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THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1U03. 4 tlbe tXopefea 2)att capital. mill. And this butchering business is worthy of more than passing notice, for it means a great deal in the lif nf thA of the government to it defined by the Senate in. this case it will remove a continual source of controversy.

KANSAS MEN and MATTERS Fifty Yesrs iho Sf antknl WON'T BEC0LD TODAY. Observer Jennings Thinks the Temperature Will be Above Freezing All the Time, New York of yesterday quotes the distinguished clergyman and 'Dr; Parkhurst, as saying: "I am trying1 to find out just what hours it would suit the beer-drinking element to have the saloons on Sunday. When I say just what hours, I mean how few hours, I wish to find the minimum which would be satisfactory to the element I have in mind." That is HIS farmer. He gets up in the early morning before the crow has made its toilet, and builds his fire between two backlogs; that is he does If he can find the logs. Then he sharpens his knives and the small boy who has to turn the grindstone is the only sufferer of the day, but that is compensated for when butchering gets under full swing.

During breakfast one or two neighbors drop in, mostly men who are going to help for a piece of meat to take home with them. The real business of the day starts when the water is hot. Excitement runs high. The hogs are caught, stuck, and when is through kicking it is scalded. It takes a good man to scald a hog.

Some mighty poor shaves result from poor scalds. There is not a dull moment from the time the fire is lighted until the hog scraped, disemboweled and hung up where it must be watched until it cools. Butchering is an event in Itself and nothing can take its place. STOCK BREEDERS WILL MEET HERE JANUARY 11-13 The Kansas Improved Stock Breeders' association will hold its fourteenth annual meeting at Topeka on January 11, and 13, 1904. The meeting: will be held Representative hall and will immediately precede the annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture.

Members and visitors will thus be given an opportunity to attend both of these magnificent gatherings during the same week. Assurances now in hand warrant the statement "that this will be the greatest meeting in the history of this, the greatest of all State Breeders' associations the United States. The discussion of problems pertaining to the draft-horse industry will be introduced by a paper, the ability of whose author is recognized by all breeders and imjorters. The jack and mule industry will' be discussed by an expert breeder v.hose successful experience extends over more than a quarter of a century. The Kansas Swine Breeders' association will occupy one entire session of the meeting will furnish their own program.

In addition to this there will be caper on "The Gentleman Who Pays the Rent." by Prof. Fred H. Rankin, of the Illinois Experiment Station and secretary of the Illinois Live Stock association, which will be worth hearing. Prof A. Ten Eyck, who has won a splendid reputation as professor of agriculture at the Kansas Experiment Station and College, will present a comprehensive paper on "Grasses." Col.

C. F. secretary of the livestock division of the World's Fair and ex-secretary of the American Berkshire association will discuss "The Great Factory." 1 A full and free discussion of the State fair problem is provided for and a re port ot the Live stock committee of the World's Fair will be made, discussed and acted upon. The membership of this association now numbers nearly one thousand of the most progressive breeders in the world, and the record of the prize rings at the National, State and county fairs show that their animals are among the best. HE IS IN A TIGHT PLACE.

H. E. Stadel Under Contract to Deliver Hay and Cannot Secure Cars. H. Stadel, of Troy, stands a good chance to lose considerable money unless he is able to secure cars from the Rock Island Railroad company without delay.

Last summer he was awarded the con tract to furnish 1,800 tons of hay to the government at Ft. Leavenworth and gave a bond of $1,000 to deliver the hay as demanded. On November 1 the quartermaster at Ft. Leavenworth called on Mr. Stadel for 250 tons of hay and gave him thirty days in wnicn to deliver it at the rort.

Up to the present time Mr. Stadel has been able to secure cars to deliver but tifty tons of hay at the fort. The supply there is running short and If it is ex-hausted the quartermaster will purchase the needed amount on the open market and charge the cost against Mr. Stadel's account. Mr.

Stadel yesterday wrote the State Board of Railroad commissioners asking that the Rock Island be requested to furnish him with three cars a day for the next thirty days so that he could fill his contract without loss. ta rfifflpiitt rHAstlnn A the absence of natural digestive fluids, Wnnfl'e SoKoniirUi'i cinii tVia iiiiroctUfa A BOX AT THE CRAWFORD. Write an E3say on Richard III and Get a Box for Christmas Night. The Capital has purchased a box con taining 8 seats for the engagement of Mr. Charles B.

Hanford at the Crawford Theater, Christmas night, in Richard III, and will give these seats to the pupils of the High school, the seventh and eighth grades of the city schools and the students of Washburn academy who write the best 20 word essay on Shakespeare's sublime tragedy, Richard III. The essays must not contain more than 250 words, giving a brief com- parison with the tragedies of the present; how it compares with other tragedies of Shakespeare, and as to Its worth as a literary offering. The essay must be signed with a nom de-plume, the writer's proper name to gether with nom-de-plume, to be enclosed in a separate envelope so that no partiality could be shown by the judges. Essays must be brought or mailed to tvih." raitai nffi fore Wednesday, December 23, and the Capital will print the winners names and stories Thursday, December 24. Four seats will be awarded to the pupil who writes the best essay, two to the second and two to the third.

Was Little Court Business. The government officials have returned from Fort Scott, and they are all glad thev did not return before the ceiling ell In the office of the United states mar- shal. The work at Fort Scott did not require the time the officers expected. There were few cases which were of interest to the people of the state. R.

G. Carpenter entered a plea of guilty $50. It appears that he had forged the name of another man to a money order. Fair and warmer Is the program for today. That is what the government forecaster says.

The weather man is sure that it is not going to do any great amount of freezing today. In fact, he says the thermometer will probably be above the 32-degree mark all day. Yesterdav was a fine day. It was pretty cold eany in the morning. At 7 a.

m. the temperature was only 20, but later in the dav it warmed up rapidly and by 3:30 o'clock the temperature had risen to 44 degrees. The coldest weather yesterday was in Minnesota, where the temperature at 7 a. m. was 8 below zero.

It is still pretty chilly in some sections of the Missouri and Mississippi valleys, but in the Rocky mountain districts th weathpr wr "mild. Considerable precipitation has fallen during the past twenty-four hours on the Pacific slope, but otherwise there has been little rain or snow. At San Francisco the rainfall amounted to more than an inch. Fair weather prevails in the South and the Central sections of the country with generally cloudy weather in the Northwest and the north Pacific states. The maximum temperature reported yesterday was 72 at Phoenix.

The minimum was 8 below at St. Paul. A NEW DOGJJRDINANCE. People Who Pay Taxes Early Hereafter Win Get a Rebate. The judiciary committee of the city council, which met yesterday morning, finally decided upon a dos tax ordinance and will present it to the council this evening Incidentally the committee "sat upon M.

lounkin. the dog tax man, who wanted the city to furnish him with an office in the city building and pav him a salary of $50 a month for the first three months of the year, to take the taxes which the will bring in. The committee was 'of the opinion that the city clerk was perfectly competent to attend to this, as he has always done. Under the proposed ordinance, the tax will remain the same as at present, $1 and $5 for male and female dogs, until April 1 of each year. After that date the price will be "hiked" to $2 and $7.

The proposition is designed to act as incentive to people to come in and pay their dog- tax during the first throe months of the year, and thus save the dog catcher the trouble of looking them up. The committee also recommended that the pay of the dog catcher be raised from $30 to J60 per month. The claims of Theresa Boyer for $500, of Mrs. R. B.

Allison for an indefinite amount and of Mrs. Amos Beeler for $100 on account of injuries sustained, were 'turned down. THE BOARDJS PUZZLED. Undecided How to Figure the Time of Parole Convict Who Is Re-Arrested. The board of managers of the state reformatory at Hutchinson would like to know if a convict who is paroled and afterwards re-arrested shall be credited for the time spent without the prison walls.

William Raub was sent to the' reformatory from Montgomery county in 1898 for grand larceny, in lswo he was paroled Dut was returned to the institution some months later for violation of the terms of his parole. Raub's maximum sentence will expire December 21 if the time he was on parole is counted. The board wants to know whether a prisoner's time runs while on parole or whether his time within the prison 13 simpiy countea. The matter has been checked up to the Attorney General. Some time ago a similar question arose at the state penitentiary.

The Attorney General held that the prisoner time was countea whether he was in prison or on- parole, as while on parole he is under the" supervision of the prison authorities. It is supposed the same ruling will apply to the state reformatory. r.lODOCS TO SING AT THE SUMNER SCHOOL The Modocs will sing this evening for the benefit of the piano fund at Sumner i i rrv. .21 1 In nn si mi -r ECHOOM iney will uui in bcrs as tni3 Is ttle nome or tneir secre- tary, Maj. T.

J. Anderson, whose Interest i In ap.hool affairs Is well known. The literary part of the program will be something unique. Besides a poem by Mrs. W.

E. Atchison, and recitations by Prof. C. H. Kutz.

an unpublished story will be read "District 91. Rnd a Kansas Schoolmarm." This story was written by a Topeka lady of large experience in the schoolroom, and deals in a most attractive manner with the work of he teacher, both in the schoolroom and in social life. As the reading progresses the dif- fef ent characters will appear in panto- Tickets, 15 cents, at Hall's bookstore. Real Estate Transfers. DEEDS.

W. M. Bunce to V. 11. Brown, $2,400, Fensky and wife to J.

Walker. $1,209. i0t8 35-7-9, Locust street, Fensky's Sec- ond addition. i J. f.

rosi ana wne 10 ii. r-um, 4, ii- 2fi3 nnrl 2nc. Siith avenue east. Mul- 1 V. i vane's subdivision.

F. Fensky and wife to B. L. Dustin, g. IgO Chandler street, I ens- I Topeka Orphans' Home association to A.

Sells, $500, lots 9-11 and 13, Mill block, Kansas ku9c-anife tQ io iota 710-12-14 and 16, West street, M. D. addition. Bennett and w.fejo T. J.

Parish, c. C. Smith and wife to I. M. Frisby, $100.

tract on Lawrence street, M. O. Clark and husband to E. R. Heath $1,250.

lot 311 and 309, Fillmore street, Young's addition. 1 Pipe Organ for Auditorium. There is talk of organizing a stock com-instnll a. nine orean In the Audi torium. This would take the place of the one the choral society is trying to Install and for which several entertainments have been given.

The company would get a state charter and would rely on eetting a per eentage of the receipts of ner alj concerts and entertainments to pay dividends. Some of the business men are behind tne fcncrae. A Grand Exhibit. Backman's Glaes Blowers, who will give exhibitions at 515 Kansas avenue. In this city next week, pive a wonderful exhibl- tion in the an oi ihowujk.

weaving lass Into Among the many novelties they exhibit MI il sproTes ihs flavor sad sdds ta the healthfulnsss of thi food. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. CMIOACO is a glass steam engine in full operation; also glass dresses, neckties, pin cushion, etc THEY SHOULDJJE DISCREET Dr. risk Telia Washburn StudenU Not to Discredit College. Dr.

D. M. Fisk, field secretary of Wash-bum college made a short talk to the Student bod vestrtr mrmlnr n4 in which he cautioned the students about doing anything which would cast discredit upon the colleee. He mvs thi. warning not on account of any recent pranks but just on general principle He Ftated that these vents were sometimes misrepresented in the papers and the error grew each time it was copied unin it aia tne college harm and intor-fered materially with his work as field secretary in getting new students and donations.

Holiday Excursions to tho Southeast via Frisco System. DECEMBER 19, SO, 21 and 26, 1903 One fare plus $2.00 to all points east of the Mississippi river in the States c-j Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida also to many oints in Kentucky and Virsinia. Tickets good for thirty d3ys and will be honored on the famous SOUTHEASTERN LIMITED. For detailed information, write or address J.

C. LOVREIN. Assistant General" Passenger Agent. Kansas City. Mo.

Low Rata Excursions On the first and third Tuesdays of each month to Texas, Indian and Oklahoma Territories via M. K. T. Ry. Take advantage of the opportunity offered and see the Great Southwest in all its glory.

"Texas," "Business Chances," "Indian Territory" and other booklets, brimful of information, will be sent on receipt of two-cent stamp to prepay postage. Address GEORGE MORTON, d. P. T. K.

T. Suite The Walnwright, St. Louis, Mo. To Start Work Thi. Week.

The officials the City Railway company have received word from the Leavenworth Bridge company that the pile driver which that company will employ In building the street car bridge here, has been started down the river from St. Marys, and work will probably be commenced this week. The company has until February 1 to finish the work, under Its contract. NORTH TOPEKA NEWS. Items of Interest to Residents of the First Ward.

Mr. J. Place, of Wyoming, is the guest of his brother, M. L. Place.

The front of the Courtney building on Kansas avenue is being repainted. Mrs. Charles B. Whitney has returned from a month's visit In St. Louis.

H. A. Edwards, of Junction City, was a North Topeka visitor yesterday. Mrs. J.

L. Freeland. of Valley Falls, Is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Glenn. James Balrd has returned from Fort Smith, Arkansas, and will spend tha winter in North Topeka.

Mrs. Stephen Lewis, who has been seriously sick with typhoid fever, is reported to be recovering rapidly. Mr. and Mrs. James Boaft and son.

Max, of Richmond, Canada, are the guests of William Boast, of 909 Jackson street. C. B. Kirtland, who has been In North Topeka looking after business interests, Wt yesterday morning for his home in Salina. E.

Keplinger, of Opage City, who has been the guept of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. It. Hart, will return to his home tomorrow.

Herbert Carter, of Westmoreland, will arrive in North Topeka tomorrow to ppend the holidays visiting his brother, Charles N. Lake, of Madison street. In some manner the combination on the safe at the post office has gotten out of order and a locksmith will have to be called in before it can be used again. Dr. Joe Grennen.

of Toluca, 111., was the guest Wednesday of A. M. Petro. Dr. Grennen left yesterday mornir.g for his old home In lielott, where he will make an extended visit.

Mies Sadie Baird will arrive tomorrow from Leavenworth, where rhe has been attending St. Marys convent, to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M.

Baird. of Jackson street. Mifs Anna Warner and Mr. E. Bradbury were married Wednesday evening at the residence of the brides sister, Mrs.

P.olla Stewart. 1141 Monroe street. Rev W. D. Hutchinson performed the ceremony.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury Will make their home in ITlorida. The second street car for the North Top-ka service was put into operation yesterday afternoon. The Gordon street witch was completed about noon, and 'the car.

which was taken across-the river. Wednesday night, started running immediately. The addition of this car will give the people of North Topeka a ten minute service all the way from the bridge to Garfield park. By TUB CAPITAL PUBLISUNa Ca CaPlTAi, established 1879. I consolidate Commonwealth, established ise xBt CTati Bxcoau, established 186 I lie Only Moraine Paper Publish in Topetuk "Entered July 1.

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1 15.C20 18 Monday 17 14,740 18 19 14,821 20 14,810 21 14,827 22 10,250 23 Monday 24 14,841 25 14,810 26 14,987 27 14,8.15 28 29 lG.lOO 30 Monday Monday 2 14,780 4 14.807 14,750 6 14,758 7 14.80G 8 10,017 9 Monday IQ 14,721 11 14,749 14,847 13 14.738 14 14.769 15 Total papers sold. ..370,590 uaiiy 15,004 Sunday average 10,080 Semi-Weekly average 10,430 W. B. Robey, Secretary of the Capital Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that the above figures represent the actual number of copies of the Daily and Sunday Capital printed and circulated In the month of November, 1903. W.

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GALLOWAY, Notary Public. My commission expires Oct. 9. 1905. MARKING TIME.

The other day the Atchison Globe Indulged In a satirical vein describing the breathless interest with which the state was awaiting the decision of Ed Hoch. While Hoch deliberated men were neglecting their business, the Globe reported, and politics was suspended. The state as simply marking time. The Globe got a good deal of fun attempting to exaggerate the Importance of what Hoch might determine to do in the present political exigency. So far as politics is concerned It appears that the Globe by no means overdrew the situation.

'Gov. Bailey at least Is marking time. While Hoch deliberates, Bailey refuses to move. There has been a Supreme court vacancy for about three weeks; the Governor's personal choice for the place is well known, but( he has put off the decision from day to day and from week to week, waiting for what? Evidently for Hoch to say whether or not he Intends to run for the nomination for Governor. It is generally agreed among the politicians that Gov.

Bailey desires to appoint Judge West to the Pollock vacancy and regards him as of all the candidates tho best fitted and most satisfactory. Ho floes not appoint him, because there is no politics in the appointment. If Hoch should refuse to heed the call of his friends to run for Governor, the way will bo clear before Bailey and he will not need the Supreme court vacancy as a valuable political asset. He can then afford to give the place to the man he considers best qualified to fill it, without regard to politics. If Hoch should decide to run, the vacant place on the Supreme bench can be used where it will best serve the Governor's interests for renomi-bation.

This is the only explanation offered of the continued delay in 'naming a Justice of the Supreme court and it justifies everything the Atchison Globe had to say the breathless interest attending on ffoch's action. Hoch has the Governor marking time and can probably afford to wait as long as the Governor, and even Just a little longer. MORMON CHURCH ON TRIAL. The charges against Senator Smoot of uian are two-ioia: uirst mat he is a polygamist, not in practice but by pre cept as an apostle of the Mormon church; as such he connives at and encourages polygamy; Secondly, that the Mormon church defies the government; protects violators of its laws, and sets itself above and against the Constitution, and that only by allegiance to the church could Bmoot be elected Senator. In the course of an analysis of these charges the Chi cago Tribune notes that "really the Sen ate is asked to try not merely Senator Bmoot but the Mormon church and the state of Utah, where the Mormons are in the majority, and to decide whether the state shall be represented in the Sen ate by a man who is known to be a faith ful Mormon." If the Senate committee goes thoroughly Into these charges, therefore, the session Is likely to be pretty far advanced before a report will be made in the Smoot case.

They involve an extensive inquiry into tne constitution of the Mormon church, its principles, precepts and methods. Evidence will be required as to the actual interference by this church as a religious organization in the affairs of government. The practice of polygamy and the responsibility of the twelve apos ties Smoot in the number therefor will be Investigated. All this, if the Smoot case is to be thoroughly inquired into, Borne of the most conservative Senators have declared the issue one of great seri ousness and there are indications that the committee will go to the bottom of all the moral and political principles that eem to be involved. The Senate has an opportunity in the Bmoot case to settle once for all the Mo.

mon issue in politics. It comes up every time a conspicuous Mormon is elected to tffice, and If the status of the Mormon ihurcfc can be determined and the attitude in it is a in in to MISSOURI'S REPUBLICANISM. Republicans as a rale, the Globe-Democrat thinks, fail to appreciate the magni- tude of the Republican vote in There are but five states that exceed it New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, Kansas' Republican vote is 135,000 behind. Missouri's. Republicanism ought to be better understood," the Globe says, "by Republicans of other states." Moreover, "the next Republican nominee may get 360,000 votes." If so, he will carry the state, for Bryan got only 351,000 at the last gen-, eral election.

It is true that there are but five states that poll' more Republican votes-Missouri is the fifth state of the union population but, on the other hand, is Missouri's misfortune that only one state, New York, polls more Democratic votes. If Missouri didn't cast so many Democratic votes the prospects of its Republican tickets would be very much improved. This is the sad feature of Missouri's political situation; and Missouri Democrats are of the rock-ribbed and moss-backed variety that never bolt, scratch or stay at home. Missouri's Republican neighbors have settled down to the conclusion that nothing can redeem Missouri but time. Republicanism is getting the best part of its "first voters," and gained 20,000 in 1900 over 1S96.

Missouri is getting some immigration from Iowa, Indiana and Uli-1 nois, and nine-tenths of. this immigration Republican. In about twenty years, at its present rate of progress, Missouri is lit fair way to become a doubtful state. But the present generation of Republicans can scarcely be blamed if they fail to enthuse over the Republicanism of Missouri. The Lawrence Gazette compliments Judge Smart on his courage and fidelity going to the root of the tax issde raised in Douglas county, when he might have saved himself trouble and perhaps criticism and enmity by dodging, a trick that courts have been known to adopt under just such circumstances.

Usually," the Gazette says, "when a court can find a technicality upon which to decide a case without the trouble of going into the merits of it, the technicality wins, and nobody is informed as to what the court thinks about the law and the equity Involved. It was greatly to the credit of Judge Smart that he did not take advantage of the technical point involved the tax case, for he could have simply decided that the petitioner had no right or authority to bring the action, and stopped there, and the Supreme court would have upheld him in that decision. But he did not attempt to evade or escape from a duty that seemed to have come him. He met every question frankly, fairly, and paid a high compliment to the attorneys for both sides when he said that after examining the matter for a month he had been unable to find a single decision bearing on the case that had not been cited by the attorneys in their arguments. He went straight over all the technicalities, and got right at the heart of the matter, deciding in order every question that was and decid ing it, too, in such a logical, reasonable and conclusive manner that it must be plain to the mind of everyone that an ap peal to the Supreme court will not avail, It is seldom that a court refuses to avail itself of the privilege it has of deciding upon a technicality, especially when such delicate and Intricate questions are involved as were raised in this tax case, and Judge Smart deserves credit for his courage as well as for his industry in the matter." Think over the list of Kansas states men and newspapers that are against Bailey and see if every one of them was not against Chester I.

Long," says the Hutchinson News. To which the Eldorado Republican replies for itself: "The editor of this paper Is not a statesman, but ne prints a newspaper. The editor of this paper was outspoken for Chester I. Lon for the Senate and is for Hoch for Gov' ernor." Nine-tenths of the supporters of Hoch are admirers and friends of Sena tor Long. Furthermore, they suspect that if Long's counsels had been followed the machine would not have been run In any such arbitrary, vindictive and high handed manner as has brought on a rev olution against it and its agent, Gov.

Bailey. The decision of the Supreme court that the statute of limitations in this state does not run against a foreign corporation is based on the letter of the law, which says that "if when a cause of action ac crues against a person he be out of the state. period limited for the com mencement of the action shall not begin to run until he comes into the state!" A foreign corporation is always out of the state and so comes under the provision quoted. In fairness to the law might properly be amended so that when a foreign corporation complies with the laws of the state and has its agents within the state upon whom process can be served, it will be treated as if in the state. The present law is a plain injustice and discrimination against corporations that do business in Machine papers will be surprised at the arguments of Bent Murdock in favor of holding the state convention at Topeka; Bent refers to the steady Republican ma jorities of this town and county and claims that Topeka is a loyal Republican city, unaccountably overlooking the fact that it was not for.

Bailey -at Wichita. This rroves him an incorrigible traitor to the party. On the question of the convention he says in the Eldorado Republi can: The next Republican state convention should be held In Tooeka. That town has the hall, the hotels, the street cars and the railroads; and it has everything fise lur nie accvmiuouauon ana convenience of a big state convention. Besides, it is a stalwart Renublican town.

has sav the bacon of the party more than once and should be recognized fcr its loy- In his heart-to-heart talk with the Gov ernor tne day Thomas Benton Murdock explained to him that it was not himself personally but his environment mat Kepurjiicans were objecting to. En vironment makes all the difference in" the world. As aa example, a dispatch from These are days when little Billie's Just as good as ne can be. For at night he keeps a dreaming Of the coming Christmas tree. Don't get mad at little Billie If he shouts with too much glee; Just keep still and you'll remember You were once as young as he.

Christmas wanes as age advances-Here's a way to make it last: Spend a little time with Billie And you'll live again the past. The Presbyterian church at Mankato has a "Done-Dodge" society. Wanted: A preparation warranted to eradicate the Town Knocker. The iceman believes in making hay while the sun shines and is at it. The Eskridge Star puts Alexander Dowie and John' Rockefeller In the same class.

Both are pious robbers. Seven 'members of the national Republican committee have died since the meeting in 1900. This doesn't include Cy Leland. The Kansas City papers have again revived the new union depot chestnut. This is a hot joke out in the short-grass country.

Even prosperity has it drawbacks. A "Peck's Bad Boy" company has struck the state and fastidious Atchison gets the first dose. The Kansas man who wants to make an expensive Christmas present can take his choice between diamonds, eggs and a bushel of coal. Maybe you didn't know it, but Kansas has furnished more than half of the cattle sold in the Kansas City stock yards every year in the last decade. Ex-Senatof Harris has announced that he does not want to be Governor of Kansas.

In other words Mr. Harris has simply Joined the great majority. "Hiawatha" has reached Manila and the natives use the tune as a funeral march. Plain now what the Kansas boys who have been there mean when they say things are too slow in the Philippines. Edith Whitney, called "la belle Ameri-caine," in Paris because of her beauty and success on the stage, is a Leavenworth girl.

Her real name is Caldwell and she started with a Florodora company. Mrs. Luella R. Kraybill, state lecturer for the Socialist party, has held 400 meet- fnea in Kansas dnHnfr ihn, nnst fovo months- Gne cant helD but admire such a beautiful exhibition of patience and fortitude. Kansas City is to get the next national convention of the Prohibition party.

Kan sas City might as well reap the benefits of the convention for it certainly gets all the profits of Kansas prohibition. Let the tail go with the hide. The awful thought strikes the editor of the Arkansas City Traveler that if Chief Of Police McCollum of Topeka keeps on destroying liquor he will keep the sewers of the capital city jiicely flushed and may change the color 6f the muddy Kaw. Something in the neighborhood of 5,000 Kansans have asked for positions at the St. Louis fair and the" limit is 200 places.

However, it is not unreasonable to presume that if a certain push was running the fair the entire 5,000 would get on the payroll, or at least those that were "righto A writer in a Kansas weekly paper states that "we have been drifting toward Socialism ever since the advent of man into the world." That being the case it is only necessary tc state that it will be a darn long while before the tide gets swift enough to drift any Socialist into office. A 6-year-old boy of Harve Brown, living near Horton, was sick with fever and in his delirium he got up about midnight and out of the house unobserved. Clad only In his night clothes he walked three-quarters of a mile against a cold north wind, crossing a pasture and getting through several wire fences. He arrived safely at a neighbor's and has since suffered no inconvenience from the experience. "I notice," said Farmer Corntassel, as he laid down his daily paper with a look of disgust on his face, "that some farmer in Pennsylvania has raised a stalk of corn eighteen feet high and thinks he has done wonders.

Those Eastern farmers make me tired. They put out about twenty acres and raise a shoot about eighteen feet tall and then call themselves a corn king. My kids out in their play house beat that kind of farming all holler. It's no wonder that Coburn don't want to leave Kansas. He couldn't stand that kind of installment plan farming.

His books wouldn't cifculate even in the Flint hills of Arkansas. It don't pay to try to bluff a preacher who is onto nis job, as the followln from the Emporia Gazette will show: At the Methodist church a short time ago an Emporia man was asked to say some thing and he rose up and with solemn voice said: "I would give a dollar to see that chandelier lighted." Rev. Price immediately called the bluff. "Hand over your dollar," said the preacher. The dollar man wa3 very much surprised but showed he was game and pulled out the dollar.

The electric switch was thrown and the big chandelier in the middle of the church was lighted. The man gave the preacher the dollar and felt he had his money's worth. The meeting then continued. i i The list of grandsons of Revolutionary soldiers in Kansas keeps on increasing at such an alarming rate that it may yet be necessary to call out the militia to suppress them. N.

B. Leach of Leavenworth writes the Capital that his father, William Monroe Leach, also of that places, has the "honor of being a grandson of a Revolutionary hero. The old gentleman was born June 19, 1S25, and is now 78 years old. Mr. Leach can also boast of another honor that probably outranks the other Revolutionary grandsons in Kansas.

His grandfather was Col. William Monroe of Virginia, and a cousin of President Monroe. Colonel Monroe served through the war, the first battle in which he engaged being that of Bunker HilL Lawrence World: John Baugher of Jetmore advertises that he wants his loaned sausage stuffer returned. Evidently John Baugher is preparing to have a good time. He is going to do some butcheriEs and, -will need, bis sausage I it is 12 in in a "Victor Smith in the New York Press enumerates some countries that have been given away as presents.

Cleopatra received Egypt -as a gift from Julius Caesar; Antony gave the little kingdom of Judea to Herpd; Lucullus and Sully gave away half a dozen kingdoms; King John Lackland gave England and Ireland to the then Pope and Constantino gave Rome and all Italy to the Pope in his day. This suggests a way to get rid of the troublesome Hanna boom. Why not give Panama to Marc and make him be good? The story of Senator Burton and Col. W. W.

Smith calling on Gen. Miles, the general greeting the colonel very cordially as the Senator, recalls another story that has been told in Topeka which does honor to Col. Smith's senatorial dignity. The story Is that he has twice been admitted to executive sessions of the Senate, the doorkeepers taking him for Senator De-pew. The colonel is more dignified and better looking than Senator Depew, but there" is a close resemblance between the two men in figure and whiskers.

Chauncey Depew's estimate made in his talk to young Rockefeller's Bible class that there are 100,000 millionaires in the United States exhibited his faculty for blundering statements. The national wealth is not 100 billions, but if there were 100,000 millionaires they would be worth altogether at least 100 billion dollars. Chauncey probably is so in the habit of mixing with millionaires that he imag ines the country is pretty well populated with them. Mr. Hoch's attitude during the last few days in reference to the "non-factional" call to come out and be Governor in dicates that destiny has been speaking with her mouth too far removed from the transmitter.

Ottawa Herald. Hoch is causing the Herald a whole lot of annoyance. If he were only a Fair man, now, he would have some natural human sympa-tny for Gov. Bailey's judgeship troubles and say what he was going to do. In his argument in the Northern Securi ties case before the federal Supreme court yesterday Attorney General Knox characterized the railroad combination as an Oriental dream There js some eiHonfo at Vinnri frnm RriirvriArs who weml caught in the rate combination, the Ottawa Herald thinks, to show that "the affair was also something of an Occidental nightmare." Nothing has been more noticeable in lit erature lately than the increasing use of slang and profanity.

A. rule proposed by the well known literary critic, O'C," of Rochester is therefore as timely as it is sound. "Slang," he says, "like profanity, should only be used on great occasions and for special purposes." After the Japanese diet had replied to the speech from the throne by passing a vote of "no confidence" in the govern ment, the Emperor promptly declared it dissolved. Being a dissolved diet its name would now properly seem to be soup. How Long Likes the Senate.

Congressman Scott in Iola Register. It is doubtless true that every member of the House would resign his seat in that body at the drop of the hat. in order to accept translation to the Senate, because for reasons that I have pointed out in other letters and with which everybody is more or less familiar, membership in the upper house has many point3 of advantage over that in the lower. It has always seemed to me, however, that these advantages were such as to appeal to a mans ambition, and not to his feelings of personal comtort or enjoyment. It was with something of the satisfaction that follows the confirmation of a favorite theory, therefore, that I listened the other day to Senator Long's reply to the question as to whether he liked the Senate as well as he had the House.

"No. he answered, "I cannot say that I do yet. One has a very different feeling." he continued, "in the Senate. He loses to a large degree the sense of comradeship that is so strong in the House, and feels more as if he were standing alone. In the House one comes very soon to understand that however small his individual part in the fight may be yet, acting with nil the others on his side of the aisje.

he is invincible. There is always the lineup and the battle, with its resulting enthusiasm and eagerness, and the joy of victory, and the feeling of contact and comradeship with the fellows who vote 'aye when you do, that makes the associations in the House very close and delightful. And then there is something alwai going on there, and a fellow can always get into it if he wants to. In the Senate, on the contrary, there is very seldom a straight party division, one side standing up solidly against the other, and so we miss altogether the feeling of comradeship that is so close in the House, where the battle line is drawn every day. WTith this feeling of lonesomeness.

however, there comes also the realization that one has more individual power here than he ever possessed in the Hoase and. I presume, after awhile this gets to be something of a compensation. 1 think also that debate means more in the Senate than it does in the House. By the time this body gets through with a subject, it has been pretty thoroughly threshed out. All the non-essentials have been eliminated, and we have got down to brass tacks.

It takes a long while sometimes, but I am inclined to think it Is worth it. And still. to a man fresh from the House, the way they do things here is a little oueer. Today, for example, our debate on the Cuban bill fell down because Bailey, who intended to speak, was not feeling very well, ana Foster, who was expected to follow him. was not quite ready.

I have not pot so. far away from it yet but that I can smile to think of what would happen in the House if such excuses as these should be offered as a reason why the subject under discussion should go over until the, next day." WILL SELL REAL ESTATE. Miss Helen Kimber Decides to Move to Chicago. Miss Helen Kimber. president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage has decided to go to Chicago and engage in the real estate business.

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