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The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
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ostom termed them radix malorum.
From Eve downward, what good hath
come from any of thin? Who brings
the plaint?"
ut is Brother Ambrose"
"a holy and devout young man"
"a light and a pattern to every nov
ice"
LET the matter be brought to an
issue, then, according to our old-time
monastic habit. Bid the chancellor
and the sub-chancellor lead in the
brothers according to age, together
with Brother John the accused and
Brother Ambrose the accuser."
"And the noviCesf'
LET them bide in the north alley
of the cloister. Stay! Bid the sub
chancellor send out to them Thomas
the lector to read unto them from the
Costa beati Benedict 1t may save
them from foolish and perniclous
babbling."
The Abbot was left to himself once
more and bent his thin gray face over
his illuminated breviary. So he re-
NAMED while the senior monks filed
slowly and sedately into the chamber,
seating themselves upon the long
oaken benches which lined the wall
on either side. At the further end, in
two high chairs as large as that of the
Abbot. though hardly so deliberately
carved, sat the master of the novices
and the chancellor, the latter a broad
and portly priest, with dark, mirth-
full eyes and a thick outgrowth of
crisp black hair all round his tonsured
head. Between them stood a lean,
white-faced brother who appeared TO
be ill at ease. shifting his feet from
side to side and tapping his chin with
the long parchment roll which lie held
/ in his hand. The Abbot, from his
point of vantage, looked down on the
two long lines of faces, placid and sun
l Drowned for the most part with the
/ large bovine eyes and unlined features
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
MRS. NELLIE GRANT sARToRIs.

Joined In wedlock in the East Room of
the White House in the presence of
more than two hundred distinguished
persons. including the representatives
of the foreign governments, officers of
the army and navy, etc.
Mr.. Sartoris had been educated in
England and Germany and was the
son of Mr.. Edward Sartoris, of Hamp-
shire, England, and his wife, Adelaide
Kemble, daughter of Charles and sister
of Fanny Kemble, well known to the
stage. Prior to the marriage the
groom assured General Grant of HIS
entire willingness to reside with his
bride in the United States, but soon
after the wedding his brother in Eng
land died most Unexpectedly and he
was virtually obliged to return to his
native land to assume the management
of the family estates. President and
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
A LUXURIOUS AUTO.
Capt. Lars Anderson's Wonderful
Machine of French Manufacture.

OF all the automobiles ever turned
out by French or other manufacturers,
the one lately made for Capt. Lars
Anderson, of Boston, seems to be en-
titled to the prize for originality. 1t
is huge machine fitted up for long
journeys and in point of speed equals
any of the present-day touring cars.
The Anderson car is fitted out with
reversible furniture. There is a COM
binatiOn bed and bureau that is GER
tainly a work of art, and then there
is a cook stove and dining table ar
rangement that can be hauled out at
a moments notice. The whole ma
chine, in fact, is kind of miniature
hotel on wheels with accommodations
for eating, sleeping, working or idling,
according to the fancy of the owner
or his guests.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

This showing of the Department. OF
Agriculture, while it makes com
paratiYely small inroad upon the vast
consumption Of sugar in the more
deLseiy populated re jon east OF the
Mississippi, yet indicates that the
youus Deet-sugar industry is making
substantial progress, and that con
slderluE the uncertainty of legislation
ana the great cost of beet-sugar fac
tory ln, estmcnts, very satisfactory ad-
Tanccs are being made in this new
American enterprise.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
Mrs. Grant accompanied the young
couple to New York, whence they
sailed for England.
BLESSED WITH CHILDREN.

Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris had three
children, two daughters and a son.
The son, who bears his fathers name,
Algernon, was for time an officer in
the United States army and saw some
service in the Philippines, but his
health compelled the abandonment Of
military career. During the past
few years he has travelled extensively,
a very beautiful young woman in
Paris. The eldest daughter, Vivian,
was married year or two since, but
the younger daughter, Rosemary, the
beauty of the family, is still unmarried
Some months since much discussion
was precipitated when it was rumored
that she was engaged to the son of
one of the Confederate generals who
fought against General Grant in the
campaigns of the Civil War.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is q
woman who has always been held In
high esteem by a large circle of fem
mime friends. From her school days
she has seemed to inspire the regard
of members of her own sex, and some
idea of her popularity may be formed
from the fact that on the occasion of
her wedding she was attended by
eighteen bridesmaids, all gowned alike.
Mrs. Sartoris is several years younger
than her famous brother, Gen. Fred
d. Grant, of the United States Army,
but her birthday was three years ear
lier than that of Jesse Grant, the
youngest member of this famous fam
lily.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

which told of their easy, unchanging
existence. Then he turned his eager
gaze upon the pale-faced monk who
faced him.
''This plant is thine. as 1 learn,
Brother Ambrose" said he. Bring
in Brother John, and let him hear the
plants urged against him."
At this order lay-brother swung
open the door. and two other lay
brothers entered, leading between
them young novice of the order.
He was a man of huge stature, dark
eyed and red-headed, with peculiar
half humorous, half defiant expression
upon his bold. well-marked features.
His cowl was thrown back upon his
shoulders, and his gown, unfastened
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The great bell of Beaulieu was ring
ing Far away through the forest
might be heard its musical clangor
and swell Peat cutters on Blackdown
and fishers upon the Exc heard the
distant throbbing and falling upon the
sultry summer air. 1t was common
sound in those parts-as common as
the chatter of the jays and tie boom
ing of the bittern. Yet the fishers and
the peasants raised tier heads and
looked questions Mt each other, for the
Angelus had already gone and Vespers
was still far off. Why should the
great bell Of Beaulieu toll when the
shadows were neither ,ort nor long?
All round the Abbey tie monks
We're trooping in. Under the long
green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks
and of lichened beeches the whit
ROBBED brothers gathered to the sound.
1t had been no sudden call. y swift
messenger had the night efore sped
round to the outlying dependencies of
the Abbey. and had left the summons
for every monk to he back in the
cloisters by the third hour after noon
tide. So urgent n message had not
been issued within the N @"lory of old
Lay-Brother Athanasius, who had
cleaned the knocker since the year
after the Battle of Bannackburn.
Meanwhile, in the broad an lofty
chamber set apart for occasions Of
import. the Abbot himself was pacing
impatiently backward and forward,
with his long, white. nervous hands
clasped in front of hi. His thin.
| thoughtworn features and sunken,
| haggard cheeks bespoke one who had
| indeed beaten down that inner foe
| whom every man must face, but had
none the less suffered sOrely in the
| contest In crushing hi passions he
had wcll-nigh crushed himself. Yet,
frail as was his person. there cleaned
out ever and anon from under his
dropping brows a flash of fierce energy
which recalled to mems minds that he
came of fighting stock, and that even
now his twin brother, Sir Bartholomew
Berghersh, was one of the most ia
nous of those stern warriors who had
planted the Cross of st George before
the gates of Paris With lips COM
pressed and clouded brow, he strobe
up and down the oalien floor, the very
impersonation of asceticism, while
the great bell still Numbered and
changed above his head. At last the
uproar died away in three last meas
ured throbs, and ere their echo had
ceased the Abbot struck a small gong
which summoned lay-brother to his
| presence.
"where is the master of the nov
| ices?'
"He is without, most holy father"
| 'Send him hthcr."
The sandalled feet clattered over the
wooden floor, and the iron-bound
door creaked rpon its hinges. In a
few moments it opened again to adj
nit short, square monk with a
heavy, composed face and author
itative manner.
you have sent for me. holy
| father"
"Yes, Brother Jerome, l wish that
this matter be disposed of with as
little scandal as may be; and yet it is
needful that the example should be a
public one"
1T would perchancc be best that the
novices be not admitted" suggested the
master. ''This mention of Il woman
may turn their minds from their pious
meditations TO worldly and evil
thoughts"
"Woman! woman!' groaned the
Abbot. "Well has the holy Chrys-
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

to produce the maximum yield OF
which the land is capable. \ rev
years ago the man who would nave
said that 10 acres of farm land was Il
sufficient area for a man to make a
GOOD living from would have been
looked upon as crank. Now there
are thousands of little 10 acre and even
> acre farms from which men are
making more money than many
others are from attempting to till 20
times that amount. That 10 acres,
under favorable conditions, will pro-
duce q living is recognized in bill
which has just been passed by the
House of Representatives and which
will likely be passed by the Senate at
this session. 1t is an amendment to
The National Irrigation Law. Under
that law the homestead entry upon
public land irrigated by the govern
ment ranges from 40 to 100 acres, to
be determined by the Secretary of the
Interior, according to the conditions of
he reclamation. 1t was recognized,
Mt the time of the passage of the law
IN "02, that in some sections of the
country 40 acres was an ample area
for a farm. 1t is now seen, and adj
mitted in the bill above mentioned
that 10 acres Is not too small a sub
division under favorable conditions.
Another amendment was recently
made to the irrigation law allowing
he government to establish town-sites
md divide the land hereunder up
INTO various sized tracts ranging
from town-lots to 10 acre allotments.
When this bill which is now before the
senate becomes law it will there
fore be possible for the government,
in any of its irrigation projects to d.
ii 4.
town and farm units ranging all the
way from lots up to 100 acre FARMS
dOD1N RURAL SETTLEMENTS.
This plan will doubtless develop
some of the finest examples OF pros
perous rural communities to be FOUND
anywhere in the world. Many OIL the
hest developed sections of some OF
the western states include great
numbers of little farms and fruit
ranches of 3. 10 and 20 acres each,
where the appearance is almost like
the outskirts of village. With such
a dense rural population there is an
deal combination of practically all
the advantages to be found in city
life and the splendid results of country
work and living. Houses, in such a
community, are almost within stone
throw of each other, the population Is
sufficiently large to support splendid
roads, good school and churches, water
and lighting improvements. good
sewerage, etc. Thus the lonesome
ness. the isolation and the many I'M
attractive features of the big farm dis
appear while yet the Joys and the
wholesomeness of country life are all
present.
The report accompanying this bill
states that since the passage OF the
irrigation act, it has developed that
on some of the lands to be irrigated
particularly those in fruit and truck
farming districts, less than 40 acres
is needed for the support of the family,
and in fact experience has demon
strated that the average farmer Is
more prosperous on small than on
large irrigated farm. In view OF this
condition of affairs it has been deemed
wise to reduce to 10 acres the mini
mum entry which may be allowed.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

year. The factories last year had a
total capacity for slicing 10000 tons
of beets daily.
In the acreage planted and the
sugar manufactured from beets Colo
RADIO leads, h.ving + vested $1,000
acres and manufactured 91,OOO tons
of sugar. Michigan came second in
acreage with 1000 acres, but third
in sugar with 10000 tons. California
grew $1,000 acres and produced 49,
600 tons of sugar. The next states in
order were respectively Utah, Idaho.
Nebraska and Wisconsin with total
of 1000 acres and 64,0O0 tons of
sugar. Other states grew 1000 acres
of beets, producing about 1000 tons
of sugar, or n total for the United
States of 3O7 1864 acres with proiuc-
ton of 312,920 tons of sugar
RAPID GROWTH LOOKED FOR.
Indications are favorable, tie report
states, to the further growth of this
pursuit both in irrigation and rain
fall districts. "The industry is prov
ing to be powerful aid to CONNER
cial, agricultural and industrial devcl-
opment. 1t promotes irrigation, imml-
grafton, land settlement, the building
of railroads and trolley lines, the
making of other improvements, and
the upbuilding of various industrial
enterprises. Such results can only be
appreciated by those who have visited
the factory districts in Colorado,
Utah and Idaho, or in other newly
settled and improved areas throughout
the West. The beneficial effect of the
industry is also shown in the better
settled.> more highly developed agri-
cultural districts of the East, where.
after beets nave been given proper
trial in competition with established
crops they are demonstrating their
staying qualities and potency in in
dustrial Development
GROWS MORE THAN IT EATS.
One feature of this report is series
of tables accompanied with outline
maps designed to show graphically the
magnitude of sugar production in that
part of the country lying west of the
Mississippi River. These indicate that
the estimated production of sugar
west of the Mississippi in 1906 will eN-
coed by $4,000 tons the amount OF
sugar consumed in the same area in
1900 the latest year for which we
have reliable census figures). The
estimate of production for 1906 is
made by assuming that all the beet
sugar factories, including 10 new
ones, VIII run at IDelr Iuli cdp'tcltS I'l
campaigns of 100 days, and that the
cane sugar product for 1906 will be the
same as that of last year"
TARLE SHOWING Production
AND CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN
STATES WEST OF THE MISSISS-
JPPI RIVER.
Pounds.
Estimated cane sugar, 1906. Cos, $50 600
Estimated beet sugar. 1906. 7S3. 200 600
Estimated total sugar pro-
duccd, 1906. ............. I, 4S2, OsO 900
Total sugar consumed, 1900. /, 433, 929. 50J
Excess Of production over con-
sumption ................... $50 405
The amount of beet-sugar which
will be produced in factories east of
the Mississippi during this year, If
run at their full capacity, will also
equal about II per cent. OF the con-
sumption Of sugar ! the trans-Miss-
issippi area.
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buttons. which were catered in book
he had for that purpose. Among these
many names there appeared. Mrs.
Russell Sage, $685. The good man
went to Mr.. Sage's office, and, showing
him the contribution entered in the
book by Mrs. Sage, asked If he could
not give n like sum. And what do you
suppose he did?'
"Well, I suppose he at least doubled
it." remarked listener.
Doubled it! Not Russellr' ex-
claimed the teller of the story. "Why,
he simply took his pen and wrote
Mr.. and before his wife's name, and
handed the book back to the good
man.'-Harpers Weekly.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
A Family Affair.

"Once upon a time there lived q
good man of New York, who was
soliciting contributions for the erection
OF an orphan asylum said the story
teller. He had been to many rich
people and received liberal contri-
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
TEN ACRE FARMS.
PenGing Bill Allows Government to
Cut up homcsteadS into Small

The tendency of the times is to en-
courage better farming and in smaller
areIs. 1t is coming to be recognized
thar the proportion is small of farms
which are thoroughly TILED and made
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
MET PRINCE CHARMING.

General Grants daughter made q
tour of Europe soon after she formally
entered society, and everywhere re-
ceived the most distinguished atten-
lions from the royal families of Great
Britain and the Continent. On the
way home on the steamer Russia she
met Mr. Sartoris, the Prince Charming
who was later to win her heart and
hand From the moment that the en-
gagement of Miss Grant was an
nouncsd the whole American people
manifested an interest in the bride-to-
be which never found a parallel save
in the enthusiasm for Alice Roosevelt.
The fact that the lucky man was an
Englishman and not a citizen of the
republic, while it was matter of deep
regret to many persons, including
President Grant himself, was not al
lowed to cast a damper upon the joyous
occasion. Mr.. Algernon Sartoris was
but twenty-three years of age and Miss
Grant was only nineteen when, on
Thursday, May 81, 1874, they were
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

In spite of apparent efforts to Grip
pie or kill it off, the beet-sugar in
dustry of the United States is making
steady progress.
Congress has just received the an
nual report of Special Agent Charles
F. Saylor of the Department of Agri-
culture on the status of the beet-sugar
industry for last year. Fifty-two
beet-sugar factories We're in operation,
3 were standing idle, and IL were be-
ing constructed for operation this
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
BEET.SUGAR GROWING.
GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS
HEALTHY GROWTH In AER
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.

Colorado Leads-lndustry Every
Where Proving a Powerful Aid TO
Agricultural. Industrial and Social
Development.
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29

The railway ton mileage of the
South in 1882 was one-eighteenth Of
The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-06-29
NELLIE GRANT SART0RIS.
SKETCH of THE LOVELY WHITE
HoUSE BRIDE OF THE DAYS
OF GENERAL GRANT.
She Met Algernon Sartoris, Her
Future Husband, on Shipboard on
Return European Trip-ls Mother
of Three Children

Future Husband, on Shipboard on
Return European Trip-lS Mother
of Three Children
No American girl, not even President
Roosevelt's daughter, ever had a more
brilliant wedding than Nellie Grant,
the beloved child of the great Civil
War hero; yet of late years the public,
which has always taken kindly inter-
est in Gen. Grants family, has heard
comparatively little of his only daugh-
ter.
When Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow
of the President, was living, her
daughter spent much time with her
mother at the latter's home in the city
of Washington, but since the death of
her mother Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris
can scarcely be said to have had fixed
residence in any American city How
ever, she has always been very fond
of st. Louis, and she made her home in
the Missouri metropolis during most OF
the time the recent Worlds Fair was
in progress there.
Possibly the liking of Mrs. Sartoris
for st. Louis is to be attributed to the
fact that her birth, in August, 1855,
occurred at her Grandfather Dents
country home near st. Louis, the birth
place of her mother. When General
Grant was elected President, and in
deed during the first three years that
he and his wife lived at the White
House, the daughter was at school
Toward the close of President Grants
first term, however, Miss Nellie made
her social debut at the Presidential
mansion, and her cadet brother, home
from West Point, was her escort and
companion.
The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-09-20

ration of the bark from the wood. The
union of the two, the bud and the
stock, takes place at the edges of the
bark of the inserted bud. For this rea
son the bud should be inserted as soon
as it is cut from the twig so as to
avoid drying out. In climates having
severe winters budding is most salts
factory when performed near the end
of the growing season. The buds
should be plump and mature when
taken from shoots of the current
years growth. The bud stocks"
should be cut the day the buds are to
be inserted, trimmed and wrapped at
once in a damp cloth to prevent drying
out. Trimming consists in cutting off
the leaves. saving bit of the stem to
use as a handle in inserting. In cut
ting the buds use sharp knife; insert
blade of knife one-fourth inch below
bud, cut upward just behind bud re-
moving but little of wood, coming out
about one-fourth of an inch above bud
(see Fig. Al.
To insert bud make 7 shaped Incl
sion in stock about two inches above
ground (see Fig. b. With the spatula
of budding knife loosen the lips of
bark in angle Of the Il cut and slip in
the bud (see Fig. b. The bud must be
held firmly in place by a bandage
wound above and below, being care
full to leave the eye of the bud uncov
cred. Raffia fiber (wet, bast, candle
wick or waxed cloth may be used for
tying. Ratfia is usually employed. If
the bud takes" remove the bandage
in about ten days by cutting loose on
back side of stock to prevent the hin
derlng of growth of bud. In three or
four weeks cut off the stock just above
bud to stimulate the growth of new
bud
Peaches are budded the same year
that the pits are planted. AS soon rs
the seedlings are large enough to ho!d
bud they are ready for budding.
After budding examine the stoc,;
frequently and remove any suckers
that may start at base of Seeding.
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A piano should be tuned at regular
intervals, preferably after the begin
ming of each season. 1t becomes out of
tune as much by change of tempera
| ture as by use.
| Too much stress cannot be placed
upon the selection of tuner, as an
incompetent tuner can do great dam
age and will usually magnify Il slight
trouble In order to justify high price.
1t is best never to engage an unknown
tuner, or if he is engaged be careful to
examine his references and be satisfied
that he Is reliable and experienced.
The jingling or singing sound at
times noticeable when the piano is
played frequently is due to what is
called sympathetic vibration" This
is produced by an ordinary article in
the room vibrating in sympathy with
some particular note In the piano. To
ascertain the cause of this vibration
the key which seems to produce the
difficulty should be struck by one per-
son and another should go about the
room listening carefully, and thus the
article which yibrates can be discov-
cred and the cause removed.
Any hard substance, no matter how
small, when dropped inside of a piano
will cause a rattle or jarring noise.
If Il pedal should squeak remove the
bottom panel of the piano and apply
little black lead, powdered from a pen
ell, at the part where friction exists.
Cleaning Ahe case may be accom-
plished by wetting a piece of canton
flannel and dropping upon it a few
drops of ordinary olive oil. Rub
small portion of the piano at time,
wiping it off thoroughly with dry
piece of canton flannel. Afterward
rub with soft, clean chamois skin or
another piece of clean canton flannel.
always taking care to rub with the
grain of the wood and occasionally to
breathe on 1t in order to remove every
particle of oily substance.