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The Greeley tribune., 1904-02-11

The Denvst dailies at Larstry's.
Hurd W, T~ombly of R-ush was
In Greeley Monday on business.
Judge Secor Of Lonemont was in
nreeley the past week on legal bust. |
ness.
Somner Richardson's chocolates.
the daintiest Of sweets, at Langtry's. |
rear OF Union bank.
Gasoline engines and irriyatipp
outfits, fully guaranteed, for sale by
e. N. Miller. N7 Sixth avenue.
William NcCave purchased the old
county farm and buildings from the
county last Friday. Considerat tion,
o., 100.
Friday = trim Of fifteen box cars,
each having . sheet iron heater, left
Greeley loaded with potatoes for
Texas points.
Sunday Mrs. Freimuth left for her
home In Denver after . week 3 visit
VITA t1er brother and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs, James H. Loewxs.
Oonyad Schaefer OF Denver, one of
CoaoIado's Oldest aud best known
cattlemen. was In Greeley Sunday
and Monday on live stock business.
The Rathbone Sisters will give
@hnir popular annual supper in Odd
Fellows' hail Thursday event ", Feb
rnary IL. Everybody eeme. Suppe,,
t25 cents.
Next Saturday evening Miss
Gretchen Smith and Miss Carena
Lee will entertain number of the
Young people of the town at q heart
party Ia the home Of Miss Smith.
Next Saturday afternoon in the
Odd Fellows hall reception will he
given by Mss. II. K. Whitney, Mrs.
Alice Beckwith, Mrs. A. K. Clark,
Mrs. A. b. Copeland ard Mrs. i. n
Shook
Last Friaay morning Or. Call per.
formed an operation for appendicitis
on little Rachel Foster. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Norbert NJ. Foster. at
the Greeley hospital. The operation
was successful.
An errer In initials occurred i'm a
notice Of a euchFs party at the Oasis,
published in the Tribune last week.
1t was Mr. and Mrs. e. H. McClen-
ahau instead Of Mr.. and Mrs. A NJ.
\ - 81 ~ taks
Friday was on ideal winter day.
At noon the thermometer Indicated
- in tke shade and overcoats aud
wraps were nnbea rable. Store doors
were fisng open and the air was as
baiany IS in Oil early summer day
Pier Brothers have been bGsy the
past two weeks aking car heaters,
during which time they have manu-
factuTed couple OF hundred. They
are OF sheet iron and used In box cars
to keep produce from freezing while
in transit
Frank Levin of the Levin Brothers
left Menday for Chicago and New
York to purchase their summer ans
fall stock MI. Levin was accom-
panied by S. Fishman, merchant OF
Sidney, Neb. They expect TO be
absent Z month.
The Greeley band met last Sunday
afternoon and re-organIzed for the
coming season. G. G. Heuring was
chosen business manager and q. D.
Horne was agsin chosen director.
Rehea rsais will be. commenced again
this week. and the band will be in
better shape next summer than ever
before.
! Trinity Episcopal church Lentea
services: Wednesday, February Il
(Ash Wednesday9, or first day OF
Lent, litany and penetential service
with addresses at 1890 a. m. and 7:30
p N. All Fridays in Lent, evening
4 prayer with short addresses at 4:lo
p. m. You are cordially invited to
North rNpmmOn rector
The Greeley tribune., 1904-02-11
title Locals.
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!, the ieweser'
ground at Les.es's'
knt-Good farm. Inquire
(tjonal tank, Greeley Colo.
|w. McCreery was In Colo
o,s las, week on legal bust-
|,iur, complexion treated and
ps at Mrs. Horizons, 722
teet,
Noodle ami Ed Nustann
chased the G. W. Brace well
pp Ninth avenue.
N. Wyatt visited parents
rs Sunday, the first time ne
I'm the ranch in six weeks.
For cash, 320 acres good
i've miles southeast of La
daress s. Steigei, Denver,
hsarty izss been appointed
eulturis. for the LongOOnt
npapy to succeed C S.
Davis returned to Greeley
ron a three weeks MusI-
easun trip in the southern
state.
stalmrt men came down
sor last Thursday evening
initiatoy work upoE 'thir-
bates in the Elks lodge.
il supper in town will be
% cents by the Rathbone
hursday, February 81, Ia
rs hall. Supper 'Segins
keeps the choicest oysters
atIor6s. Blue Points for
Nm for sGews and selects
lnd his chef caunot be
frving the bivaires.
indy winter is protiaetive
La grippe aud kindred
quite prevalent. A good
would purify the atmos-
lake Everyone feel better.
divorce has been flied in
court BY Clara b. Berry
mas R. Berry. Extreme
aeeed The couple were
Cheyenne Septembe-,222,
Hoffman had to resign
as teacaeI in one OF &he
schools owing to the
fcting her health. She
thlae ire Beebe Draw
fton was IN Greeley Fri
S ranch near Hardin,
terest the county com :
'he necessity for a bridge
atte near that station.
Sionefs went to Hardin
Dton TO lock over the
The Greeley tribune., 1904-02-11
Onion Seed

Yellow Globe, extra fine quality,
home grown onion seed for sale In
large or small quantities.. Gordon
M. Fothergin, Fort Collins, Colo.
The Greeley tribune., 1904-02-11

vjsaged war at Cripple Creek and
elsewhere in the state has smoothed
her wrinkled face the soldier BOYS
find more time for social pastimes,
and the balls to which they are in
yited, and the balls to which they
invite others are becoming more num-
erous.
VIII A. Hopkins owned the finest
.'sO'' in the Poudre valley. but owing
to continued ill health he has cot
been able to give it his personal at
tent,on for some years. Last week
he sold 1t to S. A. BradfeId and Q,
"Doc" Reinks, for sl5,0OO, sls7. SO
aa acre. This land is situated III
Pleasant valley, four miles northeast
of Greeley and the price paid for 1t
is the hest the writer has in mind
Maid for any agricultural land in the
valley.
Mrs. Stockover gave luncheon
Thursday afternoon to select party
of lady friends in honor OF her guest,
Miss Edith Dabb. Miss Dabb resided
In Greeley for years and after he1
graduation from Colorado college,
COLORADO Springs, she accepted call
from the Congregationalists to go
among the Sioux Indians at Santee
as a m visionary. There she lived Tor
couple of years, but is on her way
to New Mexico to act In like capac-
ity among the Nayajoes Of that ter
ritory on call from the baptists'
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17

its bounds until II embraced 10000
acres, and had u river frontage of ten
niles. The natural yield of the soil
of this plantation was never first class;
indeed. it is surprising that SO good n
farmet and judge of productive lands
could have reconciled himself TO cul-
tivate them TO the extent Lie did, as
lands i'm the Shenandoah Valley were
vastly more productive than those on
the Potomac River. But George Wash
ington seems never to have faltered in
his love for his Mount Vernon home,
although he was aware that no profit
came from its cultivation,
The clause of his will referring to
Mount Vernon is in the following
words: "To my nephew, Bushrod
Washington, and his heirs partly in
consideration of an information TO his
deceased father. while we were bache-
lors. and he had kindly undertaken to
superintend my estate during my mill
itary services in the war with Great
Britain and France, that If fell there
in. Mount Vernon should become his
property, l give and bequeath all that
part thereof which is comprehended
within certain limits, and containing
upward of 1000 acres, with the man
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
The Wife
Of Lafayette

America, though revering the name
of Lafayette, has perhaps known too
little of the noble woman who became
his wife before her fifteenth birthday,
the groom himself being but sixteen
years old
This match, according to the French
custom, was arranged by relatives,
but 1t proved TO be one of the most
ideally happy marriages known TO
history. When "the inspired boy" ran
away from France and crossed the
ocean TO aid our struggling young coun-
try his child-wfe did not reproach
him either in word or deed for what
her friends declared TO be gross neg
lect, but upheld him in the course that
he pursued. believing 1t to be proper
and right. II was to her that he con-
fided his hopes and predictions in re-
gard TO this country, and to whom he
wrote:
The happiness of America is inti-
mately connected with all of mankind.
She will become the safe and respected
asylum of virtue. integrity, liberation
and tranquil happiness"
When the darkest clouds had gath
cred over France, and Lafayette was
banished to n foreign country and i'm
prisoned, his wife refused TO be di-
vorced from him, though the wives of
many of the exiled aristocrats did so
for the purpose of self-protection. She
fearlessly gloried in the name she bore.
She began every petition to the Gov
ernment with the words, LA femme
Lafayette" Her husband alludes to
this fact in a letter written TO friend
soon after her death and adds:
"lndulgent as she was with respect
TO calumny and Tetty hatred, never
did she allow, even at the foot of the
scaffold. reflection upon me TO pass
without protesting against it."
Knowing that her husband would
wish their son TO be sent to America,
she parted bravely from the bright boy
of fourteen. whom she confided TO the
care of General Washington. Wish
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
A FIGHT WITH TWO EAGLES.

Charles Read, sheepman, of Red
wood Valley, is now under a doctors
care as a result of a single handed
fight with two large bald eagles. Read
had missed sheep and lambs from his
pasture and set traps for coyotes.
Yesterday he discovered large bald
eagle in one trap. The eagle appeared
exhausted by its struggles and was
lying down. Read released the spring
and instantly the eagle attacked him.
Its mate, who was watching near,
Joined in the fight. With their heavy
wings they beat him to the ground,
tearing his flesh with their talons and
beaks..
Read secured his pistol, and while
protecting his face he managed to get
the barrel of his pistol against one OF
the birds and fired. The other was
frightened away by the report. The
wounded one set its talons in his right
thigh and held on with a death grip.
When Read recovered from his ex'
haustlon he was unable TO remove
them. He dragged himself to his
cabin, and was brought to this city,
where the talons We're cut out. The
eagle measured nine feet from tip 10
tlp.-Ukiah Cali Special to the New
York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17

house, shelter house in deer park, two
houses for servants quarters, three
green houses, a laundry, coach
house, two lodge houses at the north
gate, pavilion on the wharf for pas
sengers, three cabins for employees, two
lodges at the west gate and barn.
Mount Vernon was the home of
George and Martha Washington for
more than forty of the sixty-six years
of the Generals life. The bodies of
both are side by side in the new tomb.
plain structure of brick, to which
they were removed from the old tomb
in 1881. Washington sarcophagus is
on the right; his wife's bears the sim
pie inscriptions: Martha, consort of
Washington, aged IL" Within the
new tomb are the remains of many of
the Washington, Curtis and related
families. Near the tomb is a monu-
ment TO Bushrod Washington.-New
York Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17

ing to join the Marquis, even in prison,
the news that she would be permitted
TO share that loathsome abode with
him filed her soul with infinite happi-
ness.
In prison the sunshine of her pres.
ence alleviated the sufferings of the
noble captive, and she noted joyfully
the signs of Improvement which her
coming had made in his health. With
him inclosed within those narrow walls
and behind those iron-bound doors she
was far happier than she would have
been separated from him, though pos
sesslng the freedom and luxury of n
palace.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
CARE FOR THE TREES.

The storms of winter are likely to
make trouble with trees in orchards
and elsewhere, so 1t is good plan to-
have a supply of grating wax on hand
to dress the wounds to limbs which
may result. Have also narrow blade,
but sharp saw, so that the injured
tree limb may be cut off and leave o.
smooth surface TO be covered with the
healing wax. A good wax is made by
melting slowly in an iron kettle four
pounds of resin, two pounds of first.
class tallow and one pound of bees
wax. When melted and thoroughly
mixed turn the mass into kettle Of
cold water. When cool the mass may
be pulled and stretched in the same
manner that candy is manipulated; oip
the hands with sweet OIL so that the
mass will not stick to them. In ap
plying during the cold weather the
wax will be hard unless kept in rather
warm water and applied quickly With
the hand. The formula as given is
for grating wax, to be used under
ordinary conditions, but an additional
half pound of tallow should be used
for the wax to be used during winter
weather. The wounds of the trees
thus protected will heal over nicely
and the tree not be injured so greatly
as it would IL the wounds were left
exposed.-Indianapolls News.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17

sion house and all other buildings and
improvements thereon"
The mansion at Mount Vernon is of
wood painted to resemble stone. Along
its front is a broad piazza twenty-five
feet in height, with square pillars. The
restored building is now divided among
the States for preservation. Massachu-
sets has the library room. Georgia
has Mrs. Washington's sitting-room.
The main hall is assigned TO Alabama.
South Carolina has the dinlng-room.
Ohio has Miss Custis' music room.
Illinois has the west parlor, and New
York has the banquet hall.
The room on the second floor in
which Washington died is assigned to
Virginia. and is Immediately under
the room on the third floor in which
Mrs. Washington died. This last
room is at the end of the house, looking
down the river. and is assigned to
Wisconsin. The two rooms just across
the main hall are assigned to North
Carolina and Connecticut. respective
ly. Connccticut's overlooking the riv-
or. Maine has small room just back
of the North Carolina room.
There are in all nearly thirty build
ings on the Mount Vernon property.
Including the mansion. office. kitchen,
buffers house. carpenter shop. spin
ming house. smoke house, wagon shed.
summer house, spring house, milk
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
KILLED A GRAY WOLF.

The skin Of the only gray wolf killed
in Vermont in the last fifty years was
brought into the village this week by
David Dixie, farmer, who killed the
animal in a patch of woods near his
barn after q severe fight, in which Mr.
Dixie and dog were badly used up.
Mr.. Dixie had just gone into the house
from the barn, where he had been milk.
ing, when his attention was attracted
by his shepherd dog, which was loudly
barking in front of the hen house
Taking lantern he went out to inves.
tigate, and saw the animal had cor
nered gray animal about his own
size. Both We're bristling with fear
and rage and each eager to attack the
other. The farmer had no gun, but he
ran into the woodshed and procured a
broom, with which he struck at the
marauder. Thereupon the wolf. for
such it turned out to be, dashed for
the woods, with the dog after it, and
came to q stand near the foot of ma.
pie tree.
By this time the wolf was frothinG at
the mouth and snariing and swapping
at the shepherd every time he came
within range. Once or twice he nipped
the dog and drew blood. Mr.. Dixie en-.
couraged the shepherd, and then boldly
worked around to the rear of the ma
ple.
This was too much for the wolf, and
in sheer desperation he sprang at the
farmer, who dealt him a telling blow
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17

$4,000. The barn on the place was
built later out of brick. said to have
been brought from England. The
chain of title to this famous estate
shows that it had always been in the
possession of the Washingtons. de-
scending by will or inheritance from
the grant of Lord Culpeper, 1870. to
the time it was sold to the Ladies'
Mount Vernon Association. on April g,
1858. John Washington, the great
grandfather of George Washington.
died in January, 1877. In his will he
left this place TO his son Lawrence,
who at his death bequeathed TO his
son Augustine. father of the General.
Augustine Washington. in the division
of his estate left it by will TO his
eldest son. Major Lawrence Washing
ton, who married Anne, the oldest
daughter or William Fairfax, of Fair
fax County, Va. Major Lawrence i'm
proved the estate, and built the mid
die portion-four rooms of the present
mansion. His portrait hangs there in
the room assigned to West Virginia.
Between Lawrence Washington and
his halfbrother George. there was a
remarkable attachment and congeni-
nlity of tastes. Notwithstanding the dis
parity of fourteen years in their ages.
Major Lawrence Washington was an
accomplished gentleman, and one Of
the far-seelng business men of his day,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
HOW TO MAKE HOT BEDS.

Dig out the earth from pit of the
size proposed and eighteen inches deep.
Fill with horse manure for six inches;
this should be warm with ferment.
Over this for six inches spread manure
that is now hot with fermentation and
add a layer of earth of an inch or
more. Then n layer of heated horse
manure and on that six or eight inches
of good rich garden mold. Fork this
over two or three times. Fit the cold
frame over 1t, the slope to be south.
Let 1t be day or more till the earth
becomes well warmed. Mark Off the.
rows and put in the tomatoes. lettuce,
peppers and egg plants. Cover at night
if 1t is cold, with straw mating. Open,
for three hours II the weather Is pleas
ant, for ventilation. but be careful
not to let cold wind blow in. The
temperature in n hot bed should not
be lower than seventy-five degrees. If
the plants are yet lowish, they need
more air. The object in putting in the
manure so carefully in layers is to-
secure n regular and prolonged
warmth.-Ella Hess, in The Epitomlst.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
washington's Birtbday

Washlngton's Birthday was made q
legal holiday by vote of the Massachu-
sets Legislature April 10, 1856, there
fore February -, 1857, was first a le-
gal holiday. For many years previous
Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis held recep-
tion at her home on February %. TO
which all the people of the city of Bos-
ton were invited. Her house was open
to the public on that day, and before
and after the day became legal holi-
day all the military companies of Bos-
ton would parade past her house on the
22d. Probably the first occasion of
Washington's Birthday being recog-
nized was February II, 1871. That
was by the French troops at Newport,
II. |. AS the 1lth fell on Sunday the
celebration was held on the 18th. This
was according 10 the old style of reck-
oning.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17

ms was his father before him. He
died at Mount Vernon in 1862, aged
thirty-four years, and his remains rest
In the great vault behind those of
George Washington.
Lawrence Washlngtons widow mar
ried Col. George Lee, uncle of Arthur
and Richard Henry Lee, patriots of
the Revolution. George Washington
was unable, however, to give super
vision to Mount Vernon until after
the fall of Fort Duquesne and the ex-
pulsion of the French from the Ohio
region, as his military duties engrossed
most of his time; but after his mar.
riage, January @, 1850, he resided there
and gave the closest attention to the
improvement of his estate, and all his
landed interests in the Shenandoah re-
gion and the Ohio Valley. He made
Mount Vernon one of the best cultivat-
ed and most highly improved planta-
lions In Virginia, and added largely to
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
WON THE VICTORIA CROSS.

In recent issue of your paper,
writes correspondent to the New
York Sun, it was stated that but one
chaplain in the British Army had ever
received the Victoria Cross. If you
examine the records you will find that
during General Kitchener's campaign
in Northern Africa Father Collins was
awarded the cross for an act Of hero
ism.
1t seems that the British soldiers be-
came confused and We're firing upon
each other. when Father Collins rushed
into the zone of fire, and, raising his
hands, called upon them TO stop In
Gods name. He is still a chaplain.
was told this by chaplain from the
British Army, Father Rockliff, who
went through the Boer war aud was
acquainted with Father Colllns
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
skin is much the worse for wear, bu,
will be mounted.-starksbor (vt) Cor.
respondence New York World.
FIERCE ALPINE EAGLES.

The maritime Alps of Eastern France
have long been noted as being the
haunt of the most ferocious and power.
full breed of eagles in existence.
Children innumerable have been car
ried of by them, and they even attack
adults on occasions, sometimes with
dire results.
A postman named Gustave Silva,
who carried the mails on foot between
the villages of Sospello and Puget The
nlers, was set upon while crossing the
pass by three large birds and fright
fully injured.
He managed to drive OF his winged
assallants with the aid of his alpen.
stock, and eventually reached his des.
tination with his bag of letters. But
his case was from the first regarded as
hopeless by the local doctors, and after
lingering in indescribable agony for
six days he succumbed TO his wounds.
Meanwhile two young French tour.
lists, Messrs. Joseph Monand and An.
tome Neyssel. went up into the noun.
tains to try to kill the birds that had
done the damage, and were savagely
attacked in their turn. Both men were
armed. but the sudden onslaught of
the huge winged creatures completely
unnerved them. and after firing only
one shot they tried to escape by run.
ming.
The birds. however, struck them
down ere they had gone many yards,
and they would have doubtless been
both torn to pieces where they lay but
for the opportune arrival of party of
shepherds.
These succeeded in rescuing Mr..
Neyssel alive, but terribly injured, he
having sustained no fewer than ten Sc.
we're wounds in the head and back, be-
sides innumerable minor decorations
and abrasions.
His companion, Mr.. Monand, was
killed outright early in the fray, and
his body. when recovered, presented a
most shocking spectacle. Mr.. Neyssel
recovered after six weeks in bed, but
is disflGured for life.-Stray Stories.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
6s~sSVs
So Many Years AgoE

Great-grandma liked TO tell us how, SO
many years ago,
When she was but little child, Just like
ourselves, you know,
She saw the Continetals pass, one sunny
summer day,
Upon their march to Pompton, some forty
milcs away;
And how George Washington and aides, in
faded buff and blue,
Stopped at her. home for luncheon. Ito
really, truly true.
Said she: "My brother Ben and l were
shy as we could be;
But both of us were pleased to hear the
general praise the tea.
And when the table had been cleared, we
went at mothers call
To meet the famous patriot, who stood so
straight and tall.
| curtsied as the fashion was, with both
my cheeks ahame;
lie took my hand. and said / was dainty
little dame
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-02-17
DEAD MAN STEERS A SHIP.


A sealing schooner, the Arietis, re.
Gently sighted mastless derelict about
100 miles southwest of Queen Char
lotte's Islands. Although at first 1t
was thought there was no one on board
a figure was at length made out crouch.
ing at kneeling position at the wheel.
The captain of the Arietls accordingly
hailed them when within distance and
proffered them assistance. Receiving
no answer. however, and noticing that
the steersman never shifted his posi-
tlon, he lowered boat and with some
of his crew boarded the derclict. He
found that the man was quite dead and
had apparently been so for some time,
but his rigid hands still grasped the
wheel and guided the vessel on its
course. lie had evidently been desert.
ed by his crew in a storm. and as last
forlorn hope had lashed himself to the
wheel. Some food was found close to
him, and also two or three bottles Of
medicine, showing apparently that he
was i'll when his long watch began.
The ship was almost waterlogged,
but from papers which the captain Of
the Arietis managed to recover it was
found that the name of the dead skip
per- who had steered his vessel, was
Henry Saunders, aged forty, who
was master mariner, Of st. John,
n. Il. The name of the schooner was
the General Siglin. bound from San
Francisco to Alaska. She had on board
the complement of six sailors and FIVE
passengers. The body of Captain
Saunders was duly buried according to
the rites observed at sea.-Chicago In.
ter-Ocean.