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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-22
Children's OutfittimgS
For Town. Seashore and Country.

6o supply every requisite boys girls and infants for
V|N II country mountain seaside Dreup tennis Yachting
WY bathing and general outing apparel the broadest var-
ETY. and in often elsewhere.
Ouotown order by mail Mail orders care
fully and promptly filled.
The list below great special items which we offer
a prices very much below the usual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-22
The Invariable Claim.

No matter where a man may dwell.
He'll make this statement rule:
IT'S warm by day, the truth to tell.
But then the nights are always COOL
Fen on the arid, thirsting plain.
Where blindly roves the painting mule.
You'll hear the old familiar strain:
ITS hot. But then the nights are cool"
Should Satan boldly venture out,
Once more our mortal minds to fool,
MY home is warm" he'd say, no doubt,
but then the nights are always COOL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-19
LABOR SCARCE, WAGES E1eH.
Great Delay Caused in Governmental
Reclamation Projects.

The scarcity of labor in the northwest.
the increase In the price of materials and
also in the rate of wages has caused great
delay in carrying out government recIama-
ton projects. This statement has been
made to the House committee on irriga-
ton of arid lands by N. II. Savage. d.
vision engineer OF the reclamation service
for northwestern Wyoming, Montana and
North Dakota
In recent instance In North Dakota
bids were advertised to secure the building
of reclamation works aggregating a cost of
100000 and not. a single bid was received.
Mr.. Savage stated to the committee that
in projects already contracted for the gov
eminent was getting its work done at less
cost than railroad work of the same charac-
ter in the same localities. The reason for
this was the fact that when the govern
ment began its irrigation work bids were
receivable from contractors of every char
acter. the only requisite being the giving
OF a sufficient bond. Many OF these frst
contractors took work so low that they
have since failed. Many OF these projects
were delayed by this fact. The railroads
receive bids from only a select few ana
have had to pay more for the work
Notwithstanding these adverse conditions
Engineer Savage reported substantial prog
ress in the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-19
DAILY GAZETTE UNLIKELY.
Believed That Amount of Printing
Would Be Excessive.

It is said that the subcommittee to which
has beer referred the matter of the publ
cation of daily governmental gazette has
found that the cost of printing the matters
which would be incorporated in that publ
cation would be too expensive to warrant
the experiment The members Of the COM
nittee have inquired as to the amount OF
space which would be taken up by the vari-
Gus departments and executive offices in the
official publication and have found. 1t ls
said, that 1t would make a bulky daily
volume.
The original proposition was to print al
departmental and executive orders, the de-
clsions of the comptroller, Secretary of the
Treasury and the various federal courts,
movements of the navy vessels. army order 8
and military and naval assignments or oin-
GERS and a large amount of other routine
matters. 1t is understood that the sub
committee has found 3 desire among gov
eminent officials to have gazette pupilshed
daily, but the fear is expressed that ther q
would be too much anxiety displayed 10 HI
up the publication with trivial notices
1t is said that there are at least hity en-
ployes of the government who are on spe-
cial detail to Investigate the WORKINGS OF
the different departments. Matters reiat-
ing to the purchase of supplies and the re
duction of public printing are receiving spe-
cial attention but the many practices IN
vogue in the various departments are re-
ceiving close scrutiny
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-19

The descent is slowly made through q
very picturesque group OF mountains and
about eighty miles from the capital the
train enters an immense field Of magaey.
or century plants. stretching in both di-
rections as far as the eye can reach. Here
is produced the Curse OF MexIco--the
drink called pulque. for which the work.
ing clauses spend tina larger part Of their
incomes and by which they are debased
body and soul. It 10 novel sight, how
ever. Hundreds Of thousands Of acres, an
area thirty-1ye by twenty-five miles
square, laid on In almost gsometrtcai reg
ularity. the beautiful plants being placed
with the precision Of : mathematician
The rows extend beyond the vision, until
treme end. The great, tat leaves have =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-19
Conditions in the Congo.

Many members Of the House have re-,
ceived . communication from James GUS
tavus NWhiteley. consul general OF the
Congo Free State at Baltimore. relating to
conditions In the Congo. and by inference
indicating that no action looking to Inter-
ferenoe on the part Of the United States
II necessary. The consul general inclosos
the recent letter Of Secretary Root. taking
the same view. and also the report of the
commissioners which recently investigated
conditions In tho Congo. This commission
reported certain defects. and the consul
general says his government has takan
steps to carry out tho necessary reformA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-19
Dowie to Use Courts for Zion.

Negotiations looking to peaceful settle
ment of the question as to who shall con-
troll Zion City and its vast resources were
broken off in Chicago. John Aexan-
der Dowde, through his attorneys. re-
jeeted a proposition advanced by Voliva
to the effect that the 81, 600 900 estate De
turned over to board of control. II was
stipulated that both Dowie and voliva be
active members of this board. and that the
action of the members thereof be Anal In
determining whether or not the deposed
first apostle or Voliva be the recognized
head Of the Christian Catholic Church
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-19
No WORDS WASTED
A SWIFT TRANSFORMATION BRIEFLY DID
Sf.RIHED

About food, the following brisf bat emphatic
letter from Georgia woman goes straisnt TO N
point and h convincing:
my frsuuens attacks Of indigestion and PAL
pststion Of the heart cniminated years ago q
sudden and Desperate flinsss, from which aress
enfeebled In mind and body. TAe doctor advised
me To live on cereals but none q them agreed
with me until txisd Grape-Nuts food and Pue-
tum Cbffse. The more used & than ne more
felt convinced that they wese just what needsd,
ana In I Sbort time they made Q different NO
man Of me-. Ny stomaeh and heart troubles wsse
cured - - magic. and my mind ~ restored end
q o. clear - II ever was.
II gained AsaA ana strsastA . rsptdly inst ~
frisnds wsse aateuf1Aed. Fretum ~ 0ADe-Nnt1
hass heneAtsd NJ - csstly fhat an ga =
bsas t11s fDetimony." Nams eisaa ~ teeeu0 o.
Battle cesee. MteA-
There'a seenoA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-19

BY WILLIAM e. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-13
~THIS DATE IN HISTORY,
HIM 10


153O-Diet of Augsburg convened.
1633-Maryland charter granted.
17S6-Gen. Winfield Scott. born.
Died May 20, 1866.
1794-Battle of Client.
1795-Dr. Thomas Arnold born.
1S13-Battle of Hampton, Va.
1S17-Dissolution of the Mahratta
confederacy.
1855 tea m boat PENNSYLVANIA
burned on the Mississippi; 100 lives
lost.
1s67-Fugitive slave law repealed
in the house.
1S67-Gridley Bryant, builder of
first railroad in America, died.
1s74-Compromise currency bill de-
feated in the U. 8. senate.
1S7S-Meeting of the Berlin con-
gress.
1SS0-James A. Bayard, ex-United
States senator from Delaware, died.
1S94-Prendergast, assassin of
Mayor Carter Harrison, hanged in
Chicago.
1S95-British government an
nounced protectorate for Uganda,
Central Africa.
1S97-Bomb exploded near carriage
Of President Faure of France.
1S98-President Mckinley signed
war revenue bill.
1904-Nan Patterson indicted for
murder of Caesar" Young in New
York.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-13
RQgNeed.

Ragweed is an annual. The Giant
Ragweed is common in the Red River
Valley. 1t is found in grain fields and
in any cultivated field.
To eradicate: Use clean seed. The
seeds are very difficult to separate
from wheat since they are about the
same weight and size as the kernels
or wheat, but can be separated. These
weeds are easily killed in cultivated
nelds by one seasons cultivation. The
rotation of crops is an effective rem
edy.
Cookie Bur.
Cookie, bur is an annual. 1t is
coarse weed often confused with bur-
dock. Appears most often in corn fields.
Each bur contains two seeds. They
are distributed by attaching them
selves to animals.
To eradicate: Since this weed is an
annual simply cutting off the young
plants kills them. Carefully cultivated
corn and potatoes are the safest crops
to kill out this pest. The bur is quite
tough and may protect the seed for
several seasons before it terminates
Simply to keep them from producing
seed in the most convenient way is the
best method of attack.
BurdOck.
Burdock is biennial. 1t is a large
coarse weed, common in pastures and
waste places. Found sometimes in
corn fields.
To eXterminate: Prevent the weed
from seeding by moving and cultivat-
ing and by the use of the spud.
Bull Thistle.
Bull Thistle is biennial It Is found
in pastures and waste places. The
heads are larger than are those of
Canada Thistle. The leaves are light
colored and hairy beneath. It has a
tap root instead of running root stalks
as has the Canada thistle.
To eradicate: Prevent them from
seeding by moving, cultivating or by
use of spud.
Canada Thistle.
Canada Thistle is perennial This
weed is becoming all too common in
the northwestern part of the state.
The Canada thistle is smaller than
the bull thistle. has smaller heads
and Is usually found in thick patches.
1t spreads by seeds Tin some cases)
but usually by underground stems or
roots stalks. Instead of a tap root as
is found on the bull thistle, under
ground stems or roots stalks will be
found which connect several plants.
TO eXterminate: Prevent seeding.
starre out or kill root stalks by smoth-
ering, by persistent cultivation or by
thorough bare fallow.
Morning. GIorv
Morning-glory is perennial, twining
plant Found in old cultivated fields.
especially stalks and by seeds.
To eradicate: Can be removed from
cornfields by diligent use of the cult
vator and hoe. Root stalks must be
killed as suggested for quack grass
or Canada thistle.
Quack Grass.
Quack grass is a perennial. It is
all too common in Minnesota. It is
reproduced by seeds and by UNDER
ground root stalks.
To eradicate: Prevent seeding,
starve out or kill root stalks by per-
sistent cultivation, by smothering and
by thorough bare fallow.
Late fall blowing weakens its vitality
and intensive cultivation will destroy
considerable during dry seasons. A
combination of late fall blowing,
thorough cultivation and smother crops
seems to be the only treatment that
will effectually destroy quack grass.
Curled Dock.
Curled Dock is perennial. 1t is
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-13
For the Farm
Ereside
ERADICATING WEEDS.
Communications from Farmers on matters of
interest will be given space with pleasure.

To accommodate the numerous in
quiries about destroying weeds, Prof.
A. d. Wilson of the Minnesota State
Experiment station has prepared an
illustrated bulletin on Some common
weeds and their eradication The
book Is repiete with good practical sug-
gestions. He says that to eradicate.
Corn Cookie.
Use only pure seed. 1t is very hard
to separate cookie from wheat as the
seeds of wheat and cookie are of about
the same size and weight. BY grading
out only small portion of the whole
crop of wheat for seed this portion can
be saved practically pure and the coc-
kle left in the market grain.
II 1t is necessary to use grain for
seed that has cookie seed in it, the
cookie should be pulled from the field
by hand. Enough at least to give seed
for the following year should be thus
picked.
Wild Oats.
Wild oats Is an annual. 1t is one of
the most common and worst of the an
nual weeds. The seeds ripen earlier
than wheat and oats. They shatter
easily and are usually left on the
ground when the grain crop is cut To
eradicate use only clean seed, prevent
them from seeding, use quick growing
crops as barley, or millet, SOW winter
wheat and rye as they ripen earlier
than wild oats, or use grass crops, and
cultivated crops, in rotation.
Wild Barley.
Wild Barley. or Squirrel Tail, is an
annual. 1t ripens seed very early and
Is troublesome in meadows, pastures
and waste places. 1t is very bad in
hay as 1t makes the animals mouths
sore. 1t is not usually troublesome in
cultivated fields.
To eradicate: Rotate the pasture
and meadows with grain and cultivat-
ed crops, if possible. If this cannot be
done prevent the barley from seeding
by moving several times during the
season. Sow bromus, blue grass or
clover to crowd out the wild barley in
places that cannot well be cultivated.
Pigeon Grass.
Pigeon Grass. or Foxtail, is very
general in all cultivated fields in
Minnesota. 1t seeds abundantly from
July to November. The plants send
up stools after harvest that produce
seed and thus infest the land,
To eradicate: Use clean seed. The
seed Is easily cleaned from any kind of
grain but fax. Fall pasturing. early
fall blowing, cultivated crops, growing
OF rape. grass crops, and rotation Of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-13

found usually in low moist places and
In corn fields.
To eradicate: Use careful methods
OF cultivation, as corn we'll cared for,
rotation of crops, or pull by hand.
Drainage is also beneficial.
Smart Weed.
Smart weed Is an annual or peren-
NAL. 1t is common in low moist
ground. The seeds are small and shiny
and are easily screened out of seed
grain.
To eradicate: Good drainage, good
cultivation, as carefully cultivated
corn crop, and rotation are some of
the best methods of attack.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-13
SPORTS


features. During the week it is ex-
pected that the competition for places
on the local team will be keen, as
large number of the players are
very evenly matched. A meeting is
called for Thursday evening at 8
O'Clock at the Commercial club. The
tennis players and ladies interested in
tennis are invited. The meeting will
be followed by an informal dance.
The supper has been contributed. A
large meeting is desired.
The colors suggested for the Town
and Country club are green and red.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-13
NOTES OF SPORT.

''...'
Noodles" Hahn is doing his share
to keep the New York Americans in
front.
The Baltimore club in the eastern
league is playing to poor business at
home this season.
kitty" Brashear has quit the Los
Angeles club, and Joined the Johns
town Tri-State league team.
Manager McGraw of the champion
Giants is on the lookout for players
to strengthen his crippled team.
Efforts are being made to bring
about a meeting between "Philadel-
phia Jack" O'Brien and Tommy Burns
at Seattle on July 4.
Is punk" ball playing contagious?
Perhaps SO, the home grounds of the
Boston clubs are within stones
throw of one another.
The twelfth annual meeting and
tournament of the North Dakota State
Sportmen's association is scheduled to
open today at Fargo and continue over
tomorrow.
Austin and San Antonio clubs of
the South Texas league are coming to
the front at fast clip. They promise
to give Houston hard tussle for the
flag before the wind-up.
Outfielder Thompson of the Jackson,
Miss. club in the Cotton States league
has record of &C put-outs, z assists
and not an error in % games. Per-
haps he is to follow in the footsteps
of the immortal "Sam."
Baseball has lost one of its
veteran managers in w. H. Watkins,
who has just resigned the active man
agement of the Indianapolis club.
Watkins broke into the game in 1879,
at Guelph, Ontario, with a team that
won the Dominion championship and
afterward toured the United States
with great success. In the past quar-
ter of a century he has managed clubs
in Port Huron, Indianapolis, Detroit,
Kansas City, st. Paul, Rochester,
Sioux City, st. Louis, Pittsburg and
Minneapolis.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-13
ENTRY LIST REOPENED.

Entries for Harness Events at Bot.
tineau Races Will Close June Is.
Owing to the very wet weather the
Bottineau Turf club. whose entries to
the harness races were advertised as
closed on the 9Th inst, failed to fill in
some races, and it has been decided to
reopen the entry list and keep the
same open until II p. M, June Is. All
interested will note the above.
-Bottineau Turf Club,
Richard Peyton, Secretary.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-09

A regularity of fire worship not
unnaturally consists in that element
being treated with the greatest re-.
spect, and any act which could in any
way be considered as polluting It Is
strictly forbidden. For example,
conscientious Parsee never smokes.
Much more, then, is anything in the
way of sacrifice of a living thing ta-
booed. and we must look elsewhere
for the origin of the Bel fires which
were I'D till recent times common
custom in the Orcades, in Wales, and
in other out-o-the-way parts of Great
Britain. The reader will remember
the expression passing children
Through the fire. used in the Old
Testament to describe particularly
abominable and cuIpahle form Of idol
airy. There seems to be little doubt
that the blameless, II rather risky,
game played by children round these
dres may be directly referred to that
old Phoenician institution, only in its
old form the child did not pass
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-09
FUNDS FOR THE NEEDY.

A mass meeting of citizens of Meri-
dan was called and $4,000 was imme-
diately subscribed to aid the desti-
tute and injured. The Mississippi
legislature in session at jackson ap-
propyiated $4,000 to the relief fund.
Gov. Vardaman secured a special
train and loading it with convicts
from the Rankin farm dispatched it
at once to Meridian. The city now
enjoys the unique spectacle Of state
convicts aiding in the rescue work.
Hunter George, president of the
board of trade, was made chairman
Of the general relief committee, and
J. VI. nonovan was p'~ tied secretarv
Business is practically suspended and
every citizen is giving his every effort
towards alleviating the suffering of
many poor people.
The tornado which played such
frightful havoc appeared in the south
west at 6:27 O'Clock Friday evening
A low funnel shaped cloud was seer
to form near the city. A heavy dowr
pour Of rain had been falling wher
suddenly the humidity became in
tense. With a roar that could b.
heard a great distance the storm ap
preached from the southwest and dc
scended upon the city. The creates
loss of life is reported from the eas
end in what is known as the cotton
mill settlement The large cottol
mill there was partially wrecked ant
probably 400 small houses were de
Imolished or badly damaged. TIL
tornado swept Front street AM
wrought great damage there. Man.
houses were demolished and other
were partially damaged. The electri
light plant was partially wrecke'
and to add to the horror of the situa
ton the city was thrown into tota
cdarkness. Lanterns, candles and evel
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-09
Passing Forged Paper.

A young man, well dressed, went
into the store of Goyer & Co., of
Greenville and purchased fine Colt s
pistol and farming implements, and
ordered the goods shipped to Cotton
dale Plantation. He gave draft on
Baird & Kirkland for the amount of
the purchase, signing the name of
I. c. Baird to the paper. Later the
young man went to the bookkeeper
and gave another check, with the
same name attached, for $40. He
aroused the suspicious of the cashier,
who, upon inquiry, found he was I.
c. Baird. Marshal Hebron was sum-
moned, and the young man arrested.
The pistol was taken from him. The
prisoner says his name is Baird, and
that his former home is at Gardner,
Amite county. He appeared to be
under the influence of a drug.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-09
Claims for Tax Refunds.

The attorney generals office has
been very busily engaged examining
and approving claims for refunds on
account Of erroneous tax payents in
to the state treasury and where prop
erty has been enormously sold for
taxes.
The legislature has made an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the next two
years to be used in making these re-
funds, and Immediately after the pas
sage of the act the claims commenced
to pile in the auditors and land COM
missioners office. Claims on errone-
Gus land sales are paid by the land
commissioner, with the approval of
the attorney general, while tax pay
ments wrongfully made are refunded
through the auditors office, with the
attorney generals approval. All OF
these claims are given very careful
scrutiny before authorization is made
and the batch thus far received by
the attorney general is very much
larger than usual.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-09

President Roosevelt has asked con-
gress to appropriate 100000 to de-
tray the expenses of the delegates to
the Pan-American Congress in Rio de
Janelro next spring. The members of
'he delegation will receive no salary,
and as it is felt that they will be un-
Ter heavy social obligations and will
ncur great many different expenses
ihe president has asked for such a
sum as will be sufficient for all pur-
poses. The first Pan-American Con-
sress, which was held in Washring-
ion, cost the United States 100000.
When the congress came together in
Mexico the Mexican government APP
oropriated 100000, and recently the
Brazilian congress has appropriated
100000, to be used for the reception
and the entertainment of the dele
rates of the different South American
epublies who will meet in the Brazil
ian capital.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-09
FIRE WORSHIP AND BONFIRES

through the fame and. emerge safely
on the other side, as do the boys who
jump over the Bel fires to-day, but
was burnt to death as sacrifice
however, to Baal but to Moloch. Still.
as the two deities were intimately
connected, and as accuracy as to
minor details was not strong point
with our remote ancestors, it was nat
ural enough that the idea of the fire
should be transferred from the "hor-
rid king to his equally repulsive ally,
Baal.
A different kind of fire. better
known to most of us, has very mod
ern origin, the responsible cause be-
ing another king. most unpleasant
character, but not a diabolical deity.
I refer to bonfires. the original name
OF which was bone" fires. SO called
because they were lighted by Henry
Wills agents to destroy the bones
Of saints and other relics found in
the pillaged monasteries and churches
-"Origins Of the Commonplace. in
the Grand Magazine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-09
LEAKEsvILLE. GREENE COUNTY MISS FRIDAY MARCH 1906
Records Destroyed Valued Beyond
Cash Computation.

Norfolk, Va, March 4. Fire start
ed In the general offices of the Sea-
board Air Line in Portsmouth today
and completely destroyed the third
and fourth floors of the building in
which were stored fifteen car loads
OF the records of the road. The of
fees of President j. M. Barr and 9TH
er offices of the road were also on
these floors and were completely
gutted. The loss of records is ire
parable and cannot be estimated in
money. The damage to the building
will not exceed $4,000. The fire
started on the first floor &c the build
Ing. Its origin is unknown as no one
was on that floor when the fire satrted
Offices on the lower floors of the
building suffered much from water.
The building can be rebuilt from the
second floor up and the officers Of the
road say this will done. Loss of the
records will entail much confusion
IN official affairs of the road.