davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07

The brckayer, building his brick WALL looks
without bitterness on the man bound to his office
in an automobile motor car. Wealth alone cannot
create classes in this country where nobody has pos
sessed it long where many lose it after getting
it, and where, most especially everybody hopes to
quirc it some day. 1t never to an American
that nsuGmountablc barriers can exist between in
dviduals and that a miner who became rich yescr-
day is not the equal of miner who became rich 30
years ago as long both of them the same
equally valuable pearl buttons On their shirt fronts
and know enough to take off their hats when they
are in an elevator with ladies.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07

turned and twttered within few feet
of the lads head and then flew away.
week later the swallows had flocked
preparatory to migrating. The sky
overhead was black with them. The
boy, still with gun in hand, walked
down the country road From out of
the cloud of swallows one darted
down and flew round and round the
boy, chirping angrily The swallow had
hanging from its wing tip a broken
feather. That incident left its i'm
press. The shotgun was replaced by
the opera glass, which, on the whole,
makes a much more satisfactory field
companion.
EDWARD b. CLARK
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07

Do you remember love, the night
You told the old. old story"
| When Proteus was at the wheel
And bright the skies with glory?
| Way off across the meadowed stars
Was NeptuneS valiant glimmer,
While on the breakers at our feet,
The moonlight cast its shimmer
You took my hand. emboldened knight,
And held it quite securely,
And all the pretty words you knew
Were spoken. oh, so poorly
You spoke of Venus and the moon.
And mixed them with Apollo
Expecting me, scared as you,
To take the cue and follow!
And yet. despite your metaphors
So sadly lame and CORY
! knew the message that you had
Was just the old, old storyl'
And so, while all the skies above
Were golden hued and CHEEKY,
I told you. Yes" to help you out
Now, didn't l. my dearie?
@ G G
ldlswild Thoughts.
Even the man who writes only for
fame is oftentimes disappointed.
Z Il Z
The owner of a swollen fortune
never seems to want TO get the swelling
out.
Z Z Z
An octopus ought to make a great
reputation as a driver Of an eight
horse team.
Z Z Z
Asking a girl by mail to marry you
is much like kissing the same girl
through a veil.
Z Z Il
Something ought to be done 10 pro-
tect our cockroaches. | found one
baked in a piece Cf apple pie the 9TH
er day!
Z Z z
There is nothing quite so funny as
a woman in a speeding automobile.
trying TO hold a Merry Widow hat
on her head.
Z z Z
The writer who is sometimes puz-
zled when to use "shall' or will"
never makes any mistake when his
wife says he must"
SssMa4.-s
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07

By honoring the holy law of work
more than any other people, America keeps
its strength and moral health.
The self-satisfaction which at times
amuses foreigners is not, in an American,
charlatanism Or Boosting; it is the convinced
optimism of man who believes in success
through trying. Pasteur used TO say that
''to make the maximum of effort in this
world is to attain the object of life" That
without the formula-the American cares
naught for formulas-is the ideal of the
citizen of the United States.
What saves the American proletariat
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07
compensation for Artists

A correspondent writes to the Lon
don Times to suggest that the con-
siderable number Of artists whose
works are accepted for the Royal
academy but not hung through lack
of space. might have their names
printed on the backs of the catalogue
as some slight mitigstio7 Ct tSeir hard
fate.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07
VISITS WITH
IS NGLERY
Election Bets.

He silly season for
election bets is on.
You don't need a
license to get into
the game. All you
have to do is to
bet somebody that
Bryan or Taft will
be elected or you
will roll a peanut
six blocks in a
full-dress suit
you in a full dress
suit, not the pea
II ut nor t h g
blocks. If you win,
the other fellow
wears a Merry
Widow hat to a
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07

pletely as though fits race had been
annihilated. Apparently it has been
seized simply with a moving mania
like unto that which attacks many
human families in the May month.
Residents OF a part of the country
where martins were unknown sud
denly wake up to find that they have
new and welcome bird neighbors. The
martin has come for a change OF air
and sceHe, but with an unchanged APP
petite for the same insect tidbits.
In recent years the purple martin has
been diminishing rapidly in numbers
in New England. In New York state
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07

Country merchants do not fully apPrc-
ciatc what an important part good road,
play in their business. Let any town, i'm
prove its roads out five or six miles and it
will draw trade that hitherto had gone to
neighboring towns. People move along the
line of least resistance. \ farmer will
travel five miles over good roads rather
than three miles over bad ones; he can 20
quicker and haul twice the load.
The following quotation from the Val
ley City, North Dakota, Record. of June
%. is significant:
Zone of the towns in the northern
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07
Woman S
Vanity
1t Is Crow
ing Less and
is Durable
By PROF. EMILE DE LAVELEYE.

,NITY and the love of fine clothes which it engenlers
marked among the savages who tattoo themselves before put
ting garments and they become refined in civilized
in what is called society. But higher state Of cu-
ue and the growing empire of temper them and give
them less evil direction Formerly men well women
brilliant sufs and ribbons aces and jewels, and it is
still the custom in China and among savage peoples But
since the beginning of this century civilized nations have
borrowed from England the black suit Of the Quaker For
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07
FRIENDLY TERMS EASILY ESTAB.
lISHED WHEN CONVINCED
NO HARM is MEANT.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THEM
Purple Martins War on Mosquitoes
and FIies-Wrens' Surplus House
Building as It Is Looked Upon {
by the Naturalist.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
associate Member American Ornithol-
ogists' Union)

ogists' Union)
Copyright. Joseph B. Bowles)
Scraping acquaintance with the
birds is not the difficult matter it is
thought to be by persons whose men
tai impressions Of feathered life are
those left by the sight of startled
bird scurrying away before the sound
of approaching footsteps.
AS a matter of fact there are many
of these, "our little brothers of the
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07

part the years ago discovered that trade leaving
the farmers marketing their grain another making
deposits the banks of the other town and largely buying their supplies
there The people of the losing began investigation
and found the merchants of the which securing the
trade not able to offer bargains equal to the other The price
grain better the banks safer against
the successful When these conditions people began
look elsewhere for the Inquiry among farmers disclosed
that because of the bad condition of the roads leading unsupported
the could haul only eeourths of load to it
as to the other town. consequently it lost its trade"
There is fact established in business that
that good roads help trade They shorten distances to market promote
business and enhance values
and make life better worth 4
living. Good roads in IZ~%NL< q
dication of the intelligence M VII o.
prosperity and industry of u
any community II
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-07
Nobility
of Work
Americas
Strength
By VIC0MTE G. d'AVENEL.
Noted French Writer.

its material welfare but mental
the five additional francs day which the work
which he cerishes,
he nfequeny realized TO know that he succeed and wish
pa8sonatey do sufficient keep him keyed up ins
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
BLUE PENCIL ALL
COLLEGE SONGS
OF DRINKING
IT'S DOWN WHERE THE LlTHiA
WATER FLOWS" NOW, INSTEAD
OF "cIvE US A DRINK. BAR
TENDER.

URBANA, H.. April 6.-TemDer'
ance agitation In Champaign, Uroana
and the University of Illinois, at
white heat over the local option cleo
ton Tuesday, has compelled the col
lege glee club to revise its repertoire
of songs.
Until the war against booze attain
ed such proportions the Illinois club
like ali other organizations OF cole
CLANS, contained large assortment al
good fellowship" songs, in which
wine" and stein and fine" were
rhymed In accordance with all tradi
lions OF the campus. They took IL as
a matter OF course to sing:
o give us drink. bartender. bartender
For we love you, aB YOU KNOW,
And we know that you will oblige us
oblige us
With a little drop or SO.
In the same manner the ume'hon
ored chant,
Forty-nine bottles hanging on the wall
was hymned. But now all Is chang
ed The managers Of the organization
carefully went over the list OF songs
and found to their horror that there
were innumerable ditties which came
under the ban. In fact, the only
drinking song which escaped the prun-
ing knife was that familiar Ben Jon.
son ballad
Drink TO me only with thine eyes
And will pledge with mine.
While the club Is practicing for Its
annual spring tour to Madison. Oak
Park, Sterling and Chicago. local wits
have suggested that the vacancies on
the song list be filed by the singing
of
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
DOW|N CONFUSED
UNDER GR0SEE' s
HOT FIRE
PRISONER, TEsTiFYiNo FOR SELF
BECOMES TANGLED AND rs
FORCED TO ADMIT HAVING LIED
FREQUENTLY.

For tne first time since the begin
ming OF his trial for the murder OF
old Mrs. WEIGH, Percy Bowin looked
worried when he again took the
stand, Monday morning. His air OF
bravado was gone, as was the deep
crimson In his cheeks. He realized.
evidently, that he was In for trying
ordeal, for Assistant Prosecutor Crosse
had but begun his searching cross-ex-
animation. under which Bowin nearly
collapsed at the close OF Saturdays
session.
In giving his answers, Bowin fire.
-quently glanced at the ceiling. AT
other times he would neryously FUN
-bie WITH his neeht4e--
Admits He Lied.
Mr.. Crosse overlooked no opportunity
to trap Bowin and frequently led him,
unsuspectingly. into tight places. from
which the witness found Ii difficult to
wrfggle. Repeatedly Bowin gave an
swers that conflicted with preceding
testimony and he would be forced to
acknowledge that he had lied In one
instance or the other.
Mr.. Gfese followed the witness,
movements from the time he left Mrs.
Welch's on the fateful Friday evening
and forced him to give reason for
everything that he did, or claimed to
have done. Bowin couldn't explain
satisfactorily why he registered at the
New American hotel as Sam Simpson,
or why he told Capt. Mcdonnell that
he had a roommate that night In the
person OF a man named Simpson, who
was a fiction.
When did you first make up your
mind TO steal Mrs. Welch's dia-
monds?" Mr.. Grose asked.
Saturday morning. after my. visit to
Mrs. WEIGH"
Bowin testified previously that he
went TO Grosslight's pawnshop on
Monroe-ave. at 1890 in the morning.
intending to pawn the diamonds, but
found the place closed. The reason
he gave for thinking the pawnshop
would be open at such an hour
was that ne had often seen them open
after IL o'clock.
Bowin said there was nothing "sus-
picious' in his registering as "B. Gard
ner'' In the New Washington hotel In
Buffalo: that he had nothing TO hide.
Mr. Crosse produced his sworn state
ment, In which he first told the police
that he had stopped In rooming
house when he first went to Buffalo.
because he wanted to conceal the fact
that he had gone to the New Wash
ington and registered as B. Gardner.
Sinks Deeper Into the Mlre.
The further the gruelling cross-ex-
animation proceeded the deeper young
Bowin sunk In the mire. Time and
again he was forced TO acknowledge
bluntly that he had lied either In his
testimony on the witness stand Or In
his sworn statements to the police.
Once, when asked to give a reason for
his lies, he said:
Il told SO many falsehoods | don't
know what reason | had for telling
any particular one"
And again:
Il lied every way and every shape
The following Is a typical excerpt
from the testimony. and will illus
Continued ON seventh Page.)
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
BRYAN OPPOSITION
IS IS CARRIED ON
UNDER COVER
. ID. =. CAMPAU.
NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN SAYS
ATTACKS ON HIM ARE REALLY
THRusTs AT CANDIDACY OF
THE NEaRAskAN.

To The Times, Monday. Daniel j..
Campau said that the attacks being
made upon him are inspired by the OPP
position to Mr. Bryan, and are in
tended to divert the attention from
the efforts which are being made un-
der the direction OF certain local
Democrats to prevent the adoption OF
Bryan instructions by the Democratic
state convention.
1T ought by this time to be plain
TO everyone that there is a concerted
and organized effort being made in
Michigan, as well as In other states.
in opposition to the candidacy OF Mr..
Bryan" said Mr.. Campau. The in-
formation | obtained several weeks
ago has been confirmed by many let
ters which | have received from all
parts OF this The news from
Chicago or New York announcing the
opening OF headquarters for the OPP
position movement, and the frank
statement of those in charge that the
purpose is to secure as many unin-
structed delegates to Denver as pos
sible, together with the dispatch from
Washington In today's papers should
be sufficient combinations OF the
warnings I have been giving TO Mich
igan Democrats.
Owing to the overwhelming Bryan
sentiment, IL Is necessary that the OPP
position to him shall be carried on
under cover, and In this state his OPP
ponents are very shrewdly attempting
to conceal their real purpose by pre-
tending that they are only opposed TO
my election as delegate-at-large. The
men who were openly declaring for
opposition candidates two months ago,
are now beginning TO claim that they
are in favor of Mr.. Bryan's nomina-
ton, but are opposed to me. and are
opposed to resolutions Of instruction.
That this is only a subterfuge Is plain
from the fact that have not asked
anyone to support me for delegate-at-
large. SO far as l am concerned, my
only anxiety is that our state conven-
ton shall adopt resolutions instructing
for Mr.. Bryan, and shall send dele
Syation to Denver which will be truly
representative Of the Democrats OF
Michigan"
Local leaders recently heard OF some
correspondence that passed between
ID. J. Campau and John F. Bible, Of
Ionia. Campau wrote to Bible asking
him IL he were for Bryan, and Bible
replied somewhat neatedly that he
had been for Bryan In 1904 when
Campau was for Alton B. Parker. He
criticised severely the methods used
in handling the Michigan delegation
that year, In swinging 1t into line
for Parker.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
H0LOING COMPANY
PLAN APPEALS
TO MAYOR
BACK FROM GETTING POINTERS
IN CLEVELAND AND DOESN'T
DENY HAVING SUCH SCHEME IN
MIND.

Mayor Thompson Is back from help.
Ing Mayor Tom l.. Johnson. OF Cleve'
land, celebrate his seventh anniver.
sary as mayor, and incidentally study.
ing up some points on the street rail
way settlement. which Is almost
reached In that city.
Detroit's mayor will not state JUS,
when he intends to start a movement
to get some kind of a settlement here
although he did not deny that he has
such a plan in mind.
THAT is bridge that we shall cross
when we come to IT," he said.
Thompson Is greatly pleased oveI
the victory OF Mayor Tom. He Is al
confident as the latter that the roads
can be run on three-cent fare basis
on a capitalization out of which al
the water has been squeezed, since the
company offered a year ago to settle
on basis OF IL cents on a capita
twice as large as that on which II
will now be sought to pay dividends
As outlined by Mayor Thompson
the holding company plan about to bt
put into effect contemplates the TAX
ing over OF all the Cleveland street
railways at valuation OF $4,000, 900
their capitalization being about $40,
100000. They will be run on three
cent fare basis by the holding com
pany. which guarantees TO pay sis
per cent on the actual value.
In case the interest Is not paid
however, the lines revert TO the old
company together with a longtime
franchise at either six or seven tickets
for a quarter. There will be no bonds
Issued by the holding company. AL
the points at issue have been settled
except difference OF s3,000.00 in the
valuation OF the property and tbs
terms OF the security franchise.
The city Is now repairing between
the tracks in Cleveland In anticipation
Of getting It's pay from the holdins
company. when the deal is completed,
said the mayor
While Thompson was in Cleveland
he had an opportunity to attend the
school board meeting there, Mt which
new type OF fire escape was adopt
ed for sc old schools. This escape
is situated eight feet from the build
Ing with separate runways from each
room. \\l
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
MILWAUKEE, B 0Y-
MAYOR To stump
FROM BALLOON
"sHERBIE" BECKER WILL SEEK
INTERNATIONAL CANDIDACY
IN WISCONSIN 6Y MEANS OF
oAs-MIpAIR CANVASS.

CHICAGO. April 6.-"Sherbie''
Becker, Milwaukee's boy mayor. was
In Chicago, putting some perfectly
good legal tender and few new ideas
into circulation. One OF them was the
that IL sufficiently urg'
ed he would be a candidate for the
Republican nomination for governor
of Wisconsin next fall. The other was
that IL he should decide to make the
race, he would make stump speak
ing tour OF the states 76 counties In
an airship.
Mr.. Becker wanted 1t distinctly un-
derstood that this was no bid for adj
vertising--perish the thought.
You know, up In the northern part
OF Wisconsin 1t is almost impossible
to get around much without an air
Ship" said Mr.. Becker. With an au-
tomobile you have to make long de-
tours OF forests and lakes. But with
an airship all you have to do Is to
strike the right air current and sail
right over the obstacles. shall speak
from the basket Of the balloon
Mr.. Becker frowned upon an OBJ
servatien that there probably would
be no lack OF hot air currents to float
the political airship. He said he had
ordered balloon from st. Louis Arm
and would enter II In the Chicago con-
test July 4.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
HOUSE HEEOS THE
De N A n DS OF
UNION LABOR
PASSES THE NEW EMPLOYERS
LIABILITY BILL IN SUCH SHAPE
1T WILL. PROBABLY BE DE-
cLAREp CONSTITUTIONAL.

WASHINGTON, April bleeding
at last the demands Of organized la
Dor. the house passed this afternoon
the new employers liability bill in
such shape that II will. II is thought,
be declared constitutional by the SUI
preme court OF the United States.
Rep. Littlefeld, of Maine. opposed
the bill on constitutional grounds.
The bill was considered by unani-
nous consent and 20 minutes was al
lowed to each side for its discussion.
Minority Leader Williams made q
short speech claiming the credit for
the legislation OF the Democrats. To
this Rep. Payne, OF New York. re-
Piled: .,
THE gentleman from Mississippi
and his party had no more to do with
this legislation than a boy playing In
the street. The gentleman cannot
fool the country. The Republicans
want this legislation, and they are
about to put IL on the statute books.
The bills for the modification OF
the Sherman law will be considered
by the senate judiciary committee In.
stead of the committee on interstate
commerce. This was settled this ar.
ternoon when Senator Elkins, chair.
man of the interstate commerce com
mittee. reported back to the senate
the bills on this subject pending be-
fore his committee and asked that
they be referred TO the judiciary com
mittee. This reference was according
ly made.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
meet IN SECRET
TO BEAT BRYAN
BILLY" sHEEHAN
DIRECTS NEW YORK CAMPAIGN
AGAINST NEeRAskAN.

NEW YORK, April 6.--An anti
Bryan campaign with enough strength
behind 1t to make II serious TO the
Nebraskan's chances Of nomination
has been started In New York. A con-
ference, attended by several prominent
western Democrats. and by many from
eastern and southern states, was held
here, reaching both an end and de-
cision.
IL was held under direction OF VIII
liam Sheehan, "Blue-Eyed Billy"
who. with David b. Hill, endeavored
successfully 10 make Alton b. Parker
the Democratic nominee In 1904 and
unsuccessfully to make him presi-
dent.
The names OF the men at the con-
ference are being kept secret. Those
present not only do not care to have
their own names made public. but
wish to protect" others In the con-
clave. The heaviest representations
were from the south and west.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-06
D. j. A. WILL FIGHT
ORDER Of RY.
COMMISSION
WHEN CASE REACHES COURT
CITY WILL INTERVENE WITH
CLAIM THAT 1T ALONE HAS
RIGHT OF REGULATION.

The city authorities will let the d.
u. X. and the state railway commits
sion fight II out as TO the regulation
made by the latter, ordering the rail-
way TO reduce the speed OF its cars on
Michlgan-ave.. TO IL miles per hour
and to repair the tracks. But when
the matter gets into the courts, the
city will come In with claim that
II. and not the railway commission,
has the right to regulate the d. u. X.
AS means to settling the question
Of authority In this manner. the coun.
ell committee on streets. after a
lengthy argument, indefinitely post
poned the Tarsney ordinance limiting
the speed OF cars on Michigan-ave. 10
10 miles per hour while the tracks are
unrepaired.
This action was taken on the init
nation of the ID. U. RS general man
ager, f. w. Brooks. that he will op
pose the railway commission order.
Mayor Thompson and Corporation
Counsel Tarsney appeared before the
committee to recommend the passage
of the ordinance, urging that by 1t the
city asserts Its right 10 regulate the
running VI cars ItN StTCStS.
after an eloquent address by Aid
Gilman. they were persuaded to droT
their. request.
Gilman pointed out that II the both
city and commission adopted regula
tons for the company now, 1t would
be hard matter to tell which one the
company was obeying or disobeying
In the meantime his constituents OF
the Eighteenth ward would have tc
get up three-quarters OF an hour earl
Ter In the morning to get to work.
BY letting the commission do the
fighting, the cars could be run as fast
as safety permitted and his constitu
ents might get more beauty sleep.
F. w. Brooks declared that. the cars
do not run fast enough to suit the pub
lie now. and that q reduction to q
maximum speed of IL miles would
mean that 1t would take a passenger
43 minutes instead OF % to 60 to Liv
ernois.ave.. and 81 instead OF % to &C
TO the limits.
THE net result OF this order would
be an outrage on the public and we
do not care to be- put In the position
OF causing this outrage" said Mr.
Brooks. I'VE are not going to have
accidents II we can avoid H."