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The Press., 1896-01-09
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O. M. BROWN, Prop.


 A T Court of Probate holden at Ash A ford, within and for the district of Ashford, on the 14th day of December, A. D. 1895.
 Present, DAVIS A. BAKER, Judge.
 O1motion ot P. Emily Brown, executrix of the estate of Alfred Brown, late of Ashford, within said district, deceased.
 This Court doth decree that six months be al- lowed and limited for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims against the same to the executrtx, and directs that public notice be given of this order by advertising the same in a newspaper published in Stafford three weeks, and by posting copy thereof on the public sign post h sald town of Ashford, nearest the place record, 2sdst' DAVIS A. BAKER, Judge: .TOWN OF STAFFORD.-Not otfce is Il hereby given that, ,the Board of Relief will meet at the Town Hall on. Monday, the 9th day Of January, 1896, and on. Monday, Jan. 20th; at Borough Hail., Stafford Springs, on Monday. Jan. 13, from o'clock a: m:, to p. mt, on each of said days; at the post Qfnce in West stanord. on Thursday, January 18th, from to o'clock p. m.; Tor the purpose Of equalizing and adjusting the valuations and assessment list of said town 4. E. CONVERSE, Board
 ANTHONY ADANsJ Reliet.
The Press., 1896-01-09

When truth gets after it, a lie always takes to its heels.
The Press., 1896-01-09

BUoKLEN's ARN1oA SALvE.-The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, fchapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded, Price 25c. per box. Sold by E. K. Taft.
The Press., 1896-01-09

Under lead of Miss Frances E. Willard the White Ribbon League has voted to admit to it's membership Roman CatL Lolics and HehreMs
The Press., 1896-01-09

New York has five hundred and fifty five churches and more than eight u oas- and places licensed to sell intoxic tns drinks. - <E
The Press., 1896-01-09

IT E. EATEN, 37 Wells-st., Hart H. ford, Conn.,, Dye1ng and Carpet Beating Works. Miss MI Russell, agent, ,Stanord Springs.
The Press., 1896-01-09

INORN and BUNION CURE, for sale \ and made by JOSEPH GUILMAN, Stafford Springs. Cure warranted or money refunded:
The Press., 1896-01-09

The vote of church members in Ameri- has been estimated at 6, ,5O1 ,O94. 1f"v~ry one voted as he prayed what would i".- come of the saloons in the midst?
The Press., 1896-01-09

Somehow the New Years coming all ways makes me think of a motto. You all know what motto is. Perhaps you have taken one and fastened it up where you could see 1t every day. Then the words become very well known to you and you grow to love them.
 know some one who had this h"auti- full motto ever before her, on the wall of her room. The words always brought q happy look to her face when shr saw them:
 Build little fence of trust around to- Fill the space with loving work and there in stay;
 Look not through the shelt'ring bars up
 on tomorrow.
 God will help thee bear what comes of joy
 or sorrow"
 Miss Willard says her motto fur the coming year is this: "Only the Golden Rule of Christ can bring the golden age of man." This means that every drN in 1896 she is going to do unto others as she would that they should do to her. "You sent us missionaries to tell us of Jesus, and He has blessed us. Do not now let us be destroyed by the liq or of the white men," This was the touching and irresistible plea of the three earnest chiefs from the Dark Continent a Christian nation. Is it not also tn" plea of thousands of Gods suffering creatures everywhere?
The Press., 1896-01-09
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

nR. C. H. DAVID, Physician and D Surgeon. Office hours, to 5 and 2 to p. m. Of1ce and residence EaSt-Main-St.
The Press., 1896-01-09

Y w. CHANDLER. Insurance and eJ Real Estate Agency, Stafford Springs. Or nce at residence on Westford Avenue. 1
The Press., 1896-01-09

~ H. HOBBY, Piano Tuner and Os Dealer in Pianos and Organs, Mansfield,
The Press., 1896-01-09

L'OR SALE-My Farm, with all Stock !, E Hay, Farming Tools. Wagons, etc. Low price and easy terms. GEO. D. SHAW, .@
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Y HI. REED, Attorney at Law, office O in Stafford National Bank Building, East Main-st.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19

railway companies have charters and
street franchises that this constitutes
kind of perpetual contract that the al
dermen Of Chicago can never change
The streets are appropriated 50 that
competition is impossible, and If the
city can make no change in the fares
to be charged the people will be help
less. While il is true that under the
charter no more than a o-cent rare
may be charged. yet under the improve
ments and cheapening of motor power
there is no doubt the cost of carrying
passengers may be reduced quite in
definitely. When the fare cost snail
have been reduced TO or 3 cents
fare the city would be in the absolute
control of a monopoly from which 1t
might not relieve itself, because a char
ter and franchise would be in the Ia
ture of perpetual contract. This is
not the law, and the courts Will not
so hold. If it should be so held, IL
would give serious ground for COM
plant as establishing dangerous doc
rrine. 1t is not a contract but per-
mission to use the public highway for
a specific purpose-a quasi-public pur-
pose. Being in the nature of a natural
monopoly the public, acting through its
ordinance making power has full and
complete right to regulate the tariff
charges of all chartered street railway
companies. The public must deal fair
ly with the company; must not require
them to serve the public at unreasona-
bly, small compensation, while, on the
other hand, the public has a right TO
protect itself from extortion.
The public is apt to get a bad idea of
affairs from such bold language as that
used by Yerkes. The public Is apt to
conclude that man like Yerkes, not
lawyer, boldly making such assertions
does it not from the standpoint Of what
is law aud justice, but as a public def
ance, kind of threat as to what he
can induce the courts to do. The pub
lie my Conclude that the courts will be
induced brow-beaten or bribed to do as
he says the law ought to be. 1t is not
a wholesome thing for the public to be
told that the courts will stand i'll the
way of public legislation. There is no
real danger of this, but it is in bad
taste for Mr.. Yerkes to do so much pos
tive talking.
1t may be borne in mind that Mr..
Yerkes is the possessor of a good deal
of wealth from the profits of o-cent
fares. His wife is said to be the OWL
er of the most costly diamond in this
country. 1t is altogether likely that he
may be able to transport people at 4
cents and live. We do not want TO de-
tach from Mr.. Yerkes' enterprise-he
has come up from poverty-but he
should not be so free with his bluffs
1t should be confidently expected that
n case the 4-cent ordinance gets into
the courts 1t will be held valid
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
CHILD CULTURE

The question of child study may be
inst now a fad, but that it will lead to
good results is pretty certain. A better
understanding OF child life and the in
fuences that promote or hinder its de-
yelopment are matters OF moment TO be
sure. That through an intimate under
standing of child life and methods or
teaching adapted TO suit It's mental
growth. the best results may be obtain
ed. the highest mental training and
strength secured is but reasonable But
development must be must
iuclude the physical as well as the men
tai. There can only be the strong mind
in the strong body-that is, other things
bling equal The strong body and mlnd
will best make life's battle together.
However. it may be certain that much
unnecessary technical detail will ind its
way into the child study fad and il VIII
remain a curious fact that many great
men grew up simply by being left alone
without the restraints Of custom or OF
trimming. We have no complaint TO
make OF child-study. 1t is all very well
in It's way. Yet il Is easy 10 see that
when the subject is thoroughly investi-
gated it viii extend to prenatal infu-
ences.
The child is considered purely. "a 70
the effect that circumstance has upon il.
This follows the laws Of nature, and
has nothing 10 do with things not
known through the laws OF anatomy.
phy siology and hygiene In other words
II treats the child a. little animal. con
sOicuously. This being the case, the
subject very naturally goes back % It's
tisth. Here NE enter upon field that
br reason Of certain notions Of delicscy
Is in a measure tabooed- That the pre-
natal influences are very great goes
without debate. and that this subject.
while not so interesting 10 teachers who
deal with the material at hand Is Of the
first importance TO parents : e1Gslly
certain
III Tire subject should b. studied a II
deserves TO be. there Nigh; be expected
tulprovor.l.-: in The children the sub
;ect Of our present. sOliei;ude- ThsTe
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
ONE ON HANNA.

The following story is told on Mark
Hanna by an editor who claims 10 be
conversant with the facts and vouches
for its truthfulness: Last summer,
during the progress of the campaign,
when Hanna was abnormally active he
was informed that one of his corps OF
bookkeepers was about 10 be married.
Hanna at once sent for him and asked
him where he intended TO go on his
wedding tour. AS the young man was
poor he timidIy replied that he did not
expect TO make much of Il trip. How
would you like to go through the Great
Lakes and return on one OF my boats:"
pursued the magnate kindly. Very
much the bookkeeper replied, bright
ening up. IF 1 could be spared so
long" II will give you a vacation and
a pass" Hanna said. and he sent the
young lover away rejoicing. Hanna
went to the captain Of one of his finest
boats. told him to give the bridal
couple the best quarters and every at
tent.on without charge. After you are
well out from shore" continued Hanna
''hand the bridegroom this envelope
with my compliments and tell him 10
have a good time" The envelope con-
tanned $500"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
DANGEROUS MEN.

The death of Maceo has stirred up In
the south and west a class of men, the
very class of men most needed by the
cause Of Cuba, men who know what
arms and ammunition mean, and who
are not afraid to fight. In almost
every town Of the southwestern states
there are many of this class of men
who are anxious to go to Cuba. The
Spaniards will not find these men half
breeds. They are equal to any troops
that ever faced line of battle. They
are filed with generous daring, with
the spirit which made the Americans
who took Texas from Mexico so form
liable. Many of them are already skill
ed in the use of arms. Some, especially
those who are moving toward the gulf
coast from the wilder regions of the
west. have been abundantly tested in
deadly combats and all kinds of peril.
The Cubaus must not underrate such
possible recruits. Pride and confidence
we'll justified, but the fact remains that
a hundred Texas or Montana cowboys
would be more demorallzing and dan
gerous to the Spanish forces in Cuba
than twice as many Cubans unframed
in the Use of arms and by no means so
eyperienced as the rough riders of the
west in horsemanship.
Altogether, it looks as If the murder
of Maceo would cost his enemies more
than they would have lost by the ut
most possible services he could have
rendered to his country while alive.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19

ALONG TIE KANSAS NILE

Mr.. FIeharty seems TO mistake number
one for Governor Leedy.
The program Of the Kansas Day clubs
banquet is out and promises fine enter
tainment.
The Lawrence World is OF the opinion
that Maceo will accomplish dead what ne
failed in. living.
Moro msndolins. guitars and banjos are
sold in Lawrence than IN any other three
cities in the state
''WiH this new constitution they are talk
ing about" asked man yesterday. pro
vide for more rainZ''
1t IS said mat CO. Leland and Senator
Baker are agreed hard on Ike Lambert for
United States district attorney.
The New York sun says the author OF
The Real Issue Is entitled 10 high
place among American short story wit
sTs-
There 3 no sign % a Green Christmas in
Kansas Tow and al unusual number %
people VIII 1--we to enjoy Republican pros
pesity-
Kansas always has TO - IN 81 Il s. noE
offered in svtdcacs BY TIE Atrhlson GLOBE
that saivini caught rs fatal cough Il a
Kansas opera house
Judge Deunisoz is szs5 20 sta-6 nearer
ire silver Republicans IN th~ safe than
any Other Populist candidate FOR tas
United statas senate
Complicated MAXIM IL TIE Atehtsoa
Champion. Faith Il a cable Eaiea nsTsf
breaks. bat sometimes its strongest Ink
: az ths bottom y TIE wen"
d. r. Z DiEeaseek of r Dors3o = a
ozud5as,s for secr~szry of ths state bard
q zezlrA Dsuezbeck = = P1pGiisi- hsg =
= sail not . have affected IS health.
The Topeka JournzI throws laio Mzssz-
chsset.s' teeth ma, Karss&s do%=a't barr
witch BIT SEez Szlen SRs boo-sHs
along that Ens TIE rssi9s-ts CO Kansas
xsr@ known % take 1sone@-s AID bra
saeua n fhs stake OF make tAera Tx tAs
EzUntss-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
"THE NEW RACE"

sThe New Race" is the name of
new monthly magazine hailing from
Kansas City. If new race were pos
sible, it must inevitably spring from
the higher civilization being evolved
of western conditions and environ
ments. Its type is already discernible.
Mentally, physically and spiritually it
will be superior, highly wrought, and
in its ultimate development will touch
and move-control the world. The said
conditions and environments do not
consist Of climatic habitude nor of
racial notifications, but subSist OF nu-
underlie and inspire the thing now so
distinctly recognized everywhere as
"western life" But we did not start
out to write UP the new race but or
The New Race" which is an up-to-
date magazine in the matters of con-
tents, cover and typographical excel
ton. The cover in being highly ilium-
NATIVE is graphically suggestive. 1t
opens with an illustrated poem, but the
proof reader left out word in the last
line of the very first verse which mars
both sense and rhythm. The first
chapters of its first serial story and
which contains much of promise, is
from the pen of Mrs. II. G. Toler of
this city, and is entitled A Little Say
age" We hope for 1.-THE New Race
the success which the enterprise and
taste of its first issue diScloses it to be
entitled TO-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
GOVERNMENTAL INCONSISTENCY

John Sherman makes a great ado
over the failure of public revenues, de-
nouncing the policy which fails OF Sc
curing enough money 10 pay the cur
rent expenses of the country, and Incl
dentally the mishaps and plumbers or
the present administration and its
bond selling schemes for keeping up
the reserve. That is all right, NJ. Sen
ator John. but if we should increase
cur editorial staff TO the extent of one
hundred dollars per week more than
the income OF the business office
would warrant il would not only prove
4 poor policy 10 borrow the money, but
Just as suicidal one as to take the
employees. 1t is very hard to tell what
outside OF wool and a few other pro-
ducts we can put a higher protection
on and realize any income. We note
by the market reports that Alabama is
now selling its iron TO foreign buyers.
Waat Mr.. Sherman ana his colleagues
should do is TO cut down the number
of government employees if necessary.
al above all. cut down the pay and sal
aries 10 level of the times: then there
viii be no difficulty in meeting the nee
essary current expenses 1t will prove
burden to the people if the govern
mem insists upon keeping up 10 the
number Of its present pay roll and at
the same time pay all hands boom
prices. or. in other words, pay silver
salaries in gold.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Shawnee's fire last Sunday morning cost
the town 10000.
Joseph Daniels and May Daniels. cous-
ms, eloped from Purcell last week.
The free homes bill in the senate follows
the immigration bill, which is now passed.
A three-legged chicken was the chief at
traction at the Perry depot the other
morning.
Alfred Son, the slayer of Treasurer Hoff-
man Of D county, was sent to the peniten-
tiary for life.
The driver of the Chandler express car
containing $22,o
That black boa which the Enid belle lost
on country road is still chasing Alkali
Ike across the prairies.
Mrs. Matthewson of Saltwater Is under
arrest charged with poisoning $50 head of
cattle for her husband.
Dealers in Oklahoma are already engag-
ing cotton seed. There will be a big de-
mand for 1t in the spring.
Reverend Rogers of Lawrence. Kansas,
is in the territory with a lecture entitled
''To Europe in a Handbag"
One of the big stables at Fort Reno
caught fire last Monday evening and came
mighty near being destroyed.
The South McAlester Capital in long
editorial tells the Indians that the end is
In sight for their tribal governments. 1t
is.
A Woodward dressmaker announces that
the new fashionable color. green. makes
ST. Patrtck's day extend the whole year
round.
Isenberg has figured out very ably that
the free homes bill must get up for con-
sideration before the holiday recess to be
absolutely safe.
The next legislature Is already figuring
on how to get transportation. Oklahoma
got the transportation habit from both
Kansas and Texas.
The Fort Reno football club IS probably
the best in the territory. 1t wiped up the
terrestrial sphere with the Oklahoma City
eleven the other day.
Mrs. Tarsney has got several OF the
young people OF FL Reno about her and
organized a literary society. Mrs. Tars-
ney is one Of the most charming women In
the country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
The uy gasle saturday gorniae 1mber ~ 1885,

are many ways in which the plainest
violation of tie laws OF nature are
transgressed. the result being Il ieteri-
grafton of the child. Wherefore this
subject becomes one of prime import
ancr as relative to child. study. There
can be noIhing so important as that the
child should come into the world armed
with the greatest possible brain and
physica: strength to make its way III
life. The calls made upon the vitality
OF mothers. from over-work. unueceS-
sary worry and frivolous obedience 10
certain social relations have handicap
ped many an unborn child.
This, however. is but a suggestion
The relation of prenatal influences with
child study is so manifest that this sus-
gestion seems apt. In a broad sense the
two might be included under the name
Child Culture"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
COURTS AND LAWYERS.

The newspapers Of the country are
the court, TO the judge, and to the law
yer, to the law and the litigant. There
is no mistaking the drift of opinion.
While there is no difference of judg-
nent touching the majesty of courts
and powers of the lawyers, there is an
energetic protest against abuses and
outrages which have crept into the ad-
ministering processes of the courts. The
courts and lawyers constitute an essen
tial part of the framework of the gov
eminent, but the people are losing faith
in them through the delays of the one
and the extortions and unreliability or
the other. The machinery of justice Is
moved by the lawyer, and his motives
should be high, his aims elevated. But
they are not. The Albany Law Jour-
nal in replying to some of these COM
ments admits that many of the daily
frictions of life, its Instructions and in
references must be laid at the door OF
lawyers, while, in addition, for the
greater Equities and frauds in rade,
the malignant combinations, the per-
verse and corrupt legislation and the
miscarriage of justice, they are as
body responsible. The lawyer is train
ed to ingenuousness. and the judge is
but a lawyer clothed with additional
authority it might have been added.
They are the tools of powerful cOrpor-
atoms and they constitute a majority
of every body of law-making men of
the land. There are growing com
plants Of the use of newly devised
methods in the practice. One of the
most crying Of these is the chronic evil
of the laws delay and consequent ex-
pense. Our courts are too much ampli-
fed in the administration of justice.
How not to do it, seems the rule. The
practice is a system of poStponements
and appeals, while that which every
litigant wants is a quick decision and
relief from uncertainty. Writs on error
objections and appeals become a bur
then. 1t ought not to be necessary to
try q case three or four times before
truth and justice is arrived at. Prece-
cents are inevitable in decisions, but
the standing and the personal relations
Of the advocate with the judge should
not constitute a principal factor in ar
irving at decision. The supreme
court of the United States. in its decis-
ion of the income-tax almost overthrow
the confidence Of the American people
in their highest and most respected
courts. The courts of America do not
command the confidence of the people
as do the courts of Great Britain that
of the English poole. Take for ill.,
stance, the late unexpected trick of
little count court attempting receiv-
ership for property like the Santa Fe
involving the interests of thousand
communities. many Of them beyond the
limits of Kansas. And the Chicago
convention was not far wrong when it
denounced government by injunc-
ton. The next great reform demanded
is that of the courts and the practice
before them. Bench-hade laws are
dangerous laws, and this country is
largely ruled by bench-made laws.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
Mr.. YERKES' BLUFF.

The ordinance of the Chicago alder
man requiring 4-cent fares has its les
son. No sooner was IL passed than Mr..
Yerkes. the street railway magnate. as
serted that the ordinance WAS not
worth the paper it was written on
He would have the courts pronounce IL
unconstitutional. 1t Is Needless 20 go
into the question whether the street car
companies in Chicago can make money
CARRYING passengers al / cents This
is a matter OF business and can only be
answered by an intimate knowledge of
the street car business in Chicago. The
board of aldermen should have this
knowledge and the presumption is that
they acted upon such information The
more important question is involved IN
the assertion of Yerkes that the courts
will hold tine ordinance unconstitution-
al. ON the face of things this looks II
diculocs.
Yerkes' idea is that because the street
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19
SPuGuIsM a CENTURY AGO.

Professional pugilism has not chang
ed in a hundred years This fact is
made clear 10 those who did not know
il by Conan A. Doyle's latest work,
Rodney Stone"
The hero OF the modern ring is only
! hero when ae is on the sawduSr fioar
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19

The woman suffrag ists have carried
their point in Idaho. The supreme
court of that state has decided that the
amendment 10 the constitution giving
women the right to vote was adopted
at the late election. The amendment
received 5000 more votes than were re-
corded against il. bat NOT a majority OF
the whole vote cast.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19

Another horde of insurgents are
sweeping westward across Cuba and
will soon be in Pinar del Isso once more
Then they will try TO set back again,
and the war will continue al infini-
frrr,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19

II the pilgrim fathers. Senator Lodge.
been asked to put their hand down in
a cracker box. draw a printed slip and
copy five lines Of the Magma Charta.
in order TO land, how many would have
la0dads
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-19

'ThoSe dog gone type setting ma
chimes of yours never get anything
right said subscriber yesterday.
What is it they have been trying to
say about Cuba's library?'