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The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
MRS. ,PoTTER's eRlc.A.sRAc.
Her Home Recently Sold Was Filled
With Costly Things.

Friends of Mrs. Bowen Potter, not
to mention collectors of rare things.
will wish they had been present at the
sale Of her household goods, which
took place recently at Bray Lodge,
says the Boston Herald Americans
who have visited the famous actress
in her attractive home can recall the
interesting furniture which filled it,
and may well long to have become
possessed of some object to add to
their own collections. One OF the in
spirations," as well known New
York woman describes it, is ma
hogany settee which once belonged
in the assembly rooms at Bath and on
which tradition swears Nell Gwynne,
with the merry monarch, had often
sat. The back is rare piece of frel-
lis work. and would alone make the
seat valuable did not this association
hang around it. Then there is another
souvenir from which Mrs. Potter must
hate to part. the superb four-leaf
Chinese screen which was presented
to her by Ii Hung Chang himself one
day in Canton. But it was cc;.ac-
tion of Japanese paintings that made
artists rave when they were shown
Mrs. Potter's bric-a-brac, and it is
hoped the rare examples of Japsn's
oldest and youngest painters might
find their way to Boston.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Why He's EATING Out.

''Hello," exclaimed Eashley. meet.
ing Bakerman in a restaurant at 1880
a. m, IL thought you were going to
cook your own breakfasts while your
wife was in Europe. Come to think
of it. you even invited me up to see
what you could do in the way of a
bachelor dinner"
That's right" replied Brakeman
gloomily. but my plans have been
upset for the present, at least. l
shall have to wait until my wife
reaches the other side. receives the
letter l wrote to her last night, and
can find time to reply You know
what careful, methodical woman
she is. Well. she made out list of
everything in the house l should re-
qnire while she was gone. told me
where to find it and put the keys of
all the cnpboards | should be likely
to use on separate ring"
"Well?" asked Hashley. after long
pause.
"Then she carefully locked the
cupboards, packed the list and the
keys in her trunk and carried them
away with her"
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
DENVER MARKETS

Denver Union Stock Yards. Aug. !.
Our market here last week wan
rather quiet. as 10 usually the case ~
this season of the year. Receipts
were about the same rs the week BE-
fore, but some 1.20O head short Of
arrivals of . year ago.. Quality was
ysry fair on the average. but nothing
choice offered. There was . very
fair demand for the good kinds and
prices are 4 little stronger than q
week ago. There Ia, however. NO verN
material improvement in the situa1
uon. Right good beef steers have
been scarce. and outside OF . few
loads Of contract stun packers have
bsen ablo to get very few.
The tone Of the feeder and stockes
a.arket has been better this week.
and Indications are that the demand
will improve rapidly from now ON.
4 very large corn crop is practically
assured. and tho trade 10 looking for
. big demand this fall with priceD
night around where they were last
year.
The hog market advanced about
10 cents last week and tops at $5.9S
are ut the high point of the year, and
higher than they have been ON this
market since last September. The
demand 10 very fair.
The trade in sheep has been very
quiet and conditions about the same
they were . week ago. The demand
for feeders on tle range Is excellent,
but very few coming this way as yet
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
unarateful State o, Maine.

James G. Blaine, whose name ,'as
so many years linked with Maire's
political fortunes, has no monument
erected to his memory in the state
Shortly after his death there was an
effort made to procure funds for such
a purpose. but the difficulty in getting
subscriptions was SO great that the
project was abandoned. The state
has not even claimed the remains of
her once illustrous son and the t,dy
is buried in Washington. In til. ro
tunda Of the statehouse is the bus. OF
James G. Blaine. done in pure w.!ite
marble. More than the usual interest
has been attached to this work OF
art since it was learned that it has
never been Paid for. Prof. G. Trelta-
move of Florence, Italy, made the
bust and it was placed in the rotuilda
of the capitol in 1899. but up to this.
day the sculptor has never received a
red cent.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Tho Sugar Beet Crop.

According to The Beet Sugar Ga
kette. the latest estimates show that
Colorado leads all of the states in
sugar beet acreage this year, the tota |
area planted in this crop being 96,20o
acres. 1t is predicted that the 1905
crop Will aggregate $4,000 long tons
of beets. sufficient to make 127,0)0
long tons of sugar. Michigan and Cal
ifornia come next in acreage, but they
are far below Colorado in the esti-
mated yield. experts placing Michigan
nearly one-half and California one
third below this state.
Colorado will have three more beet
sugar factories this year than in 1904.
There is a. new plant at Holly with a.
capacity of 600 tons daily, 5OD-ton
plant at Lamar which has been mov ed
10 that place from Norfolk, Nebraska,
and 600ton plant at Sterling, which
was brought there from Saginaw,
Michigan. This moving of beet s.gar
factories from eastern states to Colo
RADIO is significant, for it shows the
greater possibilities of the industry
here. Both Michigan and Nebraska
were engaged in beet culture long be-,
fore it was supposed that the vcgeta-
sac Soulu bc piOuldDly IdlS6u Ill COlO-
RADIO. but now the Centennial Saate is
outdistancing them all.
Last year Colorado occupied first
place in the beet sugar production of
the United States, and crop conditions
are now SO favorable that it is vir-
tually certain to be first this year in
the yield of beets Also Michigan still
leads in the number of factories, but
Colorado may be ahead in slcing ca
pacity, because of the addition OF
three new plants and the increased ca.
pacity of the old ones.
Considering the short time since the
establishment Of the industry in this
state, this is remarkable showing.
Michigan and California have been
successful sugar producing states for
the last two decades, but it was only
six years ago that the first factory was
built in Colorado. 1t has been fully
proven that climatic and soil condi-
lions here are more favorable to beet
culture than they are in any other
state. so it is only matter of a lew
years until Colorado will be without a
rival.-Colorado Springs Gazette.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
A LESSON IN ECONOMY.
One Cent WastefuIness That Endar.
gered an Engagement.

II have Just had great jolt" said
the betrothed young man. :'and Incl.
dentally lesson in economy.
You know. they make mailing
cards nowadays that are beautiful and
l have been sending daily to the OBJ.
Ject of my affection pretty mailing
card with few words from myself
on it.
''The other day I got letter from
the old mani mean the young lady's
father-saying that he would like to
see me. When went up to call on
him found him looking very solemn
Young man, he said, 1 have given
my consent to your engagement to my
daughter. hut | shall have to with
draw it,
What's the matter asked
You are wasteful and extrava-
g-nt,' said the old gentleman. Look
at that!'
And he held UP one of my daily
postal cards. didn't see anything
until he pointed at the stamp. Then
light broke on me. The stamp was
a two-center. [ hadn't happened to
have any one-cent stamps around, ard
SO on all the mailing cards had sent
her had been putting two-cent
stamps
Il had simply thrown away cent,
and that had impressed the old man
far from pleasantly. He could afford
to spend dollars where couldn't have
spent mills. and there wasn't a mean
fiber in his body, but he hadn't accu-
mulated his money by wastefulness,
and my carelessness worried him
greatly.
After long wrestle with him
did finally persuade him to give me
another trial. And now I'm sending
her not one. hut four mailing cards
daily. with not two but a one-cent
stamp on each. Tn showing him that
I can economize
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Cactus Feeding Tests,

The United States Department of
Plant Industry has made arrangements
10 cooperate with the United States
Experiment Station and the DEPART.
ment of Agriculture at the New Mexico
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts in extensive tests as to the food
value of the cacti of the arid regions.
Exhaustive experiments will be made
by feeding cattle, sheep and other ami
mails upon the cacti and the results
will be carefully watched and fully
tabulated. That these results will he
of the utmosts Importance to New Mex
leo and other sections of the South
west there can be no doubt, and the
tests will be eagerly followed by the
stockmen throughout the country.
The college, under the direction of
the chemical and botanical DEPART
ment, last year made careful analvsis
of many of the principal varieties of
the cacd found in the territory to de-
termine the amount and character of
the nutriment contained. The prac-
tical feeding tests to be made this
winter under Professor ]. J. Vernon in
cooperation with the government will
be the final proof as to the value of tho
plants for feeding purposes.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Mora, Standards in Business.

From thousand pulpits our mid
summer moralists asure their pei spir-
ing auditors that things are bad, very
bad. in the business world just low.
The publicists and the reforrners
shake their heads dolefully and re.
peat the pessimism. The magazil. lists
and the papbleteers search in vain
for some less depressing theme. isn't
1t barely possible that the vast ma.
iority Of observers are all generali7ing
too much? The morale of our rhsi-
ness life is not to be measured by the
rascals who occasionally come to the
surface in 1t any more than the po-
tency of the Christian religion :. to
be judged by the backsliders :: ,m
it.-(New York Mail.)
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Preacher Too Strenuous.

Rev. Thomas Mcleod, Brooklyn
clergyman. in a sermon In the Com
gregational church. North Adams re.
Gently, rounded out a statement by
saying: You can put that in y.ur
pipe and smoke It," A woman ho
was up in front rose and, in ter es
audible all over the church, SAID:
"Sir, we are not accustomed to such
language in this pulpit. Such w:' ds
are more fitting for the race ira ck
than the house of God" Mr.. McLe od
paused for a moment, and then e
torted mildly: II have no objec'i3n
to woraen speaking in meeti,,.;."
Whereupon the incident closed and
the dominic continued his sermon.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Talking Good for the Teeth.

Somebody has advanced new
theory to account for the rapid decay
of the teeth of human kind. 1t is
duo, this Wiseacre says. to the decline
of conversational powers. Talk ex-
ercises the jaws, and jaw exercise is
beneficial to the teeth. The more
talk the more benefit Our ancestors
were forced to talk because there
were few amusements TO silence them.
Their teeth were more shapely and
stronger and they endured. Nowadays
.chea1, entertainments of many kinds
.entice the teeth. owners and cheap
literature of an engrossing character
draws them from the natural exer-
else that their molars and fncisors so
stre1y need. d.-tBoston Transcript
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
the FARM AND RANGE
lnocuiating the Soil.

The Philadelphia Press publishes ~
interesting interview with Hon. James
Wilson. secretary of agriculture.
What do you consider the most i'm.
portant work. or the greatest discoy,
cry that has been made in the de
partment during your administration?
he was asked.
II have never considered that ques-
tion. because l have never instituted
comparisons In the work Of our vari.
Gus bureaus" he replied.
The secretary relapsed into q medi-
tative mood for q moment and con
tinued:
Il think the work tnat has been OF
the greatest moment and will prove OF
the most lasting benefit to lae great
est number of men Is the discovery
of . means to promote the introduction
of benign bacteria into the soil. In
other words, the so-called incubation
Of the soil.
Il don't claim it as a discovery, but
this departments methods of making
practical the discovery is. think, on
. par with the discovery ITSELF y
number of years ago the TACT that soil
could be enriched and rendered pro
uuctive to a much higher degree than
was possible to any known methods OF
fertilization through the multiplication
of nitrogenous bacteri was discovered
by German professor. He associated
several persons with him and endeav-
ored to make a commercial commodity
Of It. Repeated attempts ended in fail
ure. and ultimately the effort was
abandoned, because without the power
to make his discovery of universal
value the whole thing was worthless
from the agricultural or commercial
standpoint.
Our bureau Of plant industry under
took the solution of the problem. We
erst produced the bacteria by cultiva-
ton. They are associated with legu-
minous plants, which draw their nitro
gen from the limitless supplies of the
atmosphere. Nitrogen is the indis-
pensable food of vegetable life. Re
peated experiments demonstrated that
this bacteria could be distributed
through the mails on piece Of cotton
In an envelope. That is what we are
doing to-day, and the wonderful results
accomplished in the increase of crops
testiles to the value of our research. =
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11

The forestry service is making ex.
animation of number of western for.
est reserves to discover what proDor.
tion Of their area needs reforestation
and where planting will best succeed
After studies in detail have been com
pleted and the feasibility of planting
has been assured, plans will be made
for reforestation of large tracts nov
unproductive. Preliminary examina.
tion for planting plans are now being
made In the Gunnison reserve, Colo.
RADIO: ella river reserve. New Mexico.
and Salt Lake reserve, Utah.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11

treat buyers and we took an exercise
In spelling. Under his paragraph /
wrote the same question and then
pointed out to him his "o,' which re-
sembled "a, and his errors in spelling.
He became interested and got a better
idea of words. Here are the two para
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11

young business man who knows
how to make money told me that his
poor spelling worried him. l found
that he was thinking about another
subject. also-how to wait on custom
ers Getting him to write down a
question which dictated. we did two
things-we started a study Of how to
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Sheep.
GRAIN.

Wheat. choice milling per 100 lbs.
$1.30. Rye. Colorado, bulk, per 100
lbs, S0c. Oats, bulk, Nebraska, new,
white. $1.10; mixed, $1.0S; in sack, Col
orado. white, $1.2O. Corn, in bulk.
$1.O0. Corn chop, sacked, $1.08. Bran,
Colorado, per 100 lbs, $l.O5.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Hay.

Upland, per ton, $10.5O@11.00; Sec
end bottom, $7.5O@8.50; timothy.
$1,000; timothy and clover, $11.00;
alfalfa. prime, $7.oO@7.5O; straw,
$5.50@6.00; South Park wire grass,
$1,000.
The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-11
Cattle.

Beef steers, cornfed, good to
choice. ..............; :;
Beef steers, cornfed, COM
mon to medium .........
Beef steers. hayfed, good to
choice. ................
Beef steers, hayfed. COM
mon to medium. ........
Cows and heifers. cornfed,
good to choice .........
Cows and heifers. cornfed,
common to medium .....
Cows and heifers, hayfed,
good to choice ..........
Cows and heifers, hayfed,
common to medium 5000.
Gamers. ..............
Calves, veal, good to choice
Calves, veal, fair to good.
Bulls, stays, etc. ..........
Feeders, F. P. r., good to
choice. ..............
Feeders, F. P. R., common
to medium. ............
stockers, F. p. R., good to
choice. ..............
stockers. =. P. R., common
to medium. ............
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-25
TOLD H[R ]tX
By A n0V[|1[Tl|

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-Attired in
masculine garb, Augusta Helvey, a
young married woman, sought work
for four days in the down town dis
trict, passing unObserved in the
throngs. Friday morning she would
have begun work as a male waiter
had not a policeman noted char.
acteristically feminine move and
taken her to the police station.
The young woman declared she
had assumed the garb solely to Sc
cure employment. She had taken
from a trunk a suit of clothes once
worn by her husband.
A speeding automobile was the
cause of the failure of her plans. AS
it flashed by a corner a policeman
leaned forward to catch the mum
Der. The woman, in coat and trou
sers, was in its path. She shrieked
and leaped into a puddle, making
an involuntary motion to gather uI
her skirts.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-25
FLORENCE ROBERTS
APPROACHING Visit

Considerable interest attaches to
the appearance of Florence Rob-
erts at the Spokane Theater for
two nights and Saturday matinee,
Oct. 81 and 2S, in that Miss Roberts
appears under new management,
viz. that of John Cort who has pro-
vided his star with what is claimed
to be the most pretentious dramat-
ic production on the road. Ann
Lamont" is the second notable
play by Paul Armstrong, whose
THE Heir to the Hoorah" was the
pronounced metropolitan success
of last season, having played far
into the summer.
Max Figman, the well known
comedian heads the cast which will
appear with Miss Roberts. H. S.
Northrup, Lucius Henderson, Robt.
McWade, Clifford Leigh, David R.
Young, Wilbur Hudson, Lucille
Yorke, Norah Lamison, Florence
Robinson, Merceita Esmonde and
Lillian Armsby.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-25
WHY man BEHIND THE GUN DESERTS THE NAVY
And Hikes to the Tall Timber to Escape
Uncle Sam'I

pared with Great Britain's, for none
but these relies on voluntary en-
listment 1t is said that there have
been times when the rate of deser-
tons in the British navy has run
as high as 23 per cent.
The assertions by coal passers
and messmen is explained by an Of
fetal of the department as follows:
The work of the coal passer is
very trying. The heat is intense,
and often the men suffer with sea-
sickness. 1t is a hard berth, and
men are picked up for this work
as occasion offers. They are float
ers. Generally not much time is
expended in trying to look them
up.
Much the same may be said of
the messmen. They perform the
most mental work and are the
poorest paid. They are often ne
groes, Japanese or Chinese, and
they are picked up wherever they
can be secured. They soon get
tired of working and desert at the
first opportunity"
Reason for a slight increase in
desertion among seamen during the
past two or three years is found in
the rapid expansion of the naval
force. During the year 1904 no less
than 1000 new men were taken
into the service. Many were farmer
boys and young fellows from the
inland cities. The assertions are
nearly all from the ranks of the
new recruits.
Lieut.. Commander John Hood,
who recently made a study of this
subject, and prepared a report for
the last naval institute, has sum-
married. the causes for desertion as
follows:
| 1.-The average weakness of hui
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-25

City work to be done by the ho-
boes in Spokane who will not work
voluntarily and who expect to live
off the city all winter, is the pro-
gram outlined by Chief of Police
Waller.
Free lunches in the saloons and
free beds at the city Jail are the
things that make a vag and some
thing must be done. We will have
to get rock pile for such men"
Such are the ideas of Mr.. Wal
Ter. He would rid the city of buns
and hoboes and the work will prob
ably start in the near future if the
chief has any say in the matter.
Yesterday the police commission
ers agreed that something must be
done to rid the city of men who will
not work. The hoboes stay around
saloons and eat free lunches, sleep
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-25

pays the price asked, then retires
to smoke and gamble and await the
piling up of another fortune.
The gypsies do not confine them
selves to fortune telling alone in
their pursuit of dollars. They steal
whenever the slightest chance Of
fers. They train their children in
the ways of the light fingered gen.
try, and the baby hands seldom
miss an opportunity to prove them.
selves worthy of their parents.
No marriage law exists in the
gypsy camp. When a woman at
tracts the attention of a man, he
loses no time in proposing to her.
She accepts. A great jollification
takes place in camp, and the two
are regarded as man and wife. Sci.
dom, If ever, does the woman leave
her olrd's abode. She accepts his
beatings as matter of course, and
true gysy husband does not be.
lieve in sparing the rod when his
spouse refuses to obey his slightest
within.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-10-25
R0(k Eli F0R H0D0[5
WHO GRAFT TILL 0T1

at a table and when arrested will
plead guilty to any charge preferred
against them. They care not
whether they stay in Jail or out,
SO long as they don't have to work.
In speaking of a remedy for these
men, Mr.. Waller said today: Il
have always been in favor Of let
ting these men do the city work.
They don't care if they are arrested,
for We feed them we'll and they
have warm place to sleep.
know men who come here every
winter and lay out in the jail till
we let them go. They are not out
in the air for more than a day
when they Intentionally commit
some crime and plead guilty so they
can get back again. In the spring
when it is warm they go away and
return the next winter"
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Beautiful San Franciscan Who Pub
Iished Daily Without Single AS
sistant and Scored a Brilliant
Success.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.-Be-
cause none of the local newspapers
would give space to her very indi-
vidual thoughts, Mrs. Irma Tilden,
beautiful young woman of this
city, determined to own a daily pa
per of her own, in the columns of
which she could talk as much as
she wished. With this end in view,
she went to work.
Her only assets were much de-
termination, undaunted courage and
a most attractive personality.
Mrs. Tilden had heard that it
was the advertisements in a news
paper that made it pay. That was
about all the knowledge she had
of newspaper finance, but it was
enough. She obtained sheet of
paper, the size used by the ordin-
airy daily, wrote the words Daily
Sunset Herald across the top,
marked off the columns and set out
to get advertisements. At the end
of three days she had made adj
vertisement contracts with every
kind of business concern in San
Francisco, from the Southern Paci-
| fic down to the peanut man around
| the corner. Then she wrote the
editorials, and had her say to her
hearts content. After that she
gathered a lot of interesting news.
When she had enough material to
fill her paper, Mrs. Tilden went to
a local printing Office. Her per-
sonality was a very useful asset
here. The manager was so pleased
with her spirit that he turned the
composing room over to her.
showed her how newspapers were
printed and put together. Mrs. Till
den was equal to the task and when
the first copy of the Daily Sunset
Herald" was turned out, she had
the proud satisfaction of knowing
that it was all of her work from
start to finish. She had secured 9
great number of subscribers and
the little sheet was paying invest
ment from the beginning.
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4-The want of uniform, Just
and strict, and at the same time lib.
eral system of discipline.
5-And last-comment on which
is considered uperfluous-the un-
due use of intoxicants by men of
weak mind.
One of the most fruitful causes
of assertions in the opinion of Com
mander Hood is the "homelessness'
of men due to the constant shift
ing of both officers and men from
ship to ship.
Commander Hood believes the
men have more in the way of pay,
food and privilege than in any navy
in the world. They also have more
in the way of opportunity to rise
into the ranks of commissioned Of
ficers. But this is not enough, he
thinks.
"The enlisted men of the navy
are very human" he says. "They
have also the instincts and in
clinations for forming natural ties
and friend" lips like other men;
and these instincts and inclinations
are thwarted by constant change. "
Privilege and punishments vary
on different ships; and this is a
fertile source of discomfort.