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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-07-21

The Herald is increasing its daily
circulation in every part OF the south
west. but more particularly in Silver
ton and neighboring camps.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-07-21

them up to noon. however.
GuNNiSoN Colo. July is-No
trace of the train robbers has been
discovered, Fears are beginning to be
entertained that they will never be
caught
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15
THE E MARTIN.

A bird which I admired very much
when a boy was the bee martin,
known also by the name of king
bird. This little bird / have seen
driving a hawk or buzzard before
him far above the village, now and
then bouncing down upon the foe in
a way TO make him Vince and dodge.
There was no disoounting his oour-
age.
He belongs to the fly, catching
birds. He arrives from the South,
when the weather is settled and
after he and his mate build and pre-
pare for housekeeping, he is a terror
TO hawk, jay, GROW, and every other
bird v~enturing near the abode. See
ing them coming, he starts out TO
meet them, dives on their head II
back, and the feathers literally fly.
Said an old villager once as he
noticed the bird tearing the feathers
from a hawk vainly trying to dodge
Another Bunker Hill yonder, 1 de
clare !" 1t can be guessed that he is
a great friend to the poultry breeder,
though he may now and then catch
a honeybee.
He always takes his game on the
wing. If you see him still, he is
generally citing on a topmost
branch, on the watch for insect prey.
II q moth or fly or bee passes, he
darts after it and seldom fails to
overtake it. He moves through the
air with a q~uivering motion of his
wings, giving vent to a tremulous
twittering noise.
The nests are often in the woods
or pastures, but these birds prefer
an apple tree or some other large
fruit tree. The eggs r white and
speckled with brown.
Description: The bee martin is
eight inches long his head and back
are a blush black; across his breast
there is a shade of gray. The black
feathers of his tail are tipped with
white and in the center of tho GROWN
of his head is a stripe of red, which
shows only when he is excited, as
when his "voice Is for ar."-Will
T. Hale, in Nashville Advocate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15
CAST THY BURDEN UPON THE LORD

How is a man TO cast his burden
upon the Lord? By faith in the
Lords promise. He must stop groan-
ing and believe. He must go to his
task in prayer, expecting that an un-
seen Hand will take hold of the
wheel simultaneously with his own,
and lift it out of tho mire. If he
has to speak, he must lay hold of
the promise, and look for a mouth
and wisdom that none shall be able
to gainsay or resist. We are not to
suppose any burden too small to
take to God. If we think it small,
and seek no help, it will grow in
bulk till we are crushed beneath it.
He will not remove your burden so
that you shall have nothing to do,
no more need of him ; but he will
sustain you-he will administer sup
port, so that men shall wonder to
see you walking with such alacrity,
to hear you singing 80 blithely with
a great burden upon you. Then will
you tell them Of the sustaining
Hand. Cast, then, thy burden upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.
George Bowen.
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ChiIdren's Column.
TIE KEEP A-TRYTN'" SIGN. BOARD,

my boy, said Uncle Hiram, you'll
o be starting out,
To drive Ger Life's long roadway.
and oft a bit of doubt
VIII puzzle you completely, as to
which you'd best pursue
VI branching ways, when roads fork
out, as they're inclined TO do.
Each bears the equal marks of we'll
worn travel, like as not,
And so, ones undecided which he'd
better choose so trot;
But / have learned the route, nv bow,
and this much I'll confess
The Keep a-trYin'' signboards mark
the highway TO Success.
''Suocess is such q pretty town-to
reach it, all men strive;
You'll find the crowd, though, grow
ing less, the farther on you
drive
For many, seeking shorter outs
through D~illy-dally Lane,
Get 80 far off the highway that they
find it ne'er again!
You'll be allured, as on you go, by
finger posts that say
Take Chances Road, past Waiting
vile, it's far the better a
But / this safer route would fain
upon your mind impress
The Keep a tryin'' signboards mark
the highway TO Success.
"The road that runs through Wait.
ingville has prospects bright and
fair,
When first you start, but farther on,
it leads through swsmps of Care,
And, after that, you'll have TO climb
she weary hill of Debt;
Then, still beyond, there looms in
view the tollgate of Regret
And go, my boy, when starting on
the road of Life, alone,
The route your Uncle Hiram chose I
trust you'll make your own,
And heed his plain directions, if
you'd quite avoid distress;
The Keep a-tryin'' signboards mark
the highway TO Success"
Roy Farrell Greene, in Success.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15
GUST FOR FUN"

.rysrv, hadn't you better stay at
to.nightP 1 should like TO
pOrs YOU if you felt like it,"
mCouldn't TO night, mother. ]
,n,ised Nell Kilroy I'd meet her
and we are going TO take in the
.SoT at Berkeley Hall. Jim Burton
Eve her two tickets"
mWell, now I hope you won't be
late. Mary. You know it isn't
GOOD plan for girls TO be walking
so1nd the streets at eleven or twelve
O'Clock"
80 mother, you just 60 TO sleep
md LET me alone. l can take care of
myself, but 1 must have a little
+nn"-and with a swhioh of petticoat.
and q slam of the door, Mary was
,one into the darkness.
The conversation is a typical one.
IN hundreds of families in this free
land of ours-the woman's land
such a struggle between mother and
daughter will go on this very night.
The most superficial observer of life
knows where the girl sc treated is in
danger of ending her career
Each days newspaper prints some
tragic story the first scene of which
was substantially that between Mary
and her mother. What looks like q
simple shoice between Hveliness and
dulness turns out TO be the parting
of the ways for all time. The even
ing frolio on the street, the ooasting
party, the Sunday picnic of boys and
girls without their elders, the matt
nee performance of the slightly
Questionable play, the country dance
d~sgenerating into a noisy romp-all
these are landmarks on that easy
usth which Is eas7 in one direction
only.
The source of the whole trouble is
often the mistaken leniency Of an
sfectionate mother. All womRnly
character is built on the old fashioned
virtue of obedience. The mother
Who tries to save her daughter the
pain by which that virtue is acquired
prepares her for a failure as tragic
as it is needless. In many a house
hold the stroke of doom has been
sounded when on the lips of an in
dulgent mother the tentative"Hsdn't
you better?" has taken the place of
the simple, firm, memorable "You
must. The Youths Companion.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15
FALSE ECONOMY DESTROYS VITALITY

What would you think of an
engineer who would try to economic
in ~lubricating oil at the expense of
his machinery or engine? You would
consider him very foolish, would you
not? Yet many of Us do much more
foolish things. We do not eoono,
mize in that which would injure the
inanimate machinery, but do in
oheerfulness, recreation, healthful
amusement,-aI that would lubri
cate life's machinery and make it
last longer.
We economize in our friendships
by ~neglecting them we eoonomize
in our social life, pleading with our
selves that we cannot spare the time
for visiting and receiving visits, IN
I'll we are obliged to take long en-
forced rests from the arduous duties
of our business or profession, be-
cause the machinery of our bodies,
so delicately and wonderfully made,
has become worn, and is in danger
dsnapping at some vital point.
All this strain and pressure might
be avoided if we would only take our
fun each day as we go along, if we
would only lubrioate our machinery
BY taking a few minutes, now and
then, TO see the humorous side of
life, 30 have a little chat with a
friend, or 90 indulge in soma limo
cent game which would relax the
too rigid muscles about the mouth
in a health giving laugh -Orison
SWEET Marden, in Success" for
April.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15

and deliberately turn our eyes to the
need of some one else. We may be
sure God will forgive us for this
oversight of our own spiritual c3n-
dition. Prayer for ones own spiri-
tual culture alone may become as
thin and poor as anything is capable
OF becoming. We sanotify ourselves
for others sakes, as we'll as our own,
If we ever really do it and we never
pray for ourselves so effectually as
we do when we don't pray for our
selves at all, perhaps, but lose u
selves in needs a little farther off
Our own needs r apt to I'LL when
we take our eyes off them.
Prayer often comes to poor con-
illusions, and stops because men
think that since it is speech with
God it does not need any such care
and cultivation as speech with men.
1t seems to them that so high and
spiritual a matter ought to be above
rules, and that effort will only dis
perse it's fine quality. They think it
ought to come of itself, but it does
not. One must take pains with his
prayer, notice it's ways, conditions,
and results, and make oeaseless ex-
pertinent, If he would ever come into
it's Enthusiastically School Times.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15
TAKE THINGS AS THEY COME.

Does it rain today? Is it dark
and gloomyP That ia all right there
must be some stormy days. To-
morrow the clouds will have a silver
lining, or disappear entirely. Does
the sun shine? Enjoy the sunshine.
To morrow may be bright also. Are
you we'll? Enjoy your health, and
use it to the best advantage. Are
you ill? Then it is a day in which
to be patient and endure cheerfully.
Are you free from trouble? Then it
is a thanksgiving day. Are you car
rying heavy burdens for yourself or
others? Then it is a day for the
rolling off your burdens at the foot
of the Cross.-Louise Haywood.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15

Here is a definition which is as
difficult TO read rapidly as "Peter
Piper picked a peck of picked pep
pers," and yet it is more sensible.
In fact, it is an actual statement of
facts, as you will find if you read it
slowly: "A sleeper Ia n who
sleeps. A sleeper is that in which
a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper Is that
on which the sleeper runs while the
sleeper sleeps. Therefore, while the
sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the
sleeper carries the sleeper over the
sleeper under the sleeper until the
sleeper which carries the sleeper
jumps the sleeper and wakes the
sleeper in the sleeper by striking the
sleeper under the sleeper on the
sleeper, and there is no longer any
sleeper sleeping in the sleeper on the
sleeper. National Advocate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15
CURIOUS WISH.

Mr.. Badger always meant we'll, but
he had an unfortunate talent for
saying the right thing in the wrong
way.
Everybody must grow DID," re
marked Mrs. Badger, with a sigh, as
her nus band finished some remarks
aprop1s Of the sudden agoing of one
OF her friends.
Not everybody" said Mr.. Badger,
who was nothing if not exact in his
statements "you mean everybody
who lives long enough ;" then with
d fond smile he added, 81 can't bear
to think that my dear wife may pos
sibly grow old"
Then Mrs. Badger who was of a
historical turn, burst into tears,
and her husband was filed with
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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quickest DEGREES the inaudible and
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We can effect them.-Shakespere.
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To a superficial person it might
appear that the great act of humility
was condescension, and that there
fore the understanding life was
necessarily a humble one than
the life with equals. But this is not
the true view of the CASE. The
hardest trial of humility must be not
toward a person to whom you are
superior and who acknowledges that
superiority, but toward a person
with whom you are on an equal foot
ing of competition.-J. B, Mozeley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15

A workman who is doing we'll a
fine work is pleased to hear the foot
steps of his employer. His appear
ing may be quite unexpected, but
the competent workman is not
frightened or embarrassed. He has
nothing to conceal. He rather en-
joys the close scrutiny of his work
by his master. The oo-worker with
God must do thorough work. He
cannot daily in secret with what he
condemns in public His Employer
g all.-Dr. Goblin.
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INCUBATOR.-Plans are given
for making a practical working In
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alone being worth many times the
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BREEDS.-A1 the different breeds
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their merits and dement's frankly
discussed. The best breeds for
raising broilers, best for layers, best
for Matching and best for gen.
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and the reasons for their selection
given.
DISEASES OF POULTRY are full.
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prescribed. A chaper which will
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Evening star., 1902-02-22
Burton Holmes Lecture.

On Tuesday afternoon Burton Holmes Is
to lecture at the Columbia on his expert
ences in Moscow and at the home of Count
Tolstoi at Tula. Those who attended his
lecture on st. Petersburg and who are
doomed to travel by proxy cannot but look
forward with pleasure to continuing their
way around the world next Tuesday with
Mr.. Holmes for guide. Moscow is to the
religious life of Russia what st. Peters
burg Is to the military and diplomatic. the
stronghold Of Russian faith, professions Of
priests as conspicuous in the street life as
soldiers were in the city of Peter the Great.
One of the most interesting episodes In
this lecture is Mr.. Holmes visit to the
home of Count Tolstoi and the pictures
taken by Mr. Holmes will be of unusual
interest to the many to whom his works
are familiar
Evening star., 1902-02-22
OPERA IN GERMANY.
Nothing is Ever Cut Out and Encores
Are Not Allowed.

Berlin Correspondence Chicago Record Herald
Opera is serious business in Germany. At
all of the capitals it is supported by the
governments, under the direction of the
minister of educa ton or some other official
who looks after it as closely as he looks
after the hospitals or the schools. 1t Is
considered a necessary feature OF German
education, and, although the public are re-
uuired to pay a reasonable price for ad-
mission tickets, 1T is much smaller than is
charged anywhere in the United States. and
is usually less than the admission price to
ordinary theaters A certain standard OF
excellence is required. and the deficit In the
receipts is always made up from the treas
ury of the state or the municipality. Csu-
ally the price of admission varies from 25
cents to 81, according to the location Of the
Seats with a little extra for Wagner operas
because 1t costs SO much more to produce
them. In Berlin the charges are higher
than anywhere else in Germany-from 81
cents to $3-according to location, for which
you get from four to six hours of solid
music-sOmetfmes seven hours. The best
opera is In Dresden.
People do not dress for the opera here as
in other countries. You see no ladies vita
iow-neck dresses. and very few gentlemen
with evening suits. Nor is 1t customary to
applaud except when the performance has
been unusually brilliant and even then. un-
der the most sensational circumstances. all
marks of approval must be reserved until
the end of the act No encores are per-
mitted, because they destroy the dramatic
unity. Not a note Is cut out Of the score.
which is given entire on all occasions. The
performance often begins as early as
O'Clock and sometimes lasts for five and six
hours. People eat an early dinner before
they go. have a glass of beer and sand
wich after each act and suppef when they
return to their homes. Berlin fashionable
society has required the postponement until
7:30 o'clock, but at that hour the doors are
shut and nobody is admitted into the audi
torium during the performances. Late COM
ers are compelled to wait until the end OF
the first act.
People who are In the habit OF attending
the opera regularly buy season tickets In
order to enjoy the advantage OF lower
rates, and then place on sale at agencies
maintained for that purpose seats for the
evenings when they don't care to 60. There
are two or three places In Berlin where
strangers can purchase such reserved seats
till / o'clock on the day Of the perform
ance. In every opera house there Il q large
promenade room, where beer. wine and
other refreshments are served, and II the
interval between the acts 70 ten minutes or
longer the entire audience deserts the audi
Evening star., 1902-02-22
M USICAL MEN TION

The next musicale Of the Washington
Saengerbund will be held at its club house
on street tomorrow night. Mr.. Henry
Xander, the musical director, has arranged
an attractive program The soloists Will
be Mrs Fannie .AtLee Gage. soprano. who
will sing Luckstone's Delight Miss
Elizabeth Tyler, contralto. whose numbers
win be Nevin's 1.-The Rosary and Bucks
Sunset" L. e. Cannon and Daniel A.
MiIbrick. baritones. the frst singing SullI-
vans s.If Doughty Deeds" and the other
Spcncess sNThe Brigand.' and Chas. Myers
tenor. who will give Troteries' '-Tcreador
Hoaa The Mills Ladies' Quartet. COM
Evening star., 1902-02-22

boards of the old play house In Philadelphia
more than sixty years back. and there Is a
suggestion, too. of her handsome father in
the lines of her face that enhances it's love
lineSs. The charm of manner sense of hu-
NOR and delicious abandon which render
Miss Barrymore SO attractive in Captain
Jinks' recall to many an old theatergoer
the George Drew who contributed much
to the diversion of his younger days.
All who see Captain Jinks'-the ladies.
surely-enjoy the costumes as keenly as If
they were turning the pages of an old copy
of Godeys In those days, the early sew
enties, Godey's Ladys Book was the organ
of excellence in all that appertained to the
adornment of the fashionable female.
Pages of that ancient oracle have been
brought to life by Percy Anderson, who de-
signed some of the extraordinary costumes
worn in Captain Jinks Of the Horse Ma
rines.' There may be two opinions as to
one about their oddity and interest. Be
ing very tall and walking with the Gre
clan bend''-the acme of elegance in those
days-Miss Barrymore's hustle is about as
amusing an accessory of stage dressing as
has been seen for many day.
* x
a proof that Kendall combines business
with humor is found in the following lines
he wrote the syndicate booking agent for
Chase's:
LAS l am not doing housework or engag-
ing myself to Mr. Chase as janitor. l would
prefer not to sign the form of contract you
sent.
I'VE understand each other without all
this.
Just consider me booked for Chase's
Grand Opera House, Washington. D. c.. for
the week of February -. 1862 for the Gus
tomary performances of the theater-re-
hearsal at IL am. Monday-billing ordered
salary, $500. Yours,
EZRA KENDALL"
And he signed it with as independent a
flourish as John Hancock appended to the
Declaration of Independence.
Evening star., 1902-02-22
The Paderewski Recital.

Whatever the musical season may yet
bring, the recital which Paderewski, the
Polish pianist. will give at the Columbia
Theater next Wednesday afternoon will be
one of the most important events of the
season. There are many pianists who rank
among the most significant representatives
of their art Paderewski, however. has
proved to be the most important pianist OF
our time. Far beyond phenomenal tech
nique which PaderewslSi possesses to a sur
prising degree, he is gifted with that un-
definable something in playing that COM
audience The coming recital will proba-
bly, be the last opportunity to hear Pad
erewski as it is doubtful If he ever again
returns to America. The sale of seats and
boxes is now in progress
Evening star., 1902-02-22
Pittsburg Orchestra.

The next annual concert of the Pittsburg
Orchestra will take place at the Columbia
Theater Wednesday afternoon, March ).
This will be the last concert of this or
ganization in this city and Victor Herbert
has arranged very attractive program,
which will include Beethoven's Symphony
No. Z. in A major. Liszts Rhapsody No.
3, Volismanter's Serenade No S in ID minor
Gor string orchestral with cello solo by
Henry Merck and two movements from his
own suite, wv Woodland Fancies." The SOLO
ist will be Miss Julie Geyer, pianist. who
will give Tschaikowsky's concerto for piano
and orchestra in fat minor, which VIII
be heard for the first time in this city.