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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-02-14

ostentatious goodness, to reproach
corrupt administration or stay
imperialism
Electricity, by its mighty mag
ic, will draw within its stretching
wires all nations, however remote,
nearer and nearer, until voices re-
vertebrate over the sea, and faces
dear are definitely portrayed as we
speak heart to heart with those we
love.
Electricity's browning victory
will he to indicate, by an abridged
and rapid method that oil of youth
may not he spent TOLL ny over
books aud coming profile ms.
Electricity will be the blood
hound TO track the red-handed
murderer, and TO accomplish all
things with dispatch; religion, the
Reformer, that in the next centu-
~, regenerates the rugged Ken
tuckians OF the east, where crag
and chain now oyershadow and
embrace people Of lawlessness
aud feuds; the tall mountaineer.
pugnacious, res eltful, unforgiving
"a tool for crime.
Kentucky in the year two thou
sand will witness all these and
more.
She will be liberated from all
thralldom, her institutions live
amidst the rage of mammon, aud
all her interests blend in one har-
monious song.
Kentucky then lifts up her lag
uifurled, not as now with bowed
head, and blood stained garments
trailing in the mire of political
crime, as sadly she weeps for way
ward sons, but with joyol q face
she defies the world to produ CO a
race like hers; her tall men, sun
crowned, who rise above the fog
in public duty" her women, tall::
willowy. graceful, heads poised
like that of a Greek goddess, the
light Of intellect and womanly vir-
tues illumining her fair face, and
who, IL misfortunes come, bow urs
complainingly 90 the rod
Kentuckiansl proud and tIuel
the very Embodiment of all that
fills the heart with native pride.
The yeart wo thousand is what
this century makes it-as the rush
ing river widens by the flow of its
tributaries, and Time, brother of
space, will see our State brought
out of shadow and gloom, and on
her pedestal of honor and worth,
"A pedestal so high that no man
or race may over reach it.
SUNPLowER.
Miss Sadie Thomas is the au-
thor of this essay.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-02-14
Strayed.

From the George Cruce farm,
2 miles east of Crayneville, about
two weeks ago, one bright red COW
3 years old, weighs about 700 lbs,
Information as to her whereabouts
gladly received.
Edge Cruoe,
Crayneyille.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-02-14
Notice.

All persons indebted to me are
requested to call and settle. / need
the money and must make these
collections without delay. A word
to the wise is sufficient.
w. B, Binkley.
View, Ky. Jan. ], 1901,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-02-14

Commencing this week, dining
cars will be operated on trains No
10l and |, and l02 and 2 of the
Illinois Central between Central
City and Memphis,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-02-14
NO SO

( FOR SALE.-A house of four
rooms, 4 acres land, good orchard,
garden, stables, ETC., on Morgan
field road, 4 miles from Marion.
Terms easy. See r. @. Walker.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30

Why Old Flats and Houses Don't Rent.
Real estate men ana owners should
not overlook the fact that the Lake
View Gas Fixture Company, 233 Lin
coin avenue, Telephone North 78s, re-
finish old chandeliers Waking them
equal to new at very small cost. IL
many cases after expanding money fol
calcimining or paperlng, the chandeliers
are left In the same dirty, hy-specked
condition as before, and are not In
keeping with the new decorations,
thereby spelling that which has been
done, when at very small cost the
chandeliers. brackets. ETC., can be Ne
finished equal to new. We reflnish In
all the latest c0lors, such 90 polished
brass. gilt, rich gilt, old copper. polish.
I'd copper. oxidized copper. silver and
gOld.
We are also makers Of Q ane line Of
gas fixtures at prices to suit the times.
Call up North 78S. Our agent VIII
call and estimate.
LAKE VIEW GAS FIXTURE co.
- Liuceln avsuuA chicago
The Conservative, 1901-10-31
Che Conservative.

Among the primitive polarities is
that of author and reader. 1t is my
part to endeavor to present the lead
ing facts and laws Of the material uni
verse in such plain language that
they may be apprehended without ex-
cessive effort, or extraordinary powers
of perception. But it is the readers
part to supply an average amount of
attention, and above all to feel all in
terest in science generally. Ability
and curiosity are almost convertible
terms, and the clearest exposition is
thrown away OH the torpid mind
in which he has had the privilege to
live with the apathy of a savage, tax
ing things as they come without car
ing to know anything about them.
Laws of Nature.
For the readers part of the work I
am in no way responsible; for my
own part am, and I proceed there
fore to give in my own way, and with
the best faculty that I possess, a clear
summary Of some of the fundamental
facts and laws of nature.
What 1 propose to call the "ulti-
mate forces'' of the universe are
ether, energy and matter.
First, ether: universal, all-per-
vading medium, infinitely light, and
almost infinitely elastic, in which all
matter, from suns and planets down
to molecules and atoms, floats as in
boundless ocean and whose tremors or
vibrations, propagated as waves, trans
port the different forms Of energy
heat, light and electricity-across
space The existence of ether is still
hypothetical, as it has not been con-
clusively established but know of
no worker in the cause of scientific
truth who denies that some such ulti-
mate force undoubtedly exists.
Secondly, energy: primitive indie
structible something, which causes
motion and manifests itself under it's
many diversified forms, such as gray
ity, mechanical work, molecular and
atomic forces, light, heat and electric
ity, all which are merely transforma-
tions of some one form of fundamen-
tai energy and are convertible into
each other.
Thirdly, matter: the ultimate ele-
ments of this are atoms, which,
when combined, form molecules, or
little quantities of ordinary sub
stances, with the presence of all their
qualities. These are the bricks used
in building the varied structures of
the organic and inorganic world. Of
these atoms some seventy-fve have
never been divided, and therefore, al
though we may suspect that they are
The Conservative, 1901-10-31

the impression of solidity is given by
the action of a repellent force which
is very energetic at short distances.
If this were established we might
look forward to the generalization
that energy was the one reality of
nature; but for the present it is
mere speculation, and we must be con-
tent with our seventy elementary
atoms as ultimate facts. In any case
this much is certain, that matter,
like energy, is indestructible. We
have absolutely no experience Of either
of them being created or annihilated.
Further, we have no faculties
to enable us even to perceive how
something can be made out of moth
ing, and all we know about these
primitive constituents of the uni
verse is of their laws of their existence,
their evolutions and transformations.
Minute as the atoms and molecules
are, we must think of them, not as
stationary and permanently connect
ed, but rather as little solar systems
in which revolving atoms form the
matter, held together as distinct in
dividuals by their proper energies and
motions, until some superior force
breaks up the system and sets it's
components free to form new COM
binations
At this point propose to leave the
purely physical aspect of the problem
of life. I have included these few
words because I considered that they
might demonstrate the intimate re-
lation between physics, chemistry and
biology.
At first light there seems to be
great gulf between the living and the
dead which no bridge can span. But
first impressions are very apt to de-
ceive us, and when things are traced
up to their origins we often find them
getting nearer and nearer, until
it is difficult to say where
one begins and the other
ends. Take, for example, such an
antithesis as eating or being eaten.'
If a hunter meets bear one would
say that no distinction could be
sharper than whether the bear eats
the man or the man the bear. In
one case there is man, and in the
other bear, less in the world. But
look through microscope at a drop of
water, and you may see two specks
of jelly-like substance swimming in
it. They are living creatures, for
they eat and grow, and thrust out and
retract parts of their formless mass,
which serve as temporary legs and
arms for seizing food, and for volun-
tary motion. In short, they are each
what are called strictly individual
amOebae, forming separate units of
The Conservative, 1901-10-31
THE PROBLEM OF LIFE.
by LAWRENCE IRwELL.
PART l.

may be intended to serve as SubStl-
tute for real and serious study, by
communicating the results Of study
in so clear and agreeable form as
to send the reader away full of a
glowing and newly discovered sense
of his own requirements, while it
satiates his curiosity and paralyzes
his industry; or it may be intended
to do no more than to translate tech
nical terms back again into the terms
familiar In common speech; to ex-
anime afresh the meaning and scope
Of conceptions which the persistent
jargon of specialists has clouded to
bring persons Of various pursuits and
tastes into intellectual contact with
one another; and, by opening out
to novices an unsuspected region of
interest, to arouse their curiosity and
to stimulate them to further re-
search. 1t need not be said that it is
my aim to be popular in the latter
sense, and not to be so in the former.
Words are, after all, only coins
with which to facilitate the inter-
change of ideas, and the best word is
that which serves the purpose most
clearly. Thus, instead of using the
verbiage of legal document to ex-
press the ideas comprised in such
words as ''theism'', we coin them for
general use, as Huxley did the word
'agnosticism, in order to convey
our meaning The word polarity
is defined in the Century dictionary
as "The having of two opposite poles !;
variation in certain physical prop
critics, so that in one direction they
are the opposite of what they are in
the opposite direction. =" There are,
however, vast variety of facts, out
side of magnetism and electricity,
connected by an underlying idea,
which inevitably suggests analogy to
them, and which can be most con-
veniently expressed by the word
polarity" In Emerson's Essay on
Compensation, we find these words {:
Polarity, or action and reaction,
we meet in every part Of nature in
darkness and in light in the ebb and
flow of waters in male and female in
the expiration of animals and plants lin
the undulations of fluids and of
sound in the centripetal and centrif-
ugal gravity; in electricity, galvan-
ism and chemical affinity. Superin-
duce magnetism at one end of a
needle, the opposite magnetism takes
place at the other end. An inevitable
dualism besets nature, so that each
thing is half, and suggests another
to make it whole: AS spirit, matter
man, woman odd, even; subjective,
objective in, out; upper, under; mo-
tion, rest; yea, nay"
While there may be something about
this quotation which is not scientific,
am giving it as a lucid explanation
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
SEVERAL MEASURES KILLED..
Kansas Legislators Look with Disfavor Upon
Attempts to Change Many Laws-Anti-
Fusion Bill Has Hard Fight

Topeka, Kan. Feb. 2.-The senate
committee on state affairs has killed
the bill recommended by Gov. Stanley
to place the three state educational
institutions under one board of re-
gents. The proposition to change the
constitution to wipe out off year
elections was referred to the Judi
ciary committee. The bill to requir.
farmers to trim their hedge fences
was knocked out by the committee on
roads and bridges. The cigarette bill
was recommended for passage by the
temperance committee.
Senator Leidy. Il republican, is op-
posing several features of the anti
fusion election law agreed upon by
his party's caucus and backed by the
minority is delaying progress on the
measure. Leidy has offered several
amendments to the bill. but his repuh-
lican colleagues have promptly voted
them down.
Senator Stewart introduced bill
appropriating $1,000 for monument
to the late Cyrus X. Holiday.
In the house the, judiciary COM
the days of grace on notes. The edu-
cation committee killed the bill for
the establishment of state normal
at Concordia. Landrey's bill to pro-
hibit jackleg lawyers from operating
was also reported unfavorably.
Hayden presented petition signed
by 800 people urging the Legislature
to pass compulsory education law.
The house live stock committee has
decided to report favorably the bill
giving counties the right to estab-
lish cattle brand inspectors upon a
majority vote of the people and the
bill to prohibit the driving away or
butchering of ''strays.'
Representative Woods bill provid-
ing for the making of IA public park
of Pixies Pawnee Indian village has
been recommended for passage.
The house committee of ways and
means, introduced bill to pay the
Quantrell raid claims. The bill in
cludes the Objectionable item of in
terest which is causing some grum-
bling.
Hamer introduced bill to promote
the attendance of pupils at schools,
to appoint truant officers and pre-
scrbing penalties for violations of the
act
The house passed Schleyer's joint
resolution accepting the Abandoned
Fort Hays reservation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1901
WENT INTO A DITCH.
fast Train on the Union Pacific Wrecked
Near Hardin, Col. and Many Pas
sengers Were Injured.

Denver, Col, Feb. "A number of
persons whose names have not been
learned were injured in wreck of
the Union Pacific passenger train, the
Chicago. st. Louis & Kansas City fast
mail and express, which occurred five
miles east of Hardin, go miles east of
Denver, at $50 o'clock Friday morn
ing. \ broken rail was the cause o:
the wreck. The engine and mail car
passed over safely but the baggage
car went into the ditch followed by
two passenger coaches. The Pullman
was partly overturned. The train
was running about 40 miles an hour.
There were 20 passengers, most of
whom escaped with cuts and bruises.
The injured were cared for as wei;
as possible at Hardin and will be
brought to Denver on a special train.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
OLDEST IN KANSAS CITY.
The Coates Theater, just Destroyed by
Fire, Was Built In 1869 by the
Late Kersey Coates.

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 2.-The
Coates opera house, the only first
class theater in Kansas City, caught
fire just after the conclusion of the
performance of Heart and Sword, bv
the WalkerWhitesde company. last
night. and was destroyed. The loss
is $125,000. The fire started among
the draperies on the stage and was
probably caused by electric light
wires. The Walker-Whiteside COM
pany lost everything. scenery, cos
tunes and considerable personal
baggage. The Coates house was
built by Kersey Coates in 1871, and
was owned by his estate. 1t was un-
der the management of Woodward
Burgess, of Omaha, who held it undec
a long-term lease. 1t was remodeled
year ago, and, in spite of its age,
was one of the finest theaters, from an
interior standpoint, in the west. 1t
was a syndicate house and played
only the best attractions.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
LIEUT.. MABEL C. HUNT.
Bright Salvation Army Lassie, Who
Knows How to Keep Her Corps
in Good Health.

Ogden, Utah, Jan. %, 1901 (Spe-
ciaD.-The Pacific Coast Division of the
Salvation Army, whose noble work in
the interests of fallen humanity has
done so much for this western coun-
try, has its headquarters in this city.
One of the brightest and most enthu-
siastic workers is Lieut.. Miss Mabel
Clarice Hunt. Everyone knows how
these devoted people parade the streets
day or night, exposing themselves to
all kinds of weather, that no opportun-
ity may be lost of rescuing some poor
unfortunate from sin and suffering.
In some cases, their recklessness In
thus exposing themselves has been
commented upon as almost suicidal.
Their answer to such criticisms in.
variably is their unfailing faith in the
Divine injunction to ''do right and fear
not" Lieut.. Hunt explains one of the
means she employs to keep her "Sol-
diers" in good health, as follows:
81 have found Dodd's s Kidney Pills Of
great value in cases of Kidney and
Liver Trouble and Diseases contracted
from severe colds. Several of our lads
and lassies have been repeatedly exc
posed to cold weather and rain, and
have spoken for hours out of doors,
often with wet feet and chilled to the
marrow. AS consequence of this ex-
posure, Pulmonary Trouble, Rheu-
matism and Kidney Disorders often
ensue. In such cases, always advise
Dodd's Kidney Pills, for have noticed
better results, quicker relief, and more
lasting benefit from the use of Dodd's
Kidney Pills in such cases, than from
all other medicines / know of conn
bined. They cleanse the blood, regn-
late the system, and destroy disease.n
A medicine which can do what Lieut.
Hunt says so positively Dodd's Kidney
Pills do is surely worth the attentions
of all who suffer with any form of Kid-
ney Trouble, Rheumatism. or Blood
Disorders.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
PEOPLE OF OUR OWN TIME.

The late Philip d. Armour once said:
II am no talker. made my fortune by
learning to keep my mouth shut. When
the teeth are shut the tongue is at
home"
"Love your neighbor, but hate the
English is said to have been suggest
ed by Gen. De Wet. the Boer leader, as
. fitting addition to the ten command
ments.
DIR. Leyds, the Boer envoy to Hol-
land. is said to be much more cul-
tured man than most of his country
men. He has considerable talent for
music and is always well dressed.
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow of the
general, recently denied the stories of
her husbands dislike for music. "He
did not" she said, "care for musical
gymnastics, as he called them, but he
was most fond of music and often asked
me to sing for him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
TO BECOME PRosPEcToRs.
Thousands of Volunteers in the Philippines
Will Take Travel Pay and Remain
In the Islands.

Washington, Feb. 2.-It is sail
that many of the volunteers win re-
main in the Philippines, but are not
likely to stay in the army. A num-
ber of these men expect to take their
travel pay. which will amount to
several hundred dSllars, and utilize
their knowledge of the country in an
endeavor to make some money. One
colonel writes that 80 per cent. of his
men are prospective capitalists, and
all their time on leave is spent in
looking out for chances to buy land,
cattle, mines, or to discover some
other avenues for modest investments.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
BOND BILL SIGNED.
Mayor Ziegenhein, of st. Louis, After Being
Given Assurances by the Worlds Fair
Committee, Affixed His Signature.

st. Louis, Feb. 2.-Mayor Ziegen-
helm Friday morning notified Chair
man w. III. Thompson, of the worlds
fair finance committee, that he wouLl
sign the $5,O0O.OOO bonding bill on
condition that he and his associates
would agree to give bond in the sum
of S1,000,00O, insuring that the sur
plus from the bond sale and the in
t1est on the proceeds of the sale
be given the city. Mr., Thompson and
his associates reached the city hall
at 1O:3O, agreed to the conditions ard
signed the stipulations named. Mayor
Ziegenhein then signed the bonding
bill
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
MRS. LEASE HAS A BILL.
She Will Ask the Kansas Legislature to
Pay Her Expenses In Fighting En-
Gov. Lew welling.

Topeka, Kan, Feb. 2.-There is
every probability that the state leg
islature will have an opportunity to
review the conditions which existed
between the late Gov. l.. ID. Lewelling
and Mrs. Mary f. Lease in the trouble
over the state board of charities. Mrs.
Lease intends to have a bill introduced
into the legislature to reimburse her
for the expenditures which she was
compelled to make during the fight
for the office. Mrs. Lease will ask for
an appropriation amounting to
S7956O
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
4 GRAND NAVAL DISPLAY.
Ships in Solemn Mourning Accom-
panied the Dead Queens Body
to Portsmouth.
A LINE FROM COWES TO sPlTHEAD.
Over the Still Waters Came the Strains of
Funeral Marches and the Woeful Sound
of Guns BetOkened Neither Peace Nor
War, But Death Saturday the Body
VIII BE Taken Ashore for the Last Rites.

Cowes, Isle of Wight, Feb. 2.-The
funeral started from Osborne at 1:4O
p. IN. The coffin reached the Alberta
at 2.25. Great silent crowds Witnessed
the passing of the procession to the
pier. After the body had been EN-
barked on the Alberta, King Edward
boarded the royal yacht Osborne in
launch, and the procession started.
With grand yet mournful display of
naval pomp and power. the body of
Queen Victoria was borne Friday af-
ternoon from its quiet resting place
to Portsmouth, the heart of En-
glands navy. Not since Admiral Ger
vera's ships lit up the Cuban coast
with their self-consuming fires has
anything been seen which in tragic
splendOr approached this naval spec
tacle. The half-hundred red fighting
ships that Friday afternoon fired
their broadsides and minute guns
were inferior in strength to the force
gathered in the same waters for the
jubilee celebration, but the lack of
formidableneSs was fully atoned for
by the solemnity of this fleet in
mourning. Over the still waters, be-
tween the roll of the siX-pounders,
came strains of Chopin's and
Beethoven's funeral marches. The
crews, accustomed to cheer with the
heartiness which belongs only to
''jackies," stood silently along the
decks, and the flags which usually
foated defiantly in the breeze dropped
half way down the halwards. The most
powerful feet England could gather
on short notice lay inert and silent
save for the mournful strains of the
bands and the woeful sound of guns
that betoken neither peace nor war
but death.
Steaming leiSurely after them
was the royal yacht Alberta. half
screened by the awning on the poop,
the royal coffin placed on crimson
dais. the curtains of which were
drawn and tied to four poles. leaving
free to view the magnificent casket
and robes. In the wake of the coffin
came the royal yacht Victoria and
Albert with King Edward and Queen
Alexandra and the English royal
family, the royal yacht Osborne with
other royal personages and the inn
perial yacht Hohenzollern with En-
peror William. The main squadron of
battleships and cruisers were moored
~. cables apart, in one line, extend
ing from Cowes to Spithead.
Each ship ceased firing Immediately
after the tail of the procession had
passed her. After the procession had
passed the Majestic. the forts and
II,
menced firing minute guns and con-
tinued firing until the Alberta was
alongside the wharf. The bands
played funeral marches only. No
national anthem was played. When the
Majestic was left astern the Alberta
was moored for the night. Saturday
the body will be taken ashore at
Portsmouth and thence conveyed to
London and Windsor for the last
tributes to the queen.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-02-06
CIVILIANS HAVE NO SHOW.
Only Persons Who Have~Been In the Army
Since April, 1898, Are Eligible
for Commissions.

Washington, Feb. 2.-President Nc
Kinley will sign the bill at once and
the reorganization of the regular
army and its increase to 100000 can
begin within week. In anticipation
of the rush of volunteer applications
for appointment, the war department
has detailed a special officer to ex-
anime papers filed in support of
claims. The bill is. so drawn that
civilians will have absolutely no show
for appointments. Only persons who
have served in the army since April
81, 1898. are eligible for commissions.