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EDITOR.
ROOSEVELT AND THElPEOPLE.
Roosevelt, as President, is not only commander
inrchief cf the army and navy, but also of Con
gress. At least no President since Jackson's time
has so squarely laid down what lh,e House and
Scna.te must "do. The American people without
regard to politics, religion, or previous convictions,
are unanimous in the demand for legal protection
against the trusts, which are aiming" to absorb the
earth and all it contains. Our strenuous President
having concluded that the people have rights, which
the trusts must-respecct, that the individual citi
zen should have a chance to exist a reasonable
length of time, notified Congress that some effective
anti-trust measure must be -"enacted or otherwise
he would convene the Senate and House in extra
session. Both the Senate and House got a move
on, and both passed rather drastic anti-trust mea
sures. As 3'et they have failed to concur or even
to confer. The fear is that both measures may
fail for the want of agreement between the two
branches as to which is best A failure to do so
and they will find themselves reconvened, which
means extra expense to the individual member and
maybe continuous wrangle reaching into the heat
of the summer. And now the President has pro
claimed another ultimatum, to the effect that in
the failure of the Senate to. ratify both the" Pana
ma canal and the Cuban reciprocity treaties he
will call an extraordinary session. There are, no
doubt, grave reasons of state why the treaties re
ferred to should bo immediately ratified. Certain
it is that the people of the country are demanding
protection against the plots and conspiracies of the
monetary combines. This scheme of pauperizing
the commonality in the name of law and liberty,
as an inalienable right, is becoming monotonously,
galling. The Congress, in failing to heed so uni
versal a demand from the people for relief, should
be convened and reconvened until forced to ef
fectively act. For the most part all this talk, on the
floors of the two houses, of the danger that all anti
trust legislation will fail to stand the test of the
courts, and that it is next to an impossibility to
compile a law on that subject which would prove
constitutional, is principally rot The people who
demand such legislative protection are greater than
the courts ,or the constitution. To make, unmake,
and remake both is among their perogatives, as
they can make and unmake Senators and Congress-"
men.. And the people will stand by their President
In his demand for action.
iTHOSE WOMEN HAVE NO KICK COMING.
The Western School Journal is out in an editorial
regretting that the legislature refused to grant
women the right to vote. That periodical goes on
to assert that if it had been submitted to the nine
thousand women teachers of the state it would have
passed. Twenty-five of that 9,000 women teachers
got into politics all right enough, anyway, as that
number were 'elected county superintendents at the
last election. Women school teachers in Kansas
are not only inclined to run for office, as indicated
above, but inclined to run into oldmaiddom. This
fact of itself is good argument against woman in
public life. Public life and home life for women
are not compatable. The woman who aspires to
public life has little use for the home, and less
for babies. Wlren this kind of woman accepts a hus
band it is only for the sake of convenience and ad
vantage, not from any desire to run a home. As
for this 9,000 women teachers, referred to, the only
use they have for children as a rule, is the oppor
tunity children afford these teachers of drawing
salaries from the public monies. Public school teach
ing and public monies ought to satisfy their desire
for publicity without farther recourse to the bal
lot bc. If women were voters and public school
officers the chances are that women teachers would
receive less, consideration than is accorded them by
male officers. When it comes to making conces
sions, woman does not bank Very much on woman,
on either her capabilities or deserts. The women
teachers of Kansas have no kick coming. They are
receiving more at the hands of the voter than any
class or profession save the officeholders them
selves. In giving their time and talents to the
public they are well and promptly paid by the
public, in spite of the fact that their aversion to
domesticity is discouraging to the state. While we
couldn't get along very well without ths woman
school teacher we shall not miss her at the voting
precinct Woman's absence at the polls- will not
be regretted as much as would be her absence from
the school and from the home. However, the organ
or mouthpiece of the Kansas teacher, quoted, prob
nbly dos not cogitate along the rut here outlined.
Still the defense he makes for those from whom he
in turn he draws his support, is a lame one.
THE MAKING OF LITTLE GODS.
The American is a foreshadowed fellow. In mak
ing monoy out of everything he turns an honest
penny out of queer enterprises. Inconsistency cuts
no iceiwnGre a dollar is in sight Ho has been
accused of advocating temperance and running dis
tillery at the same time. It is said that he has
boon contributing his money and his tears for many
years for the conversion of such benighted heathen
as worships gods of tin and stone. Now we find
that we have in this countrv of missionaries a
factory for the making of idols of worship. The
dispatches announce that H. F. Kronsnkyn has
arrived in this country as the authorized agsnt of
the worshippers of Seoul, Corea. to contract for
idols to be used in the temples of his country and
China. The infant industry of making Idols for the
heathen was begun several years ago by an enter
prising American "firm. An expert Yankee promoter
was sent with a few samples among the heathen
elders of the foreign templles, with the result that
M. M. M U R D OC K,
orders are coming in with a rush. The trade in
heathen gods is amply protected by the Dingley
tariff. But since we commenced this industry we
have discovered new and strange designs in idols:
A few samples of the golden calf, the octopus and
some other choice models that could be suggested
might possibly take the Corean sacred orders by
storm. As coon as the heathen of Corea and China
become better acquainted with some of the most
paying of our modern American gods the Remand
is Jjound to be still further enhanced.
THE MOTIVE WAS ULTERIOR.
More and more with each succeeding day does
it become plainer to all the world that ulterior mo
tivees inspired the German-English alliance against
Venezuela. It was a feint, or a demonstration for
testing America's sincerity in the Monroe docctrine,
in the. absence of a direct offensive demonstration
against the United States. The .Springfield, Mass.,
Republican asks: "Why was it necessary to indulge
in attacks upon the kaiser as possibly a covert
enemy of the United States, when any child in naval
warfare could have reen by a glance at the small
naval force in the American waters that no program
hostile to the United States was conceivable under
the circumstances? These attacks were, in reality,
absurd. The suspicion that Germany had ulterior
motives, or had gone into the business in order to
damage the prestige of the Monrot doctrine, implied .
that the British ministry was a willing party to such
designs for it is nonsense to say that so experi
enced a statesman in foreign affairs as Lord Lands
downe and so keen a man as Mr. Balfour were in
veigled intd an alliance whose objects they did not
thoroughly comprehend. They were not born yes
terday. IT IS TO LOSE AND DIE.
Monte Carlo is the gilded hell of suicides, the
slaughter pen of despair. The gambling resorts of
all history cannot compare with the infamy of that
den of marble, gold and glitter. Still thousands annu
ally find their way there only to be fleeced in games
held to be fair and of nearly even chances. There
is but one sure thing at Monte Carlo and that is
loss. Sir Hiram Maxim has recently been passing
his leisure time at Monte Carlo where he has studied
the chances for players- as against the bank. He
says that in the long run the best of "systems" can
do little more than reduce the loss which is eventu
ally inevitable, owing to the heavy percentage in
favor of the bank. The official guide-books of Monte
Carlo represent the average relations between the
bank, and the player as about Gl to GO, and that
the annual winnings of the bank are about $5,000,
000. This would indicate that about $185,000,000
were taken to the bank every year and $180,000,000
won back from the bank. Sir Hiram was- naturallly
staggered by the magnitude of these figures, and
looked into the matter. He concluded that the
amount staked each year was about $5,500,000, and
that the bank, instead of winning the guide-book's
l1 per cent, kept about 90 per cent of the money.
In other words, th-e chances are 10 to 1.
THAT LANSING SKULL.
That skeleton found up near the state peniten
tiary will not down. It is more persistent than
Banquo's ghost. It seems settled that the oldest
resident of the world was a Kansan. Adam wasn't
in it for antiquity. Twenty or thirty thousand years
ago it must have taken a good deal of rustling to
exist in sight of Missouri. So "Fossil Human Re
mains Found Near Lansing. Kan.," is the title of a
monograph written by Prof. W. H. Holmes, chief of
the bureau of ethnology in Washington, D. C. The
monograph aims at gathering together and present
ing in form exhaustive and at the same time con
densed, all the information thus far obtained, to
gether with the different theories; views, opinions,
eta, upon the subject of the Lansing remains; the
most remarkable and authentic discovery of pregla
(, cial man since the finding of the famous Neanderthal
remains in Germany nearly a century ago.
The monograph is illustrated with photographic
reproductions of front, back, side, and top views
of the Lansing skull, as well as- a bird's eye view of
the locality where the bones were found, drawn by
Prof. Holmes in crayon. The monograph first of all
gives a history of the finding of these remains, a
description of the skull and other remains, and, in
conculsion, reviews the opinion of the men of science
in regard to this-, the most remarkable anthropo
logical discovery of the twentieth century.
Concluding the work, Prof. Holmes, very mod
estly advances his own opinions, a view that has
been accepted as the only logical one by a majority
of the anthropologists of this country and Europe:
"As a result of my own observations at Lansing,
and considering also the' conclusions reached Ijv
Prof. Chamberlain and his associates, I find it diffi
cult to come to any other conclusion that that the
remains under consideration (the Lansing man) are
properly classes of preglacial age. interpreting that
time to cover all the time, subsequent to the final
retreat of the ice from the region of the great lakes."
SOUTH AFRICA HATES ENGLAND.
The war having been concluded with the sur
render of the Boers it is now declared that which
induced the Boers to surrender more than any one
thing Blse was the turning loose of the savage tribes
on their border under English pay.
In the most recent stages of Mr. Chamberlain's
progress through South Africa, his path has not
been flower-strewn. A deep and seemingly ineradi
cable resentment is visible in the attitude of the
Boers, excepting in one or two of the larger towns.
They hold out for amnesty to all who fought oa the
Boer side 'and for a representative government Mr.
,ChamberIain angrily dismisses their petitions, and
threatens that if the Boers do cot :ive up to the
terms of the Verceniging Peace Conference, a harsh
er form of government will be substituted. How far
his firmness will prevail to a certain extent on the
results of his approaching conferences with the
Afrikander Bond leaders in Cape Colony. At least
his bolldness in South Africa has helped him at
home, where is is considered to have escaped clev
erly the .criticism that would have attached, to him,
had he- taken a hand' in the Anslo-Genaan alliance.
DEATH-BED WEDDING.
How shall I find my ume tree?
The moon and the snow are as white as she.
By the fragrance on the evening: air,
Shalt thou find her there.
Japanese Love Song.
With the soft melodies which mark the wedding cere
mony of Japan, Hattori, a young bridegroom, sang -these
words, while his love. O Yukl Chan, dead in her mar
riage robes, lay In 'her coffin at his side. and. as if to
prove to the whoie world the depth of his sense of
right, went through the marriage ceremony the living
wedded to the dead as bravely, as loyally, as though
an irrevocable message had not forever robbed them of
the anticipated height of human joy.
True, despite death's separation, this story of a Japan
ese youth's wedding, details of which are here made pub
lic for the first time by Mr. Hoshi, publisher of Japan
and America, gives Americans not only the history of a
remarkable ceremony but strikingly illustrates the Japan
ese sense of right which Sir Edwin Arnold has Immor
talized. "In Kochii, Japan," said Mr. Hoshi, 'there was a
young, woman and a young man who were engaged.
"Engagement in Japan is different than in America.
Here people see something of each other. Toung folks
may talk, laugh, sing and play togethr; there such
things are never heard of. Young girls must not even
rpeak to the boys. Only the very lowest people let
their girls and boys grow up together. So. the bridegroom-to-be,
having never seen the woman he wants to
marry, unless perhaps he has seen her out walking with
her mother, must either place a pot of flowers on her
doorstep and wait to see whether the young woman
cherishes his gift or allows the flowers to wither, and
is thereupon correspondingly overjoyed or despondent
or else. he must get a go-between, an intermediary, to
act for him.
"These go-betweens are usually the Intimate friend
of the young man's father. To him the young man,
when he reaches a marriageable age, says: 'Nakodo
(intermediary), please pick me out a beautiful, intelligent,
graceful and loving woman for my wife.' The 'nakodo.'
v.ho gets no fee for his services, but usually receives
';a beautiful wedding present at the wedding feast,
starches among all the families of his acquaintance, and,
having selected a maiden whom he thinks may suit his
young friend, seeks her hands in marriage through her
parents.
"For the young man in this case the nakodo had
selected a bride who was willing. Her parents were
pleased, the prospective bridegroom's parents were
equally pleased, and the parents of the bride had pre
pared the many wedding gifts which are. with us, a
necessary expression of the esteem in which a young
woman is held with her family.
" 'I will meet you at sunset' she had said to her
fianco the night before her wedding eve, after he had
called with his gifts and, in the presence of her mother,
had bowed himself from the door.
"When sunset came she was missing. The bride
groom joined in the search. Presently he saw a bit of
her sash fluttering in the wind, and in the twilight he
found her hanging to a rafter in an outhouse dead.
" 'Kami (God) called her.' wtis all he said, and called
her parents. 'Her joy was more than she could bear,'
said the mother.
"Unlike the retirement from friendst as is the custom
in America, in Japan the parents are obliged by eti
quettte to receive the friends and relatives of the dead.
The maiden was oniy 18. All those who had known her
as a bright pupil and had loved her bright personality,
brought pine branches as a sign of their affection, while
others brought bronze vases, with chrysanthemums ar
ranged to represent the masts and rigging of a ship in
port a token of serenity.
"Until the bars of mist floating across the Uyeno pines
heralded the sunset hour they laid their blossoms on the
dead girl's bier. Then all was changed. The bride
groom had insisted ujjpn a wedding ceremony. From
mourning to merriment, from tears and rehearsal of
the death scene to the gaiety of the wedding hour, was
the transition of that moment. Servants with flaming
lanterns, on which was the crest of coat-of-arms of the
bride's family, were quickly brought; lights sprang up
all over the place, and within, on the mat In front of the
tokonoma, the seat of honor, sat the bridegroom ready
for the festival. At his side was the coffin.
"So they were wed, and the bride's name was struck
from her father's family register and substituted pn her
husband's. They had also drank from the little
cups filled from the jar decorated with the two butter
flies. The loyal youlh (he was only 20). had pledged
himself to her In the cup, which to the Japanese Is a
token of sharing bliss and sorrow together, and the
hour for general rejoicing was over.
"Sorrow ruled once more. They took her presents
and the things the dead girl had loved and laid them
in the large white coffin beside her, and the husband,
alone watched throughout the night with his dead.
"With the morning came the hour for the funeral.
"Headed by a servant, with policemen to preserve
order on the way to the cemetery, coolie flower bearers,
two by. two. with the customary black caps on their
heads and dressed in white robes, marched with their
burdens of Japonicas or huge bouquets of plum blossoms
held in green bamboo stems, on which was the name of
the donor. These were followed by the coffin, which
was bourne on poles on men's shoulders. Then came
the husband in his kuruma, followed by the family and
near friends, teachers and schoolmates."
Wife and Mother.
(From the Houston. Tex.. Post.)
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. had the courage to marry the
woman of his choice in spite of the displeasure of his
parents who sought to punish him by reducing his in
heritance. He has lately passed through the valley of
the shadow in the clutch of typhoid fever, but also in
the tender embrace of the wife of his bosom whose
ministrations finally rescued him from the grim monster.
Meanwhile his mother was abroad and satisfied herself
by cabling inquiries addressed to him. instead of his
wife, though she must have known that he could not
personally receive or answer any communication. Finally
she has returned when he is out of all danger, but has
not called on her son.
All of which, it may be said with some show of pro
priety, is nobody's business. Still, the public is so
accustomed to discussing the affairs of the big folks of
fina.nce and politics that people will talk.
Anyhow, the ears of Mrs. Vanderbilt, Sr., must be
tingling at the ill thinc3 and the checks of Mrs. Van
derbilt. Jr.. must be glowing at the kindly things which
arc borne upon the air.
All the world loves a lover, and by the same token
all the world loves a faithful wife and despises a hard
hearted mother. If Cornelius Vanderbilt and his wife
were entirely cut off from fortune, their state would be
moro enviable than that of the mother whose anger
was unappeased even In the hour of her son's extremity.
Happily such stubborness it might be called wicked
nessis rare in persons of high and law estate. Usually
mother love errs on the other side, if Indeed it is ever
error for parents to make the best of the martial choice
of their children. Maternal forgiveness is so nearly un
failing that the exception is shocking. In contrast with
it the devotion of the wife is so beautiful that it displaces
all meanor sentiments and leaves only pity for the mis
erable mother who must now and hereafter drink the
bitterness of her own folly.
A Curious People.
(Sioux City JoumaL)
The public is a curious commodity. It becomes very
much excited at a report that the head of the Standard
Cil Company has sent a bunch of telegrams to Wash
ington, but little Interest has been taken in the fact that
the same concern has been maintaining an active lobbv
In Washington all winter.
To Secure Justice.
The tidings that . the lyric poet cf Germany bar
organised for the purpose of .securing higher prices far
their output comes by way of London to be sure, but It
seems to indicate that the poets of the world are gradually-awaking
to the fact that the manual labor Involved
In hammering out a sonnet or a madrigal, to say noth
ing of odes and things. Is worth something.
Sensible Susan.
Susan 3. Anthony Is not afraid that the terrible
Enjoot will s Troop down on her and carry her wHly
nllly. "The women of this country. she says, "who
are getting up an agitation a.gainst Mr. Smoct are
wasting their efforts. Trying to crush polygamy by tak
ing action against an iadivklsa! who does not practice '
is small business."
Sporting New3.
"Let me see. wasn't it LongfeII'w who wrote about
that oM mfil at Newport?" mU Am tang-haired .mas.
"Say. you're mixed, ckl man." replied the gent la tae
loud suit- "Longfellow -seas the borx that won th han
dicap ence. Anyway. I never heard of a rsOl beta culled
. off- at Newport.' - j
FUN OF THE WORLD.
Johannes Faulus Kruger sent a commissioner home
to England to find out if there wtere any more left
there. The commissioner wired from London to say
that there were -4.000,000 men and women 'knocking about
tfie town,' that there was no excitement and that men
Were begging -to be sent to fight the Boers. Kruger
wired back. 'Go North.' The commissioner found him
self In Newcastle evidently, and wired to Kruger, 'For
Gcd's sake, stop the war! England Is bringing men
"up from hell, eight at a time, In cages 1'
"He had seen a coal mine."
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The late Counselor Nolan, whose imposing figure, rich
brogue, and ready wit could take more liberties with
the bench and escaped unscathed than any other member
of the bar. On one occasion at a trial at which ho
was one of the counsel when the court adjourned for
lunch, the clerk announced , that the case would be
called again promptly at 1 o'clock.
"When the court reconvened at that hour every one
was in place except Nolan, and everything was at a
standstill, to the evident Irritation of the court and the
annoyance of others concerned in the case,.
At 1:15 o'clock In walked the counselor, smiling and
debonair, when the judge, drawing his atch from his
pocket, said:
"Counselor, you have delayed the business of this
court just fifteen minutes."
To which the counselor replied:
"Well, It may be as you say. your honor, but you know
you can never depend upon those "Waterburys."
The judge joined in the general laugh that followed.
the counselor took his seat and the incident was closed.
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A Chicago mother, on hearing that her sister had re
ceived a new little girl, said to Lillian, her little daugh
ter: Lillian, auntie has a new baby, and now mamma
is the baby's aunt. Papa is the baby's uncle, and you
are her little cousin." "Well." said Lillian, wondering
ly, "wasn't that arranged quick."
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if tfi. S. St a
Balie Waggener, of Atchison, one of the best known
lawyers and Democratic politicians of Kansas, was born
ind reared at Weston, Platte county. Mo. The follow
ing story, which will be of interest'to the people of the
section where the spent his childhood. Is told of Mr.
Waggener:
. In 1S59 he tried his first case in the United States cir
cuit court at Leaenworth. Kansas, before Judge Miller.
The opposing! counsel was Mr. J. E. Merriman. who
lived in Platte county during the time his father lived
there, and after his death young Waggener frequently
worked for him. sawing wood and' doing odd jobs about
his office. At the time of the trial Mr. Merriman wns
irritable and treated him with great contempt. In his
argument to the jury he referred to Waggener as "the
boy who had blacked his boots." In his reply Mr. Wag
gener said: "It is true that my boyhood days were days
of poverty and want, -t was my misfortune; not ray
fault. It is true that I have blacked the gentleman's
boots. 1 shall never forget it. for the last time I did so.
he paid me a counterfeit dime .and did not have the
manhood to take it back when his attention was called
to it." The remark caught the Jury, and, while the case
was a close one. they were not long in giving a verdict
in favor of Waggener's client. The motion for a new
trial was overruled, the judge remarking that "it never
did an old lawyer any good to assail a young member
of the bar, and especially when it was unprovoked."
s e? ; g ns
A certain enthusiastic young lady had been taken, for
the first time, some weeks ago. to see a football match.
She knew nothing about the game, but she wasn't
quite aware of the fact.
"They're a poor team, aren't they?" she icmarked
to her companion, referring to the home eleven.
"Oh, dear no!" he replied. They're considered to be
a very clever lot."
"That isn't what I mean," explained the lady. "They
are not rich."
"Certainly not." was the reply. "The players aro
mostly working men, and they don't get the support they
deserve. As a matter of fact, the club's in debt"
The lady was silent for a moment Then she returned
to the attack with:
"I should like to see a wealthy team play."
"Why?"
"Well," she replied, "every man would hac a foot
ball of his cwn, I suppose."
gisss
Billy Mason, who is soon to yield his scat in the
United tates senate to Albert J. Hopkins, Is of a gen
erous nature. Somo years ago. w'hen ho was in the Illi
nois state senate, says the Brooklyn Eagle, he lived next
door to a friend whom we may as well call Robinson.
One Sunday morning the Senator found two feet or so of
snow on his sidewalk and set about shoveling it oft
before people should begin passing their way to church.
It was hard work, and the fat little man was pretty
well winded when the job was finished, but he felt that
it would be a Christian act to clean his neighbor's walk,
since he knew that Robinson had been out of towzj
for a week
When he had completed the task and was about to
return to his own house he was surprised to see Rob
inson sitting by his warm fire, smoking a good cigar and
cenfortably reading his Sunday paper.
"Look here!" the Senator called through the window,
"I thought you were out of town."
"I got back this morning." said Robinson, smiling
through the pane.
"Why didn't you shovel off your sidewalk, then?"
"I was just going to when I saw you doing it." Rob
inson answered. "And by the way. Senator, would you
mind shoveling a path to the barn? I want to go out
and feed the horse."
W W W W
a a a ev -i
Sir Richard Powell the eminent English physician. Is
noted for his franknoss in speaking his mind without
regard to th.e social position of his patient. Once, when
he was called to prescribe for tho Duchess of Man
chester, he ordered her to disrobe. "But Sir Richard,
I haven't any maid here," she said; to which the baro
net retorted: "Madame, I have no Intention of examin
ing your maid."
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Frederick I. Crowset. in his volume, "Musicians' Wit,
Humor and Anecdote." says t.rnt when the famous
Strauss first visited America, musical women went wild
ovor; him. and toward the end of the season the "king
of waltz music" was showered with application for hair.
In due course of time the locks were distributed many
hundreds of them, too .each one accompanied by the
compliments of 'he composer. Sufficient hair was sent
out to make Strauss look as thouRh he had been sand
papered, yet when ho left this country his locks were
aj abundant as ever. But when his beauii(ul black
retriever (Strauss was a great dog fancier) took his
departure, the animal looked like a shorn poodle.
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e. icti jz. n.
In his "Recollections." Aubrey de Vere tell of an
Irishman he met in Switzerland, with whom patriotism
ws so truly a mania that every word in praise of the
scenery about h!m seemed a distinct aspersion on the
land of his birth.
"What can you compare horc7" he demanded, "with
the mountains of Wieklow?"
"Perhaps." said a traveler, "one might name the
mountains of the Mont Blanc range."
"Oh." he replied scornfully, "they're out of all rea
son! I am aftor walking along the Chamounl Valley
for three days, and I only saw four of thos mountains.
Sure, in Wieklow. I've counted as many as eight In
three hours.''
"Have you seen this wonderful waterfall within half a
mile of us?"
"I have not seen It and I am not going to see It.
Dldn't I sec the CSitlHvan cascade at KUlamey? Down
it comes from such a height that you don't know where
k comes from- Down it plunge .thanderiag sad bel-krsc-tng.
sometimes black aa Ink. and somstintos Wt aw
milk, dashing its? agaJast the right-hand rock and
smashing itself agaiast the left-hand rock. What U
yor Handek JI compared to that?"
"Some persons would -"ay." was th rrply. "that the
waterfall here la about ten times aa high and tlx thne
a broad."
Ah. then." said h. with an addd nte of acorn,
"then tho crSofUvaa cascade la sot big enacsh for yu?
And I'll me this sow. Coeldn't yoa take a magnifying
glass to St?"
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A newly married ewople recently a3terd arousd
Statuary HaH ta th Cao4tol at WahJngn. D. C-. try
ia hard to ajor soceal. Stopping oa ose of the
eh atones to gaze at a sew states, they wr hy
two youthful page looVJag for a Joke. One of the paye
harried to anothr ectoo irtooe. and la a b4tKT aked.
WaJ did Ton grt nwrrW" The coeple Jooktj ai -ach
othor. asd then around the b8. Vt ceM 4!srs so
a& Th brt4 bhuttd, sta4 th yocng na looked mis
erable. Preeatly acJ ae te nirterioc ttetfon:
Whea did r Sl saarried? Awe trikea cd Jookisr
oxtresiely fo)l. ifcy Co3 from the hall, to the istta
xsuiea::i. of the ssischitrec page.
OUTUNf OF OKLAHOMA.
An ores are on Wood war county. Will she
up under the otraiH of tlt lWUre vWt?
Jly kow Merrick auat He to do a. little questlonls
of Jenklno. It's tlse safest way as It Is, aowever.
Local talent played "Uncle Rube" at Woodward lat
ek in a way that would have made Hamlet proud.
Bryan's vtelt is still to be felt In the new country. The
olher day, a school girl of Lawtoa delivered aa oration
on him.
The engineer has reported en the Alva water and aa
nouaces that the city will be "warranted in making an,
expenditure.
Shawnee has a garment factory. Oklahoma City I
said to be after it And Shawne can't raise too many
bonuses now.
R. S. Steele, chief clerk of the White Eagle Indian
agency, has resigned. It is said ho will go into business
at Ponca City.
There is not many more days In which to pass tha
statehood blU but it will go automoblling through when
it gets started.
Kay county Is all right The farmers are optimistic
They declare that the recent storm did little daroago
if any to their fruit trees.
It will be noticed that a Republican and not a Demo
crat caused the change in the secretary's office. Tho
latter have made all the noise.
The Texan who counted a hundred dead cattle along
the Choctaw roust have seen double or,, worse. Such
exaggerations hurt the territory-
Guthria claims to be the only city at which Hobson
will lecture. Really, now. we suppose, tho other cities
could get him if tbey wanted to pay.
Ferguson is said to be the proposed name of one of
the new proposed counties.. The governor's proud to bo
sure, but he won't be worked that way.
Lawton Is to have the next meeting of the Oklahoma
and Indian Territory coal dealers association. It will
be on the second Tuesday in May 1W8.
Edgar Jones is said to be mad because Bill Cross
criticised him for his position on thfc statehood resolu
tion. Ed oughtn't to take Bill so seriously.
It's a pity that "Mrs. Johanna Soderholm" didn't
break her neck Instead of Just dislocating her shoulder.
She and Jim Dumps ought to get together.
Now that is business. A half holiday was nred at
Perry to the class In school doing the best work. How
much better than a silk banner on a broom stick.
Governor Ferguson Is said to bo against the fee sys
tem of salaries. If It were not Tom Ferguson. It would
be a temptation to remark that none of his salary Is In
fees.
Tuttle ,of Comanche, should join a humane society.
He resigned the chairmanship of the railroad committee,
declaring that he didn't believe the railroads should bo
"harassed."
L. D. Bolton, chief clerk of the house, from Hobart
has announced that he Is a candidate for auditor wbn
Oklahoma becomes a state. Only a Democrat could bo
so premature.
Hickman's bill providing for healthful prisons says
that each prisoner shall have his underwear washed once
a week. Wash day everybody will be seeking tho
cloistered cell.
Perry Enterprise-Time?: Enid people are in a bad fix.
They have always had It In for Guthrie and slnco tho
Cattlemen's convention they havo turned against Okla
homa City. Nothing left for Enid people wlien the tlmo
comes to locate tha state capital except to veto for Perry.
Ponca City Courier: It Is reported that there has been
ccnsiderable loss among the range cattle in the Ocngo
and other reservations on account of the recent severely
cold weather. Except for the loss to individual owners,
it would probably be a good thing If nil of thw rang
cattle should freeze to death, ns they are of the long
horn variety which has proved to 1ms a mcnaco to tha
cattle industry
Blackwell News: What's tho matter with having tho
three north townships of the Ponca reservation attached
back to Kay county? When the government Iftld out
Kny county It included those threo townships. The
supremo court, however, attached them to Noble county
for Judicial purposes. Now that those townships nr
to be taxed, under the new law, for nil purposes, Kay
county should get that which is rightly hers.
ALONG THE KANSAS NICE.
Ranch land with 75 acres under tAiltlvation is belnir
offered for sale In Marlon at $15 an acre.
"Jack, the peeper," has Invaded Mcl'herson. Whll
men were at lodge he "windowed" the women at home.
It's always tho high school boys at Leavenworth. At
last reports they were playing "Pussy wants a corner."
Wellington Is Insulted. A company that proposed min
ing salt has given it up, declaring that the salt Is not
first class.
. Two alleged horscthlevcs were arrested at Winfleld
Thursday, with forty-three horses. Evidently they were
planning a rival of Forepaueh's.
Topeka rivals Venezuela for Internal troubles. At
present sha is making a hullabaloo because .ie police
force refuses to be Investigated.
Senator Burton has announced that he Is not con
nected with the Get-Rlch-Qulck concern of St Louis and
Topeka Is breathing easy again.
A man whllo drinking from Salt Creek, six tn!ls went
of Hutchinson, smclled gns. The creek Is now being
searched for the treasure by many.
The house has passed the bill increasing the salaries
of the supreme court Justices from $3,000 to $3,090 a year.
Waggener fathered the measure.
Johnson, of Decatur, has Introduced a bill providing
for . state chicken hatchery at Oberlln. The purpos
is to rurnlnh pure bred fowls to the farmers cheap.
The coal dealers, have met and adopted a resolution
. asking the legislature to prevent the confiscation of caal
Of course, this is going to help the conumers a heap.
Chancellor Strong, of the University, has expressed
himself as satisfied with tho appropriation. That's good,
for It Is a great deal of trouble to reconsider the action.
Those Atchison girls should be congratulated for their
foresight. A MUs Thompson of that city adopted a boy
from the home several years ago and this w!k married
him.
This odd headline appears In an account of a trial in
the McPherson Republican: "Orattan Wins. Found
Guilty of Murder." Grattart was the proouUng at
torney. J. P. Johnson Is dead at Arkansas City. Retort ha
It that he Is worth $1M.CV). When Cashier Facts bal
ances up the book one of the ciphers Is likely to get
blotted out
The Caldwell Newfc declares that the ace for protn
and unseemly language among manual Is borers la pat
A boilermaker was filed r"CnUy. It y, for "cuaslnsc"
a fellow-worker.
The farmers cf Sumner county are kicking because tho
telephone company doein't mow the weed, under th
wires. They evidently do not resllre Just what theyro
going up against.
The Leavenworth Tlm talks ax though torn of fb!
veterans of the soldiers home hsd been caught on tho
turf investment swindles. ! It povilble that eten the
experienced cet hold the rack?
The Leavenworth girls are crut A marrJM one
recently deserted her husband In Nebraska. jf, f0
lewed her to Leavenworth arvJ whn his Ivtv forced bim
to injifk her out she had bin rreted-
The firemen ArfcjuwM City are being roast! b
cause they xefud to go Into a txirnlnv wereK-ywo
which went up In smoks ThurvJay. Oa th ethr hand,
if they had gone In th7 wocld have b--u rossU!
Caldwell New: A fa tinman who nam v fJje.$
ti learn was trying to cet tbroagfe a snow drift north
of town Ut Monday drlvicg with a uara of mute. Thy
-xrr- Judging and stpplar h."h when es of thra U
ner dead It Is uppod th rauU broke a Mood rel
in its exertions wblci ed 6-tk,
8edgTrtck Xaj3tagraa- Towns slong th ArkajM
rfrer are agiutlnx the rttabUhcnst of bet racmr fac
tories.. Nearly every town wants a fsctory. if o
farmers csn b shown that raising sugar bt wJU p-t
ther wtfl rt lata tX twrtner aad fatorie will 19
etbilth4. Je Fssgat. la hJ Newton Journal. 4ro
cate t.V tabUacsit of a pUt fcJ4war o! the lrln
rle foraged by lb town, or Newtoo. Sr-Uk itvi
HsUtead. We be!W that th rogar bi ladsstry
pay. It win be tt rsorr crop aWd. n.vl CirenlSe
rartcicg pays- Th thing f- the tintxr m a lt w
nssk esperfzscsts In tent trowigg. tstlag th vartoca
scil. sad sending i products to t western factarr
at Reckyfort for saalyrts. If th U, eaa V tlM
er. tJte kXcstry wti s4rsfctrd!y Courts fc.