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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17
Sermon on Emancipation.

Rev. Simon P. w. Drew, pastor of Cos
mopolitan Temple Baptist Church, having
temporary quarters on o street northwest,
last night delivered a sermon on the eman-
cipation of slaves to large congregation.
1t is desired by the congregation to erect
a church having seating capacity of 500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17
Col. Wagner Much Better.

Col Arthur L. Wagner Of the Army War
College, who has been seriously i'll at his
home In this city for the past ten days, is
reported to be much improved and II Is
probable that he will in short time tans
n trip to some southern resort for the pur-
pose OF recupegating.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17
General River Matters.

Harbormaster John r. Sutton returned
home yesterday evening from stay OF a
week at Colonial Beach, where he has be-
come property owner.
Mr.. William Wattles, agent of the Nor
folk and Washington Steamboat Company
at Alexandria, has been placed in charge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-17
Chicago Hotel Man Dead.

CHICAGO. April 17.-Wiliam M. knight,
for many years the proprietor of the
Briggs House. died at his home here today.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Arid Land Cultivation.

Colorado has much to hope for from
the experiments now being conducted
in raising profitable crops on arid
lands.
1t Is fact beyond question that GER
tain varieties Of plants can be made to
grow where other varieties or othev
species would perish through lack Of
moisture, and it is equally certain that
methods of cultivation add very
greatly to the ability of the plant to
resist drouths.
Along both Of these lines the present
experiments are being undertaken.
New plants and new varieties of plants
have been brought from foreign coun.
tries, and it is believed that the condi-
tions in Colorado are favorable for q
profitable growth of many of these
plants. One Of them, durum wheat,
has been widely distributed among the
farmers OF the state, ana as the pres
ent season promises an unusual amounA
of moisture, we shall expect very fav-
orable reports, the more so as smaller
experiments in former years have re-
suited successfully.
There is also a record of successful
experiments in past years for a
method of land cultivation by which
the soil itself is made to serve as a
shield for the moisture around the
roots of the plant, against excessive
evaporation, and the larger expert
ments that are to be conducted this
year promise much benefit to the agri-
cultural interests of the state-Pueble
Chieftain.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Free Grazing Permitted.

The secretary of agriculture has just
issued an order directing that no re-
striction be placed upon the grazing
of stock within the new forest reserves
that have been or may be created this
year.
There has been considerable con-
cern among sheep and cattlemen OF
the West on account Of the creation OF
new reserves, which include consider
able areas of what has heretofore
been public range. Many letters re-
ceived by the department indicate that
stockmen fear that they are to be de-
prived Of their range on short notice.
In justice to those stock interests,
Secretary Wilson, on the recommends
tion Of the forestry bureau, decided
to impose no restrictions within the
new reserves this summer Investiga-
tions are now being made to deter
mine how many sheep and cattle may
safely be admitted to these various
new reserves, and based on these in.
vestigations restrictions will be i'm
posed next year and grazing season
will We set for each individual re-
serve, to be regulated by climatic and
range conditions.
The order applies to the new re-
serves in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming
and Idaho, and will apply to the new
reserves soon to be established In
these states and in Washington.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
APPALLING WASTE OF FIRE.
Tax on Nation Amounts to $25 Per
Family Annually.

Tax on Nation Amounts to $25 Per
Family Annually.
One thousand million dollars, said
President Washburn of the board of
fire underwriters at its meeting in this
city, is the county's loss by fire in six
years. The loss for 1904 surpassed all
previous records, reaching $229,O0O,-
900, of which $50,OO0,OO0 disappeared
in the Baltimore blaze But that is not
the real total destruction. It does not
include all lonely, uninsured farm
houses of small value burned. It does
not fully cover the losses of household
goods in general less adequately in
sured than buildings. 1t takes no note
of forest fires, the most irreparable Of
all calamities. The figures might al
most be doubled without exaggeration.
The true annual fire tax of the nation
is doubtless $25 per family. No other
civilized nation knows such an appall.
ing waste.-New York World.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
HEAVY READING FOR JAPs.
Little Demand in Country for Lighter
Literature

The Japanese are serious-minded
people, as their literary habits show.
They take life seriously and devote
their time to the reading Of what
would be called in America solid
books. The recent report Of the IL
brarian of the imperial library at To-
kio shows that there is little demand
for light literature in that capital. for
fiction of any sort, contrary to the ex-
perience of most of the popular Ii
braries in England, France and Ameri-
ca. The Japanese mind runs to sci
ence. mathematics, medicine, language
and to what may be termed the graver
forms of literature. More shan 40 per
cent of the works taken out of the i'm
perial library are of this character
The Japanese are very fond of history.
in the making Of which they are ex-
taasively engaged at present in the
eastern war. Engineering, military
and naval science receive much atten-
tion. The interest in these subjects
hos been greatly stimulated by the
war.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Mayor Breaks City Ordinance.

Mayor William B. Harp, of Pitts
burg. is coming in for vigorous con-
demnation on account of the manner
in which he deliberately violated the
ordinance governing the speed of
automobiles. The river and harbors
congressional committee was in town
and the members were taken for a
spin around the parks. Mayor Harp
was in the automobile with Congress
man Burton and when the party start
ed his honor told the chauffeur to "cut
loose" The speed ordinance was shat
tered in a minute. Park policemen
tried to stop the procession. but were
waved back by the mayor, who is now
the object of general condemnation.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
the FARM AND RANGE
The Farmers Institute.

Colorado stockmen and farmers
have not yet realized the Importance
to them Of the Farmers Institute. "
In the eastern part of the country and
especially through the Middle West.
the farmers institute has been the
great factor in building and developing
the country. In Colorado the work of
organizing these institutes has 0aly
commenced. BY next fal' It Is sx-
pected that there will be il 3titutes or
ganized all over the state and backed
by the Colorado Agricultural College
and Experiment Station and . corps
Of lecturers. the people will commence
to get some Of the benefit that has
been had elsewhere from these institu-
tons.
Comparatively few Of the stock farm
ers Of the West realize what farmers
institute is. To put 1t simply. 1t is sim
ply an organization of farmers and
stockmen for the purpose of holding
meetings at stated times when experts
can meet and talk to the people. do
liver lectures, conduct debates upon
live~topics in relation to the industry
and convey to the people In the most
practical way possible, Information re-
garding the advances that have been
made in modern agricultural life.
Dean Carlyle of the agricultural col
lege is already planning for . full
corps of speakers for next fall and
winter and, thanks to the appropria-
tion made at the last session Of the
Legislature. Colorado stockmen and
farmers will have an opportunity to
hear the best talent that can be had
in the country.
Professor Carlyle is anxious that
every county in the state have an in
stitute, and wherever the agricultural
element Of a community will arrange
for a meeting the college fraternity
will gladly send speakers and assist
in making an organization. After
organizations are perfected, dates for
meetings will be arranged SO that each
institute can have at least one big
meeting year. Any section Of the
state desiring to arrange for an in
stitute is invited to address Prof. w.
L. Carlyle, Fort Collins. and the mat
ter will be given attention.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Underwriters Fear for Gar.

The czar has been the most active
recent risk in English companies, says
a writer in Leslie's Monthly. Up to a
week before last Christmas the rate
on his life was per cent per annum.
On December twenty holders of Rus.
sian bonds, who insured him with
Lloydis for some tens of thousands of
pounds, had to pay Is per cent for a
policy running only ten months. After
the assassination Of Grand Duke Ser
gius and the terrorist threat to wipe
out the imperial family the czar sud-
denly retired from activity as an in
surance risk. Nobody wanted him at
the price the underwriters placed on
his life.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
VALUE OF SMALL COLLEGE.
1 It Institution That Young Men Can
Attend.


Complaint has been made that many
college professors nowadays are more
interested writing learned treatises on
their subjects than in teaching them
to their classes. 1t used to be said
that Mark Hopkins, with class of
boys on log. would make a college:
but that time seems to have gone by
The modern professor in big school
is a reader of lectures and a preparer
of examination papers. The real in
struc:ion for the student who desires
to get simply an all-around education,
before taking up professional course
of study, is rather the small college
with good faculty. Better than cost
ly buildings, better than big libraries,
better than elaborate apparatus and
ingenious appointments, is live
teacher. well informed and intelligent
ly sympathetic with the mind and tenn
per of youth.-New Orleans Picayune
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
What is believed to be the only M

What IL believed to be the only mag
nolia tree in Colorado is now thriving
on the Bejamin Woodbury. place in the
southeastern part of the city. 1t was
purchased by Mr.. Woodbury. in the
South about eight years ago for IS.
The first flowers appeared last year,
when there were only two of them,
and they were large, white ones and
very fragrant. This year the tree
promises to be mass of white blooms,
as there are many buds on 1t and they
are large and swollen. The tree Ia
about the size Of a plum tree and has
trunk about two and half inches in
diameter.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
STATE CHOOSES GOOD MAN
New Connecticut Senator Won Spurs
In Lower House,

New Connecticut Senator Won Spurs
In Lower House.
Frank Bosworth Brandegee, the
United States senator chosen to sue
ceed the late Orville H. Platt Of Con.
necticut, has an inherited gift of ora
tory, his father, Augustus Brandegee,
having for years been the chief spell
binder of Eastern Connecticut. He is
forecful, witty, has a genius for epi-
grams and his subject matter Is we'll
thought out He is retiring to. de-
gree hardly expected of man who has
been in the public eye so much for the
last few years, and gives the impress
sion at times that on the whole it is
rather bore to be public man. Sem
ator Brandegee is one of the numerous
senators who won their spurs in the
house of representatives. Among the
others are Hopkins of Illinois, Hale
and Frye of Maine, Lodge of Massa-
chusetts, Burrows of Michigan, ALI.
sco and Dolliver of Iowa, McCreery OF
K-altucky, Newlands of Nevada, Dick
of Ohio, Bailey of Texas, Carmack OF
Tennessee, Latimer of South Carolina.
Long of Kansas, Burkett of Nebraska,
and Hemenway Of Indiana.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Dean of Patent Office Force.

Prof. A. G. Wilkinson is dean Of the
batent office examining corps in Wash
ington, having been in charge of di-
vision since 1868. He graduated in
the Yale class of sc along with JUS
tices Brown and Brewer of the Unit
ed States supreme court. Senator De-
new and Gen. Wager Swayne. Mr..
wilkinson first went to the patent Of
fice on July 1. 1864. During his term
of service the patents granted have
Increased from about $4,000 to more
ths> TOO. 900. The examining force
sea grown from less than fifty to 220.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Loubet Foraets GalIantry,

Nine. Patti baroness Cederstrom)
has received from President I.oubet
the ribbon of the Legion of Honor in
recognition Of her charitable work in
Paris. In signing the decree confer
ring the decoration President Loubet
is said to have uttered remark so
undiplomatic as to make every other
Frenchman blush. "1 do this" ne is
reported to have said, with as much
pleasure as l experienced long ago
when had no gray hairs. and when
l heard Nine. Adelina Patti sing in
Lucia and in La Sonnambula.'"
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
SENTENCE SERMONS,

Life is the best language.
Hope keeps the heart wholesome.
Your goods have little to do with
your good.
Cupidity easily overcomes the easy
conscience.
There are always plenty OF pilots
on a pond.
Men must be lifted; they cannot be
pushed up.
A mans happiness does not depend
on his harness.
The narrow mind is not essential
to the narrow way.
AS soon as you cease to grow up
you begin to go down.
You cannot make tracks for heaven
by trampling on others.
A rattle is not made righteous by
a religious atmosphere.
My own sins are but failings; the
other mans are crimes.
Prosperity may be heavens way Of
furnishing some people.
If you are put in a place Of trial
count it mark of trust.
There's no virtue in being patient
with the pain you do not feel.
The people who manage to live
without ever getting into hot water
have little to do with the engines of
life.
The man who boasts of never niue
ing matters is likely to be chopping
up somebody's reputation pretty fine.
Henry F. Cope in Chicago Tribune.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

c. A. King, manager of the Mem
phis and Idaho Springs G. M. and NJ.
Company, corporation composed
largely of southern capitalists, reports
that good strike has been made in
the Bellman claim and that a streak
OF ore over six inches in width has
been encountered that shows values in
gold, silver and copper of nearly 500
per ton. In addition to this there is a
large quantity of low grade ore aver
aging about $12 per ton that can be
profitably mined. The force of men
will be increased in a short time so
as to make large and continuous ship
meats. Ten men are employed now.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

The Rev. James d. Moffat, elected
moderator by the Presbyterian as
sembly at Winona Lake, Ind, is presi-
dent C. Washington and Jefferson Col
lege, Washington. Pa. He has been at
the head of that institution since 1882.
Previously he had for eleven years
been pastor of the Second Presbyte-
rian Church at Wheeling, Pa. Since
1893 he has also been assistant editor
of the Presbyterian Banner, of Pitts
burg. DR.. Moffat was born at Lisbon,
O.. in 1876, and was graduated from
Washington and Jefferson College in
1869.
DR.. J. Addison Henry. the retiring
moderator Of the Presbyterian general
assembly. Is veteran minister Of
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
PHILOSOPHY OF A PEssuMI,1.

/ VHiIoSOFnr VI ~ PeSSiMlS1.
The sphere of women nowadays is
the big round earth.
An Cptimjst is a man who Is happy
when he is miserable.
A sheriff wouldn't like to be known
by the company he keeps.
A man finds 1t easy to get along
after he once starts down hill.
A man in love is blind until he finds
1t necessary to sew on buttons.
Any fool can lay plans but it takes
wise man to hatch them out.
Suffering loses all its charms for a
Truth may be stranger than fiction
because there Is less Of 1t on the
market.
The trouble with most handsome
girls is they seem to think that is all
that's necessary.
Il man starts on a journey and
forgets to take an umbrella. it's
sure sign Of rain.
The girl who paints her lips has
poor taste-as any young man who
kisses her will tell you.
1t is said that blood will tell, but
it never tells half as much as the
blood purifier advertisements.
It's simply impossible for man to
love his neighbor as himself-if be
has garden and his neighbor has
chickens.
Some one has said that poets must
suffer before they can write. Possibly
and after that the public does most
of the suffering.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
We hear considerable complai,

We hear considerable complaint
about the loss Of cows from bloat and
all because the necessary precautions
are not used In providing for the
emergency. One of the most satisfac-
tory remedies is ordinary household
ammonia reduced to about one-fourth
the strength. Upon the first sign of
bloat give about half pint in a bottle,
forcing it down the cows mouth. As
we have frequently said, the best way
to prevent bloat is to place a wooden
stick as bit in the mouth Of each COW
running on alfalfa pasture.-Field and
Farm.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Eggs.
Triumphant Wireless. Telesraphy.

New York, May 2S.-The steamer
Campania, which arrived yesterday
from Europe, reported that she had
been in communication with land by
means of wireless telegraphy during
the entire voyage. When in mid
ocean the Campania was in communi-
cation with 10th America and Europe
simultaneously, feat never before &C.
complished.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

Wheat, choice milling. per 100 lbs.
S1.55. Rye, Colorado. bulk, per 100
lbs. 90c. Oats. bulk, Nebraska. new.
white, $1.14; mixed, $1.10; in sack.
97c. Corn chop. sacked. $1.O6. Bran.
Colorado, per 100 lbs, $1.05.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
SAID BY Wise MEN.

To be able to enjoy ones past life is
to live twice-Martial
1t belong to human nature to hate
those you have njured.-Tacitus.
He bids fair to be wise who has dis.
covered that he is not so.-Publius
Syrus.
The pilot cannot mitigate the bill
lows or calm the winds.-Plutach
Every one is bourd to bear patient
" the results of lis own example,
Phaedrus.
1t is indeed a desirable thing to be
we'll descended. but the glory belongs
to our ancestors-Plutarch.
The most glor,oss exploits do nat
always furnish u3 with the clearest
discoveries of virtue or vice in men,
Ply tarch.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
ALL SORTS

Until you moved neither you nor
your neighbors knew how much worth.
less furniture you had.
When some folks talk of success
they draw perpendicular lines through
the s's-thus: $ucce$$.
It's odd that more people can talk
about the good old songs" than can
sing one stanza of any of them clear
through.
A girl talks of how many hearts
she has broken with as much glee as
a moving van man tells Of the mir
rors he has smashed.
Is it friendship or fear of a quarrel
that makes you preserve all the pic
ture post cards sent you by acquaiut-
ances who are journeying in foreign
parts.
month that it makes most of us want
to write poetry whether We can or
not-and the trouble is we generally
cannot.
Why is it that people will listen to
your excuses for poor work but will
give you the scornful glance when you
attempt to tell them how you did the
good work.
Whenever your hopes are blighted
young man. pause and reflect that az
ter six months you will be wondering
how you ever could have considered
such a circumstance blight on any.
thing.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
DENVER MARKETS
Cattle.

Cattle.
Comparative receipts:
Month to May 26. ........... 7S.615
Same period last year,. 1868
Increase 1852
Year to date. te............... S9.2S0
Same period last year,. $3.50
Increase 31,S90
The following quotations represent
the range OF prices paid ON this mar.
ket:
Beef steers. cornfed. good
to choice .4.75V5.35
Beef steers, cornfed, COM
mon to medium. .4.000475
Beef steers. hayfed. good to
choice .4.Z6Q4.75
Beef steers. hayfed. common
to medium ..............s.5O0425
Cows and heifers; cornfed,
good to choice. 3.7504.5O
Cows and heifers, cornfed,
common to medium. .soO@375
Cows and heifers. hayfed,
good to choice. .s.25@s.75
Cows and heifers, hayfed,
common to medium. .2.25@325
Gamers. .................1. .1.50@2.25
Calves, veal, good to choice.4.75@6.OO
Calves, veal, fair to good. ..3.5O@4.75
Bulls, stays. etc. .2.00Q3.SO
Feeders. F. P. R.. good to
choice .................. .4.O0@4.75
Feeders, F ,. R.. common to
medtur ................3 3.25 @4.00
stockers. F. P. R.. good to
choice ............ .3.75@4.25
Stockers. F. P. r.. common to
medium ..................5 .5.0Og3.7o
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

In spite of DR.. Os-er, some men i'm.
prove with age. and the glory of youth
is often merely a mirage.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
Hay.

Upland, per ton, $145O@15.5O; sec
ond bottom, $1O.O0@12.0o; timothy,
$14.O0@15.OO; timothy and clover.
$13.O0@14.OO; alfalfa. prime, $3.50;
straw. $3.50; South Park wire grass,
$16.0O@16.50.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

A girl is not necessarily happy
when she smiles-any more than a
melon is eatable when it cracks wide
open.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

A Boston actress is said to have
made small fortune trading in dia-
monds. Judging from some of these
press agents exploits, there is also
money In losing them.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
WISE MAN OF GOTHAM SAYS,

A man is apt to miss the opportuni.
ties he has missed.
Weather predictions, like dreams,
sometimes go by contraries.
A good many Of us find fault with
Fate for treating us as We deserve,
If the good old times could come
back they might spoil their fine repu-
tations.
Would that we could say truthful1v
that the mosquitoes buzz is worse than
its bite.
| Discomfort is useless except whom
it can devise plan to end its own ex.
| istence.
The cloud has no silver lining for
the man whose umbrella Is held nv
the enemy.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02
THE BILLVILLE BANNER,

We haven't had thunderstorm
this season, but the woman's rights
convention meets here next Tuesday.
The mayor lost his religion and one
eye yesterday taking down the stove
pipe and incidentally swore the
shingles of the shed.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

All men are gamblers-even the
plodding farmer takes big chances
with nature and the seasons.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

The recent snow completely hid the
moonshine distilleries. but our enter
prising citizens got surveyor to 10
cate 'em and then tunnelled through
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

Every desert has its oasis. and every
woman has her good points-even
when she disappoints.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

1t is shame when the baby wakes up
once in the night, and the father is
awake for ten minutes. that he should
lose "his whole nights rest" Isn't it,
uow?-Atchison (Kan.) Globe.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

People are hard to please. If man
gets mad easily he is called "tcuchy,"
and If 1t takes a good deal to make
him mad he is called wooden"
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

The evil prophets are now predict
ing that the world will come to ar
end July next. (Hot time, then, breth
rem, and no billiards where you're
going.)
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

It's odd that more people can tall
about the good old songs" than car
sing one stanza of any of them cleal
through.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

Women like mystery. Hence the
fascination the average man has for
the average woman.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

When our subscribers get hold Of
$40 they go off and celebrate: but
when we get that much money they
want us to enlarge the paper and give
'em a gold watch as premium.-At
lanta Constitution.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

A good many Of us find fault with
Fate for treating us as We deserve,
The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-02

A girl talks of how many hearts
she has broken with as much glee as
a moving van man tells Of the mir
rors he has smashed.