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leased for long periods to others, un-
der whose names they appear on the
tax assessors books.
Fifty years ago, when Trinity was
investigated by a committee of the
state senate it appeared that original
ly the mother of Protestant churches
in New York owned 2,O6S lots, of
which 31S had been given away and
691 remained. The other 1859 it was
inferred, had been Sold This report
is the only full one made since 1914,
when the policy of keeping the fnan-
cial affairs of the corporation a secret
was adopted. With this report for a
basis, however, and some shrewd
computations of the present value of
the unassessed property therein list
ed, Trinity's wealth in real estate has
been estimated at $39,36S,1 100.
The famous brown structure which
frowns unheeded upon the Mammon
Worshipers of Wall street is assessed
at $115,0O0, but the site which it oc-
cupies and the cemetery surrounding
form one of the choicest pieces of
New York real estate, being valued at
$17,00o,0o0.
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WOMEN OF FOUR HUNDRED
OFTEN VISIT "UNCLE"

d AWNBROKERS are doing a land
Office business with fashionable
women this year. Bridge and poker
losses have been so common among
the elite that frequent trips are made
from the green table to the loan Office.
It hardly would seem that the little
vices of the exclusive social set could
have so great an effect on anything so
far removed from them in character.
as pawnshop. True it is, neverthe-
less. Most persons in New York's bon.
ton circle have money to burn, but.
they don't always have it when they
want to start little fire, and it's no
rare thing for them to be hard pushed
to pay their losses within the time
prescribed by the unwritten code.
Such debts must be paid, of course,
and paid promptly. So off goes Miss
Four Hundred to one of the several
pawnshops catering to the "carriage
and automobile" trade and quickly
pawns anything from heirlooms to the
most modern jewelry. Diamonds that
have shone in the ballroom, grand
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opera and at many fashionable wed.
dings have been pledged many a~time.
parure belonging to one of the gid
diest as we'll as one of the richest
young bellies in town has been pawned
a half dozen times, it is said, during
the past year. A woman of the Astor
crowd recently pawned an enormous
emerald with setting of diamonds
and topazes for $4,000, ard it is said
that sapphire necklace that mem
Der of the Vanderbilt family gave to a
friend as wedding present was for
: feited because its owner borrowed
something like $500 on it with which
to repay bridge losses and could not
raise the amount necessary to redeem
it. without appealing to her husband,
which she was chary about doing
Then there are women who do not re-
strict their pledges to gems and gew-
gAws. Many of them pawn their
frocks. OF course, when costly
gown sometimes disappears the owner
declares 1t was ruined through the
carelessness of new maid.
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Grating the industry, of handling the
waste, the laws on the subject, and
the grading and storing of the prod
ucts.
*'While the recent tendency in the
apple industry" says Chief Galloway
of the bureau, in the bulletin, has ap-
parently been to centralize fruit evap-
grafton into distinct commercial estab-
lishments having considerable capa-
city and requiring capital to construct
and equip, there still remain large re-
gions in which there is considerable
surplus of fruit that is unsuitable for
packing and shipping in almost every
crop year. Encouragement of evapo-
rating, canning, cider making and
other methods of utilization appears
desirable, and of these evaporat1ng is
the one that is most applicable at
present to a wide range of conditions,
and therefore of most Importance to
the average farmer"
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TO RETIRE ARMY MULES
ON A PENSION OF GRASS

army horses and mules, after having
seen service in foreign countries, sold
to unscrupulous horse dealers. Every
one of them are marked with the
United States army service mark and
it is a disgrace that they should be
hitched up to scavenger wagons, ash
and brick carts.
Il have seen horses sold that have
seen years of honorable service, and
every soldier must feel the injustice
of the treatment they are receiving,
especially in a country like ours,
where there are thousands of acres OF
land lying idle in Virginia, Texas and
Western forts. Why couldn't these
animals be allowed to spend the rest
of their days at these places on the
pension roll of Uncle Sam instead Of
being sold for the paltry sum of $15."
Officials of the war department who
have command of the army rules
raise no objection to the suggestion,
and say that if permitted by law it
could be easily arranged to find q
comfortable home for the worn-out
army mules.
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OLD TRINITY CHURCH
HAS ENORMOUS FORTUNE

NEW YORK.-There is probably no
~ other estate In New York about
which it would be so difficult to OBJ
tain exact information as that with
which the Trinity church was endow-
ed by good Queen Anne 2O2 years ago.
The vague statement recently put
forth by its rector concerning the in
come Of the parish stimulated an in
quiry by one of the title guaranty
companies as to how long it would
take to make list of the various par
sells OF real estate held by Trinity and
what such a list would cost. This
brought forth the information that it
would be necessary to search the pub
lie records for three centuries past
and that the cost of the investigation
would be not less than $1,000
One OK the principal difficulties in
the way of finding out how much of
the famous old "Bouwerie" of Anneke
JAMS is now the property of Mrs.
Trin," as the corporation was styled
in a parable written in it's defense
longer than half century ago, is the
tact that many of the holdings are
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Standardizino Education.

Administrative officers of the Car
negie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching and of the General Educa.
tion Board are entrusted with the
handling of enormous funds, the inter-
est on which is to be applied, In the
one case to pensioning college profess
sors, and in the other to helping needy
colleges. The task Of the officers Of
both these institutions has been, and
is, complicated by varying educational
standards and the lack of an estab-
lished criterion. One Of the earliest
works of both institutions, therefore,
is likely to be a sort of standardiz1ng
of education in America The question,
What is a college?" would be an
swered to-day in different ways by diff
terent men. There is a vast difference
between the institutions that bear the
name, in the requirements for admis-
sion and in the courses of study which
must be taken to entitle the student
~ ueSiGe. oOlllCtuIIS, 1uOSSu, w.
ward the establishment of college
educational standard was accom-
plished about 25 years ago. when the
requirements for admission were made
the subject of much discussion, and
finally of substantial agreement among
a number of college faculties, says
Youths Companion. Notifications
have been made since then in the re-
quirements, and there have been ad-
uitions and deductions, but a general
agreement still exists. What is needed
now is a test which goes deeper and
reaches farther-which will take ac-
count of the purposes and ideals of
colleges, and measure both the attain
mepts of the professors and the sue
cess with which they do their work
If either the Carnegie Foundation or
the General Education Board, or both
together, can do this, they will there
by benefit the cause of education al
most as much as by their gifts Of
money
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A movement to pension the army
"A mule and furnish him home
when his days of usefulness are over
has been started, and if it receives
the cooperation of humane societies a
bill will be passed by the next con-
gress prohibiting the sale of the OBJ
stinate "critters" owned by the gov
ernment. Under present laws the
army mule, along with all other gov
ernment property, must be condemned
when useless and sold to the highest
bidder. Patriotic societies which have
been organized to look after the well
fare of veterans have been asked to
join in the movement to provide at
government expense quarters and
feed for horses and mules which have
served faithfully with Uncle Sans
army so as to save them from inhu-
name treatment.
w. H. Lowder of Miles Camp, Span
ish War Veterans, who is taking a
leading part in the agitation in behalf
Of the friendless mule, at = meeting Of
his camp here, said:
1T is pitiable sight to see our old
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To Grow Their Own Ties.

Allusion has been made to the steps
taken in some directions to counteract
the effects Of deforestation which has
been going on so recklessly in this
country. One result of indiscriminate
tree destruction has been to curtail
seriously the supply Of railroad ties
AS no satisfactory substitute for wood
en- ties has been found, the situation
has become such as to give the rail-
road companies great concern. Sev-
eral months ago it was intimated that
the Pennsylvania railroad might un-
dertake the experiment of producing
its own ties, or at least a considerable
proportion of them. 1t is now stated
that the company is actually to in
augurate such policy. Agents are at
work, and they will set out 2,25O00O
trees on land in Pennsylvania convent
emily located for the purpose The
company uses 100000 ties annually,
which means great consumption of
timber and a heavy outlay, and the
outlay becomes larger as prices in
crease owing to scarcity. The idea is
to care for the trees in accordance
with the most advanced ideas of for
estry. 1t may be possible, says Troy
Times. that the company will thus
solve an economic problem of it's own.
and also set the country an effective
example of what can be done by wise
care OF trees with view to the con-
servation of important natural re-
sources
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FARMERS TOLD HOW TO
USE THE APPLE CROP
n HE plant industry bureau of the de !.

THE plant industry bureau of the de
1 partment of agriculture has de-
cided that the apples of the country
are not sufficiently utilized for food
purposes and has issued a bulletin Of
advice to the farmers, telling them
how to use the stock that is of too
poor grade for the general market
1t pays special attention to the "evap-
grafton" of apples as being particu-
larly valuable in using up the fruit
that might ordinarily go to waste.
It points out that the portion of a
fruit crop which is of too low grade
to market in the ordinary way can
often be made to pay at least a large
part of the expense of maintaining
the orchard or fruit plantation if it is
converted into some other form or
handled in some way other than that
praCticed with the better grades. The
veport details various methods of op-
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-14

The cost to nation of entertaining
1nonarchs varies according to the
monarch. The cheapest sovereigns to
entertain, judging from the bills
Great Britain has. had, to pay, are
the German emperor and the king OF
Italy. 1t cost. about $4,000 to enter
tain each of them. The king of the
Belgians costs $4,000 a week; the
late shah cost 100000 week. The
expenditure on decorations, etc, is
not included IN these figures. When
the car of Russia made 6hisl historic
visit to France the cost to the repub.
lic amounted to @535. 900. Boston
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The other considered fer while
and then said: s.....,t ...5-. 49,.
Well, it's pretty bad. but it might
be worse. You know Jones never
paints anything but his best, and I
hear he made a good sale during the
holidays. - e. e &: & .s+-. s.s
Just then Jones happened to come
in. ~ ID .a.: .t.
Jones'" said the first speaker. ..did
you sell anything during the holi-
days?" 3.5 =sz.s
Jones hesitation was manifest.
Yes," he said. at last, # sold my
oyercoat and myscrush hat. z s5
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An Art Sale,

Two young artists were talking the
other day of the state of the market
for their wares and the temptations
which beset them to forsake their
high ideals and hopes for the sake of
making money. Both came to the con-
clusion that the prosperous year just
closed had done very little In the way
Of encouraging art. q ! 55.ss Y, = W
II haven't painted q p0t-boiler this
year" said one. Into everything I've
done I've put my best efforts and my
most .cOnscient ntious II work and II
haven't sold 4 thinG. z 4 S., S.,
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Wild Deer Grazing Near Town.

Citizens of Weymouth, small
town about six miles from here, for
several days past have been enjoying
the beautiful sight of a herd of wild
deer feeding in large field Several
small boys first saw them, and the
news soon becoming general, the
whole population of the village was
out witnessing the sight.
The deer emerged from the woods
and slowly and cautiously walked out
into the field to Craze. Daily the
deer, six in number, keep up their
trip to the field and become tanner
with each visit.-Mays Landing Cor
respondence Philadelphia Press.
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H00D0O HOUSE OWNED
BY LATE .SILENT". SMITH
they call him the asphalt king" no
longer, except in derision. Now ). H.
Smith, the late owner of the house, is
dead. The hoodoo has struck again.
Informed

Informed:
Sam, negro servant of a Harris.
burg family, is very ambitious to ap
pear we'll informed on all subjects.
His master had installed electric
lights throughout the house, and was
explaining the workings of the fluid
to Sam as follows: ''.5 *'-3F-',
"You see, the whole thing comes
from the dynamo and goes into the
wires, and then into the lights Now,
do you understand" 't55S''
Eyes, sah," said Sam. >'T under
stand all bout dem dynamos and
other things, but what I wants to
know is how do the kerosene squirt
throO dem wicks:" 7<z**
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PLANS HAVEN FOR HOBOES

DIR. Ben L. Reitman, organizer of the Broth
erho"d Welfare association, institution de-
signed to upft the Weary Willie band more
commonly known as tramps, who recently gave
an elaborate banquet at prominent Chicago
hotel to typical gathering of knights of the
road" has aroused reformers and others by his
unique plan and many are already becoming in
terested in his scheme.
DR.. Reitman born in st. Paul January l.,
1879, and when 12 years old he ran away from
home and took up the Weary Willie profession.
For five years he remained at home and went to
school or worked for period of seven months
out of the year and the balance of the time he
put in tramping about the nation. At the age of
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Billings
of
SO old university
schoo in
DR. Billings attracted much attention last fall
laton of marriage. n a widelyquot
of
but would like
OF showing
"Th sounds drastic but the
The
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built Mrs Stevens
been
oned air which the Nothing
walls While
umi
The all
originally
Two sometimes
receiving dctaton writing addresses
While explaining Of Mrs.
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LEADS WAR ON WHITE AGUE

DR.. Frank Billings of Chicago, president of
the Illinois state board of charities and a noted
physician has been elected president of the Ma
tional Association for the Stuty and Prevention
of tuberculosis. This organization of doctors,
which has already done important work toward
the stamping out of the white plague has just
held largely attended convention in Washington
After the death of the late Marshall Field Dr..
Billings sent in the following bill:
"To services rendered from January 10 to
January II, day and night attendance time Of
journey to and from New York-$25,000"
This fee, one of the largest ever paid an
American doctor, was allowed without question.
Dr. Billings is noted as a diagrost:cian. He
is member of most of the technical societies of
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-14

The kaiser is always on the side Of
discipline, A Russian tenor in the
Monte Carlo company which sung for
charity lately in Berlin was not satis-
fled with the tempo of the conductor
and beat time with his foot to indicate
the change he desired. The emneror
expressed his disapproval of this in
,subordination to the prince of Monaco.
and the luckless tenor was dismissed.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-14
New Coffee Extract.

:. A dry extract of coffee. resembling
cocoa and used in the same way. is
the novel product Of F. J. Reichert, a
London chemist. A pound of raw cof-
fee yields about two and one-half
ounces, and it is claimed that this VIII
give several cupfuls more OF fragrant
beverage than is usually obtained
from ground roasted coffee, the ordf-
nary infusion being very wasteful.
The extract e free from woody fiber
and fat.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-14
HEAD OF NATIONAL w. G. 7. u.

Mrs. Lillian NJ. N. Stevens, president of the
National Womans Christian Temperance Union
and vice president of the Worlds Womans Chris
tion Temperance Union, has, by means of her
talents, applied to lifelong and unfagging fight
against the curse of Intoxicating drink, achieved
not only national but international fame Than
Mrs Stevens few of our Americans are more in
the public eye to-day.
But her home life and surroundings at Port
land, Me-, few, save her most intimate friends,
know Of The Stevens homestead is in Strouds-
water, historic suburb Of the charming City by
the Sea which the poet Longfellow sang Of The
house is of the old Colonial STYLE severe in it's
design, but conveying an unmistakable air of gen.
md ic -,
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PRESIDENT ORDERS HARD
TEST FOR ARMY OFFICERS

Is miles, at varying gaits ADAPTED to
the terrain, not less than ten miles of
which shall be at the trot and gallop,
approximately five miles at each, with
such other exercises in equitation as
may be deemed advisable"
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he ne sits in the sunlight his head be with
hos smooth
by of Clear that his
1aVcrlte topc--ife insurance-is under discussion.
without
sustaining
iorce
engaged he
He oldfahoned
he
ture Of Benjamin
His boyhood
cal He
old he
him to
til October,
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Big Warship BuiIdino,

The announcement that Great Bri.
tain is to build two more battleshins
of the famous Dreadnought class is
coupled with the statement that no
less than four such vessels have been
contracted for at British navy yards,
cstensibly in the name of certain for
elgn governments but really, it is be-
Heved, as speculative measure, the
projectors entertaining the notion that
It will be easy at any time to dispose
OF such ships at big profit. But this
may be a speculation that will fall
The number of governments that are
likely to invest in such COSTLY plav-
things Is small, though it is conce;va-
bic that emergencies might arise
which WOULD make it very desirable
to have such means of defense. But
the grimmer suggestion, says Troy
Times, in connection with all this is
that Great Britain really intends to
retain all these big fighters herself
as a safeguard against attack, and
with something in the nature of a
squint toward Germany. Not much in
the way of disarmament in that. But
it is making big armaments very cost
ly, and perhaps the time is nearer at
hand than many think when if will he
found that it does not pay to fight.
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ard stowaway He
After obtaining knowledge of the
inhabitants Dr. Reiman decided
dvotng his the
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IN THE LIMELIGHT
APICTURESQUE MAN

John II. Hegeman, president of the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance company who han been in
dicted on seven counts for forgery in the taird
degree and three for perjury, is tho most pic
turesque figure In the insurance game. He is long
haired gray and swarthy. The indictments grew
out of certain "year-end'| transactions in which
the annual statements to the state insurance de-
partment are said to have been "dbctored"
Hegemen is a striking personality both phys
icaly and intellectually. In facial contour he
bears strong resemblance, some think, to the
late Edwin Booth. His hair is worn in long ring
let's which flow over his shoulders and this part
of his adornment is his particular pride. The
curling locks streaked with gray are cared
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-14

Will there be cabinet crisis in
Spain every time the royal baby cuts
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-06-14

Gen. John M. Wilson, formerly
chief of the Engineer Corps of the
Army and now president of the Wash
lngton board of trade, has been per-
sonally acquainted with IA presidents.
He was born and brought up in Wash
1ngton' and his personal acquaintance
with chief magistrates of the nation
began with Zachary Taylor in 1S49.
He was page in the senate in the
days of Webster, Clay, Calhoun and
Benton. Gen. Wilson is still ac+;vo
and thoroughly in love with life
though 70 years old.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-27

which we see and do not see, so to
speak. He has a fine personality
and in the northern Chautauqua
where he is used very much, he is
considered type of the well-thought-
|of Kentucky gentleman" Paducah
is sure to place her approval on Mr..
Speeds work.
Season tickets for the Chautauqua
will be pushed now that the program
has been completed. With Sc num-
bers on the program, a season ticket
at so reduces the cost for each num-
Der to a little over three cents. Reg
'ular admission of 20 cents will be
charged but the ticket will entitle
the purchaser to the full days pro-
gram provided he stays inside the
grounds. The season tickets allow
the purchaser to go in and out at
will. Mr.. Will Hummel is taking or
|ders for the tenting parties to send
in his order for the tents next week.
The tents rent for So and up.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-27
WEEKS EVENTS
TWO SPEECHES. BY ROOSEVELT
ARE SCHEDULED.
College Events, Monument dwellings
and Other Functions of Public
Interest.

The forecast for the important
events of the week follows;
The features Of this years national
observance of Memorial day will be
the unwilling of monument to
General Henry w. Lawton at In
|dianapolis, where President Roose-
welt will deliver an address, and the
unwilling of statue of General
James e. B. Stuart by the United
confederate veterans at Richmond.
Va. On the same day Governor
Hughes, of New York, and Guild of
Massachusetts, will speak at the un-
yelling of tables to celebrated Amer
leans in the hall of fame at New
York University.
President Roosevelt will deliver an
address at the semi-centenial cele-
bration of the founding of agricultur-
al colleges in the United States at
Lansing, Mich.
Nearly 100 jurists from all over
the country are expected to partici-
pate in dinner to Judge William J..
Wallace on his retirement from the
bench of the United States circuit
court for the eastern district of New
York on wednesday evening.
Secretary of War William H. Taft
will speak before the National Mill
ers' association in St. Louis next
Thursday.
The wages of about So, 900 cotton
mill operatives in southern New Eng
land are to be advanced an average
OF 10 per cent. The movement had
its origin in Fall River, Mass, but
affects other mill 7=eaters in Massa-
ohusetts. The International Cotton
conference will be held at Vienna
May q to 80. More than $50 dele
gates, ten of whom are Americans,
Twill attend.
The eight Dared crews of Syracuse
land Wisconsin universities will race
lat Madison, Wis. Friday.
big Nine track and field cham
pionship will meet Saturday in Chi
|cago.
The championship of eastern col
|leges wills be held in Harvard
stadium Friday and Saturday. The
University OF Michigan which last
year won the big Nine meet, will
compete IN the eastern affair.