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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-25
THos. ]. OWEN & son. AUcTToNEERs.

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY, NO. lilo c STREET Sc.
By virtue Of a decree OF the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia. dated the 18th day of
January, 1906 and passed in Equity Cause num-
bered 25247, the undersigned viii oer for SALE at
public auction, in front of the premises, on the
THIRTIETH DAY Or JANUARY 1906 AT FOUR
O'CLOCK PM, part OF lot numbered four, In
square Numbered nine hundred ana ninety, as lie
scribed in said decree, fronting Il % inches
C street by depth of 9S feet, to alley ami
improved by two-story brick dwelling.
TERMS OF SALE.
ethird cash;
Ore third In year and one-third in two years;
all cash. at the purchasers option.
Deferred payments to be represented by the pur-
chtser's notes, dated the day of sale and Sc
cured by deed of trust the property sold ana
bearing interest at the rate of six per cent per
annum, payable semi annually.
All conveyancing examination of title and re-
cording at the purchasers cost.
deposit of S100 to be made at the sale
Terms TO be complied with within ten days
from day of sale.
In case OF default by the purchaser the trustee
reserves the right to resell at the risk of the
faulting purchaser after five days advertisement
JOHN RiDOUT, Trustee
In eS { N w
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-25
JAMES wi. RArCLIFFE, AUCToNEER.
TRUSTEES SALE OF TWo-sToRY BRIO
HOUSE No. Gil G STREET SOuTHEAS T

TRUSTEES SALE OF TWO-sTORY BRICK
HOUSE NO. Git C STREET SOUTHEAST
By virtue of deed OF trust duly recorded in
Liber No. 1858 folio 243 ct seq, of the land
ords for the District of Columbia, and at the re-
quest Of the party secured thereby, the under
signed surviving trustee viii offer for sale by pub
lie auction, in front of the premises, FRIDAY,
TIE SECOND DAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D. 1909,
AT HALFPAST -FOUR O'CLOCK Pm, the fol
lowing described real estate, situate in the city of
Washington, District of Columbia, to wit: Part of
lot numbered twenty five t25) in square numbered
eight hundred and seventy-eight (8TS), beginning
for the same at point in tho south line of south
street twenty-five (25) feet east from the north
west corner of said lot and running thence west
by and with said line of said street fifteen feet
three and one-half inches Us 31A) the center Of
the partition wall between the premises con-
veyed and tie adjoining house on the west thence
south one hundred and four feet eight inches COG
81 to alley, thence east fifteen feet three and
one-haf inches as 31RO, thence north one hun-
dred and four feet eight inches (104' 81 to the
beginning, together with all the improvements
rights, etc.
Terms made known at time of sale. A deposit
of 800 required at time of sale. Terms Of sale
be complied with IN Is days from day of sale
otherwise the trustee reserves the right to resell
the property at the risk and cost of the default
ing purchaser, after days advertisement of such
resale in some newspaper published in the city of
Washington, d. G. All conyeyancing, recording,
etc, at purchasers cost.
HENRY II. BERGMAN,
Ja23-d&ds, eSu Surviving Trustee.
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
HOSPITAL CAR IN AUSTRALIA.

Innovation Has Demonstrated Its Ma
teriaI Usefulness.
A hospital on rails speeds across the
southern Pacific continent, a 1uxur
ious car equipped with ward of
eight double berths, operating rooms,
baths, and surgeons apartments. The
berths can be locked in any position
and placed at any height. They can
be lowered to the level of the floor
and the springs and bedding removed,
and the cot with patient placed direct
ly on the frame, thus making it pos
sible to avoid any unnecessary hand
ling of the injured. Berths not in
use can be lowered out of the way in
to the floor, and in their place set
easy chairs which are stored below
the floor when the berths are in use.
The car is held on special side
track at the railway company's hos
pital. A trained nurse and cook are
regularly assigned to it to see that it
is always ready for instant service.
In case of a call as many physicians
and nurses as may be necessary are
imme diately transferred from the hos
pital, and off they go on their errand
of mercy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10

anxiety, of great deeds, of events that
stirred the nations, of achievements
whose echoes ran around the world
and must re-echo to the last syllable
of recorded time, why should the
spirit of little men be proud? The hui
man race has done great things. But
the race did them, not the individual.
Our share in any of the great achieve
ments of the world is small The part
of the greatest man is small in them.
The part of any generation is small.
We are not SO great after all, that any
one of US should feel undue conceit
in anything accomplished by the race.
still less of our part in it. Man in his
higher stages of development, the
highly organized human being, civil
lied man, lived at least 5000 years
on the earth before he discovered the
fact that a load will move more cas-
lily if the vehicle which carries it is
placed on a steel rail and set above
the mud than if sunken in the soil.
The Baltic as she plows her great
bulk through the seas is certainly
wonderful thing. But it required a
great many generations to get to 1t.
The use of the electric current is
amazing, but it is the result of thou
sands of years of human thought and
effort. Tennyson is right-tWe men
are but a little race"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Trade FIGURES That Amaze.

The statistics of the foreign trade
of the United States last year, attain
ing new totals, are amazing in their
magnitude The exports aggregated
81, 626, 1862 ,343, while the imports
amounted to Sits, 35S,S46. The ex-
cess of exports over imports was
SAT-, sos, 497, or a good deal over a
million dollars day. If we hadn't
become calloused to big things dur
ing this recent period of the abundant
life these figures would stagger us by
their immensely. The United States
long ago quit being billion-dollar
country. Last year it was a $780,
321, 1S9 country. This year it is likely
to be three-billion dollar country
Hartford, Conn, Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10

or other, Mr.. Lincoln said NO" to
them, but in very engaging, pleas
ant and deprecating way.
While this play was going on before
him. the Spanish minister entered, &C.
companied by a couple of admirals or
other high officers of the Spanish
navy, to pay their respects to the Pres
ident, and they walked directly toward
Mr.. Aldrich. The President saw what
was going on, and he nodded his head
earnestly, SO that Mr.. Aldrich under
stood his meaning, and he arose, greet
ed the visitors, said a few words ex-
pressing appreciation for the call, and
they departed, under the impression
that they had spoken to President
Lincoln, the latter having carefully
screened himself (sitting DOWN., be-
hind the squad of office-seekers at his
end of the table
; When it came his turn Mr. Aldrich
said: Il came here, Mr.. President, to
ask you for an appointment in the
army, but, after seeing that you are
obliged to say no to everybody, have
concluded that 1 will not trouble with
my request, but will bid you good-by.
and wish you lots of good-luck"
Il thank you very heartily" said
President Lincoln. You have thus
done me two favors in very brief
time 1 thank you for entertaining
the Spanish visitors, and I thank you
for not asking for an office Now run
home quick, or you may repent the
latter favor."-Los Angeles Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Guarding the Public Eyesight.

There is a controversy in England
between the doctors and the opti-
clans, who have been increasing their
scientific equipment and prescribing
at much lower price than the ocu-
lists, while general practitioners as
rule know little about optics and the
prescription of glasses. 1t Is a curious
thing that there has been no organ
lied crusade by the profession against
allowing the public to select it's own
spectacles from the exposed stock, as
has been the practice ever since
glasses came into use in the seven
teenth century, though this is obvi-
ously more Injurious. But now that
the opticians have undertaken to
prescribe the doctors want that for
hidden by act of parliament, leaving
the public free as before to choose its
own spectacles. The opticians have
prepared a counter bill. providing for
opticians diplomas to be awarded by
a central council of the whole trade
Springfield, Mass, Republican.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
LINCOLN'S DEEP HUMILITY
Pride of Place Power Never a Fault of the
Great President

They tell us that LincOln's favor
lite poem was that familiar hymn, so
simple, so generally neglected by the
mass of mankind, "Oh, Why Should
the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" Do
you know there is something most
touchingly pathetic in that? Think
of the position Lincoln occuried--the
most exalted in the world. Surely it
is that. No man is born to the presi-
dency of the United States. He is
there by no accident of birth or other
wise. He is there by the deliberate
choice of the 100000 sovereign peo-
pie who have the choosing of a head
for a nation of 100000 of the most
intelligent, progressive and prosper
Gus people on earth. None but great
men ought to be exalted to such a
place. None but great men have
been exalted to it in II years. 1t is
the place of highest distinction among
men. Think of the humble origin
from which Lincoln rose to fill such
a place. How unexpectedly the honor
must have come to kim. How great
the temptation to be proud must have
been.
Then think of the time in which
Lincoln filed this place of so great
distinction. History was being made
every second of the time-history so
momentous in its bearings on the fu-
ture of the human race as to over
shadow all other events, in what we
usually call 'profane history" The
tasks to be performed, the perplexities
to be met were stupendous. The fate
of armies, aye, the fate of nations, in
deed the fate of the race hung in the
balance and depended on whether this
man should perform the tasks, meet
the perplexities, solve the complex
problems of the hour Alright, or blum
der and fail in his administration of
his high Office. He must have been
keenly conscious all the time of his
name, the name he wrote so often, the
name SO familiar to his eye and ear,
the name which had been his when a
child, when a boy as well as when
President, Abraham Lincoln was
to appear in the pages of the worlds
history as long as men should read
history. That name was to stand out
like a beacon light on the top of a
mountain before all ages. This was
to be SO whether he succeeded or fail
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
osrRlcH FARMING IN AFR,cA
Census Shows Presence of Nearly
Half Million Birds.

Census Shows Presence of Nearly
Half Million Birds.
The ostrich census in South Africa
shows 457,97O birds in the colony
There are two sorts of ostrich farm
ing, the one grazing them on fields
under irrigation, when five birds to
the acre can be kept, and the other
letting them find their own food in
large camps up to 5000 acres, and re-
quiring from ten to twenty acres to
a bird In the first case the great
drawback is the great cost of said
laid down with lucerne and under per
manent irrigation, it running from
5000 to $500 per acre. In the second
case the drawback is the greater loss
of birds from accidents and getting
lost, and the cost of feeding them in
severe droughts-
Oudtshorn is the great ostrich CEN
ter for the irrigation method, one
quarter of all the birds being found
there. The other method is mainly
carried on on the west coast of East
London and up the large river val
leys- The chick feathers usually are
pulled when the bird is months old
then six and a half months after that
the primary feathers are cut, and the
tails, blacks, and drabs, pulled. This
gives nearly three pluckings in two
years. Birds should average one to
one pound three ounces of feathers a
plucking, or about a pound and half
a year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Cures Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer
Blood Poison. Greatest Blood
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II your blood is impure. thin. dis
eased, hot or full of humors, If you,
have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles,
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skin. At the same time B. B. B. inn
proves the digestion, cures dyspepsia,
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medicine for old people, as it gives
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by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta
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medical advice also sent in sealed let
ter. B. B. B. is especially advised for
chronic, deep-seated cases of impure
blood and skin disease, and cures after
ali else fails,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Author Not Fond of Books.

Guy De Maupassant despised liter
ature as a profession and gave to al
most any other topic of conversation
the preference over books There
are so many other things of so much
greater interest to talk about the
novelist would say OF yachts and
the sea he could talk delightfully."- and
he was rather proud of the fact that
some time previously he had rescued
from the waves at Etretat the Eng
Iish poet Swinburne. who, Bryonlike,
q magnificent swimmer. had for once
outsWum his strength
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
ron LUKE :. WRIGHT.
Tennessee Man to Be Ambassador to
Japan.

Tennessee Man to Be Ambassador to
Japan.
Luke E. Wright of Tennessee, gov
ernor general of the Philippines, is
to be the next ambassador to Japan
Gov Gen. Wright is a democrat
He was for eight years attorney gem
era1 of Tennessee His father, Archi-
bald W. Wright, was chief justice of
the state
Gov Gen. Wright will be succeed
ed in office at Manila first by Henry
c. Ide. now vice governor, and when
he retires on June 1, by James F..
Smith, a member of the Philippine
commission.
Commissioner Ide has been Philip
pine commissioner for six years, and,
being well along in years, desired to
retire and rendered his resignation
to take effect June 1 next Both the
president and Secretary Taft felt that
his service merited the honor of hav-
ing for time at least held the actual
rank of governor general of the Phil
ippines-
Mr.. Smith was colonel of the First
California regiment of volunteers, and
served in the Philippines. In April,
1899, he was appointed associate JUS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
What War Cost Japan.

The failure of the rice crop and that
of the silk crop are mentioned as
causes of the famine which now pre-
walls in northern Japan 1t would
be interesting to know how far the
famine is connected with the war
which took SO many men from home.
A clew may be obtained from one
sentence in recent statement to the
effect that soldiers returning from the
war had found their entire families
gone to other provinces to seek work.
The famine covers three provinces
and almost 100000 people appear
to be Hartford, Conn,
Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Costly Colonial Experience.

No small part of the white mans
burden can be charged to his persis-
tent attempts to deprive the African
black man of his land and liberty. The
latest statistics of the uprising in
Southwest Africa show that it has
cost the German empire 1867 lives, in
Guiding ITO officers, and 81 100000 in.
cash, while the money cost for the
coming war of the few thousand
troops in the revolted territory Wiz
be at the rate of $4,000 per man. Anti
this tells only part of the story. The
struggle is still going on; while, worse
than all, the entire German scheme
of African colonization is so hopeless
1y discredited that the dream of an.
African empire will be realized only
by future generation, if at ALL
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Would Teach Women to Shoe,

Every woman in Jersey City is to
receive an invitation to learn how, to
shoot a revolver. Jersey City if the
plan of Rev. DR.. John L. Scudder, the
fighting parson" of the First Congre-
gational church and manager of the
Peoples palace, is successful will be-
come the warmest city in t., e United
States for burglars. DIR. Scudder pro-
poses to install a shooting gallery in
connection with the Peoples palace
as soon as it is completed. He an
nounced that he will issue an invita-
ton to every woman in the city to
practice revolver shooting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
LineoIn's Humorous Comment.

On one occasion an Official letter
was received from the operator at Will
mington, Del, on the route of the line
from Washington to Fortress Monroe.
The operators name was Jack Whit
rup, who is still living in Philadelphia
Wintrup's name was written in a bold
hand. with the final letter quite large,
almost like capital, and ending in a
series of fourishes which partly OBJ
secured the name Mr. Lincoln seeing
the letter and noticing the peculiar
signature said that it reminded him
of sAort-legged man wearing a long
tailed overcoat, which, as the man
walked through the snow. wiped out
the tracks made by his feet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10

ed in the performance of his task.
Come what might, his was to be lone
of those immortal names that were
not born to die
Think of this; and was it not pa
thetic that the great, patient, grim
figure should sit there with the great
events of civil war surging around
him, with hosts of men marching past
his windows, going Ito do or die" for
their country. Great generals, dust
covered and begrimed with the mud
of the war, bloodstained with the lash
of battle, cast down by defeat, or
flushed with victory, bent before him.
The statesmen of the nation, the
greatest sons of all the soil. stood to
hear his commands. and every wish
he expressed was a command to the
greatest of them; statesman or war
rior. whichever it might be.
And there that grim, gaunt figure
sat, and in all his weary, lonely hours
of all that prolonged struggle, the
uppermost thought in his mind, out
side of those of his office, was embod-
led in the simple lines of that old
hymn, "Oh, Why Should the Spirit of
Mortal Be Proud?" The great strain
which rested on the tired brain of the
great PRESIDENT, the awful Hood OF
sadness that surged through his heart
with every thought of the great war
and all its possibilities and uncertain
ties, found relief and solace in those
lines. They held him heart and soul
bound to a higher power than earth
could furnish, to reliance on a higher
wisdom than statesmen have, to a
stronger arm than welded any earth
ly sword. The battle was not his.
and its results did not rest at last
with him. To do his best. to exer-
else all the wisdom he had, to be loyal
to his duty and leave results with
One whom he had learned to call the
God of Battles the Lord of
Hosts was all he could do. and. play
ing such a part as that, not able to
foresee the issue. often in doubt
whether he was doing the right thing
at the right time, in the right way. 80,
why should the spirit of mortal be
proud?'
Why should it be, to be sure2 And
If lincoln sat all through SO many
lonely hours of dismay, doubt and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Ministerial Profanity.

A New York clergyman some few
weeks ago was playing golf on the
links of the Mount Airy club, near
Philadelphia In the course of the
game he drove into a bunker, where
upon his partner heard him exclaim:
"Croton." The latter did not under
stand, but said nothing. Shortly after
ward. upon slicing his ball into the
long grass, the clergyman again ejacu-
lated: "Crotoni'' What do you
mean by the word 'Croton-' Mr. r. %
inquired his partner 1T sounds like
an exorcism." NO" said the rever-
end gentleman. but it expresses my
feelings exactly" How soy" why,
it represents the biggest dam in the
world"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
France Honors Ex-President.

Casimir Perier, who resigned the
French presidency. has just received
a rare decoration, the gold medal of
the Assistance Public, which is vast
ly more rare than the Legion of Hon
or has become in these later times
Since his withdrawal from politics
into private life Casimir Perier has
devoted himself with great energy
and devotion and almost exclusively
to works of benevolence. and the
gold medal conferred upon him is a
tribute earned by years of work and
example
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Hioh and Low Life.

Society Youth-Say, Jack, can't yot-
lend me five dollars? I've got to taks,
q lady to the opera tonight
Poor Clerk-Yes, George, can; but
you received a check from your faith
err this morning. Where's that?
Society Youth-Well, the fact is,
stepped into my tailor's to get neck
tie, and hadn't anything but the
check with me, and the rascal, in
stead of handing me the change, gave
me a receipt for balance due.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
LEADER OF BRITISH woRkMEN

James keir Hardie Will Shape Their
Policy in Parliament.
James Kerr Hardfe, who will be the
labor leader in the new British parlia-
ment, was first elected to parliament
in 1892. He was born at Lochnorris,
in Ayrshire, Scotland, forty-nine years
ago, and worked in the mines from
the age of z until he was "a. When
II years old he was unable to read,
but he managed to educate himself,
and now is the proprietor and editor
of the Labor Leader. Mr.. Hardie
is an advanced reformer. and favors
socialism, and it is said "disguises
his strong, simple and resolute char
acter with some surface eccentrici-
ties" He has travelled extensively,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
MADE PRESIDENT HIS DEBTOR.
Citizens Interview Short, but He
Twice Saved Lincoln.


Twice Saved Lincoln.
During the civil war Noel p. Aldrich
of Croton, Iowa, visited the White
House for the purpose of presenting
his claim for an appointment in the
army. Although much younger than
the President, he resembled Mr.. Lin
coin in height and breadth, as well as
facially.
Upon entering the reception room,
Mr.. Aldrich observed that fifteen or
more individuals were ahead of him,
and, concluding that he would be
obliged to wait for some time, he
sought a chair, placed it at the other
end of the long table, facing the Pres
ident, and became a very much inter-
ested 1ooker-on. He noted the eager
looks of hope or apprehension as the
individuals had their turns, and he
noted the fact that, for some reason
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-02-10
Fooled Again.

Hero (modern drama)-Great
heavensi My rival has just arranged
to convey the fatal paper to Irene's
father. Losti Lost! Lost!"
Staunch Friend fear the worst.
But stayi How sends he the paper?
by a messenger moy."
"Ha! 1 have it! Give the boy
nickel to buy some marbles or crap
dice"
Saved"