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The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

European aeronauts of stout hearts
and meager love of life ere planning
balloon trip across the Atlantic. They
are not likely to persuade insurance
companies to issue policies in their
favor. No trace of the heroic but over
adventurous Aniree has yet been dis
covered. 1t Is almost impossible that
he is still alive. 1t is true that he
sought the North Pole, and was not
trying to cross any of the great oceans
from east to west or from west to east.
Bat. still his fate should be warning.
In. some later time airships may go
over the broadcast seas without peril
but in present conditions balloons are
not riuch more likely to pass above
the Atlantic or the Pacific in safety
then they are to find "A secure landing
in the moon or the planet Mars.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

China is arranging to pay theindem-
nifty.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

No Noxious Doses. No Weakening of the
Nerves. Pleasant and Positive Cure
for the Liquor Habit.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14
THE HOME GOLD CURE.

An Ingenious Treatment by which
Drunkards are Being Cured
Daily in Spite of Themselves.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

The Government has paid out an
enormous sum during the past three
years for outside expansion, and we
have borne the burden with scarcely a
knowledge that a burden existed. To
provide for home expansion by irriga-
ton of the arid lands of the West
would entail no burden whatever The
sum required would scarcely make an
appreciable difference in the annual
expenses of the Governments.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14
800 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous SUR
faces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by build
ing up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. rhe pro-
prietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers, that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it fails
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address,
F. J. CHENEY 4 Co., Toledo, @.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hairs Family Pills are the best.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

The tax on bank checks goes out of
existence or the 1st of July, having
been abolished as means of raising
war revenue. The last fiscal year
shows that 100000 checks passed
through the banks, each bearing a two
cent stamp, yielding revenue of ST.
100000 to the government.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

"A man named Still sat down on
pot of hot Stag at the Mason valley
smelter the other day" He will not sit
still on anything else for some time.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

John Davis was picked up on the
streets of Wheeling, w. Va. pro-
nonnced dead by two doctors, sat upon
by Coroner's jury, which found that
death was due to heart failure, removed
TO the undertaker's and within ten
minutes sat up and sang the Doxology,
was hustled into court and fined So for
drunkenness. The doctors and the
Coroner's jury were not tried, accord
ing to the Louisville Courier-Jouynal.
The creation of an arid land recla-
nation fund, from the proceeds
through the sale of western public
lands, to be used in the construction of
irrigation works, is a proposition
which will commend itself to every in
terest. The people of the West should,
of course, support it TO man, while
there can certainly be no opposition
from Eastern congressman.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

1t Is useless to grasp an opportunity
if you don't intend to do anything but
stand around and hold on to it.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-06-14

Getting caught is the worst part of
crime, in the eyes of this world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
Sue. Cane, frame Figures.

Statistics of Suez canal traffic in
1899 and 1900 indicate a remarkable
shrinkage of British and American
tonnage using the canal in 1900 and
growth in Austrian. Dutch, French,
German, Japanese and Russian. The
total tonnage using the canal in 1899
was 1885 ,991, and in 1900 1868. 23s.
Over half the tonnage in the latter
year, or 7,771. 346 tons, was British,
the other large figures being German.
French and Dutch American tonnage
declined doubtless because of the small
er number of warships going to the
Philippines and China via the Suez
canal. The wars in South Africa and
China have doubtless diverted much
British merchant shipping from tho
Eastern trade and caused many vessels
to go east by the way of the Cape. In
stead of the canal The growth Of
German tonnage from 1.49z. 657 In 1899
to 2.040. .299, in explained by the part
Germany has taken in the Chinese
war, the transportation of men and
supplies for a large army requiring
much shipping. The other increases
are largely due to like causes The
British army In China was drawn
chiefly from India and. of course. did
not .-averse the canal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
SAYS THE Beers WILL WIN.
Opinion of Capt. Turner Recently Ar
rived from South Africa.

Opinion of Capt. Turner Recently Ar
rived from South Africa.
Capt. Francis John Turner, recently
arrived in this country from South
Africa, talks interestingly of condi-
lions there. There is no peace in sight,
he says. The Boer cause never looked
SO bright as at the present time, and
although the burghers are sickening of
the bloodshed that is darkening the
soil of the two little republics, they are
determined never to sign a peace I'M
less absolute independence for their
countries is granted. On that one con-
dition, and that alone, will the Beers
lay down their arms, and the treaty of
peace must be signed by two world
powers as sponsor for it's observance
by England. The reports of De Vets
insanity are absolutely baseless. In
stead of being either physically,
mentally sick ne is as strong and Wig
orous as he ever has been, so much
so, in fact, that the general is avoiding
the British traps and continues to har-
rass their generals by his rapid move
ments. Capt. Turner bears the marks
of the bloody conflict raging in South
Africa; a little finger he left at the
battle of Abraham's Kreel and burst
ing shell crippled him temporarily,
while a bursting charge of lyddite tore
jagged hole in his left cheek. He
took part in the battles at Ladysmith,
Helpmakar, Poplar Grove, Bloemfon-
tein water works, Vet river, Kip river
and San river, and with Gen De Wet
he swept through the Free State, TAX
ing part in a number of that generals
successful raids. Utica Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22

A Louisville boy, an officer In the
Philippines, tells a story on one of his
brother officers which will bear repeat
ing. The officer in question, a captain,
shutters badly. He had been on re-
cruiting duty in the states, and while
at his work had enlisted for his regi-
ment man who suffered as badly as,
If not worse, than the captain himself.
Some time later he was ordered back
to his company, and a few days after
ward was on duty as officer of the
day. AS it happened, the sufferer
that he had enlisted was without his
knowledge put on guard duty that
night When the captain went around
to inspect the guard he came to the
new sentry and was challenged. Huh
huh-h-halt, who-who-who c-c-comes
there?" The captain answered:
"O-o-o-of-of-f-of-fice of the did-dad-
day" Then the sentry said: "A-a-a-
advance, of-f-of-of-offcer of the d-d-
day, to b-bib-bab-be recognized" By
this time the captain was mad all over
for he thought the man was hooking
him. He did not know the recruit, al
though the recruit knew him. The
captain went bouncing up to the SEN
try and yelled at him: "W-w-wh-wh-
what d-d-d-d-n f-foo1 enlisted y-y-yu-
yu-you?" and the sentry said: "Y-y-
yu-yu-you did, sir."-Louisville Cour-
Ter Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
Growth of tn. Nu,mex..


Nutmegs grow on little trees which
look like pear trees, and are generally
not over twenty feet high. The flow
ers are much like the lily of the valley.
They are pale and very fragrant The
nutmeg is the seed of the fruit, and
mace is the thin covering over the
seed. The fruit is about as large as
a peach. When ripe it breaks open
and shows the little nut inside. The
trees grow on the islands of Asia and
in tropical America They bear fruit
seventy or eighty years, having ripe
fruit upon them all the seasons.
A fine tree in Jamaica has over
1000 nutmegs on it yearly. The Dutch
used to have all this nutmeg trade.
as they owned the Banda islands, and
conquered all the other traders and de-
stroyed the trees. To keep the price
up they at once burned three piles
of nutmegs, each of which was as 1arge
as a church Nature did not sympa-
thize with such meanness. The nut
meg pigeon, found in all the Indian
islands, did for the world what ths
Dutch had determined could not b
done-carried those nuts. which arr
their food. into all the surrounding
countries. and trees grew again and
tie world had the benefit
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22

Commenting ON the recent death at
Fort Sheridan of Abraham Haarscher,
a soldier in the United States army,
one of the commanding officers says ha
was in way remarkable man Born
in Alsace, after the Franco-Prussian
war, he came to America and enlisted
in the army. One night at far north
western garrison he was walking post
as a sentinel upon a frail temporary
bridge thrown across a stream that
was being undermined by a storm.
The timbers were creaking under his
feet and the water was beginning to
creep over the planking, when the Of
ficer of the day appeared at the end of
the bridge. He saw the sentinel and
his peril.
Come on that bridge, No. So he
yelled above the storm Haarscher
walked calmly on the bridge and
came to an farms port
-Haarscher, you ID fool, didn't
you know the bridge was going?''
Even as he spoke the frail structure
was whirling away.
That was my post, lieutenant, said
Private Haarscher. ~and you forget
that am q Frenchman"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
GOOD TRADE MOTTO.
Keep All You Get and Make No Foolish
Concessions to Rival Foreign


One of the ever-vigilant Free Trade
journals thinks that now, when we
are selling a half billion dollars worth
more than we are buying, our custom
ers are entirely justified in thinking
that we ought to make it as easy as
possible instead of as hard as possible
to pay that enormous annual BILL and
it suggests that, to make it easy for
them, we should remove our Protective
tariff from foreign products, and thus
allow our foreign customers to replen-
ish their depleted pocketbooks through
the sale of their goods in this country.
This may be philanthropy, but it is
not business and it is not sense. Why,
in the name of all that's reasonable,
we should impoverish our own people
in order to supply our foreign custom
ers with the wherewithal of life may
be comprehensive to the strangely
constructed brain of a Free Trader, but
it certainly is not comprehensive to
any one else. Even though we should
give them only so much of the Ameri-
can market as we now possess of for
eign markets, where would be the
gain? There isn't any reason why we
should prefer foreigners to Americans
for customers, and, if we are to sacri-
fee any market now held by us. it
would be better to sacrifice the foreign
rather than the home market But the
plan proposed is much more foolish
than a mere exchange of markets
would be, for, by the removal of our
protective tariff barriers and the con-
sequent turning over of the American
market to foreign producers, we would
give at least fifty dollars for one, for
the American market is more than if
ty times as valuable as all the foreign
markets which we possess. That may
be way of trading which appeals to
the free trade mind, but hardly to that
of the successful American business
man. And why should we give up
anything to pay for what we can get
for nothing? We seem to be doing
very well with our foreign trade just
as things are. In the old child's game
of Button" we used to be told, keep
all you get and catch what you can. >
That makes a very good trade motto
and one which it is the part of wisdom
to follow.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22

make no answer: they dodge the point
conspicuous instance of this ten
dency to ignore leading questions and
disregard inconvenient facts is exhibit
ed by the Philadelphia Ledger of re-
cent date in commenting upon the at
titude of the American Economist in
its controversy with Hon George E
Roberts, director of the mint MI.
Roberts, says the Ledger, was asked
by the Economist ito what extent fair
trade and reciprocity would introduce
foreign merchandise and supplant pro-
duction in the United States" A fair
question, was it not? Yet the Ledger
in defending the position of Mr. Rob-
erts utterly fails to make note of the
fact that that gentleman did not
answer the question, but applauds
him for evading it by a quotation from
the Republican platform of 1896. while
suppressing the more recent, and
therefore more binding, declaration of
the national Republican platform of
1900, which limits reciprocity ito what
we do not ourselves produce" 1t Is a
convenient memory which can forget
1900 and remembers 1896, but it is a
mental eccentricity absolutely peculiar
to the strenuous advocates of fair
trade and reciprocity
The St Paul Pioneer-Press exhibits
the same idiosyncrasy when it says:
ITO designate the failure of the
treaties as shameful is hardly too
severe. The reciprocity clauses of the
Dingley law were included in response
to a very general demand for reciproc-
ity and as the first step in the redemp-
ton of pledge in the Republican
platform"
Again the platform of five years
ago, but not the platform of eleven
months ago. The official proceedings
of the twelfth Republican National
Convention, held at Philadelphia in
June, 1900, are incorporated in a neat
ly bound volume, which is, or should
be, in the library of every newspaper
office. The little book is undoubtedly
on the shelves of the Ledger and the
Pioneer-Press. Presumably its exist
ence has been forgotten. So we ven
ture to refresh the editorial memory
by directing attention to the paragraph
which begins at the bottom of page
los and ends at the top Of page LOG. II
should be read over and over again by
| some people, for it possesses peculiar
pertinency to the question of "fa1I
trade and reciprocity"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
rRAININo The CHILDREN.

Forcing the CAlld Too Young Decr1ed
by Doctors and sotsntl>ts.
Children of this generation. says an
educational observer of things, are
educated in a manner as different from
that pursued by the previous genera
ton as a hfppopotamus differs from
flea With our fathers the earlier
child was taught his or her letters the
better it was considered to be for his
or her mind. Children were taught to
read as young as possible and pushed
in their studies as rapidly as might
be thereafter. Lately, however, the
medical fraternity and scientists have
advanced the theory that this system
was bad in the end for the develop
ment OF the mind and (within certain
limits) and the later child was taught
its letters and to read and write the
better. There would seem to be some
thing in the theory, when you take
into consideration that of all the ami
NAL kingdom man is the slowest of de-
velopment and requires longest the
fostering care of its parents. A child
of cast out upon the world to fend
for itself would most probably fare but
ill. And, from immature years. but lit
tie muscular exercise should he re-
quired, else stunted growth inevitably
results. If too early work stunts the
growth of an infants body, by analogy
it seems not improbable that like
effect may follow a too early working
of the infants mind. Certainly his
tory shows that some of our brainiest
men have developed late in childhood.
and have in mind a certain statesman
Of worldwide reputation, who, up to
the age of 9, was looked on by his fam
lily as a hopeless dullard and an i'm
possibility mentally. On the other
hand, the kindergarten and primary
school had one great recommendation
that this generation of mammas were
loath to give up, and that was that for
certain number of hours a day it re-
lieved them from the care of their
young, a blessing not likely to be
thrown aside. Besides, it was felt
that while too much education for the
infant was bad, none at all was bad
. also. Under the conditions a COM
dren receive what might be termed an
objective education. They are taught
what things are by handling and OBJ
serving the thing. They are taught car
pentry and manual arts and similar
! things, but of books nothing, save
what their elders may tell them. As
far as it has gone, the system seems
to have worked famously.-Utica
Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
not So Many De.ertlon..

A Washington special to the Indian
apolis News says that in one of the bu-
reaus of the War Department may be
seen a record of the assertions from
the army, carefully prepared, for
great many years. 1t is made up by
months. Perhaps its most astonish-
ing feature is the evidence it affords
that in the spring the soldiers fancies
turn to thoughts of private life, for in
March, April and May desertions are
at their hight Very few men desert
in November or December, and the
summer as a whole is much more IA
vorable to assertions than the winter
Correspondingly, it is always easier to
secure enlistments in the autumn
months. OF course this is explained
by the condition of the labor market.
particularly among agricultural la
borers who are, after all, the great
body of American workingmen. Re
straint is much more oppressive in
summer than in winter and the COM
panionship of the post less enticing.
''Desertions in the army now are moth
ing to what they used to be-" said a
War Department official. Before the
civil war I knew one regiment from
which $50 men went out in a single
month That is what you would call
going out on strike. instead of de-
sertion. and in those days the punish
ments were much more severe than
now. Every one of those men was
liable to have his head shaved and to
have fifty lashes on the bare back
Only q small part of those who desert
are ever recovered Escape is COM
paratively easy Many repent OF their
folly and reattach themselves to the
service. and SO our figures as to join
ed from desertion' are considerably in
excess of the figures of those who are
captured Desertions in the Philip
pines are much fewer than at army
posts In this country. The opportun-
ity to get away is less. and the allure
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
R...,eur on q. A. r. work.

Peoria, Ill, was recently filed with
delegates and visitors to the thirty
fifth annual encampment of the Illi-
nois Department of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and the annual con-
ventions of five kindred organizations.
The town vertically belonged to the
men who wore the brown button and
to their wives and sons and daughters.
There were several meetings of a pre-
Hminary nature, including a session OF
the council of administration of the
Grand Army, at which Department
Commander Longnecker presided. The
executive board of the Woman's Relief
Corps also met and the Sons of Vet
Grams of Illinois division opened their
encampment. Camp Dustin, a little
city of tents, was opened at sunrise
and at night 100 tents were occupied.
The Sons were on dress parade. 9he
council of the ladies of the G.. A. r..
met at the National Hotel and at Odd
Fellows building, a reception was ex-
tended to Commander-in-Chief E. A.
Alexander and staff of the Sons of
Veterans. One hundred survivors OF
the 47th regiment of Illinois Volunteer
Infantry met in reunion in Glen Oak
Park pavilion. There was also re-
union OF the 11th ILLINOIS cavalry DIX
thousand people filed the new Coli
scum, the occasion being joint camp
fire. The scene was one of splendor,
and the distinguished visitors were
given an ovation as they appeared on
the stage. Commander Longenecker
presided. Mayor William F.. Bryan
welcomed the visitors to the city, and
Gen. John c. Black responded to the
welcome. Short addresses of courtesy
were delivered by Mrs. Florence Nc
Clelland, department president of the
Ladies of the G. A. R.; Colonel VIII
liam E. Hill, commander of the Illi-
nois division, Sons of Veterans, and
representatives of other kindred
organizations. h1ei
Rassieur delivered an address, review
ing the work of the Grand Army and
picturing the blessings now enjoyed
throughout the republic as a result Of
the civil war. 1.-The civil war has
made this country what it isl said
Rassieur, land today the world stands
aghast at the prosperity and never
ceasing progress and happiness of this
reunited nation, welded by the bonds
of love and spirit of freedom"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-06-22
FAULTY MEMORIES.
Curious Tendency to Forget What the
National Republican Platform Says
About Recfprocftv.

Nurious Aenuency Co Forget what the
National Republican Platform Says
About Reciprocity.
Habitual disregard suppression, it
might be called-of central principles
and facts seem to be a uniform charac-
teristic of the votaries of tariff tinker
ing by means of special trade treaties
secretly negotiated and secretly con-
filmed They argue along general lines
that, ii we are to sell more to foreign
ers, We must buy more from foreign
ers. unmindful of the complete mega
ton of this theory by the enormous in
crease in the export of our agricultural
and manufactured products il. the past
four years of adequate protection. They
urge that our trade balances are too
large and must be cut down by an in
creased acceptance of foreign commod-
tiles to take the place of articles
which are now produced at home; but
when they are asked to specify the ex-
tent to which this Industrial har.-
kari shall be carried into effect, where
It is to stop and what lines of domestic
production shall be driven out of bust
ness in order that we may buy as
much n we sell. or thereabcSts, they