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The Colorado statesman., 1905-06-17

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Metal skylights, stamped steel ceilings. pip
ing and slate. tile and metal roofs. erc
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EA

'Is there any cure for heart trou-
bles?" asks the Medical Review. Ever
try matrinonv?
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,nirWt nen girl looks as If she wouldn't
charaa. i. Is sign she Is waiting for tho
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The A. e. MEEK TRUNK & BAG MFG co.
1907 10th st. Denver. Colo Write for catlog
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THREE YEARS AFTER.

Eugene E. Lario. of ISL Twentieth
avenue ticket selle. in the Union Sta.
ton, Denver, Col. says: You arc at
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Many heavenly tune has been
spoiled by a holy tone.
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TEA

The best you can do,
ochllllng's Best. The best
you can do, Schilling's Best.
''' grocer returns your money If you don't lile,s
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums reduces IN
allsys PAIN cures wind collie 25c bottle
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The Colorado SaddIerV Go,

wholesale Manufacturers of Harness and
Saddles of every style. Ask your dealer for
goods II he does not keep them we will
put you in touch with who does.
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Don't imagine that every sad-eyed
woman you meet has loved and lost. It's
more than likely she loved and got him.
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EA

TEA
The Chinese and Japs are
not very nervous people;
they drink a good deal of tea.
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Denver Camera Exchange

1856 10th Street, Opposite Court Hoi.re.
Weare agents for CyLo Paper aud on-Trust
supplies. Develop ng specially. Mail your films.
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6olu " MI DIuEEIEl5. Tot.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-04-10

The ladies OF the Congregational
church V'l' ~ r,etn, F,ir j., tht
church parlor-, or ~. -, INST. \
SPECIAL feature viii te the Ladies' Home
Journal booth, which has attracted Sc
much attention through the eastern
states.
Tue steamer n ewherg arrived thi.
morning from san Francisco. Her hold
was full # freight for local merchants.
and she brought more tubing for the
ChehaIls bridge. She also brought, or
deck quite consignment of cirous,
fruits and bananas.
On Saturday morning an idea was
given OF the traffic across the Hero n
street bridge. In the ten minutes that
the bridge remained open, seven teams
and large number of foot passengers
/ gathered in that time waiting an oppor-
tunity to cross the river.
Toilet Articles-We have STYLES TO suit
every fancy IN brushes, combes. mirrors.
in fac everything in the list from one
end To NE other. some OF these are ex.
! pensive, all OF them first class quality.
but whatever the price, it is just a. cheap
or cheaper than you can buy similar
article for elsewhere. Evans Drug Go.
Mrs. William Butcher and daughter
returned from Porl and last week, where
Miss Dut' her underwent an operation in
one OF the hospitals. She is much bet
Ter and ,Xpects to have no more trouble
with the veins in mr. neck that has
caused trouble in the past by growing to
an unnatural size.
A rumor is current that Robert w.
Bryan, Of this city, had died OF bubonic
plague, at Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico,
where he was engaged with large sugar
company. The report cannot be veri.
We'd, nor its origin traced, and the
numerous friends of the young man sim
cerely hope it is without foundation.
Any ne desiring to buy a small ranch
of forty acres. with four room house,
good barn, some clearing done. situated
near \ large saw mill and logging camp
! NaIC'C VIVA Cdil DC ODCdlItu tno wear
around. ihree miles from Elma, price
5000 including some personal property,
inquire Of Frank GIoundwater, Elma.
/ Wash. 59.3t
/ Mrs. Harriet Leslie and son Barr, ar
rived from jeff, Missouri, Saturday
afternoon and nten' to make her resi-.
dence here. Mis-. Leslie is sister of
Mrs. E. 5 Dalton and of Captain G. f.
/ Burrows, who have been instrumental
| in getting her to move Her husband
| will come on as so IN as his business in.
terests will permit.
! The condition of the Aberdeen GENE.
terry IS disgrace to any civilized COM
nlunity. for lack of proper care. The
relatives OF those buried there are willing
and anxious to beautfy the last resting
places Of their beloved dead, bnt cannot
do so while the grounds are public
pasture. COW ordinance will not
remedy the matter, as two sides front
outs de the city limits, but good strong
fence should be provided. with resident
are taker, who, if a competent gardner,
could earn good income by caring for
| the different plats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
The Mother Conference of
Methodism in America

Bishop David II. Moore of Portland. Ore.
who presided at the 12lst session of the
Baltimore annual conference of the Method
list Episcopal Church. which closed Tuesday
last in this city. in addressing the two hum
dred or more ministers. made repeated refer
ence TO this the mother conference" of
Methodism In America. and said how proud
he was to be present at its deliberations.
That the Baltimore conference is indeed the
oldest territorial division of the denomina-
ton in America may not be generally
known by Methodists and the public at
large. In fact, the first man who preached
the doctrines of the famous John Wesley
this side of the Atlantic was Robert
Strawbridge who came to this country from
Ireland in 100 and settled on Sans Creek
not far from Baltimore Md.
1t was in this vicinity that the first great
Methodist revival occurred. 1t was near
Baltimore that the new sect secured a firm
hold on some of the most influential and
best men of the state and the way was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
How to Punish a Child,
From Good Housekeeping.


Have you ever given a child the privilege
of choosing his own punshment-either a
whipping the deprivation of some be-
loved treat, solitude in his chamber, or some
other form, and had him prefer the whip
ping Ito have ii over WITH" Doesn't this
prove ii to be the. lesser punishment? Some
thing to be borne with stoically, as neces-
sary evil, perhaps. but forgotten the next
moment in some pleasure or recreation.
II. however, upon mature elaboration, il
seems expedient to apply the rod. let It, by
all the regard you have for your chld's
self-respect, be done in the privacy of his
own room. and not even limited at before
other children. There seems to be a strain
OF cruelty In the makeup of some children
that delights in another's punishment If
a child must be punished in this way If
every other expedient has been tried and
found wanting and it seems that he will
learn the desired lesson in no other way
for let ii be understood that punishment
Is given for no other reason than reform)
then shut him up In one room and yourself
In another until your anger has had time to
cool, and he to reflect. Then, with calm
face, prayerful and sorry heart and a
dignihed demeanor, go to him and do the
job thoroughly and well.
Keep him closeted until the fierceness of
his emotion has worn away. Then take
him out, battle and clothe him afresh and
keep him with you. Talk to him, not about
his offense-you have punished him for that
LET 1t drop. Cheerfully expect it not to
happen again. Be kind ana loving to him
and prove by your actions that he has
grieved you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09

respectively. who built the church in 1900.
In order to show their patriotism the. peo-
pie had the crude form of an eagle carved
upon the stone. y polished white marble
tablet marks the last date OF rebuilding
in 1884
The famous Evans house originally be-
longed to John Evans. one of Strawhridges
early converts He is said to have been
converted of his sin through talk with
Mrs. Strawbrdge at her table one day
when the Evans and others had gone to
secure Mr. Strawbridge's crop for him while
he was out from home prea ching the ever
lasting gospel recorder has II.
After his conversion Evans opened his
house for preaching services. which con-
tinued there until 1899, when they were
moved to the home OF Benjamin Bennett.
Later the congregation that conferred here
began to worship in little structure known
as Bethel Chapel.
The Evans house is built of rough
logs one and half stories high, with
shed room on the west side. At the death
of John Evans il descended to his son
David. then to his son Samuel. II became
the property of the Baltimore conference
ten years ago. At this house last october,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09

on the occasion of the annual pilgrimage,
Gov. Warfield of Maryland made notable
address on Methodism. He Is one of the
latter day converts to this great denomina.
ton. and was born in the vicinity of the
Strawbridge church.
The site of the StrawbrIdge meeting house
itself. not far distant from the Evans house,
is in broad rolling wheat field. There is
said to be no room for doubt to the
exact location and 1t is definitely stated
that its size was 24N2il2 feet. The curious
fact about this is that the logs of the
church, when it was torn down, were used
in the construction of a barn on the farm,
and when i'm 1856 Rev DR.. c. NJ. Roberts
of Baltimore visited the place the same
timbers were measured and the dimensions
of the meeting house learned.
Robert Strawbridge.
Robert Strawbridge. of whom Methodists
of this and the other American conferences
are so proud, was born in Ireland, at
Drumsnagh in County Leitrim. Soon after
his conversion to the doctrinal system Of
John Wesley he moved TO County Sligo on
account of persecution following an attempt
to preach his beliefs. He married a young
lady of Terryhugan and came to America
In 1850, settling, as before stated, on Sans
Creek, Md. Originally this was In Fred.
erick county, but today 1t is in Carroll.
AS soon as he had arranged his new homo
he opened it for preaching and sought othec
places. HIS success was quick and great
and soon his field widened considerably.
He found appointments in other places
He preached In various parts of Maryland,
Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and
was doubtless on the ground now included
In the District of Columbia many times.
Necessity led him to administer the sacrap
ments, and when later the Methodist COM
ference forbade itinerant ministers to do
this he was excepted. During his absence
from home his neighbors did his farm
work for him.
On Sans Creek he lived for sixteen years.
Then he went to reside on a farm I'm Balti-
more county, owned by Capt. Charles Ridg-
ley, who provided a home for him until
his death. While visit to John
Wheeler, who lived near Hampton, then,
as now, the Ridgley family seat, he sick-
ened and died. He was buried on Wheeler'S
farm. Richard Owings, one of his first coma
vertS and the first native Methodist
preacher in this country. conducted the
funeral services. His remains were subse.
quently removed to Mt Olivet cemetery
Baltimore.
The pulpit which stood in the Strawbridge
meeting house has been preserved by the
American Methodist Historical Society OF
Baltimore. This. with a few other choice
relics, was saved from the ravages of the
great Baltimore fire in February, 1904 by
Rev. Drs G. W. Baldwin and E. l.. Watson.
Baltimore has always been the stronghold
of Methodism and many interesting scenes
have taken place there. On November 2,
1880, the general conference of reformers
met and framed the constitution and doc
trnes of the great Methodist Protestant
Church of America. These men believed In
a representation of laity well as min
exception to government by bishops and
presiding elders. Two of their most dis
tinguished preachers were Truman Bishop
and Asa Shinn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
What Manner of Life
Are You Living?

man life have no meaning. no useful mis-
sion. Some. like the oxen, pull their load.
eat and die: some are gluttonous as the
swine: some drunken and bcsotted like
wei. there IS no animal for comparison.
Man is the only animal that gets drunk.
dimming the fine gold of the intellectual
life and bunting every moral sense.
4. Last stage of all is the spiritual life.
Each lower phase prepares for the final eX-
PLANTATION, answering our question, What
is your lfe?" The material is the rough
marble. The mental hews the marble into
a shape with meaning. The moral inter
prets that meaning to the world. But the
spiritual is the living man walking about in
the body, of which the marble is only a
cold image. Unless reach the spiritual
The horse has the advantage over the
brutal man. The horse pulls his load, eats
his oats, and dies. He has fulfilled his mis-
sion. What noble mssion-for there is no
animal so faithful, useful, accomplishing.
tireless as the horse. All honor to his
friends, When he is worthless it is usually
man fault.
In contrast, how little how unsatisfact-
tory does mans life seem when at the best.
Just as he begins to know how to order his
life it ends. Here is one form of the argu-
rnent for the endless life. God would
scarcely make the most exalted form of life
to be in the end the least satisfactory
Capable of unlimited advancement, shall we
see the whole Of it disappear like a candle
blown out suddenly?
We must be immortal because we are
spiritual. We ought TO be spiritual because
we are immortal. The oid;ime preachers
always added their applications. There are
three. First, life should be useful. In the
vast industrial civilization of our time there
are countless opportunities for the useful
life.
Second life should be helpful This means
it should be u. eful to others. Some are I'M
der the shadows. There is a call for human
sympathy. This is the very essence of re-
ligion.
Third, life should be religious. Not in the
sense that s -gests cant, and bondage to
outworn crecds. but in the spirit of rever-
ence for Gods house, Gods day, Gods
word and all sacred things. So life can
pass in daily trust. not borrowing trouble,
or. as Emerson styles it, not anticipating
our experiences. Thus may we merge nat
urally into IL life eternal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
PRESBYTERIAN CATHEDRAL.
Justice Harlan Favors Construction of
One in Washington.

Justice John M. Harlan of the United
States Supreme Court has started move
ment in support of the establishment IN
this city of Presbyterian cathedral The
idea has been talked of for.ysome time, but
the first definite steps have been taken by
the sending of Identical letters from Justice
Harlan to all the leading Presbyterian min
listers in the United States. inviting their
advice and cooperation in the project. In
this letter the justice says in part:
"Twenly-seven years residence in this city
has brought me to the conclusion that the
time has come when the Presbyterian
Church as a whole ought to establish in
Washington a church which would repre-
sent our denomination of the national capl-
tai in a more impressive way than could
possibly be done by the ordinary parish
church, The justice says that IL the
church at large will approve the project he
will give large part of its time to estab-
fishing what, for want of a better word,
might be called the Cathedral Church of our
denomination at the national capital. There
should be. some commanding site near
the real center of the life of the capital,
a large and impressive editice, thoroughly
churchly in character, nobly suggestive of
the best periods of our church.
Attached to or connected with the church
should be a work building and parish house,
with its machinery, for the most prac-
tlcdi anu effective form OF nloueTn cHurcn
work. Adjoining the church building there
should also be a fitting manse for its chief
minister. and for the work l have in mind
there should be a staff of assistant miniss-
tiers and lay workers, and in addition,
small clergy house, in which those assist
ants could live"
In conclusion the justice asks suggestions
as to the appointment of a special commit
tee of the General Assembly, charged with
the duty of devising plan for establishing
gested, and says if such committee were
authorized he is quite sure a goodly sum
could be made available locally as a nu-
cleus for the fund for the enterprise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
IN THE REALM OF HIGHER THINGS


right to disseminate lEhristianity in that
great empire. In these 1ast&days 1t has
been the diplomacy of the United States
which has set the Influence at work to
stay the march of the territorial spoiler
and secure the autonomy of the Chinese
empire "
I'VE seek an open door in the orient for
our trade and enterprises. but in the Ian
guage of the great missionary apostle, "a
great door and effectual is opened to us to
carry to these people the Gospel of Christ
If we share largely in the responsibility for
the present political conditions of those
many millions of the east, does not our
duty extend beyond trade and industrial
enterprise and is not the church in America
called upon to give to them the Gospel,
which is the foundation of our civilization
and the origin of our greatest blessings?
Dying for the Faith.
while the progress of Christianity in
China has not been rapid, hundreds of thou
sands of Chinese have embraced Chris
tianity and have shown by consistent and
faithful lives that they have. become new
men in Christ Jesus. During the Boxer
troubles in 1900 the great mass of the
Chinese converts remained faithful. In the
long and bloody history of Christian mis-
sions for nineteen hundred years rarely has
such heroic devotion been shown.
in Japan substantial results of mission
work are manifest. Native Christians are
found among the emperor's household, in
the nobility, the imperial parliament and
among the officers of the army and navy.
When l visited that country the chief jus
tice of the supreme court, q Christian, pre-
sided at a public meeting of the Y.MC.A.
addressed by me.
Verify the fields are white to harvest,
and a cry comes across the Pacific to the
Christians OF the United States louder than
that which came to the apostle from Mace
donia: Come over and help us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09

the same letter or the same vowel sound,
yet only after minutes or even hours does 1t
actually occur to us.
What is supposed to happen is that the
particular cell of intellection which we are
using throws out its process among the
cells of memory for names and through
this process is brought in connection with
cells containing similar names: Il Is only
after more or less prolonged search that
1t hits on the right one. 1t is as IL the
telephone operator In the central office felt
around blindly for the connection wanted
and only after putting the plug into various
holes eventually struck the proper one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09
Tricky Brain Cell.
/, the Booklover's Magazine

The anatomy of the nervous system and
consequently its physiology was regarded In
the past as very simple Cayal showed that
the specific brain cell is an independent unit
provided with multiple processes, by means
of which it is capable of acting not through
one nerve alone but several This inde-
pendent brain unit or cell is called neu-
ron.
A simple illustration of how the neuron
works is furnished by our not infrequent
hunt for a name or an idea which we
know we possess. We feel that the name is
there, hut we cannot recall it. We get vari-
Gus names near It, beginning even with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-09

thus paved for the spread of n mighty
denomination of Christians in the new
world. From Baltimore and vicinity Meth
odism spread quickly southwark toward
Washington, or more property. at that time.
toward Georgetown and Alexandra, for
Washington was a city of the future. The
first church founded by the adherents of
Wesley within the bounds of what is row
the District of Columbia was the old Mont
gomery. now the Dumbarton Avenue, Meth
odist Episcopal Church of Georgetown.
The present pastor of this congregation,
which had its beginning in the year 1II2,
is Rev. c. w. King who received his APP
pointment to the charge at the hands of
Bishop Moore last Tuesday
First Sermon
While it is generally conceded that the
Baltimore conference. of which this city is
a very important part, can rightfully claim
to have had the first Methodist sermon in
America preached within its bounds, there
is considerable controversy as to which is
the site Of the first church neutrality-suspicious.
it is the site of the old Log Meeting House,
built by Robert Strawbridge, about three
and one-half miles from New Windsor on
the Western Maryland railroad, or whether
it is the first Methodist church erected In
the city of New York by Philip Embury.
,Ehis has never been definitely determined,
both conferences claiming the distinction
Rev DR.. w NJ. Ferguson, pastor of Wes-
ley NJ. E. Church, of this city. who has
written a history of Methodism in the Dis
trict is inclined only to claim the first
preacher for this section and give the
other honor to New York. But he is one
of a few here.
Methodists of this and other American
conferences hold the territory and buildings
which mark the beginning of the preaching
of their dictrine in great veneration. AL
most every year a pilgrimage Is made from
this city and Baltimore to the scenes of
Strawbridge's early work and part of
the conference as a valuable relic of the
heroic past.
Historic Spots.
Among the interesting places which the
Methodists visit on this pilgrimage is the
Stone Chapel, built in 1888 and rebuilt in
1900 and again in 1884, in the vicinity of
which Strawbridge formed the first Meth
odist Society in America. The class con-
sisted of eight members, five of them be-
longing to the Evans family, whose house
is now the possession of the conference. 1t
met in the preachers house first and later
in the Poulson house, still standing. The
first meeting house, built of logs, was not
finished for some time and Strawbridge
preached for a while under a big tree in
one of the fields of his farm-for he was
also farmer.
The log house was succeeded by Poulson
Chapel which was replaced on the same
site with the present Stone Chapel, before
mentioned. A curious tablet, made of three
pieces with an inscription chiselled on 1t by
2 n-prOfessional hand, gives the dates OF
the building and rebuildings of this church:
On 1t are the initials I'D. and BIB,
representing the names John Durbin and
Baxter Bosley, of the carpenter ana mason