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TYRANTS IN OFFICE.
Men in Subordinate Positions Worse
Than Their Chiefs.
Visitors to Washington Who Want to
BE Treated Well Should Seek
High Officials Rather Than
Understrappers.
Especial Washington letter.


nor killing a maA Charlotte Cor
day became not only notorious,
but famous. The world has not
considered her deed as a murder, be-
cause the victim of her dagger was
a tyrant, a most brutal fomenter or
discord and promoter of assasslna-
ton She had suffered the loss of |
one whom she held most dear, had |
witnessed oppression during the |
years of her young life, saw her peo-
pie driven to desperation, and finally
took upon herself the work of rid
ding the world of Marat. Condemned
by the court and executed, she has
been commended at the bar of public
opinion. Her name is in history
linked with the names of Wallace
and Tell, with others who have shed
the blood of man for the welfare of
their country.
In every land and every cline there
have been tyrants, because of the dis
position of the majority of men to
rule their fellow men. In these mod
ern days there are constantly in
creasing classes of tyrants, for they
now pervade the business world, the
world of letters and the domestic
firesides; and they are just as tyran-
nical as ever were tyrants sitting
upon thrones and welding scepters.
In the business world the kings of
(. finance are growing constantly more
domineering and tyrannical. Fully a
generation ago Senator Sprague, of
Rhode Island, said upon the floor of
hn &c ID1t
more heartless and tyrannical than
million dollars; and that is, two or
more millions in the hands of one
man" The sentiment thus expressed
condcnses the causes of all of the
strikes and other manifestations of
warfare between capital and labor.
In 1880 James A. Garfield, of Ohio,
was a member of the house of repre-
sentatives, and was nominated for
the presidency. After that nomina-
ton he went to New York and i'm
plored Roscoe Conkling to assist him
in securing his election. Conlling
complied. 1t was he and he alone
who brought Gen. Grant into the
campaign on the side of Garfield
Immediately after Garfeld's inaugu-
ration, the human instinct became
dominant and he began to dominate
affairs for the purpose of clinching
his hold on power for a second term
and he prosecuted Conkling into pri
Vate life.
Grover Cleveland kotowed to Tam
many hall in 1884 and begged th'
support of that powerful organiza
ton. But, Immediately after his in
auguration, he proceeded tc breal
the heart of John Kelly, Tammany'
leader, and to otherwise manifest thu
symptoms of that tyrannical DISPOSE
ton which ultimately led him t.
speak contemptuously- of the con
gress by saying that he had tina
body ION his hands," as though tn
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peoples representatives were in
ferior beings.
Benjamin Harrison prayed for nom
nation and election in 1883, but no
sooner was he inaugurated than he
put forth his dicta to the statesmen
of all of the sovereign states. These
eminent gentlemen are mentioned in
this connection merely for the pur-
pose of illustrating the thesis stated.
They were all good men, coming
from the plain people of the repub-
lie, but the taste of power brought
forth manifestations of the natural
instinct of tyranny. although none
of them had opportunity to become
tyrannical to any extreme degree.
Every president who begins his adj
ministration with an effort for a Sec
ond term shows his teeth and claws
In one way or another. Therefore
have many good men advocated the
extension of the presidential term
from four to six years, with the pro
viso that no man shall be chosen to
succeed himself in the white house.
Occasionally there are members OF
the cabinet who manifest the spirit
of domination, but usually they are
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-05-28
JUS! TIIHIl!!!NIK Of II!

Every farmer his own
landlord, no encum-
ORANGES. his bank account
increasing year by year,
land value increasing,
stock increasing. splen.
did climate. excellent
schools and churches. log
taxation. high prices fo1
cattle and grain. low rail-
way rates, and every
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Millions Of People

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ceives his business callers in the
same manner.
Now go down one grade and call |
upon one of the auditors; there are |
six of them. You will find a nessen-
ger at the door who will require you
to wait until your card is taken in
and permission to enter is given.
Then when you enter, instead of be-
ing received by a gentleman who
comes to meet you half way, you are
received by an official who haughtily
sits in his seat and coldly asks you
what may be your business. There
is one exception in this grade; that
is, one out of the six will receive
visitor as cordially as will the secre-
tary and assistant secretaries.
Now go down another grade. You
want to see a chief of division, a
centurion who has immediate super
vision of about 100 clerks. There you
find man who seldom speaks to any
of his employees, and who requires
them to look away up at him. as
though he were a superior being
stepping from star to star. There
are very few exceptions in this class,
weight and worry of their great po-
sitions even to a greater degree than
do the chiefs of division. The latter
never allow their subordinates to
speak of them by their names, but
they are always referred to as The
Chief" and this is pronounced as
though it were printed in capital let
tiers, and italics at that.
No department head is tyrannical
but tyranny exists in the government
departments, as one nears the lower
rounds of the official ladder. The
government clerks are usually with.
out influence and wholly dependent
upon their positions, so that they be-
come as subservient as serfs and SUBJ
nit to petty tyrannies which indie
pendent men would extremely re-
sent.
Just about year ago there was
an official having charge of a couple
of hundred clerks who made himself
so offensive as to court his death.
And when he was shot to death in his
own office everybody commended the
clerk who killed him, just as the gen.
erations of men have praised Char
lotte Corday for striking down big
ger tyrant. Moreover, the oppressed
clerks crowded around the man who
had done the killing and praised him
for Kidding them of a tyrant.
On Capitol hill the sergeants-at-
arms of the senate and house of rep
resentatives are cultured gentlemen,
knowing well how to treat the citi-
zens of this republic, and realizing
that they are not superiors to but
servants of the people. Go to their
: assistant door keepers, however, who
} guard the numerous approaches to
: the halls of legislation, and you will
l find lot of self-conceited under
e strappers who imagine that the cap
4 itol is theirs and the fullness there
: of. Every one of them seems to be
. electioneering for the loss of his po-
3 sition.
> Real life in the national capital
t cannot be understood without a por-
i trayal of these characters, so that
e visitors may know how to see their
e way clear in their explorations of the
:. capitol and departments. Make youI
/ way to the heads of departments and
: the head men at the capitol, and they
s will see tosit that the understrappers
e treat you with civility and courtesy
e SMITH d. FRY.
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(pE-Ru-NA CURES PELVIC cATARRH.)
II am perfectly well"
says Mrs. Martin, Of
Brooklyn. "Pe-ru-na
cured me-"

Mrs. Anna Martin, AZ Hoyt street,
Brooklyn, n. Y, writes:
"Peruna did SO much for me that /
feel it my duty to recommend it to
others who may be similarly afflicted.
About a year ago my health was COM
plefeIy broken down, had backache,
dizziness and Irregularities, and life
seemed dark indeed. We had used
Peruna In our home as q tonic and for
colds and cafarrh and decided to try
1t for my trouble. In less than three
months I became regular, my pains
had entirely disappeared, and I arm
now perfectly well. Mrs. Anna
Martin.
Miss Marie Johnson, II Columbia,
East, Detroit, Mich, is Worthy Vice
Templar in Hope Lodge No. 6, indie
pendent Order Good Templars. Miss
Johnson, a SO many other women also
have done, found in Peruna specific
for severe case of female weakness.
She writes:
II want to do what I can to let the
whole world know what grand med
icine Peruna is. For eleven years I suf-
fered with female troubles and compli-
cations arising therefrom. Doctors
failed to cure me, and 1 despaired of
being helped. Peruna cured me in
three short months. can hardly be-
lieve it myself, but it is blessed fact
1 am perfectly we'll now, and have not
had an ache or pain for months.
want my suffering sisters to know
what Peruna has done for me."-Miss
Marie Johnson.
Miss Ruth Emerson, 72 Sycamore st.
Buffalo, n. Y, writes: 81 suffered
for two years with irregular and pain
full menstruation, and Peruna cured
me within six weeks. I cannot tel
you how grateful feel. Any agency
which brings health and strength tt
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Second Kings, Fourth Chapter, Tenth
Verse

If you read this verse you will find the ba-
sis for the little story printed in The Four
Track News for May, which is entitled
''The Prophets Chamber" The Four-Track
News win be sent free to any address in the
gle copies, 5 cents. Address Geo. n. Daniels,
Publisher, Grand Central Station, New
York
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To Cure q Cold IN one Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinire Tablets. Al
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A DfHcuIt Case.

First Lawyer-How did you come out in
settling up old Gotrox's estate?
Second Lawyer-It was hard struggle.
"No!"
from getting part of the estate" 4Ohio
State Journal
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EXOrbitant.

Litigant-What will you charge me for
taking the case?
Lawyer-It ought to be worth hundred,
but I'll do it for you for an even sixty.
'fSixty dollars? Great Croesus! I can
buy whole jury for that!"-Chicago Daily
News.
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Price $l.OO

CUTICURA SOAP, to cleanse the skin
Of crusts and scales and soften the thick
ened cuticle, CUTICURA OINTMENT,
to instantly allay itching, irfsmms-
ton, and irritation, and soothe and heal,
and CUTICURA RESOLvENT PILLS,
to cool and cleanse the blood. A SINGLE
SET of these great skin curatives Is
often sufficient to cure the most tortur-
ing, disfiguring, itching, burning, bleed
ing, crusted, scaly, and pimply skin,
scalp, and blood humours, with loss OF
hair, when all else fails.
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A wen-Protected Neighbor,

First Tramp-Have any luck around
here2
Second Tramp-Awful luck! Half
de folks keep dogs an de udder half
keeps woodpiles.-Iudge
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Only a good man can see good things in
others-Ram's Horn.
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Gone, ANYWAY.

Bacon-A man can't take any money with
him when he dies.
Egbert-Oh, don't know. had friend
who owed me $40 die last week. Iguess he's
taken that with him all rightly onkers
Statesman.
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Nearly every man actually believes that
other men are interested in his troubles
Chicago Daily News.
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possible comfort. This is the condition of the
farmer in Western Canada-Province of Manitoba
and districts Of Assiniboa, Saskatchewan and
Alberta: Thousands of Americans are now settled
there. Reduced rates all railways for home.
seekers and settlers New districts being opened
up this year. The new forty page ATLAS OF
WESTERN CANADA and all other informa-
ton sent free TO all applicants; f. PEDI4EYs
superintendent of Immigration. Ottawa. Canada,
or to J. s. CRAWFORD, ia w. Ninth St, Kansas
City. Mo-
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OF FoLL% L OSWaLd

appearance Of the young hill foxes,
but their ears soon get too sharp to
leave a doubt about their affinity.
The perrito Is a true fox. although
not nearly as heavy rs q Kentucky
fox-squirrel. and quite able to live on n
vegetable diet. He will eat bread. ber.
ries and grapes. and the Filipinos even
get him used to boiled rice. favored
with a few drops Of Oil: but the In
stincts OF bis species revive II he Is
turned loose in a room enlivened by
scampering rodents.
A nursing perrita hides her whelps
rs best she can. bundling them away
in the darkest corner Of IN old cracker.
box, or even in the lee Of jack-5oot.
\ week after they have their eyes
open the pretty little animals will ven-
ture out of their own accord. have q
leaping match after q cockroach or
grasshopper. or roll about on the door.
paving one another like playful Eit-
tens.
As the days go by they become more
enterprisins. and contrive to scrape
gopher out Of his wire trap without
waiting for the assistance OF their
keeper. In default Of other fun. they
will tiptoe their way to the stove.
where q Newfoundland puppy lies snor-
ing on his rug. For minute or longer
they will stand. closely watching the
young giant; then they will crouch
down and approach with n catlike
wrigsle. until one Of them touches
the sleeper. Upon that all will scanpar
back, frightened at their own bold
ness.
The Luzon kalong bat. with his eno.-
nous skin wings folded. Is hardly as
big as q half-grown rabbit. and nor.
mally weighs from pound and half
to a pound and three-quarters: but
breakfast. ut which he gorges himself
with bananas and boiled carrots. in
creases his weight by some sixty per
cent. At noon he Is ready for lunch.
but he reserves his chief effort for
supper.
These winged gluttons infest the
Eastern Archipelago from Sunatra to
Luzon. and would be worse plague
than the Egyptian locusts II their
habitat were not q region Of mex
haustible fertility. A Philippine ban-
ana planter can work one day a week
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Ito be continued.)
Young ut o Hundred.

II the present increase Of the aver.
Gge age Of man continues. we will be
in our youth when We are hundred
years old. We who are now living will
not realize this condition unless We
experience another incarnation or two.
but when the time for 1t comes-un-
der the conditional "ir'-there will
likely be mor;als enough on earth with
hopes. fears. trials. tribulations. pains
and pleasures the same rs We have.
The thought Of centuries staSse"s Us.
and millenniums are beyond our COM
prehension. but little things like these
do not bother nature. with whom day
is as thousand years and q thousand
years as q day. And she does not con-
slider whether she Is dealing with us.
with the peoples Of thousands OF years
ago. or with those vino will be hese
in n thousand years froEi now.
The average age Of man has been
Increased seven and 4 half years IN the
last century. and ut that rate the aver.
age length Of human life will be about
one hundred and ten years In ten cen.
turies.-New York Herald.
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the opposite end Of the room. or on
his own cage. but never on the lamp.
He inspected that the moment It was
brought In. and touched the chimney
long enough to satisfy himself that Il
had better he admired from distance.
"Moio bruxo'-"ghc st monkey'-thc
FilipinOs call him. He never appears
In the daytime. aEi would he but lie
quiet in his nest in hollow branch.
his existence would never DC suspected.
But curiosity Is apt to get the better
Of his discretion. and II hurtcr strikes
his nest tree with m axe. lack face
with a pair of still blackcr eyes will
peer down from knothole TO inquire
the cause Of the disturbance.
The hunter then marks the tree. and
an hour later returns with bag and :
forked stick. Master T''rIuctus has
gone to sleep by that time. and IS
reused when the fork gets coed hitch
IN his fur and twists him out OF his
dormitory.
A bushy-tailed and extremely wide
awake islander is the LuZtI fw1'T
fox, which is often caught in the
Sicrras and Gagged rs we would
cage soT her or weasel. "Perrito'
means literally doggy and there Is
really something prDDyish about the
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through the material. In case OF any
of the material named. when once the
tunnel Is excavated. or the tube driven
the stability Of the structure Is assured
for all time. as displacement, vertical
or lateral. Is impossible.
I'm driving tunnels beneath rivers
where deep deposits Of silt OF varying
consistency are encountered. 1t may
happen that the silt Is Of such semi'
fluid consistency that when heavy
traffic began to pass though the tunnel
It would be In danger Of throwing the
tunnel out Of alignment. even to the
extent of causing actual fracture OF the
same. The invention Of Mr.. Jacobs.
while It was primarily designed TO
overcome the difficulties likely to be
encountered in building the proposed
tunnel beneath the North River Is, or
course. applicable to tunneling opera
tions under other rivers or through
swampy or saturated material whose
consistency Is such as to threaten tne
permanency Of the tunnel.
In the case Of the North River tun'
mel Mr.. jacobs determined to overcome
the objections due to looseness OF the
upper strata Of the river bottom by CIV
inc his tubes sufficient transverse and
lateral strength to perform the full
functions OF a bridge or girder. and
support the bridge tube thus :urmed
NJ stated intervals by means Of piers
carried down until they reach the un'
derlying rock.
"The piers would be slung from the
tube itself by the pneumatic process,
and they would be Of any form or con-
struction that was found most suit
able"
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and all scrts of curious rodents can
be trapped in the Sierras.
As a consequence the cities Of the
Philippii es swarm with pets. and the
supply Is beginning to overflow into the
geological curiosity shops Of the sea-
port towns of the United States. The
Luzon contributions chiefly represent
the tribe of the macaques pronounced
makaks).
Luzon exports a nischievors rock
baboon. and the ringed lemur.'a sort
Of night-monkey. with owl eyes and
a bush tail that can be made to en-
circle his neck like a shawl The sud-
den opening Of those big eyes has
weird effect: but their owEer is COM
paratively harmless Filipino. and needs
not much persuasion to nestle In the
overcoat pocket Of his protector. II.
moreover. that pocket should happen
to be furnished with handkerchiefs.
he will wrap himself up like a pet
gray squirrel. and express his delight
in q curious chuckle.
But at about 6 or s o'clock In the
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and get more food from an acre OF
ground than hard working American
wheat farmer could possibly raise on
twenty acres; but 1t has been proved
that even that enormous harvest could
be doubled II 1t were possible to keep
bats ard monkeys away.
As it Is, the depredations never cease.
night or day. and by way Of getting
even. the Filipinos cage and sell as
many Of the marauders rs they can
trap. In San Francisco tame kalonS
bats cost about s. apiece. but in Manila
the gardeners bring them to market
In homemade cages. and are glad TO
sell pair. cage and all. for two reals
about twenty-five cents.
Fishermen sell jars full Of porcupine
fish. and there Is no end of bird dealers.
pcddling winged curiosities Of oil sorts.
from a silk finch to fire pheasant.
or parrots alone Luzon boasts some
twenty different species. besides va
riety of pretty parrakeets. Including
the "spike-tail." grayisi green pet
with q passion for nest-building. end
ready to begin operations at short no.
tice. A swarm let loose In a vacant
room. with q row Of nest-boxes. Will
waste one day fighting for building
lots. and after that they will almost
forget eating and drinking in their
eagerness to forage for material.
Ready.nade nests would spoil half
their fun. and they are never happier
than In n tussle with an old cotton
;,,dquilt or q little bale Of hay. Pluck
ing ont shreds Of bedding. 4 billful at
Il time. Is just what suits their idea
Of n picnic. and they ever stop screech-
Ing while daylight lasts.
They are about the most restless OF
all feathered creatures. lut In the mat
ter of noisiness they are far surpassed
by another feathered Filipino-th'
great hcrIbill. creature with n head
foot and n half long. and voice tlat
has 5e;n described as something be-
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pETS.FROM.

The Island Of Luzon has been called
the Pearl Of the Philippines" and.
like Cuba. Is a marvel Of scenic charm
and productlveness. The two islands
enjoy the same climate Of perpetual
summer. their mountain ranges are
almost exactly of the same average
height. and are clothed to their very
srmmits with evergreen forests.
In the coast hills Of LuzoD the dawn
Of day Is heralded by the multitudinous
screams Of little monkeys. Tree cats
occasionally raid the top branches ana
give the monkeys some reason for
screaming. The hills echo the bay OF
wild dogs; wild pigs rustic about the
jungle. and jackals prowl along the
beach in quest Of sen spoil. There are
three varieties Of deer In the uplands.
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Census Oddities In Gern,a ny. .

In taking her census Germany dif.
fers from other countries in that she
Is not content to number the people
only. For some time there has been
4 cattle census. and Oh this occasion
there was a further extension Of the
scope by the institution Of q fruit..ree
census. Fruit rs IN article of food
and rs luxury has been steadily
growing In favor for long time. and
the Government considers 1t advisable
that 1t should know its resources in
this respect. A record Of forest lands
is also kept. aad a yearly return has
to be made Of the number Of trees
felled or otherwise destroyed and OF
the young trees planted In the forest
nurseries to replace then.