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The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
Civil Service Sustained.

Washington. Oct. 21.-The Civil Ser
vice Commission has requested the
Treasury Department to reinstate
Charles Miller. Adam Ritchie. Thomas
Devine and Howard Cole. watchmen
and Francis p. Rodden. roller, in the
United States mint at Philadelphia
whose removals the commission found
to have been for political reasons
six unclassified laborers. all Republic
cans. having been detailed to perform
the duties of the four watchmen who
were removed.
The President has taken great in
terest in the case and has insisted
that the condition of affairs at the mint
be thoroughly remedied. regarding
them as fragrant violation of the law
The Secretary of the Treasury takes
the same position.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
COL. r. e. GOODELL
DIES AT DENVER

Denver, Oct. 2l.-Colonel r. f. Good
ell. formerly postmaster at Leadville
and prominently interested in mining
enterprises there and elsewhere, died
in this city Monday of Bright's dis
ease. at the age of seventy-eight years.
During his long and active life, Colonel
Goodell took part in the events which
have now become matters of history.
He served as private in the Mexican
War. acting as clerk and postmaster.
Later he raised the Twentieth Illinois
infantry for the Civil War.
After the war, Colonel Goodell was
in business in Chicago, at one time the
president of bank, and afterwards
city marshal. During the Tilden cam
paign he was acting chairman of the
Democratic state central committee of
Illinois. In 1878 he came to Colorado
and settled in Leadville, where he be-
came one of the leaders in both bust
ness and political affairs. serving as
postmaster from 1886 to 1890. He was
one of the managers of the Colorado
exhibit at the Chicago Exposition and
was appointed by the President mem
Der of the National Worlds Fair Com
mission.
After the Worlds Fair Mr.. Goodeii
located in Denver. devoting his atten-
tion to his mining interests and to real
estate. He was president of the Den
yer Stock Exchange and was known in
financial circles as a substantial enter
prising man of affairs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodell were the par
ents of six children. five of whom are
now living: Annie, now Mrs. James
d. Whitmore of Denver; Mary NJ, wife
of former Governor James B. Grant of
Denver; Jennie G., wife of A. A. Blow,
mining promoter now living in Lon
don; Clara G., wife of John c. Mitchell.
cashier of the Denver National Bank;
Olive G., wife of Zeph T. Hill who died
in 1891. and Roswell Eaton Goodell. Jr..
residing at Victor and engaged in min
ing in Querida, near Silver Cliff. Mr..
Goodell's widow also survives him.
Mr.. Goodell was an intimate friend
of Douglas, Lincoln. Sherman and
Grant, and when Lincoln was making
his presidential campaign. he toured
the state of Illinois with him.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
CALLS
EXTRA SESSION

Washington, Oct. 21.-The Presiden,
yesterday issued the following procla.
nation:
BY the President of the United
States of America-A Proclamation:
Whereas. BY a resolution of the
Senate March 10. 1903, the approval
by Congress of the reciprocal CONNER
cial convention between the United
States and the Republic of Cuba.
signed at Havana, on December IL.
1902, is necessary before said conven.
tion shall take effect; and
Whereas. 1t is important to the
public interests of the United States
that the convention shall become oper-
ative as early as may be.
Nov, therefore. |. Theodore Roose-
welt, President of the United States,
of America, by virtue of the power
vested in me by the constitution, do
hereby proclaim and declare that an
extraordinary occasion requires the
convening of both houses of Congress
of the United States at their respect
i've chambers in the City of Washing
ton. on the ninth day of November.
next. at - o'clock noon, to the end
that they may consider and determine
whether the approval of the Congress
shall be given to said convention.
"All persons entitled to act as men,
bers of the Fifty-eighth Congress are
required to take notice of this procla-
nation.
Given under my hand and the sea!
of the United States. at Washington,
the Goth day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hun
dred and three, and of the independ-
ence of the United States the one
hundred and twenty-eight.
"(SealD
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
by the President: John Hay, Sec
retary of State
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
DIR. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE
BEGINS HIS NEW YORK CRUSADE

New York, Oct iS-John Alexan-
der Dowis. who calls himself Elijah the
Restorer, faced his first New York au-
dience to-day, and, although Madison
Square Garden was thonged at the
afternoon and evening meetings, and
thousands were turned away from the
doors, he found himself confronted
With what he called 4 new experience
when thousands, having evidently sat
5nied their curiosity, threw the meet
a0Es into confusion by their sudden ex-
0dus before the ceremonies had fairly
begun.
Commands to close the doors and
prevent exist were unavailing. and the
prophet gave vent to displays OF much
Detulence on finding that 1t was one
thing TO gather a great New York au-
dience, but quite another thing to COM
mAnd its interest after the first de-
mands OF curiosity had been satisfied.
The use-to-house visitation by the
hosts OF crusade meetings will be in
Rugurated tomorrow.
Five thousand persons were turned
away from Madison Square Garden this
afternoon. after all the seats in the
building had been filled with q great
crowd, curious to see John Alexander
Dowie on his first appearance before
New York audience. Fully $4,000 per-
sons were in the Garden at half-past 2
O'Clock when the services began with
the professional hymn which the Zion
white-robed choir. to the number of
about 600, and the capped and gowned
ordained officers of the Christian Cath
olic Church in Zion took part
The service of prayer opened with
the invocation by DIR. Dowie, followed
by the singing of a hymn. during which
the crowd continued to pour into the
Garden. This was followed by the re-
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cital of the creed and commandments
and the reading of scripture. during
which hundreds Of persons started to
leave the hall, causing much confusion.
The exodus continued in spite OF re-
peated orders to close the doors. un-
til nearly third of the audience had
departed, many of the vacant seats be-
ing filled with the waiting crowd out
side. After order had been somewhat
restored. Dr. Dowie said:
IF this il New York, and this Is a
typical New York congregation, l am
in the face OF new experience.
think that some OF the people who
came in must have thought that this
was a Buffalo Bill show. l wonder II
the congregations of the churches here
enter and leave as they please. reck-
on we have learned something and Will
be prepared hereafter"
Dr. Dowie took his text from the
third chapter of the Book Of Revela-
tions. the twentieth verse:
Behold. l stand at the door and
knock. If any man hear my voice and
open the door, l will come into him and
will sup with him and he with me-"
With his arms above his head. in a
shrill voice that reached the farthest
parts OF the Garden. he cried:
"Oh. 1t is good to know that God
has not ceased to knock at the human
heart; TO knock at the doors of homes:
to knock st the doors of workshops; at
the doors of places of business. the
doors of business institutions; at the
doors of the municipalities. at the
doors Of halls Of legislation: at the
doors of princes and of presidents and
of kings. laundering at the door OF
the world is the King of Kings. And
in his name | stand before you to-day
and say: Open that door and let the
spirit of God in
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
AIR SHIP MAKES
SUCCESSFUL TRIP

San Francisco, Oct. 1S.-Dr. August
Greth, who for u year past has been
unostentatiously working on an air
ship, to-day surprised the residents Of
San Francisco by sailing over their
heads for two hours. directing the ma
chine almost at will and demonstrat-
ing that in many essentials he has
solved the problem of aerial navigation.
The ascension was made from lot
almost in the heart of the city. DR..
Greth attempted to encircle a towering
newspaper building about mile east
ward, but found the currents too strong
for his power and then turned in an op-
posite direction.
The winds, carried him oceanward
and for a time ne lowered over the vi
cinity of the Golden Gate, making var
iOus successful trials OF his steering
gear.
The currents threatened to take him
out over the Pacific and he decided to
make landing on the parade grounds
of the Preside military reservation, but
made the mistake of letting out too
much gas and he landed in the bay
about 200 feet from the shore.
A crew of the life-saving station in
the neighborhood rescued the aeronaut
and his flying machine, which sus-
tanned very little damage by the unfor-
tunate termination of the vayage.
The balloon of Greth's aerial con-
trivance is cigar shaped and has a
capacity of $4,000 feet of gas, with a
lifting capacity of 1900 to 1000 pounds.
The car of the balloon is similar in
construction to that used by Santos
Dumont. and weighs about 800 pounds.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23

1t used to be that the growing of po-
tatoes was done almost entirely by
hand. The seed was cut up, planted
sprlnkled, dug and assorted by hand
Now every branch of this work is done
by machinery. Several extensive fac
tories are engaged in the exclusive
work OF manufacturing potato imple-
ments. The digger is companion to
the planter The plow is concaved
with a draw-cutting edge calculated
TO lessen the draft. A peculiarly con-
structed pulverizing wheel automati-
cally removes the tops and weeds.
THROWING them to one side previous
TO separating the potatoes from the
earth. The digger is adjustable to all
widths of planting. 1t leaves the po-
tatoes bare on the ground very conve-
hlent tor gathering. One kind of sort
er separates the potatoes into three
slZes-the marketable or large potatoes.
second grade or seed and the third
sorting, which fall through with the
SAND ana dirt into wire screen. from
which the dirt is afterward sifted. The
potatoes are poured into the hopper
on to moving elevator with long
distance travel. The hopper is down
low so that it is easy to feed the ma
chlne The entire work is under con-
troll of the operator.
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AVERAGE Railway Journey.

Il the United States the distance Of
the average railway journey is twenty
nine miles, in England it is scarcely
ten miles. while in Germany it is fif.
teen miles, in France twenty-one miles
and Russia sixty-fve miles.
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Public NURSING Service.

Visiting nurses for patients suffer.
ing with contagious diseases are the
latest and one OF the most important
branches of work taken up by the New
York Board of Health in its public
nursin~ service.
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GRAIN.

Wheat. choice milling. per 100 lbs.
$lO5. Rye. Colorado, bulk. per 100
lbs, S5c. Oats. bulk. Nebraska, new
white, $1.1s; mixed. $115; in sack, Col
orado, white. $l25. Corn, in bulk, S3c;
corn chop. sacked. 90c; Colorado corn
and oat chops. sacked. $1.25 bran, Col
orado. per 100 lbs, soc.
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Damage Shark.

A contortionist has been swindllng
the street car lines in New York CITY
and Philadelphia by allowing himself
to be struck by trolley cars and then
obtaining damages for the accident"
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
Old Time Feminine EoIIv

It Is estimated that in the reign Of
louis XIV, when Madame de Pompa.
dour set the fashions. the French wo-
men used for their cheeks each year
100000 pots of paint.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23

At London, October 18th, Hon. C. S.
Rolls, officially timed. lowered the
the worlds automobile kilometer rec
ora to-day. using specially built no.
horsepower machine. His time was
70 20 seconds. A kilometer is a little
more than six-tenths of mile making
the rate of speed a mile in forty-two
and rne-half seconds.
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Oldest Ship Built in America

The Oldest ship in the world the
mail schooner Vigilant. running into
ST. Croix. F. w. l., although now un-
der the French flag. was built of Es.
sex oak at Essex. Mass, in 1902
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Hay.

Upland. per ton. $l2 2OOM13.O0 second
bottom, choice to fancy, $9.OGd10.O0;
good to choice. $7.00MS.00; timothy
$1,000; timothy and clover, $11.0O: al
falfa, prime, $3.50: straw, $50096,0O;
South Park wire grass. $500.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
Exterminatinq the Chan1ois,

1t is estimated that there are now
only 1900 chamois in the Swiss Alps,
owing to indscrimtnate killing of thess
animals at all seasons Of the year
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
DENVER MARKETS
Cattle.

Comparative Receipts
Month 10 October 18th ...... 6ly.
Same period last year Il 663
Year to Date ......-...-....2 235 23l
Same period last year ..... 265 IT,
Decrease NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. % 3;l
The following quotations represent
the range of prices paid on this mar
ket:
Beef steers. choice grassers.
LOO TO 1,25O lbs 81. .6Ou3,75
Beef steers. medium TO good.
1000 TO ] 100 lbs .......... 3.3Ou3.6G
Beef steers, common to fair. 3.O0M3.25
Cows and heifers. choice
grassers. 1000 to l 100 lbs. 2.75h3.Oy
Cows and heifers. common
to good. grassers ......... 2.25n260
Gamers .........-........ I50M2.Oy
Calves, veal, choice. ....... 3.50d4.5D
Bulls. stays, etc. ..-....... l5Ou2.5u
Feeders. 900 to l,15O lbs,
good to choice, F. p. r. 80. 3.30M3.7a
Feeders. coo to 800 lbs,
common to fair, F. p. r.. 3.O0M325
Stockers, choice, f. p. R.. 3.25M3.75
Stockers, fair to good. ...... 2.75M3.0V
The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-23
Butter.
Eggs.

Eggs, fresh, loss off, doz. ..
Eggs, fresh. case count, doz. :.
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Why He Declined Office,
Alabama Negro Refuses Political appointment Through
Considerations Of Friendship for the Widow
Of His Former Ow"er

secure advancement But then came
an appeal TO him which he had not
the heart to refuse. For number of
years he had managed the property of
his "old mistress" the widow Of his
former owner. Notwithstanding their
changed conditions, he has always re.
ferred to her as his "old mistress"
and devoted himself to her interests
and services with that loyalty and un-
selfishness which characterized his
people in other days. When "old
mistress" declared that if Winds were
to cease to look out for her affairs she
would be much embarrassed and
wouldn't know to whom to turn, that
settled the matter with him He
wouldn't have the job If it would cause
her pain or uneasiness, and his posi-
tive declinat1on went forthwith to
Washington.
It is such characteristics as Winds
displayed in this beautiful incident
that cemented the friendship between
the .old-time" negroes and whites OF
the South. Unfortunately such Incl.
dents are becoming fewer every year.
In the north, where blood runs cold.
Winds sacrifice for sentiment will
not be understood or appreciated, but
in the South the people will under.
stand it-Exchange.
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Not all the negroes OF the South are
anxious to hold Office. There are some
among the more intelligent of the race
who cannot be prevailed upon to ac-
cept such preferment. Among these
rs A. d. Winds of Birmingham, ne
gro Republican leader, who has been
offered and has declined the appoint
ment as deputy collector of internal
reve1le. Behind that simple announce
ment Is narrative that will be read
with interest and appreciation by
every person who understands the
feeling that existed between the races
before the civil war.
Winds, it seems, is an ex-slave and
man of considerable ability. Upon
becoming free man he studied law,
and has won position as an attorney
and counselor, and is now connected
with one Of the most important legal
firms in his state. When he was ten
dered the federal job the firm, feeling
that he was too valuable man to
lose, Immediately increased his salary
by neat sum, on the condition that
he should not sever his connection
with it and should decline the appoint
ment. He held this proposition in
allegiance. He felt that he owed it
to himself to take the Office and thus
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Oh Railway line Table,
oceer Document Recently Discovered BY Lackawsao.
Officials Speed Not Requisite Of Travel
ia the Year 1888.

tered in the secretary's ONCE wer
permitted to run on the road. Sue
cars had to have a certificate of fl
ness from the engineer. Cars not b
longing to the company were haule
on condition that they carry a wa
bill Of loading" and pay toll at Il
gates at the rate Of three cents p
ton per mile"
1t was no uncommon thing to see
horse trader sitting in the last car
holding the halter of his horse, the
animal trotting along the, track be.
hind. To-day the Lackawanna loco.
motives are among the most powerful
in the east. The rails of the early
days consisted of fiat bars of iron two
and one-half inches wide, five-eighths
Of an inch thick and were laid on tim
bers running lengthwise Across the
car floor was an iron sheathing, to
prevent loosened rails from flying up
and injuring passengers.
AS engines had no whistles, the only
warning the engineer could give was
to raise the safety valve balance and
let the steam blow off. Trains would
stop for passengers at any place along
the line; all the traveller had to do
was to stand by the rails and wave
his hand and often trains slowed down
to allow the fireman to jump of and
chase chickens from the track.
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This month the Lackawanna rail-
road is entering the seventy-ffth year
Of its existence, for in January, 1928,
the Ithaca and Owego railroad, now
q part Of the Lackawanna system, re-
ceived its charter, says the New YORK
Times. The Lackawanna officials
recently recently came across an old
time table. which is queer-looking
bit of printed paper with picture of
an old-fashioned locomotive with two
freight cars. It was published in July,
1888, and announced new arrange
ment while finishing the road"
which proves that it took over ten
years to complete the first twenty
nine miles. the length of the complet-
ed Ithaca and Oswego road.
The train was called a Transports
ton train" and left Ithaca daily at
4 p. M. except Sundays. It stopped
at "Howe's Turnout, Whitcomb and
Wilsey's Mills to take and discharge
loading and receive cars" that might
be "in readiness to join the train"
The train from Ithaca went only as
far as Gridley's, where it arrived at
p. M, taking four hours for the trip.
From there another train left at 4 p.
m. for Owego, arriving in that town
at q. m. Freight cars were called
burden cars" and only those regis
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OF the ills that flesh is heir to ty-
phoid fever is among those most, easily
avoidable. Even in the complete civil
cation of to-day it should be of rare oc-
currence and in that age Of reason
which the scientific world will recog-
nize as the true millennium, when COM
non sense shall prevail, it will no
longer vex the human race. It may be
said with truth that every death from
this dreadful malady is q contribution
either from ignorance or carelessness
to the graveyard. The former is in
excusable; the latter little less than
criminal
Like death Of which dread specter
It is too often the forerunner, typhoid
fever 10 no respecter of persons, says
the New York Sun. The barriers of So
ciety do not stop it, nor is there
safety in the isolation which wealth
secures. Its victims are among the
high and low, and in its wide sweep it
gathers in the millionaire and the
pauper, for the chief distributor of its
germs the water we drink.
l At one period or another during
each year it II not improbable that the
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Up.to.Date ANATOMY,

A young medical student at Bowdoin
college once asked the late Prof. Park
er Cleveland If there were not some
more recent works on anatomy than
those in the college library. Young
man." said the professor, measuring
the entire mental caliber of the youth
full scholar at glance, there have
been very few new bones added to the
human body during the last ten years"
New York Sun.
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PATENTS.

List Of Patents Issued Last Week tc
Northwestern inventors.
Thomas Adams, Mandan, N. D., corn
planter; Johan Byro, Hanska, Mimi
stack knife; Conrad Glaum, Audubon
Mimi, horseshoe; Charley Lind, Isan
ii, Mimi, currycomb; William Little
Duluth, Mimi, fish hook; William Spill
lane, Red Lake Falls, Mimi, shovel at
tachment; F. Straub, Flatiron, S. d.
hose clamp.
Lothrop and johnson. patent attorneys. OIL
.ol2 Pioneer Press Bids. St. Paul. MINI.
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How. rb,s9

HOW'0 This?
We offer Ono Hundred Dollars reward for any
case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured BY Halls
Cstarrh Cure.
~ CHENEY CO., Props, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years and believe him
perfectly honorable In al business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
uons made by their firm.
West 4 Truax. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
O.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system Testimonials sent free. Price
5tc per bottle Sold by oil druggists
Halls Family Pills are tho best
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l'a VERY SAD END FOLLOWED.

Bunions, Swollen, sore, 1loI, CAlious, Acnlng,
Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Aliens
Foot Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At
all Druggists and Shoe stores, IS cents. Ac-
cept no substitute. Sample mailed FREE.
Address Allen s. Olnsted, Leroy, n. Y.
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weeks, in pure Hebrew; another

weeks, in pure Hebrew; another
young man told it in Yiddish, which
is the Hebrew language as it is spok-
en- by most Of the people of that race
from Eastern Europe. A young WON.
an told it in Roumanian, another
young woman told It in Polish, and a
young man told 1t in Russian. It was
only day or two before Christmas.
and many of the members Of the class
were working in the stores during the
shopping season, or it might have
been told in half dozen more dia.
lects, the evening schools having at
least twenty different nationalities
and languages represented in their
various classes. Hartford Courant.
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TOLD IN ALL LANGUAGES.
Familiar story 10 Known All over the
/ 9t .asa Marld. !.

K u "
The story Of the man with seven
SONS who gave to each Of them In
turn bunch Of eeven sticks with in
structions to break them, and each
son failing to break them as 1 whole,
succeeded in breaking each rstick In
dividually, is one of the oldest stories
in the world, and its lesson. United
we are strong, divided we are weak, I"
is as old as the story. An illustration
OF the general acceptance Of the story
was given at the public evening school
in the Morgan street chapel few
evenings since.
Miss Clark, the teacher, told the
story in English to the class Of some
fifty foreigners who are learning to
speak and to read the English Ian
guage. when several OF the pupils said
they were familiar with 1t in their
own tongue and the lands from which
they came. Thereupon the story was
told by one pupil who had been in
this country from Palestine but few