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The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-13
They are Tired Of it.

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The women of Colorado, Utah
and Wyoming, who have already
voted in one presidential election
have tired of the exercise of suffrage
and hardly half Of them will vote
in the coming election, according
to the registration lists.
In these States, in a maj ority of
cases the wife votes the same way
as her husband, the sister fellows
the brother or father, and the
maiden without other guidance de-
ponds upon the political judge
meut OF her closest male friend.
In the judgement Of the practical
politicians of these four States wo-
man suffrage is d small factor in
determining the result of an cleo.
ton, as the vote is distributed pro-
portionately to that cast by men.
But now the novelty has worn off
and almost majority of these
Western women do not care to
vote.
1t is declared that woman suf-
frage has brought about two things,
one being order at the polling
booth and another distinct ap-
peal to the personal qualification
of the candidates nominated by all
parties. On the other hand, some
Of the men who have paid consid-
cradle attention to the subject,
say that the introduction of the
woman's vote into the political sit
uation has brought about an un-
certainty and disturbance of nor
NAL political conditions which are
useless and annoying.
No other pills can equal DeWitts Little
Early Risers for promptness, certainty and
efficiency. Johnsons Pharmacy.
The o1d-ti1ne constructing given
by Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Thomas last
Tuesday evening was quite an enjoy
able affair, and revived to many of us
pleasant recollections of long time
time ago; and although the task of
'shucking-husking" and throwing
the corn was continued for about two
hours, it was great fun even to those
who were not able to find just one
red ear. At 10 o'clock splendid re-
freshments were served-cofee, cake
and several kinds of sandwiches, after
which the corn-shucks and all gave
place to those who loved to dance.
Music was furnished by Mess Leavitt
and Jones.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
The Tariff No Aid to Monopoly.

Suppose the tariff were entirely
removed from iron and steel prod
ucts, would that in any way lessen
the monopolistic aspect of the Car
magic company? Not at all; it would
probably let in the cheaper products
of England and other countries,
which would undersell a very large
number of Carnagie's smaller com
petitors. Indeed, a large number
of them would be compelled to re-
tire from business, but the Carnagie
company would in all probability be
able to weather the storm AS the
small concerns disappeared the Car
magic company would reach out in
the hope of getting still larger pro-
portion of the American business,
and if size means monopoly, that
would be more monopolistic than
ever. Briefly, the result would be
to destroy the small iron producers
and increase the size of the few
large ones and thus concentrate the
iron business into still fewer hands
than at present. The truth is, that
instead of promoting monopoly the
tariff sustaines the smaller competi-
tors who could not otherwise exist,
and thus checks the growth of mo-
- Gunton's Magazine for
October.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
WANTED THE CASH, NOT SYM
PATHY.

A Kentucky woman saw In a pap
er that her husband had been killed
ina railway accident, and hastened to
the insurance company to collect the
amount of his policy. "But, madam, -
said the agent. 1--WE will have to have
more definite proof before we can pay
your claim" More proOfr' exclaim-
the bereaved woman; "why, 1 reckon
he's deader'n a doornail. 4" Possibly, my
dear madam" answered the polite ag-
ent, "and 1 am very sorry" "Sorry.
You are sorry, are yOu?" 81 certainly
am, madam. / sincerely sympathize
with you IN your sad affliction." "But
hain't you goin' to give me the mon
ey what's comm to me?" mot ito
day. Your claim will have to be in
vestigated first" That's jest like a
good-fer-nothin' man, argrlly retort-
ed the bereaved woman. "YoU are
all mighty perlite bout things so
long they hain't costin' you nothln',
but the minnit poor, lone female
does git a chance to git holt Of a leetle
spendin' money. you got the gall to
say you're sorry"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
Lighter Shoes for Horses.


c. T. White in Farmers Advocate.
The wear and tear on horsefesh
makes quite an item on the farm,
and any thing that will reduce this
friction for the farmer should be
welcomed. 1t has been proven be-
yond dispute that the average horse
is shod with too heavy shoes, and
if lighter ones were substituted the
animal could do more with less wear
mess. Heavy shoes have no par
ticular advantage except for large
truck horses on stone roads where
shoes wear out quickly. Even in
such cases it is doubtful if too heavy
shoes prove of any value. Certainly
for farm horses light shoes are much
more satisfactory. The effects of
such a change are quite noticeble
shortly after they are put on, and
in a years time the extra amount of
work that is obtained from a horse
will more than pay the short time
the Light ones may wear.
The raain object of the shoe is to
protect the hoof, and the lighter it
can be made, and serve its purpose
the better it is for the horse. A good
part of the year horses on the farm
would be better off without shoes,
and they can do plowing and similar
work in soft fields without in any way
the feet. In winter when
the ground is frozen, it is quite diff
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09
WHAr VIII. BECOME OF THE POOR BOY ABsALoM
Mail and Breeze Fables.

An intelligent monkey was one day
watching an elephant push the heavy
circus wagons up the runway into the
car The elephant grumbled at the
job, but his keeper prodded him with
D sharp iron and made him buckle
down to business. at is mighty
good thing for that keeper" remarked
the chimpanzee, "that the elephant
hasn't brains and temper in proper
tlon to his muscle"
A silver-tongued orator was dilating
on the beauties Of rural life. ga farm
ers life is the life for me-" he said
"Let me get out where l can COM
mune with nature in all her beauty
and listen to the caroling Of the birds
as l hasten joyouslY to my daily toll. u
"Gosh, but that feller talks purity"
said a farmer standing by, but ]
never have seen a man yet who talked
about 'communin' With nature who
knew any more about farmn than !,
lame grasshopper knows about the
planet Jupiter"
Moral: 1t is usually the individual
who knows the least about business
who talks most about its delights.
O0OO
A certain man who was long on
theories and short on practical com.
mon sense, cherished among other
theories one that he could COW any
animal by looking tsqnare in the eye.
One day this man chanced to meet a
low -browed bulldog that did not seem
to be acquainted with either him or
his theory. As the dog came down
the path the thenrist faced it and be-
gan to gaze calmly into the optic of
the canine. And the next day as the
theorist limped over to tailor shop
to get measured for a new pair of
pants, and then to a doctors Office to
get him to patch up the places where
the dog had bitten chunks out of his
leg, he said to himself:
"The next dog | try my theory on
will have to be tied up good and plenty
before / begin to look him in the eye."
Moral: Many a theory seems all
right until you try to put it Into pIac-
tical operation.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09

erent. A horse weighing I, 100 pounds
should generally be shed with shoes
not weighing less than twelve to
fifteen ounce each. If four ounces
are added to each shoe, the total
difference in the animals shoes is
sixteen ounces. In plowing, cult
waiting, moving and reaping, farm
horse will walk from ten to twenty
miles day. If it takes about four
feet each step the horse will lift
half pound extra on its two feet,
or 600 pounds in every mile. If we
make the average days work fifteen
miles, the horse will lift 5000 pounds
extra day, or nearly five tons. The
energy required to lift this amount
is wasted and serves no useful pur-
pose. If it could be expended in
doing extra work that would pay, it
would nearly pay the animals keep.
Leg weary horses are common on a
farm, and leg-weary horses are apt
to break down in time and have
crooked and ailing limbs. 1t is not
only matter of humanity, but one
ofproft to tighten the horses burden
all we can, and this is one good way.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-11-09

For all fresh cnts and wounds, either
on the human subject or on ANIMALS,
BALLARD'S SNOW LINIMENT is
excellent; while for corn-huskers'
sprained wrists, barbed- wire cuts and
sores on work horses, it cannot be to
highly commended. Price, rs and so
cents. G.. p. Wilder.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20

Genuine charity is after all not SO very
particular as to where it begins.-Detroit
journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
he WAS coNsIDERATR.
The Subject Was Painful hut He
Had to Enter His Objec-
ffans.

In. every up-to-date and well-regulated
hotel the force of walters is rigidly disci-
plined and each one is intrusted with spe-
cial duties aside from those of the dining
room. The disciplinary system at one of
Detroit's prominent hotels is as severely
exact almost as that controlling body of
soldiers. The head waiter is an Irishman
with thick brogue and every morning be-
fore the duties of the day begin he lines his
men up in the dining-room and impresses
upon them the rules of the establishment
and lectures them as to their behavior. He
looked unusually. serious the otheramorning
as he stood before the sobery-dressed
walters and nervously tapped the ends of
his swallow-tail coat, says the Detroit Free
Press.
.'Gintlemin,'' he began, "O'im obliged
teh make few REMARKS this mornin' an
subject that is very painful teh me, an
wan that consarns all " yez voitally It
has bin reported an good atority that wan
~ yez (Oi won't say which wan) has bin so
da-Oi name indiscrate-as ten be maxim
diprecatory REMARKS about tn prop-proy-
Now, this koind " ting hav got teh be
stopped. Oh don't want teh be personal be
minshinin' ony names, but tn man that has
cha-arge iv tn silver better kape his oye
peeled an put paddock an his tongue"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
HARRIsoN's SPEECH.
The Ex-Presiden,'A ATTACK Upon Admins.
stratIOn's CGIoniaI Policy Comment
ed on st w.shtngton.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Ex-President
Benjamin Harrison's attack upon
President McKinIey's Philippine and
Porto Rican policies brought forth
many bitter comments here. How
ever, that was not needed to arouse
the supporters of the president to the
fact that they are standing face to
face with a crisis in the governments
colonial affairs. The competition of
Americas home products, he said, and
especially the freedom Of the Filipinos
to settle in the United States, were
causes of alarm.
Mr. Harrison's speech was to the
students of the University of Michi-
gan He held that the civilized inhab-
itants of the new territories are eiti-
zens of the United States. He said
that the Spanish treaty cannot hold
above the constitution, and that if
these people became citizens the rev
enue clause, especially under consid-
GRAFTON in Porto Rico, also applied.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
TO EDIT A PAPER.
". j. Bryan Announces That He win Es-
tabItsh a Weekly Publication Be
Called the COmmoner.

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 17.-William J.
Bryan gave out the following inter
view Saturday:
have for several years had in contem-
plation the establishment of a weekly
newspaper and this seems an opportune
time for undertaking it. Intending to
devote my life to the study and dis
cussion of public questions, I have taken
this method because it will best accom-
plish the purpose which I have in view.
Through a paper I will be able to keep
in touch with social, economic and po-
Iitical problems, The paper will, at the
same time, if successful, provide an in
come sufficient for my pecuniary needs
and this kind of work will allow me
more time with my family than 1 have
been able to enjoy for several years past.
expect to lecture occasionally, especially
in college towns where I can speak to
students, but my principal work will be
done with the pen, or perhaps I should
say with the pencil. The paper will be
allied the "Commoner,'' and will defend
the principles set forth in the Kansas City
platform. I shall be publisher and edi-
tor and Lincoln will be the place of pub
GcatiOn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
INDIANS GOING TO MEXICO.
Ten Thousand Red Men Folding Their
Tents and S ealing Away to Our
Sister REPUBLIC.

San francisco, Dec. 17.-Ten th0n-
sand Indians, tired of the southwest
territory. provided for them by the
United States government, are fold
ing their tents and stealing away TO
Mexico. Their leader is an Indian
girl, Mollie Big Buffalo. The new
tract of land where they propose to
take up their abode comprises 6,OOO,-
900 acres, and is far from the haunts
of the Indian agent and the restraint
the white man puts upon the free
dom of the children of the plains.
There are Chickasaws, Cherokees,
Delawares and Creeks. AS far as the
north of Washington and Alaska the
unrest extends. The woman who has
stirred up the great exodus is a full
bIooded Ponca Indian.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
CAN LAST SEVEN YEARS.
War Correspondents from South Africa
Says Beers Have More Money and Ann
munitiOn Than They Need.

Chicago, Dec. Thames j. Archi-
bald, the war correspondent, has just
returned from the Transvaal. He
says:
The Beers have more money than they
can spend, as they worked the British
mines for the eight months of the war.
The war is costing the British empire
100000 a day, all of which is becoming
a debt. 1t is upon this great debt that
the Boer leaders rely to help them gain
terms. Gen. Botha said to me that they
could keep up the war for seven years,
just the American colonists did dur
ing the revolution, and that if they could
win in that period they would consider
the time we'll spent. The Beers have sup
plies enough for at least three years, and
are continually capturing supplies from
the British. They have more ammuni-
ton than they can use and can get more
any time through Portuguese territory.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
Catarrh Cannot Be cured

with Local Applications, they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. CataFrh IS 3
blood or constitutional disease, and IN order
to cure it you must take internal remedies.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure Is not quaek
medicine. It was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for years,
and is a regular prescription. It is composed
of the best tonics known, combined with
the best blood purifiers, acting directly on
the mucous surfaces. The perfect com-
duces such wonderful results in curing Ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
+. j. CHENEY & CO, Props, Toledo o.
Sold by all druggists, price 75c-
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
A Great Drive.

There was a loud, kissing noise. The
heavens were brilliantly lighted. The
man with the crimson coat and the long
leather bas stopped and looked upward.
He saw what seemed to be ball of FIRE
coming directly toward him, leaving a
could move out of his tracks he heard the
object strike the earth few feet away, and
after short search he found grayish ball,
for omn pfe razn IN bong5 5o sf0ed
it. Then he raised his hat, scratched his.
head solemnly and said: "Holy st. An
drew! What a drive that was!"-Bangor-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
THREATEN A BOYCOTT.
Order of Railway TeIegraphers May Try
3 Cut Off Freight and Passengers BUSH
ness of the Santa Fe RatIroad.

Topeka, Kan, Dec. 17.-Should the
Santa Fe officials persist in refusing
to arbitrate the differences between
it and the Order of Railway Telegra
pliers, a systematic boycott will be
sprung by the members of the order
all over the country and an effort
made to bring the road to time by
cutting off it's business. The Order
of Railway Photographers has about
$4,000 members, comprising telegra-
pliers and station agents on every
road in the United States. If no
agreement can be reached, an order
will go out to all the members of the
order to route all passenger and
freight business both from the east
and west by some other line than the
Santa Fe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
where raothp-c4s Are Made.

New York city consumes 100000, 900
wooden toothpicks annually. Nearly
all of these come from Japan, Por-
tugal and Maine. Five thousand cords
of wood are used for the industry
in the United Statese each year, AM;
95 per cent. of it comes from Maine.
The best toothpicks come from Por-
tugal, where they are whitfield by
hand from orangewood splints by
girls, who receive ten cents day for
their labor. These toothpicks are re
markably smooth and do not splinter
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
ON Trade with England.

England is by far our best foreign
customer, and the balance in our
favor of late has increased with sin
gular rapidity. In October last we
sold Great Britain $5o,OOO,OOO worth of
goods and bought from it less than
100000 worth, the balance in our
favor in one month reaching the
great sum of $40, 1000. 1t is a strik-
ing fact that this balance is $4,000, 900
greater than in the same month last
year.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
UNKNOWN INDIAN TRIBES.
Prof. Starr, of Chicago University, Starts
on a Trip to Mexico for an ImpOr-
tant investigation.

Chicago, Dec. 17.-Prof. Frederick
Starr, of the University of Chicago,
has left for a six-months' trip among
some of the unknown tribes of Mex
leo. The Larandones, one of the
tribes he expects to visit, are one of
the least known peoples on the west
ern hemisphere. Prof. Starr will have
the aid of three assistants, a photog-
rapher, plaster-worker and a guide.
Much of the travelling will be through
dense forests and 500 miles of horse
back riding will be necessary.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
A LABOR CONFERENCE.
It's Prime Purpose Is TO Name, If Possible,
Joint National Board of
ArbitratInn.

Chicago, Dec. 17.-Prominent en-
ployers of labor and labor leaders
from all over America and several
from abroad arrived in Chicago yes
terday to attend the arbitration con-
ference which opens at Steinway hall
to-day. The prime purpose of the
conference is to discuss and, if pos
sible, name a joint national board of
arbitration to settle important indus
trial and trades disturbances, such
board to be representative of the la
Dor organizations and the employers
of labor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
Grievance Against the Trusts.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. I6.-The South
ern Kansas and Oklahoma Implement
& Hardware Dealers association has,
by resolution, invited the cooperation
of nine other state associations to
make a fight against trusts which
control machinery and the compo-
nent elements of machinery. They
claim to be more the victims of trusts
than the consumers
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
want a Francis willard Day.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-THE next con-
vention of the national w. C. T. U.
will be held in Fort Worth, Tex, if
suitable railroad accommodations can
be obtained. This was decided by the
national officers of the organization
1t was also decided to inaugurate a
movement to have September %, Fran
ces Wizards birthday, observed in the
public schools of the country.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
Hay Likely to Resign.

Chicago, Dec. ia Washington
special to the Inter Ocean says: The
determination of the senate to make
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty thorough
ly American will drive John Hay
from the cabinet. Hay is sensitive
over the treatment his treaty has re-
ceived at the hands of the senate,
and he has not accepted President
McKinley's invitation to remain at
the head of the state department
through another administration
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
vanderbIIts 10 Build Great Canal.

LockPort, N. Y, Dec. 1.-THE Van
derbilt interests have won, and the
big power canal from Niagara river
to this city, which will cost at least
$4,000, 900, will be built. The Wander
bilt proposition includes besides the
power canal the construction of a
conduit and pumping stations to sup
ply this city with water from Lake
Ontario. which is IL miles distant.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
Test Vote on Reapportionment.

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE house
committee on census began its con-
sideration of the reapportionment
bill and by vote of six to five ex-
pressed a preference for leaving the
representation of the house of repre-
sentatives at 357, as at present. This
vote was not considered a finality,
however, but was taken mainly as a
preliminary test of the sentiment of
mem hers
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
FootbalI a Monev-Maker.

Football is the great money-mal5er
among college sports. Harvard's
financial statement of athle tics,
which is doubtless representative,
shows that the net profits from foot
ball last season were $42, 1863, making
good the deficit in other branches of
sport, enabling the expenditure of
more than $4,000 in permanent i'm
provements, and leaving a net balance
for the year of $40, 500.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
America 17,oOO,oOo schoo, Pupil.

According to the United States
commissioner of education there were,
at the time of the last school census
IS months ago-17, 100000 pupils and
students enrolled in our public schools
and colleges. Of this number the com
mon schools had an enrolment of 49,
O0O, 1000, or about one-fifth of the total
population. No wonder that the Unit
ed States IS recognized as the most
enlightened nation in the world. One
fifth in its population is in the public
schools and 1000 more in the private
schools, colleges and universities.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
Why They Are Not Popular

Emergency rations are not popular
in the army. a large pill for meal
may quiet the stomach. but fails to
satisfy the ego. A prominent physi-
clan explains the matter: eve have
teeth, palate, jaw muscles and other
pieces of machinery that are ignored,
if not insulted, when you pop tab
let into a mans mouth and say:
There, you've had your dinner
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
FIRST Time in 400 Year..

San Juan, P. r., Dec. 17-For the
first time in 400 years, the people of
Porto Rico are not subject to mill
tary rule. December Is was the date
chosen by the president and congress
for withdrawing from the island all
United States soldiers excepting the
small force needed to care for the per-
manent Notifications.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
Pope Favors American Rule.

Rome, Dec. 1.-THE Italie an
nounces that the pope, after confer
ence with the archbishop of Manila,
declared it as his conviction that the
United States should retain its hold
over the Philippines. His holiness con-
sidered that it would gravely imperil
Christianity and civilization if the
United States should abandon the gov
ernment of the islands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-20
Para1ytic Child Sawed to Death.

Harrisburg, ILL.,, Dec. 16.-Warrants
were issued against John Jones and
his wife, living near Whitesvil1e
Bridge, upon a charge of having
starved their 12-year-o1d daughter to
death. The child was partly para
lyzed and helpless, and the parents, it
is charged, looked upon it as bur-
den, and refused to administer to it's
needs, Withholding medical atten-
ton and food.