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WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER TWENTIETH YEAR WASHINGTON NEW Washington, D. C., Jan. 6, 1909. On the evening of January 4th, the Negro Business League of the District of Columbia gave its annual banquet. Mr. W. Sydney Pittman, the president of the local league, acted as the toastmaster of the occasion. There was a large attendance of members, and a number of speeches were made. Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury, who is a life member of the organization, made a very eloquent speech, which was roundly applauded by the assembled audience. In part the register spoke as follows: "I congratulate myself upon having been present at this, your annual banquet, and heard the splendid report of work done by your local organization. It is a source of gratification to me as it must be to every one who wishes well for his people, to observe the material progress of the people of this community. "You but demonstrate the capacity of the race to acquire and hold, and this demonstration is but a type of that which I understand is going on wherever the Business League is known. "Aside from a racial interest in the work of the organization—as a life member, I fell an especial interest in its growth and development. Though occupying a position of a political character, I have had some opportunity to observe the certainty of business success, and its guarantee for the future, when weighed against any other success, so liable to fluctuation because of external agencies. "The man who builds well along business lines, gains confidence in himself, confidence of his community, and has an assured footing for the future. "I have been much impressed with the statistics given of the growth of the race along business lines during the past forty years. Especially has this phase of our racial development taken on concrete form and been made apparent since the bringing together of the business men of the race through the medium of the Business League. "A most inestimable service has been rendered the Negro and the country at large, since his material development is but a part of his country's prosperity; and for that reason, every encouragement given this movement, but lends added DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAYTON AIS LETTER strength to the race and contributes to the betterment of our national life. "You are especially to be congratulated upon having organized the business men of the District of Columbia. This is a city which brings together thousands from all over the world, who with diversified interests, political and otherwise, would naturally in same measure lack that cohesiveness so necessary in the building up of a permanent, towering business. "For that reason this gathering tonight, and the work of the promoters of the local league, speaks volumes and indicates a greater amount of energy, tact, patience and determination than is required in the average community made up by a population, less liable to change. "Where the patrons come and go, you must of necessity depend upon a transient trade to insure success—this it would seem would always create an element of uncertainty for the business men so environed, and in some measure prevent the launching out into greater ventures in the prosecution of his business. Thus you have entailed conservatism, bordering on timidity, which would most likely prevent that amount of success possible under different circumstances. "Wise indeed must be those men among you, who are sufficiently conservative to not overreach in the matter of investment, and at the same time sufficiently progressive to keep pace with the demands of these intensely commercial times. "My observation would lead me to believe that in no city of this country is competition more rife than here. Entitled to our respect and approval, then, are those men who here succeed in a legitimate business. Every encouragement should be given you as an organization and as individuals for the success with which you are meeting. Mr. Pea does not seek the this great the comm may not a for modern a price up womanhoo woman an In no se Pearce is We have a race who selves, who women, to "Every man who strives for leadership does well when he extends a helping hand to your efforts. He can in no more practical way show his fealty to his race and demonstrate his belief in the possibility of the race than when he approves your efforts by his words and by his acts. "The race has need of its business men. Any people whose sole accomplishment is based upon the hazard of political fortune, or who depend entirely upon their professional men to make a place for the race, will find Continued on page 13 --- LITTLE MAN IN A BIG PLACE Y JANUARY 16 1909 LITTLE IN A the boorishness of a public becomes so unbearable that a cannot put up with his insults nue in the state's employ un the matter becomes more personal one between them, lives publicity that the power- tive of public opinion may d. When official b woman c and cont der him than a and dese ful corre be appli We ma where th ners. So Mrs. Ida employed in state, be duct of Pearce, 4 Mrs. Defate occasely a guey Timothy gentleman erately in deliberate hospitalit impropriet takes the though th guage fall which th Pearce m "Southern with Tho entertaine astronomern genti selves to and forge ton, when return th he said him in co trash" of from the know no can give uvious selveneer of scratches what he y not expect high character here is not even good man- it is that the resignation of DoPriest, who has been em- the office of the secretry of cause of the unbearable cont- the secretary elect, J. B. noteworthy and significant. Priest says that on two separ- ons, Mr. Pearce, while meret of the retiring secretary, O'Connor, who is a splendid- played the boor by delib- sulting her. For a guest to try trample under foot the of a host is the height of y, and when his discourtesy form of insults to women, ley be of the Negro race, lan- to express the depths to the perpetrator stoops. Mr. may not plead that he is a gentleman," for beginning Thomas Jefferson, who himself and a Negro, Bannister the r, at his own home, South- men have respected them much to defile hospitality manners. George Washing- president, tipped his hat to salutation of a slave, for he would not be outdone by artesy. It is the "poor white the South whose escape depths is most recent that self-respect, and therefore none except where obsequi- interest compels it. The good breeding is thin and easily, showing the boor for ce may not plead that he now better, for a man who high office of secretary to commonwealth should know on decencies of life. He argue that it does not matter, civilization puts too high on womanhood, even black, for any man to insult a not fear condemnation. Use do we believe that Mr. representative in his action. Let many men of the white think too much of themover they think of colored stoop to deliberate insult. --- FIVE CENTS A COPY MAN BIG PLACE We will go further, and say that too many men of the Democratic party, which he is a poor representative of, are above such littleness, for him to fall back upon them for moral support. With pleasure we report that on both occasions white fellow employees of Mrs. DePriest felt so ashamed of this fellow that they expressed their disgust with his actions. PEOPLE'S SUNDAY ALLIANCE Sunday the various members of the forum presented much important current events about the Negro in general. Drs. Jones, Harper and CcCain called the Alliance's attention to many new phases of the Negro's musical development and his recent evolution in the production of music after his own nature and original habits. The Negro prize fighters were cited to show how Lybia was progressing in that line to the head of the fistic column. Miss McLamore's paper, "Needs of Children of To-day," will be read Sunday, after which Mr. J. H. Childress will address the body on "Literature of the Race." This subject coming so closely on to the suggestions and points made in the Negros' favor, especially as to his originality will be of the greatest importance. Others not named who will appear in February are Mrs. Lillian Jones the Azalia Hackley Choral club and Clyde Andrews, as a cornetist together with Holley's duet. January 21st, special entertainment night at Ward chapel. January 24th, vocal solo, Mrs. Maria Gaskins; piano selection, Miss Elsie Von Dickershon; vocal solo, Miss Thelia Tucker; address, C. S. Muse. January 31st, vocal solo, Miss Frankie Buchannan; literary selection, Mrs. N. L. Douglas; vocal solo, Miss Eva Carter; address, "Humanity," Rabbi Friedman; vocal solo, Mrs. Lillian Jones. March 31st will be Temperance day, on which the following representatives will write or speak: Miss Gertie Nichols of Shorter A. M. E. church, and Mrs. Elmira Whiszar of Zion Baptist church, and Lawyer John Hipp. Clarence Clark is now in Brooklyn, where he is engaged by a phonograph company in the preparation of its musical records. He and His Auto Win Out Over Lime berry and His Buggy. "At last," said Mr. Berkeley, beaming, "I have had my revenge." He was a stout and freckled gentleman, who seemed the most good-natured fellow in the world. The word revenge sounded strange on his lips. "Why, Theodore Berkeley!" exclaimed his wife. "What a way to talk! One would think you were—a burglar." Mr. Berkeley beamed at her. "Just you listen," he said, "and I'll tell you the whole story. Do you remember last spring, when I was learning to run my auto, how I broke down out by South Farms, and had to get old Mr. Linaberry to tow me home?" His wife nodded. "Well, do you remember what a tale he made of it, and how everybody laughed all that summer at me?" Again his wife nodded. "Well, ma'am, I have had my revenge. I was coming back from the reservoir this morning, when who should I see but the old gentleman standing by the roadside by his shiftless, rusty old buggy, trying to tie up a splintered shaft. Naturally I stopped and asked if I could help. At first he said no, but I saw that the shaft had been broken in two places before and wasn't likely to stand another hitching together, so I induced him to let me tow him." Mr. Berkeley paused to chuckle. "It was great, really great! He sat in the back holding onto the whole shaft. Old Madge, the plebald nag, followed her string behind the buggy. We had to pass in front of the South Farms post office just at the time that the mail was coming in. You remember Tom Sullivan, who used to work for me? He was there, and he shouted: 'Wal, wal, wal, he's come 'round at last, he has!' Poor old Mr. Linaberry said nothing. When at last we got to his place, he hopped down, not saying even thank you. I have had my revenge, though, and I shan't say another word."—Youth's Companion. IN A VERITABLE WONDERLAND. Pike's Peak the Center of Colorado's Magnificent Scenery. Pike's Peak, that historic beacon summit which guided the early explorers across the great plains, rears its snowy crest in the midst of veritable wonderland. Here Nature is seen in her grandest as well as in some of her most fantastic moods. Great mountain peaks are here—massive, gigantic—lifting themselves into the regions of perpetual snow. Here are a half dozen stupendous canyons, each miles in length, where the granite mountains have been cleft asunder and rock walls rise perpendicularly a thousand feet. Here medicinal springs gush forth for healing and refreshment. Here, too, was the play-ground of Titanic forces when the world was young—rock forms of every size, shape and color, rising in airy pinnacles like the spires of a Milan, or in solid shafts against which all the forces of modern enginery might beat in vain, or in lofty spires so slender that one almost fears to lean his puny weight against them. And here, too, is the perfection of the Colorado climate, whose charms and remedial virtues have given to the region a worldwide frame; bringing to thousands the blessings of restored or returning health, and to all who come within its influence the delights of a new exist- THE STATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. TREMENDOUS POWER OF WATER Resists All Strength of Man and Could Lift Mountains. When a man goes in swimming at the seashore and slaps the water forcibly with his hand, or takes a back dive from a pier and lands squarely on his back, he realizes that the unstable liquid offers not a little resistance. Yet it would surprise almost anybody to see what water will do under certain conditions. A stream from a fireman's hose will knock a man down. The jet from a nozzle used in placer mining in the west eats away a large piece of land in a day, toys with great bowlders as if they were pebbles, and would shoot a man over the country as though he were a projectile from a cannon. There is a story of an eastern blacksmith who went west and made a bet that he could knock a hole through the jet of one of these nozzles with a sledge hammer. He lifted his arms, swung the sledge, and came down on the ten-inch stream with a force that would have dented an anvil. But the jet, never penetrated, whisked the massive hammer out of the blacksmith's hands and tossed it several hundred feet away into the debris of gold-bearing gravel beneath a crumbling cliff. After this the blacksmith left out iron when he spoke of hard substances. There is also a power plant near Durango, Col., where a United States cavalryman one day thought he had an easy job in cutting a two-inch stream with his sword. He made a valiant attack. The result was that his sword was shivered in two and his wrist broken. A little thinner jet of water descending 1,600 feet to a manufactory at Grenoble, Spain, and traveling at the moderate speed of 100 yards a second, fractures the best blades of Toledo. Of course some people will not believe such stories without having seen the thing, and one may think it a proof of the scientific imagination to say that an inch-thick sheet of water, provided it had sufficient velocity, would ward off bombshells as well as steel plate. Nevertheless, many persons, while traveling, have seen a brakeman put a small hydraulic jack under one end of a car and lift 20 tons or so by a few leisurely strokes of the pump handle; and the experience of riding every day in a hydraulic elevator tends to remove doubts of the magic power possessed by water hitched to a machine. Squirrels Eat Limburger Cheese. The wisest pair of squirrels known in Connecticut are two reds on the farm of John Oelschlegel, near Winsted. Recently he found and confiscated their hoard of chestnuts in a hollow tree close by his bedroom window, and while sleeping by the open window he was struck with a green chestnut burr on his bald head. Looking up into the tree he saw the two red squirrels gnawing chestnuts out of burrs. The hunting season not being open, he didn't dare shoot them, and after he had taken out all the prickly burr out of his scalp he went to sleep again. Next Oelschlegel was awakened by a suffocating odor and saw the two red squirrels eating limburger cheese on the same limb. Particles of the limburger, which was as soft as putty, had dropped on the sill of his bedroom window. He keeps his limburger in a tin pail hanging on a limb of the tree and the squirrels was found it.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Inedible Chicken. "It doesn't pay to raise chickens in a small way," said a suburbanite, "for the reason that you can only eat the eggs, never the chickens themselves." "But why can't you eat the chickens?" inquired the man's partner. "Could you eat your canary or your dog? No. And for much the same reason you can't eat your chickens. For they are pets, as dogs or canaries are. You have raised them, and they have learnt to know you, they have names that they answer to, they follow you about the yard—in a word, they like you, and you like them." He shuddered. "I remember when we killed and stewed Mary Jane. She had stopped laying; she was long past that stage; so we murdered her and tried to eat her. But we failed. We felt like cannibals, like ghouls, when Mary Jane's mangled remains were set smoking before us. Sat? Why, the very memory half sickens me now." Losing the Use of One's Legs. A French journal gloomily prognosticates that we shall have lost the use of our legs in a generation or two. The tendency of the age is to invent means by which human beings are conveyed from place to place as quickly and cheaply as possible. People certainly walk far less than they did 25 years ago; they will walk less in 50 years' time. When a century has passed, perhaps, as our French contemporary suggests, we shall altogether have forgotten how to walk, and our descendants will hop like birds when they are on the level, and fly whenever they get the chance. But what will become of their livers? And how are the poor things ever to enjoy the delights of looking at the shops?—Lady's Pictorial. His Time Explained. "I think I'll go out for a drink after the second act." "Hubby, you'd know you swore off for a year." "But two years elapse between acts one and two."—Kansas City Journal. Among the unclaimed property which was recently auctioned by the Midland Railway Company at Derby, England, were 20 bicycles, a piano, 12 shrouds and a toddy kettle and stand. Alarming Warning. In an English village an official notice reads as follows: "The public are warned against using the well for domestic purposes unless previously boiled." The Comfortable Home. A comfortable home is like a wellmanaged campaign on the battlefield. No one does what he wants, but what he ought. Drink Only Native Wine. In Persia there are no distilleries, breweries or saloons, and native wine is the only intoxicating beverage used. Make Allowances. Helvetius: In order to love mankind we must not expect too much of them. Getting Down in the Earth. A hole has been bored in Silegia to a depth of 7,000 feet. PAGE. 10. The Disturbing Telephone. "The telephone has destroyed all the privacy of society," said the society girl. "It breaks in on everything. Nothing is sacred to it. You may be saying your prayers. The telephone. Or in the midst of your bath. The telephone. Or doing up your back hair, or, worst of all, a delightful man may be making love to you, when k-ling, k-ling, k-ling! The telephone breaks off the thread of his theme and he fails to resume it." Warmth and Illumination Needed. Warmth and Illumination Needed. A philosophy without heart and a faith without intellect are abstractions from the true life and being of knowledge and faith. The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illumine, may be assured that the fault lies in themselves, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien from philosophy, the latter an alien from faith. —Hegel. Prince Rupert's Drope. Prince Rupert's drops are drops of molten glass, consolidated by falling to water. Their form is that of a tadpole. The thick end may be hammered pretty smartly without its breaking, but if the smallest portion of the thin end is nipped off the whole files into fine dust with explosive violence. These toys, if not invented by Prince Rupert, were introduced by him into England. For Tact and Judgment. It does not kill the initiative or independent spirit to resolve to hold your tongue, nor is it hypocritical to be suave and politic. The hardest person to get along with is the one who runs by fast principle and speaks his mind. Half the time his principle is a matter of opinion. The Still, Small Voice. Sure healing is not in the storm, or in the whirlwind; it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.—Lowell. As It Seemed to Charlie. Little Charlie, a six-year-old, heard a man practicing on the calliope preparatory to playing it in the circus parade. Rushing to his father, he said: "Listen, papa." "What is it?" asked his father. "It's do elephant singing," said Charlie. If the Sun Shines. In England, Lincolnshire superstition teaches that when the sun shines through the branches of the apple trees on Christmas day, there will be a heavy crop of fruit in the ensuing season. On the Value of Experience The learning thou gettest by thine own observation and experience is far beyond that thou gettest by precept, as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.—Thomas a Kempis. Resentful of Rebuke. No man is fit to be a reformer or leader of men who cannot give and take plain speech on the subject nearest to his heart without losing his temper.—Christian Register. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. CAN KNOW THINGS TOO WELL. Sometimes Too Well Trained a Memory Plays Odd Tricks. Very often folks get to know a thing so well that they don't have to think to remember it. Take for instance, your home address. If you have been living in the same house in the same street for years your address gets easier and easier to recall. Except, sometimes. It doesn't take the influence of liquor to make you forget, either. It merely is that you know it too well. There was a man who was in the habit of writing letters to a girl and after a year or so he got to know her address by heart. One day, long after he started writing to her, he was addressing an envelope to the young woman, when suddenly he became suspicious of the number he had written. He read it aloud and tried other schemes of convincing himself. He wrote the same numbers on other sheets of paper, but they did not seem entirely right. Eventually he had to go over to call on the girl, instead of writing, in order to satisfy himself that he still knew the address. His figures had been perfectly all right, but the trouble was that he knew them too well. That sometimes occurs to a person giving an address in a store. It slips out so naturally that when by chance the shopman repeats: "Blank Blankety-blankth street?" you begin to wonder if you have it right after all. And the first breath of suspicion kills your chances of remembering correctly. You simply have to go to the directory to verify the place you live in, and naturally that leads to suspicions on the part of the shopkeeper. CIGARETTE MONEY NOT ENOUGH. D'Annunzio's Contemptuous Rejection of Manager's Offer. Gabriele d'Annunzio, an Italian poet, maintains a princely villa, a stable of automobiles and disports himself otherwise as becomes a favorite of the muses. Italians rank him nearly among the saints, and the veneration in which he is held extends to the large Italian colony that planted the sort of spirit known as American in the Argentine Republic and made Buenos Ayres the most progressive of South American cities. An Italian show maestro who had been to Buenos Ayres and found there a lively demand for d'Annunzio proposed to take the poet there on tour to read in public his own poems. He approached d'Annunzio with an offer of $1,000 a night for 20 appearances plus expenses to and from Argentina. "I think I would rather like to visit Argentina," the poet answered, "and I have no dread of the sea trip to Buenos Ayres, but I don't care to go for the price of a cigarette." The Credit Mobilier. In the campaign of 1872 it was charged that the vice-president, the vice-president-elect, the secretary of the treasury, several senators, the speaker of the house and a large number of representatives had been bribed during the years 1867 and 1868 by presents of stock in a corporation known as the Credit Mobiller (organized to contract for building the Union Pacific railroad) to vote and act for the benefit of the Union Racine Railroad Company. An investigation committee appointed by congress reported February 18, 1873, recommending the expulsion of Oakes Ames of Massachusetts for "selling to members of congress shares of the stock of the Credit Mobilier below their real value, with intent thereby to influence the votes of such members," and of James Brooks of New York for receiving such stock. The house modified the proposed expulsion into an "absolute condemnation" of the conduct of both members. Movements Shaping Art. There are at present two definite movements which are clearly shaping the course of American art. One is the movement of expansion, which has fostered the creation of many different and widely distributed centers of interest; the other is the tendency to concentrate official activity in a single typical spot. Owing to the callousness of New York, the retrospective habits of Boston, the avowed internationalism of Pittsburg and the fact that Philadelphia has always had a special mission to fulfill, these cities must in time give place to some more logical focal point, nor is it a very difficult matter to designate that particular locality.—Century. Bird of Great Burden. I' was Tommy's first visit to the zoo. "And what is that, mamma?" he asked, pointing to a queer-looking animal on the edge of a big pool. "Why, my dear, that is the baby hippo," explained his mother. "The stork brought it last week." Tommy stared in wonder at the cumbersome little creature and then said: "Mamma, the next time you want the plano moved why don't you engage the same stork?" Wedding Ring Story. R was the habit of Rev. James Spurgeon, grandfather of the great preacher of that name, to pray each evening under a certain oak tree in a secluded wood in Honeywood park. One night he dreamed, the story goes, that Satan appeared and threatened to tear him in pieces, if he followed his accustomed route to the tree. There was another path by which he might go in safety. Remembering his dream, Spurgeon felt sorely tempted to take the route in which Satan was not. But this would be to capitulate. Trembling in every limb, he made his way by the path in which the danger lay. He reached his goal in safety and in prayer and song returned thanks for delivery from peril. When his prayer had ended he rose to return. In his path lay a piece of solid gold "as large as a curtain ring." All inquiry failing to discover an owner, he retained it, and when he married had his wife's wedding ring made from his curious find. J. WINSTON BAILEY, OPT. D. Oculist Optician With Prescription Lenses Office and College 1863 Curtis DENVER, COLO. Western University Western University THE LEADING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR NEGROES IN THE WEST. Theological, Classical, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical, State Industrial, embracing courses in Architecture, Carpentry, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Bookbinding, Tailoring, Business Course, Dressmaking, Millinery, Cooking, Laundrying and Farming. THOROUGH DISCIPLINE, CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE, CAREFUL SUPERVISION. FINE MILITARY BAND AND ORCHESTRA. 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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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. Rev. C. P. Crawford and family have left for Roswell, where the reverend will pastor a prosperous church in that city. Mrs. Alex Harrison and daughter gave a grand ball in the Elks opera house banquet hall last Monday eve. A nice crowd was out, making the pleasures of the evening long to be remembered. Rev. G. H. Byas called together a committee of Albuquerque's most conservative men for the purpose of looking to the future interest of the race in the event that New Mexico becomes a state at this session of congress. Those who composed that committee were Rev. Byas, J. B. Lott, A. B. Montgomery, H. Bramlett, T. O. Mason. Glad to see such a timely step for the new state will have to make its first state constitution. The New Mexico Negro will try to avoid what the Oklahoma Negroes could not avoid, that abominable Jim Crow law. We are glad to know that the New Mexico Negro is wide-awake to his best interest and we hope they will be successful. Carl Schultz was bound over to the grand jury for shooting at a crowd of colored boys and girls last week The Burial Association, or the Friend in Need, held its semi-annual services last Sunday. Rev. G. H. Byas officiated. S. H. Bacon, recently of Kansas City, died of consumption at Mrs. A. Durham's residence last week. The body lies at the undertaking parlors waiting to hear from relatives. For the first time in several years a literary has started at the A. M. E. church. The programme and the attendance is good. It meets every Friday evening. We hope all the young people especially will help to make the effort a success. Mr. and Mrs. James and family have moved to Santa Fe, where Mr. Coleman has employment at Mr. Kerr's Palace barber shop. Mrs. Lockett, a first-class hair dresser and face beautifier, has arrived in the city with a full line of supplies. She will be in the city for a short time. Those who are in need of sueh toilet preparations would do well to give her a call at 108 East Lead avenue. LAS VEGAS, N. M. Mrs. Nix' health is gradually improving. The services at the A. M. E. church were well attended both morning and evening and the choir is still improving. The church will have a rally during the month of February to pay off the mortgage on the parsonage. Mrs. Tillie Fautory, who underwent an operation at the hospital last week, is out again. Mrs. Maggie Burns has been quite sick. Earl Berns and Lawrence Brown of Lawrence, Kan., arrived in Las Vegas last week. Mrs. Jefferson's mother, who came to spend the winter, was called away to her home in La Junta. Mr. H. Kenworthy, who spent a few weeks in Los Angeles, has returned to his duty on the railroad. Automobile for Hire Carriages Furnished for all Occasions Open Day and Night 1921 Arapahoe St Denver's Leading Undertaker WEALTHY HAVE SHORT LIVES. Bright's Disease and Heart Troubles Are Aristocratic Aliments. Bright's disease and organic heart trouble in New York and other large cities of wealth have reached alarming proportions. These are aristocratic alliments coming from rich feeding, late hours and wines. In New York the deaths from these troubles were, in 1871, at the rate of 17.68 persons in every 1,000 of population; in 1883 the rate had increased to 21.91; in 1903 it was 27.30; in 1907 it was 30.14. Here, in cold figures of death and disease, is the lesson which tells us, who, though poor, love life and health, that riches are not an unmitigated blessing. Of course, we all think that if we were rich we would be more sensible than those who are now wealthy, but this cannot be proved, for prosperity is a much harder test of character than some suspect and is likely to show up the dross in the saintliest. Better by far, for our health at least, is the stern master, necessity, which forces us to go sedately along the same workaday pathway, than the wild gay crony, wealth, which would encourage us to run impetuously to a premature grave. The universal cry and desire and plaint of the age is for riches. If we stop for a minute we may realize that riches would mean but a slight variation from the program upon which our lives are already ordered. Food, clothes, home, occupation, recreation, friends—these we have. Wealth would merely put more styles in your coat, more gimcracks in your house, more anxiety in your occupation, and more falsity in your friends.—Pittsburg Press. PROVE ELECTRICITY THE BEST. Superior to All Forms of Heat for Fireless Cooker. The principle of the fireless cooker, in which the cooking having been once started over a flame is continued in an insulated cabinet or box, through the action of the heat already absorbed, is more or less familiar to all, but in the more improved forms cloth and felt insulation are displaced by Automobi J. H. GA Phone Phone Main 3725. Q. J. G Undertaker a vulcanized wood, asbestos and other materials of a durable sanitary nature, and the utensil adapted to baking and roasting. In the latter case the heater is stored in steatite radiators or slabs, which quickly absorb heat. The radiators are heated over flame or by electricity. That it is possible to use electricity in connection with the fireless cooker with proportionately greater economy in the use of fuel than in the use of gas, oil or coal, has, it is stated, been practically demonstrated in the fireless cookers ready for the market. The reason why the economy is greater with electricity is that it is possible to utilize practically all the heat generated by the current. The coils are introduced in the radiators, and while the temperature is being raised the oven is closed to prevent the loss of heat. The Color of Eggs. Mr. A. H. Horwood of the Leicester (England) museum, remarks that the colors of birds' eggs can in a large number of cases be traced to the necessity of "protective resemblance." White eggs are usually laid by birds nesting in holes in trees, or in dark situations, like owls, woodpeckers and some pigeons. Most birds nesting on or near the ground lay eggs of an olive-green or brown ground color. The eggs of grouse, ptarmigan and so forth resemble the heather among which they are laid. Those of the ringed plover, little tern and oyster catcher resemble the sand and shingle of the beach. The lapwing's eggs closely simulate bare soil or dried bents. The young chicks show similar "protective" colors.—Youth's Companion. Male Gossip. Men are greater gossips than women. There is nothing a man likes better than a scandal, and even if this is not always forthcoming he thoroughly enjoys talking about other folks' affairs. Get a man at a tea table and gossip will not be lacking for a minute. Who brings all the latest rumors to country houses if it be not the men?—London World. le for Hire NNAWAY ain 776 Licensed Embalmer No. 234. LMORE nd Embalmer e peels THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. PAGE. 12. Ww hi on Le Biles ees mek ee FULL LINE OF STATIONERY, ashington Letter ean of his itenrars faving been t| GAR STORE wa PION oe, arse stare a ee Se themselves on a sandy foundation, and when the storms come and the winds beat upon this race, its nouse will fall. “No man is 80 politically independ- ent as that man who has an assured income and who can express his opin- jon untrameled, without fear of being reduced to want or bringing distress to his loved ones. In the various communities of this country, the Negro business men are more and more becoming factors in the polifical Mfe of the race. To ‘hese men the temptation to be venal does not come. They are above want, and can put the temptation behind them. “I would not have you undersiand me to say that the possession of prop- erty or money ‘can take the place of an upright character, because venal- ity in politics is not necessarily lim- ited to the poor—however, removing the necessity for yielding to tempta- tion is a step forward towara the purification of politics. “The successful Negro business man can stand out for all the rights of the race and uncompromisingly de- mand that justice be done his people. “This attitude when known by tne masses of the people, but tends to popularize him, and his leadership eventuates as a consequence. “The next step is natural—that is the demand of his community or state for consideration. These demands accorded and his place as a leader suggests his selection as the logical sequence. “There are instances when these successful business men, by reason of their diversified interests, have found it necessary to decline posi- tions of trust and honor. In each case these declinations have done the race no harm, but have brought to the notice of the country, the pre- eminent success with which the in- dividual, a type of the race has met. “It has followed almost invariably that such men have been enabled to shape policies for the betterment of the race, and in some cases to sug- gest who should represent the race in such positions. This all demon- strates the power possible for the Negro business man all over the country. “We should emphasize this work. We have long since learned that racial development must proceed along every line, exemplified in the career of the white race. The man of means who touches elbows with his kind, regardless of race, will re- spect the display of business acumen, financial integrity and real worth of his associates. “[ am prepared to unhesitatingly and uncompromisingly commend your work, and wish for you the support and endorsement of this community. If this business league has for its pur- pose the building up of your present enterprises and the formation of new ones; if it shall have for its aim the accumulation of realty holdings, and the financial independence of those whom {t seeks to benefit, then no man can reasonably oppose it, and every man should encourage it.” Chaplain W. W. B Gladden of the 24th U. 8. Infantry has been the guest Register Vernon is preparing to make an extended lecture tour of the West. He Bas been compelled to de- cline many invitations to speak in various sections of the country on ac- count of his itinerary having been made up for the season. OH, SAY, BUT THIS IS A TREAT. Mr. Chas. O'Brien, the banjo man from Banjo Land, with Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th, East urner hall. BENEFIT PROGRAMME FOR AL- LIANCE. oe Gieily night, Jan. 2ist, at 8 p. m. at the “Little Church With a Big Heart,” 752 Inca street. Take Lawrence street car and get off at Inca. | The Old Reliable Ms N. B, Anderson COAL AND KINDLING ALL KINDS, ALL QUANTITIES 2100 Arapahes St. Denver, Colo ee ahaneconewnbis: Carpentry and Job Work Job Work a Specialty. 1021 Twenty-First Street | Phone Main 8230 eres 353 W. Ses sie Bub ean TROUTMAN & SONS Carpenters and Builders General Jobbing Promptly Attended To Business Address 3131 HUMBOLDT STREET DHEDAOPOPOLOPOHOEOESDHOLOHOH: Surgeon Chiropodist Scientific Body Massage MADAM WALKER Manicuring and Facial Massage Scalp Treatment: Hair Dressing und Bust Development 2038 Weilten St. Denver, Cole. ares in El branchea of the wore, ie cloding |Special ‘Swedish Movements ica iar) ia | | | | | i J. i SORNEGNT PROPRIETOR Kirg David's Eloquence. Tk quence is accounted the greatest of al possible gifts among the Arabs. Acco ding to Arab tradition, the most supe: lative degree of eloquence was atial ed by King David, such being the beau'y of his diction, added to the poetry of his words, that when he decla med the psalms even birds and wild >easts were spellbound, while on some occasions as many as 400 men died from the excess of delight in- duce by his reading. Hic Jacet! O « loquent, just, and mightie Death! Who: none could advise, thou hast perss aded; what none hath dared. thou hast done; and whom all the work hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride crueltie, and ambition of men, and -overed it all over with these two arrow words, Hic jacet!—Sir Walt r Raleigh. An Old Prayer. Th four-line prayer generally taught to ch Idren, “Now I lay me down to sleep ' etc., appeared first in the old “New England Primer.” This book ap- pear: | as early as 1691. In that year its s\ cond edition was advertised by Benj: min Harris of Boston. The old- est c py known to be in existence is dated 1787. In the early editions the word “take” was inserted before the word “my.” Peat. A > egetable substance found amidst Mucb moisture, as in marshes and mrora ‘ses, and made up ‘of roots, stem: and fibers in every stage of de- comp sition. When cut and dried it is oft 2n used for fuel in many places when coal and wood are scarce. The use o peat as fuel in the distillation of Scotc 1 whisky gives it its . peculia> flava) . GOK FOHOPOHOPOPOHOEOHONONG Po ‘ter’s Shining ParlOr Str ctly first-class. A nice place fer ladie: to have their shoes dressed o1 wait while you have your dressed We c irry a full line of shoe laces. al! style. If you are wearing tan shoes and ¥ ish to change them to black call on u:. We guarantee all work. We call {or shoes that are within a rea sonal le distance. Open 7:30 to 9 p. tm. | hone Main 5639. WILL TAYLOR, Prop. {11 EIGHTEENTH STREET FULL LINE OF STATIONERY, 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 will get it for you. BRANCH LAUNDRY OFFICE. PHONE MAIN 7650. Full line of cigars. 1119 Eighteenth Street. Between Arapahoe and Lawrence Sts. CALUMET CLUB 2149 Curtis Street Headquarters for Porters Waiters, and Railroad Men. Phone Main 8232 Henry Pinn, Manager ERATE RELA RR, Established More than a Quarter of a Century. Transactions Confidential i Phone Main 8252 The Original “No Name” Clothing House Ladies’ and Gent’s Clothing 417 Fifteenth St. PERMA ILM RM IIR, MRS, M. A. HOLLEY Graduate of Mrs. M. A. Pope in Scalp & Hair Treatment She is now prepared to do the same work as is done in the originator’s parlors. She is the sole agent for the famed preparation, “Poro.” Aé dress her at 2118 Arapahos street, or phone Olive 1984. MRS. L. G. TRAVERS Home Cooked Meals 1023 Twenty-First Street : UP STAIRS Meals - 35 Cents FRATERNITIES Officers of Lodges Nights of Meeting PAGE.14. M. W. GARLIS LODGE, A. F. & A. M. For Colorado and jurisdiction, meets in Salt Lake, Utah, in August, 1908. R. C. TUMLIN, G. M. WILLIAM SPRAGUE, Grand Secretary, P. O. Box 1545, Denver, Colorado. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LODGE NO. 1. A. F. & A. M. Meets the first and third Monday eights 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. headville, meets the first and third fuesdays in each month. Hall, 111 West Sixth street. A. J. YOUNG, W. M. T. S. STEWART, S. L. 217 N. 4th st. EUREKA LODGE NO. 13, Albuquerque, N. M., meets first and third Tuesdays in the month. All sons in good standing invited. H. BRAMLETT, W. M. AMPSON REST LODGE. Ampson Rest Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. ii., Trinidad, meets the first and third Tuesday nights in the month. Members in good standing are wel- come. J. W. BOOKER, W. M. W. A. JORDAN, Sec., 117 N. Walnut. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. No 20, A. F. & A. M., Grand Junction, meets the first and third Wednesdays in the month. KEYSTONE LODGE. Keystone Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Hanaa, Wyo., meets the first and third fuesdays in the month. All members in good standing are invited. HENRY ANDERSON. HIRAM COMMANDERY NO. 20. Hiram Commandery Knights Templar meets the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. B. HILL, E. C. T. W. RICHMOND 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 N2. 9328, G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets the first and third Monday nights in the month at Odd Follows Hall, 1832 Arapahoe Street. GEO. D. HALL, P. S., P. O. box 898. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LODGE NO. 2320, G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets every Thursday in the month at 1713 Curtis Street. GEO. S. CONTEE, P. S., 2612 Welton Street. ```markdown ``` DENVER PATRIARCHY, NO. 67. month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1832 Arapahoe street. HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH, NO. 367, G. U. O. of O. F. Meets the first and third Tuesdays in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1834 Arapahoe street. Mrs Clarence Holmes 2139 Curtis St Worthy Recorder. PAST GRAND MASTERS' COUNCIL NO. 118, G. U. O. OF O. F. Meets the second Friday in each month at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1832 Arapahoe street. WALTER SCOTT, G. S. 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. GRIGSBY, Sec. CAPTOLIA TEMPLE NO. 183, S. M. T. nedays in each month at 1833 Araphee Street. Members in good standing are invited to attend. MATTIE HOLLY, W. P. JENNIE JONES. Secretary. Webster Temple No. 6, S. M. T., meets the second and fourth Wednesafternoon in each month at 1832 Arapahoe street. Mrs. B. A. Carter, W. P., Mrs. Callie V. Campbell, Sec. PHYTHIAS LODGE NO. 11. Meets the first and third Wednes day nights, 1832 Arapahoe Street. HARRY JONES, C. C., DAMON LODGE NO. 8. K. of P. meets at 1713 Curtis street the first and third Friday of each month. 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. VOORSE, Recorder. 1222 19th Street COLUMBINE COURT NO. 279, I. O. O. C. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday 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. 28, 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, Secy. 2222 Arapahoe Street. GAINES TEMPLE, No. 4, S. M. T. Of Trialaud, meets the first and third Monday afternoons at 8 o'clock at Marble hall, 111 First street. A. B. SUTTON, W. P. M. B. WILSON, Sec. QUEEN OF THE WEST NO. 1. Meets first and third Thursdays in each month, 1834 Arapahoe Street. MRS. HENRIETTE WRIGHT, W. P. MRS. FLORENCE ALTON. Bar 162 Filmore St. RICH LODGE NO. 39. I. B. O. B. of W. meets first and third Wednesday night in each month at 1713 Curtis street. All visiting Hbs 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 month of 1718 Curtis street. All members in good standing are invited. LAUF. CARSON, H. P. NANNIE WELLS, Recorder. TRUE REFORMERS. True Reformers No. 1621 Colorado Enterprise Fountain, meet first and third Monday at 1832 Arapahoe street. C. M. Hughes Master. Mru. M. B Riley, Secretary, Cooper building. C. H. CLARK, Master. C. M. HUGHES, Secretary. LAUGHTERS OF TABERNACLE. Pride of Denver No. 521 meets at 1713 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. 1832 Hasel 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. D. D. COLE, C. M., C. P. M'KENZIE, C. P. 3740 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 LEVELL, Sec. Denver Military Club-Meal 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. 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. BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH, Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m. The public is cordially invited. REV. A. E. REYNOLDS, 2828 California Street. 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. 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. Coleman president. Preaching at 7:30 p. m. 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- ```markdown ``` 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. Junior Lights meets at 5:30 p. m. led by Mrs. Kelley. Members of the church are expected to be present at these services. The public generally are invited and strangers especially will be made welfcome. 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. Mid-Week Meetings. 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 meeting. First Monday 8:00 p. m.—Official Board. Effects of Friendship The three cronies at the summer garden had dined together for years. Then one night, one of them passed the other two, went way back, and sat down at a table by himself. "Now, what do you suppose is the matter?" asked a woman at a table in another corner, who hated to see him sitting so sadly by himself, and trying so hard not to look at the others, or seem to notice them. "Just a little quarrel," explained her companion, who was a frequenter of the place. "Once in a blue moon that happens, and he goes off and dines a few evenings alone. Then when they make it up they are happier than ever, so don't you care." PIANOS $100.00 AND UPWARD Anyone may have a Piano delivered at their home for $2.00 per week payments. COLUMBINE MUSIC CO. Ground Floor Charles Building Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined in-side special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating ir tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than mary tire, the puncture resisting q valuies being given by several layers of thin, specially d fabric on the tread. That "Holding Back" sensation commonly felt when riding on asphalt roads is overcome by the patent "Basket Weave" tread which prevents all air from being d out between the tire and the road thus overcoming all suction. The regular price of these 15 to per pair, but for advertising purposes we are making a special factory price to the rider 4.00 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C.L.D. on approval, not pay a cent until you have examined and found the strictly as presented. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 1 CENT IS ALLOWED to write for showing the BICYCLES, BELOW any other manufacture DO NOT BUY A or on any kind of term, until you have begun illustrating and describing bicycles, old patterns and latest models, prices and wonderful new offers direct to rider with no middlemen's WE SHIP ON APPROVAL, with allow 10 Days Free Trial and mail house in the world will do. You will able information by simply writing to. We need a Bike Shop in even to make money to suitable young men. $8.50 PUNCTURE-PRO Car Price $2 per pair. Introduce Will Sell a Sample for Only 4.80 HAILS, TACKS ON GLASS WON'T LET OUT TIME AIR (CASH WITH ORDER $4.82) RE TROUBLE FROM PUCTURES. It of 15 years experience in tire 5. No danger from THORNS, CACPINS, NAILS, TACKS or GLASS punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can anise like any other tire. Hundred Thousand pairs now in animal use. Over-five Thousand pairs sold last year. PROGRAMS Made in all sizes. It is lively and can special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of Irr tires have only been pumped up once or twice in a warm tire, the puncture resisting qualities being good fabric on the tread. That "Holding Back" sensation PAGE. 10. 00.00 at their home events. MUSIC CO. building REFERENCE OF DENVER INDEX 'y're Everywhere." Date. automobile Mapa. dealers. Phone Main 6471. EHMKE MANAGER DINER HALL Arapahoe St. Denver T WILL COST YOU from anyone at any price, received our complete Free Cater- ing of high-grade and low-grade learn of our remarkable LOW possible by selling from factory first deposit. Pay the Freight and other liberal terms which no other everything and get much valu- ment. own and can offer an opportunity apply at once. F TIRES ONLY $4.80 PER PAIR Notice the thick rubber trunk "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. ing, very durable and lined inside which closes up small punctures from satisfied customers stating season. They weigh no more than several layers of thin, specially softly felt when riding on asphalt which prevents all air from being action. The regular price of these is a special factory price to the rider sold. We ship C.D. on approval, strictly as represented. The price $4.38 per pair) if you send it. We will also send one nickel on full paid orders (these metal very gashs). Thus to be returned examination. a bank. Ask your Postmaster, PAGE.16 Mrs. Mary Karr has been on the sick list the past two weeks, but at this writing is much better. Mr. M. C. Jones, a cobbler, was visitor in our city Wednesday. He departed Thursday for Florence, Colo. Mr. Richard Bryan made a trip to Aberdeen Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hayden of Ouray were passengers on the east bound train Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Hayden stopped in Gunnison to visit relatives and Mr. Hayden was en route to Salida. Mr. W. M. Bryan is going to organize a brass band this week. Mr. W. L. Lawson of Mt. Carbin was a pleasant visitor in our city Saturday. Mr. William Blanden of Ouray passed through our city Wednesday en route to Denver. Mrs. Mary Karr entertained at an eight-course dinner Sunday at her beautiful residence on Twelfth street. The spacious dining room was artistically decorated with potted plants and ferns. The color scheme, white and yellow. Those present were Mrs. Elizabeth Harvey, Mrs. Mary Karr, the Misses Irene and Ora Karr, Mr. F. Shavers, Mr. J. W. Lawrence, Mr. Bruce Karr and Master Harlow. Fashionable dressmaking, designing. Mrs. I. M. McGuire, 2516 Curtis 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. THE SICK MADE WELL WITH MAGNETIC HEALING. Kind Friends:— 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 8762. --- THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. DON'T MAKE YOURSELF LATE Waiting for supper at home. A plenty of good things to eat and drink at East Turner hall, Jan. 20th. SEWING DONE. 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 Eva Carter has opened a dressmaking shop at home, 2111 Arapahoe street, phone Main 8625. SPECIAL LOCALS FOR RENT—First class rooms with all conveniences and comfort at 2438 Emerson st. Mrs. I C. McKenzie. FOR RENT—Front room and side bed room at 1735 Logan avenue. Mrs. Hattie Johnson. FOR SALE or exchange—For Denver property, the Perkins home, 418 East Cucharras. Lee Lawyer Ross. 207 Kittredge. 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, 24:0 Tremont Place. Mrs. Franklin. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2419 Emerson street. Mrs. E. J. Lampkins. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2431 Arapahoe street, for man and wife or man only. FOR RENT—Furnished room in modern house. 2539 Glenarm piece. Phone Main 6981. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2515 Curtis street, in a modern house. 'Phone Olive 1472. WANTED—A woman to do light 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. PHONE MAIN 8884 Company in your appreciate it ERICAN LOAN 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 913 21st St. And is composed of the following known DR. W. A. JONES, - - - H. J. M. BROWN, - - - A. A. WALLER, Secretary and With Notary Public in Office at all FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms at 2027 Stout street. Mrs. Fort. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms in a modern house at 1285 Welton street. ing knownGentlemen: - President - Treasurer tary and Manager Mee at all times And is composed of the following known Gentlemen: DR. W. A. JONES, - - Presiden H. J. M. BROWN, - - Treasurer A. A. WALLER, Secretary and Manager With Notary Public in Office at all times 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. 1913 Welton street. Mrs. Mamie Cole. unfur- street. homes in street. FOR REN modern hous Gentlemen rates. 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 Effie Jackson. FOR RENT—Furnished room at 2431 Arapahoe street. Mrs. A. J. Taylor. 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. R. E. HAN I. LAWHO THE A. M. LA Undertakers and THE A. M. LAWHORN CO. Undertakers and Funeral Directors Up-to-Date Undertaking and Shipping Carriage Furnished for all Occasions. 1110 18th STREET Phone Main 6123 DENVER COLORADO A. M. LAWHORN, Manager. IN LOAN & REALTY GO ROOMS TO RENT-To gentlemen, at 2319 Champa street. Mrs. R. A. Scott. Everything modern and rates reasonable. Phone Main 8984. 400a. FOR RENT-Furnished room, extra nice, to lady or quiet gentleman. No other roomers. 1946 Pennsylvania st. Mrs. Reese. FOR RENT-One large front room and rear room in modern house, 2944 Tremont Place, Olive 1414. FOR RENT-Furnished rooms at 2121 Arapahoe street. Phone Olive 1758. Mru. L. P. Holmes. FOR RENT-Furnished rooms in modern house. Bath and gas. Mru. H. W. Wade, 222; Lincoln avenue. FOR RENT-Furnished rooms in modern house. 2457 Gilpin street. Gentlemen preferred. Reasonable rates. FOR RENT—A nicely furnished room. 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 32. 2810 Arapahoe street. Mrs. R. Lindsay. BEE HIVE ROOMING 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 2369. Transient rooms for BE SURE TO ROOM with Mrs. S. J. Dunker when you go to Manitou, Ocala. Modern house, very convenient. R. E. HANDY, Licensed Embalmer. AWHORN CO. ```markdown ``` PAGE 2 FARMING NOW MADE A SCIENCE. Work That the Colleges Have Done, and Have Yet to Do. Agriculture must rise to meet the college man, declares a writer in the Century Magazine. The leading agricultural colleges are now so well established, and are teaching in such direct and applicable ways, that they are creating a body of ability and sentiment touching country life that has never been known before. This ability and sentiment is bound to express itself. The influence of these colleges and experiment stations will surely remake agriculture and redirect it. This redirection will not show itself in increasing the productiveness of the earth only, although this must be the fundamental effort and result. It must consist as well in reorganizing the business or commercial interests of agriculture, and in a radical change in the ideals and modes of living. We shall be able to increase the profitableness of farming when we have learned to apply our science, and to organize it as a part of good business systems. We are now in the epoch of the laudation of science itself, as if the mere knowledge of the laws underlying good crop and animal production can make a good farmer. CHURCH USED AS POSTOFFICE. Many Travelers Have Letters Addressed to Sacred Edifices. "I had no idea," said the new postman to a sexton, "that churches got such heavy mail. Who are all these letters for anyhow?" "For strangers who worship here," said the sexton. "This and those other two churches on your route are well known the country over. When young people from other towns make up their minds to come to New York their folk at home are pretty badly worried over them. In their anxiety they remember one of these popular churches that everybody has read about, and they grasp at it as a last hope. They don't know just what the wanderers will do in New York or where they will drift, so they say: 'We will write you for a while in care of Mr. Blank's church.' "And they do write here. That brings the young people around for the mail, anyhow, and after that, from a sense of obligation alone, they come back to the service. It means a little extra work for the sexton to look after all these letters, but the influence for good in the lives of the youngsters more than makes up for it."—New York Press. Clergymen Are Scarce. The reluctance of men to take holy orders in the Church of England, which is so noticeable a feature at the present time, is a matter of more than ecclesiastical interest. It affects not only the existing clergy but also the laity; and not the church laity alone but the nation as a whole.—Nineteenth Century. Once Upon a Time. An Atchison girl refused to marry a good man because his name was Fritz Schmelt, when all her dreams had been of something like Chauncey St. Clare de Paul. And Fritz Schmelt didn't do thing afterward but make his ugly name good for a million.—Atchison Globe. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORAD A Queer Origin. It is interesting, and sometimes amusing, to trace the origin of words. There is the word "pecuniary," for example, which, you know, means relating to money. Strange to say, its original meaning was "cattle." It seems that oxen were the medium of exchange between the ancient Romans, one ox being the unit of value. The first Roman coins bore the image of an ox, and the word "pecus" meant an ox or a coin, according to how you used it. A Good Hunt Rewarded. An old man in Atchison writes to the Atchison Globe: "In 1866 I knew a Methodist preacher who would announce his text in this manner: 'You will find my text in the eighth chapter of Isaiah, ninth verse. If you don't find it thar, you will find it somewhar, if you hunt the book through from Genesis to Revelation. And if you don't find it then you will have found a great many things which will do to you a power of good.'" Advice to Mothers. Be positive with the children. Lay down the law. It is remarkable how soon they discover when you are in earnest. Do not go to the breakfast table in a flurry, but stop long enough to count 100 slowly, and then enter with a calm manner determining that there will be no squabbling. It is natural for the young animal to scrap, and while not criminal, still it must be checked to self-control. Suffocated In His Hat. "Fell into his hat and suffocated." This is the indorsement on the death certificate of Alfred Parlow, who was found dead by the roadside in North Raynham, Mass., by a neighbor. The man was on his way to his home, and tripped and fell. His derby hat slipped down over his eyes, and his face was forced into it. The man never recovered sufficiently to extricate himself, dying of suffocation. Where Napoleon Failed. It would probably be immoral to make Napoleon one's ideal. Moreover, we have to remember that to construct a perfect household is an achievement greater than any of Napoleon's. A truth which is illustrated by the fact that when he devoted his abilities to housekeeping he failed. It proved better to let Josephine have her way, which was extravagant, but comfortable. Work of Women Inventors. Women are said to have been issued more than 6,000 patents by the United States office. They are not all domestic by any means, either, as some of them are for car couplers, night signaling, life rafts, car wheels, machines for manufacturing ozone and a typewriter for the blind. A pocket sewing machine and a sash that will go up without sticking are other inventions by women. Saves Telegraph Tolla. A pigeon used by a Manchester (Eng.) firm of mill-owners to carry messages from one mill to another has saved the firm £229 in telegrams during the past ten years. Common Fault. Some people don't know much, and even that they can't keep to themselves. PHONE 1461 2300-2306 Larimer St. WALTER EAT Groceries, Vegetables, OUR SPECIALTIES Groceries, Vegetables, Fruits, Meats, Delicatessen 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 We handle nothing but the best Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, etc. Also Canned Goods DELICA In this Department everything Chitterlings, Chine Bones, Snoots, P thing about a b DELICATESEN In this Department everything is complete, up-to-date and fresh Chitterlings, Chine Bones, Snoots, Pig Feet, Ears, Tails, Hocks Everything about a hog but the squeal. WALTER EAST Phone.1461 Knowledge and resources. It is no more possible for an idle man to keep together a certain stock of knowledge than it is possible to keep together a stock of ice exposed to the meridian sun. Every day destroys a fact, a relation, or an influence; and the only method of preserving the bulk and value of the pile is by constantly adding to it.-Sidney Smith. A gentleman was recently dining in the Drug club, and, having ordered oyster soup, discovered but two miniature oysters in it. He called the head waiter and said: "How is it that I find but two small oysters in my soup to-day?" The waiter took the bill of fare, and, looking at it closely, asked the guest: "Does it say oyster soup with oysters in it to-day?" Translate at Your Leisure. A Zurich newspaper published the following advertisement in English: "Residing board house among a charming set of mountains. Very beseeming for families or singular individuals. Shadowed glades and amiable places for resting for guests of the cure. All facilities for mountainous expeditions. Excellent kitchen, with lager beer running from the tap." Let Each Help Those Closest at Hand. Let Each Help Those Closest at Hand. Conditions can be righted when the community thinks and acts. You cannot right them. I cannot right them. But you and I can offer, within a narrow circle, the tallow dip of individual good heartedness while we wait for the calcium of the full brotherhood of man which is coming later. Cynthia Westover Alden, in the Circle. Try This Plan. If you have an old bicycle pump around the house you can put it to good service when next you clean your sewing machine. Tiny pieces of lint, threads and the like can be blown out of the crevices and the machine cleaned in much less time. An atomiser can often be used for the same purpose. Mistaken. MEATS In this Department there is nothing lacking: Beef, Mutton and Pork Try our Roasts and Steaks 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 Feet, Ears, Tails, Hocks Every- but the squeal. 2300-6 Larimer St. The Spitz Dog. Spitz dogs are so named owing to their sharp noses. This is also a German name, spitz meaning sharp-pointed. Another name for this breed is Dalmatian dog, because his native home was in Dalmatia. Good Suggestion. Japanese saying runs: "Woman is an unmanageable creature; flatter her, she is elated; thrash her, she weepeth; kill her, her spirit haunts you." We would suggest that the best remedy is to love her.—Exchange. Valuable Trait of Character. No trait of character is rarer, none more adimarble; than thoughtful independence of the opinions of others, combined with a sensitive regard to the feelings of others.—A. J. Froude. Quick Remedy Needed. "Oh, mamma," said little Lola, "I've got a awful pain. Won't you please give me some of that medicine with sugar in it? Quick, mamma, before the pain goes away." The following is the shortest sentence, says Home Notes, containing all the letters of the alphabet: "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs." Money in Growing Bananas. First-class bananas bring the growers in Costa Rica 31 cents a bunch. The inferior qualities sell at half that price. Reality of Riches. Beecher: In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Seneca: Let no man presume to give advice to others who has not first given good counsel to himself. From Siberian Fisheries. Two thousand tons of fish are sent out of Siberia exchangemen. ROVISIONS The Spitz Dug. All the Letters. Qualify First. Rooms—81-2 Good Block. Office Phone Main 8508. 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. Fphone Main 8625 After hours 3230 DR. JUSTINA L. FORD OFFICE HOURS: 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m., to 8 p. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE. 2111 Araphee Street, Denver. FRANKLIN H. BRYANT Attorney-at-Law Corner of Sixteenth and Larimer Streets Suite 40 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. Harper, 8 to 12 m. 1 to 5 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. 915-917 Twenty-First Street. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. The courts decide that the sardines are not a combination in restraint of trade. This leaves them in the old category of little fishes billed in ile. Boston Herald. As a health restorative, a French medical expert recommends a ten or fifteen days' diet of fruit alone, twice a year. Remedy Can Be Found. Lowell: For artificial evils, for evils that spring from want of thought, thought must find a remedy somewhere. Seeds of Happiness. We do not know how cheap the seeds of happiness are, or we should scatter them oftener.—Lowell. To Relieve Seasickness. Eugene Wolf, the German explorer, says that for the last 15 years of the 30 he has spent in traveling he has studied the problem of a costless preventive of seasickness, and he has reached the conclusion that the best means obtainable is a hot watersoaked towel, folded tightly about the patient's head while he lies flat on his back. In Wolf's own words: "A remedy for curing seasickness there is none, and never will be. The point, therefore, lies in its prevention, for 'prevention is better than cure.' My simple head bandage, made by folding a towel, a large handkerchief or anything similar, dipped into hot salt or sweet water, and applied round the head a few times, restores the proper circulation of the blood, relieves the abdomen from pressure and checks the cerebral anemia." Still the Friday Superstition. "The Atlantic liners are now running much oftener than they used to do. In time they will leave port every day in the week but Friday. They will never sail on Friday on account of the Friday superstition." The speaker, a shipping agent, shook his head and resumed: "This Friday superstition is amazingly strong. It affects the educated no less than the illiterate. I know hardly a person who would set out on a sea voyage on Friday, and nobody would marry on that day, while there is even, say the undertakers, a prejudice against Friday burials. "A Friday burial," he explained, "is not supposed to affect the hereafter of the deceased, but to augur ill for the health of the mourners throughout the ensuing year." Possibly So. "What does the cheerful chap over there do?" "He's in the undertaking business." "And the woeful individual who seems to have lost his dearest friend?" "He's in the joke business." "Well! Well! You never can tell. I suppose each of them is trying to forget how he makes a living." Promoting the Glad Expression. "Have you done anything to make life seem more cheerful?" said the optimist. "Have you helped anybody to smile?" "I should say so. I have helped more people to smile than anybody else in the neighborhood. I'm a dentist."—Washington Star. A. J. PHILLIPS, MANAGER The best equipped Pleasure resort in the West. Ping Pong Pool and Billiards 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. L. L. McMAHAN'S 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 Goods delivered free. Phone Main 4956. Cor. 19th and Arapahoe Sts. GIVE ME A CALL. FOR A FIRSTCLASS MEAL GO TO THE Short Orders, Chilli, Chop Suey, Noodles All American Dishes Phone Main 6835 Private Rooms for Ladies Open Day and Night Thomas Clingman HELP US BE PROMPT, are occurring in the districts of the engagement of our mailing galleys. If you rday, notify us at once. Do not delzy. notification. No paper should be as late a L. McMAHAN prescription Pharr OF TOILET ARTI-CLES, PERFUME dges, courteous treatment. Remember drugs in our prescriptions. In fact — PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT is any in the city. Prices right. — PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. free. Phone Main 4956. Cor. 19th and GIVE ME A CALL. L. L. McMAHAN FIRSTCLASS MEAL GO TO MAY HONOR RESTAURA 1841 Arapahoe Street Orders, Chilli, Chop Suey, N All American Dishes Phone Main 6835 oms for Ladies Open Day THE OLD RELIABLE mas Cling illard and Pool Parlour PAGE. 8. AGER different" club at in the liards ver Colo. the Denver postoffice your paper does not The fault can only as Monday in reach N'S macy... ES, CIGARS, ETC we always use the at our Y. d Arapahoe Sta. TO THE GANT PAGE.4. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH, Corner of Twenty-first and California Streets—Sunday Services. On every first Sunday in the 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 9:45 a. m., Mr. Chas. Rose, superintendent. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m., Mr. Coleman, president. Junior Lights at 5:30 p. m., Mrs. Kelly, president. 7:30, preaching. Mid-week Services.—Deacon board meets Tuesday before the first Sunday of each month at 7:30 p. m., John Little, chairman. Deaconess board meets Monday before the first Sunday of each month. Trustee board meets on Monday before the first Sunday of each month at 7:30 p. m. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Circle meets the second and fourth Fridays at 3 p. m., Mrs. Jacobs president. Sunday school teachers' meeting every Thursday at 7:30 p. m. MRS. E. DISHMAN. All we do is to mention her name. If you haven't had an opportunity to hear her sing, now is your chance with Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th, East Turner hall. Miss Lella McWilliams spent the holidays in Richmond, Va., visiting the daughter of Dr. W. L. Taylor, president of the True Reformers. Miss McWilliams is traveling agent for her mother's firm, Walker Mfg. Co. of Pittsburg, and assisting editor for out-of-town news of the progressive Afro-American. She is making quite a hit "Under Southern Skies," and has toured the whole of West Virginia and Virginia lecturing at various churches and organizations, and reports a complete success, socially and financially. She starts in North Carolina January 6th, to complete the rest of the states along the eastern shore, namely, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Queen of the West Temple No.1 S. M. T., installed Thursday evening, January 7th, the following officers for 1909: Mrs. M. E. Riley, W. P. Mrs. Isabella Barber, W. C. of S. C. Queen of the West Temple No.1 holds regular monthly meeting nrst and third Thursdays in each month. Mrs. Mamie Johnson and family are the proud owners of a fine ten-pound boy. Mother and son are doing fine. Mrs. E. J. Johnson is in receipt of news telling her of two dozen ready-made infants' wardrobe on the way from Frisco to baby from relatives. THE IMPERIAL QUARTETTE. Singers that and will sing all the THE S. ATESMAN. DENVER. COLORADO. City News latest hits of to-day. With Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th, East Turner hall. Rooming house for sale at your own price. 2233 Champa street. The following officers were installed into Pythias Lodge No. 11, K. of P., on Wednesday evening, January 6, 1909. Geo. W. Davis, C. C., 1348 S. 12th st. John Lewis, V. C., 520 Josephine st. John W. Bush, Pre., 63 Logan st. Geo. C. Sample, M. of E., 1223 19th st. S. C. Herndon, M. of F., 18 Alaska st. J. M. Martenia, K. of R. and S., 1223 19th st. J. M. Pinchback, M. of A., Littleton, Colo. C. F. Grant, I. G., 2953 Larimer st. N. J. Skillen, O. G., 1904 E. 29th ave. G. C. Sample, Harry Jones, G. Rep. WILLIE BURNS & COMPANY In an original sketch; sweet music, using two pianos on the stage, with Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th, East Turner hall. ONE YEAR AGO TO-DAY, JAN. 6, 1908—IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD. God said, let there be light. Grim darkness left His might and fled away. The first, a husband, he lay at rest Like snow that night, on Beauty's breast. The second, a son, so pure and fair, Shrunk in the tangle of a harlot hair. The third, a widow, with grief made wild, Shut in the icy palm of her dead child. Mrs. Jessie Nickens Reese and her dainty maids, Miss Edith Scott, Miss Josephine Allen, Miss Amile Mathews, with Rice & Harris, Jan. 20, East Turner hall. Mrs. Eliza Goens has sent her niece, Lillian Edwards, to Louisville, Ky., where she will reside permanently with her mother's sister. The Lucy Thurman W. C. T. U. will meet at Campbell's A. M. E. church next Friday afternoon. The following program will be rendered: Devotional exercises led by Mrs. Morrison; talk to mothers, Mrs. U. Hall; solo, Mrs. C. W. Holmes. Discussion of the subject. All members of the W. C. T. U. are urged to attend the institute to be held in the Y. M. C. A. Assembly hall, corner Sixteenth and Lincoln streets, Thursday, Jan. 21, 1909. Meetings begin at 9:30 a. m. and continue until 4 p. m. YOU WON'T NEED A NOTE BOOK. Just come. You know a good hard laugh will always be remembered. Rice & Harris, East Turner hall, Jan. 20th. ZION'S PASTOR COMING THIS WEEK. For some time the community has been looking forward to the coming of the pastor of Zion church in the person of Rev. Griffith of Des Moines. The call was extended him some time ago and to-morrow will be his first service in his new charge. He comes to this city with the highest recommendation, as the following clipping from a Des Moines daily paper shows, and we wish him every success and pledge him the best efforts we can put forth to make this the great down-town church, typical of the best there is in the race. The clipping says: The Rev. T. L. Griffith, for the past seven years pastor of the Corinthian Baptist church at Fifteenth and Linden streets, has resigned his pastorate to become pastor of the Zion Baptist church of Denver, one of the largest Negro Baptist churches of the country. His resignation was offered to the congregation several weeks ago, but was not accepted and every inducement made for the Rev. Mr. Griffith to continue his pastorate work in Des Moines. The Zion church in Denver has a congregation of 500, a property near the business center worth $40,000, with an income from rentals of $800 a year. The former pastor has now charge of the largest Negro institutional church in America. In his seven years' pastorate the Rev. Mr. Griffith has built up the local church from a membership of 140 to nearly 500 and has moved from a small building on Eleventh street to the present edifice, which was brought from the Unitarian church. The material growth of the church membership has been in proportion to the church growth. From nine property owners seven years ago, there are sixty property owners in the congregation. Several of the young people have been graduated from or are attending high school, one is attending college as against but one graduate in all Negro families prior to 1902. The church has grown to be one of the leading Negro churches of the West and has contributed liberally to the activities of the denomination in educational and missionary lines. The Rev. Mr. Griffith has been personally honored during his stay in Des Moines. He has been president of the Western Baptist convention for several years, served as clerk for the ministerial association and was appointed by Mayor Mathis on the waterways commission to Chicago. THE SWEETEST THING OF ALL, "Kiss Me, Dearle." Hear it Wednesday, Jan. 20th, East Turner Hall. Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Fowler of Englewood are the happy parents of a baby girl, born last Friday. Mrs. Carl Wilson is suffering with tonsillitis, as is also Mrs. Nathan Brown. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks and appreciation of the great kindness and sympathy and the beautiful floral offerings extended by our friends in the death of our child, Joseph Faith Marable. MR. AND MRS. MARABLE. R. B. Anderson of Leadville was in the city this week, making a brief visit with his family. He returned Thursday. Mrs. Elvira McCracken, one of Denver's citizens of many years' residence, has been called from labor to reward, departing this life Tuesday. The funeral occurred from the family residence on Thirtieth and Champa streets Thursday afternoon. Rev. Holmes officiated. The interment was at Fairmount with Undertaker Gilmore in charge. She leaves a daughter in this city, Mrs. John Watkins, and many friends to mourn her loss. Mrs. Edward Patton leaves to-morrow for a two weeks' visit in Kansas City. Among the appointments already made by the newly installed state Democratic officials is that or O. T. Jacqson of Boulder as messenger to the governor, the place formerly held by Captain Campbell. Mr. Jackson's appointment was made with the endorsement of the colored state leaders of that party, and is especially a recognition of the Boulder Anti-Taft club. Mrs. Arlena Hall is on the road to recovery from pneumonia. FOR RENT IN CHEYENNE. One nice room for quiet man and wife or for two nice men at Mrs. Pierson's, 622 W. 20th street. A birthday party of ladies assembled at the home of Miss Maggie Johnson on 23rd street on Monday, and helped her make merry on the occasion of her natal day. The son of Charles Clark is down with pneumonia. The Sunshine Club meets Thursday with Mrs. A. Reeves of 2336 Welton street. MRS. E. H. MORRIS, Pres. Mrs. H. B. PAYNE, Secretary. The Berkeley Art Club was entertained by Mrs. Hardy, Friday, January 8. At the same home they gave an elaborate dinner December 29 in honor of their husbands. Christmas was proclaimed in the decorations. A glorious time was had and the gentlemen were unanimous in wishing that the club entertained every month instead of once a year. Shorter and Campbell churches are united in holding revival services, in the edifice of the latter. So far the meetings have been attended with wonderful success. Eighteen have been converted and reclaimed. The preaching has been in charge of Revs. Williams, Reynolds and Ward. Praise services are interspersed with sermons. During next week the meetings will be continued and then a recess will be taken to reconvene at Shorter church. NOTICE-A WONDER. Prof. Will Taylor, corns, bunions and ingrowing nails specialist. Guaranteed cure. Painless, no cutting. Phone Main 8358, 911 Eighteenth street. Clip this advertisement, as it may not appear again. East Turner Hall, Wednesday, Jan. 20, '09 Under the direction of the Colored American Amusement Company, H. W. Hinkle, General Mgr. W. A, Rice, Business Mgr. R. B. Bolden, Advance Agt. Curtis M. Harris, Stage Mgr. Harvey King, Scenic Artist and Property Man J. C. Harris, Musical Director HARRIS' GREATER ORCHESTRA After the Show you can Dance until 2 A. M. Admission Adults 50c Children under 12 25c MISS AIMEE MATTHEWS DOUBLY ENTERTAINS BRIDES-TO-BE. Notwithstanding the ship which carried Misses Genevieve Collier and Estelle Parker and Messrs. Lewis Parks and Orlando Jackson would not be launched fully until Thursday night, yet Miss Aimee Matthews had the ship stop long enough at the residence of Mrs. R. H. George, 2344 Tremont Place, for all their friends to have a double granite and tin shower. The shower resulted in getting nearly every conceivable kind of tin and granite ware. The house was filled with friends who enjoyed themselves at various amusements; some sang light and gay sentimental songs, while others indulged in cards and dancing. The report would be incomplete if no mention was made of the artistically decorated table in pink, white and green colors, with a large and beautiful green basket, as the center piece tied with pink and 1. The image contains a black background with a white rectangle in the center. Inside the rectangle, there are three white dots arranged horizontally. The dots are evenly spaced and appear to be part of a grid or pattern. The rectangle is slightly tilted to the right. green streamers emerging from the vase of pink and white carnations. There was a strain of polish and grandeur which peculiarly set off the evening. The two young Misses Allyn and Matthews presided over the punch bowl, while Miss Jessie Andrews assisted Mrs. George in serving refreshments. The chaperones were Mesdames J. W. Jackson, James Haskins, Henry and Taylor. Miss Matthews showed her apt ability and refined taste in entertainment which is calculated to bring envy. Messrs. Lewis Parks and Andrew Jackson were not only full of smiles, but even wore broad grins all evening. The young misses carried throughout the evening a self-respectful air with a touch of seriousness which characterize all brides-to-be. They will live together on the West Side. The young people being so prominent, The Statesman congratulates them respectively and like all the guests present, WILL A. A Night In Wonderland tained Presiding Elder Prince Friday and Saturday of last week. Mrs. Susie Starkey has returned home from Pueblo. Her many friends will be pleased to have her among them again. The N. U. G. club has its regular meetings every Thursday afternoon. The ladies are preparing a program for Lincoln's birthday. Mrs. M. A. Berry is reported sick this week. Mrs. Harry Gordon has been confined to her bed with rheumatism. Mrs. Chas. Lennox will entertain the N. U. G. club Thursday night, January 14th. Mrs. F. O. McAlister has been very sick with la grippe, but is reported better at this writing. M. H. Happy Dick Oh, but he will make you lau ay, Jan. 2 K. of P. Mrs. Lillian Jones Mrs. Willie Burns & Co. h, Sweet Music, using two p Nickens-Reese and 3 by Mrs. Edith Scott Miss An The Imperial Quartette gsville Jo e L Happy Dick Thomas Oh, but he will make you laugh, you can't help it y, Jan. 20,'09 of P. Lillian Jones Mrs. E. L. Faulkner Llie Burns & Co. eet Music, using two pianos on the stage ens-Reese and 3 Dainty Maids Edith Scott Miss Amiee Matthews Imperial Quartette In a Musical Sketch, Sweet Music, using two pianos on the stage Mrs. Jessie Nickens-Reese and 3 Dainty Maids Mrs. Fay Grey Mrs. Edith Scott Miss Amiee Matthews sely, Denver's Greatest Curtain rises at Denver's Greatest Violinist rtain rises at 8.30 sharp Easely, Denver's Greatest Violinist Curtain rises at 8.30 sharp John Carrie Leon Pryor PAGE. KEPT PENN TREATY NDIANS SAID TO HAVE PRE SERVED DOCUMENT. Westerner Declares He Has It in His Possession and Has Offered to Present It to the City of What is represented to be the Indian copy of the treaty of friendship between William Penn and the Indians, made under the elm tree, has been offered to Wilfred Jordan, curator of Independence hall, for inspection, and he is daily expecting its arrival from Frederick M. Hans, "Lone Star," Indian scout, of Kansas, the Philadelphia Inquirer says. Whether it can stand the fire of historical criticism to which it will be subjected from Curator Jordan remains to be seen, but he said that he would feel chargeable with inexcusable neglect as a city official if he had not met the offer with a warm interest and anxiety to give the owner every fair opportunity to prove the genuineness of the relic. Incidentally, it raises the question: "Where is the white man's original copy of the Penn treaty," if there was one, if it was not left of record only in the recording angel's book? Mr. Jordan said there was no reason to doubt the good faith of the man who offered the Indians' copy of the treaty at any rate, whether it turns out to be a copy or only the Indians' original chronicle of the event or a reproduction of that chronicle after the original wore out. The possessor is Frederick M. Hans, or "Lone Star," a Kansas plainsman and Indian scout. His own account of the matter sent to Philadelphia is as follows: "It is a little piece of buckskin, eight inches by twelve inches, old, sciled with long handling, the figures half effaced. It was given to Frederick M. Hans by one of the squaws of Sitting Bull. It contains a leafless tree., which is said to record the fall as the time of the making of the treaty. Every dot among the feet of the figures represent a year since the treaty was made. In 1878, when Hans obtained possession of it, it contained 196 dots. Sitting Bull was the chief medicine man of the Sioux and keeper of the records of the nation. The Sioux tribe was largely recruited from the Lenni Lenape Indians, with whom Penn made the famous treaty. Other Indian chronicles in Hans' possession give the account of the rise of the Sioux. They say a mighty warrior arrose and cut the throats of 100 Miamis. Sioux, meaning, according to this interpretation, cut-throat warriors, deserted the Lenni Lenapes, and they carried with them the Penn treaty chronicle on buckskin, which was handed down to Sitting Bull." "We will see what it is, at any rate," said Curator Jordan, "and if it's what it purports to be Philadelphia is the place for it. Mr. Hans has had some negotiations with the Smithsonian institution at Washington, but whether they have ever had it under careful examination or not we do not know." Capped Projectiles. It is a curious fact that armor piercing shells having soft metal caps on the point are more effective than those not so provided. The way in which the cap acts is not well understood. A THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. THE NEEDMORE CLUB CALEB ALLEN, Prop. & Mgr. Cigars and Pool A Pleasant Place for Pleasant People. 2243 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- ets of all kinds. Miss Genevieve Hallowell, prop. Mrs. J. R. Hallowell, Mgr. needle may be driven into a board with a hammer when it is thrust through a cork, whereas it would break off unsupported. Some have thought that the soft cap supports the hard point of the projectile in the same way. A British naval architect who has been studying the mutual action of projectile and armor says that a shell frequently fails because a very small piece of the point is forced back into the mass and splits it. A large piece is then similarly forced back, and so on. The main advantage of the soft cap, this writer thinks, is to prevent such splitting. Caps are ineffective at low velocities, but would probably be less so if made larger. A Warning. "Since one in ten of us, if we weather the age of 35, are doomed to die of cancer," said a physician, "it is good to know the most prevalent cause of this terrible disease. That cause is pressure—local irritation. "Certain eastern women wear a belt about the waist with a tight and heavy clasp of metal in front. Where this clasp presses these women contract cancer. "Turkish porters carry heavy weights on their shoulders. When these men fall victims to cancer it is on the shoulder that the disease appears. "Here with us cancer too often attacks men's tongues. The cause is the cigar or pipe, which, with its pressure and heat, sets up the irritation which is certainly, so far as we know, cancer's chief cause." MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO. MRS. L. L. ROBERTS. The image provided is too blurry and pixelated to accurately recognize any text or content. It appears to be a grayscale image with a dark background and some faint, indistinct shapes that could be part of a landscape or abstract design. The Real Thing. Mrs. Bluehose—Who 4s your favorite writer, Mrs. Shopleigh? Mrs. Shopleigh—My husband. Mrs. Bluehose—Why, I wasn't aware that he was of a literary turn. Mrs. Shopleigh—Oh, yes; he writes checks. Willing to Mingle. "That European nobleman seems a democratic sort of chap." "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox; "he seems perfectly willing to divide up some heiress' money, so that he can come off the perch and be one of us newly rich." 4 years ago my hair was only a 4 years ago my hair just covered finget-length, and my temples my shoulders. were bald half way up my head. For Bluing Steel Goods. A method of bluing small steel goods by dipping is to melt saltpeter in an iron pot, then immerse the previously polished and cleaned articles until sufficiently blued. The goods should then be removed and cooled in petroleum and afterward dried out in sawdust. 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. Love at First Sight. It exists, but it is utterly fallacious and dangerous, for it is based only on that fragile thing—looks. It may be romantic, but it is not lasting, and is seldom genuine.—Illustracion, Barcelona. A Weighty Question. "I took in two dollars just now," said the first promoter. "Good enough," declared the second promoter. "Shall we issue additional stock to correspond with our increased capital, or shall we have lunch?"—Judge. The Short and the Tall Woman. The Short and the Tall Woman. There is no longer a perfect type of woman, such as the Greeks admired. There is the ideal short woman and the ideal tall woman, but they are very different. The Suspected Beaver. "Sence I tol' you 'bout the ol' man havin' a blind tiger in a walkin'-stick an' gettin' kotched up with," said the old lady, "he's been keepin' unusual quiet—ain't even kicked the house cat or tried to raise the roof. 'Pears like it wuz a lesson that done him good, but it's like to cause him to move out the settlement, fer Deacon Jones, who seen the licker spilled outen the walkin'-stick, spread it all over, an' sence that, ef you shake a walkin'-stick at the ol' man he hunts for kiver'—just takes to the woods. I dunno what new scheme he'll try to work to hide it hereafter; he bought him a beaver hat t'other day, an' I'm suspicious that it's got a false inside to it, an' that thar's somethin' like half a gallon hid in the top of it whar his bald head orter be. I hain't had much of a chance to investigate, kaze the ol' man never lets that beaver out o' his sight, but the other day, when I was a-goin' through the settin'-room I tapped it—easy like—an', in my jedgment, it didn't ring as holler as what a beaver hat orter. So, as I said before, I've got my suspicions, an' I ain't goin' to rest till I satisfy 'em. It's my firm an' onfaillin' beliefs that there's a blind tiger in the top o' that new beaver hat!"—Atlanta Constitution. Alaska's Hidden Treasures. Alaska has more gold than ever had California, Australia or South Africa; it has more copper than 20 Buttes; it has more hard coal than Pennsylvania, and it has more tin than Wales. The hay that rots on its tundras and plains would fatten all the cattle that roam upon the prairies of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. And there the wild, fertile, untouched plains and valleys await the ax, the spade, the plow and the reaper of half a million American farmers and gardeners. And yet this virgin empire remains virtually landlocked for nearly 1,000 miles along its Pacific coast. For a distance of nearly 100 miles from the coast inland the country is so rugged that it is almost as cheap to build a railroad as a wagon road. The great river system of this empire flows northward into seas ice-locked for seven months of the year. The heart of this wonderland is close to all the great possible channels of commerce, except railroads, which must be built in the immediate future, yea, which are now being actually constructed from its ice-free Pacific harbors.—Review of Reviews. Electricity from the Earth. Great local differences in the electrification of the earth are known to exist, and a German engineer suggests that with better knowledge it may be possible to make mining for electricity as profitable as digging for coal or metals. In experiments in two comparatively shallow borings, he has obtained weak currents between a small rod of brass or iron immersed in the water of the pit and a similar rod buried near the surface. He urges that contractors, mining companies and others take up the problem, and perform such experiments as testing the current between a 60-foot copper cylinder at the bottom of a boring of 30,000 feet or more and a similar cylinder buried in moist ground at the surface, also investigating the charges to be obtained from long iron pipes buried in the ground. It seems quite possible that means may be found for charging accumulators from earth currents, thus giving us a new source of power, light and heat. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. It is said that the starfish has a unique way of escaping from a net when it is caught; it falls apart, into a dozen fragments, and these fragments slide through the meshes. But the strangest part of it is that each of the fragments becomes, in time, a perfect fish. The only way to preserve a starfish is to plunge it into fresh water soon after it is taken; that kills it instantly. When Society Decays. The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay; and every being that continues to be fed, and ceases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.—Samuel Johnson. Mean to Do Things Thoroughly. A Chicago woman suffragist accuses Adam of being a loafer and bringing about all the trouble. It took a long time to turn the tables on the original man behind the theory that a woman is always to blame for everything, but now that the suffragettes have started to even things, it is fearful evidence of their thoroughness that they are starting at the beginning.—Baltimore American. Drawing the Line. "I don't mind listening to a man who is paying for my dinner tell me the story of his life," said the woman. "Men's lives a.e generally interesting, but I won't stand to hear a woman tell everything she knows, even if she does pay for my dinner. I'd rather pay for my own dinner and get an occasional shy at the conversation." Means Strain on Women. Every monthly magazine carries as many as two continued stories in it. When a man takes six, it means that his wife is carrying 12 continued stories in her head in addition to doing the cooking and trying to find out how much the new hat cost worn by the woman next door.—Oil City Derrick. Sermon in a Sentence. Reverence the simple, the prosaic, the natural, the real; and demand of every common thing of life, whether it be your body or your money, or your daily experience, that it shall bloom into fine results in your own soul, and in your own influence on the world. Phillips Brooks. Urtruthful Signs. A New York retail merchant who has been in business for a quarter of a century says that not one sign out of a hundred in a shop window that tells of bankruptcy, fire sales, closing out prices, moving bargains and such like information tells the truth. Little Known in Insect World. Although there are over a million specimens of insects in the British museum, scientists say the largest part of the insect world has not yet been discovered or named. Dangerous Complication. "I've never been really uneasy about Uncle Henry until now." said Mrs Lapaling. "The doctor says his symptoms indicate metempsychosis of the lungs." Phone Main 2275 TWO JIMS' SOCIAL CLUB Denver's Favorite Pleasure Resort Whirl, pool, chess checkers and other pastime games 859 Champa Street MURRAY AND EDWARDS, Props. THE PULLMAN W. WRIGHT A Convenient Place Direct The Finest equipped Pool and sippi River. Drop in and see us. Union Depot. 1628 Wax TRANMUNIC PAPER Firstclass J ARDS, Props. PULLMAN POOL ROOM W. WRIGHT, Manager Client Place to have your M Directed equipped Pool and Club Rooms west of the in and see us. Just around the corner PHONE MAIN 6128 28 Wazee Street THE STATESMAN class Job Print "A Firstclass Resort for Gentlemen" THE NEWPO DICK FRAZIER AND TON THE ONLY COLORED SALGON IN NEWLY OPENED NEWPORT SALOON ZIER AND TOM LEWIS, PROPRIETOR ED SALOON IN DENVER WLY OPENED WITH ALL AOCOMMOD CLUB" n Ave. d Pool... & Mgr. Denver, Colo A. JA&. F. CLARK. DOL ROOM ger ve your Mail ns west of the Missis- d the corner from the E MAIN 6128 Street Printing PAG... The Statesman Published Every Saturday at Denver, Colorado. 1026 19th Street C. A. FRANKLIN, Editor. TERMS. One year ... $2.00 Six months ... $1.00 Three month Entered at the postoffice at Denver, Colorado, as second class ma One year ..... $2.00 Six months ..... $1.00 Three months ..... $ .50 Entered at the postoffice at Denver, Colorado, as second class mailmatter. PHONE MAIN 7905. AS GOOD AS THE BEST. After a trip covering three weeks, the editor of The Statesman is once more at his post. During his absence he visited a number of cities in the Missouri river valley, and found progress general on the part of the race. The excess of population which some states have over Colorado gives them the opportunity of pointing out more individuals who are doing well, and of having greater opportunities in a few lines for the hustler, but Colorado needs feel no shame over the average of thrift, industry and general good citizenship made by its colored citizens. Somehow, just as irrigation has made of this part of the Great American desert the finest farming land in the world, so our colored citizens have the knack of taking their limited opportunity and squeezing the utmost of achievement out of it. It is indeed encouraging to find that our far west position and loss of social qualities, though it has robbed us of some of the advantages of profiting by experience of others, has not precluded advancement. Especially gratifying is the showing made by the Colorado race press. Without throwing bouquets at our state contemporaries, or at ourselves, we can frankly say that the state papers and editors, show more signs of healthy growth, than do papers where all things seem to favor them. So much that was worth while came under our view, that we shall relate at least a part in next week's paper, and while praising the good we have seen, wish it borne in mind that the Centennial State is an easy first on opportunity, and a worthy rival in real achievement thus far, so far as the average individual is concerned. POLITICAL CHANGES. Equilibrium has not yet been restored in the state and county governments after the shaking up they have received from the supplanting of Republicans by Democrats. What the future holds, no man can say, but thus far three Republicans have laid down the cares of states in the Capitol building and retired to private life—Thomas Campbell, messenger to the governor; Mrs. Ida DePriest, clerk under the secretary of state, and J. J. Manuel, janitor in the Capitol. Mr. Campbell has already been succeeded by a Negro, in the person of O. T. Jackson of Boulder. On good authority we can state that at an early date if not already, another prominent colored Democrat will receive an appointment commensurate with that held by Mrs. DePriest, though in another department. No other changes have been made in the State House. In the county building, Assessor-elect Bartels, though a Republican, has up to this time made no appointment to succeed Miss Pearl Ramey. The same is true of Sheriff Nisbet, --- PAGE.8. THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO. IMS. ths .....$1.00 Three months ...$ .50 Colorado, as second class mailmatter. who has allowed the race representative in the person of Edward Allison, to go. Arthur Newsom, who was employed by the retiring Republican county treasurer, is continued in the same capacity by the incoming Democrat. Henry Hinkle, who occupies a similar position in the county clerk's office, also continues to work on, though the political complexion of the office has changed from Republican to Democrat. The two colored janitors in the building, Edward Banks and John Davis, have found only one colored successor, Wm. Sanderlin. This is a Republican paper, and naturally has a desire to look upon the bright side of the party and its representatives, but the truth is the truth, and must be told. Our loss of representation in the county is more due to the Republicans than to the Democrats, a condition that we hope the party will proceed to remedy at once. The eighteenth annual Tuskegee Negro conference is to be held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Wednesday and Thursday, February 17th and 18th, 1909. Special committees have already been appointed by the Executive Council of the Tuskegee Institute to arrange a program of exercises and to care for the comfort of such visitors as may be present. In addition to representative farmers, who will come from all of the Southern states, formal invitations have been sent by Principal Booker T. Washington the presidents of all the Negro schools in the country and to the editors of all of the colored newspapers, as well as to a considerable number of professional and other prominent representatives of the race, asking them to be present at the same time. We move, providing we get a second, that Jack Johnson draw the color line. That is just what has been the custom of many white pugilists and will be no innovation in pugilism. By the way, it is to laugh at Papke, a middleweight who won the championship from Ketchel. The sweat of battle had hardly dried on him, when he drew the line to keep Sam Langford from giving him a lambasting. Fate, however, gave victory to Ketchel in the second meeting, and now Papke announces that he will meet all comers of all colors. Arapahoe Lodge of Odd Fellows has now come into full possession of the most valuable lot owned by Negroes in this city. The property at 1834 Arapahoe street is now free of all incumbrance, the last dollar of mortgage indebtedness being paid the first meeting in this year. The purchase price was $4,500, but is now easily worth $10,000. Gilmore & Ray in a new sketch, "Excuse me, Mistah Johnson," Jan. 20th, with Rice & Harris. --- TERMS. Why help pay big rent? We save you 20 per cent on uptown prices CLEMENTS TAILOR 1523 16TH ST. Near Blake W. O. SIMONDS QUALITY CLOTHES SHOP 1015 16TH STREET OPPOSITE TABOR GRAND .....GOOD CLOTHES AT MODERATE PRICES.... EASTMAN HOTEL 50 Rooms, Reception Room and Restaurant in Connection The only First-Class Hotel in the City for accommodation of Colored People and Trade 50 Cents per Night $25.0 Up per Week A. Y. P. Your Headquarters 909 DENVER ITEMS NEW SKATING RINK. A Skating rink and hall will be opened about the 20th at 1912 Curtis Street. Everything in connection will be first-class. Dude Morris is proprietor and manager. J. Berni Barbour, formerly of this city, but now of Seattle, has woed the muse of poetry in the following, entitled "The Black Gladiator." It appeared in the Seattle Times: HAPPY DICK THOMAS, Formerly with the original George Minstrels. Bring a rope with you, because he will make you squeal and you can't help it. With Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th, East Turner hall. Rev. Murphy will address the Y. M. C. A. at Shorter Chapel Sunday afternoon. Come one, come all. The gile club has been organized with J. Rice as president; R. Clark, vice-president; C. Rice, secretary; V. War From Texas, famous Lone Star State, The year Eighteen and Seventy-eight, Was born a "Babe" who did create The "Black Gladiator!" When but a boy was not so brave, For battling then he never craved The honor of such—just behaved The "Black Gladiator!" We sing his praise with no less joy, Than Rome did Caesar, her prized Toy, Our full-blooded Ethiopian Boy, The "Black Gladiator!" For like unto the Caesar Great, "You came! You saw! You conquered!" Yet— You must be watchful, don't forget Our "Black Gladiator!" The Rubicon you crossed to-day! O'er highest honors you hold sway, Permit me call you, if I may, The "Black Gladiator!" "Black Sparticus"—You are our own, The world's grand title by you borne Like Sampson, please protect thine Our "Black Gladiator!" Thereby records on history's page, An honor unknown to this age. A Negro champion now the rage. The "Black Gladiator!" A new name written out in fame. A proof that all men are the same In muscle, sinew and in brain. The "Black Gladiator!" No other blood flows through your veins But that of Negro Ham's own stain, Master of all the world—your claim, The "Black Gladiator!" Black Alexander, we term you, Weep not. Each nation speaks so true In saying, we've no match for you, Our "Black Gladiator!" They claimed in you a "yellow streak" With heads bowed down, they look so meek. You proved them false—you seemed a freak. Our "Black Gladiator!" Unlike them, draw no color line! We worship but at Honor's shrine, You are the greatest of these tunes, "Our Black Gladiator!" The officers elected for the Sunshine Club for the new year are: Mrs. E. H. Morris, president; Mrs. M. E. Mackey, vice-president; Mrs. Mollie Barnes, second vice-president; Mrs. H. B. Payne, secretary; Miss Lena Barnes, assistant secretary; Mrs. Mabel Falling, corresponding secretary. THE STATESMAN. DENVER. HAPPY DICK THOMAS, Formerly with the original Georgia Minstrels. Bring a rope with you, because he will make you squeal and you can't help it. With Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th, East Turner hall. Rev. Murphy will address the Y. M. C. A. at Shorter Chapel Sunday afternoon. Come one, come all. The glee club has been organized with J. Rice as president; R. Clark, vice-president; C. Rice, secretary; V. Ward, assistant secretary; W. Barber, treasurer; C. Andrews, director; W. Ward, manager; M. Tasker, sergeant-at-arms; H. Gash, librarian. There has been opened at 1012 Nineteenth street a quick lunch room with T. R. Herron and kufus Bolden in charge. Mrs. Anna Davis was in Denver Wednesday and Thursday. The Taka Art Club will meet Wednesday with Mrs. L. Williams, of 2242 Clarkson. FOR SALE—Furniture of eight rooms. See O. Gloves, 2233 Champa street. Cards were the form of entertainment last Saturday eve in honor of Miss Gatewood of Colorado Springs, after which in the spacious parlors of Hotel St. Frances, the hostess, Mrs. Harris, introduced the Cincinnati craze, "De-zhuzhi," led by Mr. "Frosty" Jones. The participants were the Misses Gatewood and marl of Colorado Springs; Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Rhoades, Mrs. Sims, Mr. and Mrs. Black, Mr. and Mrs. Elgin, Miss Elgin, Miss Carter, Miss Micheaux, Miss Pritchette, Mr. Holly Kruthers, Harris, Austin, Jones and Davis. Miss Gatewood left Sunday for her home. While in Denver Miss Gatewood stopped at Hotel St. Frances 2218 Clarkson. Mrs. B. Richardson is very ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Lina Hayden desires to express her thanks for the assistance rendered by friends and club during her illness last week. The Mite Missionary Society of Shorter church met with Mrs. J. Mason Thursday. Its meeting two weeks ago was at the house of Mrs. L. M. Froman. A. Froman of Engine No. 3 continues to suffer from the effects of injuries received at the elevator fire. He is convalescing at this time. Mrs. Froman goes to Cheyenne next week to arrange for the meeting of the state federation there this year. Mrs. E. L. Faulkner, pianist, with Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th, East Turner hall. WHEN YOU GO TO LEADVILLE You can get first-class rooms with Mrs. B. J. Motley at 206 Went Sixth. street. First-class table board also. Write or call. 10:00 FUENTADO. M. C. A. ASSURED. Last Sunday was a very hot day in Shorte Chapel despite the chilly weather outside. The financial thermometer quickly rose from zero to 425 in the shade when the zealous captains in the Y. M. C. B. rally began to bring in the ever good cash. The day had been set apart for the raising of $500 toward a Y. M. C. A. building site. All the captains were not able to report, but those who were present turned over $425. Eacu club of the twenty-three were supposed to raise $16, except the first three $50 clubs. Business began to pick up when Mrs. Unity Hall turned in $33, followed by C. B. Hill with $55, and climaxed by Mr. Bondourant with $72. Sunday, February 14, will be celebrated with a special program in honor of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Richard Allen, founder of the A. M. E. church. A. that time the captains who were unable to report last Sunday will report, and the entire sum made known. From the way the captains are getting around the sum is expected to exceed $600. Rev. A. C. Murphy, who is attracting wide-spread comment as a lecturer, will address the meeting this Sunday at 1:30 p. m. All are urged to be present on time in order to get a good seat. The Glee club has elected officers, and is now hard at work on its musicale to be given in February. Some new features are to be introduced. Watch for the date. The Mission Society of Shorter's A. M. E. church met with Mrs. Pearl Mason on Wednesday night. An enjoyable time was had. Mr. John Anderson of Leadville came down to see the inauguration of Gov. John K. Shafroth. Mr. Ed. Allison was, with eight other deputies, let out from the sheriff's office. Mrs. Elizabeth Roscoe writes from Guthrie, Okla., that Mr. Roscoe is mending very slowly. The Rock Island restaurant has moved to 10 8 19th street. Monday evening the Azalia Hackley Choral club, after spending one hour and a half rehearsing breathing exercises and sight reading, and one hour on the new musical selection, "Hiawatha," by our own Coleridge Taylor, was royally feasted by Mrs. A. A. Waller. "Chill Con Carne" and "Fryoles" with "hard doublets" were served in Mexican style and some were kept for souvenirs. Each night brings out the entire membership. The annual election of officers of the Choral club will happen the latter part of next month. Miss Ada Woodruff, sister of Mrs. Mattle Overs, of 2918 Welton street, left for Chicago Wednesday night. Miss Woodruff came out to Colorado about 18 months ago and enjoyed the climate to such an extent as to make it her permanent residing place. She pays a brief visit to her friends and relatives in Chicago and her mother in Little Rock, Ark. She was very prominent and popular with the young ladies of our city and her return is eagerly yearned. Henry Hurley made a flying business trip to Denver and visited Colorado Springs on his return trip to Silverton last Friday. Rev. Dixon of the Missouri Confer- PAGE. 9. ence is holding very enthualistic and spiritual meetings at Scott M. E. church. Mrs. Pearl Smith has returned from a visit to her husband in Colorado Springs. T. B. Burns & Company, Denver's peerless tenors, at East Turner hall, Jan. 20th. Last Monday Mrs. Charles Harris, wife of Chas. J. Harris, had a very dangerous operation at the Mercy hospital. Mrs. Rosa Wooden of Capitol Hill Fountain was ill, as was Messenger Lawhorn and Paul Fassett. Last Thursday John James entertained in honor of the Elks and his immediate friends at his batchelor parlors, 1253 Downing avenue. Music, whist and toasts were the features of the evening. The following guests were present: Dr. J. A. Harper, exalted ruler; John W. Leavell, esteemed leading knight; H. J. M. Brown, past exalted ruler; Carl Wilson, past exalted ruler; Richard Frazier, district deputy; L. J. Manley, past secretary; Dr. Westbrook, physician; Q. J. Gilmore, grand lodge delegate; J. F. Clark, tyler; James Cartwright, esquire; L. Stephen, esteemed lecturer; Robert Roy, E. Howard, A. Carper, D. Bell, V. Walker, W. D. Baker, M. Norwood, B. W. Redfield, C. W. Walker, B. H. Hodge and W. A. Rice, past exalted ruler and organizer of Rice lodge. Mrs. Lillian Jones, Denver's sweetest sentimental songstress, with Rice & Harris, Jan. 20th. For excellence down to the smallest detail, for success in pleasure giving, the Bon Vivants are IT. Thursday night at Dania hall, amid flowers and pretty decorations galore, with their ladies, the 22 of the jolly crew assembled and wined and dined, toasted and danced. For seven years this club has been in existence, growing slowly in numbers and steadily in the place it holds in the esteem of each of its members, and this annual dinner was the crowning event of them all. It comprises the following well-known gentlemen: B. C. Curtis, president; Robert Stewart, vice-president; Geo. S. Contee, secretary; Wm. Russ, treasurer; Clarence F. Holmes, chairman of arrangements; W. H. Stell, toastmaster; S. R. Burns, Fred Ratley S. Koontz, C. L. Wicks, Clark Craig, H. J. Foster, S. M. Stewart, C. Hall, Ed. Hamilton, J. Short, J. Dempsey, Dr. Westbrook, Dr. McClain, Dr. Harper, E. Murphy and Chas. Foster. Space forbids the publication of the menu served, but it may be said that it was in Bon Vivant style, which means the best. The toast program included: Song, Club; address, President, Introducing Toastmaster, B. C. Curtis; toastmaster, W. H. Stell; solo, Dr. McClain; remarks, Dr. Westbrook; song, Club; toast to the ladies, Dr. Harper; song, S. R. Burns; toast to club, H. J. Foster; song, Club; Progress of Club, G. S. Contee; critic, Wm. Russ. SAVE YOUR COUPONS