The Emporia Democrat from Emporia, Kansas • 2

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8. PHILLII HORACE P. SC'HELL, More men are offering to enlist from Kansas than the government really It is announced from Washington that Fred Punston will accompany the Twentieth Kansas home. "Wyandotte county's assessment of KANSAS EMPORIA, items of interest. personal property for taxation has been doubled by the state board of equalization.

The letters from the Kansas boys in Manila were not being withheld. They are now arriving, and are printed in large numbers. Kansas 48 to 60 The new wheat Ia testing- all the in western wav from than some church members car lire. Life is only so far valuable as It serves for the religious education of A propensity to hope and enjoy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow is real poverty. Time is a fiction and limits not fate.

Thought alone is eternal, time thralls it in vain. Cheerfulness and content are great beautiflers and are famous preservers of good looks. To become capable, you must cultivate your mind; if you would be loved, you must cultivate your heart. To be suspicious leads to Jealousy and envy, and to uncharitableness, breaking friendship, destroying affection, embittering all social relations and rendering life itself an intolerable burden. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard word's again, though it contradicts everything you said today. Religion as commonly taught is undergoing a process of purification. The contention goes on in Kansas between the rattlesnake and the man with the hoe. More building is going on in Saline county this year than there has been for the last five years.

There are as many persons seeking jobs in the Kansas penitentiary as there are prisoners in that institution. Enough Kansas soldiers have been wounded in the Philippines to fill one office in each county in. the state of Kansas. If there is anything in good wishes, Mrs. Hanback will make a great success as superintendent of the Industrial school at Beloit.

Wathena is liberally advertising the first annual assembly of her midsummer Chautauqua. It will be in progress July 28 to August 6. The people of Labette county paid 13.40 for feeding prisoners in the county jail during the month of June, and 8124 to run the poor farm. One argument in favor of mustering the Kansas boys out of service at San Francisco is that General Funstons travel pay would be 1,525. 76.

Nobody will doubt that Ottawa is just the place for a Chautauqua since a baker at that place filled an order for 500 cookies in forty-five minutes. It is proper for the towns in Kansas to imitate Kansas City in everything, with the exception of permitting the growth of weeds within the municipal limits. It will be all right to hold a celebration at Topeka in 1904 in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the state of Kansas, but it will take money. Captain Cuchan, of Shawnee county, who recently passed an examination for a commission in the regular army made good grades. His general average was 95 per cent.

George H. Daniels, general passenger agent of New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, recently delivered an address before the New York Press Association. Among other notable things, he said: Four years ago I predicted that active efforts toward the extension of American commerce by commercial bodies, supported by a liberal and broad-minded policy on the part of our government, would undoubtedly secure to the United States the blessings that come from a great and varied commerce, and I said that the New York Press Association, and similar associations all over the country, could stimulate a public spirit that would insure the important results outlined. At that time we had no idea that a war between one of the old nations of the earth and our young republic would be fought; at that time we had no idea that American manufacturers would be furnishing locomotives to the English railroads, as well as Japanese, and no one thought four years ago that American bridge builders would go into the open market and successfully compete for the building of a great steel bridge in Egypt; nor that in so brief a time American engineers would be building railroads into the interior of China from the most important seaports and furnishing locomotives by the score to nearly every country on the globe. In a letter from a friend in Tokio, Japan, written only a short time ago there was this significant sentence: "You will be interested in knowing that I have hanging on the wall of my office a framed picture of your 'Empire State Express, and we expect in the near future to be hauling a Japanese 'Empire with an American locomotive." They have now In Japan nearly 100 locomotives that were built in the United States.

In Russia they have over 400 of our locomotives, and nearly every railroad in Great Britain has ordered locomotives from this country since the be The mysteries are being gradually pelled; you need not wait for the pie ion of the process. -Rev. G. Stone, Unitarian, Kansas City, Mo. FROM THE CRUCIBLE.

pounds. Osborne county wheat is threshing1 out from twelve to fifteen bushels to the acre. Pastures are generally in good condition throughout the state and stock looking fine. Oklahoma is now shipping apples and peaches to Kansas, Colorado and other near-by states. The main shaft of the penitentiary coal mine has been closed.

It has been unsafe for months. Distributing 2,500 census jobs in Kansas is a good deal like serving the first mess of new strawberries in a big boarding house. A Barton county farmer put a big mortgage on wheat he had already sold and then lit out. His wife and sons, believed to be implicated In the matter, are under arrest. Much fruit is being put tip in Kansas this season.

The early peaches are very fine for canning purposes and many are putting up a good supply for winter use. Many berries have also been put up Some of the banks of Kansas are so proud of the statements they can produce that they run them in the local papers as displayed adnertisements. These bank statements put up a good talk for Kamas. There is a good deal of roar in the southwest on account of the depredations of cattle thieves. The cattlemen are beginning to feel woolly about it, and the offender who is caught at this work is going to find himself in a mess of trouble of the worst kind There is no truth in the old saying that somnambulists never suffer injury while prowling about at night.

A Dickinson county woman, walking about the house in her sleep fell down flight of stairs and was all bruised up, although no bones were broken. The offices of the officials of Mitchell county are scattered about town in seven different buildings. The court house is such an old trap that long ago the presiding judge refused to hold court in it, and it ought to be given over entirely to the bats and owla C. H. Strong of Crawford countv has taught 22 years in that county, besides holding the office of county superintendent two terms.

Before coming to Kansas in "65, Mr. Strong taught eight schools in Pennsylvania, three in Ohio, five in Illinois and two in Missouri. He claims to have taught more schools in Crawford county than any other teaeher, but he has a couple of close seconds. Mr. Gladson and F.

Cunningham are credited with 21 and 20)4 years, respectively. A Jefferson county man who chewed 20 cents worth of tobacco a week concluded to try a tobacco cure. In two weeks he ate up 81.50 worth of cure, and for the next two weeks he used 10 cents worth of candy. 5 cents worth of peanuts and 5 cents worth of cough drops per day. During these two weeks he also consumed two large rubber erasers, ate the tips from fourteen lead pencils, chewed up a dozen penholders and browsed off his mustache While excavating for the foundations for a bridge in Russell county, workmen ran across a vein of cannel coal a foot in thickness.

The Kansas newspaper men who intend to make the Canadian trip are scheduled to leave Kansas City Wednesday evening, August 16. The experience of Mr. Happy, who tried to break out of the federal prison at Leavenworth, and was captured' proves that there is nothing in a name. It has been discovered that 74 of the ordinances of the city of Marguette are void for the reason that errors were made in preparing them for publication. A regiment of array worms is coming northward into Kansas, having already struck the southern portion of the state.

They prefer sorghum to work in. The county treasurer of Rice county was caught by a surprise party of 100 friends the other night, with his shoes off and with his bare feet in the refrigerator. The tallest corn stalk raised in the United States this year will be exhibited at Paris. It will probably come from Kansas. It ought to, anyhow, and will, if only the pains are taken to look it up Ottawa's police judge has been treating crap shooters rather leniently but in a card addressed to the fraternity he announces that hereafter offenders who are brought before him will be stuck good and plenty.

-At Paola a chicken thief mortgaged his scraggly old team for 3. 50 in order to get the money with which to square himself when his thievery was discovered. This is an aggravated case of chickens coming home to roost. Directors of the Inter-state Reunion association of Baxter Spring have arranged to build an amphitheater for New Camp Logan. The indications are that the reunion this year will be one of the notable gatherings of the season.

No one in Kansas doubts a farmer this year when he comes to town with a story about the rapidity with which his corn is going up in the air. The weather has been so favorable for corn growing that any story will be believed. Work has been commenced on Westmoreland's railroad. There have been so many discouragements connected with this enterprise that there will be a genuine hallelujah time when the road reaches the capital of Pottawatomie county. New business concerns have so en-crouched on halls and other public places in western Kansas lately that in one town it is now proposed, for lack of another place, to hold a poultry show in the local Methodist church.

A Topeka woman says that she does not see how there can be any possible risk run in raising hogs. She got her experience in hog culture out in western Kansas Her father would give her the young pigs; she fattened them on feed belonging to the old gentleman, and says that her hog ventures were always profitable. Theatrical attractions are being booked for Hutchinson, and the people will see them in the new opera An Atchison bride went to see a sick man who couldn't come to her wedding, before she changed her bridal gown. The invalid was almost as glad to see the wedding finery as the bride was to display it. If the Marshall county farmer who found a big balloon in his cornfield will convert it into a tarpaulin to cover over his threshing machine, and will not yield to the overwhelming temptation to give exhibitions in aerial navigation, no harm will be done.

Cneap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe. If you are in trouble and go to man who has none, he gives you advice; but the man of many troubles helps you through sympathy, A man often catches the popular taste in his writings because the reader says "That's good, but I could have done it better." Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, but is not oftentimes invention the mother of necessity? Most inventors go broke. Business maxim: Promise a man the earth and give him a cemetery lot. The mongrel is often the most In-telligeent, but it is the pure-blooded dog which gets the prize. The way to govern is to lick the strongest man of those you would rule, and theii make him rule over the others.

The phrase "I'm monarch of All I survey" should be rewritten to read "I'm monarch of all I laugh at." Even the power of idealization is not as valuable as the power of turning off a trouble with a laugh. There is no complicated mechanism back of a steam whistle, but it's no uso to try t.o ompete with it in its line. The tim, trhen a man always takes you at you! rord is when you tell htm he can pay what he owes you at his own convenience. The Penny must be of a superior quality, and the demand for American manufacturers began to increase and is increasing with each day, until hundreds of our factories are now running night and day, and business in the United States was never in a more prosperous condition than it is on the 21st day of June, 1899. It has been said by a great American writer that "trade follows the flag." Our war with Spain has placed our flag upon the islands of the Pacific, directly in the natural track between the Pacific coast of the United States and Japan and China, and as we contemplate our growing commerce with these old nations we are reminded of the prophetic statement made at the completion of the first continuous line of railroad between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, by the joining of the Union and Central Pacific railroads, more than thirty years ago, by that prophet of his time, Thomas H.

Benton, who, standing on the summit of the Rocky Mountains and pointing toward the Pacific ocean, said: "There is the East; there is India." Mr. President, since the meeting at Lake George, four years ago, the fortunes of war have placed the United States in the front rank among the powers of the world, and we can no more shirk the responsibility which these events have brought on us as a nation, than we can shirk our responsibility as private citizens. There are some who seem to think that we might get along without trade with China, and that it is a new fan-gled notion that Chinese trade can especially benefit the United States. Commerce with China Is much older than many suppose, for it began 115 years ago, the first vessel sailing from New York on Washington's birthday, in the year 1774. This vessel returned to New York May 11, 1775.

The success of the venture was such as to warrant its repetition, and from that day to this, trade between the United States and China has continued without material Interruption, until It is now greater in Importance and value than that of any other nation trading with China, with the single exception of Great Britain. If we are to continue as one of the great nations of the world, we can hardly afford to ignore a country that comprises one-twelfth of the land area and nearly one-fourth of the population of the globe. The Influence of the press, particularly in this country, Is immense, and it Is growing year by year, anT with reasonable co-operation and reciprocity between the press, the transportation companies and the commercial and industrial interests of the country, there can be no doubt about our supremacy. At times there have been periods of legislation adverse to the great transportation interests of the country, almost invariably the result of a misunderstanding of the real situation, and the hasty legislation of such times has usually been repealed upon the sober second thought of the people, for in the language of our great Lincoln: "You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." There are still some people who fear that consolidations, especially of transportation companies, will result disastrously to the general interests of the country. There is one example to which I wish to call your attention, and which, I think, each of you will appreciate.

Forty-seven years ago, there was issued an annual pass over the Central Line of Railroads, between Buffalo and Boston, and by the People's Line of Steamboats to New York; this pass bearing the following signatures on the back thereof: Eze-klel C. Mcintosh, President. Albany and Schenectady R. R. Erastus-Corning, President.

Utica and Schenectady R. R. John Wilkinson, President, Syracuse and Utica R. R. Henry B.

Gibson, President, Rochester and Syracuse R. R. Joseph Field, President, Buffalo and Rochester R. R. William H.

Swift, President, Western R. R. Isaac Newton, People's Line Steamboats; Job Collamer, Wa-tertown Rome R. R. Co.

Mr. E. D. Worcester, Secretary of the New York Central, says he rode on a ticket of this kind from Albany to Boston in the summer of 1852, and he remembers distinctly the signature of each of these Presidents. What would you think if in preparing to attend your annual meeting you had to write to eight different persons to secure transportation from New York to Niagara Falls? I am Lnre you appreciate the fact that it does not require eight letters to secure such transportation, nor does it require seven changes of cars to make the journey as it did in 1852.

ginning of the war with Spain. In this connection It will be interesting to note in passing that the second American locomotive was built at the West Point Foundry, near Cold Spring, on the Hudson river, and was called the "Best Friend," and from that day to this the locomotive has been one of the best friends of all our people. But it is not alone our locomotives that have attracted the attention of foreigners who have visited our shores, our railway equipment generally has commanded admiration and Is now receiving the highest compliment, namely, Imitation by many of our sister nations. Prince Michel Hil-koff, Imperial Minister of Railways Russia, has, since his visit to the United States a few years ago, constructed a train on much the same lines as the New York Central's Lake Shore Limited. Only a short time ago, at the request of cne of cue Imperial Commisisons of Germany, the New York Central sent to Berlin photographs of the interior and exterior of our finest cars and other data in relation to the operation of American railways.

Several other countries have asked for similar information and there is a general waking up of foreign nations on the subject of transportation, brought about mainly by tbe wonderful cclil-v-ments of American railways. It is estimated that if all the puddings made in England in honor of Christmas were rolled into one, tha weight of it would be 7,589 tos. For this pudding 32,009,0.0 eggs Wet used. Barcelona is to have a national exhibition of coal and its products. It appears that Spain imported last year 1,036,000 tons of coal, although the native product amounted to 3,309,000 tons.

It is believed that in a few years there will be no more Read, Laofh and When buying a package of "Faultless Starch' ask your grocer for the. book that gees with it free. It will afford you lots of amusement and add to your stock of knowledge. All grocers sell it, 10c. as high as lie could reach.

He now interest of econ- The admiration of foreign nations for us is not by any means confined to railways. One incident that startled the entire world, and riveted the attention of thinking people everywhere to American achlevments in machinery, was that of the United States battleship "Oregon," built at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, and which steamed a distance of more than half round the globe, without loosening a bolt or starting a rivet, and arrived at her post off the island of Cuba prepared to perform any service required of her; and then having given a most satisfactory account of herself on that chews tobacco in the Some girls make their gowns the gowns of some other girls them. The Santa Fe are selling tickets to San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and other California points at the very cheap rate ot 32.50. To Portland and points in Idaho and Oregon 28.85. For particulars call on or address, L.

R. DeLanev, Agt, Wichita, Kans There is a chance for some Kansas town to get a scoop on all the others by laying off a golf course. At present Kansas is almost entirely without "hazards," but a few could easily be made. The increase in the deposits in the 367 Kansas state and private banks since last March is i million dollars. The national bank deposits have increased an equal amount.

This is the heaviest increase in bank depesits in the history of the state. Kansas pays the warden of her penitentiary 2,500 per annum out of which comes his living- expenses, and her penitentiary contains 940 convicts-Illinois pays the wardenof the Joliet penitentiary, with 1,300 prisoners in his keeping, 3,500 and provides his living. Minnesota, with 520 convicts, gives the warden of the Stillwater prison a salary of 5,000 and his lir-ing. A larger percentage of Kansas people are out of debt today than ever before in the history of the state A coyote with hair only on one side was captured in Pratt county recently. This is said to be a srn of a coming warm winter.

Nearly ev.ry Kansas man who sits out on the back porch and watches a thunderstorm with the raeged lightning tearing the air all around him, believes that if he is going to be struck he will be struck and that's an end to it A Cherokee county youth lost 11 on the padlock graft a few days ago. This is the same old scheme that nearly caused a riot in the ark the third day out from port, but it seems to work pretty well yet. The sole ration given the southern negroes who are being shipped into southeastern Kansas to take the places of strikers, is boiogna sausage and bread and water. It is said that the bologna is the first southern negroes have ever tas ed, and they eat themselves blind on it. The free mail delivery at Manhattan will do away with the excuse which the girls and boys have hitherto had for meeting at the postoffice.

A Kansas farmer is his own employer. He does not have to go or come at the sound of the bell or whistle. He may set out trees and shrubs about his home, making it as attractive and pleasant as his taste dictates. No home can be made more delightful and homelike than the farm home under the hands of the tasty farmer and his assistants. 44 A Good Name At Home a Tower of Strength Jk LonvtU, where Hood's SarsMpa-rSU is made, it still has a larger sale than all other blood purifiers.

Its fame and cures and sales have spread abroad, and is universally recognized as the best Hood medicine money can buy. Remember omy. It is said that forty-five counties in Kansas, nearly half, have no poor-houses, and that in thirty-seven counties there are no criminal cases on the docket. During April, May and June of 1896 the revenue of the Independence post-office amounted to for the same period of 1897, for 1818, 1,739, and for the sacio quarter of the present j-ear the figures reached No better testimony could be brought forth to show the forward movement of business in thai town. No one has ever seen such corn in Kansas.

A whole lot of people think they have seen bigger corn. They have simply forgotten. Implement dealers all over the state of Kansas are bragging about their sales this season. Next fall it will be possible to see a valuable piece of farm machinery "taking the in almost every field in the state. Implement dealers make a great deal of money out of this careless treatment of farm machinery which is so noticia-ble in Kansas.

A prominent citizen of Greenwood county recently took a bull whip and cruelly lashed his wife and grown memorable 3d of July, 1S98, off Santiago, she steamed back to the Pacific, and without unnecessary delay crossed that great ocean to join Admiral Dewey's fleet at Manila. On her arrival there the Secretary of the Navy received one of those condensed messages, for which the admiral who has shed undying luster upon the name of the American navy is so noted, which read as follows: "Manila, March 18. 1899. The Oregon and Iris arrived here today. The Oregon Is in fit condition for any duty.

Dewey." These demonstrations of what American shipbuilders can accomplish, created a desire on the part of every naval power in the world for ships of the character of the Oregon, and the logical conclusion of thinking people was that if we could build ships like the Oregon, anything else that we built as mm twmud fffrri house the coming winter. Cowley county has its full number of suckers. There are seven men living there who each paid 1.000 for the county right to a patent washing machine. Alfred Bysel, who has been a Missouri Pacific freight brakeman in Kansas for fifteen years, has inherited a fortune of 50.000 by the death of an uncle in Philadelphia Overalls sold cheap in a western Kansas town one day last week. A couple of firms got to bucking.

They ran the price down to ten cents a pair and each store closed out all on hand at that figure. The Rock Island railroad is running, special suburban trains to a salt lake near Hutchinson, which has been fixed up as a summer resort. The lake was formed by the overflow of the salt wells. Bath houses have been erected, and a club house is in process of construction. At Moundridge.

the other day, the death of a man from an excessive use of whisky led to a revulsion of public IrSTt Send your name and address on postal, and we will send you our 1 56- pate illustrated catalogue free, WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS C8. 174 Winchester Avenue, Hew Haven, Com She Dared. "Your teacher whipped your' roared Gayboy. "How dared she?" "Well," blubbered the boy, "she said she also licked you when you were in her class, and she guessed she'd risk It." daughter. The neighbors have done sentiment and every joint in the place $3022 OUR PIASA BIRD SHOT Ml .1 a 1 1 a kl rm a mm Few Know It.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Is a recognized authority on the subject of love. Speaking of It she says: "Very few people really love. I dare say not one-third of the human family ever experienced the passion in Its height.depth, length and breadth. Scores, yes, hundreds of people go to their graves believing that they have known love, when they have only encountered its pale shadow a warm friendship, or a tender affection, or a good was forthwith closed up as tight as wax. At a meeting of the executive committee of the State Temperance Union at Topeka last week, the time of the next annual convention was fixed for January 9 and 10, provided that the speakers from abroad which the committee desire can be secured for that date.

Coatfnaous. Mrs. Sentimental (watching her sleeping child) How true it is thrt "heaven lies about us In our infancy!" Her Cold-Blooded Husband Yes. and somebody else keeps it up nothing, but they should. During the past week good rains have continued throughout the state vand the corn is in excellent condition.

It is said that all the early corn is now insured, while the corn that was planted where wheat was plowed up will require about three weeks more of the' present weather to make a full.