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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23

Boys Fun in the Artics.
The oldest boys of an Eskimo village
have all sorts of hunting games-musk
OK hunts, polar bear hunts, and many
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23

No, they watch till papa owl
Flies back to the tree.
He has gone a-marketing
For his babies three.
Baby owls don't care for stars
No, nor for the moon.
IT'S their dinner that they want,
slope he'll bring it soenw
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
'CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
4 DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS.

Something that VIII Interest the Ju-
veni1e Members of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23

-"Why, that" replied the Banjak, sis as
easy as can be;
l sing SO well because my neck is full of
scales, you see!"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
A VIRGINIA CASE.

More than a year ago Col. III. G. Par
sons, a prominent resident of Virginia
and an ex-Union soldier. made a COM
plant to the officers OF a railroad COM
pany Of some irregularity committed by
a conductor named Goodman. When
Goodman heard of the matter he muir
dered Parsons in cold blood. There was
no question concerning his guilt, and on
the first trial he was convicted and sem
fenced to eighteen years Imprisonment.
BY some means the Court of Appeals
granted the murderer a new trial and "a
change of venue. That trial was recent
~ concluded at Charlottesville and re-
suited in an acquittal. The lawyer for
the defendant was Colonel Duke. an ex-
Confederate. When he made his argu-
ment he wore a Confederate soldiers
badge and called the attention of the
jury to the fact. AS Goodman had been
a Confederate soldier and his victim was
a Union soldier. it is fair to assume thai
the strange performance of Colonel Duke
had an influence pom a jury made up
of ex-C~onfederates or their sons. 1t
seems strange hat the court allowed
such an appeal TO the prejudice of a
jury to be made, but he did, and because
he did it is probable that the murderer
of Colonel Parsons, a prominent Repub-
lican and Union soldier, was acquitted.
Such al incident would Indicate that
the war feeling is still strong in some
parts of Virginia when appealed To as
1T was by the ex-Confederate lawyer.
Colonel Parsons was an enterprising
business man who went 10 Virginia soon
after the war and became prominent
in the pushing of local enterprises and
the building III OF new industries. II III
said that he was held IN esteem BY the
best people IN that part OF the country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26

An exchange prints a communication
from some person who assumes to know
all about finances and the Constitution.
Among other things, he demands hat
all money shall be issued by the federal
government "as provided by the Consti-
tuition, A large number of people are
accustomed to make the same assump-
ton because they nave never read that
instrument. If the editors of newspa-
pers know that such an assumption is
false why do they let it go uncorrected?
TIC coin money, regulate the value
thereof and of foreign coin," and ito
borrow money upon the credit of the
United States is all the power Congress
has over the issue Of money except, as
the Supreme Court has decided, in time
of war, in order ito provide for the COM
mon defense it may issue promissory
notes and make them legal tender. 1t
is time to know what the Constitution
says.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26

Now that the Good Citizens League
has a capable man for organizer might
it not be well for it to undertake a
broader work than looking after the
enforcement of the laws regulating the
liquor traffic? Good citizenship has a
wider significance than devotion to one
set of laws. The elevation and purifica-
ton of the suffrage is a very important
matter, and it affects the enforcement
of all laws tending to promote social
rider. There is in not a few counties a
laxity on the part of officials which is
demoralizing. Unfit men are nominated
and elected, who are sure to use the
positions for selfish ends, from which
come inefficiency, extravaganza and pee
ulation. The oath of office has not the
binding force upon many of those who
take it which it hould. Cannot the
Good Citizens League under its new in
centive embrace these and like features
in the prosecution of its work?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
REBEL M0RGAN's ESCAPE.
Radehaugh's story Discrcdited by
Governor TOd's Private Secretary.

YOUNGSTOWN, o., March 25.-The Tel
egram publishes a letter from Judge II.
+. Hoffman, now living at Pasadena, Cal.
who was private secretary TO the late Gov
ernor Tod. of Ohio, which emphatically
discredits the recent story of a Columbus
man, TO the effect that the rebel general,
John Morgan, was secretly released from
the Ohio peniIentiary as the result of some
understanding between Secretary Stanton
and Governor Tod. Judge Hoffman says:
II don't believe a word of this yarn of
Radebaugh. He was not a confident of
Governor Tod. He had no relation with
Governor Tod. l was Tod's private sec
rotary at the time, closely allied with him
confdentially and would most certainly
have heard or known something of such
a matter. But I know that the prison cells
We're examined where General Morgan and
others, some seven or eight. mot thirteen
as stated went down into the vault under
meath through holes cut through the floor
of the cells and out under the outside
prison wall through a tunnel cut from the
vault to the outside and when outside
they climbed up the prison gate and let
themselves down with ropes on a dark
night. The examination fully made showed
all this to the satisfaction of every one
at the time"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
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1t must appear from the foregoing
figures that the price of one year is
affected by the crop of the previous year.
Often there are two good years in sue
c~ession, followed by a short crop, SO
that there is a stock on hand to maxi
up the deficit and hold down the price.
The crop of 1893 was about an average,
but it was preceded by the next largest
ever known, in 1891, and a full average
in 1892, SO that there must have been a
large quantity of corn in sight when it
was foreseen that the crop of 1894
1,212, 77e,052 bushels-would be the light
est since 1881. Had not the price OF an
abundant worlds crop of wheat come
in 1894 the price of corn would have
been considerably above the present
figure.
In the great markets the price of mess
pork from year to year furnishes as good
an illustration of the rise and fall of
prices with the supply as can be found.
Going back to that period when, in the
language of the inf1ationists, the world
had the two metals for money, say from
184S to 1854, the price of mess pork in
New York rose from $10.32 i'll 1913 to
$1S.04 in 1852, and fell to $12.S7 in 1854.
1t rose again to 1920 in 1857 and fell to
SIPS s in 1862. During the war, when the
value was made in an inflated and
~1uctuating currency the price rose to
1910 in 1864 and fell to $22.13 in 1867,
largely because the demand made by
the war had ceased. In 1872, when, to
quote the fiction of the silverites, the
country and the world had both metals
as money, but when, as a matter of
fact, the United States was doing bust
ness with a currency worth about so
cents on the gold dollar and rs cents
measured by the silver dollar, the price
of mess pork fell to $13.61. The year be-
fore specie resumption it fell to 1917,
but rose to $19.79 in 1897, eight years
after "the crime of the age vas COM
mitted against silver as money" Fol-
lowing the great corn crops from 1885
to 1889 the price of mess pork fell to
$11.3S in 1891 and $11.52 in 1892. Again,
In consequence of the shortened hog
crops caused by low prices, the price
rose to $1s.S5 the latter part of 1892 and
1893, and averaged $14.13 in 1894.
These facts are commended to those
who have been led to believe that sup
ply and demand do not fix prices, but
thai fluctuations are due to the fact
tina the coinage of silver is not free or
is not governed by the same restrictions
which are placed upon gold coinage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
CAUSE OF PRICE FLUCTUATIONS


Those people who assume. that the
present monetary system of the world,
which is a gold basis sustaining silver
and paper. is responsible for any fail
of prices in staple articles will not find
facts in the market and crop reports
to sustain them. AT the present time
comparisons cannot be made of the
wheat crop from year to year with
prices because the crops of foreign COM
petitors vary so much from year to year
in volume that the crop and prices in
this country do not furnish a correct
basis for a comparison. For instance. a
few years ago when the crop was the
largest ever known in the United States
it was generally short in Europe, which
held the price UP compared with the
last few years, when the crop has been
smaller here, but much larger elsewhere.
A comparison, however, can be made
with the crops and prices of several
staples which are largely produced in
this country. Take the New York price
of No.. 2 mixed corn for a series of years
in connection with the crop, and the
fact will appear that it is the mundane
or shortness of the crop which affects
the price. and nothing else. These
figures show the crops for several years
and the prices the year following when
these crops were On the market:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
THE CASE OF MIR. WALLER.

That d French court-martial. should as
sumo the right to try, convict and punish
an American citizen for following the
course which his own government has au-
be nermi nim 6 TO pursue Yor * e Timea. not TO
The international complications between
the Hon. John and the French re-
public have taken ID serious turn. Just now
John wishes sincerely that he was back
at Topeka whoOpi1lg 1t up for the G.. O. p.
and all observation-disclosures City journal.
The charge that he had been in CORE
spondence with the Hovas. the dominant
race on the island with which the French
cause it states no offense OF which the
French have a right to take cognizance.
Louisville Courier-JolrEal.
A prompt demand for the release of Wal
Ter and the payment of IN indemnity should
be made. 1t is a fact that the authority,
are not sufficiently respected by a large
majority of the r.flitary, naval and civil
officers of thsuf European poWers.-cincln-
IF the rum erln prove true true nothing short
of ample apology to the United States, and
ample ~recoInpense to Mr.. Waller for the
suffering and indignity to which he has
been subjected, should be demanded and
exacted of France. The case IS more ag~
gravated if. as is alleged, Mr.. Waller was
denied a trial before a civil court and was
condemned by q military LrlDunai.- -HlcaSo
Inter Ocean.
Both the property and the liberty of Mr..
Waller must be respected by France. Inc
fact that the gunboat Castine has been
sent to the east, coast of Africa shows that
the emergency was not unforeseen by our
government. An investigation and q de-
mand upon France for an e~xplanatlon or
the unwarrantab,es conduct OF her solaaers
at Tan1ataveJ wGuld seem 70 ne ulSeiie-
philadelphia Record.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26

cure for the advocate of it the results
Of the labor of ali others SO far as he
desires them. That socialism is the worst
form of monopoly, since those which
now exist contribute value or that which
value purchases. The STANDARD Oil
monopoly furnishes the best and cheap
est goods in that line. while it piles UP
the wealth of the Rockefellers, who
build the Chicago University. The VAN
derbilts furnish the cheapest railroad
transportation, while their wealth is be-
ing increased. But the monopoly of
socialism, as set forth by some of it's
advocates. furnishes nothing and claims
all for the inefficient, the lazy and the
worthless. The most hat the govern
ment can do is to improve the condi-
ions so that the individual may have a
fair opportunity to Obtain by individual
effort the things he desires. The better
and truer his education the larger will
be his desire to obtain the things he
has learned to regard as tending to Sc
cure his highest good.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26

ceeding. Continuing. he asserted that the
English chancery courts had never under
taken to enjoin the obstruction of rail
roads owned by private corporations, nor
had there been such a proceeding in any OF
our State courts II. this country. In real
ity this was a proceeding to punish for
conspiracy by an equity court. and such a
course was not allowable in advance of
congressional enactment.
Mr.. Walker asserted the right of the
Unired States to invoke the aid of an
equity court to suppress a nuisance, and,
therefore, such a court had jurisdiction in
this case. He referred briefly to the con-
dition of affairs in Chicago when the ap-
peal was made To the Circuit Court. which
was, he said. for the protection of mails
and of the interstate commerce and the is
suance of the writs TO enjoin such inter-
ference. He defended the right of the gov
eminent to invoke protection of these in
terests in a court OF equity, asserting that
such a course is authorized both by the
statutes and the decisions of the courts.
Mr.. Walker based his argument largely on
the provisions OF the rec
act and on the right of the government to
protect the mails.
Mr.. Walker concluded with the adjourn
ment of court, at 4 o'clock. leaving only
two still to be made-that OF
Acknowledgement Olney for the govern
ment and OF Mr.. Darrow for the petition
erS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
THE sNuBBInG OF BISMARCK.

1t would not be surprising if the action
which called forth the kaiser's character
istic and emphatic rebuke We're to be used
in stirring up public opinion in a way that
the men who have snuDbed Bismarck would
be made to feel sorely--Chicago Record.
The refusal of the popular branch of the
German Parliament to agree to a congrat-
ulatory message to Bismarck on completing
his eightieth year is certainly an incident
OF an extraordinary kind It shows that
grateful.-LouisviIle Courier-Journal
But, whatever the political significance
of the vote. the action of the Reichstag
will probably result in a popular manifesto
ton of affection for the author of German
unity as will make the birthday of Bis
marck q red-letter day in the history of the
great on.-Ch Inter Ocean.
Bismarck is a stern monarchist. He has
always frowned upon independence. He
has bitterly opposed every tendency toward
democracy. While the Germans, generally.
respect and admire his personality, they
have reached a point where they resent his
further political significance.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The refusal of the German Reichstag to
congratulate Bismarck on his birthday en-
phasizes anew the fact that the young EN-
peror has no bed of roses to lie upon.
What method he will adopt of attempting
to discipline the recalcitrants who have
dared his displeasure is a matter for spec
ulation; but experience leaves no room for
doubt that the attempt will be made.-De-
troit Free Press.
What the outcome of the conflict may be
is uncertain. Herr Richter, the Radical
leader, insists that it is not hostility to
Bismarck personally, on even want of po-
likeness to an aged statesman, that caused
the action, but for the reason that he still
represents political principles that are dis
tasteful and that cannot be separated from
his individuality, 1t looks as though Lib
eralism was rapidly gaining ground in Ger
many-Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
PUZZLES THE SURGEONS.
Man Living with Part of His Skull
and Brains Gone.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mimi, March CIT
has been claimed by medical men that a
man could not live with part Of his brains
gone and the top of his head of, but
Charles Olson is disproving this statement,
and the indications are that he will recover
his usual health. A week ago Olson at
tempted to board a moving train at Grand
Rapids, but missed his footing, and fell
under the wheels. His body was not man~
gled, but his head was crushed so that the
brains oozed out on the track, and when the
injured man. was picked up 1t was sup
posed that he was dead. All arrangements
were made for his funeral, but when sur
geons were called they declared that Olson
was not dead, but simply In a state of conla,
began work on the man, and by the use or
electricity managed to arouse him to a con-
siderable extent. 1t was supposed that he
could last but a short time, as considerable
Oh the brain was gone. but instead of col
lapsing. the patient began to improve, and
in two days was able to take mild nourish-
ment. He could not speak, but seemed to
comprehend what was going on around
him. His recovery WAS rapid. aud now he
can sit up in bed and say a few words.
Olson does not remember anything in re-
gard to himself prior to the accident, moth
ing of his past life, and az first did not even
know his own name. The surgeons pro-
nounce it one of the strangest cases that
has ever come to their notice, and Will have
Olson. VINO is a solid built young fei.ow OF
lists. A silver plate ces heer nut on DiSons
head. and he is now doing nicely. He COM
plains frequently that he can feel nothing,
and that nothing he eats has any taste.
was hurt, but his does not seem 10 oosSsf
him in the least.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Japanese workman draws bis plane
toward him. and turns a screw the oppo-
site way from ours.
Correspondents declare that Queen Vic
toria showed unmistakable traces of the
weight of years on her recent arrival at
Nice.
DR.. Mary Putnam jacob recently made
the remark that, as a class women dld not
so much need elevating as they did more
knowledge and greater opportunities.
Mr.. Edison, the great electrician, receives
many amusing letters. Not long ago ne was
startled by an epistle from a Western dam
sci asking him if he could not invent an
electrical continuance that would enable her
to see the face of her future husband.
The craze for miniatures grows more and
more emphatic. Beautiful brooches are
made with these exquisite little paintings.
lures are set in rings and iockets, and no
prettier or more fashionable backing for a
watch could be selected.
An eccentric feat is shortly to be at
tempted by a Frenchman for a wager. M.
Wiase,nsky, a gentleman well known in
Partisan fashionable circles. has made a
considerable wager that he will ride all
the wav from Paris to America on horse
back. The thing sounds impossible, but ne
declares ii is not so. he proposes 10 roe
right across Siberia to the point where Ber-
ing straits, which separate tnat country
from Alaska. in North America. are Ine
narroWeSt, and then to cross upon the lce-
He win be glad. he says, OF a companion.
In his "reminiscences of the Crimea in
1854, Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood tells a story OF
a fighting general who during It conflict was
seen wherever bullets fell most thickly.
When not visible his voice was heard en-
couraging his men with "a vocabulary Dor
rowed from the army in Flanders, = which
SIR Evelyn says will not bear repetition.
Years after he was appointed to the AL
dershor command, and her Majesty hap
pened to ask, Has the new general yet
taken up his commando Yes, your Males
ty.' was the apt reply. he swore himself III
yesterday
Miss Ida b. Wells, the young colored
woman who is featuring on Lynch Law in
America is now in Kansas City. She
spent the winter lecturing in California
She lectured in churches and halls in Los
Angeles. Santa Cruz, Oakland, Stockton.
Sacramento and San Francisco. Miss Wells
said that the only opposition she met in
California came from the Rev. Mr.. Goodsell,
a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. Miss Wells appeared before a meet
ing of the ministers of the city. and a res
olution was drafted indorsing her and her
objected long and vigorously, but the reso-
luton was finally adopted.
The Car and Mr.. Howells are
Alike in certain spots
It may at first seem singular,
But both of them hate plots.
UCh
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
SQUABBLE AT
Tire Mayor and Police commissioners
Almost Come to Blows.

ATLANTA, Ca, March 25.-The most
stormy and sensational meeting in the his
tory of the Board of Police Commissioners
was held this morning. The meeting was
an adjourned one. At the last meeting
Capt. j. W.. English, who has been chair
mar of the board for twelve years, pre-
sided. His time was out, but by common
consent he held over. The board tried -
elect a chairman to succeed him, but was
unable to do so. There was a deadlock.
Since the meeting the City Council passed
an ordinance to the effect that Mayor King
should act as temporary chairman of the
board until a permanent chairman was Sc
lected. At the meeting this morning three
members of the board-English, Venable
and Brennan-refused to acknowledge
lMay 70 sp mlng as snS dha waa toia s to of d a5yemP by
Mr.. King. He refused to do so, and when
Mayor King. ordered Chief of Police Con-
nelly to make Venable sit down Connolly
refused to act and King ordered the chief
of police from the room. He refused to go
remove Connolly. The two factions lined
up on different sides of the room, and for
several moments it seemed as il blows
would result. The Mayor dispatched a mes
senger on horseback for the city marshal
to arrest Connolly, but before the marshal
arrived Connolly. acting on the advice OF
board, had left the room. The end is not
yet, and no one seems to know when 1t
will come, nor what the result will be.
After this stormy scene the board sub
sided into a peculiar deadlock. Mayor King
sat at one end of the table, claiming to
be chairman and recognized as such by
three members, Captain English occupies
a seat at the opposite end and was rec
ognized and addressed as chairman by
the other three members. With this para
doxical state of affairs the board pro-
ceeded to the routine work of selecting
members of the police force. this being
the time for that annual ceremony. No
member dared to leave, fearing lest the
other side would take advantage of his abb
sence TO elect a chairman and there is no
telling when the tie will be broken. The
affair has created the greatest interest and
is the sole talk OF the town.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26

The Illinois Legislature meant well
when it passed the law providing that
no woman shall be employed in any
factory or workshop more than eight
hours in one day, the object being to
prevent the overwork in sweat shops
of which women are chiefly the victims.
The decision of the Sta. Supreme Court
that the law was unconstitutional be-
cause it deprived womes of the inherent
right every citizen possesses of saying
how many hours he shall work, and of
the right of free CONTRACT, while only a
matter of justice and common sense.
is exciting general newspaper comment.
The overthrow of the law, while it may
work hardship to the GLASS sought to be
protected, is nevertheless important in
establishing a principle In regard to the
industrial position OF women not always
recognized heretofore. And it is worth
while to record that even the women
i'm sweat shops and factories resented
the passage of the law as an interference
with their rights. If they chose to work
twelve hours a day or more they wanted
the u~ndisputed privilege of doing SO. 1t
is now clearly settled, in Illinois at
least, that they have equal rights and
responsibility with rlen in the making
of contracts for ahor and are not in
need of special class legislation as if
they We're children. 1t will be observed
in this connection that the Legislators
carefully ~refrained from limiting the
housekeeper's hours of work, her privi-
lege of having tasks that are never lone
being too well established to be ques-
toned.