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supposed to be as good as having pacing in

supposed to be as good as having pacing in
a race.
Backstretch-That portion of the track
furthest away from the tape. The portion
between the second and third turns OF the
course.
Loafng-When the riders Of a race refuse
to go at good rate of speed. Very often
caused by the unwillingness of any rider
in the bunch to furnish pace.
Pumping-A rider is said to be pumping
when he is in distress his unusual motions
creating attention to his condition. Almost
invariably caused by riding too fast, which
plays the man out quickly.
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The Shifting Tobacco Area.

From tie Philadelphia Record
Within forty years there has been much
shifting in the tobacco-producing area of
the country. Prior to 1859 Virginia was ths
greatest tobacco-producing state, the an
nual yield being 200 pounds. The
present yield of Virginia is, approximately,
only 10000. 600 pounds per annum. Succeed
ing the civil war Kentucky took first place
in tobacco and holds Il. with an annual
yield of upward OF 225. 600, 600 pounds. New
Mexico produces the smallest crop-only
1,50o pounds. Indiana produces just about
as much now as II did in 1859. but Wiscon-
sin has increased its output from 5000 to
10000. 900 pounds, and bids fair to rank
among the high-producing states Illinois
has reduced It's crop about one-half, and
Michigan has dropped from 122. 600 pounds
In 1859 to 10000 in 1897. 1t was long be-
lisved that tobacco could not be produced
on prairis Soils but Kansas. which pro-
cuced only 10000 pounds in 1859, now pro-
duces. approximately. 10000 pounds, or
more than three times the original produc-
ton. In North Carolina and Florida there
is a steady increase in the tobacco area
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ONE MONTH FREE!

The Unprecedented and Wonderful Response That
Has Been Made to DR.. Cowden's Offer---G Given
for the Last Time in This Practice, and to Gain
the Benefit Patients Must Apply Before August
1---There Will Be No Extension of Time---Do
Not Delay, This is Positive Information.
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Record for one hour, SO miles 936 yards,
made July 5, at Willow Grove track, Phla-
delphia, by Edward Taylor. Previous rec
ord. 80 miles LOSS yards, made at Crystal
Palacs track, London, England, last fall by
j. W. Stocks. Best previous record for thir-
ty-three miles vas held by Palmer, another
English rider, whose time was :0l :25 40.
AS an Illustration of the manner in which
records are made and broken the following
Is given. At thu Charles River track, Bos-
ton, Michael and McDuffee met in a fifteen
mile race. Owing to an accident to the
wheel OF the midget McDuffee won. His
time for each mile ths previous records and
the holders OF the same are given:
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Edward Taylor and Tom Linton started
their thtrty-mile match race July at the
Willow Grove track, Philadelphia, but after
the eighth mile, with Linton in the lead,
the referee ordered the men to stop ac-
count of the rain that was falling. The
time up to the eight miles resulted in saw
eral records being smashed, as follows:
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DIR. j. M. CoWden,
us 18th Street Northwest.

Office Hours-e IN. to IL m; to pm; Z to
pm daily; Sundays and holidays, 10 am. to I
pm.
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The day following ali Of the riders came
together, and all rscopds were practically
smashed by ons manscCIthe other, including
the hour record, The winner Of each mile.
ass teIIos. time, and the pfeya9us best time were
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Federal SOldie

Federal Soldiers ON Duty I'm Civil War
The number Of soldiers on duty In the
federal army during the civil war Is given
as follows: July 1, 1851 1s3, 5Ss; January
l., 1862. 527. .2o4; Jaifrary l.. 1863, ess, so2;
January 1. 1884. 81. $50; January 1, iS6a
e2o.s2A; May !, 1855. 7e7. .S07.
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Previous record, / and miles. held by
Michael, 8. and miles, held by McDuf-
fee; 9. Z and miles, held by Linton; to II
miles, held by McDuffee; Is. 10 and 20
miles, held by Linton; q to 30 miles, held
Al the end of the match race Taylor con-
Iinuad for the hour record. putting up new
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Previous

MlchaeI lead to this point, where McDuffee
end
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the enI.
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According to the announcement in the
Iccai pacing crews, Harry Greer will be
utilized as steersrnan on the QUAD. a posi-
tion requiring many qualifications, Schade
will steer one of the trfplets, while second
tripiet will be steered by Wilson. The
name OF the steersman for the third trip
let has not been announced,
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running a country newspaper taking
his turn in looking after petty details,
besides learning to set type and becom-
ing an expert printer while but boy.
At the age of sixteen he went to read
law in the offio, If Judge Haynie in Sa-
lem. He was making rapid progress
when Gov. Bissell, then member of
congress, secured him a cadetship for
West Point.
Gen. Merritt has no family. His
favorite nephew, Eaton Merritt, he is
educating at Connecticut school. with
a view of sending him to West Point.
Gen. Merritt was married in 1871, in
europe, to Miss Caroline Warren, of
Cincinnati. She died in 1898, at st.
Paul, and was buried at West Point.
where. the general was superintendent
for five years.
The Merritts originally sprang from
three brothers, who came to America
from Ireland in 1000, their descendants
settling in Winchester, and from that
family, 1t is said, all the Merritts born
in this country have descended.
OF General Merritt's military history
much has been written. A mere rec
ord Of his battles. engagements and
campaigns would fill columns. He had
many narrow escapes from death-a
notable one at the battle Of Beverly
Ford in 1858, when he was attacked By
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railroad, nearly 200 miles to the north.
A hurry" telegram was sent to Gen.
eral Merritt, then colonel of the Fifth
cavalry at Fort D. A. Russell, near
Cheyenne. After reaching Rawlings
or the nearest railroad point to the
White River Indian agency, General
Merritt had to ride four days and
nights continuously with a light sup
ply of food and ammunition. Thorn
buTgh was dead and his men were on
the point of starvation, wounded and
barely able to cling to their guns be-
hind their intrenchments. Merritt ar
rived at the break of day, advanced
with yells and scattered the Indians,
who were waiting like coyotes for the
soldiers to die or surrender. General
Merritt's wild ride through the Rocky
mountains will long challenge the rec
ord. 1t is considered remarkable that
he did not kill horse or man dur
ing his mountain march.
With Custer Mcpherson and Sheri-
dan. Merritt was called one Of the boy
generals Of the war. Graduating from
West Point but few months before
the civil war broke out, he Joined the
Second dragons and continuously dis
tinguished himself in the cavalry serv-
ice all through the war. He was Sheri-
dams right hand man in the great
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17
FIND BIRTH PLACE OF BUDDHA.
Interesting Arohaeologloal DI.oovsri.s

Interesting Archaeological Discoveries
Recently Made by Vincent Smith.
Vincent Smith, learned antiquary
of Bengal, has recently made some in
teresting discoveries of Buddhist re-
mains in India, says the London cor
respondent of the New York Sun. The
first Of these Is the home OF Gautama
Buddha, who lived about 500 B. G. The
ruins of this ancient city Of Kapila-
vastu are in Nepaul territory; they are,
so far as yet known, entirely OF brick,
and are so covered with jungle and so
extensive that years will be required
for their thorough exploration. Since
40 B. c. the city has been in ruins and
unoccupied, and excavations are now
bringing to light buildings more an
cient than any previously known In In
dia. More interesting even than Kap-
ilavastu is the discovery Of the Lum-
bini Garden, the traditional birthplace
of Gautama. The sacred spot Is mark
ed by pillar erected in the third CEN
fury B. G. by the Emperor Asoka. The
inscription on this pillar is still per-
feet. 1t stands on the western edge Of
a mound of ruins about hundred
yards in diameter and on the south
side of this mound is the tank In which
the childs mother bathed after his
birth. Another discovery, which was
made in a stupa, or brick tumnlus,
close to the British frontier, is that Of
relics of Buddha himself. These con-
sist only of fragments of bone, which
were deposited in wooden vessel that
stood on the bottom of a massive cof-
fer, more than four feet long and two
feet deep, cut out of solid block OF
fine sandstone. This Golfer was buried
under eighteen feet of masonry, COM
posed of huge bricks, each sixteen inch
es long. The wooden vessel was de-
cayed, and with it was an eXquisitely
finished bowl of rock crystal, the larg-
est yet discovered in Inaia and also
five small vases of soapstone. All
these vessels were partially filled, in
honor of the relics, with a marvellous
collection of gold stars, pearls, topazes,
beryls, and other jewels, and of various
objects delicately wrought in crystal
agate, and other substances An in
scription on the lid Of one of the soap
stone vases declares the relics to be
those of Buddha himself, and the char
acters in which this inscription is writ
ten are substantially the same as those
of the Asoka inscriptions, and indicate
that the tumulus was constructed be-
tween 300 and 25O B. c. Buddha spent
many years preaching and teaching
at the city of Sravasti, and large
number of his sayings and parallels
purport to have been uttered there.
The site of the famous city was long
sought in vain. Mr.. Smith now states
with confidence that it is in the jungles
of the Nepaul Terai, about eleven miles
from the station of Nepalganj road, on
the Bengal and Northwestern railway
It's remains like those of Kapilavastu
are buried in jungle, but they seem of
great extent, and are found precisely
where the Chinese pilgrims of the early
centuries of the Christian era stated
that Sravasti was.
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Mixed.

A rural justice, with a morning war
extra" and the code of Georgia before
him, delivered the following remark
able decision" recently: at appear
ing to the court that the prison
er at the bar has won remarkable
battle in the Philippines, and that, in
stealing the hog, he was only acting in
a spirit of self-preservation, in coun
try where food is so scarce that the in
surgents are eating horseflesh, it is,
therefore, the opinion of the court that,
in comforting the title of rear admiral
upon him the government acted we'll
and wisely, and that, if he be reinforced
in time, he will yet take full posses
sion; and it is ordered that he be re-
leased on parole and prove by the daily
dispatches that the Spanish officials are
the biggest liars in the world.-Chicago
Dispatch.
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Men and Women.

Men find it easy to take in clever
women, and they in turn are easily
taken in by silly women. Every woman
dearly loves hero; if man has the
art to appear one she finds him as ire
sistible as the genuine article. A man
invariably loves the woman who makes
a fool of him. A woman is often
obedient to the man she hates, and OBJ
durate to him she loves. All women
have hearts; few have intellects. A
sincere man loves, a tickle woman loves
to love, and selfish woman loves to be
loved.
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,GOVERNOR-GENERAL MERRITT
Military Ruler of the Philippines Type of
the Best Americanism- He Was at
One Time a Farm Hand.

General Merritt, who goes to the
Philippines us military governor of
that island empire of the Pacific, is the
second in command of our national ar
my. He won fame and honor as Sher-
idan's chief officer in the great battles
of the war. He was an unrelenting
warrior once fighting nine battles in
ten successive days. His military ca
reer is more or less on record, but of
his private life little has been given to
the public.
Gen. Wesley Merritt's father, John
Willis Merritt, was New York lawyer,
having an Office at No. 1874 Nassau
street when the boy was born, Dec. 1,
1886, at No. CT North Moore street. He
was one of eight brothers. Twenty
months later the law Office was at No.
8 Spruce street, the family having re-
moved to Brooklyn.
When Wesley was four years old his
father, having large and increasing
family. abandoned law for agriculture
and bought farm at Looking Glass
Prairie near Bellville, ILL.,, not far
from St. Louis. Young Merritt attend
ed the school Of the Christian Brothers,
a Catholic institution, at Belleville. La
ter he worked on the farm for three
,(years, helping his brothers raise corn
J and pork, for which that section has
always been famous.
Merritt a Farmer.
Young Merritt often drove the farm
team seventeen miles to town, getting
only fifteen cents bushel for his corn.
Everything that farmer produced in
those days was cheap as dirt, and there
was little money in circulation. Paste
board checks circulated between mer-
chants and farmers in some localities,
and their merchandise seemed high be-
cause it took so much corn and pork to
pay for 1t. Being lawyer and man
of literary turn of mind, the boys
father aspired to do something besides
raising corn. He started a local even
ing newspaper at Belleville, called the
Advocate, and later a weekly of the
same name at Lebanon. Both were
~/OHocI ~tlc oI6dHS, anu, Like mOSC Oh
tie Democratic journals of that day,
were for territorial extension, the an
nexation of Texas, and the settlement
of the vexed and formidable Oregon
question" by taking possession of the
country clear to the Pacific ocean
Young Merritt helped his father and
brothers publish this Democratic news
paper. He mastered the business of
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17
RATHER SWEET.

Medical authorities believe that a
given quantity of sugar is necessary
to health, especially If person is ener.
getic. 1t is claimed no substance re-
stores muscular waste so quickly as
sugar
The United States and England con-
sumo enormous quantities of sugar,
England using Sc pounds year per in
habitant. In Denmark the consump-
ton of sugar is 45 pounds to the indi-
vidual; in Holland, 81; in France, 80;
in Sweden and Norway, 25 in Russia,
10; Turkey and Italy, Z; Greece, 6;
Servia. 4.
1t has long been thought that sugar
is injurious to the teeth, but it is no
more so than cake or preserves. 1t
will, of course injure the teeth if al
lowed to remain in contact with them
for any length Of time. People of av-
erage health who are in the open air a
great deal may eat all the sugar they
crave without injury.
Sugar is craved by people belonging
to nation of energy and dash. Great
mental exertion and high spirit create
the demand. Great quantities of sugar
are used in tea and coffee by English
and Americans, but in Russia, where
tea drinking is almost dissipation,
very little sugar is used. A fact not
very we'll known is that little sugar,
taken with water not too cold, in case
food is not obtainable, will relieve the
feeling Of exhaustion and sharp hun
ger. Some business men keep loaf su-
gar in their desks and when they are
detained from luncheon saturate the
sugar with water and slowly eat It. 1t
does away with the discomfort of going
without food.
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supper. After supper the other Off
GERS were taken up and the following
nominations made:
w. R. Smith of Wyandotte county,
for associate justice, on the first ballot.
Fl. E. Richter of Morris county, for
lieutenant governor, on the second
ballot.
George A. Clark of the junction City
Republican, for secretary of state, on
the first ballot.
George E. Cole OF Crawford county,
for auditor, on the first ballot. Mr..
Cole was auditor during Governor
Morrills administration.
Frank E. Grimes of Wichita county,
for treasurer, on the second ballot,
Wilkins withdrawing on that ballot
and starting break to Grimes.
A. A. GODDARD of Topeka, assistant
attorney general under F. b. Dawes,
for attorney general, on first ballot.
Frank Nelson of Lindsborg, pro-
fessor in Bethany college, for superin-
tendent of public instruction, on first
ballot.
w. j. Bailey of Baileyville, for Con-
t-large, on fir st ballot.
The big Seventh carried off the lions
share of places on the ticket. 1t got
the governor, treasurer and state SUI
perintendent The Sixth district got
''skunked." The Fourth got lieutenant
governor; the Third, auditor; the Sec
ond, associate justice; the Fifth, secre-
tary of state; the First, attorney gen.
eral and Congressman-a large.
The platform indorses the national
Republican administration, reaffirms
the principles of the platform of 1896,
recommends strengthening the navy,
building the Nicaragua canal and an
neXing the Hawaiian islands. 1t IA
vors liberal construction of pension
laws, urges preference of soldiers and
sailors for Office, demands the sending
of poll books to volunteer soldiers of
Kansas, and that only enough convict
coal be mined to supply the state in
situations. 1t indorses Senator Lucien
Baker and Representatives Charles
Curtis and Case Broderick.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17
Women,a Hair Improving.

1t Is now said that women's hair is
becoming more beautiful in color every
year, and is also growing thicker and
longer. This is said to be due to the
small, light bonnets that women wear.
Certain it is that air and sunshine i'm
prove the color and texture of the hair.
Sun bleaches the hair, and Venetian
beauties always dried their ruddy locks
in the sun, thereby getting that tint so
much admired called Venetian red. OF
course sunshine will not bleach dark
hair, but it gives deeper color to all
kinds Of tresses, and will brighten dull
brown hair.
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the three commissioners to carry out
the terms of the treaty. And now in a
new and globe encircling war this
brave, sagacious and competent man of
the people, who in his turn was farm
er's boy, typesetter, publisher, editor,
lawyer, cadet, soldier and then VIC
torious and always conquering officer
in the great armies of the war, is again
wanted at the front. Those who know
him best agree that he has a judicial
temperament and is eminently fitted
for action in civil or military affairs
requiring wisdom and justice. He will
be heard from again.
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A somewhat reckless youth who had
enlisted for war and had spent his time
in camp writing home for money, final
ly sent this telegram as "a clincher: +"
Father: Leg shot off in sham battle.
Send all the funds you can" To this
the old man replied: son: Don't
know your number, but wooden leg
goes to you by express. II doesn't fit
get camp carpenter to plane it. Best
love. All well here"
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STANLEY rs NAMED.
NOMINATED BY KANSAS RE-
PUBLICANS FOR GOVERNOR.
w. II. Smith for Associate Justice, H. Il.
Richter Lieutenant Governor, G. A.
Clark Secretary of State, George L.
Cole Auditor-Other Nominations.

HUTCHINSON, Kan, June 10. - The
Republican State convention yesterday
afternoon nominated w. +. Stanley of
Wichita for governor on the third bal
lot: Stanley had 1919 votes on the first
ballot. 219 on the second, and before
the third ballot had been completed
the nomination had been made by ac
clamation.
The vote on the first two ballots re-
suited as follows:
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PETER THEIR CHOICE.
Kansas Prohlbitionists Nominate the E1-
Senator for Governor.

KANSAS ProhIbItioniSts Nominate the EK-
Senator for Governor.
EMPoRIA, Kan, June t0-Ex- United
States Senator William A. PETER was
nominated for governor here yesterday
afternoon by the Prohibition State
convention. The nomination was by
unanimous vote. Other nominations
were made as follows:
Lieutenant governor, r. T. Black;
secretary of state, J. B. Carton; treas
urer, ]. Biddison; superintendent of
public instruction, Mrs. f. N. Buck
ner; auditor, H. Hurley; congressman
at-large, NJ. Williams.
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A s1o.OOO.OOO Brewery.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 13.-Word
has been received here from Leuten-
ant Dreher, son of Anton Dreher, the
millionaire brewer of Austria, stating
that it had been decided to locate a
$4,000, 900 branch of the Dreher brew
cry in Milwaukee.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17

Mrs. Lakeside-"T should like to
know what's got into that Mrs. De
Fair. never saw such uppishness. 1
met her in restaurant today and she
pretended NOT to see me-" Mr.. L.
Were you alone?" Mrs. L.-"No, I
was with her husband"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17
The Tramp Train in Great Bend.

GREAT BEND, Kan, June 1l.-This
town is overrun with tramps, 1856 COM
ing in on freight train last night.
They say that they took the train at
Emporia and that they successfully re-
sisted all efforts of the brakemen to
put them Off
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17
New Exodus to KIondIke.

SEATTLE, Wash, June 13.-The ex-
odus of prospectors to Alaska by the
all-water route began with the DEPART
ure of the steamer Alliance for st.
Michael's with 100 passengers and a
large cargo of freight, including
Yearly six tons of United States mail.
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JACKSON, Miss, June lathe state
board of health has been advised that
two new cases of yellow fever have
been reported at McHenry within tho
last twenty-fonr hours. No deaths
have been reported to the board.
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An English Sunday school boy being
asked for definition of tithes replied:
Things worn by ladies in circuses and
pantomimes."
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(The Chicago G1rI Soon TO Become the
Bride of Gen. Merritt.)
Rocky mountains, when he rode night
and day to the rescue of Major Thorn
burgh's command, hemmed in by the
Ute Indians at the time of the White
River massacre. The soldiers were
surrounded and being slowly shot and
starved to death. A single man man
aged to crawl out one night and escape,
and after incredible suffering reached
Rawlings Station on the Union Pacific
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-06-17

Don't put on till tomorrow the thing
somebody will do for you today.
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More Brilliant Achievements.

Merritt's next brilliant achievement
was at Cedarville, on the Shenandoah.
This was followed by his glorious vic
tory at the battle Of Cedar Creek,
where, without infantry support, he
made incessant cavalry charges-tre-
mendous, overwhelming. The enemy
could not survive his assaults of tor
nado impetuosity. With Sheridan
Merritt displayed distinguished part
in forcing the surrender of Lee. On
that memorable occasion, so graphic
ally described by Grant and Sheridan,
General Merritt was appointed one of