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THE LLAMA.
An Animal OF Great Importance to the
PeruyiaDs.

An Animal OF Great Importance to the
Peruvians.
The llama is a native of Peru and an
animal of great Importance to the Pc
ruvians. 1t is beast of burden, and
at one time was the only quadruped in
the country which could be used for
that purpose, taking the place of either
horse, OK or goat; it also furnishes
them with food and clothing. In South
America the animal is commonly known
by several names-llama, alpaca, eli
cugna and guanaeo. The llama and
alpaca are domesticated, but the qua
naco and vicugna are wild. These last
are of light brown color, the under
parts white, while the others vary in
color, being white, brown, black or
notified. The vicugna is smaller and
more slender in form than the guiana
CO. 1t is wild, timid creature, living
in herds on the bleak rocky precipices
of the snow-clad noun tain tops of Peru
and Ecuador, where it climbs the rocks
with the greatest agility, for its feet
are so formed as to render it possible
for them to do so, as beneath each toe
is pad or cushion. In this, as we'll as
the construction of the stomach, the
llama is supposed to be allied to the
camel.
The guanaco, another variety, is a
very beautiful creature about the size
of the European red deer. It also is
very timid animal and when frightened
bounds Off at great speed.
The llama, which is domesticated, is
supposed to be descended from the
guanaco. 1t is used by the natives as
beast of burden and will carry a
hundred pounds or perhaps little
more. If the load is too heavy or the
animal too tired, it will lie down and
nothing will induce it to go further on
its journey, and if urged it will turn
and spit in the face of its driver. The
pack must be removed from its back
before it will move.
The flesh of the llama is good for
food and the skins and wool for cloth
ing. The alpaca is thought to be of
the same variety as the vicugna, but
in domesticated state. 1t is not used
as a beast of burden, but is noted for
its wool, which is abundant, long and
feecy, and for this reason the alpaca
sheep are highly prized.-Detroit Free
Press
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THE CARS SICKNESS.
He Is Suffering from Kidney Trouble and
Hypertrophy of the Heart.

he Is Sunering from Kidney Trouble ana
Hypertrophy of the Heart.
BERLIN, Oct. 1O.-In view of the re-
ports that the ezar's condition has
changed for the worse, the correspond
ent of the Associated press in this city
had an interview with Prof. Won Ley
den, who was recently in attendance
upon the car at Spala. He said: 1.-THE
illness Of the car is peculiar. His prin-
cipal trouble is granulated contrac-
ton of the kidneys,i in which the kidneys
become hard and change tissue, be-
sides being subject to atrophy. This
is accompanied by hypertrophy of the
heart, resulting from enlargement of
it's muscular tissue. This latter leads
to breathing difficulty and is often
very painful, the spasms being COM
plicated by fits of Inconsistencies.
There is no dropsy, however. Dia-
betes, in the preliminary stage, has de-
clared itself. Under the most favor
able circumstances, however, the dis
ease is of lengthy duration, possibly
years, and the results are most uncer
tain
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-12

The Chicago Women's Christian Tenn
perance union has entered upon a cru
SADIE against Objectionable theatrical
sign boards and the exposure before
the footlights of scantily clothed women
and have employed counsel. This ac-
ton was determined upon at the recent
monthly meeting of the W. C. T. u,
when the report of subcommittee
consisting, of Mrs. L. A. Hagans and
Mrs. Jane Zimmerman, of the social
purity cofimittee, was made and adopt
ed. The committee made tour of the
Chicago variety theaters and concert
halls and told shocking stories at the
meeting.
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Chicago to Honor q Regiment.

CHICAGO, Oct. 1O.-For the first time
in the history of the United States
army permission has been granted by
the war department for the presenta-
ton of stand of colors to a regiment
by private citizens. The regiment is
the Fifteenth infantry of Fort Sheridan.
The citizens are a few representative
men of this city and the organization
through which the colors will be
handed to Col Crofton, the command
ing officer, is the Illinois Society Sons
of the Revolution. The movement is
in recognition of the services of the
regiment during the great railroad
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NOT PATERNAlISM.
The "Greatest Good to the Greatest Num-
Der" Ought to Apply to Men, Not to
Dollars.

The "Greatest Good to the Greatest Num-
Der" Ought to Apply to Men, Not to
Dollars.
While it is assuredly true that legis-
lation is a cause rather than an effect,
still, being the result of an expression
of the will of presumably the majority
of the people, it is at once an effect and
a cause in the potential-the fountain
mead to which we must turn for relief
from remedial ills.
BY this method of reasoning we find
good grounds for the outcry by the
masses of the people against the system
OF class-legislation, or the fostering of
business interests upon wrong concep-
ton of the principle of 1.-The greatest
good to the greatest number" which
ought to apply to men and not to dol
lars.
As an instance of the perversion of
this principle we have not far to go; the
election of 1892 resulted in a pronounced
decision of great majority of the
people, many of whom, however, little
as they understood the question at issue,
were, at any rate, in favor of a change
to better conditions, which, not arriving
through the medium of the Mckinley
bill, they enormously expected to re-
ceive from an opposite policy. This
illusion is being rapidly dispelled and
a light beginning to dawn upon them.
The late dissension between the house
and senate as to the propriety or 9TH
erwise of retaining tariff on coal,
sugar, iron, etc, only goes to multiply
evidences of the discrimination shown
between business interests and the
welfare of the people at large On the
one hand, a huge corporation, with a
unity of purpose among comparative
ly few interested parties backed by
millions acquired through a monopoly
of the production of what is now recoy-
nized as a necessity of life, sugar had
more special consideration extended it
as privilege to which it certainly was
not entitled, than, on the other hand.
the expression of the sovereign will of
the people in the election Of the demo-
cratic party on the Chicago platform of
1899. This is only one instance, more
might be enumerated.
How long will the fostering of such
greedy monopolies (which are simply
indirect taxation and burden on the
common people) continue in a country
whose constitution guarantees life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness to
the least of its citizens? The leading
question Is not "Where are the lisp
but "Whass ehel ~ commence with
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PENSION FRAUDS.
what q Pension Examiner Discovered In q
Agents Tin RO1.

" mat q Pension Examiner Discovered In -
Agents Tin Boz.
DUBUQUE, Ia, Oct 1O-Special Ex-
aminer E. F. Waite, of the pension
bureau, in obedience to the order Of
Judge Shiras, in the federal court,
has filed the documents captured in
the famous tin-box in Pension Agent
George NJ. Van Leuvend's private Office
at Lime Springs. The documents are
mostly in the form of correspondence,
discriminating upon its face between
Van Leuvend and certain boards Of
medical examiners with whom he had
relations. Nearly all of the numerous
indictments found against the pension
attorney are based on these letters.
In all about 700 papers are fled.
Some of these letters are to pension
claimants whom Van Leuvend advised
to grease" the members of the boards
in order to have their examiners go
through smoothly. Others are letters
between the agent and the surgeons
in which terms are agreed on for rails
ing ratings and fixing up the papers in
the case.
1t appears that Van Leuvend gave
claimants to understand that this pay
merit of money to medical examiners
was the usual thing esta blished by long
practice, and it does not appear that
there was as rule corrupt intent on the
part of the claimant. Some of the dog
uments show that affidavits as to phys
ical disability were bought from the
physicians at an average rate of about
so cents line. One letter makes an
offer to physician at Lincoln, Neb.,
to pay SIS for an affidavit covering dis
ease of the stomach, deafness, rheuma-
tism and heart disease. The doctor
sent the affidavit. but demanded $40 for
it: This physician, whose name is not
revealed, has since testified that he has
made a large number of affidavits, and
that his price ranged from SIS to $40.
Affidavits are made to cover nearly
all the diseases known, and in order to
get the applicants before examining
boards with whom he was friendly,
printed forms were used for affidavits
and the claimants were asked to copy
these in their own hands and sign
them. Many did. know what they
were doing. The filing of the papers is a
surprise to the defense, which did not
want them made public, its idea being
simply to get access to them.
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Fatal Flames in . Big Mine.

SHAMoK1N, Pa, Oct. loire started
in the air way of No. 1 shaft of the
Luke Fiddler colliery last night. Irwin
Bufinton, whom the colliery officials
hold responsible for the disaster. was
suffocated- George Brown, miner,
and his Polish helper, Anthony Bob
erttik, Robert, a driver boy, and anoth-
er Polish laborer are in the mine and
no hope is entertained of recovering
them. Fifty-ive men barely escaped.
The mine is now all ablaze. 1t is
feared the inside workings will have to
DO flooded, which means many months
Of idlsness to 900 employees.
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the reformq" 1t /. a hard matter to

INC reIOruT IL IL naru matter TO
determine, but we could not do better
than commence with our financial svs-
tenn. Take away from money its power
to Cypress. Do away with the system
which makes it necessary that in or
| der to live we must sacrifice one-half
of what, by our labor, we actually pro.
duce and which goes to pay dividends
| TO holders of stocks, shares and bonds
in financial and other ventures to be
be fritted away by them in butterfly
existence, without the exaction of an
equivalent ia the shape Of mental or
material production, nor resulting in
any lasting good to themselves or hui
mainly at large.
Give all men and women a chance.
commence by grounding education
upon a practical knowledge of the
necessities of life in acc ordance with
the known truth upon an ethical basis,
in order to bring about social improve
ment both individually and collective
ly, with the result that by added in
centive to industry in connection with
the cultivation of talent, higher
average of intellectual refinement NAV
be acquired through the adoption of
shorter working hours: higher scale
Of wages and more leisure to expend
in intelligent observation. This could
have but one effect-improvemc and
can only be brought about by the sub
stitution of cooperation for the ruin
GUS competitive and speculative ten
denotes of our present system. With
the possibility of increased comfort
and the extension of contentment
and happiness to those now suffering
IN abJect poverty, would spring up
more happy homes with bright-eyed
wives and children, hopeful looking
husbands, more cleanliness and better
sanitary conditions; with correspond.
ing decrease in prostitution, degrade
ton of all kinds, robbery, murder, vio-
lence and all crimes committed in the
pursuit of gain. Such reform can only
come about gradually, but the tide Of
public interest; having turned, gains
in impetus what it loses in indiffer-
ence, as is shown by indications of the
current of public sentiment, which
must eventually, with irresistible
force, sweep away all methods of OPP
preston, or indirect and unjust taxa
ton, and by, efforts to simplify the
system instead of rendering it more
complex, earn the gratitude of genera
lions. yet to come.-M. S. Turner, in
San Angelo TEX Standard.
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The only item that is higher row
than in 1865 is coffee. and this article
has, during the twenty-five years, fiuc-
tuated between 9O1 and 1912 cents per
pound. The coffee market is Just
emerging from a period Of high prices
and is now tending downward. Dairy
products have also fuctuated largely
and are now above parity with other
articles of food, but the tables of the
American Grocer which are given fer
each OF the last twenty-five years illus
trate quite as marked a tendency
toward lower prices for nearly all va
r;ssies Of food ss IL seen IL other lines
OF pyedsotion
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The Wool Schedule.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-Secretary
Carlisle yesterday received from Acting
Attorney-General Maxwell an opinion
in which he holds the word wool" as
used in the wooden schedule of the
new tariff act, refers to the hair
of the sheep only, and that new and
lower duties on goods made of the
hair of other animals went into effect
on the signing of the act. The opinion
further states that the phrase manu-
facturers of wool" in that paragraph,
is not applicable to articles of which
wool, as SO defined, although compe-
tent material, is not the material Of
chief value,
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His Last Name.

"What is your name?" inquired a
teacher of q new scholar. 'sPeter,
ma'am," replied the small boy.
"Peterr' echoed the teacher. what
is your other name?"
Fairbanks" responded the boy.
''Then Fairbanks is your last name,
of course" said the teacher, cycling the
round-eyed, vacant-faced Peter with
considerable severity.
'No'm," replied the child, respect
fully. my name was Fairbanks when
was born, but mother says they didn't
name me Peter for most six months"
Youths Companion.
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The death of John jackson at the
house of correction at Annapolis, Nd,
was reported recently. Jackson was
famous for having performed one of the
most heroic actions of the civil war.
The progress of the union fleet up the
Savannah river was impcded by tor
pedo placed in very narrow channel,
and communicating with the shore by
a wire. jackson swan to the torpedo
and took off the cap, rendering it harm
less. He was given a medal for this
gallant conduct.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-12

GEN. WADE HAMPTON, the commits
sioner of railroads, has just returned
to Washington from an extended trip
over the government-aided roads which
come under his supervision. He said
he encountered in California great
deal of clamor for government control
of not only the Union and Central Pa
cific roads, but of all roads. Both of
these propositions are opposed by the
commissioner, and he said the demand
for foreclosure of the Pacific roads did
not come from the best informed peo-
pie of the Pacific coast, although it
had got to be a very popular movement
in the west.
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COMMISSIONER MCDONALD, of the fish
commission, says that despite tho diff
culties experienced in the work of
Propagating and rearing fish owing to
drought and excessive heat, the work
OF the season has been large end will
compare favorably with the records of
previous years. Over 800, 600, 900 fish of
various kinds have been Matched and
loosed under the auspices of the com
mission, including 100, oOO, 900 shad, l.
VO0,ooO Waite fish and 5000, 900 perch,
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THE General Electric Co, of Ne,

THE General Electric Co., of New
York, has just closed contract with
the Sacramento Power & Light Co.,
which calls for the transmission by
electricity from a water power at Fol-
som. Cal, 20 miles distant, of several
thousand electrical horse power to the
city of Sacramento to supply light,
heat, power, ETC., to an extent that will
practically supersede all the present
steam plants now in operation. This
will make the longest transmission by
electricity of power in large amounts
installed in the world aad marks a
further step In the edyancs Of cleo
tylenl science
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MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 1O.-Thieves
entered st. Joseph's Catholic church
last night, broke open the tabernacle,
stole several gold and silver vessels,
carried off the contribution box,
smashed statue and tore down the
drapery around the altar and chancel.
The booty secured by the burglars
is very valuable and some OF
the relics cannot be replaced,
having been donated to the church
by the vatican, and by friends in
Europe. The police believe the rob-
berry is the work of a gang of negro
footpads and burglars. who have re-
Gently committed many depredations
in South Memphis, and several arrests
are expected.
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ACCORDING to a census bulletin Just
issued the aggregate population of ehe
five civilized tribes of Indians in the
Indian territory is 17s, oqv, of which ST.
900 are Chickasaws, $4,000 Cherokees,
5000 Choctaws, 1900 Creeks and e,7OO
Seminoles. The tribes are declared
self-sustaining and fairly prosperous,
the Creek nation being especially SO,
because of the large negro population.
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Patrick McQuinn was brought up
before the justice in the morning, and
when asked his occupation by the
clerk, said he was sailor. "a sailor?'
retorted the judge. Il don't believe
you were ever at sea in your life"
well" replied the distinguished Irish
man, chow does your honor think I
came over from Oireland--in q wagon?'
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ANTI-HlLL DEMOCRATS.
They Nominate a Ticket in New York with
L. b. Wheeler for Governor.

E.B. Wheeler for Governor.
New YORK, Oct. 1O.-A third state
ticket has been put in the field by
the democrats in Kings county and it
is expected that it will be Endorsed by
the independent democrats throughout
the state. The ticket presents as the
candidates of the anti-Hill democracy
for governor, Everett P. Wheeler, of
New York city, and indorses the candi-
dacy of the regular democratic nomi-
nees for Acknowledgements and judge
of the court of appeals-Daniel L.
Lockwood and Charles +. Brown.
After having decided on the candidates,
Mr.. Shepard's committee nominated
Hon. Charles S. Fairchild for chairman
of the campaign committee.
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RESIDENTS within the city limits of
Spokane, WASH, have been in terror
because of cinnamon and three black
bears that have been prowling about.
The bearsentered a kitchen, frightened
woman into faint and attacked d
man whom they nearly killed before
they were driven off,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-12

AT the annual convention of the hu-
name societies of New York state at
Albany Elbridge T. Terry, of New
York, favored the introducing of the.
whipping post into the state to be used
especially in the punishment of those
cruel to children. Imprisonment, he
said, had been found to be inadequate
as a punishment. Rev. DR.. Thomas A.
hendricks, of Rochester, spoke in the
same vein
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Resolution to Do Good.

Without the resolution in your hearts
to do good work, so long as your right
hands have motion in them, and to do
it, whether the issue be that you die
or live, no life worthy the name will
ever be possible to you; while in once
forming the resolution that your work
is to be well done, life is really won,
here and forever.-Detroit Free Press.
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Gold Basis Prices.

The American Grocer, in its twenty
fifth year anniversary number, pub
fishes the prices of leading articles of
food compiled from its market reports
for twenty-five years. The prices given
are wholesale prices, and the changes
are quite remarkable as illustrated by
the following table:
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-12

The democratic state executive COM
mittee OF Ohio, OF which A. w. Thur
man is chairman, has issued a mani
festo to the voters of that state in
which it holds that the money question
Is now the vital one before the country,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-12

1T is reported from st. Petersburg
that the new law making dueliug OBJ
ilgatory upon the officers of the Russian
army, not only whenever they them
selves fancy they have been insulted
put likewise whenever anybody else
thinks they have, is not meeting with
any very general approval.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-12

The monument erected to the MEM
DRY of Maj. Stephenson, founder of the
Grand Army of the Republic, was
dedicated at Petersburg. Ill.,, on the I'd
with appropriate ceremonies in the
presence of fully 5000 veterans and
civilians.
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A NEGRO laborer, while digging a
post hole on E. B. Shepard's farm, near
Mobile, Ala, recently, found buried in
the earth an iron box containing large
amount of gold money. He turned it
over to his master, who. upon counting
1T, found it contained 81, 100. The dates
upon the coins indicated that the treas.
ure had been buried perhaps fifty
wears - 5,-.'s-
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JEFFERSON GARDNER, who was in
augprated principal chief of the Choe-
Jaws recently-;n his message said no
opposed any change in tribal .4fairs or
the holding of land and asked the
members OF the council to dismiss the
extraordinary subject from their
minds, as no proposition from the
Dawes commission would be enter
fai,,o1
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The farm ownership of Kansas is
stated to be over per cent. larger
than that OF illinois, while the mort
gage percentage in the sunflower state
Is only 20 per cent. larger, but the ag-
grege.te of the mortgages is over $685.
O0O, 900 less.
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Mrs. Quigger (who lives in the sub
urbs)EThe woman who has moved in
next door is going to open boarding
house.
Quigger-Then I'll have to get that
fence repaired. We mustn't have our
hens straying into her back yard
JrdgN
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LORD RAYLEIGH thinks that three of
the five great problems of aerial oavi-
CATION have been solved-mosive power,
Propeiling power and lifting power,
steering and maneuvering yet remain
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CURRENT coMmruT.

THREE colored boz, who have robbed
slot machines j.. many cities were cap
tured N Ch.cago with more than 5000
pennies, in their possession.