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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-30

Subjoined is calendar from which can
be determined the day of the week for
any date from Jan. LIST, 100. to Jan.
1st, 21C0.
To find the day Of the week for any
date" Look under the columns for
years, and locate the given year; then,
in the same line to the right, in the
column under the desired century, you
will find the index number. Then To-
cate the desired date. If it is in Jan
uary or February, leap year, or other
wise, always be careful to look in the
column under the right month. After
having found your date, look in the
same line to the right in the columns
for days Of the week, and in the col
umn which IS headed with your index
number you will find the desired day
Of the week. Example: What was the
day of the week January /, 1898? In
der column for years we find So; then
to the right, under 1900, we find index
number 2; then to the right of January
LIST, in column headed with 2, we find
Saturday.
G. w. CUNNINGHAM.
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>een saving for that purpose when
Frank came to the city for brief visit
and made me a present of ten dollars,
which, added to what / had, enabled
NE to get the coveted garment.
He had asked me to go and see
Modjeska in "As you like It," so
FASTENED to procure my cloak so as to
make presentable appearance. We
enjoyed the play very much, but alas!
these street cars ceased running so
early that in order to get my suburban
boarding place we had to make a mad
scramble as the curtain went down
on the last act.
Without waiting to give the check to
the maid, seized my cloak and got in
to it as we rushed down the stairs,
aided by my brother. AS We seated
in the street car l put my
hand into the coat pocket for my nit
tens to cover the thin kid gloves and
protect my hands from the cold. To
my establishment, 1 drew out a dainty
pair Of silk ones in place of the sober
brown saxony wool pair knit by my
own dear mother. How could this
thing be? l was sure that 1t was my
own cloak, for I had been assured that
he only one like it had been sent to
Denver. Clearly someone must have
put them into my pocket by mistake
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"Cloaks? Yes, madam" dubious
compliment to the maturity of my ap-
pearance: will you have a fur circu-
lar? Here Is one of the best silk with
a mink lining, only one hundred and
twenty-five dollars
Feeling very humble, I made known
the fact that cloth cloak was what l
was seeking, and the young woman led
the way to another department.
Now here is one that l can fully
recommend, she said after had final
ly made her comprehend that twenty
five dollars was my limit. This is a
pattern cloak, and but two of them
were imported, the other was sent to
Denver. We only use them for sugges-
tions, never copying exactly, so you
need not be afraid of having common
garment"
confess that the last argument was
conclusive, as l despised the ready
made garments which were sold by the
hundreds exactly alike, making class
Of buyers look as though they were in
uniform. Turning regretfully away
from the handsomer garments, pur-
chased the cheaper one, the sole speci-
men of its style. Feeling that of a
truth poverty has its stings, l doubt
II was really grateful for the cloak
that was able to possess as thought
OF the more beautiful one, which l
wanted so badly.
My new cloak was like charity, in
asmuch as that it would cover many
sins in the way of shabby dresses, and
enable me to make quite respectable
appearance despite my too obtrusive
poverty, for l was but q working
woman.
My dear father little thought of the
sorrow in store for his petted daughter
when he SO tenderly provided for her
every want and would not permit her
to learn self-reliance or any means Of
support. When he passed away, about
four years prior to the opening of my
story, the little property that was left
after all was settled up, simply pro-
vided small income for mother,
brother and l having renowned our
claims thereto. Frank urged us both
to make our home with his family, but
I did not want to. Mother being able
to pay small sum fer board was very
happy with her children and grand
children and l sought to earn my liv-
ing in Boston forty miles distant from
the family.
1t was very stern discipline for me to
go directly from fine home into the
struggle of life, especially as l had no
idea how l could turn my talents, en-
tirely unframed, into money. l am
sure that were 1t possible for my father
to be conscious Of my trials, he would
share my sufferings and bitterly re-
greet that l had not been educated to a
regular business.
Embroidery, in which l was skilled, |
offered small compensation, but I
accepted it and at last |
learned to do acceptable work, and for
my own trade, so that l felt measur-
ably independent.
had long needed cloak and had
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I felt in another pocket to find my own
and was surprised to discover letter
enclosing photograph of a young
man, who, to my mind, was decidedly
good looking.
Frank glanced at 1t and remarked
that he was not aware that had such
a handsome friend With just bit of
veXation apparent l told him about
my cloak and the story of the sales
woman.
Then 1t must be that the lady from
Denver is visiting Boston and has a
penchant for the theater ALSO" he re-
marked with a smile.
Hoping to discover a clue to the
owner Of the cloak so as to return the
mittens, the cloaks were exact coun-
terparts and equally new, 1 read the
letter, which was addressed to Misc
Annie Shaw, Scotia, N. Y. 1t began,
Dear Man." and ended Ever thine,
Fred" 1t was brimful of nonsense,
but contained nothing to indicate the
relationship of the parties. immedi-
ately concluded that they must be low
ers.
"A fair exchange is no robbery" it
is said, so as the principal point Of
difference in the property was in the
mittens, l made no effort to find Miss
Shaw, convinced that she was but
visitor to the city and that could not
trace her through the directory.
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greeted my ear, and turned to see
the smiling face of Mr.. Jackson.
With a laughing negative was
about to pass on when he looked at
his watch and declared that l had lost
my car, and as had a full hour to
walt invited me to take supper with
him at a popular restaurant not far
Off We had lively chat over dainty
repast and time passed unnoted until
Mr.. Jackson remarked that as 1t was
so late If it was agreeable to me he
would be happy to escort me to see
Booth and Barrett who were starring
together at that time. Such treat
was not to be lightly passed by and I
stihed my feeling that possibly Dear
Nan" might object, Thine forever,
Fred taking another girl to an en-
tertainment.
This was but the beginning Of a de-
lightful acquaintance. At first l would
make some passing remark about Miss
Shaw and she occasionally made one
of the party when we passed an even
ing together, but gradually We ceased
to miss her. Once l taxed him with
neglecting her, when he calmly re-
piled that she had Tilted him, saying
that she was like most girls who did
not care for attentions from their own
brothers when some other girls
brother was around. Quite to my sur
prise | learned that Mr.. Jackson was
Armies half brother, both having had
the same mother. Fred was ten years
older than his sister and as they were
orphans, had been made her guardian.
An intense affection for his mother
led him to be very tender OF her
youngest child.
1t was somewhat strange to me to
note the intense relief that this ex-
PLANTATION gave me. 1t was New Years
eve and we were going to the service
the next day. He had been passing
the evening with me. We were to
meet Annie and a friend at the church
and l was to 60 home with her and
spend the holiday.
what Fred thought OF the expression
on my face as realized that my absurd
jealousy Of Annie was without founda-
ton, was soon to learn. AS l glanced
at him caught look of puzzled sur
prise and then he seized both my
hands in his as he drew me to him.
"And so you were jealous of my
little sister," he said, "Ah, Nellie, my
darling, the question that dared not
ask is answered. love you dearly and
have been getting up my courage to
ask for that greatest New Years gift
that you can give, your own sweet self
to be my bride. May l claim it, for
know now that you love me?"
Fred blesses that cloak which first
made us acquainted and although
have a handsome sealskin now, will
not consent to parting with it. He
looks over my shoulder as l write and
says that l should have called this
story my Fortunate Cloak" since 1t
brought me husband. Men are so
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conceited.

Ring mournfully, mournfully, bells!
o, drearily, drearlly ring!
The old years almost through
For the Old ring mournful knells;
But a merrier song We'll sing,
A merrier song for the New!
The gray old year is dying;
His hours are almost SPENT
His moments fast are flying;
The midnight winds are signing;
The boughs in prayer are bent
For the gray old year that's dyingi
The sad old dying year
Leaves many heart a smarting,
But joys he leaves US, too;
And we'll give a friendly tear
A tear for the old, at parting,
For the old that once was new.
He's been a good, true friend;
Good sermons he's been preaching;
Good seed has he been sowing;
o, we might greatly mend
Would we but heed the teaching
Of the good old year that's goingl
The Old, departing sadly,
Bowed low with white locks stream
ing,
Will come to us no more;
The New comes blithe and gladly,
With joy and hope all beaming,
As the old year came before.
Adieu, old year, adieu!
Your coming makes us gladder,
And we've learned so much of you'll
But your days were all too few,
And yeur going leaves us sadder;
Adieu. old year, adieu!
Ring merrily, merrily, bells!
Now merrily, merrily rirgl
We've smile in place of tear!
Ring merrily. merrily, bells.
o, merrily, merrily ring.
Ring in the glad New Yearl
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They Have Their Price.

The London Critic has compiled a
list Of SO noblemen who are directors
of 1876 companies. with capital Of over
e64.0OO,OOO. the greater part Of which
has never yielded a penny OF dividend.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-30

Save where the twinkling stars shine
out above,
On child Of poverty as child of wealth,
Upon tie outcast too, with eyes Of
love.
Little think they wltSin the portals
grand
OF her who stands without the state
ly gate;
Little they dream what weary weight
of woe
+ One 1.-THE of all their riches could
abate.
Poor wanderer, crouching at the rich
mans door,
Watching with longing eyes the
scene of mirth,
Thy worn and pallid face a story tells,
Sorrow has been thy dreary lot on
earth.
From early morn till midnight hour
rings out
The same old tale Of poverty and
grief,
Fierce hunger gnawing at the aching
heart;
She oft has prayed grim death to
send relief.
o, We within the pale OF wealth and
power
Forget not those who cover at your
gate.
Mayhap the wretch who humbly begs
her bread,
In days long since gone by, was. like
thee, great.
Think, stately belle, before whose
sway all bow,
Mayhap the wretched woman gazing
there
Was once the worshiped Of lofty
home,
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None knoweth what thy future lot may
be;
Perhaps the beggar crouching at thy
door
May give to thee the longedfor crust
Of bread,
The balm of hope into thy heart may
pour.
And We within your stately dwellings
here,
Forget not those who stand without
the pale,
And you with ali the joys OF home and
friends,
Remember those without the pleas
ant vale.
For one above looks kindly down on
ALL
On rich and poor alike, where'er they
be;
And He who bids us give to those who
ask
Will make thy giving doubly blest
to thee.
what will your next political move
be-" inquired the energetic politician.
81 don't think" said the defeated can
didate for congress, that there's going
to be any. guess I'll-stay at home."-
Washington Star.
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CALENDAR CHANGES.
HOW BEGINNING OF NEW YEAR
HAS "LEAPED."
From December to March and from
March to January-A Table Which
Gives Much Valuable Information
About Days and Dates.

ECESSITY ever
has and always
will be the mother
of invention. it
is evident that pre-
vious to the latter
part Of the six
tenth century the
nations of the old
world were differ
ing widely in their
opinions as to
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-12-30

After leaving college It would be a
rood IDEA for some men to go to school.
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ON NEW YEARS EVE.

The festal scene is at its height with
in,
The myriad lights their radiance
shed around,
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09
NO PROHIBITION WITHOUT PUBLIC
SENTIMENT.

In its coming campaign the State
through educational work than in any
other way. Education is needed in two
lines-instruction in temperance and in
struction in the advantages of truth
telling. Prohibition in Kansas has been
the means Of making more perjurers
than any other regulation, and man
who will once sell his vote or swear to
an untruth to save a drink will do the
same thing again. The whole record
Of the fight against the liquor traffic
in this State has kept continuously to
the front the ease with which men have
sworn falsely to protect salOOnkeeper
They have done so, not from any par
ticular love for the jointist, but because
they have felt that their personal lib
critics were at stake, or because they
thought the prOhibitOry law was an un-
just measure. This has always been one
Of the concomitant evils of prohibition.
1t is shown to-day in the gambling
houses which run widely in Topeka and
other Kansas towns as connections of
the saloons, and in the flagrant manner
in which the saloons are kept open late
at night and on Sund avs. Education of
public sentiment is greatly needed. Pro-
hibition can never be anything more or
less than public option, and when the
enforcement Of the law is uniformly de-
=
be no question as to It's thorough en-
fOrcement in Kansas; while large num-
ber of people are opposed to it there will
be saloons in spite Of all regulations
AS long as majority is Indifferent or
opposed to the law, as is now the case
in Topeka, the saloons will run on the
low-license plan.
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09
THE CAPITAL CITY's AUDITORIUM.

The Topeka dailies are quarreling over
the auditorium question. By putting
their own interests back Of the princi-
Piles for which they pretend to be con-
tending they would be able to do a
little toward obtaining the building. For
the sake Of the State at large, as we'll
as the city itself, there should be an
auditorium in Topeka at once. The con-
vention facilities are so inadequate that
the city should be ashamed to seek to
secure big gathering of any sort. The
question of a site Is one of many details,
but the main thing is to get the audi
torium. The people Of the State have
right to demand that the capital city
shall furnish a larger hall than it can
now offer or other towns will be given
the conventions
The newspapers cannot decide every
thing; II they turn in to work together
for an auditorium and allow the proper
committee or other body to recommend
the site and look after the smaller mat
ters they will be doing enough to satisfy
their readers. o."
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09
THE GROWTH OF SOCIALISM.

The speech of Eugene V. Debs to a
large Topeka audience last week Illus
trated sharply the recent growth of So
clalstic tendencies. The Social Democ-
racy, OF which Mr.. Debs is the founder
and President, may properly be classed
as a Christian organization. It's motto
Is Peace on earth, good will to men,"
and its aims and purposes are in exact
accord with the teachings of Christ. The
socialism Of the Social Democracy is not
militant-it proclaims the gospel OF love,
and seeks to bring about a system of
cooperation in place of the present COM
petitive methods Since its inception
1t has grown rapidly in all parts of the
United States, and it's membership is in
Creasing daily. It's rolls carry men of
wealth as well as wage-workers.
The Social Democracy some years ago
would have been allowed to hold meet
ings only under police surveillance; last
week Topeka's chief Of police donated
IS towards defraying the expenses of
Mr.. Debs' address. The socialism for
which the President Of the Social De-
mocracy stands is spreading rapidly,
and 1t is spreading nationally. Debs is
not a malcontent or an agitator, in the
evil sense of the latter word. His or
ganizatiOn Is one of a number working
toward the same end-the establishment,
by peaceful methods and by work that
shall be permanent, condition Of so
ciety which will be in every way more
equitable to all. The Scientific" social
ism which is gaining ground so rapidly
grows because its adherents recognize
more fully than ever before the ethical
side of the movement in which they are
concerned.
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09
BOSsIsM AND THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.

The near future will see an interest
ing state of affairs in regard to the ma
tional organization of the Democratic
party. II must soon be decided which
faction shall be in control, and the fight
for supremacy bids fair to be drawn ON
sectional lines. Richard Croker aspires
to larger field than the control of
Greater New York. He Is anxious to OBJ
tain the ownership OF the national party,
and he is now laying his plans to that
end. He realizes that TO regain the party
for bOssism 1t will be necessary to turn
down Mr.. Bryan, and he is said to be
working quietly in that direction. The
current issue of the American Monthly
Review Of Reviews aptly sizes up the
situation in this way:
Mr.. Croker has not, indeed, taken an
open stand against Mr.. Bryan and the
Chicago platform; but 1t is generally
believed that he intends to do everything
in his power to build up combination
that will prevent Mr.. Bryan's renomina-
tiOn in 1900 and that will subordinate the
free silver issue. Mr.. Croker and Mr..
Bryan represent diametrical extremes in
our political methods. The Tammany
leader affords the most striking example
OF boss and machine methods that our
recent tendencies have yet evolved:
while Mr.. Bryan, who is an orator and
a true leader, represents the convictions
and enthusiaSms OF great multitudes
OF men and the triumph OF principles
over party machinery and campaign
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09

funds. In the great pending struggle
between Bryan and Croker for the con-
troll OF the Democratic party, Mr.. Croker
may happen TO represent a safer public
policy in the matter of finance than is
represented by Mr.. Bryan. But It is
certainly to be hoped that there are in
this country good many thousands Of
firm believers in the gold standard who
would rather see political power welded
In the government of this nation by a
free silver man Of Mr. Bryan's type
than by sound money man Of Mr.. Gro
ker's."
If bOssism trlumphs and machine
methods govern the Democratic party In
the next campaign there will be no
room in its ranks for the friends Of free
silver or for the advocates Of the prin-
ciple Of government by the people. The
first step in Mr. Croker's campaign was
the announcement of the New York
Journal that 1t had forsaken Bryan for
Tammany Others which will follow
will be readily perceived by the intelli-
gent observer Of national politics.
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09
THE INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.

The extreme need Of a system express
ing the will Of the people that will not
be diverted into the channels of mo-
nOpoly and bossism is painfully appa-
rent. An honest election system is es-
sential in a country wher the liberties
of the people are supposed to be care
fully guarded. The honesty of the sys-
tenn is not OF the right sort when the
will of the people is apparently ex-
pressed at the polls, only to be thwarted
by the free use Of money in the legisla-
tive halls. The system is imperfect, and
the alarming extent of boss control and
boodling methods in this country makes
very pertinent the inquiry whether our
present system is not open to improve
ment
A system that is strong and sure and
safe from the casting of the ballot to
the carrying out of the peoples will
is one that must obviously commend it.
self; such Is the initiative and refer
endum. The only objection that can
consistently be raised against 1t is that
the people are not fit to govern them
selves, and that objection is against
free government and not against a sys-
tenn connected Herewith. The initia-
tive and referendum Is fundamentally
from the people and for the people--no
private interests can control. II goes
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09

industry to widen into roadways. The
natural tendency therefore, has been
toward combination. We have trusts
in nearly every line Of trade They have
come inevitably. They are the highest
step in the conquest Of the country by
commercialism. The next step will make
for the placing Of man above property.
That this is so is plainly proved by
study Of the present trend of public
opinion. The Outcry against corporate
greed is not spasmOdic. 1t is continual
and it constantly grows more powerful.
The people have been robbed to the
limit They are rapidly coming to a full
realization Of the magnitude Of the steal
ings of the corporations, as every cleo
tion or other opportunity for expression
shows. The growth of the public own
ership idea is marvellous. The feeling
against corporate usurpatiOn of public
privileges and the opposition to the OPP
preston OF the mOnOpolies are widely
cTystalizing into a desire firmly and
thoroughly to check the encroachments
of illegitimate capitalism. There Is no
stopping this drift, and the next decade
will show strong evidence Of it's sweep.
Corporate control Of this country has
gone about as far as is possible and the
future points out its downfall.
The Advocate and news., 1898-02-09

further than the abolishment of the op-
portunities for the wholesale corrupt use
OF money in purchasing public offices,
for 1t does away with many Of the un-
necessary offices, and in a state OF per-
lection, it abOlishes regular sessions of
Legislatures. Measures submitted di-
rectly to the people do not require tim
kering by the Legislature The initia-
tive ahf referendum affords a direct
expression Of the wishes of the people,
and Wen that is possible there Is no
necessity for a cumbersome delegate
convention. This is not merely theory:
1t has been proved by practice. Many
of the trades unions use the initiative
and referendum, and they find in numer-
GUS instances that it is much more de-
slrable and much less expensive than
to hold stated conventions. 1t lis the
testimony of the leaders in unionism
that this system is extremely practical
and advantageous, and their experience
will be repeated by the peope of this
country in due time.