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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
A Cnnen barometer.

It is claimed that the coffee" fore
cast is a reliable way OF determining
what the weather is going to be. In
order to tell what the weather is going
to be you must drop carefully into
your morning cup Of coffee, prepared
with little milk, two lun us OF sugar
Do not stir the coffee. If the bubbles
ascend rapidly, separate quickly and
fly to the side of the cup, there VIII
be much RAN within the ext twenty
four hours. II they gat' closely and
gravitate in a cluster to the side only
possible showers may be expected.
But If they remain placidiy n the CEN
ter of the cup you may weaT your best
hat and leave your umbrella at home
when you take your walks abroad.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
NO PAY NO 7 ak.

Even at this stage of the campaign
Mr.. Bryan adheres to the doctrine OF
mo Pay no Talk" He was at Chill
licothe, Ohio, the morning of the 14th
of October, and delayed the meeting
there for at least half an hour until
the necessary SIS to insure the wag-
ging of his jaw was forthcoming.
When the necessary sum had been
raised he spoke for about eighteen
minutes, which is a very liberal rate
of little over So per minute, and he
had considerable trouble in inducing
the people of the old time city OF
Allen G. Thurman to give up the need
full coin.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
MEN-OF-WAR.
Are Now Fnster Than the Atlantic
Liners.

Arc Now Faster Than the Atlantic
| Liners.
With the exception OF torpedo boats
and few small pleasure craft. says
writer in Casters Magazine, the
American-built Russian cruiser Va
RAG is today the fastest vessel ahoat.
having recently gone through seven,
and half hours trial run at speed
of from 1876 to 23.7 knots, or Ella TO
27.25 miles an hour. We need go back
only few years to find q time when
the large Atlantic racers, In point of
regularly attainable speed, were far
beyond anything that had ever been
done in any navy, and their perform
ances we're considered practically be-
yond reach under the severe condi
lions OF cramped space. light machin
cry weight, and Others similarly re-
strictive to the designer. The United
States triple-screw cruiser Minneapolis
about six years ago developed slightly
more than % knots during her con-
tract trials. AS in the cases of mos
naval vessels, it was not expected that
would be demanded hour after hour
in a run of several days, and 1895
practical demonstration was given for
the first time that naval vessel
could actually hold her own with one
of the crack Atlantic liners. This was
afforded by the United States cruiser.
Columbia in her phenomenal run
har m m nj
to Sandy Hook Lightship. off the
American shore, in a few minutes less
that seven days, or, to be exact, In
days. 90 hours and 40 minutes, the
average speed for tho whole trip be-
ing 1854 knots, or 21.S miles an hour.
The Columbia at the time was prac-
tically racing against the steamer Au-
gusta-Victoria OF the Hamburg-Amer-
lean lire. Making proper allowance
for the difference in the length OF the
two routes, the Augusta-Victoria hay
ing sailed from Cherbourg, the same
rate of speed was maintained by both
ships. Since that time high-speed.
long-distanee runs Of war vessels
have been repeated, so that the inn
preston has at last been wiped out
that modern warships were simply
boxes full of delicate and complex ma
chinery scarcely fitted for the hard
knocks which they were really in
tended to withstand. But among all
the swift cruisers and battleships, the
Var'ag's 23.7 knots give her today first
place.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
r.lenhnns without Wires.

At the meeting of the British Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
at Bradford, England, Sir William
Preece, ex-president of the Institution
of Civil Engineers. announced that he
had successfully transmitted speech
eight miles across sea without the aid
of wires and that the establishment OF
such a system for commercial COM
municatlon was practicable between
ships and land. Sir William Henry
Preece made several experiments last
year with an induction system OF wire
less telept ming. signaling across the
Menai straits and using telephones at
both ends to receive the signals.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
THE PoPOCRATIC CRY.

The popocratics are a little early
this year with their outcries about
coercion of wage earners. Four years
ago they deferred this trick until a
week before election. Now, as then,
the reply to it is the same. No one
has voiced it better than President
Mckinley did in speech to Cleve-
land club of wage workers, Oct. "a:
They talk about coercion, the coer-
cion of the employee by employer. They
mistake the spirit of the campaign. 1t
is not coercion but cohesion-cohesion
between employer and employe, made
stronger by a common interest and a
common experience
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
ERYANISM AND CORN PRICES.

When the Bryan boom eliminated IN
September, 1896, corn had reached the
lowest record of the year at 1917 cents
bushel. Then as the Bryan boom be-
gan to subside and McKinley's election
to look probable the price improved,
and in November, right after the cleo
ton of Mckinley, the best price OF
the last six months of 1896 was
reached, at 251s cents bushel. Be-
tween the low price just at the height
OF the Bryan boom in September and
the high price just after the election
of Mckinley there was a difference of
cents bushel, which made differ
ence Of $120,0OO,O00 in the value of the
crOD
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
REM EN- Der.

Remember 92. During the campaign
of '92 you thought you were too busy
to take an active interest in politics.
Remember the result:
CONSERVATION.
Lack of confidence.
Empty pocketbooks.
Vicious tariff laws.
Emergency bond issues.
Losses in bond issues.
Losses in business.
Assignments.
No employment.
Distress.
Do not make the same mistake this
year.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
DIScoURAcINo THE SOLDIERS,

Lieutenant L. A. Darlington of AL
lance. Neb.. now in the Philippines,
writes:
There is one saying Of DecatuPs
that rings in my ears. whether In the
mountains or in the swamps. along the
battle line or away from 1t. My coun-
try, may she be always right. but right
or wrong, my country
"A soldiers heart is not made glad
when he reads in the papers from
home that he is cutthroat and fight
ing people who are fighting for their
liberty. That is liei The people here
want our liberty, our flag as their flag.
and our laws to govern them. II Is a
band of highwaymen and cutthroats
who pose no place as patriots except
in the papers and minds Of some Of
their friends In the United Stataes
that are once silerced you will hear
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
USE OF ENGLISH"
Dictionary Rightly Used Next in Inter
est TO Bible.

Dictionary Rightly Used, Next in Inter
est to Bib,e.
Richard Burton in writing in East
and West of "The Use of English,
says: Words, like men, have their
strange eventful HISTORIES and. again
like men. one word in it's time plays
many parts.' To follow the ups and
downs of a single proper mount
stupid name since its career is as often
as not improper and hence doubly fas-
cinaiing-or of a common noun
named with equal stupidity, since its
story is likely to be most uncommon
this pursuit, I say, is often as excit-
ing as novel or football game.
Thus it follows that the dictionary
Brightly used and comprehended) is the
most interesting OF all books. save per-
haps the Bible. DR.. Holmes knew this
when he made the Autocrat say: When
I feel inclined to read poetry take
down my dictionary The poetry OF
words is quite as beautiful as that OF
sentences The author may arrange
the gems effectively, but their shape
and luster have been given by the at
triton of ages. Bring me the finest
smile from the whole range OF i'm
aginative writing, and l will show
you a single word which conveys a
more profound, more accurate ana
more eloquent analogy Emerson had
the same feeling when he wrote: 1t
does not need that poem should be
long. Every word was once poem. =
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
THEN AND NOW.

Four years ago we laid off about
one-half of our men, on account of in
sufficient business, and the other half
were employed only six hours with
six hours pay.
Today every man is working full
time and receiving ten hours pay for
nine and quarter hours work. We
believe that our condition is similar
to that of all other electrical manu-
featuring concerns. Yours truly,
The Cutler Hammer Mfg. Co.,
J. G. Hickcox, Sec and Treas.
Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. 6, 1900:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
s,mnlIol,r o. Empsror Jo.eph.

The personal habits OF Emperor
Francis Joseph are marked with SOL
dier-like simplicity. His food is OF the
plainest, such as an ordinary citizen
consumes. He retires at 3 o'clock
every night and sleeps on his iron field
bed. At the age OF seventy he is still
able TO meet and overcome the per-
picking difficulties that are peculiar
to the Austro-Hungarian empire. and
his great goodness Of heart has won
him universal love throughout the en-
pire.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
IMPERIALISM SO YEARS AGO.

If Abraham Lincoln is reelected
President, the liberties of the people
are gone forever Military despotism
will rule. There will be no liberty Of
speech or press. Anarchy, bloody an
archy, will follow. Taxation without
limit will grind the people to the dust.
There will be more widows and or
phans and more tyranny and oppres-
sion than the world has seen for CEN
turies.-Niles Republican, 1864.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
PANIC WOULD SURELY SET IN.

The agitation which would newt
ably follow a Democratic triumph next
November would check the volume of
business, delay improvements, curtail
the output of mine, furnace and loom,
and another era of retrenchment with
the corresponding lack of work, lack
of confidence, lack of comforts, would
be inaugurated. The wise business
man lets well enough alone, and the
wise voter will do the same.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
TREAsoNABLE OPPOSITION.

And II. in performing this work Of
civilization. American blood should be
shed the position Of our antiexpansion-
lists would not be enviable. The first
shot fred against the American flag
would make domestic opposition to the
measures Of our government avert
treason. And those who practice tres-
son find small indulgence in any coun-
try.-New York Journal, Jan. 6, 1899.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
DESPAIR is DROWNED.

THE hum OF industry has drowned
the voice OF calamity. and the voice
Of despair Is no longer heard in the
United States. and the orators with
out occupation here are now looking to
the Philippines for ort"-William
Mckinley.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
OF and see the beginning OF the end
of all this trouble in the Philippine ISL
ands."
OUR LARGE STANDING ARMY.

Our "large standing army" OF which
the Democracy is in such state OF
fear consists of $4,000 men. Switzer-
land keeps nearly two and one-half
times as many in her standing army
of $4,000 men, and besides has $751;
coo men in reserve.
The United States proportionately
has the smallest army in tho world.
The ratio of soldiers to total popula-
ton Is shown in the following:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
COCHRAN ON DEMOCRACY.

Democratic leaders may betray a
convention to the Populists, but they
cannot seduce the footsteps Of Demo-
cratice voters from the pathway Of
honor and justice. "-Hon w. Bourke
Cochran, Democrat. Madison Square
Garden, New York city. Aug. is, 1885
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
SMALL AND AoUINALDo.

Il will not vote for a candidate for
the Presidency. or help to bring a par
ty into power who. while they plant
one heel on the forehead Of Booker
Washington. and the other on the fore
head Of Robert Small. wave the flag
over Aguinaldo and MabinL George
T. Hoar
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09

state.
A horse and buggy was found floating
in the Neosho river in Coffey county
but there was no trace found of any
driver and no one has claimed the
rig.
Entomologist F. o. Popenoe, of Kan
sas Agricultural college, is in charge
of the inspection of Kansas nurseries
which is made necessary by laws of
other states which prevent shipment
of nursery stock without inspection.
Mcpherson county Mennonites pro-
pose to go into the banking business.
Their bank is to have $4,000 capital
the earnings of which are to be very
small percentage of the profits of the
bank, the greater part to be appropria-
ted TO the missionary association of
their church in America.
The waverly mill at Waverly was
burned on the morning of October 2s.
Nothing was saved. The loss above
insurance is about 500.
A party Of Missourians passed
through Kansas in wagons bound for
Oklahoma In one wagon there were
six collins containing the exhumed
bodies of six of their relatives.
Ex- Secretary of state William Hig-
gins, recently the Publisher Of daily
newspaper in Galena, has been ap-
pointed an appraiser Of Indian lands
| In Indian Territory.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-20
CALLS HUSBAND A CONVICT.
Charlotte L. Jones Asks the Court to
Annnl Her Marriage so II. Il. Garrett

Charlotte Il. Jones has obtained an or
der from Justice McAdam of the Supreme
Court of New York to serve a summons
by publication on Henry B. Garrett in an
action to annul her marriage to him on
the ground that he had fraudulently con-
cealed that he was guilty of criminal con-
duct. They were married on Octiber T.
1885, in Jersey City, where she says his
family lives. Her father is the head of
the firm of William P. Jones & Son of No.
455 Ninth avenue, New York. She AYERS
that her father, who is a shrewd man.
was deceived like herself by Garrett
Previous to the marriage, Garrett had
been her attorney and practiced law at
No. $50 Broadway and subsequently at No.
234 Broadway. She says that he has the
manners and breeding of a gentleman,
had the benefit of a university education
and was proficient and plausible in
speech, engaging in manners and moved
IN the best society of Jersey City,
She declares that her brother and father
| ascertained on Nov. S, 1896, that Garret
had been tampering with her brothers
handbook and had drawn most of the de-
posit, and altered the passbook Garrett,
she says, fed at the time and she has not
seen or heard from him since except that
he wrote to her on Christmas, 1896, and
she replied that she would have nothing to
do with him. She AYERS that she there
after found in his effects pardon from
the Governor of New Jersey for some
crime he had committed and for which he
had served part of a term in Trenton
prison. She says she also ascertained that
he had forged two checks on the United
Service Club of New York or the members
thereof. Since he fed, she says he has
been sentenced to three year term for
forgery in the Province of Ontario, Can
ada, and was released with the usual COM
mutation in July, 1899. She says an in
dictment for forgery is hanging over him
in this county, but that the detectives
have been unable to get him.
Henry B. Garrett was the adopted son
of David Garrett, a wealthy Jersey City
plasterer, now dead. His father gave him
a good education and the young man af-
terward became a lawyer He was a
high roller and about fifteen years ago
was arrested for giving checks on banks
in which he had no account. Mr.. Garrett
redeemed the checks but disowned the
young man, who disappeared Immediately
after and has not been seen in Jersey City
since.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-20
DIED SEEKING VENGEANCE
Mrs. McPhiIIips Demands That
Her Murderer Ee Pun
ished.

st won't die unless you promise that
youth call the Coroner so the man who
murdered me may be punished" said Mrs.
Susan McPhillips of West New York, on
last Monday to the doctor who attended
her
The promise was given. Mrs. McPhillips
died and the inquest was held yesterday
by Coroner Geschwindt, at the Union Hill
Town Hall. The result was that Daniel
Reardon was held charged with having
caused Mrs. McPhfllips's death.
Reardon lives next door to the Nc
Philhps's home. On July he came home
in an ugly mood and beat his wife. She
ran into the back yard. Her screams at
tracted the attention of Mrs. McPhillips,
who went out and exposulated with Rear
don.
Infuriated by her interference, Reardon,
it is said, struck the would-be peaeemak-
er on the head with an iron bar.
Reardon was arrested for assault, but
his wife pleaded so hard with Mrs. Nc
Phillips that the injured woman relented
and refused to press the charge. So the
prisoner was discharged.
A day or two afterward Mrs. McPhillips
tainted in her house, and was removed
to the Roosevelt Hospital in New York
City. She was discharged as cured the
next day, but upon reaching the street
she again tainted, and this time was taken
to Bellevue. She remained there a few
days and again was discharged. In her
home she complained of pains in her
head. DR.. Won der Bach was called. and
then for the first time it was ascertained
that her skull had been fractured.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-20
POLICE HAVE NO CLUE.
Chief Murphy Sticks to Theory
That Prudential's Theft
Was One of Luck.

After four days hard work, diligently
searching every possible corner for the
man who stole the satchel from Miss
Laura Rickerich at the Hudson County
National Bank on Tuesday afternoon, the
police today are where they were in the
beginning. They have unearthed several
details that give them hope, but as yet
nothing definite has been learned.
George Outwater and Samuel Herbert,
the two young man who gave chase after
the thief when Miss Rickerich shouted
stop thief" were interviewed by re-
porter for 'sThe News" this morning. The
young men have visited police head
quarters in Brooklyn, New York and
Newark looking at the pictures in the
various rogues' galleries. They have as
yet, they say, failed to discover any re-
semblance in any of the pictures to the
thief. They will continue their search to-
morrow.
Mr. Outwater described the thief as be-
ing about five feet six inches tall, sallow
complexion, dark chin. high cheek bones,
sunken cheeks, dark brown hair wearing
a faded suit which was something the col
or of rust black derby hat black shoes.
He said this description was correct be-
cause he had an excellent opportunity to
see the man clearly and distinctly, as he
fell after climbing the fence of St. Mat
thew's Church on Sussex street
Chief Murphy still thinks the man was
not a professional. One thing that seems
to strengthen his conviction that pan
| the fact that the checks in the valise were
ct returned. He says 1t. is the usual
thing for them to return checks they cam
| not cash and papers of no value to them.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-20
Fit for a Queen.

Though many fair collector may lose
her head over this quaint dressing mir
ror, let us hope it viii not be in the
tragic way that poor. pretty Antoinette.
its original owner. lost hers.
Yes, 1t really did belong to this beauti-
full, brilliant, but ill-fated queen, she Of
the dainty. coquettish fiehu and many a
bright remark.
Note the elaborate carving and COM
pare it with the very plain examples
which came in with LounS XIV. This
choice piece is one mass of delicate
carving, such delicate work in wood! 1t
is overlaid with gold leaf, while in the
base, three genuine old Sevres plaques are
quantity inlaid
However exquisite the carving, one
must not forget the priceless old brocade
which covers the top of it. Brocade of
this sort is a lost art; nobody has time
enough to make it nowadays. They want
to see quick results as to cash. A part
of the top comes off. and one fancies the
space within filled with the Queen's
Jewels and one wonders where She kept
her complexion and her hair powder.
There never was room enough in this
affair.
Perhaps this mistress of her powder de-
partment brought the tell-tale articles
with her.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-20
ELECTRIC WIRE CAUSED FIRE
Seven Tenements Gutted in
Hoboken Last Night.

Sparks thrown off by defective electric
wire last evening in saloon at Four
teenth and Hudson streets, Hoboken,
started a confagration which gutted a
row of frame tenements in less than half
an hour. Seven buildings, all of them old
and of cheap construction, were de-
stroyed.
The structures were two stories high
with stores on the ground floors. They
burned like matchwood and the firemen
could do nothing to save them. Twenty
minutes after the fire broke out in the
saloon, the row, which extended up Four
teenth street, was a flaming mass upon
which ten streams of water had little eff
feet The tenants all escaped in safety.
Some were in bed when the alarm sound
ed little before eleven o'clock.
Fire Chief James Applegate said the losa
would not reach over 5000.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-07-20
SMOKERS DIDN'T APPRECIATE 1T
Musical Ladies in a Bayonne Car
Have It Their Own Way.

When a late ferryboat reached. its dock
last night and the passengers were rush
ing to get home, six or seven men with
lighted cigars in their mouths made their
way to a Bayonne car. To their disgust
they found the five rear seats set apart
for smokers occupied by a party of
quase young ladies and every other seat
ahead filled. The ladies had no hats and
wore shirt waists in patterns suggestive
of eruptious of scarlet fever or small
pox
An audible growl went up from that
crowd of men as they hung on the run
board. Thoroughly oblivious of the mems
presence the intruders on mems domain
indulged in that pleasing feminine Gus
tom of fixing each others back hair and
all talking at once Suddenly one elderly
young thing who clearly ought to have
known better began to sing that classic
ditty:-
I'D Leave My Happy Home for You
90, e, oo,' and one of the GROWERS saw
agely said sotto voice.
Dashed if I would
Then the feminine party took it into
their heads to sing sacred songs and these
they sang in what is known as seconds, !"
as was ever devised. The first number
was
ever devised. The first number was:-
What Shall the Harves Be?''
.Thrashing I'd suggest muttered the
fat man hanging on behind.
Now my dears let us sing" said a
voice. Pull for the Shore and the
manner in which they pulled that melody
hither and thither brought from another
horrid man on the back platform the
comment
SAT sea, evidently
Just as the car reached Danforth ave-
nue. the singers struck up:-
Throw out the life lines, some ones
drifting and the male sixtet jumped off
shouting
Needn't mind we'll drift home all
right
"Horid things" exclaimed the leading
lady singer and her companions, while
the remaining passengers in front snig-
gered. There was no more singing that
trip.