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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-06-12

Any TOWN WANTING watcr works, eIrc.
tric lights, or anythlng from a canning ming
factory to q cotton mill snoqlu Mrile
Soinpsbles Agents wanted o,crywaere.
The Southwestern Promoting CO., Wilson,
building. Houston, Texas. "
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T0R SALE 500 acres land In the Willam
Iillbus onc.third league, Fart or all o.
block -, Chapman I'd addition, with i'm
provemcuts. Make me an offer. Geo. I.
sapderg CITY IL
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

NOVICE Is hereby given that the annual
meeting OF the stockholders and directors
OF the Direct Navigation company. VIII be
Franklin avenue, at II o'clock o. M,
Tuesday Of July l. 1902 d. c. Cusbman:
Secretary. ~
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WANTED situation OF any Kind by col.
orcd man Address 100 Prairie avenue,
i. l. Browns. IL
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placed in our hands for sale rour single
acre tracts, within 800 to 1000 feet Of the
Hart rudor oil well, now being drilled
at Humble strongest Indication for oil
we can sell these few acres for this week
only at StCo tu 500 per acre; a single
acre may make you fortune. Pudor y
Hoover. Real Estate and Investments,
3OTl-, Main street, over Morris Clothing
store. 10
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\ coon place for sale and eighteen head
Clark strcc.. n snun 1T
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Secret SOCIETIES.

-,NIR LODGE, No. 1s9, X,
~ - meets in castle hall.
~ vi Main street. third floor.
~ tio3 hall, tonight at Z 80
kM i iIIcInck Rank work. Pat Me
MI c es c. C.; J.. r. Rlordan,
81 kfV II r. and S.; c. II. Schm dt'
n. Of F
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1915 WALKER AVENUE, 12room house,
large grounds; 171O Crawford street
7-room house new; 1902 Dallas, for the
summer, seven rooms, house furnished;
storeroom on Main Apply 10 Cranston <
Watkins, 110 Main street 10
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FOR RENTING furnished south connect.
Ing rooms; suitable for light houseqeep.
ing. Apply l4l7 Texas avenue. Refer
euCes exchanged T.
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I GIVE MY PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
THE PURCHASE, SALE AND RENTAL
OF PROPERTY AND ANY BUSINESS
lNTRUSTED TO Ny CARE WILL RE.
PROPERTY ASSESSED. INSURED AND
KEPT ~ FIRST CLASS REpAIR. GIVE
ME 4 TRIAL WITH YOUR BUSINESS.
NORFLEET 201 BINH BUILDING. II
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THREE furnished rooms for rent, suitable
for light housekeeping. Apply -3ls Con,
gress. IA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Texas is spending three quarters of
million annually on the education of
her negroes.
The Wesleyan 5000, 900 twentieth.
century thank-offering fund. while
awaiting distribution, drew interest
to the amount of over $175, 600.
The pope has grievance against the
MethOdists in Rome. He thinks they
have no business there and that they
are entirely too aggressive in their re-
iigious and educational work.
The library of Washington and Lee
university has recently been enriched
by number of valua BILE books and doc
| uments contributed by DIR. r. Under
wood johnson, associate editor of the
Century Magazine, who is an alumnus
of the institution.
Prof. Melville NJ. Bigelow, of the
University of Michigan, who has just
been appointed dean of the Boston uni
yersity law school, was born at Elton
Rapids, Mich, in 1916. He was grad
uated at the University of Michigan in
1866 and received the degree of doc
tor Of philosophy in Harvard univer-
sity in 1879.
graduate from college much younger
now than formerly, other persons
think that the average age increases.
Yale statistics do not show any per-
ceptible drift either way. In 1868 the
average age was % years, 10 months,
II days; it is now % years, 10 months,
and 81 days.
It is stated in England that prom
inent brewer is building a church as a
memorial of King Edwards corona
ton. Dean Swift's cathedral-St. Pat
rick's. Dublin-was restored by the
late distiller, Sir Benjamin Guinness.
1t was a famous distiller, too. who re-
built the Protestant cathedral of Cork
and another distiller restored Christ
church in Dublin One of the famous
brewing firms in England has erected
no less than six churches at various
times.
The bishop of Exeter, England. who is
a pronounced low churchman, said when
consecrating the church at Shaldon
that, although he should continue to
be faithful friend and brother to the
clergy so long as they were faithful
to the law, he had been obliged to
decline to consecrate the church until
a written agreement had been signed
by the clergy and wardens that Ger.
tain illegal things, including the stone
affairs, should be removed with out de-
lay. The cruci6X and other figures IN
the church had also been objected to,
but they were not illegal and merely
stood as works of art"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26

to destroy him, and a great horde of selfish,
cold FLOODED politicians are trying to use
him for their own selfish ends. That man
is Theodore Roosevelt
.'They (the men back of RoosevelO are
willing to push him off and dump him on the
presidential ticket in the sole and sordid
interest of themselves and their own
schemes in politics..
AS to Roosevelt himself, he added:
at will be said of him, either that he is
a dishonest man or else that he did not
want the place that he was simply
taken possession of by the men who hated
him. and forced into a position in order
that they might get rid of him.
The game" of politics is still in play
and now we find Congressman Gros-
venoI as the right-bower of the presi-
dent, who is this same brilliant, err
ratio. and curious" Roosevelt. Verify,
s'politics make strange bed-fellows."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
RoosEvELT's VERSATILITY.
OF a Man" and Other Negative
Opinions.

When Gov. Roosevelt in 1900, broke
his explicit pledge to numerous politi-
clans that he would not, under any cir
cumstances, be candidate for the vice
presidency, and accepted the nomina-
ton he incurred the i'll will of many
politicians who had taken him at his
word and had planned accordingly.
Amongst these was Congressman
Grosvenor, of Ohio, who during con-
vention week, was the special CORE
spondent of the New York Journal.
In letter dated June II, 1900, pub
lished in the Journal of June IS, he said
of Roosevelt:
IF he is nominated it will very soon be
understand that the game has been one in
which he himself has participated, either
as an organizer. consenting to the
performance.
Nobody who honors Roosevelt takes any
stock in this sort of thing. 1t isnot believed
that he will consent to lend himself to the
injury of men who, relying upon his early
sta tement that under 10 consderat ton
faithfully made their own campaign for
the nomination"
The Journal of June 10, 1900, contains
another letter from Mr.. Grosvenor, in
which he said:
THE demand of Mr.. Plat and the Quay
Plat combination is that Mckinley shall
be forced to take a Gdstastefuf running mate
of their selection"
Again in the Journal of June 21, Mr..
GroSvenor said:
There is something new here under the
sun. We have a brilliant erratic and curl
Gus sort Of man. His enemies are trying
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
DRIFT OF OPINION.

The president has slain wild
boar, but he doesn't appear to be able
to do anything to the trust hog.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Mr.. Roosevelt has repeatedly
said of late that he firmly believed an
amendment to the constitution of the
United States would be necessary in
the end, in order to curb the trusts.
Mr.. Lodge, on the other hand. depre-
Gates talk Of constitutional amend
ment. When such intimate friends dis
agree ever so little, what can be ex.
pected from whole party Spring
field Republican.
Many are they in republican cir
cles who see in our presidents Good
Lord-good devil''-shuffiings about
monopo1ies another good man gore
wrong" and on whose brow they will
write, as another. generation branded
on the brow of Daniel Webster. Icha-
bod. Political trees. like others, must
be judged of by their fruits. So
judged, the republican party, by the
acts and words of President Roose-
welt and the maj ority in congress, are
symbolized by the barren fig tree
which our Lord cursed-Portland
(Me.) Argus.
President Roosevelt is evidently
at the beginning, instead of at the end.
of his troubles on the tariff question
Already the American Economist, the
organ of the American Protective Tar
IF league, which is composed of manu-
tacturers representing every state in
The union, is talking very plainly te
the president, saying, among other
far from pleasant things, that he has
been misled by certain friends, and
eompsmenting the republicans who
defeated his Cuban reciprocity scheme.
Upon no live, pertinent issues of the
present time are democrats SO divided
in sentiment as the republicans are
upon the practical questions growing
out of the tariff.-Albany Argus.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26

Abandoning all attempts at legisla-
ton, demonstratively in the power of
congress, the president has started out
on his stumping tour with great hull
labaloo for constitutional amend
ment.
The presidents policy, to which he is
devoting his stumping swing of the
political circle, is clearly one of eva
sion and delay. He lacks the courage
to face the issue. He lodges all ex-
preston on the antitrust bills before
congress, and then declares nothing
can be done but by the impossible rem
edy of constitutional amendment.
This will throw the question over un-
til after the next presidential election,
leaving the president his opportuni-
ties to humbug both the trust and anti
trust people. His party want the
votes of one section and the none,
and power of the other.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
RoosEvELT's TRUST POLICY.
the Courage to Openly Face
the Issue.

The New York Times thus sums up
President Roosevelt's indefinite, inco-
herent programme for the remedy of
the trust evil:
THE president talks with great zeal and
earnestness about remedying evils, which
he does not define, by an amendment which
tuition, which can be amended only with
the greatest difficulty at any time, and not
all at a time when, as now, the people have
no notion even of what amendment is feast
BILE. or what it could do if adopted
1t will be recalled that in the last
congress half a dozen bills were pre-
scented by democratic members of the
house and senate, and an important
bill by a republican member-the Bah
cock bill-to meet the trust evil. Even
the presidents appeal for a publicity
bill was taken account of by these bills.
But what came of this rush of legisla-
ton, by the republican ma ority in con-
gress, or through President Roose-
velt's Intervention? Every scrap or
scrimpage of it was sidetracked; it
was not even allowed consideration;
all test votes were dexterously avoid
ed The Babcock bill, breaking up
the partnership between the trusts and
the Dingley tariff, was suppressed.
President Roosevelt was unquestiona-
bly, party to this policy of avoidance
and evasion. He uttered no word adj
vising action on, or even the considera-
ton of, these antitrust bills. They
were suppressed with his approval.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
CANADA BECOMING EXCITED.
The People Are Beginning to Fear
That the United States Desire to
Purchase Greenland.

An idea is abroad in Canada and
England that Lieut.. Peary, the Amer
lean explorer. who has been Operat-
ing in Greenland for ten years, is
really there as an emissary of the
United States government for the
purpose of '.sizing up" Greenland
with u view to informing the admin
istration as to the wisdom or other
wise of purchasing that region.
This theory is held to be plausible,
because it has somewhat of a prece-
dent in the action of the United
States in purchasing Alaska. One
reason for that course was to oblige
Europe to withdraw from northwest
ern America, to provide against any
other tongue being spoken as far as
Behring sea, but that of the Ameri-
can people, to give the United States
the means of hemming in Canada in
that quarter. The same argument
would apply with perhaps even great
er force to Greenland. 1t is virtual
ly, if not politically, part of the
American continent.
Denmark owns it aud has colonized
it somewhat. Denmark has a few
stations on it's south and west sea-
boards, but there is none of its peo-
pie there except the officials and mis-
sionaries, all the rest being EskimOs,
and the mother country obtains al
most no revenue from it. Denmark
now wants to sell it to the United
States. America is, indeed, the only
country that trades there.
On its southern coast, near Cape
Farewell, are some cryolite mines,
the output of which is conveyed ex-
clusively to the United States for use
in various arts and manufactures. 1t
is American capital which is develop
ing these mines and American in
genuity which is applying the product
to practical ends. Therefore Uncle
Sam" would seem to have the great
est reason for buying the property if
it could be obtained at fair figure.
Cryolite is not it's only resource,
however. It's waters TEEN with fish,
principally halibut, and here again
we find American enterprise mani
Testing itself. A feet of fishing yes
sells from Massachusetts visits the
Greenland coast every summer in
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26

this quest, and usually secures pay
ing catches. The Davis Strait whal-
ing fishery is still prosecuted from
New Bedford, Mass, and the Bluff
Bowed whalers are cruising there
every summer, even though the Brit
iSh have abandoned the industry al.
together.
Coal exists there in workable beds
near Disco, because Peary's steamers
fill their bunkers from this area
every summer. Iron and copper have
been found, the former in large de.
posts, and it is believed that the
mineral wealth of the region is con-
siderable.
Alaska, when it was purchased, was
regarded only as a wilderness of ice.
1t proved ere long that its crystal
covering concealed mineral wealth of
wonderful value. Greenland may
also turn out in days to come as
profitable an investment as Alaska
The strategic possibilities of Green
land are not to be overlooked, either
1t dominates the Hudson bay route,
which England is urged to exploit as
an alternative to the ST. Lawrence for
the carriage of grain to Europe. Grain
ships from Hudson bay, passing out of
Hudson strait anS bound for British
ports, would have to lay a course that
would carry them within 100 miles OF
Cape Farewell. Then, if the United
States owned Greenland and was at en-
nifty with Britain, it could station a
few cruisers there, with coal supplies
available at Disco, which would scouI
the adjoining ocean and make mer-
camille shipping traffic impossible. II
is true that such traffic could only /. be
maintained for few months each
year, because of the ice foes, but If
it should ever be attempted there
would be all the more reason for its
being preserved to England without
interference or interruption.
Only narrow strip of sea, barely
% miles wide from Baffin and Elles-
mere lands, so that, geographically
they form part of the same territory,
and might be held to be naturally de-
signed to be administered by the same
authority. Still the fact remains thai
United States citizens alone, as miners
fishers and whalers, frequent this re-
gion. develop its resources, and are
interested in exploiting it, and If
manifestation of faith in an endeavof
for the promotion of its welfare counts
for anything, then the United States
has the most equitable claim to its
future sovereignty.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
MAGNETIZED SPIDER.
Singular Effect of Magnet Upon tn e
Insect Discovered by
Scientist,

An experiment has lately been made
by a scientist to test the influence
which magnet will have on spider,
reports the New York Herald. The
magnet employed was small steel
one of the U shape, the legs of which
were about two and a half inches
long by one-half inch wide and one
sixth of an inch thick, the distance be-
tween the poles being about one-quar-
ter of an inch.
Having noticed small spider &C
lively running along his armchair he
brushed it off upon the carpet, where
it began to run, but was somewhat i'm
peded by the roughness of the fabric.
He now slid the magnet along the car
pet, following after the spider, till the
ends of the poles were within quar-
ter of an inch of it. The animal, with
out being touched, almost instantly
stopped, and, on withdrawing the
magnet, the spider continued on his
journey.
The experimenter then placed the
magnet within half an inch of the
front of the spider, and, withdrawing
it slowly, the latter followed it in
every direction which the magnet
took. both in straight and circuit Gus
routes.
Gradually, however, the spider be-
came so strongly magnetized as to be
immovable for several minutes, the
magnetic influence seeming to lose its
further power. On withdrawing the
magnet altogether the spider seemed
to recover somewhat.
The scientist ultimately placed a
tumbler over the spider and the mag
net, covering them both completely,
and at the expiration of several min
utes the spider, after a struggle to es-
cape from the strong influence which
the magnet exercised over twas dead.
The experimenter states that, though
he had killed many spiders and other
small animals, as well as some plants,
by magnetism, he had never before
succeeded in doing it without touch
ing the victim frequently with the
aOnaf
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
Physician at Fault,

A Paris physician reports the case OF
a patient suffering from tuberculosis
whom he sent to Switzerland with in
functions to take care not to expose
himself. The patient climbed noun
tain, was caught in severe storm al
together unprotected, lost in the snow.
lived for three days and nights in the
open and was at last found and sent
back to France, since which time he
has continued to improve and is now
pronounced cured.-London Mail.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26

In free trade England the indus
trial combinations calles: &xusts afford
little cause of complaint, .or the mo-
ment any of them should undertake to
raise prices above the normal level for.
eign competition would flow in to re-
dress the balance in favor of the Brit
ish consumers. In the United States,
on the other hand, the tariff enables
the trusts to plumber consumers by
warding off Philadel-
pliia Record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26

The record for both running however,
held in the The
DUE large the SUPERIORITY OF AAERI
CAN ROADBEDS AMERICAN ENGINES.
FAST SERVICE IS HARMONY WITH THE SPIRIT OF
THE TIMES In the old days people easily satisfied
that miles hour making good speed People
only speed COMFORTeven luxury
New York. do business Chicago,
the has all comforts which
The provided,
choice viand served from the dining aid
and
years physical gone through
a of improvement
THIS IS TRULY A GREAT AGE BUT THE END IS NOT
YET
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26

at Odessa the church was struck by
lightning. The priest, the baby's IA
Their, and godfather were killed on the
spot, the child, its mother, and god
mother being left unhurt.-London
Telegraph.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
RECORD-BRE SPEED
By GEORGE H. DANIELS.
General Passenger Agent New York Central Railroad.

Fast trains save time for business men,
TO whom time is everything. The latest fea-
ture of note in the railroad world is the "a
hour service between New York and Chi
cago. The new trains break the worlds long
distance record. They make almost 1000
miles in 20 hours, maintaining average
running speed, excluding stops, of 40 miles
an hour.
Europe has some remarkable trains, too
The West Coast Express, running between
London and Glasgow, maintains an average
speed of so miles an hour, but only travels
400 miles. There is a train on the Trans
Siberian railroad which makes a continuous
journey of $500 miles, but only maintains
speed of I71a miles an hour.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
English Irish and Irish English.

The firm of English & Irish is in
Washington street, Buffalo, n. Y
Frank G. Du Bots, who is well acquaint-
ed with both members, says: English
Their of Mr.. Irish SO informed me >
few years ago."-N. Y. SIN.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26
PUBLICITY FOR THE TRUSTS.
They Are Willing to Accept Anything
That VIII HO0dvvink the
People.

The New York. Commercial, which is
a sta nnch republican and protectionist
journal, assures us, in the issue of Sep
TENDER 9, 1902, that:
Notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary, corporation lawyers and represents Ia
tives of the big combines are not all offend
ed by the attitude of President Roose-
Welt toward the industrial combina-
lions. They claim that so far as they
know no steps have been taken nor will be
taken in the matter of influencing the pres
ioent to desist from forcing the issue to
the front They argue that the president
is advocating publicity in its connection
with combinations, is voicing the sentiments
OF organizers a. we'll as owners of combi-
nations that have been created on legiti-
mate lines. Said a corporation attorney:
Publicity is what we oesire!'
Certainly the trusts desire anything
that will throw dust in the eyes of the
people. so that they cannot clearly see
the tariff and other special privileges
that foster and protect the trusts and
enable them to fleece the public. The
assurance of the Commercial that the
trusts are not offended by the atti-
tude of the president was not neces-
sary He never, by any chance, men
tions the tariff in connection with
trusts, and is very particular in many
other respects not to offend them. If
he can, by refusing to discuss the
tariff, postpone the evil days for trusts,
he will be their best friend. He is do
ing his part nobly. Will they show
their appreciation in 1904? OF course.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-26

The most probable explanation of
Mr.. Henderson's withdrawal is that he
feared that he would be beaten in the
coming election. He must have known
the state of feeling among his constit-
uents, and he would hardly have yield
ed to- the opposing forces in his own
party if he had believed that he could
be elected in spite of them. At all
events, his withdrawal is the most
striking demonstration possible of the
strength of the tariff reform sentiment
among the republicans of the middle
west..N. z
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-04
y
Irish BRIGADE Stranded

New York, Sept. 4.-The Irish brig
ade, which fought on the Boer side in
the recent war in South Africa. is
stranded in Johannesburg and wants
to get home.
The Irish brigade was recruited in
the United States, most of it's members
being residents of Chicago. The men
sailed from New York at the beginning
of the Boer war.
Col. J. Y. T.. Blake, who commanded
the regiment, is now at Johannesburg
with all that is left of his command,
and has made several appeals to friends
in this country for funds to pay the ex-
penses of the journey home.
His men, he says. guarantee to pay
back. with interest, whatever money is
sent to them. He urges that the money
be forwarded by cable in the care of the
American consul at Johannesburg.