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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26
Cannot Resume on Confidence" {"

Comptroller Eckels' effort to secure q
reopening OF the insolvent Chemical Ma
tional bank, Of Chicago, have failed. This
morning Mr.. Eokels received the follow
ing telegram from the Chemical bank
committee:
"After long, patient, aud earnest efforts,
the committee Of the stockholders of the
Chemical National bank, Of Chicago, has
concluded that resumption is not praCtiCa-
BILE at this time. At flrss the problem seemed
easy, but the many financial disasters
throughout the country have excited the
public and produced unusual caution and
made it very difficult to collect outstanding
bills or raise money by usual process. The
conditions imposed by the comptroller were
we'll received, but the present saringenOy
seems an obstacle too serious to be over
come by the stockholders.
4. Fl, GARY,
r. j. BENNETT,
s. E. GRoss,
A. X. BARNES,
WILLIAM VAN NoRTWIoK,
Committee"
Rocky Mountain News.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26

of this man Cockerill, who is employed
as superintendent for one Of those
corporations, and whose chances for
holding that position depend greatly on
his ability in compelling the miners to
submit to the outrageous demands Of
that corporation. They have paid the
prices we are now asking for rough-snd-
tumble coal for the past twelve years
and are not refusing to pay them now
because the market will not allow it, but
through spirit Of revenge The miners
Of southeastern Kansas voted almost to
man for our present administration, and
because we have dared to show our in
dependence, because We have dared to
assert our manhood, because we have
dared to vote contrary to the wishes Of
those corporations (our would-be mas
ters), they have determined to chsstiss
US by forcing q reduction in our wages,
and it is against this infamous outrage
we are striking; and il the farmers of
Kansas are with us, we will learn those
blood-sucking, liberty. destroying corpo-
ratiOns lesson they will never forget
Yours for justice. A MINER.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26
A Miners Reply to A. B. OOOkerill.

EDITOR ADvOCATE:-In your issue Of
July 10 an article appears signed by one
A. B. Cockerill, ia which he claims that
several articles have been recently pub
lished by you touching the strike Of the
coal miners in southeastern Kansas which
are unfair. He says the communications
you have published have made it appear
that the grinding and soulless corpora
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26
Perfectly Correct.

The. fistists may as we'll write it down
in the book Of fate that whoever may be
the man appointed by President Cleve-
land to the vacancy on the supreme
bench, he will never be either Populist
or a free coinage dsmocrat.-Leayen-
worth Times, July %.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26
Railroad Assessment,

The work OF carrying out and tsbu-
latlng the figures IN the railroad assess
ments has been finished in the auditors
Office, and shows an increase in the total
valuation Of over ten and half million
dollars. Following are the figures:
Santa Fee. S2l O22y y36lO4
Rock Island. d....................... 7,5ll9 l99G22
Union Pacific C..................... Sy5tS,73S9l
Missouri Pacific. c..................... 124g2A59O0
Missouri, Kansas and Texas ....... 2;390,736S6
Kansas City, TT. Scott and Memphis 2,9l6O7SO5
Grand Island .............,.......... 1,4I217gA
Burlington and Missouri River. 1,4G9,201.42
proroho, ON S29AI5.T0
O'"ANA'''' wv ''''''''''''' 5j21l5.75
Total for 1893 ............. S6l,0Sl, ,407.03
Total for 1892 ..........,.... 5l,A0i,5l3,4
Increase. .............. $lO579S63.29
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26
INVESTIGATION,
Continued from page ~

title or the case Is 1.-The Kansas and
Texas Coal company vs. M. L. Walters
ct al" 1t will be heard in this city on
the first Monday in September.
United States Marshal Walker arrived
in this city from Topeka at $50 last
evening accompanied by eleven depu-
tized msrshRls. Here he was joined by
Deputy United States Marshal @. w.
Hulburt who also deputized four men
and they left at l o'clock this morning
for Weir City to serve the restricting Or
ders on the defendent miners. Today
United States Marshal j. B. Mapes Of
this city received telegrsphic instruc.
tions from United States Marshal Wal
ker to deputize ten more men and 60 to
Weir City at once. Mspes will leave
with his men tonight.
Harry G. Leonard, Of Weir City, Sec
retsry of shaft 18, writes as follows con-
cerning the trouble on the 21st:
"The unfortunate state Of affairs that
eliminated in resort to arms day is
calculated TO do incslculable injury to
the best interests of all the people Of
Cherokee county.
"Qulte large number Of women and
children whose enthusiasm in favor Of
the striking miners caused them to visit
the various strip pits and by women's
ways prevail on the workers to cease
work, after visiting Granat's and Ben
nett's pits, went TO John Clements,
There without any justifsble cause they
were fred on with loaded revolvers and
Wlnchesters in the hands of John
Clements, Ira Clements, Dick Reed and
others. Your correspondent walked into
the pit and prevailed on Mr.. Clements
to cease firing and although unsrmed
was threatened with loaded revolvers by
John Clements and the others, but
finally prevailed on them to cease shoot
ing into q crowd of women and children.
Robert Moore, Cleve Pentner and another
person were shot, and had it not been
for good counsel and reasoning on the
part Of officers and law abiding citizens,
there would have been insugurated such
q reign of terror and conhsgrRtioA as
Cherokee county has never known.
Gentlemen, the fair name Of our town
and community is at stake, and it be-
hooves all Of us to use our best influence
on the side of law and order. Nothing
can now be or ever has been won by re-
sort to violence on either side. Hot
heRdedness, passion and brswls are to be
deplored and put down by all who love
the laws of our country. The parties
who commenced the shooting will be
prosecuted. Let the law take it's course
and 1T will rebound to the benefit of all.
"Sheriff Arnold Of this county, refused
to appoint quite number Of imported
men as deputy sheriffs, to which Bction a
number of the company officials took
umbrsge. Sheriff Arnold has appointed
all good and true men, citizens Of the
county, as peace officers, and is ready at
all times to protect life and property. In
fact, no one is in any danger. The
miners are lsw-sbiding, laW-respectinR
citizens, and no bloodshed or violence
will be used, unless the companies en-
ployes bring it on by some rash act.
More anon"
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26

ing to reduce their wages, etc., and that
this impression is created by those who
know better, but it is done to arouse
public sympathy.
The above is but the merest rot. We
have had the public sympathy from the
commencement. Those corporations, Of
which this A. B. Cockerill is but the
mouthpieOe, acknowledged this fact when
they refused to leave the case to srbitra-
ton. We offered to call in a disinter
ested party, before whom each side could
make a plain statement, and that we
would pledge ourselves to abide by his
decision. This they positively refused
to do, claiming that We had public sym
pathy on our side, which would influence
this disinterested party to decide against
them.
But again this A. B. Cockerill says:
"For the past ten Ur twelve years the
miners of southeastern Kansas have had
few grievances. Work has been steady
and the pay good. For some years, how
ever, q feeling has been growing against
the screens used to separate, for COM
mercial purposes, the lump coal from the
slack"
But why did this man Cockerill stop
hereP Why did he not state the reasons
why this feeling has been growing against
the screens? The fact is he could not do
it without letting the farmers see how
these much. abused corporations have
been rObbing the miners. And as he has
not done so, 1 must. For the past twelve
years, the miners Of southeastern Kan.
SRs have been paid as summer prices for
lump or screened coal 8715 cents, and for
mine-run and rough-and-tumble coal
621s cents; and as winter prices for lump
coal 81, and for ugh-and-tumble coal
rs cents per ton. At the time those
prices were established the screen over
which the coal run was ten feet long and
six feet wide, and the percentage Of nut
and slack at this time was about % per
cent. But year after year those corpora
tions have been making shameful en-
croRchments on those screens. They
have grown from ten feet to sixteen feet
in length, and from six feet to ten and
twelve feet in width. They have put in
gates, breakers and revolving dumps; in
fact, they have resorted to every device
known to the brain Of man, in order that
they might be able to increase the per-
centage Of nut and slack to lessen the
percentage Of lump, and to rob the min
ers, till at last one Of their hirelings, this
A. B. Cockerill, with bare-fsced effront-
cry sets up the claim that they have
been robbing US of 1873 per cent. Of our
labor, and makes this shameful state
ment in hopes Of convincing the farmer
that because they have robbed us of this
great amount of our labor in the past
they have q right to do 30 in the future.
What right, would ask, did they have
to take from US 43.3 per cent. Of the coal
that we producedH No doubt this man
Cockerill would answer: Because it is
not commercial coal. But they have sold
and do sell every bushel Of it, and in
order to give the farmers of Kansas some
idea as to what prices they get for it, /
will call their attention to the following
clipping from the Kansas City Times Of
Inlu G 1909 niuinn an nnncnnk Of kha
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26


the lowest price they receive for slack is
$l.7O, and for nut $2321s per ton. For
these two grades Of coal the miner gets
nothing. And again 1 would ask: What
right have they to rob the miner Of 1873
per cent. Of the coal he has produced?
But in order to bring this matter home to
the farmer, will say that grains Of
wheat are not all of one size no more
than are Jumps Of coal. Then suppose
the farmer takes his wheat to market
and the buyer Of that wheat should sift
it over a screen which would allow the
smaller grains to 60 through and only
the larger grains to go over, and only
pay him for what went over, thus rob-
bing him Of 43.S per cent. OF his wheat,
don't you think the farmer would kick,
and don't you think he would bs justi-
fed in doing SOP And this is just the
state of affairs that confronts the miners
to-day. Year after year the miners have
been robbed more and more. Year after
year they have been begging the legisls-
tors to pass a law that would put stop
to this infamous robbery. And session
after session their pleadings were ignored,
till at last the miners and farmers Of
Kansas, voting together, elected men to
the legislature who could SEQ thRt'such
robbery was an outrage, and, having
respect for human rights, and seeing the
necessity Of such law, passed it. But
the corporations, Of which this CockePill
is q representative, who, never having
respect for the will Of the people, nor for
law, and who seem to be bigger than our
government, are determined to rob the
miner of the benefits which it was in
tended that law should give him. This
they mean to do by reducing the price Of
mining uRh-Rnd-tumble coal to a point
which would give them an equivalent to
that which they took from him through
their robbing screen system; aud the
only excuse they have to offer for COM
mitting this outrage is that they have
robbed him OF 433 per cont. Of his earn
ings in the past and they think this
should give them the privilege Of doing
80 in the future. And this A. B. Cock
Grill, knowing that the farmers were in
sympathy with the miners, and fearing
that they would respond to the appeal Of
the miners, and aid them in forcing
those corporations to show some respect
for law and human rights, has written
the misleading article which appeared in
the ADVOCATE Of July 10, for the sole
purpose Of trying to prejudice the farm
ers against the miners in hopes that
they might be able to stsrve them into
submission.
To aid him in doing this, he has pro.
duced pay roll to show what big wages
the miners have made. But every in
telligent farmer will zee at once that this
pay roll is q fraud on the face Of it. II
those: corporations could have shown
that their men were making such large
wages as those referred to, they would
not have refused to let the case be set
tied by arbitration, knowing full we'll
that such figures would defeat the min
ers before any impartial, fsir-minded
judge.
l have before me the report Of the Ia
Dor commissioner for the year 1888,
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26

The scholarly training at Washburn
college does credit to the college and the
state. See advertisement.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26

The increase on the respective proper
ties are about o. follows:
For the Santa Fs, $5,5O0,OOO; for the
Rock Island, $l,2OO,OOO; for the Union
Pacific, S3,5O0,OOO; for the Gulf" $780,
600; for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
$5000O0; for the Burlington, S250,000
etc.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-26

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

If the frieze of the Parthenon be carefully
examined, it will be found how resolutely
the figures of men and horses are kept sub
ject to the dominant motive of
1t is not merely ii collection of statues or a
sculptured narrative. That the sculptor
had the power of realism who can doubt in
the presence of masterpieces of Greek statu-
airy? But he possessed the higher power
of subordinating parts to the whole, that
power which is the result of a faculty, as
yet underlined, corresponding to the faculty
of music.
The frieze was instinctively recognized
by Greek architects rs the proper place for
ornament; the name it bore with them,
yophorus, the subject of life, marked it out
rs the field for display of living p%ageantry;
artistic instinct forbade that it should be
30 used irrespectively of the general archi-
tectural effect. So in that perfect symphony
Of form, the Parthenon ~frieze, though each
limb and fold of drapery is true, everything
is made to serve the general harmony, like
chords in professional music. -Blackwood's
MAGAZINE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

The captain of II large steamer was once
filling up his crew for a long voyage when
a seaman came up and said:
II want to sail with you, sir"
"All right, my man" replied the captain.
Where have you sailed before?"
up. and o., sir, to Australia"
what countryman?"
IAN Oirishman." was the ready response.
"Well, you must get II character"
The discharge was obtained, and as the
Il'ishman was presenting it another seaman
came up and said he wanted to join.
what line were you on before!" asked
the captain.
"Cunard, sir"
What countryman?"
English, your honor"
"All right. Go forward"
Shortly after, as the two were swilling
the decks in Il heavy sea, the Englishman
vas swept overheard, bucket and all, Tn
l. owed, Paddy finished his job and then
weIt to the captains cabin.
Come in responded the officer to his
lJp Whats up now:'
do you remember Bill Smith, the Eng
lshman and Cunarder:" queried Pat.
"Certainly, my man"
You took him widout IA characters"
Il believe so. What of that?'
Hes gone overheard wild your bucket"
Chicago News-Record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14
Study of the Human Voice.

In a report to the French institute by NJ.
Saint-Saens on the physiological study of
the human voice, the author remarks upon
the practice Of teaching pupils in music
that certain sounds must start from the
chest and others from the head, etc. 1t is
found that in All average of the pulmonary
capacity of a large number of singers, both
male and female, the greatest number of
cubic inches of air introduced into the
lungs does not correspond to the best voice,
and that the pressure of such AIR is really
minimum in good singers.
Then, too, the motions of the CLOTHS, tar
from being voluntary, obey, he says, reflex
motions-that is, the vocal cords are sub
mitted 10 the respiratory motions, just rs
are the tongue and uvula, rising of them
selves at an inspiration, with the reverse
motion also ut IN eXpiration.-New York
Iribun
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

There + more things to be
learned about paint than are dreamed of
in your philosophy. One thing you will
easily believe, the cheapest is not The
best. This applies with equal force to
everything put or the market, vet some
people think 1t does not matter when an
piled to paint. 1t costs more money.
time and labor to make good paint than
to make bad. That is why the good is
higher priced, and also why it gives
greater satisfaction, and does more and
better work. By these points are the
Chiffon paints known. Regarded from
the standpoint of value, they are really
the cheapest paints, because two coats
will completely cover where it will often
take three of any other, because you get
a full gallon and not n%ine-tenths of one.
and because if put on a dry surface 1t
will last for years and years. Ask anv
one who has ever used Chiffon paints
and see what they say.
Chiffon PAINT CO., New York and
Boston. For sale by DR.. Sheldon.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

Pride is driving the girls out of their
natural domestic sphere into the CONNER
rial, business world, where the men for so
long fancied they held an exclusive monop-
oily. And it is only natural that young
women prefer to dress neatly and fill posi-
tions where they can see what is going on
in the world rather than to wear soiled
aprons and stay in the kitchen, where the
range of vision depends upon the size of the
back window. Social caste DEGREES that
the girl in the kitchen must marry some
nne not above her own station in life, but
the young lady typewriter in the business
office may entangle the heart of the head OF
the firm. Washington Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

Hicks-Why is it that the keeper of this
restaurant treats Milkmay so scurvilyS
Mildmay never ran in debt for a cents
worth in his life. But there's Hardupp,
who gets his meals here and never pays for
them, and yet you see how courteous old
Chefieigh is to him.
Wicks-I know that Hardupp never pays
md that Mildmay always pays cash on the
Lail. But you must remember that Mild
hay has mighty cheap dinners. while
llardupp orders the best of everything.
Due can respect II generous man even II 1t
Ie at ones W expense Boston Tran
lcriDt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14
Tbs. L. BISSELL'S ADMIR-.
GEO. w. LIrTLEJoHN AND WIFE.

GEO w. L~ITTLEJOIIN AND WIFE.)
SrATE OF EERMONT-ADpIsON COUNTY, IS.
IN CHANCEaY.
: whereas, VIM semele administrator of the
estate OF otomun l.. Bi-s,li, deceased, late of
MidttleOlry, IN said district, has iile,l his petit
cDuniv. II gainSt Geo. W. Littleiohn and Min
ME i.ittl john, his wife. tormcrlv ot shore.
h I'm IN sid county, setting forth that said
q -. w. AMI iinnie on the Sth day OF July,
lSJl, exec Ite to said solomon l.. n mortgage
decd at certain Ia nd situate in said ShOrehain
and II scribe in sid mortgage deed as toll
lows:
Being tie : I'm and all the land decided me
O:lOOcr3DSi, l|SS, recor ell in book IL, pages
Isi 81 OF SlOr ham land records, to which
piiHr.nce nay be had tor n more particular
de c"iptlpn. > lid lanl was decided me by
Hnr7lc u Littlejohn and wife" with II cOndi
81 iprtprth' rr,lenDti) m OF the same on the
ErVfl NJ - IA ternin not" therein described.
AIlst'i.S 'tti that said solomon l.. died
i rNtt.S -. :, INH, an I that said pc ~titioner
trt'pr ~ r., ii. Sept. e, 'S1!.
Aul ~ ia thtt ~lll Il ten lln'S may he
tN'"t''tt 'tl' ir Hllty ot re le nption In
5 dpr'u i~s
- tt4t =. : l". itp1 .t1n t he served upon
ihn a. il -. ."i'r'i tHtt III " b' required Ia
aDl~b-ttf,fr- t-t a.. tth. next stated term
at tit g III tto ,, n li ON IN 1ir,t Tuesday
ct Jlle, 80. mt Vii lllcDury. then and there Ia
ans yer pstid 'tltiOn, and tor that purpose
Sdf petite ier snail cluSe to he published
me : tbst Wcf at 7al petition and this order
tlre' W ..SS ,ncc 'ssiVelv in the MiddleburN
glitter. pri Ite | It Niddleb lry aforesaid, the
Last ut wh ch , iblicatiOuS to he Mt least TWEEN
~ dlV> p '.Nt ms to : iii term ot said court.
Ot al : llleOury, Aforesaid, this list day
OF April. 1893.
- .tUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Clerk.
Il WILLIS, Sorrs tor petitioner.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

Cinnamon have IA curious alternating
faculty, whereof! by abstaining from mus
eular eXertion they are able to economic
considerably in lheir eating. In times OF
kcarcity, when wages fall below a certain
Range, poor peopscs sometimes choose not u
work, because they consider that they
would nave to take more ood to repair the
waste than the work lone would produce
-Macmillan's Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14
Mhnt Makes RenntY.

Beauty is II result of race, of circum-
stances, such as pei sonal freedom and mode
of life, and of continuous diet, not of intel
ligence, and still lees of the acquisition Of
knowledge, which latter can only benefit
the individual whose features are fixed
past serious change before study Is even
begun.-Million. -
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14
Commits siOners' Notice.
Estate Of William c. LangwOrthy.

TIL" mi rsI sned, having been appointed by
the II an. rtODa e Court for the District of Adj
Li4 nc IN n%iS1iOners tn receive, examine and
~ Il tsi II. claims and ,temants Of All persons
n tinst the state OF WI liam g. LangwOrthy,
late OF Nitileblry, in sid District, deceased,
an MI cib.nls exhibited in Offset thereto,
herebN give notice that we will meet for the
pIrpOS,~s tts estid, 1T live residence OF the late
Wn. & f~HuSworthy. on the 18th day OF April,
~ | l61ls lay rs 'pte-nb II, neXt,tr I'm , O'Clock
Nllip - dock p. n, e lc1 OF said days, and that
six nSDn'hS from the list day of March. A. u.
lSts is tn, tim limited by : i'll Court for
slif or titp.s 10 present their claims to
~ NJ x uaipltipn and allowance.
bue't I'M ldlcbury, this 10Th day OF March.
\ - lSIi
A. j. MARSHALL, lCou,.
II NJ. 4. MUNROE. kN""
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

The more Chamberlain's cough remedy
IS used the better 1t is liked. We know
of no other remedy that always gives
satisfaction. 1t Is good when your cough
Is seated and your lungs are sore. IL is
good In any kind of a cough. We have
sold twenty-five dozen Of it and every
bottle has given satisfaction. Stedman
& Friedman, druggists, Minnesota Lake,
Mimi. 80 cent bottles for sale by drug
gists, also by Dyer & Co., West Sails
bury, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

The Bushmen and Brazilian Wood In
dams annot count beyond two. The Bo-
tocudos of central Africa have a word for
lone" but anything beyond is many"
Among the natives of Ellice's island the
word for ten" means "all"-all the fingers.
-ChicaNN Mail.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14
Estate of Charles Washburn.

FIHHI SetIIenleht.
GTATE OF VERMONT, The probate court
CDIsTR1CT OF ADDISON. for the district of
Addison:
To all persons interested in the estate OF
Charles washburn, late OF Goshen, in said dis
trict, deceased.
GREETING:
BY the authority of the State OF Vermont
you are hereby notified to appear before the
said probate court, AT the Probate office in
Middlebury, in said district, on the 18th day of
April, A.. D., 1893, at 10 o'clock a. M, to show
cause, il any you have, why the account ofC l..
Washburn and Dan b. Brown executors of the
estate OF said deceased, should not be allowed,
and also why the residue OF said estate should
not be distributed TO the parties entitled
thereto.
Dated at Middlebury, in said district, this
2Sth day of March, A. D.. 1893.
By order of the Court.
ID Attest, JAMES NJ. SLADE, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-14

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