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DO WE WANT 1T?
Reasons Why We Shouldn't Have
Statue of Frederick the Great.

Reasons Why We Shouldn't Have
Statue of Frederick the Great.
Not since the Greeks made the Tro-
jans a present Of a wooden horse has
any gift been offered more calculated
to make trouble all round than the
Kaiser's offer of a statue Of Frederick
the Great to the city of Washington.
Ur to 1776, there were in this country
a few statues Of kings. which were,
one and all, knocked down. and the
men who did this knocking down never
had the least expectation that the
statue Of another king should be set
up in this republic. 1t Is perfectly safe
to say that such is the temper of the
American people today. They can
foresee what seems to have escaped the
president in his expansion letter to the
Kaiser-that the acceptance of this
statue would put it out Of our power
to decline a similar Offering from any
other power. AS the Kaiser's proposed
gift was, no doubt, inspired by the fact
that a statue of Marshal Count Ro-
chambeau is about to be erected in
Washington, so it may be expected that
other powers will not wish to see Prus-
sia monopolize the business of assisting
in decorating the capital Of the United
States. Austria Hungary may offer us
a statue of Marie Theresa-a sovereign
as great and as brave as Frederick OF
Prussia, and infinitely more worthy of
esteem. Russia may give us statue
of Peter the Great-that extremely
able, dirty and disreputable Muscorite,
who was no more Car in his own do
minions than Frederick and his prede-
cessors and some of his successors were
in Prussia. If there is a European
state which is directly opposed to all
the ideals of a republic. it is Prussia.
1t Is the embodiment of brute force.
1t came by the sword and 1t lives by
the sword. It's government today Is
medieval, it's constitution a travesty,
it's parliament the ghost of the shadow
of the shade of parliament. William
1.-The old gentleman whom the pres
ent Kaiser has decorated with the title
of 1.-The Great"-William the Great, at
his coronation in 1861, declared that
he ruled by the favor of God, and no
one else" And one of his first poll
tical declarations was that he meant
to rule without reference to those
pieces of paper called constitutions.
If the statue of Frederick the Great
is accepted, it may not be long before
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affairs. For despite his own laughing
jipe. he never approached his dotage.
He was a young-old man, whose spirit
and mind were never less than young.
So 1t was that he found a great respect
and liking wherever he went; and in
hundred homes there was for him
glad welcome. He will be greatly
missed here. Up to little while ago
ne used to come to town, leaning but
lightly on his staff, and the crowd
his friends-always came to him to
hear his stern, unainching gospel Of
Democracy, his jest and his word Of
good cheer and kindness. He bother
ed nobody in the world, and he pleased
and blessed a great many people in a
long, straight life. He was quite brave
and simple in his ideas, and very dear
and lovable.
Just before the war, Col, Stowe mar
ried Mrs. Parks, of Beaufort county,
who died some years ago. Two sons
survive: Larkin Stowe. who Is con-
nected with a coal company in east
Tennessee, and William Stowe, who Is
employed by a railway company In
Mexico. Mrs. S. S. Pegram, Of this
city, Is q step daughter of the de-
ceased.
Other relatives who survive, are Col
William A. Stowe, of Belmont, who
was colonel Of the Sixteenth North
Carolina regiment. and Mr.. E. B.
Stowe. Of Mt. Holly, and four sisters.
Mrs. E. E. Sloan, of this city; Mrs.
Hannah Mason, Of Enquirer, S. c.;
Mrs. George Hanks. Of Belmont, and
Mrs. D. H. Stowe, Of Steele Creek, this
county.-Charlotte Observer, Friday.
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the Kaiser presents us with statue
Of that respectable old blunderbuss. his
grandfather, William; "the Great"
and then what a spectacle shall we
present!
If Frederick the Great had all the
virtues of a man as we'll as a sover-
eign, his kingship alone would dis
qualify his statue in the United States,
AS a matter Of fact, he was a man Of
lofty military genius. without civil
capacity, totally without respect for
his own civil courts, and one Of the
most remorseless robbers who ever
lived. The story Of his tiger-like
spring upon Marie Theresa; his cyni-
cal announcement that as she was
young and helpless 1t was a good time
to rob her: his alleged evil private
life, of which Carlyle, his apologist,
can only claim the Scotch verdict or
mot proven"-all these and many 9TH
er things make 1t additionally tmprop-
er that his statue should be placed In
q government reservation in Washing
ton. His sympathy for the struggling
colonies of America amounted to
nothing more than mortal hatred of
his cousin George Of England, whose
subsidies to Austria enabled Marie
Theresa to keep up an heroic Tight
against Prussia. To say that Freder-
ick of Prussia had any sympathy
with or understanding Of republican
institutions is in the highest degree
grotesque. 1t has long been a fixed
notion Of the Kaiser's that he could
create q. state within a state In this
country-a German-American state
warranted to be the handmade of the
ruler of Prussia. The visit Of Prince
Henry in his royal capacity Of Brother
of the Sun had this end in view, and
this was admitted with much SIM
plicity by the Kaiser. 1t Is unneces-
sary to say that 1t tickled the Ameri-
can people hugely. They will not,
however, be tickled by his statue bus
mess which is properly their affair
and not that of either Kaiser or presi-
dent, and If congress does not nip this
scheme in the bud, the people will not
be bashful in speaking their minds on
the first Tuesday in November, 1902.
This Is as true as the forty-seventh
Euclid.-Washington Post.
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c.. WEDNESDAY MAY %, 1902.

nj begin to believe you," said his
companion, "but what the devil we
shall do afterward with the roads In
this condition I don't know"
81 asked Prince Kilziar that" replied
Korna, with a laugh. "He winked
straight up into the air. as his habit Is,
and answered me that 1t made no diff
ference to him."
1T made no difference to him." re-
peated Darrell. "That Is q hard say
ing to interpret, yet there Is meaning
in it. Good night, gentlemen"
TO BE CONTINUED.
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last few days. Moreover. you look
much more cheerful than when l saw
you last. What is the cause Of 1.-THE
weather perhaps?"
81 have always enjoyed great repu-
tation for cheerfulness," answered Dar-
rell. "You alone seem to have found
my society depressing. Yet that is not
surprising perhaps. There Is a malady
which, according to all the poets, will
make any man sigh, and I have never
had it before"
''That Is rather pretty speech" said
Vera. 81 have conversed principally
during these last days about corn and
gunpowder. A change cheers me. Yet
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MIR. Cannon Calls q BIufY.

Among numerous anecdotes Of con-
gress in Henry Loomis Nelson's paper
in the June Century, on Making Laws
at Washington" is this Of the chair
man OF the house committee on appro-
priatiuns:
One of the attributes Of the senate
is large and generous feeling Of utter
responsibility of expenditures. The
senators give and take muniflcently.
IF one wants a million-dollar court
house, why, let him have 1t. II our
streams can be deepened, our pools
widened. or our fields watered. Are
there not millions in the treasury?
And since the constitution gives to the
house the sole power to originate mon
ey bills, our brethren, the members,
can stand the outcry; We spend, and
they take the consequences" There
fore the senators largely increase the
appropriations in which, in the Ian
guage Of political commerce, there is
pork" And the house conferees
must pare down or throw out what, in
the same vernacular, are known as the
steals"
1t had been a long and weary strug-
gle when, toward o'clock Of the
morning Of a certain conference, Mr..
Cannon said to the conferees Of the
senate:
THE house will yield no further; the
bill must go without the other amend
ments of the senate"
well, WE'LL" exclaimed the expert
senator, rising and buttoning up his
coat, IF the house Is to domineer, II
our propositions are not to be listened
to, we might as we'll report a disagree
ment. We can't tolerate dictation."
THAT Is So" said another senator;
we can't yield to a threat, even If we
compel an extra session"
And the third senator also murmur-
ed of an extra session.
"Shall we call the old bluffers?"
whispered Mr.. Cannon to his young
colleague, who was serving on his first
conference committee.
The young colleague assented.
well, gentlemen, do as you please.
The house will not consent to any fur
ther robbery. Let there be an extra
session and the senate will be respon-
sible for It,"
So the conferees separated. The
senators made doleful speeches about
the tyrannical house, even going to the
length of declaring that they were in
danger of sinking to the level Of the
British house Of lords: but at length
they yielded.
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KING EDWARDS NAME.-A question
Is at present agitating the minds OF
the enlightened inhabitants Of Sioux
City, Iowa, U. S. A, which (as a cor
respondent from that somewhat remote
locality kindly informs us) 1t Is
thought Modern Society alone is COM
petent to solve. The question at issue
is: What would the name Of King
Edward VII be II he ceased to enjoy
his kingly title? In other words, what
is the family name Of his august
house? Not a very easy question to
answer, considering that his majes-
tvs forbears were sovereigns centuries
before surnames, as we now under
stand them, were used at all. How
ever, here Is our answer to the conun-
drum:
Dynastically, King Edward belongs
to the Hanoverian line, or Ito speak
more exactly to the line Of Bruns-
wick-Lunebourg, a branch Of which
became the royal line Of England when
George I, son of Princess Sophia
granddaughter of James ~ and Of
Ernest Augustus, elector Of Hanover,
ascended the English throne In lila.
The family name Of the elector was
Guelph, and Guelph, therefore, has
been the surname of all the monarchs
of England from George 1, to Victoria.
inclusive.
Queen Victoria married, as we all
know, her cousin Albert, Duke of Sax
ony and Prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
of the senior (though not now the king
ly) branch of The house Of Saxony.
The family name by which this house,
which dates from the middle Of the
tenth century, came afterward to be
known was Victim; and this was, and
Is, the surname of both branches-the
Ernestine and Albertine branches-of
the house of Saxony ever since. Our
present gracious sovereign, therefore,
though materially a Guelph, is pater-
nally Victim; and were he to become
an American citizen lis Sioux, we Won
der, anticipating this as q result Of
the great Morgan combineO he would
presumably be known as Mr.. Albert
E. Wettin.-London Modern Society.
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ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE SPUR OF FATE.


Copyright, 1901, by Charles B. Ethering ton.
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CHAPTER XVII.
HELP FROM THE HEAVENS.

COUTS came into Via
dikaukas about 8
o'clock Of the evening
with reports Of the de-
layed Russian force
now we'll under way.
The early accounts
were thought to be
ovonOarofod h,1f with.
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Somers.

Misses Sadie M. Bradley and Lulu
C. Rhodes began their duties in
schools No. and respectively Mon
day morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Bishop depart
ed for their home in Sutton, Neb.,
Wednesday morning, after five months
visit among friends and relatives here.
William Burgess spent the past week
with his son Charles, at Salem.
Miss Evelyn Longmore visited with
Rev. and Mrs. Stockham at Evanston
last week.
Misses Mabe11e and Blanche Yule. OF
Lake Forest University, spent Their
Easter vacation at home.
Rev. Moses Buswell, of Kalamazoo
Mich, visited at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mainland recently.
Edwin Bishop, of Madison Univer.
sity, spent his vacation at home.
Mrs. William Miller and children
visited with friends in Racine the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adelmar Bishop, OF
Racine, spent Saturday and Sunday at
I. T. Bishops.
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South Bristol.
(Too late for last weekly

Mr.. DR.. Ward, of South Milwaukee,
is spending few days visiting at
Chas. Shuart's.
The Ladies Aid Society will meet
Thursday afternoon, April 3, with
Mrs. Daniel Pierce
John Pierce spent part of last week
visiting friends in Beaver Dam. He
has resumed his school work in the
Riley district in Pleasant Prairie,
where he taught the winter term.
The Amateur Dramatic club of South
Bristol will repeat their play, "The
Noble Outcast," in the Bristol Hall
this evening.
The entertainment given by Frank
Karnes' school in District No. of
Pleasant Prairie last Saturday even
ing was a decided success, a large
number attending. Mr.. Karnes ex-
poets to attend the coming spring
term of school in Whitewater.
Frank Achen has returned from the
west where he has had charge of a
large flock of sheep. He will remain
at home for the coming season.
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The powder puff may help to hide the
ravages of time but it avails little to hide
the ravages of disease. When the face
is d1sfgured by eruptions, he treatment
must go below the surface % the blood,
which is corrupt and impure.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures dishguring eruptions which are
caused by impure blood. It cures scro-
fulous sores, erysipelas, boils, pimples,
eczema, salt-rheum and other eruptive
diseases which impure blood breeds and
feeds.
~ was troubled with eczema from the crown
of my head to the soles Of my feet" writes Mrs.
Ella Quick, Of Cass City, Tuscola Co., Mich.
"Could not walk at times nor wear my shoes.
Thought there was no help for meat least the
doctor said there was none went to see
friends at Christmas time and there heard Of
the good that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery had done for them, and was advised to
try It at once. For fear that might neglect 1t
my friend sent to the village and got bottle
and made me promise that would take It. ]
had been getting worse all the time took
thirteen bottles Of the Golden Medical Discov.
cry and ten Walls of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
let's and used A1l-Healing Sa1ve,' which made
a complete cure. 1t was Slow, but sure. was
ggod saH IL al fpG %S Sg Tasd pGPt a
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery before vast.
ing time and moneys
The sole motive for substitution Il "a
permit the dealer 90 make the little more
profit paid by the sale of less meritorious
medicines. He gains; you lose. There.
fore accept no substitute for UGoldan
Medical Discovery"
DR.. Pierce's Pellets cleanse the clogged
system from accumulated impurities.
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Fonnd HOGS Rnt No Fiji.

speaking Of James j. Hill," said
st. Paul man, at the Holland House,
the other evening, 81 can tell you a
story Of him.
1T was away back in the SOS,
when the late lamented Harry Ives
was Mr.. Hilps private secretary, and
Mr.. Hill was giving away pigs Of the
purest breed to the farmers Of the
northwest in order to encourage stock
raising along the line of the Great
Northern road, and thus build up it's
traffic. The state fair was in prog
ress In st. Paul, when one September
morning Ives opened Mr.. Hill's mail
and found letter from a farmer,
which read as follows:
Mr.. ]. j. Hill: Dear Sir went
to st. Paul and to the fair, as you told
me. I looked for you at your Office,
and also at the fair grounds. l found
plenty of hogs of your species, but
could not find you anywhere. New
York Times.
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East Somers.

Winter blasts have not all disa p
peared.
H. Z. Shearer, of Kenosha, spent
Sunday with relatives in this burg.
Nels Sorenson has given up factory
work in Kenosha and will go on his
fathers milk route.
The Republican caucus held at the
Somers town hall Saturday afternoon
was attended by hundred voters.
A good ticket was nominated.
School closed in District No. Friday
for weeks vacation.
Thos. Rogers and son attended the
auction at Somers Monday.
Several of our farmers nave finished
sowing oats, unless. they have to SOW
over again.
Easter Sunday was so stormy that
but few of our people attended the
church services in Kenosha.
Miss Mertie Wade is reported to be
recovering from her recent illness.
Somers station, or rather its sur
roundings, proved to be strong at
traction on election day.
Several of our local M. w. Of A.
members attended the Woodmen en-.
tertaipment in Kenosha Tuesday eve.
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Chaplin.

w. Si1vernail got up his new wind
mill last week.
Every body is busy sowing oats in
this neighborhood.
The 9TH district school throws off
her old black shady dress, and puts on
clean white one. Mr.. Ludwig has
been repairing and painting it and the
building looks as if some one was
taking an interest in it.
Mrs. w. Silvernail went to Chicago
last week to undergo an operation and
it is reported that she is doing nicely.
She expects to be home the first part of
May.
School started Monday after a four
weeks vacation, with Miss Minnie
Eddy as teacher.
The Star Creamery paid $1.O7 for
February milk.
10 Schlitz is making good use of his
new seeder and drag.
VIM. Heidersdorf is increasing and
diminishing his stock of new ma
chinery rapidly. There seems to be a
great demand for the new and latest
machinery.
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Court Commissioner Baker Sends The
Former Alderman to the Cir
cult Court for Trial.
.FIRTHMAN FAILS TO SCORE.
Commissioner Decides That There was nc
Grounds for che Release of Caster and
Sends Him for Trial. Caster in Court.


John Caster is in the Circuit Court
this afternoon ready to stand trial on
charge Of bribery, if his attorney is
unable to secure some other loophole
| for the accused man to crawl out of
the courts. Caster, who has been en-
joying visit with friends outside of
the city for several days, appeared in
the Commissioners Court this after
| noon to hear the decision Of the Court
on the habeas corpus proceedings. AS
soon as Caster had arrived in Court
Com missioner Baker announced in
there was any reason for the release of
Caster and at once remanded him.
There was no argument or debate and
Deputy Sheriff Ludwig, who was in
the court at the time the order was
made at once went to Caster and
served him with bench warrant.
Before the warrant was served At
torney Firthman made an effort to
have Caster admitted to bail, but Com
| missioner Baker refused to take up this
| matter, stating that it was now the
province Of the Circuit Court to fix the
bail. The attorneys for Caster at
once presented affidavits to have the
rulings Of Court Commissioners Baker
reviewed by the Circuit Court, and
with the closing of the case in the
Commissioners Court all the parties at
once went to the Circuit Court where
the case.is now being heard.
Later.-In the Circuit Court this
afternoon Judge Belden admitted Gas
ter to bail and the bail was fixed at a
thousand dollars. It is probable
that Matthias Orth and Mrs. Veronica
Ritter will be accepted as bondsmen.
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EXPORT RAT ES NEEDED
Interstate Commerce Men Insist
That the Railways Shall
File Them Hereafter.
BOARDS DAYS WORK AT CHICAGO
Officials of Eight Roads Examined,
All Of Whom Deny That
Tariffs We're Cut.


Chicago. April AT the session of
the interstate commerce commission
held in Chicago yesterday the traffic
managers and general freight agents
of the Rock Island, Santa Fe, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul, Chicago and Alton,
Burlington, Missouri Pacific, Wabash,
and Chicago Great Western railroads
were examined as regards their knoWl-
edge of cutting rates on export traffic
from the Missouri river to the Atlantic
seaboard. Only Commissioner Yeo-
mans, Prouty and Fifer were on hand,
Chairman Knapp and Commissioner
Clements being absent Commissioner
Prouty conducted the examination,
and brought out the fact that few of
the roads published their export tar
ifs, and that if they did publish them
they paid little attention to the pub
liShed rates.
Must File Their Export Rates.
Some of the tariff officials took the
position that they were not compelled,
under the law, to publish export tar
ifs, for the reason that they had to
make the rates in conjunction with
the ocean rates, and the latter tiuctua-
ted from day to day. Commissioner
Prouty, however, thought that export
rates must be published the same as
domestic, and each road in turn was
requested to file export tariffs when
ever changes are made hereafter. The
export business, Prouty said, amount
o6 ~ Fy,11 - 80
seaboard business, and unless export
tariffs were filed it would not be pos
sible to secure the maintenance of any
rates to the seaboard.
Rate Cutting Is Denied.
1t appeared during the investigation
that the Rock Island filed q tariff on
packing house products to be in effect
from Feb. ID to March Is, from Mis-
souri, river points to New York, of 4211a
cents 100 pounds, while the rate filed
by the other roads was 1874 cents,
and as most of the latter managed to
get full share of the business the
commissioners surmised that the rates
had been cut by those roads. This,
however, was denied by all of the wit
nesses.
Roads Submit Statements.
Assistant Traffic Manager Cores tes-
tilted that the Rock Islands reduction
in rate was made because it could not
get any business at Kansas City at the
4S1a-cent rate. The testimony Of the
officials Of the other roads was that
they faithfully maintained the 4S1s
cents rate and refused to take any no
tice whatever of the Rock Islands ac-
ton. Each road submitted to the COM
mission statement showing export
and domestic shipments and what
rates were made on them from Feb
10 to March Is, 1902
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JEFFRIEs HAS Suspicious
Two Principals in the Big Fight Are Not
in Agreement

Two Principals in the Big Fight Are Not
in Agreement,
New York, April 1.-THE Charleston
exposition people have offered Is per
cent. Of the gate receipts and guar
antee that it will be no less than $780,
600, and all the picture privileges, for
the fight between Fitzsimmons and
Jeffries. Fitz telegraphed the terms to
Jeffries and has received a reply. JEFF
fries said he did not think the contest
could be held at Charleston, and he
wanted the Charleston men to post
the fill $4,000 as forfeit
Fitzsfmmons Immediately sent back
the following telegram to Jeffries:
charleston is the best bid, and by
articles Of agreement we are both
bound to accept it. Have every assur-
ance of no interference. If you really
want to fight, accept or think up some
better excuse than you have given.
Your demand for $4,000 forfeit is
ridiculously unreasonable. | am ready
to sign and post forfeit now"