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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26
BARBECUE AND BURGoo.
Large Attendance of Those Fighting
the Tobacco Trust.

Lexington, KY, April 25.--Fully is,
600 people were here today to attend
barbecue and burgoo given by the
American Society of Equity which has
been organized to fight the alleged to.
bacco trust.
Delegates from forty three counties
of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana ara
here. The burgoo was at Woodlawu
Park and speeches followed later ID
the auditorium.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Shreveport. =. =. -. 900 900 So1-4
Summary-Two-ba hits, Lewee.
Clark, Bowcock 2. Stolen bases, King.
Base on balls, of Eyler /. Gaskill /.
Struck out by EyIer l, Gaskill 1. Left
on bases, Shreveport 6, Little Rock 4.
Passed balls, Grafffus /. Time. 1:45.
Umpire, thinner.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

From all appearances one Michael
Finn has a ball team
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Bill Hansen was on second yester;
day with Ratchford on first and Ball
at short. The difference was easily
seen in the all round work.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Yesterday made the second time that
Mccain has dropped fly at critical
stage of the game.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Mobile and Gulfport are now tied for
the lead Of the Cotton States.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Slippery out there, Mr.. Allcock? Or
Is that a piece of cheese you have?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Now take these next two and let's
finish the week ahead of Birmin CHAM.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Wonder how much longer Judge
Kavanaugh intends treating Montgomo
cry this way In the matter of umpires?
This town pays as much as any or the
rest of them into the league treasury
and it is manifestlv unfair, to say the
least of it, to be treated as the league
president has handed it to Montgomery
on the umpire question.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-04-26

Manager Vaughn said yesterday that
few days and would give Montgomery
a badly needed rest, playing AncoclkS
at third for a while. He says he Will
keen Allcock for q utility man.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-16
The Laundry Auction.

Ever go to laundryman's auc-
ton r. asked the man who was sorting
bundles. You can get bargains there
sometimes. Here are forty-eight pack
ages that will be sent to the auction
seer tomorrow. One bundle is labeled
w. Joblotz. No address. Will call.
Now, I wonder what has become Of w.
Joblotz, who had no address and prom
ised to call? What has become of the
owners Of these forty seven packages?
Some Of the things thrown on our
hands are very fine and as good as
new. Just look at that pile Of hand
kerchiefs and those shirt waists and
collars and cuffs. It has been more
than year since they were left here.
All unclaimed packages are kept a
year or more, then they are sent
around to general receiving station
to be disposed Of at auction."-New
York Sun.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-16
Arch bishop Of Canterbury.

The archbishop of Canterbury is re-
ferred to as his grace and he writes
himself archbishop. etc, .t1ivina prov
identia, whereas other prelates use
the phrase s'diVina permissione.n He
is the first peer in the realni. At eorol
nations he places the crown on the
head OF the sovereign. and the king and
queen are his domestic parishioners.
The bishop of London Isl his provincial
dean, the bishop of Winchester his
subdean. the bishop OF Lincoln his
chancellor and the bishop Of Rochester
his chaplain 4.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-16
Herbert Knox .SmitIa,

Robert Knox Smith. who is men
toned as the, probable successor Of
aGrfeld at Washing ton, was born a.
Chester, Mass, November II, 1869.
He was, educated at Pennington,
Conn. He went to Lawrenceville, col
lege until 1857 and reviewed: his de-
gree at Yale in 1891. He began the
practice Of law at Hartford, Conn
in 1895. He served two terms in the
common council Of Hartford, from
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-16

1900 until 1902. He became town
commissioner Of Hartford in 90s,
and served in the state Legislature
from 1903 to 1905. He became me.
deputy commissioner Of corporations
In the department Of commerce ana
labor at Washington in 1903. He
represented the government during
tire Investigation of the burning of
the excursian steamship Sloeum IN
New York.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-16
NJ Use For The,n .

Canvasser Madame, | would like to
show yon the beautiful silver forks
that we are giving away with every
half dozen bars Of Slsinfiynt soap. Lady
OF the House We don't never eat with
forks In this house, They leak We
mans Home Companion.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-16

The angels may have wider spheres
Of action, may have nobler forms Of
duty, but right with them and with
W. Is one and the same thing Ghapia.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-16
Enough.

sI'll never ask another woman to
marry me 50 long as i've
Z Refused r.
No; accepted z London Tit-Bits.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
OPPOSED TO LOCAL PROGRESS.
Journals That Help to Concentrate
Business in Large Cities.

There are thousands of so-called ag-
ricultural papers published in the
United States, all OF more or less
merit. Yet few are all that they should
be. There Is an Inconsistency about
them that invites careful study. While
they are supposed to represent the
best interests OF the great class of
workers whom they gain support from
in the way of subscriptions, the ma
jority of them apparently work against
the progress OF farming communities
by becoming the mediums, part of
the machinery, which draws from
country towns the support which they
should have.
1t is to be regretted that many of
these so-called agricultural papers are
merely published for the purpose of
circulating the advertisements Of con-
Germs which seek to secure trade from
residents of farming districts to the
detriment of the home towns. These
establishments take money from the
rural communities to the large finan-
cial centers. The thoughtful man or
woman can see how injurious 1t
is to the interests of the farmers to
take away the surplus earnings which
represent the wealth OF the commu-
nifty. 1t requires but little Observa-
ton and study to understand that to
a great extent farm values are de-
pendent upon the Importance of the
nearby town, and that any system
that takes away its business. will re.
suit In a decrease Of farm values.
Such papers as advise the farmers TO
patronize other than home institutions
and which advocate systems that are
opposed to the up-building of indus
tries in agricultural districts are not
worthy of support.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14

ling its crystals to the idle after-dln.
ner chat OF surfeited company.
II was October, 1890, and the night
was chill when this self.absorbed party
suddenly learned the news Of Willie
Spragues death He had shot him
self in a laborer's tent in the suburbs
OF Tacoma. The sign Of blood was
again upon the house of tragedy. A
few days thereafter, when the poor
boys wasted body was being brought
home, final letter which he had ad,
dressed, to his father came to light.
II had been written in tent assigned
to young Sprague as one OF gang
of road laborers. In 1t he recited
some of his hardshlps. The boy com
planned of the coarse quality Of hia
breakfast that day. Here the letter
abruptly terminated. His body was
found beside the barrel on which he
had written his farewell.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Home Trade idea Not New.

Day after day the people are awak-
ening to the fact that the only way
the evils of trusts can be combatted
is by an adherence to the home trade
doctrine. 1t is nothing new. 1t was
the sentiment that prompted the
founders Of our government to sound
the clarion of Liberty from the sum-
nit of Bunker Hill. Then, it was the
forcing Of people dependent on an
other government to pay an unjust
tribute for necessaries of life. To-
day 1t is one class of people of ma
ton, and the greatest nation on earth,
TO compel the other classes to pay I'M
just tribute in commercial way. The
wrong was righted by blood in the
first case; the wrong can be fighted
in the present case by the people with
out resorting to serious trouble, by
merely exercising their prerogatives
and the means that lie in their power
to prevent the concentration of great
wealth in the big financial centers by
keeping their surplus earnings at
home. 1t is the draining the dollars
from the country to the large cities
that assist in building up the great
combines, the great trusts, which are
manipulated to the deteriment of the
| people of the country at large. II
does not require special legislation for
the farmer to buy -four made in his
home mill; to use other products made
in his county or state, or TO patronize
the merchants OF his home town.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Education.

Intelligence is the distinguishing
mark between the savage and civ.
ilized man. Education is one of the
greatest OF Gods blessings, and ig-
uorance a curse. In America there ex-
lists no valid reason why every man.
woman and child OF normal brain
should not have an education. There
is no phase of life where knowledge
Is not necessary. In the most progress
sive communities is where the supe
rior schools are found. Help along
your town and help along education
In general. By affording your chill
dren a chance for good education.
you offer them riches that cannot be
destroyed it is ready cash in hand.
assets that one cannot be robbed Of
only by act OF Providence.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Brilliant Kate Chase.

While United States senator he mar
Chase, the beautiful daughter of Sal
mon p. Chase, Lincoln's secretary Of
the treasury. With this brilliant mar
rage began the social career which
sent the name of Chase-Sprague to the
greater salons OF Europe and America.
Kate Chase in that day was account
ed the most brilliant woman in the So
ciety of her own country. She was
beautiful, she was a diplomat of mar
velous methods, the homage of the
greatest statesmen of that time was
hers. she was the queenly leader OF
Washington's social and official life.
And what was her quest? The older
generation will recall the plot and the
Interpreting of those years to make
Salmon p Chase president of the
United States. The fact that this great
ambition of a daughter was never graf
flied was probably the precursor of
that adverse fate which has relent-
lessly pursued and gnawed the heart
of every Sprague ambition felt since
that time.
Early in her married life Kate Chase
Sprague built Canonchet, on an estate
of $50 acres at Narragansett pier.
The house was at that time
the grandest mansion on the
coast 1t stands on the favorite
camping ground of Canonchet, chief Of
the Narragansett tribe of Indians. 1t
cost million dollars. It's furnishings
were brought from the stores of many
countries. 1t is palace within,
strangely, voluptuously featured, n
labyrinth of halls, hooks, salons,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14

chambers, towers, eerie dens, a the
alter, library---6S rooms in all.
1t had $4,000 worth of hand carving
In the dining-room, and other appoint.
ments of similar extravaganza. 1t
stands to-day, dark but proud; heir of
its hospitality TO the distinguished
men and women of two continents
Horace Greeley used to visit there and
toast his shins before the library
CRATE; Conkling's name is indelibly
stamped upon the place and time, and
the man whose memory goes back tc
the early seventies will recall the higt
links and the Sprague-Chase- Conklint
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
TO TIE FARMgR.RoY.
His Chances Are Best in His Home
Town Rather Than in the Big City.

MY boy, the farm is all right. Some.
times you may feel that It's eRVlrons
are too narrow for you, It's life too
much of humdrum, and that you
would prefer TO be one of the residents
OF the big city or town. There have
been hundreds and thousands OF 9th
ers just like you. and with just such
ideas. They have started from the
farm buoyant with hope, and after
years have regretted their youthful
resolutions. Others have succeeded;
have won laurels in the professional
field, in business, in statesmanship;
but the few who have succeeded thus
are so small in number compared to
the army of failures that there Is lit
tie encouragement for the careful
thinker to leave that which promises
security from want and independence
for a life time. The farmer is surely
the most Independent of all workers.
he is sure to receive a greater re-
ward for his labors, is his own man.
ager, and If he will strive diligently
can aspire to place in the public es-
innate that few can attain in the large
towns.
or course there are times when you
think there is almost an unbearable
dullness about existence on the farm.
Were you resident OF the city, there
would be times when you would long
for the quietness and the pleasure that
the farm affords. Hours of work may
be long riding the pillow, or harvesting
the grain, but far superior is the work
than that the great majority OF the
city youths are compelled to follow,
and how much greater the compensa-
ton? How would you like to stand
behind the dry goods or grocery coun-
ter from morning to night for the
small wages that the city clerk re-
ceives? Year after year the laborer
lives in cheap boarding houses and
rarely save sufficient to engage in
business. His is mere subsistence,
and a constant struggle. The best
years of life are wasted in making
money for others, while the indus
trious farmer is working for himself.
saving money year after year. and
when the time for rest comes IL en-
ables him to take it.
Cities are overcrowded with clerk
help. An advertisement inserted in
any daily paper for a clerk to fill any
position will bring hundreds OF re-
sponses. The array of unemployed
and those seeking to better their con-
ditions is always large. or late years
large element of workers from cit
les are looking toward the farms for
employment. They realize that the
farm offers more permanency of occu-
patton and greater independence than
like efforts in the city can possibly
afford. Before you concentrate your
attention on employment in city or
town, weigh every matter well, and
then act according to what reason die
tates. You will be very likely to con-
clude that the farm is good eHeagh
place for you, and that your own lit
tie home town is preferable 10 the
over-crowded city. Remember that
your greatest interests center in
what you call your home town" Do
all you can to assist in it's improve
ment, and make it a better business
place. d. M. CARR.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Pay Women Small WAGES.

About so tons of wooden rags are
collected annually at Smyrna and
shipped chiefly TO England and France.
They are sorted in Smyrna by women,
who get 23 to 30 cents a day working
from dawn to sunset.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14

bilious man. Salmon r. Chase, in his
cabinet as secretary of the treasury;
n time when Kate Chase dominated
Washington society and influenced hor
fathers eminent associates by tie
force OF her beauty and the spirited
briliiance of her wit.
Then and there William Sprague, a
dashing young fellow from Rhode
Island-its civil war governor and
laterits United States senator-brave,
handsome. clever. entered upon a ca.
reer which makes fiction seem tame
and tragedy commonplace,
Kate Chase Is dead-she died in the
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Historic Canonchef,
'fHouse of Tragedy"
viii No Longer Be
Home of Spragues

dlrest poverty. Her only son lies In a
suicides grave. Her daughters tried
the stage, but did nothing of conse-
quence. But tho life OF Gov" Sprague,
as they call him still in Rhode Island,
is as eventful to-day as 1t was In the
times Of war.
William Sprague's membership in
the A. &c W. Sprague Manufacturing
company, doing business in all parts
of New England in the sixties, afford.
ed him in wealth the power which
made him at the age Of 20 the gov
ernor Of Rhode Island This was in
1860. His advent as such and as com
mander-in-chief OF the Rhode Island
soldiery, put him into the eye of the
country as subject altogether out Of
the ordinary.
The civil war was on.
Sprague was a mere youth, and one
of the heads of business enterprises
involving the employment OF $4,000
workmen. His shops, mills and foun-
dries beclouded the sky with their In
dustry, until 1t was said, ~ nenever
you see smoke In Rhody, 1t belongs to
the Spragues."
He was governor--the youngest war
governor. AS chief In command of the
states military forces he insisted on
taking the field in person. He was
always dashingly brave; 80 said his
soldiers. The masses hailed him as
their hero; others looked on in won
der.
He went to the United States senate
in 1863 and served IL years
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
spraaue,s Business Downfall.

Sprague's Business Downfall
II was in 1873 that the political and
social forces at work to ruin Senator
Sprague succeeded In accomplishing
their design. II soon became evident
that tho fate of the A. and w. Sprague
concerns, estimated 10 be worth $780,
100000, would be destruction. The
Spragues had been ambushed. When
the concerns failed in 1873, with more
than $30,000,000 in actual assets and
less than $11,000,000 OF indebtedness,
the state Of Rhode Island was almost
Frustrated. H. Chaffee was appointed
trustee OF the estate. The courts
wrestled with 1t for more than 20
years, ard enterprises which once in
volyed all of Rhode Island were laid
waste.
Domestic discord and estrangement
now interviewed to madden the prin.
cipals in this drama. The three daugh-
ters OF Gov. Sprague and Kate Chase
we're being educated abroad Willie"
Sprague, as he was called, the only
son, strange composite Of genius
and impulsive youth, was still at
home.
Robert Thompson had been appoint
ed trustee for the personal estate of
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Fate,s Relentless Pursuit.

A few years after this, Ethel
Sprague, one Of the daughters Of
Kate Chase, adopted the stage. After
a short time she quit the profession
and, marrying, went to live in Balti-
more Meantime, Canonchet had
again been startled by an elopement.
In the autumn of 1897 Mrs. Inez
Sprague, having studied grand opera
with some of the best French and
Italian masters, appeared. in Boston
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Value of Good Roads.

Good roads leading to a town indi.
cate the progressiveness of the citi-
Gems of the community. Invariably
poor roads mean indifference and lack
OF confidence In the stability Of the
town.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14

IRA OR SALE. - HIGHLY I'M
Ia proved estate at Narragansett
Pier, II. L., consisting Of 80 acres
of land, with beautifully furn-
lshed mansion, upon which and the
stables green houses and other buildings
about $i.O00,0c0 have bcen expended. This
prpperiE IL historically known as Can
oncalct." tho palatial home which Kate
Chase Sprague daughter OF Salmon r.
Chase0 built about 80 years ago at tho
cost stated.
so runs the circular--the house OF
tragedy goes under the hammer! Who
wants to buy it?
You may have 1t, with the story OF
the loves and hates of men and wom-
en- of half century ago. With 1t go
memories OF other days; of duels and
divorce: of elopeIncnts, suicides, scan
dals and law suits without number.
Here Roscoe Conkling was once an
honored guest; and here law. diplo-
macy and political strategy were made
and unmade. Blaine. Garfield, Beecher,
Tildon, Ben Butler, Greeley. Dana,
Grant we're all honored guests here.
Its rooms and halls arc redolent with
memory to-day as they were three de-
cades ago.
Who wants to buy? Name your
price.
Canonchet, once the handsomest es.
tate on the Atlantic coast, Is for sale
to the highest bidder II Is on the mar
ket because n girl chose to defy her
parents-Inez Sprague has eloped with
the son of her grandfather's bitterest
enemy.
As last of the direct line OF the
Spragues, she was to have inherited
this baronial estate, worth at least ST.
100000 to-day. But she broke her en-
gagement with J. Harold Winpenny, OF
Philadelphia. stayed in seclusion n
year and then eloped with Harry VIII
liams Stiness, son of Judge Stiness,
associate justice OF the supreme court
OF Rhode Island.
Can Never Forgive Her.
He did his utmost to accomplish
my financial ruin" declared William
Sprague, who was war governor OF
Rhode Island when the north and
south decided to discuss their differ.
ences at the cannons mouth. Il can
never forgive her"
The governor and Mrs. SpTague. his
second wife, retired TO Canonchet TO
make their r+ans. In order To gain
time they said not word when it was
asserted that they had forgiven the
clipping bride and that she and the
bridegroom would be welcomed there
and that eventually She would Inherit
the house OF tragedy, the home of a
thousand memories of bygone days.
But their silence did not mean con
sent. For when all their plans had
been formulated. Gov. and Mrs
SpragVe instructed their lawyer
Henry Wellington Wack, of New York
To arrange for the sale of the historic
estate. just as it now stands. A great
inheritance has been forfeited because
a young girl saw fit TO make a shop
ping trip to Providence and then sud
denly make up her mind to get mar
ried.
Fail back A years and march alonl
with the events OF the time, tim,
when lincoln had that able and am
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14
Unfortunate Willie sprasue.

After few silent and pathetic years
down there by the sea, the household
of Sprague was again disrupted. Willie
Sprague had again come under the In
fiuence of his mother. He became a
reporter on Washington paper, then
shifted to similar position in New
York. A beautiful girl was born to his
wife-Inez Sprague-and the present
Mrs. Sprague became at once an aunt
and grandmother.
Willie's wife procured divorce from
him and married Gerrit s. Wheaton,
welcome guest at Canonchet for
.hreo years. Wheaton was a million
aire Willie Sprague was an erratic
Genius, at times exceptionally bril-
liant, always impulsive, loving and af
sectionate,
Canonchet was having its house par
| les and the halls were aglow with
,riental splendor The Florentint
ountain off the dining-room was trick
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14

his mother On November 6. 1883
Willie was arrested for shooting at
Thompson as he attempted > visit
Canonchet. The boy was largely given
to impulse all his life. A court in
quiry resulted in his discharge
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-14

episode, (which eliminated in Conkling's
flight from the governors gun by way
Of a window and a barred and bolted
boudoir door.