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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
LISTENED TO MESSAGE
The Presidents Recommen-
dati0ns Read in Both Houses.
SENATORS SWORN IN
MESSRS. CRANE AND KNOX TAKE
THEIR SEATS.
Successors of the Late Senators Hoax
and Quay Hold an Impromptu
Reception.

Immediately after the convening OF the
Senate at noon today Senators Allison and
Cockrell constituting the committee to walt
on the President appeared in the center
aisle of the Senate and made their report,
Mr. Allison acting as spokesman lie mere
ly made the usual recital of the committee
, call upon the President with the Information
that the Senate was sitting and ready to
enter upon the work of the session, adding
that the President had expressed his inten-
ton to Immediately communicate with the
Senate through message i'm writing.
New Senators Sworn In.
Before the message arrived Mr.. Penrose
and Mr. Lodge presented the credentials of
Messrs. Knox and Crane. the newly ap-
pojnted senators from Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts, respectively, and the oath
of office was administered TO them. Mr.
Crane was escorted to the seat of the pre-
siding officer by MIR. Lodge and Mr.. Knox
by Mr. Penrose and the oath of offSe was
administered by President Pro Tempore
Frye in distinct tones and impressive man
ner After signing the senatorial ron OF
membership the new senators were escort
ed to their seats on the extreme right OF the
chamber There they held an impromptu
reception for few moments ana until the
reading of the Presidents message began
The message was delivered to the Senate
by Mr. Barnes, assistant secretary to the
President. and its reading Immediately be-
gun. The senators We're all supplied with
copies of the message I'm print and most OF
them closely followed the reading clerks as
they proceeded.
Shortly after . O'Clock upon the close or
the reading of the Presidents message. Mr..
Allison moved that the Senate proceed TO
the consideration of executive business.
The Merchant Marine Commission.
Senator Gallinger arose and requested that
before that motion was put he he given an
opportunity to make a partial report from
the commission on merchant marine. Mr..
Gallinger stated facts in connection with
the commissions various sessions during
the recess of Congress and said that since
returning here they had been extremely dill
igent for two weeks. and had made special
effort to complete their work so as TO report
proposed legislation for the benefit of the
merchant marine to Congress, but they had
been unable. to do so, and he asked that he
be permitted 10 submit at this time two
printed volumes of testimony that had been
taken. requesting that This testimony be al
lowed to lie on the table until third VOL
ume should be submitted; also that the time
for the commission to make its report TO
Congress be extended until January s. 1895,
which extension had been granted by the
House of Representatives..
This suggestion was concurred IN. after
which the Senate went into executive ses-
sion
The Senate. at 2:20 adjourned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
PROPOSES AN INVESTIGATION.
Resolution introduced by a Represen-
tative Who Went to Panama.

one of the members of the House commit
tee on interstate and foreign commerce
who accompanied the congressional party
on the visit to Panama, today introduced a
resolution providing for an inquiry into the
affairs of the Panama Railway Company
and a report to Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
CHARGED WITH BIG SHORTAGE.
Trusted Clerk for East st. Louis Firms
Under Arrest

EAST ST LOUIS, Ill, December g.
Charles Frost. aged forty-three. for a num-
Der of years confidential clerk and book
keeper of two firms connected with the ma
tional stockyards of East st. Louis. is un-
der arrest on a warrant sworn out by
Tareton. Coy and Irons, charging him
with being S16,000 short in his accounts.
A shortage in connection with the ae-
counts of the other company is also al
legged, but Frost denies the charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
WIN. BLA1KIE, AUTHOR, DEAD.
Famous Advocate Of Physical Culture
Stricken With Apoplexy.

NEW YORK, December 6.-Wm. Blake
aged sixty-one. well-knownsiawyer, author
and athlete and advocate 81 physical cni-
ture, was stricken with apoplexy at his
home in this city today, and died before a
physician could be summoned. He had
been in the best of health.
Mr.. Blaikie was the author OF severai
books on physical culture, and had lee
tured on that subject. He was stroke OF
the Harvard crew which defeated Yale In
1855 He held the long-distance outdoor
walking record for ten years, and was
founder of the intercollegiate games OF
America In 1873.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
EXCITEMENT AT DAWSON CITY.
Intense Interest Over Theft of Regis
tration Lists-Charges.

SEATTLE, Wash, December "a special
to the Post Inteligencer from Dawson City
says the greatest excitement prevails over
the theft of the registration lists. Intense
interest is being taken in the election of a
candidate for the dominion parliament.
Thompson independently charges that the
friends of Congdon government candidate)
are responsible for the thefts. The secretary
of the registration board has applied to the
police for protection. An appeal has been
made to the cabinet at Ottawa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
NO CLUE TO MISSING MONEY.
Express Company May Demand In
demnity of Bonding Institution.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 6.-Nothing
further has been discovered in regard to
the missing $4,000 which disappeared from
the local office of Wells, Fargo Co. re-
Gently in a mysterious manner. 1t Is now
admitted that, in spite of the rules to the
contrary, twenty employees entered the
place where the money was last seen.
All the clerks who handle money or val
uables are bonded with a surety company,
and 1t is considered possible that a claim
may be made, il the money is not recov
cred. upon the bonding company for the
amount of the loss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
supplemental Treaty with Cuba.

Secretary Hay and Mr.. Quesada. the Gu
ban minister today signed supplemental
extradition treaty, which does not change
in effect the present convention, but pre-
vides fer some slight verbal alterations in
the Spanish text deemed advisable by tie
Cuban government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Work on Two Measures Will Begin at
Once.

subcommittee of the House committee
on post offices and post roads will begin
work tomorrow on the post Office appropria-
ton bill, and expects to hear the Postmas-
ter General first.
The Indian affairs committee will begin
work on the Indian appropriation bill this
week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
THE JAMESTOWN CELEBRATION.
MI. Maynard's $4,000, 600 Bill to Be
Considered at Once

Chairman Tawney intends to call meet
ing Of the House committee on industrial
arts and expositions this week and take up
for consideration the bill introduced by
Representative Maynard Of Virginia pro
viding for the celebration of the founding
of jamestown and appropriating so,0OO,Ooo
for that purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
Naval Movements.

The cruiser Yankee has arrived at League
Island the villalobos has arrived at Sniak-
wan, the Rainbow at Cavite and the Dixie
at Kingston. Jamaica.
The Hannibal has left Guantanamo for
San Juan and the Monadnock has sailed
from Shiakwan for Shanghai.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
GEN. GAR1BALDI DYING.
Last Surviving Son Of the italian
Hero.

ROME December 6.--Gen. Ricciotti Carl
baldi, the last surviving son of the Italian
hero and his first wife, Anita, is dying
from nephritis. A
Ricciotti Gari5aldi has been identihed
with several heroic projects, including as
sisting the Greeks against the Turks dur
ing the war of 1897. plans to free Cuba, to
establish Italian colonies In Argentina, to
head the Albanian insurgents and to head
the Macedonian revolutionists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
For a Minister to Roumania.

Secretary HaS requests Congress to pro-
vide for an envoy extraordinary and min
lister plenipotentiary TO Roumania and
Servia at a salary OF $500, and for sec
retary of legation and consul general to
those countries at a salary OF $l,5oo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
To Bring the Electoral Votes.

The expense of conveying the votes OK
electors for President and Vice President
to Washington amounts to sl2, 500, accord
ing to an estimate for an appropriation sub
mit.ed TO Congress by Secretary Shaw.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
The Constellation to Be Commissioned.

The old wooden frigate Constellation has
been ordered in commission at the navy
yard. New York, and will be sent to New
pert r. T. to resume her former duties as
stationary station ship at that place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Soon after the House met today Mr.. Bur
ton (Ohio), chairman of the committee 10
notify the President that the House was in
session and ready for business, reported
that the committee had visited the Presi
dent who had informed it that he would
submit today a message in writing.
After transacting some minor routine
business the House at 1910 on motion of
Mr. Payne IN. ", took recess until l2:30.
Immedia tely upon reconvening Mr.. Barnes,
assistant secretary to the President, APP
peared in the center aisle and announced
that he was directed by the President to
submit to the House a message in writing.
The clerk at once began reading the Presi-
dents annual message to Congress.
Shortly after the clerk began 10 read
printed copies of the message were distrib
uted among the members. Democrats and
republicans alike gave close attention TO
the utterances of the President, and. with
the aid of the printed copies intenty fol-
lowed the clerk In the reading.
After the reading of the message. which
consumed one hour and fifty-three minutes,
there was loud applause from the repub-
lican side.
The message. motion of Mr.. Payne.
was referred to the committee of the whole
House and ordered to be printed. after
which the House at 2:23 pm. adjourned un-
til tomorrow.
Miscellaneous Measures.
Among the bills introduced in the House
yesterday was one by Representative
Brownlow of Tennessee, authorizing the
Secretary of War to accept the tract of
land near Greeneville, Tenn. where lie the
remains of President Andrew johnson. The
will of Martha j. Patterson. a descendant
of President Johnson, bequeathed the land
a tract of about ten acres known as Monu-
ment Hili-to the government.
Representative jenkins of Wisconsin IN
troduced bill providing for representa-
| tion at the Naval and Military Academies
for the territory of Alaska.
Representative Beidler of Ohio introduced
a bill providing for the relief of the suffer-
ers by the explosion on board the battle
s.iip Missouri, April 13. 1904.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06
FOR CIVIL PENSION LIST.

Provisions Of Measure introduced by
Representative Reeder.
Representative Reeder of Kansas has,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13

has a long poem in the fat, little book,
and Miss Jane Porter, whose Scottish
Chiefs and "Thaddeus of Warsaw"
had already been printed, is represent
ed by a melancholy tale.
Mrs. Opie mourns through a couple
of "Epitaphs for Friends" and mod
est T. Hood Esq, has an ode on
autumn, quite like the similar efforts
of young poets before and since his
time. T. Hood Esq. was not yet thirty
years old when Friendships Offer
ing was printed. He had recently
left the engraver's trade for literature
and had hardly begun as yet to make
a name for himself in his new line.
Doubtless if the Present Editor
could have foreseen that his modest
contributor was to write THE Song
OF the Shirt and The Bridge of
Sighs,'' and the other poems which
have made him famous, 1T. Hood
ESQ., would have been given more
prominence in the table of contents
But the Present Editor is not
the only man who has made such
mistake.
Plentifully sprink1ed in among the
professional poets and literary men
and women are my Lords and Ladies'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13

Not for moment does the Present
Editor" forget that he is editing a
volume of the gentry and nobility
to whom his work is dedicated. The
Rt- Hon, My Lord Dillon, has some
bad verses on Spain" in the Byronic
manner, and My Lord Dorchester is
given several pages for a sad and
silly apostrophe to an "Astrologer.'
friendships Offering" is illustrat-
ed with three or four ancient steel
engravings, representing such classic
scenes as "Eneas and Dido" views of
Ispahan in Persia, and illustrations
for the Laughing Horseman."
All in all, Emily's was a valentine
well worth having. Since she wrote
her quaint dedication on it's f1yleaf
two English kings and one queen have
died, and the fourth monarch is now
on the throne. What valentine of
the present year will be as well worth
looking over in 1875?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
established for him this year he will
soon rival St Nicholas.

established for him this year he will
soon rival St Nicholas.
1t seems only yester-year since the
amorous swain gave expression to
his feelings in burning words, hidden
in the depths of paper lace and impos-
sible cupids. Now the approach of
the affectionate old saints day finds
the young mans thoughts, il not his
fancy, turning toward violets at ad-
vanced prices, bonbons in extravagant
receptacles and gifts quite out of the
old simple spirit of the day.
A fashionable shopkeeper insists
that the vogue of valentine gifts is
largely a matter of evolution, and that
for several years they have been grow
ing more general, more personal and
more expensive. A young man who
usually is satisfied with sending the
object of his admiration flowers, bon
bons or books, now selects a gift that
will show relations of more intimate
nature. Fiances, especially, let their
Imagination and their purse-strings
run riot.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13

accuse DIR. Conan Doyle of plagiarism
in the creation of Sherlock Holmes
The paper is by the late Richard Low
ell Edgeworth Esq.," father of the
better known Maria Edgeworth 1t
is called "Stage Coach Physiognom-
ists'' and relates how one of the pas
sengers was able to tell the full life
history of all his fellows by simply
noticing such bits of gesture, man
ner or apparel as have since guided
the famous detective in his amazing
discoveries. Sherlock at his best was
never more observing or more aston
ishing than this casual coach passen-
ger who travelled the same way more
than fifty years before him.
L. E. L.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon
whose pen name is more familiar
than her writings, was then in her
early twenties, and contributed half
a dozen sets of verses in heroic style
Nor was Friendships Offering with
out names which are well known even
now. Miss Milford has a sketch, "The
Lady of Beachgrove,' full of old-fash-
ioned sentiment and ladylike mystery.
Perhaps the best remembered things
about Miss Milford is the fact that
when she was only ten years old she
drew a prize of 100000 in a lottery.
and that after her father had squan-
dered her money she supported him
for years by the earnings of her pen
Robert Southey, then in his prime,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
After the Pius Come.

AS the little fellows get older, they
drag more heavily on the parent, who
should now be fed literally, says Al
Canadian swine raiser. When they
show signs of picking for themselves,
a few grains and sliced roots may be
thrown to them on clean floor, when
the mother is out. Or have a room
partitiOned OF, and an opening for
them to creep through, where they can
eat without molestation, or drink from
a small trough. Do not give them too
much food, or let it lie and become
stale. Feed the mother well, and thia
is q very good way of feeding them
They may be weaned any time after
four weeks. Eight weeks old is q
good time to wean them. In weaving
them the SOW should be let in with,
them at least twice, a day or two in
tervening. At this time they demand
your most particular care and atten-
ton, as by exposure to cold and damp.
over-feeding and underfeeding, it is,
possible your hopes may be blighted.
Feed warm milk, slops from the kitch--
en- thickened slightly at first with
shorts, bran, and little oat and barley
meal. Feed grain sparingly for the
first one hundred pounds of their
weight. Give them all the roots they
will eat also little clover, green or
in hay, and an occasional feed OF
ashes, sulphur and salt. Oats, barley
and peas, mixed and chopped make a
good feed, but rather expensive. Give
less of peas at first, and increase as
nearing the finishing period. One OF
the best lots ever had was spring
litter fed On. soaked peas, slop thick
ened with little shorts, and finished
on grass.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
At Farrowing Time.

In an address to Kansas farmers
John Cownie said: Have your pigs
come about the same time-within a
week or two-so that they will all be
of one age and one size. That is one
great secret in successful swine rails
ing. 1t will save great deal of diff
Guilty at farrOwing time. I used to
have a great deal of trouble at far
rowing time in losing sows. 1 remem-
ber one year 1 lost fifteen sows that
could not give birth to their pigs.
You have all, no doubt, had trouble
of that kind. 1 have lost some valu-
able sows, finely bred, because they
could not give birth to their pigs. At
that time I did not know what was
the matter. Now 1 know all about it,
That may be saying a good deal. But
l never lose a SOW now in farrowing
not one. There is no grain produced
that is more fat-producing than corn.
We fed our young hogs altogether too
much corn. The reason that these
sows died was that they had been fed
too much corn and their pigs were too
large and fat, and they could not
give birth to them. I had fed corn, as
my neighbOrs had done. Now l scarce
ly feed an ear to my brood sows. They
are not fed a great deal and there is
no trouble in farrowing; haven't lost
SOW for dozen years. I feed a SOW
to make bone and muscle. 1 am not
feeding the SOW then; 1 am feeding
the embryo pig, and what I want in
that pig is bone and muscle. 1 remem-
ber once I had fifty sows farrow in
two weeks; had as fine a lot of hogs
as I ever raised. I was proud of those
hogs.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
Growing Peanuts.

The peanut as a forage and pasture
plant is rapidly, and deservedly, be-
coming popular with the Texas farm
er, says B. G. Pittuck in a Texas bull
letin. Being legume, it exercises q
beneficial effect on the soil, and at the
same time furnishes a highly nitro
genous feedstuff, greatly relished by
stock as green feed or as hay. Pea
nuts are partial to loose soils of a
light color. The land should be well
drained and not too rich in vegetable
matter. Barnyard manure should be
used only in small quantities. Phos-
phoric acid and potash are the main
elments of plant food required by the
peanut for best results. To much lime
in the soil will result in large per
cent OF unstable nuts. Wood ashes,
Kainit, cotton seed meal, acid phos-
phate and the manures will be found
profitable applications when used ju-
diciously. Dark soils have a tendency
to produce dark-colored nuts, and
light soils lght-colored nuts, the latter
having a higher commercial value,
though for feeding purposes the vines
and nuts are practically of the same
value. Peanuts should be planted early
in the spring after all danger of frost
is passed, in rows three to three and
one-half feet apart and eighteen inch
es to two feet apart in the drill. The
land should be finely pulverized. For
pasture and forage purposes the Span
ish peanut Is most generally used, as
its habit of growth is more upright
than the larger sorts, and consequent
1y much easier harvested. The gen.
era1 method of flat cultivation given
the corn crop will answer every pur-
pose with the peanut. Keep the weeds
down and stop the cultivation as soon
as the nuts begin to form. Peanuts
should be harvested before frost, as
the crop will suffer serious injury
when subjected to such conditions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13

and trees bore a small crop that year.
Small crops produced again in 1897,
1899 and 1901. At no time has this
variety borne heavy crop. Fruit
larger than ordinory crabs, dull red
in color and Of excellent quality for
eating out of hand. This is a winter
variety and will keep till January if
storage conditions are favorable. 1t
has value for amateurs, but we do not
recommend it for general planting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
The ENGLISH "crab.. !.

A recent report of the Virginia sta
ton says: 'This variety is only a
small form of the common apple Tree
hardy but a slow grower: upright,
forming a roundish head. Trunk meas
ures 1914 inches at base and about IL
inches at head. Planted in 1891 Thus
for has not shown susceptibility to
disease. First bloom noted in 1895,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-13
Forest Regeneration.

Forest Regeneration.
The object Of forestry is to utilize
to the fullest possible extent the prod
uct of forest land, and at the same
time to maintain the conditions which
render forests beneficial says a re-
port of the Rhode Island station.
Utilizing the timber is as much a part
of forest management as is inducing
the growth of trees and protecting
them during their growth The i'm
portant consideration of how to re-
place the trees when cut is known as
forest regeneration. Two methods are
available, the artificial and the natur-
al. Artificial regeneration may be by
means of seeds sown and covered by
hand or by means of planting trees.
Both these methods are too expensive
to be used except where no others
will succeed. Manifestly on the open
prafries they are the only methods
available when forests are to be start
ed on land where no trees now grow.
Natural regeneration is the more COM
mon method, and the one more practi-
cable under normal forest conditions
1t may be by means of shoots or by
means of seeds. The former utilizes
the vigorous shoots which spring up
when most broad-leaved trees are cut.
Inc resulting grown IS known In Tor
est literature as coppice. The method
cannot be used with conifers, and not
all broad-leaved trees can be depended
upon to send up satisfactory shoots.
Such shoots make a more rapid
growth in their earlier years than
Seeding trees, but they generally at
tain their best development within
thirty years and are not suitable for
the production of large, long-lived
trees. Coppice growth, therefore, is
adapted only to short rotations and
the production OF such classes of tim
Der as basket material, firewood,
fence posts, telegraph poles, hop
poles, etc. In the regeneration of for
ests by seeds nature is again ready to
help. for she contrives many ways in
which seeds are scattered that they
may find places to grow. The wind is
ever ready to carry them, and natur-
ally the trees which become most
widely scattered are those bearing
light seeds with some kind of append
age enabling them to be easily carried
by the wind