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Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
GIRL WHISTLES CHURCH MUSIC
New York Innovation That Has Met
With Decided Approval.

New York Innovation That Has Met
With Decided Approval.
''Whistling in church? Why not? If
God gave me the gift to emulate the
birds, why should not use it to his
glory?"
These were the questions PROFOUND
ed by Miss Louise Truax, a charming
girl of 10. years, who took the congre-
cation by storm in the Lexington
Avenue Baptist church at New York.
Miss Truax spoke Of her hopes and
ambitions.
Yes she said seriously, 81 intend
to make whistling the aim Of my life.
l have studied method under the best
of teachers, have received encour-
agement from Nine. Schumann-Heink,
Miss Thursby and other artists of
that class, and have refused an offer
of $4,000 a year to whistle with an
opera company. l do not wish to go
on the professional stage, but would
like to whistle in churches. The day
will come when whistling in church
will be no great novelty"
In the Lexington Avenue church
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Humor of Mark Twain.

Mark Twain occasionally makes q
grim effort to earn a reputation as
philosopher. Recently he laid down
the dictum that malarial chill has
one advantage, for through its agency
according to his conception It is 9
means by which IAN all-wise Provi-
dencs has devised way by which
man can indulge in exercise without
exertion."
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

Manila, July l9.-The municipal
health board of Manila has decided to
remove 10000 natives from the slums
o suburban camps in an effort to check
the spread of cholera here. The OBJ
ject is to clean and disinfect the disease
section. The camps will be sanitarily
conducted. The municipality rents
the grounds, builds the camps and
feeds the INDECENT persons.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME,
Anfra Dame Iadiana


We call the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of Notre Dame
University, one of the great educa-
tional institutions of the West, which
appears in another column of this pa
per. Those Of our readers who may
have occasion to look up college for
their sons during the coming year
would do well to correspond with the
President, who will send them cata-
logue free of charge, a.. well as all
particulars regarding terms, courses
of studies. etc.
There is q thorough preparatory
school In connection with the Univer-
sity, in which students of all grades
will have every opportunity of pre-
pairing themselves for higher studies.
The Commercial Course intended for
young men preparing for business,
may be finished in one or two years,
according to the ability of the student
ST. EDWARDS HALL, for boys un-
der thirteen. is an unique department
of the institution. The higher courses
are thorough in every respect, and
students will find every opportunity
of Derfecting themselves in any line
OF work they may choose to select.
Thoroughness in class work, exact
ness in the care of students, and de-
votion to the best interests of all. are
the distinguishing characteristics OF
Notre Dame University.
Fifty-eight years of active work in
the cause of education have made this
Institution famous all over the coun-
.ry.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Men Who Wear corsets.

During a trial In Paris between two
partners Of corset firm the debate
revealed that one of the branches of
their manufacture was mems corsets.
The Judge, having demanded an ex-
PLANTATION, it was shown that more
than $4,000 corsets were made yearly
for Frenchmen and 5000 were shipped
to England, principally for army ON
GERS. German officers also created
quite demand, till rival Berlin firm
offered q cheaper article.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Ask a Million a Month.

indianapolis. July ga special
committee of the miners reported and
the miners convention adopted unan-
imously an appeal for assessments to
be made by all labor unions of the
country to an aggregate amount of a
million dollars a month to enable the
United Miners to continue their battle
to a successful result.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Sentenced on Confession.

Salt Lake, Utah, July 22.-Harry T.
Duke and Alexander A. Robertson,
formerly cashier and paying teller,
respectively, of the Wel1s-Fargo bank
in this city, appeared before Judge
Morse in the district court and pleaded
guilty to the charge of embezzling $50,
900 from the bank and were each SEN
fenced to four years Imprisonment in
the penitentiarv
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

Great Britain is only half as big as
Sumatra, and double the size of New
foundland. 1t stands fifth in point OF
size in the list Of the worlds islands.
England, without Wales, is almost
identical in point Of size with Rouma-
MIA. 1t is less than one-quarter as big
as France or Germany. The whole
British isles only occupy the one six
teenth-hundredth part of the surface
of the globe.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Santa Fe system After steamships.

Topeka, July 1.-THE Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe company is credited
with plan to secure control of steam
ships from San Francisco to the Ha-
waiian Islands, Tahiti and Australian
ports. The company is now under
control of John D. sprecl1ies and his
associates. The steamship company
has capital stock of So, 500, 900 and is
bonded for about the same amount.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Vast Sum in Duties

Uncle Sans Golfers have been en-
riched greatly during the last fiscal
year by duties collected here, accord
ing to the report of the collector OF
port just issued. For the year ending
June 80 duties amounting to $165, $780,
126 have been paid. This is the larg-
est amount ever collected at New
York and beats the previous record
made in 1S9e-19oo, by 1900 900.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Minnesota Hall.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, July 22.-Crops
on six or seven miles of territory in
and around Henning are d total loss by
reason of the hailstorm, while those on
at least twice that much territory are
partly destroyed. Farmers who were
now preparing to plow their fields.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Made Money SELLING Papers.

Theophilus H. Porter. for forty-six
years g newspaper carrier in Lynn,
Mass, retired from business last week.
having made enough money to keep
him comfortably for the rest of his
life. In all hat time he has walked
about fifteen miles every day but Sun
day, when he went to church regular
ly, as he did not believe in Sunday
nanRrS
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
successfuI French wrIter.

Paul Adam, whose "L'Enfant d'Aus-
terlitz" has been one of the greatest
recent French successes, though bare
~ 40 years old, has written nearly 25
volumes. He was for a long time
completely under the influence of NJ
Emile lola, but since 1890 his work
has belonged to an entirely different
school, and he is now one of the most
conspicuous writer's Of the idealistic
school
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
American Machinery IA Turl<ev.

AmerIcan MachInery n Turkey
Agents for American agricultural
machines sold in Constantinople last
year $40 reapers and mowers, two
binders, four rakes and one thresher
No effort was made to sell binders.
because they are considered too COM
plicated for satisfactory use by the
Turkish peasants.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Duty Carried to Extremes.

man with the courage OF his
convictions, at least, is the clergy
man in Concord, N. H, who dined
with his father at reputable hotel
and afterward had the wine clerk
arrested because the compliments
father got a glass of claret when
he ordered it. The minister has been
interviewed, but his parent has not
been heard from.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

Gen. Miles will reach the age of re-
tirement in August, 1903. and the
presidents plan is believed to be to
name Gen. Young as his successor.
Gen. Young has been one of the
distinguished fighters of the army,
and the president desires to give him
this promotion before he retires,
which will be in 1904.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
New ARMY Paymaster General.

The next paymaster general of the
navy will be John Ninfger Speel of
Minnesota, at present fleet paymaster
of the European station on the flag
ship Illinois. Speel is 40 years old,
nephew of Alexander Ramsey of Min
nesota, formerly secretary of war, and
has an excellent record in the service,
which he entered in 1875.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

from pastor down the enthusiasm
over the notes from Miss Truax's lips
vas great. Accompanied by the soft
est notes of the organ, the young wo-
man whistled Schumann's "Trau-
merei" during the offertory. After
the sermon the congregation f1ocked
around her and begged her to whistle
another selection. She gave them
the ''Mocking Bird, and in the even
ing whistled The Flower Song" by
Mendelssohn. Miss Truax halls from
Detroit.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Nav Work EDITOR Honored.

Horace White. editor Of the New
York Evening Post, has been made
a trustee of Beloit college. He gradu-
ated from that institution, soon after
ward going to Chicago to engage in
newspaper work.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
AN INDIAN MILLIONAIRE.
Unveiled His Own Monument and
Spoke the Farewell Words.

Spoke the Farewell Words.
Probably the most unique Fourth
of July celebration in any part OF the
country was that witnessed by the
people of Blackwell, Okla. Col. Black
well, who practically owns the entire
town, had invited and paid the rail-
road fare of friends from all parts
of the territory to assemble near his
prospective grave in the Blackwell
cemetery. Here he not only unveiled
his own monument, but also delivered
a farewell address, during which he
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

read his will. the contents of which
would denote that much of his wealth
will go for charitable purposes.
Blackwell is an Indian and is well
liked throughout the territory. Be
sides the town that bears his name he
owns a 12,0O0-acre coal field in Indian
Territory, and is said to be worth
about $4,000, 900.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
CAUSED SENSATION AT ROME.
Vatican Refuses to Recognize Mar

Vatican Refuses to Recognize Mar
rage of Princess Raspigiiosi.
A sensation has been caused il
Rome by the action of the vatican in
prohibiting a Catholic sister from at
tending the Princess Raspigiiosi, on
the ground that her marriage to the
prince is not recognized by the
church, it having been a civil cere-
mony, owing to the princes inability
to secure church sanction, the prin-
cess having been divorced from her
first husband. She was formerly the
wife of Col. Parkhurst of Bangor, Me.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
DErIANCE sTARCH

should be in every household, none SO
good, besides OF. more for 10 cents
than any other brand of cold water
starch
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Red HairIIked in Turkey.

In Turkey red hair is counted
great beauty, and the women dye
their hair that tint
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

Clear white clothes are a sign that the
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue.
Large OF. package, cents.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26

She was born in New Orleans and is
a granddaughter of Capt. Reid, a
noted figure in the Revolutionary
war. Her marriage to the prince was
attended by romantic features.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Persons. Places
and Things
PROMOTION FOR GEN. YOUNG

Belief at Washington That He vii
Be Head of the Army.
Major General S. NJ B. Young, now
president of the War College board,
will probably succeed Gen. Miles as
the lieutenant general of the army,
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
Happy Family in a Pigeon Box.

Five kittens, their mother and two
young pigeons are sharing in perfect
amity the occupancy of a pigeon box
at Westen-super-Mare England.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28
rAE pEopLE oRDERsD sEwERs:


sixty-five thousand dollars worth
OF sewer bonds were voted last May,
sold to ]. W. McNeal in July, deliver
ed as per contract and the money paid
August 1st 1901. The bonds draw
Az per cent from date. The money
was placed in the bank by the city's
business administration and draws 2
per cent interest 1t still remains in
the bank
SO do the sewers.
A comfortable margin OF 21s per
cent on $4,000 gently glides away
from the taxpayers pocket into-well
we will suppose for the present that
it runs off in the big sewer main. Two
and one-half per cent on $4,000 is
s1.625.OO. Suppose at the close of the
year you go down where the sewer
main empties and look for it and il
you don't find it there look elsewhere.
The taxpayers have lost it ard would
like to know where It is.
Caution and deliberation are all
very well in their place but they cease
to be virtues when action and business
Uush are necessary.
The people elected this business
administration The people voted
SOS coo for sewers. Did the people
Krow what they wanted?
It seems high time for vigorous ac
tion. The city needs sewers, not in
vestments that lose them $1S5.41 pei
month.
The Officers whose duty it is &c
fulfll the mandates Of the people de
livered at the polls need not expect tc
escape ample judgment at the hands
OF those whose orders they defy.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

The committee on railroads placed
the notes given by subscribers to the
Katy bonus in the four banks of the
city today and request that subscrIb-
ers call at once and pay their notes
so that the committee may rapidly
proceed with the work OF purchasing
the righ OF way.
Guthrie has promised to purchase
the right OF way but this the commit
tee can not do unless the subscribers
pay their notes. The case is urgent.
Chief Engineer Yale is urging that
the right of way be provided so he
can begin work at once. He can not
work unless Guthr.s provides the
ground as agreed. II viii be a good
investment 70 pay your note at once.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28
ERuprloNs INVESTIGATED.

Fast on the heels Of human disas-
ters come the investigating scientist.
First there is your dead man then the
autopsy. From his fall the physician
bleans knowledge for the guidance Of
the profession and the relief of other
sufferers.
Volcanoes are not even exempt
from autopsy. The scientists can not
wait for Mt Pelee 10 die from its re-
cent attack OF nausea and are push
ing at great risk Of life their inves-
LEGATIONS into the character OF its dis
ease.
The eruption appears to have con
sisted mainly of noxious gases and
steam and einders followed by cloud
bursts causing torrents Of mud, with
tornadoes OF suffocating gases.
From the awful ruins OF Mt Pelee,
no doubt, in this close age Of scien-
tiic inquiry viii be cleaned facts AMI
principles of great value 10 those who
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

feat immediate or early statehood
for the two territories. It was the
crowning act OF treachery and double
dealing in the career of the greatest
political film Hammer that ever sub
sidized party press or hypnotized
the victims of his avarice and duplic-
ity Denpis Flynn, the lobbyist the
CRATER, boodler and political noun
tebank. does not want statehood
while his party is in power and he is
in the saddle. Had he been an hon
est man or even a long headed poll.
tician he would have frankly owned
that he had neither the desire or the
intention of securing legislation TO
turn his machine supporters out OF
fat and lucrative jobs; but he chose
rather to juggle with the dearest
rights ard fc~1est hopes OF nearly a
million people in order that he might
successfully defeat the aspirations OF
the people of Oklahoma and the In
dian territory for self government
He has played many bold bluffs on
his party and the people of this terri
tory during the past ten years but
this statehood bun is the most trans
parent and gauzy trick ever attempt
ed upon an intelligent people.
When Oklahoma finally gets state
hood it will be statehood with the
Indian territory and Mr.. Flynn VIII
stand about as much show of going
to the United States senate as James
X. Jones or Jo Bailey does of being
nresident.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28
vALuE oE FRANcHIses.

The street railway Of the city Of
New York are capitalized at sl64s93,
500 par with a market value OF S220,-
60s751, while the real value of all
personal and real property owned by
them aside from their franchises is
not in excess of s6O.OOOOO0 leaving
sleO, ,6O9.75O as the value OF the fran
chises given away in perpetuity 5y
the city council These figures are
from a report of an investigating com
mittee appointed by the New York
Municipal Reform club.
The condition is certainly appalling
and shows how prohigate municipal
bodies have been with the rights Of
the people.
The life OF every franchise ought TO
be limited by the constitution and
time at least can heal the errors Of
the past. For New York there ap-
pears 70 be no hope.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28
ANNUAL MEETING NATIONAL
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Minneapolis, Minn, July TO II,
1902.

FOR the above occasion we will sell
tickets to Minneapolis or st. Paul at
rate of one lowest regular first class
fare pulls $500 membership fee) for
the round trip. Tickets on sale July
5th and 9Th, good to return leaving St.
Paul or Minneapolis not earlier than
July Sth, nor later than July 14th, ex-
cept that by depositing ticket with
joint agent not earlier than July sth
nor later than July 14th and upon pay
ment of fee of so cents at time of de-
posit return limit will be extended up
to and including Sept. list, 1902.
A. J. cork.ns, Agent.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28
CAN'T FOOL THE
PEOPLE THIS YEAR.
Shawnee Herald.)

(Shawnee Herald)
Noting the disposiucn of the Repub-
licans OF this territory to avoid the is
sues made by the rottenness of their
administration in territorial as well
as national affairs, they are grasping
al straws such as the school books"
graft which thew are so strenuously
working, would not it be right to call
the peoples attention to the fact that
it was under Republican rule and b.
Republican regents that the unlawful
and outrageous system OF charging
incidental fees at all the territorial
institutions was first inaugurated?
Those 9ho live where these institu-
tions are located know how this
graft" has been worked. and then. as
well as hundreds of poor boys and
girls throughout the territory know
what a hardship it has been TO many.
No returns have been made of the
money so collected and no effort made
by Republican officials to stop the
practice when appealed to as being
unwarranted and unlawful. 1t comes
with poor grace from such "grafters"
to talk about giving the people some
thing they have already paid for,
while all along they have been col
lecting something they had no right to.
should the next legislature be
Democratic it viii. | dare say, after
making the Republican officials give
an exact accounting Of all school funds
received. appropriate money for
school books. states, pencils and
chalk. to be furnished not by the
American Book Company or some
other trust but by independent con-
Germs or by manufactures owned by
the territory They wiz have 70 get
up better scheme than that II they
expect TO gull the people this year.
The average man has had enough of
Republieanism the last six years 70
last him an Ordinary life tslae We
are getting tired Oh. so tired.
Yours for change,
eEs-Republiean."
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28
THE RIGHT STEP.

Every ordinary cold deserves
serious attention
1t is only a step from it lato
grippe, pneumonia or -on-
sumption and it is only a
short step the other way TO
cure the cold,
Nature and SCOTS Emul-
sion work together 10 make a
cold take the right step Ma
ture works all the time and
SCOTS Emulsion works il you
take il.
SCOTS Emulsion cures all
kinds Of colds.
Send log Free Sample
SCOTT suwNE cns'nisss. rsa Pear ss-- q Y
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

The nervous temperament of the
French people is shown by their re-
cent action ordering an investigation
of some old extinct craters in France
Immediately upon hearing Of the Mar
tiniqne disaster Their attention
should be called to the fact of re-
port Of a similar committee appointed
from the late unfortunate city Of st.
Pierre wherein the volcano of Mt.
Pelee was exonerated from all an
archistic tendencies. Volcanoes are
one thing not to be suppressed by the
whitewashed reports Of investigating
committees.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28
GENERAL CONFERENCE
N. E. CHURCH soul

Dallas, Texas, May 2 TO June .
For the above occasion we will (
tickets to Dallas, Texas, and retl
at rate of one fare plus $500. Tick
on sale May and 5 with fnSl ret
limit of June 7, except by the payml
of 30 cents and deposit Of ticket v
joint agents an extension OF limit
he granted to leave Dallas not II
than June 80.
A. J. corkins, Ager
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

remain up on the earth for such is
the law of progress by which from
primeval conditions man has groped
his way out into the clearer light of
twentieth century Intelligence and
civilization.
One of the hard things to think of
is the greed of men even under such
conditions. Not few of the victims
are those who too early rushed in 10
rob the dead and plunder the ruins.
Their punishment, however, was
swift.
Each day as the news comes of the
awful extent of the calamity the ter
ror - the people grows. This is not
an uncommon experience, however,
for many man has been brave while
in the immediate presence of awful
danger who could scarcely keep his
knees from knocking together when it
was passed.
It will be very interesting to hear
what the scientists will learn from the
recent commissions and eruptions
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

The Moon bill and the Flynn bin
were links Of the same sausage and
having served the purpose Of their
authors have gone into the congress
sional garbage can. The one VIII
not even be called up in the house
an dthe other viii scarcely reach the
calendar as a final resting place ia
the senate. The Flynn bin was a
inished article 81 political "bull con"
introduced 10 TOOL single statehood
Republicans in oRlahome and 20 de-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

The British are almost imploring
the BcefJ TO make an unconditional
surrender. This is very much the
same attitude they once assumed on
spion Kop.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

While the Englishman kicks about
an American syndicate ruling the
waves instead OF Britannia, he consoles
himself that America win not see that
ne is fed.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

The Foundation walls for the 75-foot
front, three-story Greer block, and
tho 5t-foat front twostory Cammaek
block adjoining ara about completed.
The work has been delayed ty the
continuous rains, lat everything is IL
readiness for rapidly building tne
walls as soon as it quits raining
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

Cuba is Free win the exiled mata-
dores and soresdors return TO contest
sor supremacy with the base ball nm
pires and the ping pong fends2
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-28

Albert Pike Lodge, No. e., A. E.
and A. NJ Meets second and fourth
Wednesday Of each month at Mason
ic temple.
Harper S. Cunningham, W. NJ.
league Ray, Secretary.