People's voice., 1900-07-19

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are due the rising generation and espe-
cialiy In this particular. A circular con-
tanning some excellent suggestions by
the county superintendent, will be read
at every meeting aid should have the
careful consideration and intelligent ac-
ton Of every voter.
a dispatch from Guthrie TO the
Wichita Eagle says: Uncle" Jake
Stotier, the veteran Kansas RepubIi-
ca1 editor, was in Guthrie today and
70 company witRH0n. j. J. Boles OF
Perry, called on Governor Barnes.
Attorney General Strong and other
Territorial officials. Coincident with
GhiS Wsltilt is announced that "Uncle
JAKE" is to quit Kansas and will take
up ms residence in Perry, where he
WI ! take editorial charge O. the Re-
One OF the interesting sights to be
seen ln this country DOW is on the
smith ia m, seven miles northwest Of
town. G. c. aud Oscar Smith are
cutting and threshing wheat in the
,ame held-running two headers, six
hargeS and hauling the wheat to the
machine and threshing it as fast as
they cut it. They own the threshinr
machlne-a new one. They are nov
cutting the wheat that was damaged
by bail and it is Welding better than
they expected. They will be at this
KIND of work about week yet.-COn-
way Springs Star.
Conductor loosely has a son. A. o
Loosely, who is a missionary in the
interior of China. He has not heard
RON him since Junel. He had been
10 the missionary school until a short
time before that learning the Ian
gnage, and had just been sent TO tn.
interior to take charge Of a mission
Station. The Wichita Eagle saws
. at Mrs. Loosely saw dispatc h in
9 papers yesterday announcing the
arrival OF NUM- er Of missionaries at
the coast from point in the inJer;o-
which wnnld brig them past the
stat'Hn where her son has been lOca ted
and they lave hopes that ne has es-
capPd from the Boxers. They exp, c.
!"tter soon.
X. G. Journal: 1t has been seriously
proposed that the powers inform
China that il any Of the foreigners ir
that cOdntry ale harmed, the united
mowers will send an expedition to
Peking to destroy tht graves Of the
imperial family. Such a recommend
alton seems absurd, but a Berlin dis.
match says that the cOusus at Tipn
Tsin have given this advice. A mo-
ment'S consideration OF the Chinese
character VIII show that this PROMO
Sltion is not really as absurd as II
seems to western minds. Whatever
may be the religious belief OF a China
man, apart from Christianity, he has
J great reverence tOr the graves OF his
ancestors, and all China has this
reverence for the graves of the im.
perial departed. Any disturbance Of
the graves Of the dead, it is believed,
will cause their spirits TO haunt the
living, and this dissertation OF ance'-
raj graves is a recognized and legal
punishment under Chinese law. 1t is
penalty reserved fO- traitors and
other heinols offenders. Disturbance
of ancestral rraves by thOughtless
Europeans has been the cause of much
of the trouble in China. Lord Kitch-
ener, In the Sudan, destroyed the
mahdi's tomb and cast his bones into
the Nile, thus making 1t impossible
for any future fanatic to pretend he
was the mahdi come to life. The
shooting OF sepOys from cannon in the
Indian 'mutiny. because II DESTROYED
caste, appealed to tie HindoO mind
as no other punishment could. It. isl
not likely that the powers will ad-p,
this Recommendation, hut it Illus
trates a peculiar phase OF the Asiatic
character.
An old miner writes from CaOe
Nome: II left Nome June 20, and.
being an old miner, | am capable OF
sizing up a new mining camp in few
days. | arrived at Nome June Il. |
and my partner tried working the
beach for gold in several places and
| personally saw Others by the hun
dredS dn he same, bnt not In one
instance did we see man take out
enough gold TO pay for his grub. The
only place where any gold was being
taken out was between the beach AID
the tundra. There they we're only
making DAYS wages Of from 81 TO sl0l
a day. This place is about three
quarters Of mile long and it is all
taken up bN 500 men. Like the beach,
1t is now nearly worked out. |, with
Thousands Of Others, had been led TO
believe that, after winter or after
any storm, The beach would he just as
good as it VAS originally. That is not
so. When once worked out, the beach
is done for. While al Nome | talked
with men who had c)me from points
as far as fifty miles below the camp
They told me they found nothing and
they we're going further north. II
talked, too, with men who had come
from points far up tile beach but they
declared there was nothing up there
and they we're going down the beach.
So it seems that the whole stretch is
nearly all worked ont Nv partner
went the full length Of Anvil creek
linking fer work or for Law. He
could'get neither. There is going to
be a lot of destitutiOn at Nome. There
are thousands OF men there out OF |
money, and work canno' he had"