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The Chanute times., 1898-01-07
Summit Hill.

Wednesday, Jan, 5, '9S. Happy
New Year to all.
Who predicted stormy Christmas
and cold New Year?
Miss Florence Midcap is visiting ir
Erie during this week.
George Midcap spent New Years
with friends and relatives in Erie.
Qnite number of the farmers
have begun to turn the ground over
preparatory for spring crops.
Miss Mayme Reynolds and her
brother Lawrence were visiting friends
in this community during the holi-
days.
One pound clear Rio 10 cents; Ride
nour Baker package coffee 10 cents;
Lion brand, II cents; lowering i cents:
Javeka 80 cents; Java blend % cents;
Tulip in two pound cans, Is cents
A. O. Grubb & co.
Our school was visited by the fol-
lowing persons during the holidays:
Misses Nellie Gaughan, Julia Crane,
Bea Crane, Hattie Savage, Bernice
Savage, Mary Smith and Bertha Chap
pei and Messrs. Harry and Will
Gaughan.
A literary society was organized at
this place last Wednesday evening.
The young people Of the surrounding
seem to be very much inter-
ested and we hope to have a profitable
and interesting society. We meet
lgain on Friday evening of the 7th
INST. All who are interested are well
come.
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07
Benedict.

Wednesday Jan. 5, '9S.-The Wood
man will give an entertainment Sat
urday evening, Jan. 10, and the high
school will serve oysters for the bene-
fit of the library.
Steve Singleton has his new barn
about completed.
The Forest Oil Company are drilling
a test well on Lon Prunty's farm.
Miss May Dean, of Coffeyville, is
visiting with her sister, Mrs. Ed Glass.
Mrs. McFadden, Laura and Hal,
were visiting in Benedict one day last
week.
Miss Anna Prange, Of Erie, passed
through Benedict Monday, on her way
to CotTeyville.
Mrs. Rife and Maud Johnson, spent
Holidays with the latters parents, at
Ranton Mrs. Rife returned Tues
day.
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07
Union Valley.

Tuesday Jan. 4, '9S.-John Hill re-
turned to his home in Galena Monday,
after pleasant visit with relatives
at this place.
W. S. Biggs is plowing today.
LonnieMcCowan is quite sick at this
writing.
John Tye started to school this
morning.
Fred Bowers ontemplates starting
to Pittsburg, today.
Mrs. Starkey is visiting her son, Fl.
j, Starkey, at present.
Alex Mcdonald spent last week
in Kansas City with his parents.
L. P. Terry and family were the
guests of Will Truitt and family, Sun
day.
Quite number of sch holars are alb
sent from school this week on account
Of sickness.
Miss Florence Holloway, of Chanute,
was the guest of her friend, Miss
Myrtle Biggs, last week
Miss Addie Hodgden, of Chanute,
spent the latter part of last week
with Mrs. L. p. Terry and other
friends,
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07

1t is easy to catch cold and iustas
easy to get rid of it if you commence
early to use One Minute Cough Cure.
1t cures coughs, colds, bronchitis,
pneumonia and all throat and lung
troubles. 1t is pleasant to take, safe
to use and sure to cure -Boschert &
Williams.
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07

Mrs. M. B. Ford, Ruddell's ILL.,, suff.
cred for eight years from dyspepsia
chronic constipation and was finally
cured by using DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for all
stomach and liver troubles. .-Boschert
& Williams.
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07

A system regulator is medicine
that strengthens and stimulates the
liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels.
PRICKLY ASH BITLERs is a superior
system regulator. 1t drives out all
unhealthy conditiods, promotes activ-
ity of body and brain, restores good
appetite, sound sleep and cheerful
spirits. Sold by j. L. Sewell
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07

Prosperity comes quickest to the
man whose liver is in good condition.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are fam
Gus little pills for constipation, bilious
sness, indigestion aud all stomach and
liver troubles.-Boschert & Williams.
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07

Silver plated goods are surprising
cheap these days. They make a table
attractive and food more palatable.
Get few prices at A. O, Grubb &
Co.'S
The Chanute times., 1898-01-07

A52.page pamphlet, explaining fully the cause
and cure of disease, with scientific legal and
public testimony as to the Microbe Killers un-
failing curative powers will be sent free on
application to any address,
The courier., 1898-11-19

is the most thoughtful Of the silly set
in the council.
II the charter can be revised so that
the council is reduced to three men
drawing salary worth the while Of
fairly intelligent men, every bit Of
property in the city will feel the effect
before the first year of such an admin
istration is concluded. In the mean
while the alienation between the
council and that part of the people
nOt.paid salary by the city or not di-
rectly responsible for Mayor Graham,
is increasing. The silent, busy part
Of the population, who do more daily
for the welfare. of the city than the
council can destroy in a night, will
not be Influenced by a desire to en-
dorse President Mckinley at the next
election and they may make the issue
one Of economy as they baye done be-
fore and ignore politics. The daily
papers might be Of direct assistance
W tAC luuuceAloi Sl0ScCo WhlOu sup
port them il they also would refuse to
endorse the nominees of ward heelers
and men who force assessors to rate
their property far below an equitable
assessment and those whU make cats
paws Of corporations for their own
gain. From two recent editorials in
the daily papers referred to there is
reason for hope that the papers have
decided that the merchant guild has a
claim upon an institution which their
industry supports.
Rev. Dwight L. Moody is much
Oyerestimated man. Altogether lack
ing in scholarship he has the courage
of ignorance and never hesitates to
deny the conclusions of the most pro-
found and reverent Hebraic students.
At Denver he has made most ridicu-
lOus statements about women's clubs,
though he admits he knows nothing
about them. His celebrated addresses
The courier., 1898-11-19

are composed of rather pointless
stories, but his unlimited supply of
words and abundant vitality and
emotion hynOtise conscience stricken
listeners into display of emotional
repentance whose reflex action carries
them deeper into iniquity the week
after the celebrated hypnOtizer has
departed with fat salary for his two
weeks exertion Of his: mesmeric
powers.
The merchants of the state did not
do Overmuch grumbling while the ex-
position was liz progress but now that.
the Omaha retailers are trying to get
up another one next year, there are
unmistakable threats from the coun-
try merchants that in case of such an
attempt they will not continue to
patrOnize Omaha jObbers. Therefore
the Omaha jObbers are opposed to an
other, or the same old exposition in
1899. The Burlington 10 also opposed
to the plan because it made a
prOfitless rate for the benefit of Omaha
and donated $3O, 900 besides. All the
people whose moral sensibilities are
still shocked by the sights and sounds.
and conduct Of the midway are allied
with the railroads and although the
latter class is regrettably small when
it is sensibilitIes versus gain, the
strength in this difference OF opinion
seems to be with the jObbers, the rail-
roads and the sensitive.
In this connection it may not be out
of place to comment upon the admir-.
able self control of the Burlington
road which gave $4,000 outright and
has not complained that its lack of
faith in the exposition prevents it
from receiving the IS per cent which
has been distributed to the stock
holders. If the positions were re.
versed, /. e., if the city had made a
donation to the road and all the other
donors were paid back Is per cent,
would there not be a howl in the
papers against corporations which
take advantage of little natural lack
of faith in the first place to refuse the
railroad its deserts? But the Burlipp.
ton has paid its money and has gone
on carrying passengers to Omaha to
get their % per cent and nobody has
heard . whine from the road.
The courier., 1898-11-19

neS8 Co8U 0eT pnOUOgIdpn6 Oeny, Dut
the nameless elusive charm which en-
shaved men and women has gone and
az it was something felt rather than
seen or heard she cannot command
affection rs she did before she married
Robert Taber and left him. Julia
MarlOwe was one Of the actresses
whom society loved 70 reward for pre-
serving her reputation by inviting
her to functions and by consenting To
have personal relations with actor
folk as represented by her. There are
only few like Sir Henry Irving, the
Kendals and Joseph jefferson, whom
society does not patronize, and Julia
Marlowe was beginning to be social
rival Of the Kendals when she fell out
with Robert Taber. though, to de her
justice, it is not sOciai neglect which
has craven her face. She is too much
interested in her work to be disturbed
by what is only the surface Of emotion
even for artificial people. DisappOint-
ment and disillusionment and reck-
less disregard Of former ideals is what
has hardened other youthful faces.
In Julia's case there is only pitiless-
ly truthful photograph as exhibit A.
Last year The COURIER started a
crusade to get good water for the city.
1t was successful in a measure though
Mr.. Mockett received most Of the
credit. History repeats itself. This
year THE COURIER has devoted most
its editorial space to comment on the
city council and its ruinous methods
Of conducting the business of the city.
The daily papers are now adopting the
conclusions urged by The COURIER
that most of our financial difficulties
are due to the silly set which is able
to outvote the sensible minority Of
the city council. Busy men have al
most ceased to read the reports Of the
councils deliberations. because, as a
body, it has no sympathy with the
difficulties Of the people who pay an
annual tax many times larger than it
should be. Newspapers, in matters of
financial polity, should stand for the
interest of their patrons who are Of all
political faiths. In Lincoln, for in
stance, most Of the large advertisers.
who are the real support Of the city
and Of every institution in it, happen
to be advocates of free silver. But
with the good sense which has con-
tributed to their success they support
the newspapers OF value irrespective
Of the particular party policy which
they (the newspawers) advocate. This
is as it should be, but the newspapers
owe these workers and pillars Of COM
merce reciprocal duty. viz; that of
supporting men of character and
ability to administer the funds con-
tributed by these workers, who are too
busy to take hand in politics them
selves. Instead Of performing this
obvious service the Journal and the
News will recommend and advertise
anything that Bud Lindsay and d. E.
Thompson chose to nominate for their
support. In consequence the affairs
Of this city are badly administered
with rising tax rate and a constantly
threatened increase of the debt. The
taxpayers owe their bankruptcy large
ly to this and preceding city councils.
The banks which have suspended pay
me1t on account of the inability of
borrowers to pay notes which they
might have paid had it not been for
the depreciation Of the value Of real
The courier., 1898-11-19

law" The death rate IN Russia 10
35.4 and 37.3. In the whole Of Central
Russia the death rate reached In 1882
was 81 per thousand per annum. A
congress OF surgeons pronounced the
cause to be an insufficient quantity Of
bread. A significant fact which was
an important factor Of the decision
was that the mortality was greatest In
the districts entirely devoted to agri-
culture. Out of a total number Of
young men tested by the recruiting
officers in 1874 704 per cent were ac-
cepted as able bodied. After that the
rate fell annually az follows, SO. 6S, 81,
IS, 9. This means decrease Of Ia
per cent among the flower OF the
nation. The peasants grind up straw
and husks with their meal and rye
-four. As their necessities increase
more and more chopped straw is added
to the -four until it crumbles at touch.
On the other hand the Russian
peasant practices a democracy that is
broader end more practicable than the
socialism Of Henry George or the
author OF Looking Backward. The
Russisn mir meetings are town meet
ings of all the workers on the land,
men and women. The whole amount
OF land at the disposal Of the village
commune is divided up among the
families according to the number OF
workers in each family. That land can
not be sold and belongs each season to
those who till it, is firmly fixed in the
mind and habit of the Russian peas
ant. The Tsar has set an officer over
the elected mir elder, but he cannot
destroy the PEASANTS ideas that they
have a prescriptive right to the land
which existed before their was any
Tsar. The competitive system has
not developed to any extent in Russia
because manufacturers and trade have
been neglected for agriculture and
the peasants desire only to raise
enough grain to feed and clothe them
selves and their families. The mir
buys agricultural machinery and
makes rules concerning the common
pasture or forest belonging to the
commune. They have habit. CEN
turies old, Of working in concert and
Russia may yet give us the norm OF a
democracy such as Englishmen like
Sir Thomas More have only dreamed of.
Julia Marlewe's late pictures show
that she has travelled far since she
first set her dainty feet in the via
dolorosa of stars. The dimpIe i'm the
chin is not worn away and the nose
is piquantly retrousse, but her feature
have lost i'm the purity and ingenu-
business that made a lack OF feeling
excusable. 1t is as though che had
seen the Gorgon head and been turned
70 stone.
The profession does not seem to have
the same effect upon the male physi-
ognomy. Jo. Jefferson's eighty sum-
mers have not altered his gentle,
deprecating expression, which is plain
" a much Of an inheritance as Julia
MarlOwe's tip-tilted nose. But the
life Of movement, glare and publicity
10 a. 4 rough hand on butteriy's
wing. And the delicate bloom of
womanliness is ravislied except the
woman be a genius like Duse, whose
spirit sits 90 far out of sight that she
never really plays in crowded house
to more than the small circle in which
the average woman passes her life.
Then she keeps her private life pri-
Evening star., 1898-02-19
Adventures of n Royal Cradle.
from the Pail Mall Gazette.

The oak cradle in which Mary Queen of
Scots was rocked is very handsome and
well preserved. though 1t has passed
through many vicissitudes. She was born
on the Ith day of December, 1542, at Lin
hthgow palace, which was the fayorite
residence Of James v Of Scotland and his
young wife Mary of Guise. The royal IA
ther never saw his child, for he was on his
deathbed at Falkland palace when she
came into the world. The palace at Lin
lithgow was burned by Gen. Hawley's dra-
goonS after they had been defeated by the
Highland army under Bonnie Prince
Charley in 1746, and the oak cradle was
hands of a woman who used it for her own
babies and passed ii on to her children
and children's children. From her grand
daughter it was, states a writer in the
Culver, obtained about sixty years ago by
Mr.. Joseph V. Patton, well-known Scot
a fine collection OF antique furniture.
HIS daughter, Mrs. d. o. Hill, gives the
following account of 1t: "A man whom my
father employed to look out for any old
carved furniture in the neighborhood of
palaces went into house near Linlithgow
palace, where a woman was rocking a child
in an old oak cradle without one of the
rockers. The man said, What are ye do
ing. jumblin' your bairn's judgment in a
thing like that" She answered him, 'Eh,
mon! Do ye no ken that was the queen $
GRADER He said. You'll be asking a lot
for it,? She replied, I wouldna tax a
pound note for it, The man, on his return
told my father about this, but thought the
woman was asking too much for II. My
father went off at once to Linlithgow, and
gave the woman a good price for 1t, and II
has been in possession of the family ever
since"
Evening star., 1898-02-19
Waste Made Help.
From Harpcr's Weekly.

TO save, to be thrifty to the point Of
avarice, is the virtue or vice of the French
nation, and II strongly tinctures the Fran
co-Belgian temperament. But to teach
children the value OF saving what Is apt to
seem to them waste is not an unadvisable
process. Much French attention has lately
been drawn TO the object lesson given to
the pupils of certain public schools of Brus-
sells. During eight months the scholars
rich and pocr. were requested to collect
each day and TO bring to school any and all
objects they saw while coming and going
on their schoolways-materia thrown away
and counted as refuse in the cutters, in va
can't ground. street sweepings, and like de-
Iosits. Waste paper, wood, fragments of
leather, bits of metal, empty bottles, broken
glass. corks, cigar ends, and score Of
other classifications were made as the fot-
sam and Jetsam poured in daily. The gen.
eraf result was that this unattractive but
quite Convertible material was sold to
dealers in raw material with surprising
profits. They provided clothing for about
900 little waits of poverty, and furnished
m money for the sending of ninety-eigh In
valid children to health resorts; paid for
all the books needed in several charity
classes. and afforded sum of several
hundred francs for the city's public as
sistance of the poor. Jane Taylor's little
girl who cried, Dear me! what signifies a
pin wedged In a rotten board?" should have
been educated in Brussels.
Evening star., 1898-02-19

ceiving them only on condition that they
shall not be worn with citizens dress. Dec
orations displayed on civil dress may be
ocr fiscated by any officer, whether in or
cut of uniform, and returned 10 headquar-
tiers. General orders provide for new
class of metals to oe issued for efficiency
in rifle practice, that of a third-class
mt-rksman teing very elaborate in design.
Armament of Militia Artillery.
Representative Frederick Of Methuen in
trcduced an order in the Massachusetts,
Ecuse of representatives a few days ago,
irstructing the joint committee on military
affairs to make an investigation into the
armament of the artillery of the militia
of the commonwealth, and to report as
soon as possible to the general court
whether any action by the legislature is
necessary in order TO secure the effective
Eess Of the militia, if called into action.
Notes.
Another target has been added to the
equipment of the rifle gallery of the 1st
Separate Battalion, 70S o street.
There is a burst of activity apparent in
Company c, 4th Battalion. The member.
ship of the command has been largely in
intended will be made as soon as quarters
are assigned at the new armory.
An election will be held the first Tuesday
in March to fill a vacancy of first lieutenant
in Company b, 4th Battalion. The men,
bers of the command are enthusiastic over
the proposition to take the brigade to Sea
Girt to camp. The company is at present
in f1ourishing condition, the membership
being at the high water mark.
Evening star., 1898-02-19
IRRIGATION IN INDIA.
An Effort TO Prevent Famfnes by In
telligent Farming.

From Engineering.
The area under irrigation in 1896 ex-
Guiding Bengal, was as follows: BY canals
10, 533 S54 acres; by tanks 5.U91, ,997 acres;
by wells. 9,925, 101 acres; by other means,
1.1SO, 131 acres. The total area irrigated
was. accordingly, 26 737OS3 acres The
area devoted to crops was: Wheat g. 2SU,
500 acres; other cereals and pulse, 16 44O,
l45 acres; miscellaneous food crops 1920
t6l acres: other crops, 4,3O9. 500 acres. The
difference between the area irrigated and
the areas devoted to crops is due to the in
clusion twice of the area irrigated at both
EarvestS.
The figures which we have given show
that irrigation is practically self-supporting
in India, and even if few millions more
nave to be borrowed to complete the Anglo
Indian irrigation system. they can be raised
with ease. The Anglo-Lndian government
has pursued policy of praiseworthy mod
Grafton in the rents which it has drawn
from the cultivators of the public lands un-
der its control In stipulating only for mod
crate rents, the Anglo Indian authorities
had a twofold object in view: First. they
desired to make themselves popular with
the people of India; and, secondly they
wished to render Indian production as cheap
and easy as possible. This is no doubt, all
very well SO far as it goes, but 1t is not
enough. In a naturally dry country such
as India undoubtedly Is, you must assist
nature by irrigation: if you do not do so
nature, through her caprices, will land you
every now and then in serious trouble.
Still. there can be no doubt that what has
been already achieved in the matter of ir-
rigaton in India has been of the greatest
benefit to that dependency. If it has not al
together prevented periodical famines it
has greatly mitgated their horrors: and in
favorable years India has now become a
grain exporting country. The diffusion of a
large measure of ease and comfort among
the natives has also increased the populari-
~ and strengthened the authority of the
British in India With further sustained
and Intelligent development of irrigation
works, still further progress will be made
IN the right direction. The welfare of the
growing population of India will be pro-
NOTED in every way and the danger of
their being exposed to the horrors of famine
Will be reduced to minimum
Evening star., 1898-02-19
POsTMAsTERs CONFIRMED.
Favorable Action by the senate or
Many Nominations.

No"fnntfOus.
The Senate yesterday confirmed these
nominations:
To be Indian agent at the Umatilla agen-
cy in Oregon-C. Wilkins.
To be receivers of public moneys-I, r.
Clough, at Vancouver, Wash; H. V. Cashin,
at Huntsville, Ala.
! To be marshal southern district Of Flori
da-J. +. Horr
To be register of the land office at Water.
Vile, Wash.-J. r. Malloy
To be surveyor general of California;
NJ. Gleaves
To be pension agent at Concord. n. H
II. Henry.
Postmasters:
New jersey J. Hunt, vineland; H. B.
Robinson, Railway; A. r. MessIer. Upper
Montclair; c. III. Richman, Woodstown.
South Paris.
North Carolina-D F. Conrad, Lexington.
Nirginia-A. p. Funkhouser, Harrisburg:
j. w. McBroom, Abingdon
Georgia-W. III. Stallings, Augusta
Ohio-W. s. Hissem, Loudonville
Michigan-W. McCloy, Ray CITY: III n
Laing. Gladstone; Z. s. Williams Niles; s.
r. Allen, Homer.
1owa-B. F. Carroll, Bloomfield
Mississippi-A. Simpson. Pass Christian.
Lyle, Golden City
South Dakota-T A. Stevens, Chamber
lain.
Washington-F. A. Davis. Oakesda1e
West Nirginia-E. McCreary, Parkers-
burg; NJ. Gibson. Romney
lllinois-P. Rodenberg. Mount Olive; w.
A. Steinbarger, Augusta; ]. r. Morgan,
Maroa; j. r. Marshall, Yorkvile: ]. w
Mag1nnis, Abingdon; f. c. Kreider Jack
sonville; L. A. Castle, Wyoming; c. NJ. Tin
ney, Virginia.
1ndiana-A. Weshans, Danville; III. A.
Strohm, kentland: NJ Kilgore, Goodland:
+. w. Carver, Angola.
Texas-H. A. Griffin. Galveston
California; n. Hoag, Redlands