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The Jersey City news., 1906-12-01
Defense RESTS CASE
Taking Of Testimony Ends In
Trial Of Chester Gillette For
Girls Murder.
LEFT SWEETHEART TO DROWN

Defendant Admits That, Although Ex-
pert Swimmer, He Made No Move to
Aid Her-Prosecutor Forces Him to
Admit lying-NVitnesses Testify to
His Good Character.
Eerkimer, n. T., Dec. 1.-The defense
In the Gillette case rested after calling
half a dozen factory girls who said
Grace Brown three weeks before she
died was despondent and often wished
she was dead and some others who tes
tilted to the good reputation of Gillette.
District Attorney Ward called sew
eral witnesses back to the stand in re-
buttal. A few more Of the scattering
links that were allowed to pass the
first time the Witnesses were called
viii be gathered up, and on Monday
the lawyers viii sum up. So little was
expected of the witnesses for the de
fense that it was less than two hours
after Gillette himself stepped down
from the stand that Attorney Thomas
annodnced that the defense rested.
: When Gillette finally stepped down
from the box he was as calm and un-
ruffied as he was a week ago, when he
sat indiferently all through the court
proceedings. He swore that many Of
the things he said and wrote and which
Il prosecution took as links in its
chain Of evidence We're simply false
hoods concoeted for one reason or an
other and that many of the things he
had done and that the prosecution took
as indications Of guilt were merely acts
of cowardice.
The Jersey City news., 1906-12-01
GiIlette's Character unheld.

After Gillette left the witness stand
she defense called its eight or ten wit
nesses in quick succession One of
them was a tennis player. who simply
gave the weight of Gillette's tennis
racket as thirteen ounces. He proved
a witness for the prosecution instead
Of the defense. because he afterward
swore that it would be possible to
break the strings in the racket by strik-
ing hard with it Other witnesses for
the defense were called to give their
opinions of Gillette's character and rep
utation. Most of them testified that
his character was good, but the dis
trict attorney compelled al to admit
that they We're not then aware of Gil
lette's relations with Miss Brown.
A few persons employed in the skirt
factory at Cortland where Grace
Brown and Gillette worked testified
that they heard the girl say that she
did not want to live and that she was
going to leave Cortland perhaps for,
ever. TO these District Attorney Ward
said, s'You didn't see Gillette trying to
comfort her, Gid you?" and they re
piled in the negative
The Jersey City news., 1906-12-01

1t is doubtful, even yet, as to whether
there are to be funerals without coaches
for mourners for time in this city. The
Coach Drivers Union has made an imper-
ative demand for s14 week for day of
eight hours work and extra compensa-
tiontion for overtime, and no one but men
holding cards to be employed. If their
demands were not granted they declared
they would strike There are about three
hundred coaches owned by undertallers
and livery stable proprietors inthe county
The Hudson County Undertakers tAssocia-
ton held a joint meeting at Franklin
Hall last night for final discussion of
the demands of the drivers. 1t was de
cided to pay the men $l4 a week but to
refuse the other demands, The two or
ganizations still insist on an "open shop"
and as this is one of the principle bones
of eaptentionit is hardly likely that the
uniof men who threatened to strike win
be satisfied, notwithstanding they gained
the increase in wages demanded.
The undertakers and the liverymen can
i'll afford to lose the services of these men
at this season ofthe year when funerals
and weddings are so prevalent. Between
the holidays Thanksgiving and Christ
mas and New Years Day teamsters and
drivers are universally employed and it
would be hard to fill the places of the
undertakers' drivers with competent men.
The Jersey City news., 1906-12-01

tragedy as narrated to UndersheriT
Klock few minutes after his arrest
to the effect that the affair was an ac-1
cident and that lie had tipped the boat
picking pond lilies was lie.
Nov, did your attorneys tell you to
tell different story than the one you
told Undersherif Klock?' p
'They did. They told me to tell the
truth"
Witness, describing the girls act in
leaping into the water to her death,
said she jumped from the stern of the
boat, that he shouted for help that no
one responded and that he tried to find
out how deep the water was there.
did you try to reach herr"
''No."
"yet you say you swan in the Pa
cifc oceanT
..I did"
@And you didn't swim to this girls
aid?Y
81 did not"
The Jersey City news., 1906-12-01
THEY MAY YETCO
OUT ON STRIKE:
Members of Coach Drivers
Union Win Demand for
81 a Wdek, But Other
Demands Are Refused
Undertakers and Livery
men Want "0pen Shop. 9
COACRLESs FUNERALS FEARED

BIG DEMAND AT THIS SEASON OF
THE YEAR FOR BOTH WEDDING
AND FUNERAL COACHES AND
EVEN CHRISTENING COACHES, TO
SAY NOTHING OF DEMAND FOR
EXPRESS DRIVERS IN HOLIDAY
TRADE.
The Jersey City news., 1906-12-01

seretula in the blood shows itself sooner or
later in swellings, sores, teruptions. But
HOODS sarsaparilla completely cures IL.
The Jersey City news., 1906-12-01
At PEACE WITH JAPAN
San Francisco School Question
Not Expected to Disturb Our
Friendly Relations.
MOST WARSHiPS IN ATLANTIC

Joining of Asiatic Squadron Only Tao
ticaI Move to Give Command to Of
f;cer of High Rank = Mil<adc's EN-
Pire Not In Financial Condition to
Consider War.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
RAIN ON THE PRAIRIES.

Oh, the dear, sweet, summer rain!
Hear it falling, falling, falling,
Through the darkness softly calling,
"Waken, flowers! Lift up each chalice
DA,oping from the rude winds malice;
Lift your buds, so shy and tender,
I will kiss them into splendor!
Humble grasses, creeping slowly,
Beautiful and meek and low1y,
Emerald spear and red-cheeked clover,
Drink my fullness, brimming over.
D. 4-y vii. a
Stately trees, with arms approaching,
For my bounty long b~eseeching,
Let each bough, wind-bent and shaken,
With new life and beauty waken.
Patient grain, grow strong and stronger
You shall faint and droop no longer!
All things growing, all things living,
Greet my coming with Thanksgiving
So we zeal it softly calling,
Through the darkness gently falling,
Tree and bud and blossom blessing,
All the waiting earth caressing-
Oh, the dear, sweet, summer rain!
New York Sun.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

Is waiting with all the friends we have
and haven't met. Unique? It should
satisfy"
Exhausted, she sank against the
prisoning arm, helplessly staring into
the set face. He was breathing heavily,
grimly determined.
please let me 60, Dick"
The corners Of his mobile lips flashed
into little smiles. His whole face seem
ed to hold unexpected places for laugh
ter and tenderness; and suddenly she
knew the day was his, as she had
known it from the first.
Nudge, for the last two years you
have given me every encouragement.
yes YOU know you havel" Then, with
a change of tone: II am not going to
| let YOU go. You can cry and struggle;
scream If you wish-no one car catch
ne at this speed-but 1t will be all to
No n1rpose. You are mine! You have
been mine from the first days OF my
courtship when I used to play knight
to your queen in the high court walls
Of the nursery, way back, ages age.
Comrwe,re entering the t~own--accept
tie inevitableW
Unexpectedly she burst into low, de
incious laughter.
.oh, Dick. oh. DickI You are al
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
AN ACTORS ADVICE.
x+,rc Eavor;tc Tells Row !" ns"t
Time and Keep Young.

S.,r. Eaycr;tc Tells How 10 heat
Time aud Keep Young.
Tho voy in which Henry L. DiNcy
preserves his youthTulness Is IL Wonutr
to the profession. HIS has practically
IN cbarocd none in personal appearance IN
@ twenty wears. "Adonis' DlXey he was
Ia ,icrnomed lust twenty-five years ago.,
W who, no first appeared in the title role
S# oe rho fundamentally successful piece Of
va tbat name and never was the title bet
n ter deserved.
VI To-day he is still the fascinating, de-
bonair, graceful, merry Harry, who
looks 81 and is ten years older, who
has seen vast audiences rise to fren-
1 zied applause at his efforts to amuse
them in one theater for three years at
a time, and then has seen himself the
star in another when he could not get
q ]corporaIs guard to do him honor.
Nevertheless, his eye wrinkles as mer-
rily, his dark hair has still to find its
first gray, his face is as unwrinkled,
and he is just the same careless Prince
Charming to-day as he was when he
was first called "Adonis.'
How does he do it? How doe he
/ manage to keep so young that DeSoto's
n Fountain of Youth would dry up with
81 envy could it behold him?
What woman is there who wouldn't
give her choicest possession, her dear
est treasure, anything or everything
THAT she could command for the secret?
here it is.
Don't worry! That is the whole Sc
WI - .-. r;-~- Il, lhalr
#ful and happy, for, as the slangy little
Hi boy once said, The worst is yet to
vi come and no matter how bad things
N look there is always some redeeming
u feature of the situation If you'll only
m stop to think of it, and there is always
M some reason to laugh II you only know
I'd enough to find out what it is and then
. obliterate all the other phases of the
4 situation from your mind. In fact, I
think perhaps I'll have 70 take back my
first statement and give half the credit
for my having preserved the same APP
! pearance for twenty years to having
the faculty Of seeing the funny side Of
thin;+ and laughing unrestrainedly at
them. Exercise inc nygienic diets are
Il all very well in their way, no doubt,
n but for nc the ability not 10 worry and
n the ability to laugh are much more de-
sirable. Whoever saw a maj who was
n always laughing. with gray hair or
Zines of care making railroad tracks all
lover his c~ountenance? And whoever
saw a man who could refrain from wor-
VINO was not q success in what
ever he undertook? Fate simply cannot
keep people with those two qualities
4 from getting the very best Of every
thing.'
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

whistled past their ears. the high palm
trees lined upon either side flashed by
in q continuous blur; and the hard,
white road sprang up to meet them. An
adept with the machine, she knew they
we're far beyond the usual speed limit,
and fear wholly new sprang up against
this h~appy-go-lucky friend Of her child
hood days. The long silence was I'M
bearab1e.
She touched him lightly on the arm.
"Dick, what is the m9tter"
He smiled, but did not answer until
| the more frequent plantations denoted
| the nearing approach to Havana. Glanc-
| ing at his watch and slackening speed
q trihe he tore off the ~disfiguring cog
| giles and turned toward her.
1.-THE Bremen sails for New York at
6. 1t now lacks an hour Of 6. I think
we will be just in time"
"Dick Shepley! Are you mad?'
marguerite Mcguire. certainly not!
| But you are going to New York and
start tonight-with me-"
She snStched frantlcally at the steer
ing guage, but a strong arm held her
down.
You mustn't. There's nothing to
fear. Think a moment. Remember
| three weeks ago telling me you would
never marry anyone who could not dare
| everything, even your d~ispleasure If
necessary, to gain you? And doubly
| sealed it by saying your marriage must
be original or not at all? It is to be all
this. I lost time persuading you to
come, so we've had to rush. Don't
| struggle-it's dangerous"
AT the pier Very Rev. Mr.. Blackie,
| staying with the Chapmans, you know,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

the window seat with cretonne because it can be taken
off and washed and seems so fresh Greatly because she
can't afford a heavier material). She carpets the bed
rooms with straw mattings because they are so clean
hard wood foors). She paints the old chairs white, they
look SO unique, and sticks to the old square piano be-
cause it has such a good tone. Her husband, but nobody
else, is deceived into the belief that she has everything
any reasonable woman ought to desire. But here he is
making q terrible mistake.
l think l have learned one thing about home keeping
that would teach me, If l were building n house, to use
a little common sense. A house should be built accord
ing not to the amount one has to spend in its construc-
ton, but rather according to the amount one can continue
to spend in keeping it up. No family should ever build
a large, handsome house unless they can keep plenty of
servants. 1t is absurd to own a beautiful home and be
worn out all the time in the care of it.
When a woman puts q lot Of hard wood and grill work,
plate glass and Venetian blinds into her house, she simply
puts up n life work for somebody. Week after week,
day after day, there IS the same tiresome routine of rub
bling. polishing and busting to do. What fun is it to
stand for two or three hours wiping the dust out Of
window shutters and wood grill work? If people cannot
afford to hire the work dona they would much better live
in 4 smaller, simpler home. The people in a house are so
vastly more important than the house itself that it is
the height Of stupidity to wear ones life away cleaning
up a big, senSeless house.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

ways SO ridiculous! What will uncle
say? What will your mother say"
He glanced down in frownins scorn.
delighted at the swift change, but with
al a trife suspicious.
You know your uncle would not be
surprised at anything you did-and
mother-well-she knows"
"What?"
Eyes. you'll find her waiting with ev-
erything you need at present. There.
Hear that band? OH" joyously.
They've done everything 'cording to
orders, sure thing" 49,.
The auto was now running smoothly
and moderately into the main street Of
the town, and snatches of inspiring
music anne down to them from the
harbor entrance. Crowds Of gayly
dressed S%paniards and natives lined the
street; groups Of Americans In car
riages, autos. on the balcony; and as
their car rolled into view these broke
into laughing cheers and followed aft
er, a steady procession, to the steamer
landing.
In sudden fear Dick glanced at the
| girl, grown so calmly quiet, rearrang-
ing the long, fiuttering veil; and the
monstrous thing about to be do1e-per-
haps against her will-came home to
him for the first time in all its appall-
Ing truth. Her head was bent and hs
| could not see her face. -
He leaned down-speaking loud
| above the deafening noise:
"Midge-forglve me You needn't do
tt didn't really realize-I-" He
was becoming desperately %incoherent
and he saw her eyes We're full of
tears.
"Dick-I've been thinking. I've al
ways intended to say yes-but I could
not. Now I'm glad you have taken II
out of my hands, you and you mother,
ever like this. 1t was the only way"
In the realization of what had seem.
ed a moment ago he could hardly guide
the car upon the crowded pier and up
to the large flower canopied booth. The
rest Of the proceedings passed off as
in a dream. His mothers anxious face
the would-be calm tones Of the nervous
little reverend in front Of the impro-
vised pulpit and his own voice play
Ing unexpected tricks with the vital an
| swers. .
Not until they were standing togeth-
er upon the rice-strewn deck of the big
liner, watching the shore slowly recede
and the water widen between, did he
turn toward her for the final confirma-
ton of the truth.
And to the list and swing Of the
fainting music his question found an
swer in her eyes.-Boston Post.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

oL1h1 9inAo'0 shaved her life away and received no
thanks. She spends hours in silent brooding over her
wrongs. If she talks at all it is only to insinuate that
one time to die is as good as another, and perhaps a little
better. If anybody tells her she is cross she only gives
him q glance OF quiet reproach, and says significantly.
every well, it will not be long" He dosn't know what
she means, but hopes profoundly that it will not,
Now all Of this is merely the inward STRINGS of the
bouse-cleaning mania, the naicrobe, as 1t We're, beginning
to gnaw. I doubt If q man, foreseeing, as a woman does,
the wretchedness by which the revolution of spring clean
Ing must be accomplished, would face 1t as heroically as
she does. I believe he would not long endure the plan
ming and cogitation which occupy the wee sma' hours
when all Of the family is peacefully sleeping except
mother, who is a little troubled with insomnia. How
she tries to arrange the various carpets SO they will do"
aad decide which room really needs paper worst. How
she wonders which to do without, her own new dress
or new curtains for the parlor (and finally does without
both). A man, I say, would set fire to the house and ST.
ientiy steal away before he would be so at his wits end.
The woman who has kept house on makeshifts all her
life really gets very little credit. She makes curtains out
Of dotted swiss, because they look so dainty Greatly be-
cause good lace ones are out of her reach). She covers
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
THE MASTER MAN.

uNm ARGUER1TE' I love you"
IkVHI The words f1oated softly
ooS from no visible source. She
looked around, above, evidently awak
ened at last from the absorbing House
Of Mirth."
"Dick, you silly. Where are your
The sound Of a cautious jump, foot
steps,, %retreating behind the high gar
den wall, and presently a gray clad
figure strolled through the entrance to
ward the bamboo retreat. She became
again Obvious to everything external.
Flingsng himselif at her feet, he adj
dressed his remarks to the tip of the
dainty shoes just visible beneath the
fluff of summer skirts.
1.-TWO years I've been asking. beseech-
ing. and this is my reward. Total indif-
ference!" "
The book moved a trife higher, hid
Ing a tell-tale face.
He rolled lazily over, his bright, ex-
cited eyes belying his careless move
ments. and watched the figure OF a
short fat man emerge from the piazza
of the low bungalow and, laboriously
mounting the waiting horse, ride away.
With a quick movement he turned
and caught the little ~high-heeled shoes,
his ewes dancing up at her mischievous-
ly.
"Marguerite, I Will make you listen.
IT Is time to be serious"
The book dropped at last and fndig-
nant blue eyes flashed into the brown.
He released her feet, giving them a Mt
tie shake and appropriated the seat by
her side.
you have nothing to do, Midge.
Come with me for a spin" His quick
changes and masterful| assurance al
ways left her rather breathless; now
she could only laugh in evaporation
rs usual.
"My dear Dick, I play tennis with
Don Carlos at 81
"Oh. Carlos" in tones Of disgust. It's
TOO hot for that. Come" and allow
Ing herself to be persuaded they were
soen speeding over the broad Cuban
.road.
AS he guided the huge motor, ibtent
mon the growing speed, she became
ware OF mis- silence anu Iate
~ with cetesminsd puSposA The vino
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
A Favored Instrument.

The story is told OF a newly rich
woman who on the occasion of her
daughters wedding gave a large recep-
ton, for which music was furnished by
orri,estru Of twelve pieces.
The leader of This orchestra was a
yiolinist who had achieved a social as
we'll as a professional succ SIS, and the
rich woman evidently wished to recog-
nize this fact and make clear her
knowledge Of 1t.
When the evening vas half over, the
butler approached the musicians, who
were having a short intecmission, and
in his Ioftiest he said, after re-
ferring to a paper In his hand:
1.-The violin eats In the dining-room /:
the rest of the instruments eats In the
pantry"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

locomotive In the world.
We are now face to face with the question raised by
Germany, with her scientific spirit and technical schools.
We have the best supply Of raw materials in the world.
We have the most energetic and intelligent population
in the world. There is no reason why we should not now
address ourselves to the question Of the highest world
standards in everything. We can overcome competition
in two ways: One Is by selling cheaper and the other
is by making better. There Is no reason why we should
not lead the world in both.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

There IL more Catarrh in this section Of
the country than all other diseases put to
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced 1t a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and BY con-
~stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced It incurable. Science has prov
en- catarrh to be a constitutional disease
and therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure, MANUFACTURED
By r. j.. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, IL the
only constitutional cure on the market. IL
to a teaspoonful. It acts directly ON the
blood and mucous s~urfaces Of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
il fills to cure. Send for circulars and tes-
Hdaress +. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Telsco. o.
s s1ls Hairs Fanny Pills for -e.nst,patioa.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

put it in his desk never again to see the light Of day as
he was free to determine in the first instance whether he
would or would not negotiate It.
That power Is not expressly given to the President
by the constitution, but it inheres in the executive power
conferred upon him to conduct OUR foreign relations, and
it is a power which inheres In him as the sole organ
under the constitution through whom our foreign rela-
tions and diplomatic intercourse are conducted. Out of
public necessity the President should be permitted to
pocket a treaty, no matter if every member of the Sen
ate thought he ought to exchange the ratification. Why?
Because as the President, through the ambassadors, min
listers, consuls and all of the agencies of the government,
exploring sources Of information everywhere, it Is his
business to know whether anything has occurred since
the Senate acted upon the treaty which would render it
for the public interest that the notifications be not ex-
changed. And he Is empowered to withhold exchange Of
ratifcations, If upon later knowledge he deems 1t for the
public interest so to do.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
MANUFACTURING METHODS COMPARED.
By Charles NJ. SChWaE

You get some idea Of the difference
In practical ideals of Germany and
the United States in ~conversing with
manufacturers. The American ex-
presses his success, his leadership, in
immensely of output. The German
dwells upon the unapproachable quail
ity Of his work. The American is
apt to boast that he produces. say,
five locomotives a day. The German
would rather boast that he produced
one locomotive a day. but the best
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
THE HOUSE CLEANING MANIA.
By Juliet Y. Strauss

The incipient pangs of the house
cleaning fever doesn't develop malig-
nant symptoms Immediately. 1t gen
orally takes the form of a sudden de-
sire to quit keeping house. The wife
abruptly makes such proposals as
Let's sell this house and get another
one" or Let's try boarding a while"
She also shows symptoms of insanity.
She makes remarks upon the general
uselessness Of everything, and incident
ally throws out hints that she has
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18
HanaueS rtrt,

Matron (at reform school, to new ar
rsval)-Come, little boy, you haven't had
your face washed yet.
Bad Dick (struck by . bright jdsa)-
amt aEoin' to have, neithef. xso
eAaue1 wash my mawis kisses Z
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-18

I 4 japanese newspaper asserts that if it
were not for educational works japanese
spublishers would be virtually without oc-