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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-20
If Nothing flinders, Party
May Reach Wilmington
Before Night.
MAKE GOOD TIME
TO ATLANTIC CITY
Enthusiasts al Seashore Extend a
Royal Welcome to the
Pathfnders.
By THOMAS s. RICE.

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 26.-There is
no royal road TO learning. but there
comes pretty near being one from the
Battery in New York to Atlantic City.
The Munsey scouts Travelled that SPLEEN
did highway yesterday and left this
morning for Philadelphia over one re-
puted to be equally SIS good on the sec
ond leg Of the journey which the tour
lists viii rake from New York to Phila-
delphia via Atlantic City.
1t proved 10 be a furry of 1909 miles
from New York to Atlantic City, and
the skip TO Philadelphia will be some
where around seventy miles. according
80 the books and the handy advice-giv-
ers- The distance may be more, but the
roads are so good that no one should
be chicken-hearted when il vs. remem-
bered that the Gliddenites made more
than 300 miles per day this year over
roads far inferior.
Avoid Marshes.
We made detour by New Castle to
avoid the marshes and thereby broke
from the guide book. Following the ad-
vice Of sufragette, who was driving
her own car, and a young man who was
driving a tonneau full of suffragettes.
miles Of bad going in Plainfeld. n. J.
The result was We landed squarely in the
center Of Plainfeld, only to find that the
street along the car track is not so
bad after all. and should come rather as
welcome relief from the featherbed
going which characterizes the remain
der of the course.
Get Glad Hand.
Certainly the neighbors in Atlantic
City were glad TO see US this morning.
They were last night when we ar
rived, and crowded it so thickly that
Business Manager Deatel hardly had
elbow room 20 slip the porter a pour
boire" out OF Mr.. Munsey's expense
fund for escorting five suit cases, a
Photographic outfit. a Royal tyne
writer, and four highly moral charac-
tiers to the clerks Office at Young's
hotel.
II we slice by the speed trans this
day and do not encounter any fat
ladies witE paralysis Of the feet. We
should reach Philadelphia this after
noon, and then. glory be, If we can
I've throusf the hospitality OF the
Quaker City Motor Club and the Cen
tury Motor Club, We win beat ii 10
Wilmington or as far South Is pos
sible.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-20
FRANCE WILL SEND
M. DARBOUY HERE
Perpetual Secretary of Academy of
Sciences Will Attend Hudson
Fulton Celebration.

NJ. Dsrbouy, perpetual secretary Of
the Academy Of Science. OF France, has
been designated as special delegate to
represeW the French government at the
Hudson-Fulton celebration. in New
York, according TO a dispatch received
at the State Department today from
Ambassador White.
n. Darbouy is one Of the important
figures in academic life In Paris.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-08-20
Died.

WESTON THURSDAY. August L. fsaa EVE
LfN MATILDA. infant daughter OF WI
Ham H and Gertrude West. age three
months Twenty-Five DAYS
Little Evelyn was our darling
Pride OF all our hearts and home
But an angel came and whispered
Darling Evelyn do come home
Funeral Saturday. . 2. m from resi-
oenee, 1887 Four-and-a-half street south
west 1fs
BAUR-On Thursday, August - 1909. AZ 5.45
g. m, az her residence, 3z7 II street north
east ANNA b. wife Of Frank Baur, and
daughter Of Joseph Fries. deceased, Of Erie.
Pa
FRASER-On Thursday, August IT, 1903. II
p. M at Providence Hospital WILLIAM
WALLACE. husband Of Margaret Y. Fra
ser aged forty-one years
sIMKINS-On Thursday. August 19 1903 AT
z:30 2. ms at the residence Of Mrs. Cullen
3m street northeast, ELIZABETH NJ z.
widow q i. Clark simlins. Of Florida.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
Scrap Over a Girl.

d. Jones and Miss Marker were
1T the Katy depot Manday afternoon
expecting to take the train to Parsons.
presumably to get married. Soon
there appeared on the scene one
Ernest Glaze accompanied by the
girls brother, Uhas. Marker, aud Jim
Freehouss, her brother-in-law. 1t
seems young Glaze had been looking
with longing eyes on the many charms
of Miss Marker and when he saw her
about to escape with her other loTsr
ne made things warm for Jones.
Poor Jones was 90 cuffed about that
he seemed to lsse all thoughts OF his
purpose and came back up town to
have his assailant arrested.
Young Glaze was arrested and fined
$3.50 aud costs. The marriage was
deferred and the expense is not very
mach for the chance be can have to
work over the affections Of Miss
Marker.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
The BiederWOIf Meetings,

The series of meetings held here
by Evangelist Bederwolf and his
assistants, closed with a lecture
Monday night. The large shipping
and storage room of the Truitt
nursuries was used for the meetings.
The building was arranged to seat
about 1000 people. At times it was
more than full and many had to 60
away. A lively and growing in
terest was maintained during the
three weeks service. Something
over 400 people were added to t 9
various churches.
There was NO particular excite
ment during the services, bu: these
people, mostly fully grown up,
were convinced of the evil of their
ways and inspired with desire to
turn from the evil of their ways and
take up a new and better life, by
the earnestness and convincing logic
of the speaker. Some did not like
the plain speaking style of the
miaister. He has way of calling
a spade a spade and telling people
of their faults that Is not always
popular. He scored the devotees
of fashion and the fashionable card
players as we'll as many Of the
prominent vices of the men. We
believe the effort has been the means
of awakening an earnest religious
spirit In the city, among the church
people, that will result in much
future good outside of the immedi-
ate benefits of church membership.
At the meeting Sunday morning
an effort was made to raise suitable
eferlng for M. Bisderwolf. Six
hundred dollars was pledged. This
amount goes to Mr.. Biederwolf
directly. The expenses of the
meeting were met by other fund.-.
Mr.. Biederwolf is not reformed
drunkard nor converted clown
but an intelligent, educated man,
capable Of presenting the great bible
truths in convincing and forcible
manner. He is doing a great work
in Kansas and Chanuts was fertu-
nate in securing his services.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
cCune Drug Store Wall Paper House, Barn and Carriage
The Fourth of July.

It's we'll that the spirit of patrio-
tism should be kept alive In the
breast of the American citizen and
alse we'll that the hard working
American should have a day oft
occasionally from his labor and his
cares. The citizens Of Chanute are
going to be patriotic this year and
take one day off to celebrate and
jolify
A fine program of arnusements
has been arranged and it is expected
to make of our glorious natal day
day of fun and frolic.
Every arrangement is being made
to furnish amusement for everybody
md We are expecting the largest
crowd Chanute has ever seen. The
-ailroads are making angements
% run special trains to accommo-
late the people.
The fair grounds at the edge OF
.wn will be used for the celebra
ion. Good shade and abundance
fwater. A special feature OF the
ntertainment will be parade and
lrill of the uniformed rank of Odd
Fellows and they have promised te
)e here in numbers from all the
owns around us. A contract has
)een made with a balloon man to
ne here and make an ascension
and parachute drop. There will
be horse racing, hitch and go races
ana various kinds of amusements.
At night moving pictures will be
shown on at least two ptomlnen'
buildings on Main street that al
nay see.
Let everybody come and let US
nave agood time together, remember
Monday July sth is the day.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
ROGER 0. MILLS.

Roger Q. Mills, whs served for
many years as one of Texas repre-
sentatives in the United States
Senate and the lower house of Con-
gress and was the author OF the
Mills tariff bill, has lost faith in the
Democratic party. In letter
written at his dictation to political
friend in San Antonio Mr.. Mills
says:
"The present exhibition which
is being made in the United States
Senate by senators calling them
selves Democrats, and assuming
to read out of the party all those
who do not bear the mark of their
approval is shameful. Ia fact, it
is a very difficult matter in these
degenerate later days for a real
Democrat of the old school and
one who had confidence and be-
loaged to the party for the sake OF
the principles which it represented,
to have any idea at all as to what
Democrat is.
"The party as now represented at
Washington might as well pass out
of existence, for it has survived its
usefulness, and only serves now to
make a humiliatlng spectacle TO
make honest Democrats hang their
heads in shame. l believe that men
who think like we DO would rather
see the party die than to see it
further prestituted to serve the uses
of the base men who now seem to
control it,"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
MRS. SAGE's MUNIFICENCE.

Soon after the death of Russell
Sage, the multi millionaire financier
of New York, his widow announced
that she would devote the remainder
of her life to the distribution of the
colossal Sage fortune. 1t was a
singular caprice of fate that the
hard man of business should devote
fifty years to accumulating some
sos, 900, 600 at the cost of almost
every human impulse, grinding day
after day in the weary treadmill OF
business; cold, grasping, miserly
and going even to his death with
the very sound of the ticker in his
ears; and that then his widow
should devote herself actively TO
giving away this vast accumulation,
with the expectation of dying
practically a pauper.
Under the strict construction Of
super-moralists, the Sage money IS
tainted; bat If there was ever any
real ta'nt to this fortune by reason
of the manner of its accumulation,
it has been cleaAsed and purified
through the noble uses to which it
is being put by the good woman
who is spending it. No debut there
we're many thousands of people who
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18

envied Mrs. Sage her wealth and
the social position which it insured
her. But there in another side to
the equation which has been shown
since Mr.. Sage's death. Mrs. Sage
is naturally charitable, humanitarian
and devoted to the reiief of human
suffering and misery.
During the long and hard years
when the stern old financier was
taking his exactions from the less
fortunate in the moil of the money
mart, there were no doubt number
less times when Mrs. Sage's heart
was wrung by the tragedy of such a
career of sslhshness. The call of
suffering came to her ears, bu, she
could not answer because of the
tight hold which her husband always
kept on MS money.
There is little wonder then that
when all this accumulation of wealth
as placed in Mrs. Sage's hands she
sought to make reparation for lost
opportunities for dong good.
That she has given wisely no one can
doubt who glances over the list of
ner magnificent benefactiens. In
three years she bestowed S25, 900,
900, or almost half her fortune. A
recent statement says that Andrew
Carnegie has given away about
S5I, 500, 200, mostly in Libraries.
Thus Mrs. Sage, IN the period OF
three years, has given nearly half as
much as the great steel king. And,
dollar for dollar, the Sage millions
will do more to relieve the suffer
ing and raise the standard of society
rhan the Carnegie fortune invested
In libraries.-Kansas City Journal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
MORE or THE"BLACK HAND"

Within recent months there have
been several instances of "Black
Hand" activity in Kansas City, and
now comes word from Evansville,
Ind, that an Italian blackmailer has
demanded that a wealthy fruit dealer
of that place send $I3o. 900 to a
man in Kansas City. upon pain Of
having his daughter kidnapped.
Whether this case is authentic CT
not, the fact remains that the
"Black Hand" outrages are moi
confined to the eastern states where
they have been most numerous, bu'
are spread all over the country.
1t is believed that agents of the
government have succeeded in 10
eating the central headquarters OF
this organization of cutthroats, and
arrests are being made daily. Post
office Inspector Oldfeld, who wa.
responsible for the arrest of tn,
eleven alleged blackmailers in cen
tral Ohio, has received man,
threatening letters demanding tina
he cease his activities IN that direc
ton. But Oldfeld says he will
continue to do his duty regardless
of threats. If he falls a victim tt
the hideous methods of the Italian
murderers it will be only another
innocent sacrifice to our nationa
weakness and cowardice.
There was a time when the "Black
Hand" could have been stamped
out easily and efeetually. That was
when attention was first called te
the encfoachments of the crimina
foreign RS in this country. The
federal authorities were importance
to place a stronger restraint upon
immigration, But instead of doing
this they merely named another
"commissisn" to junkst abroad and
'fnvestigate" conditions there. Thi.
commission did not contribute any
thing Of importance to the knowledge
already in possession, and the i'm
migration laws have not been en-
forced along the lines suggested.
That the operations of the "Black
Hand" brigpds have thus far been
confined chiefly to rich Italians in
this country is no palliation nor any
promise of security. 1t is only 9
question of time when the "Black
Hand" will turn from Italian born
to American born. No American
citizen with money can say that he
is safe from the depredstions Of
these murderers so long as tney are
given practical immunity TO pursue
their lawless tactics. The fedora
government is dong only half 1t!
duty when it sends postoffice in
spectors to arrest foreign criminals
operating in this country. Th,
gates should be closed, and all for
eign subjects should be bundled
aboard ships and sent back withou
waiting until they haye committed
actual urder.-Kansas City Jour
nal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
CANADIAN HOSTILITY.

The most uncalled for and absurd
agitation Of the many foolish move
ments of the times is the scare OF
the people of Canada regarding the
trip of the American gunboat Nash
Vile through the Great Lakes. The
object Of the boats tour Is purely
peaceful, an experiment in inland
navigation, but the Canadian news
papers and politicians are protesting
as seriously against the alleged VIC
lation of treaty rights as their
British cousins have been doing for
the past year or SO over the threat
ened invasion of England which
they profess to see in Germany's
plans for buildlag first-class navy.
Our Canadian cousins appear to
overlook the obvious fact that II
this country so desired 1t could
gobble up Canada with as little
ceremony as was required for the
fat gobbler In the popular Minstrel
song to dispose of the grasshopper
sitting on the sweet potato vine. 1t
is true, on the other hand, that
under the terms of the treaty
between the United States and
Great Briton each country is linn
tied to the maintenance of only a
few small warships in the Great
Lakes, but the mission of the
Nashville is so obviously friendly,
and the prospects of hostilities be-
tween this country and Canada So
remote, that the Indignant state of
mind into which the Canucks have
worked themselves can only be ex-
planned as an example of the
characteristic habit of the average
Br;tisher of grumb bling about every
thing foreign "a which he can
possibly find cause of offense. In
the meantime, while the Nashville
is quietly reposing in the harbor of
Chicago, the Canadians in Mon
treal are making a counter demon
stration to the hospitalities that
have attended its arrival by madly
cheering for the new convertible
armored cruiser Simcee, which has
arrived on its way to the Grea,
Lakes. The Simcoe is the mos
powerful warship of the Canadlar
fact.
The incident is valuable, however
In one respect-it should remind
Americans who are being beguilec
by the alluring advertisements which
Canadian land companies and pro-
meters are sending out regarding thu
extraordinary fertility of farm lands
in the provinces of Northwestern
Canada, of what may be expected
of them in the event of future
friction between this country anC
our Northern heighbor. An Ameri
can who allows himself to be per
suaded into taking up these lands
must not only renounce his Ameri-
can citizenship, but he must be pre-
pared to endure all sorts of abuse
of his native land at the hands o
his British neighbors, and if neces
sary to take up arms against thu
Stars and Stripes whenever tht
occasion demands. The rights anc
privileges of American citizenship
are worth more than all the whea
lands in Canada, not to mention the
fact that equally fertile acres maJ
be had almost for the asking ia th'
genial Southwestern country wher'
all the other conditions Of existenc,
ara ineomparably superior. .-Kansa
City Journal.
Even "the pineapples unds
glasxD argument of tha Free.Trader
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18

Even "the pineapples under
glass" argument of the Free Traders
has been knocked cut by the actual
results Of Protection. 1t was once
assumed that the most preposterous
thing imaginable was to attempt the
encouragement of the production of
piasGpples by . Protective Tariff,
but tAs preposterous has been
achieved and Florida today pro-
duoes 7as, 900 crates of the delight
full fruit, and, what is more to the
point, the vast production has re-
suited in makIag pineapples, which
were once a luxury, accessible to
owners of slender Purses.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18
A Long Time.

sixty-eight years Is good long
span for a couple to live together as
man and wife, yet such is the record
of Mr., and Mrs. O. Isenh0ur Of Erie.
The5 celebrated the big anniversary
at the home Of their son, Chas. F., In
Chanuts last Sunday.
Mr.. Isenheur ls O1 and Mrs. Isen-
| hour ss. Both are hale aud hearty
Tor persons Of their age.
They have 81 grandchildreu and 80
great grandchildren.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-06-18

JIM. Dupsmors Of Thsyer was here
Monday.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
The Weeks Doines Up Above

Roger Sommer, French aviator, broke
the Wrights' record for aeroplanes Satur-
day, remaining in flight two hours and 20
minutes. Next day be smashed his ma
chine but escaped injury. The airship
Zeppelin II made the distance from
Frankfort to Cologne Thursday, ITO miles,
in about six hours. A German military
dirigible made an endurance flight Of is
hours and 40 minutes, covering 217 Niles.
Charles Foster Willard, New York be-
ginner, made five successful aeroplane
flights Sunday. Orville Wright is on his
'Way to Germany, where be expects large
contracts await him. A French balloon
crossed the Alps Monday, reaching a
height OF over $4,000 feet. At Milan
Tuesday, Lieut.. Milns ascended over sew
en- miles, worlds record. The Duke OF
the Abruzzi, noted mountain climber,
has ascended one OF the Himalayas to q
height OF "a, 500 feet, the highest point
ever reached.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
WHAT is DOING
THE WORLD OVER
A WORD ABOUT THE LEADING
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Congress Adjourned; Tariff Bin Law

Congress Adjourned; Tariff Bill Law
Congress adjourned its special session
Thursday, after sitting four months.
The conference report on the tariff bill
was adopted BY the Senate, 43 to 81, sew
en- western Republicans voting against it
and one Louisiana Democrat for il. A
concurrent resolution Strengthening out
sumo antiquities in the leather schedule
was adopted. President Taft went to the
capitol for the first time officially and
signed the bill in the presence OF an in
terested group. He presented the pen to
Chairman Payne Of the House commit
tee. In a statement, Taft said be signed
the bill because he believed it to be the re-
suit Of a sincere effort by the Republican
party to make q downward revision,
though it is not a complete compliance
with the party platform strictly inter
preted. The president gave merry din
ner to the tariff revisers OF the two
houses, at W which Democrats, but not sim
surgent" Republicans, were present.
President Taft left Immediately for his
summer home at Beverly, Mass, and will
not return to Washington until Novem-
Der. After few weeks stay at Beverly,
he will start on a long trip, visiting
many states Of the union. Steamers
bringing in csrgoes of foreign goods on
which rates were increased lost nearly
1900, 900 by failing to reach port before
the bill took effect. At the close of the
session, Speaker Cannon announced the
chairmen of the House committees for
the December session. He displaced
Congressman Fowler, Gardner and Coop
er, who favored revising the House rules
last winter so as to limit the speakers
authority
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
Old Vets Al SaIt Lake City.

The q. A. R. are holding their national
encampment at Salt Lake City this week.
Ex-Governor Van SAINT OF Minnesota and
Judge William A. Ketcham Of Indiana are
candidates for commander-in-chief, and
Atlantic City and st. Louis both want to
entertain the next encampment. The
Vermont delegation numbers 15i, and ar
rived among the FIRST.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
RaxenaefuI En-convIet KIIIs.

James McSorley, formerly a Coney
island hotel keeper, who was convicted,
as he believed, through the efforts OF
Daniel E. Fenton, a rival in business
who sat on the jury, finished his sentence
last week. He hunted mp kenton, shot
him dead and then killed himself over his
victim.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
% 70 oase viralnia Mayor.

Mayor Eby of Burkeville, Va, demand
ed $4,000 of President McCrea of the
Pennsylvania railroad under threat OF
blowing up railroad property, iustifying
his action by saying that he had tried to
lead an honest life, but had noted that
the corporation rascals stole everything.
He was decoyed to Philadelphia and ar
rested
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
Wronn oIaanoaIsi New pIsease.

A Cincinnati girl, whose disease was
diagnosed as appendicitis, and who was
operated on for it died. A post mortem
revealed that she had laced herself to
death with tight corsetE.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
Robber swspped lives Win Pursuer

A robber named Pohl secured 5000
from the State bank at White Bear,
Mimi, last week. posse chased him.
Pohl shot and killed one Of his pursuers,
but was Immediately riddled by others.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12

The first public execution in Paris IN
fifteen years took place last week. A
butcher who murdered his mother was
RuilI5tined in the presence Of immense
crowds. There was no disorder.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
swapped Tires in . Hurry.

Louis Chevrolet, a Frenchman, covered
fifty miles at Buffalo in an automobile
race over a circular track in 52, ls, 10,
almost the worlds record. he changed
tire in a minute and q half on the way.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
s.,-haok tor Ineome Tax.

The Georgia Senate for the third time
has refused to adopt the income tax
amendment proposed to the federal con-
stitution. This is the second state TO act,
Alabama having ratified.