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Evening journal., 1910-02-14
READING FIREMEN
GET PUNCH BOWL

In appreciation Of the entertainment
accorded them during the Labor Day
celebration, in Reading, Pa, members
of the Independence Fire Company pre-
sented the Schuylkill Fire Company. Of
that city. with a beautiful punch bowl.
A committee Of the local fire company
went to Reading on Saturday and made
the presentation.
Those in the party were George
McKelvey, John Herbert. John Emery.
John NJ. Patterson, Edward G. Craw-
ford. w. J. Hahn. David II. Lein.
George Neidermaier, Howard Smith
and Chris Ploesser.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
MICE CAUSE
ANOTHER FIRE

Mice chewing matches are believed to
have been tho cause Of a fire which did
saoo damage in Webster Walls grocery
store. at the northwest corner OF Ninth
and Wilson streets, at o'clock last even-
ing. An alarm was sent in from box No. 6.
While responding TO the alarm the COM
bination chemical wagon of the Friend
shin Fire Company narrowly escaped col
liding with a Darby car at Tenth and
Market streets.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
WITNESS GETS BAIL
AND GAINS FREEDOM

In the Court Of General Sessions to-
day Thomas S. Lewis was accepted as
bondsman for Alfred Rice, a witness
in the Richard +. Craig case. Craig
is under indictment for alleged viola
tion of the election laws at the last
city election in South Wilmington. Rice
bid been in custody in default OF bail.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
WEATHER.
wAsulNcToN. Fsb.

WASHING ON TOO, TT-T At
weather will prevail tonight and Tues
day in the Atlantic States. the East
Gulf States, Tennessee and the Ohio
valley. The temperature will rise in
the Atlantic States, the South Atlantic
States Tuesday.
Forecast tll 8 p. m. tomorrow;
For Delawsre-Fair and warmer to-
night; Tuesday partly cloudy.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
Advancement runner breaches.
sneclal 10 mn ~ f.ll-iiii..G 5oIIRNAl

Special TO THE ~ tlNilsI 5tI ttNAL.
DOVER. Feb. 14.-Rev. c. II. B.
Turner Of Lewes, known as the a ch-
deacon of Dover, conducted the LIN
ten services at Christ Church. Dover,
yesterday. Mr.. Turner was greeted
by good audiences and greatly pleased
his hearers.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
lad RirthdaY PartY.

a birthday party was rendered Ben
jamin Stoddard at his home No. 2l7
Woodlawn avenue on Friday night and
many of the young mans friends
were in attendance. An oyster sup
per was served the guests.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
Letters on Estate.

Register of Wills Walker today
granted letters Of administration on the
estate of Amos Brown TO Sarah X
Brown and Mary Clay TO William
Henry Clay
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
sistnrs, pav ohsarvsd.

sisters Day. was observed yester-
day at st. Paurs Chapel (colored)
with a good attendance. Evangelists
Moore. Green and J. Crowner preached.
The pastor, the Rev S. p. Shepard
spoke I'm the evening
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
Addressed Hioh sehooI PuniIs,

The Rev. Charles L. Candee, Of Rod
ney Street Presbyterian Church. ad-
dressed the pupils OF the High School
at the week-opening exercises this
morning. There was the usual pro-
gram by the orchestra and the school.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
Roll eli Ia soott churoh.

a roll call will take place this even-
ing at the Monday night class OF Scott
NJ. f. Church The pastor, the Rev.
w G. Koons. who has charge Of the
class has requested that each mem
bcr be present.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
SWINGS Eor a Park.

The Board of Water Commissioners
in weekly session this morning con-
sldered the purchase of a set of swings
for Cool Spring park costing SllO. Ae-
tion was deferred however, until the
next meeting.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
Io. cream At Hope Earm.

Tho patients and attendants at the
Hope Farm SRnatorium enjoyed some
fine ice cream yesterday, the gift Of
Walter ID. Cooper the well-known ice
cream manufacturer
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
II Address Natural Historians.

DR.. r. J. Phillips, Of Philadelphia,
will lecture before the Natural His
tory Society OF Delaware tonight in
Friends School on Familiar Stream
Fishes"
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
Dance at countrY CIuh.

A third in the series of dinner
dances at the Wilmington Country
Club was given on Saturday evening.
The dance which was informal was q
very enjoyable occasion.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
Firemen to Have Benefit.

The Volunteer Firemen's Association
will give a benefit performance this
evening at the Garrick Theatre. The
proceeds will go 10 the fund being
raised by the iremen for the big parade
to be held in the fall
Evening journal., 1910-02-14
MiIIiners In New VOL.

A. and l.. Jenny and trimmers are
spending a week in New York viewing
the exclusive French style in millinery.
Evening journal., 1910-02-14

Advertising in THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL is a lever that
will fff your business into
prosperity
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
FAILURE OF A FREE TRADE
EXPERIMENT.

When hides were placed on the
free list last spring the shoe manu-
facturers, who had spent years ia
working for that kind of free trade,
promised the people reduction in
the price of shoes and of leather.
That was the whole basis of the
campaign. President Taft was
persuaded that the shoe and leather
men knew what they are talking
about. He believed with them that
shoes would be cheaper if hides
were on the free list. But where are
the shoes that are cheaper and the
leather that is cheaper9 We have
not seen it. AS a matter of fact
they have gone up.
Is IS not right that we should
remind then occasionally of the
promises they made and have not
fulfilled We now get hides from
all over the world without let or
hindrance. The food gates have
been opened, but where are the
benefits to the consumersf
If free trade in hides did not
make for the reduction that was
promised and predicted, will free
trade in anything else bring about
the reductions that we so much
desire, especially in the things that
we have to sell?
Does it not suggest the idea that
free trade is not the price reducer
that we are looking for?-American
Economist
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
Phone 828, Street No. Ill w. Main

the relief fund. No doubt the
music halls are still brilliant with
light and activity, the cafes are
crowded with the cosmopolitan
combings and the dead wagons
march slowly through the streets to
the accompaniment of students
choruses. Such is Paris and such
are Parisans. Death is a mockery
and the theme of many ribald jest
and drunken song.
Paris is drunk and it appears
that even this awful visitation of
flood has only slight SOLDERING
effect. Rsstand still dreams of
his play while thousands cry for
bread. Fightful or les toast the
food and its victims. And all the
the world locks on in horror and
pity. There is pity for the dead
and the poverty stricken, but also
pity for those manikins of human
beings who will flock to see Ros-
tand's play and give no thought to
the accumulation of miseres that
are driving thousands to despair.
Were Paris one vast sepulchcr here
would still be here and there some
grim jesters mounting odes to the
joke Of death. Such is Paris
Kansas City Journal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
TOGETHER STILL.

p An old couple at Mexico, Mo-,
who had lived together for 6S years,
recently died.
The man was 90 years old and
the woman SO. For 6s years they
had marched side by side, met
together life's battles and shared
together life's victories, strengthened
each other in times of dIsappoint-
ment and defeat And new, within
three days they are laid away, side
by side, in the quiet grave to awake
on the resurrection morn.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
PARIS AND THE PARISIANS.

The overwhelming disaster that
has overtaken Paris and the
northern districts of France calls
for world wide sympathy and assls-
tance. Late reports indicate thu
scores of lives have been lost,
hundreds Of thousands are homeless
and vast property and extensive
public improvements have been
destroyed. The majestic Seine
which flows through the beautiful
capital, spanned by dozens of great
bridges and carrying on its bosom
innumerable small craft, is now a
raging and resislless torrent sweep
ing away bridges, great warehouses
and colossal works of architectural
art. All Paris is descIate, and the
people are panic. stricken as the
reports grow darker and the tales of
death and suffering benumb the
senses.
In any other city of the world
such disaster would bow all heads
in sorrow. But Paris is Paris,
distinct and different. In Paris
they jest upon the steps of the
scaffOld. At the moment when the
sympathetic reader gloans in con
temptation of the great human
misery as depicted in the news
dispatches from Paris, his eyes en-
counter this line: edmund
Rostand will contribute the proceeds
of the fist performance of the
"Chanticleel"
Thus We find that In spite of the
general gloom that shrouds Paris
he giddy whirl of boulevard life
still goes on. Edmund Rostand
the egotist and sybarite will present
h s frivolous satire in the face of
death and destruction, and the
proceeds Of the first night will 60 to
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
Gone.

j. r. Swan, The hlg music man, has
disappeared and his whereabouts is
unknown.
For some time Mr.. Swan has been
selling pianos in Chanute. We do
not see how such man could be lost.
1t is something like losing a noun
tain. He is said to weigh over $50
pounds He was quite conspicuous
object when on tue street.
Iucide 1tally, he is said to owe
sundry debts about town and to be a
little behind with his house.
There Is no rumsr Of foul play.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
SKIDDED TO DESTRUCTION.

An automobile, party of six people
were driving along one of the bluff
boulevards of Kansas City. When
on an lay slope their machine
skidded over ths bank and machine
and occupants tumbled eighty feet
down the rocky bluff. The machine
was smashed. Three of the occu
pants were killed-Mr. and Mrs.
Mahoney and Thos. Mcclure.
Mrs. John O'Connor and the two
Mahoney girls escaped with severe
bruises.
Water had seiped out CT the bluff
and spread over the road and been
frozen till the road was glare OF
ice.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
TO BE LEFT OUT.

The word now is that the Union
Pacific will make a cat of in its
main line west from O'Falloas In
Nebraska to Medicine Bow, Wyo.,
thereby saving 40 miles in distance
aud getting a much easier grade
over the Black Hills.
This may be good for the road
but it is almighty tough on thos. old
and celebrated frontier towns of
Laramie and Cheyenne, as thsy will
be left ont In the cold and become
only a memory.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28

Born-To Mr.. aud Mrs. George
Burdge, boy.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
REST IS THE BEST REMEDY

L
The country is. entitled to a rest
on the tariff subject. Something
has been done in the direction Of
the demand for lower tariff, more
has been done indeed in that
direction than has ever been
accomplished by any single bill
enacted during the life OF the
present generation. Now let US DO
business for awhile before we 60
into the thing again. If the gentle
men who are standing up in front
waving their arms and making
do or. die declarations on this
subject and other subjects will
please sit down and the country will
proceed to complete the best
record for business in any single
year this nation has ever known.
Rest is natures best remedy for all
WEAKNESS and Affections, and
twenty-fo months of tariff discus
sion is such a WEAKNESS and atfiic-
ton as only a great and patient
peoples could quietly endure
American Economist.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
Another Couple.

Ira Donald MeeKer and Miss
Dorothy Chapman, both of Chanute,
we're married in Independence last
Sunday by the Christian preacher at
that place. The couple we're ac-
companied to Independence by Mr..
and Mrs. l. G. Ebert, sister and
brother-in-law of the bride. They
took the early morning train for
Independence, were married at the
home of the pastor, took trolly car
to Coffeyville, thence the Katy home
via OF Parsons, reaching Chanute at
IL 20 They arrived 10 Chanute in
time to partake OF an elegant wedding
dinner at the home OF the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Chapman.
Mr.. Meeker is the son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. L. b. Meeker Of W, Main street.
This is a model young couple each
is worthy and competent, We con-
gratulate them both and wish them
all kinds OF success.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Last Saturday a Canadian Pacific
passenger tram, bowling along at
high speed, jsmped Ae track on the
bank of a river and plunged down
many feet. Aheavy ice was on the
river but the great weight of the
engine and tram broke through and
several cars were submerged. AT
over so people were killed and
several more injured.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
MEAT BOYCOTT GROWS.

The boycott against meat has
grown and spread prodig;ously with
in the past few days. On Sunday
the resolutions Of many labor unions
added thousands 10 the ranks of the
disaffected. And the wave is still
spreading rapidly, while the retail
meat dealers are closing up their
shops and quitting the business. In
a few instances the boycott has
caused some reduction in prices,
and this has stimulated the leaders
in the movement TO further agitation.
There has been no attempt of any
kind to check this movement. The
retail dealers were hopeless and the
packers are merely adjusting them
selves to the new conditions.
But the boycott has not vindicated
its practical wisdom, This is in
no sense defense of high prices or
denial that the meat boycott may
not be having good moral iphu
ence. But three-day period of
boycott or even a three months
abstinence would not make serious
lnroads upon the packing business
as at present conducted in this
country. The course to be taken
by the packers will be exactly the
same as in any other period OF stress
and curtailed consumption. They
will discharge thousands of men,
cut down the packing end of their
business to meet the requirements
of tae selling departments, ard wait.
They can well afford to 10 this,
especially at this time of year, when
the heavy run Of packing is over
with and the feeding season is
almoss here.
But what is to be done with the
men who are thrown out of employ.
ment, the retail dealers who are
forced into bankruptcy and the
farmers who have fed their stock
through the winter only to find the
market broken and demoraizsd?
TO be sure, it is case of everyone
looking out for himself, but some
are bound to suffer-especially
packing house employees, who can
not 60 thirty or even ten days with
out work. 1t is not hard to predict
that after a few weeks of strictly
vegetable diet most of those now in
the boycott will find that they are
making serious personal sacrif1ces
and that others are benefiting from
the lowering of retail prIces-if
they be lowered. The boycott is
only temporary shift at best and
in the zest of its beginning it is
likely to exhibit more strength than
it will be able to maintain.
The meat question is only one
phase of the general food problem
in this country. A meat boycott
can scarcely influence other pro-
ducts except 10 increase the demand
for meat substitutes and thus in
crease their cost. As has been
pointed out IN these columns, the
question of high prices for food is
vast and complicated one and re-
quires a much better scheme of
solution than a mere temporary
boycott whish could not in the
nature of things do mhch to remedy
the fundamental wrong g.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
MEAT PRICES AND THE EF.
Feet THE BOYCOTT.

Analysis of the cost OF meats to
the Consumer, tracing the final price
back through the retailer, goes to
show that the greatest single rise
comes after the packer has disposed
of the product to the retailer. This
is evidently because the organization
or scientific process has not extended
to the retailers. Stock feeding has
iR recent years got mainly in the
hands of experts, who conduct it
scientifically, buying with care,
selling on the night market and
feeding scientific rstions. Their
profit is not large, in fact, lately one
of the most experienced feeders in
Eastern Kansas remarked to US that
he had given up ssme of his main
feed lots because Of the excessive
cost of corn. Thea comes the
packer. He adds but about cents
to the price, from the best figures
obtainable. And yet it was proven
the ether day by the reports Of
Armour & Co. that their profits are
about 80 per cent, which illustrates
the value of organization, with its
economies at every step of the way.
When it comes 20 the meat retailer,
he adds larger sum to the final
price than the feeder and packer
together, and he must do so to live.
All the losses fall upon him. But
the chief reason why he must add a
large figure to the price is because
retailing is so distributed, there are
se many dea 'ers, that each dealer
can have custom of but q relatively
small neighborhood. In short, his
fetal sales are relatively small, and
his percentage of profit must be high
to make living. There are, 10 put
it in other words, but half a dozen
great packers in the United States,
but there are thirty or forty retailers
in a small city. Year in and year
out the same feeders and the same
packers are doing business at the
same stand. But there is constant
going and coming of small retailers.
1t would be instructive to know the
average in business at one place of
retailer in meats.
The proposed meat boycott will
hardly touch the packers. They
will store their product and curtail
effective production to correspond
with curtailed demand. But the
boycott will be deadly 10 the
retailers running the small shops.
The effect of a successful boycott
cannot be anything else but to drive
out of business the weakest factor,
and he is the small neighborhood
retailer.-Topeka Capital.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28

NO CIVIL PENSIONS.


Congressman Martin Dies OF
Texas has resigned from the pension
committee of the house of represen-
tatlves because he is opposed to
the systematic treasury raids entailed
by the reckless passage of special
pension bills in the political interests
Of various members of congress. In
his letter to Speaker Cannon Mr..
Dies said: "Every man On the
payroll of the government, from the
president down to the porters around
the capitol, is anxious to have his
pay increased. Within the past few
days the president has announced
himself ia favor of pensioning
government employees. In the mean
time congress- is spending nearly
SIeo, ooe, 700 month and people
are groaning under high living
expenses. If this thing continues
it will soon be worse than the
militarism OF Europe. There, every
laborer must work TO support a
soldier. In our case every laborer
will be compelled to support a
pensioner. | am heartily opposed
to the system and | am glad to get
off the committee.
Making due allowance for the
prejudices of his state, it is unfortu-
nate in this hour Of necessity that
such man as Congressman Dies
should prefer to resign from a som
mittee instead of remaining upon il
and doing his obvious duty. While
he speaks b-avely and his frank
acknowledgment Of the conditions
which make his further service
disagreeable is manly and com
mendable, yet the country needs
Just such men 70 stand up for
honesty and economy in govern.
ment. There is no more dangerous
menace to the machinery of our
government than the weak yielding
of many OF our representatives to
the constant demands for the ex-
tension OF the pension system
Every man on the payroll of the
government, as Mr.. Dies states, is
hoping to pull the wires so that he
will not be under the ordinary
obligation of American citizenship
to provide a competency for cid
age. 1t is the dream of govern
ment employees to get ON the pension
rolls and live in ease while the other
worker pays the bills.
The atmosphere of Washington is
saturated with the demands of
of government employees for graft.
Every congressman and senator is
besieged from the day he lands in
the capital. On all sides he is
itnportuned to vote the peoples
money for the benefit of the horde
of Washington hangers on. With
an employs pension system there
would be added each year a small
army of dependents living off the
industry of those of the American
people who are neither mendicants
nor panhandlers, but, who, throug
industry, thrift and a sense of
individual responsibility, provide
for themselves without asking the
government to support them. We
provide very literally for our
veteran soldiers and sailors, to
whom the nation owes a debt OF
gratitude for which pensions are
but poor return. But the civil EN-
plOyes who hold ordinary jobs
without patriotic sacrifice should
provide for themselyes.-Globe-
democrat
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
GREAT FLOODS IN FRANCE.

From newspapsr reports France
seems about to be inundated. The
Seine and other rivers are spreading
over the lowlsads Of sountry and
towns. Thousands Of people are
homeless and objects Of charity. A
few have been drowned, and still
rain and sAoS storms sOntinss.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
The losses in France BY the foods

Inc lOsses IN fIAhse ~ Nhe hoSo'
ssstnue to grow. Paris alone Is
now feeding and sheltering 5000
people who have been driven from
AuI homes by the waters AAd are
Asv destitute. The property loss
Ia immense,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28
Cheese Makers Locate.

Two Swiss cheese makers have
bought farms out in the Villas
ueiEhborhoed and will locate on the
farms next fall and take up the
manufacture OF cheese. They will
doubtless be followed by others.
The Swiss are 90 industrious, care
ful class of people and colony OF
them engaged In the manufacture OF
cheese 10 the vicinity OF Chanute
would be a valuable acquisition.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-01-28

Mrs. r. Bush is recovering from
a severe Illness
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-05-28

bless may it be blessed and whatso-
ever you shall sanctify may it be sane
titled; and may the imposition of this
consecrated hand or thumb be profit
able in all things unto salvation"
The lnvestiture.
Each of the newly consecrated bish-
ops was then presented with the pas
toral staff which had been blessed pre-
viously. They were reminded to be
lovingly severe, giving judgment
without wrath" The rings which had
been blessed We're then sprinkled with
holy water and placed by the con-
secrator on the third finger of the
bishops right hands while the conse-
orator said, Receive the ring, the
symbol of fidelity, in order that
adorned with unspotted faith, you may
keep inviolably the spouse of God,
namely, his holy church."
Finally the consecrator handed the
Book of the Gospels to the newly
made bishops who touched it rever-
emily and the kiss of peace was given
by the consecrator and the assisting
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-05-28

lcon the head of each bishop elect in
turn, the consecrator saying at the
! same time, Receive the Holy Ghost"
This is the rite by which the Epis-
eopal power is conferred.
- The consecrator then prayed for
grace for the bishops elect, For the
tsadornment of our minds fulflls what
was expressed by the outward vesture
of that ancient priesthood, and now
brightness of souls rather than splen-
dor Of rainent commends the ponti-
hcial glory to u.s."
The consecrator then dipped the
thumb of his right hand in the holy
chrism and anointed the head of each
Z of the bishops elect llneeling before
him, making first the sign of the cross
on the crown, then amounting the rest
of the crown, saying in the mean
while: MAY thy head be annointed
and consecrated by heavenly benedic-
ton in the pontifical order" The con-
secrator then prayed, May this (oint-
ment), o Lord, flow abundantly upon
his head, may this run down upon his