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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30
OLIVER CRON WELL.
A NEW 'COmMEM0RATlON EDITION OF NH
C,HURCH's HISTORY.

A NEW COMMUNICATIONS EDITION OF NH
CHURCH'S HISTORY
Mr.. Samuel Harden Church published ms
"Oliver Cromwell History IN 1874 "i''e
that date il has deseryedly passed through Two
new editions following the original in form lht
hook 10 accurate as to its facts. sound IN jung
ment and sufficiently brief. Ii is IN snort
most admirable popular narrative OF the ne OF
Cro,rwelI and gives a good survey Of his Tune
cromwell was born on April % 1888. In com
noenoration Of the three hundredth anniversary
of his birthday the Putnams have publisheo I"
O., .cial edition deluxe Of Nj. Churchs BOOK
,,,ir,ed in a handsome octave, with every err
cumstance OF ine presswOrk and artisuc Illus
tration We reproduce the por'ralts oi Nio'i" "
and Charles l. Concerning the former whlch
was modelled by Rernini from HE ABOUT '"'''
Mr. Church tells us that IL was offereo 10 the
English nation by the owner Mr.. Charles vert
beiner during Lord Rosebery's administration
and refused In 1898. Lord Salisbury beng IN
Office The bust was accepted. it was erected III
the Palace of Westminster on January 80 %
,to rresent wear "curiously enough the TWO
hundred and fftieth anniversary Of the death OF
Charles /" This bust and all the other porirai's
a ,ictures used &c illustrate Mr.. Cburchs bOoh
90. renroduced in photogravure on Japan paper.
There are eighteen plates altogether, not only
well printed. but with one exception we" Sc
1ec,ed The exception is the full-page portrait
az the author, which good taste "ouiu nav,
omitted In every other respect inns edI'oh :"
q noeritorious piece OF work bets the dshiy
Of the occasion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30

Client Rome Pompeii and other Italian towns
used to amuse themselves playing AT par Impat
l. e, by guessing the number of beans OF al
monds which one OF them held III his closed
hand" These strokes of erudition are naturally
encoura ging to their authors. What was done
by Roman boys two thousand years ago" SAYS
our anonymous antiquarian. finds ITS center
part al the present day IN Throemorton Street
Plainly the historian OF gambling rs great al
exhibiting the persistence of "a trait IN human
nature. He shows you both ends Of the cham
the ancient and the modern. But where are the
intermediate links? The historian does not
know but ne will tell you few anecdotes
Therein resides his rather trivial consequence
&C "A contributor to quaint literature
The Development OF gambling. then, cannot be
traced a. the development % law. say, ear he
traced hut in all ages there have been gambling
customs which TODAY have a certain attractive
ness TO the reader. like old prints encountered
| in d,,stv hooks Ana as our authors 50 blandly
ohs.rye there Is always the touch of human
nature IN them that makes them al Kin Prob
ably Rouge ~ NOR" whose researches have
heen partly carried ~ very recent tunes
could duplicate among his documents o: modern
gaming houses the list of officers PRINTED pN
the "Gentemens Magazine IN fI5I, "a hst anus
iurly suggestive. Among those officers "er.
two individuals known as "Puils' aho hep'
suupued with funds 10y the proprietor III "rdei
that they might play and entice DINERS !" pay
These worthless seem plausible enough Fui
honor among thieves was not the mott" ~
that house There was another officer. euphe-
misticany called a clerk. Of whom "" READ III
,hc ancient record printed ~ Mr.. Ashton THAI
ne is a Check upon the Puns. to see that iheN
sink none Of the Money that u gwen theH To-
play with" A Squibb, We may add was "a PUN
az lower rank a kind Of embryo Fun, VINO had
TO serve 1T half salary until he was clever
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30

ringing in the mind that one prefers 10 take
leave OF this fragmentary but deeply interesting
book
The volume OF letters from Carlyle to his
youngest sister, Mrs. Hanning. we may men
ton not inaptly in this place, but careful pc
rusal OF the collection as a whole only confirms
the adverse judgment passed upon il in The
Tribune as ii brought out from NINTH 10
month in The Atlantic Monthly" Mr. Cope
land, in a dapper preface. makes the astound-
ing statement that Carlyle is for interest and
entertainment, a letter-writer among thou
sand" This opinion. which does not seem to us
defensible any grounds. is discredited with
peculiar force by the letters for the introduction
Of which Mr. Copeland has written his little
say. They - with family matters that could
not by any reich Of the Imagination be re-
garded as of serious interest to the general
reader. and while the picture CARLYLE draws OF
himself. meditating Cromwell in the town
Of Ely, is mildly interesting. We do not see that
any really substantial service is paid TO litera-
ture by notes of this sort: Il found the very
house he had lived in | sat and smoked pipe
about o'clock under the stars on the very
horseback (harpng on stone) which Ollver had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30
THE GODDESS OF CHANCE.
ANECDOTES OF HER CAPRICE AND OF
HER VOTARIES.

THE HISTORY OF GAMBLING IN ENGLAND
BY John Ashton. Octave. PIP viii, S6 Herbert
S. Stone a. Co
THE GAMBLING WORLD Anecdotic Memories
and Stories OF Personal Experience IN tne aem-
pies of Hazard and Speculat ton. with some
Mysteries and lniquiies OF Stock ExchanSe A. NJ
fairs. BY Rouge 81 Noir. With an Appendix 10y
Blue Gown on Turf Gambling and BOOK
makers Practice. Also Portrait of the Author
and Sketches at Monte Carlo drawn ny fau'
RenoUard Octave. PIP. viii, @3 Dodd Meao
Co.
The historian of gambling is inevitably hard
put to il to decide as TO which end OF his subject
should be taken hold Of first. To begin al the
beginning is all very well. but this really means
very little. Mr.. Ashton doubtless experienced
a kind of glow Of contentment when he had laid
hold Of the fact that the Egyptians played at
the game OF Tau. or game of Robbers, and
Rouge ct Noir." whose venerable countenance
looks out at us from the frontispiece OF the
Gambling World" must have felt a similarly
comforting sensation steal over him as he wrote
in his opening chapter: The ~hoolboys of an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30

enough to lure the victim without making
foolish play. There was also a Captain" whose
duty il was TO challenge and fight any gentle
man who was "peevish" over the loss Of his
money. and finally, "A resi- ectable 90 climax,
there was an Orderly Man" 10 walk up and
down in front Of the house and give the word
TO the porter just inside when the constables
came in sight Under the Regency gambling
throve perhaps il never throve before. Gro
now who is quoted by Mr. Ashton, has Iii
vertng story OF how one famous house was es
tablishcd Upon one occasion, some gentlemen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30

often mounted from two hundred years ago
Is the world any richer for knowing mat Oai
lyle sat upon that horseback, or that he sem HE
sister a draft for 40? We trow not
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

The following is the names Of the
students who have entered the normal
since June IL:
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23
Kansas City Hay Market

As reported by J. t. Woolsey & Co, Wholesale
dealers in hay, grain,etc., Kansas City, Mo.
The receipts of hay and straw for
the week ending July 2lst were as fol
lows: Prairie hay SO cars, timothy
43, clover mixed s, clover l, straw 2;
total 140, against 2l2 last week.
This market has been badly over
stocked with low grades of hay for
several weeks, but at no time has
good hay been in excess of the de-
mand.
The receipts of good hay have been
very light and top figures were OBJ
tainable nearly all the time, while
low grades as rule were selling
around the bottom quotations. The
receipts thus far this week have been
very light, the tracks are clearing up,
and better demand exists even for
the lower grades, while there is not
enough good hay to supply the de-
mand today. The first car of new up
land prairie hay arrived yesterday,
graded choice, and sold on the open
market $50 per ton. New timothy
is expected this week. We quote to-
days market as follows:
Prairie hay, choice (old), 1925 to
7.75; No. ], $3.50 to 7.25; No. ,, S. TO
$50; No. 3. 81 to 8; No. 4, $3.50 to 4;
packing, $3.50 to ).
Timothy. choice, $3.50 to 8; No. !,
SS to $50; No. 2, $3.50 to $50, No. 3,
s. to 6.
Pure clover. nominal, s6 to Z; alfal-
ia, So to I; straw, $3.50 TO 4.50.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23
Weootn9

. Wednesday evening, June 21, Mr..
Tim Cunningham and Miss Adell
CASTOR were married at the home of
the brides sister. Mrs. @. P. Garvln,
Dr. H. NJ. Carr officiating.
Miss CASTOR is a most eStimable
young lady and Mr. Cunningham is
one of the successful prosperous young
men of the town. This young couple
have the esteem and good wishes OF
every body. After a trip toa a number
of places of interest in the west, they
will settle down to staid married life
in the beautiful home provided by the
groom iD the Bird ward.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

Though the Republican party has
Biles in this county it don't seem to
De much worried over the matter. 1t
S the other fellow that will do the
worrying ia this case. Biles ars said
o purify the blood, aud should be ex-
)ected to purify politics.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

Supt. John Perry, of Wilson county,
spent last week IN Emporia attending
the commencement exercises. John
seemed wonderfully interested in the
reunion there, especially his reunion
with a certain fair sch( olmarm who
seemed to have rare charms.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23
SHAW.

A free entertainment, consisting of
good music, recitations, songs, etc.
will be given at the Shaw Christian
church on next Saturday night, June
"A, after which ice cream and cake
will be served in tEe grove at 10 cents
a dish. Everybody are cordially IN
vited.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23
nlerSeV Bull.

[ now have full blood Jersey bull,
at my stable south Of Wilder'S drug
store. This is full bloOdcd animal
from the best milk COW ever owned in
the state. Terms, one dollar at time
of service. A. l.. NOBLE.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

School district officers Will lind it tt
their interest to get our prices on
supplies before buying.-G. P. Wilder.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23
Stray Horse Found.

A stray gray horse has been taken
up at the place of S. Swanson, 6 miles
west OF Chanute. Twp
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

Cancers, tumor and gaitre are cured
by an entirely new method which is
absolutely painless. No knife or burn
ing pastures
AT
The A. w. Walkers institute of Vito
Magnetic Healing, over S. M. Neal &
Cos. drug store across the street from
Music Hail. The eminent healer.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

The best organs and sewing ma
chimes in the city at the Singer Office.
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

Our prediction is that Judge Still
well viii have about as much oppO-
siton to his reelection as he had to
his nomination. The Pop that runs
against Judge Stillwell will find be is
up against a circumstance
The Chanute times., 1899-06-23

Our neighbor Cox, he of the profes-
sion of law, has found sure method
of breaking cats from catching chick
ems. 1t is very simple and inexpensive
and so far, he says, has proven a sue
cess at his house.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

Gas engines driven by blast fur
mace waste have now been installed
in England, Scotland, France and
Germany. A recent estimate shows
that furnace producing 600 tons Of
pig iron per week, using ton of coke
per ton of iron, would deliver 100000
cubic feet Of gases pr hour, of which
a third would be used for the blast.
The remainder would give $500 to
1000 horse power in gas engines.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

The manufacture OF mineral waters
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

Wrought iron and steel appear to
be of minimum tensile strength at the
temperature of ordinary use. Mr.. r.
C. Carpenter finds that from about
7OoF. the tensile strength increases
with change in either direction, be-
coming about 5000 and at co. below
zero. Increased brittleness seems to
be indicated at the temperature Of
steam at 5 or 10 pounds pressure
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

Makes fat, bl- cd, and muscles more
rapidly than any known remedy. It's
foot, for the blood, brain, and nerves.
Tha 8 what Rocky Mountain Tea is.
Hulburd & johnson.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

The steam turbine is the oldest
heat engine on record, the engine de-
scribed by Hero of Alexander about
200 years before Christ having been
crude form of steam turbine. It's
successful application to the Tur-
binia, which is estimated to have
reached speed of 34a knots, and to
torpedo-bo destroyers, has led the
Hon. G. Fl. Parsons to consider the
fitness for larger vessels of the princi-
pie that has lain SO long dorment.
He finds the conditions for its use
even more favorable on the faster
class of vessels, such as cross-Chan
mel boats. liners and cruisers. The
reduction in machinery weight and in
coal consumption per horsepower are
of especial importance in such yes
sells, and the absence of vibration is
also a great advantage. A vessel OF
1000 tons, with spacious accommoda-
tons for 900 passengers and with ma
chinery developing $4,000 horse
power, would have speed of about
30 knots, as compared with the 10 to
% knots of the present vessels OF
like size and accommodation. A
special unarmored cruiser,-with
scanty crew accommodations, but an
armament of guns and torpedoes,-
would have interesting speed posi-
bilities. With dimensions double
those of the 30-knot destroyers, and
plates of double thickness, specially
strengthened, there would be two
tiers of water tube boilers, and eight
propellers Of 9 feet diameter. revolv,
lug at about 400 revolutions per min
ute, and the speed would be nearly
Al knots. For this speed the coal
supply would last s hours but for 1C
to Ia knots the economy would ex.
coed ordinary vessels.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

A few of the engineering fields
from which much may be expected
in the twentieth century were pointed
out by Sir Douglas Fox in recent
address to British civil engineers.
The roblems of surprising impor-
lance now opening up include;
trunk railroads through Russia,
China, Persia, Africa; irrigation
works to supply the wants of grow
ing populations; harbors large
enough for the vessels of the future;
central installations to furnish light
ing, power, traction and heating to
whole counties; the extension of tele-
phonic communication-with and
without wires; the abolition of the
smoke and smell of cities; the replace
ment of horses by mechanical power
in the streets; the increase of the
speed of trains to 100 miles per hour;
the erection of tall buildings where
land is valuable; the utilization of
waste products, especially the refuse
of cities; the improvement of the
water. supply; the reclamation of land;
the profitable working of deep seams
of coal.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09
scientific MISCELLANY.

Twentieth Century PrOblems--The
Greatest Insect Pests. Occurrence
of Rare MetaIs--Th Motor for
Fast Vessels. Settler Water Purl-
ty-.Importance of Furnace Gases
"A Double M Otored Automobile
.-Cause of Mysterious ExplO-
sion--Atmospheric Tides.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09
The Trihn11e.
DIRECTORY.

JUDO AL OFFICER.
.,.~r r r.. BROWN. ......... Dstrlct Juuee
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

The elephant beetle of Venezuela,
sometimes weighing half pound, is
believed to be the largest known
insect.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

i
The terrific explosion that occurred
some months ago in chlorate OF
potash factory at st. Helens, Eng.
has been subject of careful investi-
cation. No previous explosion of
chlorate of potash could be found on
record, but experiment proves that
the salt is liable to explode when the
temperature is raised very rapidly,
and sudden heat is the only probable
cause suggested for the St. He,ens
disaster.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09
To Cure La Grippe in Two Days.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the
money il it fails to cure. E. W.
Groves signature on every box. 25
cents.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09


Certain of the rarer elements. as
appears from paper by J. FL. L.
Vogt on the distribution of Yanadium
constitute about the following per-
centages Of the earth's solid crust:
Phosphorus, OO9 per cent, man
ganese, O.O75: sulphur, O.O6; titaninm,
DOB; chromium, DOL to OO2; chrom-
ium, Dol, lithium. 0.OO5; strontium,
0OO5; nickel, 0.OO5; vanandium,
OOO25 to O.OO5; cerium, less than
OOO1; yttrium, less than O.OO1 cobalt,
OOOO5; thorium, 0.OOOl. Zinc and
glucinum are somewhat less rare than
vanadium.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

Ductility is retained at low tempera-
lures. The tensile strength of cast
iron is the same from zoe to ZOO be-
yond that decreasing to zero at 124O0.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

is criticized by French chemist, P
Carles, who finds that very often too
little care is exercised. The great
essentials are the judicious choice OF
a soft water, the use of perfectly pure
carbonic acid, and the exclusion OF
valves made partially of lead. In
times of epidemics, special attention
should be given to the psychological
purity of water, and it should be
remembered that microbes as those
of typhoid-live longer in seltzer
water than in ordinary water.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

From barometric observations ut
Rome, F. Morano concludes that the
moon produces two high and two low
atmosphere to be 300 kilometers
(186.51 miles, deep, he calculates that
the moon causes tide Of 81 meters
and the sun one of 10 meters, the
maximum tide being 81 meters.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

The automobile of Edward Henri
quez, of Brussels, Belgium, has an
ingenious power combination. 1t is
provided with both gasoline engine
and an electric motor with storage
battery; and by suitable gearing,
clutches and switches. either the gas
oline engine or the electric motor may
be made to propel the carriage, Of
both may be used, or the engine may
be made to drive the motor for charg.
ing the storage battery. The cleo.
trio equipment is intended for use
chiefly on city streets, where the
odor of the exhausted oil vapor might
be annoying. On level country roads
the engine is to supply the power
but will have the aid of the electric
motor in climbing long hills. The
double source of energy offers an i'm
portant advantage, of course, in thu
reserve Of means o finish ones jour
ueY in case one motor fails.
Morris tribune., 1899-12-09

The most destructive insects are
the locusts and the white ants or
termites. Reporting the work of
these in India. Mr.. E. P. Stebbing
states that the locusts invade the fer
tile districts from their home in the
sandy deserts, and in their course
leaves not green leaf or shoot in
forest or field. Forests and moisture
being their greatest enemies, CONVEX
sion of arid sandy areas into planta-
lions would tend to check this pest.
The white ants work disaster to any
building, yet render service to man
by rapidly converting decaying wood
into mud, doing no damage to heal
thy trees. So marvellous is their in
stinct that they discover and and at
tack a dead branch on any part of
trees trunk.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-10
After the N. e. A. What?

Why, a stopover at the Texas-Col-
orado Chautsuqua of course. Make the
Chautauqua complete rest from your
long journey from the coast. Colorado
| THE Great Human Repair Shop of
America" welcomes you. and gives
| free to you of her Vital, Invigorat-
ing Tonic Air. Colorado's health re-
| newing com bination of Blue Sky, Sun
shine and high altitude makes new
life in you, better capable of metal
growth.
THE TExAs-CoLoRADo CHAUTAUQUA.
opens at Boulder, July 4, 1899. An at
tractive forty day program, Superb
music. Americas greatest platform
entertainers. A complete Chautauqua
Summer School has been supplied with
the ablest faculty money can buy.
New Electric Railway now connects
boulder with the Chautauaua grounds,
The Denver road gives you choice OF
routes to the N. E. A. and to the Chau-
tauqua.
For Chautauqus literature address
A. "A. Gibson, Gen. Agt Pass. Dept.
or d. B. keller, Traffic
Manager, Fit. Worth & Denver City
Ky. Fort Worth. Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-10

THE story of how Harry Chairman
was protected by the administration in
his position of city scavenger, by the
virtual. creation of q monopoly, al
though unlswfully, makes good read
ing. The story was printed in Sstur-
days HERALD. It appears that Harry
Chairman Unsupported SO strongly by
Charley Patterson, who is city record
err, that the council dares not do any
thing contrary to said Patter-
sons wishes. The man Geiger
offered 10 writing to pay
the city forty dollars month
license fee and forego any salary, to do
in far more satisfactory manner the
work for which Chairman gets sixty
dollars month from the city. In 9TH
er words, the city would make one
hundred dollars a month clear, and
the work would unquestionably be bet
ter done. Patterson told the council
that no matter what they might do in
the matter he, as recorder, would
protect his client, Chairman, at all
hazards. In other words, the govern
ment of this city. under the present
regime, is in the hands of Charley
Patterson, who overrides may or and
council to protect his friends.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-10

many loopholes through which the
peoples money escapes without cor
responding benefit accruing to them.
Such an unjusti6sble outlay was the
amount spent by the mayor. out OF the
levee fund, for q banquet at the Pier
son and for wine at the banquet, given
at the time of the corner stone celebra-
ton last month With the other items
of the bill we take no issue. They
we're for money paid out for things
that in some way were shared by al
the people. With the banquet it was
different. The banquet was given by q
few people in honor of the occasion
and in entertainment OF distinguished
visitors. It does not matter much who
wac at the banquet, although 1t would
have been more fitting if the Mexican
visitors had been entertained by
company of representative citizens.
But entirely aside from that, it is
wrong to make the taxpayers at large
pay for champagne and a fine supper
for few self invited people who at
tended largely for their own indul-
gence. This por ton of the bill should
be disapproved by the city council, and
those who attended the banquet should
be assessed 80 much each to pay for it. |
T hat would be the only fair way.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-10

MAYOR MAGOFFIN has made not the
slightest attempt to comply with the
requirements of his official oath in the
matter of enforcing the laws against
gambling, dance halls, and disorderly
houses. More than that, he permits
lewd women to parade day and night
on the public streets, Haunting their
vile vocation in the faces of respectable
and law abiding citizens. He insults
every decent citizen by his open def
ance of the laws.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-10

WHEN the man Geiger, who wanted
to do the city scavenger work when
Charman's time was up, at an imme-
date and actual saving of twelve hun
dred dollars year to the city treas.
ury, petitioned the city council to take
some action on his proposition, the
mayor said, We'll just lay the matter
over until O'Keeffe is sworn in" as
much as to say that as long as he, Mag
ofin, was mayor justice was not to be
had.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-10

1T is quite characteristic of our pre-
sent mayor that he worked in all his po-
litical friends at fine banquet, with
unlimited champagne, after the corner
stone celebration, with only enough
sprinkling of other people to deceive q
few, and then that he should oovertly
pay this private bill out Of the levee
fund (why out of the levee fund is q
mystery and ask the city council to
ratify his action. The city council
ought to strike out the wine supper
item. Even those who attend say they
themselves ought to have contributed
toward the expense q sufficient sum to
meet it fully.