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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR.

Robert Barr, Who Recently Spent a
Month in This Country.
Robert Barr, who recently returned
to England after being a month in the
United States, is well known as the au-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

The sea cucumber is nothing but a
thin skin, and a very capacious stom-
ach.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

to display more
than the shoulders
is the greatest
means to excite
emotional thought.
To me there is
something holy in
the person of a wo-
man which is sa-
cred to the purest
relations of life,
and it should not
be exposed by pub
lie exhibition. My
observation b q S
taught me that fat
women re t h e
greatest offenders.
They lace them
selves so tightly
that it gives them
an abnormal ap-
pearance, and the
low dresses which
they wear make an
exposure which to
me is not only i'm
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

AAAO5C OA A4OA A1AOJ
and in the Parkhurst crusade against
Tammany took an active part. She is
steadfast believer in woman suffrage
and is the editor and proprietor OF a
religious paper, the Church Union.
Low dresses Mrs Grannis considers
an evil Of stupendous proportions. The
dress, she says, which is cut so low as
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings and Cute Doings of the
Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered and
Printed Here for All Other Little Ones to
Read.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

About the only pleasure in this life
is to have friends who "spoil'' you.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09
Low DRESSES A CURSE.
A Woman Refornaer in New York stirs
Up a War Against Them.

Mrs. E. +. Grannis, of New York, is
Haging a fight against the "abomina-
.ion'' of low dresses Mrs Grannis is
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

We are afraid to speak to some WON
en-; we are afraid they will talk longer
than we can afford to listen.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09

The Frogs Revenge.
III were a frog,
And sat on a log,
In the middle of bog,
Looking about.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19

100000 IN silver, and $500, 900. 90,
IN paper: with every dollar on =
parity with every other dollar We
now have s24 per capita as com
pared with SIC in 1873 an increase
of SO per cent.
Let us so back prior to 1874.
The highest per capita circulation
was in 1865, when we had $40. =
in paper which hoated at an i'm
mense discount. The year before
the war we had less than So Der
capita. Our money then consisted
Of gold and paper. No silver dol
lars were coined-in fact only
eight million were coined from
1892 to 1873. None at all were
coined after 1858 and what silver
coin we had was legal tender for
only S. We had free coinage,
but little silver was coined. Now
we haven't free coinage; yet we
have more silver money than the
country can use. Do we want to
60 back to the old system? Do
we want to turn our government
back 20 years in the march Of
progress? Under free silver we
hadthe panics Of 1887 and 1857;
without free coinage we had the
panic Of 1893, showing that hard
times come under all laws.
TNoTE. The editor of THE STAR
ordered Gen. Georges speech in
supplement form from the Clarion
Ledger at Jackson: but word re-
ceived at the hour Of going to press
informs US they could not get them
ready until Friday, which world
be too late. We greatly regret
this, as everything Senator George
says is Of interest to our people. :
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19
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and 5 cents for each subsequent inser-
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All obituaries charged at the rate of
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Resolutions Of respect Xhen adopted
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The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19
GEN. GEORGES SPEECH.

We produce in supplement form
with this issue of THE STAR the
speech of Gen. George delivered
at Winona on Saturday last.
This is truly a mastery effort
The Senator has laid before his
eager constituents the whole ex-
panse of American finance from
the very foundation of the govern
ment to the present time. He has
drawn his conclusions with nicely
Of judgment and placed his de-
auctions from facts before us with
a clcarness only in the gift of the
great. In attrlbuting effects to caus-
es, however, the General has not
only failed to agree with the greatest
rcasoncrs on social questions of
the time but he is observed. in at
tributlng effects to their causes, to
differ widely from statements of
his own made in speeches deliver
cy during the Sub-treasury cam
paign of '9I. Thus he now attrib-
utes all evils that have belallen the
people in the past twenty-five
years to the demonstration of sill
yer; but in speech at West Point
in April, 1891, he summed up the
condition of the people by saying
that the were "robbcd and ground
dorn by the Msrciless and shameless
system Of torotion enforced by the
political parity IN po'c'r." giving
this as the greatest evil that affect
ed us. Strange that in 1891 it
should have been the tariff and
that today it is the "crime of 1873"
He chases his fox to different
holes. Nor does he differ less
widely in his proposed remedies in
'9l and his offered remedy in 'os.
In 1906 he announces that free
silver is the sure and only remedy
for existing evils. In 1891 he pro-
posed eleven separate remedies.
The STAR kept these standing in
its columns from week to week I'M
der the caption Of Georges Re-
lief Measures, Briefly stated
these remedies were: I. Tariff
reform. 2. Reversion of railroad
land to the government where the
contracts had not been complied
with, 3. National banks to loan
out half their capital on real estate.
l.. The destruction Of trusts and
unlawful combinations of capital
5. To issue legal tender treasury
notes to the amount OF $1,000 per
capita. s. The free and unlimited
coinage of silver. 7. Abolish all
pensions. 8. Regulate and cur
tail salaries. 9. Supervision OF
railroads. 10. Income tax. II
Repeal all laws comforting exclu-
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19
lent amount of the new.

lent amount OF the new.
Again! All this So, oI9, 679,9S5
of mortgage debt was rot on the
farms of the country-not even
half of it. The debt on farms was
only s., 200, 4S,43I; the other
$3.50, 53I,554 was on town and
city lots. In other words on Jam
uary I, 1890, $3.50 per cent OF the
mortgages in existence were on
town lots and only 34.17 per cent
en- farms. Tracing the figures on
out we find that the census reports
show that Of the money borrowed
on mortgages during that period
over S. per cent was for purchase
or improvement of land or for dur
able capital used thereon, repre-
senting not increasing debt, but
increasing prosperity. We further
find that the mortgage debt on the
real estate of the country is only
1867 per cent of its value. AS it
is usually considered safe to ad-
vance two-thirds of its value on
real estate, it will be seen that our
mortgage debt could be safely in
creased four times.
We might 60 on showing the
unsoundness of the Senator's reas-
oning from these mortgages; but
space will not permit. Figures in
the aggregate can be made start
ling; but, when sifted to their true
meaning, are often very common
place.
We now come directly to what
the Senator proposes should be
done, and we believe he expresses
the idea OF the greater number Of
honest free coinage men. He
says:
"The free coinage men mean to
have bimetallism as we had prior
to 1873, and we do not mean by
any rash experiment, however
much we desire free coinage, to so
act as to place our country in a
position it did not occupy prior to
that date.
This is the Mecca of the free
silver mans hope. Place him back
where he was before 1873 and he
will be happy-so he thinks. lie,
us investigate this a little. Sup
pose we could 60 back to the con.
ditlon of 1873. We would then
have SIS. s. per capita in deprecia
ted paper, worth sI6.o5 in gold,
We would have no silver and yer,
little gold. Interest on none,
would be nearly twice as high as
now In 1873 our total money
consisted OF s25, 900, 900 gold re
serve and s74s, 445,6rt of paper
What as our condition nowa we
have 1861, 900, 600 in gold..'sbs4,,
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19
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4 lIldl III VI IIee silver was Dut one
of eleven remedies offered. 1t
ranked by no means as the first
and received less attention from
the senator than most of the 9th
erS proposed.
OF course, it is legitimate for a
man to change his opinions on a
public question even in so short a
time as four years; and we call at
tention to the di screpancy to show
how easy it is for the masses to
differ with each other when so
great man as Senator George diff
fers with himself. We do not, Of
course, question the sincerity Of
either of the gentleman's opinions,
yet, evident it is that even Senator
George may err, since his conflict
ing views can not be both correct.
Senator George is not a candi-
date and doubtless feels no public
interest in the campaign further
than the State shall not condemn
his record in the Senate. THE
STAR does not believe that the
state is at all inclined to condemn
his record so far as he has follow
ed up the platform laid down by
him in the campaign preceding
his last election. but we do be
lieve that if he continues to adhere
to his newly adopted idea that I6
to is the panacea for all the
evils Of the body polite, the time
will come when the state must con-
denim him.
We regret to note that the
Senator devotes a large
part of his speech to defamation
against bankers with the evident
effect of arousins prejudice against
that class of citizens. The STAR
is no apologist for bankers. We
believe that they are as selfish as
other people, no more, no less.
When Senator George accuses
the bankers of wilfully producing
hard times, he accuses them of /
cutting their own threats. In good |
times bankers prosper like other
people; in hard times they are
bankrupted. Just to show that
national banks are not such giant
octopus as the Senator seems to
think, a few facts in regard t. them
may not be out of place. Nation
al banks are largely owned by men
and women of moderate means.
who have invested their savings in
bank stock for an income. In
April of this year the total Nation
al bank stock was s68S, 642,S76 I
and there were 287,842 stockhold-
ers making the average holding
of stock s2,337. OF this women
own about one-hfth. In 1893 the
average amount OF deposits was
less than in the savings banks of
the poor In 1873 National banks
made 500 per cent dividend In
1894 they earned 3.3 per cent.
With these facts before us it would
not seem that National banks are
institutions wholly in, behalf Of
greed and oppression. -.
The Star believes with the great
of monetary authorities
as to the causes Of the recent pan
ic. We believe that there we're
causes Of worldwide origin as well
as local causes. The whole world
experienced the same panic at the
same time, and to the extent to
which these universal causes oper-
ated in this country the panic here
was certainly not due to the action
Of local bankers. The good times
of $4,000 had caused an undue
initiation Of values and credits and |
u 4
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19
Special.

Until further notice Mr.. H d. Field
Is connected with The STAR as Associ
ate Editor.
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19

ic of 1893, and as such they are
recognized by the business world.
They are certainly more potent
than any alleged conspiracy among
bankers.
After diagnosing the panic from
his standpoint, the Senator says:
''Now if this result be not cor
rec, what other cause can be as
signed for the panic? lhave heard
but one, and that is: a want OF
confidence in our currency owing
to coinage of silver. A sufficient
answer to that is found in the fact
that this very currency so attempt
ed to be discredited, sold in New
York at three per cent. premium
during the very panic which is thus
charged to have been created by
its discredit.'
The Senator should have been
perfectly fair and explained this
statement, 1t is true that silver
money was at a premium; but so
also was gold and paper. For a
few days during the panic the scare
became so great that money of all
kinds disappeared-wcnt into hid
ing, Men had to pay small pre-
mum to get money, just as when
large merchants, banks, towns,
and whole cities sometimes run out
OF small change and have to buy it
at an advance. The premium is
not paid for any extra intrinsic val
tie Of the money desired; but mere
" for the mechanical convenience
Of having the small change.
The Senator urges that the re-
peal of the purchasing clause Of
the Sherman law caused cotton to
decline from S 5:I6 cents on the
day of repeal to the low price it
reached last winter. We submit
that this is the most untenable
proposition in the entire speech.
Cotton isan international commod-
ity whose price is hxedin England.
Local financial legislation in this
country can not, except very re-
motely, affect the price. General
George ackno %lcdged this himself
when he said in the West Point
anti Subtreasury speech before re-
ferred to, 'Erery one knous that
tWo-thirds Of the cotton of this conn
tryas exported and that the price of
the zane IS regulated at liverpool
and other Eurqgcan markets.. Ind
do these adrocates Of this .chimerical
scheme propose to regulate the foreign
markets Of the uorld, teo?" The
same argun ent applies to the indie
pendent coinage of silver as to the
treasury. Both are local leg
islation and neither can affect the
price of an International commod-
ity.
Gen. George fully realizes the
effect of a mass of figures fired
broadside into a crowd. With the
idea of showing how the country
is .groaning under the effects of the
act of 1873, he says: ~
a "'We have some statistics as to
mortgages Of. real estate. The
census tables ,pf 1890 show that in
the"te9 years. 1880 to 1889, ,thsre
were over nine and half million
mortgages made, representing an.
increased indebtedness Of a frac-
ton over twelve billion dollars,
nearly eight times as much money
as there was in the United States
during that.period.'
This statement is not borne ont
by the'facts II is true that 9,517,-
747 new mortgages representing
indebtedness Of $l2,oI4,S77793
were made during that period; but
it is not true, that the peoples
debts were increased by the latter
amount. On January /, IS9o-the
close OF the 10 years he mentions
Z
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19

The chaotic condition of South
American. governments should py'
comparison awaken us to the hap
py appreciation Of the worth and
stability of the English speaking
people. Government succeeds
government, the ruler of yesterday
is the exile of today. Liberty
there is public frenzy-a hcNie
populace with constant change
burlesque the cause Of freedom anu
make republiGanism an ahsurdl'y'
We, as republic, have stood tine
test OF more than century. we
do not owe our strength to sfed'
leadership and guidence SO nuco
as to the sturdy conservatlvens'S
of the Anglo Saxon race. III
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19

.,Ifyou Nish a fine head If hair of
natural hue, use Halls Hair Remover
The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-07-19

We guarantee all shms sold oy
nsNo give perfsct-satisfaction- ="
.'.., DpBard K Chesautt'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-09-27

All that section OF country lying ives. OF
the lOU,u meridian is comparatively "a
native desert Tie area comprises parts
of seventeen states and territories. and has
in It's borders the most productive mlucra'
fields in the world. Before the dawn OF the
era OF irrigation this country was barren,
desOlate desert waste. To-day fruitful
fields. beautiful homes and large cities
adOru the sandy plains. y egetatiou has
supplanted the barren hills; and civlliza-
ton takes the place of roaming buiialoes
and fighting Indians, \ miracle in cly!ii-
cation has been performed, the deserts
hayY been reclaimed and the wonders of
the nineteenth century have been increased.
The work OF reclamation has nccessitated
many waketul hours, brought about hun
dreds OF personal failures and caused the
loss of countless millions OF dollars III con
querIn- the arid foe.
The conquest OF vegetation over aridi,l
began iu tah nearly a halt century aro.
In lS47 the Mormons settled the Sali Lake
valley The land was patched as though
no moisture had ever touched lbs surface.
Small canals were taken from the noun
tain streams. and water was flooded over
the sandy plain. When moisture was fur
nished the surface could be broken. and
and irrigated during the season. and IN the
fall the first harvest under irrigation IN
modern America was gathered. Since the
beginning IN Utah irrigation has been
adopted throughout the West. and many
sections OF the East will soon be under the
irrigation system.
Irrigation is a simple but ettectual meth
Cd OF supplying moisture for growing crops
The rain of the East cannot compare with
the irrigation of the West. Instead of
being a substitute for rain. irrigation is the
superior OF natural rainfall. 4 man with
a supply OF water for irrigation can control
the growth, increase or diminish the
quantity, and add to or take from the
quality OF plant life. The western part of
America has been redeemed from its print
tive state OF aridty by the power of man
in experimenting the distribution OF water
over the surface. A new empire has been
built up west of the 100th meridian, and
the work OF reclamation goes on steadily
/ until, in the near future. the train of irri-
CATION will turn 10 the West, and the thOus-
ands now homeless will md comfortable
/ quarters in the land of sunshine and irriga-
| ton.
Where the valleys have been irrigated
/ homes have been established. the treasures
! OF the mountains unearthed, and the great
/ natural ranges utilized. A perfect contest
/ has been waged against the arid atmos-
/ phere. Man has conquered in this battle
| for life and wealth, and he presents today
/ a picturesque scene of happiness on the
| former desert plains. Modern machinery
| has taken the place OF the ancient man
/ labor devices. Railroads thread every
valley OF the old deserts, and peace and
/ prosperity reign queen of the desert and
king of the mountain. The hand of irri-
CATION is the beginning of all this trans
formation and its secret fingers have
touched the handspring OF national wealth.
II eStcTU IqricUitUriSt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-09-27
MISCELLANY.


A soul set free came trembling through the night,
And stood all naked in the Judgment light
ALAS she cried 80 pressed with life was !,
No space found to teach me how 10 die.
Unshriven came. l was so full Of care
No time had tor penance or for prayer
] dwelt where men were in such evil case.
Their woful eyes still held me to my place
Nor did ! heed my garments fret and stain.
II so ] might a little ease their pain.
And scarce my thought from haunting care could
To say at morn. All. Lord. another day.
But ing still. and followed hard by fear
loved and to,d. and walked to md me here
Then round the naked soul the Judgment light
Grew. like a lily's bloom. to garments white
And a new dawn OF rapture and surprise
Shonc through the doubt and sorrow Of her eyes,
As voice whispered. "Since thou ddst not fear
To drink my cup on earth, come share it here.
And gazing on a face. unknown TN now.
She cried. exciting Master. Is il Thou.
-Emlu Huntingdon Miller iu independent
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-09-27

A South Carolina pickaninny-she may
be called that for she is in the ninth year
of her age and is blacks preaching the
gospel with power TO the sinners of that
state. She began TO eXhort when seven
years old, and she has labored both in North
Carolina and South Carolina since that
time. She is described as a prodigy, and
her sermons are said TO be wonderful Her
converts are numbered by scores, and even
by hundreds. She does not always com
pose her own sermons; she can repeat any
sermon which she has once heard. White
sinners as well as black are among her con-
verts. She can recite whole chapters of
the gospels.-N. Y. Sun.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-09-27
Logical to say the Least.

Teacher TO class in philosophy "What
are the properties OF heat, Willie
Willie. THE properties of heat are to
bake. cook roast
Teacher. 'Stop-neXt. What are the
properties of heat?'
johnny. "The properties OF heat is that
it expands bodies, while cold contracts
them"
Teacher. every good Can you give
me an example,
Johnny. "Nes sir. In summer when IL
is very hot, the day is long; in winter
when it is cold, it gets 10 be very short.
-Hdrpcr's Round Table,
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