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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
A tricycle. Cab.

Berlin is admiring an addition to the
numerous new tangled vehicles to be
seen in its streets, says the Philadel-
phia Times. This is the tricycle. cab"
that has been recently introduced and
has been found popular and practical
BILE. There is q leather seat supported
on springs over the rear axle OF the
machine. The passenger mounts with
the aid of a footboard that rests on
the ground when he gets in but which,
when he is seated, is raised by sim
ple device. There is a leather hood
for his protection in stormy weather;
in pleasant weather it is pushed back
like the hood of buggy. The passen-
ger faces the rear. The cab is operated
by a cyclist, the same as an ordinary
tricycle., and can attain a speed about
twice that of a first class Berlin
"droschke" or cab-which, however, Is
not saying much. The fare is very low;
for each 1900 yards or SO, 21s cents
The distances are measured by an au-
tomato arrangement called taximeter
which is in use in the ordinary cab IN
many German cities, and registers on
dial the number of meters traversed,
thus doing away with the need of ar
guing with the driver at the end OF a
trip as to the amount of fare due. 1t
is expected that the tricycle. cap will
become generally popular in Berlin and
the few that have been tried expert
mentally have attracted much atten-
ton.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
SO overloaded that they required severe
thinning by hand, rl
Monthn of tho nIls,lssIppl.

The scare that New Orleans has late
ly been treated to by the discovery
that "A crevasse" or break in the
bank Of the Mississippi in Pass a Lou
ire, threatening the stability OF the
jetties, has caused general investiga-
ton of the lower river, and has brought
out the fact that there are half dozen
breaks in it, says Harper's Weekly;
but the engineers are unable to say
whether they are natural streams or
lana ditch can soon grow into a
river. The name given to one of the
new outlets of the Mississippi, Baptiste
Collects canal, would indicate its hui
man origin, but the engineers can dis
cover nothing of its story, for tradition
has lost record of it. Whatever 1t was
originally, it is now a river, or part
Of river. 1t is well known that
Bayou Plaquemine, formerly large,
navigable stream, and the means Of
communication between New Orleans
and southwest Louisiana, was origin
ally plantation ditch, which the flow
of water from the Mississippi increased
in time to bayou and finally into
river. 1t then became so dangerous,
threatening many parishes with over
flow, that it was damned up by the
government thirty years ago. Now the
United States is spending some $780,
900 to open it and to construct i'm
mense locks at its junction with the
Mississippi, so as to admit the largest
steamers going via the Plaquemine, to
the Atchafalaya, Teche and other west
Louisiana streams. 1t is this human
origin of many rivers in southern
Louisiana which keeps the engineers
and geographers puzzled, for ditch
may become a river in dozen years,
especially if there is high water.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
Rescuing Peaches from Insects.

The great Hale peach orchard, in
Georgia, covers LOTS acres, 600 of
which are in bearing trees, and the re-
mainder in nursery stock, says Forest
and Garden. There are avenues run
ming north and south through the or
chard 500 feet apart, with cross road
every 1000 feet. There are two large
packing houses 100 feet long and 40
feet wide and two stories high, and a
lodging house or hotel has just been
built for the help. Last year some
400 helpers camped in barns, wagons,
tents. etc. At picking time about 500
men and women, chiefly colored, and
rs horses and mules are employed,
while 90 men and 3Omulesare employed
the year round. At the lodging house
rooms and beds are free and board
costs $3.50 a week, while families and
parties can furnish their own food and
have 1t cooked for themselves if they
choose. This year the curculio attacked
the peaches and Mr. Hale waged
prompt war upon the insects, Earring
the trees and catching the insects in
sheets tackled to light semi-circular
hoop frames. Two of these were
brought together about tree, which
was struck by a rubber padded club,
and the insects which dropped were
then thrown into buckets and carried
by boys to barrels in wagons and drawn
away to be burned with the stung fruit
which dropped with them. Fifty men
we're busy for nearly two months, from
early April onward, at this work, which
cost $4,000. But while in other orchards
from go to 80 per cent Of the fruit was
lost. and in some orchards the entire
crop, the Hale orchard alone had q
full crop, and many OF the trees were
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
1mrr,soncd Cow Fed by a Dog.

Two weeks ago Farmer ode OF near
Leavenworth, Kan, lost a COW, and
after a thorough search concluded that
1t was gone for good. The other day a
party of fox hunters discovered the
animal in a narrow canon between two
cliffs, where it had fallen while brows-
ing on the edge of the precipice. While
the men were debating upon means OF
releasing the prisoner they observed
Mr.. odle's shepherd dog approaching
with an ear of corn in his mouth, which
he dropped to the COW. The latter
was speedily released, and indicated
by her condition that she had not SUI
fered from lack of fodder. She would,
no doubt, have starved but for the sa-
gacity of the shepherd dog.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
1907 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE.

Don't believe it, nor did the editor
until he saw Salzer's great farm seed
catalogue It's wonderful what an ar
ray of facts and figures and new
things and big yields and great testi'
monials 1t contains.
Send This Notice and 10 Gents Stamps
to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, for catalogue and IL rare farm
seed samples, worth $40, to get a start.
w.n.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

The Royal Academy Of Medicine OF
Belgium, offers prizes OF 5000. 5000
and 5000 francs for the most valuable
researches on diseases of the central
nervous system, with special reference
to epilepsy The competition closes
Septembcr IL, 1899.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
Miss Marian Sara Parker, of Detroit

Miss Marian Sara Parker, Of Detroit,
is the first woman to graduate from the
department of engineering in the uni
versity of Michigan. Her object in
taking this course was to become a
practical architect. Her thesis for
graduating consisted of designing a
fireproof apartment building, having
to figure out The strength of every
piece of iron in the construction.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

And mock at all who IDLY mourn,
And smite the beggar with his staff
Oh! let us hold carousal dread
Over our early pleasures gone.
Youth is departed, love is dead;
Oh! woe is me that was born!
Yet fill the cup, pass round the jest
Methinks 1 could laugh grief to scorn
IT'S well to be a thing alone,
For whom no creature cares OF
grieves,
To build on desert sands throne,
And spread couch on wintry leaves
Ruthless and hopeless, worn and wise
The fool, the imbecile, believes!
Make me song whose sturdy rhyme
Shall bid defiance bold to Woe.
Though catiff wretch, come down to
me;
See, at thy gate my trump blow,
And, armed with rude indifference,
To thee thy scorntul glove l throw!
All, me! unequal, bootless fight!
All, cuirass, that betrays my trust!
Sorrows stern angel bears dart
Fatal to all of mortal dust;
He is a spirit, I of clay:
He can not die-alas, must!
Julia Ward Howe.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

For the first time IN the history OF
the United States treasury demand
has come from San Francisco for pen
MES to be used in trade, where nickels
have been hitherto the smallest change
in use.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

The present car cultivates his tenor
voice when he has time; his father play
ed the trombone and his great-grand-
father whistled.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Experts in the snake branch of nat.
ural history say that the largest rattle
snakes never strike above the knee OF
a standing man.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

One of the ironies of life is the fact
that the man who has money enough
to pay as he goes can get all the credit
he wants
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Peter the Great, carpenter, ship
wright and what more no one knows,
took to amateur dentistry to amuse him
self
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. An
Druggists refund the money If IL fails 10 cure 25c
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Hope is believing that some stranger
will saw your wood while you SIT In
the shade
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

The largest wrought iron pillar is at
Delhi, in India 1t is GO feet high, and
weighs II tons
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
IN THE ODD CORNER.
SOME STRANGE, QUEER AND
CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE.
Lees From the Cup of Life-An Allign-
tor Imprisoned In Water Pipe
RescuIng Peaches from Insects-An
Imprisoned Cow Fed by Dog.

nee / was sad,
and we'll could
weep,
Now l am wild,
and l will
laugh;
Pour out for me IL
bations deep!
The blood OF
t r a m p l e d
grapes I'll
quaff,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Baltimoreans want negro teachers
exclusively in negro schools.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Napoleon III wrote a life Of Caesar
that ranks very high.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15
NO-TO-BAC FOR FIFTY CENTS.

NO-TO-BAC FOR FIFTY CENTS.
Millions of men who are daily Tobacco
Splitting and Smoking Their Lives Away
will be glad to learn that the makers ONO
To- BAG, the famous guaranteed tobacco
habit cure, that has freed over 100000 tobac
co users in the last few years, have put on
the market a fifty cent package of their
great remedy. This will give every tobac-
co user chance to test No. To BAGS power
to control the desire for tobacco in every
form and at the same time be benefited by
No-To- BAGS nerve Strengthening qualities.
Every tobacco user should procure fifty
cent box at once from his druggist or order
it by mail. You will be surprised to see
how easily and quickly the desire tor to-
bacco disappears. Any reader can obtain
sample and booklet free by addressing
the Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New
York and IL entioning this paper.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

The enormous extent of the forests
and also the lumber industries, OF the
Northwest is indicated by the fact that
this year Washington will make ship
ments of lumber aggregating 100000,
600 feet; Oregon, 50,OOO,oOO feet, and
British Columbia, 4O,OO0,OOO. And
there is no danger of the supply run
ming short.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Cycle racing for women is going out
of favor in France.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

France will use nickel for small
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Hamburg has compressed wood ho-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

Pennsylvania railroads stretch ee6e
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-01-15

JUST try n loo. box of Cascarets, candy cathar'
,ic the flnest liver and bowel regulator made
The herald., 1897-09-19

ly devoted his talent to the promotion
Of the welfare of his chosen habitat.
Mr.. H. D. Ross, district attorney, has
won his way to prominence as an hon.
orable practitioner. He enjoys the con-
fidence of the public and is known as
a fearless and tireless safeguard against
lawlessness in all it's forms. Before as
suming his official position he was
successful attorney for many years.
The Hon. J. ]. Hawkins, ex-member Of
the territorial supreme court, Is a man
Of unusual judicial acumen. He has
adorned the bench of Arizona, as he
has graced its society and aided its
material prosperity. In serving the pub
lie in his honorable way he has accumu-
lated competency for himself and won
much valuable real estate and mining
property.
p. w. O'Sullivan, Reese M. Ling and
7. w. Johnston are successful lawyers,
the latter being attorney for the Santa
Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railway and
one Of the leading lights of his profess
sion. Other prominent names are W.
j. johnson and ]. w. Dougherty, the
latter representing the commercial In
terests Of the city.
The herald., 1897-09-19

evidence was there. When Il came b
moving the duchess body, the heavy bed
suddenly collapsed as soon ~ 1t was
oDuched, and the thick curtains fell
down over the body. Then the dukes
presence in the room that afternoon was
explained The bed had been arranged
to collapse as soon as the duchess lay in
it, and the weight, with the draperies.
was enough to have suffocated her. The
dukes visit to the circus and the eager
inquiries about the duchess on his return
became clear. He was arrested, his
guilt proven. and one week after his
wife's death he poisoned himself.
'The police advised the governess to
leave France. She came to the United
States. She was the wife of the man who
owns this house, and 1t is her portrait
that hangs over the spot where the young
man stood and smoked his cigarette.
The family fortunes were lost through
her indirect agency, and the family name
was never so proud again. But don't
believe he knew whose the portrait was"
New York Sun.
The herald., 1897-09-19
The Victory Of the Bike

The street railway company Of At
lanta, Ca, has given orders to the con-
ductors employed on its lines to carry
bicycles on the cars at fare Of 10 cents.
Not more than two at a time are to be
allowed on car, and these must be
hung over the rear dashboard. Much
discretion is left to the conductor him
self, who Is to decide whether the car
Is too crowded or other conditions pre-
vent making it convenient to have BIZ
cycles aboard. This is one more victory
for the bike. Already the Legislatures of
sixteen States have passed laws COM
pelling steam railroads to carry BIZ
cycles as baggage free Of charge. and
In some other States the railroads them
selves have voluntarily made the con-
cessfon. If the street railways also
agree to carry bikes there does not
seem to be anything else for riders to
ask for, unless it be the right of emn en- t
domain to seize upon any one they may
meet and compel him to carry their
machine. 1t may come to that yet
Philadelphia Press.
The herald., 1897-09-19
SURGEONS IN COMMERCE.
Some OF the Points Of Singularity
About the Fish

The sturgeon Is naturally an inhabit-
ant Of the large rivers and brackish
water Of the north temperate zone, more
particularly Of Europe and America.
The Sacramento, the San Joaquin, Rus
sian river and the Columbia on the
west and the Hudson and Delaware on
the east are very favorable to it's pro-
duction in great quantities.
The Importance Of the fishery to San
Francisco Is shown by the amount
brought into the market, in the first
three months of last year, being 70, 761
pounds.
This interesting and curious fish has
many points of singularity. Its armed
exterior skeleton seems to point to it's
being one Of the few descendants of the
ganoid or armor- plated fishes of the
prehistoric ages. The position of the
mouth Is much the same as in the shark
family, but its form and function is
rather that of the remora, or sucker
family. The flesh, too, is remarkable
as being reddish and yellow and part
white. English fishmongers call it
beef and veal" In that country it Is
usually cooked by baking with a stuff
ing of fine herbs.
There are several varieties of the
sturgeon family, the sturgeon proper
(accipenser sturio), the beluga and the
sterlet being the principal, the two lat
ter kinds belonging to the Russian
waters.
Some twenty-five years ago there were
millions Of surgeons in San Francisco
bay and tributary waters, principally
in the mouths of the Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers, where they lay on
the muddy bottom feeding on clans, ana
bottom fishes. The Chinese, who have
an inordinate fondness for gelatinous
substances, such as isinglass, sea swal-
low nests, trepang. ETC., imported from
China a very deadly hook for capturing
the sturgeon, which they caught solely
for the marrow in it's peculiar backbone.
They stripped out the backbone and
threw away the rest. Some of the back
bones were sent to China where ism
glass is made from them and also a
highly tenacious glue. The principal
use, however, is for making gelatinous
soup.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The herald., 1897-09-19
Prompt Reform OF Bodily Evil.

The prompt reform of those bodily evils,
enfeebled digestion, incomplete assimila-
tion, inactivity of the liver, kidneys and
bladder, as well as of the nervous symp-
toms which these ailments are specially
probe to beget, is always accomplished by
the use of Hostetters Stomach Bitters a
medicine accredited by physicians, pro-
nounced pure by analysis, and eminently
wholesome and agreeable. Surely such a
restorative is preferable to unpalatable and
indigestible mineral drugs and unsanc-
toned nostrums. The nation at large as
suredly thinks so, judging by the unprece-
dented demand for the article from Maine
to the Pacific. a demand now supplemented
by immense orders for 1t received from
tropical America, Mexico, the British and
Spanish colonial possessions, and else
where. Both at home and abroad 1t is
recongnized as standard remedy and pre-
ventive. the decisiveness of its efreats rec
1t everywhere.
The herald., 1897-09-19
What Wheelmen Should Eat

Cyclists will be interested to hear that
a French doctor has been investigating
the proper nutriment for a long-dis-
tance ride, and has concluded that no
meat or other nitrogenous food should
be taken while doing the days work,
but that the ideal refreshment is fruit
and milk He has tried scientific ex-
periments on horses, too, and finds
green fodder and liquid better than oats.
He says that If fluid be taken in fire.
quent rather than long draughts. with
fruit when milk cannot be obtained, the
body loses least.
The herald., 1897-09-19
FLAGSTAFF
The Capitol Of Resourceful
County

Coconino county, of which Flagstaff
is the capital, Is a vast area occupying
the northern central part of Arizona and
embracing within it's boundaries the
most diverse material resources and the
most interesting natural wonders and
prehistoric remains Of any equal area
upon the face of the globe. In the far
north and surrounding the Grand can
yon. 1.-The only natural wonder which
does not disappoint," stretches the Co.
conino forest, vast pine belt of superior
quality, from which not one tree has
been converted into lumber for COM
merce. In the same locality are also ex-
tensive copper, gold and silver mines,
onyx of superior quality and other min
erals.
In the lower portions of this county
are the extensive numbering plants of
the territory. the only mills of any con :
siderable size between the middle states
and the Pacific coast. This locality is
also the center of the cattle and sheep
industries of the territory, interests
which involve hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars in their annual operations
Here, too, arr situated the well-known
red sandstone quarries. from which
stone has bel n taken for all the best
buildings In Colorado. Utah, Arizona
and CaliforHa and for many eastern
cities. Beslfs all these advantages,
Flagstaff hay summer climate of un-
surpassed a}tractiveness. It offers to
the health-skeker of less fortunate
climes an equeble climate at all seasons,
entirely free ON all mia smic influences
and all INJURIOUS agencies It's widely
varying altittNes afford any required
temperature, While its picturesque
mountain regions are generous and
ever absorbing feast for the esthetic
sense.
RAILROAD FACILITIES
Traversing Coconino county from east
to west along the lower geographical
limit Is the Santa Fe Pacific railway.
one of the great transcontinental lines
A branch line connecting Flagstaff with
the Grand Canyon and traversing the
extensive mineral and forest lands to
the north is already surveyed and will
be completed within the near future.
The herald., 1897-09-19
. ENQJlDWNW 3

The marvellous remedio-treatment that 10
used at the Hudson Medical Institute. the
great white building at the corner of Ellis,
Market and Stockton streets. San Fran
cisco, Cal. has saved thousands upon thou
sands from all the horrors that you are af-
ficted with, and your case Is by no means
too far gone. Go there or write and ask
for circulars and testimonials about this
grand remedy. Why, in thirty days you
won't know yourself. and no matter wheth-
er you have got kidney. liver or bladder
trouble; whether you have had a bad case
of blood poisoning and have face and
body covered with bad pimples ard blotch-
es. or whether you are run down and unable
to perform the big functions of nature-it
will be all the same to those wonderful
physicians. You ask what they will do for
you! They will cure you and make whole
man OF you. -
The herald., 1897-09-19
Take Your Choice

Now, it has to be one thing or the other
with you. and no one is to be blamed II
you choose foolishy. Poor mortal that
you are, why do you keep on and on in your
folly? That lassitude. that shaking-which
sometimes almost amounts to paralysis;
those fears of death; that bashful and
weak-kneed way that you have of getting
around, and that Knowledge that you have
that you get no joy out of life that is worth
speaking about-al these things are signs
that you are suffering from that danger
Gus disease. Nervous Prostration. Get rid
of it! Yes. get rid of It and start in at once.
There's life and strength and manhood and
vrility and vigor ahead for you If you
want them.
The herald., 1897-09-19
Temperance Clubs in Holland

An Amsterdam correspondent writes
that temperance clubs have within the
last few years been established by the
students Of all the high schools in Hol-
land
Tombstone epitaph., 1897-01-17
SHOOTING AT CONGRESS.
A TombstOner ia the Mnss-A
 Bystander Wounded.

An account of . shOoting at Con- grsss appears in the Republican:
 "The camp has had another shoot ing affray. This time the victim was as usual, an innocent party The affair com menced in fight between . carpenter, Oscar Simmons, recently from Tom bstone, ard gambler. Alter they had had rough and tumble fight and had been separated, and Sinmons taken iato . bedroom, he came back for some more. and in the slterca,icn that snsusd another gam bier known as Black George, struck at him with . gun. The gun was dis ctsrg d, the bullet, . A, striking . b. slander named r. J. Cain in the back Of the vii, t, passing through and out she inside of the hand, and enter ing jrst oIr.ije of the groin. lodged in his hi;'. He was taken to the com pany hospital and the bullet extracted hy Dr. Bonnet, who r. porte the patient doir E we'll"
Tombstone epitaph., 1897-01-17
A SECLGDED SPOT
Wanted bv a Teacher and
 Practitioner.

The following from on ambitious deeiple of Eecllspius and pedsgogus has been received:
 MUSGkOvE, Franklin Co.,, Texa', Jan. 9. lS97.-I am hunting an iso- lated village in the west in which to teach school and to practice medicine l hold several fret grade T. xas teach CTS certificates, and I am . graduate in medicine, having had three yss-s' experience in medicine. I have . family. Iwant to get out of this n,sla- rial country, can give satisfactory reference. know that there are sueh places as I am seeking thst are remote from . doctor, and why not one man fill e dual positioni If you are the means of securing a satisfactory loea- ton for me, I will pay you $lO Tor such service.