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Hosplta1 Shin Not Needed.

Washington, Aug. 2s--A personal
letter from General Sternberg, now
making an inspection of the medical
department of the Philippines, says he
finds the department generally in good
condition. He says that the depart
ment will have no further use for the
hospital ship Relief, and he has recon-
mended that she be turned over to the
quartermaster's department
Free press., 1901-09-07
NATURAL HISTORY AT K. U.
The New Building which i. Now BeIr

Erected.
Lawrence, Kans., Sept. 3.-The nu
scum of natural history now being
erected at Kansas University may be
partial described thus:
The basement has the skeleton room
in the apse on the rear, and is 72x132
feet.
The part of basement under the main
building is devoted to large taxideT.
mists shops, class rooms, toilet rooms
and store rooms.
The first floor has the main room fol
mammals, 72x132, and in addition the
panorama 72x54 for the special exhibi-
the apse in the rear, lighted by skylight
above. The grand entrance, custodian s
office, the guides room are all on the
first floor
A mezzanine floor has the custodian S
library in the south small tower over
the custodian's office.
| The second floor has the grand room
| for exhibition of birds-72x132-wi a
| gallery on three sides.
The third floor has the same space as
the second except that a skylight in the
center lights the second floor and
through wells in the floor lights the
! first floor.
The material sof the outside is oi
Lawrence native stone like the library
| and the trimmings will be of Cotton
wood Falls stone and Lyon county
stone. Kansas materials are uSeC
| where practicable.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Will Exterminate Armenlans.

London, Aug. s1.-The Daily Mail
publishes an article written by Al
Rouri Bey, former Turkish consul in
Rotterdam, declaring that the massa-
ere OF Armenians by Kurds, which has
just recommended, is part of regular
system of determination. He says:
''The number Of Americans killed will
depend upon the outcry raised in
Europe and the pressure brought to
bear upon the sultan. The same horri-
bic process viii be repeated year by
year until ali are killed.
Free press., 1901-09-07
For q Baptist school.

Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. S1.-Mrs.
Johana III. LOvelace, of Turner, Kans.,
has made an offer to the Kansas City,
Kan, Baptist Theological Seminary
ninety acres of land valued at $50, 900,
lying just outside the limits of that
that $1,000 be raised to purchase a
building now on the property to be
used for seminary purposes. Mrs.
Lovelaee also agrees to give 81. .O0o
toward the running expenses OF the
seminary the first near.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Revlsing ConfessIon OF Faith.

Saratoga, n. Y, Sept. 2.-The Pres
byterian committee on the revision of
the Westminster confession has made
important progress. DIR. Johnsons s
section has been engaged upon a short
statement of the reformed faith Dr.
Dickey's section has devoted its time to
a declaratory statement. DR.. Niccol's
section has made rapid progress in
outlining statement supplementary
love of God for the world and for mis-
sion
Free press., 1901-09-07
where Friar. Went TO.

New York, Sept. 3.-'Since tn. Span
ish-American war the United States of
Colombia has been invaded by fully
5000 priests and friars, who have gone
to that country after being chased out
OF the Philippines. When the Revolu
tionary party in the United States of
Colombia is successful, as it surely will
be within the next month, these cleri-
Gals will be expelled, said RauoI Periz,
who is the diplomatic secretary of the
Colombian Revolutionary party in the
United States.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Britain CbtDs In.

Victoria, B. c.. Aug. 31.-H- N. S.
Amphier has taken on board three
scowloads of ammunition. and the re
port is current although no confrma-
ton can be obtained. that she has been
ordered to prepare to proceed to Pana-
ma, and the torpedo boats Virago and
Sparrow Hawk are to go with her.
The Virago's boilers have been taken
apart and orders have been given foE
work night and day to hurry the
repairs and have the boat ready to
proceed
Free press., 1901-09-07
Texas Getting Rains.

Waco, Tex, Sept. "a good rain fell
in this city this afternoon, the first since
June 1. Good rains are reported all
over the country north and east Of here.
Houston, Tex, Sept 3.-Reports from
several counties in South Texas show
that heavy rains fell today, accompa-
MED by high winds, which have done
considerable damage to cotton bolls.
The rain extended as far north as Cor
sicana. being the first downpour be-
tween that section and Houston since
June !
Free press., 1901-09-07
Santa Fe Makes Oil Contract.

Beaumont, Texas, Sept. 2.-What is
perhaps the biggest contract ever made
for the Beaumont fuel oil has been
closed between the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe and a fuel company of this
city. Under the contract the Santa Fe
railroad agrees to take from the fuel
company a minimum of nine million
barrels of oil during the next twelve
months. The price is not stated.
Free press., 1901-09-07
A Magnesia Mine.

Emporia, Aug. 29.-While drilling a
well Col. Taylor discovered magnesia
and he at once sent some samples to
experts at Denver and Chicago to be
tested. He received the reply from
both chemists that the mineral was %
per cent pure, or purer than any other
vein that has ever been discovered.
The strata seems as near as can at
present be determined, to extend over
about two acres and to vary from 6
inches to foot and half in thickness
1t depth of from 90 to 25 feet.
Free press., 1901-09-07
sapulpa Negroes Protected.

Sapulpa, 1. T., Aug. 28.-Demonstra-
tions against negroes came to a sudden
end with the arrival of Deputy United
States Marshal Bud Trail and Captain
White. They were met here by United
States Marshal Bennett and Governor
Porter. principal chief of the Creek
nation. Marshal Bennett instructed
them to arrest all offenders and send
them to Muskogee in chains, and to
deputize citizens if help was needed.
He said he would prevent an outbreak
if he had to have extra troops
Free press., 1901-09-07
Trolley Line Up Pixies Peak.

Colorado Springs, Sept. 3.-Colorado
Springs capitalists have organized a
company to build an electric railway to
the top of Pixies peak. The road will
cost $500, 900 or more. 1t will start
from Colorado Springs or from some
station on the Cripple Creek short line.
Experiments show that electricity
,an be operated at the altitude neces-
sary, IA, 143 feet. Work will begin Inn
mediately. The cog road has hereto
fore held the field exclusively.
Free press., 1901-09-07
A Connecting Link.

Fort Scott. Aug. 31.-When the old
Memphis company was organized under
Kansas laws and given the name of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis,
the company announced that line
at Jacques junction in Cherokee coun-
ty, thereby perfecting the consolida-
tion of the Memphis & Frisco in Kan.
sas- The proposed line is only short
distance and the work will be com
two vast railroad systems.
Free press., 1901-09-07
PAINT IN THE FALL

Fall painting is best; the
paint gets well seasoned be-
fore the hot sun gets busy.
You want your paint to
last, and to protect your prop
erty. IF you use Devoe ready
paint, you II have both.
Lasts longer than lead and
oil; costs less. Devoe is a safe
name IN paint things.
Ask your dealer for Devoe; don't be
satisfied with less. Send for our pam
ph1et about paint and painting; free;
things you ought to know.
GOOD-PAINT DEVOE CHICAGO.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Short Horns on Shares.

Larned, Aug. 51.-W. C. Edwards
.ame here personally in charge of a
carload of the finest high grade Short
horn heifers that has ever been brought
TO thi1 part of the country. There
were 81 head in the bunch. They were
selected by Mr.. Edwards out of about
SO, 900 head. Mr.. Edwards now has
about 500 high grade Shorthorn cattle
in this county on shares. and he pro-
poses to increase the number until he
has 1,eOo high grade red heifers to
breed from
Free press., 1901-09-07
After a Busy Life.

Salina, Kans., Aug. 29.-James Col
man, aged 80 years, is dead at his home
in Gypsum City. He was born in Eng
land, and educated at Oxford. In 1S4s
he embarked for South America and
purchased a trading vessel and from
there he sailed to Africa, where he
remained for fifteen years. He was
with DIR. Livingston, the explorer, for
three years and was also guide and
interpreter in the Kaffir war of 1857.
He came to Kansas in 90.
Free press., 1901-09-07
A Frisco Extansion.

Lawton, Aug. 31.-A. II. Cobb, for
merly of WyandOtte county, Kansas.
has been appointed Frisco agent of the
Rock Island railway for the southwest
with headquarters. Mr.. Cobb said that
within six months the Frisco will be-
gin the construction of line to run
from Oklahoma City passing through
Lawton and connecting with the
Blackwell line in the Red river coun-
Free press., 1901-09-07
superintendent and His Son.

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 3.-All reports
show that the wreck on the Great North
ern was the worst in the roads history,
and one of the most agonizing in the
annals of American railroading. Forty
one lives are lost and ten persons were
injured. Three of the injured will surely
die and others were seriously hurt
By heroic efforts, fifteen of the bodies
were talKen from the wrecked cars All
the other victims were cremated, in
Guiding Superintendent P. L. Downs
and his son, T. Kirk Downs.
Free press., 1901-09-07
osaees Who owe traders.

Washington, Sept. Arrangements
are being completed at the Indian Office
Tor final adjudication and settlement
IF the accounts of the post traders of
he Usage nation, Okla. The total
amount of this indebtedness, as claimed
oy the post traders, aggregates nearly
T5O, 900, but it is doubtful whether
mere than two-thirds of this amount
will be allowed. Many of the accounts
IRE in excellent shape and will doubtless
be allowed in full Others are in very
unsatisfactory shape.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Barnes Board Says we.therford.

Guthrie, Ok, Ang. 28.-The Barnes
sisting of DIR. r. A. Southard, Robert A.
Lowery' Cash NJ. Cade, j. A. Stine and
C. B. Ames, concluded their itinerary
of towns asking for the location of the
Southwestern Normal school and have
unanimously decided to report favora-
bly, on the site offered by the town of
Weatherford, in Custer county. The
Jenkins boord has not yet made a re-
port.
Free press., 1901-09-07
The Lawrence Wire Factory.

Lawrence, Aug. ga company is
being organized in this city to operate
the wire factory here, which was sold
to the wire trust last year. The new
company is to have capital of 1000,
of which one-half is already paid up.
The members of the new company are
men who were in some way connected
with the old wire mills, hence are ex-
perienced in the business
Free press., 1901-09-07
Seven Hundred Go to Work

Pitsburg, Aug. 31.-The strikers at
the plant of the McClintock-Marsh
Co., at Rankin, Pa, met and declared
the strike off
The men 60 back at the terms offered
by the company.
Three hundred men returned to work
ployes went to their places on the fol-
lowing day.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Found a Buried Schooner.

Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 3.-Workmen, /,
while excavating for sewer on Chris
tina street, hundred yards from the
shore of the bay, in made land, discov-
cred the wreck of a schooner ten feet
below the surface. Silver coins bear
ing date of 164S were found in the
wreck. Several interesting relics and
old silver plate of the seventh century
were found also.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Roster of Rough Riders.

Santa Fe, n. NJ, Sept. 3.-Vice Pres
ident Roosevelt has consented to write
history of the Rough Riders for the
roster of the New Mexico volunteers in
the Spanish war, which will be pub
lished by the authority of the thirty
fourth legislative assembly of New
Mexico, which has made an appropria-
ton for that purpose.
Free press., 1901-09-07
An AdaptabIe Celestial.

Yu Keng, the Chinese ambassador at
Paris, is quite an adaptable Celestial
His wife is only half Chinese, having
had an American father. His children
speak perfect English, and the family
takes. in Western style, to excursions,
amateur photography, private theatri-
= ais and other fads.
Free press., 1901-09-07
Loyalty to His Employer.

That young man who consented to have
a. portion of his blood let out to save his
smployer set a. remarka bic example of
heroisIn The incident shows what power
there is in good blood. There is only one
natural way to get good blood, and that
is from the stomach If the stomach needs
assistance, try Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters This wonderful medicine cures oys-
pepsia indigestion, constipation, aQe
makes rich red blood.
Free press., 1901-09-07
The Oakland Canal Approved.

Washington, Sept. 2.-The war de.
partment has approved the contracts
made by the local engineer at Sar
Francisco for the construction of the
Oakland canal, which is to extend from
Oakland harbor to San Leandro bay
The contract was made out about fou1
months ago, but was held up by legal
complications
Free press., 1901-09-07
Too Many Renutiea.

Topeka, Sept. 3. Ben. Northrup,
state grain inspector, has more men on
his payroll than he knows what to do
to let some of them out. The difficult
job is to select the men to discharge.
They are all good grain men and IN
derstand their business. and besides,
they all want to keep their jobs.
Free press., 1901-09-07
oldest Of the "Immortal..-

The oldest of the Immortals," OF
members of the French Academy. is
Legouve, who is ninety-fOur The Paris
Gaulois thinks that the best thing he
wrote is this: 1T is often said that
God condemned man to live, and gave
him work as a mitigating circum-
cranoo'
Free press., 1901-09-07
sea-Mater q Tonic.

me idea has been advanced that
much of ,he benefit derived from sea-
bathing is due to the amount OF sea-
water involuntarily swallowed. 1t is
said to be tonic for the liver, stom-
ach and kidneys, and Of great benefit
in cases of biliousneSs-
Free press., 1901-09-07
Remains of a Mammoth Found.

Report comes from Siberia of the
recent discovery of a mammoth, which
will be taken to ST. Petersburg The
mammoth is unique of its kind. Its
hair, skin and flesh are entirely pre-
served and there are remains Of undi-
gested food in its stomach.
Free press., 1901-09-07
E1ectrin Cara s41oo Apiece.

The average cost of the body Of a
modern long electric car is $4,000; the
average price of a set of double trucks
for such a car is $500, and the average
cost of the motor is 81 500, making the
total cost of the car $4,100.
Free press., 1901-09-07
VIM Catalogue ANTIQUITIES.

Prof. Waldemar Schmidt, the Da-
nish archaeologist, intends to visit all
the great museums in Europe in order
to collect material for the publication
of a catalogue of the Egyptian an
tiquities contained in them.
Free press., 1901-09-07

At least half a dozen scientists are
now carefully studying snaiis. The
reason, according to one OF them, is be-
cause these little animals are extraor-
dinariIy sympathetic and intelligent.
Free press., 1901-09-07

To be happy you must forget your
self and remember others.
Free press., 1901-09-07

Pisos Cure is the best medicine ever used
for all affections OF the throat and lungs--WB
o. ENDsLEY, Vanburen, Ind. Feb TO- 1900
Free press., 1901-09-07

YELLOW CLOTHES ARE UNsIGHTLY.
Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue.
All grocers sell large OF. package, cents.
Free press., 1901-09-07

Clubs are places where men go whel
they want to get rid of themselves.
Free press., 1901-09-07

1t matters not how good a joke may
be, there are people who can't see it.
Free press., 1901-09-07

The man who will not trust his feel
ings is not doing credit business
Free press., 1901-09-07

All men are little lower than the
angels, and the majority are consider
ably more so.
Free press., 1901-09-07

PUTNAM FADELEss DYES are as
easy to use as soap. No muss or failures.
1Oc per package. Sold by druggists
Free press., 1901-09-07

FITS Permanently Cured No hts nervousness after
first days of DR.. KIine's Great Nerve Restorer.
Send FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise.
H. KLISE, Ltd, 9SI Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa
Free press., 1901-09-07

A dearth of news is no news to the
editor.
Free press., 1901-09-07

A man who sits down and reflects
isn't necessarily brilliant.
Free press., 1901-09-07

Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13
EntertaininG Squirrels.

Alive in his native woods the squirrel
is an amusing little fellow, and he will
entertain you by the hour if you will
let him.
You probably become first aware of
his presence by his dropping things on
your head. Then he plays hide and
seek with you as he zigzags up a tree.
While he pauses for thought, or pos
sibly to wash his face, another squirrel
comes scudding along the branches of
neighboring tree, and away they so,
one chasing the other, jumping from
branch tip to branch tip, racing up and
down the trunk and making the bark
fly. Sometimes one loses his footing
and falls headlong 20 or 80 feet to the
ground, landing there with force that
makes him bounce. You think every
grain Of sense must be knocked out of
the small body. but he only blinks a
bit and, after moment spent perhaps
in letting the stars set that must have
suddenly risen before his eyes, he
streaks it UP the nearest tree after the
other fellow. Long after they have
disappeared from sight you hear them
chattering together up among the
leaves like two watchmen's rattles.-
Philadelphia Record.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13
The Irishmon's Request.

In the days when Jogging WAS in
vogue as a punishment in the British
navy Scotchman and an Irishman, on
the arrival of their ship in harbor, Oh
tanned leave to so ashore for a couple
days, and they overstaid the period OF
leave granted them. When they did
put in an appearance, they were order
ed so lashes each. On the day of the
punishment parade was ordered to
witness the infliction of the Jogging.
When all was ready, the Scotchman
asked as a favor to be allowed piece
of canvas on his back while he receiv-
ed his foggng. The captain granted
his request and, turning to the Irish
man, asked him If he required any
thing on his back while he was being
logged, to which he replied, "Tf We
Place, yer honor, I'd loike to have the
Scotchman on my back. if We wouldn't
mind"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13
Proved Her Nationnlitx.


Recently a bent old lady entered one
of the Salina street stores and upon be-
ing asked what she wished to see made
reply in what the clerk judged to be On
unknown language. A second inquiry
proving no more satisfactory, the clerk
excused herself and went in search Of
one of her colleagues who is of German
descent
ooh, Miss L." she entreated, won't
you come over to my counter for a min
Ute? There's a poor old German lady
there, and 1 can't understand a word
she says"
Miss L. followed and, pausing before
the stool on which the would be Gus
toner was seated, inquired in her
sweetest tones:
"Are you Il German?"
The poor old German lady" raised
her handkerchief to her lips and evil
IDENTIFY extricated something from her
mouth. Then, bending a look of the
utmost scorn upon the clerk, she ex-
claimed in rich and unmistakable
brogue:
"Garman, is it? Indade an I'm not
But I've got a new set of false lathe,
bad scran to thin! An now, if We
phase, will wan of yez wait on me?"-
Syracuse Herald.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13

The tribes on the coast Of British Co.
lumbia hold a festival in the autumn,
the GROWING item of which is the par
taking of few spoonfuls of bowl Of
soapsuds.
They gather in the dingy huts, which
are hung with the staple food-dried
salmon. For light they stick into the
ground, head downward. a silvery fish
about FIVE inches long, set fire to the
tail, and they have torch, for the fish
burns steadily.
After eating of various ursavory
foods there comes the great treat. This
is n bowl of frothy, soapy mixture,
obtained by crushing in not overclean
manner the sapoliti, or soap berries,
and squeezing out the juice. This is as
much like soapsuds as it is possible to
conceive. The natives sip it from
spoons of black wood, neatly carved,
of which they think a great deal.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13
Her Opipion of A.n,r,er..

1t seems that asparagus is not grown
in the tropics-at least it was not grown
at Rio de Janeiro when certain Amer
lean gentleman, who had lived several
years in the Brazilian capital, went
with his wife and S-year-old daughter
to visit friends living near Buenos
Ayres, q part of the continent where
the climate is better adapted to the
fruits and vegetables of the temperate
regions.
At the first dinner after their arrival
the visitors We're treated to some fresh
asparagus. The little S-year-old daugh-
ter was likewise served with the as
paragus, but she evidently did not
think much of 1t as an article of food.
Her mother tried for some time to
coax her 10 eat it. Finally the little
girl, taken between the rudeness Of
whispering at the table and the rude
ness of not eating her food, leaned over
and, with a choking voice and CULVER
ing lip, whispered to her mother: "Mam-
ma, it is not nice. It's raw at one end
and rotten at the other"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13

A good story Is going the rounds Of
the Offices of the Metropolitan Street
Railway company concerning the Won
derful presence of mind displayed re-
Gently by new conductor on one of
the company's trolley cars. This par
ticular car was bowling along up
Broadway recently when it was hailed
and boarded by a company inspector.
The official hurriedly counted the pas
sengers in the car and found that there
were nine. Then he cast his eye up to
the register and found that there had
been only eight fares rung up. lie dis
closed his identity to the new conduct
OF and called attention to the discrep-
ancy.
Slowly and painfully the new band
counted over his passengers and then
scanned his register.
"Begorra, an you're roight, sir" he
said and promptly stopped the car.
Say" he demanded, addressing the
passengers in an authoritative man
ner, wan O. youse fellows'n hov to
git off the car-r."-New York Times.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13

Nowadays the captain is the host Of
the ship. He is no longer the gruff,
rough seadog in pea Jacket CT years
gene by. He must observe some Of the
social amenities; he must talk to the
pas sengers now and then when the
weather is fine; he must take his seat
at ta1ie when he may; he must be
kind of diplomat also and possess wit
C-d tact and 4 patience sublime; he
must see that no jealousies develop
among the passengers. l have been
told OF the very obliging captain, who,
10 please the lady who asked to be
shown the equator while the ship was
in southern seas, pasted hair across
the large end of a spyglass and told the
lady TO look. And the lady through the
glass declared she could see the equa.
tor 'as plainly as \ B c." One other
polite captain have heard of-one who
directed an officer on the bridge to "dC
as the lady Wishes" when the lady re
quested that the captain steer the ship
over to the horizon so she could see
what to horizon was like.-Captai1
jameson in Golfers.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-09-13

The gate was wide open, and the
courtyard was full of prisoners, and the
surrounding buildings were old and
lettering. I asked the chief, whom one
of the two or three listless attendants
called for us, why the prisoners did
not run away. "Oh," he replied, "they
would lie caught and beaten again and
kept longer. Now they will get out
soon"
Eut as l looked at them I saw they
did not run because they could not.
The life was beaten out of them. The
keepers brought the heavy. red cord
with a brass hook at the end and
trussed up man with it to show how
the beating was done and then brought
us the stiff rods with which victims
were poV-''~'l over the shins and
thighs until nc , aten spots were SIM
ply masses of fostering rottenness.
There was Il room, black, foul, leprous,
in which the men were fastened in the
stocks The Black Hole of Calcutta was
scarcely less merciful than this
Ladies' Monthly.