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Meade County News.
JOHN D. WEHBLE, Pnb.
MEADE, - - . .
KANSAS.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
John Jenkins, of Douglas county, sold
his apples in his orchard for $3,000.
Tumner county banks are full of
money; the farmers own the most of
it.
The second annual liarton county
fair at Great Bend brought together on
its second day 4,000 people.
A. II. McAfee, a Frisco brakeman,
had a leg cut off by the trucks of an
engine iu the Wichita yards.
Missouri parties have leased land
near Lanevillc. Labette county, for the
purpose of starting a distillery.
Ernest V. Tuttle, an old citizen of
Salina, is dead. He was a member of
the Masonic, Shriner and Elk lodges.
The people of Parsons are furnished
with gas for furnaces at 18 cents a
thousand with 10 er cent off for cash.
.1. II. Hamilton, near Hoxie, lost nine
steers from being struck by lightning.
He had been having all kinds of ill luck
and sickness.
A one-year-old daughter of Wm. Tich,
of Hope, fell from a porch into a tub of
water and was drowned. No one saw
the child fall.
Calvin Coffee, of Atchison county,
sold his apples in the orchard of 48
acres for S'.'.ooo. The crop is estimated
at 1.000 barrels.
Farmers of Dickinson county are
putting in a greater acreage of wheat
than e rer before. The ground is in ex
cellent condition.
The state permanent school fund has
taken 827,000 of township bonds, Wood
son eounty. There is yet in the fund
8275,000 uninvested money.
J. A. Myers, a Rock Island brake
man, was throwing a switch in Topeka
when he slipped and fell and the train
struck him, mashing his head.
Charles Sanders, foreman of the C. C.
C. ranch, east of Peabody, was attacked
by a large gray wolf which lacerated
him in a terrible manner beforo he suc
ceeded in killing it.
Mrs. Rosa Hell, aged 60 years, of St.
John, was killed by a freight train
while gathering wheat from the rail
road tracks. She and her husband,
who are Irish, had considerable prop
erty. A man is selling bogus life insurance
policies purporting to be issued by the
Phoenix Insurance company, of New
York. Ho sells to farmers. Several
victims have been robbed by him in
Lyon county.
The True Eleven is the name of a
new colored social organization in
Atchison, formed for the purpose of
elevating the morals of young colored
people and promoting a higher standard
in social affairs.
Geo. Welsh, city marshal of S. Marys,
was shot, probably fatally, by a man
named Williams who had been arrested
for beating his wife. The marshal
dunned him for his fine. and was an
swered by the shot.
A 12-year old son of Herman Dorn
bush, of Marion county, tied the reins
of a team around him and went to sleep
in the wagon. The team ran away
and dumped the wagon into a pond and
perhaps fatally injured the boy.
E. B. Todd, whose home is in Cuba,
has come to Kansas as a student of the
at the Agricultural college. His father,
E. B. Todd, went with Funston to fight
for the Cubans and was made a captain.
After the war he sent for his family
and remained there.
Miss Grace Perry, of Girard. is ap
pointed by Governor Stanley , to the
scholarship offered Kansas in the
School of Industrial Art and Technical
Design in New York City.
A jury in the Cloud county district
court refused to bring in a verdict of
guilty when a boy was tried and proven
guilty of horse stealing, because he was
just too old to be sent to the reform
school for a second term and would
have to go to the penitentiary. The boy
then stole a horse and wagon and is in
jail again.
They are done figuring on Sumner
county's wheat crop in 1001, and decide
that 8,000,000 bushels was raised and
harvested on 310,000 acres.
Professor H. S. Carr, of the electrical
engineering department of Kansas
university, has resigned from the facul
ty and will go into business at Cleve
land, Ohio.
One of that breed of fakers called
traveling doctors, got in his graft on
parties in Chautauqua county and is
boarding now at the expense of the
County in jail.
Simon "Bomguard's barn near Canton,
McPherson county, was burned, to
gether with four horses and several
tons of hay. The loss is $3,000.
Judge Joseph W. Ady, a prominent
attorney, formerly of Newton, Kan.,
died at Colorado Springs, September 23,
of confumption. He was 55 year of
age.
J. H. Dye of Clearwater, was run out
of Wichita for making disrespectful re
marks about President McKinley and
for proclaiming he was an anarchist.
He claims to be a dentist.
Slick Slater has been sentenced by
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court, for an attempt to assault
a young woman in Topeka last Febru
ary. He was given a ten and one-half
years term in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Frauk Kimball, of Waterville,
lost her five-year-old daughter by its
being drowned in a cistern. Her hus
band was killed by lightning two years
ago, her eldest daughter is a paralytic
from a fall a year ago, her eldest son
and only support had his feet crushed
recently.
Harry Smith, an 11-year-old Wichita
boy, had been living a few months in
Pawnee county. He, with a pony, was
out watching cattle. He tied the halter,
about five feet long, to his arm and
went to sleep. This resulted in his be
ing kicked and dragged to death.
Lieutenant Buchan, of Wyandotte,
and Miss Laura Conger are married
and will go to Manila shortly. They
first met just a year ago when the res
cuing party reached the American lega
tion In Pekin. - Miss Conger was with
her father, the ambassador. .
Wellington's big wheat jubilee com
menced Tuesday. Sept. 24.
A bank has been chartered to do
business at Pawnee Rock.
The Unitarians of Wichita' are
planning to build a 810.000 church.
Five million dollars is to be expended
for new buildings at Fort Ieaven worth.
Bert Neely, a pardoned convict, stole
a watch at Fort Scott, and was locked
up again.
Sumner county expects to have nr.
increased acreage of wheat pianteu
this year.
An ancestor of Carl D' Avignon, ot
Newton, a Santa Fe brakeman. was r
French nobleman.
G. A. Blair, of Mulvane, won the
first prize for the finest peaches at tho
Buffalo exposition.
Wm. Bitner. a brakeman on the Hock
Island, was killed at Herington while
switching in the yards.
The Old Soldiers' reunion at River
side Park comes during the Wichita
fair and carnival week.
Chairman Henry L. Allen, of the
state board of charities, has bought a
farm in Franklin county.
The board of railroad commissioners
has decided in favor of Concordia's be
ing granted jobbing rates.
A collection for a special purpose was
taken in the Methodist chnrch at Pratt
and the amount taken was S225.
The Jetmore College, a new Metho
dist school, has been opened. Its pres
ident is R. A. Lee Master, the resident
minister.
It is said that J. M. Simpson, the Mc
pherson politician, cleared 830,000 in
one week, by investing in margins in
lard in the Kansas City market.
C. W. Morgan, acting transfer clerk
at the Santa Fe in Wichita, lias been
sent to take a position on the railroad
postofKcc on the Atchison and Lenora
railroad.
Smith, the Redfield barber, who was
driven out of that town for speaking
disrespectfully of President McKiniey,
tries other locations and is regularly
asked to move on.
St. Paul's Methodist church of Wich
ita is planning to build a 825,000 ad
dition. It will have a pipe organ. The
church owns 175 feet on the corner
their old church occupies.
There are exhibited in store windows
at (Wellington fur garments labeled
from 8125 to 8300, with others at smaller
prices. Goods of this description find
sale in the families of the wheat grow
ers. John A. Fleener, of Arkansas City,
has sued the Ancient Order of Pyra
mids for 815,000 for injuries which ren
dered him a cripple for life; the injuries
being received while he was being in
itiated. The Farmers" Elevator at Rush Cen
ter was opened with a procession of 80
loads of wheat, from north of Bison,
headed by the A. O. L. W. band, with
the Star Spangled banner floating
from many of the wagons.
The Continental Creamery company,
has provided for a fund of 8100,000 to
enlarge its factory and stations in Kan'
sas and Oklahoma. It is expected that
815.000 will be used to build a creamery
at Wichita. A large amount will be
used to increase the number of its skim
ming stations. They now have 300
skimming stations.
C. J. Garrett, a farmer near Burling
ton, invited the hired man of another
farm to ride to town with him. The
hired man said he was glad McKinley
was shot. Garrett knocked the fellow
out of his wagon, then hitched his team
and pommeled the daylights out of him.
The hired man tried to find a justice oi
the peace to swear out a warrant for
Garret's arrest but could find none.
Miss Maud Hunter represented Ceres
at the wheat jubilee in Wellington.
Ernest Lewis, a 13-year-old colored
boy, is the latest victim of too much
boy jumping on moving trains in
switching yards. He did this in Wich
ita and both his legs were cut off. He
lived eight hours never losing conscious
ness. The boy's father was informed
of the terrible occurrence by messenger
while he was at work at the ofKee of
the Western Newspaper Union. He
was greatly affected, but sympathy was
of no value at that moment.
A nine-font vein of tire clay has been
found two miles south of Topeka. A
large portion of the Dudley farm if
underlaid with the fire clay.
On Sunday morning September 22,
the Wichita city jail was without an
occupant: which has not occurred be
fore in a long time; but fair week is
close at hand.
James James, of El Dorado, wept
like a child when the news of the death
of his comrade, Wm. McKinley, came.
They enlisted together as privates, at
Cleveland, in 1801.
Kansas corn, Kafir corn and late
fruits have been injured considerably
by frosts. In the central portion of the
state damage was the most severe.
Emporia now expects trains to be
running there over the Emporia and
Omaha road before it sees any Orient
trains. Locating engineers are there
a,t work.
Ledru Guthrie, a former practicing
attorney of Wellington, has so much
business in his new location in New
York City as to require six rooms for
his office.
Captain Fred K. Dodge, formerly of
Leavenworth and the Twentieth Kan
sas, is now chief of the fire department
in Manila.
Emma Goldman visited Pittsburg
four years ago and not much is remem
bered of her visit except her appetite
for beer.
A young man, formerly a hotel clerk
of Greensburg, Ind., and Topeka, was
found two miles east of Ellsworth with
both legs cut off. It is supposed he a V
tempted to catch on an outgoing freight
but missed his hold.
The buildings and the entire stock of
lumber of the Chicago Lumber com
pany at Taseott is a total loss from
fire.
A. E. Austin, trainmaster of the Ok
lahoma division of the Santa Fe has
been made superintendent of the Kan
sas Southwestern line, recently taken
in by the Santa Fe.
Zack Miller, for many years a citizen
of Junction City, was about to take a
train at Iola for his home in Texas,
when he dropped dead. . He had been
visiting relatives at Iola.
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RONGJI US
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1
KINDER like the old songs.
The sours J. used to know
Iu the dair old country
village.
Of the dear old long ago.
I kinder like the music of
- 'A Kn Rnlt
!,3fc:-They
cedars
As It filtered through the trees.
With the sunlight of the season
Glinting where the grasses spread.
Where the roses fell in clusters.
Blushing sweetly, deeply red
Ah. yes, I like the old songs.
The kind they used to sing
When life was like a primrose
Just bursting in the spring.
Somehow 1 like the old songs
Yes, The Maple on the Hill,
Some Twenty Years Ago, Tom,
And dear old Whippoorwill;
And Starry Night for Ramble,
And Coming Through the Rye,
And other dear old melodies
They sung to you and I
Ah. yes, 1 like the old songs.
The kind they used to sing
When life was like a primrose
Just bursting in the spring. ,
Oh, how I love the old songs
I heard at mother's knee.
The sweet, entrancing melodies
She used to sing to me!
The dear old funny Frog song
Miss Mousie by his side
And the song of Old Aunt Nancy,
The old gray goose that died.
And the songs about the foxes.
And the things the foxes stole
Oh, the mellowing cadences!
How they sting a fellow's soul!
Ah. yes. 1 like the old songs.
The kind they used to sing
When life was like a primrose
Just bursting In the spring.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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Her Johnnie Morgan.
BY WILLIAM WENDHAM.
(Copyright. 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
His name was not Johnnie Morgan;
It was Antonio Pansado. But from
that day almost a year ago when she
first heard and saw him, a very dirty
and very picturesque Italian violinist,
fiddling his way through the tightened
rmrse strings and into the hearts of all
who heard him, she had christened
him and to herself had called him
"Johnnie Morgan." Almost a year it
was and to her the shortest year she
had ever lived, for it seemed as if this
Antonio had brought with him into
her life the blue sky and the sunshine
of his own Italy.
Miss Anna Gilbert was the teacher
of drawing and painting In the Girls'
College at Madisonville, and was more
beloved than any teacher of the col
lege had ever been before. The title
which the girls had given her, "Saint
Anna," was truly deserved, for so
thickly did she sow the seeds of good
ness about her that had her harvest of
thanks from poor struggling students
been wheat at the right time of the
market it would have given her a
princess' income.
During her youth, for it must be
confessed her youth was mostly be
hind her, sne had worked and sacri
ficed for her parents until their death,
and then she struggled for the educa
tion of her younger brother and sis
ter. One gray October morning on her
way to work she had been struck by
the evident genius of the young Italian,
who was playing his violin on the
street. Always attracted by music she
stopped to listen and was struck by
the combination of poverty 'and genius
in the handsome young fellow.
He certainly was unusually hand
some and he looked even younger than
he was for his face possessed a great
sincerity and ingenuousness of expres
sion. The soft dark eyes and olive
skin were enhanced by the exceeding
thinness of the face and by the hun
gry look in the eyes a hunger for spir
itual and mental as well as physi
cal food, which, shining from those
dark eyes appealed directly and power
fully to this warm-hearted woman.
Knowing of an opening in the college
she quietly put the man and the op
portunity together, with the result that
the Italian, within a month, was giv
ing lessons to a class. And the class
grew immediately from three to thir
teen. To bis patroness he owed all, and
never did he cease to pour out to her
his gratitude. He treated her with the
greatest reverence and when walking
tome with her or meeting her coming
to her duties he would hold open the
gate or raise his hat as if she were a
princess. Then she got Into the habit
ot asking him to come in when he
walked home with her and of making
a cup of tea in her little bachelor room,
which always seemed cosy and pleas
ant to them both, and had made his
thanks overflow to "Mees Anna." She
A picturesque Italian violinist,
discovered that hs was saving almost
all hi earnings toward a sum which
would enable him to bring over his
old father and mother.
He poured out his music to Miss
Gilbert, as he did his troubles, with
those "foolish girls who will not work
at ze lesson." And to all his plans
and troubles she listened with sym
pathy, as she always had done to any
of the students in whom she was tak
ing a special interest But sympathy
and friendliness- in a woman's heart
toward a man, when the man Is young,
handsome and manly, is going to grow
into love aa surely a the acorn which
ED TO KNOW
and other tunes
sang among the
Junes .
When the corn began to
tassel ;
When the lazy summer
breeze
Shook the perfume from
the flowers
4
Dame Nature also planted is going to
grow into an oak.
One June day after he had walked
home with her she sat in her room
and with many blushes faced it faced
this fact that she loved the violinist.
The song was all true: She loved her
"Johnnie Morgan." And why not? she
asked herself. Had she not worked
hard for others all her life and been
faithful in all things? Was it not
right that the sunshine of love and
happiness should come into her life.
She dreamed that night of a cottage
filled twith the music of a violin; and
"He is her Johnnie Morgan."
never had she looked so radiant and
so young as she did the next day.
"I had a letter this morning from
my little sister," she said to Antonio
the next evening as he walked home
with her. "She is coming next week
to spend her vacation with me."
"Ah, the little sister. I shall love
the little child for the sake of Saint
Anna," exclaimed Antonio.
Saint Anna laughed.
"Oh, she's not so small as all that,"
she replied. Saidie is eighteen and a
great tall girl, but I call her my little
sister because she always has been my
baby. She has been at Normal school
and next season she will begin to
teach."
Saidie came, and a rosebud of rare
perfection she was a perfect type of
blonde beauty, with a warm heart and
a vivacity which charmed all who met
her. To her physical charms she add
ed a character built on strongest foun
dations, for to this baby sister had
Miss Anna given all the loving care
and earnestness of thought, all the
building up of ideals that she had
missed in her own girlhood and ac
quired in her hard battles with the
world.
The next time Antonio walked home
with his "St. Anna" she insisted that
he come in and see the "little sister."
He came and they had a cup of tea,
and Antonio, who was prepared to
make himself agreeable for the sake
of his patroness and friend, soon for
got all about her in the presence of
the sparkling youth and beauty of Sal
die. He came more often than ever
after that and sat in undisguised rap
ture and adoration at the feet of the
younger girl. Nor was she less at
tracted by the dark faced foreigner
with the soft black eyes.
As Miss Anna watched them It all
came to her and she saw, not as
through a glass darkly, but as in the
glare of the morning light, how it al!
was and would be. She had built up
these two, had given them sustenance
from her own nature, had fed their
souls and warmed their hearts, for
this very thing. And what could be
better, she thought, than that these
two young things, full of life and love
and the sunshine of the present and
promise of the future, should love each
other. Nothing, she told herself, noth
ing could be better. It was natural.
It was right.
As she stood in front of her glass
she looked closely at herself, scanning
her features critically. ,
"You thought you could be young
again?" she said, "but you had more
than ten years against you."
She looked closely at her heavy
brown hair and noting the few gray
hairs about the temples she smiled a
little sadly to herself. She looked lov
ingly at Saidie, asleep on the bed, and
said softly:
"He Is her Johnnie Morgan," and
then with a weary sigh, "Oh. how glad
I . am that Wellesley needs another
drawing teacher next year."
If Saidie had been awake instead of
E ffl
asleep she might have seen above the
head of St Anna, the ring of white
light which crowned the head of this
saint in this her supreme hour of sac
rifice. SOLD THEIR WIVES.
Certain Classes In England Believe They
May Sail Their 6ponses.
In March, 1796, the London Times
announced the sale of a wife in Shef
field for sixpence, .nd a little while
afterward the same paper solemnly in
formed the public that the price of
wives had risen in Smithfield market
from half a guinea to three guineas
and a half. In 1803 It Is recorded a
man led his wife by a halter into the
cattle market at Sheffield and sold her
for a guinea. The market value of a
wife seems to have dropped as tho
century grew older, for in 1820 a
worthy husband in Canterbury placed
his wife in a cattle pen and disposed
of her for five shillings. In 1855 the
people of Derby had the opportunity
of buying a wife of one of their fellow
townsmen. The woman was led to the
market place with a halter round her
waist and was knocked down for
eighteen pence and a quart of beer.
In the '80s n collier sold his wife at
Alfreton, in Derbyshire, for four pence
and in the same decade two Sheffield
men agreed to the buying and selling
of a wife In a public house. "At the
Royal Oak, Sheffield," the agreement
ran: "I, Abraham Boothroyd. agreed
to sell my wife, Clare, to William
Hall, both of Sheffield, for the sum of
five shillings." There is not even
the relief in these cases of consoling
one's self with the reflection that th?
sale of the wife is a thing of impulse
Often enough it Is a deliberate com
mercial transaction in cold blood,
as in the case that came to light a
few years ago in which the wife, with
her parents and two friends, met tc
arrange the terms of the sale. The
price was fixed at thirty shillings and
the bill of sale ran: "Mr. tc
have my wife, Elizabeth , free
from me forever, to do as she has a
mind, this day, Dec. 11, 1893." The
notion that a man may sell his wife
and marry again Is common among
certain classes of the English popula
tion. A prisoner at Leeds on his trial
for bigamy pleaded that the charge
could not stand, as he had sold hia
wife for three shillings six pence, and
was therefore entitled to marry again
The case is barely six years old.
About the same time another instance
was reported from a village near Don
caster, the circumstances coming to
light in the police court. 'T, Enoch
Childs," the agreement ran, "is quite
willing to take your wife and children
as mine, that is, your wife Ellen Tart,
and Sarah, John, Henry and Eliza."
The paper was signed by the wife of
the purchaser and dated "New Conls
borough, March 28, 1896." Chicago
News.
KING AND A PEASANT'S COW.
Italian Ruler Guards Animal for An
Aged Woman.
Some days ago the King and Queen
of Italy took a long promenade in the
neighborhood of their chateau of Rac
conigi, their summer residence. The
Queen suddenly became intensely
thirsty. Perceiving an old woman near
who was watching a cow the King re
quested her to give him a little milk.
The peasant, ignorant of the quality
of her guests, pretended that her cow
gave no milk. "But you have some
water at your house," continued the
King. "That' yes," replied the old wo
man. "Could you get some for me?"
"If you would keep my cow while I
went for it." "Agreed," replied Victor
Emmanuel in the most serious fashion
in the world. At the end of ten min
utes the old woman returned with a
bowl of fresh water. "But how does it
happen," demanded the King, "that
there are so few people in the coun
try?" "They have all gone down to
the chateau to see the King.the Queen
and the little Princess. It is only we
old ones that one leaves at the house
and who will never see them." "But
you see them, my worthy woman," re
plied the King, giving her a new gold
piece. "We are the King and Queen."
The peasant woman began to tremble
and in despairing voice cried: "Par
don me. Sire, I did not know." Tb
Queen had all the trouble in the world
to calm the poor woman, who kept
repeating: "To think that I have gi'en
my cow to guard to the King!"
Health Resorts and Rest.
The importance attained by health
resorts in Europe is shown by the fact
that the German and Austrian medical
profession with the co-operation of the.
governments of those countries has ap
pointed a committee to arrange cheap
excursions which will give physicans
and medical students an opportunity
of visiting and examining the health
resorts of the two countries. This
committee includes two famous med
ical men. Prof, von Leyden and Prof
Liebreich. The first excursion party
will visit the seacoast resorts in Sep
tember. It may be the result of the
above conception of the scope of med
ical treatment that in these countries
it seems to be true that a physician
will often give his patient nothing but
sound advice and the patient be sat
isfield that the doctor has done his
duty. Unfortunately should a physi
cian here forget to add a prescdiption
the chances are that the patient would
see another more circumspect practi
tioner. Of course a busy person or one
of limited means will ever hope that a
forced, often expensive, vacation may
not be necessary and equally good re
sults attained by a course of medical
treatment. In America the over
worked, mentally worn-out, nervously
exhausted patients, and unfortunately
their name is legion, need rest and
recreation much more than iron, qui
nine, strychnine or phosphates, and
their needlessly exaggerated opinion
of the value of these is one of the
chief obstacles in the path of a doc
tor who tries to help them. American
Medicine.
Clever London Cubby.
A London "cabby", says that once
two distinguished strangers hailed him
at Westminster palace and bade him
drive at top speed to Marlborough
house. After a moment of recollection
he recognized the Prince of Wales and
his friend the King of Belgium. An
awkward attempt at an obeisance frox
the box was promptly rebuked. an:l
the cabby settled down to his business
of driving his royal guests as fast as
a hansom may go in' London streets.
They stopped at Marlborough housj
and it was time to pay. 'Well driven,
cabby," said the prices; "what do I
owe you?" "Please, sir. I've already
'ad a sovereign and a 'art in the 'an
some," replied cabby, bowing to ths
price and the king of Belgium. "Here's
for the king of Belgrum. then." said
the prince, handing the driver a sov
ereign; VI. don't count, you know."
Doctor Said He Suffered From
Fright And Terror,
EVINCED ABJECT TERROR.
Auburn. N. Y., Sept. 30. Czolgosz,
President McKinley 's murderer, in the
custody of Sheriff Caldwell of Erie
county and twenty-one deputies arrived
tn Auburn on time. Either for fear of
the crowd, which was not very demon
strative or from the sight of the prison
Czolgosz legs gave out and two deputy
sheriffs were compelled to practically
carry the man into the prison. Inside
the gate his condition became worse
and be was dragged np the Stairs into
the main hall. He was placed in
sitting posture on the bench while the
handcuffs were beiug removed but he
fell over and moaned and groaned,
evincing the most abject terror; As in
the case of all prisoners the officers
immediately proceeded to strip him and
put on a new suit of clothes. During
this operation Czolgosz cried and yell-
"cd, making the prison corridors echo
with evidence of his terror. The prison
physician. Dr. John Geririj examined
the man and declared that he was suf
fering from fright and terror but said
that he was shamming to some extent.
The collapse of the murderer was a
surprise to every one. Enroute from
Buffalo he showed too indication of
breaking down. He ate heartily and
smoked cigars when not eating. He
talked some and expressed regret for
his crime. He reiterated his former
statement that he had had no accom
plices and declared that he never had
heard of the man under arrest in St.
Louis who claimed to have tied the
handkerchief over his hand, Concealing
the pistol with which the president
Was shot. He says the handkerchief
was not tied. He went behind the
Temple of Music, arranged the hand
kerchief so as to hide the weapon and
then took his place in the crowd,
Czolgosz was in normal condition in
the afternoon and seemed to have fully
recovered from his collapse. To guard
against an attempt on Czolgosz's part
to commit suicide, two more guards
have been added, and one will con
stantly sit in front of Czolgosz's cell
and will have a key so that any attempt
at self-destruction may be easily frus
trated. COLUMBIA FIRST WINNER.
New York, Sept. 30. The Shamrock
crossed the line 3:31:10; the Columbia
3:31:15. Columbia wins by 15 seconds.
The committee gave the Columbia an
allowance of 43 seconds because of
measurements.
Insane Asylum Baron.
Norfolk, Neb., Sept. 25. The state
insane asylum and adjacent buildings,
eight in all were destroyed by fire.
Six hundred patients were in the insti
tution at the time, three of whom are
missing and supposed to have been
burned to death. The loss is almost
total. The patients were for a time
quartered in an open field and guarded
by local authorities until they could be
tent to Lincoln and Hastings asylums.
In Cleveland Public Schools.
Cleveland, O.. Sept. 26. The Cleve
land public school council voted to
include the Lord's prayer, the Ten
Commandments and the Twenty-third
psalm in the course of study now
taught.
"We ought to be improving the moral
as well as the mental capacities of the
children," said Mr. Hobart, a member
of the board.
Wheat Lands Pay SO Per Cent.
Wellington, Kans., Sept. 20. As an
illustration of what there is to be made
on investments in wheat lands in Sum
ner county, just one case is cited, that
of Sol Belsley. He has 831,000 invest
ed in lands here. 1 1 is profit this yeai
was 80,232, or a trifle over 20 per cent.
He owns a farm in Illinois which he
can sell any day for S40.000 cash. The
I lliuois farm th is year netted him S 1 , 4.00,
or 3i per. cent. His Kansas lands
have netted him an average of 15 peril
cent ever since he first acquired them.
Mexican Laborers Unwelcome.
Phrpnix, Ariz., Sept. 27. An impor
tant industrial change in taking place
in the southwest. The Mexican labor
er is being driven out by the American
workman.
Since Arizona, Texas and New Mexi
co have lieen under American control,
alien labor has been used largely for
xrtain purposes. On railroads, in the
mines and in ranch work Mexicans
have been employed at wages that
prohibited competition by American
workmen.
Governor Dole Keats; lied.
San Francisco, Sept. 30. Since the
arrival of the steamer Sierra, the Htory
has been circulated that just before the
vessel left Honolulu (Jovenor Dole,
wrote his resignation.
Whoever is responsible for the story
insists that the governor's resignation,
was given to Secretary Henry E. Coop
er, who was a passenger on the Sierra,
to be delivered by him to the president.
Cooper and Judge A. S. Hartwell of
Honolulu, left for Washington last
week.
Carter at Work for St. Loots.
Washington, Sept. 25. In a dinner
party upon the occasion of the first
dinner taken by the president at the
White House, was former Senator Car
ter, of .Montana, president of the St.
Louis Exposition. Mr. Carter talked
with the president about securing a
complete exhibit at the exposition from
our insular possessions and the presi
dent promised that the exposition man
agement would be heartily seconded.
The war department will be asked to
co-operate to this end.
Leavenworth Apple Market.
Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 24. Apple
packers here are getting about all the
apples they can handle and they are
paying good prices for them. The
Jonathan is abemt the only variety on
the market now, and the price for the
best quality ranges from 82.50 to S3 a
barrel. The buyers say the Jonathans
are of a better quality this year than
ever before, that the drouth was a good
tiling after all. . The Jonathan is re
garded as fhe finest apple raised and
Wings better prices than other apples.
CONGRESS PAYS EXPENSES
A Wm Dob In the Cm of President
Garfield.
Washington, Sept. 23. In the case
of President Garfield congress appro
priated in all $57,000 for doctors and
funeral expenses. Of this amount $35,
500 was for the payment of the physi
cians and 22,000 for the funeral
expenses. The total expenses in th
case of President McKinley will proba
bly be fully as great, for although the
bills of the physicians will not be so
large as they were in the case of Gar
field, who lingered for more than two
months after he was shot, the expense
of the funeral are expected to be
larger. The principal item, as in the
case of the Garfield funeral, will be for
railway transportation. This will in
clude the special train which brought
the funeral party from Buffalo to
Washington, the special train of three
sections which caaried the party to
Canton, and the special train of five
sections back to Washington.
Congress not only paid Presiden,
Garfield's funeral : expenses, but alsc
made liberal provisions for Mrs. Gar
field. She was paid her husband's
salary for the remainder of the year.
was given a pension of 85.000 per yeat
for the remainder of her life, and was
given the franking privilege, by which
she can use the mails without the pay
ment of postage. Mrs. McKinley will
certainly be treated with equal liber
ality. Train Rolls Over.
Omaha, Sept. 30. Through passen
ger train No. 3, on the Wabash, fro re
St. Louis to Omaha, was wrecked on n
curve seven miles southeast of Council
Bluffs. The entire train, consisting oi
mail and baggage cars, two day coaches,
a chair car and Pullman sleeper, rolled
down an eighteen-foot embankment
and turned bottom-side up. The en
gine alone remained upright, stopping
with the forward trucks on the edge oi
the bridge over Indian Creek. The
train carried nearly a hundred passen
gers and miraculous as it seems no one
was killed. There were perhaps four
teen seriously injured and a score of
others received minor bruises.
Cresceas Failed.
Philadelphia, Sept 28. Cresceus, the
king of trotters, failed to lower his re
cord of 2:02 M, made at Columbus, Aug
ust 2, in a trial on the Belmont Driving
Club course at Narbarth, a suburb of
this city. The great son of Robert Mc
Gregor, stepped the mile in 2:04 V with
out a skip, and thereby reduced the
track record of 2:08 made by Alix on
November 7, 1894. Everything wa&
conducive to fine time. The track was
lightning fast and there was not enough
breeze to interfere with the progress of
the great trotter.
Second City In Norwao Burned.
Christiana, Sept. 26. A large section
of Bergen is burned. Two firemen
were killed. The damage done amount
to several million kroner.
Bergen is the second city of Norway
and the principal seaport of the country.
The town is the capital of the Norwe
gian province of its name, and is situa
ted about 180 miles northwest of Chris
tiana. The population has increased
very rapidly during the last thirty-fivt
years and is now over 60,000.
Wood Wants Squatters oft.
Guthrie, Ok., Sept 30. J. R. Wood,
the man who drew claim No. 1 , adjoin
ing the city of Lawton, is now attempt
ing to fence his farm, on which are
located 500 squatters who refuse tc
move. To fence the north side, on
mile long, he must go through an
almost solid row of tents, stores and
shacks. He is nearing that side and
will again appeal to Uncle Sam tc
move the squatters.
Anarchists Releaeed.
Chicago, Sept. 25. The nine anarch
ists who have been under arrest here
since the assassination of President
McKinley, were released, Judge Chet
lain so ordering after the prosecution
had admitted that there was no legal
evidence against them. Emma Gold
man's case was set for hearing before
Magistrate Prindyville, where she is
charged with conspiracy to murdet
President McKinley. The cases in the
in the lower court with reference to the
men is of course nullified.
Zebnlon Pike's Commission.
Larned, Kas., Sept. 27. Mrs. Sarah
Sturtevant of Larned is the possessor
of the original document issued by
President Thomas Jefferson on April
17, 1802, commissioning Zebulon M.
Pike as a major in the first regiment of
the United States infantry. Mrs.
Sturtevant is a daughter of Mario
Pike, the only sister of Zeliulon Pike
The commission is printed on heavy
parchment and, although nearly one
hundred years old, shows little signs
of wear.
Heavy Rains North.
Omaha, Sept. 30. The heaviest storm
of rain and hail, for years, has visited
this section, i Twenty-five telephone
and electric light poles were blown
down, and street cars were blocked in
several parts of the city. Sergeants
Dempsey and Weisenburg, on duty in
the north part of the city and an elec
tric light man were badly shocked by
coming in contact with live wires, but
none were seriously injured. In Council
Bluffs the Northwestern yards were
under two feet of water at one time.
A McKinley Monument.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 26. Initial steps
were taken here toward the erection at
Canton, through popular subscription,
of what is hoped to be a fitting and
magnificent monument to the memory
of the late President McKinley.
At a conference attended by Senator
Hanna, Judge William H. Day. of Can
ton, and Colonel Myron T. Herrick, it
was decided to organize at once a com
mission that will be national in it
scope to take charge of the work at
once.
Cost Will Not Advance.
Kansas City, Sept. 24. -At the Kan
sas City offices of Southern Kansas coal
mines, those supplying one-half the
soft coal this city uses, it is announced
that all talk of strike on the part of the
miners is at an end. The intention
originally was to have the men quit
work on labor day. Then the walking
delegates postponed their- order until
three days later.' Once more they put
it off until last Saturday night. Now
they are not saying a word. . Whole
sale prices remain the same.
Nero's Mafia Lens.
Nero was near-sighted. He had a
transparent gem which enabled him to
watch the sports of the gladiators. It
was believed to have a magic property,
but is now supposed to have been an
accidental lens.
Students of Toklo.
The number of "students" in Tokio,
Japan, is said to be 50,000. Many of
these, however, are merely persons
without visible means of support who
call themselves students to escape the
attention of the police.
Twelve Detectives Guard Loubet.
Paris has always paid $13,600 a year
to the detectives who guard the Presi
dent of France, but has just refused to
do so longer, and the national govern
ment has assumed the task. Twelve
detectives are hired for the purpose.
Wide Bof of Barter.
The editor of the Collins (Mo.) Ad
vocate remarks: "We will accept wood,
eornmeal, wheat, flour, chop feed,
Chickens, eggs, turkeys, ducks, geese,
apples, lard, bacon, pork, beef, pars
nips, persimmons and 'coon hides on
subscriptions'
Taken for Dreyfus.
A Lucerne newspaper relates that &
man who recently traveled through
Switzerland a Belgian count was
annoyed by oeing taken for Dreyfus.
People crowded about him and stared
and would not believe what he said
about himself till he showed his card.
Cause for Displeasure.
Some of the Russian newspapers arc
displeased with the monument to Bis
marck recently unveiled in Moscow.
They think it strange that a foreigner
should have been thus honored, while
Alexander III., Gogol, Asakoff and
many others are neglected.
Teaching- Kindness to Children.
Hundreds of thousands of children
Can never be taught directly in our
schools to love either their fathers ot
mothers, but they can be taught to be
Constantly doing kind acts to the lower
creaures .and in this way may be made
better, kinder and more merciful in alt
the relations of life. Geo. T. Angell.
Green in Mens Clothes.
It will be impossible for men to
avoid green in their clothes this sea
son unless they deliberately turn their
backs on the latest fashions from Eng
land. The new cloths have this color
to a greater or less degree In their
patterns. Some of them have thin
threads of green outlining a check,
others have green introduced more
markedly in the texture all of them
6how It in one way or another. New
York Sun.
Irreconcilable.
With regard to the proposition of an
International agreement on geograph
ical maps and methods the English
would die to the last man before they
would give up the meridian of Green
wich. As for us, the day that we might
renounce our adhesion to the meridian
of the Observatory of Paris we could
consider our independence seriously
menaced and we would sing to the air
of Charles VI, "Jamais, jamais en
France." Paris Figaro.
Tricks of Police Officers.
"There are all kinds of tricks in the
police business, and in spite of our
vigilance it Is not always easy to de
tect the offenders." says a police lieu
tenant ot Philadelphia. "Some police
men will resort to all kinds of tricks
to keep from arresting a man. I have
known cases where policemen have
taken intoxicated persons from their
beats and placed them on adjoining
beats to save themselves from sum
moning the patrol wagon."
Income of Norwegians.
' According to the census of 1901 the
average income of the inhabitants of
Norway is only 326 kroner, or about
86, a year. This includes men, wom
en and children. Nevertheless, there
is one savings bank for every 5,600 in
habitants, one depositor for every 2.8
Inhabitants, with an average deposit
amounting to 119 kroner. No country
in the world shows such thrift and
economy, for this statement Includes
only the savings banks, without refer
ring to the other banks of deposit.
Correspondence Chicago Record-Herald.
Mrs Winslow's Soothlns; Syrup.
For children ttethfnr, softeni the Rtimi, reduce In
flammallon, sllsjBpaln,cureswlnd colic. 25c s bottle.
Borrowing is sorrowing and so is
lending half the time.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is an Infallible
medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. Samubx,
Ocean Grove, N. J.. Feb. 17, 1900.
You can't always judge a theatrical
manager by the company he keeps.
ALI. UP-TO-DATE HOUSEKEEPERS
tTse Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothes
clean and sweet as when new. All grocers.
The barber must be poor indeed who
doesn't hone his razors.
Take Nature's remedy, Garfield Tea! In
expensive and effective; 15 pints or )
doses for 25c. It is composed of medicinal
HERBS, not mineral poisons; it cures con
stipation and sick headache, kidney and
liver diseases. Good for all.
The people who indulge in sour
grapes deserve to look seedy.
Head the Advertisements.
You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get in the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most interesting study and
some excellent bargains. Our adver
tisers are reliable and send what they
advertise.
Every man has his price but mighty
few of them get it.
BUY OR SELL A FARM.
Before doing either send 'for free
sample copy of HOMES, the only ex-t
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The youthful artist generally does
his best drawing on the old man.
WISE PAINTING
Not muchf wise painting
done; poor paint, mostly; too
cheap. Nobody wants it
poor; everybody wanta it
cheap.
Devoe ready paint is cheap
because it isn't poor; it's un
like any other; because we
guarantee results instead of
materials. " , - ,
Wise painting is Paint in
trip fall anrl nca TY
" MO. XCVIC. -
Ask your dealer; ae1I ret it for you. Book
on painting- free If you mention this paper.