People's voice., 1900-10-18
Bcsso, the snake eater, has sued the

ArkdnSds Clty l0f Que lhOuoaUu JUL
lars for failure To deliver box Oh
snakes. 1t appears tnat the snakes
arrived all right, out lad 10 the sl0r'
age room uLtiI several died.
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege has neld over 100 farmers insti-
uttes during the past summer. The
ATTENDANCE has averaged $50 per
institute. The college force will be
ready November l TO take up the
winters work in farmers Institutes
and has the funds for hOluIng 100
meetings. The college sends two
speakers to each Institute, paying all
their expenses, and also prints the
programs ard posters for Institutes
without charge, The farmers holding
the institute put up the posters, push
the advertising, furnish hall for
holding the meeting and present
papers and addresses for half the
program.
Congress appropriated 81, $50, 900 for
establishment OF rural free delivery
mail service during the current tScai
year, aud it is unfortunate tnat the
amount was not fGur times as large,
because the funds available do not
permit the postmaster general TO
comply with more than a small per
centage OF the demands that are daily
coming to the department. The new
service is so popular with the farmers
that almost every candidate for con-
gress Is beseeching the postmaster
general to establish a few routes iu
his district, but the money will not
20 round and the rule Is to take the
applications 10 the order in which
they are filed. The first who came
will be the drst served, for IL would
not do to discriminate In so popular
and important an enterprise. Nearly
one.f fourth OF the correspondence OF
the postmaster general now relates to
rural free delivery.
In order to prove the theory that
mosquitoes inOculated the systemwith
malaria, Or. Patrick Manson OF the
British colonial Office proposed 10
have a couple Of men live 10 a marshy
campagna near Rome throughout the
malaria season in a mosquito proof
hut, the intention being 70 prove that
so long as they were not bitten oY
mosquitoes they would not suffer
from malaria. Later this plan was
abandoned for the simpler one OF
bringing some Of the Roman mOSquit-
oes to London and allowing them 10
bite healthy persons in order to see
what would happen. British medical
men have BOW been thrown into a
state Of professional excitement by
the fact that the persons who allowed
themselves to be bitten 0y the insects
were promptly stricken with malaria
IN its most violent form. DR.. Manson
is now advocating a worldwide
crusade against mosquitoes, or against
the conditions which breed both
mUcQulUUco duu udldl Id
A big deal in railroad building in
the southwest has just been cOmplet-
ed 10 the contract tnat has been made
between the Ell PasO and Northern
railway Of Mexico aDd the Choctaw,
Oklahoma & Gulf railroad. Accord
ing to the plans the two companies
will complete the building Of nearly
four hundred miles Of standard guage
RAILROAD within the twelve months
after the election in November. The
El FaSO and Northern is 153 miles in
length, running from Ell Paso to
SalOda, NM. 1t passes through the
best part Of the territory. This road
will, under the contract, commence
an extension to Texline, Deafsmith
county, Nm, where it will be con-
nected With the extension OF the
ChOctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf, to be
built from WeatherfOrd, Oklahoma,
the present. terminus Of the road. The
line that the FL PaSO road will ahld
will be practically one hundred mieS
in length, and the ChOc w .rX,en
sion viii be about three hundred.
The ChOctaw extension will cOmme0r
at Weatherford and will pass through
some OF the richest VraZng and farm
ing land in western Oklahoma and
the Panhandle OF Texas. 1t will have.
Its first terminus at Amarillo, Texas.
where it will connect with the Denver
and Fort Worth road. Then it will
be built on to TexliDe and connect
with the El PasO and Northern. This
will make the whole system about
eleven hundred miles in length from
Memphis, Tenn, to El PasO, and will
make 1t strong factor III transcont-
mental traffic,
New York World: Contrary to the
general impression, there are relative
ly few states that are unchangeably
Republican or Democratic 10 presiden
tial elections. The only states that
have voted for the Democratic candi
date in every election since the war
are Georgia and Texas. In 1858 and
1872, Alabama, under carpet-bag rule,
went Republican. Arkansas alsC
voted for Grant in 1868. Delaware
voted for GrsSt In 1872 aud Mckinley
in 1896 Kentucky's electoral vote
was divided In lS96-eight for Nc
Kinley and one for Bryan. Louisiana
was cOuu ID for Hayes in 1876. Mary
land voted for Lincoln In 1864 and fol
Mckinley 10 1925. Mississippi refused
to swallow Greeley in 1872 Missouri
was carried by The Republicans ID
1854 and 1868 New Jersey, the "rock
bound" gagged at Greeley in 1877:
aud rejected Bryan 10 1896. Noftl
Carolina went Republican in 1868 ant
1872, as did South Carolina-and II
1876 also. Tennessee voted for Gram
In 1868. Virginia rejected Greeley il
1872 and West Virginia went Repub
lican in 1864, 1868, 1872 and 1896. Th,
states that have been uniformly
Republican in the last nine presiden