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The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-02
Couldn't stand the Gait.

This good story was told by Com,
rade T. B. Catherwood in the course
of an address delivered before the
Confederate Veterans association at
Savannah:
1T had been supposed that south
ern troops lacked staying qualities.
but there was no instance during thu
war when the Confederate private
soldier yielded to panic, save one. on
Anoted field. which need not be par
6cularized.
Flying in wild disorder along the
road, several Alabama. Mississlppi
and Georgia regiments became badly
mixed up. The stampede was gener
al, and the retreat developed into a
rivalry as to which should get away
the quickest. An Alabama officer.
mounted on a particularly swift.
charger, was well on toward the head
of the fugitive host, but every now
and then he would rein up his horse.
wheel around in the road. wave h.
sword aloft and cry out:
Men of Georgia. Men of Ala
hama! Halt, / say! Will no one
stand by meF"
He repeated this every few min
utes, but always made the fasteSt
kind of time between halts. At
length, when he was making one Of
those frantic appeals, Will no one
stand by mef a voice from the flying
men on foot shouted back to him:
Yes, darn you, we'd all try TO
Stand by you if you wouldn't strike
such an all fired gaitr"-Blue and
GRAY
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-02
Inerssssd safety At Target Practice.

Fatal accidents at target practice
are happily not as common now as in
the early days of the rife volunteer
movement in England, but still there
= room for Q better method than that
IN vogue Of recording the score of
the shooters. A self recording tar
get, which has been exhibited in
Plymouth, 10 well spoken of and
seems TO meet all the requirements
Of such . device. The face of the
target is composed Of steel, and the
whole surface of the "bullseye, the
center" and the outer" consists of
steel rings, which "a be forced back
On pressure. When the bullet reaches
the target, the ring on which it
strikes is driven backward and is
forced forward again by a spring.
The backward motion of the ring
closes an electric circuit, actuating
as an indicator at theshooting point.
where the result of the shot IAN thus
beinstantly een.-Electrical Review.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-02

Ofice:-Stockgrowers Bank BLOCH
Room No. >, Correspondence solicited
Has the following property listed:
\ comfortable four room dwelling with
summer kitchen attached, lot 3oxl50;
price, $50.
A. neat four room dwelling. stable in
rear. desirable location, 30 feet front
price sl,l0O.
A commodius six room dwelling, ex
cellent cellar, artesian well on premises,
stable and hen house, small fruits and
vegetable garden attached, a prime bar,
gain; price. $1,000.
A neat one and one-half story dwell
ing house Of four rooms, southern ex
posture; price $500.
A large two story frame dwelling
house, northern and western exposure,
brick stables in rear, fifty front feet. easy
walking distance from Main street; price
800
A fine two story dwelling house. SIX
rooms. southern and western exposure
with large commodius stable in rear
fifty feet front, centrally located; price
$1,000.
An attractive Pleasant street dwelling
one and one-half stories. fifty feet Of
ground, southern exposure; price 500
\ snug brick dwelling house, -four
comfortable rooms southern exposure,
delightful location. fifty front feet;
price $3.50.
A comfortable five room dwelling
house, southern exposure, fifty front
feet; price 500.
4 five room frame dwelling house. fifty
front feet. convenient to Main street,
northern and western exposure; price
500.
4 large number of other choice dwell
Ings and building lots in the city and IN
the different additions to the city, for
sale cheap and on satisfactory terms.
Parties desiring good city property as
an investment, where anne is paying in
rents over II per cent on the amount
invested. can be accommodated.
First class Main street lots for sale,
suitable for business purposes. and Oh
terms to suit purchaser.
have for sale a tract Of land com
prising some 60 acres, near the city.
fullp timbered, that can be purchased
at 800 per acre. Have also a choice
tract Of some 81 acres. lying under the
ditch, that | hold at 1880 per acre.
Having a complete block book Of all
city property, revised up to date. | shall
be pleased to have am one interested
call and inspect m Full information
given on all properties. Clear title given
to all property offered by me.
Select bands Of sheep and horses for
sale. City collections promptly at.
tended to.
j. H. COLLINS,
Room > Stockgrowers Bank Block
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-02

Midway" whose entertaining and bizarre features seemed never to pail on the mmmdu visitors mm from Nay until oss
us and alleys du crowded its various places of anNmnth mn noon till hm SmdmHnM h a~ were -
mnrona donu@Mg hnu though ead anA again they never cam aHr remembered
To rheh the mmmo @e delightful trips when dull 0rrh hthnd pure and mhmed hh only object
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The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-02


The legendary regiment that was
said to be all colonies is almost ri.
vailed by some regiments of the
Spanish army. In the little expe IL
tionary force under Marshal Campos
at Melilla there are said to be nc
fewer than "a generals and 20 colo
nels. In Spain this is not thought at
all remarkable, for the commissioned
officers r really not much less
numerous than the noncommissioned
officers and privates put together.
According TO a Spanish army list, the
number of generals in Spain is 203,
of colonies 534, of lieutenant colo
nels 962, of majors 2,014, of captains
5,242, of lieutenants 1876 and of sub
l~ieutenants 1859. This gives a totai
of 26, 400 officers out of an army
which, on the peace footing, mum
bers only rs, 900 lei .-London News
MutiIated. but Witty.
A soldier who was an inveterate
joker and punster, having had his
nose, left cheek and a portion Of his
chin carried away by a shot in the
battle of Shiloh, was asked by some
of his comrades If they could do any
thing for him. Boys" said he.
speaking as well as he could in his
mangled condition, Il should like a
drink of water mighty well, if | only
had the face to ask for it. New
York Ledger.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-02

An Olden Time Quartette.
Midway Fruit Vendors.
Waiting for the Princess.
Little Christopher Columbus
A jolly Turk.
The Java Theatre.
Some Arctic Visitors.
The Roumanian Quartette.
An Alps Singer.
A Sip OF Tea from Johore.
The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1894-04-02
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Live Stock Commission.

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Part =.

Dahomey Warriors.
The Good Lion.
A Venetian Gondolier.
Two Pretty Musicians.
Prof. Darling and Lion.
Turks OF High Degree.
A Syrian Beauty.
Types from Mt. Lebanon.
A Bout with Sticks.
A Professional Scalper.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
REpUB11cAN STATE PLATFORM.


The state republican convention at To-
peka adopted this platform:
Reafirming the republican national platform
of 1892.
Resolved. First: The constant patriotism of
our party IS in itself a guarantee to the nation
that the interests of its defenders, their widows
and orphans, viii be literally cared for, and we
denounce their cruel and deliberate betrayal by
the present democratic administration.
Second: We adhere to the republican doctrine
of protection. and believe that tariff laws should
protect the products of the farm as well as the
factory.
Third: The American people favor bimetal-
ism and the republican party demands the use
of both gold and silver standard money with
such restrictions and under such provisions. to
be determined by legislation, as Will secure the
maintenance of the parity of values of the two
metals, and that the purchasing and debt pay
ing power of the dollar, whether of gold. silver
or paper, shall be at all times equal. The in
terests of the producers of the country, its farm
ers and its working men, demand that the mlnts
be opened to the coinage of silver of the mines
of the United States and that congress should
foreign silver sufficient to fully protect the pro-
ducts of our own mines.
Fourth We favor national and state leglsla-
ton for the encouragement OF irrigation.
Fifth We denounce the present state admin
istratiOn for its violation of the laws and con-
tempt of the courts. the corruption and lncom-
potency of its officials. its gross acknowledgement
of the state institutions. and for IL dlscredIt 1t
has brought upon the good name of the state.
And we pledge the republican party and the
nominees of this convention to the faithful and
economical discharge of all official duties 70 q
strict observance and an honest enforcement OF
law, and to obedience to the mandates OF the
courts.
Sixth To the maintenance of these princi
pies we invite the support of all patriotic cltl-
ZenS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
kansas Graaehopper.

The Kansas department of agricul
ture is IN receipt of number of letters
from farmers in West Tennessee report
ing the presence in that locality of
grasshoppers in destructive clouds, and
asking if Kansas can supply mode of
determination. Secretary Coburn has
made the following reply to his Tonnes
see correspondents:
my DEAR SIR:-Your favor of the
23d inst, reciting that 'grasshopers in
vast numbers are destroying all growing
crops in this (your) county, and ask
ing how to exterminate them, is re-
ceived. You say thev are undoubtedly
very destructive in Kansas and we must
certainly have some means of destroy
ing them. l am at a loss to under
stand what could have led you to be-
lieve Kansas afflicted with grasshoppers.
and suspect you must be thinking of
Ohio or some other state, where { as in
Licking and adjacent cOunties) they
are reported very destructive.
I'm the earlier years of Kansas histo-
nv there were one or two raids of the
so-called grasshoppers, or Rocky noun
tain locusts, that did much harm. but
they either died or moved on, and 1
doubt if so much as one of their de-
scendants has been seen in the state in
fifteen years. In fact, they are such alb
solute strangers to us that it is proba-
BILE not one in hundred of the rising
generation of Kansas would recognize
member of the family if he met him on
the highway.
mo, while I can heartily sympathize
with your people, Kansas is not the laie
of the grasshopper, the cyclone nor thu
blizzard, and I am unable to advise
them how to escape the ills their state
is afflicted with, unless it be that they
emigrate to Kansas, where crops are SO
rank and aggressive that grasshoppers
no longer appear as having the courage
To 1ooIyIo than
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18

ing of necessity unprotected by tariff
duties, the growth and success of -four
manufacturing and the steady increase
in foreign sales form the most encourag
ing sign of what American indutries in
other lands will be able to accomplish
when the removal of the absurd tariff
restrictions shall enable them generally
to compete with the trade of the world"
1t is surprising to see such dense ignor-
ance quoted in the Evening Post, paper
that is generally well informed on COM
mercial matters. A reference to schedule
G of the Mckinley tariff will show that
wheat -four is equally protected with
wheat. The duty on wheat is % cents
per bushel and on wheat -four it is 25
per cent. ad valorem. Our increased
exports of flour therefore show not what
1.-THE removal of the absurd tariff re-
strictions" has enabled them to do, but
how the -four industry has been en-
abled ito compete with the trade of the
world under a very proper form OF
protection.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
Record of a Week.

Within a single week Populist Ward
en- Chase made deadly assault on a
populist lawyer who was engaged to
present charges against him of corrup-
ton and acknowledgement in office; action
was brought against two populist police
officials to GUST them from Office because
they had taken money from jointists
charges were filed by populists against
the populist engineer at the Insane
Asylum, charging him with incompetent
cy; demands we're made by populists
upon the governor for legislative in
vestigation into the management of
three or four state institutions; and the
superintendent of the Imbecile School at
Winfield is charged with perpetrating
an unnamable offence upon a number
of the boys under his care Is it posi-
BILE that any party can stand under such
load of infamy and incompetency.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
HONEST MEN
Leave PopuIism as Soon as
They Know its Character.

Capital.
With one exception every president OF
the state alliance of Kansas since its
organization, we believe, has left the
peoples party because of its corruption,
incompetency and failure to devote itself
to the interests of its charter. The town
politicians and professional Office seekers
have destroyed the alliance and driven
the farmers out of the control of the
peoples party. The destruction of the
alliance was deliberately planned and
carried out for the purpose of stealing
the control of the policy of the party
from the farmers and giving it over to
the town and professional agitators.
There has never been anything more
surprising in Kansas politics than the
ruin of the alliance by the party organ
ization which it created and built up.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and trul-
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
e-ery Objectionable substance.
s7rup of Figs is for sale by all drug
fists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
1factured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package. also the name, Syrup of Figs
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18

Workmen have cleaned up the wood
work in the governors office and put
new paper on the ceiling. The old
paper was broken and had begun to
peel off In such way that it could not
be patched.
The State Historical society has re-.
ceived from Hon. Sylvester H Clarke
of Clyde, n. Y, who was a Kansas
pioneer in 1854, and who has never for
gotten his first love, autograph letters
written by the following distinguished
persons: Henry Ward Beecher, Ches-
ter A. Arthur, James A. Garfield, Roscoe
Conkling, Henry Wilson, Charles Sum-
ner, Benjamin F. Butler, Hamilton Fish,
Fred Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Preston
King, John A. Logan, William III. Sew
ard. Charles F. Folger and William E.
Dodge Besides these letters are auto
graph signatures as follows: Sam
Houston, Daniel Webster. Bayard Tay-
lor, William Cullen BRYANT and General
John E. Wool.
There has been some talk that the
vote in the counties of Grant, Seward
and Stevens was not sufficient to entitle
them to representatives., the law provid-
ing that a county having a representa-
tive shall not have less than two hun
dred votes. At the last election by a
singular coincidence, the votes cast for
Judge of the district court in each of
these counties was 1914. On the face of
it, it would seem therefore that these
counties had lost their representative in
the legislature To look after the mat
ter, Chairman Breidenthal wrote to the
| election commissioners of these counties
and has ascertained that while 1914 votes
were all the votes cast for judge, in
Grant county there were exactly 200
ballots cast, in Seward 2O4, in Stevens
2O6 This removes tie legal bubble
| which would otherwise arise.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
A Fiat Failure.

Rhode Island had an interesting ex-
perience with what J. w. Vernon, of
Providence, calls 1.-THE fallacy that legis-
lation can make value" In his re-
searches Mr. Vernon has found that in
money, called bills of credit. This money
was by law made receivable son all pub
lie Credits It was loaned by the colo
NAL government to individuals on real
estate mortgages, almost precisely by
the plan that is urged by the
land loan advocates of the present
day. In one year it took 140 of this
paper money to buy 100 of coin al
though it was declared by law to be
sin equal value to money" Before
the issue of paper money the col
ony paid bounty of FL for wolves
scalps and got them for that. The
hunters refused to kill for paper
money because of it's depreciation. and
wolves increased and became a serious
pest. The government raised the paper
money bounty to 95, 910 and finally
to ESQ head before the inducement
was sufficient to eXterminate the wolves.
For seventy-five years Rhode Island
tried fiat money in various forms. In
forty years after the beginning of the ex-
pertinent Rhode Island had per capita
circulation of 1925, but it was circu-
lation which would not go outside of
the borders, and finally the people re-
fused to take their own money. Then
the government made it state prison
offense by statute for any Rhode Isl
ander to refuse Rhode Island money.
The stuff went down to Is cents on
the dollar The whole colony was
bankrupt And that was the end.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
In the Depths of Misery.

Though endowed with wealth beyond the
dreams of avarice, the wretched sufferer from
chronic dyspepsia is plunged in the depths OF
misery from which he or she seldom emerges
even for day at a stretch. There is a way to
down the imp. Invoke the aid of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters and he departs. Keep using
the medicine. and the relief you promptly ex.
perience finally becomes permanent and thor
ough cure is effected. Heartburn, fatulence
uneasiness and sinking at the pit of the stom
ach, nervousness. insomnia-these are symp-
toms first relieved and finally cured, with their
cause, by this ineffably reliable specific. Liver
complaint and constipation brother tormentOrs
of dyspepsia, are also sent to limbo by the Bit
tiers. So are rheumatism, malaria and kidney
complaint. Use this helpful medicine system
atically, not by fits and starts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
1T WORRIES THE POPS.
That Allen Letter Gives them
Many DOIeful Doubts
and Fears.

The populist members of the house
from Kansas are very much disturbed
over the letter of Associate Justice AL
len to Lieutenant Governor Daniels,
which made its appearance in the eastern
press. They spent some time discussing
the situation and viewing with alarm.
They denounce it as bad politics and
cannot understand how it is that man
holding an Office can give away the 9TH
er fellows who may be reaping a reward
from lotteries and joints in the state.
They are full of fear and protest. Sen
ator PETER, it is understood, held views
similar to those expressed by Allen prior
to the populist state convention.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
Reduced Assessments.

The state board of equalization has
reduced the assessment in the counties
comprising the thirty-third judicial dis
trict, and in some other western
counties.
In Rush county the reduction per
acre is SO cents, which makes the total
reduction below the returns given by
the county clerk, $212,436, the reduc-
ton in the state tax, 81, lob; and the
value per acre as fixed by the state
board, 1925.
In Ness county the reduction per
acre is 40 cents; reduction of state tax
$1,724; value per acre, $1.50.
Lane county, reduction per acre 8
cents, reduction of state tax, 1919;
value per acre $1.50.
Scott county. reduction per acre. 40
cents; reduction of state tax, 1892
value per acre, $3.50.
Wichita county, reduction of state
tax, 1922; value per acre, $1.25.
Greeley county. reduction per acre, 83
cents; reduction of state tax, 1858
value per acre, $1.25.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18

The truth is company composed of
the near personal and financial friends
of the president have combined with a
few foreigners with S21,0OO,000 of au-
thorized stock of bonds, based on the
repeal of the duty on coal, and so an
nounced. This repeal, they state in
their circulars, will give them the con-
troll of the New England markets for
soft coal mined in Nova Scotia, now
supplied by Maryland and the two Vir-
ginias. Thil is the record made by the
company itself
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-18
Your COnsCTenCe.

Are you not humoring it more than
you ought to? Are you not trusting
in 1t more than you are in God? Are
you not governed by it more than
you are by the Bible? 1t is well TO
ask yourself these questions. They
refer to matters Of more than ordi-
nary I'M Ortance. Conscience is a
good possession, but there are some
things which are better, higher,
wiser, stronger than conscience They
are much more reliable. Your con-
science is not an invariable entity.
1t is subject to fluctuations 1t is
not the same thing now that it was
years ago. It will rebuke you now
for doing things which it allowed you
to do years ago, And acts for which
it rebuked you years ago, it does not
now-the very same kind OF acts,
too. Why? Because, for one thing,
your moral cha acter has changed; it
is more enlightened; it has grown
much larger. You are better in
formed. You have learned a good
deal since you were child. But
what is more reliable than con-
science? God: the Holy Spirit; the
Bible. From these supreme sources
learn your duty. Let these be your
guides in all reIig GUS and Christian
duties, privileges, pleasures The
Holy Spirit, not conscience. is the
true interpreter of the Bible. Your
conscience may contradicU the Bible;
the Holy Spirit never does Your
conscience may mislead you in the
matter of duty; the Holy Spirit and
the Bible never do. Worship God,
not according to the dictates of con-
science, but according TO the dictates
of the Holy Spirit and the teachings
of Gods Word. lions Herald.