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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-09-09
To.oArs NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE. PRESIDENT.

Tha Presidents condition yesterday
showed decided improvement. and the most
hopeful bulletins were issued from the Mil
burn home. where he lies battling for life.
The Cabinet at an informal meeting yes
terday decided that 1t is not necessary. for
the present. at least, for Vice President
: Roosevelt to assume the duties of Presi-
dent
Mrs Mckinley bears up remarkably well.
She visited the President for few min
utes yesterday and displayed the greatest
fcrtitude and composure. Later she went
for a long drive. from Shich she returned
much invigorated.
decided not to permit any one to see or
communicate with Czolgosz. They will en-
deavor to dissipatc his delusien that he is
hero and martyr.
The police of the United States are look
ing for Emma Goldman. the woman teacher
OF anarchy. who is known TO have been in
Buffalo and who has mysteriously disap-
peared since the attempt to assassinate the
President. She is suspected OF completely
in supposed anarchistic plot to slay Pres
ident Mckinley, and an order has been is
sued for her arrest.
Prayers were offered in all OF the churches
OF the country Sunday for the Presidents
recovery. and in not a few reference was
made to the tragedy from pulpits
abstinence from liquor and stimulating
drinks will, It is believed. prove a consid-
cradle factor in his favor in his struggle for
life.
While II was believed by some Of the sur
geOns at the Presidents bedside that, II the
President were going to have peritonitis. it
would be indicated in his condition within
forty-eight hours after the wounds we're
inflicted, II was conceded by all yesterday
that the President is by no means out OF
danger.
Vice President Roosevelt and Senator
Hanna, on leaving the Aiilburn house yes
tefday afternoon. expressed the most hope
ful views Of the Presidents condition.
Tho X-ray machine which was shipped to
used in locating the bullet in the Presi-
dents back. but the surgeons in attendance
do not expect to use the X-ray or make
any attempt to remove the bullet until the
President IL past all danger OF peritonitis.
unless Inflammation or suppuration from
the bullet sets in.
Doctor McBurney. the eminent New York
surgeon. yesterday Joined the surgeons and
Physicians In attendance on the President.
After making q thorough examination of
the distinguished patient, Doctor McBurney
, eaid he discovered absolutely no unfavor-
able symptom. Further than this he would
not express himself.
Senator Hanna expresses himself as con-
fident Of the President's ultimate recovery.
He declares that 40 yet there has been no
plans to remove the President either to
Warrington or Canton.
Vice President Roosevelt may. n the con-
dition bf the President continues to i'm
prove. leave Buffalo to-day. He regards
President Mckinley as on the way to re-
cqvery. He will consult with the Cabinet
before leaving.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-09-09
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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
GREYHoUNDs FEAR COYOTES,
UnaccOuntable Loss of Courage In an
Animal That Is Othersvise
nrAVe

A greyhound is not always brave,
and one thing he is particularly
afraid of is an animal respected by
no one-an animal that sinks along
in a cowardly manner and about
which no writer has as yet found
anything to admire. Why this is 1
do not know, says 4 writer in Ma
ture, for the animal of which | speak
seems to me harmless denizen Of
the great western hills and valleys,
never doing any real wrong and add
ing much to the wild picturesqueness
of the country. ] mean the coyote.
And yet of the coyote, the poor, UNI
loved, cowardly coyote, the grey
hound is afraid. He will run down a
rabbit. seize him by the throat and
with jerk break his neck, and then
carry him to his master. But let a
coyote come in sight, and the grey
hound loses his courage. AS long as
the coyote keeps running the hound
will run after him, but as soon as the
coyote stops short and faces about,
the greyhound turns and runs away
as fast as he can. A coyote never does
more serious harm than to prowl
about the village streets at night in
the winter in search of meat, which
some unwary housekeeper may have
left outside. At the slightest growl
he fees
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
MORAL TRUTHS FROM MR.. WI
The Chinese Minister at Washington
and q Boastful Re-
porter.

This is an old story of the Chinese
minister, WI Ting-fang, in new
form. A reporter had been commits
stoned by his newspaper to interview
Mr.. WI. Following his usual artless
Chinese custom, Mr.. WI asked the
reporter how much salary he re-
.eived, says the Youths Companion.
Zone hundred and fifty dollars a
week." he answered.
The familiar comment was at once
forthcoming:
sit is too much. 1t is altogether
too much. You are not worth more
than $25 a week"
Some time afterward, while talk
ing with other newspaper men, the
minister learned that the reporter
has deceived him, and that instead OF
receiving $3.50 week he was paid
not more than $50. Accordingly the
next time he called at the Chinese
legation in search of information Mr.
WI thus sharply dismissed him:
''You lied to me about your salary
If you will lie about such thing as
that you will lie about anything.
do not trust you. l have nothing to
say. want to revise my former es
innate of your value. Instead of be
ing worth $25 week, you are moi
worth anything, sir"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
WHITE HOUSE CATS.
Demand 1. Great for Kitten. Born
There and supply Seems to BE
Inexhnustible.

Evidences of prosperity exhibited
by one of the colored employees of the
white house. best known as George,
made him The envy of his associates in
Washington. lie appeared in new
suit of "store clothes" When they
saw him bring little kitten into the
white house he other day and sub
sequently hand the little pet over to
a fashionably attired woman who was
riding in Il trap. the secret came
out.
Not long since the official white
house cat gave birth to 12 kittens-an
even dozen and no more. The old
cat and her family were in Georges
keeping. When the event became
known in official and social circles
there was a great demand for kittens
born beneath the roof of the eXecu-
tive mansion. Learning that George
was their sole keeper, society girls
sought him out, and each wanted the
prettiest one in the lot.
When dozen customers had been
supplied, the demand was as great as
ever. AS some of the kittens had
brought as high as five dollars, George
could not think of retiring from the
eat business. He went among his
friends in South Washington and dis
covered other kittens. They were just
as pretty as the white house ones, and
passed readily for the genuine ar
ticle
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
OUR CHANGING PRESIDENT.
Mr.. McIxinIcy's Self-Sacrffce Up
on the Altar of Patriotism
and Politics.

Though President Mckinley has in
the most pronounced and emphatic
manner declared that he is not and
never will bea third term candidate for
president, says the Chicago Public,
that this expresses his ''long-settled
conviction" and that he would not ac-
cept nomination even if it were ten
dered, nevertheless let no supporter
of his despair. If the circumstances
require Mr.. Mckinley to forego this
"long-settled conviction" for the sake
of his party and the continued pros
perity of his country, his public rec
ord is guarantee that he will make
the sacrifice. 1t would not be Mr.. Nc
Kinley's first sacrifice of conviction up
on the altar of patriotism and politics.
He was silver coinage man who gave
up his monetary convictions to save
the "honor of the nation''by becoming
president. Long strenuous advocate
of the "home market for American
products, he has now assumed the task
of prying open foreign markets for
the sake of the great trusts upon
which the prosperity of his country
depends Denouncing 'forcible an
nexation' of alien territory as Grim
inal aggression" within the purview of
the American ''code of MORALS" he
nevertheless suppressed this ethical
conviction of forcible annexation TO
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
TO GET MORE SEEDS.
Congressman to Receive Nearly a
Double Allotment This Year, Be-
sides Fifty Trees.

Congressman who have experienced
great difficulty on account of the
small number of seeds allotted to
them will probably be glad to know
their allowance this year will be
practically double that received
previously. In addition to doubling
the allotment of seeds, each con-
gresham will have so trees at his
disposal. They will be of different
varieties, selected particularly with
view to suiting the climate in which
they will be grown. Many of these
will be nut trees, such as pecans and
other varieties which will grow in
this country. Secretary Wilson de-
termined to distribute trees with
hope of implanting love of trees in
the breasts of the people and incit-
ing them to follow the example set
by the department as well as to have
a permanent showing for the money
expended In addition to the trees
distributed, 38,30o,3S4 packets of
seeds will be distributed. Each con
gresham will have at his disposal
$4,000 packages of vegetable seeds,
400 of flowers, 40 OF tobacco, 40 of
cotton. 80 of lawn grass, Is of sugar
beets, so of forage crops, 22o bulbs,
$50 strawberries. and 40 of grapes.
The strawberries will be Of new and
rare varieties and the grapes are yet
| to be selected.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
THE RECIPROCAL IDEA.
Makeshift of Trust-Pampering Re.
pubicans to Mislead the
People.

The attempt of President McKin-
ley to reform the tariff by reciproc
ity treaties was stopped by the
United States senate refusing to
ratify them and yet there is strong
evidence that the president will per-
sist in that line of action. Reciproc-
ity is backhanded way of revising
the Dingley tariff that can be bet
ter accomplished by straightforward
methods. We cannot make reci-
procity treaty with one country that
does not virtually make it apply to
nearly all the others. This is brought
about by the clause in nearly all tho
treaties, known as the favored ma
ton clause, which allows the same
rights and rates as the most favored
nation is given. If a treaty is made
with France that allows certain Of
her productions to be imported into
the United States at less duty than
the rate provided, in the Dingley tar
if, Germany, who produces the same
articles, under the most favored ma
ton clause must be granted the same
rate.
There is also another obstacle to
these reciprocity treaties, constitu-
tional objection, that has not been
adjudicated, but is believed by most
Of the constitutional lawyers to be a
bar to such legislation. Congress can
not delegate it's power to raise rev.
enue, which is constitutional
province of congress alone, and such
revenue bills must originate in the
house of representatives, thus keep
ing the taxing power in the hands OF
the direct representatives of the
people.
To revise the tariff law by max
ing reciprocity treaties is a make
shift that does not touch the protec.
ton granted the trusts and monop'
olies and those who advocate it are
attempting to still protect these
giant corporations. AS the trusts
are selling their productions in Eu
rope for less than they are obtain
ing from our own people, they ne
longer need protection and theil
products should be put upon tariff
for revenue basis or even placed OF
the free list that competition may
benefit all alike.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
YELLOWSTONE Natlonal Park.

Competitors of the NORTHERN
PACIFIC RAILWAY say the name
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK is
one to conjure with, thus unwittingly
bearing witness to the wonders of
that wonderful Wonderland. Next
July the railways will make exceeding
ly low rates to San Francisco, as for
example, $500 from Chicago, includ-
ing return via PORTLAND and N. P. R.
Go and see for yourself, California,
Oregon, Washington, Montana, the
cities of Portland, Tacoma, Seattle,
Spokane, Helena, Butte, ST. Paul,
Minneapolis, Duluth and the Superiors
and last but not least, YELLOWSTONE
NATIONAL PARK. If you will send &c
to Chas. S. Fee, ST. Paul, Mimi, for
Wonderland 1901, and an EpwoRTH
LEAGUE map folder, you will see the
necessity of buying your tickets for
return via the N. p. r. as NO OTHER
LINE can offer you all of these attrac-
tions or more than fraction thereof.
We have the only rail line to the
Park,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
HoRsEsHoEs WERE UNLUcKY.
MINI on the Line of the BROOKLYN
Bridge Almost Ruined by Falling
of Iron Shoes Before His Door.

William Lemken, owner of the four
story building, 173 South street, just
north of the line of the Brooklyn
bridge, has given the timeworn
superstition about horseshoes bring
ing good luck an extended trial, and
he says it is all humbug. Horse
shoes have brought him misfortune,
driven his tenants out of his store
building, and caused him a lot of per-
sonal annoyance. Mr.. Lemken has
put the law" on the city because of
horseshoes. He had begun an action
in the supreme court against John l..
Shea, commissioner of bridges, and
the entire municipal assembly, de-
handing that they cause to be abated
the showering of horseshoes on his
South street premises.
Mr.. Lemken bought the South
street property two or three years
ago. 1t was not long, according to
the papers in the lawsuit, before the
tenants We're driven out by the drop
ping of horseshoes from the bridge
roadway overhead. Other tenants
came, and after few days expe-
rience under the rain of horseshoe
nails, sticks and other things they
also moved out. Since then the place
has become known as the house
where the horseshoes drop. At first
it seemed like joke to Mr.. Lemken.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
CASTELLANES' FETES.
Fortune Expended in Giving Daz-
cling Social Functions.
Most Magnificent Affairs Seen at Paris
Since the Downfall of the Last
French Emperor Few
Americans Invited.

The Gastellanes opened and closed
the week, which ended the Paris sea-
Son, by two fetes which go on record
as the most magnificent affairs since
the downfall of the last French en-
peror. Sunday, at Auteuil, they gave
steeple chase, and at night recep-
ton, with orchestral and vocal music,
and dancers, all the performers being
expensive stars.
The court of honor of the mansion
was illuminated with incandescent
banks of flowers. A French orchestra
downstairs and a Hungarian orches-
ira on the second floor gallery played
alternately. The guests were of the
most exclusive aristocrats. AT ten
o'clock p. m. the vaudeville concert,
no act of which cost less than $500, be-
gan in the ballroom.
AT midnight the concert ended and
the company passed out to the dining
room, where supper was served. The
arrangements were superb. Here a
delightful surprise awaited the
guests in the shape of a marble basin,
from which sheet of water 30 feet
wide fell into larger one on the floor.
The whole arrangement was trimmed
with plants and flowers, and elected
! expressions of admiration from all
the guests.
The following Sunday, after the
races, the Castellanes gave garden
party on the polo grounds In the Bots
de Boulogne, and at night their man
sion in the Avenue Malakoff was
thrown open for another fete, which
collapsed that of the Sunday before,
and wound up the Paris season in
a burst of glory. Only three Amer
leans, outside of embassy attaches,
were recognized by the Castellanes
on their invitations. They were Mrs
Henry Drake, Mrs. William Moore
and Countess De Coetlogon. None OF
the American embassy, though in.
yited, attended.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Find, n H,daen Trea.ure.

William Brannan is 100000 better
off through digging for gold. He is .
prosperous farmer of the Laston dis
triet and has recently lived in Sa-
vannah, Ga. A fortune teller told
him that on his place in Bullock
county, at the end of certain old
mill dam, was buried large amount
of money. He quietly began search
ing for the hidden treasure. The
other day he struck pot Of ante
bellum mold that contained 100000
in gold coin. When OF by whom this
treasure was laid away nobody
knows, nor does Mr.. Brannan care,
now that he has the laugh on his
friends and neighbors. The commun-
ity is wild over the find.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Oystsrs Grow ON n Crab.

Frank 7. Lane, the oyster dealer
at New Haven. Conn.,, stumbled
across curiosity from Long Island
sound that will go to the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition in Buffalo in a few
days. 1t came up among the con-
tents of an oyster ,dredge. Upon the
back of a hard-shell crab found in
the dredge two well-developed oys-
ters were growing. Oyster men here
abouts have found oysters growing
on rubber boots, old shoes, and the
like, but never before has an oyster
been known to climb on the back of
hard-shell crab for habitation.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
cANAR1Es SHOWN KINDNESS.
Nearly "A Thousand Sweet Singers
Saved from Indictment Weather
ana Dock Rats.
rly thousand canaries are much

Nearly thousand canaries are much
obliged to Joseph j. Couch, acting col
lector of the port of New York,
who has issued an order al
lowing the removal of the
birds from the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
dock at Hoboken, where they were a
prey to Indictment weather and dock
rats. A Greenwich street importer
had received LOO birds on the steam
ship Bengolia, which arrived Satur-
day. When he made application for
the entry of the canaries it was denied
in accordance with instructions from
the treasury department under date
of June II, which prescribed that any
consignment of 100 canaries or more
must be examined by special inspect
ors. When the canaries arrived both
the special inspectors were out of
town.
Mr.. Couch justified his action on the
ground of common sense and human
ity.
The importer has suffered loss of
5000 or $500 by reason of the exposure,
about 200 of the birds having died or
lost their voices.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
FIERCE FIGHT WITH RAT.
Syracuse Man Has Desperate strug-
gle Before the Animal Ii
Finally Killed.

Henry Wagner, of No. 1431 North
salina street, Syracuse, N. Y, had
desperate encounter with a rat in his
house, and he only succeeded in kill
ing the animal after half hours
battle. About two weeks ago Wag-
ner was awakened in the night by
his baby boy, who appeared badly
frightened at something, and was
crying so loud that he went into hys-
terics. For seven days the child
would cry and scream in turn and
cast hasty glances about the room.
He became SO bad that physician
was called in to attend him, and he
said the child had received bad
scare, probably from rat.
The other night Wagner was
awakened by a strange noise, and
went from his bedroom into the
kitchen, where ne was confronted by
an immense rat. The animal did not
seem to be disturbed by the intru-
sion, but lay crouched in the middle
of the floor as If ready for fight
Wagner grabbed broom and started
for the rat; but. instead of retreat
ing it sprang for him, landing on his
breast. 1t buried it's teeth in Wag-
ner's flesh, but was brushed off after
it had bitten him several times.
Again it sprang at the man, and left
the imprint of its teeth in Wagner's
stomach. Wagner struck the rat sew
eral times with the broom, but this
had no effect on the animal. He then
got Stat from a bed. With this
weapon he hit the rat in the head and
succeeded in killing it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

the extent Of debating treaty Of ces-
sion from Spain and carrying on an un-
authorized war of conquest against
the friendly t1lipinos. And though he
formally and impressively described
the concession of free trade to Porto
Rico as plain duty" yet he used the
influence of his Office and the power of
its patronage to protect the industries
OF his country from the ravages of
Porto Rican imports. Mr.. Mckinley is
nothing if he has not been self-sacri-
icing. His record proved him inca pa
BILE of shrinking from the sacrifice
even Of "long-settled convictions"
when the casion demands it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
ROBBERY AND RECIPROCITY.
Hanna's Programme of Subsidies Fa.
vored by MonopolIstic Manu-
facturers.


The meeting of the National Assoc
citation of Manufacturers at Detroit
appears to have been captivated by
the Hanna programme of ship sub
sides and reciprocity. They passed
resolutions favoring the subsidy and
took steps to call general convention
for the considerat ton of reciprocity
treaties with foreign countries. They
also declared that tariff legislation
should furnish adequate protection
to such products only as require it
without providing for monopoly
abuses" That is something of con-
cession to come from convention of
manufacturers. But it leaves plenty
of room for mental reserva ton. Who
is to judge as to the adequate protec-
ton and as to the degree of protection
which shelters monopoly abuses?
Each interest has always claimed the
right to judge for itself, and so long
as that right is conceded the abuses
are not likely to cease. Neither reci-
procity nor reform is likely to come
from the beneficiaries of protection
themselves.
That the meeting was packed in the
interest of robbery of the people and
Its interest used to work on public
opinion for that end can be judged by
what the Chicago Chronicle says:
The members of the American Man
ntacturers' association who at the
great banquet in Detroit screamed:
Louder" when clergyman was Of
fering prayer and then laughed up
roariously at the fun of the thing
were properly rebuked by the pre-
siding officer. No ear trumpets would
have been needed il the preacher had
been advocating some new scheme of
taxing everybody for the benefit of
somebody, even in whisper. The Ian
guage of prayer is quite unfamiliar
to men who look upon the tariff as the
author and giver of life, light and
llcre
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
One to Admire

Somehow" she said, II never can
see you without thinking of truth"
as that 500" he asked, being fell
low who was always doing something
original.
"Yes. Truth crushed to earth will
rise again, you know"
"But what has that to do with me?"
well, you've been thrown down by
nearly every girl in this town, but l
see that you continue to come up smil-
ing."-Chicago Record Herald.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

81 wish to truthfully state to you
and the readers of these few lines that
your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is without
question, the best and only cure for
dyspepsia that / have ever come in
contact with and / have used many
other preparations" John Beam,
West Middlesex, Pa. No preparation
equals Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as con-
tains all the natural digestants. 1t
will digest all kinds of food and can It
help but do you good. Shuttleworth
Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Use Aliens Foot-Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the
shoes. Your feet feel swollen, nerv-
Gus and hot, and get tired easily. Ii
you have smarting feet or tight shoes,
try Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t cools the
feet, and makes walking easy. Cures
swollen, sweating feet, ingrowing
nails, blisters and ca.lous spots. Re-
lieves corns and bunions of all pain
and gives rest and comfort. Try it
TO-DAY. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores for 25c. Trial package FREE.
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy,
New York. S6w4
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
He wasa niunni.t

"What brought you here, my poor
man?" inquired the prison visitor.
well, lady" replied the prisoner,
IT guess my trouble started from at.
tending too many weddin's."
'Ah! You learned to drink there,
or steal, perhaps?"
mo, lady; was always the BRIDE
m."-Tit-Bits