy person might complain. It is only when convalescence commences that the appetite of the patient may tempt him to run risks, though more often it is the unwise solicitude of his friends, who press upon him articles of food he is better without. It should be remembered that acute illness abolishes, or at least diminishes, the activity of the glands which secrete the juices by which our food is digested, and that during convalescence these functions are only regained slowly; so that food should be given in a form that is easily assimilated, and the organs of digestion should not be taxed to the normal extent until some weeks have elapsed As one of the effects undoubtedly promoted by cooking is to effect, at least partially, those changes by which the food is made assimilable, it is a good rule to give only cooked food, but to this rule there are some exceptions, of which milk is the most important. The juice of fresh fruit is another. gallery Persiflage. Lecturer (pompously)—Yes, ladies and gentlemen, at the battle of Santiago I was behind the guns. Voice (from the audience)—How many miles? If they're from London. In his elegant evening dress the young man hurried slightly. "These lenglish clothes are very smartly cut," he said, "but their texture is so light and flimsy that they must be pressed after every wearing, they bag and wrinkle so—and, above all, there is no warmth in them." He ordered a steaming drink. "Learn a lesson from me!" he resumed, "if you ever buy evening clothes in London, insist on a heavy cloth, a winter cloth. Our town season, our season for dances and balls and what-not, is the winter, and our evening clothes are made of winter cloth. The English town season is the summer, the months of May, June and July, and hence English evening clothes are made of summer cloth. "And the English tailor, unless he is warned in time, makes summer evening clothes for his American patron to wear at home in zero weather." Hotels Kee bove His Class. ans killed only enough ply them with food. Few artsmen follow that rule." lied the amateur hunter, of us would like to if we PAGE. 9. SOORED ON IMPOLITE VISITOR Local Men Had Rather the Better of Exchange of Compliments. An English lawyer named Ratcliffe was famous in his circle for skepticism and his hatred of religious things. One time this Mr. Ratcliffe had occasion to go to St. Albans, to take testimony in a law case in which he was engaged. He amused himself during the proceedings by continually alluding to the town as "Albans," instead of "St. Albans." Presently one of the lawyers present asked: "Why do you call this place 'Albans?' " "Because I don't like saints," said Mr. Ratcliffe. "Oh!" Nothing more was said on the subject, but by and by, the work being completed, the lawyer rose to take his departure. "Good-by, gentlemen," he said to the three or four St. Albans men who were present. "Good-by, Mr. Cliffe," they all answered at once. "What do you mean by calling me Mr. Cliffe?" he exclaimed. "Why, we don't like rats," said one of the St. Albans men. ARM IS LONGER THAN THE LEG. Or It Should Be If the Person Is Well Formed. There are men whose arms when they walk are like a couple of excited pendulums, trying to emulate the stride of the leg, the right arm swinging in unison with the movement of the left leg, and the left arm keeping time with the right leg. The military man is taught not to swing his arms; the civilian swings expansively, often covering a bigger radius than that covered by his legs. When a man swings his arms excessively he appears to be paddling along. When a man doesn't swing his arms at all he seems to be advancing automatically. He is altogether uncanny. The Gorilla de Luxe has arms seven inches longer than his legs. Can any reader tell instantly, without using a tape measure, which is the longer, his arm or his leg? Not one! The universal reply will be—the leg. All wrong. The arm of a well-formed person, man or woman, measured from the pit, should be three-quarters of an inch longer than the leg, measured from the crotch. The runner usually carries his arm bent at the elbow. Why? The best runners are pigeon-toed. Why? Most athletes turn in their toes. Why? Mistrusted. Mark Twain was talking about the famous robbery in his beautiful country house. "Had I still been living in Hartford," he said whimsically, "some of my Hartford friends would certainly have accused me of robbing myself. They had a poor opinion of me in that town. "Marshall Jewett, the ex-governor, used to take up the collection in our Hartford church. They never asked me to take it up. I fretted a good deal over this matter. "See here, Jewett,' I said one day, they let you take up the collection every Sunday, but they would never let me do it.' "Oh, yes, they would,' said Jewett—'that is, with a bell-punch, like the horse-car conductors use.'