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Purif; : the blood fills the system
with II health and vigor = Beggs
Blood III fer 1t cured me of dyspep
sia and 9ostiveness, and other diseases
arising from impure blood: think it a
splenai, medicine says i1rs Alice Reed
OF Butt 7, do. at Farleys'.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-17
Go to kOhl's
drug store for

Your MEDLCLNE. He will
treat You right and yon can rest
assured Non get what you want
Or If you have Prescription he
viii put it up just enhnt 1t calls
for. j,Gst 'nh1rt YOHR In ORDERS
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-17

F.B ThirEield, Health Inspector Of Chicago
says" ."Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cannot be recon-
mended too highley It cured me of severe
dyspepsia" II digests what you eat and cures
indigestion, heartburn and all forms of dyspep
sia. ]. c. FARLEY.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-17

The FARMERS HOME, oppo
site the Depot. will always serve
Fresh Oysters for Dinner On Sat
urcays' Meals 20 cents.
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81 have used Beggs' Blood Purifier
IN nv family over two years and do not
beli' We there is better medicine made
It is family remedy for US, and all
we need, writes Frank Mitchell. Macon
city, Ia, Purifies the system-makes
new. rich blood Try it. at Farleys'
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WANTED-SEvERAI, BRIGHT AND
HONEST persons to represent US as Mana
gers in this and other counties Salary 5000
year and expenses. Straight, bona -fide, no
more, no less salary. Position permanent.
Our references. any bank In any town It IS
mailny Office work conducted at home Re-
ference. Enclose self addresses stamped en-
velope. The DOMINION CoMPANY.
Dept g. Chicago. Illinais-
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-17

Lewis Dennis, Salem, Ind, says, Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure did me more good than any
thing ever took" 1t digests what you eat
and can not help but cure dyspepia and sto-
mach troubles. J. c. FARLEY.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
LITERARY NOTES.


Toms Boy. by the author Of ..Miss
Iposey's Mission Will shortly be pup
hshed by Little, Brown Company.
Immediately upon her return from Eu-
rope last year, Mrs. Schuyler Crownin-
shield began work upon a society novel
IN which she designed to exploit some
phases of life never before touched in
fiction. The book will shortly be issued
hy Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
Miss Helen Hay, the gifted daughter
of the secretary of state, has written
some extremely clever verses, to be pub
nshed under the title of 1.-The Little Boy
BOOK Although certain to charm chill
oren the verses will perhaps appeal to
the humor of the grown-up boy or girl
With even greater force. r. H. Russell,
New 7 ork, will be the publisher.
monsieur Maxinftifan, DeLoup'' com
pIIer OF the american Salad Book.
Notwithstanding his name, is a. thorough
american, counting his ancestors back
10 the flrst white settlers of the coun-
try. Doubtless his tastes as well as his
name were inherited from some remote
ancestor, but his salads have become
so naturalized that without losing their
original flavor, much has been added to
them -
The publishers of Monsieur Beaucaire
announce another edition of the hook
which will not be from the press for ten
days owing to the time required in color
printing. Meantime no copies are to he
had and the demand is increasing. Dur
ing the past ten days nearly two thou
sand copies have been sold-not a bad
hot weather record for a small volume.
While the little book has been selling
steadily, preparations for it's presentation
on. the stage have been going on. The
dranadzation was done by EVELYN
Greenleaf Sutherland, of Boston, and
richard Mansfield will present the play
IN New York next January. A number
OF changes We're. made in the story for
the stage version, so that there might
be happy ending for the heroine as
well as for the hero of the tale.
Mary Devereux, the author of From
Kingdom to Colony" has received many
letters full of interesting, informal crit
lcism on her story. 1.-THE very charrl
OF femininity clings to her women. -
writes one. II liked the freshness 81 it,
a lawyer writes, 1.-The distinetness of the
individuals, the local color, the construc-
ton OF the story. I like. too, the quiet
strength OF style Il feel it has great
possibilities as a play writes an actor.
Its human interest and strong love
scenes will certainly carry it." Another
correspondent, a stranger, gave the fol-
lowing pleasant picture: "A party OF
friends who are travelling throughout
Mexico in a private car have been begull-
ing the tedium of long railway Journeys
by reading aloud your book prom King
dom to Colony" We have finished it
today, while our car has been standing
close to shore, and the waves of the Mex
lean gulf have furnished an aecompanl-
ment to it's closing pages. One letter
states that it does not contain a dull lino
another friendly critic notes the authors
success in combining the Revolutionary
history with the sweet, unwritten events
of that early life
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that 1t will change our government into
an empire; that our methods Of legisla-
ZION, OF diplomacy, of administration
must hereafter be those which belong to
empires and not those which belong to
republics"
president McKinley's letter of accep-
{ance OF denomination has appeared
at last From the length of it It is not
unreasonable to think that lie has been
working on it for some time There is
nothing new in tia mere variation Of
the same old platitudes Of his form er
messages and speeches. Tt reads we'll,
1t is full of promises, but as Locke says:
1T is in vain to find fault with those
acts of deceiving wherein men find pleas
ure to be deceived
The South African war is the first one
in more than 125 years for the purpose
OF conquerirg a free people, The last
one before this was in 1772 when Poland
was partitioned by Russia, Prussia and
Austria.
Leaving out some very small classes.
what are all men employed in? They
are employed in the production. prepara-
non and distribution of commodities. -
Herbert Spencer. Herbert, you are a
philosopher, not politician.
Anna Held has just brought to America
the finest t'robe-de-nuit'- night gown
in the world. It was on. exhibition in
Paris, and cost $76G. 1t beats Senator
Tabor's famous night shirt just $3.50.
Mr.. Mckinley says in his letter,
among other instructions issued for the
government of the Philippines, chat
neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude
shall exist, except as a punishment for
crime" yet in a treaty with the sultan
of Sulu, who acknowledges the sover-
eighty of the United States, because of
a promise of a monthly salary for him
self and head chiefs, slavery and polyg-
amy were both recognized. Slaves, how
ever, were given the privilege of buying
their freedom, when they earned enough
money to do so. But their time belongs
to their masters.
W. T. Stead has been interviewing
Nine. Mong1uel, the aged Paris seeress,
who tod him all about what is going
on in China. Mr.. Stead is a believer in
spirit communication.
imprisonment for life in. the case of
the assassin of the king of Italy sounds
like mild punishment, but in this case
it means a casket cell where the prisoner
is compelled to stand up or. crouch down
in the narrow limits Of the stone walls
surrounding him. 1t is in absolute dark
ness, too The coffinshaped cell into
which Rresei has been lowered is. Only
one of several hundred in Bagno prison.
at, Porte. Sergio. and all are. occupied.
These solitary cells are 312 by 61a feet
IN size, and below the sea level-damp
and vermin infested. It is a punish
ment as cruel as any devised by Nero or
Weyler. The only change these .'lifers''
get. is. to be taken out occasionally and
tortured
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
THE GALVESTON cATAsrRorHE.

THE GALVESTON CATASTROPHE.
The reports which come from Texas
show that an appalling disaster has be-
fallen the city of Galveston, and has ex-
tended in It's effects for many miles along
the gulf coast
The geographical situation Of Galveston
renders it peculiarly liable to the worst
consequences of such a visitation. The
city is built on an island which at its
most elevated point is very little above
the sea level, and the width of which at
certain points renders it inevitable that
it shall be literally swept by the waters
of the gulf in case of a serious storm
such as occurs in that region periodically.
Galveston Is over twice the length Of
Manhattan Island, is in no sense land
locked or protected from ocean gales, and
is not more than six OF seven miles wide
at it's widest point and little over a mile
at it's 1arrowest. A city so situated is in
constant peril Of destruction. From all
the reports thus far received phenomenal
1ldNOG VI 1AIC anu pIOpSLly lids DSSIl
wrought, while the appr~ cches to the city
have become so difficult as to make the
danger and suffering attendant on the
situation of the people much greater than
it would otherwise be.
Such disaster as this seems inevitable
at one time or another. 1t is one of the
conditions attending the existence of a
great city at the point now represented
by the city Of Galveston. It's effects viii
be undone, so far as human energy can
| undo them, as speedily as possible, and
business will soon go on as it has done
from the beginning.
The demand of the present occasion IS
in case an appeal for aid comes up from
Texas. that the country shall rise to TIE
| demands of the occasion, and, with the
| generosity and 'promptitude which char
acterizes it in all such crises, secure the
people of the Texas metropolis from the
most serious of the immediate conse-
quenees of the unhappy occurrence.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
PRETTY THINGS TO WEAR.

A dainty gown in turquoise blue wolfe
has a simple skirt trimmed with a wide
band OF cream colered Irish guipure APP
pliaue laid on the blue wolfe some seven
or eight inches above the hem. The
bodice is covered entirely with flat pleats,
finely stitched; and running downward
from throat to waist, while round the
waist there is deep cape collar Of Irish
guipure, forming long revers in front,
which are laced together with narrow
black ribbon velvet.
A pretty gown for mourning wear is OF
wolfe, the color being pale shade of
green The skirt is arranged with three
deep Aounces, each bordered with mar
row bard Of Cluuy lace Insertion, while
the bodice consists of a neat little coat Of
Cluny lace lined with pale green silk. and
opening in front to show a finely pleated
vest Of white silk muslin crossed and re-
crossed by CIuny lace sertiens. threaded
through with narrow black velvet ribbon.
The newest of IS o'clock tea gownS1
are Of the Empire style. and some of tbs
si1aartest have sleeveless boleros of Rus
sian or Irish lace. or OF velvet, caught
over the bust by a rich buckle Of DUH
gold or French gray silver.
Many Of the newest hats, though they
are still worn low over the forehead. are
turned UP sharply at the back by a big
bow of black velvet sinaFtly tied. serv-
ing AZ a cHehe-peigae. and recalling al
most exactly the modes of sorSe three o.
four years ago.
EVERYWHERE the binding az black vel
vet at the edge OF the h.-ira appears upon
the pTetties5t hats for carly autumiI.
Even the newest French sailor hats are
made with wide brsras. bound at the edge
with black velvet and trimmed round the
crown with q bard CT black velvet drawn
through a Ions steel buckle. Bent to fol-
low tfle line Of the crown.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
zED B. ALPAUGH, ESQ,
BUNDLE BEE LAWYER.
No COURTS NEEDED.
ALWAYS GET WHAT I co
FOR.

Zed B. Alpaugh, Esq, the strangest
lawyer IN the. state. has his office over
Jolly's blacksmith shop and on the office
is the sign here given. 1t was painted a
few years ago by an it1nerant artist 70.
whom zed B. Alpaugh, Esq. did some
work ri 4
The equipment of the humble lee law
yer, beside the humble bees, which are
his principal machinery, consists Of a
desk, two chairs quire Of legal cap, a
pen, a bottle Of ink and pair of rubb n
boots.
A shaggy headed, bewhiskered, sharp
eyed. !anky individual is the humble baa
lawyer. He has covered one side of his
room with growing grass and earth for
a space Of thirty feet. anG IN this mass
dwell the humble bees in partnership with
the attorney
"Alpaugh Esq. ?" said the shaggy head
Yes, that's me I'm the humble bee law
yer and the only one in the ccuntry
What is a bundle bee lawyer? We'll,
look at me and you will sae what he s
ike Listen to me and I'll tell you what
he does.
There are queer people living around
here who work in the ore mines They
are full of superstitions. One Of tfteir
ideas Is that the humble hee is the adj
vance agent of i'll luck. I make special
ty Of collecting bad debts, and I'm called
what 1 am called because use humble
bees in my business.
The workers in the ore mines do not
speak our language, but they know how
to skin people just the same. They will
buy anything they can get on credit but
they won't pay until 1 get after tken
with my humble bees
About five years ago I discovered the
horror these iron diggers, as we call
them, have of the w4fte-hooded humble
bee. The white-hooded ones you know
are the females, and can't sting. The
iron diggers believe that any bee that
can't sting Is the harbinger of all sorts
of bad luck and trouble. When I found
this out I resolved on a new plan of bad
debt collecting.
lone day caught few dozen humble
bees. and, putting them in a bottle; went
to the mines on collecting tour I made
a dozen visits. but couldn't collect a dol
lar. So the next house I went to I pull
ed out my bottle Of bees, and, opening
the stop, allowed some OF them to es-
cape.
1.-The effect was wonderful The old
crone who inhabited the cabin became
highly excited at once There was
general eommotion and a gathering of
iron diggers from the other houses.
Then picked up the stoye-lfd Hitter,
and. smashing the bottle, let all the bees
go. There was a general rush for the
door. got SIS on account from that
woman before left.
'sThen I began sending bottles Of bees
to every iron digger against whom I had
a claim. For each dollar due sent one
bee. The bottles were uneerked, so that
when the recipients removed the paper
wrapping the bees few out.
'"The result was that I collected about
all the money that was due, with inter-
est"
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s-s|@--'-~-~@~~~-~~--~S--~
gbings N1oonen
Oanf TO RmoQp.
ENGLISH INDEPENDENCE.
The Opinion OF n French Waiter or
the Subject.

The Opinion OF French Waiter On
the Subject.
Partisan waiter has Expressed bis
opinion that the English are the most
Independent women in the world. He
seems to have been speeiaify impressed
by the fact that they seem to know thei.,
own minds, and are not to be eoerced
and eoaxed and. persua ded like tie women
OF other nations into having what they
do not Ike and Go not want This is q
point upon which it is good to insist.
Ihere is a general superstition that les
bellies Americaines are the most indie
pendent OF the women Of all nations: hut
as matter of fact, they are more re-
strfeted in many ways than we are ard
Tar less determined in character. TIE
EnglishWoman Is never impulsive. and
this is especially noticeable when she is
travelling. II is as a traveller, CT course
that she has been criticised by the
french garcon, and he finds that while
his own fair comratliots, American and
RUSSIAN women are all prepared to co in
Rome as the Romans do, the English
woman adhereS strictly 10 her own ru,es
and her own tastes. If she wants this
she has it; if she does not want it she
firmly declines II. This attitude Is ire
outcome of the real freedom which is
ours, and for which ne have every reason
to be thankful. 1t is true our girls are
not allowed to do things wlich their
american cousins Go as a matter OF
course; but on the other hand. tie
women of England would never consent
to the tyrannous restrictions imposed
upon their sex by meGd1esome Tia
atlantic legislators
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
ADVICE FOR A WIFE.
Should Keep Herself Posted on Her
Husbands Business.

should Keep Herself Posted on Her
Husbands Business.
The brightest woman it has been nv
good fortune lately to meet is a. western
woman who makes 1t her pride and pleas
ure to keep posted on her husbands bust
ness analrs, announces writer in Fash
ions. She does not govern them, on dear,
no! But she hears, understands and ap-
preciates; and what is the result? AL
though a man of affairs, he takes her on
his business trips, talks over his business
matters with her. explains them to her,
and defers to her, in way She is de-
hghfully feminine, and when she does
not understand she asks
My mother knew nothing about nv
fathers business, yet 1 have ALWAYS
known about my husbands affairs It is
the era she says; women have pro-
gressed.' -
NO. dear madam" l wanted to remark,
but 1t is you who have made progress
1t is all a matter of taste. But If you
have seen. the world, and have seen the
preach widen until it is an uncomfortable
household chaSm, you will wonder that
more women do not acquire the taste.
Think well before you pursue, is not
exactly applicable to the taking of a hus-
band; but If you have one, why not inter
est yourself in him? Perhaps you are a
woman who believes in the summer d.
vorce, from June to September, and who
thinks that ignorance of her husbands
affairs is feminine bliss If so there is
not much to be said You probably know
best But do not expect your husband
to be interested in your moods and lenses
If you are not interested in his.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
M,KrNLEY AS A sPELLRINpErs.


He must be the possessor of great pa
thence or much enthusiasm who reads the
presidents letter of acceptance in its en-
tirety. Few public documents have been
distinguished by more complete absence
of imagination or humor on the part OF
the writer, or have been more distnc-
lively in the nature of collection of we'll
arranged phrases full of Rhetorical sound
and possessing neither political nor liter
airy, significance.
The length Of time which has elapsed
since the Philadelphia convention would
have prevented any man with any sense
of the ludfcreus from presenting at this
time such an endless chain Of words in
expression Of his acceptance Of the nom
nation bestowed on him. A campaign
address delivered ostensibly in advance
ment of his success, embodying even all
that this nominal letter Of acceptance
embodies, would have been accepted by
the country as in perfect good taste on
the part of the president AS a formal ac-
ceptanee of a presidential nomina ton be-
slowed so long ago 1t has set upon 1t at
fndirection. Considered in any light
whatever it is little more than a coIIee-
ton of party political platitudes, and can
not be regarded as in any sense an ma
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
TUESDAY. SEPT. II, 1900.
AN AMERICAN poRr IN CHIN.

AN AMHhICAN PORT IN CHINA,
Ex-Judge Thomas Canty has brought
much political criticism upon himself in
connection with his reputed opinions re-
gardtng American policy IN the Orient
However we'll or in-deserved that criti
cism may be, a recent published state-
ment of Judge CAVITY showing the mead
which, in his opinion, exists for a. free
American port on the China coast. is en-
titled to much consideration, and shows
the Minneapolis jurist to be very thor
ough student Of the conditions attending
our appearance as a competitor for Chi
nese trade
The main contention of Judge Canty
may, in brief, be said to be that the
United States, in it's commerce with China
through north Pacific ports, like Seattle,
are at great disadvantage in being
obliged to have recourse to the two free
ports of Hong Kong and Shanghai, which
are the two great distributing points.
These two ports give the trade of Europe
an advantage of some 1850 miles over
that from the United States; while, if we
had free port on the south shore Of
China, say half that distance nearer to
US than either of the two great English
ports, the advantage would be turned In
our favor precisely to the extent to which
it now exists in favor of Europe
In order to make his point plain Judge
r1fx lie
great bulk of the commerce to China
across the Pacific takes route which is as
nearly in direct line between Hong Kong
and Seattle, as natural difficulties will
permit, thus making Seattle several hun
dred miles nearer China and Japan than
San Francisco. The distance across the
Pacific is so great that the traffic must
be carried on in very large ships, con-
tanning immense cargoes, and these ships
can only take their -cargoes to one or
other of the two ports mentioned, being
unable to distribute them at the various
other ports and points of distribution
along the coast, as that work can be done
nero cheaply and effectively by Chinese
5utllzs, with Which no European OF Amer
lean steamer can compete.
In order to make Judge Canty's view of
the matter quite plain. it is necessary to
quote. as follows. from his exposition of
the situation
ZIP to this time the great port used
By ali nations for collecting and distrib-
Htiag Chinese commerce is Hongkong.
This port is very conveniently situated
for the trade from Europe through the
Suez canal, Dat IS wholly out of the way
for ire a. de across the Pacific from
America A ship from Seattle or San
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
EDITOR LANGUM GIVES GOOD AD-
VICE TO REPUBLICANS.

The anxiety of the editors Of some of
the Republican newspapers in the coun-
try districts to manufacture capital at
the expense of Gov. Lind and the Demo-
cratic party, has brought several of these
rural scribes a peck Of troubles. For
instance, Editor Cowles, of the st. Peter
Journal, is.just now wishing that he had
never attacked the nagement of the
thusiasm of youth he bounded into the
arena and smote the prison management
several blows, which, with child-like ego
them, he concluded would have q fatal
effect.
But Editor Johnson, Of the st. Peter
Herald, came forward as the champion
of the Irvine plant and It's management,
and snote the Journal man just once
with bunch of hard facts, and that was
the end of the crusade Of Editor Cowles
The incident has been turned to good
account by the Democrats. 1t was need
ed, and Editor Cowles, in the role of an
awful example, is now being held up as
warning to Republican. editors who
think that political capital can
be manufactured out Of pure fiction.
Editor Sam Langum, of the Preston
Times, is a newspaper man of a totally
different kind to his fallen brother of the
st. Peter Journal. Mr.. Langum reeog-
nizes the futiHty and foolishness of Re
publican newspapers attempting to at
tack the management Of the prison twine
plant He knows the plant has been
well and successfully managed, and he
sscrfbes the few complaints that haze
been made to the true cause, namely, to
the Decentralization Of the Irvine market
by reason of crop shortage. Editor
Langum, IN his last ISSUE, gives the Re
publican campaign managers some good
advice on this subject He says:
eve do not admit or believe that in the
present instance the men who fix the
price have laid thernsely go open to the
charge of bad business Judgment They
fixed the price at cost, at the proper
time, and can not be held responsible
because circumstances beyond their con-
troll subsequently demoraIized the mar
ket. They would indeed, have been to
blame had they listened to the cry of the
fault finder and sold twine at a loss to
the state, and, instead Of being censaFed.
their business judgment should be COM
mended. Let Republican campaign
managers and Republican papers leave