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FAGE SIX. tHANUTE WEEKLY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1907. HIS WEEKL TMBUEt flaxseed poulticss when they yearn for Buster Erown togs." ith the school when it was a child. "We are told of a man who for the term talk will not down. Even tho Washington Post is declaring that conditions are shaping themselves eo that the renominatlon of Roosevelt is inevitable, and that if the people want Roosevelt to run again, they c-aa get him.

There' is one thing sure, if Roosevelt is renominated it will tal about four years to count the major ity Kansas will give him. dent if Mr. Roosevelt Is renominatel. Such statements are tempting fate. It is baj enough to have all the western Democrats clamoring for Mr.

Roosevelt's renominatiou. But if Mr. Bryan's candidacy is to hinge on Mr. Roosevelt, how long before the eastern democrats "will begin to join in the third-term movement in order to get rid of the Nebraska leader? This is subjecting Mr. Roosevelt to a temptation which should never be imposed upon mere flesh and blood.

were only two which showed an increase in number of establishments. One 'was wholesale meat slaughtering, with a total of two new plants; the other was oil refining, increase here being almost entirely due to th opening of new fields. In the second group of industries, matches, alone, showed a slight increase in number. In the third group all showed an increase except boots and shoes, in which there has been marked growth of great and abandonment of smallar ones. college put a mortgage or.

his farm his little all. When the war came on, the president of Baker heard the drum taps, and went away to be chap lain of the Twelfth Kansas, and was soon a colonel. Almost all the bovs ent with him. Some came back. Some heard the call to the schooling thejnysterious world unseen.

Bak-has its roll of immortals who gave their blood in the glorious army of the American Volunteers." Baker is only one of the many splendid institutions of Kansas, that persevered difficulties tow- rds the stars. Others are as worthy of support, but in time of special need no one will deny that Baker has pe culiar claims upon the generosity of all who are interested in its history, its purposes, and its destiny. Somehow, that Roosevelt third- Emmet Dalton Pardoned A JUVENILE PROTEST. Emporia Gazette: As remarked a few days ago, the Gazette is always glad to receive communications from its readers when they are tossed about by many a conflict, many a doubt, and this without reference to the age, the color, cr previous condi- tioo of servitude of the writers. Many of the documents received from day to day are throbbing with genuine human interest; many present problems, which, being too deep for the editorial wisdom, should en- gage the attention of philosophers and savants.

Of such a nature is the following letter from Roland Never gang, an Emporia boy who has soniD distinction in the primary grades of the public schools: "Having reached the mature age of eeven years, and having, since my fMth birthday, given deep and continuous study to sociological and kin dred problems, I feel it my duty, not only to myself but to all young men and women who are derisively referred to as children, to protest vehemently against those laws and customs which give parents complete control over us until we are almost as old as the parents themselve3. This control covers every detail of our lives, Including dress, diet, edu cation and character building. "It is impossible, in the eompasj of a newspaper article, even to outline the iniquity of this system; but I may possibly convey some hint ol my meaning when I say that I have been reduced to valetudinarianism by il 11-1 1 i u.e imbgmueu suncuuue oi my i. Published Every Friday. li i CAVANESS BROS.

Editors and Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Cna Year (in advance) ....51.00 Six Months (in advance) 50o GOOD ROADS. The Illinois Manufacturers' Association will issue a call for a convention to be held early in 190S, for the consideration of the good roads question. An appeal will be made to Industrial, commercial, and agricultural associations throughout the state to send delegates.

Such is the sentiment in Illinois towards the good roads agitation that there is anticipated a gathering of representative citizens who will be able to formulate some definite plans for systematic road building in all parjs of the state. What the Chicago Tribune' has to say in this connection should be of no less interest to Kansas than to ithe populate of the state in which that journal is published, for Kansas is likewise becoming increasingly attentive to the value of good highways. We quote: "The need of better roads is easily shown from many points of view. The comparison of the. total, cost of hauling farm products with the value of such products indicates the great economic less which attends poor roads.

The same thing is true of ithe output of the factories. cost of getting materials to the railroad station or the market is- entirely cMs-proportionate to t'ae net returns to the farmer or manufacturer. "The isolation of the-. farmer lia3 been one of the things' 'which have made 'the agricultural life unpopular. This is in large measure 'due to the lack of good roads.

Commercially, industrially, socially, the -farmer and the manufacturer would be -benefited if the highways were in as good condition as they might easily be. "The present situation is in a large degree unnecessary. The good roads movement does not mean a certain increase in taxes. These funds have not been used wisely. There lias been a great amount of economic waste, some students of the situation declaring that fifty cents of every dollar yields i-o return 'to the taxpayer.

If a large number of earnest people interested in the matter were to meet in convention and have the possibilities fully explained, something definite and practical ought to bo the result. "In connection with this movement more attention should be given to the provisions of the slate law under which the inmates of ''tile-' penitentiaries may be used in the- manufacture of tile and culvert' pipe for road drainage, and in the preparation of material for road building and ballasting. These materials' ate furnished free by the state commission, and there is' prdVisiion for their transportation to- the places where they are without cost to the taxpayers. If the-1 state laws relating to this subjeef'were utilized, the problem cf suitable' material for the roadbed a serious orfe- in many parts of Illinois would' be 'm'uch- simplified. "It is not money that is needed so much as intelligent use of- funds already provided.

The lack', of mater ial is net prohibitive. -What is want ed to make the good roads movement effective is a general feeling that the prosperity of the state is restrained by a lack of good highways, and that under wise supervision, w-ithout any great addition to the taxes' of the in dividual, a marked improvement may be made. Such a result is 'quite like ly to follow a state convention for discussing this greatest' of Internal needs." TEMPTING FATE. New York World: After-calling on President Roosevelt, Governor Hoch of Kansas told the reporters that "we'll nominate the president again, and ride over the national, conveu tion like a herd of Texts steers." The same day senator i McCumber of North Dakota expressed the opinion that Mr. Roosevelt intended not to be a candidate again "he will have tn decline a nomination after it i'i made for the ocneventton will no to any statement beforehand." Senator Elkins, of West-.

'Virginia, 'monrnfullv remarked yesterday that jei'e is no use in talking to th about any other man so Ion: as pi is imuuiniiij tJiia nbouAth President's intentions tow. nrd a lerm" Mr. made a Dcmocrniic'' speech in Troy Thursday nisht. it is statvd in a Troy disnateb that V'1'- Bryan will not seek t'fie Democi-atlcV nomination fw Pre THE OLD SETTLERS OF KANSAS. Oh, those early days, those far off days.

When all this land was new, When the Settlers came by lumbering wains Drawn by slow oxen o'er the plains, And not by swiftly shooting trains, As "Settlers" now may do. When night drew near a camp was pitched-While the cattle were grazing nigh The campfire built the coffee niado, The grub-box opened, all hands dis played A readiness that box to invade, And riot in the good old pie! The journey ended, a "claim was staked" To hold it fast and true-Then "home" was the wagon, or under a tent-Perhaps made of blankets but all intent Upon doing their best, if by that it meant They must live on rabbit stew. In the course of time a cabin was built Scarcely big enough for two Then they broke the sod and planted the grain; Toiling early and late in dew and rain; Winning at last a home again, For the wife and kiddies, too. Long years have fled; to those Settlers now The victor's palm is due; They bravely fought both drouth and flood, 'Gainst and hoppers firmly stood They won the fight, they have made good! Old Settlers Here's to you! G. M.

DEWEY. KANSAS' OLDEST COLLEGE. The Kansas City Journal pays the following tribute to the oldest col- lege'in the state: There will be held the Methodist churches of Grpater Kansas City today meetings jn t))e Interest of Baker University. at Baldwin, Kansas. A peculiar in terest attaches to these meetings, which sets them apart from the usual order of gatherings at which collee tions are taken to help some needy and worthy educational Institution The first, but not the most important feature is the disaster, the destruction of Baker's fine gymnasium build ing by fire, which makes the assit-ance of the Methodists of this sec tion cf country necessary.

But there is no more inspiring story in all the annals of denominational education than that of Baker univer sity itself, whose fiftieth anniversary will be celebrated on the ninety-ninth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1908. The ear ly days of Baker were splendid illus trations of the indomitable spirit of devotion and sacrifice which animat ed the early settlers of Kansas and the west. Fifty years in the life any institution of this character must necessarily result in notable contribu tions to the moral and intellectual standing of any state, and Baker uni versity Is entitled to the support not only of the people of Kansas, but of all who are interested in the cause of religious educatlion. Six years before Kansas was admit ted to the Union, John Baldwin of Berea, came to the territory and (topped at Palmyra, a little place on the great Santa Fe trail in Douglas county. A private school -was opened by his son, Milton Baldwin, who accompanied him.

This school was afterwards to become Baker university, founded by the Methodist conference, which then embraced what are now the stat of Nebraska and Kansas, and the eastern half of Colorado. The town which grew up around the sec flon of land which was offered as a site for the new college was named for John Baldwin. A charter was granted toy the state to the college February 12, 1858, and this is the be ginning of the institution of whose early struggles the Central Christian Advocate gives thia graphic descrip tion: "Baker university did not begin life in a field of roses, but rather on battlefield. Indeed the campus stands today within sight of the battlegroun 1 of the early struggles of old John Brown. The smell of gunpowder was in her nostrils and poverty at her door.

Once the sheriff was sent to take her bell and library to satisfy the claims otf creditors, hut Mercy came down the road day, and persuaded several who had been living on cornbread and water to live on less cornbread and more water a little while longer, and thus the de-riands of the justice's court were met People are making great sacrifice for this institution today but we may well remember that many people in Baldwin who shared their' last loaf The time was when the eastern financial troubles -would have wrought havoc in the west, but that time is past. The west is in good shape financially, and Kansas people need have no fear. The conditions a-9 getting better in the west every day now, and it -will be but a short time now until the storm will be ever. The west is no longer a servant of Wall street, but can purusue the even tenor of her way, and go on in he wonderful prosperity march. Great is the west.

never betrayed the trust. "The unfortunate affair in which ho was involved fifteen years ago can be held in no greater horror by anyone than by me, but his older who led in this affair paid tha penalty on the spot with their lives, and this young man, still in his teens at the time, has, -without complaint, paid the penalty of a prison life for more than fifteen years." Emmet Dal ton is the sole survivor of the notorious Dalton gafog. In 1832 three Dalton brothers and two other bandits, the gang led by Robert Dalton, appeared in Coffeyville, on the border of the Indian Territory for the purpose of robbing the two banks of the place. Robert ami Emmet Dalton went to one bank, and the remaining three bandits to the other. Robert and Emmet secured $22,000, with which they firl, They might have escaped, but they waited for the other three, and while they waited Robert Dalton was shot dead by, pursuing citizens, and Emmet was so badly wounded that he was easily captured.

When the three bandits who wera sent to rob the other bank reached the counter their mission was suspected, and the cashier, to gain timo, told them that the time lock had not gone off yet. While they waited the citizens were aroused, and a fight resulted. In th engagement four of the robbers and four citizens were killed, and Emmet Dalton was wounded. When he finally recovered he pleaded guilty before Judge J. D.

McCue, who sentenced him to be hanged, which, under the Kansas statute, amounts to life imprisonment. The Daltons were Kentuckiana. They were cousins by marriage ol the Youngers. In 1889 the Dalton family, father, mother, and thirteen children, among them Bob. Emmet and rat tan, went to Kansas.

They settled on a farm in Montgomery county, where they remained until the opening of the Indian Territory. Then the life of adventure that proved their undoing. First, United States Deputy Marshals, then train robbers, whisky peddlers, and bandits in the mountain passes of California; then bank robbers. Emmet Dalton was twenty years old when he was captured. His moth, er never ceased to work for his release.

In 1901 a strong effort was made for a pardon for him, but Governor Stanley refused to grant it. Says He Will Make Good. Topeka, Nov. 4. Emmett Dalton was the recipient of endless He received a telegram from his mother yesterday.

Telegrams came from a good many other parts of the state. He will have to remain in Topeka for several days yet to give his arm further treatment Then he will go home to his rnothsr at Kingfisher, I. and there complete the plans of what he will do in the future. "I think I shall locate in either Topeka or. Kansas City," he said, after he had talked with his brother.

"Tha people in Topeka have been kind tu me. I can never say how much I appreciate their friendliness. What I wish to do is to get Into 'business for myself, and bring my mother up hero with me. I want her to live with from now on. She will dispose of her property at Kingfisher, I think, and come up here with me if I decide to locate herer I want to live the kind of a life that my friends who have confidence in me believe I will.

I'm going to make Ship Sank In Harbor. Boston, Nov. 4. The coast steamship City of Birmingham, struck the rocks and sank in forty feet of -water in the harbor here today. The officers and crew escaped.

No passengers were aboard. The vessel will be a total loss. HOW BRYAN 'WON HIS WIFE. Mrs. Bryan still finds much amusement in reciting the difficulties Mr.

Bryan encountered when he sought her father's consent to their marriage, says the November Delineator. "Many people have remarked upcn the fondness which Mr. Bryan shows for quoting scripture," Mrs. Bryan has said. "The habit is one Cf long standing, as the following circumstance plainly shows.

When it seemed proper for William to have a little conversation with my father It wa3 something of an ordeal, as father is somewhat of a reserved man. In his dilemma William sought refuge in the Scriptures, and began: "Mr. Bainl, I have been reading proverbs a good deal lately, and find that Solomon says, 'Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth the favor of the Father, being something of a Bible scholar, replied: 'Yes, I believe Solomon did say that, but Paul suggests that 'While he that marrieth doeth well, he that marrieth not doeth 'Solomon would be better authority on -this he replied, because Paul was never married, while Solomon had many Af ter this the matter was satisfactorily adjusted." IF ALL THE SKIES. If all the skies were sunshine, Our faces would be fain To feci once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence To break the endless song.

If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief. Henry VanDyke. THE GROWTH OF MONOPOLY. Chicago Record-Herald: The years 1899 to 1901 were the greatest yeap of trust formation in this country. In these three years securities amounting at par to over 000 were issued.

The consus of manufacturers of 1905 gave the first opportunity to test the influence of these great consolidations and show their effect on the smaller enterprises not incorporaated in the trusts. In the current number of The Quar terly Journal cf Economics Professor William Z. Ripley has analyzed the figures with some interesting results. He has divided the industries into three groups first, those of practical monopoly (70 per cent or more), including sugar, salt, meat, tobacco, iron, whisky and oil, all dealing with the 'primary staples; second, those secondary industries in which there is imperfect monopoly (40 to 70 per cent), including leather, silverware, paper, rubber, fertilizers, matches, paper bags and ship-build ing; and, third, independent industries with less than 40 per cent monopoly, including cotton, 'boots and shoes, carpets, silk goods and hosiery. In the first group, while there waa value of the product between 1900 an Increase of 16 per cent in the and 1905, there 'was a decrease of 13 per cent in the number of establishments reported by the census.

In the second group, with an increase of per cent in tha product, there was a decease of 10 per cent in the number of establishments; in the third group, with an increase of 30 per cent in the product, there was an increase in the number of establishments, but only to the trival extent of 3 per cent. These effects are what may be called the after effects of the immediate process of trust formation, and it is striking that the same influence seen in the strongest manifests Itself also in the independent industries, though in smaller degree. Thes-2 figures do not really tell the whole story of the change; because the cen sus investigation did not give primary attention to ownership of factories, and classified all establishments located In different towns or counties as separate, even when under the same ownership. It also classified plants of different kinds in the same town as separate, even though belonging to one corporation. The statistics, then, understate the truth.

Examining the industries separately instead of by groups, it appears, that among the primary industries ther Topeka, Nov. 4 governor Hoch Saturday night gave Emmet Dalton a free parden from the state penitentiary. At 5:30 the governor sent a messenger to the Copeland hotel for Dalton. A few minutes later the lat ter walked into the executive chamber, where sat Governor Hoch, Mrs. Hoch, who has been much interested in the case, and the governor's son and private secretary, Homer Hocli.

said the governor, "I have granted what yon wished." He pushed the pardon across the massive mahogany table. In a moment Dai-ton's face paled, and as quickly flushed. His eyes flashed, and then tears came. He stepped around the desk. and in a voice that trembled with emotion, said: "Governor, I thank you." His left hand sought the governor's hand and clasped it, aud his crippled sought to aid its mate in pressing the hand of the man who pardoned him.

"I well governor well I can't express it I can't tell you how I feel about it. I haven't ihe words." Daltcn turned aside and tears were on his cheeks. Just then an elderly, grayhaired man stepped up and thanked the governor. He was John Dalton, the only brother alive of the freed prisoner. He is a wealthy bachelor, and a political figure of consequence at his home in California.

By a strange coincidence he came to Topeka today on his way to Kingfisher to visit his mother. Both brothers can now go together. Meanwhile Emmet tuned to a tablo picked up a sheet of paper and wrote a telegram to his mother, telling her that her prayers were granted. Mrs. Hoch spoke to Emmet then about the incidents of the past few days; the unexpected termination of the temporary parole him to have his arm treated; his return to the penitentiary and today's final pardon.

"You know," said Emmet to Mrs. Hoch, "the train, going back to Lansing seemed to travel 100 miles and hour; and coming back don't believe it traveled ten miles an hour." This produced a laugh, and relieved tile tense situation. Dalton will be in Topeka and Lansing a few days yet, to look after a few private matters. Then he will go to Kingfisher to visit his mother. It ia likely he will live with her the rest of his life.

He has some plans made for going into business at Kingfisher. He also hasvwork offered him at Independence, and, strange to say, a position is his for the asking at Coffeyville, where the famous raid took place. Dalton has been in the state penitentiary prison fifteen years and one month, excepting the last four months which he has spent in Topeka, temporarily paroled, under surgeon's care to have his arm treated. It is still in 'bad shape from a necrosis, though out of danger of amputation. Dalton's friends by the score urged his pardon upon the governor but the latter had his mind made up favorably some weeks ago, and the winning behavior of Dalton hastened his pardon Saturday.

In regard to Dalton's pardon the governor said: "I have given a great deal of thought and much patient study-to teh case of Emmet Dalton, and I do not believe any unprejudiced person can study the case as I have studied it reaching the conclusion that this young man has in him the elements of good citizenship. Every officer of the institution in which he has been confined for the past fifteen years with, whom- I have conversed shares this opinion, and expressed it in the strongest possible language. He has been a model prisoner, and he has given every evidence that he has been so from consideration of character and manhood, and not for poli-ey's sake? He has teen a trusty, and ents, who, instead of permitting me 10 run uuu, as emiuren snouiu, nave reared me strict accordance with the rules laid down by certain hy gienic and physiological publications, the very names of which I abhor. the earliest days of my childhood I have been intently scrutinized for symptoms of disease; if I sneezed my mother immediately produced a bottle of cod liver emulsion, which, in conjunction with compound syrup of hypophOsphates, is more antagonistic to abdominal comfort than any mixture ever dreamed of by mediaeval chirurgeon. "If I happened to look pale at any time, reference one of the publications referred to led to the administration of malted milk; I have never been able to figure out why thla brand of lacteal refreshment should be considered more beneficial to a child than the old-fashioned milk from a cow, unless it is because of the fact that it costs more, and has a blue label on the bottle conveying the information that it complies with tha provisions of the pure food law; I understand that cows seldom wear labels guaranteeing their milk, but, speaking personally, I'd rather take my chances with the cow.

"It frequently happens when I wake in the morning and gaze from my casement upon the smiling world that my Aunt Rebecca comes to my bedroom door with a steaming cup of senna tea in one hand, and Dr. Gunn's Family Repository of Medical Knowledge in the other, and she informs me that I was overheard gritting my teeth in my sleep; and, she adds, if children grit their teeth while resting in the arms of Morpheus, it is a sure sign there Is something wrong with their patent insides; and, as everybody knows, senna tea is a sovereign remedy for disturbances of the interior. Then she backs me up to the foot of the bed, rudely seizes my nose with her left hand, while with the right she pours the unsavory decoction into my person. My aunt has entire charge of the senna and calomel department of my treatment, and it is only fair to say that she performs her duties with enthusiasm. "I am always greased with goosa grease for imaginary colds; I am always being steamed or sweated, or being rubbed, and I usually have four yards of red flannel, saturated with camphor or turpentine, wrapped around my neck; I usually smell like an apothecary shop and feel like a hospital, and taste like a free dispensary, and my slrenuos protests fall upon deaf ears.

"I therefore contend that children should have some voice in their own management; I hold that it is a sin to feed them upon tea when they are hungry for doughnuts; to dope them with castor oil when they sigh for lemonade; to cover them with.