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People's voice., 1900-08-02

The Santa Fe has issued little blue
book, entitled "Kansas and Her Re-
sources" which is about the best
advertisement of Kansas that has
yet appeared. The book is reprinted
from the Sheldon edition Of the To-
peka Capital and is by Secretary
COburn. 1t is well illustrated by
numerous cuts Of farm scenes, such as
pictures Of fine hogs, cattle, horses
and sheep, with statistics relating to
the increase Of production, prices, etc.
1t is said that the first edition of the
little book, which was 10000 copies,
has already been exhausted, and
20, 600 more have been ordered printed
to supply the demand for them. 1t
is the neatest advertising pamphlet Of
the great state of Kansas that has
yet come to our notice.
Here is part of the German en-
peror's address to his China bound
soldiers. How does it sound to you?
Every German has been filed with
pride olearn that the highest praise
bestowed upon German warriors has
come from the mouths Of foreign
leaders. The task before you is a
great one. That people like the
Chinese should cast TO the wind inter-
national rights thousand years old
and treat with scorn the sanctit ity!iof
an ambassador and the rights of hos
pitality IN a manner so horrible is
unprecedented in the history OF the
world. Every civilization not founded
on christianity is sure to be brought
to naught. So | send you out. May
you all prove your German efficiency,
devotion and bravery, bear jOyfully
all discomfort ana uphold the honor
and glory Of our arms. You must set
an example of discipline, self dOmina-
tiOn and self contlOl, If you close
with the enemy, remember this:
Spare nobody. Make no prisoners.
Use your weapons so that for a thous-
and years to come no Chinaman will
dare look aSkance at any German,
Open the way for civilization On c
for ALL"
People's voice., 1900-08-02

sediment or SET
ting indicates an
unhealthy cOndi-
tion Of the kid
neys; If It stains
your linen It is
evidence Of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass II or pain in
the back is also
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-07-24
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Mr. AChafles H. Ddty1ehas pee
tes6Sdearted the iprositi0h of''cR&ppsaig
Manage 81 the GRRePaJbSl Fan '8RPsSffssf
and has TIE matter }p3adlePPrw ffTYS'
ment. Mr.. Duty is a campHigppf
from, wayo,b backyard sh0qla he az
cept the upositiond the pemoeEat
will hearIfrom hiInlsubel quo b1s
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ti6f tha 4bmessA /" titae ti&6ymay.l re
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Glassifdi description Pic var 3iRf
Aruns as follews:zinsPelitics is hsm I
Andilfk e ncsermoH this editpJial
Observation-Disclosures: ol2ogq edI |
1di IenWhSto pdlideyafeprpoG .eidA
l's It'o1ght' to Re wen II Understood
l4bsy1lfABs tine tRsat'iq p3akitsfi' Gan
R5igg Is not sting mr.
J IA Sq9daXi sqhool RicrVfq poh a mlf-
siOnary conlsreaeeonoba isp unEjmiy
lprAyer meeting AZ dheugha prop
erly conducted campaign wOld q
tehBbdysome elements ofsiIthese
For instance, tie Pwarmth Of the
revival, the enthusiasm Of the pic
lnif,. the zeal Of the missionary, c9h
Gereneepand the eagne5tness Of tbs
lprayer meeting. nl.h OH a.. lesA
raA-What' a political campaigr
'lshodld be- ~ ID ia .Hq.-q sri
- There ought to be such a thi1G
as s,' political honesty. Tie plat
| {9prm. should express the principle
Of the Party,a no. be a cheap CPi'
flor votes. There ought to be
4 discrimination between men. AM
d measures Aopohtical party re r
4 resentso s6me ideacof governments
policy. The men making uPracPar
: Ity. are ofall grades Of moral worth
plABqadi aia5 iaaX iho fGa aiayl iaS dlYIt
. pate yeryiep98iaVs oRolltcs., ,idl nj
oPnannirleoaghtts be, Eeeea!pg.ilzs&d
At no time in our hlst0rMoasl
State or NationiAavelwe seen it s
5. clearly manifest as in the presehi
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-07-24

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fehte e9jasnwhtey wiHJaf
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Wyatt and Rufus Haddcn. 42SaiEE
ftelegates %eteg fastrbctM tdvot
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-07-24

.has65gsaufga G9YegfPr .seRsissk hSSRm9
ls4ABd~ay t5Grberd lhBedlgu ebuE
sentiment that will. ygauo5qHJ
observation-disclosures Bas6hAm'
Idnetfera n pieR sIldHjssaRsE opai
khaddDSOudht .jeat son upnacQafFine
tbo hertidva or diTvhe0 teadhins;ih'
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gravity FhisP68s'fAtfB0Gn5 ;7 sh6
his mothers God ana Va hftttARla
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e Critical pieari65d4 f. 1eSideRGae o. th
sweet spirit Of the man, Tang, hi
acts Since h his iRnsf5llaaftiRS9h1 as Gov
ernor have been defined by dut!
and gratitude.
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about revival of old-fashioned

.EP0,dRPW56, Lessi1Tt5l"' Ihsss
OF Hon. *. w. Young Chairman
of the State Ce,MQGdomkh8ste1,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-07-24

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rcifuI we must revert to our text
for this point If we understand
what it is not, and what it ought
to be, do we not see that as usu-
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-07-24
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oil the state OSiRIn ~\1OlhHffttCSD
was -ssis fi5ffsse
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was ready forbusircss. The forces
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other strictly ea-she-square.
a iMFJhJupHsfIR Robbins, Lief Graves
cSahtWlnsss&septihg1i Bsckhsms
has Itafoeff neutrality-suspicious.
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ham against the,6eld,s sA ,jus,nssai
buFo4Io@ing tltevt0DpoTSryocssan-
izatiSR, theaeeaiueiitiehL adjoHaed
until 8 p. m. to give committees
On 81 orgaani7atioY, hetfAedentAfyi And
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the committeeuntil midRigh5,l 2ui
Committee on.sRes9lutioBs. wef
commended aaosn1endmest,eb Abe
Election EaFgiefAg B5th'npafhes
representation on State and c6utH
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-07-24

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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-07-24
Congressional oonReniiond,

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their line from Washington and, fe-
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Convention TO be held atn1 Raipts::
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and 2A.y lqmis cd blGoo omsTi 9dT e.
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scientists have discovered mstlQds fm
obtaining ell natural digestspte
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New-York tribune., 1900-01-26

from Newark almost to Little Falls. High level
routes to accomplish this were surveyed, but
thought to be needlessly expensive The recon-
mendaton for new canal from Cohoes to
West Troy and the canalizing of the Mohawk
above Cohoes is in line with Major Symonss re-
port. The construction of a detour about
Rochester is also considered necessary to en-
largement.
No canal improvement can restore the COM
merce of this city and State which stops with
the mere physical work of enlargement The
committee frankly faces this fact and urges
the need of securing lower transshipment
charges here and in Buffalo. The best way Of
doing this is held to be not by direct regulation
or State elevators, but by throwing open the
canals to boat companies of large capital. Thus
it is hoped that great houses will carry grain,
just great mine owners bring ore down the
lakes, on their own vessels. They would carry
on business Systematically, and could reduce
carrying charges far below the figures possible
for boatmen with antiquated methods, and they
would be able to command much traffic now 60
ing by rail because of their greater responsible
ity Doubtless the restriction on the investment
of capital in canal traffic has hampered trade
and 1t should be removed. Also all the shreds
of politics should be cleared away from canal
management and greater safeguards against the
abuses Of power INDUCED in by Aldridge in the
matter of contracts and advertising established,
as the committee urges If the 'canal is really
going to save New-York'S commerce under
podern conditions 1t must be managed as q
great railroad is managed With such conduct
even a smaller canal than some desire would
make possible the cheap rates on which depends
New-York's continued supremacy. Without it
even a ship canal would be a disappointment
and of no avail against competition Of alert and
businesslike rivals.
The committee has gathered together wealth
Of material on the subject of It's labors, and the
reasons for its particular recommendations are
ably presented-much more so than any alb
stract such as it furnishes for general publica-
ton can indicate. Its conclusions on questions
of engineering and commerce are likely to be
generally accepted The people who must pass
on the project will be most concerned over its
finances. VIII the people, after their recent ex-
perience, be ready to authorize another bond
issue Of S60,000,000? We fear it will need some
strong assurance not merely that the improve
ment plan is good but that it can be carried out
with unaccustomed honesty before a popular
vote Of approval can be secured. The question
of canal enlargement thus becomes a decidedly
practical question of political reform.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-26
Nrtp21nrk DaiIp Gribr,re
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2e. 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-General Butler announced the
capture Of Spion Kop, the key to the Boer posi-
tons on the upper Tugela. by attack on
Tuesday night by a stOrming party of Warren's
men: the British held the mountain all day
wednesday. though suffering severely from
shell fre of the Beers; among the dangerously
wounded Brigadier-GeneraI Woodgate.
- dispatch from Shanghai announced
That the Chinese Emperor had committed sui
eide; 1t was also reported that Pu Chun, Of
Prince Tuan' had been named as heir to the
throne.
CONGRESS- SS-Senate: There was a lively col
loqUy between Messrs. Chandler, Money and
Pettus the question in the South; Mr.
Allison said there would be an opportunity for
full and free debate on the pending Currency
bill; Mr.. Chandler announced that the Quay
case would soon be taken up; an Urgent De
hciency bill, carrying about $4,000 000
passed - House: The resolution excluding
Brigham Fl. Roberts was adopted by a vote of
26S to 90; the alternative proposition to seat
end then expel him was lost by a vote Of
242 to 81.
) DOMESTIC.-Governor Roosevelt sent two spe-
rial messages to the State Legislature submit
ting with them the reports OF the State Com
tnerce Commission and the Canal Commission,
she former setting forth the measures needed to
regain the commerce of the port of Newly ork
end the latter recommending that S600O0O00 be
Expended on a barge canal from Buffalo TO AL
bany. force of a thousand armed men
wearing Taylor badges appeared at Frankfort,
fhere the contests over Kentucky State offices
are pending. - The Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic Committee declared its choice for Presi-
dent to be W. ]. Bryan who addressed the com
inittee and the public at Harrisburg. - Brig
ham H Roberts made a statement regarding his
exclusion from the House Of Representatives,
announcing his intention not to be a candidate
for reelection.
CITY.-Stocks were dull and strong. - The
New Amsterdam Gas Company again reduced
hs rates from 81 % a thousand cubic feet the
feeal rate +, a. cents It was said that
John B. Mcdonald, the rapid transit contractor,
might have TO ask for extension Of time for
getting his bonds ready. - The trial OF
Roland B. MolineuX adjourned until Mon
day because of the illness Of Juror No. 10, Mr..
Brown. The second and last Assembly
hall was held at the Waldorf-Astoria.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair and cold. The temperature yesterday:
N Highest A degrees; lowest. SO; average, 40.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-26
PERSONAL.

". F. E Gurley. engineer. who lives in Dan
Vile, Ill, is the hitherto unknown benefactor who
gave to the University of Chicago archaeological
valued at more than S125,OOO The articles were
found in the Mississippi Valley. Mr.. Gurley spent
thirty years In gathering the collection.
1t is said that Colonel David Harris who Is IN
command OF the Kimberley garrison, at one
time choir boy in a London Jewish synagogue.
Judge David Cameron, whom Governor Stone OF
Pennsylvania recently appointed as the successor
Of Judge John L Mitchell on the Tioga County
bench, began life a mine boy. His family fifty
years ago settled at Blossburg where with his
brothers he was employed in wagoning the coal
that his father dug
BY gift of the children of the late Eli L. Corbin,
the village Of Oxford, N Y. has received building
for public library as memorial to their parents
who were lifelong residents OF the place. 1t is
pected that generous sum for new books condi-
pose will be added.
Personal friends of Ex-Governor wolcott Of Mas
sachusetts will give a complimentary banquet in
his honor at the University Club in Boston on jan
uary 80 The affair is in the hands of Francis H.
Appleton John c. Gray, Charles S. Hamlin, Au-
gustus Hemenway, Henry L. Higginson Henry S.
Howe. Amory A. Lawrence, William Lawrence
Francis e. Lowell, Richard Olney, Henry Parkman
and William F. Wharton.
John w. Foster, the well known dipIomatist has
accepted an invitation to deliver course OF three
lectures at the University of Illinois on the early
diplomatic history of the United States. The lee
lures will probably be given in April
New-York tribune., 1900-01-26

Is largely explained by the adaptability or
American masters and workmen to the demands
made upon them. The manager of Factory
tries to suit buyers In respect 10 deliveries ana
terms of payment. His employees gladly con-
form to the conditions necessary to secure sue
cess. The foreign manufacturer has riglo
system of doing business from which he reIuc-
tantly departs. If at ALL and his men are averse
to piece work or contract work, or doing any
thing in particular to facilitate sale by the
house that employs them.
In addition to the spirit Of adaptability, the
American workman betrays another notable
quality. His mental processes are quicker. win
the same piece of machinery he will turn out
more work than the foreigner. Thus, when GER
tain machinery was exported from this country
to Switzerland it was discovered that the usuai
rate of speed for American workmen was too
high for the Swiss, who in consequence turned
out good deal of defective work.
The value Of technical training, briefly alluded
TO by Mr. Smith, is made the subject of sepa-
rate paper by DR.. Henry Morton, president OF
the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hobo
ken. than whom no better authority could be
found on this side of the Atlantic. DR.. MORTON
shows that this class of instruction was pracu-
calIy unknown in America thirty years ago. Inc
first faculty at Stevens was made up or men
who had had practical experience in designing
and construction. The aim of the institute was
to familiarize the student with the tools ana
processes of as wide a range of mechanic arts
as possible, but not to make skilled craftsmen.
AS soon as the student had learned how ma
chine was to be used he was passed along 10 an
other operation. The course Of study was sup
plemented by experiments in test depart
ment" for the solution Of new problems con-
nected with practical engineering. Out OF seven
hundred men who have taken this course tully
two hundred now occupy places OF responslDil-
ity in American shops, factories and mills; ana
the policy Of Stevens has been adopted py other
schools in this country. DR.. Morton feels Justi-
fed. accordingly. in declaring that technical
training in the mechanic arts in the Unlteu
Estates has exerted a sensible influence on tne
progress of such arts, in the direction OF worlu
wide competition, by reason of the fact that II
has been kept In touch with the WORKSHOP
New-York tribune., 1900-01-26
THE CANAL REPORT

The Canal Committees report, transmitted by
the Governor to the Legislature yesterday, puts
the final stamp of condemnation both on the
conception and execution Of the so-called canal
improvement dishonesty fOsted upon the State
BY Mr.. Platt's organization. General Greene
and his associates, after exhaustive study of
the subject, pronounce all the work done by
Aldridge total failure not worth carrying to
completion, and not 10 be left it is without
virtual abandonment Of the waterways. So the
saOOOOOO is wasted. The improvements it paid
Cor will not TO any extent even be usefully in
rorporated into any new scheme. The whole
sroject has to be taken up anew, and If any
Thing is TO be done toward undermining our
water route il will have to be practically the
building of a new canal from Lake Erie to the
Hudson.
Having decided this, the next question con-
Fronting the committee the nature Of the
new undertaking, provided any attempt to keep
M the canals was advisable. That they should
be kept up the committee is confident, and in
the extended report figures are given which
eorrv conviction that this decision is right The
hlen for a canal adequate for the passage of at
least the bulk OF the lake freighters so that
grain might come here by water from Duluth
without breaking bulk, has many attractive
features but it is set aside as too expensive
This is IN substantial agreement WIFI lne IepoIb
OF Major Symons. now one Of the committee, to
the United States Government when he exam
lned into the project of a Federal ship canal He
roughly estimated the expense at S20O,OOO,OOO.
He also held that barge traffic would be more
economical The canal passage would be too
slow for the lake vessels. With reasonable
transfer charges II would be cheaper to let them
make more trips on the lakes and employ for
the canal boats costing less to construct and to
man Major SymOns favored a canal for barges
with a cargo capacity of 100 tons, and esti-
mated the cost at S5OOO0000 The committee
settles upon a somewhat more modest scheme
of execution at about $59,0OO,OOO 1t dismisses
all propositions for a smaller canal as made
uuate and not worth the money that would
he spent on il, and gives good reasons for the
conclusion There can, we think, be little doubt
that 81 the State is going to do anything In this
matter It should get for its pains a waterway
which IL may reasonably be hoped will hold its
own against railroads and larger Canadian
cspaIs The committee determines not merely
on a new canal structure, but also for long
distance on a new canal route. This is sub
stantialiy following out a suggestion made by
State Engineer Elnathan Sweet as early as
1884 and adopted by Major Symons in 1897
The low level from Clyde to New-London is to
be cut out, and the Seneca and Oneida rivers
and Oneida Lake are to be canalized This
does not as Mr.. Sweet and Major Symons
planned. cut out the troublesome Rome summit
level and give descending waterway all the
way from Buffalo TO Albany. and without locks
New-York tribune., 1900-01-26
WHY THE AMERICAN WINS

The articles which Engineering has been
publishing from week to week for the last few
months on the causes Of American Industrial
success are quite instructive to manufact-
urers on this side of the Atlantic as to those ON
the other for whom they were primarily In
tended. The influences that have been at work
are many, moreover, and it is hardly to be ex-
pected that they would all be equally obvious to
any one observer, no matter how keen. II is
fortunate, therefore, that the extent OF the EN-
gineering" series of papers admits of treatment
from several points of view, especially since the
writers have been selected to some extent with
that purpose
The close relations which 7. GuifOrd Smith,
OF Buffalo, sustains 10 the Carnegie company
enable him to speak as a representative of the
steel industry Of America. To him the situation