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!: Once roud City
;: Now a Memory

houses and heaps of rubbish are al.
that now remain of the former me-
tropolis. Most of the principal bust
ness streets and many buildings OF
historic interest have been swallowed
up by the relentless waters. The
old Pape house, the first brick hcus,
built west of the Allegheny Esoun-
tains. is still standing. The bricks
to build this house were brought from
Pittsburg on a flatboat in 1892. The
house has been used for various pur-
poses in its time. The first state con
stitution was drafted in its rooms. O
late years it has been used as a store
and postofhce building. The river has
now almost reached it.
In the Church of the Immaculate
Conception still swings the old churcl
bell. memento of the past. This bel
was presented by the king of France
Louis XIV, to one of the citizens O
Kaskaskia, Louis Buyatte, to be give
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fawmaking. Here Gov Bond used to
hold levees and here the hunter and
hatboat men of the early days came
to study the prevailing fashions in
the capital city after a season in the
woods or the trip to New Orleans and
return. On the east bank of the river
still stands Rileys mill, the first erect
ed in Illinois, and about half a mile
west, in a lonely, tangled wildwood
sleeps Elias Kent Kane, the first sec
rotary of Illinois. who served under
Gov. Bond.
The encroachment of the river a few
years ago became so serious that the
graves of the pioneer dead in Kaskas-
kia were in danger of being washed
into the waters A removal was made
and a fine cemetery was located on the
bluff near by the ruins of Fort Gage
and a beautiful monument erected
which bears the following inscription:
Those who sleep here were first bur-
led at Kaskaskia and afterward re-
| moved to this cemetery. They were
the early pioneers of the great Missis-
sippi valley. They planted free insti-
| tutions in, the wilderness, and were the
founders of a great commonwealth.
In memory of their sacrifices Illinois
gratefully erects this monument in
1892"
Across the river a few ancient
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

The ancient capital of Illinois is
now practically wiped from existence.
The waters of the Mississippi have
for years been making steady inroads
upon the town and today flow ever
the spot where once the sages OF the
great prairie state of the west conven-
ed to enact laws for the government
of its people The postmaster general
has driven the last nail in the coffin,
so to speak, CT Kaskaskia, and no long
er are mails delivered at the old
town site, and officially the place is
merely a memory of the past Since
the first of the present year the post
Office department has had no knowl-
edge of Kaskaskia, once the pride of
Illinoisans and thought to be future
metropolis of trade and commerce and
a center of political activity.
When first laid out by the surveyors
the town of Kaskaskia was situated
on the Okaw river. and in early days it
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to the church of Illinois. The old Kas.
kaskia bell, the liberty bell of the west
is ten years older than the old liberty
bell, with which it shared honors al
the worlds fair. This bell weighs
about $50 pounds and is ornamentet
on one side with groups of fieur-de-lis
in relief, and on the other with g
cross and PEDESTAL The following in
scription is cast in the bell: Pour
Peglise des Illinois par les soins du
Sr. Dulieleau L. B. M. Normand a Ia
Rochelle, 1741." The old church con-
tsins other things of interest besides
the bell. Among them are the chalice
and paten presented to the church by
the king of France, the table on which
was written the first constitution OF
the state of Illinois and the signature
of Col. George Rogers Clark, ITS. This
old parish records are kept here.
Some superstitious people associate
the fate OF Kaskaskia with tragedy
of early days. 1t was over 100 years
ago that the young chief of the Kas-
kaskia Indians fell in love with the
daughter of one of the early settlers
named Bernard. The young people, de
spairing of the consent of the father
of the girl to their marriage, eloped
They were pursued and captured, the
father of the girl being the leader o.
the party
The Indian surrendered without re
sistance and the posse started on the
journey back to Kaskaskia. Most O.
the men who composed Benard's party
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

was a thriving trading post. Here,
when ST. Louis was practically I'M
known, trappers and hunters QUILTED
for the winters work in the wilder
ness further west-here they returned
with their peltry and held high car
nival until forced by their necessities
to take the trail for the hunting
grounds, to face the savage beasts and
savage men, 1t was first settled
in 1878, and for nearly 200 years it was
believed to be destined to be the
great metropolis of the southwest. In
1925 Gen. Lafayette visited Kaskas-
kia. and was so impressed with the
hustle and activity witnessed that he
predicted a great future for the French
settlement.
These hopes were blasted by the
great flood of 1874, followed forty
years later by the Mississippi getting
on a rampage and cutting a channel
through the sandy soil above the town
uniting its waters with those of the
Okaw, thus leaving the town on an
island and destroying its last hope for
eminence.
OF all the buildings which once
adorned the place the Randolph county
courthouse is the only one remaining.
portion of the statehouse where the
legislators of the then territory of IL
linois assembled still clings tenacious
ly to the bank of the river, the rest
of the buildings have gone down with
the bank Here many men who after
ward attained eminence in the councils
of the nation first tried their hand at
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wanted to kill the Indian instantly,
but Bernard would not allow it, for, he
said, they should leave him to deal
with his daughters lover.
When the party reached Kaskaskia
the girl was placed in the convent
there. Then Bernard took the Indian
to the bank of the Mississippi and
binding him tightly to a log turned
him adrift in the river. AS the help
less Indian drifted away to his death
he raised his eyes to heaven and
cursed Bernard, who, he declared, would
die violent death. The Indians last
words were prophecy that within 200
years the waters which were then
bearing him away would sweep from
the earth every vestige of the town,
so that only the name would be left
THE unhappy girl died in the con-
vent. Bernard was killed in 1912 in a
duel. The last trace of Kaskasia has
been obliterated. On dark and stormy
nights the ghost of the Indian is said
to appear. The specter, with strong
arms bound and face upturned, floats
slowly by on the river where the
stream sweeps by the site of the van
ished city in which Marie Bernard once
lived and in which she died mourning
the red man to whom her affections
had been given
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
PAYING OURSELVES.

Americans Now Receive Vast SumR of
Money which Gormerly Went Abroad.
Disbursements of dividends and in
terest amounting to about $500, 000, 900
are taking place during this first week
in January, 1902. 1t is very much the
largest sum ever distributed in this
form in the United States, and accord
ingly it may properly be considered as
representing by far the highest point
in material prosperity ever reached in
the United States. No country on earth
can show anything like it. The grand
total of $500, 900 900 is more than dou-
BILE what the distribution of dividends
and interest payments amounted to
in the first week in January, five years
ago. Then we were staggering under
the effects of four years of tariff re-
form and free trade. Now we have
not quite completed four and a half
years of restored protection to Ameri-
can industry and labor What con-
trast between then and now!
Five hundred millions of dollars is a
big sum to be scattered broadcast
through this land of ours, a mighty
sum to be paid out here and to stay
here. For, mark you, it does stay
here and it does not go abroad any
more, not above 1 per cent of it, to
enrich creditors in foreign countries.
Reason why: We don't owe anything
now to foreigners. Why? Because in
four and a half years of Mckinley
and protection our trade balances
have amounted to over $4,000 900 900,
and in settling these immense balances
Europe has been compelled to send
back our securities so that we now owe
Europe very little, if anything, and
only an infinitesimal portion of the
$500 ,OOO, 900 disbursed this week goes
to any but our own people. Not long
ago, say four or five years, our great
railroad corporations were sending
vast amounts of money to London and
the continent to pay dividends on
stocks and interest on bonds owned
abroad This year the checks are
made payable to American citizens
and not to foreigners. All because the
Republican policy of protection en-
ables us to produce so large pro-
portion of what we use and to require
payment in cash or the return of our
securities held abroad for the enor-
nous surplus of our exports over our
imports.
There is a tremendous object lesson
in the disbursement of $500 ,000, 900
among the people of the United States
during this first week in January, 1902.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

It is, really never up-to-date unlesa
1t has been ironed with Defiance
starch. Any woman that knows of the
merits of Defiance will tell you that
no other starch will produce that soft,
glossy finish that you see so often on
up-to-date women. The marvel of it all
is that it sells for less (and gives more
bulk) than any other brand. Sixteen
ounces for 10 cents Clip this out and
take it to your grocer and tell him you
want a package. Made by Magnetic
Starch Co., Omaha, Neb. Not in the
trust
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
Don. Stop the Wheels.

II Congress, governed by the spirit
of evil, should take up the Tariff ques-
ton there would be lobbying for high
er duties here and lower duties there,
and manufacturers and importers
would have to stand and mark time till
they knew what the outcome of the
turmoil and the strife was to be. To
attempt to revise the Tariff is to put
the brake on the wheels of the chariot
OF rosperity.-Tionesta tPa-) Repub-
lican.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

She trust wants to put money into the
Golfers of that powerful and greedy
concern at the expense OF the home
sugar producers"
This is the right sort of talk, and
there is going to be more of it, 1t is an
edifying spectacle to see Southern
Democrats arguing with each other on
the tariff question. In such agitation
and diversity of opinion lies the
South's best hope of reaching a sound.
common-sense, level headed conclusion
in favor of protection and prosperity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
The Sad Lou,.ian. Purchase.

Added to the SIS ,OOO, 900 paid France
for Louisiana, there were over ST., O00,-
600 in interest and allowed claims.
Then reckoning the cost of tie Indian
wars, because of that purchase, at
merely $500, 1000, 900, and we have a
grand total of 1927 200. 900. What a
consummate blockhead anti-Philip-
pine purchasers must rate Thomas JEFF
ferson. How can these ants even con-
sent to reside longer in the land of
the great original annexationist? But,
worst of all, Thomas ]. governed the
purchased territory without the con-
sent of the governed. What an out
ragei
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
DIR. Henson's Apt Text.

The Rev. Dr. T. S. Henson was met
by friend in one of the big depart
ment stores while doing some holiday
shopping. Good day, doctor. what
are you doing here?' he asked. DIR.
Henson, who had been delayed for
some time, replied: Il can best an
swer your question with the words of
the text, Job xiv, IA. All the days OF
my appointed time will L wait till
my change comes. New York
Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
Babcock.s Recruit..

Instead of Babcock having fifty or
sixty Republican members, as pre-
dicted by Democratic papers. who are
willing to follow his lead in an en-
deavor to open up the Tarin question
by amendments to the Dfngley law, we
venture the assertion that he cannot
muster - many ~ twenty
risburx ya-) "splnt ct tha valley.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
crude Fancies in Asia Minor.

Perhaps Asia Minor is richer in
crude and interesting fancies than any
other country. When children hear
an owl hooting from the cypress
groves they cry: Good news for us;
GOOD messages for you" If they
catch an owl they hold it up by the
beak and chant, Palm Sunday owl,
how does your mother dancer" The
meaning of the rite is lost, but the
habit fingers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Sir Robert Balls prediction that an
other glacial period will come, when a
great field of ice will sweep across the
hemispheres, crushing. grinding, be-
numbing all things for hundreds of
thousands of years, and in it's nature
worse than famine. flood and pesti-
lence, is safe enough. 1t isn't due, he
adds, for several thousand years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
INSIST ON GETTING TT.

Some grocers say they don't keep De-
fiance Starch. This is because they have
a stock on hand of other brands contain
ing only IL OF. in a package, which they
won't be able to sell first because De-
fiance contains 16 OF. for the same money.
Do you want 16 or instead of II o.
for same money? Then buy Defiance
Starch. Requires no cooking.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

A public Office holder in Chicago has
refused to accept his salary for five
months because he was away during
that time. Other public office holders
will now regard him with suspicion or
pity or both.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Honolulu maintains a public COM
mittee whose sole business is to exter-
inmate rats.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Premier Waldeck-Rousseau states
that the French submarine boat is in
tended to capsize naval pre-eminence
The premier is evidently figuring on a
gigantic paving contract for the deep
sea levels.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

A man who sat in a woman's lap in
a street car yesterday was promptly
knocked down by the woman's husband
without having chance to explain
whether the strap broke or the car
started too suddenly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

A Brooklyn woman is bent on
changing her name from Fitzsimmons
because of its puginstic associations
The lady should be told that a cham
pion heavyweight is first in the hearts
of most of his countrymen
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

A revolution is paralyzing Paraguay
Gen. Egsqueeza, minister of finance,
has excited the enmity of a lot of pa
triots who want to squeeze a little on
their own account.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Herr Sonneberg of the German
Reichstag, seems to have also acquir-
ed the very bad habit of allowing his
conversational machinery to do too
many stunts a day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Melbourne has pledged undying
sympathy with the mother country in
its troubles. England should at once
dispatch this sympathy to the front
and try it on the Beers.
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Rubber in Peru and Brazil.

A French explorer, Emile Bonnie
chaux. thinks that, with proper pro-
lection. Brazil and Peru alone would
he able to satisfy the worlds increas-
icg demand for rubber.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Joey Chamberlain intimates very
clearly that it is not the German vote
he is trying to catch-At:anta Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Senator Depew will be compelled to
play hockey from most of the midwin-
ter banquets in Washington.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Once more the British have captured
the spot where Gen. Botha was a few
hours before.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Late advices from Pekin are to the
effect that the empress dowager once
more has her authority on straight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

The greatest of professional athletes
use Wizard Oil for rundown" 1t
softens the muscles and prevents sore
ness.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

The United States is now the worlds
fourth nation in point of population.
When you consider quality instead of
quantity it is easily first.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

lighted by windmills. Scientists do not
seem to be aware that Chicago has al
ways been lighted by windmills and
the world II none the wiser for it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
Kaiser,s Wish .Gratified.

The wish of the kaiser has forced
the electric road for Inter den Linden,
Berlin's beautiful boulevard and main
thoroughfare, underground.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Another defalcation has occurred in
Los Angeles county. Lucky Baldwin's
Chinese cook has defaulted with a side
of beef and a barrel of potatoes. What
next?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Japanese papers have started cru
SADIE against tipping" There are no
Pullman porters in Japan, however
luckily for Darktown--Los Angeles
Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

condition OF the farmer in Western Canada
Province of Manitoba and districts of Assini-
boia, Saskatchewan and Alberta Thousands
Of Americans now settled there Reduced
rates on all railways for homeseekers and set
tiers. New districts being opened up this
year. The new forty-page Atlas of Western Ca
NADIA sent free to all applicants. F. Pedley,
Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa. Canada
or j. S. Crawford. Can adian Government Agent,
214 w. Ninth ST., Kansas City, Mo-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Chile is now accused of creating &
GOODNESS in the Pan-American con
gress.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Gov. Odell of New York is an all
round athlete. If the presidency comes
fooling around his neighborhood he
will be found to be in prime condition
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

A girl admires extravaganza in tn
young man she isn't going to marry.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Rake any hard-grained, matter-of-
fact old Scotchman with half a dozen
lines of Bobbie Burns and you will al
ways uncover poet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

When the gods love man and want
him in a hurry they first make him
smoke anywhere from twelve to thirty
cigarettes day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

An ounce of organization is worth q
ton of oratory.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Things are coming to a hopeful pass
when a New York alderman refuses
a. $4,000 bribe and tells of it.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

The description given of the cos
TUNES worn at the diplomatic recep-
tions indicate that an Oriental circus
is wintering near Washington.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

A woman is suing Russell Sage for
$4,000 She will be glad to compro
mise for seventy-five cents before the
case ends.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Sixty-six per cent of the young men
of the United States are unmarried.
They are brave enough in other re-
spects.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

No, Maude dear, we should scarcely
classify the laundryman as being
identified with the iron business.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

To Cure a Cold in One day.
Take Laxative Brozno Quinine Tablets. AL
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Lucky is the girl who marries thu
best man at the wedding.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Kipling is in South Africa, but he
hasn't surrounded any Beers as yet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

The beet sugar men will do theil
best to beat
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
WHY 1T Is THE BEST

is because made by an entirely d1fferene
process Defiance Starch is unlike any
other better and one-third more for 10
cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
NEEDS OF THE SOUTH
SIGNS OF AN ECONOMIC WEAKENING
PLAINLY VISIBLE

Democratic Newspapers Are Beginning
to Consider the Value of the Principle
of Protection Applied to Southern
Industry and Agriculture.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

Fn IandIOrd, no 1nculn.
unit increasing year by
year, land value increas-
ing, stock increasing,
splendid climate, ex-
cellent sch ools and
churches. low taxation,
high prices for cattle
and grain, low railway
rates, and every posi-
bile comfort This is the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
JUST THINK OFT

Every farmer his own landlor'
FRANCES his hank account fncrea
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-17

II pm Ar-Hendersonville n. CIV 80.
z Is pm Ar.......Ashevtlle-.. 500
%Daily,
Nos. So and 53 Solid trains between Charlie
ton and Greenville, 8 c.
q y EMERS ~ en-. Passenger Agent.
7 E KENLY, T. n. EMERSON,
Genl.M Traffic Manager
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-17

For Rates, Time tables, or further infoEma.
tion call on any Agent, or write to
" a CHn,DS. T. H. EMERSON,
president. Traffic Manager.
T 2 LIVINGSTON, H. N. EMERSON.
Sol. Aet. 4en1 Frt. Y Pass Agt.
(,olnmhta { T. Wilmington. ~
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-17

A few days ago a valuable neck
lace was stolen from the Woman's
building, Charleston Exposition. The
thief has been arrested in New York
and the necklace recovered.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-01-17

Tie Bank of Butler, Ga., was
robbed few nights ago of S2,OOO.
The burglars escaped.