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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
OPENS UP A NEW INDUSTRY
Agricultural Department Makes AL
cohol From Corn CobS.
A Ton of Waste Material From Can.
merry Makes - Gallons of
the Spirits.

Washington, Sept. b. In the man
ufacture of alcohol from corn cobs
and corn stalks, at snail cost. tho
department of agriculture is develop
ing a new industry that the depart
ment says is likely to be of a large
commercial value. Investigations
which the department is making at
Hcopeston, H.. have proven that the
large quantities of corn cobs which
every year heretofore have gone TO
waste can be concerted into alcohol
in sufficient quantities to justify the
erection of a distilling ptant in con-
nectiOn with a corn cannery.
The department of agriculture sent
two chemists to Hoopeston to make
experiments at large cannery there.
They have succeeded by simple meth
eds in getting six gallons Of alcohol
from . ton of green corn stalks. A
statement concerning the experiments
by one of the scientists OF the depart
ment reads:
at different times during The past
% years the department has con-
Quoted experiments along the same
line, but with common field corn
stalks. These tests show that there
are 240 pounds of fermentable sub
stance in a ten of green field cora
stalks which will yield about half of
their weight in absolute alcohol. III
round numbers, u ton of stalks will
produce 100 pounds of alcohol or 200
pounds Of proof spirits. AS a gallon
of alcohol weighs nearly seven
pounds, there should be Is gallons Of
alcohol in a ton of stalks.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
Cure for Whooping Cough.

Irwin. Pa.-The mine cure" for
whooping cough among small children
is attracting attention in this section,
where the disease is almost epidemic.
In one case Jeanette father daily
takes his ten-months-old baby girl
down into the Penn mine. He re.
mains half an hour, comes to the sur.
face for the same space of time, and
again goes down and remains another
half hour. This will be repeated daily
for two weeks. The child has Sc,
we're case, and from a fit of cough.
ing goes into spasms. A Pittsburg
physician recommended the mine
cure" as the only profitable relief,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
WHY EVERYBODY LIKES SAND.
Love of 1t Is Universal and Is Felt at
All Ages.

The love of sand is universal, felt
by all, and at all ages. The child finds
in it ready and plentiful material
for giving something of definiteness
to the world of his imagination, and
when experience shall have proved
the real world to be less pleasant and
not eXpressible in sand he neverthe-
less as grown man tacitly admits
the attraction of the old-time medium
and spends his holidays upon it. No
watering place need trouble as to its
prosperity if it has broad forefront
of sand.
Probably so general and ingrained
love is only to be accounted for as
tho result of sympathetic and I'M
conscious marking back" to the feel
of the life on the dry sandy soils of
the east, upon which man first wan
dered and in which he first delved,
says the London Spectator. He can
sit or lie with greater comfort and
ease-as he originally sat, without a
chair or lay with out couch-upon
Sduu lLdh upOii any ObhOi Niho "a
earth and upon sand he reverts read
lily and without fear of convention to
prmeval barefootedness. Possibly
even the charm of the ''sanded floor"
in the concrete to our forefathers,
the comfort and coziness of CHEEKY inn
parlors and kitchens warm with the
rudy heat of glowing logs on snowy
nights-may also be due to vaguely
assertive instinct,
In proof it may be "eadily conclud-
ed that far distant man would not
have been long in finding out the ad-
vantages of a dry cave as a dwelling
place. 1t would be found most readily
in soft friable rocks. The natural
and further easy expansion of the
cave to meet growing demands for
house room by scraping down of roof
and sides would result in a sanded
floor. Litter of rude cave living and
housekeeping could be more easily
swept out with the leafy bough OF
bunch of edges acting as the original
broom when mixed with sand than
without its aid The savage family
which swept the cave out oftenest
and most thoroughly would certainly
he the healthiest and strongest.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21

PEORIA H., Sept. 15.-FOur masked
men attempted to hold up passenger
train No. 81 on the Rock Island one
and half miles north of Peoria Fri
day night at 10 o'clock. and but for the
presence of mind of Conductor Robert
Murray, who dsarined enc Of the men
after being struck On the head the
passengers would have been robbed.
There were about 100 persons on the
train which left Chicago at o'clock.
Sheriff Potter and force of deputies
together with Peoria police are
searching the woods near the scene Of
the attempted hold-up.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
Pension Head Works SAVING.

washington.-Commissioner of Pen
sions Warner has worked economies
in the service which have saved the
government sa0l.S46 during the last
fiscal year. He has reduced the ex-
penses OF the bureau s92.552. has cut
the expenses. Of special examiners $780,
3ss. Of examining surgeons $4,000
has made a saving IN salaries and
clerk hire at agencies OF s7.242. In
rents and contingent expenses Of
agencies, ss.65l. and In the examine
ton OF pension agents has Bavsd
&, SEQ.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
AN INCIDENT AT "oUR CLUB"
The Proud and Happy Papa Seeks a
"Secon6er" for His Son. -.

Our club is not large one and we
rather pride ourselves that it is not.
Our club is on side street and we
rather pride ourselves that we are
not upon the avenue, says Arthur Cos
slett Smith in Scribner's. There is
an active but small minority that
claim that we hug ourselves because
we are not as other men are, that
we have not what some other clubs
have-a mortgaged house, stock
ticker. a keen man at the door who
can get you a box in horseshoe at
the opera or next the ropes at a prize
fight. a cardroom where men may
play for stakes they cannot afford
to lose and which, If they lose. they
pay. if they pay at all, when next
they win, thus making a clearing
house with no governors.
1t will be seen that we are. perhaps.
a trifie old-fashioned, but the fact re-
mains that when one of us has a male
child born the father takes cab
not an electric; we are still bit
skittish about self-propelled vehicles
and drives to the club. Arrived, he
marches to the big book on the table
and enters for membership the little.
lobster hued, blinking. whining bit Of
protoplasm that he calls my son"
Then he looks about him for sec
onder. If 1t be the late afternoon
the bishop may be there. II not. there
is little cardroom on the first floor.
and where no. younger member ven
lures until half past six. when the
game ends. Between the deals the
father beckons to the admiral. the
general. the banker or the Judge (the
quartet of the little room), and says.
Twill you second my SOM" God
bless mel" says the admiral. "of
course will: much honored. simp-
son. We've been waiting for this a
long whlle-had come to the conciu-
sion that Mrs. Simpson was. perhaps.
unnecessarily alarmed. What Is your
son. Simpson. boy or q s'ril IN
second anything oI yours your deal
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21

Havana, Seut 13.-Perscns who
visited the in3urgent commanders To-
Gated near Havana nave returned and
declare that the leaders regard the de-
crees furnished by President Palma
September 10, by which all constitu-
tional guarantees were suspended and
all offers of amnesty revoked as an
invitation to begin burning and pill
Laying property, whether it be owned
by Cubans or foreigners.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
The Age Of. Machinery.

We live In the age of machinery.
The thinking, directing mind becomes
daily of more account, while mere
Drawn falls correspondingly in value
from day to day. That eccentric phil
osopher Ebert Hubbard, says in one
of his essays, where machine Will
do better work than the human hand,
we prefer to let the machine do the
work"
1t has been but few years since
the cotton gin, the spinning Jenny
and the power loom displaced the
hand picker, the spinning wheel and
the hand loom; since the reaper and
ing machine took the place of the old
cradle, scythe, pitchfork and hand
rake; since the friction match SUI
perseded the flint and finder; since
the modern paint factory replaced the
slab and muller, the paint pot and
paddle.
In every case where machinery has
been introduced to replace hand labor
the laborers have resisted the change;
and as the weavers, the sempstresses
and the farm laborers protested
against new-fangled looms, sewing ma
chimes and agricultural implements,
so in recent times compositors have
protested against type-setting ma
chimes, glass blowers against bottle
blowing machines, and painters
against ready mixed paints. And as
in the case of these short-sighted
classes of an earlier day, SO with their
imitators of to-day, the protest will
be in vain. 1t is protest against civ
| ilization, against the common veal,
| against their own welfare.
The history of all mechanical i'm
provements shows that workmen are
the first to be benefited by them.
The invention Of the sewing machine,
| instead of throwing thousands of wom-
en- out of employment, increased the
demand to such an extent that thou
sands of women have been employed,
| at better wages, for shorter hours and
easier work where hundreds before
worked in laborious misery to exc
out a pitiable existence. 1t was so
with spinning and weaving machin-
cry, with agricultural implements-in
fact, it is 50 with every notable i'm
provement. The multiplication OF
books in the last decade is a direct
result of the invention of linotype
machinery and fast presses.
The mixed paint industry, in which
carefully designed paints for house
painting are prepared on large scale
by special machinery, is another i'm
provement of the same type. The
cheapness and general excellence of
these products has so stimulated the
consumption of paint that the de-
mand for the services of painters has
correspondingly multiplied. Before
the advent of these goods a well-paint-
ed house was noticeable from it's
rarity, whereas to-day an ill-painted
house is conspicuous.
Nevertheless, the painters, as a
rule, following the example set by
the weavers, the sempstresses and the
farm laborers of old, almost to man.
oppose the improvement 1t is real
improvement, however, and simply be-
cause of that fact the sale of such
products has increased until during
the present year it will fall not far
short of 9O,OO0,0OO or 100.O0O,00O gal
Ions.
Hindsight is always better than
foresight, and most of us who deplore
the short-sightedness of our ancestors
would do we'll to see that we do not
in turn furnish terrible examples" to
our posterity.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-09-21
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Live stock

Kansas City. Sept. 15.-Cattle-Natiye
steers, $4.OoG6.4O; cows and heifers, Sl.I5
G5.oO; stoclers and feeders, s2.5OIi.j0
western steers. g, 40rJ.b Hogs-Bulk
of siics, So 206Gj35 Sh. c.--M uttons, $40
N5.e0; lamhs. sj.5Cli750.
Chicago, Sept. l5-Cattle-BeeYcs $3.50
IG.95: cows ard haifers. S1.5Olf515; stock
crs and feeders, S2.COQ4.ij. Hogs-Mixed
and butchers. sj.0O46.6s. Sheep S3.f5a
$40; lamhs. S5.0cHSG0.
st. Louis. Sept 15.-Beet steers. s35,A6.5U
stoc1ers and fee ders. S2.0ssIl %: cows ard
heifers, S2.40T5.J0; Texas steers. SS.25at5. 10
Hogs-Pigs and lights $611aG0G. Sheep
Natives, ssOja5.75; lambs. $5G11iO
,.r.Ih
kansas city. Sept 15.-Clvse-whca;-
&c higher; Sept. GiA,: Ice. oe1s; May T1s;
cash No. hard 6clteS: No. 3 64isaf6i; No.
, red CT: No. g. Corn-Uhchangt to
&c higher; Sept. as; Dec. ssh; May 3ssi;
cash No. mixed 1915; No. waite 4iSi.
Oats-Unchsnged; No. white 3iiEGIS-i5;
No. mixed S0l31.
Chicago, Sent 15.-Cash-Wheat-No =
red 72eI7274 >No. 3 rcd 7la7-ia: No. hard
71kd72: No 5 hard 75ai67l; No. northern.
nothing doing; No. . northern 75Iss; 30.
3 spring 73d75. Corn-Sc. sSi4: No .
49, oats-No. ciN: No. 3 81. ,'
st. Louis. Sept. i5.--Clcse-Wheat-
Higher; track No. 2 rcd cash HOE; No
. hard e907llL; Dec. 7lisS7ii4; May 75ssa
s5is Corn-Futurcs weak; cash higher,
No. cash track ~: 10. white iSis
Dec. s05<: AIay AVS. Oats-Futures low
er: track No. cash %; No. white 3s1s.
Dec. Ssst; May 3iss.
ptodu-~
Kansas City. sept is-Esss. Iysc per
doz Poultry-Hens. 1cc. brollers lie.
turkeys. lie: Butter-creamery. extra.
&c firFss. iScs pacting siocS. i6ifc Pota-
toes. D65cc per bn. Cabbage. 800 per
cwt Tomatoes. 101Soc per bu Onions.
DQSOc per bu- Watermclons. s 10 kl
per hundred.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-22
THE EVENING TINES, GRAND FORKS, n. D.

country, which is the backbone Of
town progress and prosperity.
1t has doomed the cement industry.
1t has advocated clean shows. 1t is
in favor of curfew ordinance and a
clean town government. It is not in
favor of telling men they are clean
progressive citizens unless the facts
warrant the statement.
The Ledger has a business and q
residence property on Main street.
owns residence property in the SUBJ
urbs and a quarter section of land not
far from town. Do not be alarmed.
The Ledger's efforts on moral line will
be for the best interests of all in the
long run. God is in heaven and all
will be we'll with the world.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-22
HANDMADE couNTERFElTs.
Spurious American Bills skillfully
Produced for Circulation in
the Orient.

The counterfsiting investigation
started here when the transport Sher-
man was In port Is going on in four
widely separated parts OF the world.
reports the Hawaiian Star. The au-
thorities are working In Honolulu. San
Francisco. Nagasaki and Mama. The
result is not unlikely to be an impor-
tant exposure of making OF bad money
in the orient. in which clever Japanese
artists may play large part.
No u,nney is easier ia pass in the
orient than American. for every paper
certificate from Washington is known
to he just as good as gold itself, and
the scheme Is thought to have been 10
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-22

.. Al All durable medical and surgical dis
tis. BRONCHIAL Catarrh, Constitutional
G:tarrh. Nssal Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Sick
Appsadicitis Rssumst s1~e1 Neu9aisis.
seaitica. :Bright's Disease. .Diabeees'
Kidney. Liver. Bladder Troubles. Pros.
tatic and Female Diseases, Dixxiness,
Nervouenesg, Indigestion. Obesity, In
terrupted Nutrition, Slow Growth 10
ing in the Ears, Loss Of Eyesight. Cat
aract, Cross Eyes, etc, that have been
Improperly treated can be easily restOr-
ed. Deformaties, Club Feet, Curvature
Of the Spine. Disease Of the Brain, Par.
s siysi1SI Epilepsy Heart Disease, Drop.y.
s s1res; Pain in the Bones: Gran8iar En-
eases properly treated. Young, middle
aged and old, single or married men,
and all who suffer from nervous debil-
ity. falling memory. weak eyes, stunted
d .ssss blood p!%3;gls:. biSSS az :fin
swellings, Sore Throat. Ulcers, Weak
Back, Burning Urine. passing urine too
often. Structure, receive searchinE
treatment. prompt relief and cure for
Cancers, Tunsrs, Golfer, Fistula, Piles,
variocele, Rupture and enlarged glands
treated and cured without pain and
his own discoveries; and is really the
most scientific and certainly sure cures
OF the nineteenth century. No incura-
pie cases taken. Consultation to those
interested, 81 90. DIR. REA.
Minneapolis. MINI.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-22
. CUBAN TARGET RANGE.
Government Is Establishing Prac-
tice Ground for Small Arms
in Island.

For the purpose OF making the men
Of the navy OF the Uaited States as pro-
fcient in The use of small arms as they
are with the big guns of their ships,
the government is now establishing a
target range at Guantanamo, on the
island Of Cebu, which will be one of
the most complete of its kind In the
world. says the Washington Post
Guantanamo Is located on the reserva-
ton over which this government has
control as naval station, and is re-
moved from settlements, SO that prac-
tice can be carried ON with perfect
safety. Last year the navy endeav-
ored to hold target practice at York
town, but owing to the danger to reo-
pie living in the vicinity, it had to he
abandoned. Modern small arms have
such great carrying capacity that
shot going wild might easily fly two
miles and hit some person. After care
full consideration. it was agreed that
there was nowhere in this country a
suitable place for this practice work.
A recent report TO the department
shows that already 200 of these tar
gets have been erected When COM
pleted there will be 500, and large as
this number seems. there will be none
too many. These ranges will be at 200,
300. 600 and 1000 yards. and the firing
line will be more than 1000 yards in
length. The Guantanamo range will
be utilized during the winter naval
maneuvers. When these maneuvers
take place there will be an average Of
Is ships, with complement OF AGO
men each, In Cuban waters. 1t Is the
purpose Of the department to have
these targets in shape for the coming
maneuvers. which will I've held either
in December or January next. Small
arms are no longer used by boarding
parties. as in these days Of h.gh-rower
guns naval battles are fought wi
great distances between opposing
fleets. but 1t is, however. essential that
sailors should know how to handle a
gun effectively, as they are frequently
employed In landing operations and as
infantrymen on shore. Suitable media
and other awards for excellence in
craftsmanship have been provided as
incentives for the men to attain to
high degree OF efficiency. Divided ac-
cording to their records, the men will
be arranged into classes. 80 the de-
partment will at all times know just
who are the best shots Of tho navy and
where they are stationed The record
OF = ship. both with small arms ard
the main and secondary batteries wi
be taken into consideration in ass 'gn-
ing the ships Of the navy to special
lines of duty.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-22
VALUABLE PARNELL
RELIC IN PAWN

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
London, March 22.-The statement
that the large silver casket presented
to the late Charles Stewart Parnell
BY the people of Drogheda in 1884 is
now located In pawn shop in Bourne
mouth, and can be redeemed by the
payment of $500. has given rise to con-
siderable speculation as to how the
precious relic found its way there.
John Howard Parnell, brother of the
late Irish leader. is unable to throw
any light on the subject. When he
last heard of its having been sold, two
years ago, 1t was then, according to
his information, to be seen in a Lon
Con pawnbroker's establishment. He
says he bought up as much of his late
brothers effects as he could, but
among the articles he was not able to
take over were the Drogheda casket
and the famous Kilmainham chair.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-22

use the money in cities like Nagasaki,
where q more or less imperfect bill
Is easier to pass than II would be here
in America. The attempt to pass q bill
here was very likely due to an emer-
gcncy IN the finances Of a soldier. but
it has probably exposed the whole
scheme.
careful examination Of the coun-
terfeit $lO-bill now in the possession
of District Attorney Breckons shows
that II was made by hand. apparently
carefully drawn with pen and Ink.
This is the bill which was offered at
Spreckels' bank while the transport
Sherman was in port Under the mi
croscope 1t appears as very. poor imi-
tation Of the real bill. The portrait
of Mckinley is quite badly drawn The
general appearance OF the bill, If mere
ly glanced at in an ordinary way, is
fairly good. however
Only this one bill has come into the
possession Of the authorities here, and
it is thought to be the only one in
town. There was one other attempt to
pass the bill, it is believed, at the
Young hotel. A soldier from the
transport offered bill at the bar,
handing it to the barkeeper folded I'D
in such manner as to hide some por-
tons. AS he saw the barkeeper open
ing up and examinging it he quickly
reached for it and handed out some
silver.
A large sum Of money was passed
in Nagasaki when the Sherman was
there on her way here. japanese were
easily imposed on by the bogus bills.
and they were stuck" to the amount
Of $500 or $500.
District Attorney Breckons said thai
he knew where the money was made
and who made it. but the whole story
Of the counterfeiting is an official &C.
cret SO far. 1t is thought that Manila
is where the work was done.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-22
ROOSEVELT IS THE
GREATEST MAN
LIVING
Such Is the Judgment of Sid.
ney Clarke in Lecture on
World Rulers of Today.

Theodore Roosevelt is the greatest
of living men. was the judgment Of
Sidney Clarke in a lecture delivered
Last evening in the practical talk
course at the Y. N. C. A. MIR. Clarke
discussed the world Rulers" and the
world policies of the great powers of
~ hour. The discourse was interest
ing and instructive and bore the ear
marks Of careful study and observa-
ton. both from afar and near at hand.
Hr. Clarke has been student of the
trend Of world events all of his life
and during his recent travels abroad
he paid special attention to the peoples
and the policies of government.
The first country touched upon was
Italy, with q graphic sketch of the
unification of that country under the
leadership of the great Count Cavour,
including the work of the man with
the red shirt" Garapaldi, and the sad
fate of Victor Emmanuel, who was ex-
communicated by his church because
he labored to save his country.
Turkey, the "sick man of the far
east" and the position of bumper
which he fills between the other ma
tsas of Europe and the encroach-
nents Of Russia was made plain. The
nature of the heterogeneous nation Of
1sonsis Joseph and it's probable fate
beang a division between Russia and
Germany when he dies accounts for
the friendly feeling between Germany
and Russia. France, with her policy
VI revenge for the humiliations of the
Franco-Prussian war and her strug-
gle with the Catholic orders, was made
very plain by the speaker. Germany,
with her wonderful people and her
wide ambitions to conquet the world
Of commerce and secure territory;
Russia, grasping for an outlet for her
wonderful nation. etc., were interest
iAgly discussed.
The three great rulers, in Mr..
Carke's judgment, were King Edward
q England. the polished diplomat and
nan Of affairs. whose contribution %
oontemporaneous history are along the
Macs of better feeling among the ma
ions and the arbitration of many
questions of difference among the
1WeTeS Wllilam OF Germany, the
greatest and brainiest ruler of Europe,
. God-fearing man, clean and fearless,
bslieving himself to be the direct rep
resentative of God. man of versatile
talents, but withal dangerous ruler
ON account of his ambitions; The J.
Sore Roosevelt. the president of the
United States. representative Ameri-
can. clean, straightforward. brainy,
fearless, always in the right, and
striving for purity in public and pri-
vate life without question the greatest
of living mep.
In Mr.. Clarke's opinion the times
were ripe for Anglo-Saxon supremacy
and that the United States and E p
and were rapidly coming into their
own-the dominance of the entire
W1eh.