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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
Found Zinc Ore ON His Farm.

William Kerr, a farmer living four
miles north of Perry, found evidence
that zinc ore exists on his farm. He
had some of the metal assayed and
It was pronounced to be of excellent
quality. Mr.. Kerr will soon begin
sinking shaft, believing that the
experiment will reveal that metal ex-
lists In vast quantities.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
Roer blow On another Train.

London, Sept. ?.-Lord Kitchener
reports to the war ONCE that nine
persons were killed and II others
wounded in the blowing up and de-
railing of the train which theN Beers
destroyed Saturday between Water
val and Humans kraal.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
First Unfurled In Battle.

Wilmington, Del. Sept. AT
Cooch's bridge Tuesday the monu-
ment marking the battlefield where
It is claimed the stars and stripes
were first unfurled in battle, was. un-
yelled, The monument, which, Is OF
granite, Is six feet high. The stone
4 surrounded by four cannon.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
Will Re-swim the BaEbng.

Will Trembley, now city clerk Of
Kansas City, who once SWAN the Bag
bag river in one of the Philippine is
lands, is billed to repeat his daring
deed in a river near Ottawa Scptem-
Der 81. 1t will be ut the annual re-
union of the Twentieth Kansas regi-
ment. Trembley has consented to do
the swimming.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
moo Maha Dim In.pectora.

Ben Northhf, state grain inspector,
has more men on his payroll than he
knows what to do with, and is trying
20 think up a scheme to let some of
chem out. The difficult job Is to select
the men to discharge. They are all
KDod grain men and understand their
business.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
DreidcnthnI In n New Venture.

John w. Breidenthal, former state
bank commissioner, and George W.
Clark, former judge of the appellate
court, are planning new benevolent
order to be established in Kansas. The
details have not yet been made pub
lie, but it is understood that charter
will be applied for at an early date.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
No suit Wn. Necessary.

Going to the soldiers reunion at
Hutchinson, Samuel Proctor, Of Ed
wards; county, got his arm smashed
on by q water tank pipe which hung
too close to the car window. The
Santa Fe has paid Mr.. Proctor $1,000,
given Mrs. Proctor another $1,000.
and paid all Of the expenses Of the
accident. - anal. .,r.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
working foe Collins Release.

Mrs. j. S. Collins, of Topeka. has
decided that the time has come to
make the first attempt to secure the
release of her stepson, John Henry
Collins, from the penitentiary. Young
Collins has been in the penitentiary
three years under sentence of death
for the murder Of his father. At the
time of the murder gossips intimated
that the stepmother knew more about
the crime than she cared to tell, but
this was discredited and young Col
1ins was implicated.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
~. AIbausA seriously Injured.

Mrs. Morton Albaugh and her cous-
in. Miss White, teacher, were badly
injured in runaway at Kingmaii.
Ma. Albaugh is sufferisg from the
fracture Of shoulder and internal
injuries. Miss White was injured in
tsrna1ly. Both are In critical condi-
sion Ga ~
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
Revenue Station for Kansas City.

The United States treasury depart
ment at Washington has ordered the
establishment in Kansas City of an
internal revenue station. 1t is under
stood that the station is to be opened
at once, and that United States Sem
ntor Burton has recommended the APP
pointment of c. W. Trickett for
deputy collector at salary of $1,000
n year. At present all of the govern
ment stamps used in Kansas City come
from Leavenworth.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
Aid for Theological School.

Mrs. johanna NJ. Lovelace, of Tur-
ner, has offered to give 90 acres of
Kaw valley land, valued ut $4,000, to
the Kansas City Baptist Theological
seminary on the condition that the
citizens of Kansas City raise $4,000 to
help purchase the old Fowler mansion
to be used as the home of the new in
'stitution. The land Mrs. Lovelace has
Offered lies west of Argentine. In
addition to that offer she has prom
Used $1,000 to be used in paying the
first years expenses.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
New Tax Bill Drafted.

The state tax commission has about
compiled a completed tax bill and it
will soon publish IL in pamphlet form
and scatter it over the state for criti-
cism and suggestions. After the peo-
pie have made all their suggestions
the commission will meet again and
revise the bill to include the suggcs-
tions of Importance. This bill is al
most duplicate of the Indiana tax
law. Its principal features have been
published. Only two have escaped.
One is in reference to the assessment
OF telegraph and express companies.
Heretofore these companies have been
assessed on the actual amount of
property. If the new bill becomes n
law the assessment of express and
telegraph companies will be based on
their stocks and bonded indebtedness.
This will increase their taxes several
fold. The other feature is a change in
the system of running the Office of
county treasurer. The treasurer will
be nothing more than custodian of the
county funds. The county clerk will
be q sort of IN auditor, and the treas
urer cannot pay out any money unless
upon check of the clerk. The clerk
will have complete check on the
treasurer. This change is suggested
in order to prevent shortages.
Railway Employees Wages Lower.
The annual report of the state So
ciety of labor and industry is ready
for distribution. According to the
reports from railway companies ope-
rating in the state there were 25, 1856
railway employees in the state in 1898
and the total amount paid them as
salaries was $15,O24, 931.13. The aver
age, yearly salary for that year was
$596.5S. In 1900, there were 24,252 en-
ployes in the state and they received
in salaries $12,670,043.66 or an average
yearly salary of S522.45. The salaries
OF general officers of the roads have
increased about ten per cent. during
the last two years, while the salaries
OF the other employees have decreased.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
Accused OF Fnvorins JointIsts.

]HCune" OH T"NOFf"S UOfHtfHtss
The executive committee OF the Tax
payers league Of Burbon county
adopted resolutions serving formal no.
tice on Mayor Goodlander and such
members of the city council as are
standing with him that unless they
collect the usual revenue from the sa-
looms of this city for August the
league will institute proceedings to
GUST them all from Office for coIlu-
sion with the saloonkeepers in the
violation of the law.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-07
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
Baxter Springs Reunion.

The Baxter reunion will be in the
same hands for another year. At the
annual meeting j. NJ. Cooper, of Bax.
ter Springs, was reelected president,
and J.. c. Weldy, of Galena, colonel
commanding camp. Gov. Stanley and
State Auditor Cole, with their wives,
were in attendance. The other state
officers were unable to come on nc.
count of business engagements. The
governor spoke at the campfire in the
afternoon. 1t was purely an old SOL
diers' address, and was heartily ap-
plauded by the old veterans. Judge
Temple, of Iowa, followed tie gov
ernor and kept the audience deeply
interested throughout. Col. Dick
Blue and q few local men also made
addresses.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26

d. Hanz, farmer of Georgia, has
discovered n new source of molasses
in the Georgia melon patch. According
to his experiments and calculations,
80 melons will make thirty gallons Of
syrup worth $15. Tho melons for mar
ket would be worth S. or &c. This is
important, if true, and 1t may be true.
The value Of melon molasses must de-
pend on its quality. 1t may be practi-
cally worthless. If the sweet of the
melon can be granulated to produce
sugar, melon sugar may be worth at
tention, but the sweet of melon juice
is SO diluted that 1t is not likely to COM
pete with the sugar beet. The sources
of sugar are many. In the North the
sugar maple is an unfailing source, al
though greately neglected. If the waste
lands on every farm were planted with
sugar naples, or even seeded, and kept
free from cattle, in due time the owner
would have good timber trees and a
never-failing source of revenue IN
maple sugar. The price of that article
is high enough to warrant farmers in
setting maple groves.-Twentieth Cen
fury Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
Milk the Cow Clean.

The practice In getting the last strip
pings should always be followed in
milking, because it keeps up the milk
flow and the last milk drawn is the
richest in butter fat. In an experiment
few years ago it was found that the
first drawn milk gave SS per cent water
and l per cent butter fat. The strip
pings continued so per cent water and
about 10 per cent butter fat. The last
drawn milk is richest, the more fluid
part Of the milk containing the casein
and milk sugar flows easily to the milk
chamber, while the fat globules make
the milk less fluid, SO that it moves
with more difficulty. The richer part
remains behind in the milk channels
and glands, If all is not taken, and the
formation of fat will be checked, be-
cause when gland cannot find rapid
separation of its products the blood
will flow into channels where it will be
more useful.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
His Ain, in Life.

People bother little boys so! All the
tourists to his island home used to ask
this one: what are you going to be,
little boy? What are you going to be?"
and the boy had patiently replied at
every interruption of his important un-
dertakings: 81 am going to be sailor
aud climb the masts."
Last summer he took an ocean voyage
and was very seasick, and the third
day his father asked: what are you
going to be, boy? what are you going
to BET"
II am not going to be a sailor and
climb the masts" he replied. II am
going to be soldier and shoot can
non."
A big uncle took the boy to see ia
nous cyclorama, where the smoke and
carnage and realistic dead bodies In the
foreground shattered another Of his am
billions. To the teasing question,
What are you going to be, boy? what
are you going to BET" came the answer
in a burst of confidence:
81 am not going to be sailor and
climb the masts. am not going to be
soldier and shoot cannot. am going
to be q bachelor and marry mammal
Youths Companion.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
Apaper Found.

An English paper offers a practical IL.
lustration Of Trollope's saying, Its
logged us does It,"
Jack Sullivan was n soldier, and a
good one, but suddenly he began to act
like crazy man. When on duty or at
drill he would break from the ranks
and run after an imaginary scrap of
paper, visible to no one but himself.
shouting as he ran:
"There 1t goes! There's the paper!"
This occurrence become so frequent
that officers and men alike agreed that
Jack was insane, and the matter w.s
brought before the medical authorities.
After some scientific research, he was
declared to be suffering from monoma.
MIA, and in consequence he was given
his discharge.
But 1t was monomania with meth.
cd, for when Jack quilted the service
and his comrades. lie fiourished his dis
charge, saying:
Faith, boys. sure I've got the BIT of
paper I've been runnin' afther this long
time!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
Don't Clip the Wings.

The clipping of wings is, to say tn.
least, cruel practice and often results
In the loss or injury of our most valu-
able fowls is the sensible conclusion of
poultry writer in Home and Farm.
The temptation to go to the highest
portion of the roost is too strongly in.
bred in the fowls to resist and they will
invariably manage to get to the top
Then, in their haste to get down they
fall, head over heels, having no means
of protection. have seen fowls at.
tempt to fly from perch fully ten feet
from the ground, Invariably with the
same results.
The fence can always be built high
enough to keep them in the yard and
aside from all injury the clipping does
their beauty is SO married that one
should refrain from such unnecessary
mutilation. A fence four feet high will
keep the Leghorns at home. The cost
of wire is so moderate that every one
may easily provide good fence fol
the yards without resorting to any cut
| ting of wings.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26

or four hours one Of the boys would
follow after with a weeder and his
pony, and at night 1t made the father al
most ashamed-the boy had done so
much more good than he had. All who
have used weeders have only good to
say of them. They will do the best
work on mellow, clean land. Rubbish
on the surface and stones would inter-
fere with their use. Do not be in n
hurry to get into the field when 1t is
wet with dew or rain. Wait until the
ground is dry, and then you can Gull
tivate and hoe fifteen or twenty acres
per day. All weeds can be kept in
check by beginning early and going
over the ground every four or five days.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
AN AVALANCHE OF LAWS.

The Only Person Who Knows the Law
According to the Law.
We, the people Of the United States,
are remarkable in our knowledge, UNI
der presumption of law. The law
presumes that we know the law, and,
though Mr.. Bundle may be right in
saying that the law is an ass in its pre-
sumption, its Prescriptions control us
just the same. 1t is never an excuse
to plead ignorance of the law, for the
magistrate who does not know the law,
Judges who give opposing views of the
law and courts that cannot agree on
what the law is will tell you that you
do know the law, because the law says
that you do. This is very compliment
tary to the layman.
Just think what we know under this
legal presumption. Besides the unwrit-
ten law that we have inherited from
the ages, we know millions Of enact
ments; those of fifty-six Congresses, of
our annual State Legislature-beside
fifty other States and Territories, if we
happen to be in them-down to and in
Guiding the volumes of enactments of
our board of aldermen and our health
department regulations.
You may so into the law library in
the Federal Building, wave your hands
over the tens of thousands of volumes,
and say, II know all this" and can
then prove your statement by the au-
thOritieS themselves.
f. s. Wakefield, tally clerk Of the
House of Representatives, has pre-
pared n list of little that we know,
that emanated from the Fifty-sixth
Congress. According to his figures, the
House passed 2,2O4 bills and resolu-
tions. If that is an average, think what
1t means when multiplied by fifty-six
Then add to 1t the volumes of laws that
have found birth in our Legislature
and the intermittent stream ever flow
ing from that source, with which are
mingled municipal laws and regula-
| tions.
Each individual who has reached the
age of discretion is told by the law
that he knows them all. Chicago Rec.
| ord Herald.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26

Gen. Francis v. Greene, Of the New
York and Bermudez Asphalt Company.
has gone far toward settling the West
Point trouble by taking the five dis
missed cadets into the employ of the
company. This is highly satisfactory
way out Of the difficulty. There is a
natural sympathy for the young men
whose careers have seemed to be blast
ed, but at the same time the discipline
Of the military academy cannot be sac
rificed to sympathy for culprits whose
troubles have been entirely of their
own creating. 1t would have been
most disastrous to the morals not only
Of the academy, but of the army that Is
to be differed by West Point gradu-
ates, to have the idea take root that in
subordinate cadets could overrule the
authorities with the aid OF Congress
sional pulls" AT the same time, says
the New York Journal, there is no de-
sire to inflict unnecessary suffering
upon young men Of generally excellent
character, and the public will be glad
to know that they have found con-
genial employment in a quarter in
which discipline will be maintained for
them by the stern realities of life.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26

The proceedings of New York medi-
cal society, which refused to publish a
paper read by one Of its members, de-
nying the existence Of infectious dis.
eases, calls attention to some remark
fable divisions of opinion among those
who have studied the question of infec.
ton. Many people are opposed to vac
cination. and on different grounds.
Some claim religious scruples. Many
are convinced that vaccination is likely
to convey to the blood poisons or dis
eases quite as little to be desired as is
the disease to be prevented. 1t is not
necessary for these to deny that small
pox is infectious, or that vaccination
will prevent 1t. These have exaggerated
fears since the introduction of i'm
proved methods of preparing the vac
cine. Yet vaccination has sometimes
resulted In severe sores over wide
area, affecting almost every patient,
despite the utmost care, showing tina.
something else than pure vaccine has
to do with 1t. There is smaller body
NbO w AOt .OCAiSNS Nllut NNSSlAC 10 u
preventive at all. They deny that there
Is any such thing as infection. OF this
class IRE the New York doctor and DIR.
Rodermund, who made himself famous
last fall in the West. AS to tubercu-
-losis, the fell destroyer of human life,
there is wide division, even in the
medical fraternity, with tendency
among them to credit that disease with
infection. This Is due to the discovery
Of the bacillus identified with the dis
ease. This suggests rather than proves
Its infectious character. In this case,
and that of other infectious or con.
tagious diseases, one thing is agreed
upon-that care of the health, including
scrupulous cleanliness, is an essential
If one is to escape, whether the disease
is infectious, epidemic or sporadic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
A Perfect Pedigree.

If we were to buy an animal for
breeding purposes we should insist
upon perfect pedigree OF should re-
fuse to pay any fancy price. But what
constitutes perfect pedigree? 1t is
not long line of descent from some ia
nous animal, nor yet one in which we
can trace several crosses of his blood,
but we think 1t is one in Which we can
find no ancestor of grade lower than
what we are seeking to establish or
perpetuate. Each and every one should
be as good or better than its predeces-
sor, and the stock Should show indica-
tions of improving in each generation.
With such n pedigree the increase
would never go back If the proper care
was given, but would produce better
results all Of the time.-New England
Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
The shirt-waist man has ut last been

The shirt-waist man has ut last been
placed. He has been tagged and prop.
erly labeled by an anthropologst who
knows an ordinary simian from short
tailed balloon. The shirt-wa:st man has
been kicked about like an old piece Of
pottery at rummage sale, without any
particular classification, not knowing
whether he was 80 cents or whether he
belonged in the collection of hand
painted cuspidors or among the cracked
articles of yirtu that were damaged In
transit. We are indebted, says The
Chicago Record Herald. to Professor
Frederick Starr, of the University Ut
Chicago, for the classification. In a
recent lecture to his class in anthro-
pology Professor Starr classed the
shirt-waist man as a degenerate, along
with tattooed people and men who part
their hair In the middle. He had OBJ
served four classes Of persons who tut
tooed their bodies sailors, soldiers,
criminals and messenger boys. If the
shirt-waist man is capable of the oldi.
nary processes of reasoning lie can
now see where he Is at. az course the
classification is not as clearly defined
- one might wish. Bpt the shirt-waist
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26
Leaving the Protection ship.

When so chronic and hide bound q
protectionist organ MS the Boston
Transcript indicates an inclination to
climb down Off the high tariff horse and
demands reduction of the Dingley
duties, 1t gives token of a marked
change in the sentiment of that sec
ton of the Union which has always be-
lieved that its inhabitants had pre-
scriptive right to levy tribute on the
rest Of the people of the United States
for the enrichment of its manufacturing
interests.
Referring to the report that Senator
Cullom has determined TO work when
Congress meets for the ratification of
the reciprocity treaties negotiated by
Commissioner Kasson, the Transcript
says: Concurrent testimony, showing
the feeling among representative Re-
publicans regarding the necessity for a
change in our present tariff, is accumu-
lating at rate that should leave no
doubt as to the policy which ought to
dominate the party in the coming Con
gress. Reference has been made to the
attitude of President Mckinley and
members Of his Cabinet and others we'll
qualified to speak for him. as well as
the attitude of the South upon ques-
ton the right settlement OF which is
considered as vital to the great manu-
featuring interests which are being de-
veloped there. The feeling is also
strong in the West. and the Republican
press of that section is advocating most
earnestly the passage of such laws as
will promote the freest trade inter
change between this country and 9TH
crs."
This is remarkable change of front
for protectlonist journal, which, IL we
mistake not, was loud last year In ap-
proving the retrogressive and stupid
course of those Republican Senators
who are responsible for smothering to
death the several commercial treaties
with foreign countries that MI. Kas.
son negotiated.
Reciprocity is only free trade in re-
stricted form. and its advocacy by a
leading exponent of New England sell
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26

In New York child recovering from
scarlet fever stood in need of an imme-
diate operation to save life. One hos
pital takes patients with contagious
diseases, the other hospitals do not. The
child was refused admission to the one
hospital on the ground that the period
of contaglon had passed. The other
hospitals refused to admit the patient
on the ground that the period of con-
ftagion had not passed. But this is a
modern nge, you say. Mere technicali-
ties would not be allowed to stand in
the way Of health. You are wrong.
There was the matter of establishing a
precedent. II the contagious baby got
into non-contagious hospital, how
were the authorities to know that the
same Crime" would not be repeated
"sorry, but it wouldn't do. Take the
child somewhere else" 1t was too late
and the baby died, killed by red tape.
All III the year 1901.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-06-26

Governor Allen has, no doubt, arrived
at the true reason for the non-progres-
siveness of Porto Rico. when he says
that ina land where man Gun lie in
hammock, pick bananas with one
hand and dig sweet potato with one
foot" there is no incentive to exertion.
But the same reasoning seems to de-
stroy the Governors idea of redeeming
the place by the importation of Anglo
Saxon energy.