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miaimmmmi(mtimmimmmmimmi- tvamasmi'wwami 'Uo W.Ji 'C.r .Si)C,, ly THE lOLA A JtiJtV ItttOISTKR, R(TABH8IID 1W. OOURANT, Established 1883. DtMOORAT,E8TABLiaiIi!Dl886, ELBMORK RAOLK, KuTDlumilD 1890. 8AVONBDKQ PUOOREBB, KlIABLlBKID 1891. Iola, Allen County, Kansas, Friday, August 23, 1901. VOL. XXXV. No 40 ygji.,, amMMimnmmmmmmmm.xmma, ErTQ HIS WIKK IS OUT OF TOWN. We sco a man v. Ith undcrllp thai has i( down- want droop. Upon lilt face ii rcowI as If he'd fallen In thp soup! He roams nbout the busy streets In nn uneasy way, And puts n surly accent on the thlnus ho has to say lie goes Into a restaurant and drops Into u scat And wonders why thpy'vo not a thlnu fit for a dog to vat, And If yon care to seen tho cause that makes him feel so brown You'll not have cry f ar to look: his wife Is out of town. Wo see another man drcssidup unusually Kav, He wears a smile of gladness and a buttonhole boiiuot. Ho Joins Hie crulslnjj parties nhiru the nlilto tuppisl schooners sill. And koo-koos nil tho pretty ttlrls who chance to cross his trail At strlklnc of the mldnucht hour lie yet Is on tho street. Is strenuous In Ills cllorts to control his wab bling feet Ho cars his hat tipped sideways on his beer befuddled crown: Tho mousey knows the cut's away: Ills wife Is out of town. - James ll.irton Adams, Denver Cost. EDITORIAL NOTES. fr.fr .fr.frfr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr.fr.fr , ., frfr: Now an organization is perfected to light tho collln trust, and naturally it will bo a light to tho doath Topeka poin ts with prido to thrco broom factories which lmvo so far escaped tho "whisky" agitation. The Washington Post says a strike Is not u sign of hard times. It is ono of the most expensive of luxuries. JOHN Fouloy, a Chinamun, lives at Hiawatha. Ho runs a store, votes the Hopublican ticket and is a member of tho Presbyterian church. "Tun Germans havo quit Pekin," says tho Lawrence Journal, "and so has the Wichita man who was caught looking into a private house." There must be something in tho climato of Kentucky after all. It is repotted that tho corn of that Stato is suffering from too much rain. AN Indiana man who boasted ho was novel kissed was seized by ton girls and repeatedly smacked by each. Bolng a martyr is a snap, at times. With fanners holding their wheat, cattlemen holding their corn, fruit growers holding their apples, Will White suggests that nowspaper mon hold their breath. In 1000 the people of a certain Colo rado town greeted Theodora Roose velt with rotten eggs. In 1001 they greeted htm with boqucts. It looks liko a good omen. And now a general Impression is taking hold over tho Stato thut the proper way to stave off tho offects of a drouth is not to cuss tho weather man but to dam tho draws. Tm:iti: is about us much sense in tho constant Mow of advico which the city wrlterB aro now daily handing to the farmers as thero is in a bald headed man trying to peddlo a hulr tonic. The ties which were scattered triong .Massachusetts street in Lawrence to hold the street car franchise were gathered up tho other day. These were tho lust ties that bound tho pro moter to Lawrence. Uy winning tho yaclit raco at Chic ago, tho Canadians won tho trophy cup and took it homo with them, but It's dollars to doughnuts thoy novor never were able to carry it past Mil wuukeo without trying it. Henry Fieedino Dickens, sixth son of the great English novolist, is on his way to this country on u pleasuro trip. Ho will havo to search long boforo ho 11 mis a place whero he will not bo wel come for his father's sake. Wilder S. Motoalf was chosen Vlco-presldent of tho Volunteer Sold ier's Association at Jts meeting in Salt Lako City. It was u nice compile montto a good soldier and a good folio w who lives in Kansas. CAliNi'HE lias offered a library to Cuba and now is said to contemplate establishing sovoral In tho Philippines. This leads tho Omaha News to remark thatho evidently follows tho llugwheth or tho constitution does or not. There was a meeting in Joplln re cently by membors to orgunlo a homo for indigent and helploss members of tho W. C. T. U. Tills has becomo needed sinco Mrs. Nation introduced her methods into tho business. The police of Topeka emptied 120 kegs of beor Into a sower tho other day. Tho Bower omptlos into tho Kuw and Lttwrenco gets hor wator from tho Kuw, so a general jamboree may bo oxpoctad in tho University town soon, THE KANSAS GIRL Am. W&k Mi fir WBbPhw 11 ' iwM HI Mail and Breezo: Max O'Roll says tho decaying European nobility should marry healthy Kansas girls, but tho girls won't so long as theto aro so many good looking Kansas follows. RUSSELL Sage owns a railroad and a park and onco a year ho takes a thousand poor New York children n free day's trip on his road tohis park. So thero will bo a fow witnesses for tho defense ut tho triul in tho great bunco. Will White accompanied Theo dore Roosevelt from Colorado east, and a Kansas City paper hints that ho probably did this to square himself with tho administration for his pre vious remarks that McKinley was not a genius. Sunday Austro-Hungary colebrated with Kmperor Francis Joseph who was soventy-ono years old and has just completed a reign of fifty-two years. Fifty-two yeurs on a throne and nover yet killed by an Anarchist! It is re markablo. When tho Lyons that "He v. Hopublican suys Hicks occupied pulpit Sunday," the convey that he had learn that roverend tho Presbytorian editor meant to been unublo to gentleman's namo. Tho dashes stand for letters, not adjectives. When Count von Walderseeroaclied Berlin Emporer William kissed him on both cheeks. And Vlo Murdock expresses willingness to walk all tho way to Washington to seo President McKinley part Sampson's side whisk ers and kiss him on both cheeks. The Democratic Stato convention is in session in Virginia and lias its platform all drawn up, but nolther free silver nor William J. Bryan is mentioned, Jonah was a popular man on thut little fishing smack in yo oldon days compured with Hryan In tho Democratic party today. Lawrence Journal: Opportunity changes mon. Coxoy is a steel mag nate, Towno is an oil speculator, Governor Hogg is a rich man now and no longer talks calamity. Thus uro tho runks of tho defenders of tho great common people decimated. Op- portunlty is tho greatest enemy tho discontents have. Ewinh Herbert has given up the Atchison Daily Champion, but will continue tho Weekly. Ho found he could not glvo it his porsonal attention and could find no other man with sutllciently stoady nerves to get out u good paper with thoGlobo sights ever lastingly leveled at him. WHIMS the steel employees seem to bo gaining recruits .thoy uro a long way from securing a universal walk out. Mr. Schwab has shown no In clination to quit his million dollar job and retlro on tho four dollars a week which tho Amalgamated Association is to provide for ouch strlkor. A riKM of Kentucky distillers has attempted to bturt an endless chain of whiskoy jugs In tills Stato. Thoy started out by bending four coupon books to postmasters, tho latter to soil ouch coupon for twenty-tlvo conts Euch purchaser gets u book, sells tho coupons und recolvos a jug free. Tho State authorities aro investigating. WILL 0BJEC1 Tin: report of tho llnancos of tho penitentiary for tho year ending July 1 show that that institution earned S40,0.i(l moro than it spent. At tills rate tho Stato stands a chance to get back somo of tho money spent In catch ing and convicting tho 1004 prisoners. Aiter investigation tho surgeons attached to our foreign army have de cided that clothes make tho Indians sick. And a whin of tho wearing ap parel which tho average redskin allccts will mako the average white man sick. Evidently some modifica tion is needed. Tab Ottawa Hopublicun is booming Will White for ambassador to tho Court of St. James, under tho next administration. As tho Republican is an anti-Republican organ Mr. Whites will probably give closer heed to tho Republican papers which aro mentioning him for United States Sonator. Gladstone, Hismark and Crlspl, threo men who helped make some of the greatest chapters In modern European history, havo all passed away. Tho day of Individual power Is pasalng und It Is probable that the countries in which they cut such Important ligures will never again be so nearly directed by individuals. Secretary Couuhn lias compiled from tho assessors' returns ligures of the population of Kansas. The total Is T, 407,808, a gain for tho jear of 2:1,100, or 1.0 per cent. Allen county Is credited with 20,0(),"i, a gulnover 1!00 of 032, Toduy thero uro but 24 coun ties In tho stato showing u greater pop ulation, and only soven made a largei Bain. This wurnlng from tho Wilson county Sun is timely in Allen county right now: "Stranger, don't monkoy with a rural mail box that doos not bolong to you. If you do, Uncle Sumuol will lay for you, and If ho gets his hooks In you tho doors of a Fed eral penitentiary may close behind you for a .longor term than you will enjoy." A New iYork transport company has arranged to build docks in Lon don to cost ton millions. The com pany found tho London docks inferior and by Introducing lato American methods will mako considerable sav ing In handling freight and grain. The day israpldlycomlngwuen money galoro will bo : shipped from London branch houses to the hoad olllces hi Now York, and America's "tlavlsh depondenco" on tho Hritlsh money barons will havo becomo a laughable memory. One of tho Hercost strikes now on has (attracted littlo attention. Tho miners at the United Verdo Copper works of William A. Clark aro out with a demand for an eight-hour day. When in operation tho plant yields Mr. Clark a rovenuo of a million dol lars a month, but ho says ho will let tho works remain idlo a year before ho will yield. Tho average man would bo willing to sottlo the striko by run nlng on tho old scale for a week and 1 then giving the mlno to tho workmen. Emperor WILLIAM and King Kd ward uro both 111 and tliolr respective nations are watching wlth alarm. William is said to bo erratic and show signs of Insanity and Edward is credited with a cancer which will carry him off In a fow years. William Is Edward's uopliow und there aro no Kansas girls among tho family. Max O'Roll is undoubtedly right. Phot. Schenic, tho German pro fessor who has been experimenting on a sex theory of births, says thero is a predominance of males wherever thero Is 11 scarcity of food. Ho declares that the presence of males is ddo to this scarcity, but any sano woman knows that there invariably follows a scarcity of food wlicio males pre dominate. It Is said tho Populists of the Stato, under tho direction of chairman Ridg loy and his clerk, are planning to win over the Democrats. Tho first, stop will bo tho establishing of a Populist newspapor In every county scat and the gradual education of Democrats out of thclrpresenl benighted condition Into glorious realization of the joys of Populism. Tin: Interesting news camo buck from IHonolulu thut out of tho ,'!00 teachers who sailed hii ono boat to fill government positions in tho Philip pines, sixty had successfully sparked enrouto and were married at Hono lulu. Fortunately for tho school boards In Allen county tho news comes after they huvo succeeded in tying up tho schoolmarms with contracts for next year. When Roosovelt's train reached Lurned on Its eastern trip, that gentle man alighted und walking to tho en glue, mounted tho cub und rode for several stations with tho engineer. Nearly every man has had a longing to do that very thing, and if it is 0110 of tho perquisites of tho olllco of vice president, cundidates will certainly bo moro numerous. Max O'Rell, tho Parisian journal ist, after brlelly culling attention to tho decadence of European royul fam ilies, suggests thut tho eeuso inter marrying and for a few years wed all their sons to Kansas girls. Then when the Kansas editor takes his cherished tllng at somo nonsensical nabob, half a dozen unciesand aunts and brothers will call and stop tho paper. Let European royalty doendo. Aiter his visit to President Mc Kinley, Gov. Francis said: "I can not refrain from again expressing my my great admiration for a man who, wielding tho power of chief magistrate of this nation, lives In an unpreten tious way In a small cottagein a small Interior town, wholly without guards, driving about tho country, stopping to talk to farmors andllvingas simply as u private citizen." Owing to tho fact that tho Demo cratic Stato Central Committee did not choose a party emblem to adorn its tickets, trouble may atiso over tho legality of tickets put in the Held by that party which do not bear somo ac cepted emblem. Tho Republicans sug gested many and varied emblems, but tho Democrats want something that will stand for n conglomeration of principles andcannot decide which ono they want to stick out most. SEVERAL Iola Democrats who bo lloo the Kansas City Times and dis credit tho Journal uro citing tho sad death of Patsy tho nowsboy us a sam ple of Journal veracity. Thoy forgot that tho Journal reporter made up tho lie, but do not explain how a short report of tho doath appeared In the Times that same morning. To steal nows is bad enough but what about stealing a fako? It is hard on tho Jourr-ul, but tho Times daro not evon look like it would like to explain. Kansas people sojourning at Colo rudo Springs find a celebration tho other day and several thousand wero present. Thoy secured a brass band, had speeches and enjoyed a good time that m ado tho people from other statos realize their loss. And tho chances uro thut thoso Kansas orutors stood right under tho nose of vonerablo old Pike's Peak and boasted of what superior hills their homo stato has. And not a soul In tho audlencel would Intorforo to let outsiders know that thero isn't a mountain within our borders. Vv In Nebraska tho other day Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Buckner colobrated their wedding annlversury, surrounded by sixty-four of tholr direct doscond- nnts. The only thing that marrod tho ovont was tho fact thut thirty other de scendants could not attend, Mr, Bryun might interview Mr, Buckner and thon havo Democracy adopt the Huckner plan for n "paramount is sue" If every Democrat would full In lino tho day of Democratic success would not bo very remote, Now that the State houso Is ubout to bo completed for tho steenth and last time, It has been deemed desirable that a llguro of Ceres adorn tho top of tho dome. Someone suggests that somo prominent Kansas woman pose for tho statue, somo woman who shall typify tho loveliness and cleverness and goodness of tho Kansas women. Mrs. Nation and Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Dlggs aro barred, but tho committee hns failed so far to discover any ono just suitable. Tho abundance of ma terial is embarrassing. Someone signing hlmsolf "City Regulator" regularly contributes to tho Wichita Eaglo his ideas on how to tmprovo tho town. Ono recent Item was tills, and every town Is looking for tho samo man. "Wanted A big, bruiny man, free from petty jealousies, local environments, politics, religion and self aggrandizement, who will net and work for what ho considers to bo for tho greatest good to tho greatest number In this city, without taking in to consideration how it will offect him politically, socially or commorotully us u leader." "THE states," says tho Kansas City Journal, "ought to send ambassadors to each other, with power to ncgotluto treaties through which a uniformity In marrlago laws might bo accomplished. From Hutchinson tho other day u pulr went to Iowa to bo married in order to cscapo tho law which forbids tho niar riago fcf first cousins. And at Good land on tho samo day u couple wero wedded who enmo down from Colorudo to tako advantage of tho Kansas law which permits a divorced person to marry after a lapso of six months. In Colorudo a year must elapse." An exchange whoso digestion seems to bo bad, bends forth this growl: "A woman will yank up the guy ropes of her corset until she almost squeezes her immortal soul out of place, put u dcud bird on her hut and go strutting around over town selling tickets for nn entertulument to raise money to send missionaries to somo foroign cllmo for tho purpo.so of teaching civilization to poor lioathenswho havo nover known what it is to wear a cor set and who havo been struggling on in Ignorunt belief thut birds wero created to sing Instead of bolng worn on huts." Wednesday President McKinley Issued his exposition proclamation. It declares tho exposition shall "He opened In the city of St. Louis, stato of Missouri, not later than tho 1st day of May, 100:t, and will be closed not later than the 1st day of December thereafter. And In tho name of tho government and people of the United Statos I do hereby Invito all nations of tho earth to tako part In tho coin nemorutlon of tho purchuso of Louisi ana territory, an event of great inter est to tho United Statos and of abiding effect on their development, by ap pointing representatives and sending such exhibits to tho Louisiana Pur chuso exposition as will most fitly il lustrate their resources, their indus tries and tholr progress in civiliza tion." Tin: Topeka correspondent of tho Kansas City Star on Sunday rovived tho subject of redisricting Kunsas, to mako oiglit districts and do away with tho present arrangement which necessi tates n Congreesmun-at-Lurge. It is an old themo but bus gonerully met with opposition from the Congress men who feared to have tholr districts weakened. The now scheme Is to tako Pratt, Barber, Reno, Kingman, Harp- or, Harvoy, Sedgwick and Sumner counties out of tho Seventh district, possibly adding Butler from the Fourth and Cowloy from tho Fifth. These counties havo a poputatlon ol 202,457, moro than enough, and no aistrici wouiu oe lowereu very much below tho proper size. In tho now scheme tho Second district is left as it now is. In a book recently published in Chicago tho Interesting factls brought out for tho tlrst tltno thut the second ollor of troops made to Prosldont Lln--oln enmo from Leavenworth. Daniel MoCook, of a family of lighters, saw tho trouble coming, organized a militia company and on February 20, 1801, sent tho following offer to Washing ton: Hon. Joseph Holt, Secrelarjo & War. Sir: I havo tho honor to ton der to you and tho government the sorvlces of tho volunteer militia com pany, consisting of sixty rank and lllo, Infantry, which I at prosent com mand. Wo aro willing to servo In uny cupaclty, and any way, und aguinst uny powers which tho public noed muy require or tho constituted authorities order. Hoping that jou will at least glvo us an equal chance, I remain, with sentiments of highest respect, Vour obedient servant, Daniel Mc-Cook." .SOKUlim 1'ASTPUK Vim DAIRY COWS. Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas. Aui?ust 13, l'JUl. During tho month of July tho Kan sas Experiment Station realized $7.20 per aero from pasturing sorghum, be sides having the field left to produce a second crop. On July 1, twenty seven milch crtws woro given all tho alfalfa hay they would eat and then turned Into a sorghum field ofU.7 acres for fifteen minutes. Tho sorghum was from 18 to 24 Indies high. Tho next day they remained :10 minutes, tho third day 4. minutes and so Increas ing 15 minutes daily uutllthey reached an hour and thirty minutes when thoy were left to run at will. During this transition period tho cows wore given all tho alfalfa hay needed to keop up the normal flow of milk. For tho first nine duys this amounted to nearly 24 pounds dully per head. After twelve days tho cows wero allowed to pasture the sorghum at night as well as dur ing tho day. For tho rest of tho month these cows consumed less than 5 pounds of alfalfa hay dally per head. If It had not been for tho sorghum pasture It would havo required at least 24 pounds of alfulfa hay dally per head to keop these cows up to a good flow of milk. This would have amounted to 10 tons. As It was tho cows consumed only 4 tons, making a saving of 51 tons. At $10 per ton (a low price for this year) this would amount to S55, which divided between 0.7 acres would amount to a saving In alfalfa consumed of JS.20 per acre. On August 1 tho Icows wero turned Into a fresh field of sorghum, from three and ad.tlf to flvo feet high, but with the same precautions us were ex ercised July 1. This tlmo it did not take as long to get them on full feed, und after tho first week they had free access to tho sorghum day and night. The two fields of sorghum aro con nected with each other and tho cows not only havo access to both fields but In getting to the second Held aro obliged to pass through tho llrst, where second growth sorghum Is mak ing a vigorous start after tho recent ralnn. Up to the proent writing (August 111 ) tho herd has not experi enced the least particle of troublo from poison or even bloating. During the timo tho Kansas Station has been pasturing sorghum sovoral reports havo been received of cattle lying In ten or fifteen minutes from tho time they entered tho sorghum patch, but in every cusowbero wo have been ablo to get tho details, tho cattlo have euten sorghum on empty or near ly empty stomachs. Cuttlo should havo tholr stomachs so woll filled that thoy feol completely satisfied before touching the green sorghum, and thon allow them to eat only u few minutti at a timo until they are accustomed to It. If sorghum can be pastured suc cessfully, as has been done by tho Kansas Kxperlment Station, It mean s that the dairymen and stockmen can get an Immense amount of pasture from a small urea, which Is available at a tltno when tholrothor pastures aro getting short and dry. Pasturing will also bo tho most economical wav of utilizing sorghum. Tho man 'that turns his cattlo In a sorghum field, however, must realize that ho may be taking risks. Ho must weigh tho ov 1 donco for and aguinst its uso and then decide for hlmsolf whether the benotlts will outweigh the risks. IXH. Oris. A KOOl) (I1TIZKN. Tho following from tho Emporia Ga zette will bo read with Interest here, because of the lesson taught, but also because tho hero Is 11 brother of Geo. Wllhtto of tho Our Way restaurant: O. M. Wllhito is tho Gazette's idea of a good citizen. Ho helps tho town. Ho gives his timo, lots of it and freely, 10 promote every gooa cause. Ho subscribes money In addition to his time. Ho Is not a knocker. No ono over heard him knock on a schemo as an excuse for not contributing to It. If Wllhito happens to dislike a man and the man has a plan to help the town Wllhito gives It a boost. This Is most remarkable. His monoy Is all In sight. Ho pays taxes on overy penny he has. Ho doesn't dodgo taxes by lending his money In tho namo of a straw raau whoso power of attorney In fact ho takes to release tho mortgage Ho is a public spirited, hard working man. He nover shirks his share Yesterday ho heard that Roosoveit was to pass through town. Wllhito had half an hour to get out tho band. Another man would have regretted his Inability to got out tho hand. AVil hlto got it out. Ho marched to tho de pot ut the bead of the band in tho hot sun and gavo Roosevelt nn idea that Enipotitt was a Llvo Town. Wllhito Is alwuys doing these public-spirited things. Ho Is not a candi dates for any olllco. Ho wouldn't tako any olllco In tho world, Ho doesn't llko to hustlo for Emporia any moro than tho men llko it who don't do It. Yet ho gets ont and hustles loaves his business which Is as hard to leavo as any one's business nnd works for tho town becauso ho bolloves it is Ills duty. No soldlor ever onllsted In his country's servlco from higher motives than those that Insplro Mlt Wllhito when he goes out and hustles to mako Kmpoiia a llvo town. H M , tl J ?i I