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MAP OF THE SURFACE OF MARS.

not cover more than onc-fourth of its
surface. The seas on our planet
cover thrce-fourths of the world, which
points the comparison.
The scarcity OF water in Mars is its
most remarkable feature
The theory that people really 60 in
habit the planet is borne out by the fact
that Professor Schiarparclli is confident
been travcrsed by gigantic canals. 1t
is easy to see that if there are canals on
the planet it is surety that people
must have built them.
The idea. too. is strengthened by the
discovered fact that there is a scarcity
OF water in the planet. Necessarily the
planet must be irrigated in that manner,
and as there are canals, the conclusion
is that there must be people there.
How the Canals Look.
The canals of the planet Mars are be-
ieved to have been cut for thousands of
miles across the lanl to connect with
the seas. They are green in color. like
the water, and, in order to be visible
through our telescopes, they must be
from 100 TO 400 miles in length. They
must also be about 800 miles wide.
They mostly run from north to south,
for the seas divide the land from east to
west
1t is difficult to conceive of such en- r
nous public works, but nothing else will
answer. Our little canals would dry up
in crossing thousand miles of desert.
Concediny that the people who may
live in Mars are such wonderful en- in :
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\ gentleman has just died in Paris
who owed most Of his celebrity to
the quaint manner in which he man
aged to dS"mbarraSs himself of his
creditors. No sooner did a dun nre-
sent himself than he was uShcred jncO
room hung round with Il variety Of
mirrors, some convex, Others concave,
etc. In one the unfortunate creditor
behcld himself with a head as fat as
a founder: in another his features
were nearly as sharp as a knife: in a
third he had several heads: in a
fourth he was upside down. Here he
had the broad grin of Il clown, there
the long-drawn yisayc Of an under
taker. On one side Of the room he
saw himself all head and no body, on
the other side it seemed as if dwarf
had put on the boots of a giant. No
applicant, however pressing. was
known to resist this chamber Of
horrors for more than a quarter Of an
bttr
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WESTERN MORTGAGES.
THE PORTER CENSUS WOULD
HIDE TIRE TRUTH.
Ono Is Led to suppose that Mortgages
Arc Never FOrcciOscd but Always ''Sct-
tled"-Old rarty Cansiihates-MOrc Bill
iOn.DOilarisIu.
lOrter and the F.v Cted.

IOrter and the Ev cee0.
As far as we can learn from the Por-
ter census, SAYS the St. Louis ReIuh-
lie. mortgages are never forecloscd hut
alwas settled when the notes are due.
MIR. PORTER could not help finding
ont that in nine years Illinois had been
mortgaged for the total assessed value
of its real estate nearly, three times
over, and that in the same period in
Kansas and Nebraska more mortgages
had been filed than there are inhabited
houses in both States. Yet he found
no foreclosures to report. When We
try to learn the number Of foreclosures
from him we can get nothing but sta
tistics of settlements" Yet to Onr
positive knowledge Sheriffs were busy
foreclosiuS mortgages all over the
West at the very time MIR. PORTER $
men were out gathering statistics to
demonstrate that n private mortgage is
a public blessing. In the census year
1890 we clipped from the Lender-
Courier, of kingman, kingman
County, Kansas, II few sample adver-
tiscments showing how the high tariff
was fostering and encouraging the in
| dustry of the Sheriff. and we repro
duce them here for Mr. PoETER's ben
egt:
First Publication March f3, 1890.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
The Western Mortgage and Invest
ment Company, Plaintiff,
VS..
Robt J. IIerrin ct ST., Defendant.
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in showing how industrial activity is
being promoted in the West?


Had the Minneapolis and Chicago
conventions left the selection of their
candidates to the Peoples party they
would have gotten Just exactly what
they now have Harrison and Cleve-
land.
These are the two men of all men
whom the Peoples party wanted nomi-
mated.
Both men have been tried.
Both men have been found willing
tools of Wall Street
Both men have proven themselves
abject slaves to millionaircism.
! Both men have bowed their necks to
the velvet yoke of Corporate Greed.
Both men have records if these
records do not damn them in the esti-
nation of the American people, then
the American people ought to be
damned.
Both men have We'd with each other
, iii their efforts to suppress free coinage
of silver: to further the interests of the
National Banks and bond holders: to
protect the corporate land thieves; to
foster gigantic monopolies; to do the
biddings of the Shylocks and gold
bugs of both Europe and America.
They are we'll matched pair. There
is no difference between them.
If the people submit to the election
OF either of them, We may as we'll haul
down the stars and stripes ac-
| knowledge that republican form of
government is failure. Chicago Ex-
press.
THE feet that Kansas is producing
magnificent crops this year is no rea-
son why her people should shut their
| eyes to the different systems that rob
them of the fruits Of their toll. The
Lord helps them who help themselves,
and He cannot be expected to help
Kansas to good crops every year so
long as these people submit to these
interest and taxation robberles. Eter-
nal vigilance is the price of liberty,
and it also has good deal to do with
| the price If wheat.
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Ry whom or when the virtues of
tea as a beverage were discovered is
lost in the wide revolving shades of
centuries passed" The famous herb
is spoken of in Chinese annals as far
back as 1900 years b. G.. at which
time its cultivation and clas>itica-
ton was as much of an art as it is to-
day.
Tradition says that its virtues were
discovered by accident. King Shcn
Nung She. "The Divine Husband
man. who fourishcd forty centuries
ago. was boiling water over a fire one
evening when some tea leaves hang
ing over the vessel were loosened by
the heat and fell into the steaming
fluid. Nung She partook of the de.
cOction while it was hot "and felt
himself renewed in limb and sight
for seven days thereafter" Then
and there he cOnsccrated tea as the
sacred beverage of China.
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QUARANTINE CIRCULAR.
Public Health Is Much More ImpOrtan
Than Commerce.

Public Health Is Much More Important
Than Commerce.
Tho following circular has been Is.
sued by the direction OF the President
after a conference with Secretary Fos-
ter. Attorney General Miller, Postmas-
ter General Wanamaker, Assistant
Secretary Spaulding and DR.. Wyman,
Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital
service:
Quarantine Restrictions upon immigration
OF Cholera into the United States.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.l
OFFICE SuFERvIsING SURGEON GENT,
U. S. MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE,
WASHINGTON u. G.
To Collectors of Customs, Medical officers Of
the Marine Hospital Service, Foreign Steam
ship Companies, State and Local Boards Of
1t having been officially declared that chol-
era is prevailing in various portions Of Russia,
Germany and France, and at certain ports in
Great Britain As well as in Asia: and 1t having
been made to appear that immigrants in large :
numbers are coming into the United States
from the infected districts aforesaid. and that
they and their personal effects liable to
Introduce cholera into the United States, and
that vessels conveying them are thereby a
and 1t having been further shown that
under the laws of the several States
quarantine detention may be impossible upon
these vessels a sufficient length OF time to in
sure against the Introduction Of contagious
diseases. 1t is hereby ordered that no vessel
from any quarantine port carrying immigrants 9
shall be admitted to enter at any port OF the
United States until such vessel shall have
undergone quarantine detention OF twenty
days unless such detention IL forbidden by
the laws of the State or the regulations made
thereunderl, and OF such greater number of
days az may be fixed in each special case by
the State authorities.
This circular TO take immediate effect except
In cases OF vessels afoat at this date. which
will be made the subject of special considcra-
tion upon application to the department.
WALTER WYMAN,
Supervising Surgeon General,
United States Marine Hospital Service.
CHARLES FOSTER,
Secretary OF the Treasury.
Approved:
RESIaMIN HARRISON.
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Exposition Points.

THE Worlds Fair buildings will bo
dedicated on the 2lst of October instead
Of the 18th.
WILLIAM NJ. S1SGERLY, OF Philadel-
phia, will bring his big steer, the largest
in the world, to the Columbian Exposi-
tion.
INFORMATION has been received that
arrangements are icing made in Paris
to have the celebrated hand of the Re-
publican Guard and the Comcdie Fran
caise actors attend the Fair.
THE old whaling bark Progress,
with its extensive museum Of marine
curios and relics of whaling voyages, is
now in the harbor at Chicago, and Is
being visited 10y hundreds of people.
Ii is announced that the Postmaster
General of the United States has de-
cided to issue a new series of postage
stamps. with designs appropriate to the
commemoration of the discovery of
America.
THE Chicago Schuetzen- verein has
Issued an invitation to the sharpshoot-
ers of the world to participate in a
great international sharpshooters' con-
test in Chicago in connection with the
Exposition next year.
AN interesting exhibit is to come
from the Black Hills, S. D., which will
display in novel form the minerals
found in the Hills. The exhibit when
arranged Will be in the form Of a two
story and half cottage.
AHuGE octopus or devilfish has been
captured outside of the Golden Gate,
California, by some fishermen. 1t meas
ured fourteen feet from the end of the
body to the end of the longest tentacle,
and has eight arms, and, as is usual
with the fish. there are over s0J suckers
on the arms. The body is nothing but
a huge sack, and is soft and fiabby; 1t
is about two feet long. There are two
eyes about an inch in diameter, and q
faint resemblance TO beak and mouth.
This specimen is one Of the best in the
country, and will be preserved and sent
to Chicago for exhibition at the Exposi-
ti0n.
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A Working Majority.

The outlook for a great deal Of hur-
rah by the old party leaders is very
promising for the next few months.
The tin horn and torch lights will be
the principal objects upon which they
will rely to carry the masses"
The states that are Republican will
boast of the wonderful prosperity of
the country as the result of high pro-
bcction, and their only speeches will
de mean whisky and to locate twenty
DOLLAR gold pieces (by imagination
fnly) in the pockets of their deluded
followers, and fair share of their at
tcntion will he devoted to abusing the
Peoples party and platform. They
will not mention the lock-outs and
cutdowns which the manufacturing
kings have forced on the men of toll.
The Democratic stump orators will
begin with broadside abuse of Re
publicans in general and the People s
party in particular. They will plead
with fearful eyes for the horny masses"
to stay with the "gocd old Democrats
party" They will swear that the Re
puhlicans have enacted every vicious
law since the war, and that the Demo
Gratis have not had "a working major
hy." The plea on this point will be
long and loud, and unless the people
are posted on just how these vicious
laws have been passed, they will be
deceived. Home Sentinel.
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jack Frost Coming.

Jack Frost Coming.
My last bulletin gave forecasts Of q
storm wave to cross the continent from
18th to 18th. and the next will reach the
Pacific coast about the 1Sth cross the
western mountains by the close of the
18th, the great ccntrirl valleys from 2Nth
to 22d, and the Eastern States about
the 23d.
This storm will be more of ordinary
severity in the Mississippi valley. and
nothing will be lost by being on the
lookout for local storms Of great energy
about that time.
A cool wave will follow this disturb
ance, crossing the western mountains
about the 2lst, the great central valleys
about the 23d, and the Eastern States
about the 25th.
This cool wave will bring the first
flosts of any note, and about the 23d to
25th light frosts may be expected as far
south as Nebraska, Iowa. northern 1llt-
nois. Michigan, northern Indiana,
northern Ohio, New York, and the
northern New England States.
Rainfall will lie generally we'll dis
tributed, and the drouth will be broken
in Mexican. Arizona, southern Califor-
MIA and New Mexico before the month
closes. The fall season promises well
for corn and cotton gathering.
Local Forecasts.
Weather changes move from west to
east across the continent. and each To-
cal forecast is made for within 25n miles
east and west of the magnetic meridian
mentioned. and for all the country be-
tween % and SO degrees of north latf-
tude. These local weather changes will
occur within twcnty-four hours before
or after sunset of the dates given:
| SANTA FE, DENVER AND BLACK HILLS
MERIDIAN.
September
lS-Moderating.
19-Warmer.
| 20-Storm wave on this meridian.
21-Wind changing.
22-Cooler and clearing.
23-Fair and cool.
| 24-Moderating.
| GALVESTON, KANSAS CITY AND MINNIE
APOLIS MERIDIAN.
| September
1s-Fair and cool.
l9-Moderating.
| 20-Warmer.
| 21-Storm wave on this meridian.
22-Wind changing.
23-Cooier and clearing.
| 24-Fair and cool.
ATLANTA, CINCINNATI AND LANSING
MERIDIAN.
September
1s-Cooler and clearing.
| 19-Fair and cool.
| 20-Moderatins.
| 21-Warmer.
/ 22-Storm wave on this meridian.
23-Wind changing.
24-Cooler and clearing.
| Copyrighted 1892. by W. L. Foster.
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We want an abundant safe money
that will be flexible enough to meet
every demand of business in every sec,
ton OF the Hillsboro Re-
former.
Wire interest abolished, labor might
receive double che wages it now re-
ceives, without any increase in the
production of wealth.-Kansas City
Phalanx.
The history of this country does not
contain an instance wherein the farm
ers were arrayed upon the wrong side
of political question.-Lampasas
Journal.
The ability to confer good upon q
people depends upon their capacity to
receive it. 70 give to one who will
not receive is impossible.--Fort Scott
Lantern.
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SHERIFF"S SALE.
Cert Kansas Loan and Invest
ment Company, Plaintiff,

Central Kansas Loan and Invest
ment Company, Plaintiff,
VS..
Austin Nanfos>an. Emma Nanfossan
ii. J. Iandcrs. w. Black. Z, W.
Kelly, j. {. Rutan. Theodore c.
Dean, ADMINISTRATIVE Eefencants
First Publication April 3, $500
SHERlFF'S SALE
The Kansas Mortgage Company.
llaintitf,
Henry Martin. ct al, Defendants.
First Publication March -, 1850.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
The Kansas Loan and Invest-)
ment Company. iaintif,
VS..
Charles w. Kelly ct al. efcndants.
First Publication March -, 1880.
SHEKlFF'S SALE
Kansas Loan and Investment Com
panY, Plaintiff
Eobert +. Rea an Il. NJ. ildlc,
Defendants.
l. irst rublicat On March -, 1850.
SHERIFFS SALE.
johnson Loan and Trust Company,
Plaintiff,
George +. W.odlcy. ct al. Defend
ants.
la that one issue of that one pape,
in that one county. there were nine.
of these advertisements. If they ar
evidences of the great and increasin
prosperity of the Western Agricul
tural States. and why is Mr.. PORTE
silent about them? They are a ma,
ter OF record. Why does he supprcs
the statistics of them? Why does h
not proceed to cast up the total nun
Der OF cvictions and proceed to glor
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Facts and Theories.


Up to within short time ago very few
people had anything but an indistinct
idea OF this planet. Everybody that
knew anything about astronomy knew.
of course. all about Mars, but when a
man is harvesting his grain crop, watch
ing the course Of the stock market, or try
ing to pick the winners at a horse race.
he isn't paying much attention to as
tronomy. All the view that the average
man has Of the planet Is gained by look
ing at the heavens through the bottom
OF soda-water glass.
But recently this p,anet has been in
what the astronomers call opposition.
That is very like saying to the average
mind that peas and beans multiplied by
cabbage make roast beef. So to find
out g, actly what the meaning of appo-
sition is one must first learn something
about the history Of the planet Mars.
After that you can put on an easy air of
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What Mars Is.

It doesn't seem to be anything else,
but it is. People who have made a
study of the planet believe that it is a
good deal like the world. and while they
do not 90 so far as to actually say so,
they think it possible that 1t is inhab-
tied. 1t was some fifteen years ago
that Mars first became planet that
had any earthly interest to the people
who live on this globe.
A very wise man that used to sit up
nights and look at the sky through a
telescope first made known the fact that
Mars was a good Geal like the earth in
its shape, and also uttered the startling
theory that he thought it possible that
the planet was inhabited.
People laughed at him just then, and
he faded into the oblivion that comes to
people who are in the habit of discover
Ing facts ahead Of time.
But after him came man who told
the same thing again in new way, and
who now has got to point where tho
world is beginning to believe that he is
light.
Professor schiapareli the Man
The man is Professor Schiaparelli, of
Milan. Italy. He says that in his opn-
ion the planet Mars is not simply neb-
ulous quantity Of vapor, but it is a solid
substance on which animals and men
exist.
He found that the planet has diam
eter Of about 1000 miles. By careful
calculation he Is confident that its year
consisted Of 6s7 days, and that each
day in time was forty minutes longer
than our day. He also found that the
planet was made up of water and
land, just like our world. 1t has, he
says, seas and continents and rivers.
As to it's density, it differs ve.y little
from that Of the earth. Gravitation at
fits surface must be much less than it is
in this world. A man who weighs lrO
pounds upon this mundane sphere would
weigh about 60 pounds on Mars. The
most obese Of American stout people
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Noble Smiling.

Many a man has been sorry that
he ever put himself into the power OF
a dealer in patent medicine. a re.
cent example is furnished by mem
bcr of the British nobility.
The Duke OF -, out Of feelings
of gratitude, we may assume, gave d
testimonial to the prOprietors of 4
patent cure for snoring, and they,
naturally enough, circulated a litho-
graphed copy of the letter by way OF
advertisement. The result is that
everybody is asking where the duke
went to school. And the duke. VIC
are told. recognizing the fact that
the word "effcacciou>" has a strange
look in print. has vowed never to pen
another testimonial without a die
tiOnary at his elbow.
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SO-CALLED Democrats are sIuealing
Justify about office holders nominating
Harrison, hnt forget to remember that
Bavard. Endicott, Whitney, and Villas
worked the Committee on Platform
successfully at Chicago and showed
the committee how 10 nominate Cleve
land-pot and kettle.
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insomuch that its greatest distance,
152.304 900 miles, exceeds its least.
126,3ls,oCO, by more than 10000, 600
miles. When it is nearest to the earth
1t is in opposition.
Now the foregoing statement is tech
nical, and to the layman's mind tells
little. What the average man can see
when looking through a telescope at
Mars is great big star.
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Coming Crisis Colorado hews
the line. 1t makes up some glorio

Coming Crisis (Colorado> hews to
the line. 1t makes up some glorious
returns ar follows:
In 1890 the vote in Kansas stood 4:
Republican, 1l5.025: Peoples, 106,672;
Democratic, 1857. The people claim
they have added 25 per cent. to their
vote, and on top of this the Democrats
will vote the ticket. Harrison has no
show in Kansas: ten electoral votes.
In 1890 the vote in Nebraska stood /:
Republican, GS,S7S; Peoples, 20, 1877
Democratic, 71.331. The people have
gained heavily by two years agitation
and are endorsed by the Democrats. No
show for Benny there; eight electoral
votes. In 1890 the vote Minnesota stood
Republican, SSH; Peoples, 5S,514
Democratic, s5.Sl4. The people claim
to have doubled their vote and are in
dorsed bv the Democrats. No show
for British Ben there; nine electoral
votes
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How to Care for Il.OOts.

Much damage is done by brushing
off dried mud from thin calf and kid
boots with hard bristlc brushes, and
still more by the use of common
backing. In the case of ladies'
boots, made of fine and soft leather,
both treatments are ruinous. When
boots are very muddy remove the
dirt with damp sponge or paint
crs sash tool and little water.
Glace kid boots, etc, should be
sponged. allowed to dry and then
thoroughly polished with a soft rag
or handkerchief which is slightly oil.
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and several other planets.
This statement may cause Il sudden
exodus of people to the planet.
l. Mars Inhabited:
The question just now is: Is Mars in
habited?
No one knows. of course. whether it is
or not. The only h.ng to judge by is
in the character Of the planet gathered
by careful inspection through telescopes.
Astronomers are confident that they
have seen the eternal SHOWS of the two
polar regions of our neighbor world.
They are confident that its continents are
red, and that its seas are green, and
they are equally sure that its seas do
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CLEVELAND says public Office is
public trust, that is to say, if the Eng
lish- h-American syndicate of bankers
bond holders nominate candidate. he
holds his Office in trust for them. That
this is Cleveland's idea of the public
trust" business was fully demonstrated
by his cabinet appointments and tinan-
cial recommendations during his term
of Office
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knowledge.


Mars is the fourth planet In order OF
distance from the sun. 1t is nearest to
the world on which we live of all the
great superior planets that make the
solar system. Mars travels around tho
sun in mean sidereal period OF $50 9767
days, on an orbit inclined one degree
and tifty-one minutes to the plane Of the
ecliptic, at mean distance of 139, ,311, :
COO miles from the sun.
This orbit is considered eccentric,
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would. IL he lived on Mars, become so
light that he could dance as easily as
one Of the young ladies' at Eldorado.
In fact. all substances would be re-
duced in weight by transfer from our
world to Mars. Upon that planet our
oak would become as light as cork. Our
gold would te as light as tin. A glass
of wine that wouldn't affect the small
est child in this world. would make n
man in Mars feel that he owned that
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GOULD never offered his palatial
yacht for sale until Vanderbilt came
near being drowned and Kaiser Viii
helms Meteor was left trailing by the
English cracks. Gould knows when
to get from under.