The Advocate and news., 1899-03-01


creameries and produces annually S8, ,0OO,'
900 worth Of butter.
Blue Mound Searchlight: The skeleton
of a mastOdOn 10 feet in height and IA
feet long was dug up at ConcOrdia this
week.
Westphalia Times: We read Of a new
trust being formed every day. It's q
mighty good thing they can't get a cor
ner on air.
Alliance Vindicator: The laboring peo-
pie Of this country could elect every Off
Ger from constable to President II they
only would.
Parsons Weekly Sun: The Kansas
troops at Manila come in for share Of
the glory OF the battle in the Philippines.
You can't keep Kansan from the front
Hutchinson Bee: It is alleged that the
northwestern Touring mill men have
formed q trust with a capital Of $S5,OOO,-
900. It is confined chiefly to the spring
wheat sections.
Cherokee County Republican: The out
look is growing brighter for quick ad-
justment of all difficulties at Manila.
Three hundred Missouri mules are on
their way over.
Pleasanton Observer: The boys writ
ing from Manila say that the native
butchers keep constantly on hand for
the local trade meat Of horse, dog, goat,
water oxen and buffalo
Parsons Eclipse France will be rep
resented at the Cars peace conference,
but in the meantime wants to invest
about $40,000,000 in increasing the ef-
fectiVeness Of her army and navy.
Kansas City Packer: Growers Of pota-
toes In the Kaw Valley estimate that the
crop this year will be 100000 bushels.
And to think that not bushel Is to be
consigned. Wouldn't that frost you?
Meriden Ledger: The per cent of in
sanity caused by intemperance has de-
creased since the passage Of the prohib-
itory law In Kansas. The per cent Is
now 3 1-10; 1t was formerly lilo per
cent.
Clark County Clipper: The Dupont
powder makers have discovered chat
cornstalk pith is superior for the manu-
facture OF smokeIess powder. This will
make the farmer dream Of becoming an
octopus"
Randolph Enterprise: Kansas Is hardly
classed as cotton State, yet the other
day flften carloads OF cotton grown In
the southern part OF the State were
shipped to San Diego, CAL, to be exported
to Japan.
Hutchinson Gazette: When the Kan
sas exhibit Is placed in shape at the
Paris Exposition the commissioners
should be authorized to make bets at any
odds that NO other SS-year-old can beat
the layout.
Brown County World: Rudyard Kip
ling, who has written the best poetry Of
the century, punched his brOther-in-
laws head recently In q most unpoetic
fashion. Now his brother-in-law is suing
him for $4,000 damages.
Greenleaf Kansas Sentinel: Eat when
you are hungry, sleep when you are
sleepy, and drink when you are thirsty
But that don't mean to eat between
meals, or to sleep In the day time, nor TO
drink lntoxicants Of any kind.
Cherokee County Republican: The
United States expends $187 900 annu-
ally on It's public schools. This explains
In great degree why American boys
make such good soldiers. They know
thing or two without having to be told,
Independence Star and Kansan: BY
the way, most any man can look about
him now and observe the difference be-
tween fictitious and real prosperity
Even the excitement Of foreign conquest
can't hide the fact that the gas is oo2lng
out Of the balloon.
Scammon Miner: Last year this time
Spain had several thousand colonial
islands, about 100000 subjects and
two navies. To-day she is not bur
dened with any OF the above list and
she Is also free from the expansion craze
and embalmed beef
Girard Independent News: The man
who cries for equality and justice by
abusing and bemeanlng his fellow man,
In the great majority OF cases would will