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CALLER LEFT IN A HUFF. V A SSIH Their Important TTh 11 a m Bearing on li OiitlCS Business By DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. President of Colombia University. political philosophers of high authority. Second, we may take the opposite course and endeavor to exercise collective ownership and control of the agencies and instrumentalities of productive industry and of transportation, which is socialism. Third, we may, while preserving to ourselves the extraordinary moral, economic and political benefits which flow fronl individual initiative and the adequate reward of individual endeavor, lay the collective h.ai o heavily upon business activity that the individual's 6elf-interest snail, if it be possible, be held always subordinate to the common good. jt " To many, like myself, it is sufficient to state these three alternatives p recommend the one last named. This is 6uch measure of individual and corporate oversight and control as changing circumstances may require in order to prevent self interest in its excess from damaging the common good, without checking its beneficent activities. The questions involved in entering on this course of action are in part ethical, in part economic and in part political. When we pass from controlling principles to concrete matters, we find ourselves face to face with the fact that in order to settle wisely the relations of our present-lay politics to business, we must deal with three chief problems that of banking and currency; that of the trans portation systems of the country; and that of the large cprporations which carry on the manufacture and sale of products. No one of these three great questions is properly a matter for parti san exploitation or for party difference. Each of the three should be set tled as common-sense business men would settle any question, after a close 6tudy of all the facts and with the public interest always uppermost-as a controlling motive in pointing to any given solution or settlement. The American people cannot solve these questions of banking and currency, of the railways and of the great industrial corporations, either with rhetoric or in passion. They can only solve them by intelligent, solicitous study and reflection. School Ethics in Business dred, By J. H. HOWLAND. in organized business which insists upon business, rather than ethics, he is likely to find his school philosophy burdensome if he shall attempt to put it into practice upon a salary basis. In school he may be said to have been paying for the privilege of preserving his silence regarding know! edge of others' shortcomings. As a that his employer is paying him for just such information. At once, then, the capable, honest, earnest subordinate, drawing his salary on a basis of such service, is not drawing that salary honestly if, known to him and unknown to his employer, some fellow worker is crip pling the effects of 6uch efforts. . Practically he will find many things in the way of his doing anything. Even his-emplcjying head. of the house' may have been making a specialty of discipline and its maintenance in the establishment. This head may be deaf to any effort at hearing a possible complaint out of the routine of his lieutenants. This must be taken as encouragement to his lieutenants against tattling. In which case, if the man in the ranks should report above the head of his superior, it would be tantamount to a dismissal. But that distinctly practical thing which the young man may do is to forget the logic of his school days in subterfuge and covering up of his fellows' misdeeds.-' Let him refuse .to have his own errors covered by any one. Let him prepare to take the consequences of his own acts without fear or favor. Let him determine to leave an open record behind him. When he shall have proved to his fellows that he has no interest in having his own mistakes kept covered that he is willing to assume all responsibility for all of his own acts, clearing him of any obligation as to .sharing the mistakes of others he cannot be criticised if he takes the jf.Wand that his own shortcomings are quite numerous enough for him to carry on one pair of shoulders. Organization and results in business are ynonymous. America's HO3 Jg I lie school teachers bear cheerily the heavy in Public Schools By ELLA LTMAN CABOT. Inker lUoactaxtts laws 4 EssuUsa. ask whether the public schools are not re , sponsible. These great expectations from our public school teachers are, even when they take the form of severe criticism, a compliment in disguise. Expectation is the sincerest flattery. Our. public schools are on the whole such transmuting influences for good that we expect them to turn straw into gold; to undo in a few hours of the day any evil tendencies of in heritance or surroundings; to instill wisdom and virtue into 60 pupils at the same time and to turn bewildered, little foreigners into loyal Ameri cans. And further, we expect our. teachers to do all this on an average salary of $f0 a week. ' This overwhelming hope of the people for results from their schools is undoubtedly a great stimulus to the teachers. We do not turn to any' other body of people to the churches, the legislature or the courts with anything like the eager faith with which we turn to the public school. And in the eyes of the best teachers we see a look that shows the response to an almostimpossibly high standard. . I count the influence "of the public schools'' as the greatest-single in ;flcer.ce ii our nation. But until parents and citizerxs take enough inter-" .'cot t? -W intn!!K'?r.tly and with cciiro V The most urgent matters for the American people to settle to-day, and to settle right, relate to the funda mental principles which shall control their political poli cies, as these policies are related to business. Three, and only three, paths are open to us. First, we may, if we choose, adopt the policy of laissez faire, or let alone, which has been powerfully advocated by Most' young men of the present time, who have come up through the modern system of schooling, have been trained to detest tattling. No matter what the de liberate offense of a guilty one may be, boy logic has it that the boy who reports the infraction is the worse offender of the two. Let a hundred pupils suffer for the mis deed, rather than report that boy who, of fending personally every one in the hun still chooses to sneak silently under cover of suspicion. But when the young man, trained aca demically to this idea, finds himself a unit worker' on a salary he may discover "To him that hath shall be given' It is perennially true. And to him that hath a great burden of responsibility shall be triven a still creater burden also. Our trab- weignt or responsiDinty ior tne eaucation of the children of the United States, in cluding as many new immigrants as the steamers shall bring. Now, because the teachers have so much responsibility, we give them more; we ask their direct super vision of the health of every school child, and if crime increases in a community we r: : "v Latest Kansas Events, j Gen Hugh Cameron Dead. Gen. Hugh Cameron, known as the -Kansas Hermit," died of apoplexy in a Topeka hospital. He went from lawrence to attend the funeral of A. H. Case, an old friend. Gen. Cameron was 82 years old at the time of his death. He was born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., October 28, 1826. He went to "Washington, D. C, shortly after the election of Zachery Taylor as president. There he became ac quainted with Webster, Clay, Doug las and other eminent statesmen of the day. He moved to his hermitage near Lawrence in 1854. Before that time he was professor of mathematics In Rittenhouse academy, Washing ton. Then for a time he was clerk In the treasury department. His health failed and he moved to Kansas in time to be identified with the free state struggle. He' located his claim on the Kansas river a few miles west Of Lawrence( He laid the foundation for a house. The rock he quarried by himself. The framework of the house was made of walnut lumber. Years ago enemies of the hermit fired the house and it was totally destroyed. Since then he lived under a thatch ot limbs and boughs on his claim or in a crude shed under a tree in an out-of-the-way place in Lawrence. His appearance was all his title of hermit Implied. His white hair and beard unkept and long, and a long stocking cap, served to identify him every where. Gen. Cameron made several pilgrimages of political nature. One of the best remembered of those was two years ago this winter when he went to Albuquerque, N. M., to hunt up Edmund G. Ross bearing a "letter of forgiveness," for the vote Ross cast as senator from Kansas when Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial was in progress. Ross was the last man to vote and his vote saved Johnson. The feeling against him has since died out and, at Gen Cameron's request, the Kansas legislature officially "forgave" the vote. Secretary Co burn's Report. The greatest ever, is the way F. D. Coburn characterizes the agricultural year of 1908 in Kansas, The secre tary of the state board of agriculture issued the final report of the depart ment for the year. While the total yields of farm products have not been as high as in some years, the Kansas farmers .will have $11,596,224 more to spend this year than in any previous 12 months in the state's history. Corn is still king in the Sunflower state with a crop of 150,640,516 bushels, valued at $82,642,642. Animals sold for slaughter constitute the next most valuable product for the year with a value of $67,705,158. Next comes J wheat 76,808,922 bushels of it, worth $63,885,146. The Kansas hen is still on the job, with $9,306,651 to her credit for the 12 months. Of all classes of farm products there were good yields and top notch prices. The following Interesting facts are gleaned from the report: The total yield of corn was 150,040,- 516 bushels from 7,057,535 acres, and, appraised at its home value by those who grew it, was worth $82,642,461 Although 15th in aggregate yield, it is first in value. It is the most valuable wheat crop ever produced by Kansas and rated worth $7,097,634 more than that of 1907, which ranks second. The aver age value a bushel this year was above 83 cents, the highest since 1881 The field crops -were worth more than 44 per cent more than those of the years of 1893 and 1894 combined, and the total value of all farm pro ducts is 60 per cent greater than the average for the 20 years ending with 1907. Two Representative Contests. Two representative contests were filed with the secretary of state. Rich ard Broiller is contesting the election of J. S. Stout in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth district. Stout is a Demo crat and won by five votes in Morton and Stevens counties. J. P Caudill, the Democrat who lost the election in the Ninety-ninth district to W. V. Jack son, a Republican, by nine votes, has also filed a contest. Just a Stroll for Man of 87. Jacob Boudrie, 87 years old, walked from Leavenworth to Atchison, 21 miles, with a broken rib. Two weeks before he left Atchison in a row boat to hunt and trap along the Missouri river. v In Leavenworth he fell and broke a rib. He refused to ride to Atchison on a train. Boudrie formerly was a trapper in Canada. Raise Westminster Funds, More than $10,000 was raised among the Presbyterians of Lawrence recent ly for the endowment of the Westmin ster house at the university. To Increase Kansas Rates. A substantial increase in freight rates will be announced soon by sev eral of the Western railroads. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe general freight offices in Topeka have been working on the new schedule several weeks with the expectation of having them finished about January 1. . Olpe Bank Robbed of $2,000. Robbers entered the State bank at Olpe, ten miles sout- of Emporia, blerw open the safe and got away with $2,000 in cash. New Depot for Humboldt. The Santa Fe has promised the rail road board that it would build a pas senger depot at Humboldt next year that the people there would be proud of. Humboldt has been kicking for a new depot for some time. ' Banak Robbery Failed. Two heavy charges cf nitroglycer in exploded against the vault doors of Kansas Food Must Be Pure. Last June the state board of health Issued an order to the pure food de partment that the educational part of the work had gone far enough and that every merchant, packer, manu facturer and jobber knew the require ments of the pure food law. There fore It was ordered that the depart ment should not be lenient toward of fenders any longer, but should begin prosecutions as soon as violations of the law were found. Acting under these orders the pure food inspectors have brought about 80 cases for al leged violations of the pure food law. Of these, 51 have been tried and the defendants fined for violations of vari ous sections of the law. There are now 29 cases pending. Three cases have been appealed to higher courts, but in most instances the violators pleaded guilty and paid their fines- Medals for Two Kansas Boys. With no ostentation the officials of the Missouri Pacific railway have in vestigated and rewarded the bravery and presence of mind of. two country boys, James and August Ficken, who live near Bison. They flagged one of the fast passenger trains of the line as it neared a washout, saving 350 pessengers. Between nine and ten o'clock the night of June 16, after a severe rain storm, believing that dam age might have been done to the track near their home, the b3ys went out with a lantern and discovered a washout. They flagged the train less than a mile from the damage. Kansas Farm Papers Merge. The Kansas Farmer and Farmers' Advocate, two of the oldest farm pa pers in the west, have consolidated. The Advocate loses its identity, but its president, Albert T. Reid, the art ist, becomes the president of the new company. E. B. Cowgill, president of the Kansas Farmer, retires from that office, but remains on the editorial staff. The capital stock of the new company is to be increased to about $100,000. -The Kansas Farmer was es tablished shortly after the Civil war and the Advocate has been in exist ence since 1S70. Kansas Twine Plant Closed. The Kansas penitentiary binding twine plant has been closed down to provide additional working force in the coal mine. The cold snap caught many of the state institutions short of coal and there has been an excep tional demand for fuel within the last few days. Five hundred prisoners are being worked in the mines. The pris on mine furnishes coal to 22 state in stitutions and little or none is ever stored. Gove County Record Changes Hands. The Gove County Record, one of the leading Republican papers in the Sixth district, published in Grinnell, which has been edited by Elmer E. Beven for the past four years, has been sold to S. C. Carroll of Stockton and H. A. Spiher of Gove City, and the last issue under Mr. Beven's man agement has appeared. The Record will be a Democratic paper from this time on. A $7,000 Fire in Pittsburg. .A loss of between $7,000 and $8,000 was entailed by a fire that broke out in the rooms of the Pittsburg Under taking company the other day. A Junction City Merchant Dead. Charles Sawtell, a widely known business man, died at his home in Junction City the other day. He was 45 years old. The Cost of the Primary. The Kansas primary cost about $135,000 Car Repairers Work In Houses. W. A. Johnson, commissioner of the bureau of labor and Industry, in a report issued recently says that the law requiring the building of sheds to protect car repair men in storms is being generally observed by the rail roads in Kansas. The law was passed in 1907, but few sheds were built last winter. This year, however, sheds have been built at all important points. There are several disputes over the location of these sheds, which may require litigation. A Soldiers' Reunion In Emporia. The eighteenth annual reunion of the survivors of companies C and E Eleventh Kansas cavalry, in Emporia, was recently held in commemoration of the forty-sixth anniversary of the battle of Prairie Grove, Ark. New Bank for Lucas. The Farmers' State bank, a new in stitution, has been organized and will be opened for business early in Jan uary. The bank will have a capital of $15,000, furnished mostly by farm ers of that vicinity. Those Rich Farmers. The home of J. C. Gray, a farmer who lives ten miles south of this city, was robbed of $600 In gold, $400 In currency and a box of mortgages. notes and bonds the other night. The valuable paaers were found where the burglars had thrown them. Dawson as Stubb's Secretary. Gov.-elect Stubbs has announced the first appointment of his administra tion. John S. Dawson, at present first assistant attorney general, will be come the governor's private secretary. Western Union Tax Suits Set. The tax suit of the Western Union Telegraph company against "the tax commission will be heard in Topeka, December 17 and 18. Judge John C. Pollock of the United States circuit court has notified the attorneys In the case of the dates. Woman Found Dsad in Eed. When friends cf :irs. Julia JuisW Innocent Thought of Business Man That Gave Serious Offense. Two business men had been talking good naturedly the other day. Their conversation had reviewed a number of things, and a remark made by the pro prietor as his caller was leaving bvought up the subject of prosperity In a rather awkward way. "Business with me has been a little dull of late. I've had only a few call ers," he remarked. The friend smilingly rejoined: "TouH have enough of them in a short time prosperity's coming right along. Why," he added, emphatically, "the next time I drop around, instead of being able to chat with you for half an hour, there'll be so many people ahead of me that it'll take me two hours to get to you maybe I can't see you at all." "I hope so," rejoined the proprietor, cheering up over the prospects of re newed business activity. His .caller literally "stormed" out of the office, leaving his erstwhile host in a state of bewilderment as to what had happened. INVALID'S SAD PLIGHT. After Inflammatory Rheumatism, Hair NCame Out, Skin Peeled, and Bed 'Sores Developed Only Cutl cura Proved Successful. "About four years ago I had a very severe attack of inflammatory rheuma tism. My skin peeled, and the high, fever played havoc with my hair, which came out in bunches. I also had three large bed sores on my back. I did not gain very rapidly, and my appetite was very poor. I tried many 'sure cures' but they were of little help, and until I tried Cuticura Re solvent I had had no real relief. Then my complexion cleared and soon I felt better. The bed sores went very soon after a few applications of Cuticura Ointment, and when I used Cuti cura Soap and Ointment for my hair ft began to regain its former glossy ap pearance. Mrs. Lavina J. Henderson, 138 Broad St., Stamford, Conn., March 6 and 12, 1907." CONSTITUTIONAL OBJECTION. Mrs. Thrifty Well, if you're thirsty I'll give you a glass of water to drink. Weary Willy I dare not touch water, mum. I've got an iron consti tution and it might rust it. Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. Hoodooed. A poor devil asked for alms. The inquisitive man questioned him. After a few interrogations he said to his companions: "Boys, don't give him a cent; he's a fraud." The beggar re plied: "Gents, I am under a hoodoo. I'm an unlucky man. I do believe if I were to seize time by the forelock it would come right out and leave me as bare as a barber's pole." Then they all chipped in. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to lean that there is at least one dreaded disease that science baa been able to cure in all its stages, and that to Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitu tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken In ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assist ing nature in doing its work. The oroDrletora lum so much faith in its curative powers that tbey offer ura xiunarea .Dollars ior any case that It tails to cure, oena ior list or testimonials Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c . Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. A Contrary Man. Mrs. Naggs Did you see anything of my husband this morning? Mrs. Homer Yes. Mrs. Naggs Which way was he go ing? , Mrs. Homer The other way. Mrs. Naggs I might have known it. He's the contrariest man that ever lived. DISTEMPER In all its forms among all ages of horses, as well as dogs, cured and others in same stable prevented from having the disease with SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE. Every bottle guaranteed. Over 500,000 bottles sold last year. $.50 and $1.00. Any good druggist, or send to manu facturers. Agents wanted. Spohn Medical Co., Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Lnd. A Natural Cause. "I think," said the smart child, re flectively, "that Hungary must be the most human-like of all the nations." "Why so, my child?" asked the fond papa. "Because," the smart child answered, "it is governed by its Diet." ALL TTP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. Good harvests make men prodigal, but bad ones provident. W.-Penn. PILES CUBED IN 6 TO 14 DATS. PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to care any can of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in S to 14 days or money refunded. 60c Give some people their pick and they'll pick flaws every time. Hot, Hot, Ginger Snaps a treat for the children. 5c at your Grocer's. Sometimes a woman Is known fey the company she avoids. 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